Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 03:10:03 +0000 From: M S Subject: The Harding Brothers - Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 The Harding brothers grew up in a typical, middle class, nuclear family. Just under two years apart in age, Robby and Josh had been roughhousing, bickering and picking on one another every chance they got, ever since Josh could walk and talk. Although they would never dare say it out loud, they loved each other like only brothers can. They were fiercely devoted to one another, and would take up for each other under any circumstances. For most of their lives, the boys enjoyed a carefree existence. They knew they were not rolling in money, but there was always food in the fridge, plentiful gifts at Christmas and birthdays, and their parents never fought in front of them. Mom worked occasionally as a substitute teacher; Dad inspected manufacturing facilities. Although he traveled for work rather frequently, he was still an active presence in his sons' lives, and a good father. Mom doted on them, but seemed to grow joyless, tired and conservative as the boys got older. This frustrated their Dad, a fact that was lost on the boys in their younger years. At 16 and 14, the boys' idyllic life was suddenly upended. Their Dad confessed to carrying on a series of affairs over many years. The confession was not made in hopes of forgiveness, but rather, freedom. The boys would realize many years later that in fact, neither side was willing to fight to save the marriage. A brief and confusing separation was followed by a definite divorce. It all happened pretty quickly. The family's suburban home, the only house the boys had ever lived in, went on the market and sold within days. Dad moved to an apartment in a town nearly two hours away. As if the breakup of their family wasn't hard enough, it seemed to coincide with a coming-of-age rift between the boys. Until this point, they had always felt close enough in age and life experience to relate easily to one another, understanding each other without saying a word. But suddenly, something was different. The way that Robby protected their Mom, and Josh their Dad, that part wasn't new. It was clear where each had gotten their personality. However, one fleeting conversation during the separation seemed to point out the stark reality of their natural allegiances, not to mention their differences in maturity. One day as the boys arrived home after school, discussing their plans to visit their Dad over the weekend, Josh carelessly mused about their parents getting back together once Mom "stops being such a bitch." Robby sharply pulled his head out of the fridge to glare at his younger brother. "What? Mom's not a bitch." Josh rolled his eyes and tipped his head back. "Robbyyyyyy CMON. You know what I mean. She's uptight." He shrugged his shoulders taking a bite of a cold pop tart. "That's why Dad wanted a break. He'll be back." Josh was quickly startled by the sound of the fridge door slamming shut, looking up to find his brother right in his face. "You don't know what the FUCK you're talking about. He's not on a "break" you idiot. You're such a stupid fucking KID." Robby stomped out of the kitchen, upstairs to his bedroom, slamming the door, without ever eating a thing. The whole episode was bewildering to Josh, but he knew Robby could be moody. A few days later, at their Dad's new apartment -- where he worked hard to impress the boys with the view, shiny new toys, and even offering them their first beers -- Josh could see Robby wasn't having it. Josh was dumbfounded. Didn't Robby WANT their Dad to come back home? Later that night, Josh woke to find his brother out of bed. He tiptoed towards the hallway. What he overheard, he really couldn't believe: a slightly tearful Robby berating their father, the head of their household, Josh's idol. Josh listened to the hushed whispers for about five minutes, not catching everything, but what he did catch was hard to hear. "You BROKE her" "..... selfish.....fucking asshole" The most cutting, devastating thing Josh heard, and what sent him back to his bed, was hearing his brother utter the words: "I FUCKING. HATE. YOU." Josh felt confused. But above all else, he knew that his family, at least the way he saw it, was done. And more painfully, the brother he'd always felt so close to was suddenly in a very different place. Mom managed to find a suitable rental for her and the boys to live in, in a neighbourhood where they could continue attending the same school. It was a nice enough place given their new reality and new budget, but there was one huge change that neither Robby nor Josh was prepared for: the brothers were going to have to share a bedroom. "Mom! He STINKS!" Josh whined as he and Robby