Chapter Three: Birthday Barbecue

The day of Sarah’s party finally arrived! As arranged, Cameron and Shelly, along with their mums, arrived just after breakfast to help with the preparation, all in normal clothes for now with their costumes in bags to change into later. Ed had met them at the door, explaining that Sarah was still in bed. With a sly smile, Linda suggested that she, Cameron’s mum Angela and Shelly get things started in the kitchen while Ed took Cameron up to help wake Sarah up so that she could shower and get ready, pointing out that there was no rush as the other guests would not start arriving for at least three hours.

It was no surprise to Cameron that Sarah had slept in her Daddy’s bed that night. In fact, they had made love four times during the night but Ed imagined his horny little girl might be in the mood for something a little wilder to kick off her final day.

“Go on!” he grinned, ushering Cameron into the room where Sarah lay on the bed, hair an adorable tangle and her tanned rump and one leg sticking out from under the sheet which she clutched but which barely covered her. “Wake her up like Sleeping Beauty!” Grinning, Cameron knelt on the bed and crawled across to his sleeping friend. First he kissed her on the cheek, a hand stroking her smooth, delicious rump. She moaned sleepily and squirmed a little, turning onto her back. He leaned in once more and kissed her on the lips. Now she awoke properly and put her arms around him, pulling him into a deeper kiss. Ed found something very erotic about the fact that his beautiful young daughter was completely naked while the boy she was kissing was fully dressed. It emphasised her beauty, vulnerability and the fact that she was meat.

“Daddy?” she asked, a little tentatively, over Cameron’s shoulder when she finally broke the kiss. “Would it be okay if…” She broke off, blushing. This struck Ed as a little unusual – he had never known his young daughter to be anything other than confident.

“You want Cameron to fuck you?” he asked sweetly. “Yes, of course that’s okay! I’ll leave you two alone.”

“No, wait!” she called after him as he turned to leave. Pausing with his hand on the door, he turned around and smiled. “Would you… Well, you’re two of most important people in the world to me, along with Auntie Linda and Shelly, do you think… Could you both fuck me? Together?” She looked up at him with hope, her big green eyes sparkling pleadingly.

“Oh, I see!” Ed chuckled, a little taken aback but not hating the idea. “Well, if Cameron’s up for that, then I would be too?” He turned to the young boy who had slipped off the bed, had already taken his t-shirt off and was in the process of unbuckling his belt. “I guess there’s my answer!” Cameron looked up and grinned a little sheepishly as he dropped his jeans and began tugging down his underpants.

Quickly, seeing that her friend was more than ready, Sarah got on all fours on the bed, presenting her glistening spit-hole to Cameron who knelt behind her and entered her, holding her hips, looking down at her rump and imagining how it would look and taste roasted in just a few hours. It was not long before Ed was just as naked as the children and, despite the activities of the night, standing to full attention. He stood on the soft carpet at the edge of the bed and Sarah took him in her mouth, bobbing back and forth with the rhythm of Cameron’s thrusts from behind. The mix of pleasure from being fucked, even by Cameron’s respectable but still child-sized willy, coupled with the delight she always felt at giving her Daddy pleasure this way made Sarah feel amazing! It was less than three minutes before she felt the first wave of orgasm. Not wanting it to end, she quickly turned around on the bed so that her Daddy could fuck her from behind while she sucked Cameron’s cock, thrilled to taste her own delicious cunt-honey on it as she did so.

As Cameron’s boy-cream gushed into her mouth and Ed came almost simultaneously in her tight cunt, she switched direction again, hoping correctly that the excitement and urgency of this being her final fuck, from humans at least, would be enough to keep them hard.

“Stick in in my ass this time!” She begged Cameron. “Please!” A little unsure about this but wanting to please his friend, the boy did as she asked. Although it did not self-lubricate like her other hole, the mix of cum and saliva on his cock, not to mention the glistening honey that had spread messily from her cunt, was more than enough to enable him to slide in while she greedily sucked the last drops of cum from her Daddy and licked him clean of her honey.

Switching for the final time, she took Cameron in her mouth once more, determined to make him cum a second time while Ed first squeezed his thick, full-sized cock into her oh so tight, pre-teen ass but, since it was the last time he would ever be able to do so, he pulled out when he felt close to cumming so that he could finish in her sweet cunt, the cunt that he would be eating before the end of the afternoon. With Cameron coming in her mouth once more, Sarah felt satisfied and the three collapsed on the bed in a tangle of sweaty limbs, pounding hearts and sticky bodily fluids.

