Ridge
It was our Little Night Out, and I could not wait.
When I met Hal and Ernie, it changed my life in ways I hadn’t expected. We’d gone to a little craft night and instantly connected. I had no idea at the time that I’d leave there with the two best friends I’d ever had, but I did. Even though both of them currently settled down with the loves of their lives, we still made sure to have little nights that were just for us. No daddies allowed.
It had been a long while since we’d last done this. Between my schedule and theirs, it hadn’t worked out. All three of us decided we needed to be better about it.
Today was going to be epic. We’d gone so far as to have matching onesies, all three of which featured a pea pod because someone once said the three of us were like peas in a pod. How could we resist a shirt that was so us? Each little pea person in the illustration had one of our names on it. It was adorable. We were adorable. Tonight, we were going to have a blast.
We splurged and rented a private room so we could get dressed together and leave our belongings there without worrying about lockers or running into anyone else. I wasn’t sure how long we were going to stay, but it was never the length of time we played that mattered. It was that we did it together. Tonight, like most nights, it depended a lot on how crowded it was.
When the three of us were together, we tended to catch certain daddies’ eyes. It wasn’t a case of them being interested in me or Hal or Ernie. That was easy to ignore. It was more that they liked the idea of playing with multiple littles at once, especially if they thought we were potentially together in asexual way and not just for little fun. It was all kinds ofewwand we didn’t want any of that.
Thankfully, Chained was a place where, once we were in that little room, we were the only ones who could approach a daddy, not the other way around. Not all clubs were like that. Still, the less crowded, the better.
“I thought we were wearing the red socks today,” Hal said, and he held up his red-and-white-striped socks, ones that didn’t even pretend to match our onesies or our shorts.
“Why would we do that?” Ernie fished in his bag and pulled out a second pair of the green socks we had decided on.
“You’re the best.” Hal snatched them so fast.
“Wait. I thought I was the best.”
“The best at not showing up for obstacle-course night.” Ernie hadn’t let me forget that one. I had a feeling he wasn’t planning to for a long time.
“Was it because I was boycotting the event, or was there a reason I wasn’t there?” I tapped my lips as I spoke, trying to look all pensive.
I slipped on my sneakers, glad for the elastic laces that meant I didn’t have to tie anything.
“You could have come after that.” Hal let out a long sigh.
Truth was, I probably could’ve, but it would’ve been really late, and then everybody would feel like they needed to stay longer because I just got there. It didn’t feel worth it, then. And while I wish I’d been there, I wouldn’t change it if I went back in time.
“Come on, come on, come on.” Ernie grabbed both of our hands. “I heard they had a new puzzles table.”
I wasn’t a huge puzzle guy, but anytime there was something new, I was down for exploring it. We raced down the halls a little too quickly, nearly bumping into three people along the way. Thankfully, all three gave us a look, realized we were little, andlet it go with only our mumbled apologies. I knew people were less harsh on us when we were dressed like this, and I tried not to take advantage of it, but in times like this, I was sure glad for it.
We bounded into the little room, barely giving Ms. Lily a half wave. There was a nice-sized crowd there, but nothing over the top and very few Daddies. It was little-heavy, which was exactly how I wanted it, at least while I was single. If…no,whenI got a daddy, I might feel differently about it.
We found the new puzzle table quickly. The coolest part was that it had a lip around the outside so the puzzle pieces wouldn’t accidentally get knocked off, and they had plenty to choose from. They had everything from single-piece shape puzzles where you put triangles in the triangle hole, circle in the circle hole, etc. to 100-piece ones with huge pieces. The table wasn’t big enough for their largest puzzles; those were done on the floor.
We made good use of it, doing one that came with a magnifying glass so we could find all the hidden pictures inside of it. We never found all of them, but we found most and had fun searching.
“Is it bad I wish Daddy were here?” Ernie asked and put his head on my shoulder.
“No. It’s perfectly normal to want to have your daddy when you’re being little,” I reassured him.
“You need a daddy, too,” Hal said, putting his head on my other shoulder, and I realized I’d been set up. “We know just the perfect daddy for you.”
“Yeah, no. I’m not gonna have you guys set me up with a random guy.” They meant well, and I suspected it was a friend of one of their daddies, and those two men wouldn’t let me get involved with a daddy they didn’t trust. They were both protective like that.
“He’s not random. Our daddies know him,” Ernie said.
Nailed it.
“He was there at the obstacle course. Who knows? If you’d been there that night, you guys might already be shacking up together, living your best life,” Hal said.
“Shacking up? Do you hear you? Who still talks like that?”
