Pt 4

Beth was pulled back to reality when her phone started to buzz. She had turned off the ringer so as not to disturb the tranquillity of the secluded woodland but left the vibrate function active in case anyone was trying to get hold of her. It took her a few moments to remember where her phone was as she had left it in the pocket of the over-shirt that she had taken off but, quickly enough, she found it and checked to see who was calling. To her surprise, it was Maddie!

“Hey Turkey-girl!” she answered the phone cheekily.

“Gobble Gobble!” Maddie replied with a giggle before asking in a slightly more serious, almost worried tone, “Hope I’m not interrupting anything?”

“Nah,” Beth assured her with a smile that carried audibly in her voice, “just reading and enjoying the sun. How are you doing? Settling in okay?”

“Yeah it’s so nice here!” the younger girl enthused, “But I have a favour to ask, if you don’t mind? I really don’t want to intrude on your personal time!”

“No worries,” Beth smiled again, “you know I’ve got those appointments on Wednesday and Friday, Wednesday evening my parents are taking me out to dinner as a, you know, a sort of goodbye party. I’m babysitting the twins on Thursday then staying over Friday but otherwise I’ve not got a whole lot of plans other than chilling and enjoying my books. Hey!” A thought occurred to her that made her laugh. “I guess that means I’m babysitting you too, huh? Not gonna give me too much hassle I hope?”

“Ha!” Maddie laughed, “Well I guess that depends what you say to my favour!”

“Go on?” Beth asked, intrigued. “Just remember you can’t eat me. Somebody’s already called dibs!”

“Well damn!” laughed Maddie, “There go my dinner plans! Oh well. Maybe instead you’d come shopping with me tomorrow? My… well, you know who, only let me bring like a handful of clothes. I think she wants to sell all my designer stuff. Not that I care much about it but, unless I’m gonna become a nudist for the next few months I’m going to need some more clothes.”

“Yeah that might be a little awkward!” Beth agreed with a chuckle.

“Well,” continued Maddie with obvious enthusiasm, “Mummy and Daddy have given me some allowance, I’ve never had that before! And said that I can go pick out my own new clothes but as I’ve never done that before, I was kinda hoping you’d come with me?”

Two things about this request from her new friend really struck Beth. The first was how quickly and enthusiastically she seemed to have taken to calling her adoptive parents, or new owners, depending on how you looked at it, “Mummy and Daddy”. She clearly already felt more loved on her first day as part of the Thomas family than she ever had in her life up to that point. It also made her sad that she had never been given an allowance or trusted to pick out her own clothes before. She supposed that her mother must have had such a tight control over everything to do with her life and body that she selected all her daughter’s outfits for her. Beth, who had been pretty much allowed to define her own look since she was five or six, was delighted to help Maddie get a taste of being a normal kid for once!

“Of course I’ll come!” She agreed happily. “I don’t suppose you have a bike, do you?”

“No,” Maddie conceded, “all the ones here are either too big or too small for me. They said they’ll get me once but I don’t think that will happen before tomorrow. Mummy says if you come over about eleven she can drive us into town and drop us off, would that be okay?”

“Sure!”Beth smiled again, already looking forward to the outing. “See you tomorrow!”

The sun was getting quite a lot warmer and the jeans Beth had decided to put on that morning were feeling too hot and restrictive. Making a mental note to wear shorts the next day, the teen listened carefully for a few moments to see if there were any signs of others near by then slipped her jeans off completely, followed by her vest and spent the next three hours or so finishing the book dressed in nothing but her bra and panties, which, as normal, did not match.

Once or twice she considered shedding the underwear too and enjoying the sun against her naked body but thought better of it. There was no law against it as such, she was a registered meat-girl after all, but she was still technically in a public place and didn’t want to attract the wrong kind of attention should anyone happen to pass by. These thoughts got her to wondering… Would she be expected to spend the whole party naked until it was time to start cooking or would she be allowed to wear some sort of light clothing? Just how far into the party would she be prepped and cooked? She hoped at least it would not be before the guests arrived and she would get a chance to meet the other children and their families who would be enjoying her meat.

Once she felt she had read enough, Beth pulled her jeans back on but didn’t bother with any top other than her bra. It was less revealing than some bikini tops after all and nobody would think much of it on such a very hot day. After shoving the unneeded clothing into her bag on top of the books, she rode her bike down towards the river where she took a little stroll before cycling home to spend some time with her parents.

The next morning, at the agreed-upon time, she biked over to the Thomas’s house, this time wearing denim shorts and a vest top – an outfit far more suited to what was apparently the hottest day of the year so far. Leaning her bike against the garden wall as she always did and adjusting her backpack on her shoulder, Beth walked up the garden path and rang the door bell.

“Oh, hello dear!” Mrs Thomas smiled warmly as she answered the door. “The others are in the garden. Do come through, we have a bit of a surprise for you!” Setting her backpack down on the bottom stair as she often did, Beth followed Mrs Thomas through the kitchen into the back garden where a fairly large inflatable pool had been set up on the patio. Maddie was playing in the refreshing water with the twins and, to her surprise, all three were completely nude! She noticed two soggy, brightly-coloured bundles on the ground which she recognised as the twins’ swimsuits.