Remembering that he was the parent with responsibilities in the situation, Ed was the first to extricate himself from the bundle on the bed. He took a quick shower in the en suite then dressed and charged Cameron with making sure that Sarah was clean enough to eat and told them to be downstairs within an hour.

Of course much of the physical preparation of the eager little piggy had taken place the day before. Sarah had consumed nothing but water, with the exception of Daddy-cream, since breakfast that morning and in the evening, she and Ed had giggled and had fun together as he smeared her delicious young body all over, from the neck downwards, with the pale blue gel which would remove any body-hair that she had. Although to the naked eye she had already appeared smooth and hairless, Ed had pointed own the soft, downy fuzz on her arms, legs and even a little down the middle of her back which would have spoiled the experience of her meat if left to burn off as it would not only have smelt bad but left her skin tasting bitter, meaning people would not enjoy the crispy treat as she hoped that they would.

The tingly sensation as she waited the required fifteen minutes, shifting her weight from foot to foot since she could not sit down, in the middle of the bathroom floor entirely naked apart from the pale blue film which covered her like a sticky second skin, had tickled, especially between her legs and around her ass hole, but the feeling of smoothness after she had rinsed it off in a hot shower had been amazing and made her feel more than ever like a piggy for eating rather than a girl.

Of course the real highlight had been setting up the spit in the back garden, something they had done together, with Sarah looking longingly at the sharp metal spike and taking pleasure in helping to dig out the coal-pit beneath and line the edge with stones, knowing that she would be roasting over it the next day. The other borrowed props and decorations, made for the school fair dance performance, gave the garden a real atmosphere of a cannibal village from a cartoon and Sarah was sure that her friends would want to take advantage of the various photo opportunities it provided.

The main set-piece provided slots for three stakes to be erected but, since there was only Sarah on the menu that day, they only set up one of them. At first Ed had started to set up the middle one but Sarah had pointed out that if they used the one off to the right, people could get a better look at the fake oven in the middle and cooking pot on top which included a special smoke effect so it would be seen to be steaming. They ended up driving the other two poles into the ground close by, in front of the hedge where she and Cameron had taken the invitation pictures, in case any of the guests wanted to pose with them while the primary one was occupied.

All the guests, delighted to receive the invitations with the deliciously provocative photographs of her on, had promised her that they understood the theme and would come either as explorers or cannibals to add to the atmosphere and Sarah was excited to see what kinds of costumes her friends and family would have come up with.

With everything ready, they had snuggled together on the sofa for their final evening together, watching the Sidney Roebuck biopic that they had never got around to at the party and then enjoyed a nice long, hot bath together, something they had both loved since Sarah was tiny, before going up to bed.

When Ed came down to the kitchen, he found the three ladies hard at work preparing salads, slicing bread rolls and mixing various fruit punches ready to put in the fridge for when the guests arrived.

“Don’t forget to put the sign out front,” Linda reminded him, “to tell people to use the side gate. We don’t want everyone traipsing through the house if we can avoid it!” She slapped her brother’s hand playfully as he reached for a piece of the cucumber she was chopping. “Don’t spoil your appetite!” she waved the tip of the knife at him but it was a playfully scolding gesture rather than one of aggression, the equivalent of wagging her finger but while she just happened to be holding a knife.

“Did Sarah have fun?” Shelly asked with a smile so innocent it was as if she were enquiring about a cinema trip rather than what had actually been going on upstairs as she put a jug of bright green punch into the fridge.

“She certainly seemed to!” he chuckled in response. “Of course the real fun comes later!”

“Mm.” Shelly nodded, thinking of her own upcoming roasting. “But of course spit-practice is an important part of the preparation for us piggies! Some of the boys from the big school have promised to come and help us before the fair.” she smiled happily. “Maybe Cameron can join in?”

“If you think Tamara will share him?” Ed laughed.

“Oh yeah!” giggled Shelly. “We all had a go on him at the party! She just insisted on going first and last!” Both the mum’s were silently chuckling as they listened to this conversation, remembering their own childhoods. Although Cameron’s mum was a little more conservative in her ideas about sex, especially when it came to between family members, she knew it was an important was of expressing love between young friends, especially those who were never going to grow up to have a family of their own.

