Peace In The House

by Karen Singer

 

Chapter 2: New Dawn, New Day, New Life

 

The next morning, Kate woke the two teenagers up early for breakfast. Neither one of them said a word as Kate placed bowls of cereal in front of them. "I've been beside myself trying to figure out what to do with you two all night," Kate finally said to them. "The two of you argue like cats and dogs constantly, and I'm sick of it! Sally, I put John in charge and just because you didn't like it was no reason to feel the way you did. That was my decision to make, not yours. And John, being in charge doesn't mean that you can give orders. It means that you're supposed to be the responsible one and look out for everyone else.

"The fact that you stole Sally's earrings and sold them to buy drugs shows me that you can't be trusted anymore. You'll never know how disappointed I am in you for that. So I'm afraid that you're both going to get punished severely. And John, I have a feeling that your punishment will be much worse than your sister's. I have to work to earn the money we need to live on, so I can't be here all day for you two.

"So here's the new rules. First of all, John, since I can't trust you now, Sally is in charge while I'm at work, not you. Sally was at least completely honest with me and told me everything she had done. Beating you up was totally wrong even though you tired to hit her, but she did the right thing when she told me all about it. Secondly, since you stole her earrings and used the money to buy drugs, I'm going to let her punish you. For the rest of the entire summer, you are to do 'anything' she tells you to do, and knowing her, I'm sure she can get pretty mean.

"And Sally, for your punishment, you will be in charge of your brother for the entire summer. I don't care what you do to him as long as it doesn't cause him any bodily harm. But you are to make darn sure he never hangs out with those friends of his again and never ever has a chance to get his hands on any drugs again! You said you could control him and that you wanted to be in charge, well now you've got your chance. But know this, it's for the entire summer, and from this point on, where you go, he goes. You are not to leave this house unless he is with you. Your brother is in 'your' care and 'you' are responsible for him!

"Now I have to go to work. Please don't make me get mad at you again when I get home." With that, she kissed them both goodbye and headed out the door. She was filled with guilt and apprehension over the situation she had just left behind.

Sally and John just stared at each other while they finished their breakfast. "I'll never forgive you for stealing the earrings Daddy gave me," Sally said at last.

John just hung his head. What could he say? He had a feeling it was going to be a long summer.

When they had both finished eating, Sally told John to go and get washed up. She would clean up the kitchen.

John had just come out of the shower and was about to get dressed when Sally came into his room and threw something at him. "I think that for now, I'm going to pick up where we left off yesterday," she said. "Put that on! I don't want you wearing any pants again today."

John looked at the clothes that had landed on the floor in front of him. There was one of her dresses and a pair of her panties.

"Do I have to?" he asked. "Isn't this a little ridiculous?" he added.

"Do you want another beating?" Sally answered him. "I'm sure I'll probably give you one later, but right now, I might really hurt you. I said put them on!" And with that she left to get herself dressed.

John was still in his room when Sally came back in a little while later. Sally saw that he had put the dress on, but hadn't been able to zip it up completely in back. "Turn around and let me help you," she ordered him. Sally finished zipping him up then lifted the back of his skirt. "Lets see the panties," she said. Her thin nylon panties actually looked pretty good on his backside. "They look good on you. Now stand back and let me see how the dress looks on you."

John took a few steps back. His face turned red with embarrassment as he stood there modeling his sister's dress, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by Sally. "It's a bit tight on you," Sally said, "but it'll do for now. I think that maybe tomorrow we should add a bra." John just rolled his eyes. "Come on downstairs now," Sally said to him, "you can help me clean the house."

Sally told John to dust the furniture while she vacuumed the carpets. John had just started when the phone rang and Sally answered it. He could hear her talking to Megan, her friend from just a few houses down the street. "Hi Meg…no, I don't think it would be a good idea for me to go there today, but you could come here…I'll explain when you get here…OK, bye."

John was suddenly very concerned. "You didn't invite her over here did you?" he asked.

"Of course I did," Sally answered.

"Well, let me change then," John said.

"Absolutely not!" Sally said to him. "You're staying just as you are! I'm not sure what I'm going to do with you all summer, but for now, you're staying in that dress. If people come over and see you, then that's just too bad for you. Now get back to work!"

John reluctantly got back to his dusting. He was suddenly very concerned. He didn't want anyone seeing him like this.

A few minutes later, there was a knock at the door and Sally let Megan in. John had wanted to hide, but Sally made sure that he stayed right in the room where he was and continued dusting.

"What's going on?" Megan asked as soon as she saw John. Her eyes were practically popping out of her head.

"Sit down and I'll tell you all about it," said Sally. Sally and Megan sat on the couch and talked while John worked. Sally made sure to tell Megan the whole story so that she knew everything.

"So it's for the whole summer?" Megan asked.

"Yeah, I'm stuck with him," Sally answered her. I can't leave the house without him.

"Bummer," said Megan. "I hope you're going to make his life totally miserable.

