Initiation
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:07 pm
Initiation
[This story contains non-consensual bondage and sexual activity]
Dave looked up. It was Hunk, his classmate from Math, grinning at him. Hunk was dressed in a Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt and jeans, which covered his huge muscular frame. “We’ve got it all set up for you, Dave. You're gonna be officially initiated into Delta Iota Kappa”
“Okay,” Dave nodded and grinned back. He’d been wanting to get into Delta Iota Kappa ever since the beginning of the school year. “Friday morning, right?”
“Right!” Hunk chuckled. “Ten o’clock sharp!”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
“But why do you want to do this?” Annie gazed at Dave.
They were sitting in the lounge in her dorm. It was Thursday evening, after dinnertime. The slanted rays of sunlight were drifting through the windows. Annie was lying on the couch, her petite 5’4” body facing the ceiling, and her head cradled in Dave’s lap.
“It’s like I said, Annie,” Dave replied. “It’s something I’ve wanted to do. They seem like a neat bunch of guys, and they do have some fun events. I’ll be able to take you to their parties, and . . .”
“But don’t you remember last year? How they got in trouble after the initiations?” Annie’s hand was on Dave’s arm. “Remember how that one guy got hurt, and had to go to the hospital? And the Dean of Students said they couldn’t do that stuff anymore? Delta Iota Kappa almost got shut down!”
“I know.” Dave patted Annie’s hand. “I’ll be all right. After all that stuff last year, they’re being really careful. Hunk told me. He said they don’t want another incident like that one, where anyone actually got hurt. He said they’re going a whole different direction, with the initiations.”
“Well,” Annie sounded hesitant, “I just don’t want anything to happen to you.”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Approaching the Delta Iota Kappa house the next morning, Dave found himself thinking about his conversation with Annie. In a way, she might have had cause to be worried about him. The previous year there had been a rather serious accident involving a Delta Iota Kappa initiation. The initiate had suffered a serious fall, and had wound up being taken to the local hospital. There had been an investigation by the University, and the Dean of Students had come down on fraternities in general and Delta Iota Kappa pretty hard. They’d had to pay a fine, and had had to cover the victim’s medical expenses. And, they were told that they were never again to conduct an initiation. As a result, when a new prospect wanted to pledge Δ Ι Ε, the group had to find another group to conduct the actual initiation.
This morning, it would be no problem. Hunk had told Dave that Gamma Nu Tau would be in charge of the proceedings. Γ Ν Τ was Δ Ι Ε’s sister sorority. That meant that Dave would get initiated by a bunch of girls. Ha! –no problem! he thought. He’d let the ladies of Γ Ν Τ do their worst, and he’d be done by noon. In fact, it would probably all be anticlimactic.
He walked in the front door of the Δ Ι E house. As he stepped into the front room, he saw that Hunk was there, waiting for him. Also there were three girls.
“You must be Dave,” one of the girls came and offered her hand. She had blonde hair in a ponytail and was wearing a light blue sleeveless top and jeans. “I’m Tami, and this is Melissa,” she indicated the girl with long red hair, “and Mandy,” she gestured toward the third girl, with short dark hair, who was in jean shorts and a gray tee shirt.
Hunk interjected, “Tami and Melissa and Mandy are from Gamma Nu Tau. They’ll be doing the actual initiation.”
“Yeah, I’m Dave. I’m your victim.” Dave grinned. “So what are you going to do to me?”
“Well, first of all,” Tami took his arm and led him to a stuffed chair across the room, “I need you to take off your shoes and socks for me.”
“Okay,” Dave was puzzled. He sat down and reached down and took off his shoes and socks. The floor seemed a little cold under his bare feet. “Now what?
”
The three girls stood around him, smiling. “It’s okay, Dave,” Tami patted his shoulder. “We’re not going to hurt you.”
“We just want to get to know you better,” Melissa smiled at him.
“We don’t mean to make you uncomfortable,” Tami smiled. She held out her hand to him. “Why don’t you stand up?”
The feeling of the three girls standing over Dave had been an uncomfortable one. He stood up, and discovered he felt better. Tami put her hand on his arm.
“So, what year are you in?” she smiled.
“Sophomore,” Dave felt a little more comfortable answering these routine questions.
Mandy interjected, “Impressive! Most guys don’t get into Delta Iota Kappa until they’re juniors.”
Dave smiled. “Well, they invited me, and I really wanted to join.”
Tami was maneuvering Dave over into the middle of the room. “So what’s your major?”
“Math.”
Tami nodded. “How do you like it?”
“It’s okay, I guess. I wish they hadn’t scheduled some of the classes so early. I have one at 7:45. in the morning.”
“Ugh!” This from Mandi. “I’m not even awake then! How do you ever do it?”
“It’s hard.”
Tami put her hand on Dave’s back. “Okay, we need you to stand right there, just for a minute.”
Dave stopped. “Okay, now what?
Tami hesitated. “We, ah, need you to take off your shirt for just a minute.”
Mandi and Melissa giggled apologetically. Mandi asked, “Do you mind?”
“I mean, if you’re bashful . . .” This from Melissa.
Tami smiled, “It’ll be just for a few minutes.”
Dave hesitated, and then shrugged. “Okay, then.” He reached down and pulled off his sweatshirt. As he did so, he thought he heard a short inhalation of breath from Mandi. “There!” he said. “Now what?”
Melissa was looking at his bare chest. “We don’t mean to embarrass you, Dave.”
“It’s no big deal,” Dave responded, half-truthfully. To be honest, he did feel a little self-conscious, like they were staring at his body. “What do you want me to do now?”
Tami took his arm. “So, a math major? What are you going to do after you graduate?”
“Probably go into accounting. I’ve always liked working with numbers.”
Tami nodded. “A lot of math majors doing business math?”
“Actually, yes, probably about a third of the department.”
Melissa jumped in. “Do you have a girlfriend?”
“Yes,” Dave was a little taken aback by the change of topic.
“Another math student?”
“No, she’s majoring in music.”
“What’s her name?”
“Annie.”
“Annie? Do I know her?”
“You might,” Dave hesitated. “Annie Seeger. She’s about so tall, “Dave gestured with his hand, “ shoulder-length red hair, . . .”
“Oh, her!” Mandi jumped in. “Yeah, I know who you mean. Doesn’t she live over in one of the dorms?
“Yeah, in Wright Hall.” Dave nodded. “You know her?”
