Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:30:30 -0400 From: Dwedno Smith Subject: Tunnel Chapter 62 Hi all... Its been another tough time getting this out to all of you only because time is so precious. I wish I had nothing to do but write unfortunately with two jobs there is little time for other things I am so fond of but this will not stop me from enjoying my stories just take a little longer to get them to all of you. Hope the next one comes soon and until then enjoy. Dwedno. Chapter 62. Mixed emotions begin to rule... It wasn't long before the squeak from my door had me awake. It was still dark out and this small body entered the room. I knew who it was already and so far Shawn hasn't awakened. "What's up Chase?" I whispered. "I still can't sleep." He whispered back. Half asleep and really feeling pretty tired now I sat up. My clock read 4:20 as I got out of bed. I headed for the door with Chase in tow as I grabbed him by the arm as I walked past him. We left my room and I shut the door as we entered back into Shawn's room. "I'm sorry you can't sleep but we can't talk in my room. Shawn is sleeping and the last thing he needs is you waking him up." "Sorry Tommy." "Its okay cutie I just would rather let the boy sleep and take care of your problems in here." "Okay." he replied. "So you can't sleep and now neither can I what can we do to make this better for both of us?" "I don't know Tommy." "Would you like to go home because even though I want to protect you from things I am not very good at protecting anyone when I can't sleep the night before." "I really don't know Tommy. Please don't be mad at me." "Look Chase I really like you a lot and I am sorry if I seem a bit nasty at the moment but its 4:30 in the morning and you have been to see me twice tonight. I will do anything you want but I need to know how I can help you. I tried rubbing your belly but you didn't seem to like it. Do you have any idea's?" "Well kinda." "Okay tell me." "Would you get mad at me if I asked you to rub some place else?" "Where?" "Down below in my privates?" "Why would you think I would be mad. Its just not some place I think of when it comes to putting someone to sleep. If you rubbed me there it would keep me awake understand?" "Yes but when I am home..." "When you are home what?" I was suddenly wide awake. "Oh nothing I was going to say something but I shouldn't." "Chase you can't say something like that and just stop mid sentence." "But if I say it someone will get in trouble." "Okay Chase who is going to get in trouble? There is Cameron, Chance and myself who is going to yell at someone?" "You are if I say the wrong thing." "So if I guess will you tell me if I am right?" "I really shouldn't, Tommy can't we just talk about something else?" "Not until you tell me what is so private that you are afraid to say it." He sat on the end of his bed quietly thinking about how to either answer me or get out of this. "I am tired Tommy I want to lay down you can go back to your bed now." "Okay fine in the morning I am going to call Cameron and ask him how he puts you to sleep when you can't sleep." "No you can't do that." "Well I am going to in the morning. Its either Cameron or Chance who is touching you and I want to know who it is from you telling me or I will ask them tomorrow and then there will be a mad brother at your house." "I don't like this anymore and I don't like you now Tommy please go away now. I want to sleep." I got up and headed for the door. "In the morning I am taking you home and when we get there I am going to ask both of your brothers about what you said to me and then you can stay there with them." "Good night Chase." I walked out and shut his door behind him. I think I heard him start to cry as I went back in my room. In a way I felt bad about what I just did but it was 4:30 in the morning and I was very cranky. Maybe after some sleep I will change my mind about all this. Maybe Chase will have something to say in the morning too. Guess we will see. I lay back down and tried to go to sleep at least Shawn is sleeping through all this. I lay there for a while and finally fell back to sleep. Morning came all too soon even though I didn't know what time it was when Shawn got up. As he shook the bed it woke me up. It was the worst night of sleep I had since we moved in this house together and I felt really bitchy so far. I finally focused on the clock and it said 7:30am. If I am lucky I got three good hours of sleep. I closed my eyes again and Shawn went into the bathroom and slammed the door shut. I think I am going to go to my old house and sleep there! I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep again and as he left the bathroom he hit the wall with the door knob making another clunking sound. "Shawn are you purposefully trying to wake me up?" I said with a tone to my voice. "Sorry it slipped." "Yeah well if it slips again I am going to shoot someone." I shut up after that but he added his own two cents of a comment before leaving the bedroom and shutting that door loudly too! I was half crazed with anger now. The next person to bother me dies! I thought to myself. Finally I dozed off to sleep again a few minutes later. Around 10am not that I knew what time it was there was yelling outside my door and some kind of commotion that once again woke me. At least it was 10am as I got up and went to see who was being murdered outside in the hall. "What the fuck is going on out here?" I yelled out as I opened the door. Zachary and Jordan were having a loud argument in front of their bedroom door and apparently they didn't know I was still asleep. They both looked at me standing there in my boxers and got real quiet. "I don't want to know and don't care! Take that bitching some place where I can't hear it! I was up half of the night babysitting a nine year old!" I said it loud enough for anyone in earshot to hear and if they didn't hear me they certainly did when I slammed the door so hard the house probably shook. Once again it was quiet for a while. I was awake but decided to go back and lay on my bed since I wasn't in the mood to see anyone anyway. Around noon there was a knock on my door and Jon opened it slowly and asked if it was safe to come in. "Yes Jon I am not mad at you. Come in." "Well I don't know