Murder most fowl By Jed - JedVenturer@yahoo.com Two strong young men learn the ultimate lesson -- don't piss off the beach bunnies "Men are whores." "No. Not whores. Whores get paid for providing a service. Men want everything for free, and as far as I can tell, they provide no service whatever." "I sit corrected. Men are hounds." "Which describes what Kenneth was doing this morning perfectly. Sniffing around and slobbering all over me." Maggie and Sharon looked at each other and nodded. Then they turned in unison and looked out over the still waters of the lake through their identical Ray-Bans, letting the sun soak into the majority of their skin not covered by their bathing suits. "We should have known they wouldn’t be good for much when the best idea they could come up with was playing ‘chicken’". "Right. Sure sign. We don’t know anything about them, and they think we’re gonna just let them stick their big fat heads between our legs and jump around?" "So – why did we?" "We were bored. Like now. They were cute. We thought maybe they would be different. But mostly, ‘cause we’re stupid." "Right. That creep Kenneth had his hands all over my legs as soon as I was on his shoulders." "I know. And, did you notice how Devon fell so easily? As soon as we hit the water, he was turning around, sticking his nose in my crotch. Every time." "Guys like that are only good for one thing." "Killin’. "Right." And they laughed. Maggie turned toward her friend, lowering her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "It’s do-able, you know." Sharon smiled, looking up at the sky and luxuriating in the sun’s rays on her shoulders and legs. She regretted not having worn a bikini, as her friend had. She was going home on Sunday with a fishbelly-white stomach. "Suuure it is," she said condescendingly. "It’s do-able, I’ve done it – and it’s kind of a rush," Maggie insisted. "Definitely not something you’ll forget in a hurry." Sharon looked at her small, brunet friend appraisingly. And smiled. Devon and Kenneth walked along the beach – no, sauntered – no, strutted, Maggie thought with an inward superior smile. They were pretty boys, with regular and utterly forgettable features, feathered hair worn long, and straight limbs made uselessly muscular through working out. If ever a couple of boys needed killing, just to spare the world the embarrassment of their presence, these were the ones. Then with an inward start of surprise, she realized her heart was pounding with excitement for the first time in a long time. She smiled again, this time at herself. "I think I like this a little too much," she thought. Devon came right up to Maggie and stood at her feet, his legs apart, hands on hips. He had marked the small, curvy brunet as "his" as soon as he and Kenneth had spotted the two girls earlier that day. Kenneth had been happy to settle for the taller, broad- shouldered blond (Sharon? Karen? Devon couldn’t remember). While Maggie was a sweetly luscious bundle of curves, Sharon was long and lean, with fit, toned legs and a broad back. Kenneth liked athletic girls; Devon liked ‘em more on the feminine side. Devon nudged Maggie’s foot. "Hey." The girl lifted her shades, giving him an appraising look. "Hey yourself. You all done with your mommy?" "Yeah. She has a fit if we don’t show up for meals on time. Drives me nuts." Devon was annoyed that Maggie had so easily pricked his cocksure bubble. "What about you?" "We’re at liberty until tonight. My folks drove into the city for some shopping, so it’s just Sharon and me, the beach . . . " Maggie shrugged, perfectly aware that what she had left unsaid was ". . . and the cottage", the three-room structure set back in the trees, devoid of parental supervision for at least the next couple of hours. "So. . . what do you wanna do now," Kenneth asked, the direction of his gaze making perfectly clear what was on his mind. Sharon crossed her legs daintily, much to Kenneth’s annoyance. "How about another game of ‘chicken’," she suggested. "We had so much damned fun the last time we played it." The two boys exchanged glances that clearly said ‘jackpot!’. "Okay," Devon said. "Then maybe . . . something different." With a pointed glance up at the tree-shaded cottage. "Maybe." Maggie rose to her feet, swiping the sand off her bottom, purely for Devon’s benefit. Devon was definitely an ass man, and Maggie knew that hers met with his approval. She thought her chest was getting short shrift in his assessment, but in the long run it didn’t matter. "In the long run, we’re all dead," she thought. "And in the short run, some of us are dead." Fixing her muscular young puppy with a meaningful look, Maggie sauntered into the water, knowing without looking that he would be right behind her. Waste deep in the murky water, Maggie and Sharon exchanged excited looks as the boys positioned themselves behind them. Devon’s hands grasped Maggie around her waist, lifting her up over his head. Devon struggled with the lift, smashing Maggie’s bottom into his face, then almost sitting her square on top of his head, so that she had to slide back to settle around his shoulders. Kenneth shot Devon a congratulatory look at his facial exploration of Maggie’s ass; Sharon favored Maggie with a raised eyebrow and a sardonic smile. The Kenneth lifted Sharon, his hands low on her hips, his grip inexplicably slipping as he lifted her. By the time he settled his passenger on his shoulders, his hands had slipped up her hips and inside her swimsuit. Momentarily trapped against her skin by the tightness of her suit as she assumed a sitting position, Kenneth struggled to extricate his hands. Another look; and another look. Then the game began, the girls grasping at each other’s hands and shoulders, the boys bellowing, charging and bumping each other, all the time keeping firm grips on their passengers knees and thighs. Suddenly Devon staggered backward and fell headlong. "Here we go again," Maggie thought as the cool water closed over her. Sure enough, under the surface Devon wriggled around as if confused, shoving