“Well, I don’t know her,” Mandi acknowledged, “but I’ve seen her around campus. And I think I’ve seen her with you.”
Tami interrupted. “Okay, then.” She turned to Hunk. “You--” she pointed to him “get going!”
Hunk looked dismayed. “I thought I was supposed to stay here. . . .”
“Nope.” Tami made a shooing motion with her hand, gesturing him toward the door. “You go do what you’re gonna do next.”
Without another word Hunk nodded and got up and exited out the door, flipping it shut behind him.
“And you—“ Tami came back over to Dave, “I need for you to put your hands behind your back for a minute.”
“Like this?” Dave held up his arms and reached back and laid his hands against the middle of his back, clasped together.
Immediately, he felt some kind of binding being passed around his wrists. They were being pulled tight. He tried to move his arms, but he couldn’t—they were tied behind his back.
Melissa swung in front of him. She had her cellphone out, and she held it up, aimed at Dave. She moved her finger, and Dave heard a soft “click.”
“Hey! What are you doing?” he protested.
“Just taking a picture,” Melissa grinned at him.
He felt Tami’s hand on his bare back. “It’s okay, Dave,” she rubbed her hand gently up and down his back. “We won’t hurt you.”
“We do have to blindfold you, though,” Mandy’s voice came from behind him. Almost immediately a cloth blindfold appeared in front of his eyes. As it tightened around his head he struggled to free his hands. He felt Tami’s hand on his bare shoulder.
“Easy, there, Dave! I told you, we’re not going to hurt you.”
“Get that thing off me!” Dave shouted. “Get that blindfold off me, and untie me right now!”
“Okay, pretty soon.” Tami’s voice was low and soothing. But Dave refused to be pacified.
“Not ‘pretty soon!’ Right now!” He heard his voice rising. “Right now! Ri____!”
As he opened his mouth, he felt something being stuffed into it, and a cord tied behind his head.
“It’s okay. It’s just a ball gag,” he heard Melissa’s voice.
“We can’t have you shouting and making all that noise, can we?” Tami’s hand was sliding gently up and down Dave’s bare back. “Now, it’s almost time to go.”
“Mmmmph! Mmmmmph!” Dave tried to talk but the ball gag stopped him.
He felt Tami’s hand move to his bare shoulder. “It’s okay, Dave. We’re not going to hurt you. We’re just going to take you for a little walk, that’s all.”
“We’ll steer you, so you don’t trip over anything,” Mandy added.
“Just one thing,” Melissa’s voice came from in front of him. “Before we go, we have to take off your jeans.”
“We’re going to walk you around campus in nothing but your little underpants.” Mandy added.
“Won’t you look cute!” As Melissa said this, Dave heard her stooping down in front of him. He tried to step away, but Tami’s hand held his shoulder in place. He felt Mandy’s hand on his back.
“Mmmmmmph!” he tried to protest, as he felt Melissa’s fingers slip under the button on his jeans and felt her knuckles wiggle against his navel as she deftly unbuttoned him. He heard the zzzzzzzzzzip! of his zipper, and felt the loosening of the waist of his jeans. He felt Melissa’s hands on his hips, then sliding down the outside of his thighs, pushing his jeans to the ground, as the air struck his bare legs.
“Ooooh! Look at that!” Mandy cooed. “He’s wearing his little tighty-whities!”
“He certainly looks well-hung,” Melissa observed.
As his jeans landed on the floor, he felt Melissa’s hand gripping his lower leg. Then he felt something around his ankle. It felt similar to the binding on his wrists. Then he felt another one around his other ankle.
Tami rubbed his shoulder, “That’s just to keep your ankles from getting too far apart. To keep you from running away from us.” She chuckled, “You can still walk.”
Dave suddenly realized how exposed he felt in front of these three girls. He heard them walking around him, obviously studying his bare body. Then he felt Tami’s hand against his back again, stroking up and down. Her voice sounded from next to him.
“Time to go for a little walk around campus, Dave.”
Mandy’s hand gripped his other arm. “We hope you won’t be too embarrassed, Dave,” she giggled, “of being shown in public with nothing on but those skimpy little underpants.” All the girls giggled.
“Mmmmmmph!” Dave tried to protest, but the ball gag muted him. He felt Mandy’s hand grip his arm tighter and try to lead him forward. He resisted, stiffening his feet on the floor.
“Aw, come on, Dave!” Melissa coaxed. “Now don’t make this hard. Don’t you want to let all the girls out there check out your body?”
“Grrrmmmmmmph!”
Suddenly he felt Tami’s hand leave his back. Then he felt a sharp SLAP! on his left buttock. It made him jump.
“Come on, Dave! Let’s go!” Another SLAP! Dave hesitantly started walking forward.
“That’s a nice little ass,” he heard Tami remark. “I hope he makes me do that a lot!”
He felt Tami’s hand on his bare back again. Another pair of hands took his right arm. He felt himself being led forward. Then he heard a door open. He was led through it, and could feel a light breeze. He was outside.
“Now, careful,” Tami’s voice came from near his left ear. “There’s two steps down.”
Dave felt carefully with his toe. He felt the front porch stairs and carefully stepped down them, all the time feeling hands on his arms and back. A couple of steps and he was at the bottom.
“Okay, Dave, you’re on the front sidewalk now. Just keep on going forward,” Mandy instructed. He felt Melissa’s hands gripping his upper arm as he walked, and felt Tami’s hand, still sliding gently up and down his bare back.
“See?” Mandy’s voice came from in front of him. “This isn’t so bad, is it? You’re outside, in your little underpants, and everything’s fine”
Suddenly Dave felt the palm of Tami’s other hand on his bare stomach. “Stop here,” she commanded. “We’re at the sidewalk by the street.”
At that moment, Dave heard the whoosh of a car passing in front of them. It sped by, then sounded like it was slowing down, then speeding up again.
“I think they were checking you out,” chortled Mandy.
Tami commanded “Turn right here. We’re going to walk up the street toward the Student Center.” Her hand slid up to the back of Dave’s neck. She guided him to the right, then straightened him out. As they started up the street, he felt her hand slide back down his bare back again, all the way down to the elastic of his underpants.
Suddenly “Whoo-eee!” came a hoot from across the street.
“Someone else checking out your body, Dave,” Melissa snickered. “They like you.”
