Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Edward Dufresne <vtgfof7@yahoo.com>
Subject: beyond brothers ch 2b

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of fiction, none of it ever happened, but things to happen to gay boys
everyday.  My hope is with a story like this people my learn to be a little
more accepting of those who are different them.  If it is unlawful for you
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                              Chapter 2B Unexpected Friendships


As Jon drove back home, he mulled over the words and the scene that he had
just seen at his commander's home.  It was clear to him that Justin was
being mistreated, he just didn't know what to do about it.

When they got to the house, Ben took Justin upstairs to show him his
room.  He asked Justin,"have you ever played on a PS2 system?"

"No way!, you mean you really got one?"

"Sure and I got 10 games for it.  Wanna play?".

"Absolutely dude!, where are the games?"

"They're on that shelf, pick some out while I go get us a soda."

 When Ben got downstairs he found his father and said, "What's this
about going fishing in the morning?  You didn't say anything to me
about it."

"Ben, you like Justin a lot as a friend don't you?"

"Sure dad."

"Well I could see there was going to be trouble and I was thinking if we
got Justin out of there the General might be calmed down by the time we
go back tomorrow."

"Dad, just before you got there Justin's dad slapped him really hard."

"I know son, I saw the mark on his face and that is why I wanted to get
him out of there."

"What should I do dad?"

"Just be a good friend to him."

Ben hugged his dad and said, "Thanks dad, I am so glad you're my dad."
He then grabbed two sodas and started upstairs.  The boys played video
games until Ben's mom called them down to supper.

Justin couldn't believe his eyes and ears as he sat and ate supper with
Ben's family.  Meals at his house were something to be tolerated, at
Ben's house they were like a school recess.... a time of fun and joking.

After supper Jon said, "Ok men, the women made the meal so we men
are on cleanup duty."

Justin couldn't believe how great Ben and Jon got along together.  Just
as they were finishing drying the dishes, Jon started a towel snapping
war and before they were done the 3 of them were all laughing.  Finally

Jon said "Enough, enough!".  T

Then threw them to the floor tickling them until they begged for mercy.

Betty poked her head into the kitchen door and said, "You three boys
behave yourselves!"  with a giggle and turned and left the room.

"Dad, would it be ok if we got in the hot tub?" asked Ben.

"What are you a little mind reader?  I was just going to suggest after our
towel war a hot soak might be good."

"Do you want to go in Justin?" Ben asked.

"Yeah, but I didn't bring a bathing suit."

Ben looked at his dad and winked.  His dad nodded an approval.

"Justin, when Ben and I go into the hot-tub we usually just go in our
birthday suits because it is a lot better for the filter if you don't where
suits."

Justin thought for a second and then said, "Sure, why not."

Ben ran to the bathroom and grabbed 3 large towels.  They walked out
the back patio door and Jon turned off the light.  The only lights were
from the stars.  He removed the cover and then began taking off his
clothes to get into the portable soft sided hot-tub.  Justin saw that Ben
was doing the same thing and so he quickly removed his t-shirt and
shorts, and boxers and stepped into the water. He sat in the tub between
Jon, and Ben.

He sat there with his eyes looking down at the water so as not to be
looking at Ben and his dad until Jon said, "Justin."

When he said that, Justin looked up to see what he wanted.

"There's a switch right behind your back for the bubbles.  Can you turn it
on?"

Justin was real glad the bubbles started because when he saw Ben's
father, he popped the biggest boner of his life.  Jon was the first naked
man he had ever seen.  Justin sat there thinking to himself...I'm a
pervert, I'm just what my father said.  If I was normal this wouldn't
happen to me.  Jon and Ben began a game of splashing.  Jon quickly
noticed that Justin wasn't taking part in the game.  He moved over and
put his arm around Justin and gave him a hug and said,

"What's the matter son?"

Jon then noticed that Justin's face was bright red.  Even in the
moonlight he could see it.  He thought to himself..... I know what the
problem is.

"Ben, did I ever tell you about the first time I got in a hot-tub?"

"No dad, you didn't.  What happened?".

