Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:31:58 -0500 From: Eric Murphey Subject: Transitions first Christmas Chapter 4 Gay adult youth Sorry everyone. I am posting as quickly as possible. My move to New York is starting to finally smooth out. Its been a very, VERY bumpy ride. But, I think with the help of my great friend Rich that things are finally starting to smooth out. I hope you like the new chapters. The program I tallk about is not my idea. It was a program in Indy when I was young. I dont know if they still do it or not. But, I love the idea. Peace Love and happiness to you all. AS ALWAYS Help out Nifty with a donation. Eric Transitions First Christmas Chapter 4 Eric woke up the next morning with Alejandro snuggling against him. He looks around and doesn't see Joey. He gets out of bed to go pee of course it being extremely important at this time. When he completes that task he walks back into his bedroom and puts his sleeping pants back on and grabs a robe. He walks out and looks into Joeys room and sees his bed is made and his sleeping pants are laid neatly a crossed the bed. He peers into the bathroom and Joey isnt there either. He hears some light music playing. He knows the song its one of his favorites. Clair de Lune. He get to the top of the steps and looks over the balcony thinking it is Rich playing. To his surprise its Joey sitting at the piano tickling the keys. He is playing it flawlessly. Eric can see his head is slowly swaying to the music. Eric slowly walks down the stairs so as not to disturb him and sits on the couch out of Joeys vision and listens. He is amazed by the boys talent. Once Joey completes that he starts in on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Another of Eric's favorites. As he listens he closes his eyes and enjoys the sounds coming from the piano. He hears a miss key and Joey say dammit, Eric opens his eyes to this. He watches as the boy sways back and forth fondling the keys. Eric just cant believe how well he is playing. When he is done with moonlight sonata he looks at the keys a few seconds and starts playing something Eric has never heard before but is absolutely amazing. Eric watches the boy he is just lightly hitting the keys to not make much noise. When he completes the last song. Eric speaks up startling Joey who jumps and turns to face him. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you." "No don't be sorry you didnt wake me and that was simply amazing. I know two you played they are some of my favorites. But, what was the last one?" "Oh its just some stupid song I wrote in my head a while back. I just never could play it before today." "You wrote it in your head?" "Yeah I do it all the time. We didn't have a TV so I would make up songs in my head. Its something fun to do." "Of the music you know whats your favorite to play?" "You guess what it is." Joey says and starts playing. Joey starts a happy quick melody that lasts about two minutes. "Do you know it?" Eric smiles and says. "Yes it is Graingers Country Gardens. Oh l like that one as well. Do you Know Liebstraum by Liszt?" Joey turns back and starts playing. "Its this one right?" "Yes that's the one." Eric listens as he finishes the song. "I used to always play the piano at Grams house. But, her piano wasn't this nice." "Yeah I got it for the boys so they could learn. We better get Alejandro up and ready so I can run you two to school because I will need to get you enrolled. Usually the bus will pick you up. But today I will take you in for that. Then after school we will do get your friend her coat. Do you know where she lives?" "Yeah its two houses from where I lived with my mom." "OK so after school we will get that done. I will go wake up Alejandro and you go get dressed for school. Wear a sweater Alejandro says its kind of cold in the school." "Yes sir." He says and races up the stairs to get ready for school. Eric looks at the piano and just shakes his head thinking I cant play chopsticks. He gets up off of the couch to go wake Alejandro and as he passes his boys room he hears Alejandro in there getting ready. Eric pops his head inside the door. "I was just coming to wake you up." "I woke up as soon as you got out of bed. I watched Joey play the piano on the landing. He is really good. I think tryouts for the schools Holiday talent show are today. I'm going to talk him in to trying out. He will be a shoo in for sure. He will make lots of friends fast at the new school with his talent." "Dont push him into it. Just mention it at breakfast I will try to encourage him as well. We will let him decide what he wants to do. I'm taking you boys to school today so I can get Joey enrolled at your school." "Cool." Eric went and put on a pair of chinos and a polo pulling over a sweater. He slipped on some socks and loafers. When he went to the kitchen he saw Rich at the stove making some breakfast for Julia to pay off his debt for losing. Eric just smiles and sees Alejandro making English Muffins in the toaster oven for himself and Joey. He slathers butter over the top pretty heavy. Because that's the way English muffins are supposed to be. You know all the cranny's. Eric just makes himself a bowl of grape nuts flakes. He hasn't had them in a while so it sounded good. They all eat and Joey comments he likes the English muffins very much. After they eat and clean their messes Rich is taking Julia her meal to her house. He has it on a tray and a cover so it doesn't get cold. The boys race upstairs and get their coats, scarves and hats. Eric grabs his winter coat on the way to the garage. They all load in the car the boys in back of course they are all buckled in and on the way to school. "Ya know Joey I heard you playing the piano this morning You are pretty good. No let me say that better. You are REALLY good and we have a holiday talent show and I think you should try out." "No I don't think so." "But, you are really good." "No, I'm not that good." "Yeah you are and its for charity. All the parents get in free but, they make donations. Its for the Children's clinic so kids who don't have insurance can get shots and stuff we all need." "Its for the Children's Clinic. I go there sometimes." "Yeah we try to raise lots of money so more kids can get shots and see doctors when they need to." "I don't know. Mr Eric what do you think?" "Its just Eric and I certainly think you will be one of the best in the show. But, it is up to you. I wont put any pressure on you but, if you do it I will donate a thousand dollars in your name. No that's not fair to you. That does put pressure on you. I will donate a thousand dollars in your name even if you don't. It will be a Christmas present to them from you." "No I think I will do it. I really liked them up there they were always so nice to me. I would even see some of the nurses and they would always say hi to me out on the streets. So yeah I want to help them." "OK then now that we got that settled. I will pick you boys up in front of the school after you are let out. We need