Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:14:48 -0800 (PST) From: T Chase McPhee Subject: Nature Walk 14 The following story is a work of fiction set in the format of reality. Any resemblance to real people is entirely coincidental in nature, and is not meant to accurately reflect persons in towns, cities, or governmental areas, in which the story is staged. If sexual scenes involving male to male relationships offends you, then you should not read this story. Additionally, if you are under 18 years of age, in most states and countries, you are not allowed to read this by law. This is fiction. Don't forget, in real life, to think about 'sexual safety matters'. "Nature Walk" 14 (M/t oral pool party) wriTten by T. Chase McPhee "Mr. Clark, coffee?" "No thanks." "Have a seat, please." Dr. Gary Roberts, the thirty-six year old resident psychiatrist at West Richland Memorial Hospital, sat behind the brown mahogany desk. After taking a quick sip of java, he proceeded. "I take it you are aquatined with Dr. della Croix." "Yes, Jacq is our neighbor." "Mr. Clark," "Steve." "Yes, Steve, I'm not going to patronize you, but I do need to know some facts before proceeding." "Anything I can do to help my son. I love Sean. I'll do anything to help him." "Ahem! Very well. Steve, have you ever lifted your hand against your son?" "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Barry says, "Calm down Steve," taking his arm and getting him to park his butt in the chair. "I'm just trying to assemble the facts here, Steve." "What are trying to get at Dr. Roberts?" "Please call me Gary." "Listen, just tell me what's wrong with Sean instead of beating around the bush here, Roberts!" "Steve," Barry rubbed his forearm, not caring if either of the two caught on to their relationship. "Steve, Sean is showing some trauma over things that may have occured in his past." "What do you mean?" "Steve, did you know that Sean is into bdsm?" "Into what?" "Bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism. Bdsm is the abbreviation." "I've heard of it. No, I didn't know. What do you know of it, doctor?" Jacq got a little clammy, but he knew the facts needed to be presented. "Steve," Jacq began to say, "Sean was at my place when he started to freak out." "Your place, Jacq? But I thought he had been with Ken?" When the facts presented itself, with what Jacq had done to Sean, Barry and Dr. Roberts wound up peeling Steve off of Jacq, keeping him for beating him to death. When hospital security reported, Dr. Roberts asked them to take out Jacq, to get him some medical attention, especially for the nosebleed, but to leave the three in his chambers. "I don't get it, doc!" Steve, visibly upset, nearly cried out his grief. Dr. Roberts went on to explain that it had been consentual play, not Sean's first time at it, in fact and that he had practiced bdsm on several occasions, with other men. Not praising Jacq della Croix, but seeing it in Sean's favor that they actually did have this play, made Steve see that it had been something beneficial. "So you're saying that if Sean hadn't been exposed to this bdsm stuff, this might have gone on for years?" "Or the rest of his life." "Oh fuck! How come I didn't see it?" Barry got closer to Steve, putting his arm around him. "Um, do you mind entertaining a question?" "What?" Steve's asked just as bluntly. "Are you two a couple?" Barry entertained the question alright. For about five seconds, then reported, "We're a couple, yes." That detracted Steve's attention from the matters at hand. He didn't show it now, but would remember to discuss this at length with Barry later. Dr. Roberts did not go into matters now, suggesting that both Steve and Sean do some followup business. The three rose from their chairs and approached the door. As soon as it opened, a police officer approached Steve. "Mr. Clark, do you mind coming down to the station and answering some questions?" "Questions about what, Mike?" Steve replies to the thirty-seven year old police officer, whom he already stood aquainted. "Steve, please don't make me have to cuff you." Officer Green replies. "Cuff me? For what?" Dr. Roberts stepped in, "Mike, I think we can dispense with the police brutality?" The officer smiles at Dr. Roberts and then walks away, saying, "I'll meet you at the door of the station." % "Jade, when are we gonna see my dad?" Jade took on the younger two while Kade entertained the four older boys. "Well, I'm sure they want to get things squared away at the hospital with your brother, Aidan and then they will be by to pick you up." "Jade?" Philip asks, "Are you going to be our cook?" "Why? You didn't like the