Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:12:22 -0700 (PDT) From: No Label Subject: Donny-01 This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person, living or otherwise, is totally accidental and do not blame the author. If this story is illegal in your place of residence, download at your own risk. If you get caught, and your parents whack your pee-pee and take away surfing for a month, don't blame the author. In fact, the author will disavow any knowledge of your existence. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Please send comments, both good and bad, to the author at zero782452723@yahoo.com. He loves the feedback and glory. Flames will be enjoyed appropriately. My thanks go to The Alienist for all his kind words, inspiration, and help with this story. Get better soon, friend. Say hi to Hunk for me. DONNY Chapter One I stepped in through the double glass doors and inhaled deeply. Aaaah, the smell is just the same. You know it, the smell of chlorine and wet from a heavily used indoor pool. And this one was in very heavy use. First conference meet of the year for small high schools in south Texas. But I wasn't interested in the competition, not this time. That ended when I graduated twelve years ago. No, I was here to look at the eye candy, teenaged boys in speedos. You guessed it, I'm gay. Knew it since I was thirteen, that's why I was on the swim team in high school. For the scenery. I looked around, pretty good crowd, but then this is Texas where high school sports mean so much more. Of course I didn't recognize anyone there since I had just moved to this little dusty town about an hour and a half south of San Antonio. I had just moved onto the ranch I had inherited from a favorite aunt and uncle who were unexpectedly killed in a car crash. Both my parents were gone too, also through a car crash which made me wonder how long I had. But that left me with no living relatives to embarrass with my sexuality. My aunt and uncle left a pretty tidy sum for me besides the ranch so I quit my old job as a computer analyst in LA and moved here. Hopefully, with a few wise investments, I was set for life. I knew I didn't have to worry about the ranch because I had arranged to lease use of the grazing land and water holes to the neighboring ranch for the cost of the property taxes and a little more for building maintenance. Good thing to because I have problems distinguishing between a bull and a cow without bending over and looking between their hind legs. And that is a little obvious, don't you think? I spotted an empty seat and sat, just in time to stand up again for the opening prayer and playing of the national anthem. Remember, this is south Texas, and no one can tell them that prayer isn't allowed in school. Once everyone sat down again I let my eyes wander over the meet contestants. After all, that was what I was there for. It looked like three different schools were competing today, because there were three different colors of speedos. Bright red with no trim, light blue with gray trim, and royal blue with gold trim. My guess is the team colors for the local school was blue and gold, as the loudest cheering occurred when one of those swimmers was introduced. Everywhere I looked were slim, well-built boys with prominent packages showing. I was in heaven. That was when I noticed him. He stood out from the others because he wasn't as tall, in fact about a foot shorter. Unusual because arm and leg length are so important in competitive swimming. Actually he looked like he didn't even belong in high school, although he was in the local school colors. As I studied him I wondered what he would be swimming. And study him I did. Black hair, oriental slant to the eyes. But the skin, almost alabaster, very unusual for south Texas. Tan lines at mid upper arm and just above the knees, but not a pronounced as the other boys. Obviously he didn't spend as much time outside. And it was obvious that he hadn't hit puberty yet, not a hair anywhere except the top of his head and a little point between his legs. As he walked around the corner of the pol, coming towards me, I could see his face was beautiful. He had oriental features softened by anglo influences. I had seen many Japanese-Americans when stationed in Okinawa while in the Air Force and had always been captivated by the mix of angled eyes and high cheek bones softened by a larger nose and defined jaw line. And I just knew from experience that his skin would feel like velvet. I was so wrapped up in looking at this beautiful creature that I didn't notice the mountain that came up to me from the side. "Excuse me, sir. Could I speak to you for a moment?" I jerked my head around and saw cowboy hat, tin star, and huge cannon for a gun hanging off this six foot five inch 280 pound pile of muscle. "Huh?" alound while muttering under my breath "oh, shit!" "Excuse me, sir. Could I speak to