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Author: Frederick T.
Title: The Fool
Part: 1 of 1
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Keywords: (Mf+ blackmail)
Language: English

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   @(C) 2002 Frederick T.  Commercial use in any form requires the written
permission of the author and will ensure a portion of the proceeds goes to the
  National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORMAL) and/or the
                           American Cancer Society.

                      !!!!! WARNING !!!!! WARNING !!!!!

    The following story depicts many themes, not all of them worthy of public 
commentary.  All characters, events and happenings are the result of a very 
active imagination and have no basis in the world as we know it.

    The themes for the most part are for mature audiences.  Some may call them 
smutty or pornographic.  You are forewarned.

    Many of the activities described here are illegal all over the world.  
This is meant to question that fact and not only in a medicinal sense.  But 
for now that is the only toe hold available regardless of what the Supreme 
Court said about the Oakland Growers Association or whatever.  Unless, that 
is, you hold success for the Nevada initiative that will legalize adult (21 
years or older) possession of up to 3 oz.  Latest polls show the initiative 
running close to 50/50 with those opposed leading slightly.

    Young minds are being counseled against the abuse of illegal substances.  
Society should be applauded for instituting such advice.  The intent here is 
not to argue against this counsel but question the counselors.  It is also not 
to criticize the fine police forces that are employed in the free world.  They 
are charged with a truly difficult task and are doing their best to keep 
society free from dangerous criminals...And they do a damn outstanding job !

    As always, e-mail your comments to the usual.

                                   The Fool
                               (Mf+ blackmail)

                                      by
                                 Frederick T.

        With thanks to the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution

                                    Friday
                             Memorial Day Weekend
                                     2001

    I looked out the window for the fifth or sixth time in the last five 
minutes.  The street was always empty.  Where was she ?  Her mother always 
left for work by this time.  What was taking her ?  I sat on the couch and 
took a huge drag off a small pipe.  A cloud of marijuana smoke rose toward the 
ceiling before being dispersed when the air conditioner started.

    Oh !  God !  When did it start ?  Two years ago !?  At first it was 
simple.  She kept my secret.....

    .....Mary Lou was twelve.  I'd been smoking my pipe on the back patio.  
There she was, watching me from next door.  She'd climbed the tree that 
overhung my yard.  Shit !  She didn't even live next door !  How long had she 
been watching ?  I remember trying to act casual and moved the pipe to my 
pocket, got up and entered the house all in one move.  Oh !  God !  I was 
scared !

    Fuck !  I'm fifty-five...A veteran...Retired...Well, maybe not a pillar of 
the community but I don't have a record.  Yea !  I grow a little dope in my 
home for my own personal enjoyment.  I don't sell it but I'm thinking of 
driving up to 'Frisco and trying to donate it to one of those growers clubs.  
I wonder how hard that is to do ?

    Anyway, she hangs around out front one afternoon, several days after 
catching me; while I'm watering the lawn.  I feel uncomfortable but refuse to 
let her turn me into a paranoid idiot.  If she hadn't told her parents by now, 
she wasn't going to.

    Then out of nowhere...I find her sitting out on the back patio one day 
when I went out to smoke.  I jumped back inside and then peeked out through 
the partially open door.  She laughed.  I started laughing.  I sat across from 
her and she watched me smoke.  I told her it was my cancer...Total bullshit 
but I couldn't think of anything else to say.  She promised not to tell.  I 
shook her hand and told her, "...any time you need a favor, Mary Lou."  She 
never bothered me about it again until she needed that favor.....

    .....I got up and looked out the window again.  Not a soul in sight.  I 
was going to beat her ass when she got here.  Shit !  Who was I kidding ?  
While, I'd spanked her numerous times...It was always just a prelude to the 
main event...Fucking her and sucking on her tits; eating her sweet tasting 
pussy.  No, I wasn't going to beat her ass today.  I was going to fuck her, 
multiple times.  I was going to eat her pussy and she was going to suck my 
cock.  She was almost fifteen now but I'd long ago stopped thinking about her 
age.