breakfast Philip?" "It was scrupdillyicious, Jade!" Jade smiled at Philip, giving the ten year old a hug, as she sat in between the two at the stools, making up the kitchen island. "Well, then I will have to put that at the top of the list of your favorites menu. I will also be at your home from when you come home from school, so what is your favorite after school snack?" "Oreos," Aidan says. "Yeah, Oreo's are my favorite too!" Philip replies, too. "Not everyday, though, boys." "Why not, Jade?" "Growing boys need nourishment." "Like what Jade?" The two boys grilled her on every idea that popped out of her head. Some they cast out strongly others they took a liking to or agreed to try her snacks. "I never had frozen grapes before, Jade." "You will like them. They are the purple ones and in the summer time they will help quench your thirst." Just then Kade walks in, drenched from head to toe. "Well what happened to you, Love?" Jade, used their surname often to describe her passion for Kade. "They cornered me, Jade and the brutes hurled me right in the pool!" "I better go play lifeguard!" Jade conceeded, stealing away from the two little ones. "How about a dip boys?" "Sure. But we don't have any swimsuits." "How about underwear?" Aidan and Philip said yes to that, but more than paying attention to the swimsuit issue, they took in Kade peeling his wet shirt off. "Kade?" "Yes, Philip?" "What are you?" "What am I?" "I mean you have really dark skin." "No darker than a boy like you with a suntan. However, to answer your question, Jade and I are from the Canary Islands." Philip then asks, "How come your nips are real dark?" "My nips? Oh, you mean nipples?" Kade wondered why such an unusual question. But knew boys of Philip and Aidan's ages, they stood to be inquirers of knowledge. "Well, it's because of how we're put together. Being that I am from a warmer climate, my skin, as well as other features are darker. If you lived in a climate where the sun shined everyday and you were exposed to that sun daily, you may have darker skin too." "Like getting a tan in the summer and then it wears off in the winter?" "Yes, Philip, except mine will never wear off." Philip had another question when Kade slipped his pants off to throw into the drier, but Jade approached in the nick of time. Philip would have to save his crotch question til another time. "A little wet Jade?" "Oh, don't worry, I got even!" She said, holding up a fist, acknowledge the force of revenge. As Jade walked up the stairs to change, Tom, Denis, Eric and Mark appeared, dripping wet. Kade laughed, then said to them, "Okay, c'mon. Over here and the clothes go in the drier." The four boys began stripping down. "Aidan and Philip?" "Yes, Kade?" "In that closet over there is a mop. Would you mind getting it, please?" All six boys watched as Kade mopped up the floor, his cock and balls swinging around the bed of dark haired pubes, as he postioned the mope here and there. Philip liked how the strip of hair down Kade's stomach bent in wiggly directions as his hips moved. It's the first time he took notice that the strip of hair, seeming growing out of his bellybutton, thicker too, before joining the tuft of hair around his cock. Jade came downstairs in a smart, red bathing suit. Four naked boys ran and hid in the utility room. After they heard a far off splash in the pool, they came out. "Is she gone?" Tom asked. Kade laughed and said that Jade knew what boys looked like and that they could wear their briefs in the pool. The Clark boys didn't seem as reluctant as the Barr boys, except Phillip who followed Aidan out, right away to the pool. By the time the other four, with Kade trailing came by, they watched as Jade carried Philip on her shoulders. "Hey guys, somebody get Aidan on your shoulders for a chicken fight!" She encouraged them. The four dove in, pairing off. Tom, even though he were a little pudgy, sat on Denis' shoulders, as Eric, the younger sat on Mark's. Kade followed up, carrying Adian on his shoulders. In a little while, Philip lost his sense of baring all, seeing Kade in the raw and took the initiative to follow. His little tightey-whities wound up on the edge of the poor. Aidan followed, then the Clark boys. Tom and Mark reluctantly shed theirs. Jade threatened to take hers off several times, making the boys shout in protest. They found Jade to be quite the trickster! % Steve wasn't out to give anybody a hassle. He gladly went down to the police station, but with Barry driving his car and he as the passenger. Dr. Roberts went with them. Barry began defending Steve, to the hilt. "And how do you know that this Seb character is the suspect, Barry?" "Because