what happened but you have the whole house on red alert." "Huh?" "Apparently Kyle told everyone after you screamed before to be quiet if they knew what was good for them. He didn't have a clue what happened but he was trying to help anyway. I wanted to make noise just to bust your balls but I was afraid you might kill me." "I was ready to kill someone before but now I am a little better." "That's good because I think everyone wants to know why you were so mad and if its safe to breathe again." I chuckled at his comment. "If you want to go tell them its okay to breathe I am fine with it." He got up and went out into the hall and yelled the coast was clear just about at the top of his lungs. I wanted to laugh but I just didn't feel up to it just yet. He came back into my room and shut my door and then came over and sat next to me. I turned and smacked him gently upside his head. "Owwww why did you do that? You said I could tell them it was okay to make noise now." "You are a dodo!" "What? Now I am confused." "Jonathan just shut up okay?" I grabbed him by the arm and pulled him to me as I lay on my pillow and he landed on me halfway. Just the right part so I could play with him through his sweats that he had on. That kept him quiet for a while and made me horny. The more I played the harder he got and he wasn't complaining about a thing right now just breathing a little on the hard side but mind you he was still dressed. "You keep that up and you are going to make me cum in my underwear." "Is that a bad thing?" "No but I will have to go change again." "Again? I don't want to even know why you changed once." He got quiet and I went back to rubbing his cock through his sweats. A few minutes later he let out a moan as his breathing changed some and he blew his load in his boxers. I felt it as I touched the area from the outside of his sweats. I played a little longer before I finally stopped touching him. "Great! That felt awesome and now I have a mess in my pants." "Oh well... you could have stopped me anytime you wanted to." "Yeah sure it felt awesome why should I stop you when all I have to do is change now." "I don't know." I said. He got up and stripped naked and tried not to drip cum all over the floor in front of me as I watched amused with him undressing cautiously in front of me and trying not to make a mess. "Guess we need a shower now huh?" "You think?" he replied. I got up and dropped my shorts and walked naked to the bathroom and started the water in the shower. "Are you coming in?" "Yeah I am coming." He joined me in a shower as we washed each other with the soap after we wet and he got all the spunk off himself. It felt great as usual to have Jon washing my back and ass. I did the same for him and other then washing there was no more play. We dried off and I went out to get dressed. He walked down the hall to his room with the towel wrapped around his waist and headed into his room. Of course he left my door wide open which was fine because I could watch him all the way down the hall but once he went into his room there wasn't any reason to look anymore. I got up and shut my door and grabbed a change of clothes. A few minutes later I was headed downstairs and walking towards the kitchen. I could hear noise from the game room but I didn't see anyone until I got in there. "You okay Tommy?" "Yeah, thanks for asking Jordy. What are you up to?" "Just getting everyone drinks. I got elected." "By who?" "Don't worry about it Tommy I know you don't like anyone being used but I offered." "Okay but why did you say that you got elected?" "Because I stood up and said I was going for a drink out loud. Then one by one everyone started asking for me to bring something back." "Okay I guess you asked for it." He didn't say anymore and I went to make some toast. While I waited for it to be ready I went to take a look and see how it was outside. The warm sun hit me in the face as I looked outside. It was a warm day for a change with just a few clouds in the sky. Some snow was melting but that won't last too long around here as fall creeps closer to its end. I went back inside and Benjy came in to the kitchen. "Hi Ben." "Hey Tommy. You okay?" "Yeah. I chuckled. Guess I had everyone a bit concerned." "You could say that. After Kyle made the announcement to keep it down we sorta all acted like angels for a while." "That's good at least I finally got some sleep." "Oh is that what it was all about?" "Yeah Chase kinda kept me up most of the night and I felt a little bitchy." "Oh." He went to get something to drink and I buttered my toast. "Hey Ben would you be interested in cooking Thanksgiving dinner?" "I guess so. It's a lot of work but since no one else has much experience at it I suppose we need someone to do it." "Yeah we do and thanks. I was afraid we wouldn't have turkey this year after all this happened and you might actually save the holiday for us." "Don't put too much pressure on me Tommy." "You'll do just fine I bet!" "As long as you only have me cook and make the stuffing I will." "What about mashed potatoes and some gravy?" "I can do that too." "Turnips?" "Maybe I can make those, I never really tried." "How about... "Tom I'll do my best to make whatever you want all I need is help." "You will have plenty of that." A voice came from out of no where. I turned and it was Kyle. "Are you volunteering little brother?" He came over and gave me a hug. "Feeling better now?" "Yes and thanks." He smiled at me. "Yes I am volunteering and I am sure other will too." I went back to making toast, Ben took his drink and left and Kyle sat at the kitchen table waiting for me. I finished up poured myself some milk and sat with him. "So what was the red alert about before?" "I had a shitty night..." I went on and told him about Chase and all as I ate. He listened and laughed and we joked around as I made more toast and he stayed with me until I was done eating. "Bro do you think we can go out together?" "Just the two of us? Sure why not." "Just asking. Its been a while since we were alone together and I want to spend some time with you." "Where do you want to go?" "The mall." He answered. "Sure. Let me tell Jon he is in charge and we can go right away if you want." "Great, he said Jon's in the game room." I headed to the game room and walked