    It started about a year ago.  She was waiting for me out on the back patio 
one evening.  I remember it was dark.

    "I need that favor now...Remember ?"  She looked very earnest.  "I haven't 
been able to score for a week now and there's this really cool concert 
tomorrow.  How about helping me out ?"

    It was so easy.  I rolled her a couple of joints and off she went.  I 
tried to tell myself that it'd just be a "one time thing."  But I knew it 
wouldn't be.  I'd have to talk to her about getting busted.

    A week went by and then another.  I breathed a little easier until...There 
she was again, sitting in a chair, out on the patio.

    "This is getting to become a habit."

    "Jeeze...It's only the second time.  And your dope is just about the best 
I've ever smoked.  Shit !  My friends are going crazy; asking me where I got 
it."

    "And what happens if you get busted by your parents or the cops or a 
teacher or...?"  I couldn't think of anyone else.  She actually laughed.

    "My parents are divorced now.  I never take it to school and the 
cops...Get serious."

    "And what happens if you do get caught ?  Then what are you going to tell 
them ?"

    "I'm sure not going to tell them it's you !  That would be real stupid.  
I'll make up a story."

    "Better to make it up now."  I was up and off to get my dope.  I turned 
and invited her inside.  She looked like she was on cloud nine, bouncing 
through the door.  It was cool inside and she wasn't wearing that much.  A "T" 
shirt and pair of shorts.

    While we haggled, her nipples erected and I had impure thoughts about the 
teenager sitting across the breakfast room table from me.  I didn't stare but 
took a couple of good looks.  I knew I'd masturbate like crazy after she left.

    We settled on two-fifty a joint.  They were big and she was the one who 
said it was so good.  It should be.  I've been growing it for four years now 
and had about ten pounds stored in the freezer.  It was good shit !

    She bought four that first time and then it became a weekly thing.  I was 
sure she was selling it because she was always complaining about how her "old 
man" never sent any money and her mother hardly had a cent to her name...Lived 
from paycheck to paycheck.

    This went on for about three months or so.  Then I made a decision with 
the head of my dick and started picking up speed down that slippery slope.  I 
knew full well where I was heading and was positive Mary Lou knew too !

    "Hey !  Man !  I'm a little short this week.  I was wondering..."  She was 
scratching her chin...Like she was trying to think of something she could 
barter with.  I immediately thought of fucking her.  I laughed.

    "What's so funny ?"

    "Nothing."  I remained silent.

    "Anything I can do for you around here ?"  She looked around the front 
room.

    I shook my head.  I'd converted one of the bedrooms to a growing room and 
had no intention of letting her wander around the house unsupervised.  I'd 
told her I buy it from a guy over on the other side of town...North Town.

    "Come on...there's got to be something ?!"  I kept shaking my head back 
and forth; all the while, visions of her naked body flooded my brain.

    "You sure ?"  Her voice had a different tone to it.  "Come on, Daniel."  
It was almost a whisper...Had a sexual huskiness to it.  I raised my head, 
looked at her and let my eyes wander over her body.  She was sitting across 
from me, with just her butt on the edge of the stuffed chair.  The coffee 
table was almost separating us.  The grass was on the coffee table...An eighth 
of an ounce.  I was sure she was cutting it up into grams and selling it.  I 
couldn't for the life of me figure out why she didn't have any cash ?

    "Would you like to see me naked ?"  I pretended not to have heard her.  
And being stoned, it took a few moments for her question to register.  I was 
staring at her legs at the time and it took me a whole shit load of time to 
look her in the eyes.

    The answer was all over my face and Mary Lou's face lit up like a kid's at 
Christmas.  She picked up the pipe off the coffee table and took a huge drag.  
I held out my hand for the pipe.  Our eyes were locked on each other.

