Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:04:43 -0400 From: Eric Murphey Subject: Transitions: Swiss Family Murphey Section 1 Gay Adult youth Well, I guess you are reading. I got a ton of emails from you guys. Thanks I really enjoyed all of them. Some were really funny. Some were touching. Some threatened to beat me. In jest of course. I have heard from a lot of you that I had never heard from. I told most of the people that emailed me that a writer can only figure how many people are reading from emails. Im sure there is some way that I dont know of. But, I only got 2 emails on the second to last instalment of the last section. SO I figured no one was reading. Was I ever wrong. Not an uncommon thing for me. But, I hope you enjoy it. Donate to Nifty. Lets help them reach their monthly goal. Peace love and good happiness. Eric Transitions Swiss Family Murphey Section 1 Everything happened so fast there was very little time to do anything. When the plane hit the water the thing cracked in half. Eric always one to take the safety of his boys seriously remembered what they had been told to do in case of an emergency just like this. He knew a life raft was under Alejandro's seat. He grabs it quickly and pulls the chord to inflate it. He grabs Alejandro and Joey tossing the two crying and terrified boys in it. The water is just pouring in and he knows they have mere seconds to survive. He grabs as much stuff as he can he tosses all the water and food he can throw in it and screams at Tran to get in the raft as he is trying to get bags and things into the raft as well. Joey and Alejandro are crying terrified. Eric cant blame him he is too. The raft is half in the plane and trying to escape into the ocean.. Eric shoves the raft out of what used to be the side of the plane. But, now is a gaping hole. As he does he jumps in just as the plane sinks below the surface. He looks and the crew is safely in another raft floating about a hundred yards from them. The rain is pelting down on them and stinging Eric face. He is at a point in his life he just has no idea what to do. He isn't used to being out of control of something. But, even when we are in control are we really? He sees the other raft drifting away and they cant see them anymore. He grabs Alejandro and Joey and holds them to him. Them still crying and scared. "Poppi are we going to die?" Alejandro asks crying. "Not if I can help it." Eric answers trying to sound more sure of himself then he really is.. But, really has no idea. But, at least they are still alive so far. So there is a chance. "I am sure that soon they will find us and we will be rescued." Eric says not sounding as sure as he wanted it to sound. The rain is freezing cold and Eric searches in the pockets of the life raft and finds some emergency blankets. He and the boys strip to nothing and cuddle up together to share body heat. They all lay down in the bottom and use a few of the blankets to cover themselves and try to protect themselves from the rain. They float around for about an hour and exhaustion from the fear has overtaken the boys. Eric is just thinking what to do and how to do it to get them rescued. He has to save his boys at all costs. Even if it means his own life. His boys are the most important thing to him. After another hour it stops raining and the sun breaks through the clouds. A very welcomed sight as the ocean starts to calm a little. Eric sits up and recovers the boys. He scoops as much of the water out of the raft as he can with his hands. It takes him a good while but, he manages. Tran is the first to wake up. He looks around and then at Eric. "Oh Ba I was hoping it was a bad dream." He says, as tears start falling from his eyes. "Its going to be OK buddy. I just know it." Eric says opening his arms to Tran. Who quickly crawls in them. Eric holds him as he cries it out. Eric cant help it he starts crying too feeling completely helpless and useless for the boys he has been entrusted to love and care for. Its all in the hands of the fates now. After a few intense minutes of them losing it together Eric finally gets it together. "OK we need to be strong now. We have to be to survive. Now lets take inventory of everything we have. So we can figure out what we need to do." Eric and Tran carefully move around the raft. Its really a large one that can fit about ten people in it easily. So they see they have 2 cases of water. Four cases of assorted sodas. A shit ton of chips and snacks. It was right there so Eric grabbed anything he thought they may need. He also got some pre made meals they had on the plane as well. So Eric figures they can last about a week and a half if they don't get rescued or find land. Soon Alejandro and Joey wake up and are looking around. "It stopped raining at least." Joey says. "Yeah. Poppi are we going to be OK?" "I think so buddy. We have a lot of food and drinks to last until we get rescued. We also have a lot of things Tran grabbed all of your carry ons. So you have some clean clothes and whatever else is in your back packs. "I'm really sorry guys." Joey says. "For what?" Eric asks. "If it wasn't for me we would all be at home right now. Probably eating lunch and watching TV or playing games. Its all my fault." He says starting to cry. Eric isn't having it. "Its most certainly not your fault. It was lightening that hit the engine that caused this. Sure we