to go get Maria a coat." "Why does Maria need a coat?" Alejandro asks. "Its a different Maria then you know buddy its a friend Of Joeys." "Oh OK." Eric pulls into the parking lot at the school and they walk around on the sidewalk to the doors. Eric and Alejandro are greeted by lots of kids rushing by to get out of the cold. "Gosh you must know everybody." Joey says. "Well, not everyone but I do know a lot of people that's for sure." Once they enter the doors Alejandro heads to his class room. As he leaves them he says. "Love you Poppi. I sure hope Joey is in my class." "I love you too, and I will see if I can arrange that." Eric walks into the office with Joey, "Mr Eric what can I do for you and this handsome young man?" The lady behind the counter says. "Hi Jennifer I didn't know you worked here now." "Yeah I have for about three years now." "Thats great I hope you like it." "I sure do. So I am guessing that you are transferring this cutie to our school. I got a fax from Joy this morning with his information." "Thats exactly right. Shes is always on top of things." "She always has been. Even when we were in school she was like that." Jennifer is Joys little sister. The only girl Eric ever dated. They were just good friends and when they kissed it was a mess. Like kissing your sister. They realized they would never make it and broke it off soon after that. She has all the paperwork set up and all Eric has to do is sign them and sure enough he is in Alejandro's class. Fucking Joy. Eric thinks. Always meddling but, in a good way. "I will walk to you class so you know where it is. Is that OK with you Joey?" "Yeah I think I would like that. I'm kinda scared. People treated me really bad at my old school." "Yeah Alejandro told me a bit about it. But, they treated Alejandro bad at your guys old school too and they love him here. So I don't think you have anything to worry about." "Gosh I sure hope not." "You will be just fine."Eric says rubbing his head. Before they walk into the class Eric stops and bends down on one knee so he can look Joey in the eyes. "I know that no matter what I say you are still going to be nervous. Thats natural. The unknown is always scary. But, we have to venture out at times and do things that are a bit scary. But, I know that if you are yourself that the other kids will like you just as much as I do. Now give me a hug before we go in." Joey smiles and hugs Eric hard. Eric is certain if it would have been any harder he would have popped his head right off. After the hug Eric stands up and glances through the window and the teacher notices him. She waves for him to enter. "I heard I was getting a new student today. Is he yours Mr Eric?" Joey looks up at him. "Are you sure you don't know everyone?" He says softly. Eric just smiles and rubs his head. "Yes he is my new son. You of course know Alejandro. This is Joey and he is very talented at just about anything it seems. He is going to try out for the talent show. He didn't want to until Alejandro said it was for the Children's Clinic. Joey knows some of the people that work there." Eric says not revealing he was a client there before. Just that he knows some people there. "Oh well that's great. What will he do?" "Hes an excellent pianist." Eric says smiling making Joey blush and look down at the ground. Eric is doing this on purpose not to embarrass him but he knows this teacher well and knows he wants him to acclimate to the class as quickly and easily as possible. "We have a piano right there. Lets hear something." Joey looks at Eric terrified. Eric is thinking hes screwed up. "Play the one you wrote you played this morning." Alejandro shouts out from his seat. "Alejandro you know to raise your hand." The teacher corrects him but. with a smile. "Sorry ma'am" "Yeah Joey play that one it was really beautiful." Eric encourages him. "Can I play another one I wrote?" He asks. "That one isn't done just yet." "Sure you play what you want buddy." Eric walks with him and sits on the bench next to him. To provide a bit of moral support and maybe some comfort. Joey whispers to Eric. "Should I sing the words to it or not?" Eric looks at him. "Thats up to you buddy. Its your song." "I think I will just sing the chorus." "I am sure that will be fine." Eric says hugging his shoulder. He starts out slow and it is beautiful he plays for a minute or two and starts singing with the voice of an angel. "I miss you Gram with all of my heart. My life is hard now but, I will get a new start. I know I will see you again But, I know we will meet in heaven. Sometimes I still cry Because you said I was the apple of your eye. I miss you so much especially your ginger touch" Then he continues playing until the end of the song. Repeating the chorus once more. A lot of the girls are wiping tears from their eyes and a few boys as well. "That was simply lovely and your voice is amazing. You will definitely be in the show. Now lets get started on our school work. Joey why don't you sit next to your brother. Everyone say goodbye to Mr Eric." "Good bye Mr Eric." The class choruses. Eric knows his que to leave he bows before he does. The class all giggle at him. "Poppi." Alejandro says giggling at his antics. When Eric gets to the car he turns it on and hits the phone button. "Call Red." He says. A moment later the phone is picked up. "Reds cleaners." "Hi this is Eric Murphey is Red available?" "Sure just a minute." A moment later Red picks up the phone. "Hey Eric what can I do ya for?" "Red it was brought to my attention that a lot of kids in our schools don't have a good coat to wear. I was thinking that if we joined forces we could fix this issue." "I didn't realize it was a problem. But, I can see it is if you brought it up. What can I do to help?" "Well, I was thinking that I could have donations of coats dropped off at my stores and bring them to you to clean before we give them to the kids." "I would be happy to do that. Why don't we expand it and I can have them drop them off at my stores too." "That would be great too. What you got a million of them now?" Red laughs his hearty laugh. "No just eight here in town and twelve in the big city. Are we doing it in both cities?" "I am actually going to do it at all my restaurants. I think it is a problem nationwide. I am even go to write a letter to corporate and see if they want to start a national campaign." "I got a lot of friends that are cleaners want me to call them see if they would help. Shit I know they all would, we love kids. Anything to help them out is OK with me." "That would be great. I sure do appreciate your help. I think I am going to call all my managers together and get it started in town today." "Fantastic is there a name for the program?" "Joeys Coat Drive." Eric says off the top of his head. "Great I will print some signs up and put out boxes in my stores I will start today." "Thats fantastic Red I knew I could count on you." "Anything for the younguns." "I will talk with you later Red. Thanks again." "Glad yo do it. Talk to ya later." After