Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:39:15 -0700 From: Tim Stillman Subject: young friends/brothers "Song of Jean-Phillipe "Song of Jean-Phillipe" by Timothy Stillman Jean-Philippe was ten the summer he made love with me. My name is Michel. I was 14. It was that particular summer, in the meadows where we loved to gambol. The whole world seemed to be filled with golden sunshine and sweet green grass. When the heat was lazy and made us lazier still. And golden it seemed his eyes were then. I have heard some say that golden eyes paint the eyes of an alien, too other worldly, too exotic, like a lion's eyes in a face from a different planet. A turn off in other words. I say no. He was no alien. He was all boy. Tall and thin as a drink of water, and all the time laughing, as we ran to the field about a kilometer from our farm. Where we sat by the blue stream that bubbled cool, as we picked at daises and counted he loves me/ she loves me not. I was dressed in my blue summer shorts and pale blue shirt. Jean was dressed only in a pair of ragged jeans cut offs. We also wore tennis shoes which we took off immediately we got to our meadow. Jean's chest was dimpled and made me think of the prow of a ship pushing past the waves with heedless grace. I stole glances at his little pink points every chance I got. And he, though he did not think I noticed, stole glances every chance he got at my lips which were pretty for a boy's--redder than his and a little fuller. Today he looked at them with more than a glance. He was nervous, and Jean was never nervous. He seemed--interested, in his shy way. I averted my eyes. So did he. Then we both looked at each other again as we knelt in front of each other in the tall soft grass. We were covered with perspiration sheen. My nipples found themselves hard. To be with him and to know this in front of him and his somehow knowing it as well filled my heart with love. I wanted to be with my brother. I had felt this for some time. Today he seemed to wish to be with me. Could such a delightful thing actually come true? I once saw Jean naked in the warm bath, a supple little warm and shy popsicle of a body, a little curve of a pink body, and he covered himself like greased lightning and he turned from me and closed his eyes. His bending away from me, showing me almost all of his right hip so tiny and perfectly formed, in order to hide his little boy trigger, tugged at me. It was such a sweet boy thing to do. "Brother, please," Jean had said that night as I got tight in my shorts at the sight of him. His voice had been hushed, but there was a little tickle in it. I felt an immediate warmth for my brother then. Is this wrong? We loved each other dearly. We always told each other our troubles. And we always listened to one another. Maman was too busy with work to pay much attention to us, so mostly we only had ourselves. Jean's body was so pure and kissable all over, delicate and with the coloring of a late bright summer sun through a stained glass window. I had seldom seen it before because maman insisted there be no nudity between us in any way at any time. That bath night though, I knew, really knew. I struggled not to giggle with my uncertainty, my sudden delicacy of thought, and turned, running from the loo. And now my brother and me--and now we lovers?--oh please be true--we extended our hands to each other as we sat on the hot ground, against the steady heart beat of the earth, where the grasshoppers jumped over them and around them. How I longed to put his golden hand on my lips and kiss his long artistic fingers. To kiss that sweet pure honey flesh. And later I was to know how much he wanted to put his hand there as well. "Do the children still give you trouble at school?" I asked him. He tensed and started to pull away. I was immediately sorry and I stroked his hand. I had teased him often as older brothers are want to do. This time I did not mean to tease at all. I meant to show that I cared. "It is a boy's hand, Jean," I said. "It is your brother's hand and with it I wish to," I said, as I traced the veins in the top of his left hand, as he pulled his other hand away from mine, "I wish to show you I adore you." And he looked at me hard as I realized that was the worst thing I could possibly have said. "It is nothing wrong with that, Jean-Philippe," I told him, somewhat jealous of him. For he was prettier than I. Boys, young, wish to be pretty. Do not let that war whooping and cowboy boots and rough and tumble fool you, for it is meant only to fool you and them. I have a too round face and my hair is the color of thick chocolate milk. I have too many laugh lines on my face and my teeth are not pretty but a bit crooked. My shoulders sort of hunch in a bit and my stomach is too pouty. But I do have a lovely bush coming in. Only no one as yet had seen it save me. Jean's hair was silver in the gold hot sun. His face was aristocratic, the kind of face you would read that a young Heahcliffe had had, the face of the young lord of the manor who was perpetually ready to go on a fox hunt.. His body was a pennant, an unbearably beautiful complete knit together fabric of boy song. His arms and legs were long and he could race you faster than you