Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:20:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Cover yer Teeth Subject: The Hardwick Men, part 1 This story is a work of original fiction intended to explore unconventional familial relationships between consenting individuals fully capable of acting in their own best interest. Depictions of young characters' developing sexuality are not intended to promote the exploitation of minors, rather to establish necessary character development. However, if this content sounds offensive to you or is prohibited by law where you are, please do not read it. Although this story was penned as gay erotica, it does include implied/mild depictions of heterosexual sex. I assure the reader that they are not at all graphic with regards to the female characters, the focus remains on the males and they are only included, as necessary, to further the plot. The Hardwick Men, part 1 The Hardwick house was a free-for-all while the three of us were growing up. Mom died a few weeks after our baby brother, Brad, was born from some kind of disorder she developed resulting from the pregnancy. No one ever bothered to explain the specifics to us, but I know it had to do with a lack of potassium in her system or something. I was too young to recall much about how Dad handled losing his wife, on top of being left with two toddler boys and a newborn. It must have been rough, though. It's hard to tell since Dad has always been the sort to keep things light and comedic. Probably because he never saw the use in getting too emotional about much of anything. By cracking jokes all the time, he taught us not to take ourselves too seriously. The few occasions when I was around to hear him speak of Mom coincide with most of the almost-as-rare instances when I was witness to his earnest side. That speaks volumes about how important she was to him. He must miss her a million times more than we do. I guess that's probably a major reason why he never remarried. Or it could have something to do with the kind of free spirit he is. In fact, it's hard for me to imagine the man I've known all my life ever being married in the first place. I can't believe there ever lived a woman willing to put up with all his "eccentricities." For one thing, Richard Hardwick is basically a nudist. As far as I know he doesn't frequent full-fledged nudist retreats, or any such, but as soon as Dad came through the door, up until the minute he had to leave again, more often than not he was bare-ass naked. When we were little he used to tell us that it was because he despised doing laundry. Even though we were raised to look upon the sight of our father streaking around the house to be as normal as anything, he was always mindful to instruct us that most people's homes were different. I can't remember a time when Dad didn't speak to us as though we were adults. He clearly laid out the guidelines about where and when it was okay to be nude, so that we wouldn't get into trouble when we visited other people's houses or had friends over, and we always understood. Young children have a capacity for understanding that most people don't realize, but Dad did. Perhaps it's just that Dad knew how to elicit that out of us. He is what more dainty people, these days, might call a "firm believer in corporal punishment." The very instant that we began to contemplate going against one of the few parental edicts that Dad had laid down for us, he was right there to yank our shorts down and tan our hides. I say, "our." My older brother, Shane, was the most common repeat offender. I suppose that's not too unusual though, for the oldest to test his boundaries the most and us others to learn from his mistakes. Thinking back on it now that I'm older, I would bet his "don't spare the rod" approach was what kept the three of us from running roughshod over him. And it's not like we lived in fear of his wrath or anything. He'd come down on us like a ton of bricks and then, a heartbeat later, he'd say, "Pull my finger!" or something equally ridiculous to let us know that it wasn't the end of the world. However, that's just the tip of the eccentricity-burg. Dad's engine runs a lot hotter than most, in a manner of speaking. That is to say, our Old Man has an extremely high sex drive. He stayed home with us a lot until Shane got to be about ten years old. It came from the mindset that good parents don't let nannies or baby-sitters raise their kids, but we always had tons of fun together anyway and that's why he didn't really mind, I think. Even an average man would need the occasional release, of course, dividing so much of his time confined to either work or home the way he did. I can't honestly recall the first time I caught him, but I can honestly say that I've walked in on my father stroking his cock more times than I could ever count. I'm not talking about a guy who hangs around in the buff all day giving his junk the odd tug or scratching those massive, low-hanging balls, now and then. I'm talking about serious wankfests, here. Mostly when