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Family in Torment - Part 1 (MF/g, pedo, anal, tort, nc)
by Alocer Loki
Thanks, enjoy the story.
Alocer Loki
I am just a poster and not the author Of This Story!
Warning: contents are adult erotic entertainment material. If you are a
minor or will be offended by such material, stop right now and delete
this
Chapter One-Molested
How is one supposed to remain composed while surrounded by a score of
scantily clad preteen girls? Each and every one of which would assume
awkward and somewhat compromising positions at a word. Then again, Susan
liked it when they moved, she loved to watch their little fat bottoms
wobble as they ran and jumped, she liked to see their slender bodies
move with the grace that she had taught.
Susan almost felt sorry when the lessons finished, but then again the
end of the lesson also led to her two favorite activities. The first of
which was to watch these little darlings take their shower, and the
second, "Shannon," said Susan.
The small girl stopped just before the changing room door and turned
around, "Yes Ms. White?" she said.
"I want to see you after the others are gone okay," said Susan.
"Yes Ms. White," Shannon answered.
Susan shared a little smile with the girl and watched as she turned back
around to head into the changing room. Susan allowed herself to admire
her eight-year-old gymnastics student, with her slender body, supported
on her long shapely legs that led to her plump bottom that poked
slightly out from her otherwise almost straight frame. All of which
complimented her elfin face with its full lips, her large and slightly
slanted eyes, and long slightly curled sandy blond hair.
Susan followed her girls into the changing room. Despite seeing it all
the time, it was all Susan could do not to gape as the girls stripped
their outfits from their sweaty bodies. Susan sat down on the bench and
gazed around as their little bodies bared themselves. She so desperately
wanted to go to these little girls and run her hands over their naked
flesh, to push her fingers inside their hairless snatches but she
didn't. Shower time was for watching, lessons were for touching. It was
amazing the things an instructor could get away with when it happened
during the lesson.
Besides there was always Shannon.
So she watched as her girls each showered and then dressed, they each
said their goodbyes and filed out of the door leaving Shannon quietly
sat in the corner wearing a pair of light blue shorts and a white
T-shirt. Her hands lay tightly clasped in her lap; she looked nervous.
Not that Susan was surprised that Shannon was nervous these little
sessions often turned out quite painful for the little dear.
They both sat quietly for several minutes, to be sure nobody was going
to back for anything, but finally Susan couldn't wait any longer. "Come
here Shannon," she said.
"Yes Ms White," the girl replied timidly and got to her feet.
She trod in a small puddle as she crossed the changing room causing her
plim-soles to leave small prints in her wake. The eight-year-old girl
came so a stop right in front of Susan, she put her hands behind her
back, just like she had been taught and stood in silence. Susan reached
up and ran her hand over the girls soft cheek. She let her hand move
down the child's long neck and over her T-shirt Susan came to a stop
over the girls left nipple, and squeezed it through the white cotton,
"What are you?" she asked.
Shannon lowered her head and mumbled.
Susan gave the nipple a hard squeeze and Shannon drew a sharp breath,
"Ow," she moaned.
"I didn't hear you," said Susan.
"I am a dirty slut," Shannon said loudly.
"You are a dirty slut what?" demanded Susan with a harder squeeze.
"Ow! I'm a dirty slut Ms. White," gasped Shannon.
"That's right my gorgeous schoolgirl fuck whore," said Susan, "Now whose
filthy little whore are you?"
"I'm your filthy little whore Ms. White," said Shannon.
Susan smiled and released the child's nipple. She took hold of the
bottom of the T-shirt and pulled it up and off of Shannon, exposing
those two tiny lumps on the child's chest. Shannon returned her arms to
behind her back. Susan leaned forwards and took one of the tiny pink
nipples into her mouth. Susan started to suck hard on the little nub
getting moans from the little girl. She never could decide whether they
were moans of pleasure or pain, but Susan liked to think that they were
moans of pain. She let her hands drift over the girls back and slipped
them down the back of her shorts and into her knickers taking hold of
Shannon's fat ass cheeks.
