A FAMILY AFFAIR, by Ganymede. WARNING: This story contains a graphic description of consensual sexual acts involving a man and a MINOR boy. I do not condone the sexual abuse of children, however boy-love as described in this story is an entirely different matter. Any resemblance to any individual, alive or dead, is unfortunate. If the subject of man/boy sex offends you, stop now! If this material is illegal in your place of residence, or if you are under the legal age for such material, do not read further! You have been warned! Read at your own risk! THE NIFTY ARCHIVE This story, copyrighted under the pseudonym, Ganymede, has been placed in the Nifty archive for your reading pleasure. If you enjoyed reading it, please contribute whatever you think is reasonable to the Nifty Archive. Directions for your support are given on the Nifty home page. FINAL WARNING: If you are under the age of 18, if this material is illegal in your place of residence, or if man-boy relationships aren't your thing, then exit now and save yourself from a life of sin! A FAMILY AFFAIR, by Ganymede. Chapter 1. 2.15 p.m. November 6th. The wheels of my slide grate loudly on the concrete as I scoot out from under the car. With a greasy palm I brush the hair from my eyes, oblivious to the dark oily streak that came to my brow. Silently, I curse myself, the weather, life in general, just about everything, until I find the three-eighths socket. It is less than a few inches from where I had left it, and I should have remembered. Tiredly, I lie back down on the slide and begin to guide myself back under the car. Working on the transmission is nowhere near as much fun as the engine, if only because of the inhuman contortions required underneath the car. His voice comes out of nowhere. It is not the first time that I hear his voice. The last time, in fact the first time was Halloween. he came to my house for candy on All Hallow's Eve. Then he was dressed in virginal white from head to foot. A tee shirt that was X-X-L and came to his mid-thighs, covered a white sweat shirt and pants, white sneakers, white gloves. He was like some vague apparition, perhaps an arab terrorist, perhaps some current action hero, but he was as beautiful as an angel. His upper attire was not long enough to be a robe, but it was so loose that his form was all but concealed. Without a flowing gown, he could not be a ghost, so he was no vague apparition. Nonetheless, white suited him, and I settled for an angel because it was entirely appropriate for him. In the darkness, he loomed mysteriously until he came into the pool of light from my lantern. Then his tousled golden-blond hair came alive, and the loose snow-white clothes gave him an aura of innocence and purity that was out of place on a night of hob-goblins and ghosts. For a moment I wondered whether he had simply dressed in his judo or karate outfit, but the trousers were tighter and there was no belt to be seen. The brilliant white of his clothes illuminated the porch even as his pretty face ignited my desire. Although his clothes communicated the unsullied purity of a virgin, my heart and my imagination shrieked lust. Like alchemy, I was drawn to him instinctively, a base metal turning to the purest gold in his presence. There were two friends with him, and after even a cursory comparison, they went largely unappreciated in his company. Those boys simply did not interest me, at least not like the blond, curly-haired boy dressed all in white. He was beautiful. He was polite. He had a graceful body and the nicest butt of any boy I've seen, even if it was largely hidden by his white robe. By contrast, his friends, while very good-looking by any standard, were relatively plain. One was also blond, straight-haired and nicely proportioned, but he lacked something that the other boy had in abundance. I could not look away from his startling blue eyes. His eyes were liquid magnets, and they attracted and held my gaze until I felt my neck and cheeks flushing from the mere thrill of looking at the young Adonis standing on my doorstep. "It's your turn to ask this time, Adam," one of the boys prompted. "Um,... Trick or treat?" he asked with uncertain eagerness. "Hm,... I won't try to guess what you're supposed to be," I pretended to ponder. "Trick or treat, huh? You boys look like you could get up to some tricks. I'd better settle for the treat, I suppose?" The boy called Adam grinned sheepishly and glanced back at his two companions in candy-larceny for moral support. He hit the jackpot at my house and his two friends benefited by their mere acquaintance with the golden-haired boy and his musical still-unbroken voice. What candy I had left, about a pound of various bars and packets, I split among the three of them, and then threw in a few of my own reserved-for-later treats for good measure. They scampered off into the darkness, shrieking their good fortune as they went with boyish excitement. Adam could not know how much he had affected me. I had the distinct feeling that I had seen him before, somewhere, sometime in my past. In my eyes, he was the perfect boy who I would never forget. No one could know the pounding of my heart and the relentless desire that had immediately hardened and grew outward into the tight confines of my jeans. I closed my eyes after they were no longer in sight and pictured him, still standing on my porch, committing every detail to memory for later. I could barely wait to relieve my burning urge. Not until they were gone several minutes, and there was no chance of their return, did I close the door and turn off the outside lights. I retreated upstairs to my bedroom. There, I masturbated feverishly as I fantasized about the perfect specimen of boyhood who had graced my doorstep for a few minutes that night. In secret fantasy, I emptied my balls into Adam's pretty mouth and then into his sweet, firm buttocks before I finally succumbed to watching a video I had smuggled home from Thailand. The brown- skinned boys engaged in obscene coupling did little more than relieve my hunger temporarily. By then, my penis was only minutes from becoming red raw and I nearly regretted my earlier frenzied jerking. From that first acquaintance onwards I chose to believe that fate, or some mysterious force, had brought us together. That chance meeting left me emptied of human emotion as my energy was depleted in unrequited desire. I masturbated again and again that night before I finally fell asleep. My fantasy was fixed on Adam with a single-mindedness that was disturbing. What detail of his remarkable body did I fail to imagine? There was no part of him left untouched by my depraved mind. His voice brings me back to reality, or is it merely an extension of the dream that has plagued me ever since the night of a week ago. I scoot forward until my face is no longer hidden under the car. From the ground, I stare up two slender legs hidden in the faded denim of old jeans. A small, finely featured face looks down at me, and the hint of a smile flashes across his mouth to leave dimpled cheeks. Perfectly blue eyes seem to pour into mine with an openness that is disconcerting. I feel that he is revealing his soul to me and I am blessed. His blond, curling hair, is even blonder in the afternoon light that enters the garage. I feel as if I have known him for years instead of a matter of mere seconds. "Hi!" I gush ebulliently. "Hi yourself! Cool car!" His voice gives me shivers. It is so high- pitched that he sounds feminine. If he sang he would be a soprano. "Thanks!" "I'm not bugging you am I?" Again, my eyes and ears belong to him. I bask in his precious tones. "No! hardly! You're cool kid!" I wonder whether he can hear my heart pounding for him. To me, my voice seems distant and very strained. "My bike chain came off," he says to explain his presence. "I was going to my friend's place. He lives over there," he adds with a vague gesture towards the woods behind my house. "Do you want me to look at it? I'm pretty good with mechanical things. Your chain probably needs adjustment, especially if it has gears." "It's a 21 speed," he answers with pride. "I just got it a few weeks ago." "I'll take a look at it in a few minutes when I've finished with this." "You don't mind an audience?" He asks. "My mom says I can be a pest sometimes?" "You're not!" I shake my head, enchanted by his soft tones and continual inflection so that he turns a statement into a question. "I always wanted to learn about cars. What are you doing to it?" "Replacing the clutch." "Cool! Is it expensive? It sure looks it." I swallow. His voice has penetrated to the very center of my brain just as his clear, large eyes have absorbed and held my gaze until my soul seems to be sucked into him. It is an idea that holds distinct fascination for me. I drag my eyes away and down to his sneakers, to ankles so thin and insubstantial that they belie the very act of supporting him. His jeans taper to stope-pipe legs, the outline of small knees as my eyes begin to lift up to his groin. I stop and stare, fully aware of what lies behind his petit bulge. There is merest hint of impending manhood, a fold in the aged blue denim, the slightly asymmetrical fullness of a young penis and still childishly small scrotum. From the size of the bump, I doubt that he is sexually mature, but I have no way of being certain short of tearing his jeans off. It is another fascinating idea. Again our eyes meet. Another radiant smile flickers, lingers on his full red lips until his dimples form again. He has a beautiful smile, that lights on me and makes my day brighten. His eyebrows raise slightly as if to form another question, issuing a silent challenge to my now continuous gaze. "What? The clutch? It cost about a thousand bucks for the set. That's the clutch assembly over there in the box." "No, I was asking about the car. It's a Lotus, right?" "Hey, the kid actually knows his cars!" I tease. "Actually its an Esprit Turbo." He grins impishly. "I thought it was. The kid knows a lot things!" "I'm sure he can. The kid can make himself useful too, it he wants. Could you pass me the screwdriver, please Adam?" I feel a thrill as I address him by his given name, a feeling that I have known him since I was a boy myself. He follows my gesture and he stoops to the side to pick it up. As he reaches to pass it to me, he suddenly hesitates. "How do you know my name?" "Adam? It is Adam isn't it? You were here for candy on Halloween, if I'm not mistaken. That's what your two friends called you." "Not wrong! You must have a great memory. My name is Adam. I live over there." He gestures vaguely to the back of the garage. "Mostly my friends call me Canada. I guess because I used to live there before my mom got divorced." "Hi Canada," I joke. He smiles weakly. "I'd rather you called me Adam. I haven't lived in Canada for ages. Not since my mom got divorced." "Okay, Adam. My name is Chris. It's nice to meet you. I'd shake hands except I'm covered with grease." "That's okay! Later man! So what's it worth, Chris? A lot I bet!" I laugh and shrug good humoredly at the overt youngster. He exudes precocious maturity. "You only get what you pay for," I answer deliberately. "You sound like my mom! You really don't mind if I watch you work on it, do you? I can be kind of a pain sometimes, at least that's what she says when I pester people." I laugh again and answer as I shake my head. "You already said that. You're not bothering me in the slightest." I am dumbfounded, so engrossed in the delightful young male that words escape me. His voice has a melodious quality with clear high notes that penetrate the dullness in my head and leave my senses whirling like a dervish in ecstatic abandon. Under my cover-alls, under my briefs, I can feel the rock-hard heat of my engorged penis as it throbs mercilessly to the frenetic beats of my heart. Fortunately, he either cannot see it, or has not seen it, assuming that he recognizes what it is or why it is. The youngster, mere stripling, still several years from being a teenager, has excited me in a way that I never dreamed possible. Unable able to stand the strain of being so close, of being so far away from the untouchable boy, of being so intensely aroused in a child's presence, I push myself forward and slide under the car again. I try to dismiss the thoughts that overwhelm my reason as he leaves my sight. My thoughts are in turmoil as I realize the absolute futility of it. Society forbids what I am thinking, yet I can no more stop the thoughts as I can ask him to leave me in peace. It is no different to the first time I saw him, just as impossible to maintain control of my desires on All Hallow's Eve. I want to, need to take my penis out and masturbate until my climax relieves my hungry urge. Under the car, in the under-world existence of the machine, there is privacy. I grope myself with greasy fingers on the grey cloth of my coveralls. My rigid member aches, throbbing urgently. I am tortured by unrequited love for a boy who can be no more than ten or eleven years old. I squeeze my blood-filled flesh as I imagine his young slender body trembling hungrily as he discovers passion. I imagine his lips stretched wide, a thin pale line of nerve-filled tissue as he takes my shaft into him. No matter whether it is his mouth or anus that holds me. I am not particular, either end would suffice to hold my love and the seed I want so desperately to share with him. I have forgotten the three-eighths socket. "Hey Adam?" "Yeah, Chris," comes his unseen sing-song voice. "There's a socket on the floor next to my feet. Can you push it to me? "A socket? What's it look like? Is it like this chrome tube thing with holes in it?" "Yep! You got it, kid! Just push it to me will you?" With difficulty I rotate my shoulders and look out into the space beside the car. I watch Adam's feet as he steps forward. When he squats, I see the slenderness of his ankles again, and as his knees came apart, I stare at what has suddenly become a small yet prominent bulge in the crotch of his jeans. Is it my imagination that it is bigger now? Perhaps it is merely exaggerated in size because of his position? I watch his hand, his fingers scooping up the socket, and then he comes to his knees. His face beams at me with visible enthusiasm at being included in an adult world. My mechanical toy has justified itself again. Thirty-five thousand dollars of secondhand automobile, with mechanical repairs of astronomical cost, but of undeniable interest to any red-blooded boy with an interest in cars. With little more than a wriggle of his narrow hips, Adam scoots under the car beside me. He grins ebulliently as he holds out the socket in his small palm like a treasure for my inspection. "Thanks!" "I told you already, The fact is this kid can do a lot of things," he teases. "Maybe I should just teach you how to work on my car. Then I can leave it up to you to fix things from now on." I laugh. "There's a lot more room for you to move around under here than I have." Adam giggles softly. He wriggles closer until his head is next to mine. "It's probably the only advantage there is to being small for my age." "How old are you?" "I'll be eleven in two months." "Huh? Oh, okay so you were born during the holidays. I expect you made your mom a great Christmas present," I chuckle as I reach up under the car. "What's that? The silver thing up there?" Adam inquires. His hand moves up to the transmission and for a second, his fingers slide along my arm. I shiver. The sensation is at once incredibly exciting and very frightening. I have been touched by this very handsome boy. I freeze, thinking hard and fast as my skin is tantalized by his soft small fingers. Did his fingers linger just a moment longer than an accidental touch would justify? My mind reels with the thought. I am too sacred to say anything for several seconds. My mind is turned upside down. My thoughts are jumbled and I blurt out my answer. "Oh! That! I think that's the starter motor." My sanity returns slowly. "Actually, I don't think it is, I know it is because I put a new one on the car a month ago and that's it." "Unless it fell off," Adam giggles playfully. "But then the car wouldn't start would it? Can I help?" he offers. "Help? Yes, I guess. It's kind of hard for you to help because I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be doing myself. If you really want to help, I'd appreciate it if you could pass me the shop manual. It's right beside you." "Sure! So where did this come from?" Adam demands. "England! Just about every part of this car comes from England. See there," I said as I pointed my grease stained finger at the center of the open page. "Could you read from there for me? I know you can read." Adam giggles boyishly, feels a sudden thrill from helping an adult, and begins to read aloud. "Each of the bolts securing the housing has two nuts. Completely remove the lock nuts. The bolts should be loosened consecutively one half-turn while the rear flange is supported in the frame. Once the assembly is loose, the upper bolts should be removed while the two lower bolts are left in place." Adam giggles again. "Why do the bolts have two nuts?" I grin cheekily and say something that I would normally never say. It is a risk, but I am so light-headed that I do not care. "For the same reason you do, I expect." "Huh?" "One nut would be lonely wouldn't it? And if you only had one nut, well you might lose it and then where would you be? With two nuts there's a safety factor." Adam's blush is immediate and very obvious even in the relative darkness under the car. "You mean,.. Yeah, kinda, I guess...." he answers with juvenile awkwardness. "But that really isn't the reason, is it?" "I wouldn't lie to ya, Adam." I tease with a mock accent of unknown origin. "One nut keeps the other one from coming loose. It locks it in place, hence the name, lock nut. Like I said, it's a safety factor. Which is probably a good idea when you think about it." "Does every bolt have two nuts?" "Not always, in fact on a car it's something you almost never see, but its a good idea! You have two nuts don't you?" I boldly tease again. I wonder what is making me so daring besides being sexually aroused by the beautiful boy beside me. It cannot be that I have nothing to loose. By nature, I am not impetuous. It is his presence alone, and the sense I have that tells me he is not easily offended. Adam smirks knowingly. He clearly enjoys the innuendo, childish though it is. "Does it depend on the size of the bolt?" he asks sweetly, as he avoids my question adroitly. I stifle a laugh. I like him a lot. He is adventuresome and he rises to the challenge of our word play. "A big bolt probably needs two nuts more than a little one, but these bolts here are a bit one the small side." "I guess it must depend on what you use the bolt for," he smirks, no longer able to hold back. His restraint vanishes as his mirth bubbles into an infectious puerile giggle. After all, he is still very much a boy. "These bolts are under a lot of stress." I grin in the semi-darkness and turn to face him. "The greater the stress, the more you need two nuts. Even small bolts can be under a lot of pressure sometimes. You wouldn't want the bolt to come loose at a bad time, now would you?" "If you use it a lot, you'd need two balls. Ooops, I mean two nuts." He giggles even more as he tries to repair his error. "You'd need two nuts on a bolt then, especially when it was being used a lot." I swallow as I try to avoid laughing out aloud. He is very good. He is not only intelligent and full of precocious wit, but he is also incredibly sexy. "I expect so," I say seriously. I pause and add fearlessly, "Do you think that's why you have two balls, oops I mean two nuts on your bolt?" His eyebrows lift up as his eyes widen in disbelief that an adult could be so brazenly vulgar. "Because it gets stressed, or because it gets used a lot?" he asks cheekily. I nod anyway. "Both, in some cases. Some bolts get stressed a lot when they are being used a lot." He giggles knowingly, telling me without words that he is no stranger to self-abuse. "I imagine it's only normal at your age," I tease with a slight glance downward. My meaning is obvious and for a second, his eyes follow mine to his crotch. There is no mistake when he smiles slightly upon looking up again. "Yeah! I guess some bolts get stressed if they get used a lot. Only, I don't know what's a lot." "Oh, I don't know. I'd say normal is a couple of times a day,... when you're about eleven or twelve." He grins with lewd curiosity. The pretense is abandoned and he comes right out with his next inflected statement. After the innuendo it does not sound lewd to my burning ears. "You mean it's normal to get a stiffy a couple of times every day at my age?" "Yes, it's normal to get stiff," I chuckle. "What did you think? Every boy gets them. Every man too, for that matter. It's natural, kid!" Adam laughs. "I get a stiffy all the time. Do you have one now?" he asks without hesitation. I smile ambiguously and shrug, a difficult action under the car but one that is intended to raise his curiosity. I wonder how far he will go. It is hard to believe that we are having this conversation. My penis is as hard as it has ever been, but I cannot admit that to this beautiful child lying beside me for he alone has caused it. "I bet you do," Adam giggles. "You sure are acting like you're horny." "I'm not the only one, am I?" I grin at him and wink obscenely. "Do you want to do stuff?" he asks softly. "Stuff?" I ask in disbelief. 'Stuff' cannot mean the same thing to Adam that it does to me. I swallow as my mind races. I try to maintain control of my physical urge to grasp his crotch and find out whether his penis is as hard as mine. He studies me nervously. I sense that he knows he has gone too far. Innuendo has ended and neither of us is prepared to accept what lurks immediately under the surface of the veiled words. His suggestion is impossible to ignore. "What do you mean by 'stuff'?" I repeat with sudden intensity. There is a shy smile on his face as he blinks, swallows, licks his bottom lip nervously. "You know, Chris,... STUFF!" I realize his erect penis must be caught up in his underpants as he reaches down to his crotch and shamelessly grasps the front of his jeans to rearrange himself. "So, I'm not the only one with that problem," I smirk knowingly. "We've both got boners, haven't we?" Adam asks. "You did say it's normal," he adds with a grin. It is impossible to look away. His eyes absorb me, hold my attention, silently communicating that he wants only what I want. He licks his bottom lip nervously. I think back, remembering my own first time with a man I admired more than my own father. If I tried hard, I fancied I could still smell the lingering odor of chlorine from the pool at the country club. The setting then was no less inappropriate than now. It was certainly public, but it was private enough if we were careful. For no reason other than we were in the pool together, we had raced. I had been swimming as hard as I could, barely managing to stay a length ahead. Even as he allowed me to win, he pushed me to the very limit of my endurance. Excelling for him was something I became used to doing. Later, I followed him out of the pool. I was still wet when we stood face to face in the change room. Just from the ravenous look in his eyes I knew what he wanted. He wanted me, as much as I wanted him! I grinned stupidly as I peeled my Speedo off, pulling the red nylon down until the brief covering was halfway to my knees. His eyes never left mine. I felt his strong hand cup over my penis and testicles. Even though I was physically drained from the race, I felt full of life and bursting excitement as he contained all of me. His fingers gently fondled my sex organs until I became aroused. Only seconds passed before my penis was rigid. I felt his thumb stroke over my short pre-teen organ, caressing my hairless flesh with loving touches. For the first time in my eleven-year-old life I felt complete and truly happy. It lasted less than a minute before someone came into the change room to use the urinal and we were forced to stop. "Well, DO YOU?" Adam asks persistently. "Do I what?" I ask as I am returned to the present and my memories of my own youth depart in the immediacy of Adam's demand. "Nothing!" he replies angrily. I have rejected him. He confuses me. At one moment he is brim full of confidence, the next second he is insecure. All logic tells me to be careful, but reason is distant now that I have risen to the occasion with the hardest erection I can remember having for many years. I know right from wrong as well as any person, however I also know that all moral standards are relative. One society can deny a child's sexuality while another can celebrate it with rites of initiation and passage to manhood. Some cultures even sanction the love of men and boys. This beautiful boy presents a dilemma, and my rampart lust competes with ingrained morality. "There's no need to get mad," I retort argumentatively. "Who's mad? It's cool! I thought you were into it, that's all!" "Tell me how old you again," I say. "I already told you. I'm nearly eleven. Why? Does it matter how old I am? I'm old enough to do what I want." I grin at him. He is so beautiful that I cannot imagine why he is attracted to me. I wonder why he is offering his perfect body to a man who he has known only for a matter of minutes. Surely there are others who are more appropriate, including a large selection of boys closer to his own age. Merely knowing this wonderful boy is far more than I deserve. I bask in his presence. I am happy just be close to him, but the thought that he wants to do soemthing of a sexual nature with me sends a thrill through me unlike any I have known since I was a boy myself. I have a feeling of deja vu, and muse silently that Adam could be me twenty years ago. I want to tell him that I think how beautiful he is, how much I adore his perfect body, how I would worship him if I was given a chance to be his friend. Words fail me. I am love sick. "Well?" he demands abruptly. I sense fear is setting in. He wavers again between confidence and insecurity. Too soon he will be a self-assured young man, sanguine and fearless as he expresses his adolescent sexuality. For now, he is apprehensive, not even beginning to understand what it is that drives him to adult males, knowing only that I possess something that is essential to make him whole. I begin to laugh. "What's so funny?" he demands again. The cocky boy returns. "Do you want me to put grease all over your nuts and bolt?" I ask as I hold my right hand up for him to see. He sees the black grease and dirt and he grins as he shakes his head. "Gross man! You're not wrong! Don't you dare! Your hands are filthy!" "I guess I'm too dirty to tighten your nuts?" I smirk. "But then, I bet they're probably already pretty tight." Adam giggles. He sounds a lot like a girl. He's at the perfect age when his testosterone levels are still at the entry-level. From what I can observe, the essential characteristics of manhood have not started to appear. Up close, I see that his skin is as smooth and soft as a baby's. The masculine side of him is nearly balanced by feminine attributes that persist from childhood. He is not effeminate, but there are clear signs that he is not all boy, and a considerable distance from being a man. Physically, he is in excellent shape, and without knowing why, I suspect that he is better at individual sports than those requiring team effort. It is impossible not to make the obvious comparisons between us. At Adam's age I was a daring and adventurous youngster who was eager to experiment with life. My interest in athletic pursuits was not encouraged by my father. My motivation to succeed in school was even less aggressive, a problem compounded by fifth-generation wealth and parents who did not care to focus my efforts with stern words. My performance was satisfactory in most subjects. Only Art held my interest, yet it was still surprising to my parents and their exclusive friends that I chose to pursue sculpture as a career. The need to secure income and job security was tempered by the trust fund I inherited from my grandfather, but even then I needed more than occasional commissions to maintain my self-respect. My ideal vocation was discovered by accident when I was requested by a gay friend to cover his graduate course in sculpture while he attended to the imminent death of his lover. Not only did I enjoy teaching and a steady income for remarkably little effort, but it gave me the opportunity to practice my art without the need to find patrons. "Maybe I better go wash first," I suggest lightly. "I wouldn't want to get you dirty." "It doesn't matter," he says with building uncertainty. Adam's big eyes meet mine. The vibes are overpowering, his pretty face is irresistible. There is nothing manly about him. His features are delicate and soft, and again I am reminded again of a girl, a very attractive girl. My mind soars as I engage his eyes and contemplate a face that is more beautiful that words can describe. Perhaps that is why I am interested in boys. It is a matter of aesthetic preference. Adam, like all boys prior to puberty, does not have the flowing full curves of a woman or the muscular angularity of a man. Yet he possesses form in perfect measure. I smile inwardly as I remember why the Greeks admired boys. I have no doubts that the boys who affected the Hellenistic poets and artists to immortalize them were no different to Adam. The idea comes to me of preserving his flawless perfection in bronze. I picture his naked body in various poses, imagine the dull burnished luster of green, gold, and brown metal, each detail of his anatomy recreated with superb accuracy, until model and copy are all but identical. One boy is living flesh given form by divine inspiration, the other boy is metal wrought by my hands with all the skill I possess. With racing thoughts I imagine Adam in classic poses, as the 'Boy with a Shell to his Ear', as 'Ganymede Astride the Eagle', as the 'Boy with a Dolphin', as a dancing Dionysius, as Hermes, as a young Satyr proudly displaying his thin but very stiff penis. Adam is unequalled as a model, superior to any boy of the great sculptors of the Renaissance and or Neo- Classical era. I conceive of Adam in a new way. It will be an original and powerful expression of form and material that transcends all that I know. A new work that will depart from my own style in disturbing ways. Purity and innocence will emerge from depravity and base desires, something that is vile and ugly transformed to become Adam's physical perfection. Even as a vague concept, the idea is evocative, surpassing everything that I had undertaken so far. I slide from under the car without speaking to Adam. My heart is pounding rapidly, as much from thinking about the possibility of having sex with the startlingly attractive youngster as by the potential of having him as a model in my studio. He follows me eagerly, no different to when I followed another man. He stands up and suddenly I realize how much taller I am than he is. The top of his head is below my breast. His golden-blond hair is tousled and tangled like the uncombed silk of corn. He looks up at me, his green-tinted blue eyes imploring me not to deny him the affection he seeks. I smile at him fondly and try to convey my feelings. He watches as I rub my hands vigorously with orange-scented hand cleaner, turning cream to grey thick paste as the grease is removed. I wipe my hands. We have not spoken for more than a minute. I feel my excitement accelerating with each passing second. I cannot take my eyes away from him. I feel like I am in love, and wonder whether it is merely infatuation. Space and time seem to stop while we stare at each other in silence. I cannot help but hope that he is feeling the same thing that I am feeling, thinking the same thoughts. Suddenly I am gripped by a sense that everything is happening too quickly. Reason intervenes. The attraction between us is like two poles of the same magnet. We are held apart at the same time as we are pulled together. His eyes seem to sparkle as his smile lingers. "I think I need a shower," I say absently. Adam grins and shrugs his thin shoulders. His eyes meet mine and I stare into his gaze, meeting such intense beauty that I am awed. I am reminded of a pure white marble sculpture of Antinous, the boy loved by the Roman Emperor, Hadrian. "Mom said I didn't have to be home until five," Adam says out of the blue. I wonder what the time is. It cannot be much after 2.00 p.m., I guess. Three hours! It is more than enough time to get better acquainted with this marvellous specimen of boyhood. I know what I will say even without thinking about it. "Well,... uh,... why don't you um,.... come up to the house with me,... and er,... you can wait while I shower," I mutter nervously. "We can fix your bike after I clean up a bit." My heart is pounding from the stress of issuing an invitation to the youngster. I am like the spider in its web, luring its prey closer until I can embrace it. I hunger to taste his innocence, my urgent desire now beyond my control. Adam nods, and then brushes his golden locks back from his forehead. He is so different to the late-teenage boys I have known that I am powerless to stop myself as the inevitable moment of truth approaches. Adam meekly follows me out of the garage and up the stairs. He trots behind me like an obedient servant obeying his master's wish. The loft above the garage is my studio and I stop there and turn to face my companion. Adam's questioning eyes move around the room as if he is searching for something. "You're an artist!" he says with animated interest. "That's really cool." I smile at him and observe the same bric-a-brac that he sees. My work is scattered everywhere it seems. Most of it are marquettes for sculptures and detailed pieces that I have been studying for my latest project. The complete work, or rather the work in progress, is in the far corner of the loft and covered with dusty sheets. "I'm a sculptor," I say. "Although you might not realize it in this mess." I walk towards the sheets. I lift them away and lower them to the floor before I step back. The afternoon light grazes the waxy surface of the work. The figure is nude and is twisted among the coils of what at first appears to be a huge python. Only later, does the snake become recognized for what it is. The man's penis is seen only when one studies the beginning and ending of the serpent. "It's,... it's his dick," Adam bursts out hysterically. "The snake is really his dick! That's wild!" "I certainly can't fool you," I reply with mock severity. "It's supposed to be a serious work so you aren't allowed to laugh. It's a modern interpretation of an ancient myth." "Oh! I'm sorry," Adam answers apologetically. "It's just that,... it's so big, it's weird." He takes a breath. "I didn't mean to laugh. I'm sorry." Now it is my turn to laugh. "I'm joking, Adam. It's okay to laugh, especially when you have such a nice laugh." "Oh! You're not mad at me?" he asks guiltily. "Hardly!" "Why,... um,... why is his dick that big for?" Adam grins cheekily. I return his smile. "Isn't yours that big?" I tease. He shakes his head. "Maybe you need to exercise it more," I suggest playfully. He raises his eyebrows with an unspoken question a moment before he averts his eyes. "Who wants one THAT big, anyway?" he jests. "You'd have to drag it around behind you or put it out front in a wheelbarrow. You didn't answer my question," he adds. "I didn't, did I? You want to know why his cock is so big? Well, it's called "The Last Man on Earth",... and the idea is that because he is the last man all he has left is his penis, so he makes love to it. It finally kills him." Adam turns to look at the sculpture again. This time his eyes follow the curving thick pipe as it twists around the man's body. The snake's head, the swollen glans confronts the human face, both sets of lips are parted and ready to exchange a kiss. "He's about to kiss his dick," Adam giggles. "If I really scrunch up, sometimes I can just lick the end of mine." I swallow and stare at him in surprise. I am shocked at his lack of inhibition. "Um, well when you're all alone, it's fun to try stuff like that," I say weakly. Adam continues to smile knowingly. "That's his problem, right?" I nod slightly at this beautiful creature who graces my studio and admires my work. "If he does it, he'll probably drown." My mind reels. Adam is outrageous. It is as if he knows he is exciting me and wants to arouse me even more. I decide to play along with the little extrovert. He does not seem old enough to know about semen but physical development and sexual curiosity are not necessarily related. "What is IT?" I ask teasingly. "How would he drown, Adam?" He grins and plays along. We have progressed a long way beyond innuendo. "You know! If he cums on himself,... Man, there'd have to be gallons of it." "Oh, that! You mean he wouldn't be able to swallow all of it?" I ask. Adam nods. I am taken back for a few seconds while I wonder what to say next. It is impossible to believe that an eleven-year-old boy knows about swallowing. "I'm surprised you know about that sort of thing at your age. When I was eleven I had no idea what cum was," I blurt out. Adam shrugs and gives me a look of feigned amusement. His expression is one of worldly experience and not the curious innocence that one should expect to see in a young boy. "Well I do." "You can't do it yet, can you?" I add without meeting his eyes. I am afraid he will see how nervous I am. He shakes his tousled golden head slightly. However, in the space of just a few seconds his expression has changed completely. Gone is the provocative youth. A petulant boy stands in his place with pouting uncertainty. I have offended him by calling into question his maturity. "I was twelve before I could do it," I continue. "The real fun is in practicing. I think I used to jerk off every day trying to cum. I'm surprised I didn't wear it out." Adam's smile returns in a flash. "So do I," he admits without hesitation. "Don't worry, you can't wear it out," I laugh. "Enjoy what you have, I always say." "I do," he smirks. I return his smile and we share a knowing look. I feel his eyes penetrate my mind, reading my thoughts as if he was reading a book. His eyes are impossible to resist. I am falling more in love with him with every second that passes. With difficulty I endeavor to change the subject away from where we are headed. "You'd make a great model," I observe. "Maybe I could talk you into posing for a sculpture one day." Adam smirks. "Like him?" he asks as he points at the work in the corner of the loft. "Not quite! You wouldn't even have to take your clothes off unless you wanted to," I suggest. "Of course most sculpture uses a nude model because the purpose is to show the human body." "Um,..." Adam hesitates. "I guess I wouldn't mind,... if you never told anyone. You'd have to promise?" He has agreed and my heart rate soars as I contemplate the possibilities. Again, I conceive of him as a young Adonis, his perfect young body arched into a bow as he leaps into his lover's arms. Perhaps he is Hyacinth, regarding his own beauty as it is reflected back at him. And then my image of a different form of sculpture returns in my mind. Adam's refined and graceful beauty is of such classic style that he is eminently suited to a traditional expression in bronze. However, I realize that there is much more to be expressed through his body than mere physical appearance. I am presented by an opportunity to challenge my normal work with something new and exciting. "What's wrong?" Adam asks. He interrupts my thoughts and I look up, startled by the idea that has formed again in my mind. "Nothing! I was thinking of something," I mumble. I take a deep breath. "Contrast, Adam! We communicate ideas by contrast. Did you know that? Um,... like we see the color white, actually we know white, only because we know about black. There's rough and smooth, fat and thin, young and old, beautiful and ugly..." I take another breath and interrupt my lecture. He looks slightly confused. "Do you understand? There is one thing and the other thing that sets it apart. We only know the one because of the existence of the other." "I guess," Adam equivocates as if the simple philosophy is beyond him. He must think I am a lunatic. I place my hand on his shoulder. He is very thin and my fingers touch the firmness of muscle and bone under his sweater. Without a word I guide him towards the large window in the far wall. The light is better there. He stops when I release him, and he turns to face me. His eyes are alight with growing interest. My enthusiasm is infectious. I step back and move to one side. My heart is pounding loudly, as much from the thrill of touching him as from the ideas that are emerging rapidly in my mind. I knee down and pick the cloth that I pulled from the other partially completed work, lift it up and drape it across Adam's lower body. "Sit!" I order brusquely. "I want to try something." Without question Adam squats before me and then settles onto his rump with his legs folded under him. He looks like a little boy-Buddha. His expression is serious, as if meditating. I drape the cloth over him, pulling it to almost cover him in a shrouded tent, and then progressively lift it away to reveal the child within. The tent could be made of sheet metal, thin folded plates, even like the tin of a can. I imagine it to be a Campbell's soup can that has been fractured, bent during recycling to divulge its secret. Part of me wants Adam to undress, to complete the process of unveiling the perfection under the fabric cover. I do not dare ask the question for fear of frightening him further. "Do you want me to undress?" Adam asks meekly. Again I am startled. He reads my mind with conscious intent. "I will if you want me too. It isn't that cold in here," he adds. "You don't mind?" "If you want me naked, I don't mind," he answers. "You just can't tell anyone." I nod and Adam stands with lithe ease. The draped cloth falls to the floor. He steps away. He smiles shyly and glances down at me as I continue to kneel before him. Thoughts of taking his clothes off fill my head until I can barely concentrate on anything else besides seeing his superb young body. "There's a changing room over there next to the stairs," I say absently. My mind is clearly on other matters. "I think there's a robe on the back of the door that you can fit into. Don't worry if it's a bit on the long side." Adam smiles and starts to walk away. I watch his small bottom moving under the tight denim of his blue jeans. He has a butt I would kill for. His thighs are slender and his spine is curved enough to make his buttocks appear like two round globes. He stops ten feet away and turns to face me. His torso is slender and his narrow waist emphasizes his hips. For a moment one could almost imagine he is a girl, but his pelvis is far too compact and his chest lacks any sign of breast development. His unspoken question is obvious. "You can strip here, if you want," I offer quickly. "I think the changing room might be pretty messy, but you won't get dust on your clothes." I can not believe what I am suggesting. My mind races ahead as Adam continues to look at me with interest while he considers what to do. His hands are by his sides and his fingers brush his mid thighs thoughtfully. He decides without speaking that some privacy is in order and he departs, leaving me to study his pert bottom thoughtfully. Two minutes pass before he reemerges and walks quietly across the room to where I am waiting. I have had enough time to gather some clay and begin to work it into a pliable mix. My hands are covered in the yellow ochre paste when Adam comes to my side. He is wearing the robe, tied at the front, but open from his neck to the middle of his waist. There is a groove that bisects him, from his slender neck almost to his navel and beyond. His skin is smooth and even-colored with a light brown tan. From what little I can, there is not a blemish on him. He smiles shyly. "Do you want to see me in the buff?" I nod. "If you don't mind, Adam. But if you do let me see you naked, you know you can't ever tell anyone about it." He shuffles his feet. "I'm not stupid, and I wasn't born yesterday," he replies. "I'm not going to tell anyone I was here or what we did. I don't want to get either of us into trouble." I study him carefully. He knows far more than I did when I was his age. He knows enough about sex to know that merely being in my loft needs to be kept secret. His duplicity arouses me even further. I begin to wonder where he had accumulated his experience. Before I can say anything more his fingers deftly unfasten the looped belt of his robe and it parts in the middle. I gaze upon a young body that is flawless. A sculptor with infinitely greater skill than mine has created absolute perfection in Adam. I need to touch his smooth as-polished-alabaster body. His skin is unblemished and has a luster like the sheen of finely woven silk. "If I take this off no one will see me, will they?" Adam asks uncertainly. "Only me," I grin. "And it's okay for the model to be naked in front of the artist." His embarrassment is not feigned. He is visibly anxious, but not a little bit frightened. He shifts from one foot to another like a college sophomore who is afraid of failing a drawing assignment. His confidence is fading rapidly as the moment arrives. He looks at me sheepishly and I quickly turn away to begin to work my fingers in the modelling clay. I sense his eyes are on me while he wonders what he should do. "There's nothing to be embarrassed about," I explain gently as I glance back at him over my shoulder. "If you don't want to undress that's okay. It's totally up to