Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 21:45:40 -0800 From: The Orange Viking Subject: The Manor Chapter 3 This story is my own and purely fiction any resemblance of characters to real people is complete coincidence. I also ask that you do not post this story on other sites or archives without permission. further more if you are not of legal age to be on this site or read this type of story please don't. I hope you all enjoy this story sorry if there are slow parts. Don't forget it cost money to keep this site going please donate if you can. http://donate.nifty.org/ The next morning Jay woke up sore and realized he was laying flat on the floor. He looked around and realized that the air bed must have gone flat in the night. He glanced at his clock and noticed it was ten minutes till the delivery truck was set to arrive. " Lee, wake up we over slept we need to get dressed and meet the furniture people down stairs in ten minutes." " Okay Jay." the sleepy boy said as he ran to the bathroom naked as the day he was born. Jay got up and shoved the deflated bed and bags of clothes into his walk in closet. He past Lee on his way to the bathroom. " Jay I hate clothes, do I have to get dressed?" the boy pleaded " Yes Lee, we have people coming to work for us today and we don't know them." " Okay." the boy relented as he pulled on his new favorite sweatpants and a shirt and headed down stairs. When Jay got to the kitchen Lee was eating a bowl of ceareal. " I'm glad to see you are comfortable enough to eat without asking." " I decided to trust what you said about this being my home." " Good." Jay said with a smile. At that moment the doorbell rang. " That will be the furniture people, did you pick a bedroom yet? There is a set for one of the rooms I think you will like but I need to know what room to put it." " Yeah the one next to your room that looks out of the back side of the house." " Great, I have to go direct them where to put what." For the next hour or so watching the crew of 6 men make different piles of furniture in the entryway of the house based on what set they belonged to. Just as they were bringing the last couple peices in the manager from the other day came walking in. " Goodmorning sir, you have a beautiful home." the chubby old man said as he handed Jay a bottle of wine that Jay knew to be expensive. " Thank you sir, but you didn't need to come all the way out here I'm sure your employees are capable." " Of that I'm sure. I have complete faith in all my employees. Alas that is not the reason I'm here. I wanted to apologize again and bring you the letter you asked me to write. Also to thank you for forcing me to see what an ass I had become." as he said that he handed Jay an envelope he lowered his head in shame. " Never lower your head in front of me friend it takes a big man to own his mistakes and an even bigger man to fix them." " Your to kind." " No, not me. The only saving grace for you was one of your employees told me the way you acted was not the same man that hired him a year ago. But I'm glad I gave you a chance to redeem yourself." " Well it looks like my guys are done with their water break so I should get out of the way. Thanks again." And with that he was gone, and jay moved on to directing what room each set was to go to starting with his and Lee's rooms. After an hour and a half of this Jay was starting to get hungary so he took a break from overlooking the construction of furniture to find Lee. He found him leaned over on the bench seat of the breakfast nook. " Hey buddy, I think its lunchtime. How does pizza sound?" " HUh.. oh yeah, that sounds great Bro." " Hum.. BRO I think I like that. I'm to young to be your dad and that would be something special for us." " I'm glad you liked it I've been thinking all morning on what to call you names just sound to serious." " I agree. Now is there anything you don't like on your pizza?" " I don't like those little fish those are grose, and I like pineapple but not on pizza." " Okay so no anchovies or pineapple got it." Jay ran upstairs to ask the workers if they had brought their lunch today. Only one had brought lunch but said he could pass on his PB&J. So Jay looked up the number to the pizzeria that was in the little town down the road. After placing his order he was told they would try to get it to him in 45 minutes. Jay let everyone know to meet in the kitchen to eat after they hear the doorbell. He then went to the kitchen and got out a stack of paper plates, napkins, and cups. Afterward he went to the wine cellar to the custom shelf he had build to hold 2 liter bottles of soda pop, of which he grabbed 3 flavors and carried them up to the kitchen. After all that he guessed he had about 10 minutes or so till the food arrived. He went to his study closing the door behind him. He walked through the empty room stopping at the far wall in front of a large painting of what appeared to be his house when it was built over a hundred years before. He spent some time admiring the artsmanship of the painting. Then he reached for a corner of the frame and pulled, this caused the painting to swing out revealing 2 medium size safes on one of them