For the first few years after cannibalism was legalised, age of consent laws had remained in place and were as strictly enforced as ever, although there were certain context exemptions since much of the inspection or prep of a meat-girl could be interpreted as sexual assault, and the provisions put in place to allow girls to be killed, cooked and eaten which in practice meant allowing them to surrender any and all human rights and instead be placed under existing livestock welfare statutes had the side-effect of negating laws around sex in relation to them so, while discouraged with many establishments such as Sidney’s having strict laws against their staff taking advantage of the girls, blind eyes were generally turned to family or close friends offering the meat-girls a good send-off.

Gradually, however, as the practice became more widespread and the fact that many girls now died before coming of age, and therefore missed out on a lot of life experiences entered public awareness, there were calls to governments around the world to relax or even remove these laws all together. Although it would have been political suicide to even suggest such a thing ten or fifteen years earlier, politicians and lawmakers quickly reached the conclusion, as some campaigners had been pointing out for years, that there were enough laws in place already against unwanted sexual contact and that an arbitrary age of consent was an outdated concept which removed bodily autonomy from the very people it had been said to protect.

And so, although it happened at a different rate in different countries, depending on their political climate and level of social conservatism, by the end of the second decade following Sidney’s world-changing victory, all age of consent laws world-wide had been scrapped, along with those criminalising incest and prostitution which were now seen as equally regressive and government interference in what should be a matter of private choice. At the same time, with the argued grey areas removed, laws against rape and sexual violence had become stronger making women and girls feels safer. While it was never eradicated entirely, due to human nature, incidences dwindled to a level unknown in recorded history. Legalised sex-work opened up income opportunities for young girls and women, helping to lift their families out of poverty and improve safety for both the workers and their clients, removing the criminal element which has caused much of the problems in the past. Also, with so many young prostitutes now available, and all people given the right to consent to sexual activity regardless of age, attacks and genuine sexual abuse of children became almost unknown.

Further societal benefits were improved sexual health now that there were no taboos or fears of mandatory reporting keeping people from discussing their sexual activities and partners with their doctor or other professionals, severe reduction of unwanted pregnancy now that sexual education and contraception advice were freely available, far fewer cases of anorexia, bulimia and other body-image related disorders now that children were able to grow up with seeing their peers and adults around them naked normalised, their exposure to naked bodies not limited to unrealistic pornography and models and overall improved happiness for everyone now that all were truly free to express themselves and their love.

There was a general improvement in policing and the justice system too now that police forces around the world were no longer bogged down with pursuing producers and consumers of pornography featuring children, which was now perfectly legal as long as it was produced within the boundaries of consent as now understood and investigating cases of supposed child sexual abuse where the alleged victim was perfectly happy with the situation until they were pressured into believing otherwise by authority figures, causing more harm than the activity had ever done in the first place. This left them free to focus on robberies, assaults and the rare actual sexual attacks, as well as white-collar crime, resulting in a happier and fairer society for all. Sidney had hoped to change her society’s eating habits but the results of her campaign had changed and improved the whole world!

Feeling that he was just in the way in the kitchen, Ed went out to the garden to fill the pit with charcoal and make sure that everything was properly set up. He had been out there about fifteen minutes when Sarah and Cameron emerged, accompanied by Shelly. Cameron, looking fresher and with wet hair, was back in his clothes but, unsurprisingly, Sarah was completely nude. She had decided that she would wear her long golden-blonde hair in a ponytail for the party, having it up in a bun to roast, but for now it was loose so that it would dry quicker in the warm, late-morning sun.

“Wow! It really looks great out here!” Cameron explained, taking it in for the first time. Grinning proudly and feeling a strong sense of ownership in the environment she had helped to set up, Sarah showed her best friend and sweet cousin around the garden, pointing out all the features and the places where they could pose for photographs if they wanted to.

“Mind if I do some now?” Shelly asked. “Since I’m going to be dressed as a cannibal, it wouldn’t make much sense to pose like their prisoner!” she explained with a giggle. Sarah quickly agreed and Shelly fished her phone out the pocket of her shorts, handing it to Cameron. Having tipped out the three bags of charcoal into the pit, Ed began to rake them even but was distracted for a moment by the sight of his niece or potentially younger daughter unceremoniously stripping naked.

She had spent the entire party nude, of course, if you didn’t count the hat and boots, and it was not as if Ed had failed to notice her or how attractive she was in that state, but since she had turned up like that, with the accessories, it was almost as if he had not seen her as properly naked, just wearing a Sidney Roebuck costume! Watching her take her clothes off, revealing the beautiful and delicious ten year old body they concealed, was somehow far more erotic, even with an already stark naked Sarah standing next to her, and he found himself wondering whether it was avuncular thing to do to offer to help her with her spit-practice which, after all, she had explained was very important!