toured the empty rental with their mother. "And this room's so SMALL!" Josh extended his arms to demonstrate his point. Robby grimaced slightly and folded his arms over his rounded chest. "I stink? You need to put your arms down, punk, before you make me and ma pass out." Josh sneered and gave Robby a playful push on the shoulder. "Shut up jerk!" Robby snatched Josh's wrist with ease, twisting him around and rapidly slipping his arms under Josh's pits to put him in a sleeper hold. "Boys...BOYS," their mother interceded, "...please. This is hard enough without you two arguing." Robby slowly let Josh free, and both boys looked a bit ashamed of themselves. "It's time you grew up a little," their mother chided, "and besides, you both need to get used to sharing space with people, anyway. You're going to have roommates in college, you know." As their mom lectured them, Robby and Josh looked at each other defiantly. Their mother's face clearly expressed the difficulty she was having in the moment. Robby hugged his mother tenderly as he softly apologized. "Sorry, ma." Josh walked up to the side of his mother and brother and hugged them both from the side, "Me too, Mom. Sorry." With their Mom's eyes turned downward, Josh stuck his tongue out at Robby. Robby's eyes narrowed and he mouthed the words FUCK YOU. The next few months were a blur for the Harding brothers. In addition to their already busy athletics schedules, they both had to help Mom pack and move house. Dad had become very scarce, seeing the family quite infrequently, going so far as to hire a moving company to collect the possessions he was allotted in the divorce agreement. Without their father there, Robby naturally stepped into a more authoritative role, leading to occasional fights between him and his younger, willful brother. But aside from these isolated incidents, Josh was mostly helpful and cooperative, especially when he could tell his mother was particularly overwhelmed by the circumstances. Josh also could feel Robby maturing at a disproportionate pace, and was trying desperately not to lose touch with him. Their mother's mental state deteriorated to the point that she had to see a doctor, and was prescribed medication to help her sleep. Despite the rapid upheaval in their lives, the Harding brothers adjusted to their new reality with an uncharacteristic maturity (mostly because Josh was savvy enough to follow Robby's example). Josh found himself thinking more and more about Robby, and how admirable Robby's growing maturity was. Another preoccupation of the younger Harding brother was his own developing body, and his envy of his older brother. Josh was quite keen to know how he was going to grow. Before his parents' divorce, there were many instances of casual nudity between the Harding men. Josh was aware that he was younger, but could still see and understand the similarities between his body, his brother's and his father's. He had assumed that the three of them, while in different stages of development, were just normal, average males. At 16, Robby could have easily passed for one or two years older. Wrestling and rugby had developed his young body into a firm, solid, muscular build. He had broad shoulders and firm rounded pecs, a taut defined stomach leading down to strong hips and thick, meaty legs and ass. He had big feet for his age -- size 12 sneakers. In just the past few months, he had started to grow a light treasure trail on his lower abs, to go with his now thick pubes and armpit hair. His chest, butt and upper thighs remained mostly smooth. Robby was quite handsome, and many of his classmates had crushes on him, but Robby was a natural loner. He was quiet, unassuming, and usually reserved, and only had a couple close friends, aside from his younger brother. When in company he found comfortable, Robby could be quite sociable and talkative, but at school, he had a bit of a reputation as being an intense, mysterious, lone wolf type (which ironically went a long way to getting people to crush on him). Josh, on the other hand, was an energetic and outgoing 14-year-old. He became obsessed with baseball at an early age, playing in Little League as soon as he was able, collecting baseball cards and memorizing stats of his favorite players. He was a very curious and bright boy. He seemed to want to know everything, how things worked, how to make things work, fix things. He was eager to do any outside chores, and his brother often teased him for being such a brownnoser. Compared to his brother, Josh was definitely leaner, almost lanky, and just smaller overall. They were roughly the same height, 5'9" and 5'8", but Robby probably outweighed his brother by 30 pounds. He was still growing, too, but was pretty much smooth all over, with a nearly invisible