he spun a dial entering the combination. As the safe opened he reached in pulling out a stack of bills. He quickly closed the door spun the dial and placed painting back into place. Just as he turned around to leave the room the doorbell rang. Perfect timing he though as he headed to the front door. " Good afternoon sir i have an order of 5 pies, 4 orders of cheesy bread, 4 orders of breadsticks, and 4 pastas." " That sounds right could you help carry it to the kitchen?" " Certainly sir." As they made their way into the kitchen they were greeted with 7 sets of hungry eyes. " Here you guys go try to save me a bite or two. There is ice in the freezer for drinks." Jay said with a chuckle as he spread the boxes out on the counter before escorting the delivery boy to the door. " Okay sir your total is.. $185.62." Jay not surprized pulled out $300.00 " Keep the change." " Oh wow sir thank you so much. This means I can put new tires on my moms car for her birthday." the teen said trying to fight tears. Jay loving the happieness he cause people when he over tips got a smile on his face. " Oh I almost forgot, here is your tip." He said handing the boy another $100.00. " Sir I can't accept this its to much." " Unless you want me to call your manager and tell him you offended a high paying customer, I suggest you take it. Besides from what you have told me it could make a difference in your life." Without another word and tears in his eyes the boy took the money and walked away. Jay headed back to the kitchen to see What was left. As he entered the room he only found 3 of the men and Lee. " Did the others already finish?" he asked " They did Bro they inhaled their food like the had never ate before." Lee chuckled. " Good I hope they got enough to eat we don't have a big refrigerator for all these leftovers Lee why don't you go tell them that and ask if they will come eat some more." Jay suggested as he sat down with a plate of food. A few minutes later Lee came back pushing all three men into the kitchen. They all three looked annoyed. " Gentlemen, Let me make one thing clear, if any of the six of you return to work without being completely full, the young man and myself will be highly offended. Is that clear?" " Yes sir." all six men answered in corus together. The rest of the day went much like this until about six o'clock when the workers day was set to end. After some discussion it was decided by jay that he wouldn't need the remaining four rooms anytime soon and he could have the handy man he wanted to hire put them together later. After walking them to the door gave each of them a $100 tip and sent them on their way. " Hey buddy how are you doing? I know it's been a long busy day." " I'm good, a bit bored but that's okay. At least we have beds now." Lee said with a smile. " That's a good point, and we won't be bored much longer. I have some plans for the next week or so after that I was thinking about a trip to the mountains. How does that sound?" " like camping?" " Yeah kinda we would go in my RV." "I've always wanted to go camping but never could. One of my foster families went but left me at home." "Well buddy I'm not gonna leave you at home. Let's find something to eat, then I'm going to have a shower and climb into my new bed." " That sounds fine. Can I have leftover pizza?" "Sure buddy, we can both have leftovers." With that decided the had a quick and easy dinner. Once they had finished eating they cleaned up the kitchen and headed upstairs. " Hey buddy come grab one of the towles from my room, we don't have any for your bathroom yet." " You mean I have my own bathroom?" Lee asked in amazement. " Sure, haven't you explored your room yet." " No I thought that you showed me everything on the tour yesterday." " Oh, buddy. Each bedroom has its own bathroom, and a closet big enough to be a small bedroom." " Wow really? All that space just for me?" " Absolutely buddy anything for you. Although until you stop growing so fast in a couple years we probably won't come anywhere near to filling your closet." Their conversation was interrupted by Jay's phone ringing. " Hello this is Jay." " Hi Jay sorry to bother you But I have a situation that I think you may be in a unique position to help remedy, and it might help you with a problem you need solved." " You have my attention Jake." " Well you see my bestfriend and roommate Benji who was working construction for his dad just got fired. I know you need a maintenance guy and he does some of the best work I've ever seen." " Why did his dad fire him?" " See that's the part that sucks, he told his parents he was gay." " That is horrible! can you bring him with you tomorrow?" " Well I will have to check with him and make sure he doesn't have to work. Haha." "Great one more thing I know we agreed on 10 a.m., but can you make it earlier, things have changed and I have to go to town and need as much time as possible." " Sure we could be their at 8 o'clock if that's better." " Perfect see you then." Jay hung up the phone and went to find Lee he had dissapeared presumably to take a shower. Jay walked to Lee's door and knocked. He waited a minute and didn't hear a response so he slowly