    "Well ?"  She squeaked out.

    "How we goin' to do this ?"  We started haggling and finally agreed on a 
ten minute strip for the eighth.  I already had a hardon and wanted to start 
stroking it.

    I set the timer in the kitchen and watched from the doorway as Mary Lou 
started to dance around while fiddling with the buttons of her blouse.  I 
could see her bra, a lacy thing.  It hit me.  She'd planned the whole thing !?  
I smiled and headed for the stereo.  I got some rock & roll blasting and went 
to sit on the couch.

    She wasted no time getting out of her clothes.  Her breasts were small 
mounds, topped with pale brown areolae and very prominent nipples.  No doubt 
in my mind that Mary Lou was turned on a little.  Her nipples were very erect 
and I dreamed of sucking on them.  Her shorts were off and then she was 
stepping out of her panties, a little "G" string like thing.  Now, I was 
positive she'd planned it and was hard as rock.

    "You dress this way all the time ?"  She blushed.  I'd caught her.  Mary 
Lou's pussy was a small triangle of curly, brown pubic hair.  I felt light 
headed and had to sit on my hands.  Twice I caught her looking at my cock.  I 
flexed it.  She laughed.

    "Turn around."  She did and I stroked myself a few times as she wiggled 
her fanny around on the other side of the coffee table from me.  She looked 
right at my crotch when she turned back and then right to my face.  She knew I 
had a raging hardon and it turned her on.  I could see it in her face and 
could hardly wait for the next time.....

    .....By the time I scanned the front yard, my hardon had wilted.  Another 
fruitless search.  Where was she ?  I was starting to get worried.....

    .....It'd been going on for a while now.  The sex...It really started that 
first time.  She knew I was going to jack off after she left.  And I was 
willing to bet she played with herself when she got home.  I wasn't going to 
tell her that !  I wasn't that stupid but I was going to ask her if it was ok 
if I played with myself the next time, while she stripped ?!

    That second time; I did and shot a huge load on to the coffee table.  Mary 
Lou's eyes were locked on my cock as I stroked it.  Her hands were on her 
head, her tits thrust out, nipples erect, legs spread about a foot and she was 
grinding her furry little snatch around like she was on fire.

    She came to rest when I stopped stroking my cock.  The timer went off 
about a minute later.  We were smoking, sharing a bowl.  She was still naked 
and I still had my shorts down around my ankles.  That was the last time we 
used the timer.

    Soon enough, Mary Lou was giving me a hand job and I was fingering her to 
orgasm.  Usually at the same time, seeing who could get the other off faster.  
- From there it went to oral and Mary Lou loved to suck cock...And having her 
pussy licked and nibbled on sent her to the heavens.

    She said she was a virgin but I wasn't sure of that ?!  By then I was 
finger banging her like a jack hammer for about a half hour at a time.  
Anyway, she was tighter than shit and loved to fuck.  She was over every day 
for a week after the first time and I'd lost count of the number of times I'd 
fucked her.....

    .....Today was a big day and I glanced out the front window again.  She 
was bringing some friends.  Yea !  I know this sounds real stupid but...No 
buts !  This is fucking stupid but the thought of getting to fuck one of her 
friends was driving me crazy.  I could think of nothing else.  Mary Lou said 
it wasn't a sure thing but "pretty sure."  Whatever that meant ?

    My curiosity...The time spent looking out front window...I wanted to get a 
preview of what lay ahead.  She told me on the phone earlier that only one of 
her friends would be able to stay as late as she did and that's the one she 
wanted me to fuck.  Mary Lou was as excited about it as I was.  I was getting 
hard again.

    When the light knocking came at the back door, I actually jumped.  I 
usually just wore a robe, stripped it off and was naked.  I couldn't count the 
number of times I'd pulled Mary Lou into the front room, bent her over the end 
of the couch, pulled up her skirt, pulled down her panties and drilled my hard 
cock right between the buns of her ass.  She was always wet and ready !