could imagine possible. He was a child of nature and nature was a child of him. He had created all of the good in the world. My king, my lord. Jean was angry now that I had told him, he thought, that he was a girl. But did he preen a bit at the same time there, young lion cub in the sun halo round his golden hair? I did not mean to push him away. I always say the wrong thing. But he glories in what I say as well. See him? Watch this willow of boy, this self possessed child who was perfect in every way. Jean's face was a little storm front that made his dimpled chin smile in a most inappropriate way for such an angry little boy. He put his hands to his nipples and he looked at me defiantly, "I have boy tits. Not girl tits. My tits are better than yours. " Oh how hot that made me for him. How glaring fire did the meadow turn. And he laughed, proud, the old sweet Jean. I had not made a fatal error. He was to test me. He thought. I jumped up immediately--we had had these little joke fights and child play before.. They had always ended with no satisfaction, with something lacking. He looked up at me as I rose. His look said he was worried. We were still together! An accident on my part had furthered it. It was to be a grand day. The first of many. We had all summer long with only ourselves for company. For the nearest neighbor's farm was some distance from this countryside and town was a lot further distant. I shook my fist at the sitting boy and he looked up at me. He smiled deeply. His teeth were little white squares. We understood one another. The song was now singing. He looked like a godlet siren sitting on a rock bringing the sailors close to the shoals. Not to wreck. But to comfort. For sometimes Jean and I would hug. It was like hugging a little sugar bear to myself. And at night, my room next to his in our house of clay and brick, sometimes if I strained hard, I could hear him making little soft moaning noises quick then slow and then quick again and then stopping as if on a franc. I knew what he was doing of course in his bed at night. I did the same thing myself. Stroking my lonely cock. Wanting him. How so very much I had wished we could do it together. It seemed so sad, so wrong for it not to be us together, so we could hold each other after the ending came. Now Jean was getting up. He didn't even have to put his hands to the ground to push himself up. He just simply arose. He smiled at me--ah, now he is the one playing with me--and began walking away from me. His stick out shoulder blades raised in anger, one fist pounding into another. His silver gold hair was perfectly coifed to sculpt the back of his head and neck and the shoulders where the end of it lay. "Boys," he shouted "need girls. Not their little brothers. REAL boys do, at any rate." And he laughed, at least tried to make it a harsh laugh, but it was a sweet high trilling little boy laugh instead. "How many times have you hidden, looking at me bathe and wishing you were as well endowed as me? Ha!" I shouted, "Turn around Jean, turn round and gaze on brother who has something to show you." He stopped. Considered. Though he did not turn. How the sweat gleamed on his body like it was fashioned by razor blades from a statue of David, all stick out ribs and elbows and knees. He had become my David and how I hoped to become his Jonathan. "Come on, scaredy cat, turn round," I mocked. My voice had begun to crack. It embarrassed me. Oddly though, Jean had never laughed at me for that. Most ashamedly I had laughed at him for so much. Mocked him as they mocked him at school. "How sorry I am for the way I have treated you, Jean. How I wish to make up for it today and the rest of our lives." He looked back at me, as he slipped a bit on the hot green, caught himself and turned round completely, and he was amazed. For during this time, I had slipped out of my shirt and shorts and underwear and was standing there completely naked. My dick was hard. It had a patch of black pubic hair. His eyes were agog. He looked all over me, as though there were something of hunger in him that I had never seen before, and perhaps, just perhaps, he had never felt before. How good for brothers to initiate each other. How fine and fun and natural it is. I stood, so brazenly, with my legs apart, wishing my body a bit less doughy, and I put my hand at my new crinkly v of brush, as I held out my penis to him, always and only to him, and I cocked my head at him. I did not smile. But he did. And something else happened too. The front of his shorts became tighter. There was his little stick poking into the fabric. Without a word, with only a moment's hesitation, Jean opened his jeans and the little dewy eyed penis, so tiny and buttercup it was, bounced up and down and it made me laugh, I could not help myself. "Michel," he said, a whispery shock, "for God's sake, cover yourself." As though he had not done what he had just done. His voice in his voice was not saying what his eyes and penis were saying. . I considered him. I looked at him and he was embarrassed and his downy face with the expressive golden eyes as if from a land far away, and the mischievous smile, as he turned from me a bit, though not for long. "Your little pole does not seem to