Something in the Way You Move [O'J]

An Explanation

"You're gonna get it when they realize you're lying," Vicky tells me. She would know; they're her kids.

"Yeah, I know." At this point, Callie and David sneak downstairs and hide themselves among us. It's probably the best hiding place because we all look alike, even the in-laws. It's kind of strange. But since they are much smaller than us, they are spotted almost immediately when Elaine and John return. "Uncle Danny, you lied to us!"

I tilt my head to the side. "No, they went out the front door and must have come around. It wasn't a lie."

Callie and David swap looks, devilish grins spreading across their faces. "He's lying!" Callie says.

"Yeah, and we never went out the front door!" David adds. Elaine and John now have evil grins spreading across their faces.

"David, Callie, do us the favor of bringing him outside?" John asks.

"Outside? That's new," I comment as Callie and David grab my arms and force me to my feet. They may only be four feet tall, but they are very strong. Not that I'm resisting them, though. They lead me outside and John points to a massive target crudely painted on a trash can lid strung between two trees. They stand me in front of it and have me face the house, where I can see an assembly forming on the porch to watch me getting "it". Although I still don't know what this new "it" is.

"Tie his wrists to the tree trunks, guys, there should be rope there already! We'll be right back," Elaine instructs. They take my arms and tie them to the tree trunks tightly, preventing me from moving at all. I tug on the ropes experimentally, but they're not budging. I watch as John and Elaine come back, laden with buckets that are sloshing water around as they walk. They each drag a hose behind them, and when Elaine's hose runs out, John attaches his hose to the end of hers and continues dragging it up the hill towards me. After a minute, they stand about twenty feet away from me. They set everything down and pull out some slingshots.

"So...water balloons?" I ask from my post.

"More than that, but they are included!" they tell me. They reach into the buckets and pull out water balloons. They fit them to the slingshots and ask, "David, Callie, do you want to help?"

They look at each other, then at me, then at them, then back at me, then back at each other before saying, "We'd love to!" They run over to them and John gives his slingshot to Callie. He whispers in her ear for a few moments, with Callie nodding occasionally, and then steps away. She and Elaine both take aim---"You take top, I got bottom," Elaine tells Callie---and after a few seconds, they pull back their slingshots and send their water balloons flying towards me. Callie's hits me right at the top of my chest, causing water to spill down my shirt, while Elaine's hits me square in the stomach. I gasp and shiver violently. That water is so cold it makes hell feel like a winter wonderland! The boys take their spot and launch theirs, hitting me in almost the exact same spots.

They turn to the crowd of spectators---children and adults alike---and ask, "You guys wanna come have some fun? He's already tied up so he can't run away!" Oh God, they are going to freeze me with water balloons. They all run up to us and they all take turns, letting the children go first. Afterwards, my brothers go to start off the adults. They look at each other and Ian asks, "Crotch shots?"

"Crotch shots," Dara confirms. Aren't older brothers great? They play rock-paper-scissors to decide who goes first, since both wouldn't be able to hit me there at the same time. Dara wins and steps up to the plate, picking out the largest water balloon he can find. He holds it up for me to look at and asks, "Big enough for you?"

"A bit too big, if I'm completely honest!" I call back.

He laughs and yells, "Well too bad!" He aims and fires, hitting me bang on in the crotch. If my wrists weren't tied to the trees, I'd probably have doubled over and never straightened up to prevent it from ever happening again. I lean my head back and shiver violently several times. When I look back, I see Ian step up to the plate, holding an equally large, if not larger, water balloon for me to see. "Try this on for size!" he whoops as he fires, again hitting me bang on in the crotch. Again, I react in the extreme, and when I look up I see Vicky and Andrea are up to bat and I breathe a sigh of relief. Hopefully they won't go for crotch sho---I was wrong. I was very wrong. They both did it in succession, quickly followed by Mandy. Then the in-laws step up, but thankfully they aim for various parts of my body that are nonetheless sensitive.

Then, get this, my own mum steps up to plate. She turns and whispers something to Callie and David, whom run over to me. David pulls up my shirt and Callie covers my eyes. After a few agonizing and terrifying moments of waiting, I hear the twang of the slingshot and feel the balloon bursting on my naked stomach. I struggle and shiver and hear burdened footsteps coming my way. Seconds later, the buckets of water, now empty of water balloons and containing only the beyond-ice-cold water, are splashed right onto my stomach. I'm convinced my family brought me here solely for the purpose of testing out new forms of torture. I groan with relief once David and Callie let go of me and John says, "Oh, don't worry, Uncle Danny, there's more to come!" After he says this, I hear the familiar hiss of water running through the hose and past a thumb pressed over the opening. Then my head's drenched, since they avoided hitting me with water balloons there because that would hurt like hell. After a few minutes, they turn off the hose and I'm untied from the trees. Someone wraps a towel around me and Elaine and John guide me into the house, shivering and dripping water.

"Th-th-that was cr-cr-cr-cruel," I mumble through chattering teeth. "F-f-f-fine at f-f-first, but then cr-cr-cruel at th-th-the end."

"In all fairness, it was their idea to do crotch shots; we were just going for your belly and chest, really," Elaine says evenly.

I nod and we step inside the house. "Daniel, come with me," my mum says, following us inside. I follow her upstairs into my room. "Give me your clothes so I can put them in the dryer for you," she says.

"What, now?" I ask. She nods. "Umm, could you, you know, look away?"

"Oh for Pete's sake, Danny, it's not as if I haven't seen you naked before!"

"I know, but that was years ago when I wasn't...mature...physically mature, I mean." She rolls her eyes and faces the door. I take off my clothes and wrap the towel around my waist snugly. "Okay, I'm covered." She turns back to me and takes my clothes from me.

"I'll go put these in the dryer for you, Danny."

"Thanks, mum." I kiss her cheek and she pulls me into a hug. After a few seconds, I feel my towel start to slip and I mumble, "Mum...my towel's slipping..."

She lets me go and I adjust it quickly. "Go have a shower. By the time you're done dinner should be ready." She turns and walks out of the room. I pull some clothes out of my bag and go to have a hot shower. Half an hour later, I get out of the shower. I guess I lost track of time. I get dressed quickly and put on my glasses. I wander downstairs just as everyone is gathering for dinner. "Just take whatever you want and go," my mum tells us, thrusting plates into our hands. I notice the kids have already gotten their food and Callie seems to be fitting in well, talking and laughing with the rest of them. We get our food and sit at the table, catching up while eating.

After dinner is over, Dara nods pointedly over towards the kids and gives me a questioning look. I get up and walk over to the kids, putting a hand on Callie's shoulder. "If you'll excuse me, I've got to borrow Callie for a little while."

"Just bring her back, yeah?" David says. He thumps her playfully on the back and explains, "We're not done with her just yet, but you can borrow her."

"Do I even wanna know?"

"Nope," Callie tells me. "You really don't wanna know."

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So sorry for not updating in forever, but for now please enjoy this chapter of Danny getting harassed by his family!

School starts tomorrow, so I probably won't be updating so often. I'll try to update a few times over the weekend though :)