you, Adam. You can keep the robe on if you feel more comfortable." He smiles shyly, balancing on one foot as the toes of the other scratch at his lean calf muscle before it disappears under the robe. His tendons are long and pronounced and his ankles are very thin. For some reason I think he will be a fast runner and much better that I was as sports. "Uh?..." Adam begins. He hesitates. I wonder what his parents would think if they knew their beautiful young son was standing nearly naked in my studio contemplating whether he should undress before a man who he has known only for a matter of less than thirty minutes. If he was my son I would be more frightened than angry by the obvious implication that he is sexually attracted to men. I decide he knows what he is doing. For the second time my intuition warns me that all is not right with Adam. He should be playing with his friends and relishing his last few years of childhood. Responsibility weighs heavily on me. Again I look away as my conscience disputes with my greedy lust. I draw my fingers through the soft yellow clay, creating the fold in his robe, drawing clay upward to make the rough shape of his head and shoulders. He is like putty in my hands. I have just enough clay for the maquette to be a scaled-down torso. With my thumb and forefinger I smooth the surface, pressing firmly to form the muscular indentations in his chest and belly. The clay is malleable and yields easily as I work it with patience. Adam looks on with growing fascination. He sees himself emerging from the earth, a likeness that is not particularly close captures the perfection of his body. "It's starting to look more like me," Adam observes in awe. My fingers caress the clay and deftly imprint the shapes of breast and neck, forming eyebrows with my fingernails. I am unaware of the passage of time so deep is my concentration. Occasionally I need to look up and ascertain the truth of the detail I am working on. He is so beautiful that I cannot even begin to approach his real form. I do not speak. For me, making art has always been an intense and very private activity. As I work I am constantly mindful of the robe. My fingers press into the clay, imagining they are touching his flesh. Already it is becoming warm, although not as warm as Adam's living flesh. The figure is a poor surrogate for the real thing, the bewitching youngster who stands before me in silent admiration of my craft. I fantasize about taking the robe off and completing the nude torso to the middle of its thighs. I find my hand shaking as I dream about touching him. "It's me," Adam says in reverence. "It looks just like me. You still have to do my belly button." I hear the alarm in his unbroken voice as he realizes that his likeness is captured in a piece of clay. I shrug and complete the shaping of his lower belly, forming a navel that is the essence of his beauty. It is small and lies centered in a broad groove that runs from his neck to his groin, an area hidden behind the robe. His stomach is lean and without puppy fat and the skin is pulled tightly to either side of the small whorl that he calls his 'belly button'. Such a funny expression for a part that was so elegantly created when he was born. "Cool," Adam giggles. He waits for me to finish the final details before he glances down at the 'v' in robe and sees his navel in a different light. It has become a work of art. I rub my finger lightly across the flat mound of his right breast, tracing a line to his belly, then around his navel. It is distinctly erotic and Adam grins at me as if I have touched him instead. Without a word, all the time making direct eye contact, his hand moves to the knotted belt at the side of his gown. His deft fingers unfasten it and it opens at the front. He is silent as my eyes slowly lower. He is even more stunning that I expect. He is not well-favored in the size of his genitalia. Indeed, he has a penis and scrotum of a proportion favored by Hellenic artists. His beauty is classic in every sense of the word, without the modern, and to my view, ignorant demand that "bigger is better". The Greeks understood that a male's beauty hinged upon a balance of the parts and the essence of composition was proportion. Large sex organs were attached to the ugly and deformed, to centaurs, half-man, half beasts. By ancient standards, the enormous prick of Priapus was something to be worshipped as a sign of brute force, not envied. Small was beautiful, and Adam is small where it counts. "You're a very handsome boy," I say softly. It is a gross understatement. My voice trembles like the hand holding the clay sculpture I have created. My eyes are fixed on his groin. His penis is nearly as thick as his thumb, but it is much shorter despite the added length from his foreskin. It forms a puckered tip, like a tiny reddened nozzle against a stubby pink shaft. The shape of his glans is clearly evident in the gentle bulge under his foreskin. I cannot see more than the merest hint of his scrotum so tightly is it drawn up underneath him. "You don't think I'm too skinny?" Adam asks awkwardly. I shake my head, denying that any person with an appreciation of the human body could ever find him to be less that absolute perfection. "No," I answer. I try to find the words to express my wonder. "You're perfect!" Adam smiles shyly. His flat stomach pulls in slightly and his ribs become visible. He is sensual. His penis lifts up a fraction of an inch. He is so alive that it takes my breath away, unlike the poor imitation I have made of him. My fingers caress the clay while I compare the two, contemplating the destruction of my compromised copy. "Are you going to change it now that you can see my thing?" Adam asks. There is a breathless excitement, a shared realization that he has understood the way I formed the clay in order to simulate touching his body. "Do you want me to?" I ask. Adam shrugs with assumed indifference. My eyes drift to his groin again and I wonder whether I would be capable of the task. All of him is concentrated there. It is his essence, contained in a two small pieces of skin-covered reproductive organ. The challenge is more than I can accept. I shake my head slightly. "Maybe next time, Adam," I add. I hear the doubt in my voice as I wonder whether he will ever come back to visit me. "This is enough for today." Adam waits silently, lost somewhere in his own thoughts while I continue to gaze at his nearly nude body. I am surprised as I observe a slight inflation in the short little thing dangling between his legs. It begins to elevate even as I watch. Whether it hardens unconsciously or in response to Adam's will, I cannot tell. Slowly his penis lengthens. It is a certain precursor to becoming erect, enough to show a budding interest in someone of his own gender. He does not seem to be conscious of what is happening until he suddenly looks down. Instantly, his hands pull both sides of the open robe to cover the now nearly rigid projection. For a moment it peeks through the opening until the panicked boy closes one side completely over the other. I grin and raise my eyebrows with exaggerated interest. "What's up?" I ask. "Nothing!" Adam answers defensively. "Nothing?" Adam smiles shyly. "You saw it, Chris. "Saw what?" I tease relentlessly. "I know you saw it. You were looking right at it. I was getting a stiffy again." "It's nothing to be embarassed about," I say. "You're a boy. Like I said earlier, it's supposed to get hard, Adam. That's one of the two reasons why it's there in the first place." He smiles again, experiencing the same purient enjoyment that most boys his age have when the subject matter turns to the one thing they all have in common. Cocks, dicks, pricks, tools, boners, stiffies,... an endless list. He reddens slightly. "And the other is to pee through, right? I know! It's just,... well,... it's really embarrassing to get a stiffy in front of someone you don't know very well." I nod my head in agreement. "Maybe, but you know, getting stiff is quite normal for a boy. It isn't something to be ashamed about. And it really doesn't matter to me whether it's soft or hard. It's a natural thing either way, Adam. You don't have to worry about having an erection in front of me. Besides, I think you have a beautiful penis." His smile widens to a full-blown grin. For a boy his age he is very uninhibited. "Can I pose for you again some time?" he asks. He can tell that I am immediately interested as I nod. Despite my usual self-restraint with my models, I am unable to prevent my desire from coming to the forefront. I have been frustrated for far too long to exert any self control. "You can,... if you take off that gown and show me the rest of your body," I answer cautiously. Adam's eyes reflect his own interest as clearly as if he has announced his thoughts aloud. A single gesture is all it takes as his arms lever back in their sockets and the gown drops away to the floor. He stands silent and naked while my eyes travel up and down his slender form. He is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. His skin is unblemished, creamy when the sun has never been. There are darker, light brown tones elsewhere, the remnants of last summer's tan. His body is well proportioned. No, he is perfectly proportioned in the classical sense of harmony. His limbs and torso are so balanced in formal harmony that nothing could be changed for the better. His chest is well defined by the shape of thin ribs and firm belly muscles. His slight breasts, little more than a some fleshiness extending from his pectoral muscles, are identified by what may be the smallest nipples I have ever seen. His navel is similarly small, neither in nor out, a whorl of a well-tied knot that begins slightly depressed and bulges to become flush with his taut abdomen. Below, his maleness seems puny for the size of his body, but to me it is anything but insignificant. His stubby erection, perhaps three inches in length, but certainly no longer, points toward me at an acute angle that is barely above horizontal. What he does not have in length he more than makes up for in thickness, giving his sex organ a squat appearance not unlike a fat little sausage. His swollen pink shaft is crowned by a gem of a glans, a precious ruby flawed only by a tiny slit that is barely visible in the apex. His glans-corona flares so much that it looks wider than the rest of his organ, giving it a perched-on-top appearance much like a cherry in shape, size, and color. Beneath, his foreskin is gathered in delicate folds. It is almost as if the opening in the thin membrane is too small to get past the broad ridge of his glans. I expect that Adam retracted it past his bulbed tip sometime earlier, or perhaps it has pulled back of its own accord when he became erect. I squash my urge to reach out and touch him, intuitively sensing not only that my clumsy grasp might not only be very much undesired, but I would destroy the perfection confronting me. How wrong could I be! "You can touch it if you want," Adam mumbles with almost incoherent nervousness. At the same time he steps forward a half-pace, bringing his genitals within easy reach. He is offering himself to me. I swallow and try to resist temptation as my lust-filled, though disbelieving brain goes into overdrive. "You don't mind?" I ask uncertainly. Adam shrugs and his lips purse anxiously as he senses rejection. "You can,... if you want. I don't mind." Something snaps deep inside me. I am unable to resist. It is as if I do not have any control over my hand. Through the years I have longed for a moment such as this, always wondering what I would do if the opportunity every arose to fulfil my longing. This is the moment of truth. I feel the warmth of his boy-cock before my fingertips ever touch his supple skin. So smooth, so soft, so incredibly hard. So different to mine, yet so similar. I feel Adam's instinctive tremble, nervous anticipation, a rush of adrenaline, the same surge of excitement that makes his maleness quiver beneath my fingers. I am barely touching him and I feel like I am joined to him, sharing something so special that I will never forget. I stroke downward from his tip and lightly trace my fingertips across the wrinkled skin of his very small scrotum, feeling lightheaded and curious. His testicles are like fat, small beans contained within an undersized pouch that is so contracted that it is almost undiscernible beneath his erection. Now, I feel so alive, so much a part of his life, and I wonder that it is strange that I have known him for no more than an hour at most despite the intimacy we are sharing. It seems very normal to be touching this most private part of him. I glance upward, observe his blue eyes gazing at me, sense the wonder and the thrill he is experiencing. I want to speak, to ascertain his deepest thoughts, to find out what he wants me to do. Words choke in the dryness of my throat. Gently his hips push forward, presenting his sex organs until his buttocks tighten and become pinched. I watch his belly undulate, flexing a muscle within himself to make his penis lift against my fingers, breathing deeply and quickly as if he is engaged in physical exertion. The feverish heat of his young member is remarkable. Finally I managed to say something. "You're beautiful," I gush exuberantly. Adam smiles shyly, gazes into my eyes, stands patiently as I caress and fondle him. He seems to be content, for now. His scrotum is like a walnut under his penis, about the same size and just as wrinkled. There is a precise line identifying the transition from his smooth groin to his equally hairless pouch. I dandle his delicate little eggs, squeezing them relentlessly even as I take great care not to inflict even a trace of discomfort. Adam shifts his weight and moves his feet further apart, wanting me to continue despite experiencing unfamiliar sensations in this most tender of all places. He sighs, exhaling through his nose. His stiffness bobs up and down, synchronized with his belly, rising and falling with every breath he takes. My hand slides over his penis, cupping it lightly as I enclose his swollen part. I feel him quiver with growing excitement while I slowly stroke his penis gently between two fingers and my thumb. His skin is silky, warm, slightly moist, not sweaty. Elastic uncircumcised softness moves over rigidity, a resisting underlying hardness that throbs with urgency and a life of its own. This is his maleness, nearly three inches of future manhood that exists in contradiction to a prepubescent body whose very beauty is unmanly. I glance up. His eyes have closed. My fear is irrational and it descends over me like the proverbial wet blanket. I question my motives and realize that I am knowingly taking advantage of a boy who is still only ten years old. And yet, despite my reservations there is no indication that he wants me to take my hand away. Indeed, all the indications are to the contrary. My careful stroking is clearly giving him pleasure. His increasingly labored breathing, his smile, his stance, all communicate one thing--Adam is flirting with me, teasing me with his immature yet proudly displayed sexuality. Despite his ten years I instinctively realize that he is not innocent. I resist asking the question, 'has he done this before?' because I know the answer already. That he is not innocent becomes extremely depressing to me. He is so young, so beautiful, so physically perfect in every way, that sexual knowledge is antithetical. And yet, in the silence we share I come to the inevitable conclusion that he is very experienced. There could be other explanations for his lack of inhibition, but I cannot think of them. I am human. I take advantage of what is freely offered, shedding my guilt by convincing myself that this is what Adam desires, despite his tender years. He is ten. I am forty. Beside me, Adam is a mere stripling. His slender and unmuscled body is in stark contrast to the man's body he will have in his later years. My hand begins its rhythmic motion, both fingers and thumb travelling no more than an inch at a time, gliding over the rippling cords of his erection and pulling gently against his fattened glans with every outward stroke. "Hmmmm," Adam purrs. His penis flexes, jerking in hungry anticipation of greater stimulation, encouraging greater speed and even more compression of the tender morsel between my fingers. "Hmmmm, indeed," I tease. "You must like getting your dick rubbed, huh?" Adam nods slightly, his eyes rolling in simulated abandon as his thighs press forward in a clumsy attempt to hump my hand. "Uh huh," he smirks. "It's a whole lot better than jerking off by myself," he adds. "Oh! So you jerk off?" Adam giggles slightly. "What boy doesn't? You'd have to be truly weird not to want to jerk off when it feels so good." His body seems to shiver with excitement. I feel his heart pounding through his penis, sending a pulsing thrill through both of us. His belly pulls in, lifting his stiffness against my hand. It is a clear endorsement, a signal that he expects me to continue pleasuring him. "It's a pity you can't cum yet?" I say. It is a stupid thing to say and I realize it as the words are uttered. His perfection is complete. His groin is perfectly smooth and his testicles are insignificant. There is no indication of the sparse down and testicular growth that heralds puberty. What is more, his immature body is perfectly capable of giving him substantial pleasure without the added complication of ejaculation. "I already told you I can't do it yet!" He breathes deeply, slowly pumping forward and rotating his pelvis to extract even greater delight. "You don't have to be able to cum in order to have sex," he adds. His answer is revealing. It is yet another indication that he is experienced beyond his years. Like the village idiot I am, I take the bait. "What do you know about having sex?" I challenge playfully. "I would have thought you'd still be playing G. I. Joe with your friends." "Yeah right! I haven't played G.I. Joe for years," Adam objects petulantly. I grin at the defiant youngster. "How about sex?" I tease. "Assuming of course, you know enough about sex to even begin to know what to do." "I know what to do," Adam counters in protest. There is an unmistakable nervousness in his retort, his voice faltering as he hesitates to illustrate his knowledge. Clearly, he does not being challenged. "You have a nice hard cock, Adam," I tease as I lovingly squeeze his stiff boyhood, "but I don't think there are that many girls around here who would want you to put this in them." "I didn't say girls, did I? A guy can do it with other guys, you know." Adam replies. I raise my eyebrows quizzically, silently taunting him to elaborate further. "It's called butt-fucking, in case you didn't know." My intake of breath signals my shock and he smirks gleefully. I resume my self-appointed role of righteous adult. "You have a cute butt, Adam, and you're very sexy, but somehow I don't think you're anywhere near old enough to get it fucked, as you put it." Adam shrugs with pretended nonchalance. His worldliness is both exciting and disturbing. "It's my body," he answers. "I can do what I want with it and it's no one else's business." "That's true!" I acknowledge patiently. "It certainly sounds like you know what you want." Adam glares at me, not oblivious to my cynicism. "So what if I do? You like guys too, don't you? I mean you're gay, aren't you?" he asks. I wink conspiratorially. "I'm playing with your dick aren't I? What do you think?" Adam laughs as he studies my hand. "I expect at least one of us is gay." "It's nothing to be ashamed of, you know. You probably don't know this, but I've read somewhere that one out of ten males is gay." I pause for Adam to consume my statistical fact. His relief is visible. "One in ten?" he repeats. "You mean,... out of the ten boys in my class,... one of us is gay?" He smiles cheekily. "I think there are two. No, that's wrong,... I know there are two." "You and who else?" I tease. "He's a friend," Adam answers with a shy smile. "Is he your best friend?" Adam continues to smile and he does not deny what I have said. "Yeah, I s'pose you could say he's my very best friend." He leaves the obvious unstated. Clearly, he has experimented sexually with this other unnamed boy. If his words leave room for doubt, his tone does not. I am not averse to the idea of Adam learning about sex from a boy his own age. It is entirely appropriate that his first forays into intimacy occur with someone his own age, if only because two boys of the same age will be more or less equally matched, physically and emotionally. However, my presumption of unsullied children engaging in innocent sex play does not address the ease at which Adam accepts sexual stimulation from me. Neither does it explain his apparent familiarity with anal intercourse. I try to avoid the looming question as I continue to masturbate my young acquaintance of nearly an hour. "Man, you sure know how to make a guy feel good," Adam says. His hips oscillate, intimating that he desires even greater stimulation. "You must do this to a lot with other boys," he adds guilelessly. I chuckle. "I'm inspired right now. I really don't have a lot of experience with boys as young as you." I rub my finger over his turgid glans. It is hot and moist although the tiny crimson slit is bone dry. My caress makes him shiver with delight as a million highly stressed nerves respond. His penis jerks expectantly. Grasping his shaft firmly, my hand pulls back. His foreskin, still boyishly tight, drags over his darkened glans. I pinch the tumescent bulge between my thumb and forefinger and begin to massage it vigorously. "Owwwww!" Adam groans with delirious joy. "Feels good, huh?" "Ooooh! That's the best,....." "Is it better than doing it yourself?" Adam grins crudely. "It's not in the same league, man. It's totally awesome." "Totally awesome, huh?" I tease. "It's the best, better even than getting sucked off." I swallow my shock. "Hmmm,... is that the best?" "There's always butt-fucking," Adam blurts out. "You ever done that?" I ask crudely. "Got your butt fucked?" He steps back suddenly, pulling his excited, throbbing penis away from my hand. "Maybe!" He hesitates, displaying confusion as he considers that I expect of him. "Maybe I do it with my friend," he says. "I think your friend is very lucky if he does that to you," I reply, hinting in mock suspicion that Adam is not going to be the active partner. Adam's shoulders, so slender and unblemished, shrug as if the thought had never occurred to him that he would do otherwise. "Did you do it at my age?" "Do what?" "You know. Buttfuck?" Adam pursues. I nod. "Did you like it?" I nod again. "Hmmm," he says thoughtfully. "Did you do it a lot?" "What's a lot?" "How often did you do it?" "A lot," I return quickly. Adam smiles shyly. "I've done it a few times." "It's cool. You know, Adam, if you really love some one, having sex is the best thing there is. I guess you could say it's totally awesome. It really doesn't matter if you love a girl, or another boy! It's still fun." "It's illegal for a man and a boy to have sex," Adam states matter-of- factly. "They could put us in jail just for doing this." I smile. "Not you they wouldn't! But me, they would throw away the key for this." "Help! Police! Help!" Adam squarks in a muted scream for assistance that he knows will not get through the walls of my studio. I laugh. "I'll catch up to you in twenty years and cut both of your nuts off." It is a ridiculous threat and Adam laughs with me. "Ouch!" he guffaws. "You wouldn't do that to my nuts would you?" he asks. "I would be able to use my bolt." "You better not tell anyone then," I say amid laughter. He shakes his head instantly, denying that he could ever breach the close familiarity that now exists between us. I am conscious of the developing relationship we share--half game, half serious affection. I am falling in love with him with every passing minute. He is witty, amorous, pensive, demanding. I feel envious of his parents who see him every day. "Have you ever had sex with a boy?" Adam blurts out. A question for a question. "Have you ever had sex with a man before?" "That's not fair, Chris. I asked first. Have you?" Adam insists. "No! At least not with a boy your age. The youngest guy I've had sex with was eighteen. He was a college student. Of course, eighteen is hardly what you would call a boy, but he was Asian and he looked much younger, about fourteen or fifteen." I can sense Adam's agitation as he dissects my admission. He is not about to answer my question. Eighteen is legal, and he knows it. "What did you do with him?" he asks eventually. "We had sex," I answer. I pause for Adam's next question but he is too embarassed to ask it. I laugh. "And yes, we did it,... we butt-fucked quite often if you must know. He moved in here with me for a few months last fall, so he had a pretty sore ass after a couple of days." Adam smirks. "Did he ever do it to you?" "No! He was, well,... he really didn't want to. He wasn't very interested. He was a natural bottom. That's the guy on the bottom." "So you were on top?" He smirks again, becoming increasingly bolder. "Why was he a natural bottom." "Uh, some guys prefer it that way. It was probably for the best anyway. You might say he wasn't all that big down there." "He must have had a really tiny cock?" Adam chortled at his own sarcasm. "Something like that," I said with a smile. "Was his bigger than mine?" Adam asks. "Not by much, except you have to remember he was about eight years older than you. Your's is a bit on the small size right now, but you can be sure it will start growing in a year or two. And anyway, the size of your penis really isn't important, Adam. It's what you do with it, and what you want to do with it." Adam returns my smile, his cherubic cheeks conveying his happiness. "You want to have sex with me, don't you?" he asks candidly. My heart leaps at his proposition. 'Do I want to?' Yes! YES! YES! I want to shout. Instead I swallow and hide my enthusiasm. I watch his eyes, so alive. "My friend, he's only eleven,... and he has sex with his older brother all the time," Adam mumbles. "Like every night." "Have you? Have you had sex with a man, Adam?" I ask querulously. I hear the rising panic in my voice. "Get real! I'm a kid!" He replies with visible anxiety. "Do you want to?" I blurt out. "If you must know, I've wanted to do it with a grown-up for as long as I can remember." Adam glances down at his bare legs and feet, focusing on his toes as if seeing them for the first time. "Do you want to? You can, if you want. I don't mind," he murmurs. "Adam," I begin patiently. "Adam, there is nothing I want to do more than make love to you. You're a beautiful boy. You have a superb body. You're incredibly sexy. But,..." "But you won't," Adam finishes. "It is because you're afraid I'll tell some one? Because I won't. I promise I'll never tell anyone. No one will know." "It isn't that. If I love you enough to have sex with you, I'll trust you with my life. It isn't right, that's all!" "It isn't right, that's all," Adam parodies. Although his unbroken boyish voice lacks my deep tones, his sarcasm is manifested. "What you really mean is I'm too young!" It is time for complete honesty. He needs to understand what it means to be in love. "When I wasn't much older than you are now, Adam, I fell in love with a man who was about my age now. We starting having sex almost immediately after we met. We were lovers for more than three years. That's the reason, if you must know. I loved him,.... very much,... and he loved me back. We had sex because we loved each other." Adam regards me with interest. "I thought,... " "You thought what?" "Nothing. Hmmmm, so you had sex with a man when you were a boy. Did you do IT with him? I mean did you do everything?" Everything?" "You know! Did he put his thing in your butt?" "If you're asking whether we had anal sex, the answer is yes. That's what two guys do when they love each other." Adam smiles slightly. Surprisingly, he is not at all embarassed as he invades my privacy with one question after another. He is both curious and sending me an unambiguous signal of what he is interested in. "Did you do it a lot? How often did he do it to you?" I chuckle, remembering the afternoons I spent in his garage, in the woods behind the country club, on the front seat of his Mercedes with my pants at my ankles. How often? Every time, and sometimes several times; every Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday afternoon; more often when his wife was out of town. Over three years "it" had to be more than a thousand times. I lived on sex because I loved him and I enjoyed making him happy. Those were the three best years of my life. I thrived, passing through puberty and early adolescence with none of the difficulties most gay boys have. I had a few special problems of my own. I was far closer to him than my own father. Indeed, my father welcomed him, was happy for me to caddy for him, was glad to be rid of me so that he could concentrate on his golfing skills and entertaining his friends at the bar. "A lot," I reply. "I've done it a few times," Adam murmurs. "It hurts a bit. I was really worried the first time because there was some blood back there afterwards." I smile reassuringly. The pain is something a boy has to put up with, even after the bleeding ceases. I tolerated it because I wanted him to love me and I learned to live with the problems that came with abusing my young body. It saddens me to think of Adam suffering. "Doing that, having anal sex, is very special, Adam. I hope your friend loves you a lot," I answer tenderly. Adam swallows. "Yeah, I s'pose he does." I sense the truth. I try to minimize his torment. "I bled too, Adam," I admit. "I expect most boys do, even with boys their own age. After a few times,... well it usually stops and the pain goes away after a few minutes." I remember my first time, the times we repeated the experiment over the next few days. His penis was not overly large, but it was big compared to mine. It was just too thick to enter my anus without causing injury. I risked the chance of rupture to have his penis inside me. There was some blood for the next week, although not a lot of it, and it always stopped as soon as he was finished. My body adjusted quickly. "It doesn't hurt all that much now," Adam says meekly. "The blood bothered me. I thought I'd damaged something inside me" I nod understandingly. "It's unlikely. Usually it's because your butt has to stretch and it's not used to it. Is his penis really big?" Adam shrugs. "I guess. It's a lot bigger than mine. It's not all that long, but it's much thicker." "It sounds like he's a bit bigger than normal." "I guess. I don't have any basis for comparison, do I?" I grin. "I've heard that the average length of a boy's penis is about three inches before he starts puberty. Once he's mature, his penis grows quickly until it's about six inches long. About this long," I add as I hold the first fingers of each hand about six inches apart. Adam is silent as he makes a quick comparison. "It's way smaller than that. Is your's that big?" "Mine's a bit bigger than average, but being bigger doesn't mean it feels any better." Adam smirks. "Mine is small, isn't it?" I wink. "It depends," I tease. He accepts the challenge. "On what?" "It depends on what you use it for. Most women usually prefer men who have big penises. If you're gay, it probably isn't all that important to have a really big one." "Why is that?" "Because if you're gay, Adam, you're either a top or a bottom,... or you take turns." I pause, wondering whether Adam really understands the basic concept of tops and bottoms. He swallows, his anxiety visible, but he nods. I continue, aware of the distress he is experiencing as I talk frankly about the main topic of interest since we met. "Now, like I said earlier, some gay guys much prefer to be the one on the bottom and have the other man's penis in his butt," I answered. "If you're smaller and you like to be the bottom, so much the better." "Oh!" Adam answers tensely. "Then it means I'm gay, right?" "What means you're gay?" He sucks his lower lip inward, thoughtful as he considers his answer. "What you said.... If I like it, you know,... in my butt,... it means I'm gay, doesn't it?" "If what you're trying to say is that because you like having sex with someone of the same sex, then you're gay, then the answer is probably yes, only there's a but attached to it." "A but?" Adam asks gleefully. "As in however or like a butt hole?" I laugh. "Most boys go through a phase of being attracted to other guys as they grow up. They're not gay when they're older. Maybe it's just nature's way of allowing a boy to let off steam without the risk of getting a girl pregnant." Adam is silent for a long while before he finally murmurs. "I know I'm gay. I'm not going to change when I'm older. I'm one of the ten percent!" Chapter 2. 1.30 p.m. November 21st I step back from the podium and survey the audience as I wait for the inevitable questions. There were certain to be questions. My audience was a adhoc collection of mostly young and a few elderly lawyers who attend the annual conference of the Baltimore Bar Association. Most of them attend more for networking than edification. It is one of the few times that I have lectured to non-academic audiences, and is in a subject almost entirely out of my field but one in which I am very interested. The fine line separating art from pornography generally provides for a salubrious discussion and I have presented the case for art to audiences that are far less hospitable in attitude. I swallow anxiously and wipe a few nervous beads of sweat from my forehead. They are certain to be critical. The last dozen slides have been particularly provocative. I ask the audience to compare and contrast images of Edward Weston, Robert Mapplethorpe, and David Hamilton and nude paintings by some of the great figure painters of history. In my experience, lawyers are seldom interested in new ideas or in interpretations that are different to their own, even antagonistic to positions that contradict accepted legal positions. I have tried especially hard not to be argumentative but realized that it was impossible not to arouse some ill feeling with the subject of my paper. "Thank you, Professor Browning." The symposium facilitator comes to the podium. He is smiling, a wrinkle at the corner of his mouth as he readies for the onslaught. "As always, we save the best for the last of the year. I'm sure there are some questions on your presentation, 'The Politics of Pornography: an Artist's Perspective'. It is, shall we say, a very provocative title and your thesis is, well to at the very least, provocative. Like some of the young boys and girls who posed for the last few photographs you showed. I would imagine the sentiments are,... well problematic for a lot of our members as well as for society at large." I return his smile. I wait. Only ten seconds pass before the first hand went up from the back row. I did not recognize its owner until the voice boomed out with a cynicism that was immediately identifiable. Some lawyers with political aspirations have a habit of being outspoken on issues they know nothing about. "Professor Browning, beyond the implications that such photographs necessarily have for laws and moral standards at the time, what do you have to say about the unfortunate victims who are portrayed in these pornographic slides you've just shown us," the voice pauses with a soft snicker. "Is there any real evidence that the children who are placed in front of the camera for the world to see are not injured by the experience. And a second question, if I might continue, because if they do, as you put it, trust the photographer implicitly, what if the child discovers that his or her picture provides the basis for an adult's sexual stimulation?" "First, Mr. Carley, I did not use the term pornographic for the last few pictures, you did. In my mind they clearly constitute art, but that's only my opinion!" This is a subdued laugh of amusement from the group. "I believe that I limited my argument entirely to photographs taken with artistic aspirations. We can debate whether the photographs have artistic merit, but that, like pornography, art has to be judged with the artist's intention in mind. If one of us decides that a certain photograph is pornographic, that is up to the individual and he or she can choose to look away." I hesitate and survey the audience. I sense that some of them, the younger lawyers, many of them women, are probably on my side. I gaze at them and wonder how much support I really have. From experience, I know that women tend not to see the issue as simple right and wrong. What is pornographic to a man, can have artistic value to his counterpart. "And now, to answer your questions. Let me use the last photograph I showed as an example. 'Neil Nude' was taken by his father, Edward Weston in the 1930's. His son could hardly be considered to be an unwilling model. Now, I appreciate that I can't prove that Neil was irrevocably injured from exposing his body before his father's camera, but I serious doubt that he was adversely affected. Second, you suggest that photograph is pornographic. It is not, at least not in the correct sense of the word, because Weston's artistic intention has been clearly documented. The photo is a study of the form of the young male. If an adult looks at the photograph solely for sexual pleasure, it is beyond Weston's control." Carley smiles gleefully as he rocks slightly on his feet. "Then you would deny that the boy was photographed with his sexuality as the focal point." My smile is strained with feigned patience. The audience titters with subdued mirth as we cross into territory that is seldom discussed despite its great significance to society. "Weston shows the child's torso from knees to nipples, which naturally places the boy's penis in the center of the photograph. I agree it is an expression of sexuality, indeed he focuses on the penis, however it also documents the utter perfection of a young boy's body of which the penis is a fundamentally significant element. I would imagine even the most prudish among us would have to agree with that observation." "And you don't deny that a picture of a prepubescent boy's sex organs could cause sexual arousal for some people, and thereby create the basis for sexual pleasure?" Carley asks abruptly. I smile and answer him as I struggle to avoid becoming antagonistic. "I wouldn't know about that. I imagine that some photographs can play a role in some people's sexual enjoyment. That would naturally include photographs of boys for those people who are sexually aroused by youg boys. All I am saying is that there was a lot more to Weston's taking the photograph in the first place than merely providing physical gratification for someone. 'Neil Nude' was never intended to promote sexual fantasies. It was about making ART! It could even be argued that it was about a father's pride in his son, and yes, even in his son's genitals." "Professor Browning, then you're saying one thing and denying the sexual focus that you've already acknowledged exists," Carley smirks triumphantly. "And you're denying the essential beauty of the human body and ascribing perverted connotations to a part that you find personally abhorrent," I retort. It is impossible to retain my 'cool'. I feel my anger building. "Neil was a beautiful boy, and because of this photograph his beauty has been captured for others to admire. Let's have no doubts about Weston's intentions. Neil was Weston's son and that alone is enough to suggest that taking the photograph was entirely appropriate." "It's rather a depraved way to photograph one's children," Carley grumps. "Do you have proof of the artistic merit of the thing?" I smile back at him smugly. "More than enough to prove the point, Mr. Carley. It's been described by a great number of art historians as a very significant photograph in terms of its quality and composition. I can also direct you to the published version of my own paper. I'm certain that you will find the references to be very interesting reading." The moderator steps forward to the microphone. "Could I have the next question, please." "Professor Browning, I was quite interested in your discussion of sexuality in art and its interpretation in American culture. I'd like to know whether similar situations exist in other countries, regarding moral and legal standards with respect to artistic matters. Is this just an American problem or is it something we share with other societies?" By her accent she is of Danish or Swedish extraction. Not entirely the classic Scandinavian look, but the result of foreign imports. Even without my glasses, I see she has light-brown-hair with a burnished gloss and skin that glows with an natural lustre. Her full, red lips are inspirational. She is a beautiful woman, with a boyish charm, if one is inclined to the female sex. She speaks with a clipped, well-educated accent, traces of Baltimore and Canadian. I guess that she has probably been educated in private schools. It is an accent that seems strangely familiar. She is in her mid-to- late thirties. I nod. "I have not considered other countries besides the US and Canada, but I believe most countries in Europe are more liberal than we are. If one looks at the legal definition of pornography or the legal age of consent for example, uh,...?" "I'm Elizabeth Andersen, of Munth and Haywick," she responds with a deliberate smile. "The legal answer to your question you probably can find out better that I can,...." I begin. I scratch my chin and momentarily avoid her penetrating eyes. It seems as though I should recognize her. Perhaps it is merely her intonation that implies a past acquaintance. I cannot place her and yet I am certain that I have seen her before, a long time ago. I take a nervous breath before I continue. "However, knowing just how liberal most European countries are about sex, for that matter almost anything, I wouldn't be surprised to find they have a very different moral standard concerning art,... one that was more conducive to sexual overtones." "Then by their moral standards these photos would not be subjected to the same political interpretations as some people in this room would have," she adds with a slight smile behind her. "What you're talking about really is a problem of American morality." Carley interrupts swiftly. "This is quite preposterous, Browning. There is absolutely no reason to continue this discussion. I am entitled to have an opinion that is different to yours." Andersen glances to her side and her withering look is seen by more than half of the attendees, interrupts him, loudly. "I do have the floor, Mr. Carley, your role as arbiter of public taste and comptroller of morals aside." Loud laughter ensues from the hall. "The interesting thing is that I have just been to Italy on business, and everything that I saw there seems to support Professor Browning now that I think about it. It's an interesting proposition." I nodded in agreement. "I have to believe that in 'Neil Nude', both the boy and his parents were agreeable and that the child suffered no injury." Carley snorts. "Then it appears to me that you are supporting the abuse of children in order to make pornography. The photograph you're referring to is prima facie evidence of that." "While the photo of Neil is sexually explicit in that you can see his penis, it is preposterous to use a photograph of a ten-to-twelve-year-old boy to support the political machinations of some ultra-conservatives," the woman interrupts. "Besides, to an artist, the age of the model is of no real consequence. What is more," I add, "is that I would not call 'Neil Nude' sexually explicit. The boy is not aroused, and there is no indication of anything sexual. Yes, he is nude, and yes you can see his genitals, but that is only the way God made him." She smiles and appears pleased that I have become more aggressive in defending my position. I continue to press the attack. "I expect that there may be many pictures where a child has suffered through the indignity of exposing himself or herself. I've heard that the Internet has plenty of pictures like that. However, it is likely that those pictures were intended to be pornographic from the outset. I imagine that in this case, Neil's father saw the photograph as an opportunity to preserve his son's beauty." "If not his innocence," quips Carley. "I'm not interested in disputing questions of morality with you," I answer impatiently. "In any case, its been my experience that most boys are very willing to model nude and, what's more, their parents are generally happy to let them. It's people like you who argue that a naked body is obscene." "I happen to agree," Andersen states. "I'm sure that my own son would have little or no hesitation in having a picture taken of him like 'Neil Nude', just so long as his friends at school didn't see him, of course. And as his mother, I wouldn't be overly opposed to the idea either." She smiles and I finally recognize her. She is no longer twelve years old, no longer the pretty girl with the flaxen braids reaching to her buttocks. She is my neighbor of more than twenty-five years earlier. Carley snorts. "Well, no parents I know would let that sort of thing happen to their sons and daughters. It's too disgusting for words!" There is nothing I can say to change his mind. He is ignorant and blind to the beauty around him, too caught up in his coalition of conservative do-gooders to see that art and pornography are merely different ways of looking at the human body. Fuck him! I shrug and step back from the podium. I want to escape from the dimly lit room into the brilliant sunshine that lies beyond the brocaded curtains. She stops me in the foyer with a hail. "Chris Browning!" I turn to meet her as she approaches quickly. Part of me wants to keep walking and leave my past behind me. She knows me for what I am, or more accurately, what I was. Memories fill my head. I have not forgotten much in twenty-five years. "Hi Liz," I answer fondly. "Long time no see. I thought you were still in Canada." "I moved back about July. I had to get away. I guess I got tired of the cold weather." "Baltimore gets cold this time of year too," I reply. "Yes, I remember. However, I wanted to come back here. After my boyfriend walked out there didn't seem to be any reason to stay in Canada. The whole thing was pretty bad for my son, maybe even worse for him than me because he father stopped visiting." "You have a son?" I ask. "Adam. He's almost eleven. Not that he was close to his father, but,... well it's a long story. His father went off with the girl who was Adam's babysitter. He'd been screwing her for the three years she was sitting Adam. And Adam knew all the time, only he was too scared to tell me." "Poor kid! Poor you!" I say sympathetically. "That's life! So I packed up and came back here. Enough about me. How have you been, anyway?" I shrug and smile. "Fine! My work keeps me very busy." Liz nods. "I've seen some of your sculptures. There was an exhibit in Toronto called, hmmmm let me think,.... "Carved", wasn't it?" I meet her eyes. She is still a very beautiful woman. The years have been good to her. The only make-up is lipstick and a trace of eye-shadow. "What did you think?" "They were,... well I guess the word is 'thoughtful',.... There was one that was very interesting. It was the one with the paint. Very different to the others I thought." I laugh. "Colon-2! It's hard to make a sculpture of the inside of a rectum." There is a momentary silence. "The reviewer raved about your work," Liz says. "He called it 'sensual symbolism' and he talked a lot about your unusual interpretation of the body." I step back and study her with an artist's eye for form. A thought comes to me and I feel my heart quicken. I am surprised I did not notice it sooner. There are very strong similarities between her and the beautiful boy who came to my studio. Could it possibly be? How many ten-nearly-eleven-year- old Adams could there be in Baltimore with Canadian accents. My Adam has the same lips, full and passionate, the same eyes, pale blue, the same golden blond wavy hair that she had as a child, a similar skin tone--very Scandinavian. I need to know with a passion that is disconcerting. "Well, tell me what you've been doing. Where are you living?" I begin obliquely. Liz starts. Like me, she has been thinking. "Huh? Oh, I went back to school a few years ago. I'm a lawyer now, in case you wondered. I've taken a job with Feldstein and Hatfield. " "I know them! They're very good. F and H do my trust work. They're the best in the city! Tell me more" "Well, I've bought a condominium in Hillsdale so Adam can go to the Academy." I grin. "Poor kid! I hope he survives. They'll turn him into a Bible- touting Christian you know." "He'll do fine. Adam's a bright boy." "I'm sure he is," I say. "There are some condos on the other side of Greally that are nice without costing a fortune," I suggest. Liz nods. "I wanted to be close to the old neighborhood. I couldn't afford a house after the divorce." I glance around, no longer able to look at her. I know the answer to the question I have not asked. Liz is Adam's mother! I touched her son's penis! I very nearly did something else with him. I swallow, feeling growing guilt at how close I had come to doing much more. Although she is more liberal than most people, what I had done already was too much. She would undoubtedly consider it to be sexual abuse of her son. She would kill me if she knew what I had done. I consider excusing myself. And yet I linger, wanting to reestablish an acquaintance in the vain hope that it will lead to spending more time with Adam, of filling in a missing part of my life. Lunch offers interesting possibilities, at the least of getting to know more about the beautiful boy who holds my interest. There is even a chance of seeing him one more time, at best of developing a permanent relationship with him. "Let's get some lunch," I suggest. "We can talk about old times." Liz shrugs and glances at her watch. "I do have to get back for a staff meeting, but it won't hurt if I'm a few minutes late." She smiles. "You know, Chris, you were the last person I wanted to see again when I left here, and when I saw you name listed as the speaker for today, well, I just had to come to see you how the years had affected you." I smile back at her. "Do you hate me that much?" "I never hated you," Liz says flatly. "My mother would have hated you had she known about you." I wince inside. "I'm surprised you never told her." "I guess I saw how happy my father was," Liz replies. "You were good for him, Chris." "He was good for me, too," I admit. "God only knows I needed someone in my life like him. How's he doing, anyway?" "Dad? Honestly, I have no idea. I haven't spoken to him for years. Not since,... well it doesn't matter. Let's go get a bite to eat." Chapter 3. 