Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 1:07:14 -0500 From: Brad Subject: brad and scott part 1 This is a real life story. In fact, it is more than just that. It is the story of what I am currently experiencing up to this very moment. I will continue to write this story as it progresses. No part of this story is fiction. I purposely have not included certain details of this story to protect the privacy of myself and others. I hope that this occasional absence of detail does not detract from your overall enjoyment of this piece. I think that this is a new kind of idea to write a story about one's life as it unfolds. I hope you find it to be of interest. And please, feel free to email me with questions or comments. I would love to hear about what people think of my story, and I am open to any suggestions, both for my real life experiences as well as what I should add to this story. My email address is brad_story@alltel.net. If you would like to chat with me, email me and I will give you my usernames for my IM apps. I have ICQ, MSN, and AIM. Again, I would love to hear from you. This story is the property of myself and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without prior permission from myself. Please email me if you would like to obtain such permission. Brad and Scott I live in a small town with less than 15,000 people. My friends and I always joke that there are more deer than people where we live. The sad part is, it's true. I am 15 and a freshman in high school. My life up to now has been very confusing, but I have managed to get by. I am in the middle of an experience that could be the best, or worst, thing to come my way up to this point in my life. I am about five foot seven inches. I have blonde hair that you could almost call dirty blonde, and I love to grow it long enough that it's shaggy. My eyes are close to being forest green, which I love. My smile is perfect, since my teeth have never experienced a cavity and are pure white. I will never need braces either. One thing that I don't like however is my small gut. It's the type of gut that you wouldn't be able to see when I have a shirt on, but it is easily seen when I have my shirt off. This bothers me, and it has lowered my self-confidence for years. My face isn't one you'd exactly call pretty. I have more than a little acne, but I don't have a lot. So overall, I am an average teenager. To understand things better, I'll reminisce to my very early beginnings. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and named Bradley, which means "from the wide or broad meadow." Why my parents chose that name I may never know. Anyways, the first two years of my life were spent in a small home in Camden, MD. I don't remember any of it, but knowing that I'm from there makes me feel in some way connected to it. So after those two years, we moved to my current town. I was a wild kid growing up. A doctor told my mom once to put me on Ritalin, but she decided I would just grow out of it eventually. And I did. But before I had matured past this, I managed to get quite a few people angry with my demeanor. Once during soccer, my assistant coach strangled me for being so hyper. Only after the head coach intervened did he stop. I continued to play soccer through my freshman year, although I no longer had that guy for a coach. There is a big part of my childhood that is a secret. It's one that I've never fully revealed to anyone. I was a very curious little boy. I fooled around with many kids my age over the years. The first I can remember is when I was around 5, I used to play "doctor" with my grandma's neighbor's kid when I was visiting. All that this consisted of was us pulling our pants down and touching each other's genitals. It wasn't much, but it made me even more curious. Eventually, that ended. It wasn't, however, the end of my experimenting as I continued to find people to play with over the years. There are four people that I distinctly remember doing things with. It was never much. I didn't get the chance to fool around with any more girls though, which may be the reason I turned out like I did. With the first two, it was just some more genital touching. The third got a bit more intense. I was around 11 or 12 and I had a neighbor, and although he was straight, he did let me give him a blowjob every now and then. I loved the opportunity to experiment in this way. We did this about ten times in all. I was a bit afraid though, and I never let him have an orgasm in my mouth. It was at the start of these encounters with him that I started having regrets about what I was doing. In the heat of the moment, it always seemed so fun, but afterwards, I would get very depressed and feel terrible for having done such things. Back then I never even thought about having a sexual preference, let alone even think about sex. To understand better what I did with the fourth one, I first have to explain my life from seventh grade on. Back near the start of seventh grade, I started to jack off regularly. This fueled my sex drive, and caused me to start thinking about sexual things for the first time in my life. I started to become deeply disturbed with the emotions I was feeling, however. I regarded several boys my age and younger in my school as being "cute" or "hot." Being that our nation is homophobic, I often have heard talk of how it is wrong to be gay and like people of your same gender. With this in mind, I began to hate myself for thinking these things. I would swing in and out of depression. In my eighth grade year, I met the fourth guy that I fooled around with. I never really liked him from the start, because he was the kind of person that is really annoying. Being a nice guy though, I put up with him, which turned out to be a big mistake. He had me over his house a few times. I forget how it started, but we would play games and do things that would involve us getting barely clothed. I could tell that he was going through the same thing I was, which was thinking that I was bisexual but being too afraid to do anything serious with a guy. So we continued this. There were times where we would just get on each other in our boxers and just hump for a while. I started to have serious post-orgasmic regrets, as I regarded this person as being very annoying. I was angry for doing things with him, and I wished there was some way I could stop. I started to get more and more depressed as time went on. Near the end of eighth grade, I decided that I couldn't take it anymore. So I made up an excuse to hate him and break all contact with him. It worked. So there I was, again without any people to experiment with. I used this time up until the start of my freshman year to really think about who I was. After the start of my freshman year, I finally made the conclusion that I was bisexual. I had denied it all of these years because of how it was regarded as being wrong, but I didn't care anymore. I was bi and there was no changing it. I still didn't like it though. It would take an extraordinary event to occur in my life to make me finally accept that being bisexual was OK. At some point in time, I was at the movies with some friends. I overheard two of them talking about this bisexual kid who went to the public middle school (I attended Catholic schools). This was too good to be true. A kid just like me? I had to meet him. I listened until I found out his name, and then I was so happy about learning this new information that I don't really remember what was said after that. I looked