As he tried to compose himself and not slip off the landing back down the ladder, he became very aware of the proximity of a woman behind him. She was giggling as she had positioned herself very closely and was resting her breasts against his back. As Bret managed to convince his neck to look around, he saw that she was flushed red with very dilated yes.
“I couldn’t help myself, sir”
Wait… what? Huh?
“Your rear looks too…” giggling and blushing “… I know you get this often, but please don’t be mad, sir”
First of all, few people ever called him sir. Second of all, who violates a person and not apologize? Wait.
Wait.
Guys his age did this to gals his age routinely and expected them to be happy about it. Who’s karma did he inherit to get this type of treatment in this most awkward and precarious of positions. He had honored his upbringing and never groped a woman without her permission. He had never made a woman feel uncomfortable, that he knew of. What was happening?
The look on his face must have said it all, as the gal backed up and dropped down a few rungs of the ladder.
“Sorry sir. I really didn’t mean to bother you. I was… you know… you’re cute… please don’t be mad.”
Grumbling something, as his tummy burbled again and twisted, Bret took the moment to try and hurry back down. The attraction to the top had eased and the pain had abated some.
No sooner he tried to descend, a chill gripped his shoulders, pressure built up in his head, his jaw started to hurt bad, and his gut nearly ripped open by a massive convulsion, the pull was back and much stronger this time.
Feeling like he was being punished for refusing the violation of the stranger below, he felt yanked up the incline as fast as he could possibly crawl. To his great surprise, the hole felt much much cooler than the room below. Looking down, he couldn’t see anything. It was just a black hole. Shortly, the gal who had groped him re-appeared.
“Glad you made it up the gangplank, kind sir. I won’t touch you, but do enjoy the place.”
She was blushing way too much. Her friend was laughing and giggling while pointing to his mid section… below his belt line. They shared knowing looks and the universal sign of a thumbs up that says “he’s hot”.
Bret felt this weird feeling that he was about to be someone’s meal. In the sexual sense of the word. Those two gals just wanted to take every bit of his soul out of him.
Scrambling for a retreat, Bret rushed along the very narrow corridor through the crawl space of the loft. Soon, he found the landing. It was more like a widening of the narrow passage way he had just crawled through. It had reminded him of some of the passageways that slaves had used to escape their situations. On the far side of the landing was what looked like a step up stage platform with a gap below it that could store things. Right below the step up was a smaller boy in the fetal position.
“Boy am I glad to see another fella”
“Why? What’s going on here?”
“Oh, you don’t know?”
NO!!!
“No, were you sucked up here?”
The boy nodded and started to cry. Turns out he had been trapped up there most of the day and had barely managed to escape all manners of groping from the older girls by hiding below the landing of the loft. Something about that space kept him safe. Bret had to figure that out and tried to get in the space too. The boy hesitated then pushed back. It was his space. His safe space.
Bret noted with intrigue that as he tried to get into that crawl space, all symptoms vanished and he was his usual self. There was something about that area that protected boys and kept them invisible to the girls. In fact, the two who were behind him walked by the crawl space twice. Once he overheard them asking each other where he had vanished to.
Bret failed to connect the dots that he had to crawl through to get to where he was yet the gals seemed totally at ease walking about the landing.
To Be Continued
Below are links to all the chapters… will auto populate the full story as it unfolds
Introducing When Ladders Traumatize - Introductions - Part 1
Zoe is a fierce competitive scholar.
Bret is happy go lucky smart guy
Somehow, their paths cross. Romance seem ready to bloom, but something goes horribly wrong.
Will Karma play a role? Will their competitive ways destroy romance before it even gets a chance?
When Ladders Traumatize Intro Part 2 - Introductions - Part 2
The school board and the principal have some tough choices to make for the coming year.
Betty seems to be the only one not stressed about what will be the fate of the principal's choices
When Ladders Traumatize Part 1 - Part 1 - The Story
Bret discovers that his top performance does not get him the top earned reward.
Zoe gets the gig he was after. Sure, he likes her and thinks she's pretty and all... but...
For now, he must get used to the fact he's going on a trip to a mud pit on a farm as a thank you for his hard work.
What was up with Bucking Betty though?
When Ladders Traumatize Part 2 - Part 2- The Story
Bret, looking for a cool place to escape the drudgery of the mud pit field trip.. finds a cool building with a sweet looking white ladder.
As friendly as the staff is, something is really bothering Bret.
His tummy rumbles, his thoughts grow weary. Something is off. But what...
The weird feeling is proving very distracting. There are so many beautiful women around... he nearly forgets he's attracted to Zoe
If only he could figure out what that weird feeling was...
When Ladders Traumatize Part 3 - Part 3 - The Story
The gals are teasing him. Bret is sure of this. Why would such beautiful women find him hot while he's in pain?
But man were they beautiful. And boy was he in pain.
Yet, that white ladder was messing with his head... drawing him... punishing him.
Bret felt he was going crazy in a sci-fi vortext.
Eventually Bret finds himself inside that mysterious loft.
There was a boy in there. The poor fella was scared to death. Also was helpful in getting him away from these overly sexed gals that were all over him on the ladder...
When Ladders Traumatize Part 4 - Part 4 - The Story
Something is really wrong. Badly wrong. That boy is not who he appears to be at all. Who is this boy?
Why are all the girls only after that mysterious teen in the loft?
Bret now needs to figure how to get out of that crawl space. Things are just getting too weird.
The pain though. The gals giggling. The boy talking.
That S.O.S message . Was it for him? Bret needed answers but he needed to escape more than anything.
Especially with this massive amount of pain wrecking his body, survival depended on his ability to escape. But how?
When Ladders Traumatize Part 5 - Part 5 - The Story
Just when Bret thinks his nightmare is over, it is not.
The boy-ish thing is following him everywhere. Popping up in the worse places.
Bret feels like he's fighting for his life while the girl is flirting mercilessly with him.
Is he losing his mind? And will he ever get out of this mess?
Will he ever get a chance to hold Zoe close again?
The reach of that boy-ish thing is hellbent on keeping him in agony, no matter how much Bret fights.
Worse, it's night time and everything seems a threat.
Epilogue of Ladders - Epilogue - When Ladders Traumatize
Bret, now older, discovers that Zoe has feelings...
But, what do these feelings mean?
Where does this White Ladder really fit into this story?
Will these questions get answered? More importantly, will Bret have his way with Zoe the way he's always fantasized?
Is this the end??
Shallows of the Deep 