Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:02:15 +0000 From: chuck haugan Subject: Boys by the Bay / Part 4 / Figuring It Out This is a short story of the life of a kid growing up in the late 70`s. This whole thing is nothing more than one big lie! This is why we call it fiction. So, none to the names or places should be considered real. Having said that, if you are prohibited from reading sexual content due to age, banned by local law, or have issue with reading stories of people engaging in sex within the following pages, stop reading now and go find the Disney page. This bit of fiction is not for you! You are warned! All the copy rights and legal crap that normally apply and sited for stories posted here also apply to this story. This story can not be reproduced without the consent of the author. Chapter 4: Figuring It Out.... I felt his hand stroke through my hair as he gently called my name. My Dad always woke me softly unlike my Mom who'd shake the living shit out of me. "Jon, it's time for you to get going." "Whhhhyy... Daaaaad? It's too early. It`s Saturday," I complained and tried to roll to the other side of the bed. He flipped me to my back by simply tapping my shoulder. I loved to play with him. The truth was, I always got up early and would have crept out of bed in a half hour anyway. "No. You get going. Eric and Kim quit this morning... Our motel will be a mess... Sue, Mom and I are going to clean the rooms and all their work... You'd be going and making some extra money, if you'd done your chores yesterday, like you're supposed to... Now your reward is more chores. Weekends are your free days and now, you need to do what we agreed. You will edge the lawns with clippers, as scheduled and," He acted like he was thinking about his options as he paused: what a dork, "Sweep the garage and driveway as your payment for breech of contract." "Dad! That will take forever!" "Don't you Dad me! You agreed to this contract of labor for allowance. You agreed to the schedule and even chose your free days... You willfully defaulted your obligations to this family.... You have no dispute clause!" He smiled at his last statement. I had no idea what his babble of a "dispute clause" was so the joke was lost. "If it happens again, you loose 25% of your allowance, there will be even more work and no camping with your friends this September!" He gave my thigh a playful slap and I rolled my eyes in contempt. "I'm getting you up early! The sun's up 'n bright... I don't want you sweeping in the heat... Get up and come for breakfast." I rose from bed because I didn't want to loose a dollar twenty five out of my allowance. To be honest, I got out of bed because he asked me. I loved him more than my Mom and would do most anything to please him. I went upstairs in nothing but my pajama bottoms to sit with my sister as Mom fed us pancakes with blackberry jam, oranges, and ham. My Mom complained the entire meal about the husband and wife maid team quitting with no notice other than a phone call at 6:00 AM. My Dad shrugged it off. He believed people needed personal time so the idea of calling other employees to fill the slot, on short notice, probably never crossed his mind. At least that's what he preached to us and why we had to choose our free days from chores. We always had two consecutive days off and tons of chores to do, in and out of the house, all summer long to, "Teach us the value and reward of hard work." The motel was his latest investment. It filled his diverse portfolio of other land and commercial buildings he picked up in the down economy. I kind of figured he liked this toy more than the buildings he owned since this was more than maintenance and picking up rent checks: it involved more employees, renovation of the structure, and meeting travelers from all over the place. He even moved his commercial offices into the building. He was like a little kid with a shiny new Tonka Truck: all play and smiles. After they pulled out both Buicks and left for the motel, I screwed off for a half hour in the bathroom. I attempted to take a quick shower but it went long as I thought about Dennis. Having my Dad wake me and spending time with him shelved my thoughts until now. I washed my junk a couple of times as if cleansing would wash away his knowledge of my nature. "How could I have been so stupid?" I thought. Then I pretended to knock him over the head with the shampoo bottle which had become a baseball bat of my imagination. I pretend kicked him in the nuts and used the soap as a 38 special to lodge a bullet in his brain. As I went through this play, my stomach cranked up with rage as I yelled and imitated sounds of a gun blasts. I wonder what the neighbors thought? It wasn't what he did with me, it's what he knew- I concluded was the problem of Dennis. If I could off him, things would be normal, but how could I pull off the perfect crime? My mind raced with possibilities I knew were just fantasy. After slipping on a clean pair of shorts and my beat up Converses, I went to the garage for the giant push broom. Dad was right, after kicking up the dust with the broom, I was sweating and could feel the grit of the dust on my skin and crusting over my body. I shouldn't have showered. At about eleven, I was almost done. One more patch of the lawn edge and it was over. The phone rang and I ran as fast as I could from the edge of the beach to the house. On the seventh ring, I had the receiver. "Hello," I panted. "Jon!" "Crisco Disco!" I gasped. "Jooooonnnnnn. What`s wrong with you?" "I was on the beach working... I had to run up the hill." "Ohhh, sorry. You okay?" He laughed. "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "What's Brad's like?" "Brad's like us with a big assed house and a pool... He's cool. Jan's super cool. He has a trampoline and... I lied, it was weird." Chris went silent for a few seconds. "I heard they have one of everything and all kinds of cars and-" "Sure. So what. They're... Just leave it alone, until we're on the boat." "Okaaaay." Chris responded, as though I had lost my marbles. "Ummm, you done?" "Almost. Maybe another half hour." "I can drop our boat... In say... about forty five minutes, if you wade out I can pick you up." Then it hit me, "Can you ask to come over here? Nobodies home." "Big deal... I thought we were going to the point?" "CHRIS! Nobodies home... till like four!!!" "Ohhhh!" I heard his hand go over the receiver, "Dad! Jon said he has chores to finish up. Can I go over and help a little so we can sail? We'll take his boat instead." Then I heard muffled shouts in the distance. "Dad, said I could! But, I have to finish stacking some fire wood below the deck and I have to shower," I couldn't believe it: all I did was attend one service and they treated me like a trusted relative. "Fuck the shower! Just get over here! We'll jump in the bay and..." "Okay, that's great! I get it... I`ll hurry!" and we both hung up. I finished edging and went to my room to make my bed, gathered my laundry and dumped it in the big basket next to the machine in the utility room, and went back to my room with the Electrolux in tow. Dad bought the Swedish canister vacuum for our Mom on their tenth wedding anniversary. Dad told us boys about this as being the best buy of his life (in terms of price and quality- he bought it in 1963) and being biggest mistake of his marriage. "Never give a woman appliances as gifts," he forcefully stated while waiving his finger at me and my older brother a few years back. As I vacuumed, I realized Mom gave Dad a chain saw for his birthday last year and before that a bunch of car wax and small shop vacuum. "Women are fucked up," I thought. Fifteen minutes latter: I was done! I was a sweaty mess, as I worked at triple my normal speed. Half the time I was boned up thinking about messing around with Chris and that did slow me down a millisecond or two. I headed upstairs for some water, just as Chris pounded on the front door. I opened it and there he stood: white gym shorts, beat up sneakers, little silver orthodox cross hanging on his naked torso, and his white tooth smile. He stepped forward and playfully shoved me in the chest. We wrestled around for a minute and I finally leveraged him to a wall where his arms wrapped my waist and I pressed into him with both of my hands stroking his sides. "If I were a girl," I mused as I nuzzled into the side of his neck. We breathed heavily form our struggle. He was ripe with the dirty, sour, smell of a boy on the cusp of full blown puberty. His dirty hair was the strongest scent. It was Chris, so in my mind, the stench was better than anything. I knew I reeked and hoped he thought the same. "You'd what?" he whispered back. We'd only messed around once yet his question was all the permission I needed: he was game. Our touch and breathing guided us past any rules we`d set in the field. My hand wandered to his hip and I pulled us slightly apart so that my fingers could trace the waist band of the front of his shorts. I pushed my hand down to his crotch where I found his hardening shaft. I pulled from his neck and lightly kissed his lower lip as I stroked up with my hand and dove it down into his shorts. His cock was pounding with his pulse as it rose and pealed away from his scrotum. I remember, not so long ago, when I didn't wash very well, how my little dick would stick to my ball sack as the skin of my sack had loosened and softened with the onset of puberty. That sticky pealing of skin was something I kind of missed. The new hair on my balls and my daily baths seemed to prevent that fun. I looked into his eyes and leaned in to kiss him on his cheek. He was in a trance and my experience with Dennis popped into my mind for a second causing a wave of guilt to wash through me. Was he feeling that numb, emotionless, zombie, state I had in the graveyard? Sexual autopilot drove me to keep going and ditch all guilt and thoughts of Dennis. I stroked his cock with my palm against his stomach and leaned in to kiss him again. This time, he met me and sucked in my lower lip followed by his tongue pushing into my mouth as he took a deep, quivering, breath through his nose. I responded by gripping his dick and stroking him tight and fast: drawing his loose foreskin scar over his glands. We broke our kiss and he moaned as he shook with the sensations I gave him. I placed my forehead to his and our noses touched as I was about to kiss him again when I remembered what I wanted. I pulled back and brought my free hand up into his hair as I locked my eyes to every changing feature of his face as I stroked him. He cocked his neck to rest his head into my hand as I stroked and circled his ear with my finger. His face still lacked mush expression since his entire being was in total submission to his three inch cluster of nerves I stroked in my hand. His eyes focused on me with wide pupils as he breathed rhythmically like a distance runner pushing for his final 400 meter kick. His hips broke into gyrations, his eyes squinted and his nostrils flared as his pre-orgasm dance began. I watched his eyes close and his cheeks break up as he grimaced and seemed to hold his breath as a jet splashed against the front of his shorts and coated my hand. I kept stroking his slimy shaft as I felt three or four more pulse through him and add to the mess as he began rapidly panting as his release was rewarded. I pulled my hand from him and wiped his deposit over the front of his shorts by rubbing his still hard cock through the fabric. "God, it's so much better, when somebody else does it," Chris said with exhaustion as he caught his breath a minute later. "Yeah," I gently cradled his package and gave it a jiggle. "Ewwwwe... Sick. It's sticky and wet." He grabbed for his waist band to pull his shorts off and I caught his wrists stopping him. "We're not doing laundry moron! Don't you think it'd look funny if you wore a pair of my shorts? I mean... How would we explain that? Nobodies on the beach. Let's go for a swim! Wash that crap out and we'll clean up a little after." I said, as I gave his cock a tug. Chris nodded. We broke apart and I went to the kitchen sink to