"Scales and Arpeggios" part 1 (ff, 1st) It all started, really, about a year before I went away to school. I was friendly with Minnie, the girl next door. I was only twelve, and although she was a full two years older--which makes such a difference at that age--I could tell that she wasn't particularly clever. Sometimes, when we talked about school subjects, or things on the news, I could tell that she was only pretending to understand what I was saying. Really, she wasn't very interested. But by now she was well on the way to womanhood, proud of her body and its young maturity, and keen to devote her maturing maternal instincts on something more life-like and responsive than a doll. We were an odd couple in many ways. I was innocent, academically oriented, from a good Catholic family--although an unusual one, for I was an only child: my mother had had a gynaecological illness after my birth which prevented her having any more children. My parents, though loving in their way, were undemonstrative in physical terms. They spared nothing to educate and enrich my mind, but since infancy my body had become a stranger to touches or caresses. Still small and spindly, my pubescence was just beginning, my periods just starting, my nipples becoming tender, no pubic hair yet. Living as I did in my mind rather than in my body, I viewed these changes with a sense of regret for the passing of childhood; yet it was with a mixture of apprehension and curiosity that I contemplated the distracting, messy, unruly thing my body was changing into. Minnie was quite the opposite: excited at the onrush of womanhood, proud of her new, lush curves, thrilled by the mysterious new þutterings and shivers as she tumbled happily and sensuously in her hormonal spring-tide. And, being by a long way the youngest of three sisters (Catherine was now living with her boyfriend and Amelia was married with two children), the pride of her conÞdent young womanhood craved admiration--a rapt audience, an adoring younger sister; while her kind, affectionate nature sought an outlet in a pet, or perhaps a surrogate child. The difference in our ages made our friendship somewhat unusual, but I think my parents and her mother--she was separated from her husband--initially found it both charming and convenient, and it received their tacit blessing. >From Minnie's fourteenth birthday, she was old enough to baby-sit for my parents, a new responsibility she discharged at Þrst with pride and ofÞcious thoroughness. She insisted on supervising my washing and cleaning my teeth before bed--something my parents had not done for many years, seeking I suppose to encourage me to greater independence. Then I had to brush my hair to a shine. I had never seen a need for this, as my hair would always be a mess when I awoke; impatient with my lack of application, she snatched the brush from my hand and took over, fussing and scolding. I would have found this infuriating, but for the gentle touches and the closeness of her warm, soft body. I knew it was not for my sake she did this: it was she who wanted me for her pretty little doll. And yet I let her pet me, dress me, stroke my hair. It was somehow comforting to be part of some quiet, intimate little inner game of hers. As she stroked my face and hair, I felt delicious shivers in my scalp, down my spine. Her lips were so red and moist when she licked them. She was so soft, so touchable. And when she put me to bed, there was no offer of a bed-time story--she being no great reader, and indeed less well-read than I--but instead, she continued to stroke my hair and tickle my face affectionately, calling me her "pretty baby". Her gentle caresses so soothed and pleased me that I was reluctant to let her go: instead, I kicked the bedclothes off, wriggled naughtily and whined that I wasn't tired and didn't want to sleep. Indeed, all I wanted was to be caressed endlessly by her. Then she pretended to be angry with me, scolding me: "naughty baby!" She launched herself upon me, to keep me still, and then began to tickle my ribs. Being thin and wiry, I was extremely ticklish: I squealed and thrashed wildly. Not to be outdone, she began to wrestle with me until she had imprisoned my arms underneath me, trapping my legs between her own. We lay on the bed, panting and giggling, gradually calming. But she had become excited: I could feel her heart pounding through the soft breast which pressed against me. "What's the matter? Is my little baby ticklish, eh?" She began chuckling and unpicking the buttons of my pyjama jacket. She was far bigger and stronger than I, who could do nothing to resist. Soon my tummy was bare, and she began gently stroking me with her free hand, teasing, watching with grinning delight as the slightest contact with my most sensitive spots drove me into wild, helpless struggles. "No! No! Hahaha! No!" I squealed in