could be at home right now. But, right now we are safe and that's all that matters right now. So no more of this bullshit you blaming yourself for all the worlds problems." Joey is kind of shocked at Eric being so blunt and forceful. Especially when he swore Dad doesn't swear much. But, he knows he is right. However, he still cant help feeling a bit guilty. They end up floating around for a day and a half and try to be calm as they really have no idea of their fates. Eric is trying to make it an adventure for them. As it also eases his mind to think of it that way too. Otherwise he would just be scared shitless. At night the boys sleep and Eric looks for boats or planes. He sleeps during the day and the boys keep watch. If you consider 2 hours enough. Tran had a pack of cards in his bag so they end up playing games to pass the time. Eric is sleeping and the boys are playing a game of gin rummy when Eric is awakened by the squawk of a sea gull. His eyes shoot open. "Wheres the bird at?" He asks quickly. The boys didn't even hear it. "What bird Poppi?" "Shh listen." So they all did. They spotted it about half a mile from them. Eric whoops and hollers in excitement. "Why are you so excited dad?" "If there's a bird near there is land near." "Cool." "So start looking everywhere boys for any signs of land." The boys all stare out looking for anything. It takes about 4 hours when Tran screams. "THERE!!!!" And points excitedly. It takes Eric a minute to focus but, sure enough its an island off in the distance. "If it has fresh water we will be alright." Eric says seeing the lush vegetation on the island. Surely there is enough for them to eat. It looks pretty big. Maybe just maybe other people are on it and they will be free from this soon. It takes them the rest of the day to maneuver to the island. Its getting dark when they get close enough Eric jumps out and pulls the boys and raft to the beach. Once they are on the land the boys jump out and hug the island. Meaning they laid on the sand arms splayed out. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." Alejandro says. It is getting close to dark and Eric has the boys help and they quickly unload the raft onto the island a good ways from the water. Eric pulls the raft up on shore with the boys help as its pretty heavy. "Tonight we will have to sleep in the raft again. But, tomorrow we will explore and hopefully find some other people. I don't want to risk it at night. We have no idea whats out there. We could fall off a cliff or something. So boys lets settle in and try to get some sleep." They all snuggle together and pull one of the crinkling blankets over them. None of them had seemed too interested in putting on clothes yet. So they all slept naked huddles up together. All happy to be alive and finally on land. They all slept pretty soundly now feeling a bit more safe. In the morning Eric was awakened by the sun beating down on his face and hearing the crashing of the waves on the beach. He looks down at the sleeping boys all lightly snoring and smiles. "Thank you whoever is in charge of this world for saving my boys." He says to the sky. He gets out of the raft and starts to look around the shoreline. He wanders into the woods or jungle whatever it should be called. He isn't sure. He sees there are fruit bushes and he knows they are edible. He also sees a ton of coconut trees. So he knows they wont starve at least. If need be they can collect rain water and dew to drink. Watching Tom Hanks a million times in the movie he was a Fed Ex worker and the plane went down. He cant think of the movies name right now. Usually he would google it. But, now he has to rely on his brain. Who would have thought. He finds a few trees bunched together and smiles. He looks around and its close to the water. But, into the woods so they cant be seen if they don't want to be. "That will be perfect I think." He says looking at it. He goes out to the beach and wakes the boys. "Come on guys. Daylight is wasting. We need to explore the island. Hopefully we find a hotel around the corner. So put on some clothes and defiantly your shoes. As we don't know what we will have to walk through. We have to be protective of our feet and everything else as well. We may not have a doctor or hospital available for a very long time." Eric and the boys enjoy some of the meals they still had left with a bottle of water. Eric is missing his coffee now. He has a bit of a headache he knows he needs the water. But, has as soda instead to beat down the caffeine headache he has going. "OK guys lets clean our mess and look at everything here." Eric says. They walk around the perimeter of the island. Sadly not finding another soul. Eric figures its about four miles around. They go into the woods and after an hour they find a stream that leads into a little pond. They all get on their knees and lap up the water enjoying the fresh cool taste of it. "OK guys this really isn't that far from where we have all of our things. So this is great. So know we know we have fresh water we need to start working on our house." "Our house?" Alejandro asks. "Yes buddy we need somewhere to keep us out of the rain and other elements. I have the perfect spot in mind." So they all follow Eric and he shows them. "Why in the trees dad?" "Because we don't know what kind of animals are here. It will be safer to sleep in the air where nothing