"On my first deployment overseas after your mom and I got married, my
buddies and I got a 4 day pass.  So we went to this little resort in the
Austrian Alps and rented a chalet.  It had a hot-tub and none of us had
ever been in one before.  We all had a few drinks we decided to go into
the hot-tub, but since none of us had suits, we decided to go skinny
dipping. I yelled, 'Last one in buys the beer tomorrow', I was the first
one in and laughed as my friends rushed to strip to avoid being the last
one.

As I sat there watching my friends, with the bubbles and hot water
flowing around me, I realized I had gotten a hard on.  I thought I was
going to die of embarrassment.  My 3 buddies all jumped in and we were
quickly laughing it up.

All of a sudden, Jeff the boldest one of our group, said 'Hell, there
must something to hot-tub stuff, ol' Herman is sticking up like a
minuteman missile.'  Well the rest of us laughed and admitted we were in
the same condition."

"Dad, you're so full of shit, that didn't really happen did it?" said Ben.

"Yes it did, and if you don't believe me, ask my friend Bill because he
was one of the guys in the hot-tub with me that day."  Ben splashed
some water at his dad and then said, "Dad your just too cool".

Jon looked over at Justin and saw he was smiling too and was starting to
splash along with Ben.  After soaking for a half an hour, John said, "Ok
guys, we're going to turn into prunes.  Enough for tonight."

The three of them stepped out of the hot-tub and Jon put the cover back
on and Ben and Justin wrapped towels around themselves.  Jon threw his
towel over his shoulders and grabbed a boy in each arm and gave them a
kiss
on the top of their heads and said, "See you boys in the morning."  and
then headed into the house.  As he reached the patio door he turned and
said to Ben, "It's 10 now, I want lights out at midnight.  Love you."

Ben answered, "Ok dad, love you too.  Good night."

As they walked into the kitchen through the patio door, Ben asked Justin
,
"are you hungry ?"

Justin answered, "always bud."

"How's chips, salsa and soda sound to you?"

"Super, what kind of chips you got?"

"We got some plain ones and some super hot that my dad and I like.
Which ones do you want?"

Justin looked at Ben and slapped his own forehead and said, "Duh!,
super hot, what do you think?!"

With that remark both boys broke out in giggles.  "Come on dude let's go
up to my room."

When they got to Ben's room they each grabbed a pair of boxers.  After
pulling them on they turned and discovered that they had both chosen a
pair of C-K's with big smiley faces on them that caused them to break
out in giggles all over again.  This time they were laughing so hard that
they fell to the floor.

Jon was just heading to his bedroom in a clean pair of boxers after
taking his shower and stuck his head in the room to see what all the
laughter was about.  "Guys what up?" Jon asked.

Both boys just pointed at each other and giggled all the more.  Puzzled
Jon stepped into his son's bedroom to see what this was all about.  When
he stepped into the bedroom both boys took one look at him and broke
into absolute hysterics.

What the hell, Jon thought, and then he noticed that all three had on the
exact same boxers.  Jon quickly caught the boys infectious laughter, and
landed on the floor in a fit of giggles with the boys.  A moment latter
Betty stuck her head in the room and saw the three of them on the floor
in a fit of giggles.

"Just what is going on here?"she said in mock anger.

Jon could only point at his boxers and then at the boys boxers.  Betty
really didn't see how it was that funny, but then she didn't get a lot of
her mens inside jokes.  So she stepped into the room and reach for Jon's
hand.

"Come on it's bed time."

Jon took one look at his wife and broke out in giggles all over again.
The two boys looked up and saw what Jon had seen and began to go into
hysterics again.  Betty stood there starting to get angry until she looked
down at her own nightgown and discovered that she had on her smiley
face one.  Betty sat on Ben's Bed and laughed so hard that tears ran
down her face.  Finally Jon grabbed Betty's hand and said, " goodnight"
as he pulled Betty to their room.

Ben got off the floor and closed the door and said, "ok games or
video's."

"What have you got for video's?"

"My dad picked up a copy of Avitar at blockbuster today, have you seen
it yet."

"No."