that he calls Chris. "Chris I have a project I want to start. I want all the General Managers in town at your store at 10 am no exceptions." "Sure thing boss. I guess you want me to call them." "Yes and thank you." Chris hangs up wondering what Eric is up to this time. But, knows it will be good somehow. He calls the managers of the six stores in town and tells them. Only one of them bitches about it. Then Chris said Mr Eric said its mandatory. He quickly shut up and agreed. Eric then drives to the local radio station and walks in and talks to the station manager. Seeing as how much Eric spends on advertisement he quickly is put on the air to explain Joeys Coat Drive. "During the interview the on air personality says he has four kids at home and all of them have old coats they don't wear anymore and they were going to donate them and that this is a great idea. After Eric does the interview the station manager says he is going to start a PSA for it and it will run every hour and that it will let them know to drop of the coats at any McDonald's location or any Reds cleaners who has generously offered to clean all the coats that come in. Eric thanks him then heads to his store. Granted he has a lot of them but this is HIS store. He sees the managers sitting and drinking coffee. He greets each of them by name and explains what he wants them to do. He says to use the large cup boxes or any for that matter to load coats in and he will hire someone to come pick them up every evening and deliver them to Red to be cleaned. Everyone simply loves the idea and they all quickly race back to their stores to get ready for the lunch rush, and of course get the boxes ready. One manager got back to find that 30 coats had already been dropped off and the crew had no idea what was going on other then people were telling them they heard on the radio to bring them here. So the crew knowing the owner figured it was something good and they thanked them and gave them all a free apple pie. Eric heard about that and decided it was a great idea and told all the others to do it as well. A lot of people declined but some did take the pie. Eric was driving home when one of the television stations in the big city called him and asked about the program. He assured them it was indeed the case and Reds Cleaners was donating the cleaning and that they can drop them off at any McDonald's or Reds Cleaners. They asked if he would do an interview about it. "Sure." Was his reply. He told them he could make it to their station for the noon news. He went home quickly to fire off an email to all of his stores and asked them to contact any local cleaners they knew to help with Joeys Coat Drive. He called all the locations 16 in total and let them know what was going on and to offer free apple pies to anyone that donated a coat. He didn't want them to be surprised. They too of course all loved the idea. Eric put on a nice suit. You know being on TV and all want to look nice. He drove down to the TV station and walked in. He was immediately greeted by the station manager and ushered into the studio. He explained that his son had informed him that some of the kids in his school didn't have a sufficient coat and he thought it would be nice to get them one. Eric explained that he was doing it all of his McDonald's locations and added to put pressure on Corporate that he hoped it would turn nationwide. However, McDonald's doesn't need much pressure to help kids. The interview went great and the news anchors both thanked him for being on the show and the great project he is starting. He just smiled and looks at the camera. Its not my idea its my son Joeys. He is a very compassionate and caring boy. I just have the ability to make it bigger and better then he does at this time. But, in time I think he will be able to do way more then I can. I do want to thank all of you who can donate any coat in advance and my stores will give anyone an apple pie or even a coffee if you prefer for doing this. I know its not much but, its my way of saying thank you for your generosity for helping these kids stay warm." "It is my understanding that at your stores in the town you live in that you are doing angel trees to supply Christmas gifts to children that otherwise wouldn't be able to have anything is that correct?" "Yes that is correct. It started with my other son Alejandro. It was his idea he wanted to help kids that wouldn't have any Christmas. He actually gave me all of his savings so we could start it. Our good friends Rich, Julia, and Julius also pitched in as well. I was going to fund it completely myself. But, one of my managers Chris said that wasn't fair the he wanted to help too. So far its just starting but, I am really hoping to expand it to all of my locations next year. Because its really all about the kids isn't it? "Yes and it sounds like you have some amazing and generous sons. They must get it from you." "Nah they come by it naturally." "I am sure they follow your example. I know personally several people you have helped personally." "Lets not get into that. I don't do things for the praise. I tell my boys that if you cant help the person in front of you. Then what good are you. They get me a lot with that saying they are right in front of you. Sometimes I miss it but, its always good to have the eyes of a child watching for you as well." "That sounds like a great program as well. I am sure a lot of our viewers would like to help that don't have kids or coats to donate. How could they help?" "Well, to be honest I hadn't thought about that. I will have to get back to you on that. This all just started last night when I was tucking Joey into bed." "Holy cow you are starting this since last night?" "Yeah its cold outside now. No reason to wait." The anchors shake their heads. They finish the interview and Eric again says its not his idea and it was Joeys. He thanks them for their time and the help to get out the information. After the interview he heads back to his town and gets into some more comfortable clothes. The ones he had on before. By this time it is time to go get the boys from school. On the way the TV station calls him and says his interview will be on the 5 and 6 o'clock news that they absolutely love the idea and are going to run PSAs on it as well. He thanks them for the information and help and lets them know he has had one of his people set up a web sight to accept cash donations as well. Every nickel he says will go to get coats for kids. He quickly calls the office and lets them know to set this up as quick as possible and let the TV station know the address. The computer lady said she was already working on it because she saw him on the news on her lunch break and gave him the address as Joeyscoatdrive.org She told him he knew he would call so had it all started up. "Its good to have people who know what you want and need before you do yourself." He says to her "Thats why you pay us the big bucks sir." She laughs. "Thanks so much." He says and ends the call as he is