Steve has told me and from the bottom of my heart, I totally believe him." "Well, if it's the truth..." "Are you fuckin' calling me a liar, Dr. Roberts?" Steve wound up calming Barry down from putting his head through the roof of the car. "Steve, what do you know of Seb's treatment of Sean?" "Only what Sean told me himself, plus when I found Seb's cock deep into Sean's gut that fated day." "I have a question, Dr. Roberts." "Yes, Barry?" Barry has not only been accused, in his day, of resembling a pudgy Dylan McDermott, but now resembled the manner in which his TV character sought out information. "Has Sean mentioned anything about 'which' dad, during his hallucinations?" "You mean the recalling of facts?" "Yeah, whatever mumbojumbo word you use." "No. The recollections are of being whipped, beaten, his privates being handled... Sean didn't mention 'a' dad." At the mention of that, Steve put his face in his hands and cried out, "I knew I shoulda killed the son-of-a-bitch!" Dr. Roberts replied, touching Steve's shoulder, "And where would that have gotten you Steve? Prison? Your boys taken away from you?" An even more grim prospect crossed his mind. Living life without his sons? "Barry whatever happens, I want you to take care of the boys." "Nothing is going to happen, Steve. But you can depend on me 100%." Steve rubbed Barry's arm while he drove, pulling into the police station clu-de-sac. "I'll find a parking place while you two go in, Steve." "No," Dr. Roberts replies, "Barry, you go with Steve. I'll park." "Doc, why are you taking such an interest in this?" "Because you are decent men. I admire you deeply Steve and Barry, Steve is going to need a strong man by his side. Let's just say that I've been there - done that." Barry and Steve headed towards the small, L-shaped police station. "Barry, promise me you'll take care of my boys, if..." "Steve, I do promise, but nothing's going to happen." % "You're so lucky Aidan." "I know. I think Kade felt my cock getting hard on his neck." "Mine didn't do anything, but it was kind of cool seeing Kade's cock and balls in the water." "What did you think of Kade's hair looking like pollywogs swimming in the water, Philip?" "Real cool, Aidan." "You know what Philip?" "What Aidan?" "When Kade took me off his shoulders, my back scraped down his chest and I felt his crotch when my leg touched it." "Oh wow! You're such a lucky guy Aidan!" "Comparing notes, guys?" "Hi Denis. Hi Tom." "Jade says it's time for some lunch." "Already? We just had breakfast, Denis." "It's almost eleven. That was three hours ago when we ate." "That long ago?" "Yeah, Philip, time flies when we're having fun!" So, the two got up from the pool and headed into the kitchen. All the guys were dressed, so they made fun of the ten and eleven year old's peeshooters. They hightailed it real quick into the laundry room. Kade followed, to help find their dry clothing. "Kade?" "Yes, Philip?" Philip almost popped a question about Kade's cock, but diverted to, "I just want to make sure my clothes are dry." "They are and I'll be out in the kitchen if you are missing anything." "What were you going to ask him, Philip?" "Geesh, Aidan. I almost slipped to ask him if his cock were big in the water." "I think it was. It looked big, didn't it?" "Yeah, but it was bouncy too. I wonder if Kade's cock gets any bigger than that?" "I don't know. Maybe if we keep coming over here to swim that someday we'll see if it gets bigger." "Good idea, Philip!" "Know what would be real cool, Aidan?" "What Philip?" "If when we get in high school we get Kade for our teacher!" "Just think, Philip. Then we can look at him for the whole class." "Yeah, cool!" "Oh no, I just thought of something." "What's that Aidan?" "If we're paying too much attention to Kade then we might fail!" "Good thinking, Aidan." % "At least they could've done is fingerprinted ya, Steve." "Thanks Barry. I'll remember that!" "I'm sorry they brought you down here for nothing Steve." "Oh, I'm not, Dr. Roberts." "Gary." "Um, do you think you can really help my Sean, Gary?" "With time, yes." "I mean, will Sean be able to get over this bdsm stuff?" "That's tough to say, Sean. It's not something really evil, if that's what you think." "I guess I'm adverse to the thought of it." "And of a thirty-two year old playing with a nineteen year old, Steve?" "Okay, so maybe I was a little rough on Jacq." "Steve, I think if it were my son, I would have jumped to conclusions, too." Barry asks, driving the two back home, "Do you think an apology would be in order, Steve?" "Oh, definitely. Hell, I'd even throw in a barbecue, if it mattered." "That might help. I mean, in