dusting of blonde peach fuzz on his forearms, stomach, and shins. He had sprouted darker fuller pubic and armpit hair, a development that he took great pride in. While not identical by any means, you could tell that Robby and Josh were brothers. Robby's face was wider, with a strong square jaw and rounded cheekbones. He had started growing stubble on his face, shaving it weekly, and kept his slightly wavy dirty blonde hair cut to a medium length that terminated just at his earlobes. Josh's face was more boyish and oblique. Josh preferred his hair short on the sides and in the back, with a longer messy top that stuck up like a haystack. His hair was a shade lighter than Robby's. The one feature they shared most closely was their twinkling chocolate brown eyes. One of Josh's many secrets was a jealousy of his older brother's obvious, burgeoning manliness. Josh hoped that he would have fuzzy, masculine muscles like his big brother someday and someday soon. As Josh began puberty, and sprouted his prized pubic hair, he began noticing something else in the locker rooms during baseball season. He'd always thought of himself as average, but seeing other boys in the nude, boys not related to him, Josh realized that his cock was NOT average. Even when he and his teammates were casually dressing after gym or practice, Josh noticed that his soft cock was undoubtedly bigger than his peers. And shortly after this revelation, Josh began to inspect himself in the bathroom mirror nightly. Looking at himself from different angles, touching hi.s body, touching his cock. He found that touching it not only made it larger, and harder, but that it also gave him a very pleasant feeling. In this way, Josh discovered masturbation. He wanted to know more about this feeling. He wanted to understand, to know how it worked. But in the midst of his parents' split, and the awkward nature of the subject in general, he had no idea who to turn to, and even if he did, how could he ever broach the subject? Josh started jerking off every chance he got. He'd just tug his dick a couple times and it would stand at attention, and he'd keep rubbing it until he had a sudden feeling like he was going to piss, and his body would tingle and relax, and then his cock would be soft again. At first, he did this in the bathroom, watching himself in the mirror, but once he was interrupted by Robby knocking on their bathroom door, he decided to confine the activity to the privacy of his bedroom. As things between his parents got more tense, Josh started touching himself much more frequently. To the point where, he felt like he didn't have much control over it. Then, one evening before bed, during his usual routine, he felt that special feeling he loved so much building in his oversized teenage dick. But this time, the feeling wracked his body with a new intensity, and as he stretched his long lean legs out and curled his toes in anticipation, his loose gripped hand gliding up and down his young member, he felt a weird surge. He tightened his grip, sped up his pace, and stifled a moan as he stared in awe at his swelling knob. Suddenly, like magic, a clear, snotty looking goo started pouring out of his piss slit, all in his pubes, and he rocked side to side, struggling to stay quiet as he ejaculated for the first time. Josh panicked instantly. He thought he'd somehow injured himself. After all, he'd never stroked his cock so hard. He stood up and paced his room, feeling the goo run down into the pits of his groin. He snatched up a dirty t-shirt from his hamper and began frantically wiping his cock, balls and undercarriage, but he was once again overwhelmed with that super special feeling, and more goo came oozing out. If he had hurt himself, he thought, then why did it feel so good? Then he wondered...would Robby know? His older brother would be the only person he could conceivably talk to about this new, strange development. But then, Robby would probably laugh at him. Tease him. He tossed his soaked t-shirt back into the hamper, and crawled into bed, naked, and fell asleep. Since Josh had no intention of giving up the special feeling of playing with his cock, he came up with a creative manner of dealing with his ejaculate: he started using socks. He would play with himself until he was hard (which took less than a minute), then he'd slip one of his dirty socks over his dick and slide it down, and stroke his young jock dick until the goo just came out in the sock. Then all Josh had to do was squeeze out the excess, wipe it up his shaft and knob, and toss the sock in the hamper. This became his routine, and a regular distraction from the tumult of his parents' divorce. But now...NOW...how in the WORLD was he going to be able to have his special, private time? The new house