Kelsi and her best friend Melissa stood hugging each other on the hot sand of an ocean city beach, each in tight bikini which left little to the imagination, and took a selfie with their backs to the ocean. Kelsi tweeted this photo with the caption "Last living photo yall! #lastdayonearth"
With that, Kelsi and Melissa looked down the beach toward the gallows. Of course, it looked more like a concert stage than a gallows, with speakers all around it to broadcast the condemned's final struggles. A crowd was already beginning to gather. To the right of the stage, two holes had been dug in the beach. In just a few hours, Kelsi and Melissa knew, these holes would serve as their unmarked graves.
Kelsi thought back on how her journey to this point had begun, years earlier, on this very same beach. When Kelsi was young, her family made annual summer trips to this same beach town, as it was a major vacation spot within driving distance. One year, when Kelsi was thirteen, she found a flyer on the boardwalk which intrigued her. It advertised a public hanging of two willing victims. According to the advertisement, a local night club held an annual "Beach Hang Out," where two willing victims would be hanged on the beach, for all to see.
When Kelsi found this flyer, she knew she had to see the hanging. From a young age, Kelsi had been fascinated by death. She would watch and re-watch death scenes in movies, particularly any that involved asphyxiation, ESPECIALLY hanging. These images always conjured up feelings in Kelsi that she couldn't quite understand yet. So, when thirteen year old Kelsi got the opportunity to witness a real, live hanging, she just had to take it.
The following day, Kelsi told her parents she was going to walk the boardwalk with some other girls she had met the day before. Her parents, wanting their daughter to be independent, said this was fine as long as she was back for dinner. In reality, Kelsi made an immediate b-line for the place the hanging was to occur. She was so overzealous that she arrived a half an hour early, while the gallows was still being set up, and the graves were still being dug.
Kelsi sat on the edge of the boardwalk, looking out at the preparations on the beach and impatiently waiting for the festivities to begin. Finally, after what felt like hours, but in reality was only a little over twenty five minutes, the preparations were complete. A small crowd was already beginning to gather in front of the stage, when Kelsi noticed two people, a man and a woman who looked to be in their early twenties, standing by the stairs. The woman was a little below average height and very fit. She had long, jet black hair and freckles, and looked very attractive in her red bikini. The man was tall and slender, with close cut brown hair. He wore a pair of swim trunks with a Hawaiin design. They chatted and smiled as a man in black athletic shorts and a white t-shirt strolled onto the stage.
"Alright, I'm Dave, your MC for the Beach Hang out, how's everybody doin' today?" the man said into a microphone, sending his voice booming out across the beach. The small crowd replied with a bunch of hoots and hollers. The couple by the stairs smiled, but did not join in.
"Alright, I'm glad to hear it. Now without further delay, let's bring up our man and woman of honor, Jeff and his lovely girlfriend Haley" Dave said, then gesturing to the couple by the stairs. The two kissed, then slowly walked up the stairs. Dave greeted them at the top of the stairs, where he exchanged a few words with Jeff and Haley. Then, he handed them each a clipboard containing a few papers, which they signed and returned. The MC put down the clipboards, then handed Jeff and Haley each a pair of handcuffs, and gestured for them to take their places at the two nooses dangling in front of the stage.
Each noose dangled about three feet in front of the stage, over a wooden plank which resembled a diving board which protruded off the stage. Behind each plank, a large lever protruded vertically from the stage. Haley clipped her handcuffs onto her left wrist, then confidently strolled out onto her plank. At the end of it, Haley pulled her noose on over her head, taking care to brush her long, black hair through it before tightening it down on her slender neck, and resting the knot on her left shoulder. Then, she reached her hands behind her back, took a deep breath, and latched the open handcuff onto her right wrist. She had passed the point of no return. Kelsi gawked in amazement at her confidence.
