Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:32:35 -0600
From: dnrock@rock.com
Subject: The Beneficial 10: Holidays Part 2

The Beneficial
by:  dnrock(dnrock@rock.com)


10: Holidays Part 2

"This isn't the way to the airport Wynne, is it," Loretta asked?

"Of course it is, it is the way to the airport from which we will be flying
home."

"But we have tickets from MCO. grandpa, that's the code for Orlando
International," Charlie stated, looking at his ticket.

"The airport sign is pointing the other way," Margo noticed, as the van
traveled south on I 4 away from Orlando proper.

"There has been a venue change from the International to Lakeland
Regional," Wynne said.

"Why the change in venue," Richard asked, hoping it had nothing to do with
his and Eddy's previous performance?

"I received my instructions from a higher authority then your grandmother,
that's all I know.  We have about two hours of driving so better just
settle in, anyone need a rest stop?"

Everyone was singing camp songs as the van rolled along the highway.  They
pulled into the parking lot at the air service center, of this modest
regional airport.  Small planes were taking off and landing, a number of
single engine units of various vintages were parked off to the side, each
painted in different colors.  Just as they were getting out of the van a
bright yellow Stearman biplane buzzed the parking lot, tipped its wings up
an down, circling around for a landing.  Richard looked at the small open
cockpit plane with longing eyes.

"I want to fly one of those," he proudly proclaimed.

Grandpa just smiled and herded everyone into the large gray hanger.

Much to the children's surprise the hanger held a comfortable weighting
room, complete with Edith, Tom, Tina and Sanford Andersen.  Charley and his
sisters mobbed Tom, which made it easy for Eddy to run up and greet his
mother.  Eddy hates to be placed in the position of having to choose one
parent over the other, now that he had two.  He is young enough to want a
hug and kiss from both.  Just at that time the yellow biplane taxied up and
parked in front of the lounge door, right next to a blue and silver Twin
Otter.

Tina handed Richard a small bag, this is a gift from your dad.  Richard
looked out at the biplane again but could not make out the pilot, who was
wearing an old fashioned leather helmet and goggles.  "Open it son" Sandy
commanded.  Richard reached in the bag and pulled out a leather helmet and
goggles.  His face light up like a forth of July fire cracker and he bolted
out the door toward the biplane, just as Garth jumped to the ground.  Nate
stopped Eddy, Charlie and the girls from following.  Richard is just a bit
to big to jump into Garth's arms.  Garth is only five feet eleven and
Richard is at least six foot one and still growing.  For a moment it seemed
like he was going to try.

Sandy Andersen watched his son and grandson.  He remembered the emotions
and feeling they were experiencing.  He had experienced the feeling of a
man Garth's age fondling, embracing, kissing and longing to penetrate his
younger male lover.  He could feel the thrill of that lover's body pressed
against his, against each other.  He knew the longing and emptiness of not
having your lovers penis clamped into your anus or being engulfed by your
mouth.  Sandy remembered a lot of things, he remembered how wonderful it
was when Wynne and him would slide up behind their sons taking each others
pride as the boys were locked in oral heaven.  Garth placed the helmet on
his boy and assisted him into the front seat, his hands slowly fondling
Richard's rock hard butt.

Richard was doubly thrilled, perhaps triply.  Garth had surprised him by
returning early, he was getting his first biplane ride and first flying
lesson after completing ground school.  Biplanes fly slow and low.  In the
warm afternoon sun of Florida, a perfect time for flying, with wind in
their faces, dad and boy floated over the orchards and groves, doing lazy
loops and long slow turns.  Richard took the stick and gently pulling back
slowly gaining some altitude.  He was thrilled following Garth's easy
instructions.  The boy always thought he would like to fly, this was even
better, like it was wonderful.  It was freedom.  He was a 1920's barn
stormier, he was experiencing again the excitement those early aviators
once felt.  Every acceleration, tight turn or bank was thrilling, it was as
exaltation as having Garth's cock up his ass or Tom's and Eddy's sexual
attention.

On the ground it was non stop talk and questions.  Tom explained how Garth
got the idea and managed to organize the little surprise.  The children
reviewed their departure adventures and all their experiences at Disney
World.  Garth landed and another pilot took the other children for rides
while Garth filed his flight plan.  He took Richard with him.  After
filing, Garth had Richard help him with the pre flight check, "you run the
clip board," he instructed Richard.

Garth had arranged to ferry the Twin Otter from Texas to Minnesota and pay
for any additional fuel, on the condition he could make a side trip to
Lakeland and bring his family home.  The biplane was rented from a local
pilot.  Richard was absolutely thrilled to take the right seat next to
Garth, in the Twin Otter.  Edith was quite overwhelmed by all this.  She
had only met Garth's and Tom's parents briefly and only knew the girls from
brief visits at uncle Tom's.  She was pleased that Eddy liked his new
grandparents and that they accepted Eddy and treated him the same as
Wayne's children.  She was also appreciative but just a little taken aback,
that she was not only being included but obviously accepted into the family
as a full member, almost like Tom's wife.

