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Chapter 12

 

          I stayed by Daniel's side, only leaving for calls of nature, for seven solid days and nights. He was finally able to, very carefully, sit up in the bed. He had also started having an appetite again. I stayed with him as long as he was awake on that 7^th day. When he fell asleep again, Sammy more or less forced me to go with him, and he bathed me and my filthy clothes at the waterfall. Even though he scrubbed me all over, he didn't wake up little Johnny, I was just too worried about Daniel. He hung my wet clothes up to dry and gave me a loincloth to wear.

          Mark was at the cabin when we came back. He told me that, for a while, at least I was coming to stay with him. I started crying again. I guess what I was afraid of had come true.

          "Daddy don't want you around Luke and Pauly causing them to sin" he said. He obviously didn't know how Luke, or especially Pauly, was.

          "Pauly threatened to run away" he went on, "daddy reddened his butt with the shaving strop. The little dummy got off of daddy's knees with his little goober standing straight up. Daddy was pissed, he just got up and walked out to the barn. I don't think it will last, Johnny, but daddy has to come to grips with...whatever this is. Until then, know that he's not making me take you in. You're my brother and I'll always love you."

          My mouth wouldn't form any words. I just sat in my borrowed loincloth with my knees pulled up to my chest and softly cried. Mark sat looking kinda uncomfortable, not knowing what he should do. But Sammy came over and sat beside me and pulled my head onto his shoulder and stroked my hair, comforting me `til I stopped crying. Now that Daniel was doing better, Grandfather insisted that I leave and get some rest.

So, I sat with Daniel `til the day started growing dim, the Mark came in to take me away. Walking to Mark's place, I was deep in thought, imagining how scared Daniel must have been, alone being attacked by a wild animal.

          "I cain't pretend to understand you" Mark said quietly. "I mean, I've fooled around with boys before but it's just having fun and blowing off steam, nothing serious. My love is for my woman. I put my baby in her."

          "Do you feel like you got a hole in your chest when you're away from her?" I asked him "Do you feel happy inside when you're with her?"

          "Yeah" he said, "she's like a part of me. Losing her would be like having my arms cut off."

          "Then you know exactly how I feel about Daniel" I said, tearing up again "I was afraid I was going to lose him and you know what?" I looked over at Mark, but he stayed all quiet, waiting for me to finish. "If Daniel had died, I would have run and leaped off the jump-off, head first into the rocks." He looked at me for a long time not knowing what to say. He finally put his arm around me and we walked back to the house in silence. When we got in the house, I laid down in just the borrowed loincloth on top of the blankets. Mark blew out the lamp and instead of going to his corner, he came and laid down beside me. I hadn't felt this close to him since I was a little kid. I felt safe and after a long while, finally fell asleep.

 

          When I woke up the house was still dark. My head was resting on an arm, and I could smell the familiar and comforting odor of boy. I was on my side and his other arm was wrapped around my back, holding me close. We had been covered by a blanket in the night. Our two hard peters jammed up to each other, only separated by the layer of deerskin covering me. As the cobwebs started leaving my mind, I took another breath and realized I knew that smell too good for it to be Mark. Even in the dark I knew the boy next to me was Luke, which also explained the stiffness poking me in the balls. He was asleep, but I reached up and kissed him. His eyelids fluttered.

          "Daddy's gonna blister your ass" I whispered.

          "I don't care" he said. "I waited `til Pauly fell asleep before I snuck out. Pauly done got his ass whupped twice, trying to run away. Daddy don't know what to do with him."

          "Y'all don't have to get in trouble `cause of me" I said.

          "Yes, sir, I reckon we do. I ain't gonna let what happened to Daniel happen to you. I guarantee that" he said. "And once Pauly sees I'm gone in the morning, daddy will either have to kill him or let him go. We both love you, Johnny."

          I thought I had cried so much the last few days that I would be cried out, but having him say that stuff to me started me up again. From across the room Mark said "Oh lord, don't get him started again!"

          Mark made a pot of coffee and we all sat by the fireplace and drank it `til dawn started breaking.

 

          Back at the cabin, Sammy told us that Elijah picked up the trail of the bear and him and a couple other injuns was tracking it. Once a bear attacked a human, they would kill it so it wouldn't be able to attack somebody else. I went inside to talk to Daniel; he was awake and wanting to get up but Grandfather wouldn't let him; he said moving too much would pull the sewing out and make him bleed again. I asked him if there was anything we could do for him to make him more comfortable. He nodded his head. I had been holding his hand while I talked to him, he took my hand and pulled it under the covers onto his hard pecker. I called to Sammy, who was sitting by the door. Sammy came in and saw the tent in the covers and shook his head and went back and stood in the doorway. I pulled back the cover and gently sucked the head of Daniel's peter into my mouth. He started wiggling too much and I stopped. "You got to be still if you want me to do this, Grandfather will kill me if you pull them stitches loose" I whispered. He nodded and I went back down and took about half of him this time. I bobbed on him about five minutes and I could feel his balls pulling up, it had been a week since the attack and he had been laid up, so it wasn't going to take him long. I started swirling my tongue between his foreskin and his head and when he started shooting, I reached over and kneaded his balls. He filled my mouth and I swallowed, he filled it again and I swallowed and kept on till I worked out a week's worth of boy juice from him. Afterward, he smiled at me and laid back. A few minutes later he was asleep again.