was so small. The bathroom actually adjoined to their mother's room. And Robby would be in the room every night. Josh was beside himself. For the first two weeks in the new house, he didn't masturbate once. He noticed that his dick was getting stiff ALL the time, and in the most embarrassing situations. Even baseball practice, putting on his jockstrap and cup, his dick would get instantly hard, and he'd conceal it in a panic from his teammates. There was one silver lining, however: after a few days of sharing a room with Robby, Josh noticed he was quite a heavy sleeper. For a week and a half, Josh would fake sleep until his older brother was sufficiently passed out. Then Josh would get up and make minimal noise, or sometimes even nudge Robby's shoulder or foot to see how he'd react. It was usually the same: Robby would grunt or mumble something in his sleep, shift around or roll over, and settle back into a light snore. These experiments emboldened Josh, who was going crazy with teenage horniness. Two weeks to the day after the Harding brothers moved into their new home and shared room, Josh waited until Robby went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. He grabbed a knee sock he'd worn at baseball practice that afternoon, and stashed it under the covers of his bed. He pulled off his t-shirt and crawled into bed under the covers, just in his boxer shorts, which was his usual custom. Robby walked in, yawning, and sat on his bed. He pulled off his shoes and socks, then tugged off his shirt. Josh was laid on his side, with his back to Robby. "You asleep needledick?" Robby asked quietly. Josh didn't move or answer. "Man, mom's medicine knocks her the fuck out," Robby chuckled as he stood, undoing his belt and jeans, and pushing them down, pulling his large feet out one leg at a time. He stood there a moment in his blue boxerbriefs. He smirked and scratched his balls in his underwear, "Guess you're knocked the fuck out, too." Robby walked over and turned off the lamp on Josh's nightstand, and, to Josh's surprise and delight, gave his younger brother a tender rub on the head, his fingers sliding through Josh's messy hair. "Night, numbnuts," Robby whispered, and smiled. He took the few steps required to get to his bed and laid down, pulling the sheet and blanket over him, and clicking off his lamp. Even with no light, the streetlight outside the boys' window lit the room enough to see once their eyes were adjusted. Josh laid still with his back to his brother. His eyes were closed, but his mind was racing. His young dick was so hard it ached, and it was already leaking some goo, which, along with a change in the color, consistency, and amount Josh shot when he climaxed, was another source of worry. Josh thought he had permanently injured his dick, but like an itch, he could not keep himself from scratching. He very slowly, surreptitiously slid his left hand down, his right pinned under him on his side, and slipped his erect, drooling cock out of the wide fly of his loose, plaid boxer shorts. He softly pet his erection with his open hand, his soft palm sending waves of pleasure through his body. His heart pounded so hard he could feel his pulse in his cock against his hand. He bit his lip and struggled to stop. Surely, it was too soon. After fifteen agonizing minutes, Josh finally heard the telltale sign of Robby's light snoring. Josh softly whimpered and pretended to roll onto his back in his sleep. He looked over at Robby. He squinted and waited for his eyes to adjust to the low light, and could finally make out his brother's features: Robby's lips were slightly parted, and his eyes closed. His covers were pushed down to his waist, exposing his muscular frame, including the new sexy treasure trail that even Josh had noticed by now. His right arm was draped over his face, exposing his deep, dark, thickly haired armpit; his left arm bent and draped across his torso. His big right foot was just barely dangling over the edge of the bed, protruding from under the covers. Josh knew it was possible his brother was just faking, waiting to catch him and tease him, but that was mere paranoia, a concept that would never occur to an overly hung 14-year-old desperate to play with his raging hard cock. For a split second, Josh's eyes lingered on Robby's slowly rising and falling pecs, and for the millionth time hoped/wished he'd have a chest like that someday. Josh shook that thought off and threw caution to the wind: he lifted his hips and pushed his boxers down and off under the covers, and fumbled his hand around until he found his hidden knee sock. He spread his legs wide and then drew them up, bent at the knees, his feet planted on the mattress. This created a large tent over his crotch, so if Robby WAS awake or DID wake