Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:42:02 +0000 From: Zack McNaught Subject: Milo and Me AUTHOR'S NOTE: The following story is set in the 1980s in England, and so should be understood through the filter of societal attitudes to both gay men and the safety of young children around unrelated adults. These days what's described here could never happen, because the boy would never be left alone with the protagonist, and the boy's struggle with his own sexuality would be tempered by a society which - despite still having a long way to go regarding alternative sexuality - has come a long way, too. Before I allow you to get on with reading the story... If you have it in your power to do so, please donate to keep Nifty running. Without donations from readers, Nifty will be gone, and you'll no longer have access to thousands of stories lovingly crafted by authors such as myself, and given to you without the expectation of any reward. (c) 2016 Zack McNaught Milo and Me His name was Milo, he was ten (nearly eleven, as he was keen to point out), and I thought his head was a little bit big for his body. Skinny shoulders and a bit of a pigeon chest, but solid hips, so his backside was nicely rounded. Not plump. Rounded. Perfect. And the prettiest face, like a little elf, with shining blue eyes. These were the only things I knew about him at the end of the first day's filming. More time would bring more detail, but for that evening I was content. I had seen him, been introduced to him, even made him laugh a couple of times, and that was enough to be going on with. He was an actor. Still is. Made it reasonably big, though we don't really stay in touch any more. Does a few TV dramas a year, mostly period stuff. Didn't think he had the face for it at first, but then he grew out of the cute little lad look into something far more handsome. Shame, from my point of view. I knew there would be a lad in the adaptation of my book. There had to be, because I wouldn't have passed the script without it. I was prepared to fight that if they'd written the character out, and had prepared all sorts of excuses for reasons which didn't focus on simply wanting a cute boy in the flick. But in the end they went with the central conceit of the book and told the story from the boy's point of view, so I didn't have to risk exposing my true motivations. I don't really understand why the book was so popular, and how it came to be adapted into a film. It was a story my grandfather had wheeled out from time to time, of the foiling of a German plot by a group of plucky Home Guard recruits during the Second World War. It had always fascinated me as a kid, and as an adult - and an author - I decided to write a dramatised version of the story simply for my own pleasure. I had it published online, and it almost instantly outsold pretty much everything else I'd written put together. I never understood why that might be, but I wasn't ungrateful. Which is how I ended up on a sunny stretch of the Dorset coastline for six weeks one summer while we filmed it for the small screen. I was officially an executive producer, but mostly I was there to consult on the storyline, and add any little details I could think of as things went along. I'd already been paid when they bought the rights, and there would be royalties to come later, not to mention more sales of the book, so the production company weren't paying me anything. They were, however, putting me up in a bed and breakfast with some of the crew, and a few of the cast. Including, as it turned out, Milo himself. I was really taken with the kid. He had such big blue eyes, and a warm smile, but with a hint of irony in it. Immediately I could see that his intellect exceeded his years, and I liked that. He seemed very knowing, and the look he gave me when we first met seemed to cut through me as if to say "I know you, I know what you're thinking, and if you think you're getting into my pants, think again." Of course I wanted to get in his pants. I'm a lover of boys, especially at that age, especially when they're pixie-cute and bright into the mix. Add in Milo's powerful personality, and I was utterly smitten. I didn't think there was the smallest chance anything could happen between us, but just spending that amount of time with him was going to be golden. It was a beautiful summer, I recall. Actually, it probably rained as much as it always does, and was probably not quite as warm as anyone would have liked, but I remember the sun shining every day, lending a golden quality to the air. I remember the scent of the flowers in the garden of the cottage where most of the filming took place. I remember the laughter we had, and sitting drinking a beer with some of the production team, and the director telling me he couldn't remember ever having such luck with the weather. Perhaps it really was that wonderful, after all. But the weather was only part of the reason I remember the summer so fondly. In the main, it was Milo who made it so amazing. We were, I think, in love at one point, though with the speed at which young minds develop, perhaps he was no longer in love with me in the end. Certainly had a crush on me, I know that for sure. Strange that such a young boy should have such feelings for someone so much older than himself, but he's told me since how he felt at the time, and I believe him. I wasn't a terrible catch, to be fair. My writing career had started relatively early, as these things do, so I wasn't really that old by the time I met him. Late twenties, as a matter of fact. I'm fairly good-looking by all accounts, and at that time I was still a fairly active cyclist, so middle-aged spread hadn't ruined my physique. And I was successful and (though I say so myself) moderately charismatic, and I think the package as a whole might have been attractive to a young boy whose budding hormones have found themselves whizzing round a body which seemed to react more to men than women. To put it bluntly, a boy who, though he probably doesn't yet realise it, is on his way to becoming a gay man. And it all started with a chance encounter which I in no way engineered. If I'd managed to plan the event and pull it off, I would have been proud of myself, but the truth was that the incident which sparked everything was entirely coincidental. -- The production team was pretty big - thirty five or forty of us at times, somewhat fewer on other days. This meant certain facilities had to be provided, such a catering and toilets. I've ended up working on a few other TV projects over the years, as a result of my first encounter, and I don't ever remember there being as good a set-up as that first time. More often than not, what gets delivered for the crew is a row of three or four odorous Portaloos, but for once something special was laid on - a trailer which had a proper trough urinal, as well as a coupe of stalls, and a separate trailer for the ladies. Both had actual sinks and hand towel dispensers. You may well wonder why I was so obsessed with such a small detail, but it was that consideration, that extra expense, that little piece of luxury, which meant that for the first time in a long time I saw a real, live boy's penis. Milo's penis. I hadn't intended to stalk him just to perv at him in the gents. It didn't even occur to me, though in the intervening years it certainly has, time and time again. But that week was the first time I twigged the potential of the communal toilet, believe it or not. It just happened that I felt the call of nature, and as I rounded the corner to the trailer, he was just going up the steps ahead of me. I didn't really think anything of it, though I did admire his beautiful bottom in those tight, period costume shorts. He was already at the trough, unzipped and with a healthy stream flooding out when I arrived on the scene. He glanced round and gave me an un-self-conscious smile, which I returned. Only when I had unzipped myself, and stepped right up to the trough, did I realise that by simply shifting my gaze to the left I might actually see his dick. And there it was. Pretty small, as you would expect. A pale pink nozzle sticking out of his trousers, with a great long overhang of foreskin through which a golden shaft flowed, glittering in a shaft of sunlight which improbably filtered down through a roof-mounted vent. God, it was perfect. I couldn't even see all of it, yet I knew. Probably a couple of inches long, I guessed, and totally soft, of course. A little bulge around it indicated the trailing end of his head, and a blue vein was clearly visible on one side, branching into a little maze of capillaries. I don't know how long I stood and stared. It might have been a minute, but was almost certainly a lot less than that. But it was enough, my God it was enough. If I never saw it for another second in my whole life, it was enough to sustain me. Then it was gone, and so was he, and I felt a pang of guilt, in case he'd seen me staring. He left without washing his hands - he was a young boy, of course, and they all do - and I stood there not quite realising that I'd finished. When I did notice, I also felt the hammering in my chest and the lightness in my head. In a daze I reeled into a stall and slammed the door behind me, slumping heavily onto the seat. My dick was still hanging out of my fly, and I intended to shove it away, but when my fingers made contact I felt a jolt of electricity, and my brain finally caught up. I was turned on beyond belief, and now that I had come down far enough to realise it, my body rapidly responded. I was shaking all over, pumped full of adrenaline, and suddenly as painfully stiff as I remember getting when I was Milo's age, but hadn't experienced in years. This was true lust. I didn't have to coax myself into life, I didn't have to warm myself up with fantasies, and lurid imagery. I simply needed to shut my eyes, recall the vision of him, and let my orgasm overwhelm me. I sat for a long time afterwards, letting my heartbeat return to normal, my manhood slowly deflate until it looked respectable inside my trousers. As I stepped down out of the trailer and realised that I had gone undetected, I also realised that I had been very wrong about one thing: getting a look at him once wasn't going to be enough. I was addicted, and I needed more. -- Despite my best efforts, though, casually bumping into Milo in the loos turned out to be nearly impossible. I tried to learn his routines, tried to work out when he might go, but I just couldn't seem to get it right. Things kept getting in my way, and it seemed the harder I tried, the more frequently I was thwarted. I began to feel as though there was a master plan to stop me; my desperation had morphed into paranoia, and painful degrees of self-loathing. I caught myself acting like a stalker, a true pervert, and admonished myself, only to fall into the same patterns of behaviour over and over again. Once, I overheard him telling his minder that he was off to the loo, and I tried to head off in the other direction and circle back, but I was intercepted by the director about something utterly trivial, which could have waited, and by the time I'd disengaged myself, Milo was already walking back toward us. On another occasion, I walked out of the gents just as he was about to walk in. He waited for me at the bottom of the steps, and grinned at me when I thanked him, his eyes full of life. I walked away, cursing my luck at having been twenty seconds too early. Such tiny margins, such enormous consequences. By the third day of this I was going out of my mind, and so when Milo just casually strolled across the lawn of the cottage where we were filming, and sat down next to me on the wrought iron bench from where I was regarding proceedings, I was so highly strung that I had to force down the urge to shout at him for not conveniently showing himself off to me! But calm myself I did, and tried to engage him in conversation. That turned out to be the best idea I'd had in a very long time. "How's it going?" I opened with. Seemed a fairly safe way to start. "Oh, it's alright. I get bored of all the waiting around, though." "Yeah, I know what you mean. Still, beats being in school, right." He shook his head. "Summer holidays," he explained. "Should be playing football in the park with my mates, but I'm doing this." He didn't seem thrilled by the idea of acting for the summer instead, and in a big-budget production to boot, but I could kind of understand. Of course he wanted to be there, it was just that he would rather have been somewhere else. "Well, I'm sure it must be good for an aspiring actor like yourself to be working with one of the greats." I was referring to the star of the show, a veteran actor who was a very big fish in our very insignificant pond, and whom I won't name out of respect. "Oh yeah, he's really good. He's been teaching me acting stuff..." He left the sentence hanging, as if there was much more to say. "But?" I prompted, eager for a little gossip. He stared at the house for a moment before turning and looking me straight in the eye, and flooring me. "Well, he's a pervert." "What?!" "He touched my bum. Did it a couple of times. I imagine he wants to touch my willy, too." "Oh, my God," I said, trying to act like the shocked, responsible adult looking out for his welfare whilst all the time fantasising about doing the very same. "Shouldn't we tell someone?" "What, and ruin the shoot? I'm a pro now, Mr McNaught. It doesn't matter really, he was only touching it a bit, while he told me how to say a couple of my lines. I don't mind that much. It's not like he put his hand down my pants or anything, and I make sure I'm not alone with him for too long. Anyway, if we have to tell someone about that, we'll have to tell them you looked at my willy in the bog the other day." I glanced around nervously as ice filled my veins. We were out of earshot of the other crew members, though. He'd seen! I thought I'd been so careful, but he'd seen! Fucking hell, this could be the end of me. But he was smiling, not frowning. Carefree, not burdened with negative feelings. "It's OK, though, because I looked at yours too, so we're even." I stared at him, mouth open, not quite sure how to respond. What do you say to that? "Did you like it?" I countered, weakly. He shrugged. Of course he didn't like it, he's a ten year old boy, for fuck's sake! Stupid fucking question. "It's a bit wrinkly, isn't it?" he answered with a smirk. "And you have so much hair down there it gets in the way." "And I suppose you shave all yours off, do you?" I quipped back automatically, without even thinking about it. "No, dummy," he said, rolling his eyes, "I'm ten, remember. I don't have hair down there." "Oh yeah. Of course. Look, Milo, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have looked. You're not going to tell anyone, are you?" He shook his head and smiled. "Course not! Anyway, I -" But he never got to finish the sentence. The producer's voice rang out like a bell from the house, and Milo shot off to record his lines before he got shouted at for going missing. -- I had a lot to think about that night. I went out to the pub with the others, of course, but hardly touched my pint, and left on my own, early. I walked slowly through the late evening, the very last remnants of the sun's light seeing me safely back to the B 'n' B. In those days, you usually had to be in before a certain time when staying in a bed and breakfast. In fact, even now that sometimes happens. It's just one of those oddly British things - a service industry where you really ought not to expect any service. Guests weren't welcomed, they were merely tolerated. But we'd so thoroughly booked the place out that the owner had despaired, and told