find my body disagreeable," I said, trying to keep out the fear and trembly. To be naked with my poor unattractive body, in the presence of his parfait perfection made me so timid. But I must not show it. "Boys use their wee wees to pee with and to play peeing games with. Yours is standing straight up and out. You are my brother! What is wrong with you?" I looked at his penis sticking through his jeans opening. "Yours is hard too, brother. What is wrong with me is what is wrong with you. And that is--each other." He nodded, perplexed, bemused, bewitched. There was a warm breeze and there were bees buzzing in it. How I longed to see him naked. How I longed to rub my body against his and put his cock in my mouth, like I had read about in magazines maman never knew I would ever so much as find, much less read. I always managed to put them back in her closet, though, without her ever knowing they had been gone. Her with her cachets and homilies on the kitchen wall and her most forced daintiness and correctness. All lies. How I longed to run naked with him over the fields with no one about in all directions. We would play and wrestle and I would slap him lightly on his bare butt and he would push his groin forward as I would reach around and stroke his peppermint dick, and then he would mock slap me on the butt and suck me off in the way I would show him. He had never done that before. He had never thought of the possibility of that before. And we would be in pretend happiness that was real happiness. Only we must not admit it to each other. I knew that much about him, and about me. The sun painted him. As the sun loved him. He was gold foil and held the sweetest candy. Jean-Philippe could do nothing more than unpeel himself as I silently commanded him to do. And he did it! He did it slowly and brazenly and Oliver Twist like and tenderly. Seeing him divest himself of each thread of clothing dusted me with feather tickles. Until he stood in front of me. Naked and hard and boy and head tipped to the sun. Face in profile to me. So very proud of himself. To show himself to his brother in the mid day summer sun. Summer wine could never taste as fine as this. As him. My brother who I love. Who I want to have sex with. As now I see he does as well wish to know me. How fine and fun and good it was for both of us, for he told me so about himself later, to stand naked in front of each other. And for me to see his hard on that now ,unconfined by fabric was standing, it stood straight up, and was staring at his navel like a little barber pole of pink. His balls were tiny chestnuts of flesh. And the massive poetry that came from that little pinprick of boy hood. That little enigma of flesh that was like mine and not like mine at the same time. If he could have gotten me pregnant and I could have had his child, it could have filled me with no greater life than it did right here, right now, at this moment. It never made me feel anything but alive and deeply gratified inside. After we had been intimate, and were resting with the bees and honey flesh and the blood easing through me, our hands on each other's cocks, protecting them, I asked him if he had had that problem as I did of getting hard in school just when the teacher called him to the blackboard. He laughed knowingly. "What do you do then, Jean?" I asked. "Suffer!!" he answered. We discussed which side of the jeans he wore his penis on usually. He said the right side. I said for me it was the left side. Such intimacies. Such innocent confessions. How they caress my memory even this day long from then. How our even spent penises jumped in each other's hands as we lay there, his head sometimes laying on my shoulder, mine sometimes laying on his. We decided a penis is a very independent being and deserves much respect. But now, before we finally touched, we stood that way for a time. Eventually we did those things I wanted to do, play and wrestle and run free and naked, and so much more. Eventually, brave child bold, he put his hands on his naked hips as though he were Superman. And he swaggered toward me, his dick bouncing all the way so merrily along. And I came to him as sensuously as I knew how at 14, when all I knew about it was what I saw in the movies and read in maman's magazines. I pretended to be Tarzan and he pretended to be Boy. We swam naked in the cool stream beside us. We held hands under water. We felt each part of each other. He had me turn from him, my knees in the cold water and bend over. He bent over me and placed his penis against my thigh. He nuzzled my neck. We decided we would be married some day. We knew we loved each other and would love each other for all time. What was wrong with it? Later we pretended we were lovers re-united after a long and bloody war. Like in the 1940's WW II movies. I tipped an invisible cigarette to the ground after taking a puff of invisible smoke from it and crushed it invisibly with my bare foot. As the troop train came into the station in all that steam and fog and misty memory vapors. I saw him and rushed to him. Rushed to him hard and fast. I put my arms around his naked chest and back and arms. And he put his around me. And I said, "Jean, was the war a terrible experience?" My voice