Once in the air and at cursing altitude Richard went back and let the
other's sit with Garth.  Nate found it interesting, the girls were polite
but not very interested, Charlie thought it looked like fun but Eddy was
just fascinated with the process.  Tom was qualified on 172's and 180's but
that was as far as his interest ever went.  Eddy, he was fascinated,
wanting to know what each gauge and button or switch was for.

"Richard, did Eddy really call that security man he, uh assaulted, that
seems so strange; Eddy is so gentle and he is only nine, an ass hole,"
Edith asked?

"Not exactly, he called him a bigoted ass hole.  Eddy was just trying to
protect me and the fellow was not paying any attention to him, because he
was just a kid, so I guess Eddy figured he would get his attention.  I
don't think he was trying to hurt him."

"Garth told me Eddy and Richard are real heroes around the airline, none of
the staff thought much of that fellow, in fact they hated his officious
attitude but I guess it took a child to notice the 'emperor had no
cloths'," Tina chimed in.

"Was that man trying to hurt you Richard," Edith asked?

"Well he was making threats and if he would have touched me, I would have
put the bastard in the hospital, I think Eddy realized that and figured
getting his attention was a good way to prevent it.  I hope your not upset
with him, I should not have let the situation get out of control, blame
me."

"No, I'm not upset with you or Eddy, I am very upset with the security
people who are demanding an apology," Edith said.

"Before I retired, I was the Sr. VP of customer service, for the Airline.
Those bastards can demand anything they want but if any apologies are forth
coming it will be from them to us.  I think this post 9 -11 paranoia has
gone just about far enough," Sandy said as he marched to the cockpit.

Tina rolled her eyes, "Sanford is a very quiet man but when his dander is
raised it is probably a good idea to hide.  When the subject relates to
"his grand children" and that means just about any child, any place, he
will go all out.  We are retired, we have nothing to loose."

What Sandy was up to would normally be called black mail.  In polite terms
political pressure.  He was on the phone to the publisher of Tom's
newspaper.  He just happened to be a second cousin, but not an extended
family member, of his; and over who he had some power or embarrassing
information.  Sandy had arranged to have a copy of the security people's
secret hassle list published; unless they publicly apologized to Richard
and Eddy and it better be a full and complete apology.  In return Eddy
would apologize for any embarrassment he caused the department.  The e-mail
of this secret list would be sent from the offending officers computer to
the paper but he must make sure they had only a few hours to decide, not
enough for any kind of legal actions to stop publication.

Tom correctly predicted they would refuse and the list would be published.
It was.  Most of the names on the list were of people who were politically
unpopular with the DC types but who were in no reasonable way a security
threat.  Immediately thousands of people, many celebrities, began demanding
their names be added to the list, including many Republicans.  The whole
thing turned into a night mare for the bureaucrats.  This also put the
consecrative press and commentators in a real bind.  It was obvious that
the administration was attempting to intimidate, to silence debate and
opposition to its policies, the very flag the conservatives have been
claiming to defend.  That brought the whole patriot act debate into sharper
focus.

People are not willing to just give up their freedoms on a "trust us" basis
because they had just demonstrated they can't be trusted, the ordinary
citizens recognize a hypocrite when they see one.  Political power is the
name of the game and people quickly realized that motive is just as
dangerous to their freedom as faith based reasoning.  The only trust you
can have is, it will be abused.  Sam Johnson is quoted in James Boswell's
The LIfe of Smauel Johnson, "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel".
This current bunch of politicians is a perfect example of that.  Tom would
write a number of guest editorials on the subject of faith based belief
systems and their dangers in a civil secular society.  He demonstrated that
faith need not be religious, just faith in the righteousness of your
position or cause.

While Tom was away his plan to trap the burglars went off with only a few
minor difficulties.  The hackers were tracked back to the security office
of a large local manufacture, a major contributor to the Majority Leader
and his party.  The burglar who was caught by the cops, was working with
that security office.  The telephone company fired the phone leak and that
person was eventually connected to the majority leader's campaign office.
It turned out that the security office had also hired a privet
investigators firm.  These people were establishing electronic
surveillance, physical surveillance, mail surveillance, and just attempting
to dig up any background dirt they could on the governor and his close
associates and family.  These actions were also highly illegal.

Tom had Wiley and his school buddies set up an encryption system for
electronic messages, such as e-mail, that would keep them busy for months
trying to crack it.  Then he made sure a very high volume of traffic
between all the watched parties was substantially increased.  The content
of his and Carl's stuff took three forms, 1. many photographs of children
and grandchildren, lots of very cute family photos.  2.  An unbelievable
number of short notes and friendly chat that appeared to be in code, most
of this was Dr. Zuss or nonsense rhymes or passages from published authors.
3.  Chapters of unfinished works of fiction, most in need of editing, by
several student authors.