us that all curfews were off, and that there was a key under the mat, and God help us if anything went wrong after dark because we were on our own. So I was expecting no kind of welcome when I returned to the house, which sat on a rise overlooking a bay. It stood darkly against the sky, and was unlit except for the orange glow emanating from the common room. For those of you unfamiliar with the idea, the common room was a space where the inhabitants could get out of their bedrooms and mingle a little. It usually had a few sofas, a television and a bookcase full of whatever books the previous residents had left behind, augmenting a collection which had usually come wholesale from a house clearance. Terrible romantic fiction and appalling spy stories often featured heavily in those collections. I found the key in its promised location and let myself in, holding the door open with my foot to stop it closing behind me as I replaced the key under the mat. Out of vague interest, and nothing more, I popped my head into the common room to see who was about, and to my delight found that it was Milo, and no-one else. He was alone, reading a book on the sofa, feet up by his bum. He wore soft cotton short pyjamas, which left a bit of a bulge pushing out between his thighs. He was so engrossed that at first he didn't spot me, but when the door creaked slightly at the end of its travel he looked up guiltily. "Oh, it's only you!" "Yeah, only me. Came back from the pub early." "I came down here to read. I'm not really meant to leave my room without Marie with me, but I think she went to sleep already. I didn't want to read up there, my room stinks." Marie was his `handler', for want of a better word. Chaperone, perhaps. She was nice enough, but I think Milo felt stifled by her, and the requirement that he was constantly under her supervision. That at least explained why, during our six week shoot he escaped from her as often as he could. That was helped by the fact that Marie didn't exactly take her duties seriously. "Why do you think your room smells? What of?" He shrugged. "Don't know. Just doesn't smell nice." "Well, nicer to read down here anyway. Not so cramped." "Yep," he smiled, stretching his legs out to demonstrate, and in the process highlighting the bulge in the front of his pyjama shorts. My eyes went to it like a magnet, and when I looked up at his face, he was staring at me with an unreadable expression. "Anyway, mate, I'm going up to bed. Need an early night." "OK," he replied. "Um, Zack, could you not tell Marie I was down here?" "Don't worry, your secret is safe with me." "Just like yours is with me!" he smiled, as the door closed behind me. I didn't have to go back and ask him what he meant by that. Once again he'd caught me staring, and he knew exactly why. He was even more perceptive than I had given him credit for. -- The next day it was as if the Devil himself was controlling the weather. Thick overnight fog burned off by mid-morning, to be replaced by blinding sunshine, so we could start shooting at last. That only lasted an hour or two, before the heat of the day started playing havoc with the kit, which wasn't really used to the temperature range. So we had another break of a couple of hours, by which time the thunder clouds had rolled in and effectively finished off the day at four. When the downpour hit, I was near the trailer we used for costume, and having nowhere else nearby to shelter, I ducked into there. Madeleine, the costumier, looked up and gave me a smile. "You're welcome to wait it out in here if you want," she said as the rain hammered heavily on the thin wooden roof of the hut. She disappeared in to the endless racks at the back. I shouted my thanks after her, but I'm not sure she heard. A moment later the door banged open, and a trio of actors stumbled through the door, soaked to the skin. Among them was Milo, looking every bit the archetypal drowned rat. "Right, let's get changed and head back to the house," one of them said to the others. "Shooting's over for the day." They all disappeared into the curtained-off sections where they changed in the morning, and my heartbeat struggled to return to a normal level as I realised that I wasn't going to see Milo get changed after all. The two adults were the quickest to get done, and disappeared past me and out into the afternoon with a slight nod. The rain had slackened off slightly, but they both still had to cover their heads and run, presumably through the rain to their car. I did wonder what had happened to Marie, and whether she would be desperately searching for Milo, but at the moment I didn't care all that much. What I did care about was the fact that just the other side of the curtain, Milo was getting changed. I knew there was little chance he would get naked, but I'd love to have seen him anyway. But no matter how I peered this way and that, without pulling back the curtain there was no way I could see anything. I realised he was taking an awfully long time getting changed. There was the occasional huff from behind the curtain, and though I imagined a world where those huffs were the sounds made by a boy enjoying his toy, I knew that wasn't really the case. He huffed a couple more times, and then his head poked around the curtain. "Oh, Zack, you're here." He sounded a bit surprised, but not unhappy to see me. "The zip is stuck on my shorts, can you help me?" "Oh! Sure..." I tried my hardest to sound calm and relaxed, as if this was no big deal, but even in those two words I managed to stumble. He pulled the curtain aside for me, and when I'd stepped inside he pulled it shut behind me. I knew I shouldn't have been in there with him, but I couldn't stop myself taking the chance. I wanted to desperately to see more of him. He was dressed only in the shorts, his shirt lying in a wet mass on the floor. God, he was a skinny little bugger. So lean that it almost looked too much. Tiny, pale pink nipples standing out like grains of rice, his skin covered in goosebumps. Dark hair, still wet, plastered to his forehead. He stood with his arms wrapped around himself, shivering slightly, looking down at himself, apparently waiting to be helped. I knelt reverentially, my heart hammering in my chest and my head swimming with a sudden influx of adrenaline. I could feel the pulse in the side of my head, could almost see it in the way my vision jumped. What kind of a mess would I be in if something real happened between us? I remember the feel of the damp cloth of the fly beneath my fingers, surely so coarse that the material shouldn't have been used to dress something so delicate as this boy. I looked down to where the hem of the shorts was rolled up, and his little chicken legs sticking out of the bottom. A proper little lad. He watched over me as I pulled the flap aside to reveal the chunky, rather worn-looking zip. I could see the problem straight away - the material was caught in the runner - but as I tugged on it, I seemed to be having little effect. "See," he whispered, "really stuck." "Mmm-hmm," I replied, applying a little more force, rocking the zip back and forth. I was genuinely trying to solve the problem, but I was also distinctly aware of a small, quite firm little bulge sitting behind the metal of the fly. I guessed he was in y-fronts, because back then that's what all boys wore. Eventually, and somewhat to my dismay, the zip gave, and slid down the rest of the way with a growl. Immediately what had been caged behind it sprang out - Milo's little dick, probably not hard yet but well on the way, made a distinct bulge in the front of what turned out to be very low cut y-fronts, which themselves were wet from the deluge. He gasped slightly and pulled away, bending at his hips in an attempt to cover it up. It was a bit late for that, but I could sense his embarrassment, and I felt for the lad, so saying, "There, fixed," as calmly as I could, I turned and got the hell out of there. Suffocating in the heat of the trailer, I rushed outside into what was once again bright sunshine. Marie was coming the other way, asking if I'd seen Milo. "He might be in the changing rooms. I think I saw him heading that way," I called over my shoulder, as I rushed away, hoping just to be clear of the area before the shit hit the fan. -- I didn't see him that evening. Not that the opportunity wasn't available to me, more that I didn't want to find out whether it was or not. I hid, complaining of stomach pains, and lay on my bed analysing, and dreading what might come of the little encounter. In hindsight, what did I really do wrong? I helped Milo out, and nothing inappropriate happened, at least from my side. Yes, he'd got an erection, but boys do, it happens for all sorts of reasons, and I didn't make it happen deliberately. However, that night, when it was just me on my own and the event was all too real in my mind, I lay on my bed and panicked. No matter how hard I tried to rationalise it to myself that night, I knew that if Milo told anyone what had happened that I would be in deep shit. I didn't even think for a minute that he would be far too embarrassed to tell anyone. It didn't occur to me that he might be sitting in his own room feeling terribly ashamed at what went on in that changing cubicle. That's how self-centred I was - I didn't even stop to wonder whether he was OK after it all. I'm not sure how I would have gone about checking that he was alright, and reassuring him that it was fine without making the situation a great deal worse for him, of course. That wasn't really a speciality of mine. Is it a speciality of anyone? Not much call for it in everyday life, reassuring the boy who's just got an erection in front of you that it's perfectly normal. Much easier to brush it under the carpet. Of course, I wasn't thinking any of those things. I was waiting for the bang on the door, the local constabulary bursting through, arresting me. I was thinking about the headline in the grubby local newspaper, and then the bigger headlines in the national press. I was in the spotlight enough that they would definitely have reported it. Some smug little constable would get a backhander for leaking the story, and my name would be mud by morning. I agonised back and forth and eventually slipped into a fitful slumber. At some point during the darkest hours of the night I woke drenched in sweat, and groaned as I felt wetness at my groin. I reached down and felt the sticky mess, and as my hand grazed against the still-swollen mass of my dick, the dream suddenly came back to me. Kneeling in front of the boy, pulling down his pants as well as his zip, watching his hard little spike bounce free. I had been dreaming of sucking him when I came, and when I recalled the image my mind had created, I felt myself stiffen despite my recent emission. Only another orgasm was enough to let me slip back to sleep. This time, I slept deeply until woken by the morning sunlight. -- If Milo was bothered by what had happened the previous afternoon, he didn't show it. As I made the half mile walk along the coast path to the set, he bounded up behind me and gave me a playful shove, then walked along with me, chattering happily. He'd once again escaped Marie, by getting up and out before she had, and was gleeful in the knowledge that she would be panicking about where he had got to. I was far less energetic than he, given my restless night, but was quite content to let him carry the conversation. He chatted about the filming, about the upcoming World Cup, about everything on his mind, and he strung it all together effortlessly. "I know a secret," he said at one point, gleeful at the knowledge. "Oh yes? What is it?" "Can't tell you." "Well, then why did you bring it up." "Dunno... OK, I'll tell you, but you can't tell anyone else, OK?" "Sure." "Marie's bonking Martin, the cameraman!" At the revelation of his little gem, Milo doubled over in laughter, unable to contain his mirth at the very thought of two people having sex. "How'd you know?" "I saw him going into her room last night. They must be doing it, right?" "Probably," I grinned. "Still, people do it all the time." "Yeah, I know. Don't think I want to do it though," he replied, though the little subconscious tug he gave the lump in the front of his shorts suggested otherwise. "I'm surprised you know what it is they're doing," I said, trying to tease out of him just how much he knew about sex. As it would turn out, quite a lot. "My dad's a doctor. He's got all these books in his study about stuff like that. There's this one called The Joy of Sex." I was slightly taken aback, though I suppose there was good reason for a doctor to need to know how to advise people in certain areas. The book itself had been out for more than a decade by that point, but it was still pretty unusual for most people to have seen it. As it happened, I'd sampled the pleasures of its contents at university, when a battered old copy was handed around. Despite its focus on hetero sex, it still proved to offer some very interesting insights for a gay man, and even for the average boylover. I had no idea that rimming was even a possibility until I read that book, but if there's one thing guaranteed to shock and delight a young boy in equal measure, it's having your tongue up their jacksie. "So you've read the book have you?" I asked, fishing for more details. My heart thundered in my chest at the possibility of finding out a little more about Milo's budding sex drive. "Yeah, but some of it looked pretty horrible. I mean, would a girl really want to... no, sorry, forget I was about to say that." "I bet I know what you were about to say," I grinned. "No way. This was too weird." "Shall I guess anyway?" "Yeah, go on," he said with a giggle. "I bet you were about to ask if a girl would really want to put a bloke's willy in her mouth." His eyes went wide as saucers and his mouth hung open. "You've heard of that?" "Was I right?" "Yeah. I mean, that's exactly what I was going to say. Don't you think it's weird?" "Not really. Not any more." "Have you had sex then?" he asked, unaware of the boundary he was crossing by asking the question. But I was far too horny to care that he was getting personal. I wanted him to ask more intimate questions, in fact. "Yeah, a few times," I replied, trying to keep it casual. "Wow. What was it like?" "It was OK, I guess," I shrugged. "Only OK? I thought it was the best thing ever. That's what everyone at school says. Michael Thomas says he did it with Sarah Minnow out in the top field at school one lunchtime, but no-one believes him and she said he's just making it up." "He probably is making it up. His willy won't really be big enough for the job." "What do you mean?" "Well, you know where it has to go, right?" He nodded, blushing. "Well, unless the girl's really flexible, his hips will only get so far, so unless he has a really long willy for someone your age, he isn't going to be able to get it very far inside her fanny." "Oh right, I see." He went quiet then, his hand going to his crotch again, grabbing at the folds of the fly of his jeans, behind which he was quite clearly hard. He gave a little grunt of surprised pleasure and bent over slightly as he realised what he was feeling. "Do you think he has a long willy?" I pressed, eager for the conversation to continue. "Dunno. Never seen it. I know Sam Bryant has a really big one, he got it out in the toilets once and it was sticking up, and he was showing anyone who wanted to look. It was like this." He held his hands about four inches apart, and I was quietly impressed. It sounded like I'd quite like meeting this Sam Bryant boy. Still, no matter what he had swinging between his smooth little thighs, there was no way his personality or his looks would be