Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:04:10 -0400 From: Mike & Bagger Subject: Mike Our Star Player II-I Sorry that its been so long in between stories that are fictional based on stories as told to me via a tape-recorded. First off I have to let you know the writer is blind, and is using a screen reader to try to make sure that the spelling is proper. An and all flames will be deleted immediately, and I am always open for possible story improvements. The characters are based on two friends of mine that meet during high school and some 30 years later still together as a couple. Mark has decided to take over this chapter and possibly the next as well because of what happened just after school got out, and what he did during the summer prior to football season practice as well as scrimmages along with the open of the season. It was nice having all those (AP) Advanced Placement Test over with so that Mike and I would be in the same grade instead of me always being 10 credits behind, and not listed as a Sophomore like I want to be when school starts up again in late August. Marty understood when I told him that I had agreed to watch Mike and my friends guide dog while he was in the hospital along with helping him out after he got released from the hospital. I had talked to Mike about helping me out with the lawn to earn a few extra dollars. It was like I had suggested that he be castrated as Mike yelled at me," Why work when dad has all that money". Well the week after school closed for the summer, and explaining to Marty that I had made a promise to our friend to watch his place, along with his guide dog while he was still in ICU after the surgery. Marty, really threw me for a loop by telling me that he was glad to see that I kept a promise, and Marty also told how proud he was of me that I wanted to earn my own money. I was invited to visit or stay at his Rehoboth Beach house if I had the time. Mike, was really mad at me because we where not going to be together all summer alone, and he told me that Marty had reduced his credit card because his dad told him that he should also have gotten a summer job like I had lined up. So until both Mike and Marty left for the shore house, I got the cold shoulder from Mike. He knew that I liked to be able to have my own money to buy something, and if I can not afford it than I would either have to hope to get it as a present for my birthday or Christmas. I wish that Mike had remembered the ring that I saved up to buy for him last year, and how proud I was that it was the ring that I had paid for by myself. Some of our classmates had been telling me to go ahead and become materialistic like Mike was, but that just was not me. I am so afraid that Mike will not want to be with me anymore because I am working this summer. Just to be on the safe side I had Marty draw up some legal papers so that our friend who I was going to be working for could if necessary take me to the doctor if I got sick. After I moved into our buddy Mike's house to take care of Bagger while he went into the University of Maryland Hospital for what I would consider as minor surgery, but than again I am not allergic to medicines like Mike. Bagger his black lab guide dog came right over to give me a big wet lick welcoming me to the house. It was really nice feeling loved again not just by Mike who listened to me cry about how Mike had treated me for the last few weeks, but to have his guide dog ( who had bonded with Mike already) show me the same unconditional love that all dogs have for any humans. I had taken Bagger for a long walk so that I could ask a couple of the neighbors to help me load some of the weights and deliver them to Mike's place. Marty got a call that probably scared the hell out of him not soon after both he and Mike arrived in Rehoboth Beach. First a couple of the neighbors called to tell him that some of the neighborhood kids where loading weights into their cars while I stood their with Bagger. He also got a call from Mike who supposedly chewed Marty a new asshole for raising such a spoiled brat ( that is what Mike said to Marty). He went into detail about all the crap that Mike had been doing to Mark, also he let Marty know that even though his surgery is scheduled for the morning that he has postponed it because Mark has been crying himself to sleep the past week thanks to "Our Star Player". Later on I found out that Mike had actually referred to him as "Mike Our Star Asshole", and he also informed Marty that as the new Principle of New Town High that he may have to take drastic action and force Marty's son sit the season out because of his actions in school towards another student. When Mike told me what he had told Marty about forcing Mike to sit out the season for his actions during the last weeks of school. All I was thinking was if I lose Mike and Marty totally cause of Mike's call to the beach house. I was told by Marty as well as our friend Mike that if anything should happen between Mike and myself that both where willing to open their houses to me so that I would not be taken away from my friends. After Marty called to tell me that our buddy Mike had called him in Rehoboth, to give him a piece of his mind and also to let Marty know he had postponed his surgery because of how upset I was about how Mike had been treating me since the Spring Fling. I asked Marty," Why would Mike postpone an important surgery like the one that he was scheduled for without telling or asking me if it was alright?". When Marty told me in nut shell how upset that our buddy Mike was about me crying myself to sleep that he did not feel like the surgery was as important as my mental health and well being. Hearing what Marty had said to me made me really feel loved for the first time in well over a month, and I knew that Marty loved me also even though it was not the same as my lover and partners love with had disappeared once I accepted this job. Maybe I am not the best athlete in the world but I always do my hardest, and once I got the weights delivered as well as setup. I started to setup a workout schedule so that I would be in good shape when summer practice started, but first I need to have a heart to heart with my friend Mike about him postponing his surgery without asking me about it before he did it. Taking Bagger into visit Mike while he was laying in the rented hospital bed, I told him that the hospital had called asking if he could reschedule his surgery till the following Monday and I told them that he be there with bells on. I than started to ask Mike a bunch of questions about why he had postponed it to begin with, and about his telephone conversation with Marty dealing with Mike. What shocked me was his very blunt responses to the questions. "Mark, I called the hospital and postponed the surgery because I heard you crying yourself to sleep the past week which broke my heart" he said. " I never wanted you to know about my call to Marty, because it was originally going to be as Principal to Football Coach, but I had gotten so pissed off at Mike's actions towards you ever since the two of you went to the "Spring Fling". I told Marty point blank Mark that I considered Mike to be a materialistic, spoiled brat, and I also told him that since Mike had violated a number of school rules that I was considering declaring him not able to play this season. Mark, you have good friends that you can turn to besides myself in Marty. I think that it took another adult to tell him his son is a spoiled brat who thinks that if he can use a credit card to buy something, that he has to have it right than instead of working to earn the money to buy it. "Mike is totally a materialistic type of person while you Mark are not as you have learned the value of a dollar at an early age" both Marty and Mike would have stated if Marty was there at that moment. Now about me postponing the surgery to have my back operated on is not as important to me, as your mental and physical health. I asked Marty to make sure that you are ok both physically as well as mentally, and I let him know how pissed I was at Mike for causing you to cry yourself to sleep the past week. I called the surgeon also asking him to talk to me as I needed his advice on taking care of a teenager, and his twins are in your class so he knows by the grapevine so to speak about Mike's attitude towards you ever since the two of you attended the Spring Fling as a couple, also how he treated you afterwards till school got out. Believe me Mark, the doctor would not have allowed me to postpone the surgery if he did not care for you also. My buddy Mike had a suggestion that I take over writing the first chapter or two just to vent my anger about how I was treated like second class citizen by "Our Star Player", The keyword there is "Player", because there are now times that I think that Mike is just playing us all. In the next installment Mark has asked once again to express his views about what had happened. TBC.