pulling into the school. The boys see him pull in and race to the car on the sidewalk and are careful when they get to the parking lot watching for the moving cars. When they got in they were both excited and started talking a mile a minute about how all the kids just loved Joey. How they loved his song and all the girls were gaga over him. Even a couple of the boys were gaga over him. How things have changed Eric thought. Boys openly admiring another when he was in school was grounds for a beating. Things sure are getting better with the youth he thinks. "I am glad everything went great for you. Now lets go get Maria a coat." He says. "Cool" Joey says. They go to Macy's again and he hears a few compliments on his new program. Alejandro and Joey have no idea what they are talking about and are kind of shocked everyone keeps telling them that they are great boys. Eric just nods and says he knows. They pick out a nice heavy coat and get a good scarf and gloves that match. Joey picks out kind of a crazy looking hat with ears on it and says she will love it. Eric just nods and pays. They drive to drop off the items and Eric parks a few houses down so Joey can go deliver them. Joey walks up to the house with a big smile on his face and knocks. He sees a woman answer the door and then a cute little girl comes outside to talk to him. Joey hands her the bag and she peers inside and wraps her arms around him hugging the stuffing out of him. Eric can hear even with the windows up her squeals of delight which makes her mother come back outside to see whats going on. Maria is putting on the coat and other things and Maria's mom then hugs Joey too. She says something and Joey points towards the car. The mom a rather rotund Latina woman rushes to the car. Eric steps out and before he can say anything she hugs him. She explains that she works two jobs and that there is just never enough money left after rent and bills to get things. Eric nods and agrees. She says that she works at a couple places he knows that hire predominately undocumented workers and take advantage of them. Eric mentions a lawyer he knows who helps undocumented workers get legal after they are already here. She explains that she was in the dreamer program but was afraid to sign back up because of the current administration. He says to call this lawyer and he will take care of any expenses he charges her. Again with the hugs. Joey gets back in the car with Maria following and she leans down and kisses him on the cheek. He turns red and says your welcome again. Then the boys head back to the house. Eric on the way calling the lawyer and explains the situation. He replies that sadly a lot of people feel the way she does and are afraid to reapply to the dreamer program. Eric is just disgusted by this. Hard working people that were brought here as children and really have no where to turn. Its a damn shame. The lawyer assures him that he can get her a permanent alien card and Eric tells him as soon as he does for her to go apply at any of his stores because he knows the other companies only pay minimum wage if that and he pays well over that. She will be able to work at just his store and make as much as she would at both jobs. So at least he can do that. But, he cant hire her until she has her work visa unfortunately. By the time they get home its nearly 430 and Eric sees a note on the table. Mr Eric it really would have been nice if you told us we were going home for the holidays we could have been packed. Thanks for the tickets and the driver said everything was taken care of. Mr Rich says thanks too he is sure he will love the islands. I got a casserole in the refrigerator for you and the boys. We will see you when we get back. Love Julia Rich and Julius. "Poppi you didn't tell them about the surprise?" Alejandro asks after he reads it. "I guess I forgot with everything going on yesterday. But, at least Miss Julia knows how scatter brained I am, and is happy anyway." Joey looks confused. "What surprise?" "Poppi got Julia ,Rich, and Julius tickets to the Virgin Islands so they could spend time with their family for Christmas." "Oh that's nice." "Yeah Poppi is like that." "OK boys lets put this in the oven and get it started. I want to watch the news. You boys want to join me?" "Sure Poppi." "Sure sir." Joey says. They put the dish in the oven as Julia said to and set the timer. Eric goes to the living room and turns on the TV. As they news starts the boys are both cuddle up to him and the news starts. Its on about 15 minutes and they announce that at noon they interviewed Eric Murphey and people should watch after the commercial break. "You were on the news Poppi why?" "Just wait you will see. I think you will both be pleased." After the commercial ends the interview is shown. Both boys are excited to see Eric on TV and they all watch the interview. After its over Joey just looks at him. "You named it after me?" "Sure it was your idea." "No it wasn't I just wanted to get Maria a coat." "But, if you could have gotten a coat for all the kids would you?" "Well. Sure but you named it after me?" "Of course. It was your idea I just made it a little bigger is all." Joey wraps his arms around Eric and hugs him tightly. Alejandro is smiling too. "You talked about me on TV too." "Of course I did. I am proud of both of you boys." "Gosh Poppi I didn't do it so you would brag about me." "I know that. But I am proud of you. I am proud of both of my boys." "That explains why everyone at the mall kept telling us how good we were." Joey says. "Yeah I guess so. People like to see when others are helping others. It makes them feel good. Then they want to help others too. It is something that grows." Eric says. After they talked about it for a while and they all agreed that they will do it every year from now on they heard the ding of the oven timer go off and went and enjoyed a nice dinner together. They chatted and had a nice time enjoying each other and Eric learning more about Joey his new son he didn't really know much about yet other then he loved him already and he was good it seems at everything he tries. After they had dinner and Eric had put the left overs in a container and they cleaned up they went back to the living room. Joey kind of gravitated towards the Christmas tree that Julia had put up the day after Thanksgiving while Eric and Alejandro had gone out to see a movie. It was a massive tree it was 14 feet tall and under it had a ton of presents already. Eric turns on the TV and Alejandro sits next to him and snuggles in. Joey is just walking around the tree admiring it. Every so often he touches an ornament and then steps back to look at it more. After he looks for about 15 minutes he goes and sits next to Eric and snuggles in. Eric of course wraps his arm around the boy and holds him close. "I never seen a tree that big before except in a store or something." he says to Eric. "Yeah I don't know where Julia got it from. We went out and came home it was there. She does things like that all the