Since most of these people knew each other and often interacted with each
other, they just made themselves even more visible, making sure nothing
political or strategic was ever mentioned.  His most diabolical plan was
implemented in the new year.  Tom arranged to plant all kinds of seemingly
incriminating things about himself and everyone else, for the watchers to
find.  Unfortunately it was all made up, sending the investigators on any
number of very wild goose chases, trying to track down people and even
places that simply did not exist.  Garrison Keeler eat your heart out.

The thieves attempted leaking some of this stuff to the media but when the
leads turned to be false, so much credibility was lost, even a real lead
would now be ignored.  Sprinkled among the trash were lots of real stuff
but any real things were published or public facts.  In the mean time the
Attorney Generals office started some investigations of its own on the
majority leader's associates and himself.  Everyone started making sure all
their paper garbage including newspapers, magazines and advertisements were
shredded, since the spies were so interested in collecting and
reconstructing it.  This was beginning to cost the sponsors one hell of a
pile of money.  The word was also put out to the family, any non family
members asking questions about a family member, should be told to go to the
source and then let the camp office know ASAP.

Just before the winter solutes party one of Carl's big political party
supporters reported that several other party members had asked for tickets
to the festivities.  These things are open to family and guests but the
guest tickets need to be secured in advance and names given.  The requester
did not think anything of the idea, since she knew these people also knew
Carl at least politically.  Carl smelled a rat.  Tom figured they wanted to
see if anything went on at the festival they could use politically against
him and who was there, since a membership list was all but impossible to
get, as no member was willing to share that.

..................

"Members and guests, I am pleased to declarer the 115th festival of light
officially opened.  Just a few items to dispense with before we start the
festivities.  Our total membership is now 1137, that includes Balir's
newborn Veronica, as of 6:45 this morning.  During the past year we
achieved many new milestones, a few of them are ..... We had 6 deaths and 7
births.  The median age of membership is now 37, yes we are getting older.
Our oldest member is Elsie at 102."

The master of ceremony turned to a large TV screen, that showed Elsie in a
wheel chair surrounded by little kids at the day care.  The show was being
televised to the day care.

"We have an unprecedented number of guests with us today.  I know you will
all make them welcome."

Each guest had a colored name tag so they were easily identified.  They had
been instructed that first names only and all titles of occupation, social
or celebrity status or what ever, were checked at the door.  Most of the
guests were like Edith, Con and Deb, prospective members or non member
relatives of members.  Guest were escorted by their sponsor or sponsors.
They were reminded that it is always acceptable to give praise to anyone
who deserves it, especially a child but never to that child's biological
parents, coaches or teachers.  The four political guests were each
assigned, a middle aged motherly type, as guides.

"This year our financial situation improved and I have been asked to report
that the academic scholarship fund's endowment has been increased by 15%.
We have 45 young people at post secondary institutions of one kind or
another and four receiving privet tutoring.  Sixty-five of our members are
not here tonight, 34 are serving in the armed forces or at other overseas
posts.  Twenty of our public service and medical members are on duty....

This will be the first time, the entertainment portion of the festival is
being broadcast world wide, on our internet home page.  Oh, by the way,
being a dynamic set of organizations I have been ask to point out so many
changes have been made to the program, since it was printed earlier today,
it is best to consult the TelePrompTers on either side of the stage."

Eddy came out on the stage followed by about 15 kids including Conrad, who
just a few minutes had been sitting next to his parents.  Eddy began
pushing the master of ceremonies, a world famous conductor off the stage.
"I guess they are eager to get started," he said, as the tuxedo clad
gentleman exited stage left.  This bit was not on the program and the
change flashed up on the TelePrompTers.  Eddy sang the Little Drummer Boy
with Conrad playing the drum just like at the department store.  To say
least Con and Deb were quite surprised not having realized Conrad had even
left his seat.  When they finished the MC stuck his head our and asked if
he could come on the stage.  Eddy gave him a big wave with his arm and as
Conrad beat time they all filed off.

Needless to say the audience went wild, they go wild with every performance
anyway but they overdid wild this time.  "That was Eddy and his Gangue, a
tough act to follow, I know young people are a lot faster then us old
timers but I think the drummer came here this morning as a guest.  Not to
be out classed for speed, the Novice boys and girls rhythmic dance and
gymnastics..... and so on .... our film makers took a look at the families
efforts in transportation innovation," he was reading from a card, "if you
can't be better be funny, but I'm sure this will be both good and funny."

The film was a series of little sense, showing members interacting with
transportation.  It showed Garth and Richard landing in the biplane, Wayne
and the boys in a birch bark canoe trying to pull a water skier and so on.
It ended with a clip of Eddy bringing down the security guard.  The voice
over, Carl's voice, saying, "Eddy are you sure this is what the book said
about winning friends and influencing people."  ..............

"Please give a moment of silence to honor your great spirit and the spirits
of the animals we are about to eat."

