Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:58:46 -0500
From: Alex <68620to43203@gmail.com>
Subject: Fathers Love Series - Chapter 8

A Father's Love

Chapter 8

By Alex

Tyler relaxed in the bathtub surrounded by the hot water and steam and was
quickly feeling his energy soaking out of him and into the water.  His
fingers slowly and gently played as he pulled on his surprisingly relaxed
scrotum and toyed with his balls.  He ran his fingers over the hairless
skin and tried to imagine what his dad's balls looked like; were they very
hairy?  He tried as hard as he could to remember if he felt them at all
that morning but finally gave up with the thought that if he had touched
them, he didn't realized it.  He grabbed the bar of soap off the ledge of
the tub and began to run it down his arms and legs.  As the water became
cloudy from the soap he stood up and washed his dick and balls.  Then
lathering up his hands for a few seconds he placed the soap back onto the
ledge and slipped his hand around behind him and started to wash his butt.
In no time his fingers were playing around his tight rosebud and gingerly
pressing against it.

He pulled up the drain for the tub and turned on the shower head to rinse
off all the soap.  With one hand still playing with his butt he aimed the
shower nozzle down and rinsed off his dick.  Turning around he spread his
butt cheeks and felt the suds being washed down his legs.  Not wanting to
take too long in the shower knowing how much hot water he had used in the
tub, he turned off the water and lazily stepped out to dry off.

<><>

Signing the last form on his desk and doing a quick double check to make
sure he wasn't forgetting anything David hollered "Diane- Can you take care
of these contracts?"

"Sure thing David- just leave them on your desk and I'll make sure they get
copied."

David checked his watch, grabbed his briefcase and walked out of his
office.  Deciding to take the stairs he pushed open the door.  Descending
the six flights of stairs took just a few minutes and right on time, Chip
had pulled up in front of the building and had the door open for David.

"That didn't take long" Chip said as David stepped into the car.

As Chip pulled away from the building he looked back and noticed the smile
on David's face.  "Okay- either that was a really good day at the office or
you're up to something."

David laughed a little bit and responded "A little bit of both I guess- no
catastrophes over the weekend and had an idea for our vacation this summer.
With everything that happened to Rachael, the business of moving Tyler out
here and trying to get everything settled completely took my mind away from
it."  David's grin was beaming as he told Chip of some of his ideas for
future vacations now that Tyler was with them.

"I can't think of a better way to get settled in a new home than to spend a
week away from it getting seasick." Chip said with a laugh.  David learned
the first year that Chip came to work for him that it would be best to not
bring him on any trip that involved the water.

"That's assuming that we're going somewhere warm again."

"True- then I'd need to add getting eaten by mosquitos depending on where
you take us."

"Bitch, bitch, bitch- I still think you miss all the fun by flying when we
sail somewhere.  There is something to be said for waking up and going to
the highest deck on the ship and see nothing but water."  David said which
evoked a nauseated look from Chip. "You big baby!" David said laughing.

<><>

Tyler had dried off and with the towel wrapped around his waist he stood in
front of his bedroom window again looking out at the pier.  Maybe he and
his dad could take a walk down there tonight but as he thought that his
stomach tightened a little bit as he knew that there was going to have to
be a conversation about what had happened that morning.

Tyler walked over to the bed and sat down.  The hot water had made him a
little drowsy so he positioned himself so he was facing his window while he
laid on his stomach.  Essentially lying sideways on his bed he bunched up
his pillow and placed it under his bare chest.  He couldn't see the beach
from this angle but looking out over the water was interesting in a very
different way.  There is only one body of water that he'd ever been to that
was so wide that you couldn't see the other side and that was Lake
Superior.  The whole family would go there a couple of times every summer-
I guess that's what his big vacations were each year.  It didn't compare to
the vacations that David had talked about at dinner but remembering them
still made him smile.