7.30 p.m. December 8th Adam romps on the carpet with me while his mother is cooking dinner in the kitchen. He is almost eleven, only two weeks to go until his birthday. He loves to wrestle, even though he always loses. I pin him down, lying half over him as I try to get my fingers under his struggling arms to tickle him. He laughs, a high-pitched sound that is almost a girlish shriek. He endeavors to wriggle free, twisting and turning with surprising strength for his slender body. My weight is too much for him and I hold him down, grabbing both of his hands in my left hand and jerking them behind his head so that he is exposed. Only a thin tee-shirt protects his closest armpit from attack. He might as well be naked for all the protection his clothes offer him. I grin down at him. Adam is confidently supreme as he smirks back at me, then rudely sticks his tongue out to challenge me. Without warning he writhes valiantly and with all his strength in an attempt to toss me off. He ends his contortions by positioning himself so that he can bring his knee up to strike my groin with carefully aimed precision. Instead, I sense his intention and place my leg over both of his legs. "Oh! So you want to fight dirty huh?" Adam smirks again and tries again to move his legs. Now, there is nothing he can do, his body is immobile. He is a prisoner beneath me. My fingers flick at the hem of his tee-shirt, lifting it slightly up his waist so that I can see a narrow strip of bare boy-flesh before his cotton pants start. His waist is narrow, almost feminine except for the firmness of his stomach muscles. He is clearly very-much a boy despite the smallness of the bulge in his crotch. His beautiful belly is highlighted by a tiny belly-button that peaks out from under his pants. Casually my fingertips touch his silky- smooth skin. I cannot believe how soft and warm he is. It is not unlike touching a new-born baby. Adam giggles and relaxes, sending a clear and unambiguous signal. I caress his belly from one side to the other. He flexes his belly muscles, tightening them under my gliding fingers. He arches his back as far as he is able so that he pushes up against me. We say nothing as our eyes meet. He gazes at me, half-smiling, radiating both innocence and lust at the same time. There is no need to ask his permission. He submits in silence, a Mona-Lisa smile of knowing and wanting what I offer. We both want the same thing, but I am to afraid to admit it with his mother only fifteen feet away. I slide my hand under his tee-shirt and slowly follow the gentle contour of his slim torso until I reach his ribs. One by one the bony mounds pass under my fingers until I reach the slight, firm flesh that forms his right breast. His nipple is very small, and for several seconds I search for it. It is only the gradual stiffening of a minute point that identifies it. Using my thumb I circle over it, teasing and squeezing the tiny sensitive nub against my finger until Adam winces in growing delight. My fingers back away in retreat, looking for other places to torment. I stroke his hairless armpits under the loose tee-shirt, luxuriating in the moist heat that is not unlike that of his compact crotch. He raises one eyebrow, challenging me not to tickle him and interrupt his sybaritic pleasure. I wink, not giving him reason to distrust me, still keeping him prepared for a surprise attack in his most ticklish place. Adam quivers under me, and then he smiles suggestively. I watch his chest rise and fall with each strong deep breath. His eyelids flicker, his blue eyes gaze openly and trustingly into mine. He is a very beautiful boy. His passionate mouth opens, he licks his upper lip, and he mouths silent words to me. I smile down at him and mouth the same words back to him for the millionth time. 'I love you'. He is content, his eyes half-close, a trace of a smile on his lips as my fingers commence their downward journey. By the time I reach the waistband of his pants there is a visibly larger bulge. It is not as big as most boys his age, but it is prominent against the furrow between his slender thighs. His eyes open and flicker with interest when my hand stops, my fingertips just underneath the waist of his pants. Silently he dares me to go further, abandoning all caution as his desire is ignited. I slide one outstretched finger towards his private place, like the advance scout of an invading army of three other very eager fingers and a thumb. "Who's fighting dirty now?" he demands in a breathy whisper. I grin down at him. "Dirty? Who me? I washed my hands before dinner," I say pretending innocence. My finger brushes the heated tip of his penis. Without underpants, he is exposed to my touch. His juvenile penis is fully erect and still does not reach halfway to his navel. So small, so hot, so absolutely perfect, so wonderfully 'boy'. He quivers slightly as I tug gently on his puckered nozzle and then lightly trace the swelling of the bulbous glans completely contained within his foreskin. All too soon his penis will lengthen until the head is partially uncovered, but for now the skin of his penis is stretched tightly for the narrow opening valiantly resists the passage of his rounded helmet-shaped head. He is so hard and still so soft, emanating a moist warmth from his throbbing, alive flesh. My fingers stroke along his manhood, still very much that of a boy as I encounter his hairless groin and tiny testicles. "Balls" do not describe the precious bean-sized contents of his delicate scrotum. They are like two jewels containing his very essence, his manly future not even realized as a single milky droplet. Adam wriggles slightly, repositioning himself under me so that his legs can move apart. He gives me unfettered access to his maleness, lying silent with nearly closed eyes in contented bliss. Under my fingers, his eggs dart away and hide in the loose folds of his silken pouch. He smiles happily as I press down and squeeze him lovingly. The palm of my hand contains all of him that is important. I rub him with a firm but gentle pressure, kneading his already excited genitals until his hips lift up expectantly. "Feels nice huh?" I ask teasingly. "You're a horny little faggot, aren't you?" Adam shrugs and looks up at me arrogantly. He speaks in a muted voice that is both urgent and conspiratorial. "I'm not the only one, am I? You're the one who's playing with my dick!" "You could always tell me to stop if you didn't want me to," I reply softly. "I know that!" Adam replies confidently. I ease my fingers into the start of his crack, lifting him slightly in order to place a fingertip directly onto his anus. It is heated as if there is a fire burning just inside him. "Do you want me to stop?" I add. Adam shakes his head slightly. He feels my finger wriggling under him, pressing into the moistness of his opening. Without the benefit of lubrication, it will not enter easily, even if Adam assists by relaxing his sphincter muscle, or better, pushes down against me. I feel the tension in his young body slacken and his hips ease down in preparation. He squeezes deliberately. The resistance fades. Even though he has said nothing, I know exactly what he wants me to do. My finger slowly pushes deeper into the hot orifice as Adam sighs with happiness and tries to relax even more. His little anus is so tight it is difficult for me to accept that he is no longer a virgin. Fortunately, his only experience has been with a boy his own age. "I know what you want," I whisper in his hear. There is a hint of a smile as Adam nods. "The same thing you want, I s'pose. It's a pity Mom's here." His buttocks squeeze slightly and he squirms, then pushes back to take my finger deeper into his rectum. With little effort he forces my finger past his sphincter until it protrudes beyond the second joint. He is quiet for a moment while he becomes accustomed to having it inside him. His breathing slows, hot and moist against my cheek. Gently I curl my finger, probing for the highly sensitive node within him. I pass over his immature prostate, his juice-gland still pea-sized and barely felt through the slick wall of his rectum. With little pressure I penetrate his bowel until my knuckle is against his crack and I can go no further. "What if she comes in?" Adam asks anxiously. "Shhh!" I reply. I pull back until only half of my finger remains inside him. I begin to massage, rubbing back and forth over his sensitive spot. His breathing quickens immediately. As the contractions in his sphincter become stronger he squeezes tightly on my finger, binding his anus around my digit and stopping its movement temporarily. "Dinner is ready," Liz calls from the doorway to the kitchen. I look up, startled, hoping that she cannot see what I am doing to her son. In an instant, my finger is free of his hot, tight canal. I give his sex a playful squeeze and a moment latter my hand is safely outside his pants again. She has not seen what I was doing. "Thank God! I'm starving!" I exclaim in nervous relief. "Are you two wrestling again? That's all you seem to do!" I grin. "You had better say uncle, Adam," I taunt, "or you'll get another wedgie." Adam shakes his head furiously, writhing under me in a valiant effort to escape. I slide to one side, grasping his thin ankle and jerking his right leg into the air until his knee is close to his chest. Except for the thin cotton of his pants his buttocks are unprotected. He exhales, clenches his fists impotently as I hold him down, smirks back at me in a silent dare. "Say uncle," I command again. "No way!" Adam laughs. I bring my hand into the cleft between his firm buttocks, fingers first like a stiff wedge driven into rubber. I go further than I expected, passing between his thighs until my fingers collide with the small hemisphere of his scrotal pouch. He shrieks, twists, tries to inflict injury with his flailing arms, laughing uncontrollably. Satisfied, I lift away, no longer pinning him down. Adam scrambles to the side, indignant and pretending anger. "He grabbed my balls, Mom!" he chortles. "He's a dirty old man." "Well, I always suspected he was a pervert, Adam. You had better be careful around him or he'll grab more than you balls," Liz laughs. "Come on, let's have dinner before it gets cold." "Who me? You think I'm a pervert?" I ask innocently as I follow her. Liz smiles and shrugs. "If the shoe fits, I guess you should ought to put it on and wear it." We follow her into the dining room. She has laid out a feast of grilled chicken and corn, a large Caesar salad, and a tomato and eggplant dish. It is during dessert that Liz breaks the news to Adam. "Can Chris stay after we finish dinner and watch a movie with me? Raiders of the Lost Ark in on the Movie Channel, Mom." Adam looks expectantly towards his mother. "Please Mom, can he stay?" "Adam, he's going to stay all night," Liz says slowly. She glances at me meaningfully, cautioning silence until Adam understands. "All night? Huh? I don't understand. Where's he going to sleep?" I try to hide my smile. If I have any choice in the matter I would be sleeping in Adam's bed. Instantly I feel the start of an erection at the mere thought of curling up to his naked body, absorbing his warmth, listening to the quiet whisper of his voice in the darkness until he falls asleep, exhausted from hours of passionate sex. "He's sleeping in my room of course, Honey," Liz answers after a long pause. "He can hardly sleep on the couch now can he?" From the look on Adam's face I see that he is surprised and really doesn't understand the reason why I would sleep in his mother's room, even though he is familiar with the biological process of reproduction. His lips compress when the realization dawns on him. His reaction is extreme, yet understandable. "I hate you," he screams in sudden anger. He gropes for words as his revulsion builds. He tries to stand, but the carpet holds the legs of the chair under him. It totters when he comes to his feet, then crashes loudly to the floor. I know his anger is focused on me. His disgust is palatable. "How could you? You're,... you're supposed to love ME!" he blurts out in uncontrolled fury. "Adam!" Liz says loudly, "For God's sake!" "I hate you!" he shouts. He runs, stops at the doorway, and turns angrily to confront me. He is sobbing. "Fuck you! Why don't you fuck my mother! See if I care! I hate you!" I close my eyes in shame. When I open them again, Liz is slowly shaking her head in despair. Unknown to his mother, Adam's reaction is entirely predictable. She does not know the extent of the affection between us, nor could she be expected to accept that we have fallen in love. "God," she says miserably, "I never expected him to react like that! He's never been like this! I didn't think he'd be so angry. And the f-word, he's never used it before. I didn't even know that he knew it. I,... I don't know what to say, Chris." I nod my understanding, too shaken to respond. Adam's hatred is directed entirely at me. I have hurt him deeply. I cannot expect him to understand the complex world of adult relationships. "I suppose I had better talk with him," she mutters. "I don't know what I can say. I guess he's been without a father for too long. He's just jealous of you, you know that don't you? He's used to being the only 'man' in my life." I nod again. She would be disillusioned if she knew the truth of it. "He doesn't like the competition I expect," I add in feeble agreement. "I don't know what you can say to help him understand." She sighs deeply. "In some ways I think Adam needs you even more than I do." I take a quick breath. That is the truth of it. Her words disturb me and for a few seconds I suspect that she has fathomed the reason behind Adam's reaction. "Huh?" I ask with pretended ignorance. "A boy needs a father. Adam hasn't had a real male role model since he was five. I've tried my best. I guess I should count my blessings that he isn't effeminate like some boys who grow up without a father around." I smile. "Maybe I should be the one to talk with him, Liz," I volunteer. "If he knows enough to realize we're going to have sex if we sleep together, then he might feel more comfortable talking to me instead of you. Most boys get pretty uptight about sex when they're about Adam's age." Liz scratches her temple and pushes away an unruly lock of blond hair. "Would you? God, this is so difficult for me. I've never really talked about sex with him. He didn't seem to be very interested the time when I tried to tell him how babies were made." I smile inwardly, having no doubts as to why Adam would be disinterested in that subject. I stand and follow Adam up to his bedroom. The door is closed and I knock gently before I try the handle. It turns as Adam's muted voice reaches me. "Go away, Mom!" "Adam, it's me!" I say. "I want to talk!" "Go away! I hate you!" I glance over my shoulder, hoping that I am out of his mother's hearing. "I love you," I say as loudly as I dare. There is silence. "Yeah, right! Why don't you go fuck my mom?" Adam says querulously. I open the door until I can see Adam lying on the bed. His back is to me. His head is forced into his pillow as he tries to hide. "I love you, Adam," I say gently. "No you don't," Adam counters. "Don't try to pretend!" I step through the open doorway, thinking quickly while I close the door behind me and close the gap between us. The physical distance is one thing, the emotional chasm is quite another. I try to find the words I need to say to him. His hunched up body looks very small to me. He is exposed and hurt, and instinctively I want to comfort him and take away his pain. I stop by the side of his bed. He is silent, rejecting me and the feelings of closeness that we have shared since the day we met. I have known all along that he is an extremely sensitive boy. I look down at him, feeling overwhelming guilt that I could abandon this beautiful slender boy for his mother. I cannot expect him to understand that it is the only way I can continue to be close to him and not arouse her suspicions. Also, Adam does not comprehend that part of my attraction to boys like him because it is not entirely fulfilled by women. From his perspective, I have deceived him and taken advantage of his innocence and willing friendship. He is right to think our relationship is fraudulent. "Adam, I understand how you feel," I begin anxiously. I want deparately for him to understand my situation. Like Adam, I cannot change the way I am. "No you don't," Adam murmurs. He sounds sad. He is sad. I have injured him deeply. "I really do love you," I attempt again. "I think you love me too," I venture. "I hate you!" Another lonely murmur. "I don't know if you will understand this," I try again. "I know we've talked a lot about you're being gay. You also know there are men who love boys, I'm one of them,... but you have to realize that they aren't always gay. In fact a lot of them probably aren't gay. For instance, there are some men, like me for example, who are able to love both boys and women. It doesn't mean that I love you any less." "Maybe it means you don't love me at all," Adam suggests angrily. "Maybe it means that you lied to me. I don't care if you do it with my mom. You can fuck her all you want! See if I care! I hate you!" "Don't be like this, Adam?" I plead. "Please try to understand," I implore. "Your mother and I don't want to hurt you. God, the last thing I want to do is hurt you. If I knew I was hurting you I'd leave and never see you again." Adam glares sideways at me, wiping tears away before he looks away quickly. "I don't want you to leave," he says adamantly. "I don't want to leave either, but you have to know that I think your mother and I are falling in love. It's very different love compared to the way I love you." "Are you going to marry her?" he demands. His head lifts up, no longer buried in his pillow. "Maybe Adam. I don't know. Anything like that is still a long time away, believe me." I take a deep breath. "What would you think if I did marry her?" Adam shrugs, his beautiful face reddened with angry tears. "If you married her you'd kind of be like my dad then, wouldn't you?" I nod. "You'd be the son I always wanted, Adam," I answer honestly. "But you'd always be much more than a son to me," I add hesitantly. "You mean,..." Adam asks awkwardly. I grin. "I said I loved you, didn't I? I wasn't joking." "You mean,..." Adam's voice is nervous and he trembles as he begins to realize what my words mean. "You mean,..." he tries again. I nod slightly and he starts to smile shyly. "I thought,...." His face brightens visibly. "But what about her? My Mom, what if she finds out about us?" "I don't plan on telling her that I'm in love with her son," I admit. "If we're careful, she'll never know," I add confidentially. "Oh! So,.... Chris,.... if you live here with me, then,..." Adam suddenly seems happier than I have ever seen him. "You and I will always be close," I finish ambiguously. "I don't want to hurt you, Adam. I love you too much for that. I'd do just about anything to be with you. I know it worries you that I have feelings for your mom. However, you must believe me that I love you as well. The thing is, my feelings for you are a lot different." "The first time,..." Adam says slowly, "when you said that you weren't really gay,.... this is what you meant, wasn't it?" His eyes meet mine and we look at each other. It is the moment of truth. "What do you mean, Adam?" I ask. "You said that you loved boys, remember?" he continues slowly. I nod in agreement. "You love me because I'm a boy, right? And you love my mom,... but you don't love men,... because you aren't gay?" Again I nod. I sense where he was leading, yet there is no way to stop the inevitable conclusion. He has to hear the truth from me. "It's the way I am. Maybe I'll fall in love with your mom, Adam. However, I also love boys, and the last time I looked I think you were still a boy. At least I didn't see any hair around Junior," I joke. "Chris, what happens when I grow up?" Adam asks awkwardly. "I won't be a kid forever. Will you stop loving me then?" I sigh loudly. The trouble with telling the truth is that it tends to hurt more than it helps. It would be so easy to lie to Adam, to shrug off his conclusion as irrelevant, unlikely, even impossible. For a moment I consider giving the tried and true line that I will always love him, although my physical desire will be tempered as he grows up. I cannot find it in me to mislead him. Once he is a year or two past puberty I doubt whether there will be much attraction for me in his adolescent body. I swallow guiltily. "Yes, in a way I will, Adam," I acknowledge. "I can't help that I love boys. The key word is 'boys'. When you're older, I'll feel different towards you. I'll still love you, I'll always love you,... but it probably won't be sexual." "You mean,... you won't want to do stuff with me? That's what you mean, isn't it?" I watch his happiness crumble as the truth sinks in. "That's still several years away, Adam," I add quickly. "The next few years can be wonderful years that you will never forget. We will always be able to remember what we shared together when you were a boy." "But,... I,... " Adam begins. He falls silent, unable to find the words to express himself. His bottom lip quivers the way it does when he's worried. "Why can't you be gay?" he demands. "I want you to love me always, not just for a few lousy years." I shrug and shake my head. I don't know why I am the way I am. "You're almost eleven now, Adam so there's at least three, maybe even four years before we have to worry about it. That's a long time for most gays to be in love, you know." "What do you mean? I don't understand," Adam trembles. "Most gays don't have long term relationships. I don't know why that is, but it's true. Maybe it's because gays don't have to worry about having babies so they have no reason not to have sex with anyone who comes along. In fact, some of gay guys are just plain promiscuous," I reply. "Huh? What does prom-mis-cuous mean?" I smile. "It means you have sex a lot," I answer. "And not with the same person. If you had sex with the same person you'd just be plain horny. To be promiscuous you'd have to do it with other men whenever you had the chance." Adam smiles shyly. "Then I'm not that way, uh,... prom-mis-cuous, am I? I wouldn't want to do it with just anyone. Other than you, that is." "Well, neither would I. But when you're older you might want to try it with other men to see what it's like." "I guess I should be happy for you and my mom," Adam says hesitantly. "I never was very good at sharing. It's probably because I'm an only child," he jokes. I grin at Adam, pleased that the fight is over and he is beginning to understand. "In a way I have to share you with your mother too," I reply. "This way I'll see a lot more of you, you realize." Adam nods slightly. His eyes meet mine. His is a sly look, full of the high spirits and devilish humor that I admire in him so much. "How much is a lot more?" "Huh?" "You said you'd see a lot more of me, so I asked how much more." He grins cheekily. "Did you mean you'd see me more often or just more of me?" "Both!" "Hmmmm! I like that idea. Can we start tonight?" "Your mom is downstairs," I answer conspiratorially. "So what do you have in mind?" "She's doing the dishes." "It'll take her at least ten minutes to clean up from dinner." I wink with suggestive innocence "Ten minutes is a long time." Adam smirks cheekily, very aware of the opportunity inherent in a period of ten minutes. He is also aware of the excitement he is causing me with his veiled eroticism. My arousal is evident in the swelling bulge in my crotch. He grins and raises his eyebrows. My heart rate accelerates, bringing my penis into full erection in a matter of a few seconds. "What do you have in mind?" I ask teasingly. With exaggerated disinterest Adam shrugs. I am not perturbed by his pretended boredom. Perhaps it is his way of avoiding the guilt that attend a desire that is condemned by his peers. Homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of boysfrom the fifth-grade onwards. He is just beginning to realize that his sexual orientation makes him the brunt of frequent jokes. Perhaps he is also testing me, to see what I want before he exposes his own yearning. "Whatever you want to do is okay by me," Adam says obliquely. "What if I want you to take your pants off?" I suggest nonchalantly. He stifles a giggle. "Why don't you ask and see what I say?" I meet his eyes. He is playing a game with me, learning the art of seduction, tempting me, a man old enough to be his own father. Already he has acquired the innuendo skills of an accomplished lover. It is time to exert my authority, at least in jest. "Take off your pants," I command brusquely, as if my patience has gone at last, but smiling nonetheless to let him know that I am not seriously demanding compliance against his will. Silently, too quickly to be at all reluctant, his eager hands move to his waist and his thin fingers deftly unfasten the bright-blue cord that sits several inches below his navel. Perhaps caution is order, but the wide- open bedroom door is out of my sight and for now, out of my mind. My only thoughts, like my eyes, are focused on the slim child who now lifts his hips and slowly eases his pants along his slender thighs. Before dinner, when we wrested on the floor I wondered at what point he became sexually aroused, now there is no question. Even the merest hint of sexual activity is enough to promote an erection. His boyhood is between soft and hard, delightfully, magically lengthening as I gaze down at his naked groin. His scrotum is relaxed, hot folds of delicate skin stretch down to contain his two small orbs. In a way, his immature testicles are almost hidden from sight, yet their slight presence is revealed sufficiently to contribute to the overall mystery of his almost androgenous gender. His penis flinches and lifts up, still hardening until it becomes fully erect and draws his silky skin taut. His pants have reached his knees and pause there. Without Adam's approval, for none is needed, I pull them all the down to his ankles, exposing smooth bare legs, slender yet firmly muscled. His bony knees bear pale scars from long-healed injuries. "From the look of him I'd say someone's feeling pretty good right now," I muse. "Mmmmm," Adam sighs. His penis jumps, responding to muscles he has control over. He demonstrates his willingness again, instinctively moving his legs further apart. "He's happy," he adds softly. "We both are." "I can't imagine why," I tease. Adam smirks. "Hmmmm," he muses. "Maybe he likes being rubbed?" he suggests. Innuendo is finished for now. He is way beyond hinting that he wants sexual contact. So much for warnings given during the sex education classes that he is taking. Lectures on health and hygiene provide little preparation for real life and human desires like Adam is feeling. He struggles for identity in a heterosexual world, discovering what it means to be a taunted minority among his friends, experiencing true contentment only when he is with me. In a class of ten fifth-grade boys, statistically only one of them will be gay. He is part of an unfortunate minority. Adam nods once, signaling encouragement and urgency, and gently I begin to caress him. Lessons on the complications of approaching puberty do not prepare him for his feelings and emotions, and the disturbing thoughts that plague him with socially unacceptable demands. Now, he hungers to be touched and I satisfy that urge immediately. My two fingers and thumb embrace his boyhood, stroking slowly up and down the throbbing spike between his outstretched legs. He lies back, blond hair dishevelled on his brilliant- white pillow, eyes half-closed and absorbing every precious second as if it will go away and never return. He is a physical child, engaged in sybaritic joy that is infinitely better than self-pleasuring. He trusts me implicitly, I realize. He gives everything, baring his soul as he expresses his delight with muted whispers, soft sighs of growing arousal. His thighs tense, lifting his buttocks off the bed and the thrill intensifies. My hand moves faster, endlessly pursuing his satisfaction, aware of his mood and demanding need. He quivers, breathing faster, not yet gasping for each breath. That will come later. His body responds with its own erratic rhythm, his eyelids flutter, opening wide as he smiles effusively. His pelvis begins to jerk of its own accord, obeying a primal urge to fuck. I glance down and wonder at when his scrotum became so taut. Now dark and wrinkled, it is knotted like a walnut-half beneath his rigid boyhood. His testicles are retracted, sucked into inguinal cavities until they are barely visible and barely felt within his flattened pouch. His back arches, his feet tangled in his cotton pants, scraping the sheets and seeking purchase so that he can ram more of himself into my enclosing fist. His head tilts back, eyes close almost in pain, breathless as he strains upward seeking more stimulation. My hand vibrates, dragging flexible, nearly translucent skin over an engorged crimson glans. "Faster!" Adam demands. He bucks, teeth gritted when he arrives at the very peak of ecstasy. Although I am only titillating sensitive nerves, his body reacts as if it actually hurts him. At the end there is always a burst of energy that sends his hips into wild gyrations. Each time I am dumbfounded that his ecstasy can achieve such heights. He orgasms like a teenager, grunting while his feverish body contorts. After only two minutes he gasps for air, shuddering as waves of pleasure come with each climaxing pulse. Old enough to orgasm, still too young to ejaculate, Adam writhes in erratic rhapsody, his eyes close in bliss while my hand continues to torment his still erect member. It is not impossible for him to climax two or even three times in quick succession. However, I have other plans--plans that will show Adam how much I love him. Again without seeking his consent, I lean over his crotch. His penis is reddened from my vigorous rubbing, and still very hard. Oh, to be young again. I kiss his swollen glans. So hot, so soft, so sensitive. The molten bulb trembles before me, piss-slit opening and closing as my fingers continue to work his thin shaft. Between my lips it feels like a sun-warmed cherry, sweet fruit of his loins, tasty morsel of boyhood. I lick him, poking my tongue at his meatus, swirling around the corona, slurping wet saliva across the helmet-shaped head. He is transported, intoxicated by the acute sensations of my soft wetness abrading against his tenderness. I sense that Adam is disturbed by oral sex. It is our first time and he has not confided to me whether it is the only time his penis has been sucked. His suggestions to the contrary, I suspect that he is still a mouth virgin. In one quick swoop he loses his innocence. His reaction is enough to make me laugh, and my laughter is prevented only by the forceful reinsertion of his demanding penis most of the way into my mouth. He wants me to suck him and I oblige willingly. I take all of him, letting his small sex go to the back of my throat. I hear his sudden intake of breath as he gasps in surprise. My fingers squeeze his testicles within his wrinkled pouch, massaging his boy- eggs gently as I begin to apply suction. I ease back, using my tongue to bathe his shaft with saliva as I drool over him. He is sweet, warm, soft, smooth, alive. A potpourri of smells and tastes invades my senses, captivating me until I am unable to quench my desire for him. I lick, slurp, suck, devour his boyhood as he moans, elevated to his seventh heaven. Another realm of his mind, barely experienced with masturbation, has been exposed. He is silent while I perform my self-appointed task between his wide-spread thighs. I am captivated by the shared act of making him happy. He twitches and starts to writhe. "Yeahhhhhh!" he sighs. "Mmmmmmmmm! I like this." He humps his pelvis into my face. My tongue snakes out and I lick his delectable pouch, prodding his testicles before pushing them into my mouth. Adam lifts up, grinding his hairless crotch into my lips. I apply all the suction I can muster, hollowing my cheeks as I gulp his boy-sized boner. He shudders involuntarily, pulls back, then jerks forward swiftly as he instinctively begins to hump harder. He catches his breath, stopping quickly when the stimulation becomes too much for his overexcited organ. With difficulty I look up, a strange perspective of the boy I love so deeply that it hurts. His eyes are narrow slits, his mouth open as he breathes with difficulty. There is a trace of smile when he realizes I am watching him. He is on the brink of another orgasm and we both know it. Again I change the rules of the game. I drool copious saliva from my mouth, oozing it through the imperfect seal of my lips, wetting my forefinger as I manipulate his delicate testes. His expression slowly changes, becoming placid as my soothing touch pleases him and calms his fervent lust. The immediacy of Adam's sexual release fades. Lubricity and my gentle massaging makes his scrotum start to relax again. Without pausing in my careful ministrations, I ease my hand under him following the faint ripple from scrotum to anus. The tip of my forefinger brushes his puckered opening. Every time I touch him there I feel the same, a peculiar sense of deju vu, of belonging. I remember the first time I touched him there, and the specialness of the moment still is not lost on me. I am touching his most private place. Momentarily, I wish that it was still his first time. My mind reels as I stroke his anus. Through this one opening he both defecates and makes love. One act is so exquisite, the other the repugnant expelling of his excrement. He seems so inncocent that it is hard for me to accept than another boy's penis has penetrated his small orifice. His pucker is pronounced, like lips closed around a straw, very hot and slightly damp. My fingertip circles while my other fingers stretch out and prise a narrow gap between his buttocks. From my awkward position his cleft seems deep, as if hiding his precious treasure between his firm warm cheeks where no man could find it without his consent. I glance up quickly, suddenly very aware that Adam has been quiet for almost a minute. Now, his eyes are wide open and his head is lifted up as if to acknowledge my trespass. Still, I have not breached him so the violation is incomplete. He is thinking, and for a second I consider terminating my incursion into his privacy. I realize that Adam, like me, is remembering the boy who stole his innocence. Guiltily I realize that I am jealous, despite the fact that friendship with a boy his own age should naturally come with far-greater familiarity and opportunity for curious exploration. However, Adam and I are already closer friends than I had ever hoped for. I have no reason to be envious of another boy. He breathes out, not sighing, merely signalling his self-questioning is over for the moment. His anus has become the source of his pleasure. It is an inseparable part of his sexual orientation, and he fully grasps the role it will play. I feel the tiny opening squeeze impatiently agaianst my fingertip like a welcoming embrace. What he wants done, cannot be done, I want to say. Be glad that we are together. I say nothing. My forefinger presses slightly inward to test his resistance. His anus is so small that it is nearly impossible to believe that another boy's phallus, substantially larger than his own, has passed through it, not once, not twice, but no less than on three separate occasions. However, those times were months ago I remember. It is enough to mitigate the envy that I am not his first lover. I ease my finger back at the same time as I lift my mouth away from his bobbing red-hued stalk. I slaver onto my finger, instinctively realizing that my spittle is essential to proceeding further. Without needing any instruction, Adam's knees lift up and stretch wide apart, all but assuming the position for intercourse with me. I grin at him with grateful acknowledgement of his willingness to go further. "So what do you want?" I tease. He grins back shamelessly, beaming with boyish bravado. "The same thing you want,... I want him there!" "We can't," I counter. "You know why already." He smiles shyly. "Yeah, I know. I'll settle for anything right now." "Hmmmm,.... I'm not sure what it is you want me to do," I say. "Maybe you should explain." Adam smirks, and raises his eyebrows lewdly before he suggestively looks downward. My eyes follow his. His boyhood lurches, still at the apogee of its juvenile stiffness, tempting me to devour it once again. "I love you," Adam murmurs. "I really do, you know. That's why I want you inside of me. You said that's why guys did it,... because they love each other enough to join together." "I know that," I whisper back. I smile gently at him. "Is a finger okay, instead of a bolt?" Adam nods slightly. He has not forgotten our first talk, the teasing play on harmless words that made us friends. It is a magical moment, the first time we have explored that part of him beyond mere penetration. His penis quivers before my eyes, expressing his urgent desire. My moistened finger finds his entry again and probes carefully into the small crinkle, minute corrugating folds of flesh rippling as I stroke the indentation. I brush the other center of him, aligning my finger as I press forward. A soft sigh of happiness penetrates my raging excitement and encourages a greater depth. I feel Adam shifting under me, his legs tensing, straining down to greet me. His fissure opens and accepts me, whether because of his own volition or my persistent pressure. I feel his heat on my fingertip. Strong muscular spasms bite down as he wriggles eagerly. I am content to let Adam do the work this first time. Within a matter of seconds I realize that my finger has already pierced his sphincter. "Spit isn't very slippery," Adam mutters anxiously. "Does it hurt?" "No! It just feels funny that's all!" "I can't believe how hot you are," I say. "You feel like a little oven in here." Adam giggles. "Ninety-eight point something! You feel really nice, Chris!" I smile happily. "So do you, Adam! It's spongy and hard at the same time." I speculate whether it is possible for me to be any closer to this wonderful boy. Although I share only an inch of flesh with Adam, I feel as if I am joined to him. It is a different feeling to taking his penis into my mouth. It seems more intense, if that is possible. Perhaps it is because I am physically inside a place that is essential to his sexuality and the unique expression of gay love. I am touching the very core of his beautiful young body. Silently I muse what I would feel if it was the tip of my penis inside him instead of my finger. "Put some more inside me. You can easily go a bit further," Adam instructs boldly. "It isn't hurting at all." He squirms as I push at him, cleaving my other fingers between his buttocks to split his crack wide apart and ease the way. His sphincter tightens momentarily to slow my progress and then he relaxes. He sighs loudly, pulling his knees closer to his chest as my finger surges forward on a film of rapidly drying saliva. My intuition guides me, makes me aware of Adam's longing, positions my finger over his immature prostrate. I begin to rub gently, listening for his muted groans. He exhales deeply and trembles as a previously-familiar sensation returns with a vengeance exacerbated by its absence. "Do it gently! Okay!" Adam whimpers. "Does it hurt?" "A bit!" "We need something to make it slippery inside." "God, I wish we had some vaseline." I swallow and regret his prior experience. How many boys of Adam's age would know about using vaseline for this? Very few, I expect. Adam not only knows what he needs, but he knows how to get it. The matter weighs heavily on me, but I cannot communicate my disappointment to Adam. I say nothing. I will not countenance his guilt about something which comes naturally to a homosexual boy. He is who and what he is. Not for the first time I wonder who claimed Adam's virginity. All I know is that he is in Adam's class. "I could go down and ask your mom for something," I suggest playfully. "How about some Crisco? You'd melt it pretty fast in here." Adam does not answer. Suddenly, he is not in the mood for jokes. He shudders as my finger rubs mercilessly against his tiny gland, experiencing a twinge of pain that is immediately overwhelmed by much greater joy. He gasps and shakes his head, suddenly wide-eyed as his body contorts. My mouth settles over his squat erection, licking the bulging little head while he groans loudly. I slide down its length with my lips compressed around his shaft until I can go no further. With