Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 18:14:09 -0500 From: D Dragi Subject: Chapter 12: The Courage to Care Please give generously to nifty to keep this great site going. If you are enjoying this story send some money to nifty to say thanks. Editors Note: Sorry for the long delay between chapters. Between the holidays and being promoted into a new job at work, and being poked, prodded and tested for cancer I really didn't have much time to right. Fortunately all the test results were negative so I am cancer free. If you would like to drop me line, please email me at tughill1383@yahoo.com Now that my life has finally settled down you can expect more chapters not need to wait so long. Chapter 12: The Unexpected Vic was still waiting outside the conference room waiting to be called in for his interview. It seemed an eternity to Vic as he was thinking about what he was going to say to the committee. Jake was his good friend and he didn't like what he heard. He was trying to think what he would do and say when he was called in to face the committee. Finally Mr. Kettleman came out and called Vic to come in and sit down. Mr. Jacoby apologized to Vic for the delay and hoped he wasn't upset by what happened. Vic looked at the committee members and said he was upset. He said "I'm upset about what I heard and how you treated my good friend Jake Pennington." "Jake is one of the most popular students in this school and not a single student could or would say a bad word about him." Jake is proud to be a student at Watson High School and in your opinion if you don't think he has the character to be a great representative of Watson you are dead wrong. Gentlemen I wish to withdraw my nomination for the youth student government conference. I don't want to be associated with an organization that will run my friend's name through the mud just because of his home life. Thank you for your time. Vic walked out of the conference room and the three men sat there just looking at one another. Kettleman said "now what the hell do we do?" Jacoby said "Jake is a great player and will probably bring Watson a conference championship and who knows how far he can take this team." "He handles himself well out there on the court and it has been one of hell of a season so far." Kettleman looked at Jacoby in disgust and said to have the representative from Watson be a kid being raised by two men is not normal. What would other conference members say if they found out. Evenowski said "does it really matter." "I mean shouldn't we be focused on the student and not his home life." Kettleman grew angry and said his home life is a reflection on who he is and what he is. He says he has two dads for Christ's sake. Not exactly a typical family. The three men went back and forth and the conversation dragged on and grew heated. Finally Jacoby said I think Jake would be a good representative and he has my vote. Evenowski added "I agree." Jake Pennington has my vote." Kettleman said in a frustrated and disgusted tone, "Well if you two are going to turn into a bunch of fag lovers that's your choice." But I'm not having some kid from a homo house represent Watson. I don't give a fuck how good he is on the basketball court. I cannot and will not condone his home life." It's just not natural. Jacoby stood up looked at Kettleman and said "I'm not judging the boy on his family. I'm judging him on his own merits and you should as well. Jacoby added, that's it the decision has been made by a vote of 2 to 1. Jake Pennington will represent Watson at the youth government conference. As I was heading to the cafeteria for lunch the school was abuzz about something. But every time I tried to find out what everyone was talking about they all got quiet. Finally I went to our table and saw everyone there and when I sat down they too went silent. I looked at them and said "Will someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" Vic looked at Jake and said "Well your dad Matt ripped the principal and the youth student government committee a new asshole over how they treated you yesterday. Your dad threatened to kick the shit out of the committee if they said anything more about you. He pretty much ripped them up one side and down the other. After I heard what happened I withdrew my nomination. "Why the hell did you do that Vic.?" "Because I'm your best friend you stupid asshole no one does that to my best bud." The table broke out in laughter and Connor said "You don't realize how many people around you have your back." Connor added saying I would have done the same. I just looked around at the table and knew what Connor said was true. I did have a group of good friends who would stand by me but only now it finally hit me. The rest of the school day flew by and it was time for practice. I grabbed Connor and took him in the bathroom and locked the door. I gave him a deep kiss and said I was sorry for the way I treated him yesterday. Connor said no big deal and we started kissing and when I reached down Connor was rock hard. I unzipped his pants and pulled out his cock and began moving my mouth up and down that