a match for Milo. Nor his raw sexuality, either. Milo was practically in heat. "That does sound big," I said, in the most casual tones I could muster. "I bet yours is bigger, though, isn't it?" he said with a giggle, and a sly sidelong glance. I knew he was trying to goad me into telling him how big my dick was. What he didn't realise was that I was quite keen for him to find out. "It's not massive. Maybe six inches, or a bit less." "How long's that?" I spread my hands half a foot apart, and Milo gasped, then giggled with glee. "No way!" he almost shouted. "That's huge!" "It's not that big, I don't think," I said, speaking from experience on the gay scene in London. I knew it was pretty average, nothing special. "That's flipping massive. Honest. Mine's not even half that big." It was out of his mouth before he realised he'd said it, and I could immediately see that he wanted nothing more in the world than to be able to take it back. He'd just admitted to me that he had a little willy. It wasn't a surprise of course, given that he was a young boy, but it still wasn't something you wanted to admit if you could avoid it. I could see only one way out of this which might leave his honour intact. "Sorry," I lied, "I missed that. What did you say?" The look of relief which flooded his face masked any sign that he might have realised what I was up to. "Oh, nothing..." he whispered, the hint of a shy smile on his lips. And that was that, for now, because we'd reached the set and the director was already striding toward us across the lawn. -- I loved those long days filming. Some would say it was hard work, and for some of the crew it certainly was, but I could sit and watch the process happening and occasionally chat to someone about some detail or other. It was utopia. And the best part of it was my budding friendship with Milo. He was a captivating soul, a little elf with a mischievous smile and a quick wit. In between scenes he had to film he would get around the place making himself useful where he could, helping with a camera here, some scene-setting there. And when there was nothing he could do, he would come and find me, and hang out with me. Those were jewels in the golden crown of the day. I can't tell you why he was drawn to me. He claimed to have read the book I'd written which had led to the film adaptation, but when quizzed on the details admitted that he'd only really read a little bit of it, and only because his mum had told him it was a good idea. Perhaps it was the fact that I spoke to him. Not just at him, but to him. We had conversations, and I didn't treat him like he was incapable of responding. Not that the other adults around treated him badly, but he was very much talked down to. I treated him as an equal, and clearly he thrived on it. In the middle of the second week, we were given the afternoon off. Some big changes were required for the next few scenes, and it was going to take the afternoon to get the grounds of the house modified. It was another wonderful day, and a group of cast members decided to take a trip down to a nearby beach to relax. I wasn't really a fan of sitting around on the beach all afternoon, but when Milo asked me if I was going - at the same time revealing his intention to do so - I changed my mind immediately. I grabbed my notebook and a pen, and bundled into one of the cars the crew were taking down. I was disappointed not to find myself squashed into the back seat with the lad, but then I couldn't have it all my way. The beach was splendidly isolated, lying beyond a parkland of rolling grass downs, which were kept neat by roaming flocks of sheep. We weren't the only people there, but given that it was a hot summer's day, and the beach was nigh perfect, it was a surprise to find it as empty as we did. The crew set up camp in short order, all sorts of beach kit having magically appeared - a windbreak was erected, followed by some parasols, and one car even held a number of deck chairs, though not enough for all of us by far. I stood in the middle of it all, quite awestruck by the way the little village suddenly appeared. But these were TV crew, I should've realised how resourceful they would be, and how quickly they could build a scene. It was all happening so fast that I didn't even twig the fact that Milo was already in the water, until I looked for him. Then I spotted him splashing about in a tiny pair of black Speedos, an my stomach instantly tied itself in knots. Oh fuck, the sight of him, his skinny little boy body with his unexpectedly round, firm little bum poking out the back of his swimming trunks. It was practically pornographic, and I'm fairly sure I wasn't the only one lusting after him that afternoon. I made a quick scan of the area, and found Marie and Martin snuggling up together under the parasols. Milo's carer clearly wasn't going to be paying much attention to the boy for the rest of the afternoon. That sounds predatory, I realise, waiting to see if I could get the boy on his own. At the time, though, I was merely concerned with the idea of being able to spend time with him, and I saw Marie as a potential hindrance to that. I was so paranoid that I thought simply wanting to talk to him might reveal my intentions to the world. I sat down with my sunglasses on, and pretended to be searching for inspiration as I spent the next hour or so watching Milo play. I began to realise that he wasn't merely skinny; he was in fact very well toned. His body was stockier than I'd thought, but there was hardly an ounce of fat on him. Everything beneath his skin was muscle, including the glorious mounds of his backside. Oh, how I longed to peel the wet fabric from his bum and plunge my tongue in between those cheeks, to lap greedily at his hole. I'd never before had the urge to rim anyone, but by God I was longing to try it with him. I wanted what was in front, too, though there was hardly a bulge worth writing home about in his trunks. It was cold in the sea, though, and so he could be forgiven for showing very little. That and the fact that he was still only ten years old, for fuck's sake. He tired of being the only kid playing in the surf after about half an hour, and came scampering back up the beach. He came straight to me, rather than going to Marie, and my heat skipped a beat as he came near. He noticed me looking, and gave me a wry smile, but didn't make any move to shield himself from my eyes. "Can you chuck me my towel?" he asked, when he came right up to me. I sat there frozen by the sight of him dripping wet in front of me, the tube of his boyhood now quite clearly visible in the sodden, clinging material of his trunks. It took him asking a second time before I snapped out of it and actually did as he had asked, picking his towel up from on top of his pile of clothes. So, he wasn't just coming to show himself off to me, then. Damn. Still, he stood there and chatted while he dried himself, giving me plenty of chances to check him out, which I gladly took. I really wasn't in the mood to complain. When he was dry, he grabbed his t-shirt and slipped it over his shoulders and then folded his towel in half and sat down on it next to me. "It's really hot, I don't want to get burned," he said, by way of explanation for the t-shirt. "Yeah, makes sense. Don't you have any sunscreen though?" He shook his head. "Never works. Mum says I have really fair skin, and I'll get burned no matter what. I got it really bad on holiday last year and it hurt for about a week. A bit of my back peeled off and is was this big!" He held his hands out to the size of a small saucer, and giggled at the memory. "Do you want to get off the beach then?" I asked. Again, the predator. This time perhaps a little more deliberately so. He looked sidelong at me. "Where are we going?" "Dunno. There's a few trees up there in the meadow. We could go and climb one." He smiled broadly. "Yeah, that sounds cool. I'll go and tell Marie." From where I was sitting, an interruption was the last thing Marie wanted, but I also understood that our little excursion ought to be legitimised. If we'd just snuck off, questions might have been asked, questions I wanted to avoid. As I surmised, Marie did little more than acknowledge the fact that Milo had asked the question, waving him away immediately. He came bounding back to me, then waited for me to climb to my feet. A couple of the crew saw us leave, but none did anything more than glance at us. He walked ahead of me up the hill away from the beach, his t-shirt failing to partly cover the beautiful twin globes of his behind, wrapped in his speedo. He had a pair of Dunlop Green Flash trainers on, and one of the laces had already come undone. I followed him in a haze, not quite sure where else my eyes should be other than glued to his bum. It was right there, and between his legs was the pouch of his scrotum, pushed this way and that by the actions of his legs. "There!" he said after a few minutes, when we were well away from the beach. "That one over there." He was pointing to a tall old chestnut, standing stoutly in the centre of a field. There were no fences around, so I assumed we were OK to just wander over and climb it. He was right about the suitability of the tree, too - under the shade of the dense canopy, one of the branches dipped lower than the others, coming near to the ground. "Give me a boost up!" he said, and I complied, lacing together my fingers in the classic manner. He placed his shoe in the cradle and as he pushed with his leg I hauled with my back, and before long he was hoisted high enough to climb onto the branch. I stood there mesmerised for what seemed an eternity, because the little pouch at the front of his trunks had just rubbed damply past my face. It was a shame it was still infused with briny water, because I would've loved to have smelled the essence of him beneath the fabric. He snapped me out of my reverie by asking if I needed a hand, which of course I didn't, standing a good foot and a half taller than him. I joined him on the branch with little effort, and then we went about making our way higher into the tree. All the time he climbed ahead of me, giving me breath-taking views of his posterior. He stopped when he deemed we had gone high enough. The trunk split in two here, and a branch emerged, and that meant there was enough space for the two of us to sit there with our legs dangling down. It really was a most excellent choice of tree to climb, and judging from the number of pairs of initials carved into the bark, we weren't the only ones to think so. "You can see miles from up here!" he exclaimed, and indeed you could, through the branches of the tree. The views weren't amazing, because of the canopy, but when it shifted in the breeze you could see anything. "Do you think anyone can see us?" he asked, a slight tremor in his voice. "Uh, no. No, I don't think so. Not unless they're right under the tree." "And we could see them coming before they got here, right?" "Yeah, why?" "Um, it's really bumpy under my bum and I want to take off my t-shirt and roll it up so I can sit on it. Do you think that would be OK?" "Oh yes," I said, with more relish than I intended. "Except, you'll get your shirt wet with the trunks." "Oh yeah..." he said, glumly. "Oh, hang on! I know, what if I took them off? It's only the two of us, and you don't mind, do you?" He gave me a knowing little grin. "Um, yeah, OK," I squeaked. Here I was twenty feet up a tree with a young lad asking me if if was OK to get naked. What boylover in their right mind would say `no'? "Cool," he said with a smile. Then, without further ado, he lifted his shirt over his head and handed it to me, with a `hold this'. He stood as best he could on the branch in front of me, leaning against the trunk for support, and with a nod of his head indicated that I should fold the t-shirt and put it down where he intended to sit. I did so, and as I laid it down, he peeled the very brief little Speedos down to his knees. And there it was. Jutting out from his smooth, unblemished groin, sitting fatly on his wrinkled little sack. Small, delicate, and perfect. A slight bulge where the shaft met the head, a long pucker of foreskin hanging over the end. A shaft of sunlight fell across his hip, and lit up the tiny little fuzz which grew, transparent, underneath his taut little scrotum. He stood longer than he needed to, looking down at me as I looked up at him. I met his eyes at last, and they smiled down at me, though his lips did not. His mouth stood slightly open. He panted slightly, as if he'd just run up from the beach. Unconsciously, his hand went to his waist, and he tugged at the morsel of flesh there. It twitched, and expanded, and we both watched as it swelled and in what seemed like only a handful of heartbeats, it pointed to the sky, dancing in time with his pulse. We both watched it, mesmerised. "Sorry it's not bigger," he whispered at last. He needn't have worried - it was only about three inches long at best, probably not that, but it was everything I had hoped. "It's really nice. I like it," I reassured him. He smiled faintly, and tweaked the end of it, making it jump even further upright. Then he finally sat down, and pulled the trunks the rest of the way off, draping them over a branch to his right. Neither of us knew what to say, so we said nothing. We looked out over the trees and his erection subsided, the imperative gone. Young boys' erections have that tendency; they appear without reason, and to dissipate in moments if not maintained. "Um, do you..." "Do I what?" "Um, are you... do you... with, like, men?" "Do you mean am I gay?" I asked, heart hammering in my chest. "Yeah, are you...?" "Yes. I am." It was the first time I'd ever really said it to anyone, though I'd been with men before. What I still couldn't say was the other word, the one beginning with `p'. But to a young boy like Milo it didn't matter. I could sense what was going on in his head, because I had been there myself. He was just beginning to understand that perhaps there was something different about him, and he needed validation. He needed to speak to someone who understood the struggle. The show he had given me was his way of ensuring that he wouldn't be laughed at - or worse, shouted at - for asking the question. It was obvious I'd gawked at his little performance, and that was good enough to reassure him. "Sorry, I shouldn't be asking all this stuff," he said. "Mum says I'm always saying things I shouldn't." "It's OK, I don't mind talking about it. It's a bit scary, actually, because I don't really talk about this with anyone, but it's good, too. It's nice to be honest. I don't have to make excuses about `not having found the right girl yet', and all that crap." He giggled, and I delighted at the way his little penis jiggled along. "You like looking at it, don't you?" he asked, reaching down to pull at the end of his foreskin, stretching it out obscenely in the way only a young boy can. "Yeah, I do," I admitted. My heart was once again pounding in my chest, and adrenaline made my head spin. He continued to fondle his little prick, and in moments it once again jutted upright from his smooth groin. "I don't mind if you want to look at it." He didn't say another word. He didn't need to. He just leaned back slightly, supporting himself with his hands on the branch on which he sat. He was utterly exposed to me, and the invitation was clear as day. I could see his heart pounding in his chest as he looked down at me. He frowned very slightly, the only expression on his face. He watched me like a hawk as I reached out to grasp his absurdly rigid little spike between forefinger and thumb, and grunted slightly when the contact was at last made. I peeled back his foreskin, watching