Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:38:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex M Subject: A Father's Love - Chapter 10 A Father's Love Chapter 10 By Alex M David stood in bathroom steadying himself on the counter as he felt his cum beginning to run down his thigh. He quickly grabbed a washcloth and reaching under the leg of his shorts he pushed the towel hoping that it would absorb as much of the mess as possible. He couldn't believe what had just happened- what he felt was going to be burned into his mind for the rest of his life. He unbuttoned his shorts and dropped them to the floor along with his boxer briefs which were now soaked with cum. He did as best as he could in cleaning them up as Tyler must surely be awake now after now quickly he got up off the bed. As he was finishing he heard a knock on the door. "David?" Tyler said, "Are you in there?" "Yep, I just had to use the bathroom. I hope you don't mind." He said with a nervous tone in his voice. "Why don't you head downstairs and I'll meet you down there. I'm all done with work for the day so once we get some food in us we can go explore some more of the city." Tyler was still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as he said "okay" to his dad and went over to his closet to pull on some clothes. "I'll see you downstairs" he said as he walked past the bathroom and out his bedroom door. David waited for a few seconds before he opened up the bathroom door to check for the all clear. After he was sure that Tyler would be downstairs he slowly opened up the bedroom door and quickly scurried over to his room and went into his bathroom to finish cleaning up. He started feeling guilty about what he'd done. When he went into Tyler's bedroom his only intension was to wake him up gently and get a new start to a day that had already had enough drama in it from this morning. While he was thinking he saw the doors open to the pool and saw Chip and Tyler walking out. He pulled on a pair of boxers and new shorts and headed downstairs. <><> "I'm not sure exactly what's going on but he's very happy about something and I think it's about our vacation this year." Chip said to Russell as they sat along the bar in the kitchen. "Would I be right in guessing that you'll be flying again this year?" Russell said as he took a sip of his coffee. "After we finally got to land I completely understand why God had me born in the Midwest- no oceans!" Both were laughing a bit as Tyler walked into the kitchen. "What's so funny?" he asked as he sat down next to Chip. "We were just recounting how much Chip here just loves life on the sea." Russell said putting his hand on Chip's shoulder. "These guys well never let me live it down." Chip said turning to Tyler to explain. "The first time I went on vacation with these guys, we went on a week long cruise around Hawaii and back. I started feeling sick 2 hours after we left port and didn't stop throwing up until 2 days after we got home." Tyler laughed a little at the face Chip made. "Who all went on the cruise?" "Last year is was just David, me and Russell and his wife Louise" Chip said. Tyler told them that David was going to be down in just a little while which prompted Russell to get up and get brunch ready while Chip and Tyler went out by the pool, still talking about the vacations that David had taken them on over the years. <><> David walked into the kitchen as Russell was cutting the last of the fruit and placing it on the plates. "I know this might be sort notice but what are you and the misses doing next week?" David said as he sat down at the table. "As far as I know she doesn't have anything going on that can't be missed and up until now I assumed that my schedule was pretty similar." Russell replied. "I was thinking, for the last couple years we take a long weekend up in the mountains at the beginning of summer and then a longer trip in the fall. This year, because Tyler is going to start school about a month before we usually take the cruise, what would you think if we switched it?" David asked already knowing that Russell would say "That sounds fine to me" as he always does when talking about the plans for our vacations. Since David had always paid for everything on these trips, he was more than happy with whatever David ended up deciding on. "I just think it'd be easier to steal Tyler away from school for a long weekend rather than for a whole week ya know? Oh- and could you call Chip and ask him the same? I'd be happy to bring Asher along if he'd like to join us." Russell nodded and true to form said "That sounds fine to me" but added "we'll just need to bring more bug spray for Louise." David smiled as it seemed his plans were coming together quite nicely. <><> "The first year I started working for your dad we chartered a yacht which was why I got so sick. Had we been on a regular cruise ship I probably would have been fine but David liked the idea of deciding when we wanted to move from port to port rather than having to stick to a schedule." Chip and Tyler were leaning on the same rail they had been the morning before last and as a gust of wind rushed up, Chip remembered the trouble that he'd had trying to sleep that first night. "Did you sleep any better last night? You seem a bit more awake than before." He said with a smile. Tyler tensed up knowing that he couldn't just come out and say that he crawled in bed with David, "yea- I guess it just takes a little getting used to being in a new bed and all," he said never taking his eyes off the ocean. He hoped that Chip wouldn't say anything more on the subject and just as Chip started talking again, David stuck his head out of the door and called the guys in to eat. <><> Tyler again helped Russell clear the table after everyone was finished eating and was about to go out to the pool again when David said, "Hey Tyler, how 'bout we go check out the beach?" Chip asked him if he'd need anything else for the day and letting him know that the grounds and the cars were taken care of. "No I don't think so, I think we'll just stay around here for the afternoon but if we do decide to go I think I still remember how to