quivering with longing and allure that probably sounded closer to the voice of Foghorn Leghorn. He tried to stifle his giggles though I could feel them running through him as they made his hard dick do a tap dance on my naked belly, and his balls were so warm against my own, I never wanted to let him go. We were pretending--but only a little. "Oh, the war was," he said, so bitter, so full of knowledge I would never ever know, but being so brave, dismissing it all with a hero's shrug,"--you know, a body here, an arm there, a head over there--somewhere." And we fell down akimbo in each other's arms. And he held onto me and his face was against the left side of my chest--how his little body pressed me so deeply into the grass that would forever hold the shadow of me he made there. How grand to be naked and in love with a boy who lived with me, who would be with me and only me. I said, "Suck me, little boy. Suck me and be comforted and nurtured." "How? You are a boy," he laughed against me, his penis hard on my abdomen. "I can't suck you. The things you do not know. Amazing." I put my hand on his forehead, the forehead that was warm and wet and I put my hand on top of his heavy sheaf of wheat hair and I directed his mouth to my nipple. He bit it a little, uncertain, asked if he were hurting me, and then he tongued it and then pulled away from me a little, and we both looked down at his three inch erection that was bobbing it was so excited. "Michel," he said. "Yes, Jean?" I asked brushing the hot back of his head. "Why do boys have tits? They don't have milk or anything?" "So sweet little brothers can bite them and send electricity down their older brother's entire body and then ask him annoying questions like that." We were silent for a time. Perhaps we dozed a moment. The sun held its golden arms round us. After a time, our bodies linked together, sharing perspiration and excitement and eagerness and--this especially--contentment, my brother said: I've never been this hard before," he mused. "Why does touching your nipple and body make me hard?" I smiled down at him. He had to save face some way of course. "Because it is kismet." "What?" He looked up at me again, his face so close, his breath of clover, so innocent and sweet as I cuddled next to him and put my hands down on his hips so low and I held him and tickled him. And he cuddled into me. He was my teddy bear and I seemed now to be his. How I had slept with his pretend body next to me in that stupid narrow single bed for so very long. And now--this-- "Because we love each other," I told him. "Because we are one." "But we're boys," he objected, but not too strongly. "Girls are icky, don't you think?" I tensed. I had said too much. Do not reveal yourself to your lover. Do not reveal yourself to him most of all. "Yes," he sighed, and put my hand to his buttocks which I stroked so lovingly. It explained it all. We talked of how boys made us feel. We talked about why it is not wrong. We talked about the good feeling and what was wrong with feeling good? That made no sense to think it of dreadful monstrous concern. And we lay there for a time, glorious in our tapestry of flesh in the sun and meadow that did not mind, that welcomed us to it. I kissed his lips and he kissed mine. Our hands were idly playing with each other's penises. Rubbing them. Mine at least had never been as hard. He felt every turn of mine, every curve, every vein. He tickled the slit of its head. It was suddenly as though he had realized what that traitorous hand of his was doing. He pulled away. He turned his face to mine. "Michel, I don't think we--" He was concerned. Unsure. Stupid stories he was told at school die hard. "Go on," I said, taking his somewhat unwilling right hand, "feel it." He touched me again. Positioned himself to put his head on my chest and gaze down at me. How lovely to see his perfect sun set of a body laying on mine, his fingers playing with my member as though with a new toy, touching delicately, then ravenously. Forget right and wrong. Whoever it was had never seen us together. Or the loneliness when we were apart. Else they wouldn't have put down all these rules that never ever concern themselves. He asked what the hair there was called. I told him it was pubic hair. He said if it was public hair, why did everybody hide it in public. I told him no, you silly, it-- And he looked up at me and scrunched up his button nose and laughed at me. I was being too much the teacher. Too much a wise ass. He had me and we laughed together. So he lightened the mood even though I was heavily in lust with him at that point, those nipple bites and sucks that were still shooting pain joy through me like an electric arc, as I played with him and kissed and placed my mouth at his face and eyes. He asked, after he fiddled with my pubic hair, when I thought he might get some, and would it be dark like mine?, and very awkwardly complimented me on it. He examined me so minutely, so tenderly and carefully as though I might break, that my heart almost cried aloud at his gallantry. He asked then if he could lie on top of me and pretend he was--you know--well--fucking me. He had never said that word in my presence or anybody else's I knew of. So I all but