you, please? This way." Now how could I refuse a nice request like that, especially from him. He turned and walked towards the exit doors, and I followed meekly behind, ear burning, know that every eye in the place was staring stright into my back. Was I so obvious, to attract the attention of the law? And I knew that here in south Texas people with my sexual preferences were not as highly regarded as, oh let's say, cow manure. Probably even lower than fire ants, which were exterminated as quickly as possible when found. So it was with an intense tightening in my intestinal regions that I followed him out the doors. Once out the doors he spun around and shoved a huge piece of meat resembling a hand at me. Breaking into a huge grin he said, "Hi, I'm Buddy Jacobs. You must be Tom Parker, who just moved into the PH spread. Pleased to meet you." The look on my face must have been priceless, since he started chuckling, "I know everyone and every thing around here. This is my town." I intelligently answered, "Uh, yeah." "Just wanted to put the face with the name. Let me know if you need anything." He started back into the pool area, but as he passed, in a much lower voice he said "Better be careful. Some people around here may not take to you very well. And his name is Donny Grimm." The doors swung closed behind him as I stood there, trying to get my heart rate somewhere below warp speed. I took a couple deep breaths, and decided I had better leave. As I turned I ran right into the chest of Adonis. No, not really Adonis, but a pair of blue eyes about my size and age. "Uh, sorry. Guess I better look where I'm going." as I stepped back. A smile lit up his face and he stuck his hand out. "Hi, I'm Bob Davis, the local, and only doctor. And you are Tom Parker?" Jeez, does everyone in this town know who I am? What have I gotten myself into? Again my superior intelligence shown through, "Ah, yeah." and automatically pumped his hand. "Pleased to meet you. When was the last time you had a physical?" More amazing repartee, "Uh, yeah, nice to meet you too." Bob laughed and said, "Come on in Monday morning and we can get better acquainted. Now let's get inside, the meet must be starting." I followed meekly though the doors and stood next to him at the end of the bleachers. I kept looking out the corner of my eye at this hunk. Six foot, brown hair, slim build, looked like a runner. Someone I would definitely like to know better. We traded comments as the meet progressed, but I really wasn't paying too much attention to the action as my mind whirled with the recent events. Other than my next door neighbor I had not met any of the locals, so their familiarity with who I was came as a shock. I had never lived in a small town before, so I know I had a lot to get used to. Suddenly Bob grabbed my arm. "Here's the race I came to see. New kid in town swi mming. Doesn't look big enough though." I turned and saw the swimmers up on the blocks, hunched into their starting positions and the gun fired. One was a little behind and I saw it was Donny. The race turned out to be 100 meter breaststroke. Donny, with his slow start was behind but I could see after just a few strokes that he was good and fast. Maybe less mass to move through the water would give him an advantage. By the turn he had caught and passed half his competitors, but I knew the last twenty five meters would be tough. But he kept charging through the pack and finished second, less than a second from the the win. Wow, he was good! Bob was just as impressed as I was and had a great smile on his face. "Maybe we won't take it in the ass this year. The team has never had someone to swim the breaststroke. We could go to State!" "Yeah. He is good. He will be good for the team." Bob clapped me on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Well, came to see what I wanted. Gotta go. Mrs. Pearson about to drop another young one any time. Don't forget Monday." "Okay, sure. See you then." I decided I probably should head out also, but left at a slower pace. What an afternoon! Saw a boy that looked like a china doll, got sort of outed by the local gendarme, and made acqquaintance with the local doctor with a physical exam in the offing. What was I in for by moving here? Little did I know that those three would figure significantly in my future. As time passed I got to know more people in town and became comfortable in my new house. I went to a couple more swim meets, but for some reason Donny didn't show at any of them. So I pushed him to the back of my mind and concentrated on getting on with my neighbors. Six months later-- It was going to be one of those nights. The weatherman on the TV said a big cold front was coming through tonight, and if you have never experienced a cold front in South Texas then you haven't lived. First the wind starts to blow, usually in gusts up to forty or fifty. Then the temperature drops, and when I say