Wet Witch-Boy Summary: Magic, Humiliation And Revenge This is the story of how the most fantastic year of my life turned into the worst. My life has changed so much now, I feel like I live in a different world altogether. And it's a nightmare. Let me start from the beginning. My name is Mike and I'm fifteen years old. There's always been something strange about me and my family, although I was never aware of that until someone else told me. For starters there's our house: we live in England in a very old town and our house may be the very oldest one in it. Tuesday, 10 November When I was in primary school, I sometimes heard the other kids whisper and look in my direction. When I asked my friend James one time what they were whispering about, he told me that they said I was a witch- Boy. Apparently, some witch was rumoured to have lived in our house ages ago and some of the kids thought I was one too. A strange thought, because I would never have pictured a witch as a slender, blue eyed blond boy. But as there's no reasoning with fools, I just went along with it, sometimes threatening to turn them into frogs or something if they offended me. Somehow that never helped though, and I was more often the object of their teasings than of their fear. The fact that I had a weak bladder, of course didn't help me. It often occurred that I would suddenly stand up in class and make a run for the bathroom, which I always barely made. Just one time at age seven, when I had to go during lunch break and the bathrooms were all occupied, had I not made it. It was only one time and I was young, but the incident had already earned me a nickname for life: The Wet Witch-Boy. It's always been very frustrating for me that this nickname was never forgotten. Because I'd had one accident when I was seven, people were still making jokes about it even when I had reached the age of fifteen. Unfortunately, last year, a new guy joined our group at school and he wasn't nice. Kind of a bully, but not in a violent way. More vicious. He was always looking to humiliate other kids, and as soon as he saw me suddenly get up from class and going to the bathroom a few times (now walking calmly though, I had learned that at least) and found out about my nick name, I was the obvious target for his cruelties. And so it happened that one time, when I was on my way to the bathroom, this guy, Jack, stopped me in the hallway and started talking to me. He knew of course that I had to go, but he didn't let that on and started asking me all sorts of difficult questions while a few of his friends were standing around him, grinning. When I finally started to panic and tried to run past him to the bathroom door he grabbed my arm and asked me, in the friendliest of tones why I was in such a hurry. Was there something wrong, he asked. There was of course, because at that moment my bladder exploded and I felt myself wetting my pants there and then, in the crowded hallway, unable to hold it any longer. I'll never forget how all my classmates saw me running away, my jeans soaking wet, while they were all laughing and pointing and calling my nick name: look! The Wet Witch-Boy has done it again! I ran all the way home through town, not taking the bus. A fifteen year old boy, running through town with a big shameful wet spot on his jeans for the world to see. Back home I was almost crying of humiliation, but I held back, afraid to seem even more like a baby than I already did. I ran downstairs to the basement, where my room was and in a hurry as I was, hit my head on one of the low hanging wooden beams which supported the ceiling. I was then that I discovered by accident the small hatch, cleverly hidden in the structure of the wood. Because I'd hit it with some force it had sprung open to reveal a narrow cache. In it was a small chest with a strange symbol engraved in the lid. I immediately forgot about what had happened at school and sat down on the stairway steps to look inside the chest. A squishing sound reminded me of the condition of my jeans and I felt a sting of humiliation again. If only there was something I could do to take revenge on that guy.. I should have known when I opened the chest and found the amulet that it was too easy. No good could come of such a great power gained so easily. But I didn't know that then, and when I read the note that was written beside it my heart skipped a beat with excitement. It was the amulet of the witch Malversia, apparently one of my ancestors. It contained her power. One had only to wear the amulet around ones neck and say a spell and it would instantly happen. I never read the lines below that message, excited as I was about this discovery. I was nick-named the Wet Witch-Boy. Since one part of that name had already proven to be true, as evident by the current state of my jeans, the other part might as well be. At first I wasn't sure the amulet would work. I tried using it to clean up my room and at first nothing happened. But thirteen seconds later (a meaningful amount of time for a witch of course) The rubbish suddenly began to lift itself off the flour and floating through the air to where it belonged. The