drive- at least short distances" he said through a toothy smile. "Smart-ass" Chip laughed as he got up from the table. "If you need anything I'll have my phone with me and I'm only 20 minutes away so it really wouldn't be a problem." "I'll keep that in mind but go, enjoy your day and I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to be going into the office only for the essentials this week so you can come in around 8 or 9 o'clock." David said over his shoulder to Chip while looking outside at Tyler sitting on the bench. "Sounds good, I'll see ya then. Have a good one Russell!" he said as he walked out the door. "How much stuff do you have to do today?" David asked Russell as he joined him by the counter. "After cleaned up in here I was going to go though the ground floor and do a quick dusting unless there was something you need." "Not at all, I was just going to say that if you'd like to, you can take the rest of the day as well. Tyler and I are going to be down at the beach for a while and then we can go out to eat again tonight for dinner. Oh- and by the way- dinner last night was amazing." "I'm glad you liked it, I'll give the restaurant a call before I leave to set dinner up for tonight as well." David helped him put away a few last things while glancing out to the pool from time to time when he thought Russell wasn't looking. As he was getting ready to leave Russell put his hand on David's shoulder and asked if everything was okay. The look on David's face said it all as David searched for the right words. Before he could speak though, Russell cut him off saying "Nobody has ever learned how to be a father over night. Hell- I raised three of them and I still don't know what I'm doing. I don't envy what you are going through; at least for me my kids were too young to remember all of my first big mistakes." David felt both comfort and doom in Russell's comments. "Thanks," was all he could think to say. "If you need anything, you know where to reach me. I know Louise would be more than happy to help you with Tyler if questions arise." With that Russell picked up his keys and phone and walked to the front door leaving David leaning against the counter and Tyler out by the pool. He knew these two would be fine. <><> After another minute or two David slowly opened the door to the patio where Tyler was sitting. David knew that right now was not the right time to have the talk that neither was looking forward to. Instead he perked up his voice and said "Hey- how 'bout we go check out that pier without the binoculars?" Tyler looked up with a smile on his face and relief as the world was just taken off his shoulders. "The guys are gone for the day, so we're gonna have to try and fend for ourselves this afternoon and tonight." Tyler stood up and walked over to David as he held the door open. As Tyler passed through the door, David patted him on the shoulder and almost immediately felt Tyler stop, turn around and hug David for a quick second before running upstairs to put on some sandals. David just smiled and walked over to the door and put on his tennis shoes. Tyler came down the stairs as David was tying his laces and asked how they were going to get down to the beach. "Well- we can either repel down from the pool or we can drive" he said expecting that to get at least a little laugh from Tyler but instead the boy looked excited. "We can repel?" he asked excitedly. "No no no- I was just joking. Even if we made it down alive we'd still have to find a way back up." David said as he put his arm around Tyler's shoulders and walked to the garage door. "I think it'd be best if we just drove- at least for today. We'll test our mountain climbing skills later- maybe." Once in the garage, David walked to the last bay which held his favorite car. It was his 2001 Mercedes SL hardtop convertible. "Well- what do you think?" "Oh my GOD!" Tyler all but shouted. "This is so cool!" he said as he ran around to the passenger side and climbed in. David got in, started it up and as they pulled out of the garage he told Tyler "Press this button and hold it down." As he did the top unlocked and lifted making this the first convertible Tyler had ever been in. He was so enthralled with it that he almost forgot to buckle up. David pulled out onto the street. As they came to the first intersection Tyler noticed the road name. "La Jolla Farms Road?" David laughed at the way Tyler had pronounced it and said the proper way to say it was 'La Hoyya' and as they meandered down La Jolla Shores Drive David told Tyler that the pier that he could see from the house was called "Scripps Pier." Tyler was blown away at the size of some of the houses they saw along the way. Some where so big he was sure that they had to be a hotel or something. When they got down to the pier and parked the car David asked Tyler if he wanted to go out on the pier first or if he wanted to go down to the beach. Tyler opted for the beach and with that they descended the stairs. Tyler couldn't believe he was actually at the ocean. He could taste the salt in the air and as soon as he hit the sand he made a bee line for the water. As he ran he could see people surfing and sunbathing and hordes of people just walking around. He turned to say something to David but he wasn't there. For a moment he looked around as his chest got tight. He started to hurry back away from the water and after going about 50 feet through the swarm of people he saw David again whom he obviously left behind in his hast. "There you are," David said "figured you'd be in the water already." Feeling sort of sheepish he said "I almost was but when I couldn't see you I got a little scared." "And for good reason too, this beach has more people on it than the population of Northern Minnesota." When David put it into that context Tyler didn't feel so foolish. David just put his arm around Tyler's shoulders and together they walked to the water. Feeling his dad's arm around him, Tyler leaned against his dad as they walked. He all but blocked out the people all around him and tried to match David's gait step for step. As they got closer to the water Tyler couldn't believe how amazing it all