“That’s ‘cause you look so cute, walking down the street in public, with nothing on but those skimpy little underpants,” gloated Mandy.
“I wonder what your little girlfriend Annie would think if she could see you right now? Walking up the street in nothing but those tiny little underpants?”
From somewhere in front of Dave came the sound of giggling females. As he walked they came closer. One of them said “Ooooh! Look at this!”
“He looks adorable!”
“Look at that little belly button!”
Mandy said, “Do you want to touch him?”
“Can we?”
“Sure.” Her hand gripped Dave’s arm, forcing him to stop.
Suddenly he felt a cold finger touching his bare chest. The finger moved around in a slow circle, then travelled tantalizingly down toward his belly. “This is nice! He’s such a cutie!”
Dave tried to step back, but Tami’s hand on his back held him in place.
The girl’s finger drifted down and touched Dave’s bare belly. “Look at this sweet little belly button!” Dave could feel her finger rubbing his navel, in a circular motion.
Another girl’s voice joined in. “It goes ‘round and ‘round.” She giggled.
“What’s his name?’ The first girl asked.
Mandy replied, “This is Dave.”
“Poor Dave! I bet he feels pretty embarrassed!” She giggled.
The finger stopped rubbing him. He felt Tami’s hand slide down his back to his butt cheek. “Let’s go, Dave.” He felt her fingers pinch his buttock.
They continued down the street. Dave thought, we should be coming to Chestnut Street pretty soon. He hoped they’d just go around the block.
“Stop,” ordered Mandy.
Dave guessed that they were at the intersection of Chestnut and High Streets. There was a light there, and it was obviously red, if they were waiting to cross.
He felt a whoosh! in front of him, as a car turned the corner. He heard an abrupt car horn “honk!”
Melissa’s voice said, “You’re pretty popular this morning, Dave!” She chuckled.
Tami’s hand prodded his butt cheek. “Green light,” she announced. “Watch the step down the curb.”
He stepped carefully ahead, allowing Tami’s hand on his back to guide him.
“Now a step up for the curb,” she cautioned. Dave stepped up.
Abruptly he heard a couple of girls giggle. They’d been on the sidewalk watching.
“Just keep walking,” Tami ordered.
Dave walked straight ahead. He figured, we should be in front of Scott Hall right now. He sensed that there was a large building on his right.
Suddenly there was the sound of a door opening and closing. He heard an “Ooooooh!” coming from the sidewalk in front of the building, then a “Hi, Dave!” and a female giggle.
He heard Tami ask, “Do you know him?”
“Sure,” said the newcomer, in a somewhat familiar voice. “This is Dave. He’s in one of my classes.” The voice stopped right in front of him. He felt a hand on his bare stomach. “Hey, Dave! Guess who!” She giggled and her hand rubbed his naked belly. “I’ll give you a clue—Dr. Padrilla’s English Lit class!”
Dave tried furiously to think about his English class.
“Right next to you on your left—long brown hair—glasses“
Now Dave remembered. What was her name? Linda? Glenda?
“Aw, Dave! It’s me, Wendi! Remember?” He felt her hand slide up his chest. Her finger slid up and touched his left nipple.
“Mmmmmmmph!” Dave felt himself backing off, but Tami’s hand on his back kept him firmly in place.
Wendi’s finger was making little circles on Dave’s nipple. It was making him tingle. “Does that tickle?” she cooed. “I think you like it when I do that to you.”
He heard Tami suppress a giggle.
Her finger ran down to his belly again. Then it went away. He heard her say, “I gotta get a picture of you, Dave.”
“Nmmmmmph! Nmmmmmmmmph!” Dave tried to move, but Tami was bracing her hand on the small of his back, and Mandy was gripping his right arm firmly. He heard a quiet “click” from Wendi’s camera.
“That’ll be a cute pic to show everyone!” She chuckled.
“Oh, wait!” A new female voice came from off to the left. She was running toward him. “Take one of me with him!”
“Hey, Wendi!” Tami called out. “Take one with Rachel in it!”
Dave heard footsteps running up to him. He heard Rachel’s voice, getting lower in front of him, and realized she was hunched down. He felt her hand on the inside of his bare thigh.
“Cute!” Wendi called from in front of Dave somewhere. He heard another “click.”
“I like these sexy legs!” Rachel purred, from down in front of him. He felt her hand sliding up and down the inside of his thigh. “I like all these little hairs on his legs.” Then she slid up, and Dave felt one of her fingers touching the crotch of his underpants. “I really like this part here.”
He heard all the girls giggle.
Rachel laughed. “I’m gonna tickle his pickle!”
Dave felt her finger slide up the front of his underpants and wiggle lightly up and down over his penis. He could feel his crotch starting to tingle.
“Ooooh, look! He likes it!”
“It’s getting bigger!”
Amid the tittering, Dave heard the “click” of Melissa’s camera.
He heard Wendi’s voice, “Hey, Dave! Does your little girlfriend know what’s happening to you?”
“His girlfriend? I didn’t know he had a girlfriend.” This from Rachel, who kept on tickling.
Melissa’s camera clicked again.
“Yeah. I’ve seen him around campus with that little Annie, from over in Wright Hall.”
“Well, I hope she’s not the jealous kind. I hope she won’t mind that I’m tickling his little boy thingee.” Rachel giggled.
“I hope not,” Melissa remarked. “I’m going to be posting some of these pictures on my website.”
Rachel ran her hand down Dave’s bare thigh. He heard her stand up and say, “Whoo! Now it looks like he’s got a rocket in his pocket”
All the girls laughed. “Poor Dave!” Mandy cooed. “He must feel so degraded! Being put on display like this in just these little underpants.” Dave felt her finger running along the edge of the elastic on his underpants.
Dave heard another female voice approaching. “Ooooooooh!” it cooed. “A BOY! With nothing on but his little tiny UNDIES!”
Dave felt Tami’s hand on his back, gently pushing him toward the newcomer. She asked, “Wanna see him?”
“Oooooh! Yes! I like seeing BOYS’ BODIES!” Dave heard a “slurp” and then felt a wet fingertip touching his nipple. It began going around in a circular motion.
“I like TOUCHING BOYS on their BARE NIPPLES,” the new voice said. “Whenever I TOUCH a BOY on his NIPPLE he has to get it NICE and PERKY, just for ME.” The finger kept caressing Dave’s nipple, then stopped. Just then a breeze blew past his body. He shivered as it blew across his moist skin.
