Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:59:15 -0700 From: Eric James Subject: I wanna know what love is chp 14 This fictional story contains sex and graphic violence between underage minors. All normal legal warnings apply. Story should not be used, duplicated or re-written without the consent of the author as the author holds the copy right to the story. Please feel free to send all comments and suggestions to my email eric.z.james@live.com - the wonderful people at nifty.org would like us to remind the loyal readers to donate if you can, the site could use all the help it could get to stay in operation, every dollar counts - I wanna know what love is chp 14 Jules was a shut in for the whole weekend, he had the locks changed and the alarm re-set because he knew friends had keys to his place, and he didn't want to see anyone, but that didn't stop them from calling or stopping by. Jules didn't answer the door, his phone or his email, except for Caden who was bored and just wanted to say "hi", he wasn't aware of the situation. He sat around his house alone, naked and smoking the occasional joint while replaying the whole situation over and over in his head. He realized he was taking it really hard and he had no idea why, he and Aiden had only been together for a week and he already had it in the back of his head that Aiden might not be ready for an actual relationship with him. Then he realized that what really hurt him was not that Aiden denied them being together but the fact that Dante said such hurtful things to Jules and Aiden just stood there and did nothing. By Sunday evening, Jules had decided he would eventually have to forgive Aiden but he wasn't ready to do so just yet, aside from the fact that Aiden claimed to love him, but he tarnished their friendship by the lack of consideration he had for him, and he was not going to re-start anything romantic with Aiden until he came to grips with it if even at all. Jules slept very restlessly that night, it resulted in the most intense nightmare he had. He woke up screaming then fell off his bed; he hit his head on the bedside table as he collapsed causing him to vomit all over the floor. He got up on his feet and stumbled into his bathroom to splash water on his face, his breathing was becoming labored and his chest started getting tight. He splashed cold water on his face and head but it didn't help, he couldn't breathe and became very dizzy, his eyes rolled in the back of his head and he passed out. When he woke up late Monday morning, he was back in his bed and tucked in. He had a throbbing head ache that seemed to pound more as he moved to sit up. He tried to think back as to what happened and remembered having a nightmare and hitting his head and then vomiting, he looked down at the floor where he was sure he had thrown up but it looked freshly cleaned. He slowly got out of the bed and stood to his feet, the movement caused his head to pound more and he hissed and grabbed his head. "What are you doing? Get back into bed" Kodi said startling Jules, he turned around and saw a half naked Kodi wearing only a pair of shorts lying across the couch in Jules's bedroom. "What are you doing in here?" Jules asked hoarsely. "I heard you screaming your head off last night, so I came to check on you but my key wouldn't work so I had to scale your balcony and I found you passed out in the bathroom. You scared the living hell out of me Jules, I picked you up and was going to take you to the hospital but you kept mumbling no doctors to I put you in bed and slept on your couch" "I don't remember much except hitting my head and throwing up" Jules said with his palms pressed to his temples "My head hurts really badly" "I knew I should have taken you to the ER, you probably have a concussion. I let you go to sleep, which was a bad idea, but we are going now. I don't care what you say" Kodi said. He found a pair of basketball shorts and a t-shirt and helped Jules get dressed; he slowly walked him to his Jeep and helped Jules get in. He quickly ran back to the guest house and returned to his Jeep wearing a hoodie and a pair of sneakers. They got to the hospital fast since it was only a few blocks down the street, Kodi walked Jules into the emergency room and within minutes; Jules was in the back seeing a physicians assistant. After being in the emergency room for an hour, the doctor told Jules that he did in fact suffer a concussion and after completing an IV drip with pain meds in it, he was free to go. Kodi drove him home and helped him back into his bed. Once in his room he helped get Jules undressed, neither of them was embarrassed about Jules's nudity. Kodi tucked Jules in and told him he was going to make him some soup and get his books from out of the guest house so he can study, Jules protested but Kodi said he needed to eat and he wasn't going to leave him to fend for himself. Jules saw no point in arguing and with a sigh, laid his head back on his pillow. About twenty