"I met the chef and his name is Conrad too,"

"You boys shouldn't be bothering the chef," Deb was saying.

"It's okay, Mrs. S, Conrad ask all the Novices to visit the kitchen so we
could learn about all the different foods we would be eating tonight.  That
way we can help the Juniors and Intermediates to serve.  See how we are
spaced out along the table, you'll see."  Eddy was explaining.

"I suggest you only take a small bit of what ever is offered, otherwise you
will fill up long before the last offering.  All of this food was prepared
here today.  It either came from one of our farms or was harvested by our
hunters and fishermen," Tom explained.

"That's almost incredible, Elk, deer, moose, Bison, porcupine, beaver,
ducks, geese, wild turkeys, five kinds of wild fish and all the domestic
stuff.," Con added.

Noddy and his family were sitting just down the table.  "I don't mean this
to sound like pressure but I think Conrad has voted already.  I suspect he
will want to stay here for the balance of the winter camp."  he whispered
to Con.

"He does seem to have made himself right at home.  I think Deb and I feel
comfortable here too."

"Can I have a glass of wine too?"  Conrad said to his mother, with his
large pleading eyes.

Deb looked around quickly noticing most of the kids had a small glass of
what looked like wine.  "Well I guess it will be all right."  Eddy pushed
his glass to Conrad and hurried off to get another for himself.  Richard
was keeping Edith's glass as full as possible, while Nate went in search of
a young fellow he figured would make a good BB for Conrad.

After the meal and good conversation the Head of the WGRS spoke briefly,
reminding everyone the festival of light was not only a tradition of the
past 115 years but based on the old nordic traditions some of our ancestors
brought with them.  What it all boils down to are three parts:
entertainment, food and a hell of a good party.  Dancing and party in the
gymnasium for everyone or the WGRS dining hall with music aimed more at the
Seniors and young adults.  Any guests that decided to stay the night at the
camps were welcome, see the desk for room assignments before 10 p.m.

Richard found Jane and her little sister Sandra, bringing them to the table
for introductions.  Most everyone already knew Jane but not Sandra.  Eddy
was quick off the mark asking Sandra to join Charlie, Melissa, Jenny,
Conrad and himself.  Tom suggested that Edith, Con and Deb stay the night,
which got Conrad's attention.  Charlie, Eddy, Jim, Norm and Conrad headed
for Randell house after only a few dances.  The girls all departed for
their dorm leaving the adults.  Stated around a large table Noddy and his
wife headed off early, having relatives in Middletown.

The five boys were crammed into one of the large lower bunks.  Tom
suggested Con take the upper bunk and he and Garth took Richard's large
lower bunk.  Nate, Richard and the other Seniors would find spaces he told
Con, if any of them showed up at all.  Wayne, Nelson and Garth's sisters
had gone to stay with parents in town.

Garth shot awake to see five naked boys running from the sleeping quarters
toward the shower room.  He woke Tom with a series of kisses and aggressive
penis fondling.  Garth was not accustomed to living with Novice aged boys,
so he woke up immediately.  When the three men reached the shower room they
were immediately sprayed, Conrad was in the middle of the pack like he had
always been a part of it.

"Please dad, please."

"Ya, Con please let him stay, we get to go ice skating and snow-showing and
cross country skiing and everything."

"Let him stay Con, it is no trouble and Richard can bring him back at the
end of the week.  We have everything he will need here don't worry."  The
boys bolted out the door toward the dining hall and the three men walked
slowly along.

"I think this is a good idea, Conrad just fits right in.  I could not quite
understand Tom, when he told me about adopting Eddy, but now that I have
gotten to know him and Conrad and see how much fun they have with my little
Charlie, I think I am beginning to understand.  It's kind of like old times
isn't it buddy, Tom, Garth and Harold, now Conrad, Charlie and Eddy," Wayne
said.

"Look Con before you head back why not stop in the office and pick up all
the forms and stuff.  Conrad can participate in the winter program which
starts with this week anyway and you and Deb can get your inductance
classes completed by spring.  Did Noddy outline the process?"

"Yes he did but no details."

"None of us know the details, having never been through the crash course as
it were."

"I have all the forms filled out already, they are in the car."

"Well drop them off along the a check, I am sure, and they should be able
to give you a tentative schedule."

When they got into the dining hall Harold was surrounded by a gaggle of
boys, all running through their scales.

"Is that the Harold you were talking about as we walked over, Garth?"

"Yes it is, when we were boys the three of us were inseparable.  Now I
should warn you, Harry is a bit strange, well he is not the only strange
one around here either.  He may try and kiss you, but if you don't want
that just ask him not to."

"Are those the rules?"

"Well more or less, if you are not comfortable with male sexual or just
affectionate attention, just say no thanks and that's it.  If you don't
mind than just say okay or respond in kind.  The boys are taught to ask
permission first, some of the older men forget that part.  The boys expect
a small touch or kiss on the cheek or forehead from almost every adult the
encounter, they are not offended not to get it but it is very common,
especially from the women."