every psych book, it lists that they best way to make up with an enemy is through a barbecue!" The three laugh out loud. "What would make the apology even more sweet is to invite your favorite psychiatrist." "I wonder whom that would be, Steve?" Barry questions, thinking of Dr. Roberts. "I don't know Barry. We'll have to think about it." "I can make the best potato salad this side of the Rockies!" After the big hint, plus the suggestion of a mouth watering delight, Steve asks, "How about next Saturday around one, Gary?" "You're on, guys," Gary replies, leaning forward to give Steve a high five gesture, but low enough not to hit the car ceiling. % "Sean, are you okay?" Ken asks, as they ride back to the Bridges' residence. "I guess you hate me, Ken." "How can you say that, Sean. That's the reason I came seeking you, dah!" "I figured maybe you didn't want me after going with Jacq back to his place." Chad nudged Matty, listening to the two, knowing they sooner than later would be making up. Two guys passing back and forth the bs. "Hey, Matty, lend me your cell?" "Sure, Ken." They always hated it when Miguel and Juan chatted back and forth in Spanish, their native tongue, unable to fathom what their conversation entailed. Now Chad and Matty couldn't understand what in the hell Ken'ichi spoke in his Asian native tongue, as he spoke apparently to one of his parents on the phone. Most likely Sean would find out. "There, almost all is set," Ken announced, his fingers making one more trip around the keypad of Matty's cell phone. "What'd he say?" Sean asked Ken, knowing he talked to Sean's dad. "Wait a sec, Sean." Once again Ken dialed, picked up, talked up in the Asian dialect, then hungup. They pulled up to the Clark residence. Sitting there in Matty's SUV, Ken asked for him to let up on the doorlock. "Soon." "Matty, can't you see that Sean wants to get home?" "Not until you explain your plans." "Oh, you're so fuckin' nosy, you know that Matty Bridges?" "I know. So, Ken?" Chad grinned. "Tell him, Ken," Sean almost begged, "Or I'll never get a good night's sleep." Ken says to Sean, "Who says I'm going to let you sleep?" The boys roared with laughter. "So, Ken?" "Hey, it's no big deal, okay? So I called my folks and asked if Sean could move in with me temporarily." Sean says, "And when he called my place, dad said 'no way Jose'." "Yeah, so Sean's dad said for me to come stay with Sean for awhile if I wanted to.... hang with him." "Okay, that does it for me!" After Matty's hand made contact with the lock, Ken kids, "Of course I just made the whole story up, dude!" After smacking Matty in the back of the head, Ken takes off outta the car, Matty enroute. Chad turns to the back seat and says, "Looks like things are going to get back to normal, what do you think, Sean?" Leaning forward, Sean takes Chad's hand and says, "I didn't know a good guy when I had him, but I know he got the best," Sean refers to Matty, making Chad smile. Waiting til he got out of the car, Chad walked around, opened Sean's side to help him out... into his arms. "Well, well, well... look what's happened while we're away, Ken!" "You don't look like you're suffering any Matty!" The two make comments on how Ken ferried Matty's bod on his back, back to where Sean and Chad held each other. "Not after Ken offered the ride." "Hmm... are you going to give me a ride later, too Ken?" "Figured you might not be up to it, Sean, so I offered Matty." Sean says, "I think you might just get a song and a dance from Chad on that one, Ken." "I'll skip the song, but I might do a two step on your ass, Ken!" The cutting up continued, as the three helped Sean into the house, totally under protest. "Dad, I'm sorry," Sean said, taking his dad into his arms. "Sean, we're going to work this out." "I know dad." Barry stood in the wings, as did Matty, Chad and Ken. Chad asks, "Where's all the little faggots?" That brought the house down, causing all parties a jolt of comic relief. After reporting that the 'little faggots' are at Kade and Jade's domain, Chad asks, "Oh man, dad. Weren't we all supposed to go to Kade and Jade's for lunch?" "Yes, but I'm sure if Sean is up to it." "I'll be fine. I might need some guy to wait on me hand and foot." Sean's inference drew all eyes to Ken. "Ken, you don't mind putting up with Sean, do you?" "No Mr. Clark, not at all... well, maybe a little bit." They invited the boys in out of the early afternoon air. The older boys raided the refrigerator, taking cokes instead of beer on account of the meds they fed Sean at the hospital. As Barry and Steve readied themselves, a knock came at the bedroom door. "Come in, son." "Dad, I want you to