he wasn't doing stuff around the house, he would wrestle with us, play "sack-check" or just chill out with us watching TV. Every now and then though, he would slip off by himself. I would go to look for him and find him in his room, furiously jerking away on a giant erection. He never locked his door or even acted embarrassed when one of us would catch him. In fact, it wasn't uncommon at all to come upon him stroking off by the pool. Our house was built in the hills outside of town and was pretty secluded. He would just take a break and converse with me, matter-of-factly, about whatever it was I wanted to talk about. When I needed him to come help me with this or that, he would just set his stroke-book down, pause his porno or what have you, and follow me into the rest of the house with that big, swaying boner pointed to the sky. I remember having this sense that, though I didn't completely understand it, I found what he was doing to be sort of titillating. We didn't give too much thought to it, since it happened to each of us every now and then, and ^Ö besides ^Ö it wasn't that much weirder than any of the other shit he did. I mean, this is the man who would answer the door for the mailman (cable guy, missionary, unwitting unexpected visitor, etc.) stark naked for Christ's sake! I was eight years old when I began to follow his example. I was taking a bath and just as I had gotten into the tub I realized I needed to pee. I didn't want to have to jump out, be cold and dry off just so that I could tinkle and then get back into the bath. As I tried to think of a way to make the uncomfortable sensation go away, it occurred to me, "Maybe that's why Dad does it! Maybe he pulls on his pee-pee so that he can keep looking at his magazines or movies without having to stop and go pee." I started tugging on my wiener until it got stiff. It got more difficult to easily yank on it after that, so I lathered up my hands with soap and made it slippery so I could keep pulling on it. It felt really good so I kept going and kept going until this unbelievable tingling sensation came over my privates, my tummy, my seat, my hands and even my lips. I was afraid I was going to let loose and pee in the tub, but nothing happened. I just collapsed back into the water and tried to catch my breath. A life-long habit was born. Once Shane reached his pre-teen years, it became a regular thing for Dad to say, "You boys know how I expect you to act when I'm not around, right? Cade, Brad ^Ö I'm leaving your brother in charge. Just don't burn the house down. Alright? I don't want to have to wear any of you out when I get back!" Usually he wouldn't be gone for more than a few hours and never after dark. If he needed to leave us at night or overnight, that always meant a trip to Grandma & Grandpa's. It's not like we had that many rules to follow anyway, so we weren't too inspired to act up when we were left on our own. But boys will be boys and it wasn't long before Shane got the itch to see how much trouble he could get into. One time, Brad and I played video games for a good long while before I began to wonder where Shane had gotten off to. After I beat Brad for, like, the millionth time, I said, "Here. You need all the practice you can get! Play 1-Player for a bit. You can even restart it and be Mario this time." I went all over the house looking for Shane until I found him . . . in Dad's room. As I got closer to the door, I could hear a familiar sound. It was the sound of panting and moaning that we normally heard when Dad was watching one of his grown-up movies. I thought to myself, "Is Dad back, already?" and slowly pushed the door to his room open, expecting to find my father butt-nekkid and legs akimbo, yet again. Instead I saw Shane sitting on the edge of Dad's bed, eyes wide, staring intently at his TV. Plainly enough, I asked him, "What'cha doin'?" "What?!?!? NOTHING! I mean . . . come here. You gotta see this!" On the screen there was a big, strong man with a beard and a hairy body that looked kind of like Dad's (except his muscles were a little more ripple-y). He was banging the Hell out of this blonde lady that was on her knees in front of him. He was grunting and cursing and slapping her ass. I had seen a grown man's hard dick before, but this was lots different than when I caught Dad jerking. I was fascinated to see someone get fucked. Our eyes darted back and forth, intently watching the big man slam his mighty cock home over and over again. We both jumped when we heard the garage door go up and Shane hurriedly ejected the tape from the VCR, slipped it back into its case and tried to put it back in the stack where he had found it. We weren't sure if watching Dad's pornos was wrong, but we were sure that it was totally awesome! And usually when we were having that much fun, one or all of us ended up in trouble so we hauled ass downstairs. Little did we know that Dad didn't give a rat's ass if his men-to-be watched porn. Looking back, it all seems clear. If he did mind, why would he leave such a huge stack of it right out in the