bodily hurled him on top of me. We giggled and I felt the all of him on me and his hands were all over me like butter on a dream, getting it all good and damp and friendly and fine harvest. He lay on me like a rocking horse, bending up his waist and rocking back and forth, his head and chest and legs in the air. And his penis wobbled on my navel and I told him that he was the most boyish boy in the world, that he should sing in a boychoir. And he looked at me seriously, stopped rocking. "Can I tell you a secret?" he asked. "Of course, you can, Jean." "I rub myself some times." "Yes?" I know. The art of opening forbidden doors. How delicious it was. How brave I had become. Forgetting that he could cut me off at a moment's notice, dress and run away and never have a thing to do with me even though we would be forced to be in each other's presence for years to come. It is always the loved one, the adored one, who has the power. He and he alone. For he knows the price with which he is bought. And that price is an immense one. He went on, "sometimes I think of you when I'm doing it." So scared at that moment. Both of us. Long pause. Will I go away now? After all this, this afternoon? Is it over? Please, no, he was saying, I've been tricked before, made a fool of, don't make one of me now. Then, "is it wrong?" He knows how it is for the loved one as well. He knows the terrifying cost to him as well. And has taught me this too. Now. I considered it for a time. I had wondered the same thing myself. Is it wrong?, he had asked again, a bit of watery tremor in his voice. I looked the sky of blue above his head, as though it were made purely as background for this fairy tale gentle child who was a bit of a pain at times, kidding, making jokes, and always questioning me about things from school and out of school that I had no earthly ideas of and that made him just ask more questions, and prying prying into my personal life that was not a life at all, save for him. All the things I had to make up to satisfy his curiosity. How mysterious all this was for us, and he thinking it not mysterious for me. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I was far more amazed than he. His mouth moved like that of a guppy's, pondering, quizzical, self satisfied, for yes, this was how our old games had been meant to go, in a sexual realm, in that childhood magic that all fights and tyings up and lyings on were about, I imagined his tying me up some time and having his way with me. All of that was meant to vector directly in a straight line to right here. And he dug his body into mine and he reveled in being naked for real and true, as he pressed his penis against my crotch. He looked at me as we locked our legs round each other. He smiled at his brother who was about to take him into a new world, who was to show him that love comes with kindness and full smiles and willing heart with no sneaking in the heart that has little to offer but betrayal on the morrow.. He would know the real kind of love, while so many others never would. I kissed the top of his head, and he began running his penis up and down me, his days of covering himself over in my presence gone for good and all. Save when Maman was around. He waited for my answer. I really didn't want to. I just wanted to feel my brother's cock in my mouth and to be his first love, a fact that time and deed and happenstance would never erase. But finally, (it was so hard to think under these conditions), as he nuzzled me under the chin with his happy hands, I said, "Jean-Phillipe, look at the flowers around us, the grass, the sky and clouds, and the sun is so bright that you cannot stare at it because it would blind you. And here are you and I. There is no thunder and lightning, no wrath of god to be visited down on us. The earth is not shaking as if with a quake. Granted?" He nodded. Determinedly. So brave now. His tiny penis rose. He reached for mine, which was larger, and pressed it between us. How tender and fine to have our penises pressed between us like flowers of grass stalks come warm and alive and pulsing. He smiled. Such sunshine in that smile. And he kissed my mouth, as he opened his mouth and I put my tongue inside. And he and I stayed like that for a long time, tongue dueling. When we pulled apart, he asked me, a bit frightened, could he do "it" if I would watch him, and the words of sex also came hard for him, for he had only heard them before as curse words. "No," said, risking it all, yet again. He looked concerned. He shied away a bit. He wanted to masturbate with me watching. We would do that--later. But now I wanted more than that. Why do that lonely thing, together and still apart? "No?" he asked, downhearted. Had I been kidding him all this time? "No, I want to suck your dick while you suck mine." It was as if I had spoken in a language he did not understand. His forehead wrinkled in thought. He had had no idea what I meant. So I simply and directly told him. I couldn't then and cannot not believe how brazen I was. He had raised from me. Our hearts were like jungle drums in a very close distance. It was as though he grew from me and was now peering up from his only home. How hot he was against me. How all pervading he