my thumb, I guide his boy-sized testicles forward and I open my mouth to engulf all of him. His rectum quakes, pulsing with frenzied jerks on my gently pumping finger while I suction his member furiously. "Faster!" Adam grunts from between gritted teeth. "Pleassseeee," he implores. "I feel like I'm going to explode." I grin, as much as I am able to with my lips around his throbbing boy- sausage. He is mine to do with as I wish. I possess him, totally abandoned to the precious treasure he has elected to share with me. His distended boyhood reaches nearly to my throat, his tiny eggs squeezed between my teeth, slathered with my spittle. In another year or two his penis will swell when he approaches ejaculation, but for now his body arches toward me, feverish with orgiastic fervor. I grind my finger into his kernel, oblivious to the risk of injuring him. He grunts loudly. His pleasure is so great that he is unable to move, unable to prolong or terminate my assault on his senses. I begin to believe that his tiny prostrate must be his nucleus, the source of his sexual energy, of life itself. His anus dilates suddenly as if something has broken inside him, now allowing the virtually unrestricted movement of my finger. I am barely cognizant that his mother is calling to me from the bottom of the stairs. I regret that we must stop now that we have our first real sexual encounter, but I reason that it will be the first of many. It is what we both want, and need. Strangely, I am curious as to Adam's reaction as I abruptly extricate my finger from its hot and surprisingly succulent abode. I lift my mouth away, still fascinated by the fact that his boy-member has no taste, and yet its sweetness lingers in my mouth. It is the memory of his small but very rigid member, its resilient hardness contradicted by skin of unbelievable softness. I sit up, rolling my tongue around my mouth, silently wondering what he will taste like when he is able to emit his seed. For a few seconds Adam looks cheated and then he also hears his mother's voice. He stares at me, breathing heavily with the remnants of continuing passion. His eyes seem to focus on my finger, remembering where it has been lodged for the last few minutes. We share a visceral need. I have no doubt that if his mother was not in the house we would have sex. It would be spontaneous and the natural outcome of being in love. My raging penis longs to probe between his cheeks, poke into his cleft and cautiously test his anus. My thoughts are truncated. "Is it better with a woman?" he asks tentatively. I grasp his cotton pants, bunched at his ankles and partially pulled over his feet, dressing him while I think what I should say in response. I counter with a question. "You mean is it better than with a boy?" I ask. Adam nods. "Hmmmmm,... It's a lot different, Adam." "How?" "It just is. You really can't compare the two." "Oh!" he says as he lifts his buttocks and thighs up to assist me. He waits until I cover his nudity, playfully tickling on his continuing erection as if my teasing will actually help it to wilt. "Are you still going to sleep with my mom?" I study Adam as I tie the knot at his narrow waist. I can hear the tremor of jealousy in his voice even while he tries to convey boredom in my interest in the opposite sex, let alone his mother. "Are you going to have sex with her,.... tonight?" Adam demands petulantly. "Maybe,..." I reply. "You know it's probably none of your business." He nods, but his eyes remain critical. "I thought you loved me," Adam says flatly. His lips quiver as his voice falters. I wonder whether the flickering of his translucent eyelids means that he is ready to cry. "I do love you, Adam." I smile reassuringly. "I love your mother too. I know it hurts you to think of your mother and me making love together. It doesn't mean that I love you any less. And you know something else? It doesn't mean that I don't want to make love to you someday." "Yeah, I know!" Adam retorts. "When I'm older! Because you don't want to take advantage of a kid! Well fuck you, Chris!" "Such language," I tease. "And I thought you were a nice boy. One day, Adam! Not tonight, and probably not tomorrow, but one day." "One day, what?" I lean forward until my head is close to his. "One day I will fuck you," I whisper. "I promise,... if that's what you want." "Promise?" Adam says sadly. "I promise," I reply as I come to my feet. I bend down and lean over him. His eyes sparkle, so full of life that I am jealous of his youth. His smile is fleeting and slowly, teasingly, his head lifts up. For an instant I see his tongue lick his dry lips, then his eyes close and as our lips brush, I taste his moistness. We kiss gently for a few seconds, then knowing that the time is short, immediately increase the urgency. Despite the passion of his kiss, his lips are so soft and his mouth is so small that it is impossible to forget the difference in our ages. It does not stop his tongue from pushing forward into my mouth. I suck, keeping my teeth well out of the way while his wriggling wetness engages my tongue. Finally I ease back and place my hands on his slim shoulders. "I love you, Adam," I sigh as I breath in, and then exhale deeply. Adam's eyes meet mine with a penetrating gaze, asking a silent question and receiving no answer. He knows that I cannot stay with him. "I guess I'll see you in the morning," he says deliberately. Downstairs, Liz waits for me with two glasses of chilled wine. They are coated with condensation and the beads of water sparkle in the lamplight. She smiles and without asking the obvious question, waits for my answer. I still feel Adam's lingering kiss, the gentle touch of his lips, the smoothness of his body, his short rampart penis that seems always to be stiff. I long to be upstairs with him. "He's okay!" I reply. I breathe out and try to find the words to communicate what he is feeling, what I am feeling. "It's hard for him, Liz. He's been the man of the house until now. It's only normal for him to be jealous. I don't think he has an Oedipus Complex," I joke half-heartedly. Liz's eyes are alive and her entire body radiates with passion. Her effect on me is very different to her son's. Adam arouses something deep within me, a profound and persistent desire that is anything but superficial. With Liz, I cannot help that feel that sex is a superficial need I could do without if I had to. "Is he getting ready for bed?" Liz asks. Her voice is husky with excitement and I am reminded of Adam's nervous anticipation when he is aroused. Mother and son have a lot in common. I nod. Her nipples, small like her son's, although very much bigger, push out into her thin cotton tee shirt. The fact that she is not wearing a bra both tantalizes and amuses me. Adam's disenchantment with underwear is yet another similarity. I try to imagine what she would say if she knew that Adam had been all but naked less than a minute earlier. My penis is still throbbing with the continuing image of him, fully erect and hungering for more as he lay on his bed. However, the fact that she finds me sexually exciting also piques my interest. Her eyes, a darker blue than Adam's, lure me closer until I press into her bosom. My thighs brush hers and she rubs her lower belly over my stiffness. "Hm,..." she sighs, "Someone's ready to stay the night." I smile and glance down at her head. Her hair, considerably more brown than blond at the roots, is much darker than Adam's despite her efforts to lighten it. I flex my organ against her belly, knowing that my pre-seminal juice is continually being excreted into a growing wet spot in my briefs. I reason I should feel guilty, but I do not as my hands encircle her buttocks. There my comparison with Adam ends, for there is nothing to compare to the rear-end of a pre-teen boy. Adam's bottom is small and firm and slightly pinched, a sublime study in fleshy muscle and sculpted form that is divine in origin and profound in its inspiration. Her bottom is full and rounded with a sensuous shape designed to excite the opposite sex by its very voluptuousness. My desire, normally quiescent with women, begins to build. It is a latent urge, content to find an outlet when true gratification is impossible. I draw Liz closer to me, tilting my head down as hers lifts up to kiss me. Unlike kissing Adam, even familiar platonic pecks on his head, her kiss does not enthuse me. Still, she kisses like her son, with wet hard smooches that quickly open the way to an exchange of tongues. "He asked if we were going to get married," I say as we part. Liz smiles. "What did you tell him?" "I said it was too soon to be certain, but we might get married one day. I think that bothered him a bit, Liz." "In case you haven't realized, Adam really likes you, Chris." "I said I'd be like his Dad," I admit. "It's an interesting idea. I always wanted a son." "So did my dad," Liz murmurs. "He got you instead." I shrug. "I was jealous of you, you know Chris. Of course, once I knew about the two of you, about what you were to him, it was different. He always talked about you. He told me once, after we moved to Canada, that you were the best thing in his life. I was jealous of you, however I have to say that I was also glad he was happy." I sigh and shake my head. The passing years have dimmed my memory of him, but not my love. "He was the best thing in my life too," I say. "I can understand why you were jealous. We spent a lot of time together." Liz smiles. "After all the time you spent with my father I'm surprised you even like women," she says frankly. "Some women are okay," I joke. I do not tell her that Adam is the real reason I am with her. "Most people wouldn't understand, but the fact is that he taught me how to love, Liz." My hands slide up, leaving her buttocks to follow the contour of her back. Her small firm breasts, still like a young teenage girl's, so unlike the flat chest of a young boy, press into me. We kiss again, embracing tongues. Her son is a better kisser, I decide quickly. Her body swirls against me and titillates her nipples into little points. I am reminded that for the first year of his life Adam sucked on her breasts. Those nipples, darkened and swollen, gave him nourishment as his little cheeks pulled in with the effort. I suppress a smile, thinking of how much Adam seems to like having his penis sucked. I think of it swelling, becoming slightly thicker than normal for his nearly three-inch erection. It is only a matter of time until he is fully capable of reciprocating the pleasure. Already he kisses my maleness and rubs his tongue across the tip while he slurps wetly and relishes the salty taste. With his mouth opened wide, practically unhinging his jaws, he still scrapes his teeth on my glans before he backs off. All he needs is practice to perfect his technique. "I expect he did," Liz says. "You certainly had enough practice," she adds as if she reads my mind. "Sex is like anything else. It takes practice to be any good at it," I reply. "It also takes a good teacher. You know, the really dumb thing is that adults have to teach kids just about everything they do, like how to ride a bike or tie their shoes, or drive a car. But when it comes to sex, it's hands off. Kids end up teaching each other. It's a mixed up society that would do something like that." Liz shrugs dismissively. My hands slide between us as I respond to her unspoken challenge to prove myself. Her nipples protrude into her cotton blouse, firm points of delectable pleasure. I caress them lightly with my thumbs as I cup my hands under her pert breasts, cradling them as I begin my self-appointed task of examining her erogenous zones. In some ways at least, a woman is like a boy. Foreplay is an important ritual. I bend over her, kissing her slender neck, tracing a wet trail to her ear, sucking on the soft lobe the same way I do with Adam. She shivers, as he shivers. I squeeze her right nipple, abrading it with far more pressure than I have ever used with Adam. Her response is no different. I feel her breathing slow, inhaling sharply and sighing as she exhales. Her nipple forms a nub of nerves that elevates her desire as I massage expertly. My other hand drops away into the warmth between her thighs. Her pudenda is a prominent mound and feels not unlike her son's sex when it is covered by his clothes. However, there is a big difference. She lacks the squat stiffness that quickly grows outward from Adam's lean body, and is without the soft roundness of his scrotal pouch underneath. In all, despite her exquisite physical beauty, she lacks the essentials of boyhood. My fingers squeeze, seeking the cleft, so much smaller than her son's other crevice that captivates my desire. "What about Adam?" Liz asks urgently. "What about him?" I reply. "I don't want him seeing us." "He knows we're going to have sex. He won't bother us." I can never forget being discovered by Liz. I remember standing in the back corner of the Andersen's garage, my jeans and underpants at my ankles, my thirteen-year-old cock standing to attention before its admirer. His hand encloses me, his thumb caressing my still-dry slit, fondling my delicate glans while I shiver with the thrill of being touched so intimately. My scrotum is contracted, but it still forms a fair-sized bulge. He begins to rub my rigid member, going full length from base to tip with just two fingers and his thumb on the underside. He knows how I like to be masturbated. My thighs shake as I push forward, bowing my body to give him more. His hand begins to stroke with experienced motion, understanding my pleasure as he works on my penis. His other hand reaches behind me, one finger poking at my crack to find the entry into me. She sees us from the doorway, silently witnessing our love, watching as I lounge against the work bench intent on enjoying her father's expert ministrations. In all things he is a perfectionist. His finger locates my hole and enters with a slow demanding pressure that I cannot resist. Within seconds it is precisely positioned on my prostate. His hand moves faster, gripping me tightly in his fist and threatening to tear my penis off with its repetitive jerking. Suddenly, I am close to the edge. His finger stabs into my rectum, lifting my body up even as my knees weaken. I groan as the explosion happens, torturing my barely mature body with a small release of boy-semen. I crumple to my knees and gasp. Liz groans with orgasm and slumps against me, not caring that Adam could be watching from the stairs if he was so inclined. Her legs draw protectively upwards, binding my hand against her clammy skin, fingers contained in her slick, hot vagina. She breathes heavily, trying to regain control of her pounding heart. He smiles triuphantly, still stroking my throbbing boyhood slowly as if to expel the juice that is no longer a mystery to me. He exacts a diminished pleasure until my hardness fades, soothing my tender flesh and calming my agitation with expressions of affection. It is only after my breathing returns to normal do I look around the garage and become aware of her presence in the doorway. She is a silent witness who has watched all that transpired, from the time he unfastened my belt until the dying throes of my climax. She orgasms again, gasping like a boy who is either too young to ejaculate, or who still does not experience the let-down after his emission. Like Adam, she approaches the precipice slowly until it is close enough to touch. Like Adam, she lingers at the edge, fighting the crescendo until she can no longer stand the heightened stimulation. Like Adam, there is terror in her eyes until she groans in ecstasy and peaks quickly. Although she does not tremble half as much, like Adam, she smiles with sublime joy as the sensations slowly diminish. "Oh God!" Liz breathes. "You're good, Browning. Damn you're good!" I smile inwardly, recognizing a cruel pleasure in what I am doing to her. Her father taught me how to do this. The human body is a machine for sex. A young boy, like a woman, can climax again and again, each successive orgasm as good or better than the preceding one, until he is exhausted. He trained me well, I think silently. My fingers dig into her crotch, seeking her moist heat. I am oblivious to the cloth that separates us. Already it is spotted with her copious fluid, the wet musky slime of a vagina that is eager to be mated with my penis. I imagine Adam in a similar situation except that his anus is the target. His scent will be earthy and fecal, and without natural secretion, he will need a good lubricant to ease the way inside him. His time will come soon enough, I think silently as I lead Liz by the hand toward the darkness of her bedroom. We make love like familiar lovers, copulating amid the twisted tangle of sheets as we writhe over her king-sized bed. Her father was able to delay his orgasm until I was almost insane. He would pump slowly at my small behind until I was enraptured, then vigorously with deep hard thrusts that hurt when he bottomed out in my rectum. When I could stand no more and I teetered on the brink he would go even faster, timing his thrusts to my shuddering spasms. Then slowly, barely moving his hard male organ in my juvenile body until the madness left my mind, whispering his love in my ear. Again and again he would repeat the process, each time bringing the excitement back until I was intoxicated and he was unable to avoid his own looming conclusion. Then, with a desparate longing, I would become his possession as his fluids spurted into my young body. More than an hour later I slowly withdraw my deflated sex and lay beside her. A slippery stickiness coats my groin, a fertile mixture of our loins, and for a moment I wonder whether I should have used a condom. I dismiss the concern as I reason that Liz needs pregnancy even less than I need a wife. She will have taken the necessary precautions with undue regularity. "That may be the best one yet," Liz murmurs appreciatively. "Only may be?" I challenge tiredly. "You must have cum a dozen times and all I rank is a maybe?" "Okay," she smirks. "That was THE ABSOLUTE BEST! I take it back. You do like women, Browning." "That's better!" I laugh. "I've had a lot of practice,... and practice makes perfect." "Maybe my dad taught you something after all." "See, there is an advantage to a boy learning how to make love from a man," I taunt. "Most guys don't know what it's like to be on the receiving end." Chapter 4. 11.15 a.m. December 16th His mother wastes few words. "Adam's a goddamn faggot," she snarls. "I used to wonder if he was, of course. Now I know for certain!" "What?" I ask quickly. "For God's sake, Adam's only just turned eleven. How can you possibly know that he's gay?" She snorts and I hear the sounds of cars in the background. She is on the car phone on her way to the airport. "What does it matter how I know, Chris? However, if you must know, my cleaner found a stash of his queer shit in his bedroom. I've been wondering what he sees in you. I think I know now." "What on earth are you talking about?" I demand in building panic. Even for a mother who does not take the time to know her son, she must realize how unlikely it would be for a eleven-year-old boy to have 'queer-shit' in his bedroom. I suspect I know what she is talking about. Adam's 'queer-shit' is something we have not talked about, but I am not surprised he had something of the kind to fulfill his private fantasies. "He's got a stack of dirty pictures. He must have twenty or thirty pictures of men he's cut out of magazines. He's obviously been getting his thrills from them. I would say that's prima facie evidence that he's gay. Wouldn't you agree?" "If he is gay, so what! It isn't his fault, Liz." I answer condescendingly while I worry about the meaning of his collection of pictures. From what I know of Adam it is entirely possible that he is collecting pictures. At his age he needs an outlet, and fantasies, even juvenile ones, are better with visual stimuli. "I didn't say it was HIS fault," she denies hotly. The emphasis makes the implication obvious. If Adam is gay it is as much because of his mother as anything I have done with him. Believing that a best defense is a good offense, I become aggressive. "You know Liz, I would hardly call his home life something that is supportive of a normal sexual orientation." "What's that supposed to mean?" she demands. "I've done everything I can for that boy, and now he pulls this crap on me. God, I can only imagine what you've been doing to him." I choke as uncertainty and doubt becomes outright panic. The fabric that conceals our relationship has always been transparent to anyone who takes the time to watch us together. "I,... I've done nothing Liz," I say awkwardly. I can hear fear and dishonesty in my voice and I know that she hears it too. "Adam and I are good friends, that's all." "It isn't normal for a man to chase after a boy," she retorts angrily. "Don't tell you aren't chasing after him. Chris, you're one sick bastard if you have to get it off with a boy!" "Liz, please,..." I begin. "I know Adam's got a crush on you, Chris. It's certainly no secret! He's got puppy love written all over him. I've known it for weeks. You only have to look at him when he's around you to know it." Her words are intended to torment me. It is nothing I don't already know. I have no answer, no way of avoiding her barbs. "I like Adam a lot," I say hesitantly. "He's a great kid." "What you really mean is that you're in love with him. God, he's young enough to be your own son! You're in love with a fucking eleven-year-old boy!" "Is that so bad, Liz? I can't help loving him. In fact, I wish he was my son. Do you think I don't worry about him just like you do? Do you think I don't care for him? Because I do! I do love him, but it doesn't necessarily mean that I want to have sex with him." "This is turning out to be a great day. My son is a faggot and I'm pretty sure my boyfriend is too." "You're afraid I love him more than I love you. That's what you mean, isn't it, Liz?" I say arrogantly. "I didn't say that." I hear her anger and understand that I have gone too far. I try to mediate, realizing that there is no point in antagonizing her. I want to her understand Adam's situation. Now, he needs her love as well as mine more than at any time in his life. Being gay is difficult enough, but Adam is experiencing the most difficult stage at a time when he is easily hurt. I take a deep breath. "If he is, he can't help being gay," I counter gently. "He needs you to understand him. He needs your support. Liz." "The hell he does! He's got you!" "Liz,..." I sigh. "Listen to me. Don't be like this. He's a lonely fightened boy. If he is gay, he needs you to help him through it." "God! So now it's my fault?" "I didn't say that. Look, do you realize that more than half of the teenage boys who try to kill themselves are gay? It's true, Liz. They hate themselves so much they'll try to take their own lives rather than live with people hating them." "What are you trying to tell me?" "Hell, he's probably not even gay," I offer gratuitiously. "It's probably just a stage Adam's going through. A lot of boys have crushes on older guys as they grow up. I think it's pretty normal." "It's not some stage he's going through, as you put it. I'm talking about pictures of MEN, Chris. We both know that some boys are like THAT." I am silent as I simmer. Her reference is direct and very personal, and it touches on a subject that has existed between us for more than twenty years. Her present reaction is very different to when she found her own father with his boyfriend. She was my junior by one year, yet she knew enough to comprehend the mechanics of intimate contact between a man and boy to understand what we were doing. Unlike now, it did not bother her that I was thirteen years old and perfectly capable of making my own decisions regarding sex. I was experimenting, not like most kids do at one time or another to satisfy their curiosity, but like Adam, with a sexual orientation was no longer in question. Finding her father playing with the very stiff penis of a thirteen-year-old boy was bad enough, but she was more than smart enough to quickly discover the nature of our real relationship. Only the two of us knew that I was being screwed on a regular basis from the time I was twelve. Her father sought me out and seduced me as much as I seduced him. We did it every Wednesday after school and sometimes on the weekends. For three years, he was my closest friend as well as the person who took my virginity. Fortunately for both of us, Liz kept our secret from her mother. "Don't forget it runs in your family," I counter. "Anyway, his having a few pictures doesn't mean anything. It certainly doesn't mean that Adam's gay," I retort. "At least not the way you apparently think it does." "If the shoe fits, he might as well put it on and start wearing it. I'm not blind! There are spots all over the damned pictures. Adam's been jerking off when he looks at them." Unless Adam has changed drastically in the two days since I have last seen his penis, her last comment is entirely inaccurate. I know that there is no way that Adam is going to leave wet spots on his 'queer shit' for one or two years to come. I veer away from what should be obvious to his mother if she spent even a few minutes with her son, or just opened her eyes to appreciate him for what he is. Adam is a wonderful boy for whom puberty is still a distant adventure. The spots come from the hand lotion I encourage him to use. "It's more than a few pictures, Chris," she adds abruptly. "I happen to know for a fact exactly what he likes!" "Huh?" I ask nervously. "I found him with Kyle a week ago, okay? So I have absolutely no doubts at all that Adam is gay." "Kyle?" I ask quickly. "His cousin? My sister's boy. You remember? He stayed over for the weekend while his mother was in labor." "Found them doing what?" I ask with pretended innocence. "For God's sake, Chris! Adam was giving Kyle a lesson in masturbation. Kyle's not even ten! He was very upset about it afterwards." I stifle my laughter. Though outside the range of my experience, a ten- year-old boy is just as capable as enjoying a good hand job as any teenager. But I am surprised, less by Adam's sexual needs than by his mother's frank discussion. "I hardly think two boys jerking off together is a federal crime, Liz. Every boy does it sooner or later. It's part of growing up and finding out that it's there for more than peeing through. Kyle's lucky. Adam's probably a good teacher." "That's not funny, Chris. I don't wanting him polluting his cousin again. If Susan finds out, she'll be furious," Liz says angrily. "Why are you telling me all this? What do you expect me to do about it?" I ask calmly. There is silence on the other end of the phone. A horn beeps in the distance. I breath out. It is not hard to imagine Adam being attracted to boys as well as men, in fact it is very easy. Adam is an exceedingly handsome boy, others besides myself might even say exceptionally beautiful with his finely sculpted features and curly blond hair. I think back to the last time that I have seen him, a soccer game that I watched at his school the day before. In my eyes, Adam is the star of the game, not because of his performance, which is certainly outstanding, but because of his sheer physical presence and head-turning good looks. Nor am I the only adult who notices the attractive, slender boy as he darts across the field. I overhear many comments from other parents on his performance and several mothers exclaim that he is the 'best-looking kid on the team'. But while he is nimble enough, he still lacks the aggressive quality that makes for star performers. There are several times when he should score himself instead of making wide passes out to other boys, mostly to his best friend, tim. His mother's distant voice interrupts my fond memories. "I want you to talk to him, Chris,... uh,... about it. I know I can't! Not about this! I'd like you to tell him what he needs to know about the birds and the bees,.... well just the bees I expect. The birds won't be of much interest to him now that he's like you." "Meaning?" "He knows about you now." "What do you mean, he knows about me?" "I told him you were sexually involved with my father." "You did WHAT?" I interrupt. "You heard me. I told him how I came to know you were,... well, bi. He might as well know the truth,... that my own father went chasing after some twelve-year-old boy he met at the country club." "Well thanks a lot! I really appreciate that!" "Maybe I was wrong to tell him, Chris. But now he's queer, I don't imagine it will bother him all that much. You two have a LOT in common. You're wrong when you said he needs me. He needs YOU!" "For God's sake, Liz! Be rational about this! Adam needs YOU, not me! You're his mother, and now that he knows all about me, he's going to be even more confused about sex. His own father doesn't give a shit about him, and his grandfather screws boys not much older than him. You're all he's got left. Don't you know how hard this is going to be for him, if he is gay?" "Stop saying it like there's still some question he's normal. He's not! Adam's being gay is hard for me too, not just for Adam," she says with barely controlled anger. "Do you know how worried I am about all this?" I think about slamming the telephone down, but I do not. Intuition tells me that I need to keep the communication going. Adam needs me now more than ever. He does not deserve rejection from those who are supposed to love him. I have to support him while he struggles to find himself, just as I struggled twenty-five years earlier. In a way, Adam is my only link with my past. It was my guilt-ridden decision to break off my relationship with Liz's father. He was heartbroken when we parted. It was only then that I finally realized the extent of his love for me. It took four lonely years for me to get over it. Upon reflection, it was the biggest mistake of my life. "I'm sorry," I say with as much conciliation as I can manage. "I'll have a talk with him about sex. I'll do whatever I can to help him. You know that, Liz." "Thank you! I just can't deal with another one of his damned problems." "You're very welcome. You do know Adam can't help being what he is, don't you?" I add. "It's not something that he has any say in. And if he is gay, then there's nothing you or I, or anyone else can do to change him." I wonder whether she is aware of the recent studies on male homosexuality. The preponderance of the research seems to suggest that a boy's sexual orientation is determined by his mother, either by environmental factors or as a result of genetic predisposition. If blame is to be attached, then if anything, Adam's 'problem' may well be her fault. "I realize I can't stop him from being gay, Chris. I don't want him being promiscuous. I don't want him to turn out like most of them. And if he is queer, then he better be damned discreet about it. I can't have him pulling Kyle into it, or any other boy for that matter." There is a long silence as I wait for her to finish. "It's not only Kyle that I'm worried about. Heaven only knows! Susan will kill Adam if Kyle tells her what happened." She pauses. "This is not official, okay? I only heard today. I'm very likely to be made a partner in the firm in a few months. I don't want Adam screwing it up." "I doubt that even Adam could do that," I say bitterly. "He's just a kid. He's barely eleven. He might have a stash of dirty pictures, but he's hardly likely to do anything more than look at them while he plays with himself. As for Kyle, he'll get over it. Most kids go through that stuff sooner or later. They even have a name for it. It's called 'latent homosexuality'. And Kyle might as well find out about it from a boy like Adam than some other little pervert at that snotty private school you and your sister send the two of them to." "Hillsdale was good enough for you, Chris." "Hillsdale-fucking-Christian-Academy is just that. It's full of virtuous bastards who are too busy trying to sermonize that they don't realize that normal boys have libidos and will act on them if they're given half a chance. I hated it there! It's more than sexuality that's stifled there." "Maybe. Look, I realize I am asking a favor from you." "What exactly do you want from me?" I demand. "I know I owe you for taking care of Adam when I'm away. And I appreciate you spending a lot of time with him, but that's what you wanted, remember?" "I remember, Liz," I answer. "I want you to make sure it doesn't go any further, Chris. I'm really worried about this. I'm afraid he'll do something stupid, especially with Kyle, or someone else. I need your help." "Huh? And just how do you propose that I make sure of that? You can't stop him from playing with himself. Lord, people have been trying to stop boys from jerking off for as long as it's been there to play with." I wonder what she was trying to tell me and in disbelief I begin to think that she is actually suggesting that I provide some sort of personal instruction to Adam so that he will not become an embarrassment to her important career, or attempt to screw her nephew in the ass. It is the ultimate insult, both to Adam and myself. It is also very exciting as an idea because ever since Adam and I were in the garage, I have been infatuated with him. Merely saying that I love him does not even begin to consider the true depth of my feelings for him. "I'd like you to keep Adam busy over the Christmas holidays." "Do you want me to have sex with him?" I blurt out. Liz is silent for what seems like ages. There is a faint buzzing sound on the telephone and I begin to wonder if we have been disconnected. "Maybe," she answers tentatively. "God, I can't believe I'm saying this. Yes, Chris. If that's what it takes for him to understand, yes, I suppose so." I swallow, nearly choking in disbelief. "Uh? Well, Liz. I'd like to, but Adam's sex life is not my responsibility. As you well know, in any court in this country, I'd be breaking the law," I stumble. "I can't! He can stay with me for a day or two like we planned if you have to go away on business. A day or two is okay, but not the whole time. Maybe even for a few more days. And I'll even have a long talk to him about sex while he's with me, okay? But that's all!" "I asking you for a favor, Chris. You owe me something for shutting up about you and my father. I wasn't blind then and I'm not blind now. I knew how often you were with him. It was just about every day, wasn't it? You spend a lot of time with Adam as well. What am I supposed to think? You're just good friends?" "What do you want me to do?" I ask in growing disbelief. "Go figure it out for yourself. I certainly don't know what to say to him and I know you do." "What do you want for Adam?" "I just want him to be discreet about who he sleeps with." She pauses and I wait for her to continue. "What do you want me to do?" I ask again, cautiously. "You figure it out! Maybe it's just curiosity. Hell, I don't know. I can't get inside his head. I want him to get with the program!" "I really don't know what anyone can say or do to make sure Adam is discreet about his sex life. Of course I can tell him to be careful, steer clear of men in public toilets, always use a rubber, and keep off his cousin, but other than that,...." "That will do for a start," she says with exasperation. "When you think about it, Liz, we both know there's not much I can say or do that's going to make him discreet about his friends is there?" Her voice is calm and controlled, yet her words are cruelly chosen to respond to the taunt I have directed at her. "Probably not, at least not by just talking about it. No, probably not! Not now that Adam knows that his primary male role model used to get his ass fucked non-stop by my father,.... his grandfather....." It is intended to cause me pain and she knows it. She knows that her father is still important to me. I close my eyes and try to avoid the images that spring up in my mind. Other than Adam, he is the only person I have truly loved. I have only happy memories of the years we spent together. We lived our dreams together back then. However, not all dreams have happy endings. As I grew further into adolescence I discovered that he was still attracted to boys, boys who were younger than I was. He was unable to commit himself only to me. I rejected him, and in a moment of anger I threatened to tell all. I went my own way and he headed off to Canada with his family. I heard from him a couple times during the next year or two. They were painful memories as I struggled through high school, of longing for him to hold me close and make love to me. Slowly, my real self emerged. For no reason that I could understand, I became interested in young boys myself. However, until Adam came along I have managed to steer clear of any situation where fantasy could become reality. As the years passed, I thought less and less about the man who taught me how to love until I received a phone call. He exposed his soul to me. He had been discovered by his wife in the company a barely teenaged boy-prostitute in Toronto. It was at that moment I realized that even after all the years, I truly loved him. I realized that I had been followed by other boys he met in Canada, but none of them captured his heart in quite the same way as I had managed to do. He had been cast aside by his family who could not deal with the fact that he was homosexual. He had not communicated with his family in ten years. "I know my father was able to help you," Liz admonishes angrily. "Why can't you help Adam? At least you can talk to him about what it means to be gay." I don't reply. The emphasis on 'talk' clearly means more than just talking with him. I wait for her to calm down before I dispute it. The fact is that I have already been helping Adam, as she refers to it. Our relationship is intimate, but it is far more than just sexual in nature. We are very close, as close as best friends can be. My ability to communicate with her son in ways that she cannot grasp is suddenly a source of contention between us. Our dissension quickly descends from debate to polemic, with no winners. "I guess you take the time to talk with your other BOY-friends about what it's like to be gay." My 'affliction' is a closely guarded secret. I have been careful to conceal my true desires, even to the extent of avoiding contact with boys. Except for playful touching and a few intermittent but invasive intimacies with Adam, my desires exist only in my imagination. I content myself with dreams of spending nights with Adam in the privacy of a tent in a distant forest. He is sufficiently uninhibited that I have no doubts what would occur. "Well, we all have our special needs don't we? Different though they may be, Liz." I bite my lip and regret the sarcasm immediately. "I want you to know that I have no other BOY-friends as you insist on putting it." I take a quick breath. "And as far as Adam is concerned, right now he is no more than a very close friend," I add. My dishonest cynicism is not unnoticed by the woman who harbors delusions of becoming my wife. I do not have to mention her own string of male friends who paraded through Adam's home every weekend before she met me. Her silence is enough to tell me that we have both gone too far. She equivocates as the full import of her suggestion sinks in. She undertakes a hasty retreat. "Chris, I don't want him hurt. God, I don't know how to put this... I want him to be happy, okay. That's all I want. I know you can make him happy." "He's happy just being around me." "I'm not giving you carte blanche, Chris. And don't think for one moment that it's open season on Adam's butt. All I want you to do is to take him for the holidays and help him deal with it. If you can convince him to keep his sex life to jacking off over a few dirty pictures so much the better. If he needs another outlet for it, well,... at least he's safe with you. What I don't want is for him to mess around with Kyle. Susan will kill him if his dirty little secret gets out." It sounds like something from the religious right. Since when is sex play between two boys a 'dirty little secret'? She is abandoning her son at the one time that he truly needs her. Adam is not the chaste, little boy she wants. Instead she has found her son to be a living, breathing time-bomb of boy-lust. He sounds a lot like I was at the same age. I smile as I remember how much Adam likes to be tickled. I was no different. I secretly longed for a man's touch. Adam is a sensual child with a sexual preference that alienates him from most of society and I was exactly the same way. However, I managed to conceal my real self behind a screen of athletic prowess until I was fourteen, until Adam's grandfather began to lose interest in my increasingly hair-covered genitals. Maturity left me in a quandary. For several years I was uncertain about my sexual preference. I believed that I was gay, yet I sought no outlet for my desires. In time, I discovered that I was much less interested in other men than I was in boys who were several years younger than I was. Gradually I lost interest in adult males. During my college years I dated women and began to think of myself as exclusively heterosexual. My passion for boys was so socially unacceptable that I knew I would never be able to satisfy my desires. I repressed that part of me with cautious success. I have been as honest with Adam's mother as I can be and still protect him, revealing my own determination to never take advantage of Adam's youth and naivete, not telling that he is already experienced. I have come too close to that irrevocable step often enough and each time I silently vow to myself that I will never place him in the position of having sex without love. If and when we have sex, it will have to be on the same grounds as my relationship with Liz's father. We will have to be truly in love and the physical act of making love will be the result of a mutual desire to join our bodies together. Merely having sex with Adam to gratify my animal lust makes me no different to a predator who takes advantage of him. However, I sigh as I realize the inevitability of it. Because I love him, because he loves me, we will soon have sex. "Yeah, right, Liz! You must have a very low opinion of me if you really think I'd try something like that on with Adam. He's a very close friend,.... and believe it or not, I really love him. Which by the way, is a lot more than you seem to do." "Fuck you!" Liz retorts angrily. "Where do you get off pretending to know how much I love my own son." "He needs both of us. You say you're not blind and neither is Adam! He can see how you feel about him. He can't help the way he is any more than I could at his age. I'm sure he'll grow out of it, just the same as I did," I add hesitatingly. I hear the doubt in my voice. I did not 'grow'out of it. I learned to control my needs and to channel my desire for young boys into socially acceptable outlets. I was doing admirably until Adam came along. Adam is going to be gay and I cannot deny it. I nearly go too far but I stop myself at the last moment. There is absolutely no point in antagonizing her further. However, there is one thing that I can say to add fuel to the fire and still get away with it. Before I start, like the well-trained lawyer that she is, Adam's mother comes back to the attack. "I realize I can't change that. But it's about time he started acting his age," she snaps, her anger increasing again. "Adam is barely eleven years old, Liz. He's still a little boy even if he is a lot brighter than you sometimes give him credit for. He knows exactly what he is and it's tearing him up inside. He knows he's gay. In fact, he's known for some time. He can't help being gay," I pause and think quickly, not wanting to cause her pain, but to gain her understanding of how deeply I love her son. "Anyway, if what you say is true and he has no interest in girls, Liz, I guess he's better off with me." "Better off? Yes, I suppose he is," Liz says with quiet resignation. "I do love him, Liz, I really do. I don't expect you to understand, but I'd like you to know anyway." I hear his mother's restrained laughter. "God, I can only hope so. If I had any choice in who Adam has sex with, I'd honestly have to say that my first choice would be you, Chris. It might sound strange, but I know I can trust you to do the right thing by him." "I love him, more than you realize, Liz," I say plaintively. "I'd never hurt him." "If, and I do mean if,... if Adam is gay,..." She pauses for several seconds. "Well you definitely are the man I'd pick for him to learn about sex with. You and Adam, wouldn't that be something for my father? I never thought about it quite like that. Talk about poetic justice. He fucks you, and you fuck his grandson." "You're wrong, Liz." My voice is flat and emotionless. I have to correct her impressions of her father. "Your father truly loved me, Liz. You may never understand what we felt for each other, or why he wanted to have sex with me, but the fact is that we loved each other. He was good to me, Liz." "He loved you? You make it sound so sweet. Christ! He was thirty-five years old and you were thirteen, and he fucked your ass every chance he got." I smile as I remember. The difference in our ages was unimportant. He was much more of a father to me than my real father. I try to find the words to express what I feel. "My age at the time doesn't matter a damn. I knew what I wanted, Liz. I needed him. I needed him to love me," I add fondly. "That's the real issue that most people don't understand." "What do you mean?" she demands. I think back and remember myself as an insecure and lonely boy. I was desperate for attention, with parents who were too busy with their own social lives to see the unhappy boy they had raised. Into my gloomy and confused existence came radiant light as Liz's father offered affection and the support I needed. Our friendship began with lessons to improve my tennis game, my own father being too interested in playing golf with his business associates to give a moment's thought to developing the skills of his only son. That first summer I developed skills that very few boys my age possessed. At the same time that I became an accomplished cock-sucker, I learned to fly- fish, sail, and play an outstanding game of tennis. The physical attraction between us was there from the start and he taught me everything that I needed to know to make love to a grown man. I was an eager pupil and he was an excellent teacher. It was a mutually beneficial relationship that blossomed almost overnight from puerile hero worship into true love. I try to explain that itwas a mutually beneficial relationship. "I loved him and I needed him, just as much as he needed me. Everyone thinks that the man is at fault when boy-love is concerned. It simply isn't true. When two people love each other, their ages don't matter at all." "You're saying my father didn't take advantage of you?" Liz demands. "I'm saying exactly that. I'm also saying that what he did with me was only what I wanted him to do. Sure he fucked me, Liz, but only because I wanted him to!" My answer is the absolute truth. Certainly, he guided me and helped me to understand the capacity of my body to both give and receive more pleasure than I ever imagined possible, however he did nothing without my full consent. Those people who wish to deny a boy's natural inclination towards his own sex and reason that an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy is incapable of understanding and giving consent, are in a one word--WRONG! "Have you taken advantage of Adam?" she asks immediately. "Or is it a simply matter of you doing only what my son wants? Have you fucked him in the ass yet?" she asks querulously. "Do you really want me to answer that question, Liz?" I respond cautiously. "If you do then you may not want to hear what I have to say." There is a long silence. "Tell me!" "If you must know I haven't done anything Adam didn't want. It's no secret that I've touched his penis because you've seen me doing it when we wrestle. What's more, he's done the same to mine. We've done more than that in my studio when he's been posing for me or when I've tucked him into bed at night. I haven't fucked him in the ass as you put it." I take a deep breath. "However, even the very first time I met him, he wanted me to. I want you to know that I refused." "But you wanted to," Liz replies swiftly. "I can hear it in your voice. It proves he's gay, doesn't it?" "Maybe it means Adam is gay." I take a deep breath. "I was appalled, Liz. He was so confused. I talked with him for hours. He didn't understand what love was about. He actually thought that anal sex was something he had to do because he was gay. Someone, another boy in fact, told him that." "Who?" Liz asks immediately. "I won't identify him even if I could. Adam told me what happened in confidence. He trusts me and I'm not about to abuse that trust." Liz fumes silently for a few seconds. "So it's okay with you if someone else abuses him?" "I didn't say that. Adam needs the same thing now that he needed then. He needs a man's affection. He needs support and understanding. He needs someone he can trust and believe in. He has feelings that he can't even begin to deal with. He's alone in this. All of his friends despise homosexuals and he's certain that's what he is." "Adam being gay isn't easy on me either," Liz says selfishly. I smile to myself. She must have stopped the car because the static that occasionally interrupts our discussion has stopped. I assume she had reached the parking area at the airport. "Liz I realize that,... but you have to realize how much harder it is for Adam," I say gently. "Both of us have to help him through this. A bit of sex play with his cousin is only his way of trying to find outlets for desires that he can't control. That's just the way he is." "Did this other boy,...?" Liz asks awkwardly. "Adam told me a bit about him, but I still don't know who he is." I lie quickly, hopefully convincingly. "As far as I know Adam isn't friends with him any longer, okay?" That a boy had anal sex with Adam is something that cannot be changed. There is no point in her knowing about it. That her son lost his virginity to another boy is probably the best thing that could have happened to him. "Thank God!" "I'm not worried about it, Liz. You shouldn't be either. You have to understand that Adam is just trying to find out who he is, Liz. It's normal for a boy to experiment sexually. What he did with Kyle is fairly normal between two boys. Liz, he isn't a bad kid. He's confused and he's frightened. No boy wants to be gay, believe me." "I suppose not," Liz says thoughtfully. "It's hard to understand, that's all!" "You have to try. He can't help the way he is. However, I think you should know that Adam also told me that he did have anal sex with the boy," I add awkwardly. "What? God! He's done that already!" "It's also not that unusual for two boys, Liz." "You want me to believe that it's not unusual for Adam to have another boy's cock in his ass?" Her presumption that Adam was the passive partner is remarkably accurate. I came to the same conclusion based only on my limited knowledge of less than one hour's acquaintance with Adam. "Don't make it sound so dirty, Liz. If he's gay, it's only natural for him to try it. It only happened a few times," I add placatingly. That it would have been very different if Adam had not become attracted to me, I also decide to keep secret. I wait for Liz to say something, anything. "I would have expected,..." "What Liz?" "Nothing!" A long pause as she thinks. "Chris, okay if you must know! I was just thinking that you would be his first, that's all. Does it bother you that another boy did it with Adam?" "Honestly, I worry less about another boy than I do about the men he might meet. With AIDS and everything, growing up is really a nightmare for a gay kid. However, it's water under the bridge, Liz. I can't undo the past. It really doesn't matter, and I certainly don't want Adam feeling guilty about what happened." "I know he loves you, Chris. I guess the big question is how much do you love him?" I breath deeply. The words are so simple and easy to say. 