Chapter 23: Walking the gallows

What if Emily had set me up? Just so that I could be humiliated again. No, she wouldn’t do that to him. -- Would she? ... I don’t think she’d do that. She wasn’t that way. Oh sure she likes to humiliate me, but those were always with sexual overtones. She had never done it just to be cruel. She’d never been like that! Shaking his head back and forth slightly to himself.

Shelly on the other hand he wasn’t so sure about. What if she already told all her friends about me, of being tied down in bed, and what he did when she sat down on his face. Worse, what if she told them about the spanking. Told everyone she had him, stark naked, over her knee while she gave him HER birthday spankings, and after that how I had kissed her feet.

He had expected that already, and all day he had been looking around at school. Seeing if anyone was looking at him weird, or snickering at him behind his back as he passed them by. Luckily he hadn’t noticed anything, so he concluded she probably hadn’t, and anyway if she had, or was going to, he wanted to know about it. It was the not knowing that was killing him. He knew of one way he could find out what her plans were for sure. So looking around, he located the table where Shelly was sitting at. Just like Emily said she’d be. He reflected and at the same time collected his nerves. She was sitting there, talking with her friends. He slowly started walking toward her. His knees felt like jelly, as he had the distinct feeling he was walking to his own execution.

Shelly was told that Tommy will come and ask her at lunch time, so she had been on the lookout for him. She noticed him early. She continued to listen to her friend Ellen, who was talking about some boys she had seen at the mall, but her eyes were now fixed upon Tommy, who was now walking toward her.

Ellen, who had been talking, noticed that Shelly didn’t seem to be there anymore. Instead she had this glazed look in her eyes and was staring at something else, or someone. She stopped talking and looked over to where Shelly was staring at. The rest of the table slowly grew quiet, as the other girls soon picked up on that something was up. They all turned around in the general direction of the other two girls. That’s when they noticed Tommy, who was now only a couple of steps away, and walking up to their table.

“Hi Shelly.” Tommy managed to blurt out with a shy smile on his face.

“Hi Tommy.” Shelly smiled back at him. For some reason seeing him there and hearing his voice triggered off memories of that Friday night. She couldn’t help but turn a little red as she felt a warm trickle from down below.

“Shelly, you know there is a dance coming up this weekend, and ... and I’d like to know if you know ... would like to go with me ... To the dance that is.”

“Yeah, I’d like that, Tommy.” Shelly replied back, with a large grin.

Tommy, now felt a wave of relief now that that was over with. So much so, that he became startled when he heard all these squeals coming from the other girls around the table. Now breathing a sigh of relief, and not knowing what else to say, Tommy looked back to Shelly and said, “Ok, I’ll call you!” over the other girl’s squeals, and he started to make a hasty retreat, escaping the pandemonium that was erupting all around Shelly. But before walking completely away, he turned back once more to take another look. He noticed that a slight blush had formed on Shelly’s face, along with an unmistakable grin of pleasure, as she was now the center of attention at her table. Her friends’ were grabbing her arms and were peppering her with all sorts of questions and comments. Just then he saw her glance back up at him, and saw her give him a smile. He couldn’t help but return one right back at her.