desperation. My heart was beating wildly. Something was happening inside me. "What's the matter? Don't you like being tickled?" "No! I hate it!" I cried, straining to escape her tormenting Þnger. "Well, you are strange! What about here? Is that better?" She advanced up my rib cage now. It was not so bad, and she was being very gentle. I began to breathe again, to relax. "Here. I know a nice place to tickle..." And she unpicked the remaining buttons of my pyjama jacket, baring my hard, aching nipples. I had never seen them this prominent before. And then she began tickling their very tips, Þrst one, then the other, watching with a delighted grin as my total astonishment at the sensation gave way to violent struggles and desperate panting: for a moment this new kind of tickling seemed merely pleasant and exciting, but as the sensations grew and began to surge through my inexperienced body, my young mind reacted in bewildered terror. New muscles somewhere in my abdomen, muscles I did not know I had, began to þutter and constrict tightly, painfully, as if beyond their natural strength. It was a strange, griping pain, right, deep inside. I could not place it, but it made me afraid. "What's the matter? Don't you like it?" She laughed, incredulous at my reaction. "No-o! Don't tickle me there!" "Don't be silly! It feels lovely!" She did it some more, this time just around the edge of the areola. To me this seemed to tickle more than anything; the griping pains came faster, and I think the ferocity of my struggles must have persuaded her that I was serious. She cuddled me, then, just caressing me gently, whispering soothingly to me, "There, there, I won't do it any more. But you are strange, Mary. I love being tickled there. Here, you do it to me." She drew herself up then, pulled up her sweater, unclasped her bra and slipped it off to reveal what then seemed to me to be twin miracles. "Go on," she said to me, "touch them. I like it." I was mesmerized: I doubt I could have resisted touching them, they were so inviting, so beautiful, so close. She saw me staring. "Do you like them?" she asked me softly. I could only nod. For a while I just caressed them gently, feeling their soft, Þrm weight, fascinated as the areolae wrinkled and the nipples erected, delighted as my hesitant fondling made her shudder and moan with pleasure. She showed me how to squeeze and tug them gently, and then encouraged me to suckle. My spasming muscles began to relax now, leaving a strange sensation of delicious weakness, and I began to feel comfortable and safe and gentle. And thus I fell asleep, that Þrst night, guzzling contentedly on her succulent teat while she affectionately stroked my back and sides, sending delicious, soothing tingles down to my Þngers and toes, to the roots of my hair. The next time, we settled into the mother-and-baby act almost as soon as my parents were out of the door. First she groomed and stroked my hair, then I curled up in her lap and she quietly unbuttoned her blouse. This time, there was no bra. The entrancing softness of those shy young breasts, nestling sweetly behind the warm folds of thin white cotton, quite took my breath away. She looked so proud, so happy as she cupped them in her hands. The areolae were þat and pale, the teats just little dark spots at the centre. "Oh, they are beautiful!" I gasped, delighted to see them again, and was rewarded by a look of such radiance, and such a happy little sigh, that I could not forbear to reach out and fondle them. It had given her such pleasure on the previous occasion that I was sure she was longing for my touch. Remembering how it had felt around the edges of my areolae, I tickled her there, avoiding the extra-sensitive centre. "Ooh! Ha! Ha! That tickles! No, don't stop! Mmm-mmm, mmmm... Aah, aah, ha-ha, mmm... aah, aah..." her giggles slowly calmed into a delighted crooning as her teats swiftly became engorged under my stroking, caressing Þngers. Little goose-bumps rose on her areolae, and my fascinated stroking made her close her eyes and bite her lower lip in delight. After a while, she pulled me closer. I knew what was expected of me, and began to suckle the nearest, which caused her crooning to redouble and her thighs to begin a strange, rhythmic motion which gently rocked me. She loved it when I ran the þat of my tongue over those sensitive goose-bumps, shivering and groaning her pleasure. In gratitude, she unpicked my shirt and began to tickle my back, which I loved, while with her other hand she stroked my face, my ears, my neck, with such tenderness that I found myself loving her, caressing her in turn. We sat like that for ages, the tremulous warmth of our two bodies wrapped together in a soft, affectionate embrace, for all the world like mother and daughter. At length, she shivered and gave a contented sigh, then parted me from her breast as a mother eases