in. Everyone looked at me except Shawn and Chase who surprisingly were playing against each other. I looked at Jon and he got up and came over to me. "What's up?" "I am going out with Kyle for a bit. You are in change. If anything happens call me, we're just going to the mall." "Okay, no problem." He went back and sat where he was when I came in and I watched for a bit and Shawn waved to me when there was a break in the action. Chase turned and looked at me but didn't say anything. He just turned back towards the game. I waved to Shawn as I left the room. Kyle came up on me as I headed out of the game room. "Ready?" I asked. "Yup." I grabbed my coat and we left through the cellar and headed to the garage door. we got into the truck and I started it, backed out and shut the garage door as we headed on our way. "I really am glad we could do this." "Why Ky, is there anything wrong?" "Nope not with me just you." "Is it that obvious?" "Its me bro... if I can't tell you are stressing out then who can?" I reached over and gave his leg a squeeze. "Thanks Ky, I love you so much." "I know, I love you too big brother." The roads weren't too bad as the sun made the snow on the roadside almost blinding as we drove down the parkway. About ten minutes later I was pulling into the parking lot of the mall. "Look TJ there are tire tracks in the snow." "Probably mine or maybe Cameron was here. I don't seen anything unusual do you?" "No I guess not but I have my gun just incase." "Yeah I have mine too." I said as I reached under the seat and pulled it out after I parked. We got out and headed towards the entrance. So far everything appears normal. We entered the mall with guns drawn and again nothing seemed out of place. We put our guns away and started walking. "Okay you wanted to come so you lead." I said to him. He took off and I followed. We went into a few stores and I grabbed a new winter coat as did he. We found a cart along the way, probably one we were using and left behind another time. I started pushing it. We walked past a few stores with clothes in them and went in to look around in each one. I picked up a few pairs of jeans and some shirts and sweat pants and Kyle got some clothes for himself. "Ya know TJ this place is fine but even though the other mall is about an hour away we should go and see what they have in there someday. Especially with Christmas coming soon." "We could do that anytime you want its just going to be a long day." "I know and I am guessing at that hour drive. I remember we went there last year with mom and dad and it seemed like it took forever to get there." "Yeah but the amount of stuff and stores in there was amazing. We walked for hours with them looking and shopping and when it was time to go dad said we didn't even come close to hitting half of the stores." "I know. Do you want to go in a day or two?" "Yeah that sounds good. We can do all the Christmas shopping and hide it somewhere. If we went here for presents it would be obvious because just about everyone has seen most of the stuff in here." "Yeah good point. I know the perfect place to hide everything Ky." "Where?" "Our old house. No one would ever know." "Yeah that should work." "Then its settled we can go and get what we want and then if the weather holds out we can hook up one of those u-hauls and take everyone and just fill it up with the stuff so everyone fits." "That's a great idea Kyle." We walked around for another hour and grabbed more stuff and then went and got ice cream together. It was a perfect afternoon and talking to Kyle and shopping made me forget about all the shit going on back home for a while. We pigged out on ice cream and I even made us a chocolate shake that we shared. It was kinda thick since there wasn't any fresh milk to add to it but did my best to make it tasty. The rest of the afternoon flew by and we headed home as the sun started to go down. The cell didn't ring once and hopefully everything was fine at home. We got back about thirty minutes after dark and we walked in with a handful of stuff each. There was some complaining from a few guys because they didn't get to go but I told them it was a brothers day out and too bad. Kyle went to put his stuff away and I did too. I came back downstairs and Joey, Luke and Jeremy came over to me. "What's up boys?" "You went out all day and had fun we were stuck here so we want to know if you will take us out for dinner." "Just you three?" "No all of us." "I guess I could do that but the roads are a little icy and I don't want to risk anyone of us getting hurt if the truck slides off the hill." "Can't you go down the back way its no where near as steep?" Joey asked. "Yeah I suppose I could. Its out of the way but still it's a lot safer. The only problem is I never plowed it so I would have to drive through some snow but I guess in four-wheel drive we should be fine." While we were discussing this Kyle and a few others came over. When I said yes there was a cheer. I guess most of the boys are tired of being cooped up in the house already and its only November. I sure hope the snow never gets too deep to get through. I would go nuts myself with all of them bugging me. We'd run out of milk too and now that we are spoiled with fresh milk I don't want to lose that. "Okay you guys want to go out to eat then go get everyone together and we will all decide where to go." That should be another fun time. Fifteen boys in the house including me and probably fourteen different places they want to eat at. I waited as the announcement was made by few of them and everyone started to slowly file into the kitchen. Finally everyone was here and a small thing like dinner was suddenly a major decision. "Okay now that the gang is all here I am going to say this once. I have been asked about going out to dinner. Please and notice I am asking nicely... A few of them laughed as did I... please decide where you want to go and when all of you are done I will take the winners to their choice." The next five minutes was filled with yelling, suggestions and mild arguments about where they wanted to eat. It was under control for the most part so I stayed out of it. Kyle came over by me and we watched the other twelve decide. I don't count Christian since he really doesn't eat much and is really a pretty