down some water. When Mom was gone, I never used a glass. I turned the water on and stuck my lips to the stream and drank. We took turns drinking from the flow of the kitchen faucet: alternating turns as we took long gulps and breaths. "Lets go. This is kinda gross." Chris said, pointing to his crotch and I laughed. The smear of cum from my wipe was being enhanced by the liquid bleeding through his short's liner. When we were younger, a swim in the bay with a rinse off was considered bathing by us kids. I think our parents went along with it because it was easier than an argument. What could one expect from a boy's logic, anyway? We walked into the incoming tide, through the tiny rock crabs taunting us with upraised pinchers, over barnacle crusted oysters, sand dollars, green sea weed patches, and scaring few flounders into sprints. We had to wade out twenty five yards before reaching our knees. Our beach gradually sank into the depths of the Sound. I loved this since splash fights and horseplay were expanded to full contact, chase, and dodging on a grand scale due to the huge range of running room. There's no play as fun as a foot ball game over 6" of water. Dad bought the house, with this type of beach, so he didn't have to worry about messy inconveniences. On a deep, fast tidal plane beach, if a kid drown and sunk to the bottom of the Sound, it could be a couple of weeks before the body would bloat with decay enough to float to the surface and wash up some 50 miles away from the scene of his demise. "Too much work to search for your body," He told us with an earnest face, "And, by that time you`d be found, your body would be all scarred up from nibbling dog fish and other bottom feeders. It would be much easier to pull your corps from a few feet of water then go through dental records and blood work to identify an unrecognizable, waxy, white, pile of rotting flesh." At least, that's what he told his young children. The thought always had me paranoid about every ones water safety. I had nightmares of one of those little crabs crawling out my empty, dead, eye socket, after the Coast Guard tossed my body on the Harbor dock for all to see. Very embarrassing to be that dumb assed kid who drowned for no good reason other than to look cool by not wearing a life jacket or not partnering up to swim. So, we wadded out into the bay until we were mid thigh. The Puget Sound is an odd creature. The water temperature hovers in the low 60's, just eight inches below the warm surface. Young kids don't have much problem with the coolness, but as a kid ages, getting his body conditioned is more difficult. Last year, the shivers would start as the water reached my belly button. This year, the spine jarring spasms started as the coolness hit my privates. We both dove in to get it over with. We wrestled and splashed around for at least fifteen minutes as the tide continued to rise. Once we were out tit deep, Chris pulled his shorts off and let the salt water work it's cleansing magic. I pulled mine off, as well, and we walked out further into the bay. There was no fooling around since people could see us, if anything below the waist rose even a foot of elevation. The only visual protection we had was the suns glare off the water and grey blue color of the opaque water. To anyone looking from the shore, we appeared to be two kids wading as deep as we could go: nothing out of ordinary. We stood there, nude below the surface, watching the occasional car cross the bridge and Chris scrubbed the cum out of his shorts beneath the water. As he did, I explained to Chris: how lucky Brad's family were: all the toys and crap they had at their estate; how I thought Jan was smart and mouthy because of his competition with his older brother; how I couldn't tell which brother I liked better; and that the toys couldn`t cover up that they weren`t much different than us other than the statement Jan made of his families entitlement to wealth. "Other than that stuff, they're kind of fucked up. Brad and Jan are nice enough but there was something really weird: they never let me past the kitchen... You know... How most of us show off our rooms to a new friend we have over? We didn't even go through the front door they walked me to the back and, their Mom was home but she really never came out. When Mr. Carlson came home, he didn't even say "hello." This dick named Dennis picked us up, fed us, and dropped me home. It was weird. Like I didn't belong or something." "So... maybe it`s like my Dad, they have to get to know you or something?" "I don't think so. I felt like I was just there for like a toy for their kids. I mean, most of the time I could careless about a kids parents but, that`s cuz parents are always getting in the way. It was like their kids were... like... I don`t know how to explain it: Dennis is there for extra school work and look after them so it`s like, you know, our parents let us run all over the place but they want to know what we`re doing?" Chris nodded, "It was like Brad`s parents didn`t give a shit and just wanted me gone once they were through with me... I guess." "It`s simple: they have money." "No shit... I'm just saying they're fucking weird." "I wouldn't mind, if my parents were like that." "Yeah, right. No way! Well... It was. Brad told me I had to leave and just kind of escorted me out after he told me I could sleep over. It was like I wasn't good enough to be there or something and... And... I know: it was their Dad that made them do that since he just got home and then Brad came down to tell me to get lost. His Dad left it to Brad to make an excuse... Then Dennis drove me home... He acted like I was such a bother... A waist of time... Like I was fucking up Brad, or something." This was a lie I could make stick without getting into their screwed up Mom or my Dennis situation. "So, are you saying you wouldn`t go back?" "Nawh. Brad and Jan are cool. It`s like, I don`t want to be around their parents or Dennis or anything like that. I`m too old for a babysitter. And, that Dennis guy's kind of snooty. He didn't say it to my face but he made me feel like I'm a low class loser and shit like that. He`s a fucking dick. I can`t stand him." "He should talk. He's Marry Poppins!" We laughed at the truth. I had to protect Chris, if he were invited over to Brad`s. The idea of Dennis messing with Chris made me boil over with rage. Chris is mine. I figured that if I made to much of a stink about Dennis, it would get back to Brad via somebody chatting. Then, I'd loose my friends so I kept it generic and something I could defend and define better as time went by. My mission was to plant a negative seed in Chris's mind and pound away to keep him away from Dennis. We soaked for a while longer then slipped our shorts on and began diving for moon snails and large back crab. The crab diving was a test of wits since a pinch, form even a four inch crab back, hurts like hell. We never harmed them other than to bring them to the surface to show off our skill. After half an hour, we made our way back to the house. Most of the places along the water had an exterior shower for beach clean up. Showering a kid prevented mud and sand tracked through a house. Just three years ago, I'd shower in the buff after coming off the beach. Now, my modesty had risen to that of a Puritan. Something about dropping balls and sprouting pubes does that to boys. The shower rained on us as we hip shoved each other to capture the full spray. I soaped up from head to toe and then took the bar of soap inside of my shorts and washed everything including my crack. Rinsing involved opening the top of my shorts away from my body to let the pure water stream flow through. Chris watched my technique and mirrored my wash. When he rinsed his front, he pulled the front of his shorts down so I could see his stuff flop around in the stream. "Chris, the neighbors will fucking see!" I whispered. He released elastic and they snap against his belly. We turned off the water. I opened the side door that entered the basement utility room. After closing the door, I dropped my shorts and Chris did the same. We placed them over the towel rack to dry. I gave his hand a nudge and he followed me to the bathroom where we grabbed towels to dry. I turned him so that I could dry the remaining drops from his back. Chris was a sculptured kid. His torso was solid to the touch without an ounce of fat. I had him raise his arms and dried his sides even though they didn`t need it. He spun around and turned me to dry my back. He went a step further and dried my ass, between my legs and down the back of my legs even though I had already done this. I guessed he was like me and wanted to really feel another's body and explore even further than we had last week end. He turned me around. His eyes fixed on my face as he took me by my hips and pulled me close. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and hugged him tight. I wanted so much to tell him how I felt, but, couldn't. I closed my eyes to hold him to feel his body against me as our chests pounded with heat of our bodies and smell of the Ivory soap. The feel of his breath on my shoulder and chest as he nuzzled in was rapid as his excitement grew. We were both hard. I could feel the tip of his cock rub at the side of my pubic mound as my cock pressed against his stomach. I pulled us apart so I could lightly kiss his cheek. "If my Dad knew about this," Chris stated. "No shit, me to," I panted and leaned in to kiss his lips. Chris parted his lips and gave me his tongue. I took it between my lips and sucked. We broke apart. I grabbed him by his shoulders and spun him toward the door with a push, he began walking with his erect three inch cock leading the way as I guided him out the door, through the hall and into my bedroom. I kicked the door shut and pushed him toward my bed where he spun and bounced on his back on the mattress. "I've been thinking about this stuff a lot." I admitted to him. "Me to! It`s like all I think about," Chris giggled. I kneeled to my knees and waddled forward. As I did, Chris spread his legs apart and sat up to the edge of the bed. My hands found his hips as I was now a few inches from his cock. "I really like this... You. I mean. Jacking off kinda sucks after what we did." Chris smiled, "I think you should shut up," He placed his hands on the back of my head and I dove to his penis. Thanks to the shower, the taste wasn't as rewarding as the first suck I had with him. I slowly backed my way from the root all the way to the tip where I flicked my tongue at his piss slit and crease and then down the edges of this cock head. I started up down motions and thought about how Dennis had sucked me: his suction, movements, and control of motion. I turned this new knowledge to Chris`s cock. I concentrated on feeling his pulse and thrusts of his body as I slowly increased suction and constriction of my tongue along his shaft as I bounced my head up and down his shaft. He increased his pumping and I felt him jab at me with force that made his ass lift off the bed. I sped up my rhythm and bared down on his shaft as hard as I could with my tongue. His penis seemed to expand and pulse with more force then the last time we did this as I could feel every wade of cum course through his shaft. I tried to imagine how that tube could wind up and shoot cum out with such force. How does a body do that? The feeling of it and the visual are two different sensations. I preferred the feel of a guy's orgasm in my mouth over watching it spurt. Porn has never been a big deal to me probably because of Chris and Jon. I loved the taste of his salty watery cum and slurped him down. Chris fell back on the bed as I released his cock. His chest heaved in the aftermath of his orgasm. I rubbed his tummy and lowered my head to his thigh. As I sat on my heels, I watched his sack turn from the leathery constricted pouch to soft skin as his penis dried and wilted back to it's couple inches of length. "He's beautiful. I could watch this all day," I thought. I could smell my spit mixed in with the growing smell of his sex as the soap wore away. He finally raised his head up