a dozing baby. "Time for bed, my little one..." As before she supervised my toilet, brushed and groomed my hair, tucked me in like a little princess. And I, fearing her tickles yet loving her touching, her closeness, again kicked and wriggled to incite her mock indignation. "Oh, you little monkey..." And once more I was pinned to the bed and she was undoing my pyjama top with a wicked gleam in her eye. My wriggles only maddened her: soon she was tickling my tummy with swirling Þngertips, and we were both giggling madly. Gradually I came to acknowledge that I enjoyed these tummy-tickles immensely, just as she enjoyed my attentions at her breast. As her tickles slowed and became more sensuous, I relaxed. Minnie opened her blouse and offered me a breast to suckle, which only intensiÞed my pleasure. As well as the strange cramps deep in my belly--in my womb, perhaps--I was aware of a strange feeling of weakness between my legs, a sense of dampness. Somehow I knew that I had not wet myself: the dampness was lower down, and my entire cunt felt moist and warm. After a few minutes, she untucked her blouse entirely, giving me tacit permission to stroke and fondle her. I loved touching her smooth, warm skin, making her shiver as my little Þngers traced and caressed her most sensitive spots, listening to her lovely musical moans and giggles, her excited panting when I found a particularly sensitive spot. From time to time she would offer me the other breast, never ceasing her gentle fondling of my sensitive tummy and lower abdomen. Finally, after I don't know how long, my squeezing muscles grew tired and I slept, exhausted by new-found bliss. After that, every time she baby-sat for me I would provoke her into tickling me, and would Þnally calm me at her breast. It became part of our ritual. Perhaps because of my negative response when she tickled my nipples before, it was a long time before she did it again to me; but often she got very close, and I would wriggle away from her. From time to time, as I struggled to keep my nipples out of her reach, my pyjama bottoms would slip down; then she would tickle me quite low down on my tummy, near the top of my slit, and this I found more enjoyable than anywhere else. Inevitably it would trigger those strange inner squeezes which at Þrst had so alarmed me, but gradually the strangeness wore off and I began to enjoy the sensation as my inner muscles tensed and released, tensed and released, gradually gathering strength. On one occasion my pyjama bottoms descended very low, and I saw Minnie looking down there curiously. Then she went for my nipples and tickled them--the Þrst time for a long while--and as usual I struggled further up the bed, baring my crotch. I think I would have been mortiÞed had she not responded as she did: "Oh, how lovely! I think your Þrst hairs are coming. I'm just going to touch them lightly, just the tops of them. There. Can you feel that? You're becoming a woman!" The feather-light touches were indescribably delicious. I had a really nice squeeze inside and moaned with pleasure. Overcome with arousal, she stopped her tickling then and offered me her lovely breasts, still caressing my lower abdomen soothingly. One time during the summer, when I was out in the garden, I heard laughing and squealing coming from next door. It sounded like Minnie. I went up close to the fence and looked through a chink. Minnie was on the ground, her elder sister Catherine sitting astride her, tickling her. They were both laughing a good deal. Catherine's hands were up underneath Minnie's blouse. "Oh no, oh no!" Minnie kept squealing. "You know you like it really!" Catherine taunted her, "tickle tickle!" and Minnie squealed again as Catherine tickled one of her more tender spots. I began to understand why Minnie liked to tickle me so much. I watched in fascination as Minnie bucked and writhed under her big sister's busy Þngers; Catherine was laughing almost more than Minnie. And then something happened which made my heart pound; still tickling her torso with her left hand, Catherine reached behind her and, þicking Minnie's dress up, quickly tickled her between the legs, saying: "now on your girly place, tickle tickle!" Minnie squealed and bucked furiously; Catherine became almost helpless with laughter. I watched mesmerized as Catherine tickled Minnie to exhaustion. I felt a welter of confusing emotions: fear, excitement, arousal. During the late winter of that year, Minnie's babysitting engagements, like my parents' social life, encountered a temporary lull; but occasionally she invited me over to her house to play the mother- and-baby game. Her mother would often have a lie down in the afternoon, so that we were able to play uninterrupted for a couple of hours. At Þrst, we would brush one another's hair and give one another butterþy kisses. But as soon as her mother's bedroom