"No we don't go to the movies much, we usually wait for them to come
out on video."

"Let's watch it, Kyle told me it was awesome," said Justin.

The two boys lay on the foot of the bed with pillows under their
heads.  As they lay next to each other on the bed watching the movie
Ben slipped his arm over Justin's shoulder.  At first Justin didn't know
what to make of it, but he quickly forgot about it as the movie
progressed.

A while later he discovered that he had his arm around Ben's waist.  "I'm
sorry Ben." he said as he quickly went to remove it.

"Hey man don't take it away it felt good with your arm over me."

Justin wasn't sure what was happening, but there was something about
Ben that made him feel tingly all over.

Justin turned to Ben and said, "can I ask you something?"

Ben thought oh no here it comes he wants to know why I have such a big
dick.  "Sure ask me anything you want to know."

"Do you think there is something wrong with me?"

This wasn't what Ben was expecting, so he said, "what do think is wrong
with you?"

Justin rolled over on his back and pulled his boxer's down and pointed
to his dick and said, "you and Kyle both have hair and look like young
men, I still don't have any hair and look the same size as the 12 year old
boys on my summer baseball team, some of them even have bigger dicks
than me.  And look at my balls they are the size of a green grapes.  I bet
yours are way bigger.  And you have all that great hair making you look
so cool."

Ben rolled onto his back and pulled down his boxers and said, "I would
trade dicks and balls with you in a second if I could.  Yours dick is just
so pretty and I love the way it curves up when you are hard and your
scrotum just looks so cool and you don't have any of this nasty hair.  I
mean look at all this it makes me look like a animal.  I hate it I wish it
would all fall out.  So you see I don't think there is anything wrong you
but I sure am a freak."

The two boys looked into each other's eyes and rolled into a tight hug.
Both boys wanted to more than hug, but were afraid the other might not
want to, and the worst thing to happed to a 14 boy was to be outed as a
queer.  So they hugged for a few seconds and then pulled up their boxers
up  and went back to watching the movie.

Kyle had been Justin best friend as long as he could remember and they
had watched movies on each others bed with their arms around each like
he and Ben were doing and it never made him feel like this.  Justin
thought is was a scary good feeling, but he just wasn't sure if it meant
that he and Ben were gay.  When Justin started to take his arm off of Ben
had asked him not to.

When the movie ended the boys went into the bathroom to brush their
teeth and Ben look a leak without thinking about doing it in front of
Justin.  Justin followed him at the toilet.  When Justin got back to Ben's
bedroom Ben was sitting on his bed.

"Which side do you want?" asked Ben.

"Why don't you take your usual side and I'll take the other, K."

"Sounds good to me bud." Ben answered.

The two boys climbed into bed with their backs toward each other.  As
they lay in bed each boy thought of how much he liked the other boy.
Both boys developed a erection and quickly moved farther apart
in the bed.

When Jon and Betty got into bed Jon told her all about what he had
seen at the General's house.  "That boy is scared to death of his father
and
it's obvious that the General thinks his son is a worthless piece of shit".

"Oh Jon what can we do to help that poor boy?"

"I honestly don't know, but we have to make sure that he spend as much
time as possible with Ben and I'm going to see if Ben will help us make
a place here where he can feel loved and safe."

When the morning bird's song penetrated the fog in Justin's brain, he
found himself spooned to Ben's back. His left arm was under Ben's neck
and his right was locked around Ben's lower body, with Ben's right arm
locking it firmly to his body.  As Justin went to move his hand he
suddenly panicked, because he realized that his hand was Ben's groin.
As he tried to move his arm and hand Ben rolled away form him and
trapped his hand right were it was.  As if that wasn't enough his own
 morning woody was jammed against Ben's butt.

All of a sudden Jon walked into Ben's room to check on the boys, and
noticed that Ben had Justin trapped in his deep sleep.  When Jon looked
at Justin he saw nothing but fear in the boys eyes.

"Got you trapped in his sleep-lock does he?" asked Jon.