and smiled at me. "That was huge! That was better than anything," Chris said punch drunkenly. It took him more then a couple of minutes to recover. Anything sexually new is mind blowing for such young bodies. I was a few years older but knew, from my few months of fooling around with Jon, that a new grip or other discovery could blind a kid to just flashing lights and tracer rounds of vision as an orgasm popped. I smiled and climbed on the bed to straddle his body. I bent down to kiss him lightly and he closed his mouth on my tongue and sucked me in as his heavy breathing blew over my chin from his nostrils. I lowered myself to rub my cock against his smooth skin. I was leaking and smeared a deposit against the base of his pubic mound. I love the feel of our bodies merging together. His arms wrapped around my shoulders and then Chris began more than simply caressing me. His hands explored my back: feeling my shoulder blades, he traced my vertebrae, back muscles, the side of my ribcage, and the slope of my torso as it merged with my ass. His hands gripped and pulled at my butt cheeks as I was twirling my ass to massage my penis against his pubic mound. This is when I knew that what we were doing was more than simple fooling around for fun. He'd hold me in place or lay there like a corps, if it was simply "my turn" to get some. I think he was as attracted to me as I was to him. I stopped moving and peered into his eyes and face. God, he was breathing so heavy and everything in his face said, "submission for anything and everything... Show me!" I brought my forehead down to rest upon his and closed my eyes. I could hear and feel my own heart pounding away as I basked in the feel of our bodies full touch. He wrapped his legs around me so that his heals were locked behind my ass. He didn't move. We stayed together for at least five minutes as Chris kept on running his hands around my body, into my hair and even over my face. "I love him... Fuck Jon, this kid wants me," I thought. I gave him a long kiss and broke us apart. I startled his chest and waddled up the bed, I bent my cock down and Chris stuck his tongue out and licked the drop of liquid from the tip of my cock before it could dribble down my shaft. Pushing my hips forward, he sucked me in and I fell over him to fuck his face. His hands pushed my hips and I rolled off to fall over on my back to allow him between my legs to resume the fun from the top. He picked my shaft up and gazed down at the head of my cock. He stuck his tongue out and nodded his head up and down just the sensitive head. He was watching me expression as he worked me over and started laughing. I could only imagine what my face was doing. He then flicked his tongue over the edges of the my cock head as he started to pump the base of my shaft with his thumb and two fingers. He wasn't kidding: he had this all worked out as he had thought about sex for a week! "Chris... Please, please, suck it... Just suck it!" I whispered. He pulled away and shook his head with a huge smile on his face. The Bush administration could learn a bit about torture from this kid: forget about water boarding! I couldn't last long. His devilish smile above my penis as he flicked his tongue at it without making contact drove me wild as I thought about what he must be thinking. I thrust at him and he planted the tip of his tongue dead center of my piss slit. His giggle and feel of his power and excitement was too much for my mind to process. I felt the first spasm pound out the head of my cock. Even though it was hard to concentrate on him during orgasm, I watched that first rope force its way around his tongue and ooze over the head of my cock as I watched the head flex with the first pulse. Chris pulled away as the second shot flew into the air and then he dropped over my penis as he raced to gulp down the rest of my seed. I fell backward and took in the feel of his suction as he tried to slurp up any remnants from my softening cock. He then moved to slurp and lick the spill of the initial blast. We were not mindless kids getting off. This was love, as far as I could figure at this age. As every boy knows, sometime you jack it due to boredom or you just want to get the feeling. It's like business or homework: it must be done! I realized, with Jon, this was the basis of that relationship. He never kissed or cuddled when we had sex. It was all about being or giving a blow job in return. Our mouths became a new way to jack off. Chris enjoyed every second of what we did for other reasons, to see me pleasured. He crawled up the bed and we cuddled together. His head lay on my chest and I nuzzled into his freshly clean hair. He's what I craved: "To have another human care and share is the purpose of life," I thought in this moment. As we lay there, mother fucking Dennis popped back in my mind. "Hey Chris, can I ask you something?" "Anything." He replied with a giggle. "When we were in the field and we started fooling around. Did you really want to?" "Ummm. Yeah... Are you stupid? Would I be doing this today?" "Yeah but, I didn't make you, like, I didn't force you or anything?" Chris was silent for a second. "No. I thought I told you I always wanted to do stuff like this." "Yeah, I know. I just felt weirded out cuz I didn't really know. I mean, you may want this now but did you really then? I don't want you pissed off or anything. You know, when we went to the field, all you were doing was talking about pussy the whole way there. I mean, I didn`t want to make you do anything you didn`t want to cuz I`m like older or something. I mean, you don`t have to." "Are you nuts? We've been through this... I like this. For the billionth time, I'd do this with you anytime... So, shut up." He said with a giggle. "Sorry. It's just that... " "What, spit it out," Chris demanded this as he raised his head from my body. He must have sensed that this was more then my normal bullshit. "You didn't ask for any of the stuff we did and I almost forced you to suck on it... I just kind of did it. I guess... And, I just had..." "Ummm... I... I didn`t want to at first. I was going to tell you to go fuck yourself but I kept staring at it. I never thought about sucking one. I can't explain it. My stomach, my dick, my balls, and something deep in here," he pointed above his pubic mound, "Started tingling like crazy and all I could see was your dick. I had to do it. That's why I slapped your hands away. I felt like... All of that tingly stuff... It was like I just never thought of sucking on one and all the tingles made me do it because I wanted to. Otherwise, I wouldn`t have felt all tingly... Okay?" "You weren't thinking about me doing you?" "Not really... I was trying to figure out what was happening down there," he pointed at his crotch. "It never felt like that... It was like when you get a boner only stronger but not as strong as when you shoot," he said with a nervous laugh. "Does that happen to you?' "Yeah... That`s what I was feeling practically the whole time we were up there." "Why? Why are you asking again?" "I lied about some stuff... about getting jacked and stuff with a girl... I'm like... I don't want a piece of shit girl: ever. I fooled around with another boy... Not from around here," I had to protect Jon. He stared at me blankly. "It's like, I never have and never will. I think you said you might like boys, only, too. I think I'm a faggot. There's no other way to put it, I`ve always thought about other guys... " I finally admitted to another human being. "That's not to say you're one or anything. I think I may have fucked up by not telling you up there is all." "We just sucked dicks so if that makes you one, then I`m one too. I guess... I kinda like doing it to you," Chris said with a huge smile. "Ummm... I want to fuck. But... I want this too... It's like..." "Yeah... So? Umm. Good! So, our secret is ours? Only OURS!" Chris blinked a couple of times as I cut him off. "I think my Mom calls people like you paranoid." Chris paused for a second and I thought about that, "I think about both... I mean shoving my dick in and out of Nadia... I want to know. But, then there's you and that kid Terry. It`s like... I`d do this with him to." Terry was a cute boy a year younger then Chris. "Yeah. I know. I wonder about what a girl feels like on the insides and stuff... But, it's not about a cunt or tits for me. I like everything about us. I'm queer. What we just did... What girl could do that?" "Girls have mouths, moron. You don't want to fuck?" I shook my head. "Seriously? Not even just to try? I mean, if you haven`t tried, how do you know your queer?" "Chris, I know. Like I said: tits and pussy don't turn me on. Nadia doesn't turn me on. Julie hugged me kissed me and tried to do more... I... I get hard sometimes but all I think about is other guys in my dreams, at lunch, on the bus... all the time." "Like who? I said a name. Who?" "You and Brad," I said with a red face. He had propped his head off my chest to look in my eyes to gauge my honesty. It felt liberating and scary to tell the truth. "I thought you might be messing around with Jon and I kinda still do. There's something weird when you guys are around each other. The way you look at him and stuff... It's like, you don't stare but it's like when you watch David do a trick move on the soccer field... It's kind of the same look, only a little different, and you do it for no reason with him. It's a weird look...over Jon doing nothing at all." My heart sank. Dennis popped into my head and I felt my chest tighten as my sinuses and eyes began to tingle. "Even before we messed around you figured I was messing with Jon even though I wasn`t?" He nodded. "So when we were in the tree house you were like wanting to do it?" He nodded. "You knew Andy wasn't home?" He smiled and a tear slid down my cheek. I reached up and wiped it as he continued to speak. "I wanted to see your dick and feel it and stuff. I just wanted to see what another kid has... up close. And, I kind of thought about other stuff. But, you like, showed me some stuff I never thought of," his voice was bashful and honest. He watched another tear roll away from my eye. "Why are you... Crying?" the look on his face was a mix of fear and concern "Like what?" I stammered. He punched me on the arm and I understood: this was an awkward conversation for kids who were raised to hide their emotions and with me practically sobbing, it had now become unbearable. He dropped his head back to my chest and I tried to gain composure. My paranoia set in deeper. Scenarios raged in my head of discovery. "Say Billy or Jan or Collin or one of the other guys were messing around together and you came across them doing what we did, would you go telling people?" "NO. Well, maybe. I'd have to think about it... If it was like Andy, being a dick like he used to be, I could convince people... Nahhh, he'd just beat the shit out of me... If I didn't like the guy and he did something to me, yeah, I'd say something to mess him up." "I wouldn't, ever, I wouldn't care, if it were me and only me that found them, you know that right?" Chris nodded, "Why would you do that?" "Knowing what I do now, we might join in rather than pick a fight!" Chris said with a laugh and fell silent to think for a second. "Ever have somebody beat on you for being like this?" He waved his hands over his body identifying his over tanned skin. "If I can force assholes to kick the shit out of the fag instead of me, I think I would point my finger over there. Better them than me." "That's fucked up." "You don't know." "Fuck you. We've been fighting for you since you moved here." I said, with distain and disbelief of my little buddy. "Yeah. I know but, it's like..." "I get it. I do. I... " I was almost in tears again being let down by his admission. In my mind, it meant he could turn on me in a heart beat. "I think, if somebody finds out, there won't be anyone there for me. I mean all my friends gone... My Dad would shit. Forget about hockey for sure," my voice trailed off as I felt my chest tighten. "I will, I mean we`re doing it. Right?" "Seriously? I wouldn't give you up and I wouldn't expect you