His eyelids began to droop so he just listened to the sounds of the waves,
the wind and the seagulls that echoed up from the beach.  He imagined that
he was once again down by the water with his cousins.  The hundreds of
seagulls hovering above the point in the cold wind in Duluth.  Even in the
middle of summer that wind just never seemed to warm up.  They'd eat at the
Green Mill and stand by the canal while the lift bridge would make way for
the titanic cargo ships.  The last time he was there the grownups splurged
and everybody stayed at the Hawthorne right there in the middle of the
park; The coolest part was that from their room they could watch the
humongous ocean liners float into the harbor. The rhythmic crashing of the
waves definitely sounded much louder, stronger and more frequent than the
ones in Duluth but they too soon had him rolling off the pillow and falling
asleep.

<><>

Russell prepared lunch as he looked out of the window and saw the car
pulling up to the front of the house.  Chip hadn't even reached the end of
it when David opened up the door and bounced out.  David smiled at Chip and
told him to put the car away and then come in right away for lunch- it was
almost 11 o'clock and he was hoping that Chip would be as hungry as David
felt.  David walked in the door with a smile on his face and started
climbing the stairs.  He walked into his closet to change clothes and as he
was stripping off his suit he saw the outline on the sheets that his cum
left.  He froze in his tracks for a brief moment and for the first time
since Diane mentioned his travel agent he forgot about telling Tyler about
the trip.

Just as David stepped out of his pants he heard a knock at his
door. Shortly after knocking, an embarrassed Russell entered the room.
Chip hadn't told him how long David was going to be out of the house so he
had not yet gone upstairs to strip and remake the bed.  David disappeared
into the closet and before he had finished hanging up his clothes and
grabbing a more casual set, Russell had the dirty sheets on the floor and
was mostly done making the bed with the new sheets.

"I'll never understand how you can do that so fast" David said as he walked
out of the closet pulling his shirt over his head.

"Years and years of waiting till the last minute" Russell said with a
chuckle.

David laughed as well at the sarcasm in Russell's voice.  Of all the people
he knew, Russell was the last person to procrastinate about anything. "Have
you seen Tyler yet today?"  David asked

"Not yet- I have heard his shower going but he hasn't come out of his room
as best as I am aware."

David helped Russell tuck in the clean set of sheets and then opened the
door for him as Russell carried them out.  David closed his door and walked
over to Tyler's door and had to stop himself from just walking right in.
Having lived alone for so many years, the whole idea of needing to knock on
a door before entering was something he'd have to get used to.  He knocked
on the door and waited a few moments but he didn't hear anything so he
knocked again.  Still not hearing anything he turned the knob and peeked
his head in the room.

"Tyler?" he said quietly, "you in here?"

Tyler was completely dead to the world and didn't hear his father open the
door, nor did he hear his voice.  David opened the door a little more so he
could look into the room and could hear a quiet snore coming from the
bed. Realizing that Tyler had fallen back asleep, he slowly opened the
door.  Walking into the room and quietly turning around to close the door
behind him, he tried to be quiet so he wouldn't wake up the young boy.  As
he turned around his eyes gravitated to the young form lying on the bed,
naked except for a towel loosely covering his waist.  From the angle David
was looking at he could see the form of Tyler's butt framed by the terry
cloth and his smooth legs extending out from it.  Tyler was clutching his
pillow and his body was slightly curled around it.  As David stood at the
end of the room, his eyes dancing over Tyler's skin, they drifted back down
to the bottom of the towel and the shadow that was created by the space
between his legs as they went under.

David could feel himself getting hard the longer he looked into the
darkness.  As soon as he moved his hand down to give his dick a squeeze the
little angel on his shoulder yanked out a high caliber rifle and in a quick
movement, blasted his counterpart off David's other shoulder and yanking
the gun back, smacked David in the head with the butt of the gun.  David's
hand froze, his eyes closed and wanted to hit himself.  "Not even six hours
ago! I almost- almost-." He shook his head and thought, "What the fuck is
the matter with me?"