good eater for his age. Finally it was ten minutes since I asked and they had it down to two choices. Shorties for hot dogs or Burger King. Two wonderful places I thought to myself. Joey and Billy wanted the hot dogs. Well a few of them did but they were yelling the loudest and Jeremy, Zack and Ben among a few others wanted Burger King. They looked at me. "Tommy we can't decide." Said Ben. "Okay does everyone agree to a coin flip?" They shook their heads yes or said yes. I grabbed my lucky quarter from my pocket. "Okay now no bitching after I flip this coin or we don't go anywhere! Ben pick heads or tails." Joey yelled why does he get to pick and I just gave him a look that practically shut the entire room up. He kinda hid in the background after that behind Billy. I threw it in the air and let it land on the floor. They all crowded around it like this was deciding someone's death as Ben yelled out tails before it hit the floor. Tails it was. Looks like we go have fries and burgers. There was of course some groans but at least it was over. "Next time guys I am gonna decide and then we won't have a fifteen minute bitch session!" Someone yelled out that I should have decided this time. I just laughed it off. Shawn came over to me and asked me if he could talk to me for a minute. "Sure cutie where? In private or here?" "Private please?" I followed him upstairs. "What's up Shawn?" "Are you mad at me for making noise this morning? I'm sorry if you are. Since you were gone all day I didn't get to tell you sooner and I felt bad when you left before I got to see you." I put my arm around him. "No love I am not mad, I was tired from Chase bothering me all last night but he has stayed way clear of me so far. I was mad at him for his nonsense but you really didn't need to slam those doors did you?" "No sir. I am sorry TJ do you forgive me?" I leaned over and kissed the top of his head. He looked up and smiled at me. We didn't say anything and he knew. I brushed his cute mop of semi long hair as I hugged him a bit and I caressed his hair by running my hand thru his thickening mop for a bit. He looked back up at me and was all smiles so we broke apart and went back downstairs. "Can we go now?" Jon yelled out to me. "Ya know if that was anyone but you Jon I would say no but since you know you can get away with that YES we can go. Everyone grab a coat and get in the truck!" "Tommy do you think I can follow in the car?" "I don't think it would be smart Ben. Its probably icy out there after the sun melted everything today. Even if you got down without a problem you might not be able to get back up." "Even the back way?" "The back road isn't plowed and I'll tell you what, if you get a four wheel drive vehicle I wouldn't mind but without one I just don't think its safe." "Oh all right I guess you are right. He said dejectedly. Can we go look for one tomorrow?" "Sure why not. The only thing you will have to do is clean the snow off one when we find it and hope the key are there." "Wait didn't Robert have one in his driveway Tommy?" Jeremy asked. "I don't remember Jem. We can look when we drive by okay?" "Kewl!" Ben said. "Since when do you call me Jem?" Jeremy asked me. "Since now I guess. It was a slip of the tongue but I kinda like it." "Yeah I do too. Its pretty neat. Reminds me of a good friend I had once. I had a kewl nickname for him. Its too bad we had a stupid fight before the comet hit and never got to make up. I guess stupid pride got in the way and a lot of stubbornness too! He was a pretty good guy and I miss him." "Sorry to hear that Jem. Hopefully you will be able to deal with it since its really doubtful you will ever see or talk to him again." "Yeah I know. I still think about him though it was great when we hung out together sometimes." I smiled at him and then turned to the others. "Okay lets go I am hungry and we still have to take a look in Roberts driveway." We were finally all settled in the truck and I opened the garage door and started the truck. We were on our way. I headed up the hill and stopped in front of Roberts house. I turned on all the overhead truck lights and it easily lit up his driveway and most of the front of the house. In the driveway was a truck with an open back and it looked to be a four-wheel drive truck. "Can we go look now?" Ben asked. "No I don't think that's a good idea." I said. "Why not? Ben replied its well lit and after all he is dead." "Yeah and inside that house." I added. Ben thought about it for a few seconds. "Maybe you are right we can come back during the daylight." "Yeah good idea! I don't really want to discuss it but you do realize that if the keys aren't in the truck we have to go inside to get them." "What's so bad about doing that?" Luke blurted out. I turned and looked at Luke who was sitting behind me to my right. "I guess I have to explain... I said, anyone want to take it?" No one said anything. "Kyle why don't you tell Luke." He was sitting next to him in the back seat. "Because Robert has been in there for weeks." "Yeah so? Long pause while it sunk in...Ohhhhhhh I got ya I think." Luke said as he finally realized why. "Wait I am still confused." Said Zack. "Zack, he is in the house and dead for weeks, what do you think it smells like in there?" A bunch of groans went up in the truck as they all got it at the same time. "I feel sick!" said Luke. I laughed. "I bet you do. Everyone still want to eat?" A chorus of yeah's went up really loud in the truck. I turned the overhead lights off and we took off down the road and headed down the back street and into the heavy snow. The truck drove through it like a hot knife through butter as I slowly advanced down the small slope ahead of us. It came out to a cross street and I turned onto another road and hoped I was going the right way. I haven't gone this way in a while and its dark out so this is a little bit of an adventure now. I didn't think about where I would wind up I just did it. I drove for a few minutes and finally things started to look familiar. I found the base of our street and the highway was in front of us. No one knew but I took a deep breath. I wasn't worried too much... I drove for a bit and turned into the parking lot of Burger King. "Guys the snow is a little deep I'll pull up as close to the door as I can