with glee as the title purple head emerged. Rolling it back over made him hunch his hips upwards, perhaps involuntarily. His little spike was hot beneath my fingers, and so, so stiff. I could take his pulse just by holding it. I wanted to say something, just to break the silence, but I didn't know quite what to say. He kept looking down at me as I gently wanked him. I hadn't asked for permission, but he hadn't stopped me either. His little bum kept clenching, lifting his hips a little higher each time it happened. Looking up at his narrow chest, I could see his heart thumping not far beneath the surface, and the pulse in his neck, too, was clear as day. His foreskin glided effortlessly over the hardness beneath, a silken counterpoint to his granite boyhood. His eyes drifted shut, and a barely audible whimper started up in the back of his throat. It would come and go, growing louder and more insistent, then quieting once more. Sweat sprung up on his brow, and his cheeks flushed as his arousal built towards the inevitable. For my part, my head was spinning with the enormity of what was happening. This was a dream come true, more than I could ever have hoped for. It wasn't a furtive glance at a urinal. It wasn't a sly look in the men's changing room at the swimming pool. This wasn't me forcing myself onto some unwilling boy, or molesting him in his sleep. Milo knew what he wanted, and had made a decent job of getting it. He might not have been quite as desperate for this to happen as I was, but that's only because I had spent so long imagining that I would never experience the pleasure of satisfying my perverse urges. Yet here I was, with a willing, young and above all wonderfully pretty lad. Milo's moans were becoming increasingly urgent, and the movement of his hips more pronounced. I knew what was coming, but did he? Had he yet experienced orgasm at his own hand, or even at the hand of another? He had some vague idea about sex, obviously, and he'd read the book, but had he actually managed to bring himself off? I remembered my own first cum, a dry one at about his age. I knew what was going to happen in a text book way - having been given a book all about that sort of stuff by my mum, and then left very much to my own devices - but nothing could have prepared me for a pleasure so intense that it hurt. I really thought I had broken something, and it was only the next day that it dawned on me what had happened. For Milo, it was going to happen any moment. His stomach clenched over and over, and then it was upon him. He gasped and his eyes flew open, and then he hunched forward as it took hold. His little boyhood jerked spasmodically in my fingers, trying desperately to fire out a load his prostate wasn't quite ready to provide yet. His hands came forward from gripping the branch to latch onto my wrist instead, holding it still because he could no longer take the intense sensations my hand was giving him. He almost fell forward onto me, but I moved to hold him up. Unexpectedly his arms came up around my shoulders, begging to be hugged, and so I pulled him into my lap. He curled up against me, occasionally shuddering still, naked as the day he was born, save for the trainers on his feet. I held him, providing comfort. Clearly the experience had been a little too much. We stayed that way for some time. I thought he might have drifted off to sleep, but after a while I felt his bum shift a little in my lap. My arousal came storming back in - though I didn't particularly wish it to - and within moments I was hard again. He must have felt it was there, the way he shamelessly ground his backside into the lump in my shorts. "That was the best ever," he said in a tiny voice. "I mean, I've done it before, but it never felt that good. That was an orgasm, right? Did I really have one?" "Yep," I answered simply, giving him a little kiss on the top of the head. He sighed contentedly and wriggled in my lap. "You have a hard on, don't you?" I laughed - was there really any uncertainty in the matter? "Yeah, pretty much. I have a young, naked boy in my arms who's just let me wank him off. I'd be basically dead if I didn't get a bit hard at that." He giggled, and ground his backside extra hard into it. "One day I'm going to do it to you, too," he said. Not quite what I was hoping for, but the promise of something was better than nothing at all. I got the hint, though - it wasn't going to be here, now, in this tree. "I think we should get back," I said. "They'll probably be missing us by now." -- They hadn't missed us at all, at least as far as I could tell. Marie and her boyfriend were nowhere to be seen, suggesting they'd gone off to find somewhere quiet to take care of their needs, which left me in charge of Milo. `In charge' wasn't quite right. In the eyes of most he was a young boy who need an adult's watchful eye, but with me he was closer to a friend. The incident in the tree hadn't changed his attitude toward me one bit - he loved to question me on a huge range of subjects, taking advantage of the fact that I have a huge hunger for general knowledge, equalled only by my desire to share it. Milo was a sponge for all of it, happy to sit there and listen to me prattle on about all sorts of things. Not that that's all we did. Some nearby rock pools afforded a little entertainment - Milo was still young enough to enjoy looking for critters under the water, so we spent a happy half hour trying to coax crabs out from underneath rocks. All the time, he wore nothing more than his skimpy little trunks and the t-shirt, leaving plenty of opportunity to admire his lean, lithe young body. It was especially hard to concentrate when he leaned over a rock pool to explore its contents, practically shoving his neat little behind in my face. On one occasion, he noticed I had gone quiet and looked back at me, catching me in the act. He looked confused for a moment, then giggled and waved his rear at me. For my part, I was imagining what he would look like in the same position but without the trunks in the way. My heart thumped in my chest and adrenaline turned my stomach to jelly as my mind's eye conjured up an image of the pale pink pucker between smooth white cheeks. I'd be able to see his balls beneath, too - would his little sack be drawn up tight or dangling loose, and would his dick be a floppy little worm or a pointy little stick? Would he let me touch him there, or even go as far as using my tongue? But I was getting ahead of myself again. I'd just wanked the boy off, but there was a huge gulf between that and the more serious things I want to do. I had to have a dose of reality - there was no telling how far he would be willing to go. Instead, I forced down my inner boylover and concentrated on just spending time with him and enjoying that. It was only later in the day, as I lay on my bed and reflected on what had happened that it occurred to me that having fun with him was just as important as having sex. -- I imagined that perhaps having had our encounter in the tree, Milo would be more willing to explore further, as if some sort of barrier had been breached. But real life is not that linear, not that black and white, and nor are the emotions of young boys. On set the next day, Milo acted as if nothing at all had happened between us. I'm not sure how I expected him to change, but to see nothing at all was a little disturbing. I should perhaps have been reassured that he wasn't cowering and avoiding me, but I wasn't. Seeing his cheery disposition and the carefree greeting he gave me only made me concerned that it had meant nothing at all to him. That's how wrapped up I was in him. I was more concerned that what we had done had affected him in some way than I was about him being silent. But he was normal old Milo. At least so I thought. "Hi," he whispered, sitting down next to me on my usual bench. "Hi, Milo. Why are you whispering?" He thought about it for a long moment. "No-one can hear us here, can they?" he asked after a moment, already knowing the answer. I grinned at him in reply. "How am I doing?" he asked. "How are you doing at what?" "At acting like we didn't... you know, silly!" "You're acting? I thought you were just ignoring me." "No, of course not! I wanted to come over here earlier, but I didn't want anyone to think it was strange and start thinking things. I know we have to keep it quiet. I'm not stupid." Clever boy. Most kids his age would blurt it out to the first person who asked how their day had been. I hadn't even asked him to be circumspect about it, but I was seriously relieved to find out that I didn't need to. "So, do you want to do it again some time?" I asked. He noted eagerly, with a bright grin, and tugged at the little lump in his shorts. "How about you come to my room tonight after you think Marie is asleep. She won't notice, will she?" He shook his head. "Her boyfriend keeps going in her room," he said in a conspiratorial tone. "They do it every night. I listened once, it sounded gross." "Well, if they're tied up doing that, they won't notice you going, will they. Just make sure no-one else is around when you knock on my door." "Its OK, I used to play a spying game with my best friend, I'm really good at sneaking around without anyone seeing. What time shall I come?" "Just as soon as Marie is occupied," I replied. "The longer we have, the better." He grinned at me. "I want you to do something to me I remembered from the book," he said. "What?" "Not telling!" he shouted over his shoulder as he ran off, giggling. -- Little else occupied my thoughts that day. There was obviously a limited range of things he could ask me to do, and none of them was exactly a turn-off. Sucking him? Licking his arse? Fucking was certainly not on the cards, not unless he had a long history of which I was unaware. I spun it around and around in my mind all day long, living in a state of constant arousal. It was agony to wait for him. I was so excited I couldn't eat dinner, and retired to my room complaining if feeling unwell. I tried to write to take my mind off him, but it didn't work, I just kept having flashbacks to the incident in the tree. I felt a dull ache in the pit of my stomach, a sense of fearful anticipation, and nothing - not even taking matters into my own hands - would bring me relief from the tension. I watched the clock like a hawk, wondering what time he would come. If he would come. Perhaps he had chickened out, and I wasn't going to see him after all. Seven o'clock and eight passed, with my mind in turmoil. Half past eight had been and gone, and I was growing desperate. Several times I went to my door, peeking out in case he had knocked and I hadn't heard it, but he was never there. I would close the door and retreat to the bed, my ears straining for the slightest hint that he might be outside. When the knock at my door finally did come, I was so startled that I had to stifle a yelp. It was actually him, this was actually happening. With my hands shaking in anticipation, I made my way to the door and pulled it open, trying to act casually, just in case it was someone else. But it wasn't. It was him, dressed in a pair of flannel pyjamas which looked as though they were old favourites, judging by how short they were on him. He grinned and dashed past me, and I shut the door carefully behind him. He was sitting on the bed looking up at me, with his hand in his pyjama bottoms, casually pulling at himself, unashamed to show me. He didn't need to be shy any more, of course, but it was still a bit of a surprise to see him so brazen in his desire. "I walked all the way down here with a stiffy!" he exclaimed in a loud whisper, pulling down the front of his pyjamas to show me the incontrovertible proof. My heart leapt into my mouth. I'd seen it before, of course, up in the tree, and had become intimately acquainted with it, but I still couldn't believe how wonderful, how perfect his little spike was. It jutted up from his hairless groin like a flagpole, straight and true, and topped with the pink-tinged nipple of his foreskin. He looked up at me and grinned once more, as delighted as I was with his own naughtiness. He kept his clothes pushed out of the way, but fell back on to the bed, looking up at the ceiling and sighing loudly as the started to wank once more. "What was it you wanted me to do?" I asked, stepping closer to him, not sure whether or not I should touch him yet. "In a minute," he said, sitting up as if suddenly remembering something. "Can I see yours first?" I had changed into the shorts and t-shirt in which I slept - just another activity designed to waste a little time - and so it was the work of moments to make myself naked from the waist down. My manhood jutted straight out toward him, a very modest thing barely scraping six inches, but he was agog. "It's massive!" he said in awed tones. "It's not that big. Actually, it's a bit small." "Yeah, but it's massive to me. Huge. Humongous. Gigantic. It's much bigger than mine. Let's compare!" So I knelt on the bed next to him and after a bit of messing around, and much giggling from him, we managed to get into position so that they lined up closely enough to compare. He was right, it really was a lot bigger than his, but there were striking similarities - our long foreskins, the straightness of both, the way our balls hung. The differences were acute, though - his baldness contrasted strongly with my untrimmed hairiness; his shaft wasn't darkened by a dribble of precum escaping from the tip; his didn't quiver with its owners rapid and powerful heartbeat in quite the way mine did. Touching them together was high tide amongst a sea of new experiences for me. I had no idea the sensation would be so strong, the softness of his little spike touching the sensitive skin of my shaft, a hot little dry kiss. His came away with a string of fluid attaching it to mine, and he made a face. "Wipe it off!" he demanded, and I was happy to comply, using my fingers of course. He shuddered at the touch, and his stomach clenched. "Did that feel good?" I asked teasingly, and with his eyes fluttering shut and a dreamy smile on his face he nodded. I gave him one more squeeze, and his mouth dropped open, a low moan escaping his lips. Still with eyes closed he fell sideways to lie upon the bed, and reached his arms out over his head, stretching languorously, like a cat might in the warmth of a particularly friendly ray of sun. His groin was exposed, his pose a clear invitation. "Yes..." he whispered when I reached out to hold it. God, it felt so hot under my fingers, so hard and yet silky soft to the touch. His foreskin retracted easily, suggesting his was a well-used erection, and revealed a shining purple helmet with just a hint of wetness at the slit. I dabbed my finger in it, and it came away with a little stringy fluid attached. I wondered if Milo had any idea he was lubricating, and what it signified, but in the middle of our lovemaking didn't seem the appropriate moment to point it out. I wanked him gently at first, rolling the skin back and forth over the head, delighting in the way his little droplet of fluid spread around the glans. He lay there with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling; he was completely still other than the gentle rise and fall of his chest, and the occasional stiffening of the muscles in his stomach when he felt a little spike in pleasure. Then his legs started to twitch. Just sporadically at first, then more frequently. They were spread wide, and would without warning flex upward from the bed, higher and higher each time until his knees all but touched and my hand was trapped between his thighs, unable to move. He would release me after a few moments, and the whole game would start again - the building