His Aunt Nicole

[Simonssister]

Chapter 366.

Connie adopted a relaxed smile and walked casually into the living room.  Her friends were sitting together around a coffee-table, talking amongst themselves.  Tim and Kit were standing apart from them, but close to each other, by the French door.  A single glance showed her everything she needed to know.  In her outfit Kit looked like a snake – a glossy black snake – eyes locked onto Tim’s, whilst he returned a stare of adoration, like a puppy with its mistress.
For now it was necessary that she break the spell.
“Kit!”  Kit turned her head sharply.  “I wanted to ask your advice about something.  Shall we go into the kitchen?”
Kit momentarily inclined her head, and without a word to Tim, turned and walked away, leaving him looking bereft.  Connie led her into the kitchen and closed the door. 
“Kit.  First of all, I want to say how glad I am you came to visit.  Tim obviously adores you.  Now, I’ll be frank.” 
Kit’s expression betrayed nothing, but Connie wondered if she was expecting cautionary advice.  If she were, however, she was not about to get any.  Quite the opposite.
“As far as I’m concerned, anything or anyone that can tighten the bonds which I’m trying to weave around him is welcome here.”
Kit looked slightly puzzled.  “You weaving bonds…?”
“Ah.  I should explain fully.  I don’t know how much Robyn told you…”
“She say you have new maid – “cute sissy boy maid” – and I should come see him.  Tim is delighted – no, delightful boy.  I never expect such a thing here in English countryside, where people are so…  conservative?  I’m excited as soon as I see him…”
“Well, I and my friends also love young men like Tim, who recognise the innate superiority of women, and only wish to serve them.  Fortunately we have a training agency for boys like Tim right on our doorstep.  It’s called ESDS – Egerton’s Special Domestic Services.  Cassandra Egerton is one of my closest friends.  We, and others like us, represent the ultimate goal and practical manifestation of their training – though we regard our role not only as clients, but also as associates whose vision it is to continue and to help perfect that training.”
As Connie spoke, the expression on Kit’s face had slowly morphed from uncertainty to enlightenment.   â€śNow I see all!  You are doing very good job, Mrs Brookshaw.  I would love help you…”
“I would love you to help.  I think you can wind that boy around your little finger.”
“Where did he come from?”
“Ah.  That’s another story.  He was working as a boot boy at Pitt’s Wood Equestrian Centre.” 
Kit looked puzzled.  “Boot boy...?”
His job was to clean all the girls’ boots.  He and his friend Bobby have a special place there, all equipped so that a girl or a woman can come in and sit comfortably while the boys kneel and clean and polish their boots.  They were made to wear cute little latex outfits, most recently like pageboys.  The customers loved them.  Serena – that’s Cassandra’s daughter – went there in thigh boots and a latex catsuit!  She got quite a response.  They even have their own apartment.  They were always busy - they had more customers than they could handle really - but from what I hear they enjoyed every minute.”
Kit smiled.  “So Tim could…clean my boots if I asked him…”
“Haven’t you seen him staring at them?  I doubt he’s ever serviced boots like that before.  Especially on a girl sheathed entirely in shiny black latex.  If he does, expect fireworks, darling…”
“Fireworks?”
Connie grinned.  “You know, little bangs and whizzes and pops.  Maybe a big pop.”
“Big pop?  Would he do big pop?”
“If you’re lucky…”  She held up the little bottle of Rose-Stim.  “Do you know what this is?  I sprayed his shorts earlier…”
Kit’s face lit up.  She knew very well.  “You very naughty lady, miss Connie…”
“Not as naughty as you, miss Kit.  In any case, I gather he’s been in training all the week, so he’s probably in need of a little relief by now.  I’ll leave it to you.  There’s plenty of cloths and leather cream.”
“My boots do need polish…” 