Justin nodded his head.  "Just pull your arm free he won't wake up.  The
last time we went camping it took me five minutes to unlock him from
myself before I could get up. He always ends up wrapped around anyone
that sleeps with him.  If you keep coming over you will get used to it."

As Justin pulled his hand out from under Ben's body he discovered that
his hand had been holding Ben's hard dick, he was in a panic as he got
out of bed. With tears running down his face he silently slipped on a pair
of Umbro shorts and an Old Navy T, and put the rest of his stuff in the
bag he had brought from his house.  Justin was hoping that he could
sneak out the door and walk home without anyone seeing him.  He had
made it halfway across the kitchen floor when Jon came in the door with
the morning paper in his hands.

"Morning pal what up?" asked Jon.  "Nothing, I just got to go home you
don't need to give me a ride I can walk."

"Wait a minute, your going fishing with Ben and me in just a little while.
I will go wake Ben up so you boys can get ready."

"NO, I can't go with you, and Ben won't want me to go when he wakes
up," said Justin in a small voice.

Jon could see that Justin was almost in tears and he didn't have a clue
as to what was wrong.  Jon reached out his hand to comfort Justin, but
when he did Justin brought his own hand up as if to block a blow.

Jon quickly realized what was happening and said, "Justin I would never
hit or hurt you in anyway, I was just trying to comfort you.  Now tell me
what this is all about and don't spare the details."

"I cccan't. you'll find out when Ben wakes up,"

Justin answered with tears running down his face as he made a dash for
the kitchen door.  Jon had anticipated the move and grabbed him in a
hug.

Holding Justin tight he said, "it will be ok now just tell me."

Jon was getting tired of this, so he said in his best Sergeant-Major voice,
"enough of this nonsense up to Ben's room now."

He took Justin and went up stairs to his son's room.  "Ben, wake up," he
said in his usual morning voice.

Ben opened his eyes and turned on to his back to stretch.  "YUK," Ben
said and then his face got all red.  At that moment Justin began to cry.

Jon held tightly on to Justin's hand and asked Ben, "what's the matter?"

Ben's face got even redder and he just shook his head.  "Justin and Ben I
've had it with this not talking bit. Justin may not have to answer me son
but you do, now get out of that bed and tell me what is going on."

"Dad can I go to the bathroom first please?"

Jon nodded his head and said, "just hurry back I want to get to the
bottom of this once and for all."

Ben came back into the room a few minutes later with a towel wrapped
around his waist.  "Ok what is this all about?  Why is Justin trying to go
home and saying you won't want him here when you wake up.  I want to
know what happened between you two last night."

You want to know what happened between the two of us last night dad,"
Ben asked as his face got red again and he let out a small giggle.

"I think Justin will have to tell you that, but I do know what happened in
front of us," he said as he broke into more giggles.

"Enough, out with it now," commanded Jon.

"Well I'm not sure about Justin, but I must have had one of those dreams
last night, you know the ones that we talked about last year; because
when you woke me up the front of my boxer were a sticky mess.
It must have happened just before he woke up because I was dreaming
that someone was making me feel good and than I felt a hand on the
front of my boxers and I fell back to sleep."

"Justin were you trying to do something to Ben when you woke up this
morning," asked Jon?

"NNNO sir I woke up from a strange dream and found my hand wwwas
on Ben's ahhh thing and I couldn't get it loose; because I was afraid I
would wake him up.  But, when you said that he wouldn't wake up, I
pulled my hand free and got out of bed.  The General must be right, I
must be a faggot pussy boy." Justin said as he broke into tears all over
again.

Jon pulled Justin to himself and held him until he quieted.  "Justin,
Justin it's  ok you're not what your dad said, and even if you were gay
you would still be a wonderful person.   Hasn't your dad talked to you
about all the changes that your body is going to go through in the next
few years?"

"No, he never talks to me unless it is to yell at me for messing up.""

All of a sudden Ben wrapped his arms around Justin and whispered into
his ear, don't worry dude, its cool.  I wonder if we had the same dream."

Justin gave Ben a hug back and told Jon. "thanks."