but its not plowed so it won't be perfect." I actually found a place to pull up to where the snow didn't drift and they could at least get out. One by one they got out and I reminded them not to go in before one of us could check it first. Kyle went in and I turned around so I could get out in the same spot and parked the truck right there. Kyle went in first and eventually I followed. The place was fine and untouched since last time we were there a few weeks go. I went in the kitchen area and Jon came with me. He started the oil and prepared the fries and I got the bun out and fired up the toaster. Last time I was here I found the switches and turned everything off so we would have no worries next time we needed to eat. Everything is frozen here and the soda is still okay too. The boys all filled their cups and started drinking as we made the food. About twenty minutes later we were serving burgers and fries to everyone. Eventually we finally got to eat too. Of course by then almost everyone was done eating and clowning around in the place. I yelled once for some quiet so I could enjoy my food but it lasted five minutes. "Look! I stood up...I didn't get to run around and jerk off while you guys ate so if you can't keep it down some next time I will come here alone!" That got the point across and the noise level went way down. Always takes a threat to get what I want. Kyle sat with us as Jon and I ate. The rest of them behaved somewhat and finally we were done. "Okay EVERYONE clean up!" Moans and groans but at least I didn't have to say it twice. "See that TJ you take them some place and all the do is moan!" I laughed as Jon said that to me. So did Kyle. Shawn came over and sat with us as we were just about ready to leave. Most of the others decided to play spitball games and just about all of them had straws and were running all over screaming and shooting spitballs at one another. I was waiting for one to hit me. So far none came this way. At least they aren't all brain dead. Ben just ran by giggling and shot one at Luke and now Luke is chasing him and just returned fire. It's a little amusing I guess I am not in the mood. Shawn just got up and joined in and Kyle looked at me as did Jon. "Aren't you interested?" He asked. "Yeah I am Jon but if I start then no one will stop when I say so." "I think they would if you raised your voice loud enough." "Normally I would agree with you but right now they are running wild and in a way I think they need this. It's a big house but still tight quarters." "I guess you are right Tommy." Jon said. "Honestly bro I know you might not realize it but I see it. If you stood up right now and yelled I bet they would stop horsing around. This morning when you sounded that red alert I came out and once they realized something was wrong they all behaved. I was surprised to see it but whether you know it or not they do respect you TJ. You are the one who takes care of them and even though they don't show it a lot I think all or most of them care a lot about you." "Okay lets see." I stood up and looked at him he nodded. "Go ahead try it." He said. "Okay! I yelled out everyone stop for a second! Maybe I wasn't loud enough because no one even looked at me. It was loud in here and they were acting pretty crazy. YOOOAH!!!" I screamed out. This time they heard me and everyone stopped. Okay not a huge deal... if anyone yelled out they probably would grab their attention. "Okay boy's its time to go now lets see how quickly you can clean up the mess all of you made." A few groans but surprisingly almost everyone of them immediately started to clean up. A few more spitballs flew but no more then ten minutes passed and the place looked good again. They started to sit down and eventually everyone was seated. Not quiet but seated. "Okay that wasn't too bad." I said. "So since everyone is here we are going to have a brief meeting." They were looking and listening. "Within the next few days Kyle and me are going one a day trip. Jon is going to be in charge while we are gone and I am sure Benjy will help too. As long as the weather cooperates we will be going to the mall the huge one over an hour from here. If everything goes well and there are no problems when we get back and Jon tells us that everything was fine while we were gone... Then... We will pack everyone up and take the ride and spend the day in this mall." "What's so great about that mall Tommy?" Danny asked. "Well for starters when I went there last year with Kyle and my parents we spent the day there and in eight or so hours we didn't even have time to see all of it. PLUS... there are rides and an arcade and I am sure... I had to stop for a second they were all cheering about the games and arcade stuff. And... AND... there are lots of food places if... the food isn't all spoiled now. Its huge and the only question is will it be safe and will we run into anyone alive there? All I know is that mall is gigantic and everyone will find clothes and lots of things that we might not have here at our small mall in town. I am not sure yet but I think its at least an hour drive and that is with me going fast. I will let all of you know when we get there. As long as the cell works I will call and tell Jon about what we see. If it doesn't look safe then we aren't going in. Kyle and me aren't going there to start a war or kill people but if its okay then everyone else can come long next time we go but I do need to make sure everyone knows that this is a huge place and just because we go once and its safe doesn't mean it will be the next time. So as a warning we can probably have a great time all day long but we also stand a good chance in a place that huge of running into someone alive, adult or child. Or who knows a place that far away might have a lot of people alive." "Do you really think that many people survived the comet Tommy?" "I don't really know Jordy there is always a chance someone or many are living but do to the fact that we don't live in a big city like New York where there are millions the chances are probably slim or we would have in my opinion had someone drive around us by now. its impossible to say with no one watching the roads all the time and you get my point." "Yeah its almost scary to think that there could be a bunch of adults