“Oh, look at that nipple!” Mandy exclaimed. “It’s nice and pointy! And erect!”
The finger rubbed across his nipple again. He realized that it had gotten hard.
Wendi’s voice said, “I see something else that’s getting big and perky.”
“Oooh, yeah!” “Look at the size of that bazooka!”
All the girls laughed.
The new girl said, “I wanna LOOK!” and before Dave could back out of the way he felt her finger touch his belly and slide down inside his underpants. He felt the finger pulling the elastic out. ”Oooooh! CUTE!” she cooed. Dave felt a finger sliding though his pubic hair. “Oooh, look at all those little hairs! And look at that nice big weenie!”
Then Dave heard the click of Wendi’s camera, right in front of his belly. Wendi chortled, “I got a picture of Dave’s thingee!”
Everyone laughed.
“I’m gonna show this to my friends!” Wendi exulted.
Dave struggled, but he couldn’t move against the ropes holding his wrists together behind his back.
“Hey, Tami,” Dave heard Melissa’s voice.
A pause, then some whispering between the two girls. Tittering, then more whispering. Dave waited to hear the outcome.
“Dave,” Tami finally said, “we’re going to walk you over to the fence.”
Dave remembered that there was a cast iron fence, about four feet high, running in front of Scott Hall and the Union. He felt Tami’s hand on his bare back again, and felt Mandy’s hand take his arm. They guided him ahead about fifty feet, then stopped him and turned him around. He felt Tami’s hand on his bare belly, gently pushing him back. Then he felt the fence behind him, touching his bare thighs.
Melissa’s voice spoke. “We’re going to tie your legs to the fence, Dave. So you don’t get away.”
At that moment he felt hands from behind him reaching through the fence with cord, and passing it around the front of his thighs, down near his knees. He felt the cord draw tight, binding his legs to the fence posts. He tried to move his legs, but he couldn’t. He felt a hand sliding slowly up and down the inside of his thigh. He heard a voice from behind him, “Easy, does it, Dave. You can’t escape from us!” then several giggles.
He felt Tami’s hand on his bare belly. He felt her fingers slide down and under the elastic of his underpants. Her fingers moved teasingly back and forth under the elastic.
“You’ve gotten too big down there, Dave,” she said in his ear. “We’re going to have to remove your underpants and empty your penis.”
“Mmmmmmmph!!!” Dave struggled, to no avail. Inside the blindfold he could imagine all the girls standing around, waiting for his genitals to be bared for everyone to see. He could hear them tittering as they watched.
Tami continued, “Now, Melissa is just going to push down your underpants, so we can all see your penis.” As she spoke, Dave felt fingers slide under the elastic of his underpants on both hips. He felt them sliding down his sides, and felt the air striking his naked crotch. He heard the girls gasp and titter.
“Woo-hoo! Look at that PENIS!”
“It’s so BIG!”
“It looks like it’s gonna BURST!
“That penis is a WHOPPER!”
Dave struggled against the fencepost, to no avail.
“Hee-hee-hee! Look at him wiggle!”
“Look how his balls bounce around when he wiggles!”
He heard several soft “clicks” and knew that he was being photographed nude.
“Okay, then, Dave,” he heard Melissa’s voice. “Tami is going to rub your penis and make you squirt.”
At that moment he felt fingers gripping around his penis. The fingers began to stroke up and down, pulling and pushing, manipulating him. He felt his whole body start to tingle, and heard himself breathing harder. The girls continued to titter:
“Go, Dave!”
“Pump that penis for us, Dave!”
“Look at it! It’s getting bigger!”
Dave felt his penis swelling under the touch of Tami’s fingers. She increased her finger pressure a little. He felt himself starting to breathe harder.
“Come, on Dave! You have to squirt for me.” She squeezed a little more. “I want to see a nice big squirt”
He kept hearing girls’ voices tittering, and knew he was attracting an increasing audience.
“O – MY – GOD!”
“Hey! That’s Dave! From our English Lit class!”
“I always wondered what he looked like naked.”
“I like that body!”
“Looks like he’s being milked!’
“Yeah—right here in public! That must be so humiliating for him!”
“I bet he really feels degraded!”
“Poor Dave!”
“Look how big his thingee is!”
Click! Another picture of him, being taken.
“Look at that penis! It’s getting so big!”
Dave felt Tami’s other hand in the small of his back, bracing him, while her right hand stroked his penis, harder and harder.
“C’mon, Dave! Cum for us!” the spectators continued.
“We wanna see a nice big squirt!”
Dave felt another finger touching the bottom of his testicle, and heard a voice saying, “Look at these balls!”
“He’s well hung, that’s for sure!”
“Let’s go, Dave!” a voice said next to his right ear. “Show us a good hard squirt!” He felt a finger touching his left nipple, and begin to rub in a circular motion.
Suddenly Tami’s fingers shifted on his penis. She squeezed harder. Dave couldn’t take it any more. He felt the tingling and swelling in his penis becoming unbearable. All at once he exploded—his semen shot out of his penis like water out of a fire-hose.
“Whooee!” the girls cheered.
“There it is!”
“Nice squirt, Dave!”
“I got it on video!”
“What a squirt!”
Dave felt a cloth being wiped over the end of his penis, cleaning him off. “How far did that go?” Tami was asking.
“At least five feet!”
“It was more than that.”
“That was a big squirt! There was a lot!”
“It went all over the place!”
“Nice job, Dave!” Dave felt someone’s fingertips rubbing up and down his bare breast. He felt someone swat playfully at his limp penis, while someone else was untying his legs from the fence.
“I hope his girlfriend didn’t see that!”
“Does he have a girlfriend?”
“Yeah, little Annie Seeger, over in Wright Hall. I wonder if she’s around.”
“No,” Tami answered. “We’re keeping her busy right now, so she doesn’t see what we’re doing to Dave here.”
Dave felt fingers pulling his underpants back up over his private parts. He tried to say, “What do you mean, you’re keeping her busy?” but it just came out “Wmph mmmmph, mmmmm hmmmph mmmmmph?”
“Aww! That’s so cute! He’s trying to talk!”
Dave lurched, but the bindings around his wrists restricted his movement. He tried to step away from all the touching fingers, but his ankles were still roped together, so he could only move his legs very slowly. He felt a hand grasp his right arm, and another hand lower on his bare back.