will be able to get at us while we sleep." Tran shivered when he thought of that. It took them the rest of the daylight to gather things that will help them build their tree house. They slept again on the beach in the raft. Alejandro woke up first and he rubs his eyes and looks around at the water. He looks at his family and smiles. Because he knows they are all safe and Poppi will get them saved. If not, at least it will be OK here with everyone he loves except Cindy. He scratches his balls and strokes his morning wood a couple times. He decides to go into the woods to pee. First he puts on shoes as he remembers poppi saying they have to protect their feet. He goes in a little ways and starts peeing on a tree. He looks around the heavily forested area. He can still see the beach. But, cant see all the way into the wooded area. As with all boys and woods it is calling him in. Come in and explore. It is screaming at him. He looks back at the beach at his family still asleep. No one will know it says. He looks back into the woods and off he goes unable to resist the temptation. As he is going along he makes markers so he doesn't get lost. That would really suck he thinks. Then I would be double lost. He walks along about ten minutes or so checking out the way cool wildlife. Real life parakeets he sees flying around. This is so cool. He hears some chattering in a tree near him and looks up. "Oh Hi I didn't see you there." Alejandro says. "chatter chatter." "I like monkeys. I got one at home. He looks a lot like you. His name is Jorge." "chatter chatter." "Sure. I talk to him all the time. I wish I would have brought him. I really want him now. I'm really scared. See we were in a plane and it crashed. We got on a raft and now we are here. But, we don't know where here is And people don't know where here is either. So I want to go home. But, even if we cant at least I got my poppi and my brothers here. So it wouldn't be terrible. Just kind of sucky. Cuz I'm sposed to get married to Cindy." "Chatter chatter." The monkey grabs a banana and peels it back and starts eating and listens to the Alejandro. "So see I miss her. I usually see her everyday. But, Joey is famous now and he is a singer. So we had to go on a tour of the whole wide world. That's why we were on the plane." "Chatter chatter." The monkey drops the peel and grabs another. He looks at Alejandro and holds it up. "Yes please." He says to the monkey. Who tosses it down. Alejandro catches it and smiles up at the monkey. "Thank you." He peels it and eats it. "Wow we don't got bananas like this at home. These are really good." He says and eats it quickly. He looks at the monkey. "Hey you think I can get a few more for my poppi and brothers?" The monkey looks at him. Chatters a second and Alejandro acts like he is eating another banana. The monkey grabs a bunch of bananas from the tree and drops them down. Alejandro catches them and lets out an umph. "Bananas are heavy." He says to the monkey who in turn chatters back. So Alejandro follows his trail back that he marked carrying a bunch of bananas. He notices that they cut his arm a little when he caught them. But, its only bleeding a little. He walks out onto the beach and sees his poppi is looking around rubbing his eyes. He smiles when he sees Alejandro. "Morning buddy. Your up early." Eric says to him. "Yeah I had to pee really bad." "Where did you find the bananas?" "Jorge gave them to me." Alejandro says. "Excuse me?" Eric says. "Jorge gave them to me. See he is right over there in the tree. He followed me back," Eric looks and sees the little monkey in the tree eating on something. "Well, Ill be. That's the coolest thing I think I have ever seen." "That's what I thought poppi. Then I was just talking to him and he was eating a banana then he gave me one. Then I said hey can I get a few more. Cuz you know my family is probably thinking they would like a banana. So he gets me this big bunch here." He says holding them up. He lifts his arms up higher as if Eric didn't already see them there. Eric pulls one off peels it takes a bite. He looks over at the tree lifts the banana. "Thank you Jorge." "Chatter chatter." With that Eric took another bite. "Man these are good." "That's what I told Jorge." Eric looks back over and something else has the monkeys attention and he races off through the trees. "That was really neat. I wonder if we will see him again?" Eric asks. "Prolly. I think we might be friends now." Alejandro says smiling "I'm sure you are." Eric says ruffling his hair. Alejandro puts the bananas in the raft so they aren't on the ground. "So how are you doing buddy?" "I'm a little scared poppi but its kind of like that movie we watched like forever ago. Swiss Family Robinson. 