around and they could find us and break us apart." "I know Shawn but that is the truth. We might be alone for hundreds of miles or there could be people down the block from us. Living in private and too scared to come out for anything but food." "Do you really think that is possibly close to our house?" "Personally Jem I don't think so but maybe an hour from here it could be. We were a rather small town of about 3000 people but that huge mall is close to a much bigger populated area and chances of all of them dying are slim. I just don't think that there are so many people alive that they are out looking for others. If there are between seventeen and twenty or so of us that we found this close to our home then who knows how many might be alive out there. Thousands? Or maybe a few hundred I don't even know if I want to know or even want anyone to find us." "Why not Tommy? I want to be found." "Really Zack, I understand if it were your mom or dad you would want them to find you but... do you really want some strange adult or a policeman to find you?" "Sure why not. It might be better then what we have here." "You really think so. Outside of the gay stuff or whatever bothers you under our roof do you think it might be better?" "Sure." The boys started to make some noise thinking about what I said. "I don't speak for him Tommy but I don't want some stranger finding me." Joey turned and looked at Zack. "I understand you might want it better and it could be a lot better out there Zack but with what we have now with Tommy isn't all that bad. He takes good care of us and gives us a lot of freedom to do what we want. Imagine if you did find a better place and then the adult or whoever you were with decided they wanted to totally control you after they took you from here. There aren't any parents to come rescue you anymore and after you leave here who would know how you are?" Joey was doing great making his point. I could see a lot of mixed emotions in the boys faces. Everyone who understood had a look of concern about them. This was new talk and I am sure none of them really took the time to think about this serious stuff. All I know is as I sat and listened to Joey talk about it. Shawn got closer and closer to me on one side and Kyle did the same on my other. Jon looked at me a few times and I didn't like what I saw on his face either. Joey surprised me but he was making valid points and making me happy and his praise compelled me and gave me courage to want to protection everyone. The strength from his words more than anything he made me feel wanted. "I don't know why you think everyone would mistreat us Joey. Zack said. I know Robert wasn't good to us and that scared me a lot but there has to be other good people out there some place." "You are probably right Zack. Billy chimed in. There might be fifty or more great people out there willing to care for any of us and old enough to do it without worry but what if you didn't find the right one and they hurt you like Robert did or worse got tired of you and killed you?" His words cut and probably scared quite a few of the boys. I know Shawn grabbed my arm when he said that. I think we went far enough with this. I stood up. "Okay guys. I think everyone got the point that we might not be alone but we ARE safe together. Everyone knows my rules and they are simple. Under my roof you have to behave and respect the other boys. No one has to stay and any of you are welcomed to go at any time." I looked right at Zack as I said that. "But I don't want to leave you Tommy! Danny shouted out. I don't trust anyone else but you and my parents and they are gone. Who would take care of Christian and me if you weren't around?" I smiled at him. "Don't worry I am not going any place as long as I have a say in it." The looks on most of the boys faces were priceless. I so wanted to say what I was thinking about, what might really be out there but I didn't want to scare them more then our chat just did. What started out as a some what fun idea for a trip turned into a lot of scared thoughts but I still want to go and see what is out there. "Okay look. All of you are safe, bellies full and have just about everything you want right?" Almost all of them shouted out yes. "So don't worry we are just talking about things. Nothing is perfect in this world and maybe one day things could change for the better or worse we just don't know. For now all of you are safe and I will make sure you stay that way as long as you are with me. No one is forcing you to stay. I looked at Zack again as I said that. And anyone can leave anytime. So for now lets not worry and lets all get in the truck and get back to the safety of our house." They got up quickly and started to head for the door. Kyle grabbed me by the arm and pulled me back. "What's up Kyle?" He gave me a hug. "I am glad I have you big brother and I think they are too. What we just talked about scared all of us I think but I also think they know they are pretty lucky to have you as their brother too." He gave me a hug and when he let go Shawn did too. He heard everything that Kyle said to me. Shawn hugged me tightly and when he let go he told me he loved me. I looked at Jon and he seemed to have some concern in his face too. He came over to be close to me for a second and as we walked out I put my arm around him and he gave me a hug too. I just wish there were someone I could give one too! Someone that I could occasionally look up to. We piled into the truck and I headed back home with locked doors. I know I felt a little secure right here, right now in the truck. More then I did at the burger place for some reason. Maybe it was the topic or maybe it was the dark or cold but as much of a threat that chat brought to us the love that followed made me more secure then ever as I felt the love from Shawn, Kyle and Jon as we left the store and parking lot to go home. I imagine that the others might want to share the same feelings but just don't know how to or don't feel that it might be the proper thing to do but... that is only my opinion. We arrived back home as a group safely and I pulled into the garage and shut the door behind us as they boys started filing out of the truck and into the house. The ride home was extremely quite and even back in the house things