'I love him much more than I love you', I want to say. The words stick in my throat. "I think we both know the answer to that question," I reply. Liz hesitates. "He's a lucky boy, Chris. It seems we're both lucky, aren't we?" "Uh huh! Liz, if we love each other,... what happens to us?" I ask. I hear the urgency in my voice. We both know what I want to say next. The silence persists. What Liz says next takes my breath away. "Why don't you keep Adam with you for the holidays? He'll be happier with you. Won't you do that for me, for Adam,... Chris?" Liz asks. I shiver with a thrill that leaves gooseflesh on my bare arms. It sounds as though she is handing Adam to me with the expectation that he will not be untouched when he returns home. Not only that, but she makes it sound as if I end up sleeping with him, I will be doing her a favor. For some strange reason I am afraid. "Liz, you know I was planning to go to Colorado for the break. That's nearly three weeks." "Of course I know that, Chris. Adam can go with you if you want." "I suppose I could take Adam with me. Don't you think you're asking a bit much of me?" I reason again that she must know that she is placing her son in jeopardy if he goes with me. He is a hazard to himself as well as to me. He is in peril if we spend even a single night alone together. I know that I will be hard pressed to resist even the slightest opportunity to have sex with him. It is something that we both want, have wanted since the first day we met. It has taken all of my self-control not to take that irrevocable step. I love him too much to take advantage of him. Everything that has happened during the last two months has been moving inexorably to the same conclusion. And now, even his mother is pushing us together. "I know I can trust you to do the right thing by Adam," she answers ambiguously. I sigh loudly. Without saying it directly, Liz is telling me that she not only understands the risk to Adam, but she also accepts the consequences. "Why don't you just pack him off to stay with your mother for the holidays?" I ask. "Because I don't want to. For obvious reasons I think Adam will be better off with you. Besides, it's too late. I'm sure she has other plans. If you're not interested, maybe I should sent him to stay with Dad." I laugh half-heartedly. "Adam could do worse, Liz. Of course, he might give your dad a stroke!" I become serious as I say. "We really loved each other, you know. Your father was good for me. " "I know he was, Chris. I know you'll be good for Adam in the same way." She waits for me to say something. I don't speak for nearly a minute while I think about the implications. I know what will happen, probably during the first night we are together. It is unavoidable. Adam has already let me know that he is willing. He knows about sex. He wants only what I want. His mother is patient. "It's a deal, Liz. I'll take Adam with me, if that's what you want. I'll bring him back before school starts in January. He can spend the time on the slopes learning how to ski. I want you to understand that if anything does happen, it will be only because Adam wants it to happen." She laughs. "I expect he can learn about sex in some chalet in Colorado just as well as he can right here in Baltimore. I'll just have to learn to share you with him, won't I?" "I expect so," I answer. I feel my heart jump as the meaning of her words sinks in. I have carte blanche! She hangs up without saying anything more beyond 'I love you', 'good- bye', and 'thank you', ignores my request to 'say hello to Adam for me' and to 'tell him that I love him'. She is moody, but I know that she will arrange to get Adam on the same flight as mine from Baltimore to Colorado on Friday morning even if it means sending him first-class. Finally, my relationship with Adam is accepted, more graciously than I would have expected. I reason that it has nothing to do with her love for me, however I understand why she is willing to share me with her son. We both know that it is the only way she will keep either of us. Chapter 5. 11.00 p.m. December 19th By the time we finally arrive at the condominium Adam is nearly sleep walking. It has been a long day, from the time I picked Adam up from school until now, he has talked endlessly, bumbling with excitement and sheer joy from being with me. A long flight from Baltimore to Denver, then delayed flights because of a snow storm in the Rockies mean a two hour wait before we board the commuter plane for the short flight to Vail. Adam tests my patience, but he is also showing off. I am glad his mother is not there to see her son when he openly flaunts his affection to complete strangers. A rented Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd is waiting at the airport and I carry most of the bags while Adam wanders behind me. Although he is beginning to tire, he is also hungry, this despite the several airline snacks he has consumed. We stop at de Giorgio's in the Village for a late dinner. It is not the first time Adam and I have been in a restaurant together, but other than frequent fast food expeditions we have always been accompanied by his mother. After a substantial insalda verte and spaghetti pomodori we drive on to Beaver Creek. Adam is agape as he stands beside the stone fireplace and faces the two- story window looking out over the creek towards the looming mountains, phosphorescent with gleaming snow and moonlight. His tiredness seems to vanish in an instant. He grins at me, forever endearing when he beams with boyish enthusiasm that defines his age and immaturity. "Man, will you look at that!" he says in awe. "It's so beautiful!" I nod, unable to imagine a more beautiful scene--Adam standing before the window. His tousled blond head, brilliant teeth, pale pellucid eyes, finely sculptured features, hold me entraced. I smile. "I thought we'd never get here," Adam yawns. "I'm really lucky, you know that. I didn't think Mom would let me come with you." He smiles slightly, then turning back to the window, he adds quietly, "I never thought I could be this happy." "Are you? I'm glad, Adam. I want you to be happy." I breath deeply, imagining what will happen, if not tonight, then in the early hours of the morning, or any time during the next day. I have a sudden sense of deja vu, of rushing towards an inevitable conclusion that causes me to wonder whether I am doing the right thing. I have managed to avoid this moment since I realized I was attracted to boys. Now, when there seems to be nothing holding me back, I am reluctant to take the initiative. I know that it has to be Adam's decision, a decision made of his own choosing and without any pressure from me. I want to make love to him so much that I can barely look at him and continue to control my rising lust. "This place is so cool. You have a jacuzzi too," Adam says as he glances away from the window again. I nod again. My mind is made up. All my self restraint is needed to stop myself from doing what my body desires. "Are you sleepy?" I ask. He shakes his head, and then smiles when he tries but fails to suppress another yawn. "Yeah! It's been a real long day, hasn't it?" My thoughts wander, remembering the first time I met him, dressed as a virgin on All Hallow's Eve. And the second time in my garage. I cannot forget my own words of advice, immediately becoming words of regret as soon as I had uttered them. I had cautioned him to wait until he was in love. I squat down beside the fireplace and strike a match to ignite the broken sticks and paper in the fireplace. 'We might as well have the mood appropriate for seduction', I think to myself. "Can we use the jacuzzi?" "Huh?" I look up. Adam is grinning from ear to ear. "I don't think you packed your swim shorts." "Who needs them? There's just us!" The fire crackles as the paper and sticks ignite into a steady blaze. I say nothing, gazing at Adam in silent appreciation of his splendid body, undeniable elegance of familiar muscle, sinew, and bone. Although concelaed beneath his clothing, I have seen him naked often enough to memorize every detail of his perfect anatomy. "Hmmm,... and you don't mind being in the nude?" I tease. He raises his eyebrows in mock exasperation. "Jesus! You've seen me in the buff all the time in the studio, Chris. Besides, it's not like we haven't done stuff together. So what's new?" I smile, remembering the last few weeks. The plaster-cast for the final sculpture of 'Adam Damned' is nearly complete. In the final version, after several models, he is completely nude, eventually to be made in bronze. I intend the finished statue to polished to high gloss before it is crated in a slatted box of rusted crude steel that constrasts with the smoothly burnished gazelle-form contained within it. His pained expression, his physical contortion, his muscles tearing in a fearful frenzy, convey a fearful horror of damnation. At the same time, he is sexually aroused with his little penis erect and his scrotum contracted. From all angles, a steel slat covers most of genitals and conveniently hides the shaft of his penis except for the exposed tip, still several inches below his navel. Already, two art critics have offered favorable impressions of the sketches and the plaster cast, quickly uncovering the symbolic meaning of the cage as the moral standards that deny a child's sexuality. Even Adam's mother has followed my progress with growing awe and an appreciation of my skill at capturing her son's form, even with his apparent sexuality. In more ways than the obvious attention to detail, I have done him justice. I lift a large log onto the fire and settle it on the irons before I stand up. Still silent, I walk towards the jacuzzi to remove the cover. I sense the acceleration of forces no longer under my control, like a creative surge of inspiration that produces a brilliant work of art. The outcome is inescapable, predestined from the moment we met and simultaneously recognized the attraction between us. He wants me just as much as I want him. In my mind it is not only in the natural order of things, but it is also morally right. Perhaps that is why his mother wants us to be together. When I turn around again, Adam has removed his sweater and is unbuttoning his shirt. He smiles, his eyes watching mine as he continues to strip. I stand still, waiting, my heart pounding. His arms bend back as he peels his shirt off to reveal his perfect torso, leaving him naked from the top of his faded jeans. He has undressed so many times before me that he is shameless, his inhibitions discarded like the clothes he drops unhurriedly on the floor. After so many times I should not feel the thrill of adrenaline, the anticipation of seeing him stripped bare, but I do. It is the same every time, a voyeur's pleasure of observing something so perfect that it nearly defies description. His sexuality seems irrelevant despite the power it has exerts over both of us. One of the reasons why I love him is because he is so beautiful, another because he is still a boy. His hands fumble, no longer quite so confident when he unfastens his belt. He feels it too, the inescapable chasm that we have always managed to avoid no matter how close we come to the precipice. The most important decision of his life has suddenly loomed before him. I swallow, my eyes never leaving him. As his fingers tug his zipper downward, I breath out longingly, exhausting long days and nights of frustration. Finally, we will experience our love as sensory pleasure. At the last moment he turns away from me, preserving the last vestiges of his modesty while he exposes his sex organs. This is unusual for him and I suspect that he is sexually aroused. I watch, tempted by his firm small bottom, two perfect rounded globes above smooth, slender, lightly tanned thighs. His backbone is very visible, present in the knobs of his spine like little bumps on the road from the nape of his neck all the way to the start of his crack. He glances back at me, looking over his shoulder with a cheeky smirk that lets me know that he has denied me what I really want. I grin back at him, content to see his buttocks and imagine the precious treasure hidden between his pale cheeks. He steps away, three paces until he reaches the side of the jacuzzi where the steps are. He lowers himself, feet first into the steaming water, sighing loudly as the 104 degree heat envelops him. I am reminded of a seal, not black and glossy but creamy white and silky smooth. Adam is equally at home in the water as on land. He turns onto his back, covering his crotch with both hands as he spreads his legs wide apart like a swimming frog. "It feels great," Adam says. "Come on in, Chris," he adds with a tempting smile. He watches as I undress, his eyes following each piece of clothing as it falls away. Unlike him, I do not turn away when I expose my genitals. His smile broadens as my huge erection appears. I cannot remember the last time it is so hard. It seems to be throbbing with the blood pounding through me. A glance down confirms the extent of my bloated stiffness, a reddened shaft that is long and thick, and very hairy. My manhood dwarfs Adam's small boyhood, still devoid of hair, still pale and smooth. His penis is so small that even erect, it still looks like a little squat thumb against his lower belly. It points upward from between his thighs, causing him to cup his hands in order to hide it from me. He smiles shyly as I begin to approach the steaming tub, my penis proudly pointing the way like a primitive man's club. I step over the side onto the seat, my hungry cock bobbing like a lever only a short few feet from Adam. "He's so big," Adam says huskily. He sounds as if his voice is beginning to break as it crackles with a lusty thrill. From what I know of him it is merely excitement. When his interest is piqued he often becomes nervous. I grin at him as I slowly sink into the water opposite him. Our legs brush and stay side by side, barely touching. I watch his eyes, so nervous yet full of boyish enthusiasm and curiosity. He is tired, but not that tired. "Of course he's big," I reply. "You know why, don't you?" Adam smirks. "'cause he wants to have sex?" "Something like that," I smirk back. My toes press into Adam's arm, scrabbling against his belly only inches from his groin as I try to push his hands away from the protected area. He giggles and lifts one hand away to shove my foot back. "I don't want you to see me," he giggles again. "Why? I thought you said I saw you all the time in the buff in the studio. What are you trying to hide down there?" "Um,... nothing! Nothing at all, Chris!" Adam giggles as I try again to push his foot away one more time. Unable to dislodge his hands, I do the next best thing. Grabbing one thin ankle, I pull him towards me. He flails as his head starts to go under the surface. The water splashes and he recovers, twisting and turning as he puts up a valiant fight to escape, all the time laughing hysterically while he tries to protect his boyhood from my forthcoming assault. I drag him closer, ignoring his cry that he is drowning, until he is beside me and I wrap one arm around his narrow waist and squeeze him tightly. With my free hand I reach to the other side and punch at the control knobs. Instantly the water surges. A half-dozen jets squirt high pressure water at us. A moment later a volcano of bubbles explodes beneath us. "Wheeee!" Adam shrieks. "Now," I laugh, demanding loudly so as to be heard over the water pump, "just what are you hiding from me?" He shakes his head. "Nothing! You've seen it before!" "Let me see," I continue unabated. "I know you're hiding something." I grab his right arm and toss him over me so that his groin is out of the water. His small penis sticks up in the air, his scrotum forming a wrinkled walnut-sized hemisphere beneath. I grin. Although his translucent foreskin is still in place it is easy to see that his tiny glans is much darker than it usually is when he is erect. Adam struggles feebly in a continuing attempt to get away, but stops when he realizes the futility of it. I take the short hard shaft of his penis between two fingers and thumb and press down firmly. As his foreskin retracts past the tip I start to laugh. "You little devil! What on earth did you do to him?" "I used the markers you gave me!" Adam giggles. "Do you like it?" His glans is colored in shades of purple and crimson, getting darker at his meatus. It is remarkably precise, an attempt at artistic creation if ever there was one. Although it looks slightly ridiculous, it is also very erotic. "Cool dick, Adam," I admire. "Those markers don't wash off, you know." "I know. That's why I used them," he says lewdly. He holds his hand up so that I can see the palm. "I tested some first on my hand, see. I didn't want it to wash off before you saw it. I washed it for ten minutes with hot water and soap," he says proudly. "I did it last night before I went to bed." "It'll probably last a few weeks," I tease. Adam shrugs, knowing full well that I am the only person who will see him naked during the next few weeks. "I hope so! It took forever to do it." "When we're out in public, you'll have to be careful going to the toilet. You better use a cubicle when you have to pee," I add. "I thought of that," Adam grins proudly as he pushes my hand away and then pulls his foreskin up to cover his small glans. "You really can't see it like this. I checked to make sure." "That's another reason why I'm glad your mother showed the good sense not to have you circumcised," I laugh. "Plus it's a lot of fun trying to stick my tongue in there." I breath deeply and glance at Adam. The last few seconds have provided a momentary respite, but no more than that. I need to be inside him, and from the radiant look on his face I know he needs me as well. Without warning, I lift him around in the swirling water and hold him back against the jacuzzi. "Yeeeeehoowwww," Adam bellows. He struggles to get away as the blast of 104 degree water strikes his rump. I hold him tightly, pushing him back and centering his bottom directly over the jet. It squirts between the smooth small globes of his buttocks, spread wide apart by my hand, blasting hard against his exposed anus. "Jesus! Chris, what are you doing to me?" Adam demands fiercely. "It's going right up inside my butt!" I suspect that no water is actually going inside him, but it would not matter if some did. What he really feels is the pressure. I would not be surprised if he felt a little violated, but it is nothing compared to what will shortly follow if I have my way with him. "It's called a jacuzzi enema," I laugh as I lift him away. "At least I know your butt is clean for once," I taunt. Adam gives me a dour look, but is unable to stop a smile from breaking at the corners of his mouth. "I always wipe properly. Anyway, you could have warned me first," he says ruefully. "It felt gross." I lean towards him and kiss his head. "Sorry," I say apologetically. "I didn't mean to hurt you. All I wanted to do was get your butt nice and clean." "It didn't hurt," Adam counters. "Why did you do that? You said you weren't going to do anything in my butt." "Me? Did I say that? You must be mistaken, Adam. I would never ever say something like that," I laugh. Adam giggles. "Yes you did, Chris. The first time I met you, well the second time if you count Halloween, remember?" "Hmmm, well I think what I said was you shouldn't do anything back there unless you were in love with the guy, and you were certain that he loved you back." "Same thing!" Adam counters. "It would be, Adam,... except that now I love you." "And I love you too, Chris. So,....." Adam finishes with a cheeky smirk. "So,....?" "So what are you waiting for?" he demands gleefully. "Let's do IT!" Years of lifting the tools and moving the finished works of my trade ease the task of lifting Adam. His eighty-four pounds of living hot flesh is nothing compared to his facsimile in bronze. The first statue that I made of him is my best work, capturing the full perfection of human form. It resides in my garden, hidden among the bushes like a young savage who peers at the bubbling fountain while he cups one hand over his groin as if trying to hide his masturbation. As far as I know, his mother has not seen it. His legs wrap around my waist when I lift him up from the water. He is a giggling, dripping-wet boy who has only one thing on his mind. He gazes at me with liquid cerulean-blue eyes that are sparkling and full of passion. I see his love as I feel his heated embrace. His arms lock around my neck, unwilling to let go until I place him on the sheepskin in front of the fireplace. I kneel over him, afraid to say anything that might spoil the wonder of the moment. He smiles slightly, still hugging me to him with possessive strength. "I need to get something," I whisper. "Okay," Adam purrs contentedly. "I'm not going anywhere." I am back within seconds, placing the jar of vaseline on the hearth before kneeling down beside him. Already his body feels hotter, basking in the radiant heat of the blazing fire. His skin is reddened, glowing with a lustrous sheen as it dries. His tousled hair is damp and on the verge of tangling. I gently run my fingers though it. "I love you so much," I say slowly. "You're the most beautiful boy in the whole world." "I love you too, Chris." Adam's eyes are nearly closed as he offers his mouth to me. We kiss, softly, gently, almost chastely with our heads close togehter. My fingers stroke his cheek. So smooth. He quivers. His hand touches mine, easing me away until he brings his lips to mine again. This kiss is anything but chaste. Adam's tongue protrudes even before our lips meet. Soft, wet, wriggling, twisting. I feel his tongue squashing against mine, pushing into my palate, behind my teeth, into my cheek. My hand grips his rigid boy-sex, his short boner as hard as it has ever been. His ball-sac is very tight and wrinkled, concealing the form of his eggs. There is an urgency that drives us onward. We are making up for lost time. I push him back onto the floor, shielding his nudity with my body, bringing my groin against his thigh as I feel his small hardness poking in my belly. "I want you to do it so much I can't stand it," Adam gasps. "I know! I want to be inside you," I groan with longing desperation. He complies silently and I lift away. Even if past experience is discounted, Adam knows instinctively what to do. The submissive role is part of his psyche. I wonder if he'll grow out of it as he matures. His knees draw up, well past his shoulders as he offers himself submissively. His arms are behind his knees, assuming a natural position for anal intercourse. Still, his choice is one that reflects his prior experience with another boy. I look at him, lingering at the moment of truth. His eyes plead his desire. "Put him in." "I don't want to hurt you." "I'll tell you to stop if it gets too bad." "I love you, Adam." My hand guides my penis as I come forward. He nods. I push slightly. He nods again. I feel my glans bury into his crack, prodding a small indentation that is closed for the moment. I smile and settle back on my haunches. "Do you know what to do with this?" I ask as I hand over the jar of amber lubricant. He smirks. "You do it!" "Oh! I always thought it was part of the boy's job! But I guess I'll do it if you want me to," I tease. I flip the lid off, not caring where it goes. With two fingers I scoop out a large yellow lump, probably much more than I need, but I am cautious by nature. I share it with him, rubbing enough on my penis to make it slippery before I turn my attention to Adam. He waits, visibly aroused yet silent with nervous anticipation. My fingers find his anus, transferring the grease to where it is needed most. He shivers, reflexively contracting with my touch on his most private place. He smiles shyly when he feels my finger rubbing it in, probing the tight orifice. He tries to relax and admit it into him. I hesitate. The sanctity of his boy's body is still safe, his tightness restricting my entry. I rotate my fingertip, tracing the circumference of his sensitive puckered opening, seeking a way in. With very little pressure my finger advances beyond the first joint. His soft heat melts over my finger and I push harder. All my experience tells me to be patient and wait until his anus dilates before going deeper. I let his body expand, feeling his sphincter quiver with waves of joy, each time becoming a fraction bigger. Then I push forward again, watching his face. His expression changes every second. He smiles contentedly, slightly painful. He bites his lower lip, instinctively resisting by tightening his muscle to stop me, breathing out as the momentary panic fades. Somewhere deep within him is a magic place and his eyes open wide when I reach it. I feel his rectum swelling when he displaces his intestines to increase the pressure in the region of his prostate. I rub upwards, hoping that my finger is in the right place to give him pleasure. He sighs. "I want you, Chris," Adam murmurs absently. My penis glistens under an oily sheen, bulging red and hard and more than ready to do what is being demanded of it. I lean over him, dominating the curly-headed boy. His eyes close as he waits, feels my penis lodged between his buttocks. His passage is no longer dry and unresisting, but slippery and alive. He squirms underneath me, wriggling his anus against my glans as I try to squeeze inside. Suddenly his opening contains my glans, his flesh stretched wide like a mouth, lips compressing behind my flared tip. "More," he begs urgently. "Sure?" "Slowly! Okay!" "You're tight, Adam." "I know it. You feel so big, Chris." "I'm not hurting am I?" "I'll tell you, okay." "Try to relax." "God, what do you think I'm trying to do." "I love you." "How,... how,... far?" "'bout halfway I think." "Oh!" I feel between us. Not halfway yet. It feels as if my penis is rammed in until it can go no further without tearing his anus. His trembling make me think I am hurting him and I ease back. "No! Keep him there! It's far enough for a bit. Let me get used to it." "Okay." I lean down to him, bringing my lips to his. His lips are dry, still softer than anything I have kissed, except perhaps his scrotum. I force my tongue between his lips, stabbing into the wet hot cavity behind his teeth. The kiss is symbolic. Like my penis, my tongue possesses him. Like my saliva in his mouth, my semen will enter his rectum. I ease away, knowing what I must do to achieve my goal. With the discomfort he feels, he is not in the mood to be kissed. I feel the powerful grip of Adam's sphincter on my shaft slacken as his muscle expands to accommodate me. I draw back, pulling away easily as the lubricant does its job. Then in again, and he gasps loudly as my penis fills his rectum. I begin to move, humping gently. He groans, feeling his bowels buffeted even as I continue carefully. There is no rush and I concentrate on trying to give him pleasure instead of pain. "You doing okay?" "Uh huh." "I think its starting to get looser." "Uh huh." "Is it hurting?" "Uh Uh." He lies. I know it hurts. I know the feeling all too well. A man's cock is far too big for a boy for it not to hurt him. However, it is a nice pain as well. It is a feeling of being forced beyond mere fullness, gorged to the point of exploding until he contains my manhood within his boy's body. He does not want to talk. No boy wants to talk about it because talking would be to admit what he is doing. How well I remember my own youth. Shame, guilt, pain, torment. Never wanting to talk about it, lying silent when he took my innocence and ignited my lust. Afterwards, there is no going back. Adam will be like me, he can never be the same again. He grunts each breath. "I love you, Adam." He hesitates. "I love you back, Chris." "You're doing great." "How far?" More than halfway, four inches at least. I lift one arm away from behind his leg and draw it downwards so that he can appreciate that the distance between us is just short of the breadth of his hand. I feel his fingers brush along the engorged slick shaft of my sex. He tentatively explores the stretched fleshy rod as it exits from his anus and closes his hand around it. When he masturbates me, he often uses two hands. "Man! He's big!" Adam whispers. "No wonder my butt-hole hurts." "Bad?" "No! It's okay. Just don't move too fast." "Don't worry! I won't." "Chris,...?" he asks worriedly. "Yes?" "I love you,...." "I know, Adam. I love you too." "I feel like I'm joined to you." "You are. I want you so much. Like this, I'm part of you. It feels good, doesn't it?" "Uh huh." "Do you know what I want to do?" "Hmmmm,.... I think so. What are you doing? Hey! Don't take him out yet!" I ease away from Adam even as his anus squeezes down to keep me inside. I know the emptiness he feels, the sudden void created within while the longing continues. No boy is prepared for the craving that follows anal sex, a hungering itch in his crack that needs to be scratched almost constantly and never goes away. I roll onto my side and then turn onto my back so that I am lying beside Adam. "What are you waiting for?" I laugh as Adam looks at me quizzically. "Go on, get on top." "Me on top of you?" I nod and pull Adam over me. There is a momentary struggle until he is properly seated astride my hips, his knees next to my flanks. Already the stiffness has faded from his penis, leaving it limp and impotently resigned to a lesser role. His erection is unnecessary. "Can you feel it?" I ask as I place the head of my penis against his anus again. Adam nods. "Push back," I instruct. He smiles and I feel his body push down while I hold my hardness in alignment. I feel his anus slip around my glans. He is still tight, but not enough to stop the inevitable penetration. Another inch of slippery cock slides into him before he knows what has happened. He grins with satisfied pride. "It's in! I can feel him in me. He feels nice." "Now lean forward," I say. He lowers his chest onto mine, stretching up until I can bring my mouth to his. We kiss again, now taking his extended tongue while I lift my pelvis and he accepts my erection deeper into his bowels. I feel his shudder, unable to stop the progress of my penis until it possesses him again. It is remarkably easy. "Better?" "Much!" With my hands on his hips I press down, forcing him to take another inch. Adam groans, his anus is stretched so tightly around the thick mass now lodged deep within him that he can barely breath. I hold him there, anticipating that he will instinctively want to escape. I hold him tightly until his body is accustomed to my presence. I feel the struggling spasms of his sphincter, losing in the fight to prevent its violation. The pressure fades as he becomes more dilated. We kiss. Soft, wet, tongues gently exploring each other's mouths, increasingly passionate, then urgently slurping. As the minutes pass I feel Adam become looser, the grip of his anus diminishing until he feels comfortably firm, not tight-assed like a virgin. Carefully I begin to guide his pelvis, pivoting his buttocks with slight rhythmic oscillations that massage my throbbing penis. He swallows, eyes wide open, disbelieving that the pain has vanished. My stiff member begins to move faster and deeper, in and out of his unrestrained passage. Slowly lust consumes us. How well I remember that gradual escalation, the pounding stiffness of a man's penis deep within me, faster, deeper, harder until it swells momentarily, then his flood of white hot seed into my bowels. Until that moment, the pleasure has no boundary. It builds until a peak is reached. There it seems insurmountable, a point where nothing else has importance. Now, a man myself, I relish the task of making love to a boy. My impending climax is unimportant as I bring Adam ever closer to his orgasm. I do not need to look to know that his penis has shrivelled. It has become a vestigial sign of his maleness as it draws into his groin. His anus is completely relaxed, a tight fitting glove unclosing my organ. His sphincter is like a thick band that restricts my blood flow and makes my erection even stiffer, if that is possible. Adam groans. A shuddering tremor from deep within him as he gasps for air. His face is frenzied, eyes closed, lips compressed, hair sweaty. He is no longer the sweet pure boy. Selfishly intent on achieving relief, his body's motions pursue an elusive orgasm. He forces down, squeezing on my penis as hard as he can so that it grinds against his prostate. Suddenly another peak comes, bursting upon him and threatening his consciousness. His rectum grips me, contracting fearfully with all his strength. Spasm follows spasm, ripping through his body without mercy. I pump him, jerking savagely, each time shoving his hips down to force my sex in as far as it can go. Another spasm, less intense. He breathes frenetically, laboring each lung-full, unable to stop. Both of us move relentlessly, like well-oiled machinery yet not mechanical as nerves and brains interact. A throaty whisper. "I,... I,... did,... it." "I know. You okay?" "Yes!" "Do you want me to stop." "Don't stop!" "I don't want to hurt you." "Feels okay,... good,..." "You feel good too," "So nice." "Bring the house down, huh?" "Yeah!" Breathless. "Could,... say,... that." "You're really loose, Adam." "It sounds,....yucky. I feel so wet back there." "It is wet. Some might even say sloppy." "Very funny. Did you do it?" Giggling. "Not yet. I'm close." "Go for it, Chris! I want to feel your cum in me." I summon my flagging energy and take control as the exhausted boy lies limp, his perspiring body draped over me and abandoned to my will. My thrusts are erratic, taking possession as I spear him deeply. Each stab elicits a whimper. Again he peaks, a tumultuous wave that makes him cry out and rake my neck and shoulders with his fingernails. I slam him downwards as the semen begins to spurt. He quakes, another thrust, squirting my sperm into the depths of his rectum. He smiles radiantly, satisfied as he feels my heat flowing into him. Like his mother, his eyelids flutter when he feels my seed become part of him. But unlike his mother, my sperm cannot produce children. I slow to a rocking motion, barely moving my penis more than an inch at a time. My copious ejaculation is now a warm fluid deep inside Adam's body. Suddenly the hot wetness that coats my softening penis frightens me. With good reason, I suspect that I have injured him. Still dribbling, I pull free, hoping that I do not see blood. "Do you feel okay?" I ask as I glance down. "Yeah, I think so." "It doesn't hurt?" "Just a little bit." Uncertain. "I'm okay." "We did it, Adam, and you didn't bleed," I say with mounting relief. He smiles shyly. "I know. It doesn't feel bad at all, just a whole lot bigger inside me." "I wonder why?" I tease. "And you're so much bigger than Jordie," Adam muses. So, it was Jordan. I have met him several times. IT is easy to see why the two boys were attracted to each other. Jordan is handsome in a more rugged, many way than Adam, yet he also exudes the same characteristics that leave little room for doubt about his lack of interest in the opposite sex. Adam could have done a lot worse. "It's all the practice the last few weeks," I answer. "Every time my finger was inside your butt, it stretched you so your insides just a little bit bigger." "I wonder if that's why?... Is that why it went so easily?" "Uh huh! I think you're getting used to having something inside you." "I felt your sperm going inside me. I really felt it. I did it again, too." "I know," I say as I hug him lovingly. Adam is no stranger to this. Even his few experiences with another boy have prepared him to accept the consequences of sex with another male. His climax, even though it is dry, is a point of pride. I suspect his pride comes from knowing what he has accomplished with me is nothing short of a miracle. I sigh inwardly. It is impossible not to be jealous of the boy who first gave him the ability to appreciate his body's orgasm, but it is not something I can change. I smile, meeting his eyes with equal pride while I lovingly hug him. This is a time that we will treasure for the rest of our lives and I try to make every second special, not caring that my wetness will drain onto the rug while he lies above me. I have satisfied a need that has existed in me since I was Adam's age. There is a wonderful sense of fulfillment. At least for the present, Adam is content. His eyes are happy. There is another feeling, a strange feeling. For the first time since I was a boy I am complete. I will always remember his grin as he straddles me, the look of power and triumph on his face, of knowing we have loved. It was no different for me when I was his age. I also remember wanting his penis back inside as soon as he took it out. From his squirming attempts to reposition himself, I realize that Adam is no different. "What are you trying to do?" "I want you!" "You want me?" "No,... I want him!" Petulantly. "Oh that! I want what you want too, but he's too tired. "Oh!" Sadly. "He's gone to sleep for a while." "I can easily wake him up, Chris." Laughing. "I bet you can't. He's exhausted." "Wanna bet?" Giggling. "Hm,.... after what we just did? No,... I don't think so." "Was I good?" Hopefully. "What do you think?" "Better than Mom?" Cautiously. I give him a wet lick on the end of his nose and he giggles. I will not play that game. He knows the answer to his question as well as I do. "It's about time you went to bed." "Already?" "At least you won't have to do anything to get ready for bed." "Huh?" "You won't need to put your pajamas on tonight." "I'm going to sleep with you, aren't I?" I nod. "Only not on the floor." Without saying more, Adam slowly comes to his knees. He moves uncomfortably, as if his buttocks are still spread apart by a penis that is contained within them. He looks unsure of himself as he clambers off. I glance down guiltily inspecting my sex organ. It glistens with a wet slippery sheen, but in the flickering firelight it is too dark to see whether it is bloodied. I follow him up, taking his hand. We stand face to face. His head is at my chest and I am very aware of how small he is compared to me. He walks unsteadily while I lead him to the bed, waits until I throw the down comforter back, climbs hesitantly onto the bed. He is very tired. Again, I am left with a distinct impression that I have hurt him. "Turn onto you belly, Adam." "Why?" "I want to make sure you're okay back there." He twists, rolling from his side to his front so his buttocks are in the air. I sit next to him. In the dim light I can see my wetness on the inside of his thighs. I press his firm small cheeks apart and glimpse his anus, still open, cream-colored ooze drooling from a gaping mouth. No blood, at least not more than a slight red-tint around his recently impaled rim. His puckered opening is gone, his ring is an inward depression of loose flesh. Later it will be dark and swollen from the bruising I have given him. For now, I am without reprehension, yet later I know I will be sad that I have inflicted damage to his perfect body. "Chris?" he asks nervously. "Was I as good as Mom?" "It's different, Adam," I try to explain. "Different? How?" I smile as I playfully swat his bare bottom with a light smack. "You don't have a pussy." "So you have to put him in my butt instead. Do you think it's dirty or something?" Adam retorts defensively after he turns uncomfortably onto his back. I grin at him, aware that my penis is beginning to stiffen again. I feel like a