drops, I'm talking twenty-five degrees in thirty minutes. Then you start hearing the booms and the sky becomes bright as day. Finally the coldest, hardest rain you have ever felt will come down in buckets. I think you get the idea. Not fit for man nor beast. I made my rounds of the buildings to ensure all doors and windows were closed and latched. A working ranch has lots of buildings, so it took me almost an hour to secure everything, but it is better than getting up in the morning to the smell of soaked hay, or the need to rebuild a door that beat itself to death against the wall. It was already close to ten when I finished closing up, so I just took a shower and climbed into bed. I am an early riser by nature, so to get my beauty sleep, I don't stay up late. A habit I had fallen into in the last few years. I had enough of the late night life in LA. Shortly after graduation from college, I had moved there and spent the first three years cruising and whoring. Luckily never caught anything. But I realized that what I really wanted was one special man in my life. I wasn't going to find him in the gay scene of LA, no matter what the stories say, so I settled down to reasonably normal life. The front was all that it could be. Around two in the morning, a particularly close crash of thunder woke me. The rain was at about a thirty degree angle, and my bedroom looked like someone had rigged a strobe to fire every ten seconds or so. I lay there trying to fall back asleep when I heard the tell tale banging of a door trying to commit suicide. "Fuck!", I thought, "how could I have missed one?" I climbed out of my queen sized water bed (yes, they still do exist) and threw some sweats on. Going out the back door, after grabbing a rain slicker off the peg in the mud room, I peered through the rain, trying to time a look at each building with a lightning flash to figure out where the offending door was located. Ah, my tool shed, where I keep my toys like that 150cc dirt bike and my newly acquired four-wheeler that I use for stretching my legs when I get the closed in feeling inside the house. Don't need those left to the elements. I charged across the fifty yards or so from the back door to the shed, cursing all the way about how cold the wind and rain was. I decided I better check my babies to ensure they hadn't got too wet, so I flipped the light switch inside the door and blinked at the sudden bright. It didn't take long for my eyes to adjust though, so I scanned the room to look for water puddles inside. Didn't see any, so I started to reach for the switch to shut off the lights when my half-asleep brain suddenly registered that there was something extra in the shed. A bicycle. I knew I didn't own one, all my wheels had motors attached. That was when I saw the bare leg poking out from behind some boxes stacked to the back. Well, it wasn't completely bare, there was a sock and sneaker on it, but that was it. Being the curious type, I decided I had better investigate further. I moved a couple of the top boxes of the stack and leaned over the rest to see what was attached. Huddled behind was a man, no a boy. But not just a boy, it was Donny Grimm. He was wearing only a soaked white tee shirt, red nylon shorts, white socks and sneakers. He looked asleep, but I could see shivers running through his body. "What the hell?", was my first thought, then "This kids needs to get warm and dry." So I tossed the slicker over his curled up body and moved the rest of the boxes out of the way. I picked him up and headed for the house. He felt like he weighed less than eighty pounds, then I remembered when I had first seen him I had commented to myself that he looked too little to be in high school. I carried him into the house and laid him out on the sofa. I lit the gas in the fireplace to heat up the room quickly, then moved the couch so that it was directly in front. The banging of the shed door reminded my of why I got up in the first place, so grabbed an extra coat and back out to secure the door. I was wondering what kind of mess I had gotten myself into as I reentered the living room to check on Donny. I felt his forehead, then touched his arm. Hadn't noticed before but he is really cold. I went to the guest bathroom and started running a warm bath for him, then decided to to give Bob a call for some moral support. "Bob, this is Tom Parker. I have kind of a problem here at the house. I found a kid in one of my sheds soaking wet and shivering to beat hell. Don't know how he got there, but I am kind of worried about him. Can you help?" "Howdy, Tom. Yep, sounds like a problem. Is he unconscious?" "No, don't think so. Just sleeping, but shivering like crazy." "Get him into a warm bath. If you think it is still an emergency after that, then call me again and I will come out. But I really don't want to come out in this weather if I don't have to." "Sure, I was already running the