to come fighting. I mean..." "Dumby, If they found out about you, then they would know about me. Right? Ummmm. Wouldn't David, Collin, Billy and the others be with you? I mean they're always with us." "No way! It doesn't work that way... Well? David would. I know he would. But the rest... Kinda like a kid who barfs on the bus." Chris started laughing. "Shut up, dork! Listen: a new kid shows up and makes friends with him until some asshole says something to the new kid about the puke and its over. See? Only, if you're a fag, it's with fists not words. This ain't puke. If we're fags, we're the lowest form of life." Chris shrugged, "Are you saying you don't want to do this anymore?" "Nooooooo. I think I kinda love this stuff... and you," I admitted. Chris quickly looked down at our feet, " I think you're a prick," He replied, with a giggle. "Fuck you," and I gave him a shove. Dennis wouldn't leave me alone as my guilt and paranoia wouldn't shake. I couldn't talk my way out of it and now the faucets opened and I started to shed more tears with the fact that two people figured me out and I just spilled to a turn coat. The lie of "just for fun" was gone. He had the truth. Chris wrapped his arms around my chest. "I don't care. You think about stuff way too much. I like you... I like this. I don't care. It's the truth. Why are you crying? Would you knock it off?" "I just... If you knew before we did that stuff, then who else might? I mean. Everyone I know will turn on me. My Dad will fucking disown me... I will loose every thing and everybody... Even you!" "I didn't really... I just suspected. I mean it's cuz. You know. And, don`t be such a dick, I`m on the same boat! Nobody will ever know." He held me with his head nuzzled below my chin. I didn't want to shed any more tears. It took everything I had to attempt to suppress chest pains and body tweaks from showing. If he only knew my emotion was of relief of not forcing him into sex and my new found lack of trust of him, I wondered how that would change our dynamic. Before this conversation, I loved all of him. Now, I loved him for sex and had become fearful of him as a friend. We climbed under the covers to embrace and cuddle. The conversation was over and all I wanted was comfort and warmth from him. I didn't care about Chris's desires. I needed rest. "Fuck you Dennis," I thought as my secret anger of the conversation bounced around in my head. I woke at three thirty. Chris was asleep and his body was spooned against my back as we lay on our side. My right arm and shoulder were sore so we must have been in this position for our entire nap. I could still feel the heaviness of my cry in my eyes. I couldn't get over that two people had figured me out. I hadn't put my puzzle together for myself and yet two guys had defined me. It never occurred to me that the only reason they knew was due to their own sexual preference which included me. I should be flattered! I thought about how they knew. Which turned to thoughts of when did I know? When I was younger, the third grade, I started noticing boys beyond comparing plumbing or playing firemen around a campfire. There were boys I wanted to be due to the way they carried themselves on the ice or field, wit, courage, strength, and popularity. I'd imitate everything they did down to convincing my Mom to buy the same snacks they ate for my school lunches. I wanted to assimilate these chosen few boys into me so I could, in my mind, be perfect. Over a few months, my focus began to narrow. I didn't know why, but my game plan had changed from the chosen few to just him. He was smart, kept a select group of friends, and even though he was short, carried his boy moxie to that of a seven foot giant. His hair was typical of boys of the seventies: shoulder length, dirty brown, but had thick natural waves. His nose had a distinct bump at the bridge as if it were once broken. His eyes were pale blue and seemed distant when he gazed at me. He was unlike any kid I had ever encountered in look and attitude. I stayed in class, for a recess, telling my teacher I wanted to read "The Fourth Grade Nothing" rather than play outside. When she left the class room for a smoke, I found his cubby (an open locker amongst twenty on the wall of the classroom) to try and get some intelligence. His first name was unique in America: Ilya. So finding his cubby was not a challenge. I scanned all the stuff and there was nothing of interest but library books about World War II. He had no lunch box, toys or left over school art projects in there. He was a neat freak. However, on my second glance at the name plate, his last name had way to many letters and to me was unpronounceable. So, I copied them down and show my Dad that evening. I figured Ilya's parents were from Hungry or Finland, since that's where all the weird last names came from. Then I realized I didn't know of anybody, anywhere, named Ilya. I passed the paper to Dad at dinner. His eyebrows raised up and he said, "Russkie! Who's this boy?" And, we had a conversation about the backward state of Russia prior to the Revolution and how "Monarchist" fled afterward. How many Russians came to the States, before and after that time, like all immigrants, for reasons of religion, economic, adventure and so on. Dad, being an immigrant himself, always pounded home that the States are all immigrants with the exception of the Natives and we`d all pay for their poor treatment, eventually, if things don`t change. Dad always explained the world so I could understand it for my age. He was the best teacher I ever had. He also informed me that Ilya might be Jewish based upon the spelling of his last name. I never met either kind of kid before and Ilya instantly became my life: everything about him was special. For many weeks, I spent class time staring at Ilya. I became obsessed with everything he did. For reasons, at the time, I didn't understand, I fixated on his neck: how his neck merged with his body, its smoothness, how his hair landed on it after a hair cut and how his muscles contrasted against his throat. I'd place my hand on my neck and imagine the pulse of his blood and the heat course through him. A few days later, I'd fixate on his nose, ear, fingers, elbow and so on. Everything about him seemed unique and my stare deepened. He twirled his pencil during lectures and seemed not care what the teacher said yet he always had the right answer when called. His tongue would find it's way out the side of his mouth when he pondered a story problem during math class. Once, when he caught me staring, he stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes in response. I laughed uncontrollably and got detention of last recess. It was worth it. Imitation is flattery. That's what Dad always said when I mirrored what my brother did. So if I started mimicking everything he did, he'd notice that I was cool, like him and that would cement us together as best friends. I figured David would be my "at home best friend" and Ilya would be my "at school best friend." I tried joining him playing basketball during recess with the mob of other kids. David thought I'd lost my mind and gave me shit about it, since I really sucked. I had no clue what the rules where. If you gave a kid a shove, it was a "fowl." Such a pussy sport. What's that challenge, if there isn't a physical element to prevent the other guy from making a basket? Ilya seemed not to notice my play. He seemed to always be a captain for every recess team selection and he never chose me for his team. A testament to my court skills, I`m sure. I spent most of my time catching rebounds and throwing them out to the baseline. What do you expect from a kid that focused on defensive play since the age of five? As time went on, my curiosity lead me to wonder about what lay hidden under his clothes- all of him- not just his privates. I'd wonder if it was different to be inside of him rather than my own body. What did he feel and think? I wondered how different it would be to experience life through his eyes. Did he know I wanted to be him for a test drive? I knew my obsession was connected to my dick due to erections and butterflies in my belly, when I stared at him. I knew I'd like to get naked with him and something deep inside me told me there was more to getting naked then just looking but what could two naked boys do? I knew the basics of how a boy and girl possibly did it, but two boys? Are you kidding me? Later in the year, we had mandatory swim lessons for a month. A bus loaded all the boys up and took us to the high school pool. When we piled into the locker room, I was pissed that I only managed to get a locker across from Ilya rather than beside him. And, frustrated even further when he dropped his pants only to reveal he wore his swimmers instead of his underpants. After he stuffed his clothes in the locker, he turned and began to jabber with us rather than go out to the pool deck. I dropped my pants and undies in one motion and quickly pulled on my swimmers. Then I took off my shirt as all the others were doing. I figured they did that so their shirt tails hid their junk. There were only a couple of boys that bared all in our row of lockers and everyone took a peak. Ilya was the only kid that waited for everyone to change before following the last kid out. I wanted to follow him out but felt weird about hanging around other kids as they changed. I didn't know them like I did the others on the hockey team and with David next to me, it was not an option to hang out as he split after his trunks were up. We did our lesson and the last fifteen minutes of class was open swim. Most of the boys went to the high dive to prove their bravery to each other. Ilya didn't and I abandoned David at the diving board to hang around him. We struck up a game of water challenges: holding breath, tread water, swim under water, swim the fastest and so on. It turned out, he hated the high dive after doing a belly flop off of it a few years ago. I betted it was more about the embarrassment then a sore tummy. When the life guard blew his whistle to pick up and get out of the pool, he shuffled over to the far end and acted like he was looking for something. I went to the showers and stood under a stream: waiting. I wanted to see him: all of him. Was he like me and every boy I knew? I had to know. When he came in, he jumped under a nozzle and I walked by him to the lockers to get in position. He followed a minute latter as I was in mid conversation with another kid on the same side of the isle as Ilya. He strolled to his locker and quickly organized his clothes to cover his body as fast as possible. I figured he wasn't on any teams that required a kid to strip down. Only girly boys hid everything from teammates. He turned to his locker, dropped his swimmers and, I swear, it was like the three kids on either side of him craned their necks and moved to get a look. All I could see was his little boy butt cheeks. I was so disappointed but realized I couldn't show any signs of it and dressed quickly. He turned to me, after his pants were up and the look on his face told me everything. He hated locker rooms, as indicated by the blush of his face that looked like a sunburn. As with most males, even young boys, our locker territories were marked. Territorial pissing occurred the first day. I never got a look at the front of him. But, I knew every contour of his back, calves, ass, and every bit of his front with the exception of the most important square foot of space. It was driving me crazy wondering about what was below the front of his waistband. He never seemed to go to the bathroom! He was like a camel! If he did, he must have done it before school or on the way out. He was aggravating! A few weeks after swim lessons were over, Ilya invited me to his house. Most kids had others over on Saturday. He invited me for a Sunday afternoon play. My Mom was mortified about it and Dad became my advocate to let me visit. I couldn't figure out why my Mom reacted like that: was it the Russian or Jew part of Ilya she despised. Apparently Dad had figured out they were Russian Jews who's parents fled for the States