Jeff on the other hand, seemed more pensive. He stepped out to the end of his plank just fine, but then he stopped at the end of it and simply waited. Dave stepped up behind him, brought the noose over his head, and tightened it down for him. He then whispered something in Jeff's ear, and Jeff handed him back the handcuffs, then put his hands behind his back and waited. Dave handcuffed Jeff, then went to Haley. He quickly checked that her knot was placed correctly and her wrists were cuffed, before returning to the stage.
"Alright ladies and gentleman, our two victims are up and ready to go, but as always, we're going to give it some time for a crowd to grow" Dave said, to applause from the audience.
"So," he continued, "we're just going to leave Jeff and Haley here for about an hour before the fun really starts. But, we don't want them wondering off in the meantime, now do we?"
"NO!" the crowd replied together.
"I didn't think so, so I'm just going to take the slack out of those ropes for them" Dave said, then moving to a control panel at the back of the stage. There, he flipped a few switches, and the ropes around Jeff and Haley's necks began to retract, until they were forced to stand entirely upright in order to breathe. This made Haley gag a little, then smile.
"Alright ladies and gentleman," Dave said said once he was satisfied the nooses were as tight as they could be while still allowing Jeff and Haley to breathe, "I'll be back in an hour. Till then, rock out to some tunes and just have a good time." He then strolled off stage as music started playing over the loudspeakers, leaving Jeff and Haley to stand their in their nooses, and contemplate their impending doom.
As the crowd began dancing to the music and passing around a beach ball, Kelsi came down from the boardwalk and approached. She stood at the back of the small crowd and stared, utterly dumbstruck, at the two willingly condemned. As the rest of the crowd partied and danced around her, Kelsi simply stared up at them, mouth agape, studying every detail.
First, she looked at the nooses around their necks. Then she looked at each of their faces. Haley had a faint smile, but also a look of apprehension in her eyes. Jeff looked much more serious, sighing periodically. Then, she looked at how their hands were positioned behind their backs. Then, for reasons she didn't quite understand herself at the time, she looked at each of their crotches. She noticed at this point that Jeff had a large bulge in his shorts, and Haley had clear fluid dripping out of her bikini and down her legs. Kelsi would not understand what this meant until taking sex education the following school year. All she knew at this point was that her shorts were also filling with this fluid.
After a few moments of staring at the noosed couple, Kelsi pulled her phone from her pocket and started taking pictures. She had seen others doing the same, and even a few taking selfies with them in the background, so she felt this was okay. After a few pictures, Haley and Kelsi made eye contact. Kelsi froze, staring into Haley's deep green eyes, which appeared simultaneously nervous and supremely confident. Then, Haley smiled and winked at Kelsi, sending a shiver up her spine. Kelsi smiled and winked back.
Over the next hour, the crowd steadily grew, with more people arriving by the minute. Kelsi continued to stand in the back and stare at Jeff and Haley, who stood still for the most part, unable to move very much while cuffed and noosed. They would periodically try in vain to shift to a more comfortable position, then give up when they realized the ropes were simply too tight. Most of the crowd seemed to all but ignore Jeff and Haley, chatting amongst themselves and dancing or playing games, except a few who took pictures both with and of them. Kelsi remained utterly transifixed, periodically snapping more photos.
Finally, the hour wait was up, and the MC returned.
"Alright, who's ready to see these two dangle!?" Dave Shouted into his microphone as he stepped back on stage. The crowd suddenly refocused on the stage, and again responded with shouts and whistles. Kelsi felt a shiver run up her spine in anticipation. She began to take video with her phone.
"Great, then let's get started!" Dave shouted again, standing between the two levers behind Jeff and Haley. "Now," he continued, "I can only pull one of these levers at a time. So...who wants to drop first?" Jeff and Haleylooked at each other, then giggled awkwardly for a moment.
"I'm fine to go first" Haley said confidently.