Susan sucked and groped the child for several minutes before she finally
took her mouth from Shannon's chest and her hands from the child's
shorts. She took hold of them and pulled both the child's shorts and
knickers down exposing Shannon's beautiful, smooth and completely
hairless crack. Shannon shifted to step out of her shorts leaving the
child naked part from her small plim-soles and white ankle high socks.
Susan could feel her own snatch drooling at the sight of this innocent
child, "You were naughty in class today weren't you?"
"Oh please, Ms. White I didn't mean to fall over," moaned Shannon.
Susan lifted her hand. She couldn't help but smile as the child shrank
down her hands coming up to shield her face. "Shannon, put your hands
down, and stand up straight," demanded Susan.
Shannon moaned but she shifted up straight and reluctantly put her arms
back behind her back, "What are you?" asked Susan.
"I'm a dirty Slut Ms White," moaned Shannon.
Susan slapped Shannon across the face. Not too hard, she couldn't afford
to send the girl home with bruises on her face, but hard enough to coax
a small cry from Shannon whose hands came back up to rub her sore cheek.
"Now my filthy little fuck bunny, you were a naughty girl today wasn't
you," said Susan.
Shannon choked, tears started to brim in her big hazel eyes, "Y-Yes Ms.
White, I was a naughty dirty slut today Ms. White. P-pl..." girl broke
off to wipe her yes. The child stared at Susan for a second before she
continued, "please punish me Ms. White."
Susan smiled, and she slipped one hand down the front of her tracksuit
rubbed her clitoris, "Go and get me the cane slut," she said.
"Oh no, Ms. White, please not that again," moaned Shannon.
Susan quickly slapped Shannon across the cheek with her spare hand
harder than the first time. Shannon yelped, and her hand went to her
other cheek, she turned around and slowly shuffled towards the door to
the office. The girl disappeared inside for a moment but returned
quickly carrying a thin three-foot willow cane. As slowly as possible
Shannon walked back in front of Susan and held out the cane. Susan took
hold of it with her free hand and swished it through the air generating
satisfying whistling sounds and alluring flinches from Shannon.
Susan grinned and pulled her fingers from her cunt and smiled to see
that they were smeared in her slimy juices. "Shannon, my fingers are
dirty," she said.
"Yes, Ms. White," Shannon moaned.
The child leant forwards and started to lick her teacher's fingers,
taking each one into her mouth to suck on for a few seconds. Susan could
have left her sucking those for hours the little girl knew better than
to stop without permission, but Susan couldn't take her eyes from
Shannon's firm bottom. The image of the two globes squirming under the
cane was too much for Susan, "Okay slut," she said, "Now bend over."
Shannon let out a quiet sob, and she looked up at Susan, tears were
beginning to drip from her eyes and run down her smooth face. Without a
word the child turned around and bent over wrapping her arms around the
back of her knees.
Susan reached out and grabbed the girls bottom with both hands and gave
the cheeks a firm squeeze, she pulled them apart to reveal the girls
tiny tight asshole. Susan placed a finger into her mouth and then
against the hole and without warning pushed it inside up to the middle
knuckle, "Ahh," sobbed Shannon.
"You like this, don't you, my slime drinking little whore," said Susan.
"Ahh, no Ms. White," whined Shannon, "it hurts."
"Good," said Susan, she pulled her finger out a little disappointed to
find none of the child's filth on it.
Susan took hold of the cane and stood up she swished it about again
getting more flinches from little Shannon. She ran the cane gently over
the round flesh of the girls bum, "Now darling you are going to get six
across your fat bottom okay?"
Shannon sniffed, "Yes, Ms. White," she sobbed.
Without further warning Susan landed the first blow across Shannon's
ass. The child barked a scream and stumbled forwards, her hands
unwrapped from around her knees to clutch hold of her ass.
Susan reached down and picked up Shannon's knickers from inside her
shorts, she gathered them into a small ball and reached down to press
them against Shannon's mouth. The child moaned then opened her mouth to
let them inside. "Put your hands back down," said Susan.
Shannon groaned into her gag but moved her hands from her ass and back
to her knees. Susan smiled and ran her finger across the raised welt
that had started to form on her skin. Susan stood up and took a firm
hold on the cane to deliver the second blow it crossed the first.