Checking the time, Ed called Sarah over to where he stood beside the freshly-raked coals. She bounced over happily with Shelly scampering beside her and Cameron just behind. Ed couldn’t help wondering if the boy was walking behind the naked girls on purpose so as to get a good look at their shapely rumps! He knew it was exactly the sort of thing he’d have done at Cameron’s age and could not deny that he’d be tempted to do so now if the chance came up!

“Yes, Daddy?” the twelve year old meat-girl asked happily, tossing her hair and enjoying the feeling of the sun against her bare skin.

“I know you’re about to have a little photoshoot,” he smiled as the two naked girls, noticing that Cameron already seemed to be taking some pictures with Shelly’s phone from behind them, either that or looking through what she might already have on there, “but I thought you might light to watch me light the coals? They need time to burn down after all.”

“Oh yes!” Sarah practically squealed with excitement. “Can I do it, please?” Carefully, Ed lit a long taper from a box of matches and handed it to his daughter, explaining that she needed to slip it under and between some of the coals at intervals along the six foot pit. He was about to warn her to be careful through force of parental habit but he realised how silly that was, given what these coals were for and what was going to happen to her in a couple of hours. Instead he explained that, because of the lighter fluid the coals were soaked in, the flames might jump quite high at first and spread quickly, so if she wanted to look her best for the party and got greet the guests with her eyebrows singed off, she’d better lean back a little while she lit them.

Sarah followed his instructions and soon the orange flames were dancing across the surface of the bed of black charcoal. When it had all turned white, she knew, then it would be ready to roast her over.

“Thank you, Daddy!” She blew out the taper then flung her arms around his neck and kissed him passionately, her tongue exploring his mouth and entangling with his own. “We’re going to help Shelly take some pictures now, but we won’t take too long, I promise!”

“Don’t worry!” He smiled and ruffled her hair a little. “I’ll give you plenty of warning so you can change into your costumes before the guests arrive!” He smiled and could not help giving the lovely bare backsides a hungry and longing look as the three children scampered off, giggling.

As he watched while raking the coals, Ed wasn’t sure who was having more fun – the naked girls who were posing on various parts of the sets and displays or Cameron who was getting to photograph them! He was pretty sure that the sweet boy would be asking to be sent copies of the photos at the very least. Linda came out into the garden and wrapped her arms around her brother’s waist from behind, resting her head on his shoulder.

“They look so sweet, don’t they!” She smiled, looking at the two cute blondes, giggling as they pretended to be tied to poles before clambering up the steps to pose in the pot like the taste ingredients of a girl stew. “Delicious too!” she added with a chuckle.

“They certainly do!” Ed agreed, licking his lips a little. He was going to miss Sarah a lot, there was no doubt about that, but ever since she had told him how she wanted to celebrate her birthday, his desire to taste her tender, smokey, roasted meat had become almost overwhelming! And to know that Shelly was destined for the spit too and that he would likely get a taste of her equally tender and appetising young flesh was really the icing on the cake! “They really could be sisters, couldn’t they?” he observed, remarking upon their distinct physical similarity.

“Well you know they are?” Linda informed him softly. “Half-sisters, anyway. That night after Mike left, that’s when we made our sweet little piglet together!”

“Really?” Ed asked in surprise, his heart beating fast. He had always known it was a very real possibility, quite likely even, but he had never asked and Linda had never volunteered to tell. Shelly’s birth certificate listed his sister’s ex husband as the father but the man had never been in the sweet girl’s life. “Wow…”

“Yup!” his sister smiled sweetly as he turned around to hold her hands. “It’s true! I think we should tell them, now, before the others arrive.”

“You think that’s a good idea?” Ed was a little concerned what impact this news might have on the girls and he didn’t want anything to spoil Sarah’s special day.

“Of course!” Linda assured him. “They’re so close and love each other so much! I think they deserve to know. Sarah would want to before she cooks, I’m sure!”