know I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the bdsm." "Um, I'll wait downstairs," Barry offered. "No, please stay Barry?" "Why sure Sean." "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out, not that I claim to be as smart as one, all things considering, but I can see that you and my dad seem more than close friends." "Oh? How does that go, Sean?" "Dad, as you say to us kids when we're trying to put it over on you, 'don't play dumb'." Steve smiles, embracing Sean. "Most likely your the last to know Sean, that well..." Barry takes the helm, "What your dad's trying to say is that he and I are shackin' up!" "Alright, dad!" Sean ribtickles his father, congratulating him. "Don't I get get something out of this?" "Sure, 'second dad'," Sean says as he breaks from his dad and gives Barry a hug. "Hmm, at least you have something to hug there, Barry." "Hmm, was Sean this much trouble growing up, Steve?" "Oh no. A whole bunch more!" Three faces show at the door. "Um, we're all wondering when we're going to get to dunk Sean in the pool?" Matty asks. "Hey, I don't want any rough housin'..." "Yes, father," the three say. "Sean just got outta the hospital..." "Okay dad," their patronizing continues. Steve tosses his polo shirt on over his head as the boys and dads head down the circular stairway. Sean fakes tripping, falling onto Chad's shoulders. "Aren't you supposed to be in a wheel chair, Sean?" "Yeah, supposedly!" % "Jade, when are we going to see Sean?" "They left the hospital awhile ago and then they had to go to your father's house. It might be..." A noise of vocal tongue-thrashing persisted at the front door. "It's Sean!" Philip and Aidan hightailed it out of the kitchen. "Oops! Sorry, Jade!" "Not a problem. Leave it to me." Jade loved playing 'mommy' to Aidan and Philip. Even wiping up spilled milk. Of course when it spilled into the package or Oreo's she had to eat the wet ones! "Jade, look who's here! It's my big brother Sean!" Aidan, full of excitement, couldn't say enough about his big brother's return. That is until he and Philip became reunited with their Oreo's and milk. "Hey, where's mine?" "You're too grown up for Oreo's Sean!" "Am not!" "Hey, take Philip's!" "He's your brother, Aidan." It's Matty who got the devil in his thoughts and went for the whole package. Like a receiver, he picked up the Oreo's like catching a football and hightailed it out of the kitchen, the two little ones in tow. Sean, Ken and Chad followed with the excuse to Jade that they would help so that the cookies wouldn't wind up all over the house. She appreciated it. "Jade, thanks for taking the boys," Steve acknowledged. Barry gave her the same thoughts of appreciation. "I'm thankful, as well as you must be, that Sean is feeling well." "Yes and I hope Aidan wasn't a problem." "Nor my Philip." "They are two little angels. I enjoy being with them very much. In fact, I can't wait to begin my position at your home Mr. Barr." "Um, I think there's going to be a change of plans, Jade." "Oh?" Her face turned from a smiling of wonderment to a three hundred and sixty degree turn downwards. "What's the matter, honey?" Kade asked, putting his arm around his wife's shoulder and picking up a quarter crumb of an Oreo cookie, taking it into his palate. "Mr. Barr has changed his mind about me." "Ooooh, don't get me wrong, Jade, it's not about you." "Now I'm terribly confused," Jade replied. Kade asks, "Anybody for a pina colada or other drink?" Little chatter comes in the doorway. "Jade, look what happened to us!" Philip balks out loudly. "Oh my, what have you two gotten into?" "The boys jumped in the pool and splashed us with water," Aidan proceeds to fill them in. "Yeah, then Matty tossed the wet package of Oreo's to me and they... look what it did to my clothes!" "Here, take them off right now and I'll put them in the wash." Barry and Steve were amazed at their sons showing no sense of privacy, stripping down to their little weiners and handing Jade their clothing. Steve starts giggling, "No shame, no gain, huh Barry?" "We don't care if we're nakee in front of Jade, dad." "Oh? And why's that Aidan?" "Dads," Philip continues, "Kade let us be nakee in the pool." "Kade did, did he?" "Somebody mention my name?" Kade appears with a tray of four drinks, the little umbrellas of different pastel shades popping out. "Yeah, Kade. We were telling our dads how you let us go nakee in the pool." Kade turned a shade of the deep red umbrella. Barry comments, "Well, at least you match your drink, Kade!" "Ahem! That's Steve's," Kade replies, pertaining to the red umbrella. "Kade, can we have drinks with the umbrellas?" So, flopping their