“Okay, Dave. Time to go.”
[This story contains non-consensual bondage and sexual activity]
Dave looked up. It was Hunk, his classmate from Math, grinning at him. Hunk was dressed in a Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt and jeans, which covered his huge muscular frame. “We’ve got it all set up for you, Dave. You're gonna be officially initiated into Delta Iota Kappa”
“Okay,” Dave nodded and grinned back. He’d been wanting to get into Delta Iota Kappa ever since the beginning of the school year. “Friday morning, right?”
“Right!” Hunk chuckled. “Ten o’clock sharp!”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
“But why do you want to do this?” Annie gazed at Dave.
They were sitting in the lounge in her dorm. It was Thursday evening, after dinnertime. The slanted rays of sunlight were drifting through the windows. Annie was lying on the couch, her petite 5’4” body facing the ceiling, and her head cradled in Dave’s lap.
“It’s like I said, Annie,” Dave replied. “It’s something I’ve wanted to do. They seem like a neat bunch of guys, and they do have some fun events. I’ll be able to take you to their parties, and . . .”
“But don’t you remember last year? How they got in trouble after the initiations?” Annie’s hand was on Dave’s arm. “Remember how that one guy got hurt, and had to go to the hospital? And the Dean of Students said they couldn’t do that stuff anymore? Delta Iota Kappa almost got shut down!”
“I know.” Dave patted Annie’s hand. “I’ll be all right. After all that stuff last year, they’re being really careful. Hunk told me. He said they don’t want another incident like that one, where anyone actually got hurt. He said they’re going a whole different direction, with the initiations.”
“Well,” Annie sounded hesitant, “I just don’t want anything to happen to you.”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Approaching the Delta Iota Kappa house the next morning, Dave found himself thinking about his conversation with Annie. In a way, she might have had cause to be worried about him. The previous year there had been a rather serious accident involving a Delta Iota Kappa initiation. The initiate had suffered a serious fall, and had wound up being taken to the local hospital. There had been an investigation by the University, and the Dean of Students had come down on fraternities in general and Delta Iota Kappa pretty hard. They’d had to pay a fine, and had had to cover the victim’s medical expenses. And, they were told that they were never again to conduct an initiation. As a result, when a new prospect wanted to pledge Δ Ι Ε, the group had to find another group to conduct the actual initiation.
This morning, it would be no problem. Hunk had told Dave that Gamma Nu Tau would be in charge of the proceedings. Γ Ν Τ was Δ Ι Ε’s sister sorority. That meant that Dave would get initiated by a bunch of girls. Ha! –no problem! he thought. He’d let the ladies of Γ Ν Τ do their worst, and he’d be done by noon. In fact, it would probably all be anticlimactic.
He walked in the front door of the Δ Ι E house. As he stepped into the front room, he saw that Hunk was there, waiting for him. Also there were three girls.
“You must be Dave,” one of the girls came and offered her hand. She had blonde hair in a ponytail and was wearing a light blue sleeveless top and jeans. “I’m Tami, and this is Melissa,” she indicated the girl with long red hair, “and Mandy,” she gestured toward the third girl, with short dark hair, who was in jean shorts and a gray tee shirt.
Hunk interjected, “Tami and Melissa and Mandy are from Gamma Nu Tau. They’ll be doing the actual initiation.”
“Yeah, I’m Dave. I’m your victim.” Dave grinned. “So what are you going to do to me?”
“Well, first of all,” Tami took his arm and led him to a stuffed chair across the room, “I need you to take off your shoes and socks for me.”
“Okay,” Dave was puzzled. He sat down and reached down and took off his shoes and socks. The floor seemed a little cold under his bare feet. “Now what?
”
The three girls stood around him, smiling. “It’s okay, Dave,” Tami patted his shoulder. “We’re not going to hurt you.”
“We just want to get to know you better,” Melissa smiled at him.
“We don’t mean to make you uncomfortable,” Tami smiled. She held out her hand to him. “Why don’t you stand up?”
The feeling of the three girls standing over Dave had been an uncomfortable one. He stood up, and discovered he felt better. Tami put her hand on his arm.
“So, what year are you in?” she smiled.
“Sophomore,” Dave felt a little more comfortable answering these routine questions.
Mandy interjected, “Impressive! Most guys don’t get into Delta Iota Kappa until they’re juniors.”
Dave smiled. “Well, they invited me, and I really wanted to join.”
Tami was maneuvering Dave over into the middle of the room. “So what’s your major?”
“Math.”
Tami nodded. “How do you like it?”
“It’s okay, I guess. I wish they hadn’t scheduled some of the classes so early. I have one at 7:45. in the morning.”
“Ugh!” This from Mandi. “I’m not even awake then! How do you ever do it?”
“It’s hard.”
Tami put her hand on Dave’s back. “Okay, we need you to stand right there, just for a minute.”
Dave stopped. “Okay, now what?
Tami hesitated. “We, ah, need you to take off your shirt for just a minute.”
Mandi and Melissa giggled apologetically. Mandi asked, “Do you mind?”
“I mean, if you’re bashful . . .” This from Melissa.
Tami smiled, “It’ll be just for a few minutes.”
Dave hesitated, and then shrugged. “Okay, then.” He reached down and pulled off his sweatshirt. As he did so, he thought he heard a short inhalation of breath from Mandi. “There!” he said. “Now what?”
Melissa was looking at his bare chest. “We don’t mean to embarrass you, Dave.”
“It’s no big deal,” Dave responded, half-truthfully. To be honest, he did feel a little self-conscious, like they were staring at his body. “What do you want me to do now?”
Tami took his arm. “So, a math major? What are you going to do after you graduate?”
“Probably go into accounting. I’ve always liked working with numbers.”
Tami nodded. “A lot of math majors doing business math?”
“Actually, yes, probably about a third of the department.”
Melissa jumped in. “Do you have a girlfriend?”
“Yes,” Dave was a little taken aback by the change of topic.
“Another math student?”
“No, she’s majoring in music.”
“What’s her name?”
“Annie.”
“Annie? Do I know her?”
“You might,” Dave hesitated. “Annie Seeger. She’s about so tall, “Dave gestured with his hand, “ shoulder-length red hair, . . .”
“Oh, her!” Mandi jumped in. “Yeah, I know who you mean. Doesn’t she live over in one of the dorms?
“Yeah, in Wright Hall.” Dave nodded. “You know her?”