open where we could easily get our hands on it? It's not like 10-year-olds are terribly meticulous either. It must have been obvious that we had riffled through his stash and yet there it stayed, all the while we lived at home. Dad's porn stash became something of an institution. Often updated. More often raided. Always a guaranteed good time. Not long after we discovered our new favorite pastime, Shane and I were over at our friend Jeff's house, goofing-off. They lived in a neighborhood on the other side of town and his Dad was an appliance repairman. They had this great manufactured building out behind their house that Jeff's Dad used to warehouse and work on a lot of second-hand appliances. There was all kinds of stuff to get into back there. It was a great obstacle course for playing Army or Cops & Robbers and we were welcome to, provided we didn't break anything. On this particular day, Jeff had something extra-super-cool to show us. It was a broken clothes dryer with a tumbler just big enough to fit boys our size into. We each took turns piling in and playing like hamsters until we got the tumbler rolling enough to flip us upside down a few times. Great fun was had. We played and laughed and talked about what a cool little duck-out it could be. Always one to push the envelope, Shane declared, "I know what would be really cool to do in there!" then climbed in. A few moments past before Jeff and I looked at each other in puzzlement, wondering where the clanging noises were that should undoubtedly accompany whatever extra-super-cool trick Shane had come up with. Growing short of patience, I decided to get to the bottom of this and I yanked the door to the dryer open with gusto. Inside, Shane was laying long-ways with his back against the rear of the tumbler, his pants around his ankles and his fist flying up and down over his turgid dick. "HA! You've got a boner!" I chortled as I pointed at my idiot older brother. "What? I wanna see! What's he doing?" Jeff asked. Erudite 11-year-old thoroughly versed in the ways of the world as I was, I deftly educated my naïve, young friend. "He's jerking off." "Cut it out! You're gonna get us in trouble!" was his reply. "How come? There's nothing wrong with jerking off. Everybody does it. Heck, our Dad does it all the time!" Shane said in his defense. He had to slow his rhythm down to get the sentences to come out right, though. He was too much of a clod to walk and chew gum at the same time. Imagine how much trouble it was for him to formulate coherent thoughts whilst masturbating. Jeff's brow furrowed and he said, "I don't!" It's not like I was Matlock or anything, but I could smell a rat. "You never rub yourself when you've got a boner to make it feel good?" "Well . . . yeah, I guess so. But I always do it in the bathroom with the door locked. I can't believe you're doing that right in front of us, Shane!" "Why? What's the big deal?" I asked. "Heck, I'll do it, too." I dropped my pants and climbed up onto the dryer with my legs hanging off to the side. Well acquainted with this routine, my hard-on shot up and, with a little spit, I was tearing it up in no time. Shane was still working it while sitting in the tumbler with his legs hanging out the front. Being inside the dryer put a little reverberating echo sound into Shane's voice as he coaxed our friend on. "Go ahead, Jeff. What are you waiting for? It feels awesome!" The three of us sat there stroking our young dicks, practically in silence, while at any moment one of Jeff's parents or his sister could have stumbled upon us. Shane got a cramp from sitting all hunched-over in the tumbler so, when he started to climb out, Jeff moved to climb up onto the dryer on the side opposite me. Shane just stood there facing both of us and the open dryer door while he whacked it like a wild man. Pretty soon he let his head fall back and his body started convulsing. He kept making these gasping, gulpy noises that drew both of our attention. Jeff and I sat there and watched my older brother Shane demonstrate what I had, until this point, only seen in Dad's movies. His gasping and gulping grew into what sounded more like expressions of pain before a sudden, short spurt of white goo popped up out of my big brother's wiener. "WOOOOAAAHHH! I didn't know you could do that!" I said breathily. Jeff was stunned in disbelief. Shane panted and wheezed for a bit then, once he'd caught his breath, said, "Sure. I've been able to spooge for a while, now. Don't tell me I have to explain to you tards what 'spooge' is!" I knew, of course, but since Jeff looked like he was in need of CPR Shane launched into his explanation anyway. That was the first time Jeff, Shane and I jerked off together, but it was far from the last. You know how boys are. Eventually we discovered girls and then, an eternity after that, the girls we had discovered finally decided we weren't too disgusting, after all. Until that time, and ^Ö honestly ^Ö even after, hardly an hour went by when we didn't have our puds in our hands, be we alone or together. Brad was always