“Well, you always did know best!” Ed chuckled. He set the rake aside and the pair went to sit on the garden bench. He called out to the children and all three happily scurried over. “Shelly, Sarah,” he smiled but sounded a little serious, “there’s something we need to tell you. Cameron, could you give us a minute, please? Maybe go help your mum in the kitchen?” With a silent nod, Cameron made himself scarce, still clutching Shelly’s phone. Ed reached out and took Shelly’s hand pulled her towards him a little then patted his leg, inviting her to sit on his knee. She did so happily and Sarah sat on her auntie, her arms around her neck and an expression of excited curiosity on her face. Ed put his arms around his ten year old daughter-niece’s warm belly.

“So,” Linda began, “this is some news we hope you’ll find exciting. It’s mostly about Shelly but it effects both of you and we wanted to tell you before Sarah cooks.” Both girls nodded, intrigued. Linda gave her brother an encouraging little nod which clearly meant “over to you”.

“Well, Shelly,” he smiled nervously, his heart beating very fast and heavy and not just because he had a sweet, naked little girl in his lap, “you’ve always known me as your uncle, right?” she nodded, looking a little puzzled, “And I am! I’m your Mummy’s brother after all. But I’m also your Daddy!”

“Right?” she nodded and continued to look at him expectantly as if waiting for more. “So what’s the news?”

“Um, I just told you I’m your father?” It was Ed’s turn to be puzzled.

“I know!” Shelly nodded again, deepening her questioning frown before suddenly bursting into a wide grin and giggling. “Oh! That was the news? You thought I didn’t know?”

“Well… I didn’t know until just now!” Ed admitted. “Not for sure, anyway!”

“Oh silly Uncle-Daddy!” She leaned forward and kissed him on the cheek. “Sarah and I have always known!” Ed turned in surprise to his older daughter who was giggling just as hard as her little sister-cousin.

“But how did you know?” Linda asked her sweet, naked niece. “I never told anyone. It was easier just to say she was Mike’s.”

“We’ve just always known we were sisters.” Sarah explained. “We’re so alike, and we all see how you and Daddy are together! We didn’t actually realise it was supposed to be some big secret, it was just one of those things that… just is!”

“Yeah! I always knew Uncle Ed was my Daddy and Sarah is my sister!” Shelly assured her mum. “But it’s nice that it’s all official now!” she grinned. Ed cuddled her close and gave her a gentle kiss. He had always loved her more than he thought probably normal for an uncle to love his niece, and now he understood why.

“Well unless you’re joining your big sister on the spit,” Ed chuckled, checking his watch, “you’d better go get your costume on!”

“Hmm, tempting!” giggled Shelly, “But then I’d be letting everyone down at the school fair! Sarah, you have a costume to put on too, right? For the start?”

“Oh yes!” Sarah hopped off her auntie’s lap. “Come on! Let’s go get Cameron and get changed so we’re ready to greet the other guests!”

“Well that was different from how I pictured it!” Ed laughed and shook his head as the naked, blonde sister-cousins ran off towards the house.

“I think they took it pretty well!” chuckled Linda. “Hope they weren’t disappointed that there wasn’t more new news after the build-up we’d given it?”

“I did get the impression they were patronising us a little at the end.” Ed shook his head again, still chuckling. “When they said it was nice to have it confirmed. I don’t think either of them ever had any doubt!”

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before.” Linda looked a little sad, or perhaps embarrassed. “But it seemed easier. After all, you had Sarah to look after and I didn’t want you to feel like you had to…” Ed put his finger to her lips and smiled.

“It’s okay!” he assured her. “I completely understand! I’m just happy you told me now! But come on!” he grinned. “We’ve got costumes to put on too!” Holding hands, they walked slowly into the house. They got changed in Ed’s bedroom and while he did sneak a few looks at his sister while she stripped off, there was not time for any funny business – they were the responsible parents too, after all, and had hosting duties to attend to! On their way in through the kitchen then had seen that Angela had also gone to change. When they came back down to the living room, everyone else was waiting for them and they were able to check out each other’s outfits.

The two mums had opted for the same outfit while Ed, like Cameron, had taken advantage of those left from the school fair dance, borrowed from the same place as Sarah’s explorer outfit. Ed was wearing a straw-coloured raffia grass skirt over a pair of black underpants. He wore one of the plastic bone necklaces and, over his shoulders, a sort of cape made from cheap leopard-print faux fur made from an old coat he had found in a charity shop. The mums both wore sarongs with tribal-looking print – Angela’s red and Linda’s green, over skimpy but still very respectable black bikinis, flower lays and a single flower in their hair. Ed thought they both looked sensational and was grateful for his first opportunity to admire Angela’s slim, toned, athletic body with olive skin like her son’s which practically glowed. He wondered what Cameron thought of the stunning mature women’s bodies, even if one of them was his mum!

