The end of the beginning

The world hadn't actually frozen to a hault, though the stillness of both Henry and Madison could have fooled Father-Time himself.

Alice could see everything clearly, especially Madison's unmoving face, which currently held an expression made up of a whirlwind of emotions too complicated to summarize with a simple word. With every wrinkle in her squint and fine hair of her brow, in every solidified choice of emotion that Madison had plastered onto her face, it was clear to Alice that the bells currently ringing in Madison's mind were the type that could never be un-rung.

As Madison stood still like the worlds sexiest pissed off cheer-girl statue, staring at Henry's super tiny dick, so many new truths were flashing into her permanent memory.

Ding.

Ding!

DING!

DING!!!!!

Henry could see the warped stone face of his stepsister as well, and too much was clear to him in that moment. He felt like he could read everything she was thinking right then and there, just from her expression...starting with her eyes.

Madison eyes were somehow both wide open, yet her forehead was still furled and plunging forward, as her eyebrows came to a peak in the center and each sloped downward towards her ears. It were as if she were trying to focus on something specific while at the the same time taking in the whole scene. So much was obvious by the way she held her eyes.

Madison was staring at the smallest dick she'd ever seen. She almost didn't blink as she observed as much detail as she could as quickly as she could. Seeing the warm sun-kissed sky as a backdrop behind the completely dry body of her dorky stepbrother instantly made it clear that there was no excuse, no unusual circumstance that could have resulted in a dick that small. No, he had a very tiny dick, and there was no mistaking it.

Henry observed that her jaw was slightly open, stuck in a position of awe, as the wheels in her mind could be seen registering the surprise and logging the new information as fact.

Her mouth was barely open but the edges of her cute lips could be seen bending just enough to make her future intentions obvious. Had her smirk been tapered down, Henry would have considered it a sign of pitty. Likewise, if the edges of her slight grin were evenly split to the sides, she would at least be neutral to his plight. Unfortunately, the soft creases on the outermost edges of her open-mouthed smirk were pointed ever so slightly up.

Alice knew immediately that this meant Madison was not going to be pittying or neutral, but instead teasing. It was as good as in stone. From now til forever Madison was going to be teasing her brother about his little dick.

The only question left was, would Madison be cool about it. When she sees Henry in the future would she be discreet and hushed in her teasing, would she correct herself if someone overheard her and pretend her tease was a mistake, or would she be loud and proud and relentless, despite whomever was around.

The truth is Madison would be content with the former. She was only a bitch in passing, like most girls her age, and she wasn't inclined to humiliate Henry in a big way. She would likely only tease him in hushed small ways moving forward, but it would absolutely be forever.

"Henry what the fuck", Madison said softly.

Though she wasn't particularly loud, and she doubted Henry could hear her, he did quickly drop to his feet and throw his hands over his stupid dick.

"Don't look, cut it out. Look away!", he whined.

"Omg, I can't beleieve that little guy is real", she said, still somewhat low and unsure if he could even hear her. Though she certainly could hear him.

"Come on, knock it off! Look away. This isn't fair!"

"Oh shut up. I'm not doing anything", she mumbled as she made her way closer to the glass.

"Come on, let me in already", he complained.

She tried to open the door and found that it was locked.

"Oh, what the hell, dude?", she said as she grew somewhat annoyed at this situation herself.

"Get the key", he screeched.

Watching her naked stepbrother standing with his hands clamped tightly over what she already saw was a tiny package made her giggle slightly, and she couldn't help but start teasing him already.

Madison shrugged and squinted, as if she couldn't hear him. So he shouted again.

"Get the key!"

She agained feigned deafness and shrugged, causing Henry to unwittingly remove both of his hands from their shielding perch to instead mime opening a drawer and taking out a key.

She could see his little dick much closer than she could before and she immediately measured it up again. So fucking small, she thought, before laughing at him and opening the nearby drawer. She checked the drawer and shook her head.

"No key", she casually informed him as she chuckled at the absurdity of the situation. He saw her chuckling like this was all a joke and thus misread her demeanor as her simply indulging in this prank which she likely arranged. Henry's incorrect assesment and undue annoyance began to show in his attitude.

"Stop fucking around and let me in you bitch!", he shouted.

Typically, when either sibling called the other a swear name it was a clear signal of desperation and seriousness. Usually they would take that as a sign that it was time to capitulate to the other's request. However, because Madison had just spent several minutes roaming the apartment and reconditioning her mind to accept that Henry was just an immature twerp, hearing him call her a bitch when it was actually his fault that he was out there in the first place hit her in a way that she just wouldn't abide. To her, he was seeming more and more like the punks she used to babysit after school. Seeing him standing their with his tiny dick hanging out was going to make it impossible for her to think of him as anything else.

She wanted to say, What did you just call me, you little dick punk who throws his dirty underwear around the minute my mom isn't hear to crack a whip on your behind.

Instead, she tapped into her years of babysitting practice and managed to keep her composure.

"What did you just call me, young man?"

Henry was still under the impression that Madison wasn't helping him because she was somehow partly behind this prank, and he was reluctant to jump into playing along with her silly game. So for the time being he stuck to begging.

"This isn't funny, look away, this is SO not fair!!"

"What's not fair?", she asked with a soft giggle.

Madison didn't know why he kept talking about fairness, she didn't have anything to do with this. And why is being so whiny?

"Come on, give me the key! Please! This is so stupid", he shouted again.

"It's not here, dingus. What to do you want from me", she asked irritated.

"Look again, Maddy, damn".