were the same. I decided to hang around just incase so I went into the game room even before anyone else did. Chase walked in first which surprised me since he avoided me mostly all day long. "Can I sit with you?" "Sure you can." He sat next to me and immediately put his head on me followed by the some of his weight. Then he draped his arm over me. "Tommy I'm sorry about last night but please I am asking you don't say anything to either Chance or Cameron about how they help me to sleep sometimes. Please? We already have enough trouble between us." "Okay cutie. I won't." I put my arm on him and rubbed his chest some. "It will stay between us. You guys really don't need anymore problems, you are right." "Thanks Tommy." Just then Jordy walked in and Chase immediately sat up like he was doing something wrong and he really wasn't doing anything but laying on me. Jordy didn't say anything other then hi to us as he sat down after turning on the TV so he could be the first to play tonight. Chase went over and asked him if he could play him and they started a game together. Eventually the others started to come around and fill the room. I don't think anyone wanted to be alone right now. Shawn sat next to me on one side and Jon on the other side of me when he came in. Billy and Joe sat with Danny on the one couch and Christian played with some toy on the floor totally unfazed by any of this. Across from me Ben, Luke and Jeremy were on the other crowded couch. Kyle stole the recliner. Well not stole it was the first to sit on it... Zack was laying on the floor on his belly and elbows watching them play. DJ was sitting on the arm of the recliner next to Kyle actually just leaning on it. "I got winner DJ announced." Guess no one cared since there were no arguments when he said it. Shawn leaned on me and I put my arm on him and began rubbing his back. Jon looked over and smiled and I gave him a slight punch as that he hardly felt as I smiled back at him. I guess our chat got to everyone or maybe it was just the entire night with Roberts name coming up and the thoughts about others being out there fresh in most of the boys minds. Other than the comment DJ made about playing winner he had been quiet all night. Finally the game ended and Jordy beat Chase. Chase got up and DJ jumped off the arm of the recliner with such force he sent it back and almost knocked Kyle onto the floor backwards. "Sorry Kyle." He said after the chair landed safely with a loud thud. It was almost funny but not to Kyle who looked at me with a bit of shock on his face never expecting the free ride. It make the whole run jump though. Chase came over by me after losing and wanted to scooch in but with Jon on one side and Shawn hanging all over me the only way he could sit would be if Jon moved over and gave him room to squeeze in between us. Jon reluctantly moved over as much as he could and Chase made it four on our couch and it began to feel tight. I slid over one ass cheek and almost forced Shawn onto me all the way. He didn't seem to mind so we were finally somewhat comfortable again. Unbelievably every kid in the house was in this one room. I dared myself to get up and leave the room to see what would happen but delayed it for a bit. I wanted something to drink and it was almost time to take a leak too. Five minutes later it didn't matter Shawn got up and told me he had to pee so I followed. He went into the downstairs bathroom and I went up to my room. Now they were all in the room without me and I was curious to see how they are going to react when I come back after I get my drink. I hurried into my bathroom and whipped out my thing and started the flow into my toilet. Relief! After I finished I took a look outside the bathroom window and it was just dark out and clear sky. Nothing was going on as usual. I washed my hands and headed out and down to the kitchen. I made myself some milk and put chocolate syrup in it and then nuked it in the microwave for a bit. Warm chocolate milk! It tasted great. I walked back into the game room and everyone looked at me as I carried my chocolate milk in. "What did you make Tommy?" Chase asked. "Warm chocolate milk." "That sounds awesome." He said. Like I was going to make him some. I sat down. Suddenly they all or at least most of them decided that looked great and they got up and there was a rush to the kitchen. This should be good. The only ones left in the game room were me, Jon, Kyle. DJ and Jordy who were playing the game so they stayed. One by one they slowly came back. Some with milk some with chocolate milk and some with hot chocolate. As I was finishing up my drink the last kids came in and it was Danny and Christian which figures because he probably had to make both drinks. "I sure hope that kitchen isn't a mess or I am gonna scream!" I said out loud and then I looked at Danny. "I didn't make it I just made my hot chocolate and one for Christian." He was already defending himself which meant the room was a disaster. I got up and headed out and I could hear the murmurs as I left the room. Sure enough I walked into the kitchen and there was an empty container of milk on its side on the floor. Spilled milk on the counter and chocolate syrup on its side leaking on the counter top and powder mix all over the counter top. No one cleaned up a thing including the two empty paper containers on the counter that said hot chocolate mix on them. Gee I wonder who they belong to... I sorta got a little upset with that and marched into the game room. I walked into the game room and they looked at me. "He doesn't look too happy." Jon said aloud. "All right I don't care who made the mess but that room was not like that when I left it a few minutes ago. If it isn't cleaned up shortly I will start handing out punishments and no one will like them! I got my point across immediately as everyone of the boys with a drink got up leaving their drink behind and marched back into the kitchen and clean up began as I followed and watched silently. They even left the cold milk container out half full of milk. No one looked at me as they cleaned. They almost looked like a bunch of scolded puppies as they worked to correct the mess they left. I watched as they put things away and cleaned the counter throwing all the garbage away. Ten minutes later