Chapter 19: A Very Definite No!

Jessie Harper then gave one very sudden and very short giggle. She instantly threw a hand over her mouth to stifle that giggle as others around her turned to look at her to see what she was laughing at. The young girl quickly looked away from those inquiring eyes because there was no way she was going to tell them what it was that had caused that sudden fillip of laughter.

While the young fourteen year old girl had been half listening to the choirmaster’s final instructions she had also been momentarily picturing herself completely naked as she sang her solo piece at the head of the choir. At that point another completely random variation on the theme had flitted across her mind and had caused her little outburst. While she was seeing herself singing in the nude she had also asked herself another question...

“What if it wasn’t just me that was naked ... what if the whole choir of teenage boys and girls behind me were COMPLETELY and ABSOLUTELY naked also!?”

As poor Jessie was stifling her guilty laughter at the thought of something so ‘immoral’ she saw Troy and Carrie Pearson over by the exit door talking together in a very earnest and slightly heated manner. The two seemed just a little bit upset about something and every now and then one of them would point over to Mr Claxton in a very nervous sort of way then quickly look away if they thought he was looking in their direction.

Jessie put aside all her own thoughts very quickly and moved towards the pair to see what the problem was but she wasn’t quick enough. By the time she had reached the doorway the two had disappeared out into the car park and were being whisked away in a car driven by their father.

The last thing Jessie Harper found herself thinking about was the way the twins had been pulling at each others clothing in a very odd sort of way. Jessie even saw Carrie, at one stage, very briefly pat her hands over her own breasts. The girl was sixteen years old, as was Troy too of course, and had developed a very firm and full cleavage that Jessie knew was the envy of all the other girls and the unobtainable desire of all the other boys. She even saw Troy, for one very brief moment, point at his groin and say something that was not within earshot for Jessie to pick up on. Then the two jumped into their father’s car and were gone leaving a very puzzled fourteen year old girl trying to work all this out along with her own thoughts and misgivings of the events from the previous day.

As Jessie was retrieving her own things and getting ready to leave herself she overheard the tale end of another conversation that raised her eyebrows just a little bit. Gerald Claxton was talking to a group of three or four girls and one boy and speaking most emphatically...

“ ... and that’s a definite NO to that as well! Now that I know who is sponsoring this pageant and I know what it is that they will be encouraging the participants to do I find that neither I nor Reverend Marsden can support it in any shape or form. It is all just another attempt to foist ungodly habits onto the lives of our young people - something that this church must and will stand against!”