Shannon howled but the gag muffled most of the sound. This time the girl
managed to keep still. Susan gave her the third. The cry was loud even
under the gag and the child's hands once again came up to soothe her
ass. "You do that one more time, I double it, AND start again," warned
Susan.
Shannon let out a low whine but she removed her hands from her ass.
Susan ran her hand over the girl's ass now damp with sweat. Susan took a
step back and lined up for the next shot. She delivered two in quick
succession getting the customary whine and a surprised yelp from her
preteen slut. The child stumbled forwards and her hands left her knees
but she was able to reaffirm her position before touching her ass. The
girl knew enough to limit her pain. Susan pulled back her arm and
delivered the final blow with all she could muster getting a loud (for a
gagged child) scream from Shannon.
The girl fell to her knees in floods of tears her hands went to her ass
to caress the sore flesh, "Why did I have to give you that?" asked
Susan.
Shannon reached up and pulled her knickers from her mouth, then taking a
sniff she whined, "Because I was a naughty slut, Ms. White."
"That is right," said Susan, "You may now pleasure me," and she sat
down.
Sniffing back the tears and wiping her eyes, the eight-year-old shuffled
around on her knees and crawled to Susan's feet. Shannon reached up for
the waistband of her instructor's tracksuit bottoms and along with her
knickers pulled them from the woman. Susan spread her knees wide giving
the child the best view of her thickly matted cunt. The juices were
seeping from her crack; Susan needed relief.
Shannon slowly leant forwards with her tongue extended and took a small
lick, then pivoting herself on her knees pressed her face into the
woman's cunt, taking the swollen clit between her teeth to nibble.
Susan gasped and threw her head back as the little whore did her work.
Almost instantly Susan could feel herself being drawn towards an orgasm.
Then her world shattered.
The clapping echoed through the changing room making both child and
woman jump in alarm. Shannon pulled her face from Susan's cunt and shank
into a tiny ball at Susan's feet. Susan was in half a mind to shout at
the child for stopping when she had been so close to cumming but there
was the small matter of the man.
Susan gaped at the intruder as he stood with half a grin plastered to
his face, and not a nice or even sarcastic grin, but a nasty vindictive
one. Susan suddenly became aware that she was sat with her legs spread
open in front of this stranger, and she felt the blood rush to her face,
it was almost as if she was on fire.
The gymnastics teacher closed her thighs and hugged her knees, "What do
you want?" she asked trying desperately to remain composed, her heart
thumped hard inside her chest and images of what this man would do to
her fleeted through her mind.
The grin instantly melted into a warm smile, "Oh I'm here to pick up
Shannon," he said.
This was getting worse by the moment, Susan was going to lose everything
because she had forgotten to lock the changing room doors, "I don't know
him," mumbled Shannon at her feet.
"Pardon?" said Susan.
Shannon lifted her head tears streamed down her face, "I don't know him,
please don't let him take me away. He'll take me to a home for naughty
children." She moaned.
The man laughed, "Don't be ridiculous," he said, "She's right we've
never met, but I've got a note here from Teri, her mother see," he put
his hand in his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper.
Susan didn't care, her mind was flying in a dozen different directions,
there had to be a way out of this, "What are you going to do now?" she
asked.
"Sit down and watch," said the man.
"P-Pardon?" said Susan.
"I was enjoying the show but I was getting a little tired, standing in
the corner, so please do continue," he said.
"Please no don't make me do it in front of him," moaned Shannon still
curled in a tight ball.
Susan looked up at the man who took a seat on one of the benches,
"I-I..." she started.
"Let me put it another way," said the man, "get the little slut back
between your legs, force her if needs be, if you don't I'll take that
cane and whip the
both of you, do I make myself clear."
Susan shuddered at the threat, and the realizations sunk in that the man
could do whatever he wanted to, "Shannon, you will pleasure me," she
said and opened her legs.
"But, Ms. White," moaned Shannon.
"NOW!" bit Susan.
Shannon moaned but uncurled from the little ball, she levered herself up
with her arms. The child lent forwards and started to lick at her cunt
with shy timid motions. Susan gasped, the child wasn't as eager as she
had been before, but Susan needed something to take her mind from the
situation she focused all of her concentration to the feeling growing in
her cunt.