up, Josh's movements would be obscured. Josh pointed his cock up with his right hand, his thumb pushing up at the base. He could feel his pulse through his thumb on his dick and vice versa; his teenage excitement palpable. He slipped the sock over his knob and caught a whimper in his throat, working it lower, lower, slowly, down to his nuts. He used his left hand to pop his smooth balls into the tight elastic top of the sock, and squeezed them gently. With his right hand, he started to very slowly, methodically, stroke the soft fabric of the sock up and down his hard 7" cock, feeling his precum quickly dampen the inside. He squeezed his nuts harder and threw his head back, biting his bottom lip and stifling another moan. He picked up his stroke pace considerably, feeling the extra length of cloth over his knob start to flop as he tightened his grip and jacked his sensitive member even faster. With a suddenness that shocked Josh out of his sexual revelry, Robby snored inwardly very loudly, and shifted around on his bed. Josh froze immediately. His knees were still up; he didn't think how incriminating his current position would be, because after Robby's loud snore and body move, Josh heard Robby audibly mumble, "Do you wwannt me too..." The phrase sent Josh's mind racing, and then he realized how he would look to Robby at that moment, so he instantly stretched his legs down and rolled onto his side simultaneously, facing his older brother's bed. Josh laid there and stared at his brother for a couple minutes. Robby's entire thick, furry, muscular right leg had flopped all the way off the side of the bed. His left leg had bent, his left knee pushing his covers back, exposing his entire body save his left knee. His right arm was down now, his big hand spread and resting over his navel. His left hand had slipped to rest on the inside of his left thigh. Josh's heart pounded in his chest like a hammer. His pulse was so strong and his cock so hard, he could feel it bobbing with each heartbeat, making the loose portion of his knee sock that extended beyond his cockhead actually flop ever so slightly and tap the inside of his thigh. Once again, Josh found his gaze fixed on Robby's slow, steady, rising and falling chest. His mind flashed again with a conflicted mix of envy and admiration. Josh watched as his brother's movements evened out to be indicative of sound sleep, but as he waited, agonized, for that confirmation, his mind also raced with the possible implications of Robby's sleep talk: "Do you want me to?" Do they want you to do WHAT? Who? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? With all this teenage lust mixed with the mystery and Josh's natural curiosity, he watched Robby about another minute before concluding he was, in fact, fully asleep. Although he didn't totally realize it in these terms, this was, in fact, up to this moment, the very most intimate moment Josh had ever had with his older brother. The most intimate moment, in fact, he had ever shared with anyone. Unable to fully understand this confluence of thoughts and feelings, Josh slowly, quietly slipped out of his bed and tiptoed over to the side of his brother's bed. His young cock was still rock hard and wrapped in a sock, bobbing gently in front of him as he crept, pointing like a compass. Josh stood there, his arms limp at his sides and his mouth hanging open. He stared for a moment at Robby's handsome, manly face, convincing himself definitively that his older brother was genuinely asleep, and not playing some elaborate prank. By now, Josh's eyes had effectively adjusted to the low light of their shared room, and in this silent, private moment, young Josh could admire his brother's innocence as he never had before. Once again, he was gazing at his brother's impressive pecs, but in addition to his jealousy concerning their perfect roundness and firmness. For the first time, Josh noticed Robby's nipples. They were round and in perfect symmetry with one another, the nubs round and protruding. Josh smirked as he thought of Robby's nipples as twin erections on his chest. Then Josh regarded Robby's foot. Josh always thought of feet as ugly and smelly, but in this strange and new moment, he realized, however primally, that they were symbolic of Robby's power, Robby's prowess, Robby's ability on the mat and on the field. Josh's eyes drifted slowly up his brother's leg, from ankle, to shin and calf, knee, quad, and inner thigh. The definition and musculature of Robby's leg, and how his leg hair enhanced it, mystified young Josh. Once again, he found himself in a state of hopeful envy of his older brother. This slow and languid inventory of Robby's leg's anatomy was suddenly interrupted by the leg of his boxer briefs stretched around his thigh. Josh