pulling up the rear, but it wasn't too long before he was up to speed with the rest of us as well. Dad never was big on "meaningful" discussions, but somehow he always seemed to know exactly where we were in our development into manhood. Once he was clued in to the fact that the three of us had grown into little serial masturbators, ourselves, that gigantic stack of porn in his room slowly turned into a big stack of porn with little, migratory stacks of porn left all over the house. We were getting older and developing our own interests which meant that we needed less entertaining and spent less time vying for Dad's attention. I bet the Old Man had been waiting for such a time ever since Brad was born. Instead of sneaking off to steal away some time for himself, it became common for us to walk into any room in the house and find him working that big fuck-stick. He would watch pornos in the living room and jerk off. Or sit at the kitchen table flipping through a skin mag. And jerk off. Just like when we would bust in on him in his room, once us boys were around he would just let go of that hard dick and sit there conversing with us like nothing was up. The most noticeable change, however, came when Dad starting bringing friends home. It started with different lady friends on Friday or Saturday nights. He would go out on the town for a bit and return home, shortly after dark, with some of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in tow. Usually they would sit around in the living room for a while and have a few after-dinner drinks. If we were around, he would make introductions, but if we were occupied in other parts of the house he didn't go out of his way to show his dates off to us. I'll never forget that first time. We hardly ever had company come over when we were little so we didn't quite know how to act with this foreign person in our home. That uncomfortable feeling shifted into . . . well, I'm not sure what to call it. Excitement, I guess. About the time we would normally hit the sack, Dad took his lady friend up to his bedroom. After a little while, we began to hear some familiar noises . . . but different, somehow. We three boys dropped what we were doing and met at the bottom of the stairs to investigate. "Are they watching a movie, together?" Brad asked. Sitting below his arched eyebrows, Shane's eyes scanned the top of the stairs in wonderment as though he expected to spot the origin of those sounds. "I . . . I don't think so. Come on. Follow me! But, be quiet!" he said, his voice trailing off from hushed tones to a near-silent whisper. Shane crouched down on the steps and began to army-crawl his way to the top. Nervous and unsure of ourselves with our hearts pounding in our chests, Brad and I followed suit. Once he was up to where he could peek over the landing, Shane stopped and laid flat on the top few steps. At first I stopped because I thought he was afraid we would be spotted, but soon curiosity got the better of me and I climbed up beside him on his right. Dad's door was standing a quarter of the way open, but from the angle we were at we could see straight through to where he was perched on the edge of his bed. He was fucking that lady like crazy! It all suddenly made sense. The noises we were hearing weren't the flat, electronic sounds we were accustomed to hearing from his bedroom television. They were the full, robust groans of a real-life deep-dicking! Frozen in astonishment over what I was seeing, I didn't even notice that Brad had climbed up next to Shane's other side. The three of us laid there transfixed by the sight of our butt-naked Old Man sitting on the end of his bed putting his giant cock to work! I'd seen our father's hard dick on many occasions before, of course, but there was something different about this time that I found to be quite mesmerizing. All those other times when we caught our Old Man jacking-off, he acted like it was nothing out of the ordinary so his towering erections just blended into the scenery in a way. This time, not only was Dad's tall fuck-meat slicked up and glistening wet, it was throbbing hard and looked somehow bigger than before. We caught glimpses of it when he would pull out completely after each thrust. His gigantic, hefty balls bounced around like they were going to take off. "Aw, Yeah! Phyew. Ride my big dick, Baby!" Dad blurted out between grunts and huffs. Dad slowed the rhythm of his thrusts then he picked her up and flipped her over onto the bed without even pulling his schlong out of her! They had moved out of our sight line, but we hadn't had nearly enough of that show. We scurried up onto the landing trying to step softly, so that the floorboards wouldn't creek, to get a better look. It was no use. The only way we could have seen what was going on at the head of Dad's bed would have been to push his door further open and we didn't dare! We sat there, though, for what seemed like hours listening to the sounds of our Old Man fucking. I can remember practically every noise just like it was yesterday. Man, that was some night!