She saw the man stand up and move to where Shannon cowered against her
teacher. He reached down and grabbed the child by her waist, "No!" cried
Shannon.
"Behave yourself you little fuck whore!" snapped the man and he
delivered a rough slap across the child's thighs.
"OW!" cried Shannon.
The man took the child's head and pushed it into Susan cunt, "I didn't
say you could stop licking," he said.
Susan was amazed at the response, the child's tongue instantly pushed
back into her cunt. "Now stand up," he told the child and lifted her too
her knees.
The man positioned the child so she was stood with her face pushed into
Susan's cunt, and her ass pushed into the air. He knelt behind Shannon
and ran his hands over her ass cheeks squeezing each of them in turn. He
then parted them and leant forwards to run his tongue across the child's
asshole.
Susan was transfixed as she watched the man remove his tongue and push a
finger against the hole, he gave the child a light slap on the bottom
with his free hand then thrust the finger inside.
Shannon's head came up as she gasped with pain as the man intruded her
anus with his finger. Susan grabbed the girl's head and pushed it firmly
back against her cunt.
The man pulled the finger out and after looking at it for a moment
frowned, "You got any grease, or Vaseline, any lubricant?"
"There are some rubbing oils in the office," said Susan.
Susan pressed down harder on Shannon's head as she watched the man
disappear into the office only to return a few moments later carrying a
bottle of oil and a broom handle.
First Susan wondered where he had put the head for the broom, then what
he was going to do with it. The man flipped up the top of the oil bottle
and put some into his hand and then started to work it around the end of
the broom handle. Susan smiled and started to grind Shannon's face into
her cunt.
The man knelt back down behind Shannon and poured some of the oil
against her asshole and used his finger to work it around and in, then
wiped the excess off over her ass cheeks. He took the broom handle and
with one hand parted the child's cheeks and aimed it at her asshole he
held it off of her skin. The cruel bastard wasn't even going to give her
a warning!
Susan came. She yelled and pushed Shannon's face harder into her cunt.
The man thrust the broom handle forwards. Shannon froze and screamed as
the thick piece of wood was forced deep into her asshole. The man forced
at least five inches of the broom handle up the child's anus. Shannon
screamed for every inch. Until her knees buckled and the child fell to
the floor.
The man smiled and stood up, he leaned over and grabbed Shannon by her
hair and pulled her from Susan's hands.
"Get up you slut," he spat at her, "On your feet."
"No!" cried Shannon.
"I said get up," the man pulled the child's head around and gave her a
rough slap across the cheek.
"No please," sobbed the child.
"You either get up now or I use the cane on your cunt, which is it
slut," he said.
Shannon slowly climbed to her feet. Her body was bent forwards where the
broom handle poked four foot from her ass across the floor.
"That's better slut," said the man, "You should be happy I chose to
stretch you out before fucking you."
"I don't want you to fuck me," mustered Shannon.
The sadistic grin returned to the mans lips, "Now Shannon bitch, I don't
think you meant that did you?" he asked.
"Yes, leave me alone," sobbed Shannon.
The man took hold of the broom handle and gave it a twist getting a cry
from the child. "For that bitch, you have just earned yourself twelve
across your cunt," he said, "Now slut, you will ask me to fuck your ass
hard."
"GO AWAY!" screamed Shannon; "I want to go home!"
The man reached for the child's chest and took hold of one of her
nipples and gave it a vicious twist. "OW!" screamed Shannon, "GET OFF
please..."
The grin widened and the man twisted the nipple in the opposite
direction.
"AHH!" the child cried, "Oh god, please let go. P-please fuck my ass
h-hard."
The grin was once again replaced by the warm smile and the man let go of
her nipple, "There you go, bum sex, it wasn't so hard now was it, and to
think you could have saved yourself all that pain, do you want to see my
cock?"
Shannon sniffed and wiped her eyes, "Please can you take the stick from
my ass please?" she begged.
"That wasn't what I asked," said the man and he extended his hand again.
Shannon let out a scream and hugged her chest, "Yes please can I see
your cock!" she yelled.
"Easy isn't it," said the man and he reached down to unzip his jeans and
reached inside to pull out his rock stiff cock, "Now fuck toy, have you
seen one of these before?" he asked.
