A WALK IN THE PARK WITH SUZIE Q

SUMMER, 1949..TULSA, OKLAHOMA..VISITING FROM GLENDALE...GRANDMA AND MIMMI HOUSE..216 S. FRISCO. ANOTHER VISITOR NEXT DOOR.....SUSIE...ALSO VISITING HER GRANMAMA...MY AGE...CUTE..RED HAIR..FRECKLES.  OUR BEDROOM WINDOWS SIX FEET APART...I GOT UNDRESSED IN MY BEDROOM NIGHT BEFORE..LEFT MY LIGHT ON..SUSIE TURNED HERS OFF..PARTED CURTAINS..LAY ON HER BED NEXT TO WINDOW AND WATCHED ME....NEXT DAY, SHE INVITED ME TO GO GET CHERRY POPSICKLES..WE DID..SHE TOLD ME SHE SAW ME NIGHT BEFORE...EXPRESSED GREAT INTEREST IN BOYS... DOWN THERE.  APPARANTLY, SHE NEVER KNEW NOR SAW...HOT DAY AS ALWAYS..SO HOT THE KATY DIDS FIRING UP EARLY WITH THEIR CHEREEEE...CHEREEE COMPLAINTS.  SHE ASKED ME WHO LIVED IN THAT SECLUDED HOUSE IN BACK OF US.  I TOLD HER IT WAS MY AUNT NORA AND UNCLE LEMUEL MAUZY...I THEN TOLD HER ABOUT THEIR UPSTAIRS...THE STAIRS TO UP THERE TOOK OFF FROM THE KITCHEN AND WENT UP...I LOVED GOING UP THERE BECAUSE IT WAS SO...STRANGE UP THERE.  ENTIRE LENGTHS OF WALLS HAD A CLOTHES HANGING RACK AND ALL OF AUNTIES LONG DRESSES HUNG THERE.  I WAS ALWAYS SEEING SOMETHING MOVE OUT OF THE SIDE OF MY EYES, BUT WHEN I TURNED, NOTHING WAS THERE.  SUSIE LOVED ALL OF THIS AND BEGGED ME TO TAKE HER THERE.  WE WALKED TO THE SCREEN DOOR ON BACK PORCH..THE SCREENS ALL AROUND THE PORCH WERE COVERED WITH MORNING GLORY VINES, SO THE LIGHT COMING IN GAVE A GREEN CAST TO THE ROOM.  WE TIPTOED IN..THROUGH THE KITCHEN AND LOOKED DOWN THE HALL...AUNIE AND UNCLE LEM FAST ASLEEP.  WE TIPTOED TO THE DOOR TO UPSTAIRS, UNLATCHED IT AND CREPT UP...IT WAS SO TERRIBLY HOT UP THERE...WE STOPPED AT TOP OF STAIRS.  SHE GAZED AT ALL OF NORAH'S OLD DRESSES AND WITH A GIGGLE, SAID SHE WANTED TO TRY ONE ON AS THER WAS A TALL DUSTY MIRROR IN THE CORNER.  I WATCHED AS SHE.....PULLED DOWN HER SHORTS AND WAS BEGINNING TO TAKE HER TOP OFF.  CURIOSITY AND ALARM BOTH CAME TO ME...REALLY..AFTER SHE PUT ON ONE OF THE DRESSES, WE BOTH LAUGHED AT OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR.  SHE WANTED ME TO TRY ON UNCLE LEMS SUITS.....I WAS SO HOT....LET'S GO TO THE PARK SUSIE...I DON'T LIIKE IT HERE...NO NO NO SHE SAID...HER LIPS WERE STILL CHERRY RED FROM THE POPCICKLE...CHILDHOOD INNOSENSE IN PEVERSE...HER EYES WERE SO EMBRIONIC..SHE HELPED ME IN MY SHYNESS AND PUT HER HAND UPON THE WAIST BAND...PULLING GENTLY, THEY BEGAN TO SLIDE DOWNWARD, EXSPOSING MY LEGS....AND THEN, WE WENT TO PARK AND WALKED......SORRY...B