"Justin, I want you to know that there is nothing and I mean nothing that
you can't tell me or Ben.  If you ever need help in any way you promise
to let us know and we will stand by you, ok."

Justin nodded

"Alright let's go fishing.

The rest of the day was great, and they caught a whole string of nice
bass. As they were driving home Jon asked Justin, "did you enjoy your
first time fishing?"

"It was great, I"m really glad you asked me to come."

"Now that you have experienced the fun part of fishing you get to help
Ben with the not so fun part of taking care of the boat and then cleaning
the fish."

Justin looked at Jon and said, "but, the fish just came out of the clean
lake they can't be dirty."

Jon and Ben both cracked up and Justin sat there wondering what was so
funny.  Ben gave Justin a little punch in the arm and said, "I will show
you how to clean a fish when we get home and then you will
understand."

With that statement he and Jon burst out laughing again.  Just before
they got back to the house Jon looked over at Justin and asked if he
would like to stay over again tonight.

"I'm not allowed to on school nights," answered Justin.

"I'll call and talk with your parents and see what they will say."

"I wish you wouldn't I would probable get in trouble for asking", said
Justin in a small scarred voice.

When they got home Jon told the boys to unhook the boat and spray it
out with hose and then stand it up to drain.  He went into the house and
gave Betty a hug and kiss.

"How did it go with Justin this today," asked Betty?

"Well the morning started real strange but the fishing was great,"
answered Jon.

"What happened this morning," asked Betty?

"Just guy stuff, part of boys growing up, no big deal.  So when you do
the laundry and find a pair of Ben's boxer pretty messed up don't worry
about it," answered Jon.

"I swear you guys have more secrets than a whole car load of priests."

"While the one thing I can tell you is that is one nice kid out there and
he has been treated real bad.  I just wish there was more we could do to
make his life better.  I asked if he wanted to spend the night and he got
all scared that he would get into trouble for just asking."

"Oh, Jon why do some parents have to be so hard on their kids," asked
Betty?

"I'm going to call the General and tell him that Justin enjoyed the
fishing, but he needs to learn that he has to clean up after and I want him
to stay the night and finish the job.  That should get him to be able spend
the night without getting in trouble."

Jon, called and Justin's mom answered.  "Mrs. Blake is the General
home?"

"No he is at the base, who's calling please?"

"This is Sergeant-Major Goshen and I just wanted to let you know that
Justin had a great time fishing today, but."

"What stupid thing did he do this time," spat out Mrs. Blake.

"He didn't anything wrong, in fact he is the best behaved friend Ben
has ever had.  I sure you and the General must be very proud to have
such a wonderful son.  The reason I'm calling is there are a lot of fish to
clean and I would like for Justin to have to help Ben.  I want him to
understand that there is more to fishing then just the fun of catching
them.  That is why I would like keep him here overnight and bring him
to school in the morning with Ben.  I will make sure that they don't stay
up late."

"Mr. Russel, we don't usually allow Justin to spend a school night away
from home; however I will call the General and have him call you if you
will give me your number."

A few minutes later the phone rang and Jon answered, "good
afternoon.".

"General Blake here, did that little bastard put you up to calling me?"

"Sir, you know better than to even ask something like that.  I am
speaking to you before I say anything to your wonderful son.  I don't
know why you call him a bastard, but the whole time he has been with
us he has been a model child.  My wife, son, and I have greatly enjoyed
having him as a guest, and hope he may return often.  But, the reason I
want him to spend the night is so that he may learn the responsibility of
taking care of the fish he has caught," answered Jon.

"Yes, I can see that it would be good for him to learn to do the work as
well as have the fun.  He may spend the night without any impunity,"
said the General in a clipped voice.

"Well, what did he say," asked Betty?

"Justin can stay 'without any impunity' is what he said. You know
something , that guy may be my commander but he is a real jerk, and
doesn't deserve to have a wonderful son like Justin, and as if that isn't
bad enough his wife is just as bad.  They never speak of Justin without
using some type of derogatory remark."

"Jon, is there anyone you might be able to talk at the base to see if we
can help Justin?"