time. Shes great to have around." Eric responds. With it being Friday they just kind of take it easy for a while. Joey looks up at Eric and starts to say something then stops. He puts his head back on Eric's chest and starts watching TV again. "What were you going to say?" Eric asks. "Its nothing important." He responds. "No what was it?" He adds. "I just had a question is all." "Well, you will never get an answer if you don't ask." "Yeah Poppi says the only dumb question is one that's not asked.." Alejandro pipes in. "So what was it?" "Well..... I was just wondering if maybe you know we could kinda well..... I really liked bowling. I was wondering if maybe... You know we can do that again?" Eric looks him in the eye. "If you wouldn't have asked we wouldn't have known that you wanted to. I was thinking the same thing myself. I was just wondering if you will beat me tonight. But, I was busy all day and didn't wax the lanes. So why don't we all go down and put the machine on and let it do its work on one lane then we will get it going on the other. It doesn't take but about fifteen minutes a lane. Personally I like to use both lanes when we play. So whats say we get that started and then we can bowl in about half an hour. You boys will probably want to get out of the sweaters and I know I will. So we will go set it up change into some t shirts and then by that time one lane will be done." Alejandro is already up and starts towards the basement. Eric and Joey follow. They set up the machine on the lane and start it. The boys race upstairs to get a t shirt on. Eric is taking his time and he gets a t shirt on finally as both boys, already done are watching him bouncing back and forth on their now stocking feet. Alejandro suggested to Joey to leave his shoes upstairs seeing as how they would have to put on bowling shoes. Eric just takes his sweet time enjoying making the boys wait. He thinks its not like the machine will be done yet. He finally gets his shirt on and like the boys slips off his shoes and puts them away. They head back to the basement and the machine is just finishing. Eric slides it over to the other lane and says. "We should get a snack and maybe some sodas for our match." "Can we have popcorn?" Alejandro asks. "Probably not a good snack to make slippery fingers then bowl. How about some pretzels, and some Cokes?" "Yeah that sounds good too. Can we have popcorn later though?" "I don't see why not. Maybe once we get done we can have Joey pick out a movie to watch and have it then. Sound good?" "Sure does Poppi." Joey looks a little well Eric cant put his finger on how he looks. Confused, frightened. Worried maybe. "Whats wrong Joey?" "Its just that I haven't seen many movies. I don't want to pick out something stupid or that you guys have seen a hundred times." "Buddy don't worry about it. Whatever you pick out will be fine. Alejandro and I aren't too finicky and if we have seen it a lot its because we like it. Lets go get those snacks." The boys follow Eric back upstairs to the kitchen. Eric grabs a bag of pretzels and puts them in a bowl. He grabs 6 cans of Cokes and puts it all on a serving tray to carry down. "Poppi we need an elevator." Alejandro says. Eric laughs at his comment. "We most certainly don't need an elevator." he says still chuckling. "Just think it would make things easier is all. We got a lot of stairs." Alejandro says. "When I am old and feeble and cant get around as well anymore maybe then we will get one. But, until that day no sir. Besides stairs are good exercise." "We get lots of it here then." "Yes we do, and that's a good thing." "I guess so. But, we should get a little refrigerator down here for Cokes and juice and stuff." Alejandro says. "Now that seems like a good idea. I think tomorrow we will go see about getting one." As they get back down to the basement the machine is shutting off. Eric lifts it off with the boys help and sets it aside. "Why don't we go youngest to oldest this time." Eric suggests. "Joey when is your birthday?" "January 2nd." "Really?" Alejandro asks. "Yeah why would I lie?" "Cuz that's my birthday too." "Really?" Joey asks amazed. "Yepper." "Well looks like we will have a double celebration then. Both of my boys turn ten on the same day." "Cool." They both say. They all three shout Jinx at the same time. "Clearly no winner on that one." Eric says. "OK we will flip a coin to see which of you two goes first. Then next time the other will go first. Sound fair?" "Sure." They say. As luck would have it Alejandro goes first then Joey and Eric following up in the last place. The boys get their shoes on and Eric puts the names in the computer. Then gets his shoes. Alejandro picks up his ball and gets a nice spare. Joey steps up and he tosses the ball and it rides the first board nearly all the way down and does a viscous cut in at the last minute to get a strike. " I thought that was going to fall off." Eric says. "Yeah me too." replies Joey. Eric gets up and throws a spare. "Poppi can you show me how to curve my ball like that too." "Sure buddy." Eric shows him the way to do it and Alejandro throws it down and isn't in the right spot and it curves and hits the 7 pin. "Hmpph." He says. He steps up and scoots to the right and tosses it again. It breaks at exactly the right moment and it gives him a spare. "Cool." Joey gets up and tosses his second ball and it hits wrong and gives him the nearly impossible 7 10 split. He looks at it and he tosses the ball and hits the 10 knocking it over towards the 7 and it stops just short. "Wow you almost got that." Eric says. "Most professionals don't get that close to it. So they bowl on and on. Both Alejandro and Joey improve as they go. They both did really well. Alejandro got a very good series for him he bowled a 164 a 172 and then a 184. So a vast improvement from before. Joey got a 139 he kept getting splits. Then he got a 174 just barely beating Alejandro and then He got a 199 he was a bit upset he didn't get 200. Eric as usual bowled over a 600 series. He got a 212 then a 224 then a 219. "Not to shabby for an old man huh guys?" "No you did pretty good Poppi but I bet we start beating you soon." "I have no doubt about that. I am so proud of you boys. You both did really well." Eric collected the empty Coke cans the boys only had one while Eric drank two. The pretzels all that was left of them was a memory. "Why don't you two head up and Joey you pick out a movie and I will get the popcorn started." "Sounds good to me Poppi." Once they got upstairs Joey picked a movie to watch while Eric made popcorn. He made two bags and poured them into a big bowl. He looks out and sees its snowing pretty hard. With it being winter the solar panels don't provide all the energy they need for the big house and he is thinking they may lose power because the power company sucks. He goes into the living room and starts a fire in the big fireplace just in case. They sit and watch the movie Joey picked. He chose How to Train Your Pet Dragon. Joey had never seen it and