teenager, perpetually horny. "It's not dirty," I answer placatingly. "It's beautiful,... and I love you." "Would you rather I was a girl and not a boy?" "NO!" I laugh. "It's not a matter of being better at sex than your mother. There's no comparison. A boy is a boy is a boy." "I don't understand." "When we were doing it, how did you feel?" I ask. Adam regards me curiously. "How did I feel? Um,... I felt nice all over. I was so happy I thought I was going to cry." "I was happy too. I felt like I was part of you. Not like I was just inside you, but that I actually belonged to you, a bit like your finger, or better still, like this little guy," I say gently as I tweak the soft appendage between his thighs. He smiles shyly. "Really?" I nod. "I liked having you inside me, even though it hurt a bit at first. I wanted you to keep doing it." "So did I," I admit. I pause. "It's not like that with your mom, okay." I reach down, my fingers casually examining the extent of my half- erection. It is still some distance from being fully hard, but it is probably stiff enough to do what is required of it if I do not delay. Adam watches silently while I lay down, wriggling across to the center of the bed to make room for me beside him. "Do we really have to go to sleep now?" I laugh. "Do you have something else in mind?" Adam smirks as he lifts his knees up to his chest. It is a crude gesture whose meaning is obvious. "Are you sure?" I tease. "You're going to be really sore in the morning." Adam is quiet, thoughtful. "I waited a long time for this,... and I want to do it again, okay?" He waits, watching expectantly as I move closer, until my hip is under his feet. My penis touches his anus, squashing into his opening. He sighs softly, immediately content as it slides back in his slippery hot flesh. His legs unbend, straightening out. My penis surges upward. There is a look of surprise on his face. "It didn't hurt," he whispers. I smile, flexing my penis within the living boy-sheath. Nearly three quarters, five familiar thick inches, are inside him. I ease away, giving him a momentary respite before pushing forward again. He is ready for more. There is a wet squelch as another inch penetrates. He is full, his semen- coated bowels already gorged on man-cock even as I continue to grow harder. "You feel so big," Adam sighs. "It feels like he's in all the way." "He's not all there yet," I answer. "But it's close." "Chris,... I want to try all of him, okay?" My belly rubs Adam's flank, yet my hips are still several inches from making contact with his buttocks. At least two more inches to go and I wonder whether it is possible for his slender boy's body to hold all of me. Although he is certainly not a fragile child, at his age I was bigger and stronger. What Adam lacks in size he makes up for with eagerness. His lithe leg and stomach muscles lift his buttocks while his feet seek a purchase on the sheet. He braces himself and I continue to increase the pressure. I feel his anus holding me back, his sphincter instinctively knotting even as he tries to relax. Perhaps another half inch but no more. "Try again." Gasping. "You sure?" "Yes! I want all of him." With difficulty. As a boy I was no different. Who knows whether it is bravery, or unadulterated lust. After the first time, I realized the existence of a longing that was an unavoidable part of me. I had a need to be impaled, to feel him all the way inside me, a hard, throbbing cock, his manhood shared with me. I slowly increase the pressure, cautiously seeking to test Adam's physical limits. He groans as my fleshy stake is relentlessly driven deeper. I test the constriction of his fully expanded anus, penetrating another inch until I reach the resilient barrier where his rectum curves into his intestine. I can go no further. Any greater force will cause his bowel to rupture. I stop and breath out. "How are you doing?" I ask. "Man he's big!" Adam quivers. His voice is stressed as much as his body. "Just don't move too fast. I think I'll explode." "Move him? Man, you must be joking. You have a tight butt. I think he's stuck in there," I tease. "Don't squeeze or you'll pull him off." Adam laughs weakly. "I won't! I love him too much to do that." We wait, holding hands and cuddling. We kiss, gently touching lips and sharing tongues. I am infatuated with the beautiful boy. He yields slowly, his sphincter losing all strength and slackening around my stiffness until is seems that intercourse is possible without hurting him in the process. He repositions himself, moving his legs further apart and he lifts his head to watch. I carefully withdraw, not all the way, but far enough to make the return journey worthwhile. His contented smile is gratifying. His eyes open wide as I sink back into him. "God! He feels so good." A puppy-dog whimper. "So do you." "Do it slowly, Chris." Groaning softly. "Like this?" "Uh huh! It feels good.... It sure sounds gross." Amused. "It sounds nice. You feel slushy, and you're so hot inside." We laugh. It feels good, a hot mushy wetness that sucks while I pump slowly back and forth. The frenzied passion is gone and we concentrate on enjoying the sensations of love making. His warm body fits against mine, his buttocks nestling against my hips as though nature had always intended a man to mate with a boy. Unlike his mother, his body is lithe and firm. There are no feminine curves, only strong young muscles under his smooth soft skin. I caress his belly, his chest, his neck. I fondle his navel, marvelling that the umbilical cord that had once connected him to his mother is now a delightful plaything. It is remarkably small, slightly indented, partially covered by a fold of skin. His nipples are tiny, yet they quickly form minute points as I tease them with pinches, then rub them. Adam lies back in silent sybaritic enjoyment. His eyelids are heavy and ready to close for the night. Minutes pass, yet time is irrelevant. I am making love to the boy I love. His eyes finally close and he sighs sleepily. His rectum has become even looser, but I do not care to increase the pace of my thrusts. I use long powerful strokes, withdrawing until only my glans joins us together, then returning all the way in a single stroke. Each time I elicit a soft sigh of pleasure when I slide my long thickness into him. "Chris?" "Yes, Adam." "I love you." "I love you back." "I'm so happy." "So am I." "I love your cock." Sleepily. "I love your butt." "I love having him in me." "I love fucking you." "He feels so nice." He yawns tiredly, his recent passion and frenzied efforts finally catching up with him. He is exhausted. His eyelids flutter, a last attempt to stay awake. He smiles contentedly and drifts off to sleep. I smile while I watch his chest rise and fall with each breath, until I lift the comforter over his nakedness to keep him warm. His rectum is hot and oozing wetness and gradually my penis begins to feel uncomfortable. I withdraw slowly, suspecting that it will only be a matter of hours before I am back inside him. I lift his legs slightly and slide from underneath, then reposition him. My penis is covered with a creamy slime. Only near the base is there any blood and even then it is very little. I breath out in relief as I carefully get up from the bed. Momentarily, Adam stirs when my absence leaves a vacuum. He breathes erratically and he twists onto his side under the covers, not waking as he settles down again. I smile, imagining the mess he will leave on the sheets when my fluid drains out of him. I walk into the bathroom to clean my soiled member, wiping away the greasy film that tangles my pubic hair before going to the kitchen for a drink. There, true to my promise, I telephone his mother. She answers on the second ring. "Hi!" "Hi Liz! I'm sorry to be calling you so late," I say apologetically. "I wasn't asleep. There was something about a snow storm over the Rockies on the news. I was worried you'd be flying through that. I expected you to arrive late." "We got in about two hours ago." "How is Adam?" "He's asleep. He's,... he's a good boy, Liz." "Is he,... Is he okay? Did everything go okay?" "He's happy, Liz. That's all I can say." "Chris,... I know I was wrong,... what I said before about him, and about you and my father. I want you to know I,... This isn't easy to say.... I'm glad he's with you. I only want him to be happy." "I want him to be happy too, Liz." "I know that. Is he okay, Chris?" "He's a wonderful boy, Liz." "You did it, didn't you? I know you did it, just the sound of your voice is enough to tell me that. He's not hurt, is he?" "No! He's not hurt, Liz. Adam's tired, that's all, and probably a bit sore, but he's not hurt. Other than a little bleeding, and that's normal." "Normal?" "It's normal for a boy to bleed a bit until he gets used to it. It takes a few times before it stops." "Oh!" A long pause. "Chris,...." "Yes liz?" "This changes things between us, doesn't it?" "I guess. Yes, I suppose it does. I want you to know that I still love you, Liz." "I love you too. The only problem is,... now my son loves you as much as I do." "I love him too. And I love him as much as I love you. I'm not going to lie to you, Liz." "I,... Chris, I'm worried I'll lose you, maybe both of you. I want you. I want you back here with me." "Liz, I tried to tell you when you asked me to bring him here with me. It will be different for all of us now. I love him. He's part of me and I'm part of him. It won't end when we get back you know." "I know that. I never expected it would end, not after a few weeks together in Colorado. I hoped it would, of course. But I knew it wouldn't. What happens now?" "That's up to you." "Me. You want me to say it's all right? It's okay for you to fuck Adam, is that what you want me to say?" "Not really. You can look the other way again, like you did for your father and me." "I don't want that. I want you as my husband, not my son's boyfriend. I want us to be married. I want to be your wife. You the first man I've met in five years who I can honestly say that to." "Liz, I'll say yes and I'll marry you, but you know the reason why, don't you? You know I'll marry you just to be near Adam, you know that." "If we do get married, you'll have to promise you won't continue to have sex with him?" "I can't say that. I'll try my best, but after tonight,..." "God, Chris! I'm pregnant and you're asking me to share you with my son." "What do you mean you're pregnant, Liz?" "That night, the first night we slept together, remember Chris? I wasn't on the pill and you didn't use a rubber. God, what did you expect to happen?" "When did you find this out?" "I knew the day I called you about Adam and Kyle. Ironic isn't it. The same day I agreed to let you screw him, I find out I'm pregnant with your child." "Are you sure about it? Some of those early tests show a positive result and they're wrong." "I'm not making this up, Chris. I had more tests today. They did an amniocentesis. It's going to be a boy. You have a son of your own now." "You're not joking about this, are you Liz?" I close my eyes. We have talked about marriage in a vague way, but this is different. I breath out, frustrated and angry at my own stupidity. I see no solution but to propose. However, my motivation is wrong. I know my love is much greater for Adam. I will marry her to keep Adam close to me. "I'm very serious. I understand you more than you realize, Chris." "I love Adam a great deal, Liz. I could never live without him, or with him, but not loving him." There is a long silence. I know what she is thinking. If I was in her position I would be thinking the same thoughts. "I understand that, Chris. Let's just say I think I've already shown how open-minded I can be. You're in Colorado with him right now aren't you?" "Well I don't understand! The three of us can't stand at the altar." "The three of us,...? Oh! You want to marry Adam?" She laughs. "I don't think they would allow that in any church I know, maybe in California, but certainly not in Baltimore." "I was talking figuratively, Liz. That's how I feel about him, that's all I'm saying." "I said I'm open-minded. I wouldn't have allowed him to go with you otherwise, especially knowing what I know about the two of you. I guess the question I have for you, Chris, is how much do I have to share you with him?" I hesitate and smile to myself. I look across the room to the bed where Adam is sleeping. "What do you mean?" "How often would you want to do it with him?" "How often?..." "Yes! One day a week? two days a week?" "If Adam and I didn't do anything on weekdays,... if we kept to the weekends, well,... I could live with that." "Five nights with me and two nights with him? God, I can't believe I'm saying this. I know that son of mine is cute, but he really must be something else in bed." "He is! I want Friday night too," I add quickly. I am very glad that Liz is not only open-minded, but has a sense of humor as well. She groans. "No, Chris! I can't agree. I can't do this." "Liz, I realize how difficult it is for you, but there's no other way. What I propose is this. It's really very simple. Hell, in a way you could even say it's in Adam's best interests. When he has school the next day, I sleep in your bed. Otherwise,..." "He sleeps in our bed, or do you plan to sleep in his bed?" "His bed is way too small to do anything," I joke. "I'll have to get him a queen-size." "Yes!" "Huh? Yes what?" "Chris, damn it! I agree. You should have been a lawyer!" Liz puts the telephone down and I gaze in disbelief at the receiver in my hand. I gaze back at Adam. He stirs, turning towards me. "What's up?" he asks between two long sleepy yawns. "Nothing! I was just calling your mom to tell her we arrived safely." "Oh!" He sighs contentedly. "Chris?" he asks as I walk back towards the bed. "Yes?" "Oh,... nothing,... I was just thinking,... we have two whole weeks together." "I know." "I'm so happy." "I think I know why. Would it have anything to do with what happened a while ago?" I tease. Adam smiles shyly. I gaze down at him, feeling so much affection for him that it is overpowering. His smile is radiant, striking a chord deep inside me. "I like having your cum in me," he whispers. "So do I," I admit. "Does it hurt behind?" "It's sore," Adam admits with a rueful sigh. "I didn't mean to hurt you." "I know. I wanted to do it. It isn't like it hurts or anything. It just feels a bit sore." "I'm not surprised. I really stretched your ass, I expect." I ease onto the bed and lie behind him. He wriggles nearer and my arms embrace his lean body to close the gap between us. His buttocks settle naturally against my groin so that we are curled up together. My hand drapes over his prominent hip and I gently stroke his bare thigh. Adam feels unbelievably soft and warm. I smell his hair, lingering on fragrant traces of shampoo. "It still feels funny," Adam purrs. "Funny how?" "It feels so much bigger inside." "That's something you'll have to get used to, I'm afraid." "Will you put him back inside?" "Now?" "Uh huh!" "I think twice is more than enough for our first time." "I don't want you to fuck me. I just want him inside me again. I want to sleep with him in there." Just lying beside Adam has excited me sufficiently. Clumsily I press my partially erect penis into his well-lubricated crack. He sighs, drawing his knees higher. A small hand reaches between us, guiding the bulbous end of my penis to his opening. His hand moves up and down, a conscious effort to produce more hardness. Within a few seconds I am able to comply with his request. With several inches embedded within him, he straightens out his legs again. "Okay?" "Uh huh." "Are you happy now?" He giggles. "Uh huh. I like how it feels. I didn't realize how good it would feel, Chris." "Better than Jordan?" I ask slyly. "Uh huh. Much better!" He pauses. "Am I better than mom?" "uh huh. Much better!" Chapter 6. 4.15 p.m. April 16th Upstairs, Adam and Jordan are unusually quiet. Under normal conditions Adam will let off steam for at least half an hour after the school day before starting his homework, and when he has his best friend with him on Friday afternoon, it is usually bedlam for the entire afternoon. Of course, Thursday afternoon should be quiet, but the next day is a day off from school as their teachers prepare for teacher-parent conferences. For weekends, there is relatively little homework compared to the normal three hours per night a fifth-grade student at Hillsdale Academy has to endure. Under these conditions, the boys should be exuberant. Still dressed in their school uniforms, Jordan flops back onto Adaam's bed. He enjoys the sensation of movement under him. There is an undulating wave that pushes back at him a moment later, giving a sense of instability to the bed while at the same time very relaxing. He has never slept on a waterbed before and he envies Adam his new toy. There is a definite and undeniable pleasure in feeling the movement under him. It is as if the bed is alive. He could easily be rocked to sleep. He is jerked back to reality as Adam interrupts his thoughts. "What's up Jordie?" "Huh? Nothing. I was just enjoying your bed. This is way cool. And its so big. You could sleep six kids here and still have room," Jordan laughs. Adam grins as he settles back into the bed next to his friend. It is fun, he decides. It is way better than 'way cool'. It is also a lot or comfortable than his previous bed--a twin box spring with a squeaky metal frame. It made a hell of a racket every time every time he masturbated. He grins again, unseen by his friend. He remembers the sounds even though he tried to be quiet. His mother gave him the water bed as a surprise and it took an entire Saturday afternoon to pick it out. "Room for what?" Adam queries as he squirms his bottom into the accommodating fluidity beneath him. He knows what Jordan intends, but it is too good to pass up. He tries to suppress a giggle. It quickly bursts free as the thought blossoms in his mind. "I'm not sure I'd want to do that with six other kids sleeping next to me," he adds. "Four other kids,..." Jordan corrects. "Because if two of them were doing it...." He smirks cheekily. "Of course if you were just jerking off, then there would be five. But you really wouldn't be doing IT, would you?" Adam breathes out deeply and wriggles his hips and shoulders so that the water moves under him. He wonders how doing IT would feel on the bed. He knows that it is only a matter of an hour or so until he finds out. Two hours at the most if they wait until after dinner. The water seems to push back at him at the same time as it absorbs his movement. It is very different to his old bed. For one thing there is no disturbing squeak, and for an other, there is more than enough room to do anything they want. Instinctively he realizes that they will have to do it in a very different way. The bed has a motion of its own. "I wish I had one," Jordan continues. "Even if it's the same size as our old bed." He stops and then finishes, "You're really lucky. This is way cool." "Maybe you can sleep over, Adam offers. Instantly he regrets the suggestion. Suddenly he wants Jordan gone. He wants to run downstairs and bring Chris back with him. They can test it out before dinner. He sighs quietly. "You want to play with our dicks? Or do you know what?" Jordan asks awkwardly. Nearly three months have passed since the last time and it seems like an eternity. It was before Chris, in fact just before he met Chris for the very first time. For Adam, his life is interrupted at that point. Since the last time he has been sexually aroused with Jordan everything has changed. His entire life has changed. He has discovered such happiness that it is impossible to conceive of ever being alone again. Adam shrugs. All things considered he has little interest in playing with Jordan's penis or participating in the act of anal intercourse that his friend alludes to. Not when the real thing, the part of Chris that he loves most of all, the thing that he wants to hold and have inside him more than anything else is just downstairs in the kitchen. The urge to tell comes out of nowhere. He needs to confide his secret to his best friend. "Jordie, if I tell you something, will you promise never to tell a living soul. No one! Ever!" Adam says conspiratorially. Jordan turns to his friend curiously. He wonders what Adam is going to tell him as he nods his agreement to absolute secrecy. "Not even your brother! Promise?" Adam demands. "And especially not a grown-up," he adds. "Okay. I promise." "Okay," Adam says uncertainly. He takes a quick breath. "I'm the same as you." Jordan's expression does not change. He continues to look at Adam with inquisitive eyes, wondering what lies within the pale blue liquid pools that gaze back at him. Adam has beautiful eyes that hold his attention until he has to force himself to look away. They are unlike Jordan's eyes. They are darker, sensuous and beguiling, while Adam's eyes remain gentle and innocent. "I don't understand." "I'm gay." Nearly a minute passes before the long silence is broken. "You mean you think `you're gay. You can't be sure until you're older. Some guys go through a stage." Jordan says softly. Adam winces slightly. "It's not a stage I'm going through, okay." "So? Being gay is no big deaL, Adam." "I've done it with a man too," Adam admits in a voice that is barely heard. "Just like you do with your bro, Jordie." "Who?" the other boy demands in disbelief. "What do you do with him?" he adds immediately. "I do the same stuff you do with Jeff. I think you know what I mean. The same stuff we did together," Adam admits shyly. "You do that? Everything?" Jordan demands. Adam nods again, so slightly that the movement of his head is barely discernible. Jordan swallows. "Everything, right?" "Uh huh." Adam admits gleefully. Ev-ery-thing,.... Jordie." "Even that?" Jordan clarifies. "You do it! He does it in your butt, right?" "Especially that. That's what being gay means. You said so yourself," Adam rebounds. "It's the best part of being with a guy." "You do IT with a man? I don't believe you. Tell me who." Adam grins cheekily. "Other than Mr. Patrick, I only know one other man well enough," he answers suggestively. "I can't see you doing it with Balloon Butt." Jordan hesitates. "So who then?" The movement of his hand just comes into the corner of Adam's peripheral vision. Jordan brushes his fingers through his hair, twirls one lock between his fingers, and waits. It is yet another of those 'queer' things that Jordan does that strangely bothers Adam. It is something that boys do not do. It is an effeminate gesture that is not unlike some of his own unconscious actions, actions that are becoming increasingly common. Adam grins as he enjoys his game. He wants Jordan to know that there are no longer any differences between them. They are equals, in every sense of the word. "Not Bee-Bee?" Jordan asks curiously. Adam shakes his head quickly. All of a sudden Jordan's mouth opens. He mouths the word in shock. "Chris?" Adam nods. "No! Your step dad? I don't believe you." "My mom knows about it too," Adam adds coolly, proudly, happily. He lets the news sink in, watching tim's expression change from disbelief to envy, and waits. He wants to tell his best friend everything-- everything from the time of their first meeting, their vacation together, everything up to the present. "You're making that up," Jordan protests. "Your mom's cool and all, but she wouldn't,... she would never let you do that." "Actually, it was more or less her idea. Once Chris moved in with us it just worked out that way. Remember when I spent the Christmas holidays with him in Colorado?" "Uh huh." "We did more than just ski," Adam grins slyly. "In fact I was too sore to go outside some days." "But they're married!" "So? He loves me. After they got married he comes to my room on the weekends." "What about your mom?" Adam shrugs dismissively. "She knows how much I love him. It's weird. She knows we have sex 'cause we've talked about it. Sometimes she even makes jokes about what we do. Anyway, after about a week after we got back from Colorado, Mom just said it was okay if that's what I really wanted. She lets us sleep together whenever I want." Jordan stares at his friend in total disbelief. "You sleep with him?" "Of course I sleep with him you dodo. Your sleep with your bro afterwards, don't you?" Adam questions. "Yeah, but only for a while.... You do it here?" Jordan asks as he glances around the room. His confidence is fast disappearing. "In here? On this bed?" Adam smirks, suddenly feeling light-hearted and very playful. "Only when it's raining. Usually we do it outside on the front lawn. That's if it's dark. Otherwise we go round the back so the neighbors can't see us." Jordan laughs. "Now I know I don't think I believe you. It's still too cold to take your clothes off outside. Not unless you want your balls to freeze off." "Of course we do it in here," Adam relents. "It's my bedroom, isn't it? Only we haven't done it on this bed,... at least not yet. It only just arrived today." "He's really good looking," Jordan muses. He glances at his best friend. Even his own parents have said that Adam is a handsome boy. He feels a surge of jealousy. He considers his father's statement that 'blond boys are the best looking.' Fortunately they are both blond. Other than the fact that head has curly hair and the other has straight hair Adam and Jordan could be brothers. "I really love him, Jordie," Adam adds. "We do it every weekend." "I don't believe you. Prove it!" Jordan challenges. For a moment Adam considers taking off his trousers. However, the evidence of minor bruising that has been so visible around his anus a month earlier, has all but vanished. His opening is significantly bigger than it was when he lost his virginity to Jordan. No longer is his opening surrounded by a small ring of puckered flesh. Unless one knows what to look for, he appears innocent. However, there is an easier solution and one that avoids the invasion of his privacy. He reaches to the side of the bed, opens the drawer of the new nightstand, and gropes inside it. He finds what he expects to find a moment later as his fingers close around the tube. "See!" he announces as he holds the partially finished tube of K-Y out for tim's inspection. "What is it?" Jordan asks from the other side of the bed. "It's K-Y, you dummy. It's what we use to make his cock slippery." Adam explains as he guesses the reason behind tim's question. "Chris says it's way better than vaseline for a lubricant. K-Y is the best thing to use back there, especially for a boy my age," he adds knowingly. Jordan nods glumly as he absorbs Adam's readily shared knowledge. However, Adam is not finished. He is going to prove it. "We used vaseline the first few times. It's okay, but I got pretty sore inside. I still wanted to do it even though it felt pretty bad for a few days." "I know what K-Y is," Jordan says glumly. Adam remembers the rawness of his bruised bowels. He smiles. It is hard for him to remember the pain now. It took a couple of weeks before it stopped hurting. He tightens his sphincter muscle proudly. Now, it is remarkable that his body can accommodate Chris's big penis and feel so wonderful. Every time, after a ferocious assault on his anus, he realizes that he is a very lucky boy. "How often,... like,... you know,... do you do it?" Jordan asks awkwardly. The curly haired boy shrugs as he places the tube back on top of the nightstand. "Most nights, we mess around,... We don't do it, you know go all the way with his dick in my butt except on the weekends or when Mom's away. Since Chris married Mom and we moved in with him, it's been kind of weird. Sometimes we do it when she's not around, like after I get home from school, that is if I don't have a ton of homework. And on the weekends, of course." Jordan half closes his eyes, thoughtfully. He accepts the truth of it. "My brother does it to me all the time,... but only at night,..." he murmurs absently. "Sometimes we do it in the mornings,... before we go to school. I guess I wondered why you stopped coming around in the afternoon." Adam shrugs. "Now you know why." "And your mom knows you do it?" Jordan asks in awe. "Uh huh. Mom is really strict about it. Chris calls it the 'no-sex before school rule'. I'm not supposed to be doing anything with him after nine-thirty on school nights. Actually Mom really doesn't want us to do anything during the week. That's her time with Chris, she says. At least she gave me an extra half-hour on my normal bedtime so we could mess around together," Adam adds with a triumphant smirk. "I think she expects us to do something, only she doesn't want me to stay up late so I'm tired the next day." "I s'pose so," Jordan mumbles. Adam muses softly. "I guess we make up for it on weekends." "Can I ask you something?" "Huh? Yeah?" "Do you love him?" Jordan asks. "That's a dumb question. Of course I do." "Do you like it?" "Having sex?" Adam asks. Jordan nods. "That's another dumb question. Boy, you're full of dumb questions today, Jordie." "Do you?" Jordan prompts. "Even when it hurts?" "It doesn't hurt that much," Adam replies. "But it hurts when he first sticks it in, right?" "Yeah, a little bit I guess. It only hurt bad for the first few days, and then he said that if it was too painful, then either he was trying to put it in too quickly or I shouldn't be doing it at all 'cause I'd been torn inside." Jordan swallows and half-closes his eyes. Almost always there is pain for the first few minutes. Sometimes more than other times. Sometimes there is blood, usually only a red smear on the sheets. The blood frightens him even though his brother assures him that some bleeding is normal. "Do you bleed a lot?" he blurts out. Adam sits up in surprise. The first time that he saw the brilliant red smear on the white linen it frightened him. Chris called it 'virgin's blood'. Although there isn't much blood now, it's still more than he would like. However, boys sometimes bleed when a man puts his penis inside--that was a fact of life. "Sometimes! Not that much any more," he answers. The next question comes quickly. For a change it is Jordan who needs reassurance of his sexuality. "Do you like it afterwards?" "Afterwards?" Adam asks. "Do you mind having his sperm inside you?" "Shit! Jordie, you're just full of dumb questions aren't you, dude? Anyway, it's called semen. Sperms are the little tadpole thingies that swim in it." Adam tightens his sphincter again and squeezes on the small hole that holds Chris' penis captive. The feeling is a familiar one. He wants Chris' penis inside him. He wants the stretched sensation, of being so full of penis that it feels as though his body will burst open. Afterwards, when there is a warm glow in his weakened bowels, when Chris's semen is inside him, there is a wet sloppiness, a feeling inside him that is indescribable except that it is incredibly nice. It feels good to hold Chris's seed inside him. He wonders whether he is weird. Is it simply a part of being gay? "Do you like it afterwards?" Jordan repeats. "After his takes his cock out?" Adam giggles boyishly. "I'm usually asleep by then." "You fall asleep right away?" Jordan asks absently. "No way! We kiss and hug, and we talk a lot. He leaves it inside me, that's all. I like feeling it there. I don't mind having his cum in me." "Jeff takes it out as soon as he cums," Jordan confides. "Then he cleans it off on a towel,... It makes me feel like I made him dirty or something." "Don't you kiss and hug and stuff like that?" Adam queries. "Sometimes I think that's the best part." The other boy shrugs. His brother often kisses and hugs him beforehand and sometimes afterwards, but more often than not, either masturbates him until his penis is red raw, or goes to sleep. No matter which way Jordan looks at it, something is missing. However, what really bothers Jordan is his brother's interest in other boys. "It's okay," Jordan says. "Does it bother you about Chris and your mom?" Adam looks up quickly, wondering how Jordan has managed to read his thoughts. "What about them?" "Well they're married now, so,...." Jordan smiles and lifts his eyes up to the ceiling. "You know,...." Adam shrugs and gives his friend a bland ambiguous look. "So?" "They sleep together, don't they? So they do it, right?" "Yeah! Mom's going to have a baby, so I guess they must do it." "You're joking? You're not, are you? A baby? No shit!" Jordan chortles. "No shit! It's a boy. I'm going to have a baby brother. Mom had some tests and they told her afterwards." Adam looks around the room nonchalantly. It is familiar to him. He has spent all of his life in the room it seems, not just a matter of a few months. Those months have been the happiest period in his entire life. He wonders what will happen when the baby is born. "Don't you care that he fucks her as well?" Jordan asks curiously. "Yeah, I care. But I can't do anything about it," Adam says awkwardly. "It would piss me right off. Aren't you jealous?" "Of course I am. He's,... well,... he's bi, I guess." "What do you think he would do if he knew you did it with another man?" "He knows I wouldn't," Adam replies arrogantly. "He knows I did it with you!" "You told him?" "He knows all about it. It was before I met him so it doesn't bug him that much. Now, I guess it would be different." Jordan glances at Adam. It is not a look of anger, but it clearly hints that he resents being rejected. Adam shrugs and comes to his feet. "I like you a lot, Adam, I really, really do." "I like you a lot too, Jordie." "I think your the cutest boy I've ever seen." "Yeah, right!" Adam grins. "You just want to have sex with me." "That too," Jordan grins. "You're crazy, man." "Crazy about you," Jordan adds. "I better get out of my school clothes," Adam says. He starts to undress as he ambles towards the bathroom. His once- pressed, now-wrinkled shirt drops outside the door. As he turns around Jordan sees his friend's bare torso. Adam has a suntan, not lingering on from last summer, but bronzed from the seven days of Spring vacation/honeymoon he spent in the Caribbean. Jordan is envious, not only of the golden body, but because of a sudden realization that he desires Adam's body as much, perhaps even more than his brother's. Adam's firmly muscled physique is the same as his own, except that Adam has not started puberty. With a smile, Adam disappears into the bathroom. Chapter 7. 5.00 p.m. April 16th It is very quiet upstairs. The complete absence of sound from two normally noisy boys is enough to make me suspicious. I stop slicing the carrot and listen. Nothing, no voices, no giggles, nothing penetrates the thick walls and floors of the house. For a moment I considered going upstairs. On tiptoes, of course, as I wonder what I will discover in Adam's bedroom. His room, once a guest bedroom, has quickly become my room, as much as the bedroom that I share with his mother. On the weekends, whenever we get the chance, we share his bed. Some of my clothes are in his closet and drawers, and I even have a spare toothbrush in his bathroom. But what makes his room even more our room is the new queen-sized waterbed that replaces his twin beds. Still, I have a feeling of uncertainty despite the certain knowledge that Adam, for the present at least, is mine and mine alone. It is simply a matter of my suspicion that another man is still attracted to Adam and the feelings are reciprocated. I suspect Jordan is his connection to those experiences for no other reason than they have had sex together. It is not that I begrudge Adam his friendship with a boy of his own age. That he needs friends his own age is never something I question. Boys need other boys to play with. Even though we play together and I relive my own pre-teen years when I am with him, I understand that there are some things we cannot share by virtue of the difference in our ages. I possess him physically, if one person can possess another. His heart I share with others, never doubting that he loves me but knowing that he loves others equally. His mother for one. She has loved him longer, but in my mind, no one can not love him any greater than I do. However, try as I can, I can never compensate for the sheer exuberance of youth. I am a grown up and there are some things he will never share with me no matter how emotionally attached we become. The floor creaks somewhere above my head and I smile. At least one of them is in the corridor on his way to the stairs. I hope it was Adam--by himself--coming down for a quick snack, or something more intimate. That thought alone begins to stir my penis into action. Jordan is a good best friend for Adam. Still, I would probably pick someone else if the choice was up to me. I have no substantive complaints about his blond-headed companion, and they make a splendid pair together. Jordan is always polite and friendly to me. But he frightens me, arousing a desire that I do not care to share with anyone besides Adam, and jealousy that arises from sharing Adam with him. If anything sexual still happens between the two eleven-year-olds, I am unaware of it. It has happened in the past. For Adam, it was a playful exploration by two youngsters, for Jordan, the deliberate seduction of an inexperienced boy. I am worried given Adam's natural inclinations towards his own sex, but for present Adam's affections are directed entirely at me. Still, I am fascinated by the thought of Adam masturbating with Jordan, if that is all they do together. The two boys are well matched. Although only one of them is sexually immature and the other is capable of ejaculation, it would be worth watching even if I could not participate. I hear the sounds of boys coming down the stairs. But for the squeak of the old oak treads as they bear the weight of two eighty-plus-pound boys, it would be a silent approach. They come into the kitchen, passing through the doorway side by side. They are still so boyishly slender that a third boy could fit in the frame with them. They are both beautiful lads, although in my eyes Adam clearly outshines his companion. His eyebrows lift up and his big blue eyes flash an unspoken question in recognition of the love we share. I smile lightly at Adam. It is a knowing glance as I observe that he has changed his clothes. He is dressed in a tee-shirt and sweat pants, his favorite clothes for bumming around the house. He is home from school until the following Monday and my heart soars. Even though he may have homework to do, he is mine for the weekend. I contemplate the evening's entertainment. We have a new waterbed to break in and his mother is away for the night in Boston. Adam grins as he lounges back against the kitchen counter. He is several feet away, close enough to be mine, distant enough to have his own space. However that will change as soon as Jordan is out the door. "The new bed came," he announces happily. "Oh, I hadn't noticed," I tease. "Is it in your room?" I have spent most of the afternoon setting our bed up. It is a gift from Adam's mother and it signals her acknowledgment that my love for her son is not only fully accepted, but something that she wants to encourage as well. I admire her. "You put it there, didn't you?" Adam replies. For a moment his eyes stray to the other side of the kitchen. It is a casual glance to his best friend, but at that moment I realize that Jordan knows about us. Perhaps it is a fair exchange because I know about Jordan and his brother. Only a few hours after I met Adam he opened up to me. Perhaps he told me the story to relieve his own guilt, perhaps to relive his seduction, but either way it had an effect on me. I came to understand their special friendship. In fact, as I study the two boys in the kitchen, I am surprised that Adam has not told Jordan sooner. Jordan's shy smile widens and threatens to become a knowing leer had it been possible of the boy's character. "I always wanted a waterbed," he says coolly. "They're awesome to sleep on and do stuff." 