David looked down at the floor in an attempt at avoiding temptation as he
walked over to the bed.  Standing behind Tyler he looked at the perfect
boy, crawled onto the bed and dropped down beside him not being at all
careful about how much he shook the bed.  Before they stopped bouncing he
saw Tyler's arms move and he could see he was waking up.  Without a
moment's hesitation David wrapped his arm around Tyler bare chest, pulled
him close and gave him a squeeze.  "Here I go and work my butt off for two
whole hours and I come back here to find you asleep?  I just don't know
what I'm gonna do with ya-"

Even though Tyler was still waking up he could obviously hear the sarcasm
coating every word David was saying.  He rubbed his eyes and just started
giggling.  David held onto Tyler tighter, laid his head down on the pillow
and put his face up to the back of Tyler's head.  With Tyler laughing David
made a wish that God would let him hear that laughter everyday for the rest
of his life.  He knew if he could have that wish granted that'd he'd be
happy forever.

Tyler started to roll over and was soon face to face with his dad.  He
wasn't thinking about the fear he had earlier, about "the talk" that was
still going to happen and instead leaned forward and lifted his arms and
wrapped them around his dad's neck.  "Is it dinner time already?  Is it
Tuesday?  You've been gone forever, I missed you!"

"Well I got out of there as fast as I could!  And I've got good news but
I'm not going to tell you what it is until after we eat."  David kept his
arm wrapped around Tyler, rolled and lifted him off the bed and for a
moment just stood beside the bed holding his son in his arms like he had
always wanted to when he would think about his little boy who lived so far
away.  Tyler's chin resting on his shoulder and his hand reaching down and
supporting Tyler's butt.  He closed his eyes and hugged him as Tyler
wrapped his legs around his waist.  How many times had he seen his friends
or even strangers on the street pick up their little boy and feel jealous?
He twisted back and forth slowly and realized why he didn't see very many
men carrying their five foot tall son's like this.  David bent over a
little bit as Tyler's legs unwrapped themselves from his waist and his feet
made contact with the floor.  "Maybe you don't need to eat anything- you're
heavy!"

"What EVER!" Tyler exclaimed, "You didn't even grunt when you picked me
up?"

"Okay fine, you can still eat." David put his hand around Tyler's shoulder
as they started to walk to the door to go down to see what Russell had made
for lunch.  "but I'm going to have to work out more if I'm gonna do that
again."

Tyler heavily leaned into his dad's side as they walked when he suddenly
stopped.  "Wait, I have to go to the bathroom really quick." Tyler said
ducking out from under this dad's arm and walking towards his bathroom.
"I'll hurry!"

David walked over to the door as he heard Tyler's zipper going down and
said "Just come downstairs when you're done."

"Okay!" Tyler replied.

"and just so you know-" David paused for a second, "I missed you too."

With that he walked out of the bedroom, downstairs and into the kitchen.

<><>

Tyler smiled from ear to ear when he heard his dad say that he missed him
too.  He pulled his dick out of the fly of his pants and went to the
bathroom as quickly as he could.  He turned to the counter after he zipped
up and as he washed his hands he looked at himself in the mirror.  He
smiled, smoothed out a little bit of bed head, killed the light and ran out
of his room.

<><>

"I'm not sure exactly what's going on but 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 this year?" Russell
asked as he took a sip of his coffee.

"Oh my god!  Five years!  This is never gonna die is it!  When we got to
land I completely understood why God had me born in Nebraska- there aren't
any oceans!"

"I was afraid they weren't going to let you come on shore when we finally
got there with as sick as you looked." David added as he walked in the
door.  "It's a wonder they didn't quarantine you."

All three were laughing as Tyler walked into the kitchen.  "What's so
funny?" he asked as he sat down next to Chip.

"We were just talking about how much Chip here just loves life on the sea."
Russell said putting his hand on Chip's shoulder.

"These guys will never let me live it down; I swear to God." 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 two hours after we left and didn't stop heaving until after we
got home."

Tyler laughed a little at the face Chip made.  "Who went?"

"Last year it was just David, me and Russell and his wife Louise" Chip
said.