“Go for it, then.  But I’m really curious about you, Kit.  Can you tell me something about yourself?”
“Ah, yes.  Of course.  I rather rude, not introduce myself properly.  Well, where to start?  I born and brought up in Czech Republic, yes?  No father, mother leave when I little, grandmother look after me.  We live in village.  No future there.  Then I go into local beauty competition…and win!  Miss Katerinice 2021.  Man from UK there in audience, very smart, suit and tie, look wealthy, he offer me job in London, modelling.  Very exciting.  Grandmother tell me, “go, go silly girl…make fortune in UK”.  He fly me to London, we go to very busy place in city, to studio high up in tall building, all glass and steel…  He work for big company…  Onassis…?  Onanni?  Something.  Lots of girls.  I specialise in leather, latex.  Just pose, videos…  Nothing bad.  A few times have to hit men with whip, put on lead…  Things like that.  I enjoy.  Good pay.  Stay there eighteen months.  Then trouble with other girls.  I get more pay than them, they jealous.  Then I move to new agency.  Private work…  I meet girl there – Marguerite.  French.  We like each other very much.  They want us have sex with men, we say no, they try to bully us, so we leave one night, take train, end up here.  We not know what to do.  Then meet another girl in bar.  Jo. She want to leave home, but no money.  But we have saved, we have money.  So we team up.  She know her way around.  We find apartment, now all live together.  Very nice, very comfortable.  We get jobs to pay rent, bills.  Me, I work four days as receptionist in law firm.  Also study.  I will take law exam in year or two, hope to become lawyer.”
“Wow.  Quite a story.  How old are you now?”
“Nineteen.  Twenty next June.  Can I ask…how old Tim?”
“He was eighteen on the first.  He doesn’t know we know.  For various reasons he wants to keep it a secret as long as possible.  But he couldn’t lie to Miss Poole – she’s the principal of Pitt’s Wood Equestrian Centre - though he swore her to secrecy.  But Miss Poole’s on the board of ESDS, and her first duty is to the directors.  They’ll ask him to sign a new contract now he’s of age, which he doesn’t want to do.  As soon as I saw him I wanted him for myself, my permanent maid.  Maybe I’ll be able to come to some arrangement, whether he stays at ESDS or not.  But it would be helpful to have something on him, if you know what I mean.”
“On him…?”
“You know…  Something he wouldn’t  like others – his new girlfriend for instance - to find out about…  Would you be prepared to help, maybe…?”
“Ah, yes.  I understand.  Yes, miss Connie, I love to help you!  Tim is so cute…so sweet and innocent.  I never feel attracted to boys usually.  Can’t wait to see him as real girl, sissy maid.  But he sexy just in little hotpants outfit.  Robyn show me photos of wedding…  So cute…  Would be pleasure…”
“So this amazing gear…”  She touched Kit’s arm.  “Is this from your previous job?”
“I have some things…  But this one I have made to measure by specialist.  And now I hear from Robyn about this place…  Fantastex?  Just nearby?  I will go there to see next week.”
“Ah, yes…  ESDS uses it all the time.  They can make anything.  And very good workmanship.  It’ll be perfect for you.”
“I excited to visit store.  But Tim…  What shall I do…?”
“Really, Kit, if you like him, just do whatever you like.  That will serve my purpose too.  I don’t know what your plans are, how busy you are.  I don’t want to impose upon you in any way.  But…”
“Miss Connie…  May I stay through to Monday?  I back to work Tuesday.”
“If you want to, I’d be only too delighted…  I like you very much, Kit.  You’re an exceptional girl.  You can stay here as long as or whenever you like.  We always have spare rooms.”
“Thank you, miss Connie.  I like you too.  And I like Tim very much.  I ring my friends and explain I will return Monday night.  Tell them all about pretty boy I have discovered in super sexy latex hotpants.  Marguerite will be jealous!  And I will keep Tim on string for you.  No, on chain.  Invisible chain.  For me it will be pleasure…”