"The only one I can think of is Captain Russel, Don and I have known
each other for more than twenty years and his son and Justin are best
friends. I'll talk to him tomorrow to see what he knows and what he
thinks we can do to help."

Jon walked outside to make sure that the boys had cleaned the boat
properly.

The boys had just finished and Justin asked, "could you give me
a ride home it' getting and I need to go home."

"Not tonight you don't," said Jon.

"Please Sir if I don't get home soon I will be in big trouble."

"Calm down Justin, I spoke with your dad and told him that I wanted to
teach you about responsibility of taking care of the fish you catch."

"He didn't ask if I had asked you to call for me, did he."

"Yes he did and I told him you didn't even know that I was calling him.
He said that since it was going to be a lesson for you it would be ok this
time."

"Jon, why are you being so nice to me," asked Justin?

"Justin, I know, we don't know you very well, but it seems to me that
your parents don't treat you very well.  In fact I think your father has
physically abused you; now I'm not asking you to reveal any family
secrets, but from what I have seen you are a good boy and should be
treated like we do Ben.  I wish there was something my wife and I can
do to make your life better.  I just want you to know that you are always
welcome here and you will always be safe here."

Justin gave Jon a big hug and said, " you have no idea how much that
means to me."

"But, I still don't understand why we have to wash the fish?"

Jon and Ben again shook with laughter as they both said, "you will find
out soon enough."  An hour later Justin, now knew the difference
between a clean fish and having to clean a fish.

"For something that lives in something like water they sure can make
you stink and get dirty in a hurry.  What do we do with the fish now that
we have cleaned them," asked Justin as he held up his scaly bloody
hands.

"Mom will freeze them until she decides to have them for supper."

"You boys rinse your hand under the hose and then go into the laundry
room and wash as best as you can.  Leave your clothes in there and put a
towel on before you come into the kitchen for supper," said Jon.

"Your parents don't mind you coming to the table in just a towel."

"Nah, it's not something we do all the time, but once in a while mom lets
us, answered Ben.

"Your family is really weird, but it sure is a lot more fun here than at
the General's house."

As the boys were eating supper Betty said "you both need a shower, and
both Jon and I also do, but our hot water heater is acting up and the
plumber can't come until Tuesday.  So unless you really don't want to I
would appreciate it if the two of you to take a shower together so there
will be some hot water left for me after dad finishes."

Ben and Justin went into the bathroom and climbed into the shower.
When Ben turned around to rinse his hair, Justin noticed a large grease
mark on Ben's back.

"Do you know that you have grease on your back dude."

"Where I can't see it."

"Right there below your shoulder blade."

"I can't reach it, could you wash my back for me?"

"Ah, ah, I guess so, you don't mind after what happened last night?"

"Dude I told you this morning it cool, so how's bout my back."

As Justin washed Ben's back he tried to not think about what he was
doing.

Finally the grease was completely gone and Justin said, "all gone
dude clean as the day you were born."  "

"Thanks bud, here switch places with me so you can rinse your hair."

The boys changed places and Justin turned to face the shower nozzle and
begin rinsing his hair. Ben took the washcloth and began to wash Justin's
back.  Justin almost jumped out of his skin when Ben began washing his
back.

"There, one good turn deserves another, turn around and rinse off your
back, then I'll rinse one last time and we'll be done."said Ben.

As Justin slowly turned around he didn't dare look down hoping that Ben
wouldn't either.  But as the two boys tried to go by each other in the tub,
their dicks touched and both looked down and said Kyle's famous line
from the locker room, "ah, the damn thing did it again."  Both boys
broke into a fit of giggles.

Ben looked into Justin's face and whispered, "Justin my dad told me that
lots of  boys our age to jerk off together and they often do it to each
other.  Now I have never done it with anyone, but I would like to with
you if you want.  Dad told 'me it doesn't mean that I would be gay,' he
said.  He used to do it with his best friend when he was our age.  So do
you want to do each other?"

"Are you sure no one will find out."

"Of course not, it will be our secret."

"Ok, but I don't shoot yet."

"That's ok it is still a lot of fun and feels great."