door was closed, Minnie would sit me on her lap, undo her blouse and encourage me to fondle and suckle her. This would have been rather a one-sided pastime, but she was careful to reward me both with effusive praise and with delicious caresses. I would sit across her lap as I suckled, and she would slip her hand up my shirt and stroke my bare back with one hand, while with the other she would fondle my tummy or--my favourite--my sensitive inner thigh. She liked my legs, I think, for at Þrst she would push my skirt right up to my waist, and after a while insist that I remove it altogether. When she stroked my thigh, I would part my legs in abandon. The higher she stroked me, the more I encouraged her by suckling with extra vigour. I suppose I enjoyed a sense of power, too, for I was left in no doubt how profoundly my increasingly expert ministrations affected her. I began to sense that she did not merely enjoy, but somehow needed this protracted, gentle stimulation. As I grew more expert in fondling her breasts and pleasuring her nipples, I learned to generate in Minnie a state of extraordinary excitement. She would begin to pant and make little excited moans; and once in that state, gently tickling her under her arms or around her waist seemed to drive her crazy with pleasure. She would beg me to nibble at her breasts, which caused her to go all tense and quivery for a few seconds, during which time she would squeeze me incredibly hard, so that it almost hurt, before she relaxed with a lovely little gasp of relief. Of course I did not understand about orgasm yet, and the Þrst time this happened, I was quite shocked. I felt terrible. I thought I had made her have a Þt. I was crying and saying, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" over and over again, and she just sat there, her legs tightly crossed, shuddering, her eyes glassy, her chest heaving with occasional deep sighs. Then she said, "There's nothing to be sorry about! It was lovely! It was the best feeling in all the world!" Of course, after that, I wanted to give her that wonderful feeling every time. We called it "the shudders". I never tired of watching her crazily mounting excitement, the trembling, rigid climax and then the shuddering and twitching afterwards, when I had to stop and let her rest. She would praise me extravagantly after that, saying that I was the best ever, I was her baby, her lovely baby. Christmas came, the last before I was sent away to convent school, and still we played our tender games. By now the motivation had changed--for both of us. My role had shifted from living doll to surrogate younger sister. As well as worshipping her blossoming maturity, I must now submit to her instruction and enlightenment as to woman's estate. Often as we played, she would ask me if I felt the squeezing inside me, whether I was getting wet between the legs. At Þrst I was embarrassed by these messy symptoms of womanhood, but Minnie encouraged me to be proud of them, and by now it was becoming commonplace for us to cuddle in just our steamy panties, stroking, tickling, suckling, groaning with pleasure as our constant touching brought incessant throbbing between our legs and the occasional slow, delicious contraction. Barriers were beginning to fall, and we were becoming increasingly intimate: on one occasion, Minnie even showed me how her labia--she called them "petals"--swelled as a result of our fondling. One night, wishing that Minnie were baby-sitting me, I tickled my own nipples and examined myself to see if the same thing happened. My labia were not quite as prominent as hers, but they swelled enough to become visible. I became curious about that part of my body, and began to notice the sensations down there when Minnie touched me. Shortly after Christmas, my parents were to go out to a party and it was with joy and a new kind of urgent excitement that I awaited Minnie's arrival. No sooner had my parents gone than we rushed to my bedroom and stripped to our panties, ready for a whole evening's glorious titillation. I went for her playfully, biting her nipples rather hard and tickling her ribs with gusto. And before I knew what was happening, she had pinned my arms above my head and her wicked Þngers were stealing up my quivering belly, harbingers of delicious torment. They paused. Gradually I relaxed, my giggles died down and I became still. Her face was close to mine, those soft, moist lips parted in a bewitching, naughty smile, her eyes twinkling in triumph. "You're going to have to get used to being tickled, little girl," she whispered, then kissed my nose, softly, dangerously, "... because I'm going to tickle and tickle you for a long, long time..." I tried not to laugh, not to squeal; every time I struggled, she pulled hard on my arms, stretching my body almost painfully tight. First it was my tummy, then my ribs. Her Þnger