up of pleasure, the increasing reaction on his part and the conclusion, where he would force me to stop. We played this game for some time, until his eyes had drifted shut, and his mouth had fallen open. His tongue would flick out to wet his lips every so often, dry from the gentle panting which indicated his arousal. I was concentrating so hard on the task in hand that I didn't notice he'd moved. All of a sudden he was leaning on his elbows, looking down at me intensely. "With your mouth. Please," he said, huskily, his voice altered by lust from his high pitched youthful soprano to something far more adult. This, then, was the `other' thing he'd seen in the book and wanted me to do to him. I didn't hesitate. Now was not the time for teasing, for delayed pleasure. I skinned him back and dived straight down onto his groin. He gave a yip of surprise, startled at the intensity of the sensation, and his hands came down to grab handfuls if my hair, desperate for something - more or less, neither he nor I knew which. With gentle suction, I raised and lowered my head in his lap, my nostrils full of the scent of him - boy, skin, sweat, sex, musk. All of them tingled on my tongue, too, making my mouth water so much that saliva dribbled out and down over his tight little nuts and the smooth curves of his groin. He was quick to start writhing beneath me, the pleasure building to a point where it was almost agony. He wanted so badly to get off, but he couldn't quite. I shifted around to lie next to him, then, holding back his foreskin with my hand I sucked as hard as I could and bobbed so fast I started going dizzy. A few seconds of that tipped him over the edge, and he gasped in surprise as the sensations hit. The little stick in my mouth jolted over and over, and in between each kick it quivered, and all the time he groaned and writhed beneath me, his hands tugging at my hair, forcing my face hard into his groin as he jerked his hips up at my face. Bruised and battered by the force of his cum, I pulled off when he finally released me. His cute little dick was already deflating, but still sat fatly glistening with my saliva as it bobbed gently downward with his heartbeat. I raised myself up and looked down at him, my mouth alive with the flavour of his dick and the slightest salty tang. He lay with his eyes closed, arms and legs spread wide, his skinny little chest rising and falling with his ribcage starkly outlined not far beneath his pale skin. I left him lying there and went to push the window wider open; the room had suddenly become very warm and humid. Thunder rumbled around the horizon, and there was a flash of lightning among the rolling clouds out over the sea. Down below a few of the crew were returning from the pub, and one of the cameramen waved up to me. I waved back, my heart hammering in my chest - if only he had known that Milo lay naked and spreadeagled on my bed, having just that minute cum in my mouth. I turned back to the boy, who was sitting up and regarding me with a shy smile on his face. His hand was in his crotch, preserving his modesty even though there was nothing I hadn't seen or experienced. "Good?" I asked, and he blushed prettily, looking down at the bed. "Sorry," he muttered. "What for?" "For asking you to do it." "It's OK to ask for that kind of thing, Milo. I'll do anything you want. And anyway, I really, really enjoyed doing that to you." "Really?" "Really. It turns me on so much to touch you and suck you, and to make you cum." "Cum?" "The good feeling." "Oh yeah. I call it fizzing." "Good name for it. Feels like something fizzing out of your dick, doesn't it?" "Ha, yeah. So you really like doing it?" "Yep." "What's it like?" "Well, there's one way to find out for sure..." I replied, suggestively. He knew exactly what I was talking about, and shook his head with a horrified look on his face. "I don't think I can do that!" he said, sounding a little scared. "It's OK, mate, you don't have to do it to me. I'll still do it to you if you ask." "Any time I ask?" he said with a sly smile. "Any time except for in the middle of the set. I don't think we should do it in front of the cast and crew, eh?" He giggled and shook his head. "Now," I said, aware of the danger I was in despite the fact that I was still desperately horny, "it's been quite a while since you came down. I think you better go back up." He looked startled, and jumped up, grabbing his pyjamas and wiggling into them. His dick was already half hard again, and by the time he was dressed he was pinching and squeezing quite a prominent little lump at his groin. I shooed him out of the door and he snuck stealthily away and up the little stairway towards his room. Once he was safely gone I shut the door and fell back against it, sinking to the floor. My heart was still hammering, and adrenaline coursed through my veins, setting my fingers shaking. I was far too hyped up to sleep, so I grabbed my jacket and put on my shoes, and headed out for a walk. It was a blustery night, with the storm heading our way quickly. I stumbled along in the late evening gloom, my head spinning. I knew there was a well-trodden route across the moors inland, and found it easily enough. It was still light enough that I could see my way, and I headed for a rock outcrop some of us had visited. I reached it in short order and clambered up onto it, looking back the way I'd come. One corner of the house was visible from where I sat, one window lit up. I wondered who was behind that window, and what they were doing. Was it anything so insane as what I'd just done with Milo? Fuck, it was madness, what we were doing. Even back then, when there was much more of a culture of acceptance about these things that there is now - they just happened sometimes, and as long as the boy didn't make a fuss, it was sort of ignored - it was a crazy thing to do. I didn't worry for a moment that he was in any way being pressured into the relationship, nor indeed that he might be regretting what we were doing. He was up for it, that was sure. But still, if I was found out there would be trouble. I felt the first fat drops of rain falling around me. Thunder rumbled distantly. It wasn't safe to be out on that rock in the storm, but I was in such a fatalistic mood. If I was struck by lightning, fine. I deserved it. I was a monster, a child molester. If I wasn't, I would take it as a sign to carry on. An hour later, with the storm gone and the skies rapidly clearing, I walked back drenched to the skin. -- The following day dawned bright and clear after another thunderstorm had rolled through in the early hours. Milo's smile for me as I walked in to breakfast lit up the whole room - there was no subtlety there, no acting. He was past the point where he cared, all he wanted was to see me. "Have you heard?" he asked, after I'd poured myself some cereal and got a glass of juice. "What?" "They've had to cancel the shoot today! We've got a day off. And they say it's going to be really warm." "Want to go to the beach then?" I asked, quite interesting in seeing him in his trunks again. There was something about the way his bum filled them... "Nah, not really. It's not that much fun. Is there something else we can do?" "You like steam trains?" "Yeah, they're cool." "Well, there's a preserved railway near here, want to go and check it out?" "Yeah, let's do that!" Of course, Marie was happy to have her charge off her hands for the day, so she and her boyfriend could disappear off together. Thus, half an hour later Milo and I were barrelling along a country lane on a bus which had seen better days, driven by a man who appeared similarly careworn. We took the opportunity to sit right at the back of an otherwise empty vehicle and slide about on the ancient vinyl upholstery, behaving like kids. Well, behaving in my case; Milo was just being himself. We arrived at the other end sweaty from the roasting confines of the bus. Milo rushed straight into the engine shed and started getting enthusiastic about the old steam locos there, chatting to me constantly, showing a knowledge I had no idea existed. These days it's hard to find boys who still show this enthusiasm for old machines, but back then it was quite common for young lads to still get excited about steam trains until their early teens, sometimes beyond. When we actually climbed aboard the train, we found ourselves in a carriage of our own, in a little cabin which somehow didn't connect to any others. I found out later that it was a very old carriage from the earlier days of steam, and carriages were often made up of mixed classes, each in its own little compartment. Of course, at the time all that mattered was that we had the place to ourselves, and Milo could be himself. He spent most of the journey on tiptoes with his head half out the window, looking up and down the track. I allowed myself the pleasure of watching his tight little bum in his shorts the whole time, spending much of the journey with an uncomfortable lump in my jeans. When he finally sat down he looked across at me, and must have noticed I was distracted. "What?" he asked, with a smile on his face. "Nothing. Really. I was just..." "What? Is it something I did?" I sighed heavily, knowing that he at least suspected that I had been watching him. At this point I might as well come clean. "I was staring at your bum." "What? Why?" "Because it's sexy." He covered his mouth with his hand and giggled uproariously. "I have a sexy bum?" he asked. I was surprised this was news to him - surely he realised it was a bit of a stunner. Small, taut, round, neat. Fucking delicious. "It's amazing, Milo." "Does it make you get stiff?" "Yep." "Really?!" he asked, getting up and turning around, shaking at me. "Just by looking at it?" "Yes," I whimpered. I glanced out of the window - we were in the middle of the countryside. No-one would see me. "It's even better to touch, though," I breathed, as my hand reached out to hold it. He stopped wriggling immediately, then made a tight little noise in the back of his throat. "That feels good," he breathed as I gently cupped and stroked his bum. I pushed my hand a little lower between his thighs, to brush against his little bulge. I must have been right up against his scrotum. He made another little whimpering noise, and pushed his bum further out at me. I gripped his package from behind, and felt him swelling within. He stood upright and span around, and I could quite clearly see that he was straining against his pants. "How long to the next station?" he asked, with a hint of desperation. I looked at my watch. "We're due in three minutes. But its the end of the line. It stops there for ten minutes, then we can get back on." "Can't we just stay here, and make sure no-one else gets it?" "I don't think so, Milo. Let's just see what happens, eh?" He looked glum, but agreed, and sat down, fidgeting every so often and grabbing at the bulge in his pants. When the train pulled into the station, we were indeed turfed out by the inspector, leaving us to look around the station for about ten minutes. Milo caught my arm at one point, and with an exaggerated flick of the head pointed out the toilets. Grinning, I followed him in. Someone was in the only stall, so that was out of the question, but there was a long trough and we stepped up together. Milo's dick was out of his pants immediately, and though it had deflated since we stepped off the train, it quickly hardened again. I stood between him and the wall, so that there was room for about one more person on the other side of him. He looked across at me and smiled when I took my dick out, letting it get fatter and harder in front of his eyes. He grinned and wanked himself, though only gently, not really with any intention of getting off. Suddenly, the door opened, and in an instant we turned serious, and tried to appear to be getting on with what we ought to have been there doing. But when our interloper came around the corner, I saw it was a boy of about 7 or 8, blonde and unbelievably cute, and my heart started beating even harder than it had already been. I glanced across at the boy as he came to the urinal, and noticed that Milo was unashamedly looking at him, making no effort at all to hide what he was doing. He even turned his whole head sideways, and I noticed he'd unhidden his hard little dick. The boy only had to look across to his right, and he would be able to see everything Milo had. And, a few seconds after his stream started arcing out from the hidden tip of his little willy, that's exactly what he did. He looked round at Milo, and then straight down at my preteen boyfriend's little spike. His eyes went wide, and he grinned and looked up at Milo, who turned to face him, wanking his hard dick. The boy himself smiled, and turned a little towards us, and into view came his wonderful little dick. It was somewhere between two and three inches long, and was slightly swollen, perhaps because he'd really needed to go, and it had stiffened in response to the need. Now, as his stream faltered and stopped, it stiffened once more, but this time for a totally different reason. Here he was doing something very naughty in a public place with another boy, and probably just because of the illicit nature of what he was doing, in moments it was posting skywards. It jutted up from his groin like a flagpole, curving gently upward. His foreskin was very long, and even when he was completely stiff it extended over the end by a centimetre or so. He was wanking himself, too, in time with what Milo was doing, and the two boys were grinning at each other. It was as if I was completely invisible. Just as I felt my orgasm building, watching these two cuties at it, we heard a shout from outside the toilets. "Thomas?! Are you OK?" "Yes, dad, just coming!" the lad called back. With a giggle, he pushed his dick back inside his shorts. He gave Milo a little wave, and then walked out. When he was gone, Milo turned to me with a huge, shocked grin on his face. "That was so cool!" he whispered to me. I nodded my reply, but before he and I could mess around any more we heard the toilet in the cubicle flushing. Before the door could be opened, we bolted out of the toilet. -- Back at the train, we did indeed manage to get our compartment, and as we pulled away from the station, and it was clear that we would be absolutely alone for the next twenty minutes or so, Milo looked at me with a shy grin and a gentle blush in his cheeks. "That boy's willy was nice, wasn't it?" I asked him, knowing full well what he felt. "Yeah," he said, breathlessly. His hand travelled down to pinch at the lump in his crotch. "You see why I like young boys now?" I asked, and he grinned and nodded. "What would you do to him?" I asked, feeling myself harden as I waited for him to reveal his fantasies to me. He fidgeted in his seat, and no longer made any attempt to hide the fact that he was squeezing his dick through his shorts. "Um, I think I would play with his dick. You know, do him with my hand. And..." At this point he licked his lips and swallowed hard. He was almost panting. "I would... I would, um... I would suck his stiffy." The last bit came out in a rush, and he looked down at the floor, blushing deeply. "I'd like to do that to him, too," I said, honestly. Milo looked up at me and smiled shyly. "It was a nice one," he admitted. "I never thought about wanting to do it before, but then you did mine last night, and I... I started thinking it might be nice." "Come here," I said, softly, patting the seat next to me. He stood and twisted so that he could sit next to me instead of opposite. "Push your shorts down a bit." "Here?" he whispered hoarsely. "Want to do it? I'll suck you. No-one can see us." He gulped and nodded. He was flushing bright