stiff shaft. Connor was letting out moans of delight as I swallowed his dick all the way down so his pubes were in my face. He smelled good and I moved my tongue around his dick and that led to more moans from Connor. "Oh, that feels so good" he said to me. I started moving up and down his dick faster and then I felt his balls tense up and he shot a huge load in my mouth. I swallowed every drop and cleaned his dick. I looked at him and said "that's for yesterday." Connor had a big smile on his face and said I could get angry at him any time. I pulled out my dick and started stroking. It didn't take me long to cum and shot my load on to the tile floor. I cleaned it up and flushed it down the toilet. I unlocked the door and no one was in the hallway and Connor and I went to the locker room and got ready for practice. After practice, Brad was waiting outside and I got in the car. I asked him if Matt said anything about his visit to school today. Brad said he didn't know Matt went to school today. I told Brad that Matt had it out with the principal and the committee members and it was the talk of the school. Brad let out a deep sigh and said "that man does have a temper." "You don't want to be on the wrong side of Matt McNulty." When we got home I went inside looking for Matt. He was sitting on the couch in the living room reading the newspaper. He looked at me and asked how was my day? I said to him the real question is how was your day? I told him he was the talk of the school all day. He had a smirk on his face and asked why was that? Because you threatened the principal and the committee members that's why and my friend Vic withdrew his nomination because of what they did to me. Matt said he met Vic and said he's a good friend. I know Vic is a good friend but why the hell did you go around threatening the principal and the committee members. Didn't you think how it would effect me? And how did it effect you, he asked. Well I'm not going to represent Watson as the youth student government conference and everyone thinks my dad is a bad ass. Matt looked at me and said you know you were not going to be chosen to represent Watson at the conference and your dad is a bad ass when anyone comes after me or mine." I don't take shit from anyone and neither should you. I'm your father and I have a responsibility to protect you and that's what I did." I will always fight for what I love and hold dear and that includes you. I sat down on the couch thinking what Matt said and Brad came in. He looked at Matt and said "so how is the hot head doing." Brad you know I don't take shit from anyone and I wasn't going to let this one slide" I know and that is one of the many reasons why I love you. Brad went over and gave Matt a kiss and said he was going back to the kitchen to finish dinner. During dinner the phone rang and Brad answered the phone. Brad handed me the phone and said it was the principal. Matt perked up from his chair and was about to take the phone from me but Brad stopped him. Brad said, "Sit down hot head." Matt sat back down and both Matt and Brad were staring at me on the phone. The principal said he wanted to congratulate me for being chosen as Watson's representative to the Youth Government Conference. I asked him if the reason I was chosen was because the other two candidates withdrew. He said he did not know the other candidates withdrew but said the committee chose you. I thanked him and said good night. When I hung up the phone Brad looked at me and said "Well?" The principal wanted to let me know that I was chosen as the student representative for the Youth Government Conference. Brad clapped and cheered while Matt sat there with a sly smile on his face. Matt stood up and said "you deserve Jake and I'm proud of you." He then gave me a big bear hug. We finished dinner and I went upstairs did my homework and went to bed. I think I was in a little shock to know that I was chosen to be the representative and deep down I was looking forward to it. Friday finally arrived and we had our semi-final game against Amenia and Emerson was in the other semi-final against Rawling. The local media was looking forward to another battle between Watson and Emerson for the conference crown. While we easily beat Amenia the much anticipated match up between Emerson and Watson wasn't going to happen. Rawling upset Emerson in double overtime so next Friday it was going to be Watson versus Rawling for the conference title. I was a little disappointed that we wouldn't be playing Emerson again. I wanted to beat them to take the conference championship. Well I guess some things were not meant to be. After the game I went home to watch the late news and there it was the caption read "Dynamic Duo Dominates." When the sports section came on the coverage was mainly about the shocking upset of Emerson and only about thirty seconds about our game. That pissed me off but at least we did get some air time. I was looking forward to Saturday night because Connor, Ashley, Heather and I were going out to celebrate. I kept on thinking that just one more game and the conference championship would be ours.