moved gently, excruciatingly slowly, maddening me so that I had to bite my lips and toss my head to distract myself from the outrageous sensation. But whenever she paused, the lovely tingles would þood through my body, making me pant and moan in delight, and she would wait for me to calm down and look her in the eye once more. And when she had trapped my gaze in her glinting, triumphant blue eyes, her smile would twitch, and once more the slow, deliberate Þnger-dance would begin. Again and again the cycle repeated, lengthening each time: at Þrst, pleasure at her touch; then, as the pleasure mounted, and the tingles became more intense and all-pervasive, I would go into a kind of muscle spasm, Þghting the growing intensity, at which point she would jerk my body taut and continue, and my resistance would crumble in a kind of ticklish agony which left me gasping and weak. When I was more or less exhausted, she Þnally set about my hard, aching nipples. Too tired to resist, my hips pumped instinctively in frantic excitement, as with a patient smile she gradually accustomed me to the strange, radiating sensations her nipple-teasing was provoking in my tense, trembling young body. "Do you feel it in your belly, yet?" she asked me. I did not know what to say. I just moaned and nodded. By now I had learned to enjoy the sweet, tickling shivers which whirled and eddied throughout my body when she touched me like this. And now, my new muscles seemed stronger, less painful as they began to clench and release in a slow, automatic rhythm, and I began to sense a giddy pleasure in their relaxation, and a sparkle of excitement as they tensed. Yes, I was feeling it in my belly, now. "Something's prickling me!" I complained, wriggling away from whatever it was. She let me go, and I felt for the source of the irritation. It was a feather from the down pillow, working its way out through the ticking. "Aha! I know what to do with this!" Minnie laughed, snatching it from my hand. She took my legs and raised them, and then began tickling the backs of my legs with the feather. It was such a soft, gentle tickle. It was delicious, yet my cunt was throbbing and aching so much that I could only moan. She was tickling me right next to the panty-line, driving me wild with arousal. "Here!" she said suddenly, "Take these off! I bet this will feel just incredible!" And with that, she yanked my panties down; and for the Þrst time, I lay naked before her. Taking the feather, she began stroking around my cunt, saying "You won't enjoy this so much when your hairs grow." I was moaning loudly: the sensation was incredible. "Gosh, just look at your petals! I can see you're enjoying it!" she said, moving away. I looked: I had never seen them in such a state: they protruded noticeably, and we could smell the aroma of their wetness. Then she lay alongside me, allowing my legs to fall apart, and while she continued to feather my pulsating cunt she licked and nibbled at my yearning breast, for the Þrst time titillating me the way I had so often pleasured her. It was divine. On and on she went, while I cried or moaned "Oh! I can feel it squeezing inside me! Oh Minnie! Oh Minnie! Oh!" in a sensual delirium. "Is that nice, darling?" she chuckled, watching my excitement stealthily reducing me to a panting, heaving, craving animal. "I think you're going to have the shudders. Do you feel it þuttering inside?" "Oh yes!" I quavered, my hips rocking in quiet ecstatic frenzy. Occasionally she lightly stroked her Þngers along the ridge of my petals, and at the same time þicked rapidly at my nipple with her tongue. It tickled, but I didn't laugh. The squeezing muscles in my abdomen were working harder and harder, settling into a rhythm, gathering pace, sweetly mounting and cresting into my Þrst proper, straining, gasping, brain-splitting orgasm. I went stiff and lifted my hips off the bed. I was quivering with an incredible energy. My breasts were on Þre, piercing me with unendurable pleasure. The ecstasy in my nipple grew almost intolerable, and when she touched my petals again, all hell broke loose inside me, the inner muscles griping and grinding almost painfully, and it was as if my head burst open and a shower of tiny drops of intense feelings swept down my body like tiny particles, tickling and exciting secret nerve-endings deep within me. And then the shower stopped abruptly, and with one Þnal wrench my inner muscles began to clench and ebb, clench and ebb, each time feeling sweeter and more beautiful than the last, until I was suffused in incredible inner peace. She laughed in delight as she watched my inexperienced mind struggling to cope with the immensity of it all. "You had your Þrst shudders!" she said triumphantly. "I thought I was going to die!" I said, shocked by the ferocity of it all, too confused and overwhelmed to experience it as pleasure. "As