They both giggled at that statement, then Ben reached out and for the
first time in his life took someone's else's dick into his hand.  Oh, my
god it is so soft and hard at the same time, he thought.  He began to
slowly pump his hand up and down Justin's beautiful smooth dick.
Justin reached out and wrapped his hand around Ben's huge dick, it was
so big his hand wouldn't even fit all the way around.  The two boys
stared into each others eyes as they stroked each other.  In just a short
time both groaned and experienced their first ever orgasm caused by
someone's else's hand.

"Wow, " both boys said at the same time.

 Ben shut off the water and then the two boy climbed out of the shower
and dried off, and ran into Ben's room to get dressed.  Justin reached into
his bag for a clean pair of boxers, then looked at Ben and said,

"I'm going to put on plain white CK's.  We're aren't going to be twins
again tonight are we; because I think I might wet myself if that happened
again?"

"Your safe dude," Ben laughed as he jumped out from the other side of
the bed wearing a pair of bright red Tommy H boxers.

The two boys came down the stairs with their arms around each other's
shoulders still laughing about the boxer thing from the night before.

When Betty saw the boys she said, "stop right there and don't move a
muscle I want a picture of the two of you."

Betty grabbed her digital camera and took several so that when Ben had
down loaded them to the computer they could choose the best one to
print out.  Once the pictures were loaded on the computer the three of
them choose the best photo and Ben printed out three copies so each boy
would have one and his mom would also have one.

"You two look nice together like as if you had been best friends
forever."said Betty.


After watching TV with Ben's parents for a hour, Betty said, "ok guys it
time for bed."

Ben got up and gave each of his parents a hug, and then the two boys
started to leave the room.

"Justin, come here please," said Betty.  Justin walked over to Betty
where she gave him a big hug, then said "you do like hugs don't you?"

Justin nodded his head and the two boys left the room to get ready for
bed.  The two boys climbed into bed with their backs to each other.

After a few minutes Ben said, "are you still awake?"

"Yea"

"I need to tell you something, but I need you to promise not be too mad
at me and stop being my friend."

"Ben, even though we haven't been friends for that long you have been a
real friend and no matter what you say that won't change."

"Well it is about where your hand was this morning."

"Ben I'm really sorry about that I was sleeping when it happened
honestly."

"I know but you didn't put it there.  I woke up around five this morning
and when I went to stretch I moved my hand down my stomach, I
bumped your hand and it ended on top of my boxers.  All of sudden I got
hard, and then I was really scared and so I tried to move your hand, but
you were still asleep and your hand closed around my boner.  I know
you were still asleep; because you were snoring quietly.  I just lay there
trying to get back to sleep, but with your hand where it was I just
couldn't relax and before I could stop it from happening I had shot off in
my boxers.  I'm really sorry I didn't say any thing this morning. But,
when I sat up and found the back of my boxes were wet and sticky also I
was confused about what had happened."

"Ben, it's ok I really was asleep, but I did have a dream that was about
you and me maybe that is when it happened to me."

"Justin"

"Yea"

"Do you think this means were gay?"

"I don't know, I'm just not sure."

"Me either, I mean I really liked what we did in the shower,"

"Justin, should we ask my dad about this?"

"No, Ben please don't tell anyone.  If the General ever heard anything
about this he would kill me, and I don't mean I would be in trouble.  I
know that he would beat me to death, he hates gays and says they should
all be killed."

Ben could feel the bed start to shaking from Justin.

"Justin, I can tell that you're not making this up, so I promise I won't
say anything to anyone."

"Thanks bud I was real scared there for a minute."

"Justin"

"Yea"

"Does your dad beat you?"

"Does he hurt you real bad?"

"Sniffle, sniffle , yea sometimes really bad.  But you can't tell anyone or
it would just get worse"

"Justin, do you think it would be ok if I cuddled up to you and just held
you so you aren't scared anymore?"

"I guess that would be ok."

Ben rolled over and put his arms around Justin, the two boys quickly feel
asleep and were still wrapped together when Jon poked his head in the
room in the morning and told them to wake up.