"Wellllll," Dave said, scratching his chin, "that's not up to you." Then, suddenly and without warning, he yanked back Jeff's lever. There was a loud "ka-thunk" sound under the stage, and Jeff's plank gave way beneath him. He had a look of panic in his eyes as he dropped a few inches, and the noose snapped tight around his neck. Haley watched, first with a look of shock in her eyes, which quickly changed to excitement. She smiled and giggled a little as she watched her boyfriend writhe silently in the noose, his face turning purple. The MC let her watch for a few moments more, then pulled her lever, again without warning.
Like her boyfriend, Haley dropped a few inches, and then the rope snapped taught. The crowd cheered and whistled as the couple struggled together. Kelsi continued to film, suddenly feeling a warnth and wetness between her legs that she had never felt before. She watched with an intense fascination as the two slowly rotated, each gasping for air in vain. Although all outward appearances would suggest they were feeling nothing but terror and agony, Kelsi had a strange feeling that they were having the time of their lives up there.
Kelsi continued to film throughout the entire proceeding. After a little more then twenty minutes, Jeff went stiff as a board. Then, his pelvis girated back and forth, and his swim trunks became stained with fluid around his crotch, just before he fell limp. Kelsi nievely believed he had peed himself. It wouldn't be until months later that she realized this fluid was actually semen.
Haley continued to squirm and wriggle after her boyfriend had lost consciousness. This was to be expected considering that he began hanging first, but she went even further, continuing to struggle for nearly thirty minutes. She had another orgasm as she struggled.
Towards the end, she began to kick slower and slower, and her head began to bow as the lack of oxygen took its toll. Then, finally, she threw her head back up, her eyelashes fluttered, her toes curled and her back arched one last time, and she let out the loudest groan yet as she was overcome by the most intense orgasm she had ever experienced. Then, she too fell limp, and her bladder released, sending a stream of urine dripping from her bikini onto the sand beneath.
Kelsi continued to film for a few more moments as Jeff and Haley's bodies twitched unconsciously. Something about these involuntary reflex motions excited Kelsi, in a way she still could not put words to. Finally, when the twitching stopped, Dave took to the stage again.
"Alright ladies and gentleman, it looks like Haley and Jeff are done dancing for us," he began, to audible disappointment from the crowd, "I know, I know, but a person can only go without oxygen for so long. Now, by law we have to leave these two up and hanging for three hours." The crowd approved of this announcement.
"At the end of those three hours, anyone who wants to can help take Jeff and Haley down, and bury them over there," Dave continued, pointing to the two graves dug to the right of the stage, "until then, there are five things you absolutely cannot do. One, you cannot damage the bodies in any way. Two, you cannot take clothing off of them. Their clothes are still their property, and this is a public beach, so no nudity allowed." The crowd booed him for that.
"THREE," he yelled, quieting the crowd, "you cannot try to take the bodies down. That means no cutting the ropes, trying to untie the knots or attempting to slip their nooses off. Four, you cannot try to lift the bodies up or take their weight off the noose. Their full body weight must remain on the noose for three full hours after they've stopped struggling. Five, you cannot attempt to revive them in any way. That means no CPR, no defibrilators, no adrenaline needles. See how peacful their faces look? Don't take that away from them." Kelsi looked back to Jeff and Haley's faces. They did look remarkably at peace as they dangled their, bodies gently swaying in the ocean breeze.
"Are their any questions about that?" the MC asked. The crowd looked on silently.
"Great. Anything other than those five things is fair game. Touch em', take pictures with em', make em' swing, that's all fine as long as you don't do any of those five things." With that, Dave left the stage, leaving Jeff and Haley to the whims of the crowd.
Kelsi decided she wanted to wait the full three hours and help to bury Jeff and Haley. She sat back and watched intently as the rest of the crowd lined up for pictures and to grope the bodies. A few people took selfies with them, a few took group pictures, nearly everyone fondled some part of their bodies, and a few even jokingly put sunglasses or hats on them. Finally, after two and a half hours, all but a few very attentive spectators had lost interest and left. Then, Kelsi approached the bodies.