She was growing more reluctant to give him a hand by the minute, as he was appearing to her more and more like a little bitch who got himself stuck and now won't stop complaining like it's her fault.

She looked in the drawer and moved junk around, again she found no key.

"You like playing games with me?", she asked annoyed.

Henry, completly misreading the intentions of her question, thought to himself that she was still teasing him. Playing games, what did that mean? How does she want him to answer. He could say yes and seemingly make her happy, but then again he doesn't want to encourage her to make this situation any bigger than it is (as in, no picutres!!). He decided to answer her carefully, the way he thought would appease her, along with his own clever stipulation.

"Yes, Madison, I love playing games with you, BUT ONLY YOU!", he said while rolling his eyes and speaking in a slow annoyed voice.

There, now are you happy, he thought. Madison rolled her own eyes, misinterpreting his gestures and statement as being those of a brat who truly was toying with her.

Alice, who was still lying in bed observing this farce, rolled her eyes in pleasure as she sat in the distance fapping to every misunderstanding that was unfolding.

Madison closed the drawer roughly. "Well it isn't here, so whata ya want me to do? Why are you out there like that anway?", she growled.

Henry just pinched his lips together and squinted annoyed, as if she didn't know.

The wordless expression he chose to give her in response looked more to Madison like the face a teenager would make when he's caught sneaking cigarettes- he looked more guilty than mad.

She responded with another question, more pointed and direct this time.

"Why didn't you put on clothes?", she asked.

She asked her question with such hernestness that Henry, still assuming she was behind this prank, for a moment thought she was suggesting that she had left him something to wear on the deck, and maybe he had missed it.

He almost imperceptibly darted his eyes to look around the empty eight foot space of the deck, confirming that she didn't leave him anything at the start of this prank.

"I couldn't find anything to wear", he replied.

She sighed at his immature response and was about to call him out for it but he continued-

"Just look around for something to get the door open!"

She stared at his naked loser form for a minute as she thought, why should I brat, you did this! But she chose not to say that, and instead looked around the room for something to jimmy the door.

She made her way around the kitchen, glancing this way and that when she suddenly spotted the underwear on the floor near the trash. She wasn't sure what it was at first so she picked it up and unravveled it. As soon as she held the damp underoos wide she grew a look of disgust.

These are sooo immature and- Oh my God, are these wet? Eww, it's still warm. What a brat!!

*Ding*

She was just about to go shout at him for what was quickly becoming clear to her was a situation of his own making, when she spotted something shiny on the distant counter.

She walked over to the key, which looked like it was purposefully placed right in the middle of the far countertop for her to find. She picked it up and twirled it between her fingers.

"Why would you leave this over here, little brother?", Madison said to herself as she realized, for the first time in her life, she just thought of Henry as a little brother. At this point in time, it didn't feel wrong to her.

She was about to bring the key back to Henry when she spotted something else nearby. Tucked snugly between a couple of decorative jars of flour and sugar was the diary she remembered seeing Henry writing in all those years ago.

She picked up the book and smirked. She remembered seeing Henry write in this a bunch of times back when they were kids, and he had always been so silly and protective about-- Wait, what's that?

Though she had no intention of actually reading Henry's personal stuff, while she was still considering how she was going to tease Henry by saying, "I found your book", she noticed what looked like a paper photo sticking out from the pages. She pulled out the paper and saw...herself in a sundress.

What the fuck?

She noticed a second paper sticking out and she retrieved that as well, only to find the colorful heart drawing around the image of her bare feet. Madison was pissed. She had always thought the extent of Henry's creepiness stopped at her door, but here was proof that he's been perving on her. What a brat! She dropped the papers on the counter and took the book up in her hands.

While it wasn't Madison's goal to pry, nor did she have any desire to snoop, she now felt she had an obligation to investigate. Before opening the book to read, Madison walked over to the backdoor, tucking the key safely in her pocket. With a rather pissed off face she held the book up for her stepbrother to see.

"Look what I 'accidentally' found", she said in a way that should have made it clear that she wasn't sure if he had left it there knowingly for her to find.

However, based on Henry's response she quickly realized that he absolutely did NOT leave that there for her to find, as his response was immediate and dramatic and visibly surprised.

"What the hell? No, you can't read that, it isn't fair. Cut it out, Maddy. Let me in!"

He began clawing at the doornob out of frustration even more than he had been before, but again Madison just read this behavior as a sudden desire to keep her from reading, which invited her to carryon all the more.

"No, I'm going to read something first", she said in a sing-song voice.

While Henry didn't have anything in his diary that he really cared about her seeing, as it was mostly shitty poetry and ho-hum complaints about life, he still didn't want to be left out there as part of her stupid prank.

Henry's eyes went wide and his voice went higher as he begged, "Come on, knock it off. Maddy, this isn't funny!"

Maddy, however, was still under the impression that his dramatic concerns were really related to the content of the book she was about to indulge in. And so with renewed motivation she turned and headed towards the living room, opening the book to the last entry as she went.

Madison sat on the couch and opened the little book, turning to the last few pages. She needed only read the first line of the last entry to begin to understand what Henry was up to today. It read:

I am finally going to see Maddy naked!

Alice, who was observing everything from the comfort of her own bed, knew right then and there that no matter how much compassion Madison had for Henry just now in the kitchen, it was all about to be washed away. The forever teasing Madison would be conducting in the future was NOT going to be hushed and private....Certainly not after she read the rest of his diary entry.

Madison's eyes narrowed and her jaw went stiff as she continued reading.