Shannon nodded.
"You have?" asked Susan.
The man rolled his eyes, "Of course she fucking well has you stupid
bitch. Do you think you are the only person to take advantage of such a
shy, and
submissive little cunt?" he said, "According to her daddy, she is a
right little cock sucker."
"Have you had one shoved up your big fat ass before?"
"No," mumbled the girl, "Please don't."
"Now baby sex, I'll have none of that, I will and you had better get
used to it, and I'm going to fuck your tight little bitch cunt, and that
pretty toilet mouth of yours."
"I want my mummy," moaned Shannon.
"No point there baby sex slave, I'm going to do the same to your mummy
when we get you home,"
The little girl lowered her head her shoulders shook as she sobbed
quietly. The man looked up at Susan, "I want something else to hurt my
little sex slave here with,"
"What?" asked Susan.
"I don't fucking care," said the man, "You can't have had the filthy
slut for all this time and ONLY caned her."
Well that was true of course but this man was taking this too far, it
was one thing to hurt and torment a child but another to torture her
just for the kick of it. "I don't..."
"Don't even fucking think of it slut," said the man, "You will either
get me something I can use on my little fuck slut, or I will go and find
something to use on you. Now what is your choice."
Susan swallowed hard, "I-I. T-There are some things in the office."
"What?" asked the man.
"Some clips."
The man rolled his eyes, "I suppose they will do," he sighed, "How about
it, fuck baby? Do you want your little nipples clamped?"
Shannon whined but didn't say anything.
"Go and get them and something to tie her hands."
"PLEASE don't hurt me," sobbed Shannon finally.
Susan got to her feet and quickly walked to the office, about half way
there Shannon started to scream again. Susan collected the clips usually
used for holding clumps of paper together, and a ball of string and went
back into the changing room. It was quite obvious as to the source of
Shannon's pain, the man was forcefully fucking the eight-year old girls
ass with the broom handle. The child's face was screwed up in agony,
tears dripped from her chin onto the polished floor. "Right slut," he
said when Susan came back into his view, he forced the broom handle back
inside the child's anus and left it there, "tie her hands."
It took a few moments for Susan to grab the child's flailing arms, and
force them behind her back, the man helpfully took hold of them while
Susan wrapped several layers of string around Shannon's wrists and tied
it off. The man let go of the child's hands grabbed her hair and pulled
her up. Shannon screamed as the broom handle was forced against the side
of her gut. The man reached down and started to squeeze and twist on one
of her nipples. "PLEASE!" begged Shannon.
The man walked in front of the girl and cupped her face in his hand. He
lent down and licked the tears from her cheeks then moved his tongue so
it went inside her open mouth. The child hesitated for a moment then
started to kiss him back, Susan had taught her to do that. Or at least
she thought she had.
The man pulled off and smiled at her, "You know baby cunt, I love to
hear you beg," he laughed.
The man turned to Susan and took the clip from her hands, he inspected
them for a few seconds before he reached back down to squeeze on
Shannon's nipple, "Please don't, not there please," sobbed the child.
The man opened the clip and placed just the corner over the girls little
nipple and slowly let it crush the sensitive flesh. As the clip closed
Shannon screamed again. So loud that the man was forced to cover her
mouth with his hand.
The child tried to move but the man took hold of her hair and released
her mouth, "Don't think about running fuck slut," he said, "I don't
think you'd get to far with that thing stuck in your ass, and you
certainly don't want me to catch you if you try. So better play safe and
not think about it."
"I wanna go home," cried Shannon.
"Yes yes," said the man, "I know that, and I'll take you there soon
enough, come on now my dirty little cunt the other nipple."
"No," sobbed Shannon.
"Perhaps you should gag her," said Susan, "The cleaners start soon, they
do in here last, but if they hear her screaming..."
The man nodded and held out his hand. Susan picked up the girls knickers
from the floor and handed them to him. He used them to wiped the tears
from Shannon's face before pressing them against the child's closed
lips. Shannon looked up at the man and opened her mouth, she knew enough
to know not to resist a gag. "We've got nothing to tie it in with, bum
sex," he said, "So you can't spit it out unless you want to be punished
even more."