Just how much of a pleasure it was for Kit soon became evident after they returned to the living room.  As Connie sat with her friends quietly explaining tactics, Kit consolidated her relationship with Tim over by the French doors, in the most irresistible way possible.  Tim made little attempt to resist her kiss.  Connie raised an eyebrow,  Had he already forgotten about Jenny?  But given his nature, and Kit’s extraordinary sexual power, it would have been almost impossible for him to resist.
Kit whispered something in his ear, and pointed to a sofa next to the fireplace.  Tim’s eyes lit up..  He hurried over to Connie.  His cheeks were burning and his lips looked swollen.  It must have been his first proper snog.
“Miss…?  Where do you keep the leather cream, please?”
“In the kitchen, Tim.  In the utility cupboard under the sink.”
“Miss Kit wants me to polish her boots.  Can I…?”
“Of course.  You must do whatever Miss Kit asks.”
“Yes, miss.  Thank you, miss.”  And he hurried off towards the kitchen.

[Simonssister]

Chapter 367.

A moment later he came scurrying back, clutching a couple of glass pots and some cloths.  He headed straight for the sofa, selected a cloth and one of the pots, turned and addressed Kit.  He was clearly excited, and blushing more than ever.
“Miss?  I’ve got the polish.  I’m ready any time you are!”
Kit smiled.  She’d taken advantage of his absence to refill her glass, and now made her way over and sat down.  He dropped to his knees in front of her, heart pounding and hands trembling.  He put the pot down beside him, and picked up a small blob of leather soap on the cloth.
“Miss, I’ll do two applications.  First I’ll use a little saddle soap to clean off any surface dirt, then I’ll use the leather cream.  Then after a minute or two I’ll polish an finish them.”
He began work.  The ladies craned their heads to watch, but they were too far away.
“Why don’t you come into the extension area,” suggested Connie.  “The we can sit by the window and watch.”
“Yes, please do,” added Bridget.  “I’ve never seen a real boot boy at work.”
“Shall we?”
Kit rose and headed for the extension.  Tim followed, holding his equipment in front of him, hiding the growing bulge in his shorts.  Kit’s lingering kiss had fractured his self-control, the Rose-Stim was taking effect, and the anticipation of getting his hands on Kit’s beautiful clumpy boots did the rest.  Kit sat down, and he quickly fell to his knees again, concealing his erection, hoping no-one had noticed.  Connie unostentatiously propped her phone on a sideboard, then joined the ladies, who seated themselves by the window, chatting excitedly like kids in the cinema before the film starts.  Kit relaxed and sipped her wine.  He resumed work, starting at the toes.  Having superficially cleaned one boot, he opened the pot of cream.  It was white and slimy.  He tried to focus on his task.  For a while he was doing okay.  But after a few minutes, whether it was his proximity to Kit herself, or the pungent scent of her latex suit, or the sensation of smearing cream onto her legs, his arousal began to grow, and he was finding it increasingly difficult to keep it under control.  From where they were sitting, the ladies were unaware of his excitement.  Indeed, Connie was thinking that the Rose-Stim must be a just a scam.  Kit however, despite showing no outward signs, could tell from his burning cheeks and trembling hands that he was far from relaxed.

[Simonssister]

Chapter 368.

She sipped her wine unconcernedly, exchanging the odd remark with the ladies, but she was watching him carefully out of the corner of her eye.  Despite his discomfort, for the first ten minutes or so he worked diligently and professionally.  It was obvious he was highly experienced.  She thought that as well as being a most desirable pet, he could be very useful in helping to maintain her wardrobe.  She could see why Connie was interested in some more permanent arrangement.  But so was she.   She was considering various strategies, when she noticed for the first time that the front of his shorts was stretched like a tent over a tentpole.  She showed no reaction, but felt a little thrill of delight that even merely servicing her boots – aided by the Rose-Stim, of course - could have such a gratifyingly arousing effect.  She noticed also that when he turned to one side to load more cream onto the cloth, the head of his boyhood, clearly outlined under the thin latex membrane, would slide to the other side, making him flinch, then back again as he resumed polishing.  Occasionally he was forced to stop, and bite his lip.  These occurrences became more frequent, slowing the progress of his work.  He gulped, and squirmed uncomfortably.  After a while, she realised he must be closer to the edge than she had thought possible.  She wondered if…  It would be so cool if he actually…  Right there at her feet…
She leant forward and patted his cheek with her hand, letting it linger so he could inhale the scent of her latex glove. 
“Good boy…  You do such good job…”
Even in the boot parlour, in all those sessions, he’d never got in such a state.  Under the influence of the stimulant, with which the oozing head of his coc-k was now coated, his erection felt as if it was vibrating…  He was on the very edge, but still fighting to regain control.  He paused, hoping to gather his resources..
“Don’t stop Tim.  There is other boot too…” teased Kit.
She drained her glass and leant down to put in on the floor, taking the opportunity to give his thigh an affectionate squeeze.  The shock of feeling her gloved hand on his bare flesh was too much.  He gasped, moaned…and capitulated.
“Oh…ah…  No…   Oh, gosh!”
Even the first throes of orgasm he didn’t forget his elocution training, and managed to substitute the expletive with the first word that came to mind.  Kit laughed.  “Gosh!”  That must be the cutest reaction to a massive climax ever recorded!  But with that first explosion of pleasure, every ounce of energy he had left drained from his body.  He slipped forward till his head was resting on Kit’s leg, his hand still clutching the toe of her boot, his body jolted with spasm after spasm.
Oh, but the relief!  The overwhelming, intense pleasure as warm c-um flooded his tight rubber pants.  In between spurts he tried to apologise.
“M-miss, I…oh…I’m s-sorry…oh…I’m really…oh my god….”
Maxine had risen from her seat, seeking a better view.  “W-what’s he doing?  He’s not…?”
“What’s happening?” queried Bridget, excitedly.  “Kit?  Is he really…?”
Kit didn’t take her eyes off him for a moment.  “I think big pop…” was all she said.