          Now I had a problem. Luckily Mark and Luke had left to go back and work on the house; figuring I was safe with Grandfather and Sammy. Grandfather had fell asleep in the chair after his long night. Sammy came into the cabin and pulled me up and sat on the stool next to Daniel, then pulled me in front of him. The borrowed loincloth was straining from my hard peter and Sammy pulled the tie on the leather cord and it dropped to the floor. He didn't waste any time burying his nose in my hair. It had been a week for me too, so he didn't have to work too hard before I was slinging jelly into his gullet. He swallowed it greedily and right after I felt his hot liquid hit me on the leg from where he had been jerkin' on the big ole copper snake of his. He slid his softening tube back into his loincloth and went outside and got my now dried overalls for me. We took our places on the porch. Grandfather, who we thought was asleep, smiled and shook his head.

 

          Near the end of the day, Mark and Luke came back to get me and shortly after, Brother to Ravens and the two others came back. They handed a leather pouch to Grandfather and left again. Grandfather opened the pouch and went to the shelf on the porch and poured out ten bear claws. Sammy said they would be back tomorrow with a portion of the meat for him and Grandfather.

          On the way back to Mark's we were almost run over by Pauly who was running full speed down the trail. Mark stuck his arm out to grab Pauly but the boy's speed sent them into a spin and Mark ended up flat on his butt with Pauly on top of him.

          "Why are you running like crazy through the woods?" Luke asked him.

          "Tryin'... to... get... away... from... daddy" he said, trying to catch his breath.

          About that time, daddy came up the trail, looked at the situation and said "Thanks for catchin' him for me Mark." He grabbed Pauly by the arm and started dragging him back down the trail.

          "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" I yelled.

          "Don't raise your voice to me, sodomite!" he said back. He dropped Pauly and walked back over backhanded me, knocking me on my ass.

          "DADDY, STOP IT!" Pauly screamed, running to me. Mark and Luke moved to stand in front of me and Pauly so daddy couldn't get to us.

          "MOVE!" daddy demanded, but they wouldn't budge.

          "Daddy, I love you, but I won't let you hurt my brother again..." Mark said, getting right in daddy's face.

          "How can you protect and harbor a sodomite?" daddy asked him.

          "Because he is family, just like you are, you may have forgotten it but I ain't" Mark answered, calmly.

          Sammy and Elijah came running down the trail after hearing all the commotion. Elijah saw the hostile stance Mark had with daddy. Sammy saw me laid out on the ground.

          Elijah held up both hands in the peace gesture and asked "What is going on here?"

          Daddy still had his eyes locked with Mark, who had dared defy him, but still managed to spit out "The boy is a sodomite! The Bible says: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

        Elijah, who had been schooled in a Jesuit orphanage, stepped toward our father and said quietly to him, "one of the Pharisees asked Jesus what the greatest of the commandments was and Jesus replied: `Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

        Daddy looked at the Indian and his shoulders kinda slumped. His eyes glazed over with tears. Elijah put his arm around daddy and pulled him in for a hug. Sammy came around to me and Pauly and made sure we were ok. Mark, Luke, Pauly, Sammy and me walked on to Mark's house, while the two men sat on a log and Elijah talked low and calmly to daddy. We couldn't hear what he was saying, but daddy looked like he was sobbing.

        It was past dark when they came to the house. I could see something in my daddy had completely changed, even the way he carried himself was different. He quietly said "I'm sorry for the way I been actin' with y'all. I cain't say I'd ever want to make your choice son, but you're still my son, and I won't disown you. Pauly, I'm sorry for beatin' you for trying to see your brother. Mark, I'm sorry for being so short with you. Truth is, Matthew was born three months after your momma and me were married; I just hated to see history repeating itself. If you boys want to, you can come back with me tonight, but I'll understand if you don't want to. Either way, I'm sorry for being a jackass."

        Turns out Elijah told him the story of Daniel being attacked by the bear and how I saved Daniel's life; how I sat by his side for days and nights on end. Daddy had begun to see the love between us was as true as any between a man and a wife. Daddy didn't say anything else, he just turned and started walking off. Pauly looked at us and got up and ran after daddy, then Luke joined him. Mark shook my shoulder and I looked at him not knowing what to do. `Go' he mouthed silently to me. I got up and started walking behind them, when daddy heard my footsteps, he turned around and hugged me and I could tell he was still crying.

        Mark said his goodbyes to Sammy and Elijah and then came with us. The four of us boys climbed into the loft and crashed. It was the last night we all slept in that house. Mark's place was finished so with gifts from the two families and the Indians, he and his new bride moved into the cabin. I knew that even though he was trying to accept me, the old feelings he had were not miraculously gone, so as soon as Daniel was up and moving on his own, we set about fixin' up the old abandoned house where we found the lantern. Neither his parents nor mine exactly approved of us setting up housekeeping, but when people asked about us they just said we were "confirmed bachelors". A year after Mark, Luke got married to his sweetheart, though he still visited me on occasion, when Daniel was away. Pauly ended up on the same path as me and Daniel, however he worked his way through college in Asheville, where he met and set up house with another "confirmed bachelor" named Odell Banks (who, rumor has it was nicknamed Hoss, if you catch my meanin').

Daniel and me had been together for six years when one of Elijah's friends, a girl from the orphanage, died during childbirth. He asked if we would help him raise the baby. What he should have said is `here is a baby, raise it'. We made a lot of trips to his momma and mine that first year to learn about how to do for babies. Elijah called him `Uwasa', meaning alone in Tsalagi; we gave him the white name of Joshua. The funny thing was, even though our folks never truly accepted us, they sure took to Josh as a real grandson.

 

The End (at least for now).

 

Lambodara 9/15/20

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