sighed practically silently, but then his eyes drifted slightly to the right. And he saw something he never saw before. Robby's dick was hard in his underwear. Josh was young and ignorant enough that, if he even had seen an erect penis other than his before, it didn't really register. But given that he'd only recently become aware of his own cock and its above average size, coupled with his envy of his older brother's body, the sight of Robby's cock bulge was a revelation. Josh was entranced by the sight. Robby's cock was so perfectly outlined that his little brother could make out all the details, even in the low light. Robby's knob, especially, was plain to see, his bell-end resembling the end of a deadly, primitive club. And right at the tip of Robby's impressive spearhead was a round, dark puddle soaked through. Josh finally had confirmation that the "goo" he had been so worried about wasn't a symptom of harm after all. Josh's eyes trailed up and down, memorizing the details just like he used to with baseball players. Robby's slab was thick, and long - over 8 inches, even though Josh wouldn't know to estimate that measurement. All Josh knew was that it was definitely bigger than his own, in both length and girth. It was so hard and stood out from Robby's body with such might that even the tight elastic waistband of his boxer briefs was raised up from his crotch, giving Josh a glimpse of the thick, curly bush adorning it underneath. Most excitingly of all, Josh could just make out the fat base of his brother's cock, where it was rooted in his thicket of pubes. Josh had a whole new reason to envy and admire his brother. Josh was so caught up in examining his brother's erection that his body had gone into autopilot. As he visually soaked in every detail of his brother's cockbulge, his hand had started stroking his own cock in his sock again. He sped up the pace as he felt a new, forbidden and dirty sensation well up in him. Josh was so caught up in pleasuring himself to the sight of his own brother that, when Robby snored loudly and shifted in his sleep a second time, Josh wasn't deterred a bit. Not even when Robby writhed in his sleep, his hand sliding over his fabric-covered dick, and squeezing it through his underwear. At the sight of this, at that moment, Josh stifled an intense whimper by throwing his free hand over his own mouth. He suddenly realized that maybe - just maybe - Robby enjoyed jerking off just as much as Josh did. As Josh increased his sock fucking to even greater speed and intensity, his mind flooded with a fantasy of showing Robby how to use socks to masturbate, and the two of them laying side by side, pleasuring themselves together as Robby praised and thanked Josh for helping him make his cock feel so good. His head swimming with this sudden, lurid fantasy, biting his knuckles on his left hand to stifle any noise he might make, Josh's eyes zeroed in on Robby's black ankle sock on the floor, right next to the bed, by Josh's foot. With full abandon, Josh whipped his knee sock off his dick, making it spring and sway, rock hard and on edge. Josh snatched up Robby's sock, still damp and slightly warm from its daily wear, and slid his cock into it with absolutely no hesitation. Josh started to fuck the sock and his hand so fast and hard that he nearly fell over, having to catch himself by gripping the edge of the bed with his hand, dangerously close to Robby's hip. After two weeks of denial, caught up in these new, dirty thoughts about his own brother, Josh hammered his cock in the black sock a few more times, clenched his throat to stifle his cum groan, and let his 7 inch, 14 year old cock explode like an atom bomb into Robby's worn sock. Josh's dick spewed with such intensity that his first two spurts shot through the toe of the sock and splattered the side of Robby's bed on the sheet. Josh stood up panting quietly, gripping his knob in the fabric and squeezing it off, milking the rest of his load into the sock. As he basked in the afterglow, Robby snored loudly and shifted in his sleep again. Panicked, Josh jerked the cum-filled sock off his still-hard cock, snatched up his own knee sock, and dove into his bed. He rolled over under the covers quickly, with his back to Robby, just as he heard Robby mumble some other unintelligible sleep talk. Josh laid still, fondling his still-hard, super sensitive young dick, rubbing the last bit of cum oozing from his tip down his shaft. When he heard his brother's snoring resume its normal sound and rhythm, he slowly rolled back over to stare in awe at his brother. He sighed contentedly, fondling his dick, and slowly drifted to sleep watching his brother sleep. Josh didn't even think that by morning, both Robby's sock and sheet would likely still be wet with his cum.