bath. I will call if that doesn't do the trick, but can you still come out in the morning anyway. Just to check." "Sure, Tom. If I don't hear from you again tonight, I'll be there for breakfast around 7:30, okay? By the way, do you know who the is?" "Great. See you then if not sooner. It`s Donny Grimm" I hung up the phone and stared at the kid. Oops, better check the water in the tub. Better let some out or it will overflow when I get him in. I picked Donny up, again wondering about how light he was, and carried him to the bathroom. "His clothes are already soaked, so I'll put him in as is. Don't want to freak him out if he wakes up while I am undressing him." As soon as his body entered the warm water his eyes fly open and his mouth flew open. He grabbed me quickly around the neck and started to lift himself out. "Whoa there. It's only a warm bath." I said softly and smiled. The look of fear didn't completely leave his face, but he did relax enough to reenter the water. "What?" he croaked. "I found you in my shed. You need to warm up so I ran the bath." I said. "Relax, I won't hurt you." Comprehension washed over his face, and then a smile. "I know." "How did you end up here?" "I was out riding my bike when the storm came up. I was soo cold , so when I saw your house from the road, I thought I could get out of the rain here. I knocked at the door but no one answered. The door was locked, so I went into the shed. Must have fell asleep." "I must have been asleep, cause I didn't hear your knock. Sorry. By the way, my name is Tom Parker." " I know. And I'm Donny Grimm." Since I hadn't seen him since that first swim meet I was surprised when he knew who I was. "Where do you know me from?" "Oh, I saw you at the meet and asked who you were. How come you're always off by yourself?" I didn't want to freak the kid out by saying I was gay, so I made up some excuse about being new in town, and it's hard for outsiders to get accepted. His face fell, and he responded, "Same with me. I am alone usually." Then he smiled and said, "Hey, ain't I supposed to be naked in the bath tub?" I felt my face redden and answered "Yeah, usually. But I didn't want to freak you out when you woke up, and your clothes were wet, so..." He nodded and grinned, "Well, I won't freak now." and started to pull off his shirt. I got up off my knees beside the bath and started to leave to give him his privacy when I heard in a small voice "Don't leave me." I quickly turned back and saw fear had again taken over his face. "What's wrong?" "Don't leave me, please?" "Okay, I was just going to give you some privacy." Donny smiled a little and restarted removing his shirt. A wet tee clings like tar paper so he asked if I could give him some help. I said sure and grabbed the shirt and pulled, exposing some pretty ugly bruises around his ribs. "What's that" I asked, pointing. "Nothing." They looked recent and I could tell they weren't caused by a fall on his bike. But I kept my silence, hoping I would earn his trust enough to find out where they came from. Donny then pulled off his sneakers and socks and tossed them onto the floor. Then he started to rise to remove his shorts. I jumped up and grabbed his shoes, socks and shirt saying I would toss them in the dryer. He quickly slipped off the shorts and briefs and tossed them also, saying "Don't forget these." I kept my eyes averted and grabbed the two new items and headed for the door. "I'll get you something to wear." I mumbled, trying to beat a hasty retreat. After dumping the clothes in the dryer and turning it on, I went to my bedroom and grabbed another pair of sweats and a tee. I swiftly entered the bathroom, not looking at the tub. I placed the items on the cover of the toilet and turned back out saying, "Put these on when you finish. I'll fix something to eat." I went to the kitchen and started coffee. I had some stew in the freezer, and popped that in the microwave to heat. I heard the tub start draining, so I knew he was finished warming up and asked him what he wanted to drink. "Anything hot." came from the bathroom. "How's coffee?" "Fine." "Brewing now, be ready in a few." "Okay." I stood in the middle of the kitchen wondering what else I should fix when I heard from the doorway "Thanks, Mister Parker." My father is Mister Parker, I am Tom. So that is what I told him, getting a grin in return. What a vision standing there. Five foot, damp hair pointed everywhere, crotch of the sweat pants at his knees, the sweat shirt was almost to his knees, empty sleeves for the last four inches. I wanted to reach out and take that beautiful creature into my arms and hold him forever. Instead I laughed and helped him find his hands in all that material. "You better call your parents and let them know where you are. And that you better stay here because of the storm." The grin vanished and fear clouded his face once again. "No" he yelled, turned and ran. TBC.....