"I plan to" said Sally, "but I'm not really sure what all I'm going to do yet. I guess I'll just have to see what comes to me."

"I like the dress idea," said Megan.

"Yeah," said Sally, "I'm thinking of keeping him in one all summer. Let him know he's not the man of the house around here anymore." Megan laughed.

Megan and Sally sat and talked all morning while John finished dusting and then vacuumed the carpets before he was allowed to watch TV. At lunchtime, Sally and Megan went into the kitchen to fix lunch. "I liked your idea of feeding him the pureed baby food," said Megan. "Maybe you should do it again. I'd love to see that."

"Sure" said Sally, "that's a good idea. We have lots of leftovers from last night's supper, so I'll just fix up some of the vegetables that way. Here, you heat this up for us, while I put his lunch into the blender." Sally pureed some carrots and lima beans together, then added a little bit of pot roast to the mixture for John's lunch. The resulting mess looked awful.

"Yuck!" said Megan when she saw it. "You're going to make him eat that?"

"I sure am," Sally answered.

"Good," Megan replied. "This should be funny."

"I think I'll feed him first," said Sally, "so we can get this over with."

When John walked into the kitchen for lunch, he immediately asked, "What's that?" when he saw the bowl Sally had in her hands.

"Your lunch," said Sally.

"I'm not going to eat that," said John.

"Oh yes you are!" said Sally putting the bowl on the table.

"No, that looks disgusting," said John.

Sally didn't waste even a second. In a flash, she was on top of him, grabbing several fingers of his left hand, and twisting the hand into a very unnatural and painful position. John immediately went to his knees in pain. "Aww! Stop! You're hurting me," he screamed.

"One thing you're going to learn very quickly," said Sally, "is that when I tell you to do something, you do it right away. You don't say no, or ask questions. You just do it! Now stand up."

Sally pulled upward a little on John's arm and still keeping the pressure on John's hand, marched him over toward the table. Then Sally sat down in one of the chairs and made John lay across her lap again. "This is just to help you to remember your place around here and to do what you're told," she said to him. Then she lifted his skirt in back and started spanking his panty covered bottom. John was crying even before she started, but when the first blow landed, he really wailed like a baby.

Megan couldn't believe what she was seeing. She stood transfixed and just watched the whole scene as Sally's hand came down hard over and over again on John's backside.

John couldn't do anything except lay across her lap screaming and crying like a baby.

Finally Sally stopped and allowed John to get up. His face was beet red and completely wet from his tears. "Now sit down!" Sally ordered him. She then started to spoon-feed him the mashed up lunch. John was still crying so much that once again the food was going all over his face.

Megan laughed and said, "I think he needs a bib."

"Good idea," said Sally. "Why don't you tie that dish towel around his neck for now. I don't want my dress that he's wearing to get ruined."

When Sally had finally finished feeding John his lunch, she ordered him to stand in the corner again while she and Megan ate. John was still crying as he pressed his body into the corner.

"Wow, what a sissy baby he is," said Megan. "I can't believe he was crying even before you spanked him."

"Yeah," said Sally "he certainly doesn't look like much of a man now, does he?" As Sally and Megan ate their lunch, they could plainly hear John's sobbing in the corner. "Hey baby," said Sally to him suddenly. "Put your thumb in your mouth and suck on it. Maybe we won't have to listen to you so much then."

John slowly brought his thumb up to his mouth and started to suck on it. He really didn't have much of a choice. While his crying could still be heard, it wasn't nearly as loud anymore.

"Much better," said Sally. Megan's eyes were once again popping out of her head.

After lunch was over and Sally and Megan had cleaned up the kitchen, John was finally allowed to come out of the corner. As he started to take his hand away from his mouth, Sally suddenly said, "Leave it! I like it there. It makes you look more like the big baby that you are. You can suck on that thumb until I decide otherwise."

As they went back into the den, Megan said teasingly to John, "I like that dress on you. It really suits you since you're such a big sissy."

John didn't say anything. His face just turned redder as he stood there sucking his thumb.

"Say thank you to Megan," Sally said to him, "she just paid you a complement. It's not polite to say nothing.

John let out a muffled "Thank you," through the thumb in his mouth.

"Take your thumb out of your mouth when you say it and say it nicely.

John took his thumb out of his mouth and said a very plain "Thank you."

"Now put your thumb back in your mouth again," said Sally.

"I think that since he's wearing a dress like a big sissy, he should curtsey when he says it," said Megan giggling, "and he should say it with a little more feeling."

Sally smiled as she looked wonderingly at her friend. Megan was starting to get into the spirit of the game.

"That's a great idea," Sally said to her. "Curtsey for us when you say thank you," she ordered John. Sally and Megan just sat staring at John waiting for him to do something. "Well, we're waiting" Sally said to him. "Do you need another spanking?"