his face deeply into her crotch before surfacing. They stood facing each other, dripping, and without volition, Maggie’s hand came up to slap him. Devon blocked the slap with a cursory movement of his hand. "Don’t get excited," he advised. "It was just an accident. Jeez." "The slap wasn’t for copping a feel," she said, standing close and pressing her thigh into his crotch. "The slap was for giving up so easy. I hate to lose. When I lose I get bitchy. When I win, I get real . . . happy." She accentuated the last word with a gentle thigh-nudge that had a galvanic effect on him. "Then let’s go beat these guys," he husked, turning toward the victorious chicken-fighters, his hand dropping to Maggie’s ass. "You guys are meat!" he bellowed to Kenneth and Sharon. Maggie remounted, and the battle commenced in earnest. Devon fought like a boy possessed sure now that victory would be rewarded richly. Maggie settled herself firmly on the back of his neck, her hands clutching the top of his head. She and Sharon cast meaningful looks at each other . . . . . . Maggie’s feet came out from under Devon’s arms, as if she had suddenly lost her hold. With a gasp she locked her ankles together, teetering theatrically on her perch. Devon grabbed her knees to steady her, still charging and bellowing. Sharon, watching Maggie, followed her lead, and Kenneth was all too happy to help her balance with both hands on her thighs. The boys charged, collided, backed up and charged again. Devon was surprised at the conditioning of Maggies thighs, the solid muscle he felt under his hands and against the sides of his neck. "She must be a gymnast", he thought, and the accompanying thought, of what flexibility she must have, crowded out any concern that her leg-lock around his neck was constricting, tightening even. . . There may have come a time when Devon wondered what had happened to the physical conditioning of which he was so justifiably proud. Suddenly he found himself light-headed, long before he should have. He steeled himself, thinking about, and feeling, the sweet soft package on his shoulders. No way would he let Kenneth win this one. His ears ringing, Devon charged. Kenneth staggered, surprised at how short of breath he had become. It didn’t help that Sharon was holding on for dear life, her legs clamped around his neck; but there was no way he would let her know he couldn’t take it, and no way he would let Devon get him down. He turned his cheek into the ineffable softness of Sharon’s inner thigh for inspiration, noting with surprise how solid were the muscles beneath the velvety skin. Devon’s ears were buzzing and his lips were numb; his pulse pounded in his head like a drum, almost drowning out the screams of the girls and the splashing of the water. Still he soldiered on, spurred on by Maggie’s shrill cheers and the pressure of her legs around his neck. He had a hard-on that felt as if it would rip through his suit, but a still small part of his mind wondered at the weakness in his knees and the spots dancing before his eyes. . . he knew there was something he should be concerned about, but his lightheadedness, and the maddening pressure of Maggie’s strong, silky legs locked around his neck, kept intruding on his consciousness. Kenneth stopped for a moment, trying to adjust Sharon’s position on his shoulders; but her legs were crossed at the knees, and he couldn’t seem to pry them apart. His lungs were screaming now, and he realized his fatigue was jeopardizing his chances for victory. "Pull Maggie off Devon," he wanted to instruct Sharon, but her legs, locked tight around him in her excitement, kept him from drawing enough air to voice the command. Sharon shifted her weight on his shoulders, her legs crossing even further, and he realized he would soon be in danger of strangling if she tightened her hold on his throat much more. His hands pried at her thighs, but he could not maintain a grip on their solidly curved surface, and he ended up batting ineffectually at her legs. He tried to inhale and found he could not, and the last lucid part of his mind understood that he was past danger of strangulation and had become a victim even as utter blackness rushed in on him from all directions. He closed his eyes . . . Everything kept fading out for Devon. He stood rooted in the sandy bottom of the lake, watching in dull disbelief as Kenneth sank to his knees, his eyes closed. "Get him! Get him!" Maggie cried, pounding on his head, and he took one step as Kenneth toppled to the side and disappeared beneath the surface.. "We won. We really won," he said through the roaring buzz that filled his head, and then the world went dark and he felt himself toppling, felt the water receive their bodies, his and his partner’s, Maggie who stupidly did not release her hold on him even as they fell. He tried to grasp her legs and found his hands would no longer obey, and all he could do was to stare into the murk- filled water and listen to the roar in his head. "How long do we need to stay like this?" Sharon asked. They knelt face-to-face in the lake, with the water up around their mouths. Maggie felt a tentative squirming between her thighs and twisted her hips, tightening her hold a bit. "Not long," she answered. "Look for the bubbles." "I thought Devon’s head was going to pop," Sharon said with a giggle. "You must have had an awesome blood-choke going." "And I love the way Kenneth’s tongue was hanging out just before he went over," Maggie said in admiration. "I though his chest was going to cave in." Two great gouts of bubbles rose up around the girls, and they laughed – "bath farts!" Maggie cried. Then Sharon became very still; then shuddered deeply; and sighed, a beatific smile on her face. "Did you just. . . " Maggie asked. "Yeah," Sharon answered, wonder in her voice. "And it was better than any I’ve ever had before!" Maggie smiled, rising at last to her feet, leaving the refuse of their recent adventure in the dark water. "Men," she observed. "Whores or hounds . . . " " . . . they do have their uses after all."