While Chip and Tyler talked, David joined Russell back at the counter while
he was cutting the last of the fruit and placing it on the plates.  "I know
this might be short notice but what are you and the misses doing next
week?"

"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 at the
beginning of summer and then the longer trip in the fall.  This year,
because Tyler is going to start school about a month before we usually take
the second trip, 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 their vacations.  Since David
had always paid for 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 when it starts to get cool rather than for a whole week ya know?"

Russell nodded and true to form said "That sounds fine to me."

David grinned and turned around just in time to see the door slowly closing
as Chip and Tyler walked out to the patio.

<><>

"The first year I started working for your dad, he chartered a yacht which
was why I got so sick.  If we had we been on a regular cruise ship I
probably would have been fine but David likes 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 stuff," 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?"  Tyler made no attempts to hid
his excitement about that idea.  Chip asked him if he'd need anything else
for the day and letting him know that the lawn and the cars were taken care
of.  "No I don't think so, I think I still remember how to drive- at least
short distances." he said through a toothy smile.

"That's debatable," 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 nine or ten."

"Sounds good, I'll see ya then.  Have a good one Russell!" he said as he
walked out the door.

Tyler followed Chip out to the garage and gave him a quick hug.

"I'll see you in the morning buddy." Chip said.

"Okay!"

"I'm glad that you are feeling better today."

"Me too" was all Tyler could say in reply.  He already felt dumb enough for
being unable to sleep in his own room- there was no way he was going to say
anything else.  After Chip left Tyler walked back toward the kitchen but
turned and went straight outside instead.  He walked across the grass and
found himself again at the rail looking out at the beach.  This time though
he was checking out the beach itself more than the people and making a list
in his head of the stuff he wanted to check out up close.

<><>

"How much stuff do you have to do today?" David asked Russell as he joined
him by the counter.

"After cleaning up in here I was going to go through and dust unless there
was something you needed."

"Not at all, I was just going to say that if you'd like to, you can take
the rest of the day off 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 spoke volumes as he searched for the right words.  Before he
could speak though, Russell said "Nobody has ever learned how to do this
over night.  I raised three of them and I still don't know what the hell
I'm doing half of the time.  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.  "Oh- could you give Chip a call and tell him about
next week too?  Tell him that he's bringing his boyfriend."

"I definitely will.  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 looking at Tyler
out by the pool.  He knew these two would be fine- in time.

<><>

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.  Standing out by
the rail and seeing the lounge chair where he and David sat that morning
got him thinking that the talk was coming.  "The guys are gone for the day,
so we're gonna have to try and fend for ourselves this afternoon and
tonight."

Tyler walked over to David as he held the door open.  As Tyler passed
through the door, David patted him on the shoulder and immediately felt
Tyler stop, turn around and hug David tight for a few seconds before
running upstairs to put on some shoes.  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 it
looked like he was about to leap out of his own skin.

"For real?  We can repel?" he asked excitedly.

"No!  What?  No no no- " David laughed, "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."

Tyler leaned into David's side as they walked, he knew he'd never get tired
of this feeling.

Once in the garage, David walked to the last bay that held his favorite
car.  It was his 2006 Mercedes-Benz SL hardtop convertible.  "Well- what do
you think?"

"Oh my GOD!" Tyler 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 about his seatbelt.  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 beeline 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- nothing, his chest got tight;
He started to hurry back away from the water and after going about a
hundred feet through the swarm of people he saw David again whom he
obviously left behind in his haste.

"There you are," David said "I figured you'd be in the water already."

Feeling sort of sheepish he said "I was- a little- but when I couldn't see
you I- got a little weirded out."

"Well this beach probably has more people on it than everyone within fifty
miles of Grand Rapids."  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 into him as they walked.  He
all but blocked out the people all around him and tried to match David's
gait step for step.  He had to stretch his legs to match David's steps but
it felt so good being that close to him.  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; not just a few feet of sand between a grassy yard and the
water.  It was 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 they was standing.  After slipping their shoes and socks 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 up there." Tyler said.