felt. He might disjoin from me and I would be destined to go through the rest of my days cut in half or cut in even more. He backed off me a bit, scared now. "Are you all right?" he asked. Concerned for me. Seeming so. And I thought he thinks he has so filled me with wonder at his manhood and our beginning sex play that he is too much. He is going to fake his way through this. Pretend that he does it all the week long and twice on Sunday. "I mean aren't you afraid I will--you know--pee in your mouth?" "Are you not afraid I will pee in yours?" I held tense his strong thin wavery arms. "It does not matter," he said. "I trust you not to do that." "And I trust you as well." I looked into his brave big eyes. He smiled again. It was all right. We fumbled and bumbled and were clumsy and sucked while being sucked, which was pretty confusing for the both of us. We were on top of each other. Then side by side. We laughed so much at how funny and wonderful it all was. Finally we decided that I should be the one to suck him first. So he stood and lay on top of me with his penis at my mouth and his head at my legs. I helped put him in, but it fell out once or twice, which made him laugh loudly, being unable to control what was going on back there, and how I could see a part of him that he couldn't, and brave we were to be doing it and doing it in front of god and everything-- how big three inches (we later measured to be totally accurate) seemed to my mouth there, as I clenched his penis, tongued it, poked a finger at his ass hole, and I told him to ride me like he rides his hobby horse. It took a bit of time but he got the idea. I ate my brother's dick. I could not see them of course but I knew that his golden eyes were wise and shiny and amazed and dazed, and he said, the words heavy breathing clips from his gasping lips, he was going to, and he was going try not to pee, and I said it's okay, baby, anything you want to do, I want you to more than anything in the world. And he stiffened his arms and legs and he clenched his hips and buttocks, making, I think, more of it for him than it was, this being a massively huge moment for him, and of course for me, too, for he was my first as well, though he never was to believe so. Then he shot out like a rod of wire and immediately collapsed, his stuttering penis falling to my mouth and face, as he turned round on my chest, his arms and legs trembling at my sides. He stayed inside my mouth as long as he could, till he shrank and popped out and it sounded like a cork coming out of the opening of a champagne bottle. And of course that caused jollity. I held him and loved on him. And later after I washed his lovely soft stretchy penis at the stream, he kissed me on the top of my hot hair, we played all the games of summer that we had been playing here for years, only we played them without clothes. We were to come here each day. And shuck our clothes immediately and never put them on till it was time to sorrowfully trudge home. Tomorrow I would suck him. We stopped our play to eat sandwiches and drink wine our maman had fixed for us and placed in a wicker basket. And then we resumed our well fed stomach initiations into the world of flesh games. How the juice of the oranges dropped down our chests and how we licked the juice off each other. He asked me so many sex questions as we ate. It was impossible for anything to ever be more important than my brother and the summers of our lives. This in particular, though I remember. How he was bent over like a little elf examining my penis and balls which must have seemed so large to him, though of course they really weren't. He made me feel attractive. He made me feel part of him. And better than that it is impossible to feel. how he giggled when he kissed me right on it's tip. And in time it was evening, time for the sun going down. In its reddish glow, it bathed him in orange, sculpted his bony hard and lyrical body that did not have an ounce of flesh wasted on him, as he with such fierce mute concentration examined me, fascinated, and in memory examines me still. I remember how I stood there, with him on his knees, looking at me so hard, as I was gazing down at him, thinking he was like a parenthesis of sun, being held either king or prisoner, I don't know which, by the golden orange glove of its receding down the red trailed sky, and he enraptured me and captured me. Or simply, who owned who. Then most unwillingly we had to stop. To dress each other. To get the food and wrapper leavings and put them in the basket and go home. Where we would masturbate in private, because it was unsafe any other way. But here in our meadow. Yes, here in our meadow. Brother and brother made sun kissed love. And damn anyone who finds it offensive. You have no right to judge. No right at all. We had many sunny summer days together. We made love in all the ways we knew how. And ways we had never thought of before. Our childhood was very beautiful, for we filled in the loneliness for each other. I wish you could have been there. You would not think it dirty then. It was life. What is wrong with a person giving to and receiving from another person life? What an insane world we live in. And how I miss my brother, my love. the end