“Well, I don’t know her,” Mandi acknowledged, “but I’ve seen her around campus. And I think I’ve seen her with you.”
Tami interrupted. “Okay, then.” She turned to Hunk. “You--” she pointed to him “get going!”
Hunk looked dismayed. “I thought I was supposed to stay here. . . .”
“Nope.” Tami made a shooing motion with her hand, gesturing him toward the door. “You go do what you’re gonna do next.”
Without another word Hunk nodded and got up and exited out the door, flipping it shut behind him.
“And you—“ Tami came back over to Dave, “I need for you to put your hands behind your back for a minute.”
“Like this?” Dave held up his arms and reached back and laid his hands against the middle of his back, clasped together.
Immediately, he felt some kind of binding being passed around his wrists. They were being pulled tight. He tried to move his arms, but he couldn’t—they were tied behind his back.
Melissa swung in front of him. She had her cellphone out, and she held it up, aimed at Dave. She moved her finger, and Dave heard a soft “click.”
“Hey! What are you doing?” he protested.
“Just taking a picture,” Melissa grinned at him.
He felt Tami’s hand on his bare back. “It’s okay, Dave,” she rubbed her hand gently up and down his back. “We won’t hurt you.”
“We do have to blindfold you, though,” Mandy’s voice came from behind him. Almost immediately a cloth blindfold appeared in front of his eyes. As it tightened around his head he struggled to free his hands. He felt Tami’s hand on his bare shoulder.
“Easy, there, Dave! I told you, we’re not going to hurt you.”
“Get that thing off me!” Dave shouted. “Get that blindfold off me, and untie me right now!”
“Okay, pretty soon.” Tami’s voice was low and soothing. But Dave refused to be pacified.
“Not ‘pretty soon!’ Right now!” He heard his voice rising. “Right now! Ri____!”
As he opened his mouth, he felt something being stuffed into it, and a cord tied behind his head.
“It’s okay. It’s just a ball gag,” he heard Melissa’s voice.
“We can’t have you shouting and making all that noise, can we?” Tami’s hand was sliding gently up and down Dave’s bare back. “Now, it’s almost time to go.”
“Mmmmph! Mmmmmph!” Dave tried to talk but the ball gag stopped him.
He felt Tami’s hand move to his bare shoulder. “It’s okay, Dave. We’re not going to hurt you. We’re just going to take you for a little walk, that’s all.”
“We’ll steer you, so you don’t trip over anything,” Mandy added.
“Just one thing,” Melissa’s voice came from in front of him. “Before we go, we have to take off your jeans.”
“We’re going to walk you around campus in nothing but your little underpants.” Mandy added.
“Won’t you look cute!” As Melissa said this, Dave heard her stooping down in front of him. He tried to step away, but Tami’s hand held his shoulder in place. He felt Mandy’s hand on his back.
“Mmmmmmph!” he tried to protest, as he felt Melissa’s fingers slip under the button on his jeans and felt her knuckles wiggle against his navel as she deftly unbuttoned him. He heard the zzzzzzzzzzip! of his zipper, and felt the loosening of the waist of his jeans. He felt Melissa’s hands on his hips, then sliding down the outside of his thighs, pushing his jeans to the ground, as the air struck his bare legs.
“Ooooh! Look at that!” Mandy cooed. “He’s wearing his little tighty-whities!”
“He certainly looks well-hung,” Melissa observed.
As his jeans landed on the floor, he felt Melissa’s hand gripping his lower leg. Then he felt something around his ankle. It felt similar to the binding on his wrists. Then he felt another one around his other ankle.
Tami rubbed his shoulder, “That’s just to keep your ankles from getting too far apart. To keep you from running away from us.” She chuckled, “You can still walk.”
Dave suddenly realized how exposed he felt in front of these three girls. He heard them walking around him, obviously studying his bare body. Then he felt Tami’s hand against his back again, stroking up and down. Her voice sounded from next to him.
“Time to go for a little walk around campus, Dave.”
Mandy’s hand gripped his other arm. “We hope you won’t be too embarrassed, Dave,” she giggled, “of being shown in public with nothing on but those skimpy little underpants.” All the girls giggled.
“Mmmmmmph!” Dave tried to protest, but the ball gag muted him. He felt Mandy’s hand grip his arm tighter and try to lead him forward. He resisted, stiffening his feet on the floor.
“Aw, come on, Dave!” Melissa coaxed. “Now don’t make this hard. Don’t you want to let all the girls out there check out your body?”
“Grrrmmmmmmph!”
Suddenly he felt Tami’s hand leave his back. Then he felt a sharp SLAP! on his left buttock. It made him jump.
“Come on, Dave! Let’s go!” Another SLAP! Dave hesitantly started walking forward.
“That’s a nice little ass,” he heard Tami remark. “I hope he makes me do that a lot!”
He felt Tami’s hand on his bare back again. Another pair of hands took his right arm. He felt himself being led forward. Then he heard a door open. He was led through it, and could feel a light breeze. He was outside.
“Now, careful,” Tami’s voice came from near his left ear. “There’s two steps down.”
Dave felt carefully with his toe. He felt the front porch stairs and carefully stepped down them, all the time feeling hands on his arms and back. A couple of steps and he was at the bottom.
“Okay, Dave, you’re on the front sidewalk now. Just keep on going forward,” Mandy instructed. He felt Melissa’s hands gripping his upper arm as he walked, and felt Tami’s hand, still sliding gently up and down his bare back.
“See?” Mandy’s voice came from in front of him. “This isn’t so bad, is it? You’re outside, in your little underpants, and everything’s fine”
Suddenly Dave felt the palm of Tami’s other hand on his bare stomach. “Stop here,” she commanded. “We’re at the sidewalk by the street.”
At that moment, Dave heard the whoosh of a car passing in front of them. It sped by, then sounded like it was slowing down, then speeding up again.
“I think they were checking you out,” chortled Mandy.
Tami commanded “Turn right here. We’re going to walk up the street toward the Student Center.” Her hand slid up to the back of Dave’s neck. She guided him to the right, then straightened him out. As they started up the street, he felt her hand slide back down his bare back again, all the way down to the elastic of his underpants.
Suddenly “Whoo-eee!” came a hoot from across the street.
“Someone else checking out your body, Dave,” Melissa snickered. “They like you.”
“That’s ‘cause you look so cute, walking down the street in public, with nothing on but those skimpy little underpants,” gloated Mandy.