Con could see that as each boy finished his scales Harold would touch his
arm or shoulder and kiss his cheek or forehead and then heap praise on the
lad for his efforts.

"Auditioning for a boys choir," Tom asked?

"No but maybe I should, no not a good Idea, below the age of about 13 you
know, boy and girl voices are not truly distinguishable.  You must be
Conrad Sr., my pleasure, Eddy talks about Conrad all the time and they sure
did that drummer boy thing well together, didn't they?  I know, these two
have told you all my secrets, they are all true too," He said with a wink,
kissing Garth passionately on the mouth, Con on the cheek and Tom
passionately on the mouth.

Con noticed the boys did not seem to notice this.

"Got to go, I'm figure skating coach this week."

Harold pranced out the door and across the lot toward the ice rink.

"Harold made it to regional junior champion but singing became to important
and he stopped competing," Tom informed.

After eating, the boys all got affectionate with the men.  Eddy and Norman
pushed under Tom's arms, Charlie and Jim under Garth's and Conrad got on
his dad's lap.

"And what brings all this sugar to the table?"  Tom asked?

Each boy kissed the cheek of his man and Conrad answered, "We boys just
want to thank the men for letting this boy stay the week with his friends."
Conrad was quite animated pointing to the boys and the men as he spoke.

They snapped to attention and started to run off.

"Notice anything odd," Garth asked?

Tom and Con looked blank.

"Not a BB in sight."

Harold came steaming back into the room.  "Not a Senior girl in sight
either."

"I'll bet if you find Richard you will find Jane," Tom offered, handing his
cell to Harold and pressing the preset for Richard's cell.

Harold was laughing so hard he could not stop long enough to get it out at
first.

"Richard's car won't start.  Jane, his buddies and my other girls are all
stuck with him."  More laughter, "Your dad is trying to boost it now, and
your mom is insisting they eat something before they go anyway.  Does that
sound like dejavu -vu to you Garth."  Now Garth was laughing and so was
Tom.

"When we were 17 or 18 the same thing happened to us.  Harold, Garth, Me,
John and Fred all had our dates over at Garth's parents, after the winter
solutes festival and our cars would not start in the morning.  We were all
on kitchen duty too, so everyone was here wondering what happened to us.
It's sex Con, these kids think they are inventing it but we know the truth,
we did," Tom announced.

"But you know what burns my ass, my parents gave us the gears for weeks
over it and I'll bet all they said to these kids was need any more condoms
dear," Tom said.

"How does this family deal with situations like that, obviously your
parents are okay with it but what about the other parents?"

"This family is like any other 1100 strong and that equates to 1200
opinions on every subject.  When it comes to sex between teens of legal
age, I think the conciseness is none of our business, as long as it is 100%
voluntary and please be safe in what you do.  Better that they use
someone's recreation room than some less secure and comfortable place.  It
is a lot like drinking and driving.  We can not condone underage drinking
but it is going to occur; lets make sure it done in a safe place and keep
them off the road.  No one is pressured to allow behavior they disagree
with in their homes but a proper quid-pro-quo is to ignore, when it happens
in your neighbors home.  You will see the families' attitudes towards
things like sex are very liberal.  Sex is the glues that holds all this
together, I guess you might say, sex is viewed as a normal human activity
not much different than many other things we humans do.

The family has its share of divorces and shared parenting and single parent
situations and same sex couples, with and without children; It has its
philandering too but on a statistical basis much lower than the general
population.  In a way this is the original free love commune they talked
about in the 60's.  I think the most important aspect of this family is its
commitment to a non faith based humanistic view of morality.  That and its
almost obsessive devotion to our children.  Since almost everyone is
related, in some way to everyone else, we are a very affectionate bunch.
Lots of sex just trades around between consenting partners.  No one gets to
up tight about it and since most of us have known each other since early
childhood, your life partner almost never sees that as a threat.  That is
one of the benefits from the BB and big sister system.  Families get all
mixed up all the time and parents freely share each others offspring.  Like
I was saying before, look your new son has just walked in, if you accept
him that is."

"What do I do, do I have a choice, what about Deb?"

"First, it is your choice of males and her choice for females.  You get a
choice because you are new members.  Existing members have some influence
but the council makes the final choice.  In this case you will be offered
several candidates, until you settle on one, you do not have the luxury of
comparison, however.  The boy is acceptable or not.  Interview him, ask him
questions like why he thinks he would make a good BB for Conrad and you
know the kind of stuff they teach at the corporate, "charm school".

"You make it sound like a human resource issue."

"That is exactly what it is.  Respect, friendship, sex if you want it,
perhaps love may result but right now it is a question of, can this lad do
the job, is he a good choice for Conrad, will he be able to fit into your
household?  This is a long term commitment, for the next several years he
will be a big part of your family.  Richard and Nate, knowing both Conrad
and Peter, that's his name, figure he is the prime candidate," Garth added.

