The Secret Catamite Bk 1, The Book of Daniel by Patrick C Notchtree

Author:Patrick C Notchtree
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: biography, corporal punishment, gay adolescents, scouts, gay adolescence, gay boy romance, sex between best friends, catamite, early sexualization

1956/11 Long Division

Miss Brown had worked through it patiently with him, and he understood it then, or so he thought, but now on a cold November Saturday morning, it had all gone. Long division of money. Simon didn't know where to start. That feeling of cold panic and helplessness came over him as he thought of having to spend the next five years at Victoria Road with Barry Spence. It was true that Spence had kept his distance since being felled spectacularly in the school yard by a single punch from Simon, and he was shorn of most of his hangers on by constant pressure from Miss Day and Mr West, but Simon knew it wouldn't last. Spence had said as much. "Wait till you get to Vicks, Scott. I've got friends there who are going to beat you up every day." Simon had no reason to doubt the truth of this and was frightened.

Daniel was backing him, helping him with these 11 plus papers he was given for practice, and he knew that Daniel had turned down chances to go out with his other friends from Hooray Henrys in order to help him with his maths. But Daniel would not be there at the juniors when the exam had to be taken. Simon shook with fear and a tear came. Daniel had told him that in one place they were going to abolish the 11 plus. That had sounded a good idea to Simon until Daniel said that it meant all the children would go to one school. So that would not help his predicament, and anyway, Daniel was against it. All right for him, he was clever and had got to Hooray Henrys.

He folded up the test paper and went downstairs. The fire was lit in the sitting room and he went in to get warm. He sat on the settee, not the broken end, and looked again at the test paper. If only he could understand it. The numbers just seemed to dance in front of his eyes. He looked into the fire, seeing patterns in the red hot coals. He closed the test paper and picked up his book. He liked reading and was now one of the best readers in the class. And that had improved his spelling too. So he tried to shut his mind to the future and lose himself in the story about space ships and mining the asteroids.

Mummy put her head round the door. "Lunch is ready." Mummy always called it lunch, although everybody else he knew called it dinner. He sat at the dining table and started to eat.

"Frances, how do you do division of money?"

Frances thought for a moment. "Well, you start by dividing the pounds and transfer the remainder to the shillings, add it on and then divide that, and do the same for pennies," she said helpfully. Mummy and Daddy nodded approval. Simon was left none the wiser. But what did that mean?

"I'll teach you to use a slide rule when you're older," said Daddy.

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