after the war. Dad had connections everywhere in the City and always wanted answers as much as I. On the drive over, Dad explained that my Mom's a dingbat. There was nothing wrong with being a Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Christian or anything else in this world and the minute there is, there will be more wars and death. He told me he'd explain the whole thing latter and not to listen to her. Ilya's parents bought an old fire station and converted it into a house. My imagination ran wild as we pulled up to the place. A few years prior, when the place was under construction, we'd pass by on our way to the Harbor. I'd try to convince my Mom that the bay was boring and a fire house would be far more entertaining than stupid seagulls and dumb assed sea life. What boy wouldn't want a brass pole rather than a set of stairs? My parents were convinced a bunch of greasy hippies bought it but as it was reconstructed, it was obvious the people had money. It turned out that Ilya's Mom is an architect and his father is a professor at the university. This explained much of his intelligence as he was surrounded by puzzles, books, games and no television. These people were all about cramming their kids with intellect and life experience. He was the oldest child. His little brother was adopted as his mother could have no other children due to complications birthing Ilya. After a quick tour of the house, that seemed to consist of miles of book shelves and crazy modern art, we headed out back to his tree fort built over the side of the hill on the edge of the property. "Where's your room?" "Latter, come on!" We climbed a rope ladder to a platform that was only ten feet off the ground. We could see down the hill into the Harbor. Ilya went to a corner and moved a board to retrieve a set of binoculars. He scanned down the hill for a few seconds jumping from place to place: he knew what he was looking for at what time or he wouldn`t have rushed out here. "Take a look at the green house next to the blue one over toward the post office... In the front window right over there," he pointed in the general direction. After yelling, "Hurry up!" and frantically pointing directions, I finally figured out where and peered at the house. Inside, I could see Bobby Krist watching TV with his little sister. She was still in her night gown and Bobby was wearing his tighty whiteys and a sweat shirt. I could tell the show was "Land of the Lost" because of the stupid dinosaurs and lame characters. Bobby was a dumb ass. He ran around school giving every one the "Live Long an Prosper" hand sign of Mr. Spock, from Star Trek. Years earlier, he'd run around the playground with his hands gripping imaginary handle bars, his wrists working the imaginary throttle, screaming "I'm an XR75" and then he'd make spitting sputters with his lips, as he ran all over the place. We hated him for that dumb stuff: it made us seem like little kids compared to the next grade up. "Bobby? Wow. I didn't even know were he lived. ... He runs around in his underwear in front of his sister. What a dumby." "Yeah. In the summer time they play in a wade pool all naked! It's funny." I laughed, "You should get a camera!" "I wish! I could make a fortune with blackmail money." "What's that?' "Make people pay so the pictures don't go to the wrong hands. See?" he said doing his best gangster voice. "You'd do that?" "Naaaaah... I've seen naked ladies and all kinds of stuff from up here. You should stay over in the summer... Or, Christmas break. It`s better than anything on TV.. For real!" "Why not the weekend." "I can't... We do stuff on Saturday... Every Saturday." "Oh." I didn't understand that their father took Sabbath very seriously. Like my Dad, he wanted to set some values in his kid. Although my Dad didn't really believe one faith was better than another. He felt they all had the same motive at heart. We tried to find naked people for a while. We sat so close that we touched shoulders and hips as our legs dangled over the side. Once in a while, he'd find a target and hop behind me, grasp my ears to aim my head so my eyes lined up to the right spot. Sometimes, he sit up on his knees as he aimed and push his belly into my back to steady my body and head. When I think about it now, if this had happened a few years latter, I'd shoot in my pants. Back then, it was innocent play. I think, in his mind, I was a human periscope. With no nudity or interesting stuff happening in the hood, our nine year old attention went to what comes naturally: world domination and destruction. His little brother left his GI Joe action figures outside. We found some twine in his Mom's garden tools and made nooses. We stripped GI Joe naked and hung him head first outside his brother's bedroom window. The other dude, we dismembered and hung body parts in the tree that was in direct view of his brothers window. His Mom called us shortly after we started working on digging a hole to bury Joe`s Jeep. We had to go inside for a bowl of soup and salad. I had no idea what all was in the soup but wolfed it down since it tasted homemade and the vegetables had no taste since the chicken stock was so strong yet not to salty. The beans, round things, carrots and the red stuff went down without even a hiccup of afterthought from my pallet- unlike my Mom's soups that were full of lentil beans and other disgusting stuff. Afterward, Ilya led me to his room which was accessed by climbing up a ladder and flipping open a trap door. His Mother had turned the observation and hose drying tower of the fire station into a boys dream bedroom. Due to rot, the observation deck was removed and replaced with a copper roof so Ilya had to live with a two story bedroom instead of three. The remaining clear space of the drying tower was turned into a two story boy cave. The first floor had a futon mattress, night stands and some short bookshelves crammed with Mad magazines, Peanut's collection books, other comic books, and kid novels as well as a set of encyclopedias. I looked around at his posters which were maps and some Super Sonics players. I recognized Slick Watts and Fred Brown but I hated basketball so the others were total strangers. "Cool... Super cool!" as I said this, my nose picked up the scent of stale pee. He's a bed wetter. I felt sorry for him. I couldn't imagine not being able to go to a sleep over. He practically invited me to one and now my hope was shattered. He'd be an idiot to invite a kid and end up in an "accident" situation. I banked this information and would never tell. He was my idol and even Superman had Kryptonite to worry about so I didn't hold it against him. When I turned to him, as my mind processed this, his face completely gave him away. I smiled and gave him a shove. He laughed and we didn't have to talk of it: to his relief I was sure. We went up and through the next trap door. This was his study and play room: a desk, more small book shelves, his medals and ribbons from sports accomplishments on display, more crappy basketball posters and tons of board games. This floor was cool because every wall had a window. Through the window facing the Harbor, the view was obstructed by fir and hemlock trees. He had to bare the cold and rain for his voyeur hobby in the tree house due to his parents not removing any of the overgrown trees from their landscape as part of the remodel. "I'd kill for a room like this!" "Best part is I can sit on the trap door and my dumb brother can't get in," he said as he dropped the door to the floor. His mom even had the insight to make the door seal flush to the floor and have a small rope as a handle ensuring no trip hazard for her son as all young boys frolic around in spasms of energy release as part of play. She truly loved her kids. "Cool." "And, I can hear people come up the ladder when I'm up here... Plenty of warning." "What for?" "Stuff. You know, stuff you don't want your Mom to know about?' He looked at me intently and I had no idea what you'd want to hide from Mom other than candy, fireworks and BB guns. "Ohhhh!" I faked. "Want to have a sword fight?" he whispered very quietly. I scanned his room and thought about it for a second, "What if he cuts me, what if I hurt my hero, and what if we get in trouble?" "Do you have shields? Where are the swords? This room is to small for that." He rubbed the front of his jeans and pushed his hips forward, "A sword fight!" he exasperatedly whispered again. I scrunched up my eyebrows at him with complete puzzlement. He sighed like I was the biggest moron on the planet... And, I'd agree, I was oblivious to anything involving my fun zone that was more complicated than my right hand pawing away through my Roebuck jeans pocket. I didn't learn about masturbation until I had a run in with a down comforter a year later. We ended up playing a board game for the next couple of hours. My dream came true, by chance, as nature called. The great thing about being a young boy with interest in other boys is peeing. Boys don't care about showing cocks, if bladders are in need of relief. When we had to piss that soup out, he opened the window and we lined up, side by side, on a small bench we pushed to the window so that we could piss out onto the roof of the main house below. Bathrooms are a hassle for kids in the middle of a game. Looking back, I wondered if his parents could hear the rain of our streams on the metal roof below. Our hips touched as we pissed in unison out his window. We arched our streams for distance and then attempted to merged streams. As we took aim, I got my eyeful. At this age there was no real difference in penis length, tactical size or any other part of two, fit, flat tummy, kids. The only real difference was his cock head was more pink then my purplish nub head. Other than that, he had a little black mole on his hip that kind of enhanced my admiration of his uniqueness. As we shook off, his little dick stood straight up. "It's alive!" he screamed and I busted up laughing. Other than David, this was the only other boy I'd seen with a hard one. "Cool, huh?" "Yeah. Mine does that all the time!" I stammered as I felt mine stiffen as I snapped the elastic of my underpants back in place as my eyes stayed fixed to his dancing penis. He rocked his hips a couple of times and I stared at his beauty. I'm sure he wanted me to show him my boner. I'm sure he knew I had one but I was in awe and in love: my brain shut down- gone numb- all I could do was stare. He pulled up and we went back to the board game where Ilya kicked my ass a few minutes latter as I lost track of his moves due to my minds constant rewind and play of his performance. As I thought about my memories of that day, it occurred to me this was the first time I went into that numb trance I experienced with Dennis. I also remembered trying to sleep that night but couldn't. My penis was hard. My thoughts were of his stiff dick and what it would feel like to pop a boner if I were him. The memory of him rubbing the front of his pants and whispering "Sword fight" frustrated sleep even more. I had figured out what he meant on the drive home. I knew what he suggested was more than a game and something beyond being buddies. Only the best of friends allow inspection, touch, and what he suggested. I loved the feeling of rubbing the tip of my dick so that it stiffened to a hard shaft , at bath time. I could only imagine what it would feel like to rub my purple penis head against his pinkish bulb. I felt like crying after I realized my mistake. I couldn't figure out why I just stared at him when we were in his bedroom. I couldn't even feel my facial expression as I gazed at his shaft as I was so numb to the world. Was I smiling or blank? I knew I had a boner, why didn't I show him? Maybe he knew what all the fun was with the tingles in my belly. He may have had all the answers! The opportunity never happened again. After the visit, Ilya distanced himself from me. He gave me the cold shoulder from Monday on. And, a year latter, his father transferred him to a private school to focus on academics. I was deeply hurt. I couldn't figure out how to approach him to patch