opened the door. Still not hearing anything he called out to Lee. He walked closer to the bathroom door and heard the water running so he left the room and went to take his own shower. About a half hour later he exited his bathroom and headed towards his bed. As he finished drying his hair he looked up to see Lee sleeping on top of the covers, and no surprise he was naked as a new born baby. Jay just chuckled and worked the blanket out from under the sleeping boy and covered him up. Once that was done he went to his side of the bed, and after setting his alarm for 7 a.m. he climbed into bed himself. Morning comes early when you have been having beautiful dreams. Jays brain had many visions that night of him and his boy, But one stood out vividly. In this particular dream not only was it him and Lee but a house full of boys ages from about 5 to what looked like 15 or 16. this dream intrigued him and confused him a bit. Jay rolled over to find Lee already gone. He quickly pulled on some sweatpants and a tshirt and headed out his room. He checked Lees room Not finding him headed downstairs to check the kitchen and Breakfast nook. He found Lee in the kitchen. The sight he found was priceless he made a note to buy a camera. Lee, evidently, had decided to make breakfast. It looked like he got in a fight with the flour while making the batter for pancakes. He was still naked and covered in white powder from head to toe. Jay couldn't hold it anymore and just broke out laughing. Lee was startled and looked up at Jay like he had lost his mind. " What are you laughing at me for? I just wanted to surprise you with breakfast." " And I love you for that bud but you have to see yourself you look like casper!" This caused Lee to Look down at his flour covered body and start laughing too. " Buddy finish making that batter then go get cleaned up and dressed. While you are gone i will clean up the kitchen. When you get back we can finnish cooking together ok." " Okay, Bro." At this suggestion Lee finished mixing the batter and took of running for the stairs to do as he was asked. A few minutes later a freshly cleaned boy came running into the kitchen. The two of them got to work making pancakes, eggs, bacon, and sausage. And before they new it they had finished their meal and were putting the dishes in the dishwasher. " Jay its almost 7:40 let me finish cleaning go get dressed your friend will be here soon go get ready." " Your wonderful Lee I will be right down." Jay said as he ruffled the boys hair. With that Jay headed up to his room he took a quick shower and got dressed in some comfortable boots a pair of jeans and a tshirt. as he was coming down the stairs the doorbell rang. " Jake, thanks for coming so early, and you must Benji." " Pleasure to meet you sir. Jake said you were looking for some type of handyman." " First of all If you want to be fired before you get hired call me sir again. My name is Jay." He replied with a smile ushering the two young men inside " And sort of the Job that I mentioned to Jake the other day is for Maintenance for the entire property. That means house, barn, fence, vehicles, and other things such as projects around the estate. For instance I plan to have a new house built where the servants house was. I don't want to call it that anymore though." Smiling widely Benji replied " So you need a property manager?" " Precisely." '' Well si... um Jay it just so happens that I attended trade school for that." " Jake you did't think to mention that the other day?" " Sorry Jay, I didn't think that would be fair to Benji. I wanted to tell him about this place and you first but...." " I see. Well not to worry, Benji why don't you look around the property and see if its manageable for you. Jake we need to talk about what I need from you starting next week." " Wow next week? That's great, I thought it was going to take a while to get started." " Well that was my plan, until I went looking at animals yesterday. Starting tuesday there will be 20 cows; 10 texas long horns, 5 angus, and 5 Holsteins one of each breed is a bull. But, before that, there will be 16 horses delivered 14 mares, 1 gelding, and my stallion." " Wow you want to Jump right in don't you." " Yep, and I want you to get started as soon as we have animals on site I want them all checked out asap." " Okay, that's easy enough. What about the on site part of the job?" " Well I haven't worked out the temporary fix yet but, I plan to renovate part of the barn to have a office connected on one side with acsess to one of the stalls, and I am adding a two or three bedroom house off of that. That way you can you could go from the house to office without freezing in the winter." " Wow I wasn't expecting that." " I should warn you, you should plan on having a neighbor though. I plan to build another house on the other side leading into the tack room for the person I plan to hire to feed and take care of the animals from day to day." " I'm fine with that." Jake repied still a bit shocked at his fortune. " Good, now the other thing that you should know is after you left the restaurant the other night I herd something in the alleyway. Upon investigating I found