First, she picked up a beach chair no one was using, and set it in front of Jeff. Standing on it, her head reached about the height of his chest. She looked him up and down, seeing him up close for the first time. His face looked less peacful up close. His skin was turning a pale, sickly shade of blue, his chin was tucked into his chest, his eyes were still partly open, and the tip of his tongue protruded past his tightly clenched teeth.
Kelsi pulled on the elastic of his bathing suit, making the body sway slightly, then peered down inside. This was the first time she had ever seen a penis, which was now hanging limp, unlike before. As she pulled her hand away, Kelsi realized she had a sticky, viscous fluid on her fingertips. This was her first indication that the fluid in Jeff's pants was not urine. She wiped it off on a dry portion of his shorts.
Kelsi then stepped down from the beach chair, and moved it in front of Haley. She stepped back onto the chair, putting her head at about the height of Haley's breasts. She looked up at Haley, who did still look at peace up close. Her eyes and mouth were closed, and her head was tilted slightly to her left and down. Kelsi even thought she saw a slight smile on Haley's lips. If one only saw her face, they could be forgiven for thinking she was only sleeping.
Kelsi noticed Haley's hair was in her face, so she reached up and pushed it behind her ear. Then, she put her hand on Haley's cheek. It was cold, as Kelsi expected. Touching Haley filled Kelsi with intense emotions. To her surprise, the most powerful was envy. She somehow felt that Haley was extremely lucky to be dangling there at this moment.
Kelsi then brought her hand down, to Haley's breasts. She fondled Haley over her red bikini top for a few moments, seeming to forget she was in public. Then, Kelsi's left hand drifted between Haley's legs. She felt that Kelsi's bikini was still wet, as were her inner thighs, but not just with urine. Haley too had secreated some fluid that Kelsi could not identify. Kelsi then placed her left hand on Haley's right hip, and gave a gentle push, making Haley's body rotate slowly back and forth. Kelsi was mesmerized as the dead girl in front of her swayed so peacefully.
Finally, Kelsi positioned the beach chair next to each of the deceased, and took a selfy with each of them, smiling broadly as she did. Once she was done with her pictures, as the sun was just beginning to set, the MC returned, to find only three people, including Kelsi, waiting to help bury Jeff and Haley. He retrieved a handcuff key from his pocket, and uncuffed the two bodies, allowing their hands to dangle by their sides.
He then instructed two of the three spectators to grab Haley by her thighs and lift her up, to take the pressure off the noose. Kelsi he instructed to stand behind her to catch her by her shoulders, as she would fall backward once the noose was off. Dave stood on the stage, leaned out, and pulled the noose off over Haley's head. As he predicted, Haley's upper body fell back into Kelsi's arms once it was no longer supported by the noose. Kelsi now had her arms under Haley's armpits, and Haley's head resting on her chest.
The three spectators then carried Haley to one of the two graves, where they dropped her rather unceremoniously. They then repeated the process for Jeff.
"Alright, lets start burying them" Dave said.
"Wait!" Kelsi shouted, quickly jumping into Haley's grave. She then tilted Haley's head so that it was facing upright, laid her arms by her sides and straightened her legs, so that she looked as though she had laid down to sleep, rather than been tossed into a disorganized heap. Kelsi then laid down in the hole next to Haley, put her arm under Haley's head and over her shoulders, and took another selfie.
Kelsi then hopped out of Haley's grave and into Jeff's, and repeated the process. For Jeff, she also closed his eyes and mouth. Once the two bodies looked peacful and presentable again, and she had taken her photos, Kelsi jumped out of Jeff's grave, and helped bury the bodies. As she covered the couple with sand, Kelsi still could not help but feel jealous. Once the holes were totally filled in, the other two helpers went on their way.
"Excuse me?" Kelsi called after the MC as he began to walk away.
"Yeah?" Dave asked, turning to face her.
"Do you only do these once a year?" she asked.
"Usually in the summer, we do as many as we can get victims to volunteer for, so there might be some more this year, why?" Dave replied.
"Because I really want to do it" Kelsi replied, confident and determined.
