Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End

Maryanne had grown up in the country three miles north of a small town in Southeast Kansas. She and her sister, Jenny Lee, were the best of friends, they told one another everything. Being so far from town they really didn’t have any other close friends. They of course knew their classmates in school, but were not included in many parties or social cliques that the townies had. Further isolating them, their mother would take them to school. So they didn’t even have neighborhood kids as friends from riding the bus either. Not that there were many living close to them anyway!

Neither of the sisters had masturbated, they obeyed their mother’s strict rule of only touching their privates when wiping after peeing and when bathing. They saw different writings on the bathroom stall walls. Things like blowjob, eating at the “Y”, fucking, cunt, and pussy, were written on them. They figured out what pussy was referring to but the rest they hadn’t figured out. They would have been embarrassed to ask someone what they meant, so they just tried to figure it out on their own.

In their innocence they were both totally unaware of any jewelry placement codes that meant anything. Had they had a subscription to “Teen Girl” magazine they would have known. But money was tight and they didn’t have money for such things. Not being included in the townie cliques, another source of the nuances of jewelry placement meanings that year, the sisters just simply didn’t know.

But there were several girls in their school and in their grade levels that did know and that practiced the secret codes every single day! Of course the girls were not alone in their lack of knowledge, adults, boys, and other country girls had no clue either.

It was late August and school was about to start the following week on Monday September 2, 1957. Maryanne was going to be a Junior, while Jenny Lee was going to be starting her freshman year. They had gone to the larger town of Independence shopping for school clothes, as they had always done just before school every year. They would usually buy one or two outfits, a dress, a skirt, jeans, and a couple of blouses each. New shoes were bought in their hometown at Carl’s Shoe Store.

This year had been a good year and their dad had a really great crop of wheat and the price per bushel had been higher than normal. The result was a little bit more money to spend this year. Their mom thought it would be nice to buy them some jewelry, nothing expensive just costume jewelry. But if the girls could learn to be responsible for what they had been given, then they could get the more expensive stuff later.

They each were allowed to pick out a necklace and a ring. Maryanne found a beautiful ring that had butterfly designs on it, and a necklace that matched it. Jenny Lee found something similar but with humming birds on the ring and necklace. The only problem was that the rings would only fit the middle finger of their left hands. But at the time no one thought that was a problem at all.

The innocent girls wore their new clothes and jewelry to school that Monday, their mom as usual dropping them off at the high school that taught grades seven through twelfth grades. They went to the Gymnasium and picked up their class schedules by grade level. They hugged the girls they hadn’t seen all summer, and began to get reacquainted.

Cathy Perkins

One of the townie cliques was a group of fourteen to eighteen year old girls that were all very good friends, they had been having sleepovers together for many years. Early on they had discovered that practicing kissing one another was a great deal of fun. That fun had led to other even more enjoyable things they could practice together. On one particular sleepover their host, Cathy, had found her dads stash of girlie magazines, Playboy, Swank, Spic & Span, and Cavalier. Inside one of them was an article with photographs about Lesbians. She showed the article to her friends and they expanded their playing to include those practices described and shown in the photographs, even though the details were blocked by black ink. Magazines couldn’t actually show a tongue licking a pussy in 1957, but though it was blacked out there was little doubt what was going on.

They also had subscriptions to “Teen Girl” and had even written about their practice sessions in a letter to the editor. The editor had encouraged them to write more letters of their experiences. They wrote several more letters describing things they had discovered. They even developed a following, with girls writing to them and a few sending pictures of themselves naked on Polaroid black and white photographs.

But for Cathy all of that had been a ruse, for she already knew a great deal about sex...

Cathy had convinced her father that it would be a kick to have a Polaroid camera, and he had purchased one for his spoiled child for her fourteenth birthday. It had come with a catch though. He would purchase the camera and the film, only if she would pose for pictures however he wanted her to pose! She had agreed not really thinking of what kinds of poses he would make her do.

Her father started off just having her pose fully dressed, but in sexy poses, “cheesecake” photos they were called. As Cathy got into it, she liked being sexy with her handsome dad. As they continued a button undone here and there became no big deal, it was exciting to see her father enjoy taking the photographs of her. She found that posing for the camera was exciting. She was fourteen and just becoming curious about sex and that stuff. Her breasts weren’t large, her hips were still thin and undeveloped. But her father liked her body and she became more and more wrapped up in posing for more and more revealing and risqué poses. Soon he was taking open leg photos of her panties. Down blouse ones of her bra encased titties. Then he wanted them to be even more revealing, the bra was first to go. When she hesitated on removing it, he threatened to take the camera away. She wanted that camera so she removed her bra. He insisted that she lean forward and let her blouse billow out and expose her titties and their nipples; he shot four photographs of them from different angles, with flash and without. They waited as they developed, at the appropriate time her father peeled the cover off the front and there were her titties in black and white.