“I wonder what your little girlfriend Annie would think if she could see you right now? Walking up the street in nothing but those tiny little underpants?”
From somewhere in front of Dave came the sound of giggling females. As he walked they came closer. One of them said “Ooooh! Look at this!”
“He looks adorable!”
“Look at that little belly button!”
Mandy said, “Do you want to touch him?”
“Can we?”
“Sure.” Her hand gripped Dave’s arm, forcing him to stop.
Suddenly he felt a cold finger touching his bare chest. The finger moved around in a slow circle, then travelled tantalizingly down toward his belly. “This is nice! He’s such a cutie!”
Dave tried to step back, but Tami’s hand on his back held him in place.
The girl’s finger drifted down and touched Dave’s bare belly. “Look at this sweet little belly button!” Dave could feel her finger rubbing his navel, in a circular motion.
Another girl’s voice joined in. “It goes ‘round and ‘round.” She giggled.
“What’s his name?’ The first girl asked.
Mandy replied, “This is Dave.”
“Poor Dave! I bet he feels pretty embarrassed!” She giggled.
The finger stopped rubbing him. He felt Tami’s hand slide down his back to his butt cheek. “Let’s go, Dave.” He felt her fingers pinch his buttock.
They continued down the street. Dave thought, we should be coming to Chestnut Street pretty soon. He hoped they’d just go around the block.
“Stop,” ordered Mandy.
Dave guessed that they were at the intersection of Chestnut and High Streets. There was a light there, and it was obviously red, if they were waiting to cross.
He felt a whoosh! in front of him, as a car turned the corner. He heard an abrupt car horn “honk!”
Melissa’s voice said, “You’re pretty popular this morning, Dave!” She chuckled.
Tami’s hand prodded his butt cheek. “Green light,” she announced. “Watch the step down the curb.”
He stepped carefully ahead, allowing Tami’s hand on his back to guide him.
“Now a step up for the curb,” she cautioned. Dave stepped up.
Abruptly he heard a couple of girls giggle. They’d been on the sidewalk watching.
“Just keep walking,” Tami ordered.
Dave walked straight ahead. He figured, we should be in front of Scott Hall right now. He sensed that there was a large building on his right.
Suddenly there was the sound of a door opening and closing. He heard an “Ooooooh!” coming from the sidewalk in front of the building, then a “Hi, Dave!” and a female giggle.
He heard Tami ask, “Do you know him?”
“Sure,” said the newcomer, in a somewhat familiar voice. “This is Dave. He’s in one of my classes.” The voice stopped right in front of him. He felt a hand on his bare stomach. “Hey, Dave! Guess who!” She giggled and her hand rubbed his naked belly. “I’ll give you a clue—Dr. Padrilla’s English Lit class!”
Dave tried furiously to think about his English class.
“Right next to you on your left—long brown hair—glasses“
Now Dave remembered. What was her name? Linda? Glenda?
“Aw, Dave! It’s me, Wendi! Remember?” He felt her hand slide up his chest. Her finger slid up and touched his left nipple.
“Mmmmmmmph!” Dave felt himself backing off, but Tami’s hand on his back kept him firmly in place.
Wendi’s finger was making little circles on Dave’s nipple. It was making him tingle. “Does that tickle?” she cooed. “I think you like it when I do that to you.”
He heard Tami suppress a giggle.
Her finger ran down to his belly again. Then it went away. He heard her say, “I gotta get a picture of you, Dave.”
“Nmmmmmph! Nmmmmmmmmph!” Dave tried to move, but Tami was bracing her hand on the small of his back, and Mandy was gripping his right arm firmly. He heard a quiet “click” from Wendi’s camera.
“That’ll be a cute pic to show everyone!” She chuckled.
“Oh, wait!” A new female voice came from off to the left. She was running toward him. “Take one of me with him!”
“Hey, Wendi!” Tami called out. “Take one with Rachel in it!”
Dave heard footsteps running up to him. He heard Rachel’s voice, getting lower in front of him, and realized she was hunched down. He felt her hand on the inside of his bare thigh.
“Cute!” Wendi called from in front of Dave somewhere. He heard another “click.”
“I like these sexy legs!” Rachel purred, from down in front of him. He felt her hand sliding up and down the inside of his thigh. “I like all these little hairs on his legs.” Then she slid up, and Dave felt one of her fingers touching the crotch of his underpants. “I really like this part here.”
He heard all the girls giggle.
Rachel laughed. “I’m gonna tickle his pickle!”
Dave felt her finger slide up the front of his underpants and wiggle lightly up and down over his penis. He could feel his crotch starting to tingle.
“Ooooh, look! He likes it!”
“It’s getting bigger!”
Amid the tittering, Dave heard the “click” of Melissa’s camera.
He heard Wendi’s voice, “Hey, Dave! Does your little girlfriend know what’s happening to you?”
“His girlfriend? I didn’t know he had a girlfriend.” This from Rachel, who kept on tickling.
Melissa’s camera clicked again.
“Yeah. I’ve seen him around campus with that little Annie, from over in Wright Hall.”
“Well, I hope she’s not the jealous kind. I hope she won’t mind that I’m tickling his little boy thingee.” Rachel giggled.
“I hope not,” Melissa remarked. “I’m going to be posting some of these pictures on my website.”
Rachel ran her hand down Dave’s bare thigh. He heard her stand up and say, “Whoo! Now it looks like he’s got a rocket in his pocket”
All the girls laughed. “Poor Dave!” Mandy cooed. “He must feel so degraded! Being put on display like this in just these little underpants.” Dave felt her finger running along the edge of the elastic on his underpants.
Dave heard another female voice approaching. “Ooooooooh!” it cooed. “A BOY! With nothing on but his little tiny UNDIES!”
Dave felt Tami’s hand on his back, gently pushing him toward the newcomer. She asked, “Wanna see him?”
“Oooooh! Yes! I like seeing BOYS’ BODIES!” Dave heard a “slurp” and then felt a wet fingertip touching his nipple. It began going around in a circular motion.
“I like TOUCHING BOYS on their BARE NIPPLES,” the new voice said. “Whenever I TOUCH a BOY on his NIPPLE he has to get it NICE and PERKY, just for ME.” The finger kept caressing Dave’s nipple, then stopped. Just then a breeze blew past his body. He shivered as it blew across his moist skin.