the cook beating a homeless kid for looking for food in the dumpster. The boy is inside and I am now his foster parent." " Holly crap! Really? I mean congrats." " Yeah thanks so needless to say my life is crazy busy. I also want to ask you for a favor." " Anything!" " Help me!" " Of course, but can you be more specific?" " Yeah the biggest thing is I need to find help for around the estate and in the house, good trust worthy people." " Okay I know some good people, what kind of work would they be doing?" " Well lets see someone to cook and do minor cleaning I have a cleaning service set up to come in once a week, I also need one or two people to help with the animals on a daily basis, and I need a gardener/ landscaper." " Okay lets talk them out one by one first was housekeeper, I actually have a solution for you. My feiance was just telling me how she hates her job and let me tell you that woman can cook her name is Tina. Next you mentioned help with the animals, if you don't mind paying a little more than the average ranch hand I have the perfect people in mind. They are a couple, they met in school to be vet techs but didn't enjoy the medical side as much as they thought. They love animals and are trained enough to help me if I need it. That would be Erik and Sandy." " OK that's great have any ideas for the Gardener it needs to be someone who knows what they are doing, with this many people living on the estate I want to put up a green house and start supplementing our groceries." " I might be able to help with that." Benji said from behind them. " How so." Jay asked hopefully. " First off I don't know how much Jake told you about what happened but the reason I came out to my family was my long time boyfriend asked me to marry him. His name is Brian and before he was kick out of collage for punching the dean for calling him a fag, he was studying horticulture and land managment." " Well I like him already. Jake meeting you just keeps getting better and better." " I feel the same but I have to ask for your help with a problem." " Jake, come on. Anything you need just ask." " Well Benji and I got evicted the other day, it seems that the owners sold the building and the new owners want to tear it down and build something else." " Okay so we need temporary housing for you two, your significant others, and the farm hands/ vet techs. correct?" " Yeah that's about it." "let me make some calls, I think I can have some single wide trailers delivered, I already sent my ideas and sketches to my architect maybe I can get him to fast track the designs and get them to my contractor. With any luck we can break ground before the first animal arrives next week." " That's amazing, and if anything, the six of us could share a space in one house until the rest is built." Benji suggested. " That won't be necessary. Frank has a large crew him and I already talked and he believes he has the man power to build all three buildings at once. Him and I designed them together and kept them as simple as possible so he can get them done before winter." They talked a few more minutes then Jay excused himself to call his architect and contractor. After spending 45 minutes or so on the phone he had good news and bad news. On the way back to the guys who where sitting on the stairs to the back porch he had an idea. " Hey Lee you want to make lunch for us and our friends so we can finish our agreements we are working on?" " Sure bro." Lee said as he jumped up happy to have something to do. About 10 minutes later Lee came out side to ask Jay and the other 2 guys to come eat. They followed him into the kitchen nook, continuing to have a light conversation. Anyone seeing the 4 of them would think they were old friends. Before to long it was time for Jake and Benji to go, They had a lot to do to get ready to move and talk to the other 4 to see if they would be interested in meeting Jay about the jobs that he was offering. After they left Jay went to his room to finninsh getting ready to head to town. Before 12: 30 they were on there way. " Lee I have good news, that meeting with my friends this morning took care of some things that would have taken me weeks by myself. What that means is we can start spending time doing things together more often and sooner." " That's great Bro. But I don't need to do or have anything special. I can entertain myself you have already done so much for me." " Don't be silly. The things I have planned will be fun for both of us. Besides I have always wanted a little Bro to do things with." Jay said as he gave the boys shoulder a gentle nudge. " Okay." Lee said Quietly. In response to this Jay pulled over to the side of the road. " Lee Look at me. I'm not doing anything for you that I don't want to do. You have had a shitty life so far and I am going to do everything in my power to make sure you are happy from now on. Do you understand?" Lee looked up with tears in his eyes. He unbuckled himself and launched into Jays arms. They sat there hugging and crying for a while before either of them spoke. " Well little bro should we get to town and go shopping?" " Sure Bro." They both refastened their seatbelts and were soon underway.