"What, hang?" Dave asked incredulously. Kelsi shook her head yes. "Pffft," Dave replied dismissively, "how old are you, like fifteen?"
"Thirteen" Kelsi replied, then internally scolding herself for being so honest.
"Have to be at least eighteen kid" Dave said, then turning and walking away.
"Please," Kelsi shouted after him, "I really, really, REALLY want to!"
"Then come back in five years kid" Dave called back.
From that year on, every time Kelsi's family took their summer trip to Ocean City, Kelsi attended the Beach Hang Out. The following year, she saved up her money and bought a professional grade camcorder for the occasion. She never told her parents of her tradition, she would just find some reason to slip away when they were going on. Some years, they held more than one while she was in town. She always loved those trips.
They always hanged two victims. Sometimes it was a man and a woman, sometimes two women. Once, they hung two men, but they never did it again because this did not draw as big a crowd. Kelsi understood why. She watched that hanging, and she still enjoyed it, but without a sexy woman in a bikini, Kelsi felt a hanging just wasn't complete. A hanging with two woman, she felt, was just fine, but two men just wasn't the same. This was despite the fact that Kelsi was attracted to both men and women.
Sometimes the victims seemed confident and ready to die, some seemed very eager to get on with their hangings. Of course, some seemed scared or nervous, and other seemed very sad. Kelsi always wondered why those victims volunteered in the first place. She really preferred to see them stroll to the noose with confidence, hoping she would be able to bring herself to do the same some day. She liked it even more when the men had erections and the women were visibly wet when they went to their deaths. Still, any hanging would get her motor running just the same.
Every year, Kelsi would videotape the preparation and the hanging itself. She would keep every video she took of a hanging, and pleasure herself to them later. Sometimes, if the victims seemed confident or happy, Kelsi would try to talk to them as they waited in their nooses. Most did not want to talk, but every once in a while she could get a good conversation out of them, and she found this incredibly arousing.
She would always stay for the three hours that the volunteers were left hanging after they had finished struggling, to grope and take pictures with them. Then, she would stay to help bury them once their time was up. Every time, Kelsi would end up begging Dave to hang her for a crowd, but he would always tell her to come back when she was eighteen. When she was sixteen, she even attempted to give him a fake ID, but he ran it through a scanner and discovered it was fake. Kelsi would just have to wait until she returned to this beach as an eighteen year old, a day she fantasized about often.
It was at one of these hangings that Kelsi discovered that she and her friend Melissa, who went to the same high school as her, shared a mutual interest in the topic of asphyxiation. She bumped into Melissa at a hanging one summer when she was fifteen, and the two quickly became best friends, bonding largely over their mutual fetish. The two talked about it often and shared videos and pictures of hangings they found online with each other. Eventually, once Kelsi felt she could trust Melissa, Kelsi shared the videos she had taken at beach hang outs with her. Melissa was the only person Kelsi ever shared this with.
From that year on, Melissa and Kelsi always attended the beach hangouts together. After the second one they attended together, they began having sex together. Kelsi was the first one to bring an element of asphyxiation into their sex, choking Melissa with a leather belt, then asking Melissa to do the same to her. The two continued to have sex periodically from then on, but neither ever considered themselves to be in a romantic relationship. They were just good friends having a good time. They each had boyfriends, and Kelsi had a girlfriend or two, but never stopped having sex with each other.
Kelsi was very open with Melissa from the beginning that she intended to volunteer for the beach hangout as soon as she was legally allowed. Melissa admitted that she often fantasized about her own hanging, but was not sure she actually wanted to go through with it. Melissa said she would gladdly be there to witness Kelsi's hanging, but would not be joining her. But, over three years, Melissa and Kelsi grew closer, and Kelsi managed to convince Melissa to be her hanging partner.
Now, after five years of waiting, the day had finally arrived. Kelsi was eighteen, and back in Ocean City to volunteer for the beach hangout. She and Melissa approached the stage just as a small crowd began to gather. They stood at the bottom of the stairs and waited as Dave, still the MC after all these years, warmed up the crowd and announced their names. Kelsi confidently climbed the stairs, Melissa trailing close behind.