'Cept we are Swiss Family Murphey." Alejandro says laughing at his own joke. Eric laughs at him. "Yep that's us Swiss family Murphey." Eric says making Alejandro laugh even more. There laughter is waking the other two. "Whats so funny?" Joey asks looking through irritated sleepy eyes. "Your brother." Eric says. He says we are Swiss family Murphey now." "I saw that movie a long time ago." Tran says. "It was good I liked it." "We should build a house like theirs." Alejandro says. "Buddy. We will be lucky to get a roof and walls. Forget any fancy goings on." Eric says. "Well maybe if we are here a while. We can do stuff like that." Alejandro says. "Yes I imagine if we are here a while we will do things like that." "Ba do you think we will be rescued?" "I don't know. I hope so. But, if they don't find us in a couple weeks I would guess they will think we are dead. So I am thinking that the next two weeks is the best chance. So we need to put up a big. REALLY BIG SOS sign on the beach first thing this morning. We should have yesterday. I don't know what I was thinking. But, then again we didn't see any planes or anything. So no harm no foul. I will just have to make sure to do things right from now on. So that we can get back to civilization. That and it upsets me to think of all our friends worried about us. I think that's the worst part. I cant just text them and say hey we are OK. "Yeah that's got to suck for them. I didn't think about that. Oh what about all Joeys fans. They are going to be devastated. Tran says. "Yeah a lot of little girls will be crying today." Eric says. "Man that really sucks. I don't want people upset." Joey says. "None of us do. But, this is one of the things we cant fix ourselves. We have to have help on this one." So they spent the next few hours dragging felled wood to the beach and spelled out SOS in huge letters. Then the boys dug out help in massive letters on the beach as well. Like in that movie. Damn." Eric says once again trying to remember the name of that Tom Hanks movie. "What poppi?" "I cant think of a name of a movie. Google has made my brain lazy." "Which movie?" "If I knew that I wouldn't be upset." "No whats it about?" "Its got Tom Hanks and he is in a pla....." "Castaway Poppi. You have watched it a million times." Eric conks his forehead with the palm of his hand. "Castaway. I kept thinking shipwrecked. But, no. no ship. so on and so forth. Been trying to think of it for two days." "Shoulda asked." Alejandro says smiling. Eric just chuckles. They go about and put up the flooring of the little tree house. Eric is pretty pleased it is working. He had watched a few shows over the years on how to build things in situations like this. It is really paying off watching shows that you think. Why am I watching this? Well, heres why. Its a detailed process to get the wood cut and to the right length but they did it and did it pretty well. When the sun goes down they sit on the beach and chat about the day. How much fun they had even though they are lost. But, it was fun because they were together. After an hour or so the hard work of the day took its toll. Eric and the boys climbed up the tree and into their little tree house. As in little Eric's bed at home is about this size. That's why he put rails up so no one falls out. Eric dreams about Rancho Cucamonga for some reason. He wakes up thinking I have never even been to Rancho Cucamonga. I just think its fun to say. He puts it out of his head and looks over at the boys. He smiles at them. He carefully climbs down the rope ladder he and Tran made yesterday. Its works pretty good. Thanks Tom Hanks for teaching us how to use the bark from young trees to make rope. Eric thinks. He walks to the beech and looks out at the ocean before him. He thinks if they had to live the rest of their lives here at least its really pretty. But, a cup of coffee sounds pretty good right now. He walks to the ocean and the water is lapping at his feet. He looks down and sees the white bubbles in the water. He starts singing softly. "Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shinin. Shine on the one that gone and left me blue." He hears behind him another voice joining in softly. "It was on a lonely moon lit night." He knows its Alejandro. "The stars shining bright." Eric sings to him. "I love you Poppi." "I love you too Alejandro." "You want to go with me to see if we can find Jorge again this morning?" "Sure thing buddy that sounds like fun." Eric says smiling at him. Thing is it really did sound like fun. Kind of an adventure. He needs to think of some ways to entertain the boys while they are here. Pretty soon the work will be done then lots of boredom after. Of course they will have daily tasks but, that will probably only take a few hours. Eric takes Alejandro outstretched hand and they walk together into the woods. Alejandro is chatting away and Eric listening. "See this is the path I took yesterday. I marked it like you taught me to do so I don't get lost." "Your very smart." "No your very smart for teaching me that." "OK we are both smart." Eric says chuckling as they continue into the woods. He has decided to call it woods. May be wrong. But, who is here to correct him? "So I was over here peeing and looked up cuz I heard something and he was right there." Alejandro says pointing. "I wonder if he has a family?" "Gosh poppi I never asked him." "Could you have understood if he answered?" "Well, no but it would have been polite to ask anyway." Eric shrugs. "I cant argue that." "Jorge? Where you at buddy?" Alejandro says in a loud voice. They hear leaves rustling in the distance and a second later hear. "Chatter chatter." "Hey Jorge. I hope you slept good last night." "Chatter chatter." "Cool. This is my poppi. I wanted to introduce him to you. We was wondering you got a family?" "Chatter chatter." Alejandro sees a fruit bush and pulls off a piece. "This OK poppi?" "Yes." "Cool." He says and pops it in his mouth. "MM its so good. Jorge you want one?" "Chatter chatter." He picks one off and