[Simonssister]

Chapter 369.

The women stood up and looked at each other open-mouthed.  All except for Connie, who sat smiling like a Cheshire cat.  That Rose-Stim stuff wasn’t a scam after all.  She’d definitely use it again.  She stood up with the others, and they approached the little tableau playing out on the other side of the coffee-table.  Tim’s climax was fading now, and he was down on all fours, panting like an exhausted puppy.
Connie winked.  “I warned you, Kit…  Fireworks.”
The others gathered round.  Frieda led a little round of applause, much to Tim’s irritation as he slowly returned to reality.
“Super show, Tim,” she laughed.  “When are you going to do Kit’s other boot?  I definitely want to be here for round two!”
He was too embarrassed to stand up and face them.  But he needed to move.  A bead of sticky fluid had escaped from one leg of his shorts and way making its way down the inside of his thigh.
“C-could I, er, have a tissue, please, miss?”
Connie fetched a handful from a box on the sideboard, taking the opportunity to collect her phone and stop the video.  Now she had photos and a video.  But she wasn’t finished yet.  The more material the better.  She handed them to Tim.  Despite the tightness of the leg bands, his shorts were leaking now from several places, and one sticky rivulet had reached the top of his sock.  He was a mess.  The ladies didn’t even bother to hide their amusement.
“Thank you, miss Connie…”
Good boy, she thought, always polite.
He struggled to his feet, cheeks glowing, wiping his legs with bunches of slimy tissue, and made his way awkwardly, thighs pressed tightly together, to the bathroom.  The ladies collapsed in with laughter.  Kit allowed herself a faint smile.
“Oh my god, did you see the state of him?” cried Bridget.  “Must have been half a pint!  Kit, darling, it’s all your fault – you know that, yeah?”
“I hope so…”
“He’s infatuated,” grinned Frieda.  “Kit, you have a ready-made slave there.  I’m sure he’d do anything you told him to.  Absolutely anything.”
“Right,” added Bridget.  “We didn’t really get to see the whole thing.  Only the last act.  Next time, make him put on a little show for us, would you?”
“Oh, you mean…” began Maxine.  “Like, solo…?”
“Yes.  Why not?  All she’d have to do is pose for him.  He can’t take his eyes off her.”
“Interesting idea,” mused Connie.  “But today I think he needs to recharge.  Let’s have tea, let him recover, then maybe we could get him to model some of the other outfits I have for him.  I’ll go and help him, and get his clothes in the wash…”   

Bridget made tea for everyone.  She and Frieda had made cakes, and Connie too, so there was plenty to eat.  Tim reappeared wrapped in a turquoise gown.  He was naturally still a bit embarrassed at first, but once seated, with tea and cakes in his hands, and Kit next to him with a reassuring hand on his thigh, he chilled out and even smiled.  Everyone was very discreet, secretly hoping that more displays may be forthcoming, and not wanting to scare him off.
They chatted away happily.  Kit, now regarded as the source and instigator of their entertainment, was accepted into the club.  After a while Connie made a suggestion.
“Tim, I’m sure you’ve had enough of being a pageboy for one day.  Why don’t you try a couple of your other costumes?”
He looked at her suspiciously.
“Do you mean…girly stuff, miss?”
“Don’t say it like that!  You’re supposed to be my maid – remember?  I’m not even talking about that.  You have a beautiful dress, and there’s other things that are virtually unisex.  Kit, what do you think?”
“Tim, I love to see you in dress.  I love boy who brave enough to wear dress.  It is my fantasy…”
Tim immediately sat up and took notice.  “Really, miss?  Truly?”
Kit nodded, and gave him a look that said, “try me, if you have the nerve…”
“I’ll bring some things down,” said Connie, jumping up.

She was back a few minutes later, with an armful of clothes.
“This is a lovely dress…” she cooed.  “It’s the pale pink version of the white floral one you modelled at Pitt’s Wood.  That one was my favourite then, but I think I like this even better.”
“Oh, yes…I remember…”
“Come next door to the big living room.  You can change and I’ll do your makeup.  Let’s see if Kit can recognise you.”
Tim smiled.  “Okay.”  Dressing as a girl wasn’t so bad when you could look really pretty and wear amazing clothes.  And if Kit was into it…