stuff up or open it back up, if he were willing. We lingered apart due to my inability to find the right words or course of action. As I peered at myself in the mirror, I realized he was my first crush- it was a boy not a girl. I knew I was to young, back then, to figure it out. I kept thinking of a time when I even liked a girl in a sexual way. There was none not that opportunities weren't there. I remembered the summer just before I turned ten, Julie and I were messing about on the beach. Not swimming or splashing around , we were walking along the tide pools watching the mini marine life at work. We wandered all the way to the desolate, far side, of the Island and found ourselves playing amongst the mass of driftwood and debris the storms would wash up to the cliff. These jams would stay in place for years before the right combination of high tide and strong storm would sweep them back into the sea. We were competitive jumping from driftwood log to log to see who could jump further, onto the narrowest log, or the greatest elevation difference. "I found something really cool yesterday," Julie proclaimed with excitement. "What?" "It's kind of suppose to be a secret." "Then why you spilling to me?" "Ummm. I think I want to show you but it's a secret. If I show you, you can't tell... Ever. And , you'll have to do what I say just once, if you want to see. Okay?" "Do what you say? I can keep a secret. But, if I have to do what you say, it won't be anything that will get me in trouble or hurt or anything, will it?" "No. I wouldn't do that." "Umm. So where's this thing you found?" I was excited because Julie always found cool stuff. She once came across her Mom's stash of Halloween candy and we pigged out for weeks before the big day. The down side was we both were busted and weren't allowed to trick or treat that year. It was worth it because we shared the loot and secret for all that time. We were special friends in that way. "Ummm... I, I, brought it with me!" She was wearing a one piece Speedo that clung as if it were her own skin. There was no way. She took off bouncing from log to log until she was behind some Alder saplings and brush. I followed her knowing it was going to be naked games! I hadn't played these with a girl yet and was so curious. She turned to me, "You can never tell anyone, not even David!!" "Don't worry." She sat on a log and spread her legs apart so that the little panel concealing her pussy was revealed. She pulled that flap of fabric to one side and then spread the lips of her undeveloped slit apart with her index fingers. "Look. There's a hole in there." Her face was red from embarrassment... "Just look at it..." I got down on me knees, between her legs, to peer into her. There was a little hole in all of that pink and red flesh between there. I was close enough that I could smell stale piss remaining on her skin. She hadn't bathed that morning and apparently didn`t like the cleanup process of pissing. "Huh," was the only comment I could think of and then I asked, "Girls are suppose to have that aren't they?" "Yeah... It's just that... What do you think?" I had a boner. I don't think any boy wouldn't bone up when another boy or girl wants to play naked games. "It's kind of neat. How does a baby come out of that little thing, anyway? Isn't that where they come out? Is that hole supposed to be down here?" "There's no way a baby could come out of there! If that`s as big as it gets, I`m not having one." She said with concern and sincerity. I kept looking at it and the flesh bridge that separated where her asshole was from that thing. There was a bigger mound of wrinkled flesh above the hole as well. The whole thing looked disorganized and tossed together by some drunk sculpting from a cows liver. "Maybe God ran out of time," I thought. I waited for her to answer my other question about where her hole was positioned and was afraid to ask again. I thought quick, "How would you know what it looks like? You can't see it!" "I got a make up mirror for my birthday and put it down there. I can see it fine." She admitted with an annoyed voice. "OOOHHH!" "I think that's where your penis would go... If we made a baby. It feels good when I rub on the top... Above it. Would your thing fit in there?" "Weird. It`s weird! I guess it would fit... but mine sticks up so there`s... It would never work," I was convinced she was deformed. Actually that we both were. I thought a penis entered a woman below her belly button, in that thick patch of hair real women had I`d seen in a picture the older boys handed around the bus. They were gawking and excited about that patch of hair below the lady's belly button so that had to be where the opening was. I never considered there was room between a girls legs. There wasn't between mine. That's were your penis starts. I could feel that. The hole, being between her legs, didn't seem right to me. This thing between her legs just seemed ugly, smelly and out of place. Maybe she had an oversized pee hole. I was very worried that my penis stood up at too steep of an angle for me to have sex properly. It never occurred to me that David and Ilya's cocks did the same thing. I knew that the thing got bigger as a kid got older and figured it would level out at 90 degrees eventually, just due to added weight and size, at least I hoped. I reasoned I was too young to fuck. I figured since parents get pissed, if we played naked games, and they always tied getting naked to sin that God would smack you down for, that maybe the creator designed kids not to have sex. Sex was something you had to wait till you were married to do and for the sole purpose of making babies. What else was I to conclude? Julie was a freak. With her sitting like that, I'd have to bend my penis to put it in which would hurt like hell. Plus, it smelled like piss. She pissed out of that thing with what must have been a stream twenty times the size of what came out of me. Girls must piss like an open fire hydrant. No way was I putting the favorite part of my body up that hole. She let go of herself and the panel of fabric snapped back in place. "Okay. Now, here's what you have to do: show me your penis," She asked this with a little frustration in her voice. I pulled my shorts down and my boner popped out. That was all she'd get to see. She didn't ask for all of it and, fare is fare: She didn't get naked! She stared at it. She sank to her knees and studied my foreskin scar and every millimeter of my little purple cock head. She didn't touch it but she came so close as she examined it that I could feel her breath. "That would fit... I think. Don`t you?" She asked with a smile as she peered over the tip of my little stiffy. I shrugged my shoulders and that was the end of show and tell as I pulled my shorts back in place. I didn't even ask to see if we could try to make it fit. At this age, I knew what sex was but had no interest after seeing that hole. If she were Ilya, I'd spend an hour staring at his body before my brain would allow me to formulate a complete sentence. I never chased her or any other girl down like I did with Ilya. Julie was a friend but in all honesty, she was a friend I trusted to keep my secrets and was only fill in, when David wasn't around. Other than that, I had no use for her. Then I thought about the porn me and Chris thumbed through a few days back. Since stealing that sex education book, I knew how a girl worked so most of my early childhood assumptions were dispelled. The two vagina's I'd seen in my life, didn't do much in terms of a sex explosion epiphany to crave cunt. The older boys on the bus talked about pussy: smell, feel, taste, wetness, and slickness. Although I doubt any had any experience with a live girl. Their verbal was far more appealing than the visual, as far as I was concerned. Breasts were jugs of fat! This was something those boys spoke of endlessly: Farra Faucet, Brook Shields, Dolly Parton and Rachel Welch. I couldn't figure out why large breasts were so appealing. It seemed to me they'd get in the way, somehow. If you're trying to screw Dolly Parton, wouldn't those things change the angle of penetration rendering the task impossible? At least that's what I thought, back then. And, why are female legs more appealing than male? Females have very little muscle tone! Girls don't workout (at least back then). I loved Collin and Brad`s legs. Strong skaters who developed massive claves and quads from countless hours of running, skating, and bike rides, with toe clips, to work the entire leg muscle group. The entire female body seemed inferior in everyway to the male form. I really believe God ran out of time and tossed some flesh together to make a girl... That's just me. I then compared the two experiences of Ilya and Julie further. I didn't loose sleep or even have a hard on when I went to bed the night after Julie showed me her secret. I thought about her little slit and hole but I was not "turned on" by it in any way other than seeing something new and naked. She practically invited me to "see if it would fit." There was no way I'd stick my cock in that smelly thing, at least not at that young age or anytime after. To this day, I can't explain why. After all, if as advertised, the result should be the ultimate orgasm. But, deep down, something tells me it's another "New Coke." Then, there was that numbness thing. It occurred to me that the only time I experienced this was with other boys, or Dennis. It seemed to only occur when somebody put a move on me. Could it be that's what's supposed to happen when a guy falls in love? Had I over reacted to Dennis, after all, his body is amazing? The more I pondered all of this, the more I didn't want a girl. I wasn't convincing myself, making a choice, or anything of that nature. I never cared for girls, in the physical or intellectual sense. Girls had different agenda of everything than boys. The idea that there was one out there for me was ridiculous. How many girls had I encountered in my life?: at school of all ages, camp, the city, vacations, social events with the family, and everywhere in life I looked there were girls. Not one of them had ever turned me to rut like an Elk. Not one had given me sleepless nights the way Ilya and other boys had. I had no desire. I looked in the full length mirror that was attached to the back of the bathroom door. My body was becoming stronger with each week of work. My muscle tone became more defined as a few ripples could be seen on my belly and my arms looked thicker. My cock still seemed puny but Jan said it was big. Could it be as my body grew so did my cock and I hadn't noticed? As I gazed at my body, it occurred to me how I didn't desire every boy: Billy was a piece of shit; Collin and David were my close friends yet the thought of sex with them was disgusting; there were few boys I'd want for sex but was smart enough not to approach (Brad), and a host of other kids I never touch because they just didn`t have "it." Jon and Chris had it and wanted mine. If I were queer, there was no truth about fags doing it with anybody with a dick. Fag's couldn't join the Army because they'd have sex with every dude in the showers and dorms. I assumed that meant fags were excluded from any job of any importance. That's what I heard on the bus. Now, I figured that was more adult lies. Normal boys wouldn't look at certain girls, after all, so how could this be true? Years ago, when I heard this, I wasn't sure how sex between boys worked. My first explanation of gay sex was revealed during a bus ride home. There were two giggling older girls, two seats in front of me, picking on two fourth graders: Tom and Patrick. I knew these kids from pick up soccer games and was ready to defend them against those two cunts. The boys were like me and David were, as friends: glued together. It was odd because they were like us physically, as well: Patrick had long dark and Tom had shortish blond hair. The girls asked them questions about the their dicks, hard ons, and stuff which is what drew my attention to the conversation. "I bet they give each other blow jobs," the one with long hair giggled. "We do not!" Patrick