    Today I was wearing shorts, without underwear.  My cock bounced against my 
leg and got a little harder as I made my way to the back door.

    "Hey !  Daniel...What's happening, man ?"  Mary Lou was already stoned.  I 
laughed.  "These are my friends...Doreen, Katie and Trudy."  So were here 
friends.

    "High !  Doreen...Katie...Trudy !"  I was in lower earth orbit.  The three 
of them were delicious.  Doreen and Katie almost carbon copies of Mary Lou.  
Doreen a blonde and Katie with hair color a little darker than Mary Lou's.  I 
bet her pussy hair was darker too !  Trudy was a little stockier than the 
other three and had quite a pair of balloons filling up her "T" shirt.  Her 
hair was much darker than the other girls.

    The joints went round and round.  The time crawled.  Mary Lou turned on 
the stereo.  I rolled another joint from the ounce I had on the coffee table.  
They were all sitting on the couch...the three new ones.  Mary Lou was 
standing beside the stuffed chair watching me roll the joint.  The three of 
them couldn't keep their eyes off the dope.

    Mary Lou knew that whatever wasn't smoked would go home with her if it all 
worked out.  I was confident and had a woody jumping round inside my shorts.  
I started the joint around and immediately started rolling another.

    The music sounded loud so I got up to check it out.  The joints were still 
going around and Mary Lou was swaying to the music.  Soon all four of them 
were up and dancing around the front room.  I had to sit.  The blood was 
draining from my brain.  I felt light headed.  My cock was like a crowbar in 
my shorts, actually tenting them.

    I didn't care that the girls could plainly see the lump in my shorts.  In 
fact, it turned me on.  I flexed my cock several times.  They appeared not to 
notice.  Mary Lou came over and pulled me up to dance.  My cock was like a 
rocket ship in my crotch.  Mary Lou openly stared at it while we danced.  I 
wanted to drag the lot of them to the bedroom and begin taking turns with 
them.

    We were into joint five and six when Doreen and Katie got up to leave.  It 
had just started getting dark.  Trudy appeared not to care in the least and 
was taking a huge hit off a roach between her fingers tips.

    I stayed on the couch with her while Mary Lou took the others out the 
back door.  She was gone about five minutes.  Neither Trudy nor I spoke while 
Mary Lou was gone.  Visions of Trudy laid out on the bed, legs spread, cunt 
wet and me poking my cock into her, washed over me.  I must have jumped about 
six inches off the couch when Mary Lou closed the back door.

    The three of us smoked a little more reefer...Really just finished up the 
roaches left from earlier.  And then Mary Lou pulled me up and we started 
dancing again.  Trudy was gawking off into space.  When Mary Lou fondled my 
cock, I jumped.  She laughed.  Trudy looked over at us but by then I had 
turned so Trudy couldn't watch her friend stroke my hardening cock.

    I reached for Mary Lou's crotch and started groping her pussy.  Her 
shorts were very short and the young thing wasn't wearing any panties.  My 
finger found it's way into her and she started humping my hand.  I forced her 
hand up a leg of my shorts and she started jacking me off.

    I turned and found Trudy still gawking off into space.  Mary Lou used my 
hard dick to pull me closer to her.  "Go get her.  We'll put her between us 
and make her crazy."

    When I turned to coax Trudy into dancing, Mary Lou was still holding my 
cock quite smartly...And it popped right out of my shorts.  I'm sure Trudy saw 
it.

    I pushed it back in as I approached the couch.  By then Trudy was staring 
at my crotch.  She offered no resistance when I pulled her to her feet.  Mary 
Lou was lighting a roach and offered it to Trudy.  She took a hit.  So did I.  
Mary Lou was dancing in front of Trudy and I was behind her.  I could see 
where her bra cut into the meat under her arms.  It was a wide bra strap,  
two, three inches.  I could also make out her panty line !  My cock was like 
stone.

