Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Igpay Atinlay, by Ricky



          In the summer of 1964, I turned 16.  My father and I drove north to visit my uncle.  When we arrived, my aunt and uncle were not home; dad went to visit with them while they were at a mutual friend’s home elsewhere in the city.  This left my two cousins (ages 14 and 12) and me, home alone for several hours.

          Being mischievous and mean spirited, my older cousin decided to lock his brother out of the house.  I actually helped him to do it, but he wanted it to last for a while.  In any case, the younger cousin left to ride his bike to a friend’s house, so my conscience was mostly clear.

          At this point, my older cousin chose to use the bathroom.  After what seemed like 10-minutes, or at least plenty of time to finish his business, I knocked on the door and asked how much longer he would be in there.  He said, “Not long.”  I then suspected that he might be doing more than what is customary in a bathroom; not an unreasonable supposition considering that we had sex play each time I had visited before.

          I found the “junk drawer” in the kitchen and found a small screwdriver and I inserted it into the bathroom doorknob to “pop” the lock into the unlock position.  It did so with a very loud “pop” sound.  My cousin immediately shouted, “Don’t come in!”  I rattled the knob, but did not go in.  About a minute later he said, “Okay, you can come in now.”  Not knowing what to expect, I entered.

          My cousin asked me if I wanted to play as if we were the Gestapo torturing prisoners for information.  I said okay and asked, “What are the rules?”  He explained that the prisoner would stand in the bathtub with his hands holding the shower curtain rod and could not let go; as if he were tied up.  The other person would pretend to torture the prisoner any way he wanted as long as it was pretend and not painful.  He even volunteered to be the first prisoner.  How could I say no?  I began to play torture him, which did not take too long evolving into sex play.  We eventually traded places, so I had my turn also as the prisoner.

          As soon as we finished and exited the bathroom, there was a knock on the door.  We thought it was the younger cousin returning home.  It was not.  Instead, it was a 12-year old friend of my younger cousin.  We let him in and introductions followed.  He and I were chatting away about nothing important while sitting at the kitchen table.  He asked me if I spoke Pig Latin.

          When I was in elementary school, some of us kids did dabble in it for a week or so, but it was not very interesting to us so we dropped it; so I told him, “No.  I don’t speak it.”  He promptly turned to my cousin and said, “Owhay igbay isway ishay ickday?”  My cousin held up his hands about 7-inches apart.  I then said, “No it’s not.  It’s about this big,” holding up my hands to indicate the size.  The friend of my cousin then said, “I thought you said you didn’t speak Pig Latin.”  I told him that I don’t speak it, but I never said I didn’t understand it.

          The boy wanted to see me naked right then, but my cousin told him to wait until that night.  As it turned out, that night my two cousins, the boy, his 16-year old brother, and I had a sleepover in the family’s steam bath outbuilding.  There was a lot more sex play, which started out by playing a game of Strip Go Fish.

          Oh what a day, the night was even better.

© 24 Sep 2012  

About the Author  

I was born in June of 1948 in Los Angeles, living first in Lawndale and then in Redondo Beach.  Just prior to turning 8 years old in 1956, I was sent to live with my grandparents on their farm in Isanti County, Minnesota for two years during which time my parents divorced.  

When united with my mother and stepfather two years later in 1958, I lived first at Emerald Bay and then at South Lake Tahoe, California, graduating from South Tahoe High School in 1966.  After three tours of duty with the Air Force, I moved to Denver, Colorado where I lived with my wife and four children until her passing away from complications of breast cancer four days after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attack.

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