Connie used the subtlest makeup, and a little hair gel, to give him a really cool, slightly spikey, look.  She took the opportunity to fill him in about Jenny.
“I heard your new girlfriend was devastated about not being able to talk to you for two weeks.”
Tim looked at her sharply, uncertain what was coming.
“She was?”
“Yes, of course.  It must have been a shock.  Just as you’d started dating, and no warning…”
She watched his reaction carefully.  As she suspected, he didn’t seem quite so concerned as one might have suspected.
“So earlier I called her…”
He stared at her in surprise.  “You called her…?”
“Yes.  I didn’t tell her the whole truth, of course.  I said we were fashion designers, and that we had employed you as a model and domestic help, and that usually our employees were not allowed to contact outsiders due to commercial secrecy.”
“You said that?”
“Well, it’s half true, and it explains everything.  We’re called CFBM Couture – that’s Connie, Frieda, Bridget and Maxine.  Remember that in case she asks.  Think of a phrase.  Say, “Come for brunch, miss”.  But I said, given the exceptional circ-umstances…”
“Exceptional circ-umstances…?”
“You know, that you’d only just started a relationship, and suddenly you’re snatched away.”
“Oh, yeah…”
“Given all that, you’d be allowed one fifteen minute phone call every evening.  The first one’s tonight.  You should call her.  What time did she say?  Nine.  Yes, nine.  But strictly fifteen minutes, okay?  Happy now?”
“Oh, yeah…I guess…”
“You don’t seem very happy…”
“No, I am.  Yeah, great.  Thank you, miss…”
Connie compressed her lips, to hide a faint smile.  So, the great romance may not be all it was made out to be.  Pity.  But he was still under an obligation to her, and the phone calls could only reinforce that…

She applied a hint of blusher.
“You know what you look like?  You look like an exceptionally pretty girl whose adopted a tomboy style.  I reckon most people would think you were female.  Either way, you’re drop dead gorgeous.  Wait till Kit sees you.”
“Do you reckon, miss?”
Now that was something he was interested in.
“There.  All done.  Now, just wait.  Now I’m going to go back first.  Give us a minute or two, then follow.  Remember you’re a girl.  Walk as if you were a maid, as you were trained to do.”
“Yes, miss.  Of course.”

When he made his entrance, there was general wonderment.
“My god, Tim…” exclaimed Bridget.  “You look totally different…  I mean, stunning, actually…”
Kit was standing apart, by the French doors.
“What do you think, Kit?” asked Connie.  “Tim - go over there in the light, so she can have a proper look at you.”
Tim made his way over, wobbling a little on his heels, and looking very self-conscious.  Kit didn’t say anything.  She didn’t smile.  She just watched him as he approached.  He stood before her, head lowered.  She touched his arm.
“You are beautiful,” she murmured, “more than boy Tim even…”
Then she put her arms around him, and drew him to her…

[Simonssister]

Chapter 370.

Not only Kit, but the ladies too, recognised that Tim as a girl, albeit shy and self-conscious, was the polar opposite of Tim the boy.  Tim the boy was a rather comic mixture of confidence and gaucheness, cheerful, easily flattered, obedient, and from Connie’s point of great fun to tease and play with.  But made up, and dressed in flattering, sophisticated female attire, he could pass for a most attractive girl.  In the long term, the plan was for her and ESDS to work together until he was equally happy as boy or girl.  But for now she was content to exploit and encourage his natural addiction to latex clothes of all types.  In any case, both options had their advantages, but for the moment she saw the greater scope for humiliation in the character of Tim the Pageboy.  She had a new pageboy outfit for him which she was looking forward to dressing him in for Esther’s surprise visit the next day.  And happily no persuasion would be needed.
“So Tim…  What do you think of this dress?  Is it not beautiful?”
He turned away from Kit for a moment and towards Connie.
“Yes…  It is, I suppose…”
“But?”
“But I think I like my pageboy outfit the best…”
“Yes, I thought so.  Well, maybe you can be a pageboy all day tomorrow, if that’s what you really want.”
“Really?  Promise?”
She laughed.  “Promise.  I have a new one I think you’ll like.”
“You do, miss?” he cried, excitedly.  “What’s it like?”
“Wait and see, naughty boy.

Tim’s current shyness was generated purely by his attraction to Kit, and the sense that he could surely not appeal to her as much dressed as a girl as when he was dressed as a boy.  At present, what he perceived as her view of him mattered above all else.  So he resigned himself to a girly day in the reassuring knowledge that on Sunday he’d be able to flirt with her in full male mode.