"Hi, I'm Peter Broadfoot and I want to be Conrad's BB," Peter announced as
he approached the table.

"I'm Conrad Sample, Sr., pleased to meet you, please sit down."

"Why don't you boys find your Little Brothers and my Senior Girls and join
me at the skating rink, now please," Harold, managed to say in a more or
less masculine voice, with more than a hint of conviction.

Just as they were leaving Eddy and Conrad ran up to Peter.

"Peter, this is Conrad."  Conrad stepped forward and they shook hands.
Eddy was looking deep into Peter eyes studying his every move.

"Little Chickadee," a voice rang out, something like the preverbal 'voice
of doom'.  Eddy jumped to attention at Grandfather's call, He gave Tom the
thumbs up and ran off pulling Conrad and the others after him.

"What was that all about," someone asked?

"I'll explain it to you later gentlemen, right now Peter and Conrad need to
be left alone for a bit, Garth, Wayne, I think we all need a coffee
refill," Tom announced as he rose.

As they approached the coffee dispenser, Tom overheard grandfather telling
the little Chickadee "the Shaman can not offer advice or guidance unless he
is asked for it.  The shaman can offer his services but the apprentice can
not.  You may only answer direct question and you should only tell the
truth with no interpretation...."

Tom had heard that speech before, he had listened to it so many times, he
knew it by heart.  Grandfather was not augury or upset, he knows the
apprentice only wants to help.

"But please grandfather let me tell you what I saw, it is important..."

Conrad Sr. and Peter talked.  Con asked all the right questions like why
Peter thought he would make a good BB and why he even wanted to be a BB at
all.  What his interests were and and so on.  Tom's mouth dropped open as
he saw Eddy leading grandfather toward the table with Con and Peter.

"Boys it has got to be a first and we should get close enough to hear it,"
Tom announced.

"Peter, Conrad, I'm sorry to interrupt, this is my spiritual grandfather,
my shaman master," Eddy said.

"Little Spirit Eyes has asked me to offer our insight if you feel we can be
of some service," Sam said.

Peter being very quick and having noticed the close scrutiny Eddy gave him,
before and realizing he was Sam's apprentice, figured Eddy wanted to say
something but needed Sam's agreement and Sam needed his and Con's to allow
it.  He had no real idea what Eddy wanted to say but figured what the hell.
Con did not quite know what to think but he did know Eddy and he knew Eddy
and Conrad Jr. were best friends and that was probably why Eddy had dragged
the old man over.  Peter looked at Con, and Con at Peter.  They nodded to
each other.

Con spoke, "I think we can use all the help we can get, at least I can,
perhaps you have some insight to share with us."

Tom was pleased and so would Noddy be pleased, with the way Con was
handling the situation.  He was also pleased with the way Peter was
conducting himself.  He was if noting else well schooled.  A rebel looking
for a cause perhaps, but still well schooled.

"The Chickadee had a vision and he would like to describe it to you."  Sam
said, running his hand over the boy's head.

"I saw two Otters playing on a river bank, sliding into the water down a
mud bank then they played in the wake of Quick Owl's canoe they were
laughing and swimming in the river."  Eddy said.

Con looked puzzled, Peter knowing his woods lore spoke to Grandfather.
"Otters are both wise and playful animals, very intelligent and skillful
hunters, that live along rivers.  They are welcome in the lodges of the
beaver and muskrats and are respected by other larger hunters like the
Fisher and Martin, the Chickadee and gray jay are the Otter's friends."

"Were the Otters the same size," Peter asked.

"No, one was bigger than the other," Eddy replied.

"Thank you grandfather shaman your apprentice's vision has given us great
insight," Peter said, and Con nodded in agreement.

Grandfather led Eddy away to join his buddy's at the skating ring.  Some
how everyone managed to keep a straight face.

"May we join you," Garth inquired?

"Please, we were about finished anyway."

Tom was about to explain the shaman's intervention when Wayne interrupted.
"Okay, what was Eddy's inspection of Peter and his thumb's up sign all
about?"

"Eddy, little Spirit Eyes, has an extraordinary power to look into a
person's eyes and see into their heart.  I know it is sounds strange coming
from your resident atheist, science guy but he has faith in his ability and
Grandfather has declared him the anointed one.  The thumbs up was his way
to telling us he approved of Peter, but grandfather has forbid him to
articulate his .... uh.... feelings," Tom explained.

"Then why the little story and not just a declaration of what he believes
he sees," Con asked?

"Grandfather would not let him, in fact he had to do a lot of talking just
to get the shaman to approach you two, who are not members of the Big Chief
Clan and offer his services.  I want to thank both of you for being so
polite and courteous to the old man and his young assistant.  I think you
surprised Sam by accepting his offer and I know Eddy now feels that he has
made a contribution regarding his friend," Tom answered.

