I guess a friendship is like a barn, you have to keep it in good repair. If not it might just wither and die. I didn't want that to happen with Nate and me. The two of us had been friends, best friends, since we were really little kids. Since the age of five we have been doing just about everything together. But I was concerned. Over the summer we had both turned 12 but I had spent the last two months visiting my grandparents in Vermont. When I returned home I discovered that Nate had spent the summer paling it up with Rollo, a kid I didn't really like. The two of them had had sleep overs, gone camping and done all the stuff that Nate used to do only with me. I was afraid that Nate was drifting away. I was afraid that Rollo was trying to take my best friend away from me and you can bet I didn't like that one bit. I was jealious!

Anyway I was over at Nate's house and the two of us were alone in his room. Right out of the blue Nate said, "Luke can you keep a secret?" I was hurt that he had to ask. Before Rollo came along the two of us could tell each other anything. Of course I could keep a secret. We were best friends weren't we. I told him as much.

Nate gave me this sly smile and said, "Me and Rollo have decided to have 'it' done. This Saterday night I'm going to tell my folkes that I'm sleeping over at his place and he is going to tell his rents that he is spending the night at my place. Then we are going to go and get sniped. It will be under the full moon. Rollo says that us having it done together will make us even better friends. It will bond us for life."

"You meant you're going to have your balls cut off?" I gasped in disbelief. Sure I had heard of kids having IT done but not anyone I knew. Could Nate really be serious or was this all a big joke.

"Not just our balls," Nate answered looking very proud. "Our dicks will be taken as well. Me and Rollo are going to be nullified. Not too many kids have the curage we do."

"But why Nate?" I asked. "I don't care one way or the other what Rollo does but as a nullo you'll never be able to have sex! You'll never be able to beat off! You'll never be a man! You won't even be a boy anymore, not a real boy anyway. Why would you do something like that?"

Nate looked at me and I could see that he was mad that I didn't understand. "Maybe I'm having it done because there is more to life than just sex sex sex and beating off," he shot back. "Maybe I'm having it done because being a man isn't all that it's cracked up to be! If I don't have this done now in the next year or two all sorts of stuff will start happening to my body and most of them will be bad. I don't want to start growing hair everywhere. I don't want my face covered with zitts. I don't want my dick to get all big and gross and ugly. I don't want to wake up to find that it's been leaking goo like a broken fosit. I don't want to have my dick control my life. Rollo understands. He feels the same way I do. I should have known that you wouldn't be able to understand."

"Now clam down," I said. "I didn't say that." I had to think of some way to talk some sense into Nate before he made a very big mistake. I had to make him understand that nullification was not something you could 'take back'. It was forever, or at least it was for the rest of your life. Nullification was like a one way street that leads to a dead end and that dead end would by Nate's sexual death. "Have you told you parents about this? Has Rollo told his parents?" I asked.

"No we haven't because this isn't about what they want. This is about what we want. We are 12 so we don't need to ask. We don't need permission," he said.

I knew he was right. He didn't need permission. If I told his parents it wouldn't do any good at all. They couldn't stop him and Nate would hate me for letting them know. "It might hurt a lot," I said. "You might start crying when the cutter starts in on you."

"It'll hurt but not too much," Nate replied. "Rollo and I have found a very good cutter and we have read the reports about her work posted on the net by the kids she has cut. They say that it isn't too bad and that the pain doesn't last too long. We have also seen the before and after pictures. She does great work. After you heal it's very smooth down there with no scare at all. I think it looks really great. Do you want to see her web site?" In spite of myself I did and I told Nate so. He logged onto his computer and brought it up.

The cutter's name was Mistress Johnson and she was a beautful blond woman no more than 30. I could see why some boys might want to have her handle their private parts but to have them cut off? Geez! But what really got my heart pounding was the still photos of the boy she was about to geld. He was a beautiful red head who hardly looked 12. He was stark naked, spread eagle, and his hands and feet were tied to the table. He was completely helpless and standing over him was Mistress Johnson holding a fancy golden gelding knife in her hand. I realized that that was how Nate would look when it came his turn to lie down on the gelding table and be castrated. Would they take pictures of Nate like that and if so would they post them on the net? The thought filled me with terror but at the same time it thrilled me like nothing else. I was getting turned on!

Then I noticed that in the background there were two other boys waiting to be done and they were being held in a small cage! "Why is the kid who is about to be castrated tied to the table and why are those other kids locked in a cage?" I demanded. "If they want to be nutered why do they need to be caged; why the bondage?"

"It's sort of a game and sort of a tradtion," Nate explained. "Some kids like to pretend that they are slaves living in the olden days and that they are being cut by their master. It makes the castration more fun. Other kids are afraid that at the last minute they might get cold feet and chicken out. That's the beauty of the way Mistress Johnson dose it. All you have to do is muster the curage to show up and sign the papers and after that you can't change your mind. Mistress Johnson and her helpers won't let you. It's the best way to be nullified really."

"That's sick!" I said.

"Yeah well that's what you mouth says Luke but I'd say that your dick is saying something else." Nate was right. I couldn't hid it. My dick was harder than it had ever been before. It was making a tent in my shorts and it felt like it was about to explode. "Admit it Luke, it turns you on. I thought it would. You need it just as bad as I do."

"What?" I asked.

"Luke I have already told Mistress Johnson about you. She said that Rollo and I should bring you with us on Saterday night and that she'll cut you as well. Just think, we will be smooth and clean. No girls, or anything like that, will ever come between us. Sex will never be a problem for us. Our love will be innocent. Luke please, I want you there to be cut with me and Rollo."

(To be continued)