"Hey Dave, remember me?" Kelsi asked as she reached the top. Melissa quietly took her place next to Kelsi.
"Who, the girl who's been begging me to hang her for the past five years? Yes Kelsi, I remember you" Dave replied with a smile.
"Well you can't refuse me now" Kelsi smirked.
"Nope, I guess your big day is finally here," Dave replied, "congratulations."
"Thanks" Kelsi replied.
"Excited?" Dave asked.
"Great. Well, first we have to take care of some legal stuff. Do you both consent to be publicly executed by short drop hanging?" Dave asked.
"Definitely" Kelsi replied. Melissa shook her head yes.
"Sorry, but I'm going to need verbal confirmation" Dave said to Melissa.
"Yes" she replied meekly.
"And do you both understand that this agreement is legally binding, and WILL result in your death by slow asphyxiation?" Dave asked.
"I sure hope it will" Kelsi replied with a smile.
"Yes" Melissa replied, sounding pensive.
"And do you both understand that because your hanging is public, neither I nor the company I work for are responsible if a spectator should choose to take video or pictures of you or your corpses at any point, or if they should choose to distribute those photos or videos in any way?"
"I understand. And actually, I really hope they do!" Kelsi replied.
"Yes" Melissa parroted again.
"And do you both understand that there is a possibility that spectators will touch your corpses once you are deceased, possibly in your private areas?" Dave finished.
"Yes, and god that's hot" Kelsi replied.
"Yes" Melissa said.
"Great, then sign these," Dave said, handing each girl a clipboard, "it's a contract basically restating everything I just said." Kelsi quickly signed hers and handed it back. Melissa skimmed hers for a moment, and did the same.
"Great," Dave said, putting down the clipboards and handing each of the girls a pair of handcuffs, "you can each take your place at one of the nooses." Kelsi grabbed her handcuffs and excitedly skipped to the left plank, clipping her handcuffs to her left wrist as she did so.
She strolled out to her noose with a smile on her face, then quickly slipped it on, brushing her long blond hair through it. She couldn't help but smile as she tightened it down. Somehow, it felt as though she was always meant to wear it. Then, she put her hands behind her back. Suddenly, she paused as she prepared to close her handcuffs. To her surprise, she got a queasy feeling in her stomach as she prepared to take this final step beyond the point of no return.
Kelsi closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and snapped the other cuff shut. Suddenly, she was overcome by a powerful feeling of relief. Finally being irrevocably set on this course, which she felt was her destiny, made Kelsi feel incredibly at peace. And knowing now that, no matter what she said or did, she would be dead by the end of the day, made all the stress of life melt away. All at once, Kelsi simply ceased to worry about her future. Her grades, money, finding a career, it all ceased to matter. Ironically, standing there noosed and handcuffed was the most free Kelsi had ever felt.
Kelsi turned her head to the left to look at Melissa. She was standing behind her noose, holding her handcuffs in front of her. She was taking deep, deliberate breaths and fidgeting nervously. Dave stepped up behind her and quickly got the noose around her neck. Then, he grabbed her by her wrists and gently pulled her arms behind her. He whispered words of encouragement in her ear as as the handcuffs clicked shut on her wrists. Kelsi was surprised to see that Melissa was feeling so nervous, and hoped that being beyond the point of no return would calm her as well.
Dave then came up behind Kelsi. He quickly checked that her handcuffs were locked. Then, he checked her noose. "Your knot placement is perfect, you could be a professional executioner" Dave whispered in Kelsi's ear.
"Well I've watched you do it enough times, I ought to know how to do it. Anyway, I think I prefer to be in the noose" Kelsi replied.
"Fair enough. This placement will make for a nice, slow, painful hanging" Dave said, turning and walking back to the stage. Hearing that sent a shiver down Kelsi's spine, and got her vagina practically dripping wet.