the kitchen looked like normal. I turned and went back to the game room and now Jon was playing against DJ and Jordy was in my seat. I gave him a look and he immediately scooted over to let me sit where I was. Everyone came back and the room was full of boys again. This time though they all had their drinks with them. It was another thing that should have been funny but wasn't just because of laziness and the fact that they don't always get it and it pissed me off quite a bit! It was after 11pm now. With all the stuff we did tonight between what just happened in the kitchen and the time we took eating and having the shit scared out of us with the long talk in Burger King the night flew by. Twenty minutes after I sat back down I was getting tired and starting to fall asleep with Shawn leaning on me. Chase was already sleeping quietly on the other side of me and Jon was finishing up his game with DJ now... losing as usual. A few of the boys were yawning and still no one got up to leave and head to their room. Christian was asleep on the floor and Danny was close to it too where is was sitting. I wasn't sure what to do or if I really should do anything with them. As for myself that was the one thing I really didn't know what to do. As I scanned the room only Luke, Ben, Jordy and Zack really looked awake. Even Kyle was close to dozing off in his chair. So was I before I started checking on everyone else. Zack got up and offered to play DJ as Jon put down his remote. He stretched out his legs and headed off to either pee or the kitchen I guess. At least Zack and DJ were awake enough to play. I watched then for a bit and started to feel the tiredness over come me again. Maybe I should just stay here and let them do what they want but I really don't want to sleep here all night. I'll try to stay up a little longer. Shawn was now asleep and laying on me so I had to move him to get up if I wanted to go somewhere. I lasted until midnight. "Okay boys, who ever is still awake I am going to bed. I cant keep my eyes open anymore." I woke Shawn and stood up. I guess I disturbed the room because everyone else that was awake got up too. That just left the sleeping boys to wake up. Slowly I went around and woke up Danny he woke his brother and then he slowly walked Christian out of the room. Next I woke Chase and eventually he got up and headed out of the room. Kyle was already up and Luke, Ben, Jordy and Zack already had left the room before I started waking the sleepyheads. Jon waited for me as I went over to Billy and Joey who were still out of it. I decided to have a little fun and I ran my hand over Billy's crotch and it took about thirty seconds before he woke. Jon was laughing quietly while he watched me and no one else was in the room now but Joey and he was still sleeping. Finally Billy opened his eyes and looked at me. Dazed and confused he focused on me. "Hey what are you doing?" "Waking you up we are all going to bed." "Oh... that felt pretty good. You can wake me anytime that way Tommy." "Oh really I can? So in the morning I can come into your bedroom and do that again?" He smiled and looked at me and just nodded yes. I couldn't really tell but I swear he was already bulging out a little from my tease. Not to be left out Joey was still sleeping and I decided to do the same to him. "No Tommy let me I want to have some fun too." He said Billy took his finger and started running it over his crotch it took about a good minute before Joey started to move he must have been in a deep sleep. Finally he opened his eyes and moved his arm to his crotch to apparently chase away whatever was touching him there. Finally he came out of his stupor and realized what was happening. We started laughing and he sorta turned red as he got up. "Gee thanks a lot guys! It felt good until I realized where I was." He put his hand down into his pants to adjust himself and he walked out of the room yelling at Billy who left with him. I looked at Jon. "That was fun." "Yeah fun and it make me horny too." "Sorry Jon I wish I could but I am beat. It got to me too but right now sleep is winning out and I have a feeling it could be a rough night if these guys think too much about my talk earlier. I think I really spooked a few of them." "Yeah I know you did. I heard a few of them talking about it and they really didn't like hearing it much." "I am sure but its true or could be very true. Who knows who is alive or dead and if many are how close they could be to us." "Yeah I know Tommy. Ya know I thought I was imagining it but the other night you didn't happen to hear an airplane fly over us did you?" "No I didn't and if you really did then its really obvious there are a lot of people alive out there if planes are in the air again." "I didn't say there was... just thought I might have heard one. It could have been anything after all it was the middle of the night and I was sleeping. It could have even been a dream." "Maybe but now that you mention it I will keep my ears open. I haven't seen a plane since the day the comet hit and I haven't even thought about that until you said something tonight. Its really odd Jon I used to hear them all the time and look at them in flight but since the comet hit I haven't even thought about planes. Its almost eerie now that you brought it to my attention how quiet it is at night now." "Sorry Tommy but I guess your talk got me thinking tonight about all the things we used to hear. Trains and trucks on the parkway and the planes. Seems like the only thing we have heard since then is that car you heard that one night going down the parkway." "Yeah and that spooked me for a few days. I was just glad they were passing by and not looking for anyone." "Yeah whoever they were. I'm going to bed Tommy, night." "Night Jon." I walked over to him and gave him a nice kiss goodnight on the lips then I turned off the light in the game room and we headed upstairs. The only lights on now were all the night lights I had around downstairs. At the top of the steps I patted Jon on the ass and he went right and I went left to my room. "Jon..." He stopped and looked at me. "Yeah?" "Love ya." "Love you too." He went in his room and I headed to mine. I opened the door entered and shut it. To be continued.... dwednomail@hotmail.com www.paddedroom.us