had always wanted to. He loves how Hiccup and Toothless become friends. They all watch it and enjoy it. Eric had never seen it either. Alejandro had but, it had been a long time. After it ends Eric puts some more logs on the fire and the boys decide to watch the next one which no one had seen. Once the cue it up the power fails. "Well, crap I was afraid of that. It may be the morning before we get power back guys. But I know we will have some after the sun comes up because of the solar panels." "Is that why you started a fire Poppi?" "Yeah I was a bit worried it might happen. Dont want us freezing." "Lets go see how much snow we got." Alejandro suggests. "Yeah." Joey shouts. "If you boys are going outside to play get your coats and snow boots on. And stay in front of the house where I can see you." "We will Poppi." Eric looks at his watch its right at 8pm. He grabs a couple of the hurricane lamps and starts them illuminating part of the living room. He hears the boys stampeding down the stairs and the door slam behind them. He decides it might be fun to go play with them in the snow. He goes upstairs and puts on his snow boots and a parka. He walks outside and sees the boys laying in the snow making snow angels just giggling to beat all hell. He just smiles. Thankfully the emergency lights outside had kicked on and they can all see. He had put them throughout the house in the halls and whatnot for just in case something like this happened they could at least see to get through the house. Eric picks up some snow its good wet snow and packs great. He tosses a snowball at Alejandro and it hits him right in the chest. "Hey no fair I wasn't ready." He says laughing and he jumps up and Joey does as well and they attack Eric pummeling him with snowballs laughing hearty good boy laughs. Eric is trying to give as good as he gets. He runs from them and looks for cover and slips on the drive and falls. He starts laughing as the boys pounce on him. They are all laughing and the neighbor is looking out the window just shaking his head at them thinking they are nuts. He may be right. But they sure are having fun. "Lets build a snowman and send a picture to Julius." Alejandro says. "Yeah let him know what fun hes missing." Eric says. "I never built a snowman. Mom wouldn't really let me go outside." "I never have either but, Poppi can teach us." "I would love to guys." So for the next hour they build several snowmen on different sizes to represent all of them. The one for Julia, Alejandro thought it would be funny so he made snow boobs making him and Joey giggle the entire time. Eric thought it was funny too. So once they were done they took several pictures with Eric's phone with the boys standing by there work and sent them to Julia and Rich on their phones. Julia and Rich responded back quickly. Julia thought it was hilarious hers had snow boobs as did Rich. After they were done with pictures Eric suggested they all go in to get warm and ready for bed. The boys went upstairs as did Eric to get out of the wet cold clothes. They all put on sleeping pants and neither of the boys had put on a t shirt. Eric made them go put on long sleeve t shirts so they would be warm. They went back downstairs and Eric heated up some milk on the stove. Thankfully its gas. So they sat in front of the fireplace and sipped their hot chocolate and had fun talking about the fun they had outside. Eric sees its now around 9. He grabs a big blanket from the closet and covers them all up. After the boys start to settle down Eric asks them. "How about I read you some of a book?" "Sure Poppi we got nothing else to do." Eric gets up and puts the covers back over the boys. He grabs one of the hurricane lamps and goes to the library and grabs Tom Sawyer one of his favorite books from childhood. He goes back and sits the lantern behind him so he can see well enough to read. The boys throw off the covers and let Eric back in. They both snuggle up against him and he starts reading. When he says nigger Jim both boys gasp. "Poppi you cant say that. Thats really bad." "Yeah you cant say that word its worse then the F word." "Yes you boys are absolutely right. That is a very bad word. But, as you see in this story it takes place when black people were slaves and it was common at that time to call them that word. As we go on you will see that the author doesn't care for slavery at all. Because he questions it and says just because something is common doesn't mean its right. You see Jim is trying to escape being a slave. He is trying to get north so he can be free. Which is a good thing. But, at that time when this story takes place if he was caught they could hang him or kill him another way. It was an awful time in American history. My family. Now your guys family were Quakers. They stood against slavery and tried to help all the slaves they could get free. They fought the government to make slavery illegal. And one day a president named Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all the slaves. Well that sure didn't go over well with the people in the south and they said we don't want to be part of your country anymore. So they started their own country and Old Abe said that's just fine with us. But, all of our military bases in the south will stay ours. Well they didn't like that much and then they attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Then we had a big war between the states that lasted four years. Well our country won and they all the black people who were slaves got to be free. So sadly a lot of people lost their lives. But, so many gained their freedom. Then it got really bad for black people for a long time. Then it got a little better and slowly things are getting better. But its sure not perfect yet. Sorry about the history lesson. But, I wanted to explain why in this context it is OK to say that word. You will never hear me say it otherwise. Because we all love Miss Julia and Julius. We don't care that they are a different color. We all love Alejandro and hes a different color. Some people even today are still ignorant and judge a person by their color or how they worship their god. I find it all senseless. There are a lot of reasons to not like someone but those are certainly not good ones. Do you guys understand now?" "I think so sir." Answers Joey. "Me too Poppi." "I can pick another book if you want or we can continue with this one. Your choice." "No lets keep this one." Joey answers. "Yeah I like it so far. But I just don't like that word. It makes me mad. Like when someone calls be a spic or taco or something stupid like that." Eric hugs Alejandro close. "I hate that people have said that to you. I wish the world wold just accept people for people. Not have to label everyone." "Me too Poppi. I think we are getting there though. We did have a black president for a while." "Yes we did. I think he did a pretty good job too." "Me too." "He seemed to be a really nice president too." Joey says. "Yeah I think he would like all of us." So Eric reads a few chapters