“Oh, look at that nipple!” Mandy exclaimed. “It’s nice and pointy! And erect!”
The finger rubbed across his nipple again. He realized that it had gotten hard.
Wendi’s voice said, “I see something else that’s getting big and perky.”
“Oooh, yeah!” “Look at the size of that bazooka!”
All the girls laughed.
The new girl said, “I wanna LOOK!” and before Dave could back out of the way he felt her finger touch his belly and slide down inside his underpants. He felt the finger pulling the elastic out. ”Oooooh! CUTE!” she cooed. Dave felt a finger sliding though his pubic hair. “Oooh, look at all those little hairs! And look at that nice big weenie!”
Then Dave heard the click of Wendi’s camera, right in front of his belly. Wendi chortled, “I got a picture of Dave’s thingee!”
Everyone laughed.
“I’m gonna show this to my friends!” Wendi exulted.
Dave struggled, but he couldn’t move against the ropes holding his wrists together behind his back.
“Hey, Tami,” Dave heard Melissa’s voice.
A pause, then some whispering between the two girls. Tittering, then more whispering. Dave waited to hear the outcome.
“Dave,” Tami finally said, “we’re going to walk you over to the fence.”
Dave remembered that there was a cast iron fence, about four feet high, running in front of Scott Hall and the Union. He felt Tami’s hand on his bare back again, and felt Mandy’s hand take his arm. They guided him ahead about fifty feet, then stopped him and turned him around. He felt Tami’s hand on his bare belly, gently pushing him back. Then he felt the fence behind him, touching his bare thighs.
Melissa’s voice spoke. “We’re going to tie your legs to the fence, Dave. So you don’t get away.”
At that moment he felt hands from behind him reaching through the fence with cord, and passing it around the front of his thighs, down near his knees. He felt the cord draw tight, binding his legs to the fence posts. He tried to move his legs, but he couldn’t. He felt a hand sliding slowly up and down the inside of his thigh. He heard a voice from behind him, “Easy, does it, Dave. You can’t escape from us!” then several giggles.
He felt Tami’s hand on his bare belly. He felt her fingers slide down and under the elastic of his underpants. Her fingers moved teasingly back and forth under the elastic.
“You’ve gotten too big down there, Dave,” she said in his ear. “We’re going to have to remove your underpants and empty your penis.”
“Mmmmmmmph!!!” Dave struggled, to no avail. Inside the blindfold he could imagine all the girls standing around, waiting for his genitals to be bared for everyone to see. He could hear them tittering as they watched.
Tami continued, “Now, Melissa is just going to push down your underpants, so we can all see your penis.” As she spoke, Dave felt fingers slide under the elastic of his underpants on both hips. He felt them sliding down his sides, and felt the air striking his naked crotch. He heard the girls gasp and titter.
“Woo-hoo! Look at that PENIS!”
“It’s so BIG!”
“It looks like it’s gonna BURST!
“That penis is a WHOPPER!”
Dave struggled against the fencepost, to no avail.
“Hee-hee-hee! Look at him wiggle!”
“Look how his balls bounce around when he wiggles!”
He heard several soft “clicks” and knew that he was being photographed nude.
“Okay, then, Dave,” he heard Melissa’s voice. “Tami is going to rub your penis and make you squirt.”
At that moment he felt fingers gripping around his penis. The fingers began to stroke up and down, pulling and pushing, manipulating him. He felt his whole body start to tingle, and heard himself breathing harder. The girls continued to titter:
“Go, Dave!”
“Pump that penis for us, Dave!”
“Look at it! It’s getting bigger!”
Dave felt his penis swelling under the touch of Tami’s fingers. She increased her finger pressure a little. He felt himself starting to breathe harder.
“Come, on Dave! You have to squirt for me.” She squeezed a little more. “I want to see a nice big squirt”
He kept hearing girls’ voices tittering, and knew he was attracting an increasing audience.
“O – MY – GOD!”
“Hey! That’s Dave! From our English Lit class!”
“I always wondered what he looked like naked.”
“I like that body!”
“Looks like he’s being milked!’
“Yeah—right here in public! That must be so humiliating for him!”
“I bet he really feels degraded!”
“Poor Dave!”
“Look how big his thingee is!”
Click! Another picture of him, being taken.
“Look at that penis! It’s getting so big!”
Dave felt Tami’s other hand in the small of his back, bracing him, while her right hand stroked his penis, harder and harder.
“C’mon, Dave! Cum for us!” the spectators continued.
“We wanna see a nice big squirt!”
Dave felt another finger touching the bottom of his testicle, and heard a voice saying, “Look at these balls!”
“He’s well hung, that’s for sure!”
“Let’s go, Dave!” a voice said next to his right ear. “Show us a good hard squirt!” He felt a finger touching his left nipple, and begin to rub in a circular motion.
Suddenly Tami’s fingers shifted on his penis. She squeezed harder. Dave couldn’t take it any more. He felt the tingling and swelling in his penis becoming unbearable. All at once he exploded—his semen shot out of his penis like water out of a fire-hose.
“Whooee!” the girls cheered.
“There it is!”
“Nice squirt, Dave!”
“I got it on video!”
“What a squirt!”
Dave felt a cloth being wiped over the end of his penis, cleaning him off. “How far did that go?” Tami was asking.
“At least five feet!”
“It was more than that.”
“That was a big squirt! There was a lot!”
“It went all over the place!”
“Nice job, Dave!” Dave felt someone’s fingertips rubbing up and down his bare breast. He felt someone swat playfully at his limp penis, while someone else was untying his legs from the fence.
“I hope his girlfriend didn’t see that!”
“Does he have a girlfriend?”
“Yeah, little Annie Seeger, over in Wright Hall. I wonder if she’s around.”
“No,” Tami answered. “We’re keeping her busy right now, so she doesn’t see what we’re doing to Dave here.”
Dave felt fingers pulling his underpants back up over his private parts. He tried to say, “What do you mean, you’re keeping her busy?” but it just came out “Wmph mmmmph, mmmmm hmmmph mmmmmph?”
“Aww! That’s so cute! He’s trying to talk!”
Dave lurched, but the bindings around his wrists restricted his movement. He tried to step away from all the touching fingers, but his ankles were still roped together, so he could only move his legs very slowly. He felt a hand grasp his right arm, and another hand lower on his bare back.
“Okay, Dave. Time to go.”