minutes later; Kodi re-appeared with a bowl of Kodi's homemade soup that he had fixed for him before, and his book bag. He propped up some pillows for Jules to sit back against and gave him to bowl so he could feed himself; he pulled a sage stick out of his book bag along with a long eagle feather. He lit the sage stick and fanned the sweet smoke with the feather into the air while humming to himself. Jules wanted to ask what exactly he was doing, but thought it would be rude to interrupt. By the time Kodi was done saging the room, Jules has finished his soup; he scooted down further into his bed and leaned back. Kodi kicked off his shoes and climbed on the other side of the bed and pulled out his books and laptop so he could began his studying, Jules wondered why he didn't just sit on the couch but thought it would be nice to have someone close to him. As Kodi started his school work; Jules leaned into him and thanked him for all he did for him. "No problem, I'll always be here for you if you need" Jules smiled at the comment and within seconds he was fast asleep. Kodi studied for a little over an hour with Jules asleep leaning against him, he started to get tired himself and dozed off his is text book on his lap. A little while later, Jules woke up from a minor nightmare, Kodi grabbed Jules' hand and put it on his chest and told him to remember how to focus on his heartbeat, hoping to calm Jules down before he had another panic attack. It worked; after a few minutes both Jules and Kodi were back asleep. Kodi woke up in the early evening and softly slid out of the bed trying not to wake Jules, he crept downstairs and into the kitchen to make Jules a light supper. He decided on grilling some chicken breasts and making a salad, he seasoned the meat and threw it on the grill and then started cutting up vegetables for the salad. "What the hell am I doing?" he thought to himself "I can't fall for him, his dad would kill me if I did, and Jules would kill me if he knew that I actually worked for his dad. But I can't stop thinking about him, what if I came clean about working for Stellan? Would he hate me?....No I can't attempt to start anything with him, he really has a lot going on right now and he doesn't need me causing more of a distraction" He finished berating himself just in time to toss the salad and turn over the chicken; he went upstairs to wake Jules up so he could have something to eat. He helped him get dressed and walked him downstairs. Jules sat at the island bar in the kitchen and Kodi served him his food, they sat and talked and Kodi was glad that Jules seemed to be feeling better. After dinner was finished; Jules helped clean the kitchen then sat down on the couch in the family room and put on a movie and asked Kodi if he wanted to join him. Kodi told himself that he should really go back to the guest house and get some homework done and try to distance himself from Jules. He stared into the kids eyes while he quietly debated with himself as to what he should do, his instincts won out over his brain and he decided to join Jules on the couch. He decidedly sat on the opposite side of the couch thinking it would be better if he sat further away from Jules. That however did not happen. As they got into the movie; laughing and joking, they scooted closer to each other and by the time the movie was over they had fallen asleep, wrapped in each other's arms. ************************************** The week had pretty much stayed the way the weekend had for Jules; he stayed home from school and emailed his assignments to his teachers. He decided to reach out to at least a few of his friends and texted both Caden and Dustin to let them know that he was ok and though he really hadn't wanted to go to school and be near Aiden, that he was still inviting them over that Thursday for Thanksgiving dinner. Caden replied telling Jules that his family normally had dinner early and that he would be over shortly after and ready to spend the weekend, Jules had totally forgot about inviting Caden to spend the weekend with him but wasn't going to back out on him. Dustin replied right away telling Jules that he would be there without a doubt. Thanksgiving finally came and the Barrett residence was full of the smells that came with cooking a holiday meal, of course Jules had prepared the meal by himself and it was bittersweet because it was his first major holiday without is mother, and his father wasn't there as well. Kodi and Dustin both showed up at the same time to help Jules set up for the rest of the guests and shortly after that Caden arrived. There was a knock at the side door and Jules checked the security monitors to make sure he knew who it was before answering, he wasn't surprised to see that is was Amy and her mother as they have had thanksgiving together as a family for years. When he opened the door, he greeted Ms. Talley with a hug and a kiss and took the side dishes she was carrying from her; he gave Amy a slight smile