looked. The beach definitely wasn't like any beach they had back home. The sand stretched up and down the shore for as far as he could see and the beach in front of him looked like a table; completely flat and stretching out for a hundred feet or more. As a wave would crash it would wash up the shore all the way to where Tyler was standing. After slipping their shoes and sandals off they walked closer to the water feeling the water rushing past their feet with each step. To the left Tyler looked up at the massive pier and they started walking away from it. "It sure is crowded here." Tyler said. "Right by the pier is always the worst but if we walk a little ways up the shore it should thin out quite a lot." After walking for twenty minutes or so not saying a word to each other Tyler looked down and saw a shell like he'd never seen before. "Hey- what kind of shell is this?" As Tyler bent down and for the first time since getting there David took his hand off of his son's shoulder. He crouched down as Tyler picked it up. "Looks like an oyster shell" As they stood up Tyler brushed the sand off the shell and David said "Hey- look where we are" with a laugh. Tyler followed David's hand with his eyes up the hill but didn't see what his dad was obviously pointing at. "What am I looking at?" "That's our house up there," David said kneeling, "see those two roof peaks right there and there? This is why we drove." He said with a smile. "Oh I see them- wow- we really walked a long ways haven't we? What time is it?" "Almost 3 o'clock, hey- let's sit down for a second." The distance from the pier and the increasing number of rocks on the shore certainly thinned out the masses. Walking a few yards away from the water they found a pretty big rock to sit on. Tyler and David sat side by side and just stared out at the water while the occasional person would walk past down by the water. Tyler slid over a little bit closer to his dad and David's arm went over the boy's shoulders. David knew he needed to say something but really didn't know what. The silence had been holding for so long between them as they just sat together watching sailboats out on the water. As a power yacht came cruising past them David had the perfect conversation starter. He pointed out to the yacht and asked Tyler "Hey- have you ever been on one of those before?" "That thing's huge! I've never even seen anything like that before." "What would you think if we went on a trip on one of those next week?" David asked, knowing that he would soon have a very excited child on his hands. "Really? Next week? That's so cool!" Tyler said jumping off the rock and almost dancing with excitement. "Where are we going? How big is it?" Tyler was instantly overflowing with excitement and David loved to see it. "Hey kiddo, what do you say we start heading back down the beach? I'll tell you more about next week on the way and then we can go grab some dinner." <><> Tyler and David walked slowly back towards the pier while David was telling him about all of the things they've done in past years and what they can do this year; scuba diving, snorkeling, water skiing, exploring on some of the uninhabited islands and so on. Tyler couldn't believe that he was about to go on this trip his dad was telling him about. He'd never been on a vacation that didn't involve visiting grandparents or cousins and to go from that to something as incredible as this was just making his head spin. As they got back to the pier David looked at his watch and it was 6 o'clock. "Hey- how 'bout we head back to the house and get ready for dinner. Maybe tomorrow we can come back and look at the pier. How's that sound?" David said. "Sounds good to me, I'm starving. I can't believe its six already, it feels like we just got here!" Tyler said still clutching his oyster shell. The drive back only took a few minutes but to David it felt like it was taking forever. Without the distraction of the beach and the ocean, his thoughts again centered on the need to talk to Tyler about what happened this morning. As David backed the car into the stall and lowered the door Tyler put the top back up and climbed out and followed David back into the house. "Why don't you take a shower before getting changed? All that salt that's on your skin is gonna dry you out if you don't rinse it off." He said as he became more and more distracted by the thought of having the talk. "Okay- I'll be back down in a little bit" Tyler said as he bounded up the steps. As if there wasn't enough on David's mind right now he couldn't take his eyes off of Tyler as he ascended the stairs. His shirt was slightly clinging to the trim sides of his waist; his calves flexing as he was taking two steps at a time. David had no idea what to do. <><> As Tyler entered his room he took his shirt off and threw it on the freshly made bed and looked down into his had at the oyster shell. He took it into the bathroom and put it on the soap holder in the shower and slid of his shorts and underwear, kicking them back into the bedroom and pushing the door closed. He quickly washed up, mostly just rinsing everything off and then picked up the shell. While he thought it was cool in its own rite, he felt more of a draw to it than just that. This was what Tyler would always be able to use to remember the first thing that just his dad and he did, the first thing time he hung out with just his dad. As the water ran over him he sat down on the floor of the tub and washed it as good as he could in the water that had not yet drained. At the same time he started thinking about "the talk" that they had not yet had and his stomach tightened up. His thoughts quickly turned to the worst possible outcome; David being angry when he finds out exactly what started it all and sending him away. His could feel his eyes watering as the water ran over his head. He couldn't help but think that if his dad sent him away tonight then at least he would have the oyster shell he clutched in his hand. **As always guys, I'd love to hear your thoughts if you can forgive me for taking a year break in between posting chapter 9 and 10; Chapter 11 to be posted next Friday. almoll78@yahoo.com**