'And do stuff'. Is that an understatement or what? On the surface it is an innocuous statement, but the look he gives Adam is anything but innocent. He holds Adam's eyes for several seconds before he glances down to the floor and focuses his attention on the joint between two marble squares. "Do you guys have a lot of homework?" I ask. Adam shakes his head. "They cut back because of the parent-teacher conferences. I only have about an hour of math. And I guess I gotta do some work on my book report. I can do it after dinner. Unless you'll let me do it during the weekend?" he adds hopefully. I shake my head. Rules are rules. My first rule is that homework comes first. "Are you looking forward to the holiday, Jordan?" I ask. Jordan shrugs and is ready to say something when Adam speaks instead. "When's Mom coming home?" "Tomorrow! She'll call tonight and let us know when." "We could go away for the weekend," Adam suggests hopefully. "Where do you have in mind?" "Um,... that lodge we saw last weekend?" he suddests hopefully. "Beaver Creek? It's a long way to go for the weekend." "It's not that far," Adam retorts. "You and I drove almost that far last weekend when we went for the picnic, remember?" I smile as I wondered whether Adam has told anyone, his mother or Jordan, about the picnic. Mustard and boy-weiners make a great combination with an unusually warm afternoon and a private glade in the forest. Adam's hands move back to the counter edge and he jumps back to sit on it. He smirks cheekily. His face is turned away from Jordan so that only I can see his expression. "Wouldn't you think there would be a lot to do at a place like that." "Oh! I don't know. It's still too cold to go outside much so I don't think you'd see too many beavers," I answered playfully. "It could get pretty boring. We'll go up as soonas it gets a bit warmer." "I guess Jordan could stay with us for a few days," Adam suggests hopefully. He has not considered the implications of his idea. "I can't. My dad has already arranged for me to go to my grandparents for the weekend," Jordan announces. His face seems to redden slightly, making his full red lips appear even more passionate. From the other side of the kitchen it appears as though he might be wearing lipstick. He swallows and his tiny Adam's apple bobs in his thin neck. "I'm sorry," I reply gently as I hear the overtones of parental discipline being resisted. Jordan shrugs. By contrast, effervescent Adam is swinging his legs back and forth so that his sock-covered feet drum lightly against the kitchen cabinet doors. He is ready for Jordan to leave, best friend or not. We need privacy for what we both have in mind. "I've got an idea," Adam suggests perkily. He grins at me, flashing his perfect white teeth. His eyes sparkle with amusement. I sense I am about to find out what the boys have been up to in the bedroom now that sex play is temporarily off their agenda. I wait. "We could just stay for the night?" he suggests. "I'm not saying no, Adam, but what about the celebration dinner we were going to have for your mother when she gets back from Boston?" "Mom won't mind. Besides, she already said it was okay if you took me away for a few days, just as long as she knows where we are. Please?" he implores as he gazes at me with his big puppy-dog eyes. I sigh inwardly. I will be a terrible step-father for Adam. He is impossible to resist. I am the adult yet he controls me more with the mere intonation of his voice, a shy smile, or a quick look than anyone would have believed possible. But such is the power of an eleven-year-old boy when a man truly loves him. I nod agreeably. "Maybe we can go up and stay over Saturday night." "Without mom, right?" "Probably," I ventured. "The weekend is supposed to be my time with you," Adam counters. "I want to do it all night long." "Adam!" "Sorry,.... Jordie?" Adam says apologetically. He waits until his best friend looks up. "Jordie,.... Chris knows about you and your brother, and now you know about us. You have to promise never to tell?" "I'm your best friend in the whole world. I'm gay too,... so there's nothing to be worried about." I nod understandingly. I am not happy for our secret to be told, even to Adam's 'best friend in the whole world'. However, Adam needs Jordan as much as Jordan needs him. What they have in common, that quality they share, needs the warmth and support that only a very close friendship can bring. Indeed, it is a crucial part of their friendship. Just as Jordan opened up to Adam and shared his sexual preference, so too has Adam sought acceptance by telling him. Suddenly I am glad that Jordan is Adam's best friend, even though he is responsible for the loss of the younger boy's virginity. Neither boy is innocent any more, and they are still eleven years old. Like Adam, I am now impatient for Jordan to leave. Finally he saunters out the door, bubbling effusively. I watch as he ambles down the side path and disappears from sight. "He's a good kid," I say as much to myself as to Adam. Adam giggles. His high-pitched voice interrupts my thoughts and I turn back to look at him. "You're not falling in love with him are you?" he demands playfully. The look of surprise on my face easily convinces him otherwise. "Huh?" I murmurs. "What did you say, Adam?" "I asked if you were interested in Jordie. You know like what we talked about." "Huh? I don't understand." "You sort of said that you were interested in other boys. Are you deaf or something?" I chuckle. I have wondered the same thing on the few occasions I have seen Jordan. "What makes you say that?" "Because! I've noticed how you look at him? It's the same way you look at me. Like you want to tear my clothes off and do it to me." "What sort of look is that?" I question playfully as I step towards the boy sitting on the kitchen counter. "It's the same look you have right now," Adam chirps cheekily. "And you're getting a hard-on too to prove it." He hesitates and grins widely. "Haven't you ever noticed how you get an erection whenever I'm around?" "Well, you're a beautiful boy. I think I show excellent taste," I acknowledge. I am not surprised that Adam has noticed my frequent erections. Adam pouts for a few seconds before I catch onto his game. "You're a beautiful boy, Adam Browning. And if I ever catch anyone looking at you like I do, I'll kill them on the spot." Adam laughs and teases me. "Sometimes I wonder why I changed my name? Maybe I should have hyphenated it--Adam Anderson-Browning. What do you think?" I stand before Adam with my lower belly brushing his knees. He has no where to escape to, even if he wants to. As Adam stops laughing he is suddenly awakened to my serious expression. "What's wrong?" he asks nervously. "You're not mad at me are you? Are you angry because I told Jordan? I knew you'd be mad at me for that." "No! It's not that, Adam." "It is! It's because I told Jordan about us, isn't it?" Adam asks with visible worry. "I knew you'd be angry." "Why? Adam, we've talked about it. You've even talked with your mom about it as well. What you and I have, the love we share, it's something that no one, and I do mean no one, can ever know about. You know it's against the law. Even your mother could be sent to prison for letting us sleep together. By the time I got out of jail I'd be an old man." "But Jordan is different. He's like me. He's gay too. And he does it with a his own brother. He understands. He won't tell anyone. He's my best friend. I trust him. I want him to know that I'm the same as he is. I want him to know that we love each other, okay? Don't you trust me?" Adam says angrily. I sigh and realize that I have stepped out of bounds. Silently I promise myself that I must never criticize his decisions again. "I trust you. Listen, Adam. You have to understand. This is very important. What if Jordan tells someone, like his parents for instance, or someone else like a teacher?" "He won't," Adam denies adamantly. "What if he tells his brother?" "Jeff? If he does, so what? His brother won't tell. Not when he's been fucking, sorry,... well you know, doing it to Jordan since he was ten. He's breaking the law himself." I shake my head in despair. "It's okay to use the f-word when we're together, Adam. Just don't use it around your mom. I don't know of a better one to describe it. Having sex really doesn't cover it. What happens if his brother tells someone, like another boy he has sex with? What if Jordan gets jealous and decides to tell? That's why it has to be our secret, Adam." "Oh! Shit! I guess,.... well I never thought about it like that." "The whole world would find out if someone started talking." "I don't want you to go to jail." I sigh. "I like Jordan. I'm sure we can trust him, and we'll talk about it the next time he's here. But there's something else I don't understand." "What's that?" Adam breathes out in relief. "Well, it seems to me that you really like Jordan, correct?" Adam nods slightly. "Sometimes I feel lonely. You know,... because of how I am." I continue. "Okay, I like the idea as well. You need a friend like Jordan. But I'm also afraid that he's is attracted to you." "You mean like sex?" Adam asks guiltily. "I,... I don't think so." "Where there's smoke, there's usually fire, Adam. You're a beautiful boy. From what I've seen of Jordan I think he's still very interested in having sex you. From what you told me about Jordan, I'd say it was more than a remote possibility. If you don't want that to happen, and I certainly don't, then why set up a way for it to happen, Adam? Call me dumb, but it seems as if you're going about it the wrong way." Adam grins and reaches out to place his hands on my hips. He surveys me with his innocent blue eyes. "'cause you're wrong. Because I don't think he really wants to have sex with me. He likes older guys, that's why. I mean, well,... he loves Jeff. I've seen them together. And besides, I think if,... well if he knew how much you loved me, then he definitely wouldn't be attracted to me. He'd be wasting his time." "Then he's crazy! I'd drive across the country, I'd give anything for a single hour with you, Adam. You know that as well as I do." "I hope so. I'd meet you halfway with my pants down," Adam says cheekily. "You really think that Jordan realizes that we're in love by seeing us together for a few minutes?" Adam shrugs. "Maybe not. I don't know. All I know is I want Jordan to be my best friend. I want people to know we love each other," he replies despondently. "You don't know what it's like. I need a friend I can talk to. Chris,... I'm afraid the guys at school will find out I'm gay if I hang out with them. It's hard to keep pretending when they start talking about girls." "It's pretty bad, huh?" I query. "Now Jordan knows about us, at least he'll understand why you're not going to be interested in spending a lot of time with him." "You mean having sex with him? Now that I have you, I'll never do anything with Jordan again, if you don't want me to," Adam says. "It's not a matter of what I want. It's what you want, remember? How do you think Jordan feels about you?" I ask seriously. "I think he likes me a lot. I like him a lot too." He looks up to meet my eyes. There is no shame or guilt, or even guile. He is honest to a fault. "What did he say?" I question patiently. "He said something about me being the cutest boy he's ever seen!" "You are! You're the sexiest boy alive and I love you so much. And you always want to do it when I want," I continue. "Like right now, huh?" Adam teases. "Uh huh, and so do you if I'm not mistaken." For a moment he turns playful as he reaches forward and gently squeezes my erection under the palm of his hand. And then he is serious again. "It's not wrong to want to have sex when you love someone," Adam states. "Where did you learn that?" "From you. Besides Mom and I talked about it before we moved in with you." "Hmmmm... And what did she tell you?" "She wanted me to know how important it was that we loved each other before we had sex. I remember her asking whether I thought you loved me enough to do it. I said 'yes', and then I asked her the same thing. Mom tried to avoid answering, but she finally said that she thought so." "Your mom's usually right about most things," I say supportively. Raising Adam is a task we both share, and right from the start we agreed to work together. Jordan grins happily. "That's when she said I could do whatever I want with you, whenever I want to do it," he adds with deliberate emphasis. "So what do you have in mind, Adam?" I suggest slyly. The question is ambiguous. He can decide what he wants to do. For several seconds Adam is quiet. "I want people to know how much I love you. I want Jordan to know I love you, okay?" "And how do you plan for that to happen?" I ask curiously. "Uh,... well we could call back and ask if it's okay if Jordan sleeps over," Adam answers playfully. He pauses thoughtfully, trying his best to suppress his laughter. "And then we ask him if it is okay if we stayed in his room for the night." I raise my eyebrows with an exaggerated gesture. "Be serious." "I want for Jordan to see that we love each other." I sigh. "I'm not so sure that's a good idea, Adam. I don't mind Jordan knowing about us, but I think seeing us have sex is a very different matter." "Then how?" Adam demands adamantly. I take a deep breath as I evaluate the problem. "I don't know." I grin at Adam as I pick up the carrot from the cutting board. "You really aren't mad at me, are you?" Adam asks. "At first, when I told Jordan, I just wanted him to know we were the same." I smile. "You're not the same as him, Adam. That's why I love you. And I'm not the same as his brother, even though we're alike in one way." "Because you like boys?" Adam inquires with a cheeky grin. "You are a lot like him, you know, but you never will be the same as Jeff." I raise my eyebrows with the intention of asking him what he has in mind. That Adam was once very close to another boy in a relationship that crossed the line into physical intimacy has bothered me from the start. I cannot change what happened before I met Adam, but I want to be the most important person in his life from now on. Sometimes, despite Adam's firm denials, I even wonder whether he has continued to have sex with other people after I came on the scene. Sex with Adam is important to me, but in the final count all that really matters is being with the boy I love. I worry needlessly until Adam completes his thoughts. "What I was going to say was that,... well you're both gay, and I guess you both want to have sex with boys,... but you're really different. We have sex because we love each other. I know that you love me the way I want to be loved." "Meaning that you want to have sex?" I laugh. "What's new?" Adam nods and casually brushes several golden curls of hair back from his forehead. "I started thinking about it while Jordan was here. I got a hard-on just thinking about you. I kept thinking about doing it on the bed with you." "Now that your mom's gone we have the place to ourselves tonight," I add suggestively. "There's nobody here but the two of us." "There's just you and me,... and a carrot," Adam grins. I touch the carrot against Adam's hand. "Remember how you told me about trying to do it with a toy once," I smile lewdly at the boy I love. "It was a diving stick. It didn't fit very good." Adam returns my smile, trying hard not to laugh. A brief glance downward reassures me that Adam is as excited as I am. He probably has been that way since he jumped up onto the counter, maintaining the same erection that he got while he was talking with Jordan. His loose sweat pants conceal his genitals, but there is still enough of an erection to make a slight bulge in the burgundy fleece. Now that I am closer, the rounded end is easily distinguishable among the folds in the cloth. Around the house he seldom wears underpants, a situation that I imagine is in effect at this very moment. "Maybe this will," I continue. "Maybe." Adam's eyes dart to the carrot. "Vegetarian sex, huh? I think I'd rather have meat." It is impossible not to laugh. "At least it's not fish." "Or dairy products. Or fruit, except a banana ,aybe. Imagine an apple or a pear, if you could even get it in." His eyes meet mine. "I wanted Jordan to go home sooner," he whispers huskily. "Yeah? And I thought it was just me. I was down here slicing up things for minestrone and all I could think of was you and the new water bed," I admit. Adam leans to me and his lips brush mine. He comes back for a second round, stopping after his tongue has swiped wetly over my lips. "Mom won't be back until tommorrow. You realize we could be naked for a whole day." "What about your mom? She's back tomorrow morning, remember?" "I forget! I'm soooo duuuuumb," Adam admits as his head shakes in pretended foolish. I place my hands on his shoulders and begin to massage him, marvelling as I do so at the thinness of his body, the firmness of muscle and bone, the resilient flexibility of smooth skin against the flat plates of his shoulder blades. My fingers work higher as they rub, digging in the furrows of his collarbone before scraping my fingertips into the nape of his neck just below the hairline. "Hmmmm," Adam sighs. "You have to be my slave tonight, okay?" I nod and kiss his satiny brow, smelling the traces of shampoo from his morning shower. "Take my tee shirt off," he breathes out. I comply as he lifts his arms above his head. "Is that all, Master?" Adam smiles. "Take my pants off too, Slave." "You'll have to help me, Master." I drop the tee-shirt on the floor and he eases back onto the counter so that he is lying on his back with his feet draped over the edge. "You want me to take all your clothes off, Master?" I ask demurrely. "You'll be totally naked, my lord?" Adam giggles. "Take everything off." He pauses. "Except my socks, Slave. I don't want my feet getting cold. You can keep the rest of me warm." I move quickly to my appointed task. With his feet dangling in mid air, he cannot lift his bottom high enough for me to remove his sweat pants. Instead, his back arches so that I can slide my hand underneath. With little effort, I raise his buttocks six inches and with my other hand I drag the elastic waist band down with a brusque jerk. I do not stop until the bunched up cloth reaches his knees, and by then it is a relatively simple matter to shove his sweatpants down his legs and past his feet. My boy is naked again. Only nine and a half hours have passed since the last time I had seen him nude, but this time, like every other time, his perfect young body is nothing short of a revelation. He is startlingly beautiful, a boy-god. Beautifully proportioned, soft- skinned, taut, lithe--a plethora of adjectives that fail miserably to describe the divine perfection that is a boy like Adam. A flawless body, still bearing the golden glow of the Caribbean sun. There is no hair to mar the absolute smoothness. A perky but deliciously small penis and a delicate pouch provide the only evidence of his maleness and the indisputable fact that he is still several years from manhood. I love him. "Suck me, Slave," Adam says crudely. Obediently, I lean over him and insert the tip of my tongue into his little navel. Then licking, kissing, drooling spit from my tongue on his warm, brown belly, I trace a vein in his lower abdomen all the way to his pale, hairless groin. "Suck me," Adam orders again, increasingly impatient. My tongue pauses at the junction of penis and pubis, touches sacred flesh, licks into the silky folds of his scrotum, feels his tiny testicles squirm away as my tongue reaches them. His hands come to my head and his fingers twist in my hair as he guides me to where he wants me. I kiss the pointed tip of his foreskin. Still too tight to retract of its own volition, I consider my options. There are three. One is to suck him with his glans sheathed, two is to skin the tight membrane back and work directly on his little cherry-shaped glans, and three is not to suck him at all. I am a disobedient slave. I lift away after giving his rock-hard erection a parting kiss, albeit a long and very wet kiss. "Slave, I ordered you to suck me. I'm waiting," Adam commands in his unbroken voice. He sounds a lot like JTT doing Simba impersonations. He glares at me as he pretends to be angry. Instantly he recognizes my expression. And then Adam tries to sit up as he realizes that something is afoot. With my left hand placed on his chest he can struggle all he wants, but I have him pinned. "What are you going to do?" he asks nervously. "I already told you, Master. I'm going to fuck you with this carrot. No, not this one. It's way too small. I think I'll use this one instead," I say amid laughter as I pick up a thicker one. "This one is exactly the right size for my young Master." It is the perfect carrot. A good eleven inches long, tapering like a spike to circumference of about seven inches about halfway along. Adam won't be able to take all of it, that would deny nature as well as risk the chance of injury, but he can take considerably more than half of it. "You're kidding, right?" "Wrong, Master!" Adam swallows as he studies the carrot. "All of it? I don't think I could do it, Slave," he says uncertainly. "Now you're kidding. Think of it as preparation for tonight. It's something to get you started. A carrot appetizer." "Raw carrots are gross!" Adam chides. "Anyway you don't have any K-Y in the kitchen. And we're not supposed to use vaseline any more, remember," he adds confidently. "Who needs K-Y?" I laughs. "Or vaseline for that matter, not when I've got something that's ideal for a brat like you, Adam. Sorry, I meant master." Adam grins. Even though my hand has been off his chest since I picked up the larger carrot, Adam makes no effort to get away. He watches as I pour a liberal quantity of olive oil into the palm of my hand. It is extra-fine and one of the most expensive brands imported from southern Italy. Only the best for Adam. I swipe my hand over the length of the carrot, but I am careful to deposit most of the lubricant at the end that will penetrate him. For a moment I consider using my finger inside him first, but the thin end of the carrot is not a lot thicker than my finger. Still, I will need to be careful until it is safely inside him. "Lift up," I order. By now, Adam knows the routine as well as I do. Automatically his knees come to his shoulders, although it is with a little more difficulty than lying on his bed. His hands grasp the firm cheeks of his buttocks and he splits himself open to reveal the depth of his crack. His well-used, some would say abused, anus winks encouragement at me. There is an irregular oval of crimson flesh around his anus. His opening is a little smaller than a dime, but not for long. For a moment I think about putting the carrot down and taking him upstairs to his bedroom, even fucking him on the kitchen counter, but excitement and curiosity get the better of me. "You ready?" I ask. Adam nods gamely as I bring the pointed end to his anus. Getting the end into the fearless boy is not much harder than inserting my finger into him. Adam is the type of boy who is best described as 'spunky'. He grins and watches me approach, undaunted by the prospect of taking the root inside his body. I proceed cautiously. For some reason, he is always a bit tighter in the mornings than he is after school. However, at night, if we have done it earlier in the afternoon, getting my penis inside Adam is never that much of a problem. About two inches I put the brakes on. Nine inches of bright orange carrot extend from below Adam's flattened scrotum. It seems to stay there by itself and I relax the pressure. His sphincter resists it, just as his anus initially retards the entry of my finger. Without my hand pushing forward, it begins to slide out. Adam's buttocks clench and his quickly softening penis jumps each time he tries to retain it inside him. I ease it back into his tight orifice. I know what the carrot is feeling. Inside Adam's anus it is wonderfully hot and tight, and just a little bit moist for the first few minutes. Beyond the firm muscular wall of his sphincter, his velvety-slick rectum is relaxed and waiting. By now the tip of my finger would be more than two inches into that glorious hot softness. Adam nods again, increasingly urgently. He is ready for more and I am more than willing to oblige. He takes a quick breath and holds it as he tenses, then pushes back as he strains his bowels to open his passageway. Another inch vanishes into him. Now the carrot becomes thicker and his anus is stretched, not as wide as it will soon be, but far larger than one of my fingers can achieve by itself. He shifts slightly and releases his cheeks, no longer needing to help me locate his opening. He helps, eager to try for more, sliding his hands along his slender thighs until he grasps his legs behind his knees. "Does it feel okay?" I ask. "It's okay," Adam acknowledges. "It's way bigger than your finger." "It's still not as big as my penis,.... yet," I tease. He glances down, framing his face between his ankles as he studies my progress. Like me, Adam enjoys watching it go into him. With less than eight inches of carrot outside, he has a good idea of how far he has to go. But three inches is enough for the moment. From experience, I know that three inches puts my finger right under his prostate. Gently I lever the carrot downward until it is almost touching the counter. It is amazing how much of a hold his body has on it. The pointed end has to be hard against his immature prostate gland. "Put it in further, Chris," Adam gasps. "Does it hurt?" "No! We both know the deal! Don't ask! If it hurts I'll tell you to stop." Another quick breath, then closing his eyes he pushes against the carrot. It seems as if I only need to hold the end of it and Adam will do the rest. During the last week or two he has started to dilate quickly. Perhaps because he is more eager or maybe he is simply becoming used to accommodating my penis inside him, but he works hard at it. He has taken enough of the carrot that the width is now more than an inch. He gasps again as he feels the cold unresisting thickness of it. This time I keep the pressure on the carrot otherwise it will slide out when his sphincter contracts around it. His anus is stretched tightly around the vegetable dildo. Adam's breathing has suddenly become rapid. It is on the verge of becoming painful for him. He needs time to adjust, for his sphincter to relax and accept the fullness that penetrates his body. Still keeping the carrot lodged inside him, I ease back. Adam nods in agreement. The stiffness has completely vanished from his penis. When no longer the center of attention, it softens quickly. It is thin, swelling where his glans is covered by his foreskin before tapering to a narrow tube at the end--in every way it is still a young boy's penis. "Do you want to hold this for a few minutes while I cut some more stuff up for the soup?" I ask playfully. He smiles weakly and without a word, he reaches down between his thighs and places his small hand next to mine to take control of the thick root. The remaining six inches provides an excellent handle, as good as than any dildo that is commercially available. He clasps it tightly and he wills himself to relax. I go back to slicing the rest of the carrots, then the celery before I stop to see how he was doing. Adam smirks at me. "How is it going, Adam? I ask. I am surprised to see there is more inside him than outside. He has been busy while I was slicing and dicing. The part of the carrot that can still be seen is as thick as my penis when I have six inches inside his rectum. It seems miraculous, not only that it can actually pass through his small anus, but that he can even fit it inside his narrow pelvis. "I got it in a bit further by myself, Chris" Adam says proudly. "You know, I really think my hole is getting bigger now. It doesn't feel nearly as tight in there as it used to when we first started doing it." I give him a loving look as I lean forward to inspect. "You're doing great, Adam." While I have often examined his anus with my finger deep within him, I have never seen his opening with my cock all the way inside except with a mirror. This is exactly what it would look like. The rim of his anus is no longer visible as his body curves into the orange carrot. Even his buttocks are bulging around it. I carefully withdraw it, stretching the rim into a thin pale line that is stressed almost to the breaking point. "Not so far, Adam. I don't want you to hurt yourself," I caution. He keeps it there for the next five minutes, carefully testing himself with gentle pushes while his body continues to adjust. I finish cutting up the vegetables, put the soup on the stove, and turn back to see how he is getting on just as the phone rings. I suspected it is Jordan on the other end. They call each other daily as soon as one of them finishes his homework. Not wanting to disturb Adam, I pick up the phone. I also expect his mother to call before dinner. "It's your mom," I say aloud. "She says hi." Adam grins shamelessly. During the last few weeks he has become increasingly uninhibited before the two people in his life. Although we admire him for the same reasons, we love him equally yet for very different reasons. "Adam says for me to say hi, Liz," I ad-lib. "Do you want to talk to your mom, Adam?" I tease. He shakes his head vigorously, and jerks the object protruding from his buttocks in crude fucking motion several times before stopping. "How's he doing?" she asks. "Adam's doing great. You ought to see the little nudist right now. He's sitting on the kitchen counter without a stitch of clothing on." I have always believed honesty is the best policy. Casually I switch on the speakerphone. Adam laughs and shouts loudly in order to reach the receiver in my hand. "I'm not naked, Mom! I've got my socks on." His mother's voice is loud and clear. "There's no need to shout, Adam. However, I'm glad you're wearing something around the house, even if it's socks. Is Chris taking good care of you?" she teases. "Of course I have to wonder why you're running around the house without clothes on at 5.30 in the afternoon." "Aren't you wondering why I'm sitting on the kitchen counter, Mom?" Adam teases back. "That's why I asked whether Chris was taking good care of you, Adam?" she laughs. "I assume you're helping him get dinner ready." Curled up, with his knees close to his shoulders and lying on his back on the counter with between four and five inches of a thick, eleven-inch carrot protruding from his anus, Adam is lost for words. He changes the subject as he often does at such times. "Hey Mom, the new bed came today. It's cool. Chris has set it up already." "Well I expect the two of you will put it to the test tonight. Given tomorrow's not a school day, I guess you can stay up as late as you want, Adam." "It's awesome, Mom. It feels weird when it moves underneath you." "I'm surprised that you two haven't tried it out by now," Liz acknowledges crudely. "At least now I won't have to listen to the squeaking springs while I'm waiting for my husband to come back to my room." Adam reddens at that. Again he changes the topic. "Mom, can Chris and me go away tomorrow and stay somewhere for the night?" "That's Chris and I, Adam. Where do you want to go?" she replies. Adam glances at me for support. I shrug, but he needs my help. "I was thinking we might drive up to Beaver Creek State Park and stay at the lodge for the night. If that's okay with you," I answer quickly. "It's a way's north of here. We'll be back late Saturday afternoon." There is a moment's silence. I can almost hear her thoughts. "I guess. I don't see why not. I'll be back first thing tomorrow. I only called to make sure you're both okay." I give her my reassurance that her son will be as safe at a State Park as he is in his own house. Adam takes a few moments to say good night, and I replace the phone. We gaze at each other thoughtfully. In those few minutes we have become a lot closer, if that is possible given the intimacy we already share. The idea of his being friends with Jordan suddenly appeals to me. Adam needs a best friend and confidant, just as I need adult companionship as well. Ideally, I need the friendship of someone who understands what it is like to love a boy. "I love you, Chris," Adam mutters. I take two steps across the kitchen to bring us face to face. "I love you, Adam." Lovingly I brush the hair back from Adam's forehead and lean down to kiss his smooth brow. My fingers trace his smooth cheek, so hairless and soft that it seems impossible that he will be shaving eventually. However that time is still many years away. I reach under him, gently directing his hand away from the carrot stump with a push. "Let's take this stupid thing out now and go up to your room. I think your mom's idea about testing the bed out before dinner is a good one." Even as Adam mumbles something about finishing what he started, I pull it slowly outward. The olive oil provides a frictionless medium and it glides out in one easy movement. Adam sighs when the fullness fades and his little anus resumes more normal dimensions. He sighs again in relief, even if it is temporary. He has been impaled on the carrot for about fifteen minutes and I expect that it has done what I wanted. A quick glance confirms my expectations. His opening is nearly the size of a quarter. Beyond the distended orifice, his rectum is relaxed and his lower intestines are sufficiently displaced that my penis will cause him no discomfort if we go to his bedroom now. I inspect the carrot. Its orange skin is glistening from the film of oil, shiny and hard. It looks clean and it surprises me. The number of times that has happened with Adam I can count on one hand. I touch the end that has been inside the boy and feel the warmth, his warmth. It is hot to touch, 98.6 degrees of boy heat emanates from it. Longer inside him, it might have started to cook. I grin at Adam. He straightens his legs from his cramped position, wincing as his bowels feel the discomfort induced by the big vegetable. It has been like a wedge, pushed gradually into his rectum until no more could fit through his anus. Adam giggles as my mouth makes an 'O' around the hot end of the carrot. Even as he says 'I dare you,' I close down and snap the woody end off. I chew as Adam's eyes are riveted on me. And then he reaches out and takes the carrot in his own hand. He takes a quick bite and we watch each other chew. "Mom would be mad," Adam finally says. "We'd get a long lecture on hygiene." "She's probably right," I admit. "But this is the reason why I had the doctor give us those hepatitis shots in January." "So why did you tell me I shouldn't suck him after he's been in my butt?" Adam chides. He shrugs and grins at me cheekily. "I really don't mind once I clean the poop off." I reach for Adam and clasp him to me as he comes into a sitting position. His arms and legs wrap around me and he holds on tightly as I step back from the counter. Eighty pounds of naked boy is going up the stairs in my arms. "Lets go up to your room, Adam," I say. "Let's forget the minestrone. We can order pizza and test out the bed instead." Chapter 8. 6.30 p.m. April 16th I have carried Adam up the stairs several times during the last few months, usually after he has fallen asleep watching television in the den. On one or two occasions it has been like this, a symbolic act of carrying my boy 'bride' over the threshold to the nuptial chamber. He clings to me like a limpet, not frightened that I will drop him, merely seeking close physical contact. By the time we are halfway up, his penis has become erect. Foreplay always precedes the intensely intimate experience that we will share in the privacy of his bedroom. He is a sensuous boy and I am just beginning to discover the extent of his natural passion. It begins even before I lay him down on the bed. Naked except for his school socks he looks both highly erotic and childishly innocent. The short projection between his slender thighs is responsible for the preponderance of the attraction I have towards him. Above all, he is hungry for sex. Dinner can wait. We gaze at each other in silence, mutually sending out signals of love and affection until we are both charged with excitement. His breathing slows while he watches me undress. My clothes fall to the floor quickly as I strip. His eyes are fixed on my middle section, absorbing my sex like a bee is drawn to nectar. My penis flexes anxiously for him and his hand moves to his own genitals to relieve the tension he feels. And then I am naked and I stand over him, my penis pulsing crudely in anticipation of plundering the beautiful child who reclines on the bed before me. Adam smiles and his arms lift up to welcome me in an outstretched embrace. His hands hold mine and we gaze into each other's eyes again. Love sparks between us, igniting emotions that have been suppressed since the morning. The small size of his hands fascinate me, just as the small size of the other parts of him are of vital interest. Perfectly proportioned, his thin fingers and palms are ideally sized to hold his little penis and give him pleasure. Wrapped around my massive organ, his hands are dwarfed and barely capable of the task demanded of them. In contrast, my own hands are too big for his diminutive organ. All I can do is to provide a clumsy and inept skill compared to his own rapid fluttering when he masturbates. I squeeze his fingers between mine. Tonight there will be no need for manual stimulation, not like other nights when he has school the next day, when I have to return to his mother's bedroom. Adam jerks on my hands to give a clear sign that he wants me to lie down with him. He is eager, just as I am eager for him. I ease down and he shifts away, turning onto his side to face me. His face lifts up and his lips purse automatically. There is no hesitation in his kiss. His lips are soft and dry for the first few seconds, but they rapidly become wet. My tongue passes between his lips and strokes against the polished purity of his teeth. I push into him, curling my tongue into his upper lip to entice his own tongue forward. It is a hot, wet kiss that seems to go on and on forever. When he finally breaks away Adam's tongue swipes juicily over my cheek. He nibbles on my ear lobe as he licks and blows a gentle draft over the moist trail he has left from my mouth. "Put him in,... before my hole get tights again," Adam whispers in my ear. "Okay." I murmur. I ease away from him and reach for the tube of K-Y next to the bed. I am not surprised to find it there although I am certain that I have placed in the top drawer of the new nightstand. It is only to be expected if the two eleven- year-old boys have been talking about sex. I flip the cap off and squeeze a long bead onto the palm of my left hand before transferring it to the shaft of my penis. The cool crystal-clear gel feels soothing on my throbbing member. The head flares out and it shines with a wet-tipped lustre. My penis glistens and jerks with a life of its own. Already my scrotum has contracted in anticipation of intercourse with the beautiful boy beside me. In the fading light of the late afternoon Adam's tanned body appears even darker. His dark brown limbs and torso contrast sharply with the pale strip of his groin, buttocks and thighs that were covered by his swimming costume in the Caribbean. I resolve for the summer to either get him a new speedo, as revealing that the ones available for boys on a swim team, or convince him to sunbathe naked. I suspect that he would not take a lot of convincing. Knowing that the time is near, Adam rolls onto his back and places the pillow under his head. His legs draw up until his knees are at his shoulders, his thighs all but concealing his chest. "Do you think we need a towel?" he asks. "They're new sheets and all." My answer comes impatiently. "It'll always wash off." I grin at him. "Besides, I plan on not making a mess." "You made a heck of a mess last time," Adam chides playfully. He watches me move forward until I am before his upraised buttocks. His feet are raised to either side of his face and seem large, although the sudden pubescent growth of his feet and hands is still a long way off. "I made a mess? I thought it was your fault. There was nothing on the bed until I pulled it out of here," I laugh as I tenderly slap his right cheek. "It was like pulling the plug out, or popping the cork on champagne." I place my right hand on his cheeks and part them further, guide the head of my penis into his deep crevice, and tease his still-partially open anus with the broad tip of my glans. Every time that I pass across the tender orifice Adam takes a quick breath. He waits for the sudden pressure that precedes the fullness when the glans enters into him. He knows it will be a gradual penetration with every intention not to hurt him. He signals his willingness with his eyes, wide awake and wanting me inside him. I cradle his shoulders and head with my left arm, guide my penis with my free hand, and push forward. There is a momentary resistance and the bulb pops through his anus. Adam gasps in surprise and I realize that the carrot has performed exactly what I wanted. My penis glides into him, its progress facilitated by the slippery film of K-Y and the looseness induced by the prolonged presence of the vegetable. With a solid three inches of my man-sized cock inside him, I back away. Adam groans and half-closes his eyes. The sensation is both agonizing and incredibly pleasurable at the same time. No more than half of my penis goes inside him before I stop, give him no more than a second or two to become accustomed to the pressure in his rectum, and then ease back until only my swollen glans remains beyond the tight ring of his anus. This method is my favorite way. My penis works against his prostate, aided by the undulating motion of the water moving beneath us. His hips, his thighs, his entire body flow under me until the rhythm stabilizes. Like waves on the ocean, the movement of our bodies establishes a wave that washes back and forth, bringing out the most wonderful sensations possible. The water seems to absorb my inward thrusts and promptly responds by pushing him back onto my penis. It drives him wild after a few minutes while I endeavor to prolong my enjoyment. Already excited, Adam climaxes quickly. As alawys, it is dry, without providing true relief to the highly aroused boy. It is nothing more than a brief respite from wanting more. Only seconds pass before he nods wildly, begging me to continue with a animal-like groans of joy. His anus is fully dilated and the tight tube of his rectum has faded to a comfortable embrace. My penis excretes copious pre-seminal fluid that mixes with the lubricant inside him. As he becomes looser, softer, and increasingly slippery, the thin walls of his bowel begin to suck on my shaft when I pump into him. My penis penetrates deeper and the resisting flesh melts before it. I sink in the wet heat inside him using long deep strokes. This way, the stimulation is far greater than that from movement in just the region of his prostate. The sensitive nerves surrounding his anus respond and send shudders through his body. At full depth, my groin squashes into his buttocks, parts his crevice, and displaces the internal organs of his lower abdomen. My testicles slap loudly against the isides of his thighs. My own orgasm begins to build despite my best efforts to postpone it. I am fucking him slowly when the phone rings. I stop as the strident ring interrupts my rhythm. "Don't answer it," Adam grunts. He is breathless. One hand is against his mouth to control his urge to cry out. His other arm is under his knees to pull his legs tightly into his chest. "Maybe it's Jordan," I grumble. I flex my penis and Adam squeezes down on it with all the strength left to him. Much more of that and I will orgasm in seconds. By willpower, I force myself not to release. I need more of him, to be inside forever. Each muscular squeeze makes my penis pulse and my testicles ache. Finally I drag my penis away from his clutching bowels until only the glans remains held captive within him. "Fuck Jordie!" Adam curses loudly. "Don't stop!" "I'm not fucking Jordan," I say heatedly. "Maybe it's your mom about tomorrow morning." With pretended anger I plunge back into him. It is the hardest thrust I have made into him to that time. My pubis crushes into his tailbone with such force that I lift his back off the bed. His shoulders take the impact until I grind to a halt. And then the water pushes back and forces him even harder down onto the raging penis that extends into his belly. He squeals. His cry of agony makes me stop, not the ringing telephone. It is only a momentary pain with no real injury and he recovers even as my penis recedes. "Don't stop! Don't take him out for God's sake. I want you, Chris." I shake my head absently as I brake, still contained partially within the boy I love. "I better answer it. You never know, it might be important." I lean away and pick up the phone. Like most of the things in the room it reflects the interests and values of an eleven-year-old boy. At least it is not a "Garfield" phone. I speak into the clear plastic, fascinated by the array of electronic components that makes it work. I identify the familiar voice of the caller immediately. "Hi Liz," I said impatiently. "What's up?" "Did I catch you at a bad time? I can easily call back after dinner?" "What? No, it's okay," I lie as I stare down at her offspring. " I didn't expect you to call again so soon, that's all." There is sweat on Adam's brow and his eyes are wide open. He breathes in quick gasps, his nostrils flaring. And then he sighs longingly and begins to use the muscles deep within his body to squeeze on my penis. He needs me to continue. Fortunately, the guilt of sodomizing him while his mother listens, has reduced the imminence of my orgasm. I shake my head and he pouts, denied pleasure so great that it borders on anger. "Is Adam with you?" Liz ask. "Yes, you could say he's right in front of me." "Oh! This is a really bad time to call, huh?" "Let's just say we were taking you advice about testing the new bed." "Are you,... uh,... um,... are you busy right now?" I hear the excitement in her voice. There is an unmistakable quaver. Liz lives vicariously, relieving her own boundless desire for sex through Adam's relationship with me. Perhaps it is her way of exacting a cruel retribution on her ex-husband by encouraging Adam to become homosexual. Either way, it works for me. Perhaps it is the frustration of her desire that evokes her crude response. Up to this point, she has aided and abetted, although on the surface she has done nothing more than support my taking an active role as his step-father. I take a risk. With luck, after she puts the telephone down she will be a co-conspirator and accomplice in my relationship with her son. "Very busy," I reply. I bring the phone down to Adam's mouth. "Aren't we Adam?" "Uh,.... hi,... Mom," Adam mutters with self-conscious difficulty. In his three words there is an audible tension, an urgency that conveys far more about what we are doing than any words can say. There is a long pause as the meaning sinks in. I can hear nothing on Liz's end of the line. Adam whimpers faintly. That his body is full of my throbbing penis, his juvenile orgasm only moments away, will be clearly obvious to even the most naive person. "Is it,... are you,... in him,... now?" Liz asks awkwardly. Her excitement is palpable. Even though my ear is nearly a foot away from the phone, I hear the words. I bring my weight forward, rotating my pelvis until my hips press hard into Adam's thighs. He groans, squeezes back with a firm pressure. My groin presses forecefully into his small, firm buttocks as my penis returns to fill his lower abdomen. With seven hard inches of adult penis, Adam is stretched to the limit. It bottoms out where his rectum turns to join with his lower intestine. I elicit a small cry. It is not of pain, but from the overwhelming delight that comes from being fucked, so full of cock that he can barely breath. "Yes," I purr into the telephone. I tense my shaft, making it jerk deep inside Liz's son. "It's all the way in. I'm all the way inside him, Liz." If she wants vicarious pleasure, I am prepared to help to the best of my ability. "He's so hot,... and so loose,... it's unbelievable, Liz." I pull back, withdrawing slowly as Adam's body tries to come with me. I waste no time before I push forward again. He moans in ecstasy, a muffled groan when his bowel tightens with a brief spasm. He brings his hand back to his mouth. "Jesus," I hear Liz whisper. "You're fucking him." "Uh huh!" I smile obscenely at Adam. "I'm going to cum in him any second." "Jesus,... I don't believe this. I,... my God! Does he,... like it?" I pump again, slowly and deeply. The suction of my penis seems to echo around the bedroom. Liz would have to be deaf not to hear it if she was in the room next door. "Yes, Liz," I say softly. "Adam loves it." "Does he,... orgasm when you do it?" her voice asks hesitatingly, as if knowing the answer before the question is put. Knowing that Adam is very close to the edge, I alternate the pace and depth for my next four thrusts. That is all that it takes to send the boy into the paroxysm of climax. He totters at the brink and then begins to tremble as his body looses control. His arms clutch me, pulling me against his trembling body. "Ohhhh,... Oh God!" Adam pleads. "Ohhhhhh,....." His rectum spasms frantically, clamping around my ejaculating penis. I thrust, matching Adam's jerks with shudders of my own. I feel his teeth rasping my shoulder when he bites, his finger nails scraping my back. I grunt frenetically and pound against his up-turned buttocks as hard as I can. His head tosses from side to side. I clasp the telephone between us, pumping out my fluid as I spurt into the hot depths of his writhing, twitching body. My own groans are loud as well. "Is he,... doing it now?" Liz asks. Her voice is full of desperation and I assume that she is masturbating feverishly. I would be in her position. It takes several seconds before I catch my breath. "Yes,... he is, Liz,... We both are. God, he feels so good, Liz," I gasp. "You,... you too? You did it in him,... didn't you?" Liz begs. I can almost hear her hand rubbing faster than the eye can see. She needs the happiness that only a man's penis can provide. She needs the same intense joy that I am providing to her son. I decide to help out as best I can. "Yes,... Liz, he feels so wet and hot,... God, he must be full of my cum. He's squeezing on it now,... getting the last of it out. He loves it." "Jesus! Adam,... does it feel good?" She pleads. Her voice verges on hysteria. Adam nods abruptly and then realizing that his mother can only hear him, he murmurs," Yeah,... Oh! God, it feels so wonderful. Mom,... he's all the way inside me." I nod, grinning down at Adam. "It's still coming out, isn't it Adam?" "Oh, Adam!" "He's still so hard and big. He's still doing it,... only really gently," Adam purrs in the bliss of his fading orgasm. "I love him, Mom. I love you too." "I love you, Adam. I want you to remember that always. I only want you to be happy." "Mom,... I love him so much. And I'm so happy too." "I'm glad, son. I want you to be happy,... and loved." "And I love the bed, and I want Chris to live with us forever, and,..." Adam babbles incoherently as I lift the phone away. "Liz,... I want to thank you," I say softly. "He's a wonderful boy." I pause. "It sounds like he just had a wonderful time. You'd better keep his bottom well lubricated," Liz says crudely. "Or else he'll be too sore to sit down." "I love you, Liz. I love both of you." 