stands under the branch Jorge is on and tosses it up and Jorge snags it out of mid air and pops it in his mouth. "Chatter." "Your welcome." "It was nice to meet you Jorge. But, we better get back in case the boys wake up. We don't want to scare them not being there." "Yeah I never thought of that." Alejandro looks big eyed at Eric. "Maybe Jorge will follow us again today." "You want to come meet my brothers Jorge?" He says looking up at the little monkey. "Chatter chatter." "Well come on then." He says waving his hand for him to follow. Eric is surprised thought not really that the monkey follows them in the trees. It isn't really that far to their camp? He thinks. They reach the beach and see Joey peeing into the ocean. Alejandro giggles at this. Eric just smiles as he watches him arch his stream trying to get a higher arch. Boys. He thinks. They walk over to where he is. "Good morning Joey." Eric says. "Morning guys." He says as he looks over his shoulder. "Tran said he was going to look for some bananas. He said he really liked them a lot." "They are really good." Alejandro says agreeing. They see Tran come out of the woods with another bunch of bananas. One in his hand eating it the others over his shoulder. His bunch is like a real whole bunch from the tree. "I got bananas." "Chatter chatter," "Well give one to Jorge." Alejandro says putting his hand on his hip. "Sure." Tran says smiling. He tears one off and tosses it carefully up to the monkey. "There ya go Jorge." Tran says. Jorge looks at him and peels open the banana and starts eating. Alejandro just smiles. They all sit around for a little while having bananas for breakfast. "I want carrot cake." Joey says out of the blue. "I want ice cream." Tran says. "I want a cheeseburger." Alejandro says. "I want coffee. Like a gallon." Eric adds in. "Well, you guys sit here for a while. I got a few things I need to get done first and then I will need your help. So stay here I don't want to have to hunt you boys down when I need you." "Sure dad. We will be right here when you get back." "I love you boys. I don't tell you that enough." "Poppi we love you too. And you say it like all the time." "Too much then?" "No its just right dad." "Yeah ba." "I will be back in a jiffy." Eric turns and goes on his task and walks up and down the coastline for about a half mile. He checks things and smiles as he goes around. He gets back about half an hour after he left them. He hears them talking. "French Lick." Alejandro says and giggles. "Toad Hop." Tran says. "No way is there a place called Toad Hop." Alejandro says. "Its in Arkansas buddy." Eric says as he walks up. "No way." "Yep its north of Little Rock. Not a big town but, still called Toad Hop." "I got one I'm so gonna win with this one." Joey says. They look at him. "Titicaca. He says giggling. "Nuh uh no city called shitty boobs." Alejandro says giggling. "Well there's a Lake Titicaca. I don't think a city. But, it is a funny name." Eric says. "Where is it ba?" "Its in South America. I believe between Bolivia and Peru. I know its on a mountain if i remember correctly. See I don't need google." "Cool." Tran says. "OK guys you have been a great help and I have a game for you." They all three look at Eric with excitement in their eyes. "I've walked along the beach and I have found some things that are easy to find others not so easy. But, they can all be gotten from or seen from the beach. I walked half a mile or so and it was all between here and there. SO we are going to have a treasure hunt>" "Way cool dad." "What do we gotta find poppi," "Yeah ba." Tran as excited as the younger boys. "OK I need a sand dollar. A leaf bigger then your heads. A red flower. I piece of green fruit. And last three different sea shells. You guys got that?" "Yeah its a sand dollar a leaf bigger them my head. A red flower and a green piece of fruit and it was three different sea shells." Joey says. Eric looks at him. "Why don't you do better in school?" He says then smiles. Joey giggles. "OK boys. On your mark. Get set. GOOO!!!" The boys race off down the beach and are looking frantically trying to beat their brothers to win. Win what they had no idea. They don't have anything to win really. But, they still want to win. Eric walks back to the little floor they built and looks up at it. "Your a sad little thing. But, you work." He starts making a wall when Alejandro comes back and smiles. "Sand dollar big leaf and green fruit." He dumps it and takes off. Eric continues his task and Tran shows up. "Three different sea shells. A sand dollar red flower." He drops them and takes off again Joey following up behind. "Red flower. Big ass leaf..." Eric clears his throat. "I mean leaf bigger then my head." He says smiling at Eric. "I thought that's what I heard." "And a sand dollar." He races off. Eric chuckles. "That boy I tell you. He is hard headed as me I think. But, I will win. Its for his own good." Eric has the wall put together when he sees Alejandro and Joey racing with Tran right behind them gaining speed. Tran overtakes them and he makes it to Eric first. "GREEN FRUIT AND A LEAF!!!" Tran shouts and he is breathing hard from running. "Good effort boys. Tran is just a little faster. But, you boys are clever so you will think of a way to beat him next time." "Tran is the winner by a hair." Eric says holding up Trans hand as you would a wrestler that just won