"Right by the pier is always the worst but if we walk a ways up the shore
it should thin out quite a lot."

After walking for an hour or so Tyler looked down and saw a shell like he'd
never seen before.  "Hey- what kind is this?"

Tyler bent down and for the first time since getting there David took his
hand off of his son.  He crouched down as Tyler picked it up.  "Looks like
an oyster shell.  I guess you probably wouldn't have see any of these in
lakes up north, huh?" As they stood up Tyler brushed the sand off the shell
and David said "and look where we are."

Tyler followed David's hand with his eyes up the bluff but didn't see at
what his dad was pointing.  "What?"

"That's our house," David said kneeling, "see those two roof peaks right
there and there?  This is why we drove." He said with a smile.

"Wow- we really walked this far?  What time is it?"

"A little after 4 o'clock, hey- let's sit down for a minute."  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.  Tyler
slid over a little bit closer to his dad and David's arm went around him
with his hand wrapping around Tyler's warm soft side.  When Tyler would
turn and look at something he could feel the muscles in his side contract.

David knew he needed to say something but really didn't know what.  The
silence had been holding between them as they just sat together watching
sailboats out on the water.  As a catamaran 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?"

"I've never even seen anything like that before.  It's huge!"

"What would you think if we went on a trip on one of those?" David asked,
knowing that he would soon have a very excited kid on his hands.

"Really?  That'd be so cool!" Tyler said jumping off the rock and almost
dancing with excitement.  "Where would we go?  Do we have one?  I mean- do
you have one?  Like that?"  Tyler was instantly overflowing with excitement
and David loved to see it.

"Well "we" don't but we can rent them.  The captain usually comes along but
there was one that was easy to control so Russell took care of it."
Russell always took the helm when he could.  He had loved sailing when he
was younger but had been relegated a little dinghy.

"Hey kiddo, what do you say we start heading back down the beach?  I'll
tell you more about it 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
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 sleeping on a couch.
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.

"Yea, I'm starving.  I can't believe its six, 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 anticipation of the beach and the ocean, his
thoughts again centered on the need to talk to Tyler about what happened
this morning.  David backed the car into the stall and lowered the door
while Tyler put the top back up and then 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 clinging to the
trim sides of his waist; his calves flexing as he was taking two steps at a
time not to mention how his round little butt seemed to roll under the thin
material.  David had no idea what to do.  He knew what he wanted to do-
it's the same thing that any gay man would WANT 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 started to
feel 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 him and his dad 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 was on its way to the drain.  He didn't know why but he
started thinking about "the talk" that they had not yet had.  Why did David
tell Chip and Russell to go home early?  The more the thought about it the
more it made his stomach tightened up.  His thoughts turned to the worst
possible outcome; David being angry when he found out exactly who started
it all and would send him away.  His heart sank and he knew his eyes were
watering even as the shower poured over his head.  He couldn't help but
think that if his dad did sent him away then at least he would have the
oyster shell that he clutched in his hand.

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David stood at the bottom of the stairs as Tyler closed the door to his
room.  Almost laboriously he lifted his hand to the rail and walked up to
his room.  He could hear Tyler's shower turn on and he pulled his shirt off
over his head.  He stretched for a couple seconds and tossed his shirt to
the corner of the room; shortly followed by his socks, shorts and boxers.
He stood there for a few moments in front of the window looking down and
guessing where he and Tyler had been sitting on the rock.

When he suggested going down to the beach he thought that would be the best
time to talk about it but when the time came the closeness that he felt on
their walk made him reconsider.  It just felt too good being out with him
and seeing him experience something that he'd never seen before; he didn't
want to ruin it.

David found himself struggling with the temptation to go into Tyler's room
while he was in the shower.  Not with a desire to get in the shower with
him or anything, nothing even a little bit sexual, but just to be close to
him.  Spending all afternoon with his arm around his shoulders and sitting
together on the rocks felt good but it wasn't until now when he really
realized it.

He grabbed a fresh pair of boxers out of his dresser and headed for the
shower just as he heard Tyler's shower turning off.

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