and his eyes are getting tired from reading by the hurricane lamp. "I got an idea lets make some s'mores. "What are s'mores.?" They both ask. "Oh my you guys are sure in for a treat." Eric goes to the kitchen and gets all the fixings. He grabs some kabob skewers for the marshmallows and sits it all on a tray and carries it back to the living room. He sits down by the fire place and explains how to make them. He makes one for each boy and they try it and its nothing but a memory in seconds. They each make a few more until the chocolate bars are gone. Then they settle just for toasted marshmallows. "I liked the s'mores. sir." "Me too Poppi. Wish we had some more chocolate bars." "I think you both had enough. I don't want you getting sick from too many." "Yeah your probably right. But they were good." Joey says. "Poppi usually is." Alejandro says. "But. I wouldn't mind getting sick on these." He says giggling. "Me neither." Joey says giggling as well. "Yeah well sick is sick no matter how you get there, Its never any fun." After that they are all just watching the fire. "I got an idea. Lets make this an adventure." Eric says. "What do you mean Poppi?" Alejandro asks. "Well we can get some heavy blankets and lay them down in front of the fire place and get our pillows and we can camp out downstairs. That way we are all together and can keep each other warm." "Shoot I already had planned on sleeping with You Eric." Joey says. "Me too Poppi. But, it sounds like fun though." "Yeah it does. Can we do like we did last night too? I liked that a lot." "If you want to we can sure buddy." "Poppi is always up to making me feel good. Sometimes he wont let me make him feel good. But he has never told me no yet." "Cool." "Okay guys go get your pillows and grab some for me too. The lights in the hall should be on until morning so you should be able to see. I will grab some blankets so we will be comfortable." The boys were off like a shot. Eric went to the closet by the back stairs and got a few comforters and some other blankets. When he got back he saw both boys carrying in as many pillows as they could carry. They dumped them on the couch they had been sitting on. Eric lays out the blankets next to the fireplace and shuts the doors and turns on the blower so it will keep them warm but not send out a spark and catch the house on fire either. The adventure does not plan on the fire department visit. He lays out the blankets and the boys help. They have down three comforters and then put two heavy blankets down and crawl under them. Joey isn't wasting any time either he is tossing out his sleeping pants and t shirt. Alejandro not wanting to be left out does the same. Eric just watches them undress under the covers and smiles. "Eager beavers huh?" "You betcha." Joey says. "It felt really good last night." "Poppi can Joey make love to me and then you do it after hes done?" "I guess that's up to Joey not me. I would like to make love to you though." "What do you mean?" Joey asks. "You put your pito in my butt until you get the good feelings." "But wont it hurt you?" "Not if you do it right." "I don't know how to do it. I had it done once but. It hurt a lot." "Its cuz they wasn't thinking about you just themselves. I will be right back." Alejandro says and races off his hard brown cock bouncing as he runs upstairs." "Eric you put yours in Alejandro's butt too?" "Only when he asks." "Doesnt it hurt him?" "No because I take the time to get him ready properly. I love him and I sure wouldn't ever want to hurt him." "I will try it with Alejandro but I'm not sure about letting you put it in me." "Oh no I wouldn't want to do that unless you wanted me to. I wouldn't ever want to hurt you either." "So he likes it then?" "He loves it to be honest. He says it feels the best when he gets his tingles when I am inside him." "Really?" "Its what he says." Alejandro gets back holding a tube of KY jelly. Alejandro tosses a pillow in the middle of the blankets and lays down on it his butt up in the air. His little cock never got soft in anticipation of the good feelings he was about to have. "Show him what to do Poppi." "OK Buddy." Eric takes the lube from Alejandro and lubes up his hole really well. Joey has gotten behind to watch what he is doing. "OK Joey now put some on your finger and push it in him slowly." Joey does that and slides his finger in slowly to the last knuckle. Alejandro moans. "OK now slide it in and out a bit. You will feel a little bump in there right behind his penis do you feel it." Joey starts rubbing it and Alejandro moans in pleasure. "Yeah Joey right there. Oh it feels so good." Alejandro moans. "OK now your penis is just a little bigger then your finger so pull out your finger and side in your penis slowly. You always want to do it slowly at first because just shoving it in will hurt your partner." "Wait just a second." Alejandro says. Poppi sit on the couch and take of your clothes. I want to suck you while he makes love to me." Eric does as instructed and sits on the couch. Alejandro bends over and takes Eric into his mouth. Joey sidles up behind him and slowly inserts his hard cock into the warn waiting hole. "Oh my goodness that feels so good." Joey says as he slips into Alejandro. He slowly slides it all the way in. "Now Joey give him a few seconds to get used to it and then start sliding in and out slowly at first then at whatever speed you like." Eric instructs him. Joey starts out slowly and Alejandro is bobbing on Eric's cock. Eric is watching his sons make lave to each other. Joeys hard cock sliding in and out Of Alejandro. Slowly at first and he starts to pick up speed. Alejandro is moaning around his cock giving Eric great pleasure. Joey is picking up speed and he is really starting to hammer into Alejandro and seems he is hitting Alejandro's prostate on every thrust. Alejandro spits out Eric's cock and is stroking him with his little hand and moaning with pleasure. Alejandro reaches his peak and his body starts to shutter. His tight hole clamps down on Joeys cock sending Joey over the edge. Joey shoves all the way into him and again with every pulse he lets out a loud "Ah AH AH." He waits a minute and enjoys the warmth around his cock and he slowly pulls out. Alejandro is panting as is Joey. "You got your tingles when I was doing that?" Joey asks. "Yeah it felt great thanks for doing that." Alejandro says. "Can I try it too? Will you do it to me? I want to feel it like that too." Joey says. "Sure thing Joey. If you want to. Then Poppi can do me after that." So Joey is kind of scared and excited because the only time he ever had it done to him the guy just shoved it in with no regard for Joey just to get what he wanted. Joey bends over the couch like Alejandro had and He feels his new brother putting the KY on his butt and slowly insert is finger. He feels for the first time someone tickle his prostate. His cock bounces back to life in an instant. "Oh my that feels so good you are so right. Keep doing that. Oh yes." Alejandro lubes up his