    Mary Lou put her hands on Trudy's waist and soon the two of them were 
swaying.  I moved closer and started to move with them.  Occasionally my 
hardon would rub against Trudy's behind.  Trudy had a big, prominent butt.  
Being taller than the girls I was able to watch Mary Lou's hands move up and 
start playing with Trudy's breasts.  I moved closer, pulling Trudy to my 
hardon with my hands on her hips.

    I started grinding against Trudy.  Her arms were around Mary Lou's 
shoulders and the girls were kissing.  I started licking the back of her neck.  
She tasted salty.  My hands were between them working the young thing's jeans 
open.  Mary Lou was pulling her "T" shirt off over her head.

    I moved away and shoved the coffee table out into the entry way.  I 
stripped off my shirt and reached to unsnap Trudy's bra.  Mary Lou came away 
with the cups and Trudy was now topless.  Her breasts were at least three or 
four times the size of Mary Lou's.  Mary Lou began kissing and sucking on 
Trudy's breasts.  The feeling the girls had done this before floated through 
my brain.

    I worked Trudy's jeans off and her panties came with them.  Her butt was 
firm with a deep crack separating the buns.  I ran my hand between the cheeks 
of her ass and Trudy jumped a little.  Mary Lou was alternating her mouth 
between Trudy's breasts, one then the other.  I helped Trudy off with her 
jeans and now she just had her sandals on.

    I turned Trudy around and watched as Mary Lou manipulated her nipples from 
behind.  Trudy had way more than a hand full.  Her belly had a little pouch on 
it and her pubic hair was a dark "V" at her crotch.  I dropped my shorts and 
Trudy watched the whole time.  I stroked myself for a moment and then went to 
my knees.

    Mary Lou giggled and Trudy was wide eyed.  I started with her belly button 
which was a deep crevasse in her stomach.  My hands filled themselves with 
Trudy's ample behind.  I could already visualize myself on my knees behind 
her, driving my cock in and out of her like a runaway train.

    I got my mouth in her hair as soon as I could and then started working her 
legs apart from behind.  Mary Lou assisted by grabbing a hold of one thigh and 
lifting it up.  I was licking her snatch in under a minute.  She tasted sour 
and smelled funky.  I licked the smell away.  The taste went with it.  Trudy 
was starting to make noise.  Her tits looked bigger from down here and I could 
see that her nipples were very erect.  They were much bigger than Mary Lou's.

    I was eager to get my dick in her so I rose and guided her to the couch.  
Trudy sat while Mary Lou went to her knees and sucked my cock into her mouth.  
Trudy didn't look surprised at all that her friend was sucking my dick.  It 
turned me on, watching her watch Mary Lou sucking my cock.  Every so often she 
would look into my face but most of her attention was riveted to where her 
friend was using her mouth on my cock.  I motioned to her snatch and Trudy 
took the cue, spread her legs and started playing with herself.

    Mary Lou still had all her clothes on but Trudy and I were naked.  The 
young thing was ramming three fingers in and out of her cunt faster than Mary 
Lou's head was bobbing on my cock.  I was hard as rock and slippery as an eel.  
I pushed Mary Lou aside and went to my knees, put a hand on each of Trudy's 
thighs and knee walked in until I made contact.

    A little guidance and I was in her, fucking immediately.  She was nowhere 
near as tight as Mary Lou and just sloppy as shit.  I was off to the races and 
on cloud nine.  I must have been fucking her for at least ten minutes when I 
felt Mary Lou's tongue on my ass.  My cum started hemorrhaging out of the head 
of my penis when her tongue licked across my asshole.

    I shivered and shook as my cock pumped spurt after spurt of hot semen into 
Trudy's belly.  Her tits were rolling around on her chest like jell-o filled 
bags.  Her areolae were quite large and her nipples flaccid.  I leaned down 
and sucked one into my mouth.  Mary Lou's tongue was reaming itself into my 
ass.