“Maybe, miss Connie, I could take him for a walk while sun is still out?  Tim?  You like that?”
Tim seemed uncertain.  Connie hesitated.
“Great idea, Kit.  But though it is sunny, the air’s quite cold.  And the ground may be muddy.  You wouldn’t get far in those heels.  Tim dear, we have some other girls’ outfits which may be more appropriate.  Come with me and let’s try one on.”
She collected some colourful items from the heap, and led him into the big living room.  Kit looked after him ruefully.
“That dress very special,” she remarked, to no-one in particular.  “He look like perfect young woman…”
“You’re right,” said Maxine.  “He looks absolutely dazzling.  If he wore a wig of some sort no-one could tell…”
Kit frowned.  “He not need wig, miss Maxine…  But yes, who could know…?” 

Next door, Connie went through the outfits.  Either of these would be perfect for today, Tim, really nice and warm.  Do you like them?”
“Yeah. they’re cute, aren’t they.  I like both…”
“But first, try this one.  I think Kit will love it.  You’ll look so pretty.  I’ve been saving it, but you can’t wear it out at this time of year…”
It was a very simple outfit in white and strawberry ice-cream pink – a light tiered skirt, and pink crop top, and pink and white accessories.  To his credit, and although he looked a little doubtful, Tim didn’t demur.
“Okay…  If you think she’ll like it…  What does that mean?”  He pointed at the words “ASK ME” across the chest.
“Well, whatever you want it to, I guess.  Maybe, “are you a boy or a girl”…or, “can I have a kiss?”
Tim giggled shyly.  Connie was pleased he seemed to be becoming more amenable to female attire.  But she was only just starting.
“Now, Tim, everything you wear here while you’re with us has to be recorded.  So after you’ve shown it to Kit, we can just pop out into the garden for a moment and I’ll take a few snaps for the album, okay?
“Yes, miss.”
He was never averse to a photo-shoot.  Connie smiled.  “Little show-off,” she murmured.
“Sorry, miss?”
“Nothing.  Look, I’ve got some pretty earrings and bangles too…

It goes without saying Kit approved, and to judge by his expression as he posed outside, he was as happy as he’d been all day…

[Simonssister]

Chapter 371.

When she’d got enough pictures, Connie patted – or rather smacked - Tim’s bottom.
“Right.  Get inside and you can choose an outfit for your walk.  Behave yourself, and remember your place.  No flirting with Kit, all right?  And I shall tell her the same.”
“Yes, miss.  I understand.”

They returned to the large living room.  Connie selected a K-Pop themed outfit, and gave it to Tim.
“Pop it on, quick…”
He pulled it on, and checked himself in the mirror.
“It fits quite well…”
“Of course it does.  Face me.  A pretty little choker would look nice with that...  There.  Perfect.”  She took a snap.  “Okay.  Go show the others.  Be quick.  I’ve got another one here…”
He hurried out, posed for the ladies for a few minutes, and returned. 
“Here…  This one.  “Cool Girls” it’s called.  Perfect for a little miss like you.  Well?  Get it on.  We haven’t got all day.”
It too met with general approval.
“Wear that one,” said Kit.
Tim liked it best, too.  He lingered, posing for his admirers.  Frieda detached herself and joined Connie.
“What’s he doing out there,” she asked, irritably.
“What he does best, darling.  Showing off.”
“Honestly, he’s such a prima donna.  Sometimes I just want to give him a jolly good spanking.  Next week I will.  I don’t need an excuse.  Still, I hope he’s like this tomorrow, when he wears his new hotpants outfit.”
“What’s it like?”
“I’ll show you later, Bridget.”  She chuckled.  “Oh, I’m going to get some lovely piccies.  But we have to convince him he looks the business.  Esther’s going to be ecstatic.”
“Esther?”
“I’ll tell you all about it tonight.  Oh…  Here he is.”
“Can I wear this one, miss?  Kit likes it best.”
“Oh, then you must wear it, Tim.  Hold on.  You need some earrings...  There...  And there's a cap that goes with it.  Here.  Right.  Off you go.  Go play in the playground with your babysitter, yeah?” 

[Simonssister]

Chapter 372.

“Where are you going?” asked Bridget.  “If you want a lift to that big park in South Kennett…  Maybe we could all go…”
That was the last place Tim wanted to go.  It was much too near Jenny’s house.  He was already feeling guilty, and worrying about the lies – or at least the half-truths – he was going to have to tell her that evening.
“Miss Connie?  Isn’t there a little park nearby?  We passed one on the way here.”
“Yes, that’s right.  Opie Park, right next to the village.  It’s less than a mile.  Actually there’s a little shortcut across the fields.”
“Could we go there, miss Kit?  It looked very nice and quiet…”
Kit agreeing, and the others content to hang out in the house and garden and catch up on all the gossip, Tim and Kit, having received unnecessarily detailed instructions and been exhorted to pay attention to various remarkable natural phenomena along the way, departed.
 