red, and his hands shook as he undid the button on his shorts, pulled down the fly, and lifted up his bum so he could push them down to mid thigh, along with his pants. His little boner sprang out and slapped against his belly, making a little thump noise because his t-shirt was in the way. I wasted no time. He was already well and truly hyped up from messing around first on the outbound journey, then at the station, and then again in the last couple of minutes, but I wasn't going to rely on being able to bring him off. I needed to get right down to business. I slipped down to kneel on the floor. My senses were invaded by two competing smells - the fragrance of sweaty young boy crotch, and the ancient, musty upholstery of the seat on which he sat. I grasped his tool by its base with forefinger and thumb, and bent it out to an angle at which I could sink my mouth onto it. I rolled his foreskin back, revealing the shining purple helmet, with its slick of precum; Milo might not be shooting just yet, but by the look of things it wouldn't be long, and early at that, though I had no idea back then. I licked my way around the head - his fluids were almost flavourless, just a hint of saltiness to them - and felt the pressure of his hands on my head, urging me to take the whole thing into my mouth. I did as he desired, and sank my lips down to the base of it, then pulled up, applying suction and using my lips to re-sheath him. I carried on up, nipping the very tip of his prepuce with my lips and stretching it well beyond the end of his dick. He gasped at the sensation, then again as I plunged straight back down and sucked him to the root once more. But I was wasting time I didn't have - what I needed to do was get my horny little boyfriend off before we got back to the station. I set to, bobbing my head rapidly, applying suction all the time. He began to rotate his hips, pushing up at me each time they came round. I pushed up his shirt so I could see his abs working as he humped up at me, and almost lost it at the sight of them flexing. He was making desperate little moans, which grew longer and closer together, so that at last they merged into an almost constant note of fevered arousal. I looked up into his face and he had his head thrown back, eyes closed, mouth dropping open, and then closing, open, closed, until finally it stayed open and he started to pant. Now I knew he was near, I slowed down a moment to peel back his foreskin once more, holding it in place as I applied one last big suck, and a few rapid bobs of my head. He cried out in shock when he came, and grabbed handfuls of my hair so that he could thrust into my face, mashing my nose into his pubis. I continued to suck as his dick twitched uselessly in my mouth, trying to fire a load which wasn't there. I pulled off him slowly, sucking all the way up, feeling him twitch once more and hearing the pained groan that went with it. I sat back on my heels and examined my handiwork - Milo lay with his head rolled to one side, mouth open, face flushed red. His dick was slowly wilting, still glistening with my spit, his heartbeat evident in the way it bobbed gently down to one side until the tip rested on the open fly of his shorts, and then retracted a little further so that his willy perched cutely on top of his firm little pouch. He roused himself as I climbed back to sit next to him, brushing the dust off my knees so it didn't look quite so much like I had been servicing him. I glanced at my watch - we had about a minute left until the station, a fact I related to Milo with great glee, giggling to myself as he frantically shoved his dick back into his pants and pulled his shorts up. He was just about presentable when we rolled into the station with a squeal of brakes. I couldn't help thinking, as the engine let off steam at its destination, that it was a metaphor for something or other. -- That afternoon, Milo and I found the crew at the local pub, occupying the tables outside, gently getting themselves drunk in the warm sunshine. We were greeted warmly, and without suspicion. I made my way into the cool interior to get myself a cider, and a Coke for Milo, and by the time I had returned he was happily chatting away to two of the cameramen about the steam locos we'd seen, doing an admirable job of suggesting that's all he'd been up to all day. I sat down next to him, and without any sign of self-consciousness, he leaned into me. One of the cameramen (Mike I think his name was), smiled and said, "We weren't at all surprised to find out your little secret!" My blood froze, and I'm sure I must've turned white as a sheet. "About you being mum's cousin!" Milo chimed in. "I told them all about it." "Yeah," Mike went on. "I mean, Milo's a good actor alright, but you only really get these parts by knowing someone. Have to say, you kept it quiet. No wonder you two are such good friends, though, given he lived with you for all those years." "Yeah, well," I said, trying to hear myself over the ringing sound in my ears, "I didn't think it would look good if people knew. Milo got the part on his merits." "Yeah, yeah," Mike said with a smile. "Of course..." We spent the rest of a wonderful afternoon drinking and chatting, and putting the world to rights, and the whole time Milo sat leaning against me, or with his hand on my leg, playing for the crew the part of the devoted nephew. Even when Marie turned up with Martin, they simps gave us a wave and a smile, and Marie made no attempt whatsoever to take back charge of the boy she was meant to be looking after. -- Milo went to his own room that night, and I to mine, and we made no attempt to meet up. He was too tired, and I was too horny for it to work. I could feel myself considering making demands of him, from built-up tension and the loosening effects of alcohol, so I suggested he might be better off getting some sleep. He nodded and yawned, and pulled me down to peck me on the cheek when he was sure we were alone. "Thanks for taking me to the trains. It was really fun," he said in a low voice, his eyes sparkling. "Don't mention it," I replied with a leer. "I enjoyed it a lot myself." When I got back to my room I finally had a chance to release the tension which had been building all day. An absolute torrent of semen coated my stomach, chest and upper arms when I was done, and I just lay there basking in the afterglow of the most intense orgasm I'd had in a long time. -- Next day we were on set again, and the director was pushing us hard to catch up for lost time. I saw Milo only fleetingly, and when I did he was looking tired out. It seemed like he was in every scene, and several of them involved him running around and getting very sweaty. At one point he was given a bit of a break, and he and Marie came to sit with me on my customary bench, while Milo had a drink. I had to try really hard to stop my eyes roving all over him. The costume for the day was a very small pair of shorts and a vest, the kind which usually gets called a `wifebeater' these days. I could see sweat glistening all over his arms and legs, and on his forehead and upper lip, and gloriously trickling in a little bead down from the nape of his neck, over the bumps of his upper spine. I wanted to strip him naked and lick every drop of sweat off him, and lick clean all the crevices where it had gathered. It was a strange desire, one which I'd never before felt. But there was something about Milo, something which deranged my natural inclinations. I had never before found myself imagining what it would be like to slowly lick down a boy's back, over each little bump of his spine, until I reached the valley at its base, and to carry on into that valley until my tongue laved his hole. And even better if at the time he was bathed in sweat. I literally had to shake the image out of my mind. Marie looked at me a little strangely when for no apparent reason I started rubbing my eyes, but she thought I was somewhat odd anyway, so I don't think it altered her perception of me. He disappeared off shortly after, with a knowing glance over his shoulder as he went. -- It was late in the day when I finally caught up with him again. The whole crew ate together for once, a barbecue put on by the production company to thank us for the hard work so far, and to motivate us for the remaining two weeks. It came as a bit of a shock to find that there was only a fortnight left, and to no-one more than me - that gave me two weeks tops with Milo before the chances were our paths would never cross again. That evening, with the party dying down and Marie very much tied up with Martin, I offered to take Milo back to the B'n'B. Marie eagerly agreed, and so there we were walking back together. I could have taken him to my room, and we could have spent the whole evening doing thoroughly depraved things together. I did for a moment think of licking him clean, but in the end I decided something more wholesome was more appropriate. I'd spotted a book in the common room the last time I'd been there, so while Milo waited outside on my instruction, I nipped inside and got it. "What is it?" he asked as I came back outside. I handed him the book, and a confused look came over his face. "Butterflies?" "Yep. There's a meadow up in the hills a little way inland. It's a really nice evening. I thought we could go and look for butterflies together." "Um, OK," he said, looking a little less sure about this than I was. But I had a special trick up my sleeve, something I'd secreted in the bag in which I habitually carried around my notebook and pen. We walked up the path past the rock where I'd waited in the rain to receive my judgement, and beyond into a broad, rolling meadow. The sun was sinking in the sky in the west, giving the whole place a magical, golden air. I took Milo's hand in mine, and holding hands we walked out into the long grass. I knew where I wanted to go, because I'd already scoped it out. A small hollow lay a couple of minutes' walk through the field, a hollow which would allow us to stay hidden, but which still caught the remainder of the sun. It was a romantic location, and one where we wouldn't be disturbed. When we reached it, Milo looked confused. "There really aren't very many butterflies here," he said with a frown. "Hang on, give me the book," I replied, holding out my hand for it. When he gave it to me, I tossed it to the side. "Won't need that, it was just a cover." He looked at me as if I'd gone crazy, but I carried on. "No, what we need is this." I opened my bag and took out a bottle of cider I'd smuggled away from the pub, stoppered up with a spare wine cork. When Milo saw it he gave me a huge grin. I sat down in the grass, and he sat down next to me, and over the next twenty minutes or so we drained the cider between us. I was taking big gulps, trying to ensure that while Milo got a buzz, and his inhibitions were perhaps relaxed, he wasn't so drunk that I would just be taking advantage of him. With the cider gone, I lay back on the grass, and Milo followed, his head on my arm. The sun still reached us, and we lay in its warm, orange-yellow glow and looked up at the sky. "Milo" I started, feeling my heart beat pick up for the first time since we'd come out into the meadow, "do you think it would be OK if I kissed you?" I turned my head toward him, and he turned to me. He studied me for a moment, his deep blue eyes boring into my soul. Instead of replying, he raised himself onto his elbow, looked down at me for a second longer, and then lowered his lips to mine. How do you describe your first proper kiss? Oh yes, I had kissed other people before, but they were fake, because I was, and am a boylover, and so my first real kiss of course had to be with a boy. And this was my first, and it was, without a shadow of a doubt, the single best moment in my life. All the fooling around we'd done meant nothing in the face of that kiss. If I had to give back all the memories of our time together, but was allowed to choose one, it would be that kiss, lying among the wildflowers in that meadow, with birdsong and insect-buzz all around and the warm sun beating down upon us. Milo in my arms, then on top of me, and his lips locked to mine. I felt as though nirvana had been reached, and what happened next barely mattered. It did matter, of course, but if Milo hadn't reached down between us, groping for my hardness, I wouldn't have minded. It would not have dulled the wonder of that kiss one iota. But reach down he did, fumbling with the button on the fly of my jeans until I helped him, pulling down the zip, reaching inside, has hand roughly forcing its way inside the waistband of my boxers to find and take hold of my manhood. When his fingers wrapped around it we both groaned, and it was hard to tell where his lust ended and mine began. He slid completely off me to the side, and looked down at what he was doing. He gasped softly at the sight of my dick in his hand, the first time he had held it. He moved the skin up and down the shaft experimentally a couple of times, then leaned in closer to look at what he was doing. He was so completely absorbed with looking at it that I couldn't help smiling. I lay back, letting my eyes close and listening to nature all around us as Milo ever so slowly wanked me off. It was because I had my eyes closed that I didn't see him moving. I didn't notice his head lowering, I didn't spot his tongue sticking out, I didn't watch him gingerly lick across the head of my raging manhood. I felt it, though. Oh God did I feel it, like nothing else. If the kiss had been the romantic peak of my life, then this was its sexual equivalent. The hot, wet, wriggly little tongue of my ten (nearly eleven!) year old lover swiping across the top of my dick was more than I could ever have imagined. I opened my eyes and looked down at the back of his head just in time to feel his lips sliding over the first few inches of my manhood, and locking onto the shaft. He had learned from the two times I had done it to him, so he sucked strongly and brought his lips back to the head. On the next pass he used his hand and his lips in unison to skin me back, and I at last felt the exquisite heat and wetness of his mouth on the exposed head of my manhood. If Milo had any qualms at all about sucking me, they were now gone. He abandoned himself to the task, and a short while later I both felt and heard him humming a little tune to himself. He was utterly content at his task. I, on the other hand, was far from content. I knew that as much as I was enjoying his ministrations, he would soon have to stop, because my orgasm was rapidly boiling up. In fact, so sudden was it that I barely had time to warn him to lift off his head before it started firing out all over the place. Some caught him in the face because he wasn't quick enough, and the rest went all over my crotch, and my t-shirt. He looked up at me with a sense of wonder. "I had no idea it would shoot that much!" he said, with a droplet of my cum hanging off the end of his nose. I cleaned us both up with my boxers and shoved them in my bag, then lay back on the ground and invited him to lie on top of me. "Thanks for that, it was amazing," I told him, in between kisses. "Was it really OK?" "Milo, it was fucking unbelievable." He sniggered at that, then lay his head on my shoulder. He was still fully clothed, while I lay there naked from the waist down, my jeans discarded and my boxers soiled and shoved in my bag. I reached down my hands to cup his bum, and he responded with a gentle moan of encouragement. I kneaded his cheeks in both hands, but I knew I would want more, so I reached around in front of him and he lifted his backside high enough to let me get at the fly of his shorts. As soon as it was down I pushed