    I rolled off Trudy to get Mary Lou's tongue out of my ass.  Her mouth 
gobbled up my spent dick.  Trudy was sitting up, her tits hanging down on her 
chest.  I sucked a nipple into my mouth.  Mary Lou left my dick, pushed Trudy 
to her back and began to chow down on her friend.  I got to my knees and fed 
Trudy my noodle soft cock.

    Mary Lou was really working on the young thing's snatch.  My cock was 
hardening and I was going to drill it right into Mary Lou's tight ass.  I 
slapped my hardening cock against Trudy's tits for a bit and then slid down on 
to the carpet.

    Mary Lou was naked as a jay bird and knew exactly what was going to 
happen.  She got to her knees.  I slid right into her, up to the hilt.  
Trudy's eyes were closed and she was rolling and pinching her own nipples.  I 
was pounding my dick in and out of Mary Lou's tight buns, driving my cock deep 
into her belly.  I pried her butt cheeks apart and watched her asshole wrinkle 
each time my cock fucked in and out of her.  Her anus was almost hairless with 
just a couple of scraggly, curly hairs growing around it.

    I fucked Mary Lou faster.  Trudy was starting to cum, bucking her crotch 
up to meet Mary Lou's face.  My cock was traveling at light speed.  I grunted, 
froze and felt a couple of spurts of cum squirt into Mary Lou's tight cunt.

    Half and hour later the two of them were sucking on my cock and I was 
getting hard enough to fuck one of them.  I was sure hoping that this wouldn't 
be the last time this happened !

                                    *****

    I didn't get a hardon for three days !  No !  Shit !  I was anxious to 
hear from Mary Lou.  We never used the phone to communicate so I was stuck 
waiting for her to visit.  Lately her visits have been a little further apart 
than I'd like.  I figured she was fucking other guys...Probably guys her age ?  
Shit !  She was almost fifteen and just cute as all get out.

    The days crawled by like weeks.  Sometimes it'd been over a week.  On 
those occasions I'd usually end up raping her as soon as she got into the 
house.  Usually on the floor, pulling just enough of her clothes off to get my 
cock into her.  Those afternoons usually ended late into the evening.  One 
time she even called somebody and told them she wouldn't be able to make it.  
I fucked her four times that evening !

                                  Wednesday
                              The Fourth of July
                                     2001

    Her mother was standing behind her.  I sensed this was not going to go 
well for me.  I stepped aside and let them in.  Trudy was not smiling at all 
and her mother looked stern.  I was sure it was the dope and was just fucking 
devastated when it hit.

    "Mary Lou tells me that you're fucking her !"  Until then I'd been 
thinking that mom was pretty good looking and how much I'd like to fuck the 
both of them...Like Memorial day...

    "...your choice...The cops or the deed to your house.  I sure hope it's 
paid up !  Is it ?"

    I nodded meekly.  "I'll get it as soon as the bank opens...Honest."  I was 
shivering and shaking I was so scared.  They were off, heading to the door.  I 
remained on the couch.  They never even sat down.  I was numb.

                                    ******

    "You sure he'll come through ?

    "Mom, he'd dive off the Empire State Building to see me naked again.  
Count on it !"

    "How about the garden...Are you sure ?"

    "Mom...Why do you think I took Trudy over there ?  Thirty plants...I asked 
around.  That's a lot of dope and it comes two, three times a year.  If that 
weak dick boy friend of yours can unload it, we're rich...Forever."

    "And just who is going to keep this garden going ?"

    "I thought that was obvious.  He's got a real nice dick and knows how to 
use it.  Beats the shit out of that fucking weak dick boy friend of yours."

    Mother and daughter were sitting at the kitchen table.  The mother was 
looking at the foreclosure statement.  They had to be out of the house by the 
end of the month.  She knew she couldn't afford the house after the divorce 
but Mary Lou kept telling her it would work out...And it did !

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