him up on ICQ, and sure enough he had an account. I didn't add him at first though, because I was afraid of what it would be like. I hadn't yet told anyone that I was bisexual, and the thought of doing so was scary to say the least. Eventually, I built up the courage to add him. I started talking to him and at first we just talked about things we liked. I really wanted him to just tell me he was bi so I could out myself to him as well. At this point in my life, I was ready for a serious long-term relationship and I believed that he could be the one to have it with. Finally after a few days, it happened. Scott told me that he was bisexual. I was so happy, because I had finally met another bisexual guy my age. I waited until the perfect moment to tell him that I was bi. I did, and his message portrayed the implication that he was as happy to meet me as I was to meet him. So through this knowledge of each other's sexual orientations, we basically had a newfound enjoyment in talking to each other. We shared our opinions on things that we couldn't share with anyone else. Well, I couldn't anyways. He was lucky enough to have friends that he was out to, so he had a bunch of people to talk with. Since Scott was the only person that knew I was bisexual, I had only him to talk to. Somewhere in all of this, I found out that this girl I occasionally talked to on ICQ was a close friend of Scott. Since I knew Scott openly talked about his sexuality with his close friends, I knew I could confide my secrets regarding this with her. Her and I became friends, and often talked about Scott on ICQ. I loved having someone to talk to about my emotions, as it really helped me put my thoughts into words. The feedback was nice as well. I had such high hopes for what might have happened between Scott and me. Unfortunately and unknowingly, this made me very sensitive to any type of confusion or mishap between us. I learned this the hard way. Since he knew who I was and what I looked like, while I had no idea what he looked like, I told him that he should introduce himself to me at a dance we were both going to. I had no idea that he was shy though, as he seemed very outgoing from our talks. The dance passed, and he didn't come up to me. I had figured he didn't go. Sure enough however, he had. He wouldn't give me a finite answer on ICQ as to his reason for not saying hi to me either. I was heartbroken, as I thought that he didn't want to meet me. I just went downstairs and cried. I must have cried for a half hour. Now this was strange for me as I am not the type of person who cries often. The only times I generally cry are deaths of close family members. But I was so sure that Scott and I would be instant matches and that our relationship would be perfect that I failed to foresee anything happening other than what I had envisioned in my mind. After that event, I began to read Scott differently. In my mind, he went from being an outgoing kid to a shy kid. This helped me not to get too depressed with this setback, as I simply told myself that he was just too shy and nervous to approach me. I took it into my hands to meet him. I managed to borrow a yearbook from a friend of mine, which I used to look up Scott. A long time later, I finally saw him for the first time. It was at a punk show in the town next to mine. He stands about 5 foot 4 or 5 inches tall, has long black emo-style hair, has brown eyes (or so I think), is thin, and just overall is handsome. I thought about going up to him so many times, but I didn't on the grounds that he was shy and might be uncomfortable, and also because I didn't want to make a bad first impression. I wanted time to think about how to first approach him. To make sure I had picked out the right person, I asked him that night on ICQ if he was indeed who I thought he was. I was indeed correct, so I made a promise to myself to say hi to him next time I saw him. It was at our first soccer practice, as I had been fortunate in getting on the same team as him. This happened but a stroke of luck. He had joined the soccer team of a town next to mine, but they hadn't had enough people sign up. So all people who signed up for there got moved to my town's teams. And Scott was on mine! I didn't even believe him when he first told me, but I found out at the first practice that it was indeed true. Knowing that I had to keep my promise to myself and break the glacial wall of ice between us, I thought of something to say to him. I remember it quite well. He had gotten to practice a few minutes late, and had missed running the lap around the field that the rest of us had done. So I casually said to him "You so missed that fun lap we just ran." He just grunted. This both saddened me and reaffirmed my belief that he was shy. I decided not to let it get to me, as he was probably as afraid of giving me a bad impression as I was with him. I may have said one more thing to him that practice, but I don't know for sure. Now that I had gotten past that, I wanted to start getting to know him better so we could be more open and less shy with each other in public. We did this slowly, and for someone as impatient as me, it was a rather grueling process. There was one night when a friend of mine asked me to hang out with some people down in a town next to ours. When we got there, I was stunned. There was Scott! For the next few hours, I would be hanging out with Scott! I was ecstatic. This was the best coincidence ever. I loved every minute of it. Even though we really didn't talk much (a few sentences), I still loved it. I eventually decided that I needed to be more outgoing and less shy with him. So I decided to casually drop the hint that I wanted to hang out with him again sometime. He replied to it with "yes yes." I didn't quite know whether this meant that he actually thought it would be a good idea or if he meant something else by it. Scott is a hard kid to read. I really think he took my hints into consideration. The other day in soccer practice when we paired up for a drill, he immediately chose me for his partner. Needless to say I was amazed. I was so happy. That is the one thing that makes me think that I'm getting through to him and that he's willing to be in a relationship as well. I had a fun conversation with him one night. We were talking and he mentioned that he was telling a story to one of his friends. I told him that he should tell me a story too, as I knew I could turn it into an erotic one. We both contributed to the completion of the piece, and I think that it added something to our friendship that we were able to tell a story together. True or not, it was a fun time for me, and I find it worthy of mention. Tonight, I went to a punk show that he also attended. He was in his group of friends and I was in mine, but we sometimes mixed and I got to say a thing or two to him. I really don't like the fact that we don't talk much in public, and I hope it changes soon. I really like him and want to be with him. Tomorrow night, there is a play at the high school in the town next to mine. Scott loves plays, as do I, so I have been considering asking him to go to it with me. I'm just afraid that he won't want a one on one thing happening yet. Maybe I'll find a way to have some of his friends come along to make it more comfortable for him. Who knows, I may not even ask him. That's where my story ends for now. I will be sure to add more as it happens. I may choose to wait until I have a fair bit written before I upload it, but be patient, it will come.