and a kiss on the cheek. After his guests entered past him, he tried to close the door but a foot blocked his path, he looked up to see Aiden staring at him with a pleading look on his face. "Happy Thanksgiving Jules" he said. "Go home, I don't want you here" Jules replied angrily. "You don't mean that" Aiden said with a frown. "This is like my second home" "Not any more...you are not welcome, I changed the locks and I haven't returned your calls, texts or emails. If you haven't figured it out yet, you are a complete idiot" "I'm sorry Jules, I love you...you have to believe me" he begged "Are you going to end years of friendship over something so stupid" "Me end the friendship?" Jules asked shocked and pissed off "You ended the friendship when you told me you loved me and wanted to be with me, you ended the friendship when you slept with me every night for a week, then you sealed the end of the friendship when you lied and told that ass hole that I was drunk and tried to kiss you and then you stood there and let him say those things to me and didn't deny or defend me. You know nothing of the word friendship, you are not longer welcome in my home and if you don't leave now..." he ranted but was cut-off. "What's going on?" Ms. Talley asked. "Your son isn't welcome in my home, I told him to leave and if he refuses I will remove him" he said in a formal tone with a bite behind it. "Why, what did he do now?" she asked disappointedly, with her hands on her hips. Aiden gave Jules a wide eyed, fearful look. Jules knew Aiden's mother didn't know about him or anything that happened and opened his mouth to tell her, but thought otherwise and said they she should ask him but to do it outside because he wasn't to step foot inside is home. She took Jules's tone to be very serious, she knew full well the training Stellan had given Jules and didn't want to push him any further. She walked outside with her son to question him about what was going on. "Tell me what you did; Jules has never been upset with you ever" "I...I kinda...um...shit mom, I don't know what to say" "Don't use that language with me, spit it out. You know you can always talk to me, so you need to tell me what is going on, Jules is pissed off and he shouldn't have to deal with that and being away from both parents today" "I hurt him kinda bad" he said sadly, shuffling his feet and looking at the ground. "What did you do?" she asked. "I...I can't really tell you, I don't know how to" "Did you tell him that you were in love with him?" she asked after staring at her son intently for about a minute. "What?!" he asked shocked and slightly scared. "A mother always knows honey; I've known that you have been in love with Jules for a while now. So am I right, did you tell him?" He nodded, looking at the ground again. "Ok so why is he mad?" "Well...I told him last weekend, and he told me he loved me back and that he always had and it was great. It was fantastic finally getting to be with him the way that I wanted and then we won the championship and he threw the team a party, we were up in his room and we were making out and Dante walked in a and caught us" he took a deep breath and let it out slow "When he saw us, I pushed him off of me and said he was drunk and tried to kiss me, then Dante said all these bad things to Jules about him trying to rape me because he didn't get it enough when Josh and Jacob did it to him and I just stood there and let it happen" "Oh my God, you're an idiot" she said with a sigh. "Are you mad at me mom?" he asked timidly. "You bet you light skinned black ass I'm mad...but not by what you think, I don't care if you're gay or bi or whatever you think about yourself, you are my son and I love you, if it was a problem I wouldn't except Jules and I look at him like he was my own flesh and blood like I did his mother. I'm mad because I raised you better then the way you behave; I'm finding it hard not to slap you right now. You are to defend him at all costs, you know that, I raised you to know that, he would do it for you and you stood there and left him out in the cold. You broke his heart and knowing all the shit that he is going through, I don't know if he will forgive you" Ms. Talley told Aiden to stay outside while she went inside to speak with Jules. She gave him a hug and told him that she was sorry for what happened; he was taken aback by the fact that Aiden had been honest with his mother when he couldn't be honest with himself. She asked Jules to allow Aiden to stay for dinner because above all else they were family, she promised him that Aiden wouldn't speak to him or step out of line, Jules agreed. That all sat down to dinner in the formal dinning room with Jules sitting at the head of the table, he decided not to give Aiden a second thought and try his hardest to enjoy the meal. Everyone was fully aware of the tension in the room, but everyone tried to push through it and with forced conversation. Dustin wanted nothing more then to reach across