They talked a bit about what each did and what they thought the meaning of
the little story was.  Tom praised Peter for his quick wittiness and his
knowledge that the chickadee and gray jay were references to Richard and
Eddy, in fact birds do not share any direct relationship to otters but
beavers, muskrats and some others do.

Con finally asked how next to proceed, "I want to accept Peter's offer to
be Conrad's BB, what do we do now?"

Wayne offered the suggestion, "Why don't you both stand up and Con place
you hands on Peter's shoulders and accept his offer."

He did as the others placed their hands on Con's to signify a larger
compact.

Garth want out to the skating ring and dragged in all the boy's who
gathered around.  Peter was again introduced to his new LB and he made the
pledge to guide, educate, protect and learn to love Conrad.  Conrad and
Peter both hugged and departed for Dr. Oleffsen's office the other boys
went back to their activities.  Con and Deb stopped at the office and drove
back to the city along with Edith.

"He is a very handsome young man, soft spoken, not overly out going and
very courteous.  Black hair and brown eyes, about my height, solidly built
upper body, he comes across as bit of a rebel but has aspirations of being
a medical Dr.  I think the boy is looking for a challenge, some direction
and responsibility, not unlike another 17 year old I once knew better than
I would like to admit some times."  Con reported to the women.

Peter took Conrad to Dr. Oleffsen for his physical and first hypnosis
section.  Derek treated Conrad just like any other new Novices except he
was to have four sections a day since the days were fewer.  Derek was taken
aback by the size of the boy's prostate.  It was quite large for a nine
year old.  Conrad also had a longer then average penis and relative well
developed set of testicles.  He speculated the lad would mature earlier
than the other boys.  Peter had been advanced for his age too but his
prostate was not quiet so large at age nine.  Derek made careful notes
making sure to keep a close eye on this boy's development.  He devised a
qualitative measure by the end of the week to make this tracking reasonable
reliable.  Having a large prostate made it easier to interact with it and
offered Conrad the ability to become stimulated about 20% faster then his
peers; it may also be a sign of some developmental abnormality.

Conrad learned fast and by the end of the day he was begging physical
attention from Peter at every opportunity.  One of Peter's challenges was
to bring Conrad up to a level of knowledge and experience to match his
buddies and the other six first year Novices.  By the end of the week he
and his boy were firmly bonded.  The Novices quickly integrated him into
their sex activities and Conrad was accepting butt fucks from the other big
brothers as readily as from Peter.  Conrad is shorter and smaller then the
other nine year olds.  He has a rounded bubble butt and well developed
genitals and a slight bulge in his tummy which protrudes slightly over his
small tight briefs.  Given his larger than normal genitals and small body
he presented a highly erotic image.  Peter felt that showing Conrad some
high quality boy-boy and man-boy pornography would hasten that part of of
his education.  It did.  By the end of the week Conrad would go down on
every penis presented.  Ejaculate supplanted candy as his favorite snack
and he was taking three and four cocks up is little ass in succession.
Derek was perhaps just a bit to successful this time.

Peter liked to fuck, he liked to fuck boys and he liked to fuck girls.  He
liked to get fucked too, he loved it up the ass and sure enjoyed it in the
mouth.  He liked to suck cock, nipples, testicles, pussy and plunge his
tongue into any hole especially Conrad's anus.  Peter had a string of
high-school girls he bedded on a more or less regular basis.  He had his BB
and other members on a catch as catch can basis and now he looked forward
to: Conrad, Deb, Tom, Eddy, Richard and the others.  Peter in effect is a
sex machine.  He is hung with a huge set of balls and his almost nine inch,
cut cock is arrow strength.  It was not all that thick and relatively
uniform in circumference over its length except for the head which was just
slightly smaller.  He liked that aspect of his manhood the best.  He just
lubed the head and in it want in any hole he pointed it at.  Derek had
helped him over the years to control his ejaculations, he had staying power
like few others and with the aid of Derek's herbs buckets of ejaculate.
Peter is a sexual animal, he exudes sex.  He is happy being bi, in fact he
is mystified why everyone isn't like him.  He likes games too and soon was
the catalyst for many sex games at Randell house getting as many boys as
available involved.

.............................

"I don't understand, you are an Atheist, you don't believe in Christmas."

"I may be an Atheist and don't accept the religious aspects of Christmas,
which is nothing more that the early church co-opting established festivals
like the festival of light, for it's own purposes.  However, I like a good
party and celebration and I like singing and good music and I sure like the
idea of giving.  I like the spirit of Christmas, the lights and
decorations."

"Does that mean if I gave you a present you would not be mad," Eddy asked?

"No I will not be "mad" if you give me a present, I am giving you presents,
I would be a hypocrite if I would give but not receive."

"Okay, but most of these songs are kind of religious."

"True, but that is what people want to hear and we sing for the enjoyment
of others not just ourselves.  We don't have to believe the words, it is
like some of the German and French songs that Harold is teaching you.  One
does not need to to be fluent in that language to sing well."