them and his pants down to mid-thigh, and Milo himself pushed them the rest of the way off. I found myself in very short over with two hot, hard buns in my hands, and the sensation of Milo's very hard, rather small penis poking into my stomach. I kissed the top of his head softly as I began to gently squeeze and massage his little backside. As I did so, he started a gentle humping motion, sliding his sticky, sweaty little dick up and down my stomach. I let my fingers drift ever inward, until the very tip of my index finger grazed his hole, and he stiffened and cried out in surprise. I backed away for a moment, but returned to test the waters again, and this time he was quite receptive, whispering `yes' to me as I probed his back door. I had no intention of taking his virginity - that could wait until he was older and more ready for it - but I reached down and took a glob of my emission which had been squeezed from my re-hardened manhood and applied that to his hole, and with my semen slicking the way, inserted a finger into him. His humping into my abdomen became a little more frantic. By now the second knuckle of my finger was bumping up against the rim of his hole each time I pressed it in, and each time it stretched him a little further he would whimper. I was getting just far enough inside to tap the hard little knot of his prostate, and that was what sent him over the edge, grabbing me, shaking, crying out as his orgasm hit. He came down slowly, still shuddering from time to time, his breathing ragged for some minutes. Finally he calmed, and looked up at me. "Is that your finger in my bum?" "Yeah. You OK with that?" "Yeah, it's just. It... I didn't think it would feel like that." "How do you mean?" "I mean, I didn't think it would feel so good. The feeling of it sliding in and out, and then whatever you were pressing inside me, that was amazing. Does that mean I have to be the one who has it up my bum?" I had to laugh at the way he put it, which earned me a reproachful glare. "No, sweetheart. You don't have to do anything. If you don't want it up your bum you don't have to." He looked at me, stricken. "And what if I do want it?" he whispered. -- We stayed a while longer in the little dell, until the warmth of the day really was gone, and dusk was drawing quickly in. I hunted around for the butterfly book - it was a book, after all, even if I'd only used it as a dramatic prop - and we dressed in whatever we had left which was clean, and shoved the rest in my bag. Then, holding hands, we walked back to the path, and by the light of a bright, round moon, made our way to the B'n'B. This time, I had a new way of saying goodnight to Milo - I leaned down and kissed him on the lips, and it was returned with interest. I took considerably longer than was safe over the kiss, out in the hallway where anyone could have walked by, but it was worth it to feel the softness of his little lips, and to hear the gentlest little moans he made as I held him. -- There was a palpable tension between us the next day. I had expected Milo to be glad to see me in the morning, but he was sullen. There were bags under his eyes, and the make-up girl complained that she had to work extra hard to make him presentable. For my part, I thought a haggard-looking Milo would be more appropriate to the role of a kid during the second world war, especially one who was involved with foiling a Nazi plot, but apparently that wasn't the image the director was going for. He stalked over to me during the middle of the day and stood next to me, not speaking. I steered him away from everyone and asked him what on earth was going on. "It's your fault," he said, shooting daggers at me with his eyes. Immediately my mind went into overdrive. Was it what we'd done the night before? Was he having regrets about how far he'd gone with me? I shouldn't have taken the cider with us, I shouldn't have got him tipsy, just so I could have my way with him. I thought he would enjoy it, once he'd got over his initial distaste at the idea, but perhaps I had been wrong after all. "I'm sorry, Milo. What did I do? Didn't you like what we did?" He sighed heavily, as if I was some sort of idiot who simply didn't understand anything at all. "No, it's not that. You... you made me into a homo." "What?!" "You made me gay. You stuck your finger in my bum and now I'm gay because I liked it, and I want you to do it again, and I was thinking all night about what it would feel like if you did it with your willy, too. So now I'm gay, and it's all your fault." "Milo, sweetheart, I only did it because I thought you'd like it." "I did like it, and now because I liked it I'm gay." "Liking having a finger up your bum doesn't make you gay, Milo." "What about wanting it to be your willy instead? I mean, really wanting it. And wanting to suck you off again. It's all I've been thinking about all night. I gave myself fizzes about nine times thinking about it and I still couldn't stop." I stood back and looked at him. "OK, so maybe that makes you a little bit gay. But that doesn't matter, does it?" "Of course it matters! Everyone makes fun of you if you're gay at school." "I know, that bit can be pretty crap. Maybe just don't tell them. You're going to go off to theatre school in a couple of years anyway, aren't you?" "Yeah. What's that got to do with anything?" "Well," I said with a smile, "one thing I can guarantee is that there will be plenty more boys like you at that school." "What do you mean?" "I mean, Milo, that acting tends to be one of those professions with a higher number of gay people. It's a lot more accepting than society in general." "So, what, I just don't tell anyone until I get to RADA, then I can tell people?" "It's probably safest that way, yeah." Milo sighed, and the tension drained out of him. "I was so angry with you," he said, leaning into my side and hugging me around the waist. "I'm sorry." "You don't have to be sorry, Milo. You're dealing with a whole lot of new things." Checking we weren't overlooked, I leaned down and kissed his cheek. "But you know what? I'm here for you. We can do as much or as little as you want. If you just need me to be your friend, we can do that, and we can stop doing all the other stuff, until you get your head around it." He looked up at me. A single tear was making its way down his cheek. "Thanks," he whispered. "But what if I don't want to stop?" "In that case," I said, my heart hammering in my chest, "you better come to my room tonight." He giggled at that. Just then, we heard the director calling his name, and he dashed off back to set. I stood and watched him go. "You're good with him," said a voice behind me. "You're good together." I span round, feeling the heat rising in my face. It was the famous actor, the big name, the one who had groped Milo early on in the shoot. He was smiling gently. "Oh, don't worry," he said, holding up his hands. "Your secret's safe with me. And I didn't overhear what you were saying, so you needn't worry about that either. But I can see it." "It's nothing like that," I said, still imagining that I could talk my way out of it. "He's just a bit homesick, I was trying to make him feel better." "Oh, of course it isn't like that. Tell me, how much better have you been making him feel? No, don't answer that, I don't want to know. I imagine your little ganymede has told you what happened between he and I?" "He mentioned that you'd hit on him, yes." "Ha! Not even that. I didn't even get close enough to try anything. My God, though, he's a little firecracker. Gay as all hell, too." "That's his business. I'm not sure discussing it with you is fair on him." "I'm not asking for your confirmation, Mr McNaught. I can tell that for myself. I have a long, distinguished career in spotting young boys who are gay before they even hit puberty. It's a skill I have quite deliberately honed. Oh, the names I could tell you!" "Exactly how many boys have you slept with?" I asked, incredulous. "In all? Oh, goodness knows. A hundred, maybe. I tend to make a point of taking scripts with boys in them. I'll tell you, that TV version of Oliver I did was one stop short of an orgy." "So you're not going to say anything about Milo and I?" "No, no, of course not. One thing, though, would you mind satisfying my curiosity? Just what is his little willy like?" "Er, uncut, long skin, about three inches hard, straight as a ruler, pokes up at about 45 degrees. Very pale white, with blue veins on the side, though the tip of his foreskin is always tinged pink. The head bulges wider than the shaft. Overall, not that fat, but not pencil thin either. Foreskin still bunches over the head even when he's completely hard, but it pulls back easily enough. He makes a little clear fluid before his orgasm, but he doesn't shoot." The gentleman had his eyes closed, a beatific smile on his face, deepening the wrinkles by his eyes. "Thank you, Mr McNaught. I am, you might say, rather a connoisseur of young boys' cocks. I shall store your wonderful description away. And you may rest assured that I will do nothing to upset Milo. He's such a beautiful little thing. It's a shame you got there before I could." And that was that. He walked away, and years later when I was watching him collect a lifetime achievement BAFTA, I recalled our conversation with a smile. To my mind his achievements behind the scenes were far more remarkable. -- I lay cuddling Milo to my side, his leg thrown over my waist, his arm across my chest. He was still breathing a little hard after our first little tumble of the evening. We were both entirely naked, lying in my bed, and I could feel his still-stiffened member poking into my hip. "You suck my willy so nicely," he said with a giggle. "You're so good at that." "Thanks!" I laughed. "I suppose it's because I like doing it so much." He reached down and grabbed my thickened shaft. "You know," he said, beginning to manoeuvre himself beneath the covers, into the hot, sweaty, dank space between my legs, "I kind of like sucking you, too." He settled between my legs, and I felt his lips close over the end, suckling gently. His hand skinned me back, and his tongue was all over the head, cleaning it of its copious slick of my precum. He seemed to have a real taste for it; I could understand - his own fluid was a heavenly little gift. He pushed himself down onto my shaft until his lips were half way down and the head was nuzzling the back of his mouth, then retreated, sucking gently, bringing a surge of blood to engorge my shaft. I felt a little spasm of pleasure, and a tiny shot of fluid firing from the tip into his mouth. He made a surprised sound, and lifted back a little, but swallowed and carried on with his task. I threw back the covers to watch him at work. His astonishing blue eyes looked up at me, full of mischief and merriment, as he bobbed his head up and down gently. I felt another jolt, and another little surge of fluid entered Milo's mouth. He stopped bobbing and tasted it, lifting his lips off me and smiling, sucking in a dribble of saliva which escaped the corner of his mouth. "Does it mean you're close when you do that?" he asked. "It means I'm very, very close. If you'd carried on for a few moments longer I would've cum." "And you would have shot your spunk in my mouth?" "Well, I would've tried to warn you." "And if I didn't hear you?" "Yeah, you'd've got a mouthful." "Is it bad for you?" "Nope, it's fine. Some people spit it out, others swallow it." "Swallow it?! Why?" "Because they like it. Or they want to show how much they love the person they sucked off." "And you can do that by swallowing their sperm?" "Yeah, I know," I said with a rueful smile. "It never used to make sense to me either. But I'll be honest, Milo, if you started shooting right now I'd drink as much of it as I could." "Really?" "Yep." "How long do you think it'll be before I can do it, then?" "Don't know, mate. A lot of boys don't shoot until they're twelve or thirteen, but you already make the clear, slippery stuff, so maybe it'll start sooner for you." "Oh yeah, like the salty stuff you make when I suck your dick." "Exactly." "Is that what your spunk tastes like?" "Not exactly, it's a bit more bitter. I don't really know, though, I don't drink a lot of it." He grinned, and lowered his head down onto me once more. He went back to sucking and bobbing, and I realised was humping the bed while he lay on his tummy between my legs. Clearly sucking my dick made him rather horny. Our little chat hadn't dampened my ardour, and within a minute I was once more on the edge of blowing my load. "It's going to happen, Milo," I said in desperate tones. He didn't stop, he just sucked harder. "Milo, seriously, stop!" I cried out, but it was too late. Even as the last words left my mouth I felt the excruciating rush of semen boiling up through my manhood and spurting powerfully into his mouth. Milo kept sucking, and I could feel him swallowing, too. One, two, three thick spurts he swallowed, before he pulled off, coughing, and let the remainder splatter onto my stomach. When he'd caught his breath he wiped his face on the duvet, and then looked up at me with a very self-satisfied grin. "Come here!" I said with a grin, and wrapped my arms around him, kissing him passionately. "That was amazing, Milo," I whispered to him when at last our kiss ended, and he had once more slipped off to hug me from the side. Thin threads of my sticky cum stretched out between us. "It didn't taste very nice, but I wanted to do it. I wanted you to know how much I like you." "Thank you, Milo. It means a lot to me." "So, do you want to try the other thing?" he asked, in a whisper. "What thing?" "You know. Your dick. My bum." I was absolutely floored. Even after all that Milo had said about wanting to do it, I didn't think he would actually offer his virginity to me. And I didn't want to push that agenda; I wanted to give him time the change his mind. "Actually, I don't think I could, not tonight, not after you sucked me off so well. It'll take me a while to recover from that!" He giggled and snuggled into me. I thought I heard him whisper `thanks', but it was so quiet I couldn't be sure. Not long after that, I heard him gently snoring. -- I woke awash with sweat, with a baking hot little presence to my left. Waking up in the morning with Milo in my bed was wonderful. I stretched out, then reached over to where he lay on his back, his morning wood tenting the sheet obscenely. It was a warm morning already, and it was barely 7am. I wrapped my fist around his dick through the sheet, wanking it quickly, listening for the change in tone of his breathing as it started to feel very good indeed. At the fist moan I dived under the covers, admiring his nakedness, drinking in the smell of him, something unique to pre-pubescent boys. His dick, which I was rapidly getting into the habit of sucking, was pointing towards his head, lying almost flat against his lower tummy. It throbbed with hardness, the little blue vein which decorated its side standing in stark contrast to the alabaster whiteness of the rest of it. I wanted to carve its image in marble so that I would always be able to gaze on such perfection. I pulled back his skin and slipped my mouth in a tight `o' over the exposed head. He groaned gently in his sleep, and shifted, rolling over on his side, and then onto his front. Had he really decided that he didn't want to have his dick sucked? I pondered what could possibly have caused him to reject such pleasure, but then his hips started moving and all became clear - his hand was underneath him, sheathing his dick, and he was humping into the mattress. He wasn't quite awake, and this was obviously one of the ways he chose to get himself off. I lay there for a moment, still with