a match. Tran just grins. "We will get you next time." Joey says smiling. "Even though I didn't win I had fun." Alejandro says. "Good I'm glad you liked it. I think we will start having a treasure hunt every few days so it stays fun for you guys. I will make it harder each time." Eric is starting to think its been three days they haven't seen plane one. They may be here for a while. Though he doesn't want the boys to think that. "Help me put this wall up and then we can get the others put up today. Maybe the roof started so if it rains we wont be soaked." "Sure dad." They indeed worked like little monkeys and got the roof on too. At the end of the day they all snuggled in together and slept peacefully through the night. Eric woke the next morning to being hit with something. He looks around and sees little seeds of some sort all around him. "What the...." Another seed hits him. He looks around and in the tree he sees Jorge. "What you want to play? Why are you waking me up the boys would be better." "Chatter chatter." "Whatever little guy. I got to pee. You want a piece of fruit?" Eric says holding it out so Jorge can take it. Which he does and takes a bite. "Chatter." "Your welcome. Now I got to pee before I burst." "Poppi who are you taking to?" Alejandro asks half asleep. "Your friend." Eric says pointing to Jorge eating his fruit. Alejandro smiles. "Mornin Jorge." "Chatter." And then a bite. "He woke me up I think he wants some company." Eric says getting up and climbing down the rope ladder. Eric heads into the woods and finds a tree that seems to need his watering. He lets loose and thinks of his dream he had last night. "Rancho Cucamunga. Why do I keep dreaming of that place I have never even been there before." He says to himself. He gets done and he heads to the beach to look around and see if anything is different. He sees the same things he saw yesterday. He strolls down the beach and hears Alejandro laughing. He looks back and sees Jorge swinging from tree to tree. Eric smiles and takes a little walk. He has a lot on his mind and he ends up walking the entire perimeter of the island. It takes him a few hours and when he gets back he is as confused about his dream as before. But he also noticed that the other side has a very large beach as well and he thinks he and the boys need to put a SOS sign on that beach as well. When he gets back he isn't really talkative and the boys notice. "Ba whats wrong?" Eric lets out s sigh. "Walk with me." Tran and Eric walk off and take a stroll down the beach for a few hundred yards. When Eric stops he looks at Tran. "I'm really upset today." "I know Ba whats going on?" "Do you know what today is?" "Thursday? I think." "It is Thursday. But, its Alejandro 10th birthday. I had a big party planned. Lots of people getting flown in for his day. I had it all set up all the things he loves. Now I cant do anything for him." Eric says a tear slipping from his eye. Tran moves in and wraps his arms around Eric. Eric of course wraps his arms around him. "Ba Alejandro doesn't care about that stuff. He is happy just with you. Everyone knows that." Tran says his face next to Eric's chest and he looks up to Eric as he says it. "I want to give him everything. Well, all of you guys really. I mean he had a really, really bad life before." "I know he and Joey have told me about it. It breaks my heart cuz he is such a great little guy. I cant imagine anyone ever hurting him." "You know what the worst part is?" "What?" "I don't even think he realizes its his birthday." "BA even if he does he doesn't care. I mean he might care. But, he knows we cant do anything. Not fancy but, we can do some stuff." Eric nods his head. "True." "How about...." And the planning begins. Tran and Eric talk a few minutes and Tran goes off into the woods and he comes back with four of the huge leaves. He and Eric form them into little, OK big party hats. Tran is giggling and they get them done. When they get back to their camp they see Alejandro and Jorge playing. Alejandro is chasing him around the beach and then they switch and Jorge chases Alejandro. They are both giggling? Do monkeys giggle? He sounds like he is. Joey is sitting watching them and laughing at them. When Eric and Tran walk up the boys see them and stop. "Whats with the hats dad? You look goofy as fuc....all get out." Eric looks at Joey at his almost slip up. "Well, it seems we have someone on the island today that is turning the big one zero." Eric says. Alejandro just beams. "Happy birthday Alejandro. I wish we weren't here. But, I am glad we are together to celebrate your happy day. I love you so much." Alejandro just smiles. Joey starts the birthday song and Eric and Tran are in on the second word. Tran puts hats on the boys and they finish singing to Alejandro. He starts giggling. "Whats so funny? We didn't sing that bad." Eric asks. Alejandro looks down. "I got a birthday boner." Sure enough his little brown pole is standing at attention. "Can I help you with that? Give you a birthday BJ?" Tran asks. "Well, sure." He says smiling. Tran has him lay on the beach and begins to suck him gently then picks up a bit of speed. Alejandro is panting heavily and it doesn't take him but two minutes to get his tingles. "Wow you been learning from poppi. That was really great. Thanks. Want me to do you now?" "Nah its your birthday I want it all about you little