piped up. He was turning red and angry. It was obvious he didn't understand or want any part of her teasing: he was blushing and the tone of his voice was both defensive and angry. Tom sat with a stunned look as he took in the new information. "You don't even know what that is... Do you?" "I do to. Shut up... leave us alone," Patrick stood up to get his face close to her as a prelude to war. "Do not." "Do to!" "Dooooo Noooooot!" "DOOOOOOOO... TOOOOOOO!" "Oh yeah? Let's hear it," she demanded. Patrick was flustered and he peered around to see several boys and girls looking on. He was on the spot and had painted himself into a corner. "Ummm... Fuck you! Leave me alone, if you don't know, it's not my problem!" He tried. "I knew you didn't know... You babies are sooooo stupid." " Do too..." I could see Patrick doing the math in his head. "It's when somebody blows on a boys dick!" The girls laughed and bent forward whispering between them. "What... What else could it be?" "You dumb dumbs!" "What... Tell us," Tom said this with great concern. I felt for him because I had no clue either. "It's when..." She broke into giggles as she delivered the rest of the sentence, "Somebody sticks a guys dick... In their mouth and sucks!" Tom looked at Patrick and their eyes locked in disbelief. "Sick! No way! Nobody would do that!" Patrick screamed. I watched Tom and it was obvious he didn't have the same thought. I think he was like me. My instant thought was, "Ohhhhhh! Why the hell didn't I think of that!" "We don't do that!" Tom spoke with a flat tone. "It doesn't make sense... Why would you call it a blow and not a suck job?" Their conversation/ argument continued and I sat back against the bus seat. David was staring out the window oblivious to the nonsense around him, as usual., he was dreaming of things hockey or other. As I sat there, I thought more about Tom's look at Patrick after the epiphany. The thought of those two exiting the bus, running home, dropping pants to take turns trying it out, had me in sexual and emotional frustration. They were a year younger and probably would start fooling around in as little as fifteen minutes. That much was clear from that look: no question, by any gay person, who witnessed it. I had my own plans for when I got home. A few years back, during a sleepless night, I had an extreme struggle with a really soft down comforter. The velour cover felt so good against my skin, that I wanted to feel it on every part of me. I had my pajama bottoms pulled down to my ankles in case Mom came in the room, a quick pull, and she`d never know I was naked. My hips pounded against the fluffy, silken, fabric as new feelings began in the pit of my stomach. Eventually, the feelings spread all over my lower body and into my toes. I rolled on my back and folded the fabric over my penis. I then grasped the fold from hip to hip and rubbed it back and forth over my cock. As I neared my first memorable climax my thoughts turned to a fantasy of dueling with Ilya. I remember my sight became so blurred, as the tingles went to explosions of release, that my vision seemed to slam from side to side, as my arms worked and hips bucked at what seemed hyper speed. The next thing I knew, it was morning: I had passed out as the electric tingling sent my mind into overload. I sat in bed wondering if I could duplicate that feeling again. It was like getting shocked without any pain. It was like the feeling in the pit of my stomach when a roller coaster bottoms out and flies up the next bank only all over my body. It was better! I didn't have to pay three dollars! I tried it again. This time, I started by folding the fabric over my cock and sawing away while my mind ran down the same Ilya fantasy. BOOOOOM! It worked. Only this time, I didn't pass out and it wasn't as powerful. My heart was pounding, my breath was rapid and when it hit, I had to attempt to muffle a scream. Mom didn't come running so, I was safe. I uncovered so I could examine my fun zone. I couldn't believe something so amazing was so easy to do. Everything that was fun had a price which meant tons of work to earn money. This thing I just did was free. I figured God couldn't be that much of a prick, after all. The feeling, fantasy, and discovery was something I knew had to be my secret because it came from my body, it was my business. I was smart enough to know not to talk about it because Mom used to slap my hands away from my privates, when I was a little kid or, even now. You do not play with that thing: ever! And now, I was pissed that she prevented me from this much pleasure years back. What a bitch. That morning, when I crept down the hall for breakfast, I overheard my Mom telling Dad about noise coming from my room that evening and that she thought it was time to move me to a basement bedroom. Dad told her I was too young for that. A week later, I was packing my room up for the move due to my sister's complaints about my "wrestling in my sleep." Dad told me it was time to move because I was almost a man and needed to be separated from the women of the house for my own sake. I didn't do it every night but I guess I was one noisy kid, when I did. I remember turning red and being sheepish around Sue and my Mom after that. I had the discovery of a boys life. The only one that matters. This gave a hint of what sex would feel like. It only made me want better experiences and peaked my curiosity of how other boys did it and if they experienced the mind blowing knockout punch. I could hardly wait to get home. My technique had evolved due to my Mom. I started firing off cum about a month after my first run in with the comforter. It was stained, stinking, and crusty about a month after my first shot. My Mom never said a word about it's condition. I came home after school one day to find a corduroy duvet covering two wool blankets over rough flannel sheets. Her message was clear. I had out grown a bunch of pajamas and I found perfect fabrics in that bunch of clothes to slide across my cock: silk and the softest cotton. I sprinted to the house as my imagination played Pat and Tom sucking each other down. My hands shook as I fumbled with my fly and undies. I didn't even take my shoes off as I slid my ass on my bed to lay back for a workout. The silk polished my cock head as I slid that fabric back and fourth at hyper speed. I lasted about a minute. My watery milk pushed its way through the silk and down my shaft. The only advantage to this technique was the containment of my load. My penis stayed rock hard so I switched to the other leg of the pajama bottoms and started again. I may have lasted half a minute as I thought about Ilya. We'd be the same age as those two, if I had that sword fight. In my new fantasy, I thought about Ilya asking me for a sword fight and instead of doing it, I'd drop to my knees to unzip his fly. I came the second my mind imagined me pulling the front of his tighty whiteys down the base of his junk. The act of undressing him was as potent to me as Pat and Tom sucking each other off. Between that afternoon and sleep setting in, late that evening, I rubbed myself off six times. The only thing that prevented number seven was I had a friction burn at the edge of my piss slit. That night, I discovered the downside of my technique. The sting of that burn frustrated me for five days: the day it healed I vowed not to exceed twice a day, at the most, for my fun. It wasn't until the first month of the seventh grade before I found out about using my hand to get off. I overheard two sixth graders talking about why two kids were moved to the front of the bus. One day, Mr. Nick was driving along and just slammed on the brakes, through on the hazard signals, and stormed past everyone, to get to the back of the bus. As he pasted me, I swear, I could feel and taste his anger as the hair on the back of my neck rose to attention and a cold chill sprinted down my spine in response to him storming past. We watched him pass and head for the back where I focused in on two boys from the top of the Island. They were his obvious target as they were squirming around as if trying to hide something. I could see the fear in their faces as he approached and slammed his huge hands down on the seat back, in front of their faces, with a smack. "You two keep those things in your Goddamn pants! I'm not hear to clean up your shit! Yesterday, I damn near had to pull a garden hose in here. You may think it's fun and nobody will notice that stuff that comes out of there but somebody has to clean it up! It damned well have been you, if you'd finished! Do that shit in your bedrooms where you have some fucking privacy! Are you two the stupidest kids at school? Are you retarded?" The stared at the floor and shook their head. "If I get any calls from any parents about this, you two are off this bus and I'd like you to explain that to your mother's what it is that got you in trouble!" They were red in the face and one of them started dropping tears. "What were they doing?" Just about every kid asked Mr. Nick as he slowly walked back to his driver's seat. Before he sat down, he pointed at the two kids and jabbed his finger at them as a final warning. Kevin and Matt were sitting in front of me. Matt turned to his buddy and shrugged, "What was that about?" as the bus continued down the road. Kevin giggled. "I think they were beating off." "They were what?" Kevin pointed at Matt with his left index finger, wrapped it with his right index finger and thumb, and rubbed up and down. "What's that?" "If one of these fingers is your dick... Think about it." Matt looked on blankly. "Just go home and try it... Get your dick hard and don't stop stoking it... no matter what," Kevin said with a smile as he continued stroking his finger. "Call me when your done!" I ran home and repeated my performance of when I thought about Pat and Tom only using my right hand. I made it to seven, with room for more before I fell asleep that night. Mingled into both techniques were thoughts of girls. For a while, I knew it was wrong for me to lust after boys. Church, school, friends and family told me so. I thought if I worked girls into my masturbation fantasies, I'd stop thinking about boys because boys are supposed to have sex with girls. I came a few times thinking about shoving my dick into Julie or Nadia. But, most of the time, my imagination morphed the fantasy into Ilya, Tom, Pat, Brad, or some other buddy pounding on a girl. My thoughts were of what those boys felt as they pumped, their shafts glistening from the girls slickness, and experiencing the boys body movement, if I were the one being mounted instead of the girl. I knew this was impossible because I was a boy. I didn't want to be the girl. It was about experiencing the intimacy of the boy: his skin against me and simply the experience of closeness with a boy. Girls didn't know how lucky they'd be, if they landed one of my fantasy boys, because I knew what they were packing. Or, how jealous I'd be, if they did. I smiled at my reflection as it sank in that two girls woke up my desire for guys. I guess females are good for something. From that day forward, I thought of those two sexing each other as I stroked my penis in the folds of my down comforter. There's no doubt, after all of this thought: I'm queer, I like boys and when I'm older, I'll have men with monster cocks like Dennis`s! My cock stood straight in the air as my life became clearer. I broke into a full smile as my thoughts were of the 2x4 wall that separated me from the naked boy in my bed. There was a naked boy in my bed who had sucked my cock, not even two hours ago. How adult is that? Kids mess around in bushes or hiding places. My first sex in a grown up place was with Chris before I turned thirteen. It made everything feel right, somehow, to have him on the other side of the wall as I contemplated all of this. I walked back to the bedroom and climbed under the covers with my little buddy. Chris slept so deep. He didn't even stir as the mattress shifted and the covers were pulled back. I was convinced no woman or girl could rival his beauty. The slow rhythm of his breathing revealed every