the table and break Aiden's nose but he didn't want to risk upsetting Jules any more then he already was, Aiden kept sneaking glances at Jules and was doing his best to cover the hurt and guilty feelings. Kodi sat next to Jules which made him feel a lot better, he had just realized that he actually liked having Kodi around, he had a way of making everything seem like it was going to be ok. Jules started to relax a little bit and really got into enjoying his meal when the door bell rang, with a confused look on his face he got up walked over to the security monitor to see who rang the door bell. With a smile on his face he ran to the door to open it. "Brother" "Happy Thanksgiving brother" Damian said, giving Jules a huge hug. "Why didn't my key work?" "Long story" Jules said ushering him in the house. "And why haven't you returned my calls?" "Another long story" Jules replied with a grim look "What are you doing here?" "You haven't read you newspaper today?" Damian asked surprised. Jules shook his head no. "Go get it while I say hi to everyone" he said sadly. Jules knew something was up and he started to panic, but he steeled his nerves and went to retrieve the paper while Damian walked into the dining room to greet everyone. After saying his hello's giving Ms. Talley a hug, he sat down in Jules's seat and started picking at his food while waiting for him to return. Jules walked back into the dining room with a nervous look on his face. "No one read the paper today?" Jules asked annoyed to everyone in the room. Everyone replied no except for Aiden, who kept his eyes on his plate. He unfolded the paper to the front pager and read it out loud. "Jason West; father of convicted rapists and batterers Joshua and Jacob West was murdered in a shoot out with American Government agents in Belize yesterday. West; who was 45 years old and an officer with San Bernardino City Police, was also arrested and charged with the same crime as his sons but skipped bail and fled to South America. No one knows as of yet how he was able to flee the country, but had been on the run and spotted traveling across South America, American Government agents got a tip of his whereabouts and went to capture the fugitive. Upon trying to take him into custody; West decided not to comply resulting in a shoot out and subsequently ending his life also ending the life of at least one of the American agents. In a surprising turn of events, the government agents did not have permission from the Belize government to be in the country to capture anyone and was later arrested and are now being held in Belize Police custody" "It was my dad, wasn't it?" he asked Damian in a whisper. "Stellan was there and led the mission of course, but he wasn't the one killed, he was however one of the ones that was arrested and taken into custody" Jules started to violently shake and Damian ran and wrapped his arms around him. "Don't worry brother, he is ok, my dad is already on his way there to get him out and he also sent me here to be with you" he said, rocking Jules in his arms. "Is he really ok?" "Yes, I promise" "And you're gonna stay?" Jules asked, still holding onto Damian. "As long as you need me brother" After shedding a few nervous silent tears, Jules sat back down to eat. Everyone finished their meal and went into the family room to have dessert. Aiden felt really nervous to be around Damian, he didn't know if he knew what he had done to Jules and was scared of the consequences, the only thing he could do was sit silently on the couch and watch the football game. The night was coming to an end and everyone was packing up to leave, Jules took Caden upstairs to show him the guest room where he would be staying. He felt bad that he hadn't really paid any attention to his young friend, he knew he was also going through a lot and really wanted to be there for him, but the evenings events had put a lot on his mind. He apologized to Caden for seeming distant but Caden understood what was going on, he gave him a hug and told him not to worry about it because they were spending the weekend together. While Caden and Jules were upstairs, Damian was downstairs making himself at home like he usually did when inside the Barrett home, he walked over to the bar and poured himself a shot of vodka to ease himself and then went right for Aiden. "You and I need to have a word outside, now" Damian said to Aiden, clearly pissed off. (Author's Note) I'm really sorry for the delay in this chapter, but I needed to take some time off from writing to get my head together and do some traveling or work...BUT now I'm back in the swing of things...the upcoming chapters will be juicy and action packed I promise. I have also been reading some very very good Harry Potter fan fiction...I highly recommend that you guys look up Harry Potter and The Bound Prince series by Slashpervert...its all about Harry and Draco falling in love...its not to be missed. 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