'Just understand that my love for him will always be greater than it is for you', I think to myself. I hear the phone click on the other end. Adam's mother has other business to take care of. "You're beautiful, Adam. I love you so much," I say tenderly as I wipe tiny beads of perspiration from his forehead. "Mom was jerking off, wasn't she?" Adam asks in a clear high-pitched voice. "Well not jerking off. I know women don't do it like guys do, but you know what I mean." I nod. "I expect she was. It must have been pretty exciting to hear her own son cum over the phone," I tease. "Ohhhh,.... OH God!" I mimic. "It's a pity she couldn't see what you were doing with that cute ass of yours. You were squeezing the life out of me." "I wanted you to cum bunches and bunches," Adam admits with a lewd grin. "I like having your cum in me." I smile back at him and then lower my mouth over his. As we start to kiss, Adam squeezes on my penis as tightly as he can and we hug tightly. It is impossible to feel closer to him. We exchange saliva in the same way that we have exchanged other fluids, without any hesitation, with no consideration for the threat of Aids. After several long minutes we part and I extricate my limp penis from the living sheath of Adam's hot canal. He stretches out his very cramped legs and rolls onto his side to face me. His upper thigh and leg are draped possessively over my legs and his moist genitals press against my flank. He is one very exhausted boy. We go back to kissing, sharing deep wet kisses as I hug his naked body to mine. "It feels so,... so gooey inside. It's all hot and icky," Adam says after several more minutes. "Is it running out," I ask. Only the night before we left a big stain on the sheet that penetrated into the mattress. Now, with new black bed linen, the crusty scum will be no less visible on the comforter. Absently, Adam's hand explores between his buttocks, drifting his fingers into the dampness of his crevice. His forefinger touches the puffy node of his anus and puddles in the slimy wetness that has already been expelled. Although only a few minutes have passed, his rectum has begun to assume a size and shape more appropriate for an eleven- year-old boy. "It's started to, Chris. I think there's still a whole lot in me," he observes. "Maybe we better put a towel under me." I get up and start towards the bathroom. Halfway there I turn around and look back at the naked boy on the bed. "What did you think about your Mom hearing us?" I ask. Adam twists onto his side, studies me thoughtfully, "'s okay, I guess. I mean she already knew we did it. So what if she hears us?" "It doesn't bother you?" "Not any more. You know, it wouldn't be any different if Jordan saw us," Adam insists. I leave Adam pondering the question while I go into the bathroom. He is still thoughtful when I emerge and return to the bed and sit down beside him. Playfully, I slap his bare bottom after I roll him onto his belly. His rear end is as enticing as his front end. For a moment I consider using my tongue instead of the towel. He needs a good licking. Instead, I slap him again. It is a little harder than I intend and the sound resonates in the now darkened room. "I love you Adam Browning," I say loudly. "You have the most wonderful rump in the world. But it's especially nice after you've had my penis in here." "Chris,... My mom loves me too," Adam giggles, "and she even says I have a cute butt," he giggles again. "But she's never said that I have a 'wonderful butt'." "Maybe that's because she's never seen my penis in here," I joke as I slap his other cheek lightly. I poke the towel between his rubbery cheeks and wipe away the semen that has accumulated. There is very little. A lot more will undoubtedly come out when he lies on his back or gets up from the bed. I spread the towel out and flip him over, tickling him as I do so until he cries for mercy. He recovers from intercourse quickly, a fact that both amuses and impresses me. Within a few minutes of being physically exhausted, he is back to normal. It is not unusual on the weekends for him to demand a repeat performance within a matter of minutes. "I'm hungry," Adam announces when I finally give him time to catch his breath. I grin. "I've got something for you to eat," I say as I wave my partially stiff penis in his face. He giggles. "I'm not in the mood for a big fat sausage. I want pizza, a big one too. With extra-thick crusting." "You want sausage on it?" I tease. "I've got one here, but it's not Italian." "Not him," Adam laughs. "I can't eat him when I need him to bugger later on. I want salami and black olives. They can put all the anchovies on your half." 'Bugger' has quickly become one of Adam's favorite words after he discovered it by himself while looking up 'buffoonery'. Proudly, he displayed his new word to me in the dictionary. 'Bugger' n, sodomite [Med Eng, sodomite; fr Med Lat, Bulgarus; lit Bulgarian]; bugger, vt; to commit sodomy with, vulgar intercourse, usually between a man and a boy.' That aroused his interest and from 'bugger' he went quickly to 'sodomy', which was defined as 'anal copulation'. 'Anal' was a word he already knew, and 'copulation' was defined as 'the act of engaging in sexual intercourse'. Then end result was that the definition of 'bugger' left little to his fertile, albeit puerile imagination. He used the word every change he got. At least it was an improvement on 'butt-fuck'. "Pizza it is, then," I laugh as I start to methodically slap each bare buttock in turn until Adam is laughing hysterically and doing his very best to escape. Had he not been hungry, I would have 'buggered' him again. Early on I have learned that the way to Adam's heart is as much through his belly as from anything that we can do on the bed together. Pizza is a regular part of his diet, although the calories are consumed and converted to prepubescent energy before they have a chance to appear on his slender frame. We spend the rest of the evening on the bed, watching television and surrounded by the rich aroma and scraps of anchovy, salami, and olive pizza that has been gnawed down to the crust. It is Adam's favorite and provokes wisecracks from me every time we have pizza. We cuddle and kiss until the movie finishes and then we make love again. Under the covers we are secure and released from inhibition. We try alternate positions, first one, then another. With Adam on his back and legs up, we can create a washing effect in the bed that moves both of us back and forth. On his belly, I push him down too far and even with both pillows under his tummy, he doesn't like the sensation as much as other ways. Side by side is okay, no better than on his old bed, but certainly no worse because the water adjusts for our different weights and aligns my penis exactly with his anus. The best position by far is the one we often use. Adam lies on his back with his legs lifted up over me. I lie on my side facing him with one arm under his neck and around his shoulders. Like that, we are equals. We return to that position twice during the night, but I will not bore the reader with a lengthy description of what transpires each time. By the time we both fall fast asleep it is well past midnight. I clutch Adam's naked body against me and absorb the soft warmth he exudes as he sleeps curled up like a cat. My limp penis is sandwiched between his thighs and the moist folds of his little scrotum. It is impossible to get it stiff enough to reinsert it before we fall asleep. Like Adam, I am content at last, and I join him in welcome slumber, oblivious to my semen oozing from his well-stretched orifice. Chapter 9. 8.30 a.m. April 17th When we awake, the sun is high enough to enter the room and welcome us to a new day. I come alert quickly while it usually takes Adam ten minutes or more to shrug off the drowsiness that keeps him inert beside me. He has not moved once during the night. "Hi sleepy head," I say as I tenderly run my fingers through the tangled locks of hair. Adam's head is now on my shoulder, a pillow eminently suited to supporting him as I caress his back and side. "Mmmmm," he sighs. His fingers stroke my chest and drift down to my navel. Two small thin fingers move to each side of my penis, already inflated and prepared for the day's adventures. "He's awake too," Adam announces softly as his fingers close on my glans. He squeezes with more gentleness than can be normally expected of a pre-teen boy. "How do you feel?" I ask. "You were hurting pretty bad last night." "Okay. It's a little bit sore. I still don't believe we did it four times, do you?" he asks sleepily. I shake my head and kiss the top of his head. Morning breath is particularly unpleasant after pizza. "You're one incredibly sexy kid. You wore me out after the second one. I'm glad we put that towel under your butt. The sheets would be filthy by now otherwise." "So it's okay if you make a mess inside me, but not on the bed, right?" Adam teases. I shrug nonchalantly. "You were pretty sloppy back there by the time you went to sleep. Sometimes I don't believe its all mine. I think I'm only responsible for my share." You must have put half the tube of K-Y in me last night," Adam retorts. I laugh as I hug him. "Well your mom did say I should keep you well lubricated, didn't she? Neither of us want you to get a sore ass." "Chris?... " Adam asks hesitantly. I smile gently at the boy I love so deeply that I cannot even begin to contemplate life without him. "Chris,... when Mom was on the phone last night and we were doing it, why did you tell her?" Adam's fingers begin to trace feathery lines along the rigid shaft of my penis, He follows the veins and returns again and again to fondle the ridge of my glans with his fingertips. That I have been circumcised has fascinated him from the very first time he saw me naked. His fingernails scrape the surface and sends electric shivers through me. He snoozes for a few more minutes as he basks in our shared heat. He feels warm and alive although he is barely moving. His head turns to suck on my shoulder. I lie contentedly beside him. After several minutes he pulls his mouth away from my shoulder and grins. Few Saturday and Sunday mornings have passed without his leaving his mark on me somewhere. Love bites are a fact of life with Adam. I carry the red splotch on me proudly. It is the symbol of his love, a temporary sign he has given me in return for the semen he carries proudly but secretly throughout the day. "You want to do it again, don't you?" I ask eventually. "Don't you? Besides there's no school today," he murmurs softly as if he can read my innermost thoughts. "I want you inside of me, Chris. I want you to bugger me," he smiles. "Are you sure you're up to it, Adam?" I ask with concern. "You had a hard time last night. Maybe we should just take it easy today. Your mom will be angry if you get hurt. She's made that very clear to both of us. "God! Chris, I told you I don't hurt! It's just a bit sore that's all. It feels just like it always does the next day." "Tell the truth," I demand. "Okay, it's a bit worse, but not that much considering what we did last night." Adam grins. "Anyway, all Mom wants is for me not to have a repeat of the problem I had when we first started doing it." "You were very lucky your mom was so understanding," I say. "Anal fissures can get infected, you know." "I'm okay, Chris," Adam retorts. "I'd tell you if I wasn't. I've already told you that I'm just a little bit sore inside, and I wasn't lying." The sound of the kitchen door closing is unmistakable. Too often Adam and I have listened for its closing thud when his mother leaves for early morning appointments at her law firm. It is the noise we wait for because we will have the house to ourselves. During the weekdays we will eat breakfast nude or in dressing gowns, often with Adam sitting in my lap. On the weekends, breakfast is a more leisurely affair and we carry a tray back to the bedroom to satisfy our mutual hungers. "Chris," Adam whispers as he twists over against me. "Someone's downstairs in the kitchen." I nod. "Do you think it's mom?" I nod again. "It's just about nine o'clock I guess. Remember she told told us she'd be home about then." "Shit!" Adam grumps. "Just when we're getting horny too. I wonder if she'll wait downstairs while we do it up here." He smiles at his own suggestion and slides his small hot hand towards my groin. "Maybe, if we ask her nicely. I'm sure she'll understand. But you know, Adam, maybe this can work out for the best." "What do you mean, Chris?" Adam asks. He smirks crudely. "You know what I want to do right now, don't you? And it isn't talking to MOm either." "Well you said you wanted people to know how much you love me? I don't think it's any different for her. She needs to know what it means for us if she's going to understand." I suggest slowly. Adam breathes out, signifying that he understands, but that it has little to do with the fact that his mother is now somewhere in the house and his morning fun is about to be postponed to a more appropriate and private venue. "I was thinking that the best way for her to understand it to show her," I add slyly. "You mean,... we should let Mom see us having sex?" Adam queries quickly. I nod again. "I don't see,..." "You said something last night about how you want people to know about us. You want them to understand how much we love each other. This is your chance to show her. Besides, she's already heard us having sex." He smiles broadly. "Ohhhh! She sees us making out and everything.... That's right, then she'll know well and truly. She'll know how good you are it," he adds proudly. "What's that supposed to mean?" I demand. "I guess my father didn't do much to get her in the mood. At least not like you do, Chris. She said you were really good in bed." I grin, basking in his recognition of my prowess as a lover. In my mind, the preliminaries are as important as the act of intercourse itself. For what is really only a brief period of intense pleasure, anal sex takes a lot out of a boy like Adam, both physically and emotionally. It is important that he knows he is loved for more than his ass. I take great pride in getting Adam 'worked' up and drawing out the foreplay until neither of us can go one second longer. "I'm not good. I'm great," I laugh. Adam gives me a serious look. "It sounds gross, but the only time I saw her doing it was last summer. I don't even remember his name. I guess Mom would kill be if she knew I saw them. He just stuck it in. And afterwards, he took it out right away and cleaned it off like it was dirty or something from being inside her. Sex shouldn't be like that if you love some one." From experience I know how that sort of behavior can make a person feel used and not loved. It doesn't have to be that way. What Adam shares with me, is the highest form of love. In my mind nothing we do together is dirty. My love encompasses all of Adam, body, mind, and soul. "You have the right idea, Adam," I say. "And what's more we don't have to pretend. All we have to do is what we always do in the mornings." "Only on the weekends," Adam giggles, "or when she isn't around, right?" I nod agreeably. It is amusing how quickly we have settled into a routine, but then, sex with Adam is very habit forming. "Just play along with anything I say, okay?" I add. Adam nods as we hear the first muffled footsteps on the stairs. Liz will be outside our room in a matter of seconds. Quickly I roll Adam onto his back, although 'flip' would be a more accurate expression. I straddle him, kneeling on either side of his slender legs. I lean forward and bring my lips to his. Adam needs no instructions on what to do next. He kisses me wildly, abandoning himself to my oral ministrations while slurping on my tongue. After a few seconds he gives up sucking only on mine and he presents his tongue between my lips and pushes it as far into my mouth as it can reach. I sense her presence at the doorway and I imagine that I can feel her eyes boring into my back as she watches me sitting astride his son. I wonder what she feels, imagining confusion before I remember that she has been in a similar position for most of her life. From what Adam has told me, his mother is certainly no stranger to promiscuous sex. Also realizing that he is now being watched, Adam's hand slides between us and reaches around my balls. From behind us, Liz watches her son's little fingers begin to massage and play with a man's testicles. However, the fun has only just begun. I lean over Adam's head and whisper softly in his ear that he should start getting me ready. We both know what that entails. Being fresh in the morning with a demanding erection exacerbated by the small fingers rubbing on my balls, half of Adam's assigned task is already completed. My penis is as hard as steel and as big as it has ever been. The rest follows in our normal routine. He pushes me away and we wrestle momentarily for the upper position. It is my way of letting Adam exert his maleness. As a boy in a homosexual relationship, he has very few opportunities to be an active partner. Allowing him to initiate sex at every opportunity, to prepare my penis for penetration, and even establishing the opening position are ways of maintaining equality with him. Once the length of my penis is safely ensconced inside his young body, the dominant role falls naturally to me and he quickly becomes passive. Adam lubricates my shaft expertly and places the tube back on the night stand next to the bed. Already we have started to reduce the amount of K-Y we use. Still carrying the residue of my most recent ejaculations in his bowels and ample lubricant from our night-time coupling, he is content to use just enough to get my penis past his sphincter. He is ready for the heightened sensations of increased friction in his rectum and around his anus which bears the brunt of drier penetration. With my penis rigid and raring to go, only one thing remains; tim. Hidden almost entirely behind the wall, her eyes have not lost contact with us. It is time to bring it out into the open. As I ponder how best to do it and minimize tLiz's embarrassment, Adam takes the plunge. "Hey Mom, if you want to come in, it's okay, really it is." Adam says loudly. We wait. Only Adam's right hand moves, sliding along the length of my sex in a timeless rhythm. He is quickly becoming an accomplished masturbator-- of my penis if not of his own, which he continues to enjoy in his puerile manner of with rapid short strokes using two fingers opposite his thumb. For me, he performs expertly. His hand is wrapped around my cock so tightly that his thumb can almost touch his fingertips if he squeezes. However, there is still an inch to go when he holds it comfortably. There is a long silence from the woman standing at the doorway. She peeks into the room with such uncertainty that I am afraid she might run away if Adam or I move too quickly. I follow Adam into unknown territory. "We don't mind, Liz. Like Adam said, if you want to watch us having sex, it's okay. There's nothing to be ashamed of, you know. Now you know what Adam and I do, there's no reason to hide it. We have sex too,... we do almost the same things that you and I do." Liz steps out from behind the wall like a frightened animal lured into a pool of light. she is poised to run, and I feel as if we have trapped her. I regard her silently, fully aware of her unflagging interest in Adam's slowly stroking fist. She can not take her eyes away, and Adam, the little devil that he is, exaggerates every stroke while he grins jubilantly. At the top of each stroke, he stops and squeezes even harder so that my glans swells and becomes crimson, now oozing pre-seminal fluid from my gaping slit. After a minute of awkward uncertainty, I finally stop Adam's movement. "If you keep doing that I'm going to come on your hand any second. If that's what you want, it's okay by me, but I bet you have something else in mind." Adam grins. He ignores his mother's presence as he squeezes the shaft as hard as he can. The glans flares out and begins to change to a color not unlike a plum. Silvery slime oozes out of my slit to form a glistening bead. Under normal situations, when we are alone, Adam will not hesitate in licking it off. He moves quickly and takes me by complete surprise. His soft pink tongue snakes across the swollen bulb presented to him. He giggles and smacks his lips with crude appreciation as much for my benefit as Liz's. "He tastes extra salty this morning, Chris. It must have been all that pizza you ate last night. I can even taste the anchovies." Playfully I grab him around the chest and drag him onto his side as I laugh. I have come to appreciate his sense of humor more than anything else about him. I tickle him furiously until he begs for mercy. The half of me lying over him is more than enough to restrain his feeble efforts to escape. As is my right of victory, and fulfilling my natural role, I take control of the situation. I grope between his struggling legs to find the part of him that I want. "Maybe I ought to just fuck you now, Adam Browning," I suggest as I clutch his boy-sized sex organs. He struggles valiantly ,although any real effort to get away is hampered less by the knowledge that his cock and balls are imprisoned in my hand, than by his desire to make my threat real. "Let me go," he screeches. "I'll do anything, I promise." "What do you think Liz? Should I fuck him? Maybe he'll behave better afterwards?" I challenge as I gently squeeze on Adam's tiny testicles. "Maybe I'll be even worse," Adam chortles as he continues to wriggle underneath me. I hold both precious eggs securely between my fingers and pull his penis down at an uncomfortable angle so that it, and Adam's scrotum are nearly concealed between his thighs. "Better still," I laugh, "Maybe I should make him into a girl. I wonder whether that would that make a difference?... We couldn't call you Adam,... hmmm,.... maybe Eve instead?" By now Liz has come into the bedroom. She stands several feet away from the bed, yet she can see everything we do. The situation is little different to twenty-five years earlier when she watched me copluating with her father. She inclines her head, still too shocked to say or do anything else. I can see the questions forming in her curious mind as she watches us wrestling naked on the new waterbed. However, her central question is the important one; is this any different to what she does with me? There is no doubt in her mind that Adam is enjoying it, "Can I watch you fuck him?" Liz asks softly. She needs to know what it is like for her son. So far, she can see that Adam enjoys everything. He is not resisting or holding back, every motion seems to be encouraging me to go further. Our kisses, wild and juicy exchanges of tongues and saliva are very different to when she is with me. What she enjoys most of all is having a thick penis deep inside her. Before, or even after that culmination of the love we share, there has been kissing, tickling, hugging, or fondling, but none of it has been like what she is watching. This is fun; teasing, playful, giggling fun that is so unlike our usually serious passion that it seems to be a different thing entirely. Neither of us answer Liz's request. Indeed things move even quicker than I have hoped. I begin to kiss my eleven-year-old lover, taking quick glances at Liz to see how she responds. She is very interested, her eyes never leaving us. I continue to tickle and caress Adam's naked body with special emphasis on his crotch while covering him from head to toe. He responds as only a boy can, writhing with growling, shrieking ecstasy, and rewarding my efforts with a small tapered spike of boy-flesh that becomes so hard it seems that it might actually snap off if mistreated. Liz's envy is palpable as she watches her son's passion build. Adam is considerably more enthusiastic about a man's body than she has ever been. I resist the temptation to take my favorite less-than- four inches of Adam's heated body into my mouth. That will come later, I decide. Finally, unable to withstand my desire any longer, I roll onto my back and drag Adam over me. With his back against my front, the position is naturally taken advantage off for an easy penetration. I lift him higher up by placing my hands under his thighs. Like this, it is a simple matter to position his legs on either side of mine and wide apart. By looking over his shoulder I can see the length of his fabulous body. His youthful male organ stands proudly to attention, a proud little soldier that knows it is for frontal defense only. There is nothing he can do when he is about to be attacked from the rear. Adam reaches down and guides me into his opening. Thin fingers brace the sides and head of my penis while I push upward. His hole is snug and radiates heat as I approach, push further between his parted cheeks, and connect with the target. My demand for entry makes him gasp. While he fights back against nature's resistant muscle, I increase the pressure steadily. I know better than to force my way into his anus. Better to leave brute strength to grown men. A boy's delicate rectum requires care and patience, and a lot of skill from his partner. Since his anal fissure healed, Adam has experienced nothing worse than a few bloody streaks and some residual soreness. Liz is spellbound as he watches my penis sink slowly into her son. There is no pain, or at least if there is, Adam conceals it very well. He seldom cries out and for the last few weeks all I have done is elicit a slight complaint when the broad head of my penis finally passes into him. This time, when my glans traverses his tight ring and reaches into the start of his bowels, Adam groans loudly. "God, he feels so big," Adam moans. "Chris,... I love you," he adds softly. I pause and stroke his sides from armpit to hip. His weight is barely noticeable as he sinks into my embrace. I know this moment well. In a period of a minute or so he will want me all the way inside him. As soon as his nether opening is dilated, he needs me to possess him completely. I bide my time, conscious that Liz is now standing beside the bed, her eyes fixed on the length of my penis, poised to enter Adam's anus. Seconds tick by. I feel Adam begin to move, a gradual increase in pressure against my glans as his anus strains to swallow the rest of my thick shaft. The bulbed head of my rampant organ slides deeper. He pushes down again with deliberate force and I hold my ground with unwavering stiffness. He groans loudly as it pierces him, grinding into his pea-sized prostate, displacing his internal organs, my penis slowly filling him. "Oh God," Adam whimpers. "It's starting to go in, Chris! I want you so bad." "Is this what you want?" I ask teasingly. Adam nods rapidly, shamelessly abandoned to the explosion of sensations that fill his mind when my penis begins to fill his young body. "Do it quickly, Chris! Put it in!" he commands urgently. He shudders when my penis passes beyond his prostate and rams into his bladder. He groans, closing his eyes as the surge of pain overwhelms him. "I want him all the way in me like last night, okay," he gasps His voice is anxious the same way it is every time my penis disappears into him. There is no easy way. Faster hurts more, but slower hurts longer. "Is it hurting a lot?" I ask with growing concern. I do not want him showing off to Liz and getting injured in the process. Again he shakes his head. I finish the job that he has started. His energy always fades for a few minutes once I am deeply inside him, although he always recovers quickly when the real fun starts. I push forward steadily, grasping both of his bony hips to restrain his movement as I shove against him. His pelvis lifts. He tries with all his flagging strength to push back onto my rigid pole, and then drops down again when he feels my inward thrust stop. It is impossible to go any further for the present. "It's in your ass, beautiful," I whisper in his ear. "God, you feel so good." "So,... do,... you," Adam murmurs. "He's,... so,... big." We wait, each thinking our own thoughts and sharing the intimacy of being joined as one. Adam trembles as his sphincter spasms. He begins to relax and accept what is now lodged deeply within his rectum. It is usually tight when my glans initially bursts through his anus, but already the tension is fading. In a minute, perhaps two, he will be ready to make love with me. I stroke his forehead and brush long silky strands of his tousled hair away from his eyes. He shifts slightly and settles back into my embrace again, pressing his golden mane under my chin. The incredible pressure and heat we share inside Adam's young body makes me think that my penis might well be melting. I cannot tell where Adam's sensitive bowel begins and my penis ends. It is as if we have truly become a single entity. In the wonder of it all we nearly forget that we have a silent onlooker. "Adam?" Liz asks awkwardly. Adam turns his head to the side and smiles shyly at his mother. He says nothing. His blue eyes meet those of the woman who bore him and recognition passes between them in a single glance. They are the same. From now on there will be no secrets between them. "Adam, it's all the way inside you," Liz observes anxiously. Her eyes drop down to between Adam's widespread legs. She watches my penis slowly withdraw, sliding on the film of lubricant as it comes back. My thick penis is dark and wrinkled with throbbing veins. It stretches Adam's tiny anus beyond its elastic limit until it becomes a pale thin line. I gently push back into him. It is time. He feels loose enough. I wonder what Liz will think when I begin to fuck her son in front of her? I begin by lifting Adam's legs into the air, pulling his knees to his shoulders so that he is curled up. From where Liz is sitting, the view must be remarkable. Her eyes bulge as she stares down. My penis is fully within Adam, splitting his crack open like a fist pushed into a pillow. Only the broad base is visible. By comparison with Adam's tiny balls, still immature and hairless, my own eggs are massive and masculine. I do not need to see to know that Adam's penis has shrivelled until its length is even less than the thickness of mine. "Doesn't it hurt?" Liz asks nervously. She remembers how she feels when I impales her deeply. Adam does not seem to be feeling the same pain. In fact, Adam seems to be enjoying it much more than she does. She feels a wave of jealously. Whether it stems from wanting to be in Adam's position with a man's hard penis inside her, she cannot be sure. She watches in silence when my penis begins to move with a slow rhythm. Each time as it retreats Adam groans softly. It pauses before re- entering. It is a slow, deliberate advance, taking its time to make its way and displace the boy's vital organs. Each thrust lifts Adam upward until it is firmly seated between his cheeks. Liz knows the feelings Adam has. They are wonderful feelings that compensate up for any pain a boy feels at first. Nearly a minute passes before Liz realizes that Adam has not answered her question. However, the look of concentration and sheer bliss on her son's face is answer enough. If there is any pain at all, the intense pleasure he is receiving is more than adequate compensation. Adam's mouth is open as he breathes. His eyes are closed to block out any sensations other than those that begin in his bowels and spread through his body until he feels more alive than ever before. He groans sporadically when his body spasms, now in pre- orgasmic throes and building towards an inevitable climax. However, three of Liz's five senses are hard at work. She watches, she hears, and she smells her son making love to a man. She sees Adam's body shudder, beginning to strain down when I hump against him faster and harder. She hears Adam whimper as orgasm approaches, pleading for me to go even deeper and faster than seems humanly possible. She smells an unfamiliar odor, the rich musky smell of a young bowel. It is ver different to smell that comes from under the sheets after I have finally taken my penis out. With growing disbelief, she watches Adam's distended anus, pulverized by the thrusting adult penis, become slick with glistening juices and begin to suck. The motion becomes ever more frantic. She watches with growing interest as my finger tips rub Adam's minute nipples into hard points, abrading highly sensitive flesh until they are reddened and ready to swell. What she witnesses is different to the way I fuck her. She does not understand why Adam's penis is still limp, why I do not masturbate him with frenzied jerks the way her father used to do to me. She does not know that Adam cannot tolerate additional stimulation when he already feels such overwhelming delight that insanity seems to be just around the corner. Liz knows what is coming and she waits in silence, remembering from twenty-fvie years ago the tremultulous orgasm that comes from anal intercourse. Thus, she is prepared for what happens when Adam reaches the pinnacle. Liz's own crescendo seems to take less time, often over almost as soon as it begins. She knows that the long build-up heightens every sensation, until every nerve and muscle in a boy's body is attuned to one purpose She knows that the rapture that Adam is experiencing has been denied to her. It is not that her lovers have always been uncaring and inept partners, it is merely a matter of style and anatomical differences. She hears Adam gasping, incoherently pleading for something that appears to be just out of reach. "Faster!... Faster! Oh God! Ohhhhhh!" Adam shrieks. "Ohhh! Chris!" His legs straighten out. His feet curl up and grip the sheets. His muscles strain in frantic effort and his feverish body lifts off mine as he reached the moment of ecstasy. Of course, nothing comes out of the world's limpest penis. However, that does not mean that every nerve and brain cell in Adam's shuddering body is not in a state of euphoria approaching madness. My fingers play a rhapsody on his twitching abdomen, twisting his nipples to the point of hurting them as I extract the residual joy from my blond-headed angel. At the same time, I focus my efforts on my own pleasure, pumping into Adam's tortured rectum with deliberate speed, rasping across his immature prostate and keeping him at the peak until he can stand it no longer. And then my movement stops suddenly and Liz's eyes bulge as my huge penis swells ever greater, gives one last lunge to ram deeply into Adam's rectum, and begins to pulse. She feels the explosion of heat in her mind, remembering my seed spurting into her. I buck against the trembling boy as I ejaculate, jerking again and again until there seems to be no end to it. Adam's moan is long and loud and he gasps for air, breathlessly abandoned to the spurting, throbbing penis deep within him. And then there is stunned silence. A naked, exhausted boy, his eyes closed to slits looks towards Liz. He is happy and content, and glowing with the knowledge that his lover's semen is contained deep within him. He feels wet and loose inside, and the heat flows out of him. He basks in my arms as he recovers. Adam's bashful and self-conscious smile is something that Liz will never forget. Extracting my softened organ from the boy I love is something we normally delay as long as possible. At night, it is not unusual for us to remained joined when we fall asleep, sometimes even remaining that way until the next morning. However, mornings are different, not only because Liz is beside us, craning her neck to study the junction of our two bodies. We need to get up and get breakfast. I ease back gently, tugging my limp penis out of its very hot, very wet hole. It is like pulling a cork out of a bottle except that it involves comparatively little effort on my part. Milky fluid begins to dribble out as soon as my glans pops out into the light. With what I have put inside him during the night and from this morning's deposit, Adam's rectum feels like it is full of semen. Playfully I roll him off me and onto the bed so that he lies on his side facing away from me. It is time to move on to stage three. I slide down behind him, nuzzling his shoulders and sides with wet, hungry kisses until I reach his firm buttocks. He has a beautiful ass with small, slightly dimpled cheeks that fill each of my hands like they have been shaped for that purpose. I part them and smile as I see his no-longer- puckered anus, wide open and running with oozing semen. The aroma of sex is overpowering. The musky smell of boy funk, a trace of feces, my own man-juice. It is an inspiration. I lick the length of his reddened crack and taste saltiness, as much my own as Adam's perspiration. It is not something that I would do with anyone else. Indeed, I have yet to give the same treatment to his mother's vagina. There is a risk, but I have taken precautions. Hepatitis shots are mandatory, and I enjoy that special intimacy with Adam secure in the knowledge that I will not become sick. I lick him again, this time lingering at his dilated anus to probe it with my tongue. If he is sore, he shows no sign of it. I hear a soft sigh as my tongue enters where my penis has just been. His anus offers no resistance and it is only the length of my tongue that prevents me from going further. I reach over him, grasp his still soft penis between my first finger and thumb and begin to stroke him back to erection. Usually it takes several minutes to overcome its dazed lethargy. This time it is only a matter of a few seconds before Adam's stubby organ is erect. It stiffens even further as I begin to rub, using expert caresses over his scrotum to stimulate his listless boyhood into action. Just like the very first time I gave oral pleasure to Adam, I decide that there is nothing quite like the taste of a well-fucked boy. The taste and smell is unlike anything I have enjoyed, even saltier and more pungent than the salami and anchovies that Adam and I enjoy as a special treat on pizza. This is also a special treat that we often share when I masturbate him. I sense Liz's distaste as I slurp loudly between Adam's cheeks. If she has not done it before it is easy to understand that she will be disturbed by it. Finally I lift my face away and look at Liz over Adam's gently undulating body. "I don't know how you can do that. It's truly gross," Liz says awkwardly. Adam grins like the proverbial cat with cream. "It's mostly semen that he put in me, Mom. You suck him off, don't you? Would it be any different if he did it right in my mouth?" "No, I guess not, but Jesus, Adam, it's where you poop from. It's dirty!" "It's really not all that dirty," I explain patiently. "Adam keeps himself nice and clean back there for just that reason." "Yes, maybe,... I think it looks gross," Liz disputes. "Mom, it sure doesn't feel gross, that's for certain," Adam interjects. "Anyway nothing we do together is bad,... because we love each other." Liz falls silent, watching in mesmerized fascination as I continue to masturbate Adam's now very-rigid penis. Held captive in a man's hand it appears even smaller than it is. It is powerless to do anything except enjoy the loving attention it is receiving. That part of his body, like that of any boy, is designed for pleasure. Slowly Liz's hand moves downward to absently fondle her own genitals through the thick denim of her jeans. It provides a mere fraction of the delight that Adam is getting. I return to my self-appointed task between Adam's cheeks, licking and sucking his tender opening before re-engaging the full depth of my tongue to absorb the essence of the boy I love. Adam assists by working his hips back and forth, concentrating on the pleasure from front and rear in equal amounts until his penis is ready to burst. His little testicles have pulled up tightly, his scrotum contracting into a wrinkled lump that is barely visible between his thighs. With my nose squashed into his deep crevice and my lips sealed firmly against his wide-open anus, I blow air into him and breathe the moist, musty exhaust from his inner cavity. Sometimes he complains that I give him gas, but not this time. Finally unable to control my curiosity, I lift Adam's upper leg higher and watch Liz playing with herself. It is a great view, not only seeing Liz's fingers clutching her clothed crotch, but also of Adam's rigid penis and tiny knotted testicles as they jerk up and down under my fingers. "You can take your jeans off, Liz if you want," I suggest. Liz gives me a startled look and her hand darts away from the source of her pleasure. I shrug. "Everyone does it," I add reassuringly. "We're family now. I'm sure you don't have anything that going to bother either of us." She smiles slightly and glances at Adam. Adam's head moves marginally as he nods encouragement. "You don't mind?" Liz ascertains. "Of course not. There's no reason why you have to hide it when it doesn't have to be that way." Adam nods again. "It's cool, Mom. You don't have to if you don't want to. Only no one is going to care if you do, that's all." Liz glances suspiciously at me again, waiting for my approval. I grin and nod as well. I have become accustomed to Adam's open-mindedness about sex. He has no inhibitions about his body or what he can do with it. Being naked at home has become as natural for him as being clothed in public. I am beginning to discover that his mother is a very different person. "Okay," Liz says uncertainly. "I guess I should take my jeans off or something." She is the slowest person I have ever seen as she unfastens her button and zipper. She moves with sloth-like progress until her jeans are nearly at her knees and her visibly sex organs are displayed in the small mound of her black silk briefs. She stops, reluctant to expose herself. "Geez, Mom," Adam says impatiently, "Don't be a wooz!" "Take your panties off as well. There's nothing to be ashamed about," I say lightly. Liz tenses under the insult, however playfully it is intended. Her hand moves slowly back to her waist. She half-closes her eyes, takes a quick breath, and lies down on her back. I watch to see what emerges from under the elastic waist. Adam shows no interest whatsoever. He has other things on his mind. Liz's fingers drift over her mound before parting the lips. A single finger begins to circle around the fleshy morsel of her clitoris. She begins hesitantly, watching both of us uncertainly. I return to pleasuring Adam. Gradually Liz's pace picks up. Her hand moves unsteadily, her reluctance to perform before us eliminating the practiced fluidity that comes naturally to a person, and is only improved with time. Already she is losing her inhibitions with us. I stand up, holding Adam against me. He grins, placing both thin arms around my neck to lift himself up. We kiss, pressing front to front with our genitals displaced by nearly ten inches. Before the kiss ends Adam's legs embrace my hips, his tender buttocks hovering dangerously in the region of my penis. Smiling with barely restrained lust, he rubs his fleshy cheeks against my penis. His arms lock around my neck, and with deliberate force, he pushes down. It is enough to cause my flaccid organ to respond. I stiffen quickly, repositioning Adam so that his cheeks are placed directly above my sex. He grins cheekily as his anus brushes my glans, wriggling slightly and pushing down to encourage my efforts to penetrate him. It sinks in for an inch or two and his pelvis begins to rotate, working against my hardness to gain increased depth. Adam's eyes half close and his lips purse, inviting my kiss. Our lips come together and seal in a wet warm union. "Is that all you two do?" Liz asks cynically. We are shamelessly naked before his mother, joined completely as only a man and boy. There is no longer anything to hide. Our love is completely accepted. For a moment our kiss is interrupted. Adam smiles at me. I smile at Adam. "Yes!" we both say at the same time. Liz smiles slightly. "You know, Chris, I used to wonder what it was like for you when you were with my dad. Now I know, I think I'm jealous,... No, I am jealous. Even before I saw you with him in the garage that time, I used to wish I was boy. For a long while I thought it was because I wanted to be the son my father always wanted. But it's not that! After seeing you with Adam, I understand. Loving a boy is very special." I nod and gaze at Adam. His eyes meet mine. He is the boy I love, just as I was the boy Liz's father loved. The closeness we share is something few people would understand, yet his mother does. It brings me even closer to both of them. I glow inside with a deep affection for her, accepting that I will never be able to love her in the same way that I love Adam. "I love you, Adam Browning." I say softly with my lips pressed close to his right ear. He smiles happily. "I love you, Chris." He pushes against me with increasing urgency. His body twitches, wriggles, trembles until my penis is all the way inside him again. His body heat flows along the shaft of my penis and into me. I feel his anus tighten reflexively, clamping around my shaft with amazing strength and pulling upward. My hands grasp his firm buttocks, parting them further as I grip him. His thigh muscles begin to work, shamelssly lifting and lowering in order to move against the part of me that we share. At the same time, I begin to lift his hips, a slow, powerful rhythm that provokes immediate gasps. His eyes close, abandoned to the pleasure he is receiving. We move together, in undulating waves that consumate the love of a man and a boy. His lips open, his tongue flicks out, greets mine with a hot wet kiss. A sideways glance confirms what I expect. Liz's finger is simulating the motion of my penis. "It seems to be a family affair," Liz says. She smiles shyly. "I'm glad you're in love because I love both of you." I carry Adam through the open doorway and into the bathroom, not needing to look back to know his mother has started to masturbate furiously. THE END