I had never been in aunt Josephine's upstairs bedroom before and hadn't thought I would have any occasion to ever be so either. It was an unmistakably feminine room, the fragrance of perfumes, skin lotions, creams and other toiletries attested to that. There was a very large double bed in the middle of the room, a series of doors accessing the built in closets and a large vanity with oversized mirror. I saw numerous flasks, bottles and tubes lying about the vanity top. On the far wall was another large door leading to another room.

Aunt Josephine went over to the window and drew the heavy drapes. The light in the room dimmed, as she no doubt intended. She went over to the vanity and sat down on a chair, then tuned on a small light over the mirror.

The room suddenly appeared small and intimate and I felt the intruder. My aunt beckoned me to come to her.

"I don't want you to take this wrongly now, but I'm going to have to do something about your fooling around in Maylynn's room."

I glumly hung my head and nodded. "Aunt Josephine, I'm so sorry I took her ...panties." I almost whispered the last word out of shame. "I don't know why I ever did it. I really don't."

"You haven't gotten the point, have you ?"

I thought I had.

"You shouldn't have gone into her room without permission and gone though her things without her or my say so."

"I guess so, but I'm ever so sorry about the underthing ..."

She sighed softly. "That's not it. Left on your own, a girl's undergarments should be the first thing you're interested in, aside from the girl herself."

I wondered if I were hearing correctly. "You shouldn't be snooping around and for that I'm going to have to punish you. Not for sniffing Lynn's panties for goodness sake."

To me it seemed like a delicate distinction, but my aunt was quite adamant about it. I had thought the latter the worst infraction I had committed.

"I'm going to give you a choice, even if it is just a small one. But you have to make up your mind right now what it's to be : either I assign you a disciplinary measure right now, or we wait until Maylynn comes home, 'we' explain everything to her and let her suggest a punishment." She paused for effect. "Within reason of course."

I didn't know whether to be reassured or apprehensive about that last qualification. I was used to everything happening 'within reason'.

"Well, William, what's it to be ? Are you willing to trust your cousin's benevolence or mine ?"

That was the ten thousand dollar question, wasn't it ? I really had no idea at all who was the most benevolent of the two, but figured that since my aunt held ultimate authority it was best to throw myself upon her mercy. "I guess you better do it aunt Josephine."

"A wise choice, young man. Now let me think for a moment. I want this to be instructive for you."

Good, I thought half relieved. That normally meant no corporal punishment. I was right about that, though when I heard her ruling I would have preferred a sound whacking.

"Since you're one of the household for the summer, I think it's best if you took part in our weekly hygiene sessions from now on."

What was she talking about ? I didn't understand.

"We take cleansing seriously here, and from now on I'm going to supervise you and show you the procedures."

I was listening but didn't understand her drift.

"Normally it's Maylynn's turn tonight, but I'm going to do you both together."

I still didn't know what she was referring to. All I could think of was me and my cousin Lynn bathing or taking a shower, maybe even together. That didn't sound like much of a punishment to me, but it did seem highly unlikely. Of course little did I know.

"And since you like her panties so much, I want you to put them on so you can show her tonight."

That I understood. And how ! I flushed and turned red from embarrassment. I think my voice almost broke into a sob. "I can't do that ! No way ! These are girl's things !"

"That's quite right. But so what ?"

"I can't put them on."

"You can and will if I say so."

"Lynn'll never stop talking about it to everyone."

Aunt Josephine shushed me. "Don't have a fit now. We don't gossip in this family. Not about this kind of thing anyway. No one will ever know but me and your cousin."

I was still trembling.

"Let Lynn choose and there's no telling what she's capable of thinking up." That wasn't the only threat she had to back her up. "And if you prefer neither, then I can always phone your parents and explain everything. Would you like that better ?"

Of course I wouldn't and she knew it. That was the worst punishment she could have come up with, and she knew I would never want that to happen. I hesitated for a while but we both knew I would have to concede.

"If you think about it calmly this isn't such a big thing as you make it out to be, you know."

I wasn't sure about that.

"Just put the panties on and wear them until we come back upstairs after dinner. When we start you won't need them anymore."

"But Lynn might see me in them." I said.

"I know, that's the whole idea. We're going to tell her anyway and then you'll show her how you look in them. That's the punishment part. But believe me it's not so bad as you think. In fact, you might even learn to like it." My aunt was grinning with concealed amusement, but I was so dismayed it didn't register.

She held out the white frilly thing that had gotten me into this mess. "I don't want to spend much more time on this, William. Here are the panties, put them on now. After dinner you can take them off, it won't matter anymore."

I didn't pay much attention to what aunt Josephine hinted at as an after dinner treat, I was more focused on the immediate chastisement I was about to undergo.

Finally I took the garment and resigned myself to going through with it. "Where can I change please ?" I foolishly asked.

"Where do you think silly boy ? You can do it right here and now."

"In front of you ?" There seemed to be more to this than I had assumed. There always is.

"Of course ! Where else ? Do you think I've never seen a male in the nude ? What kind of home does my sister run anyway ?"

Nothing like this, I thought.

"C'mon get the lead out of your feet, boy. Step out of those pants."

Slowly I complied. I tried to turn about, but aunt Josephine stood up exasperated and held me by the shoulders. "Just do it William. You're starting to annoy me with all this pussyfooting shy bashful act. If you don't get those panties on right now, you can forget about your pants. Maybe you'd like that better ?"

She knew I wouldn't, so I closed my eyes, unbuckled my belt and lowered my trousers. I stepped out of them reluctantly. My hard-on hadn't subsided during all this time, in fact if anything it had gotten worse (or better depending on the standpoint). There was no mistaking my state of erection as I stood in front of my aunt, briefs bulging.

Instead of waiting for me to screw up enough resolve to finally comply, she herself took hold of the hem of my briefs and unceremoniously pulled them down to my knees. My prick was forced downwards, then sprung back up. I stepped out of my briefs one foot at a time, ridiculously keeping my knees tightly closed. It served no purpose since there was no hiding my organ.

My aunt then held Lynn's panties open at ankle level and told me to step into them. I had to hold onto her shoulders to steady myself, I was so rigid with mortification. When they were around my legs, aunt Josephine pulled them up. She had to maneuver a bit to get my stiff penis into them, but managed quite well. Aside from maneuvering it a bit, she hardly even acknowledged it's existence, let alone it's condition.

With a final upwards tug she was done. "There, now that wasn't so bad, was it ?"

Not yet it wasn't I thought.

"Don't worry about any stains you're likely to make. This goes in the wash tonight any way."

I blushed as I felt the wet spot the tip of my prick had already made.

"Just as long as you don't come in them. Understand ?"

I hadn't even thought of that yet and immediately tried to put it out of my mind. I nodded.

"Good, now you can put your pants back on if you want. When you're finished you can go downstairs and occupy yourself until dinner chores. I've got things to do."

I hurriedly stepped into my pants and slipped out the door.

"And don't let me catch you snooping around anymore."

I wouldn't dare.