John again took his thumb out of his mouth, awkwardly tried to do a little curtsey and said "Thank you," a little bit better this time. Then he stood looking at them with a pleading look in his eyes as he put his thumb back in his mouth.

"That was terrible," said Megan."

"It sure was," said Sally, "I think he needs some lessons."

Megan and Sally spent the rest of the afternoon teaching John how to curtsey and say thank you just the way they wanted him to, like a big sissy. They made him practice over and over again making sure he would do it right.

When Kate finally got home that night, Sally and John were working in the kitchen together like two old friends. They had prepared dinner together and the table was all set and waiting. Kate walked in the door and couldn't help but notice how much better the atmosphere in the house was than the previous evening. She had been afraid all day of what she might come home to. "Hi you two," she said to them, "how did it go today?"

"Pretty well," Sally answered her. Kate stared at John in Sally's dress trying to find something to say without laughing. "That dress looks real cute on you," she finally said at last.

John just looked at the floor, too embarrassed to say anything.

"John," Sally said to him, "Mom just paid you a complement. Thank her for it!"

Kate was absolutely flabbergasted as she watched her son do a very pretty curtsey and tell her thank you for the complement. She couldn't contain her laughter any longer. "I love it, I absolutely love it," she said. She went over and gave them both a hug and a kiss and said, "It's so good to see you two working together. And I'm also very pleased to see that dinner is ready. Let me go and freshen up a bit and I'll be right back so we can eat.

When Kate came back into the kitchen, she said, "I see you two cleaned up the house, that's another nice surprise."

"Thank John," said Sally, "he did it while Megan and I were talking."

"Well thank you John," Kate said directly to him. John immediately did his curtsey and thank-you routine as he had been taught which surprised Kate again. All she could think to say was, "I love it!"

During dinner Kate told them about her new job and Sally told her about how their day went. By the time dinner was over, Kate found something else to be thankful for although she didn't mention it. It was one of the most pleasant meals she had enjoyed at home in a long time. There was absolutely no arguing or fighting of any kind between her two kids.

 

That evening they all watched TV together until 8:00 when Sally suddenly told John that it was time to get ready for bed.

"But it's only 8:00," John complained.

"Are you going to argue with me?" Sally threatened.

"No, I'm sorry," John said resignedly as he got up to go to bed.

"You don't have to go to bed just yet," Sally said to him as she followed him, "I just want you to get ready."

"Now what?" John thought to himself.

Upstairs, Sally took John into her room instead of sending him to his. There, she helped him get his dress off, then made him put on one of her frilliest nightgowns. John was obviously not too pleased, but he never said a word. "Now you can go back down and watch TV again for another half hour," Sally said to him.

When they got back to the den, Kate looked at her son in the nightgown and said, "Well don't you look pretty." John, not quite sure weather he should or not, dropped into a curtsey and said "Thank you," again. This time Kate just smiled.

 

At 8:30, John was sent to bed for the night and Sally sat talking to her mother. "I must say, you're really making him toe the line," Kate said to Sally. "I was a little surprised to see him in a dress tonight, but when he curtseyed and said 'thank you' to me, I almost hit the floor. I figured you'd come up with a good way to punish him."

"That's probably just the start," said Sally. "I'm not really sure what all I'm going to do with him yet, but I'm seriously thinking of turning him into the biggest sissy I possibly can. I don't think his old friends will want much to do with him then do you?"

"No, I don't think they'll want to go anywhere near him," Kate said.

"Mom, I know you haven't been paid yet, but is there any chance you could buy me something for John?" Sally asked her.

"What's that?" Kate asked.

"Well," Sally started, "John seems to be very embarrassed about being made to wear my clothes, but he's even more embarrassed when we treat him like a baby. I want to do a little more along that line. Is there any way you could buy a package of diapers for him tonight?"

"Diapers!" Kate said surprised. "My God!" Then she thought for a minute and said laughingly, "Ok, but don't ask me to change him! Is there anything else you want?"

"Well," Sally said, "if you think of anything else to go along with the diapers, it would be great. Oh, and a bib might be nice. Thanks Mom, you're the best!" Sally said to her as she excitedly planted a quick kiss on her cheek.

Kate returned from the store a little while later and she handed over a large bag to Sally. "I managed to find a few things you might be able to use."

Sally opened the bag and started to remove the contents. First she pulled out a large bib that had little yellow ducks on it. "Oh, it's perfect!" said Sally reaching back into the bag. The next item was a package of baby wipes.

"I wasn't sure if you were going to make him use the diapers or not, but I thought I better buy some just in case," Kate said to her.

Sally also pulled out a pacifier, some baby powder, and then much to her surprise, two plastic baby bottles, a baby dish for his food, and a rubber coated baby spoon to eat with. Sally laughed in delight. "I just know he'll love them," she said to her mother. The last item in the bag was a large bag of adult disposable diapers. "Perfect!" Sally said looking at her mother with a sly grin on her face. "I think John is going to be in for a big surprise tomorrow!"

  

  

  

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