the covers over my head, watching his little bum flexing adorably as he exercised the muscles which he would one day use to fuck with, assuming he was ever a top. I ran my hand up the inside of his thigh, until my fingertips brushed up against the wrinkled little sack of his scrotum. I pressed against it, feeling his little nuts moving around inside. I lingered there a moment, considering my next move. There was something I had wanted to do for a while now. Something I wasn't sure a fully awake Milo would allow me to do, because he might be too nervous, but something which I felt sure he would not only enjoy, but crave to be repeated. I made up my mind that it was now or never, and leaned over his backside. With the hand with which I had fondled his little nutsack, I prized apart the perfectly symmetrical buns of his tight little backside, and leaned in to run my tongue over his pale pink pucker. Milo's reaction was just as impulsive as the act itself. His arse pushed up at me, forcing his hole onto my tongue, and he gave out a long, low groan, full of needful desire. I pointed my tongue and pressed it into him, feeling his relaxed pucker spread effortlessly around the tip. The sensation of the ring of muscle spreading around my tongue was like nothing else I'd ever felt, and the tangy flavour of him was completely unexpected. There was a faint bitterness to it, but that was quickly overridden by something else, a musky, unique scent which drove me crazy. I hadn't thought for a moment it would be so wonderful to be in this position, with my tongue up his arse. I thought all the pleasure belonged to the receiver, and having once been in Milo's position myself, I wanted him to know what it felt like. Now, though, I didn't want it to end. I shifted around between his legs, reinserting my tongue. Milo responded by bucking his hips again, and this time whimpering out loud, and then saying `oh fuck, Zack' over and over, like a little mantra to keep himself sane while his body tried to launch off into outer space. Evidently my stimulation had been enough to wake him. The final surprise was when Milo came. It hit him like a freight train - he was shaking, calling out, thumping the bed with the hand which wasn't wrapped around his dick. But best of all was saved for me, because I had no idea that his sphincter would start rhythmically clamping down on my tongue. The sensation of it suckling on my invading muscle was like the most intense French kiss ever, but turned up to 11 because my face was in the backside of my ten year old lover who was enjoying simply the most astonishingly wonderful orgasm it had ever been my pleasure to give another human being. He collapsed onto the bed, sweating profusely, his hair damply clinging to his forehead, eyes clamped shut as aftershocks still wracked his body. I looked down at his back, where a few beads of sweat had sprung up at the base of his spine, and without a moment's hesitation leaned down to lick them up. Milo, who had fallen still for a moment, shivered violently at the contact, and goosebumps sprang up all over his body. He reached out a hand for me, and I moved close enough that he could grab me and hold me tight, as the tension of his orgasm slowly left his body. -- Milo was a different person again that day. Where the day before he had been grouchy and self-absorbed, tired from a sleepless night, this particular day he was the light and soul of everything which happened on the set. He was enthusiastic, cheerful and full of energy, bouncing from one scene to the next, giving brilliant performances each time. Over lunch he and I sat on the bench and chatted about the afternoon shooting schedule, and how excited he was to be doing some of the scenes, and how much he was looking forward to the next few days, when we were expecting to change locations to film on the beach down the coast a little way. The actor who had admitted an interest in Milo joined us, chatting about this and that. He had such a natural manner with the boy that it was easy to see how he'd managed to get into so many young boys' pants. I had repeated his conversation to Milo the night before, and Milo being who he was, he'd wanted to do something nice for the old fellow. This seemed like an ideal opportunity, so I whispered my plan into his ear when our friend was distracted, and a few minutes later he announced that he really needed a wee, and headed off in the direction of the gents. The actor lingered a moment, clearly torn. He obviously used the same trick as I did, getting a glimpse where he could. He fidgeted in his seat, clearly torn between staying and going to try to catch Milo at it. After twenty seconds or so of this, I caught his eye, and rather theatrically raised an eyebrow. Comprehension dawned in his eyes, and he raised himself from the bench, using all his talent to make it appear that he was in no hurry, whilst actually getting out of there sharpish. I whispered, "No touching!" to him as he went past, and he gave me a wide-eyed smile, and went to see what he could see. Milo came back to me twenty minutes later, looking flushed. "You were gone a while," I said, trying not to sound accusing, but not wholly succeeding. "I thought you were just going to give him a quick look." "Um, yeah. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have let him, but he..." I took a deep breath, and decided to give the boy some leeway - he was a horny preteen after all. "As long as you had fun, and you didn't do anything you didn't enjoy." "Oh no! It was... well, it was nice. He was very happy. He told me to say thank you to you." "He shouldn't have, Milo. You're not my property. He doesn't have to thank me for something you agreed to do for him." He nodded, but fell silent until he was called for the next scene. -- That afternoon the crew all retired to the pub again, and Milo came along with me. This time I was far more open about what I was doing, and in plain sight of everyone bought Milo a half. The landlord didn't care one bit, and the crew generally patted Milo on the back for having his first real drink. It was the kind of appropriate response to the situation which has been weeded out by interfering busybodies these days. Milo sat there like a prince, slowly sipping the cool nectar, getting more and more raucous with his behaviour as the alcohol took hold. At about eight in the evening, with Milo now very much the centre of attention, I announced that it was time for him to go back to the B'n'B. He looked crestfallen, but when I raised my eyebrows to him and he realised the implications of going back - i.e. there was a very good chance he would get his dick sucked - he relented and agreed, although not without a further grumble or two, just for the look of things. Marie happily waved us goodbye as she rather drunkenly snuggled into Martin, and once more I was alone with my ten year old boyfriend. Milo was a properly giggly little drunk on the way back, wandering all over the footpath, stopping to wee half way back, making no effort at all to shield his little worm from my eyes. When we reached my room, he fell back onto the bed with his arms wide, and said, in the campest voice he could muster, "Strip me, baby." I laughed at his little act, but did as he asked, kissing all over his arms, legs, torso, face as I did so, then leaning down to hoover up his little willy, which had somehow remained soft, presumably due to the numbing effects of the cider. It didn't stay that way for long. It was soon an iron-hard spike in my mouth, and I bobbed up and down on him for a few minutes, enjoying the taste of him, and the fact that the alcohol seemed to have dulled his hair trigger. By the time I let his stiff spike pop out of my mouth he had been moaning and writhing beneath me for about ten minutes, which was usually long enough to make him cum two or three times. He looked down at me through his open legs, and smiled, tugging at his erection. Then, shamelessly, he put his hands behind his knees and lifted his legs, exposing his tight, pink pucker to me. "Do it there, now," he said, his voice husky with passion. I leaned in and did exactly as I was told, swiping my tongue over his little rosebud, running it all the way up to his dick and repeating. A couple of minutes of that and his hole started to open up, flowering before me. I stuck my tongue into the opening, only for his arse to clamp down around it. But I had gained entry, and by twisting my tongue this way and that, was able to prise him further open. By the time my tongue was growing sore, his hole gaped, glistening wetly with my saliva, and Milo was lying in a sweaty, panting mass of limbs on the bed. He looked at me through lidded eyes. "Do it. Do it now," he whispered. i didn't need to ask what. I shed my clothes, throwing them on top of his, and pushed him up the bed, kneeling between his wide-apart legs. I leaned forward to kiss him passionately, then further forward still, breaking the kiss and looking down between our bodies to where my manhood pressed into the soft folds of his scrotum. We didn't need any extra help - the torrent of my precum which had been flowing freely for some time coated the underside of my dick, and had pooled within the foreskin. I reached down a hand and gently ran the tip of my dick down his perineum, and onto the deepest part of the valley below. His hole had closed up in fear, but as I gently applied pressure, and kept it there, he relaxed. Inside a minute his hole had spread around the tip of my dick, and I began to push inside. God it was tight in there. And hot, and silky soft, and all the things you would hope a young boy's arse would be. Everything you've fantasised about is true. It is a finer place to lodge your manhood than anywhere else in the world. I looked down at Milo, who was looking up at me as I penetrated him, a look of slightly drunken reverence on his face. Then, all of a sudden, as my head pushed him to his fullest, he started laughing. I stopped and looked down at him, and his giggles subsided, but as I pushed forward once more, he burst out laughing again. "I'm sorry!" he managed to get out between gulps of air, "but it really tickles!" "Tickles? Doesn't hurt?" "Nope," he said, shaking his head emphatically. "What about if I do this?" I said, surging forward into him. A change came over him. The laughter died on his lips, and instead they formed a perfect `o'. "Oh, shit..." he breathed. "Oh shit, that's really big. That feels so strange." "Want me to take it out?" I asked, concerned that in my lust I might have gone too far. "No, no, no! Leave it in. Leave it in. It's just... it doesn't tickle any more. You hit that thing inside which made it good, but you hit it much harder." I looked down to where our bodies joined. Half of me was buried inside his tight little bum. I didn't think it likely that any more would fit in. "Want me to hit it again?" He nodded. "Just once, though. Just do it once." I slid out until I could see his distended ring of muscle bulge as the flare of my crown tugged at it, then pushed back in, settling maybe a little further inside than before. His dick, which had gone a little limp, surged back to full hardness in the space of a heartbeat. "Oh wow, oh wow!" she said breathlessly. "Do it again!" I did so, then again, and again. The angle must have been perfect, because on each thrust his body responded - his willy jumped, his abs tightened, his breath was reduced to a ragged gasp. I started pumping him, desperately trying to make him cum from merely the sensation of being fucked before I lost it in him and couldn't get him there. But my efforts were to no avail - my orgasm built far too quickly, brought on by the hot, tight, wet grasping walls of his rectum. I lunged into him one more time and came hard, splashing volley after volley up inside him. He groaned at the sensation, eyes squeezed shut, as if he didn't want to believe what was happening. I made a few more feeble thrusts into him and then stopped, leaning over him with my manhood still buried in his backside. I was dripping with sweat, and chronically out of breath. My heart was still pounding so hard in my chest that I was worried I was going to have a heart attack. Milo was looking up at me, but I didn't know what to say to the boy. He'd just given his virginity to me, and had, if you believed the evidence of his still-granite penis, thoroughly enjoyed himself. I had reached the absolute pinnacle of boy loving, and was as content as a person could ever be. -- That was, it turned out, as intimate as Milo and I were ever allowed to be, for as we entered the last week of filming, Milo's long-forgotten Mother came back into his life, after three weeks. I use the capital M most deliberately. Her name was Margaret, but I only found that out by asking Milo. She preferred to be called Mrs Forster. She was one of the pushiest, most self-absorbed people I have ever met, and that makes it all the more remarkable that she could have given birth to so perfect a little human as Milo. And she took him from me, which as far as I was concerned was the last straw. My enmity for her knew no limits. She whisked Milo away from the B 'n' B, stating that his room was unfit for him (which it was, though that was of little consequence given that he'd spent the last three nights in my bed). I saw him on set during the day, of course, but even then she hovered around, and seemed to be highly suspicious of my relationship with her boy. In which regard she was right, of course. I had spent three weeks working my way into his little pants, and it had culminated in me taking his cherry. It had been the most wonderful experience of my life - and his, he admitted later - and yet we'd been able to share it only once. There were a few times in that last week when we could sneak away long enough for me to suck him, or vice versa, but even those moments were frantic, and fraught with danger, when only a week previously they had been taken at leisure in my room. On the very last day, when we had finally heard the director tell us we'd wrapped, the end-of-shoot party kicked into life. It turned out to be the last time I would speak to Milo in person for nearly seven years. The way he talked to me that evening, and the maturity he showed, makes it seem in hindsight that he knew exactly what level of separation was coming. "I've had such a good time over the last few weeks," he told me when we'd finally managed to escape his mother's clutches. "Thanks for everything we... you know, we did. All those things. All the stuff you taught me. I won't forget you." I didn't answer. I couldn't. I leaned in to kiss him, softly, passionately. Finally. After a few seconds staring into his eyes, I found the ability to speak. "It's your birthday tomorrow, isn't it? You're turning eleven. And secondary school in the autumn?" He nodded, his eyes laden with unshed tears. "I got you a little something. Open it now, go on," I said, handing over a little tissue-paper wrapped parcel. He tore off the paper, revealing the long, thin oblong box beneath. He prized it open, and there sat a silver fountain pen, gleaming brightly in the late summer sun. "You said to me once that you love to write, and that when you get to secondary school you'll be allowed to use a fountain pen for your work. You seemed so excited by the idea. I hope it reminds you of me when I'm not around. And to make sure it does, have a look under the cap." He did so, and gasped - around the barrel, covered by the cap when it was in place, I had asked to be inscribed the words "My love, forever, ZM" in minuscule lettering. The tears which had lingered unshed in his eyes finally flowed, wetting his cheeks with two long lines. "Thank you," he whispered. "For everything."