Peter was blonde and my age and had an older brother who was a bruiser. \u00a0We rode our bikes through sun showers and stomped through pine needles at sunset and played with Transformer action figures in his room when it was too hot outside. \u00a0We never had the audacity to kiss, but it didn’t matter as we were 10.<\/p>\n

One time, I remember his mother called him in from outside. \u00a0He did not come back out. \u00a0She’d punished him with a belt.\u00a0He had to lean himself over the living room couch with his brother next to him, and they both took the beatings. \u00a0That time it was especially brutal and also he was grounded for a week. \u00a0He could not come to the door, he could not go outside.<\/p>\n

I needed to know exactly what happened and why… \u00a0 The ritual of it was what I wanted to extract. How was this time different than the others? \u00a0How was it more harsh? How painful was it, exactly? \u00a0I played with the idea of asking to see his bruises but didn’t dare. \u00a0The complete and utter cruelty! How could it happen? \u00a0I obsessed over it, thinking at the time it was because he was my friend and I was concerned.<\/p>\n

I now know of course that I was titillated.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what he did to warrant such a beating and don’t remember his last name. \u00a0I know she was a single mother and a nurse, with two unruly boys on the brink of serious teenage-hood. \u00a0It was one summer and I never saw him again because they moved away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Peter was blonde and my age and had an older brother who was a bruiser. \u00a0We rode our bikes through sun showers and stomped through pine needles at sunset and played with Transformer action figures in his room when it was too hot outside. \u00a0We never had the audacity to kiss, but it didn’t matter as we were 10. One time, I remember his mother called him in from outside. \u00a0He did not come back out. \u00a0She’d punished him with a belt.\u00a0He had to lean himself over the living room couch with his brother next to him, and they both…<\/p>\n","category_list":"Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Mistress Veronica","url":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/author\/mistress-veronica\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mistressveronicanyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}