Shannon just stared at him fresh tears dripped from her eyes and ran
down her cheeks.
"Come and hold her," the man said to Susan.
Susan moved behind the girl and took hold of the crying child. She
pulled her up a little straighter forcing the broomstick to press harder
against Shannon's rectum. The man opened the second clip and again fixed
just the corner onto Shannon's tiny nipple and let the flat jaws bite
into the sensitive flesh. Shannon screamed again. Her body shook trying
which caused the clips to shake causing the poor child even more pain.
The man smiled at her then walked around behind the child, "Right, I
think she's been stretched enough, you can let go of her now."
Susan released the child and she bent forwards to relieve some of the
pressure. Susan moved out of the way and watched as the man took hold of
the broomstick and pulled it from Shannon's ass leaving a gaping hole.
The stick itself was streaked in shit. Susan was a little concerned when
she saw a thin trail of blood seep from the hole. If the man saw it he
obviously didn't care, as soon as the stick clattered to the floor he
pushed his cock into the hole.
Shannon whined through the gag.
Susan sat down and watched as the man sodomized the eight-year-old girl.
He thrust hard deep into the child's anus causing her body to rock
forwards with the force. The clips on her nipples failed back and forth
with the momentum of her ass fuck. After about five minutes the first
clip fell from her left nipple with snap and cluttered to the floor. The
child screams intensified momentarily as soon as she started to calm
down the other one fell off.
The man continued to rape the child's ass for several minutes before he
pulled out, still rock hard. His cock was smeared with blood and shit.
He patted Shannon on the ass and moved around in front of Shannon. He
grabbed the child's hair and pulled her face up and with his fingers
pulled the gag from her mouth.
"Now open wide, shit sucker."
Shannon's eyes focused on the man's cock and she let out a quiet moan
but opened her mouth as wide as she could get it.
In a single motion the man shoved several inches into the child's mouth
completely filling it. The child tried to scream, but choked and gagged
around
the cock. The man kept Shannon's face pressed into his crotch for only a
few moments before he groaned. Cum started to dribble from girls mouth.
The man pulled out of her and smiled as she watched the child choke on
the cum. After minutes of coughing and sputtering Shannon finally sucked
in a deep breath, and slowly let it out. She started to pant looking
between the man and Susan is trying to decide where the next assault
would come from.
"Right child whore would you like to go home?" the man asked.
Shannon nodded, "Yes please," she said quietly.
"Okay, I'll take you very soon but first you've got to say sorry to me
for getting your shit all over my cock, and then clean up what is left
on it," he said.
"Sorry, sir for getting my sh-shit on your cock," she said.
That was obviously good enough for the man because he pushed his now
semi-stiff cock against her face. Susan expected Shannon to protest
about licking her shit from his cock, but the child meekly extended her
tongue and lapped her filth from the mans rod. Susan guessed that one
could only take so much before she would do whatever her tormentor said.
The man kept her licking until he was hard again then said, "You also
have to apologize to your teacher for getting your shit all over her
broom stick."
"I'm sorry, Ms. White, for getting my shit all over your broomstick, I
really am," sobbed Shannon.
"Its okay dear," said Susan.
"How can you make it better?" asked the man.
"To lick it all up," mumbled Shannon.
The man smiled and picked up the broom handle he held the filth-covered
end close to the child's face and again the child docilely put out her
tongue to lick at it. She gagged and heaved at the taste of her own shit
on her tongue but cleaned up all of her mess.
The man dropped the broomstick and ruffled Shannon's hair, "You'd better
get dressed quickly, I've got Katie in the car."
Shannon slowly stood upright, "Can you untie my hands please," she
asked.
"Nope," said the man, and he took off his jacket and draped it over her
shoulders, "That'll do you, you only need to wear it until we're in the
car. Do you have a bag?"
Shannon moved slowly across the room to stand by an open locker that had
a small bag inside, the man quickly gathered Shannon's clothes and then
took her bag and stuffed them all inside, "Right-o," he said, "Say
goodbye, and lets go."
"Bye, Ms. White," said the child and she followed the man out of the
door.
Susan sat staring at the door for several minutes. She felt kind of
sorry for Shannon.