amulet worked like a charm. You are probably able to guess what I did when I took the amulet to school the next day, hidden under my clothes... Wednesday, 11th November I heard the muffled giggling of my classmates as I entered the room and felt the looks aimed towards me. I was certainly never going to get rid of my nickname now, but I could still take revenge on Jack for what he had done to me. He was about to be doing a presentation when I silently whispered my spell. Six seconds it took him to walk to the front of the class. For seven seconds the beginning of his presentation appeared to pass normally, but then he suddenly stopped talking, aware that something had happened. His eyes became round with shock and he bent a little forward. Mr. Jones? Could I please go to the bathroom? Mr. Jones, the teacher frowned and said he should finish his presentation. "But... I have to go, sir! I REALLY have to g...!" He didn't finish the last sentence because at that time, a small dark spot was becoming visible in his crotch, which grew bigger every second. Jack pressed his hands against his crotch, as if attempting to stop the flow, but before long a trickle of yellow liquid was flowing between his fingers and soon long dark streaks ran down his legs, forming two puddles at his feet, which soon joined to become one. Jack's face turned pale and he ran out of the classroom, while everyone was rubbing their eyes, wondering if what they had just seen had actually happened. Jack, the big, bullying tough guy, who was sixteen, a year older than the rest of us and not frail looking at all as I am, had just wet himself like an infant. I had had my revenge. Still, although Jack had wet his pants as well, no-one forgot that I had, too. My classmates were still giggling when I walked past, just as they now did with Jack. It even became so bad, that one of the girls, Terry, a pretty girl who I had had a big crush on a year earlier, suggested at one time that the two of us -Jack and I- should start wearing diapers. "You should start a diaper club!" She laughed. That's when I decided I would have to humiliate all my classmates a little before this was over. But I couldn't possibly make them all wet their pants, since that would be way too suspicious, especially if I were the only one to remain dry. I would have to do it so that they would be humiliated, but wouldn't know it about each other. But how? That night, when I was trying to fall asleep I figured it out: I would make them wet the bed! I started to whisper a spell: O hear this curse of all 3B (my class' number) Not one of them will sleepingly control their wee! Then I fell asleep, satisfied with my revenge. Thursday, 12 November The next morning I woke up and felt how my pyjama's were sticking to my body. I realized I had made a mistake. Since I was part of class 3B I, myself had wet the bed with them. I turned on the lights to see how bad it was. Pretty bad. A large spot of wetness covered the middle of the mattress, leaving only the edges dry. Somehow I had managed to wet not only my pyjama trousers, but also my sleeves and the lower part of my pajama jacket were wet, front as well as backside. I thought, panicking, that I couldn't leave it like this for my mother to find. Then I remembered the amulet, which I still had around my neck and I quickly mumbled a spell to clean the bed and myself up. Thirteen seconds later I was able to go upstairs and take a shower. I still felt dirty. All the guys and girls my class seemed a bit more quiet today than usual although nobody talked about what had happened. I, knowing why they were so silent, smiled. For some reason though, Terry had a different way of venting her frustrations. She took them out on me. "Hey, wet boy!" she called across the classroom when I once again stood up to go to the bathroom. "Why don't you wear a diaper if you can't hold it?" Some of the others laughed, but a substantial number turned red, obviously remembering what had happened to them that night. I had no time to respond if I were to make it to the bathroom, so I only glared in her direction. When lunch break arrived, Terry's attitude appeared to have spread to the others. They probably sought to reassure themselves of being almost-adults by picking on someone who was known to wet his pants like a baby. Since Jack wasn't around, and in any case a bit more terrifying than I, it was me they picked on. In the cafeteria, they formed a circle around me, pushing me around, calling me a baby, telling me I should be in diapers, saying I would probably wet my pants soon. Then they were all screaming "pee! pee! pee! pee!" while one guy was holding me and pressing on my bladder to make it happen. Even though I'd been to the bathroom half an hour before, they almost succeeded. I was literally saved by the bell, which told us to get ready for gym class. I was furious by then of course, and this time I didn't care if it were suspicious. They should all be humiliated, Terry most of all. I had noticed that the cafeteria food had tasted a bit strange (stale?) so that might provide a plausible excuse for what I was about to do...... Perhaps to be continued.....