"Alright ladies and gentleman, our two victims are up and ready to go, but as always, we're going to give it some time for a crowd to grow" Dave said, exactly as he had at the first Beach Hangout Kelsi witnessed five years earlier. The crowd cheered at hearing this news, creating a huge smile on Kelsi's face.
"NO!" the crowd shouted in unison.
"I wouldn't wander off," Kelsi thought, "I've been waiting for this for years"
"Great, so let's just tighten up those nooses for them" Dave said, flipping a switch at the back of the stage. Kelsi and Melissa heard a low, mechanical hum above their heads, and their nooses slowly retracted, tightening around their necks. When Kelsi and Melissa could just barely keep their feet on the ground, the humming stopped, and the nooses stopped retracting. Kelsi couldn't help but smile as the noose hugged her throat, just barely loose enough to still allow her to breathe.
It was at this moment that Kelsi looked up to the boardwalk and noticed a teenage girl, probably thirteen or fourteen, staring at her intently. Even from a distance, she recognized the look on this young girls face. It was the same look she had on her face five years earlier, watching Haley stand in her noose and await her demise.
"Alright," Dave said once the nooses were tight, "be here in one hour and you'll get to see these to lovely ladies swing! I'm sure they'd appreciate the company for the final moments of their lives!" Dave then nonchalantly walked off the stage, leaving Kelsi and Melissa to wait in their nooses.
With that, Dave left the stage, and party music began playing. Kelsi looked to her right, to see that Melissa had her head bowed, and her eyes were beginning to water.
"What's wrong?" Kelsi asked, genuinely surprised to see her friend was upset.
"It's just, now that he said that I realized," Melissa replied, then pausing to sniffle, "I'm never going to get married, or be a mom, or have a career..." Melissa went on, beginning to sob as she listed life achievements she would never have. Kelsi stopped listening.
Suddenly, standing there in the noose, Kelsi had a regret as well. Her regret was not some achievement or life event she would never have. To her, a slow death in a noose was the ultimate achievement, it was her life's purpose. No, Kelsi's only regret was her choice of noose partner. She had hoped Melissa was like her, born to die for a crowd and able to go to the noose with confidence. Instead, Kelsi realized she would spend the next hour listening to Melissa sob. At that moment, Kelsi was angry that Melissa feared her death.
Kelsi looked down at the crowd, to see that many of them were taking pictures or video of her and Melissa. Well at least that part's how I pictured it, Kelsi thought. Of course, at this moment she realized her tweet earlier had been inaccurate, the selfy she had taken with Melissa would not be her last living photo. She then looked up to the boardwalk, hoping to see the teenage girl she had noticed earlier. The girl was not on the boardwalk, which made Kelsi sad, until she looked back down at the crowd. There, she saw the girl standing in the back of the crowd, taking pictures with her phone.
Suddenly, the girl noticed Kelsi was looking at her, and she lowered her phone to reveal the same awe struck facial expression Kelsi had shown five years earlier. Kelsi responded with a wink and a smile, which was immediately reciprocated by the young girl. Kelsi felt a tingle run down her spine as she saw a little of herself in this girl.
Over the next hour, most of the crowd seemed to ignore Kelsi and Melissa, as they often ignored the two volunteers. Of course, a few audience members took pictures or videos of the two noosed girls, and the young teenage girl Kelsi had noticed continued to stare at her intently, rarely looking away. Kelsi tried to act as though she didn't notice the girl staring, not wanting to discourage her. Melissa simply continued to sob, more quietly now than when she began.
Finally, Dave returned from wherever it was he went, and walked back on stage.
"Please, please let me down," Melissa begged, "I don't want to do this anymore!" She continued crying as she spoke. Of course, Kelsi knew Melissa would not be released. The contracts they had signed were binding, and Kelsi had seen a few previous volunteers try to back out. She helped bury them all.