It was a lovely, bright, crisp winter’s afternoon.  They stuck mainly to the lanes, avoiding all the muddy shortcuts they had been supposed to memorise.  Kit hung on Tim’s arm, or he on Kit’s.  They made an odd couple in that rural, conservative backwater, and received some surprised glances, especially as they negotiated the village street, but also a lot of “good afternoons” – as strangers in such an environment invariably do, whether from innocent goodwill or the hope of eliciting conversation.  Tim was in the grip of a sort of delirious suppressed excitement, somehow mysteriously connected to the feeling of Kit’s hand on his arm.  It was the first time in his life he had experienced such an intense emotion, and he truly had no idea what it was.  Kit herself, despite her temporary alliance with the scheming conspirators back in the farmhouse, found herself growing to like this innocent young man, possibly the first time she had felt anything but contempt for a male.

Being a Sunday the village was rather quiet.  The village store and post office was closed, but they bought some bubble-gum from a battered dispenser outside, chained to the wall.  They turned off the main street into a smallish park, that on its extremities morphed in open countryside.  There were a few people chatting or walking dogs and some children playing.
“This is a cool place, miss.  It’s like a bit of a wilderness.  Let’s see where this path goes…”

They explored, Kit blowing bubbles with an experienced ease.  They wandered around happily for nearly an hour, and were thinking of heading back when Tim heard a voice behind them.
“Tim?  Is that you?”
He froze for a minute, then swung round.  And breathed a sigh of relief.
“Ann!  What are you doing here?”
“We just came out for a walk.  We’ve never been here before.  What are you doing?  And why…”
She indicated the outfit.  And she looked from him to Kit and back again with some astonishment.
Tim gave himself time to think by introducing them.
“Miss Kit, this is my friend from school, Ann Cleverly.  Ann, this is my work colleague, Kit.”
The two girls nodded and smiled.  He realised he needed to come up with a slightly fuller explanation if he wanted to avoid rumours.  Again he gave himself time.
“Miss Kit, Ann was one of my best friends at school.  Ann, what are you doing now?”
“I got a place at college doing materials and design, and I’m working part-time in Crawford’s department store to help pay for the course.  Yeah, it’s going really well.  But what are you up to?  I heard something about you working at some equestrian centre…”
“Oh, yeah…  I did.  I do have a place at uni for next year…  So, at the moment…yes…I’m working for this fashion company, see…er…CBM…F…yeah, that’s it.  I sort of help with the admin…  Kit here is one of their, er, consultants…”
“That’s an amazing outfit, Kit.  It that real latex?”
“Real latex, Ann.”  She held out her arm.  “You may feel…”
Ann stroked the glossy latex gingerly.
“Wow.  It must feel so sexy to wear something like that…  You look incredible…  And Tim.  You look incredible too!  You seem to have grown up so much in just six months.  You seem so confident.  And you don’t even speak the same.  I don’t mean…  You know, you just seem almost like a new person.  But why the girly duds?  Not that they don’t look good on you…”
“Oh…  No reason.  It was just lying about, and it was the warmest thing I could find in a hurry…”
“Well you’d look great in anything, anyway…  But where is this fashion company.  What did you call it?”
“Er… yeah, er, CMBF…  It’s…well, it’s a private company.  Run by a Mrs Brookshaw.  Just up the road.”
“Sounds right up my street.  Any chance I could come and visit one day?  It would be great experience for me.”
“Well, I don’t know…”
“Tim, take Ann number and we ask Miss Connie, yes?”
“Would you?  That’s so kind!  Maybe I could help her somehow.  I’d do anything…”
Tim was panicking a bit.  If Ann found out about him, she would be bound to tell everyone.  But Kit was insistent.  She knew that every friend and acquaintance of Tim was a potential tool for Connie.
“Actually I don’t have my phone with me…” began Tim.
“I give you my number, Ann,” said Kit.  “Text it to me and I talk to Miss Connie.”  And she reeled it off.
“Thank you so much…  I have to go, but please call me if you can.”  She gave Kit a look full of admiration.  “I’m so jealous of your outfit…and those steel chains and signs.  It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen…  Would you mind?  Take a piccy of me and Tim on my phone?”
“My pleasure…”
Tim looked imploringly at Kit, but she didn’t seem to notice…