wares out of the kitchen, towards the den, the little urchins follow Kade, to the bar. "Where are the boys?" "Kade took them in for the 'umbrella special'," Steve reports to Jade. Barry picks up the tray with two pina coladas, offering one to Jade. "Thank you Mr. Barr." "It's Barry." "Oh yes, thank you Barry." "Jade, sorry we mixed you up here. We wanted to explain to you that well," Barry musters up the gumpshun to blurt out the obvious, which doesn't flow too well. Steve decides to handle it. Putting his pina colada down on the counter, he puts one arm around Barry and the other on his shoulder. "Jade, Barry and I are going to be partners." "You're going into business together?" "Yes, but more than business, as in business," Barry tries his hand at explaining. "What Barry means, Jade, is the 'love' business, to put it plainly." "You're gay Mr. Barr?" "Barry." "Oh yes. I'm sorry for putting it so bluntly. I... I think it's great. So, you're not going to be needing my services, then?" "On the contrary," Steve says, "who's going to clean up the Oreo cookie mess?" "Cookie mess?" "Yeah and who's going to keep track of the menu?" Barry adds. "So, do I still have a job?" "If you want it, Jade?" "Jade, look! We have umbrella drinks!" "Kade?" "Non-alcoholic, Jade. Believe me, these two boys are two live wires as it is!" "Kade, Steve and mister.. I mean, Barry are going to be setting up a household together." "Congratulations!" Kade greets them. After picking up his pina colada, he proposes, "A toast! To our new friends and Jade's employers!" "Steve," Barry comments, "You've got a milky stache!" "I wonder if it matches Jade's!" Jade quickly wiped her's off, as did Steve, in between the laughs. "We're heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!" "Oh God! The hogcalller has arrived!" Steve called out. As they welcomed themselves in the front door, Bernice and Alberto strode into the kitchen with two foiled pans. "This isn't the famouse Zebra cake, is it Alberto?" "The one and only." "Here, let me take that Bernice." "Thanks Stevie honey. Where's my big boy?" Barry replies, "He's out in the pool with the other juveniles!" Barry almost chokes on his bing cherry, with Bernice's cordial slap on the shoulder blades, in reply. She walks out to the pool. "Seeeeeeeeeaaawwwwn, how the hell are ya honey? Oh my! I've died and gone to heaven!" She looks out over the testosterone filled pool. All the guys have covered themselves from the waist up with the waterline. All except two little sea urchins. "What are you guys scared of? Aunt Bernice has seen what nakee guys look like!" "Well, half nekid don't look half bad, neither!" She replies to everguy. "Aunt Bernice, do you know how to swim?" "Of course I do!" Matty sees it coming, though is sure the others will get a wallop out of his mom's shenanigans. He already saw her step out of her shoes. Now she bends down to Philip's and Aidan's level, her hands on her hips, her head precariously over the edge of the pool. "Get ready Chad," Matty says in his ear. "For what, Matty?" "One of mom's famous 'accidents'!" "Noooo, she wouldn't!" "Any second now!" Chad starts giggling. "Whoooa ooooooh whoooooa!" A cannonball breaks the surface of the pool as Aunt Bernice tumbles in, head first, 'accidentally' losing her balance at pool's edge. "Haaaalp! I can't swim!" She yells out for Philip's and Aidan's benefit. "She can't swim?" "She can swim, Chad." "Oh, I get it." "We'll save ya Aunt Bernice!" Philip and Aidan are in the pool in no time, lifting Aunt Bernice's arms up. Not the proper way to rescue a drowning victim, but this ain't not ordinary victim! "My heroes!" "Hey daaaaaaaads!" Aidan calls out when their fathers enter the indoor pool area, "Philip and me saved Aunt Bernice from drowning!" "What a pity," Steve says, "we could've split up her share of Zebra Cake!" "Alright dad!" Sean calls out, as the other guys root. "Stevie Clark, you're in big trouble." Steve played along, kicking his shoes off, letting Barry fish his wallet out of his back pocket, as Bernice hauled him over to the edge of the pool, his neck in the crook of her arm. The whole pool of boys cheered Aunt Bernice on, as she turned him into the deep end of the pool, sending Steve to 'Davy Jones' Locker'. Standing on the edge, Barry laughed his ass off, until Bernice's devilous mood send him over the edge, as well. Then she hopped in. "Hey, Aidan!" "What Philip?" "Aunt Bernice can swim!" "We've been had, Philip!" "Yeah. Like Chad says, 'What're we gonna do about it'?" "Get even 'stead of get mad'?" % continued by popular demand.... Copyright 2005 T. 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