hard brown cock and slowly inserts it. Joey pushes back into him to get the feeling again. Eric is watching and leaking a bit of precum. Joey reaches up and wraps his hand around it and inserts it in his mouth and Alejandro slowly starts to pump in and out of him. Joey is moaning around Eric's cock which is now leaking large amounts of precum. Because the action in front of him is amazing. Watching the boys make love is amazing. Alejandro is taking his time. Joey feels himself about to cum and starts shoving back into Alejandro and he goes off. Alejandro speeds up a it and is making sure he keeps hitting his prostate. He feels Joeys ass tighten around his cock and its throbbing with each pulse of his cock. Joey is in a blissful state and he stops sucking Eric and is jerking him as fast as he wants to be made love too. Alejandro speeds up the pace a bit and is going at a medium pace and he feels Joeys ass tighten again and pulse around his cock several times. "Oh Please go faster it feels so good." Alejandro at that starts to really start pounding his cock into his new brothers ass. And he continues on for about two minutes when again he feels Joeys ass start clamping down on his cock. It is pulsing and this time it sends Alejandro over the top and he slams into Joey with all his might as he gets his tingles. Joey can feel the pulses of Alejandro getting his feelings and is loving it. Alejandro lets his cock sit inside for a long minute and the slowly pulls it out. Joe lets out a sound of disappointment. When he does. Joey collapses on the couch panting like a dog in the heat. "Oh my goodness that felt so good I never felt so good in all my life. I got the tingles three times while you were doing that. Oh my I cant believe it how good it felt." "Its because he made love to you. He didn't fuck you." Eric says. "He can make love to me anytime." Joey says finally catching his breath. "Poppi do you mind waiting to make love to me? I got pretty tired with that." "Sure buddy I have no problem with that." "You want me to suck you or something?" "No you don't need to do that. Just relax and we will go to sleep." "I didn't say nuthin about sleepin I just said wait a little while." Alejandro says quickly. "We will see if you sleep of not. You boys both had some pretty hard orgasms." "Yeah we did." Joey agrees. "I will go get a towel so you boys can wipe yourselves off. Be right back." Eric says and goes to get a towel. "That felt so good Alejandro I cant believe how good it felt." "Thats nothing let Poppi do it. He will make you see heaven when he makes love to you." "But, his is a lot bigger I think it would hurt a lot. Not feel good." "I aint gonna lie at first it hurts a little but, when it stops in a minute or so it feels so good." "I don't know if I want to try that." "You don't have to Poppi will never make you do it. But just wait until you watch him make love to me. Then you will want him to I bet. But, if not that's OK too." "I will think about it after I watch him with you. But, I don't think so." "Like I said no pressure I honestly hope you don't so Poppi will do it to me more. But, I also want you to feel good too." Joey thins about what Alejandro says. Just then Eric gets back with a towel and the boys clean themselves up with the wet wash cloth then dry themselves off. They all climb under the covers because their sweaty bodies have made the cool air feel even colder. The boys both snuggle up to Eric to get warm again. "Its not really fair that we got to feel good and you didn't get your tingles." Joey says. "Its OK I just want you boys to feel good. Its not as important to me if I feel good. It makes me happy to know you guys got to feel good. Thats what love is all about. Wanting the best for the people you love." "Then its really not fair then. Because I haven't really known you very long but, I know I love you already." Joey says. "And I love you too. Time and love don't exactly mix a lot. Sometimes you know someone a few hours and you already love them. Sometimes you know someone for years and still don't love them. I cant explain it better then that. But, I knew I loved you before we walked out of McDonald's yesterday morning. Its weird but, its just the way it is." "Yeah when I first met Poppi I loved him within a few minutes. As you know I didn't really talk at that time because I didn't figure anyone cared what I said. But, after a while I knew that Poppi would care. I still didn't say anything for a few weeks because I was scared he would change and get mean. But, he never did. He fell at our old house and got hurt really bad. So that's when I started talking again because I had to. Poppi needed help so I had to say something." "So that's why you started talking again?" "Yeah because Poppi loved me so much I could feel it. I knew that he will always love me no matter what. So from then on I been talking. Because I know he cares what I say." "You are absolutely right Alejandro I will always love you. No matter what." Eric says and kisses him on the lips a gentle loving kiss. "You too Joey and he kisses him on the lips as well." "Is it OK if I call you dad or even Poppi too? It feels silly to call you Eric. Because you already mean so much to me. That and I Never really had a dad." "Joey I would be honored if you did. I already am telling people you are my son." "I know you did on the news I didn't know what to think. My mom never even said I was her son. She would be like that's my brat Joey. Always brat or kid. It made me feel really special when you called me son on TV telling the whole world I was your son." "Its hardly the whole world maybe a few hundred thousand people but I would have no problem telling the world you are my son. You are both so special to me." He says hugging them both closer to him. Joey starts to cry a bit at this. "Whats the matter buddy?" Eric asks. "I am happy no one has really loved me since my Grams died and it feels really good is all." "Well I am glad you feel that way." "Me too. I always wanted a brother." Says Alejandro. While they had been talking Eric's cock had gone back to sleep. Which he was just fine with. Just the thoughts of his boys first time together will give him happy memories for decades, and not just to have a jerk to. But, its when they really connected. Of course he will have a jerk to it often but, that's OK too. Eric is starting to feel a bit sleepy and Alejandro is dozing off as well. Joey is starting to nod off as well. Eric figured they would they both had some pretty hard cums. Hes surprised they are still remotely awake at this point. Within a few minutes Alejandro is lightly snoring as well as Joey. Eric kisses them both on the top of the head and falls into a blissful sleep. A few hours later Eric awakens to the feeling of someone rubbing his cock. He looks and sees that Joey is doing it in his sleep. He reaches down and holds his hand to stop him. Because he doesn't want to have to disturb the boys to get up and wipe up the cum. He then falls back to sleep pretty quickly.