“Oh!” Mrs Thomas laughed. “I’d almost forgotten. They wanted Maddie to go in the pool with them but she didn’t have a costume so I said if she didn’t mind then it was fine to go in with nothing on and then the twins insisted that if Maddie didn’t have to wear a swimsuit then neither did they so I ended up with a garden full of skinny-dippers!” Beth could not help but laugh but also felt happy seeing the relaxed and contented way her friend was playing with the smaller children, reminding her that, for all her sophistication, Maddie was not really all that much older than them and was probably experiencing for the very first time how it felt to be a child, part of a normal, loving family.

“Children!” Mrs Thomas called out, “We have a visitor!” The twins waved happily to their friend while Maddie climbed out of the pool and came to meet her, wringing the water out her long, dark hair as she crossed the patio. When she was close enough, she launched herself at Beth and gave her the tightest hug the teenager could ever remember receiving. She did not mind one bit about the pool water soaking the front of her clothes, it was so warm that she would be dry in no time. In fact, as she hugged the naked young girl back, she realised that she was already mostly dry herself.

“Don’t worry!” Mrs Thomas laughed, “That wasn’t the surprise! We thought you’d like to see this!” She pointed beyond the pool to something Beth had not noticed at first. It was some sort of long, fairly low structure covered over with tarpaulin.

“Oh this is so cool!” Maddie enthused, grabbing her hand and tugging so the older girl would follow her. “You have really got to see this! You’re gonna go nuts!” As she laughingly allowed herself to be led by the naked little girl who somehow already seemed a lot younger than she had upon their first meeting, now, Beth presumed, that she was free of the burden of her monstrous mother and free to be a proper little girl, the teenager noticed that the twins had made their way to the far side of the pool so that they would be close by to watch her reaction when whatever it was under the cover was revealed.

“Ta-da!” Maddie and Mrs Thomas each took hold of the tarpaulin and pulled it off in one swift motion revealing the mysterious object beneath. “Well?” Maddie asked, grinning broadly while she posed next to it like a magician’s assistant, minus the spangly leotard, “What do you think?”

Gasping in awe and delight, it took a few moments for Beth to find any words but the expression on her face left the family in no doubt that she was very pleased indeed with what she saw.

“It got delivered first thing this morning!” Maddie explained with gushing enthusiasm, “The man helped Daddy put it together before he went to work so that we could show it to you when you came over today!”

“We helped too!” Percy reminded her rather insistently, leaning over the side of the pool and reminding Beth quite a lot of the grumpy old men who sat in a box and insulted the Muppets during their show.

What had been revealed and what Beth was now looking at with wide, excited eyes, was a long, sharp spit mounted above a sort of trough where she supposed the coals were supposed to go and fixed at each end into mounts which looked as if they contained some sort of mechanism to turn it. It was thick, very sharp-looking and very shiny! Beth could not help but imagine herself mounted on it, turning slowly as he pale skin turned a delicious golden brown and, just as she had explained to the children on Saturday while they inspected her body, she could feel herself self-lubricating down below in anticipation!

“See?” Maddie grinned, delighted for her friend. “You’re getting your wish!”

“Wow!” Beth spoke finally, “It’s.. I don’t know how to… Thank you!” She swung around and gave Mrs Thomas a hug almost as tight as the one Maddie had given her. “It’s perfect! I know we hadn’t really discussed it but I’d been thinking about all the different ways you might cook me and this is really what I was hoping for!”

“We thought so from what you said on Saturday.” Mrs Thomas returned the hug and gave her an affectionate kiss on the top of her head. “I’m really glad you like it! Now,” she turned to Maddie and the twins, “you need to put clothes on if we’re going to drive into town. Don’t worry,” she assured the older girls, “we won’t be hanging around with you. I’m taking them to the soft-play centre and drop you two off on the way. We’ll be having lunch there,” she explained to Beth as the three naked youngsters ran inside to dry off and get dressed, relieved that Maddie would be able to help them a bit so she was free to chat to their guest, “do you think if I give you some money, you can find something for you and Maddie to eat? Whatever you fancy!” Before she could protest that they had already given her more than enough money, Mrs Thomas had thrust a note into her hand. Knowing that they could more than afford it, Beth decided to to complain and simply smiled as she put it carefully into her wallet.

“I’m sure I can!” she replied with a grin, thinking of something Maddie might enjoy now that she was free from her mother’s diet regime and has several months before there was even the possibility of her becoming meat herself. “I did want to ask you something.” She ventured, a little timidly.

“Oh, dear?” Mrs Thomas replied in a kind voice. “What’s that?”

“On Saturday, at the party,” Beth began, “do you need me to be naked the whole time or just when I’m being cooked?”

“Well it would be nice if people got to have a bit of a look at you before the cooking,” Mrs Thomas replied cautiously with a smile, “but you certainly don’t need to spend the whole time naked if you don’t want to. We just ask,” she continued, making it clear to Beth that this was a topic that had already been discussed in the planning stages and would have been brought up to her sooner or later if she had not done so herself, “that you don’t wear anything tight, with elastic or straps or anything that would leave marks on your skin. You want your meat to look perfect in the photographs, don’t you?” She smiled again. Beth had not really thought about there being photographs but it made perfect sense that there would be some.

“So if I can find something loose today while I’m out with Maddie,” Beth clarified, “it would be okay to wear it on Saturday? At the start anyway?”

“Of course!” Mrs Thomas smiled and hugged her again. “Ah!” She grinned as Maddie emerged at the patio doors, fully dressed with a slightly bedraggled but presentable twin holding each hand, “Here they are now! Time to go!”