Dave did not respond to Melissa's pleas. Instead, he walked quickly to the lever behind her plank. Dave most likely thought taking any more time than was absolutely necessary to get on with the executions would be cruel to Melissa, so, suddenly and without warning, he pulled her lever. Melissa shrieked as she dropped just a few inches, then fell silent as the noose snapped tight around her neck. The crowd cheered as she began to squirm and sputter.
Melissa rotated slowly to her left, and a look of disgust came over her face as she saw Kelsi staring at her and smiling. Kelsi felt bad that she was upsetting her friend, but couldn't help but smile while watching her hang. Then, she let out a gasp as she felt the board beneath her shift. But, to her disappointment, the board didn't fall. Kelsi turned back toward the stage, to see Dave holding the handle behind her. Periodically he'd pull it just far enough to make the plank shift, then shift it back before actually dropping Kelsi.
"Stop teasing me!" Kelsi laughed, "you've made me wait five years, just get on with it!"
"Congratulations, I'm really happy for you!" Dave yelled back. Then, he pulled the lever. Kelsi let out a squeal of excitement as she felt the board disappear beneath her feet. Then, the noose clamped down on her slender throat.
Kelsi had done breath-play, with Melissa and a few other sex partners, but had never actually put her fully body weight on a noose before. The pain was greater than Kelsi had ever imagined, but so was the ecstasy she felt as the noose crushed her windpipe. To her surprise, Kelsi came to orgasm almost instantly.
As Kelsi continued to struggle in the noose, her body instinctively fighting to survive, she rotated slowly back and forth. On her third turn back to her left, Melissa came into view just as her back arched, and she let out a loud groan. Kelsi knew she had just come to orgasm.
God that's hot, Kelsi thought as she imagined the video of herself kicking her life away over the attractive couple. Then, as the woman pulled her phone to her face, Kelsi realized that the video would almost certainly be posted on social media, which aroused her immensely. Suddenly, her toes curled again, her eyes rolled back into her head, her eyelashes fluttered, and all thought in her mind stopped as she was overcome by another intense orgasm.
Kelsi hung still for a moment as the orgasm overpowered her, then returned to kicking and struggling. She rotated left again, and just as she came back into Kelsi's view, Melissa shuddered one last time, and fell limp. Her bladder released onto the sand, and her only movement from then on was some unconscious twitching, and her body swaying back and forth in the ocean breeze.
Kelsi new from a large clock on the boardwalk that Melissa had only lasted about twelve minutes. Pathetic, Kelsi thought, having expected her friend and breath play partner to last longer in the noose.
As Kelsi continued to struggle, she could see members of the crowd already lining up to fondle and take pictures with Melissa's corpse. Hey, I'm not done yet, pay attention to me! Kelsi thought as she squirmed. Of course, she knew most of the crowd was still paying rapt attention to her. Particularly the young girl Kelsi had noticed earlier, who was still filming.
Eventually, the lack of oxygen had begun to take its toll on Kelsi. Her kicks and thrusts began to slow, as her vision began to narrow to a fine point. Kelsi knew she was close to the end when her muscles stopped aching from all the exertion, and instead went numb. Eventually, Kelsi struggled to keep her head up, and her kicks turned to a slow bicycling motion. She looked to the clock on the boardwalk, to see that she had now lasted just over thirty minutes. She smiled, realizing she had never seen anyone last this long.
As Kelsi's vision went grey, and her extremities were overcome by an icy cold, she knew she was mere seconds from death. This filled with excitement, not fear or dread. Her life didn't flash before her eyes. Instead she looked forward to hanging, still and peaceful in the noose for three hours, her body being photographed and fondled by the crowd. Then, she thought about being carried to her improvised grave, where she would rest forever.
As Kelsi imagined herself, laying stiff and cold in her grave while volunteers threw sand on her, she came to orgasm one last time. This one was the most intense yet, making her throw her head back, and her back arch. She let out one last groan, then fell limp. In her last moment of consciousness after her head slumped over, Kelsi saw that the teenage girl was now standing at her feet, staring up at her.