Although he had been unsure and had changed his mind back and forth several times before coming downstairs, eventually coming to his conclusion after a lot of teasing from Sarah and promises that he would not be the only one, Cameron had opted not to wear any underwear under his straw-coloured grass-skirt. Around his neck he wore another of the plastic bone necklaces. Shelly was also nude under her grass-skirt which was similar to Cameron’s but a lighter shade. Like her mum, she wore a flower lay around her neck but no other type of top. She also had a garland of flowers around her head and smaller but similar bands around her wrists and ankles. Definitely more hula-dancer than savage cannibal but still very much in keeping with the theme!

Ironically, Ed was amused to observe, Sarah was, for the time being at least, the most modestly-dressed person in the room in her tan booty-shorts and matching sleeveless jacket, high socks, heavy boots and pith helmet. Her long, golden-blonde hair was now tied back in a loose pony-tail which hung down her back.

“Looks like everyone’s ready!” Ed grinned, surveying the little gang in their various states of attire. “Shall we go wait in the garden for the others?” Ed and the children trooped out through the kitchen while Angela and Linda took some jugs of punch out of the fridge for welcome drinks and followed close behind.

First to arrive was Tamara, dressed identically to Shelly which came as no surprise. She hugged her friend and Sarah but was, also unsurprisingly, most happy to see Cameron, jumping into his arms so that he held her under her all but bare behind while she put her hands either side of his face and kissed him deeply.

“Anyone would think she’s missed him!” Ed remarked to his sister with a chuckle as the olive-skinned beauty finally allowed him to put her down and she ran off with Shelly to check out the decorations. Other guests began to arrive, a mixture of family, family friends and Sarah’s school friends. They all greeted her happily when they arrived with lots of hugs, all dressed according to the official dress-code and, watching them arrive, Ed was very impressed with the ingenuity of some of the costumes. Most people had come as cannibals with some variation on cartoonish “savage” looks but there were a fair number of explorers too.

“Well howdy, y’all!” Sarah’s grandpa greeted her in an extremely over the top American accent. Ed and Linda walked over to greet their parents as they hugged their older granddaughter and kissed her on the cheeks.

“Gee! This party sure looks swell!” her grandma exclaimed in an accent every bit as fake and over the top as her husbands. Sarah looked at them and giggled. Both grandparents were dressed in loud Hawaiian shirts, knee-length shorts, sandals with socks, sun-hats and colourful sunglasses. Around their necks both wore comically over-sized plastic cameras.

“What are you dressed as?” Sarah asked, amused but puzzled.

“We’re tourists on the cannibal island come to see their traditional ways, y’all!” her grandma explained.

“I knew you two would come up with something awesome!” Ed grinned, hugging his parents.

“Well it’s a special occasion after all!” his dad reminded him. “It’s not every day we get to eat our delicious young granddaughter!” After more hugs were exchanged with Linda and Shelly who had come over to say hello, they took their welcome drinks and went to mingle with the other guests.

Becky arrived next, dressed as an explorer in cargo-shorts and a sports-bra with a pith helmet and a compass on a cord around her neck. Next was Becky dressed similarly to Shelly and Tamara but with bikini bottoms under her grass-skirt and a bra made from coconut shells. Sarah was happily greeting and chatting to her friends when they were startled by a yelps of alarm and a bizarre-looking figure bursts into the garden, wielding a toy chain-saw, waving it around above their head. Whoever it was wore a grotesque mask made of rubber but designed to look like tanned human skin, a stained shirt and cut-off, ragged-ended trousers and a stained brown leather apron. A mix of black soot, mud and artificial blood was smeared all over them.

“Hey!” Kim beamed at Sarah, pulling off her mask. “What do you think?” She brandished the chainsaw teasingly. “It’s my little brother’s!” she explained with a giggle. “I saw it in his room and it gave me the idea for the costume!” She giggled even harder at the look of confusion on Sarah’s face. “Well you did say to come as cannibals, right? I’m the guy from that movie we watched at your party!”

“Oooh I see!” Sarah laughed. “What a brilliant idea! You look amazing! I just hope you’re not as messy an eater as he was!” she stuck her tongue out at her pretty friend who giggled, pulled down her mask and began to chase some of the other young guests with her plastic chainsaw. The running, giggling and screaming all stopped in an instant, however, when Helen arrived and the other guests saw her costume!