The sun was sinking as they turned up the front path of the farmhouse.
“But Miss Kit, suppose Miss Connie does invite her round?”
“If she does, she will have fun, and you will see her again.  You good friends, no?”
“Well, yes, we are.  I always liked her at school.  But that’s the problem, see?  She knows so many people, whatever she finds out, they’ll hear about it.”
“And, master Tim?”
“Well, I…”
“You should…”spread wings”, as they say.  If you want be celebrity, maybe even be on TV…”
“On TV?”  He looked at her incredulously.  But not without interest.  “How could that even be possible?”
“Might be possible.  Go on social media first.  I have friend could help you.  Build presence.  You unique person.  No-one like you around.  I think it possible.”
That shut him up for a while.  Shyness and vanity were contending in his imagination.  Connie let them in.  Kit wasted no time telling her all about Ann Cleverly.
“Really?  Nice girl, you say?  She’s a good friend, Tim?  Well we really should have her round.  I’ll give her a call.”
“But…”
“I telling Tim he should have big online presence…”
“Oh, quite right, Kit.  We’re working on that already.  At least, ESDS is.  Wait till they find out about you, too…”

After supper it was time for his call to Jenny.  He was given his phone and sent to his room.  The ladies gathered around Connie’s phone.  Of course, his room was equipped with audio and visual surveillance. 
He threw himself on the bed and sighed.  Two minutes passed.
“Why isn’t he calling her?” asked Maxine.
“He’s thinking what to say,” replied Frieda.
Eventually he rang.  He put his phone on speaker and placed it on the bedside cabinet.
“Tim?  You rang.”
“Yeah.”
“What’s going on?  Why didn’t you tell me?”
“I couldn’t.  I just got sent to this job.  I thought I’d be able to call you after.  But they took me on right away and took away my phone.  I’m not even allowed to tell you where it is.”
“I’m not even allowed to know that?  Why?”
“Dunno.  There are spies…”
“It’s just a fashion company, isn’t it?  How could that be so secret?”
“Dunno.  They’ve had their designs stolen.  They can’t trust anyone, specially new employees.”
“And you’re there how long?”
“Two weeks.”
“I can’t see you for two weeks?”
“Nope.”
“That’s insane.  What are you doing there?”
“Everything.  Like admin, and waiting on people…”
“And modelling?”
“A bit, yeah…”
“Who’s there.  Tell me about your co-workers.”
“Just some ladies…”
“Yes, I heard.  CFBM, right?”
“Who?”
“CFBM!  That’s who you’re working for, right?”
“Oh, er, yeah…”
“You don’t sound very sure…”
“No…  I mean I just forgot the name for a moment…”
“This is all very suspicious, Tim.  Who else is there?”
“No-one.”
“No-one at all?”
“Oh, one woman.  A sort of consultant…”
“Name?”
“Name?”
“What’s her name?”
“Oh.  Her name…  Yeah, what is it now?  Ah, yes…Kit.”
“Kit what?”
“Er…  Not sure…”
Downstairs the ladies were killing themselves laughing.  They really could be quite cruel at times…
“How old is she?”
“How old?”
“Yes.  How old?”
“Why do you want to know…”
“So she’s young, then.”
“Well, youngish, I guess…”
“How young?”  Her voice took on a sarcastic tone.  “Thirty?  Twenty?  Ten?”
“Course not ten…”
“So what’s the nearest?”
“I don’t know why you asking all this.  I…”
“Twenty?”
Tim sighed.  “About…I guess…”
“Pretty?”
“Pretty?”
“Is she pretty?”
He hesitated.  “I don’t know if you’d call her…”
“She is, isn’t she?  Do you fancy her then?”
“Of course not!”
“Have you snogged her?”
“Snogged her?  No…”
“You bloody have, you bastard.  I bet you have.  I can hear it in your voice.”
“Look, Jenny, I have to go.  I…”
There was a noise as if she had thrown her phone at the wall.  Then the line went dead.
“Oh dear,” said Maxine.  “That’s the end of that romance, then.”
“Not at all,” said Connie, confidently.  “That violent reaction tells me two things.  First, she likes him a lot.  That was sheer murderous jealousy.  But I could tell that already.  Second, she’s tough.  No way she’d give up on him after one little spat.  Moreover she actually has no idea what’s really going on.  That’s only going to make her more determined to find out.  And that’s where all the stuff I have on him becomes more and more valuable.  Kit, darling, you’ve played your part well.”
Kit looked not altogether happy.
“What’s the matter?  Don’t tell me…  You like him as well?”
Kit made a sign with her fingers that said “maybe a little bit”…
Connie laughed delightedly.  “Oh, my dear!  I never imagined…”
“Tim sweet boy…  Maybe I want taste one time…”

Nothing more was heard from upstairs that evening.  The ladies retired about twelve, Connie intent of making an early start of Sunday, before Robyn arrived with Esther.