feature of his of his torso: mass and muscle with a few ribs showing right above his flat tummy; two, dark, nickel sized, nipples that were being filled by developing pecks of his active body, his shoulders that were beginning to broaden with the onset of a growth cycle and, his bellybutton was an innie that seemed to highlight his stomach muscle columns as he breathed. To me, it was like looking at Mr. Carlson's Jaguar: pure sex. I placed my ear to his chest and listen to his slow beating heart, as he slept. Somehow, hearing him in this way made me feel more connected to him. We all have the same sound as our hearts beat in our chests yet, when you love somebody, there seems to be a difference I can't explain. I don't know why I constantly wanted to hear my lovers inner works when I was a boy: it was a sound I'd steal from them when I could. My hair must have tickled him. He mumbled something and turned to his side. Remembering how a woke earlier, I spooned up his back. My cock rode along his ass crack with the tip at the hollow where my midsection met his ass cheeks. It felt exquisite to feel his skin and warmth against me. I rested with him and draped my free arm over his side to cradle his chest. We were laying still. His breath was so slow as mine accelerated with excitement. Our scents were now raw from the sex we had earlier. I didn't know then how different the scent of dirty man was from that of a guys engaged in what we did until that moment. Raw is the only description that fits. My boner was not going away and seemed to grow in intensity. I rocked my hips, at first to adjust, but the sensation rippled to my toes from my thoughts and now our scent. I kissed his neck and rocked in earnest. Chris awoke in a shot. He jarred forward for an instant to regain his bearing. "What are you doing?" "It feels really good to rub on your butt." I said with a nervous laugh. "Hunh?... You scared me. I didn't mean to fall asleep." "Me either... Sorry." "Ummm...Do it some more? If you want?" He pressed back against me and I reached down to adjust my cock against his backside again. I started mini thrust that placed most of the friction against the base of my shaft with a bit of his cheeks contacting the head of my dick on the down stroke. The skin was so soft and fleshy. Not squeezing like my hand when I jacked. "Wait," Chris tuned to his stomach with his legs closed. I startled him and only allowed my penis to contact his crack so that I could run my cock head from between his legs over the crest and as far as I could to the small of his back. Then, I lay on him. My dick settled into the seam of his butt cheeks. I began again, as I settled down on my elbows and kept my legs out side of his. As I thrust, I brought my legs tight along his. The sensation was much like what we did facing each other yet different in the amount of contact my penis had with his body. I preferred to face him and feel our junk slap and slide around as we both could move. I loved the smell of his breath and feel of his heart pounding against my chest. I continued to pound away as the feeling built. There was an urgency as my stomach muscles worked into rhythm. I was sweating, it seemed, from every pour in my body as I pounded away. Even my feet felt slick. Muscles in my stomach pulled me from angle to angle as twinges of orgasm went into the root of my torso. My penis felt numb and jumped to 100 volts as my body went to hyper gyrations. I raised up to jam the head of my cock though his crack as fast as my hips could churn. My first shot happened at the end of an upstroke and the stream of cum splashed his hair and down his spine. The next three or four shots fell into the small of his back. I collapsed onto him. My cum was squashed between our bodies. I tried to roll off him but was spent so I stayed in place as my cum pressed and spread between us. "I can feel it... Your heart. It's beating like a billion times a minute!" Chris whispered. I panted. After everything I thought about in the bathroom, I wanted to tell him I loved him again. I wanted to explain what we were doing was more than just messing around for fun to see if he`d at least acknowledge that. But, he was silent when I confessed a few hours ago. I decided not to push it, as my breathing became close to normal, for fear of scaring him. I pealed myself off of him and cum was plastered to us in a sticky mess. He probably didn't know about the stuff in his hair and I decided not to tell him. There was something about the thought of him walking home with a piece of me still attached that seemed like ownership. I didn't feel this way about Jon. I was building a house with a white picket fence for us to live, in my mind. I just had to figure out how to make it work. Maybe our secret had to be kept all the way through university or the rest of our lives. I was willing to do that if it meant having him. I sat back on his thighs and slapped his butt cheeks like bongo drums to watch them jiggle. I started kneading them like bread dough. "Knock it off... Could you get something to wipe your stuff off my back?" I walked back to the bathroom and grabbed a washcloth I soaked under the hot water faucet. Chris had turned his head to watch me return to the bed. I sat beside him and gently wiped his back. "That feels good... Warm." He closed his eyes. I focused on were the stuff was smeared and then stroked his shoulders down to the small of his back. Then I wiped myself. I settled back down with him and kissed up his shoulder and over to his cheek as I stoked his back from his neck to his ass. Chris smiled with affection. He gave me a shove and I stood up. He climbed out of bed and stood in front of me. I lightly kissed his lips as I lowered myself to kiss his Orthodox cross. It just seemed like fun. I hit my knees and rubbed my nose across his testicles and up his shaft in an attempt to replicated what Dennis did to me. I understood the second his scent hit my nose and the texture of his moist balls spread across my face that it was all about becoming as close to your lover as possible: scent, flavor, and feel. I inhaled deeply as I rubbed my nose away from his balls and up his shaft. Just as I was about to slurp down on his cock, the front door swung open and slammed against the door stop, waking us from our trance, as three sets of feet pounded on the floor above our heads. "Shit!" I said as I looked at my alarm clock that read 5:14. Chris had jumped, into the center of the room and cupped his privates as his eyes were searching for clothes. "Stay here. I'll get your shorts... Our shoes are up on the deck. Don't worry they won't think I'm down here this early... Stay put." I could hear groceries and boxes hitting the counter as my family unloaded the Buicks. If I had shut the garage door, we would have heard the opener and had more time. I banked that new knowledge for later fun. I quickly and quietly retrieved our shorts as I overheard my Dad comment that there were two pairs of shoes on the deck as I could hear the Weber BBQ being pulled from under the eve out on the deck. I tossed Chris his shorts and we slipped our now dry clothes on. "What do we do?" "They don't know what we did," I said giving him a playful shove. "We just go up stairs... I'll do the lying. You suck at that. Go through the sliding glass door... It doesn`t make any noise and we`ll head up on the deck. We`ll tell them we were hanging out, in the shade, under the deck. Don`t worry." We went up and my Mom was shocked to see Chris without David in tow. Dad had never met him before. I caught a look my Dad gave him after he watched the boy for about five minutes that was of approval. My Dad always said that a man defines himself within a few minutes of interaction. Chris passed the test as he`s always respectful and thinks before he speaks. Mom pulled me aside and scolded me for forgetting deodorant again. "If she only knew that smell wasn't all me," I thought as my sister sprinted to a ringing phone. "Jon, it's for you." "Who is it? I have company," As I tried to point out to my parents that she broke a rule of the house. Ignoring a guest was one of my Mom's pet peeves: phone calls, ditching company for a TV show, or just not catering to a guest mad Mom insane. She shrugged her shoulders and stormed past me to get to her room. I glanced at Dad and he rolled his eyes. "Hey Chris, I have to take the call. I can't leave the guy hanging on the other end," Mom didn't even react. "Women have an alliance," I thought. "Hello" "Hi Jon, it's Jan!" "OH! Johann! My buddy, what`s happening?" "Ummm..." I could hear his Mom whispering instructions in the background. "I'm calling about the 4th. We're having a party... And, What? (to his Mother), It's at two o'clock and I wanted to know if you can... Sorry (to his Mother, again) Be so kind to come over and spend the... 4th of July with... My family and friends?" "I get it... Don't you hate it when they try to do that?" "Yeah! Can you come over?... Please, come over. It will be fun... This is our annual party... And," His hand cupped the phone and I could hear him tell his Mom, "I can do it alone!" and then he was back. "Sure. Ummm, I think they'd let me but my parents are gonna want to know who else will be there," I needed assurance of no Dennis. "It's a bunch of people from my Dad's business and stuff. Some kids I don't know will come with those people... Kenny, that guy I told you about from down the beach, and that's it for now... Mom wants me to pick people from outside of the Academy this year. You're my first call." "Oh! Wow! Ummm. Thanks! What about Brad and Dennis?" Since the 4th was on Wednesday, I figured he didn't invite anyone and his Mom came unglued. I figured rich people did the RSVP thing. "Brad's going to Calvin's house this guy who lives in Seattle. He gets to see the big fire works. Oh, Dad goes to the Indian Reservation as well as some of the other people so we have unsafe and insane fire works. Dennis get's the whole rest of the week off to go home or whatever." "Hold on," I cupped the phone to ask permission. As long as Dennis wasn't in the mix, I'd do anything to hang out with Jan. My parents considered the 4th a colossal waist of money. Fireworks were for morons to throw away their hard earned money. We spent most 4th's on the sundeck watching other people light up the night all around the bay. "They said okay." "Really?! Cool! Alright!" By his excitement, I could tell I truly was his first call and this experience was new to him. I couldn't imagine being in his shoes, if his parents controlled his friends, as old as he was. "Hey, ummm... Could you do me a favor? I mean, I know this is rude," that drew my Mother's attention and she took a couple of steps toward me. "Could... Could you invite Chris?" My Mom slapped me across my shoulder and gave me the look of death. Chris looked over at me with astonishment. It wasn't like me to be bold and rude to both boys in one question. "The kid from the park?" "Yeah. I apologize for asking it`s just that... I thought you guys..." "No, it's okay. Sure... I need to invite one more plus Kenny and I was going to invite one of his friends anyway but it doesn`t matter. You don`t know anyone else but me who will be here... Kenny knows half the people from last year. That makes sense and was stupid of me not to think of it." "Oh. Well as long as you're sure." "Yeah! I forgot about him cause you did most of the talking... He's cool." "Okay... Cool... You have to call in a couple of hours... he's not home..." And, I gave him the lowdown and phone number. I explained that he'd have to have his parents talk to Chris's Dad and tell them I'd be there as well as assure them of all the guests good character. I received a ration of shit from my parents, after Chris left, about being rude to Jan and Chris. Dad didn't want me to go after I framed Chris's parents as nut jobs in front of my guest as well as being disrespectful of Chris`s wishes and potential plans for the 4th of July. I didn't care because it was all true and I knew Chris wanted to see the Carlson's estate. I accomplish my goal. It was worth it to have Chris with me and no Dennis.