Edith, Tom, Eddy, Conrad, Con, Deb, Samantha, Peter and Richard went out on
the eve of christmas eve, Caroling in the neighborhood, a day that probably
has a name more creative name but Tom did not know what it was called.
(Given that Tom did not know it, your narrator suspects it has none of
common use or importance.)

Quite cold but fortunately no wind.  They bundled up well and tramped
through the complex starting at the community center.  The snow crunched
under foot and the sky was clear, stars were shining and visible even in
the city.  The last place they visited was Jack Handson's.  This must be
one of his days off Tom thought as they approached, noticing his lights on.
Tom was also quite surprised when he saw the faces of the Mendes brothers
in the window.  Jack quickly opened the door and invited them in.  The
Mendes boys were dressed in T-shirts and unbelievably tight, black, shorts
even though it was winter, it looked like they had been working out.  Jack
made hot drinks and everyone shared the music and sang.  Eddy noticed the
slight spanish accent they usually spoke with was not noticeable when they
sang.  Richard noticed how much the boys had changed from a few months ago.
Not only had they grown as teens do but they were neat, with well groomed
hair and a very pleasant attitude.  He also noticed how sexy they looked in
the tight biking type shorts.  Their assets were very well displayed, nice
crotch packages and butt that sent his penis into full erection.

This would be Tom and Eddy's first holiday season as parents and child, it
would be Edith's first holiday season with a men in the family and one in
her bed.  Christmas eve was a work day for Edith.  Conrad's family would be
heading for his maternal grandmothers as soon as dad came home.  Richard,
Peter and Nate must report to their families on Christmas day.  The
Anderson's expected all the grand children and parents for dinner on
Christmas Day.

Tom started preparing a "C. Eve" feast about noon.  He of course recruited
Richard, Eddy, Conrad and Peter to assist him.  Peter and Richard took the
shopping list and departed to round up the specialty foods Tom's
traditional Scandinavian menu required.  Eddy and Conrad stayed home to
give Tom a treat they said.

"Now you come with us and do exactly as we say, okay?"

They lead him to the master bath which was a triple sized tub and began
drawing water.  Conrad got a chair and stood on it and between the two they
undressed Tom.  Kissing and creasing him.  When Tom was naked they both
began kissing and licking his manhood until it was rock hard.  That by the
way did not take much or long.  Each boy took a hand and lead him to the
tub.

"Now, get in and your personal bath boys will be right with you," Eddy
stated.

Tom sat in the warm slowly circulating water watching the boys undress each
other.  They were trying to be a sensuous as possible.  Tom tried not to
laugh, it may be funny from his adult point of view but the boys were very
serious and he needed to respect that.

His two bath boys, water nymphs as it were, kissed each other pressing
their groins together.  (The term nymph implies a girl, it is a feminine
noun in all the European languages your author is aware of.  A good male
term just does not exist.  These boys may be young and prepubescent but
make no mistake they are 100% male, all boy from the get go.) They came to
the tub and got in, one on each side of Tom and proceeded to bath him.
Well they sort of bathed him between the kisses and fondles and creases.
Tom's hands roamed freely over his two favorite nine year old bodies.  They
laughed and joked and he fingered their anuses and sucked on their little
penises.  The boys got out of the tub and dried each other off.

Tom wanted to do that but he was being catered to this afternoon and this
was the boy's show.  They helped him out and began drying his body each
with a large towel, paying very careful attention to his genitals and butt.
Now that they were relaxed, washed and dried the boys lead him to the bed.
Tom was told to lay down on his back, which he did.  Eddy let Conrad have
at Tom's rock hard cock.  The Novice with only a little more then a week's
instructions was already a master.  He began deep throating Tom and then
pulling his head back letting his tongue play with the corona, glands and
underside of this shaft.  Both the boy's hands were playing with his
testicles.  Eddy climbed on Tom's chest and began fucking his mouth with
his three and bit inch penis.  Tom quickly inserted his fingers in Eddy's
butt and began the prostrate massage he knew Eddy craved.  Suddenly Conrad
abandoned his task leaving Tom cock stiff and wet.  The boy quickly moved
up and pulling his butt cheeks apart sat on the erect cock engulfing it's
entire length in one quick move.  Conrad's sphincter clamped tight on the
man's penis.  "God is this kid tight and hot as hell," Tom thought.

As soon as Tom ejaculated into Conrad the boys changed positions and Eddy
began working Tom stiff again; fucking his man while Tom sucked his buddy's
penis and fingered the boy's butt.  Tom wanted to ream their cute little
asses and suck his ejaculate out but the boys wanted to snuggle against his
body.  This was truly boy lovers heaven, it was the best present the boys
could have possibly thought of.  All that afternoon the Chickadees were
feasting at Tom's bird feeder.  Tom's feeder sees many different birds, but
today the only ones he noticed were the Chickadees.