you get older, you'll Þnd you'd die without them!" she laughed, giving me a little peck on the cheek and waiting for me to return to reality. "Now you do me." She guided my hand into her warm panties and offered me a breast. "Just stroke my petals, aah, that's right, just gently... Oh, that's lovely, lovely..." Her petals were so moist and smooth and slippery; and obviously incredibly sensitive, since even my gentlest movements seemed to cause her quite shattering sensations. I was awkward and inexpert, but no great expertise was needed to give Minnie what she craved. Within a few seconds she was bucking and writhing in the grip of her own powerful climax. Afterwards, she told me I screamed, that I wrinkled up my nose. I felt light-headed. And more than that: I felt changed, as if I had passed through a door in my life. And of course I had. My daily visits to my dear friend were now impelled by a new enthusiasm. As soon as we were alone, I would undress in shameless haste and beg to be tickled and caressed as I nuzzled and fondled her voluptuous breasts. I sought her pleasure with a new urgency as I began increasingly to understand it at Þrst hand. Now, she would lie on her bed with me outstretched on top of her in just my panties, giggling in mammary bliss as I assailed her nipples with a new-found skill. Snaking her Þngers into my warm panties, giving delight for delight, she tickled my smooth, exquisitely sensitive apple-hard buttocks, stroked my gaping, hungry petals, watching smiling as I moaned and wrestled with my new woman-feelings, my hips dancing in sweet delirium. Oddly, despite our recent excursion into genital touching, it did not at once become the focus of our activity. To me it was just one of many delightfully voluptuous caresses. I sometimes wonder whether Minnie was really as innocent as I. Still ignorant of my clitoris, I would grind myself against her merely to relieve its insistent throbbing. My focus was upon her nipples and mine. In bed at night, I would dream of Minnie's breasts until I was wet and throbbing with desire; and then I would feel my own hard little nipples, stroking them with exquisite care, leaking my increasingly profuse nectar into the sodden tissues I had wedged into my panties, until I wafted into blissful oblivion. Her mother was bound to catch us sooner or later. Our eagerness overcame our caution. One day, the door þew open, we froze in guilty astonishment, and - "Oh!" a little short cry, and then a giggle. "I've just got to go out for an hour, girls." And then she was gone. The moment the door was shut, I shot to my feet, mortiÞed, hitching up my panties, which had worked down almost clear of my buttocks. I couldn't understand it. I had expected her to be horriÞed, furious. But there had been nothing, just a little titter of surprise. And Minnie just lay there, her saliva-coated nipples still beautifully stiff and proud, her contented grin unrufþed by this sudden intrusion. I jiggled on tiptoe, silently cringing with embarrassment until I heard the front door slam. "What must she think?" I cried in anguish. But Minnie just let out a lazy chuckle. "Come here, don't worry about her," she said, sitting up and folding me in her arms. Soon her tongue on my breast and her Þngers on the backs of my legs banished all shame, all rational thought as she titillated me into a particularly hot and delicious attack of the shudders, leaving me panting in exhausted gratitude. Soon we were back at our game again, squirming and teasing, panting and giggling as if nothing existed outside our little world. At last, her mother's imminent return forced a reluctant end to our play, and we parted. Back home, helping my mother prepare the dinner, I began to feel the Þrst twinges of unease. Every time my mind wandered to Minnie, I felt a recurrence of the throbbings in my crotch, and a strange sense of weakness there which caused me to visit the lavatory frequently, unsure whether I could still control my bladder. I felt so extraordinary inside, and yet everything else was so normal--my mother treated me like a little child, my father ignored me as usual--while my nipples tingled and the pulse beat secretly between my thighs. I felt strangely uneasy, almost dirty, as I removed my sticky panties that night before bed. Again that night, I crossed my arms under my nightie and tantalized my budding nipples. It was nowhere as intense as when Minnie did it, but it was comforting and pleasant, and I lay there thinking of Minnie's lovely breasts, enjoying the soft warm throb of my undiscovered clitoris, relishing the slow, rolling spasms of my newly-discovered inner muscles, oozing my girlish nectar, þirting innocently with the forces which even then were undermining my modesty, eating away at my self-control, binding my will-power in gossamer shackles which soon no power on earth could put asunder.