brother." Alejandro lifts up and hugs him. "I don't mind. I like doing it." "I know. But it was just for you." "Yeah hey later I will give you a birthday blow job too. Since we cant give you anything really." Joey says. "Cool. I like them a lot." He says giggling. "We know you do horn dog." Tran says and starts tickling him. Alejandro wiggles and giggles and shakes and laughs. "I'm gonna pee." He warns. Tran looks at him. "So pee. We are on the beach." And continues tickling him. Eric is amazed he wasn't really sure that you could tickle a boy until he pees as he has always let them go. But, sure enough you can. He sees the stream coming from Alejandro little guy spraying both him and Tran. "Eww." Tran says giggling and still tickling. He finally relents when Alejandro is done peeing. "I told you." Alejandro says giggling. "You did. I got to go in the water and wash this off." Tran says laughing. "Me too." Alejandro says and he gets up and he and Tran get in the ocean and wash off. "So dad we can have another treasure hunt and let him win." "You know your brother would know if you let him. He wouldn't like that at all." "True. But, what can we do?" "Well, I thought I would go and see if I can find something really pretty for him. I don't know a flower or a sea shell. I don't know something pretty is all. Something I know he will think is cool." "Cool I'm gonna do that too. But, dad I think what he would want most is to just spend the day with you. Just you and him. I know he loves us but, dad he......... I don't know. You are everything to him. I think I made that sound right." "You did. I understand how he feels. You boys are everything to me." "So you going to spend the day with him?" "Yes. I think its a good idea. You know what. I think that this is a Murphey family tradition in the making. I think on each of your boys birthdays it will just be e and them all day. Just having fun doing whatever you guys want to do. But, today I think I will have him help me with a project. I will hunt for a gift as we go." "Whats the project?" "I walked around the island this morning. I saw the other side has a huge beach almost as big as this one. I figured put an SOS sign on that side too. More signs more chance to be seen." "Cool. Do you need help?" "Not today. But, we may not get it done. I will pack up a little lunch for us and we will head out." "Cool dad. I know what I want to do on my birthday already." Eric cocks his head. "Whats that?" "Get off this stinking island." "I hope we are off long before that." "Me too." Eric goes and packs up a little back pack one of the boys has. He puts in some fruits and a couple bags of chips they have left still. Only a few more after this. He is going to have to learn to fish because fruit isn't enough for the boys. Wonder if these little lizards taste good? He wonders as one zips in front of him. Probably not. Alejandro and Tran come back up from the water and Eric tells them he and Alejandro are going to spend the day together and work on a project. Alejandro is beaming with the news. Tran and Joey hug him good bye and give him a kiss and tell him they will see him later. Eric and Alejandro start to walk around the island. He would cut a cross but, its pretty rough terrain. That and he cant walk naked through the woods. He is really enjoying the freedom of being nude all the time. Its really refreshing he thinks. "Poppi?" "Yeah buddy?" "Do you think we will be found?" "I hope so. Because I cant wait to see you and Cindy get married. Not to mention my little grand babies you will have. I am so going to spoil them." "Of course you will poppi. You spoil us guys." "Its because I love you is why. But, you do have chores and have responsibilities too. So your not spoiled rotten. Just spoiled." "Yeah but, we appreciate everything you do for us too." "Even eat your Lima beans." "Well, most everything." He says giggling. They walk a while longer. "Poppi you really think Cindy and I will have children?" "I would be surprised if you didn't." "Yeah." He says thinking. They walk in silence a few minutes. "How many you think we will have?" "Oh I don't know as much as you two love each other I would bet a hundred." "A HUNDRED?!?! No way poppi. Maybe like 3 or 4." Eric is laughing at him now. "Your pulling my leg poppi." "You bet I am." Eric says laughing at him. "But I do think you will have beautiful babies. How could you not. You are both the cutest little boy and girl ever." "Whatever?" Alejandro says rolling his eyes. They get to the beach after about an hour and they sit and relax. Alejandro using Eric for a chair. Eric leaning against a tree. "Poppi if we weren't stuck here it would be real nice wouldn't it?" Eric nods. "Yes it is really nice here. Beautiful really. I guess we could be stuck in worse places." "Yeah like Antarctica. Its super cold there. I mean I like snow and stuff. But all the time." "Yeah and you cant really go outside without a lot of coats on and big mittens. You would freeze if you didn't. So I doubt it would be any fun at all." "No prolly not." "You hungry?" "Yeah." He says smiling. Eric opens the bag and they dig in. "I like the chili cheese fritos the best." Alejandro says crunching on one. "I know that's why i grabbed that one for you. "Here have a banana I don't want you just eating chips. Even if it is your birthday. So hows it feel to be ten now?" Alejandro thinks a minute. His head cocked sideways one eyebrow lifted in contemplation. "Bout the same way as 9." Eric laughs at him. "I love you so much. You are so funny." "Want to hear a joke Poppi?" "Sure buddy." "What do you get when you pick a pigs nose." "Ewww." "Ham Boogers." He says like Pee Wee Herman. Eric laughs at him "That's funny. Gross but funny." "What do you call a guy that wont fart in public?" "I don't know." Eric says still chuckling. "A private tooter." "Oh shoot buddy." Eric says pushing Alejandro shoulder. "I got another one. What does a cloud wear under his raincoat?" "No idea." "Thunderwear." "Aww shoot buddy." Eric says laughing. "Thunderwear I'm going to have to remember that one to tell Mathew when we get back." "I hope they aren't too upset poppi." "Yeah I hadn't really thought about Sue and Mathew too much. I I mean what she must be going through right now. She just moved out of her apartment into our house. Now we are missing she is probably in a panic." "Yeah prolly. I just feel bad for all of Joeys fans. They don't know whats going on with him. I mean a plane crash. That's usually pretty bad huh?" "Yeah usually not a great ending. But it was for us. So far at least." "So poppi what am I helping you with?" "I'm surprised it took you so long to ask. We are going to make an SOS sigh on this beach too." "Cool that's fun." "Yep and here are some pants for you and me." Eric says pulling them out of the bag." Alejandro sighs. "I know its nice being naked all the time isn't it?" "Yeah. Shame we never could go to that nudist colony thing." "Yeah I think that would have been fun." "Lets get started then." "Kay." They work a few hard hours pulling out limbs and things. They do a pretty good job at it. Eric thinks it will stay in place. But, will come back in a day or two to check to make sure. Its not as big as the other one. But its a good thirty feet high. Not as thick as the other either. But they will add to it as time goes by. If they have too. Alejandro and Eric walk back hand in hand back to the camp. When they get back they see Joey and Tran racing towards them. Their faces, and bodies are painted in something. "Welcome to your birthday extravaganza." Tran says in an announcers voice. Alejandro looks around and he sees ropes hung around a few trees and on them are pretty flowers along it. He sees the boys have started a fire. Eric had showed them how they just hadn't needed one yet. So why waste resources when you don't have to. Dont know how long you will be here. But, its surrounded by rocks they had gathered. "Wow guys this is so neat." He says looking around his mouth partly open. "We hoped you would like it." Joey says smiling. "It was mostly Joeys idea. I just helped." "What can I say I know my brother. He likes pretty things. Just look at Cindy." He says lifting his eyebrows a few time. Alejandro giggles. So do Tran and Eric. "Now this isn't the best part. Tran saw some crabs and he got em. We are gonna have crab tonight. We can put em in the fire now." "Yum." Alejandro says. "No butter though." Joey says. "So its still good." "Yeah it is." He says smiling. "You guys caught crabs?" Eric asks. "Yeah. It wasn't that hard." Tran says. "I'm impressed." He says making Tran swell with pride. "Well we better get them to cooking." Tran says racing off to do that. "I better help." Joey says. taking off after him. "I got the best brothers poppi." "You sure do buddy. Crab is always nice. Being here it will be even nicer I bet." "Poppi?" "Yeah?" "Lets go eat." He says racing off towards the boys. Eric laughs and takes after him. Alejandro giggling the whole way. They both fall in the sand by the fire and Eric pulls him to him hugging him. They all sit around and eat the crabs. They were delicious even without butter. ""Now we made a game for you Alejandro. We want you have a great birthday." Tran says. "Yeah. If you look around we have hidden certain things from the real world all around the perimeter of our little yard I guess it is. Its all hidden and there are six items. You got to find them." Joey says smiling. "Cool." Alejandro jumps up ans starts looking for things. He finds three right off the bat. He found a bottle of water, a can of coke and a bag of chili cheese fritos. He is looking around humming and finds a pack of gum. "Cool." He opens it and pops a piece in his mouth. "You guys want some?" "I'm good. But, thanks." Eric says. "No little brother not right now. Maybe later." Tran says. "Sure." So Joey and Alejandro are chewing there gum and Alejandro giggles when he finds the last item. He had been looking on the ground the whole time. Hanging from a tree branch is a candy bar. Just a Hershey's. But, candy none the less. "So cool." He says snatching it off the limb giggling still. They all gather around the fire and are talking. Alejandro opens the candy and breaks a piece off and hands it to Joey. "No its your birthday its for you." Joey says. "Poppi, Tran you want some?" "No its for you. They say nearly at the same time. "I cant enjoy it if you guys don't have some. It just wouldn't be as good." Eric smiles. "Alright I will have a piece." "Cool." Alejandro says breaking it off and handing them each a section of the chocolate bar. They savor it. Allowing it to melt on their tongues. After they chat a bit more they all decide to climb up to their house and get to sleep easily. ericmurphey1971@gmail.com Donate to Nifty