Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:53:00 -0500 From: J K Subject: funny things happen part 10 Comments welcome at: imawriter123@gmail.com Authors note: To all readers, I just want to state, while this section on Nifty is considered to be a completely sex-driven area, I felt it was right to post this here, even if there hasn't been any graphic descriptions of sex as of yet. However I hope you continue to read, sometimes love takes time to evolve. Saturday morning, my eyes slowly opened up to discover two arms tightly wrapped around me and I then suddenly remembered what happened last night as my ass and legs awoke at the same time in an enormous amount of pain, and I smiled and frowned at the same time. I smiled that I was finally waking up with someone's arms around me, something that I had been missing for so long, and at the same time realizing that they weren't the arms that I wanted. But I had to stop torturing myself with this, they never were going to be his arms. I slowly turned over to face Mark, and gave him a quick kiss on the lips and his beautiful brown eyes and smile came into view and he kissed me right back with a probing tounge, and I could do nothing but accept it and give mine back. He slid out of my mouth and said, "Morning sexy, how you feeling?" I just laughed and said, "Oh I'm doing alright, a little sore but well worth every second of it." He just smiled and said, "Good because I loved it as well. You were incredible, and I look forward to getting to do it again." Oh you will I thought to myself, you will. But then I realized someone else was probably home at this point, so it wasn't going to happen right now. Admittedly in this place, even just down the hall you really couldn't hear much, maybe a few muffled groans, but I'm sure even if Josh heard it, he'd know what was going on. And I said to him, "Oh trust me Mark you will. You definitely will. But at the moment I need to go to the bathroom." He chuckled and opened his arms from around me, and I not very easily-walked to the bathroom to release. When I walked back into the bedroom, there stood this beautiful man, which I still could not believe that I had the ability to lay eyes on, but I just shook myself and asked him, "Hey babe you want some coffee? I'm sure josh is downstairs, but trust me he'll want to meet you." He nodded yes, and I just winked at him threw on a pair of shorts and walked out of the bedroom, and down the hallway to the steps to be met with the wonderful scent of freshly brewed coffee. As I walked into the kitchen I was greeted with a signature smile and a kiss on the cheek, "Morning Dad! I can see someone had a good night." And I looked at him and said, "Is it that obvious?" He laughed and just said, "Oh you have no idea how obvious it is. By the way is Mark still here? How does he take his coffee?" I just started laughing, he knew me too well, just too damned well, and said, "I don't know you can ask him when he comes down, should be down in a minute." He just flashed me one of his devilish smiles and then Mark walked into the kitchen and said, "You know, it's hard to find this kitchen in this place, good thing the scent of coffee travels!" We all just broke out laughing, I then introduced the two of them, and as they shook hands and looked into each other's eyes I could see that there was an instant connection, I wasn't sure what kind but it was there, and I knew there was a discussion coming up later. We all went into the living room and talked, well Josh and Mark talked and got to know each other, I just sat back and watched the entire the two of them interact. I caught a few looks from Josh, one of which was his signature `good call' smiles and I just nodded. After what must have been almost 20 minutes of them just talking away, Josh got up and took Mark's cup into the kitchen I would assume to get more coffee and Mark turned to me and said, "Quite an amazing young man, it's obvious that the two of you have a very unique relationship, I do envy that. I never had the opportunity for that." All I could do was smile and respond, "Yes he is, and yes we do. And I wouldn't trade it for the world." He just nodded as Josh walked back into the room and said, "Ok guys, I'm off to my run. Dad, see you later and Mark it was a pleasure meeting you, and thanks for the offer at the gym, I'll definitely take you up on it!" And with that he ran out the door. Mark just turned and looked at me, smiled and said, OK babe, I've got to get running myself, I've got 2 trainings at the gym and then my own work to do that I skipped out on early last night for you." He just smiled leaned over and passionately kissed me and said, "I'll call you this afternoon, maybe dinner tonight?" I just smiled and nodded, and then walked him to the door, got another kiss good bye and shut the door. I just stood there wondering, what the hell do I do now? I have a one sided love for 12 years and a man that I know for a few weeks that I can see myself being very happy with, and I'm standing here saying how can I be with him? What the hell was wrong with me?? Weeks and then month's started to pass, and my relationship with Mark continued to grow and flourish, I could see that this was really leading to a true partnership. He and Josh got along fantastically, he was there for Josh's 17th birthday party, even helped him pick out a car. It was funny-well it really made sense that they had the same tastes, they picked out a black BMW Z4, and he absolutely loved it. By April Mark had moved in with us, and in my eyes was a part of a very important event. It was a Saturday afternoon and the Mark and I were sitting in the living room drinking a few beers when Josh walked in with an envelope in his hand and said, "Dad, Mark, this is it. Here's the answer as to where I'm going to college." I looked up at him and could almost see fear on his face. Something I had not seen in as many years as I could remember. He had already gotten into UCLA, so it was not as if he didn't have somewhere that he would be happy to go. But this was the answer from Stanford, it was where he truly wanted to get it. It killed me that he might be moving so far away, that one love in my life that I so wanted but couldn't have, would be leaving me. Not to say that I didn't love Mark-I did, he was the most wonderful person and I loved him dearly, I knew that I was going to spend the rest of my life with him, but this was going to be a true turning point in life. As I watched Josh open the envelope and take out the letter, he started to read and within 30 seconds his face broke out into one of his million dollar smiles, he had gotten in! He literally ran over to me and jumped into my lap just as he had when he was a little boy and kissed me and then Mark, and almost screaming out "I got in! I got in!" My happiness and excitement for him could not be expressed in words. The look on his face was of pure bliss and ecstasy it was one of his ultimate goals that he had worked so hard for. Writing and rewriting his essay for them countless times, studying for the entrance exam and even SAT's previously. I could remember there were days that he never left his room, just stuck to his books. And now, it was obvious that it had all paid off. In the midst of my thoughts, I never even heard him talking to me until he shook my shoulder and said with tears in his eyes, "Dad, come with me for a minute I want to talk to you." He took my hand and I got up off the couch to follow him out onto the terrace, and he pulled me into him and lay his head on my chest and squeezed me in a very tight embrace and very quietly said, "I know that you didn't want me to go that far away from you for school. And truthfully I didn't want to go that far either. But you have Mark now, a man that loves you more than you could ever imagine and I know that you feel the same about him. And it has made me so happy that the two of you found each other and can share the love that you have. You aren't alone anymore, not at all. And now knowing that, I can go without having to have one ounce of worry that you might not be OK, because you will be. You have no idea how much I love you, and how much you mean to me and thanks for everything." I just stood there in tears, I couldn't believe what I just heard, in a sense it was more or less a blessing on my on-going `marriage' with Mark. What a role reversal! But in all honesty, I knew he was right, I wasn't alone anymore, I am happy, I do have a strong love for Mark and he has one for me. I am going to be OK. I walked back inside and Josh had gone and gotten 2 bottles of champagne that we had been saving for a special occasion, and this was as good a one as any. As he walked over to us with the ice bucket and bottle he shot me one of his signature smiles, and Mark came up behind me and wrapped me in his arms and whispered in my ear, "You're going to be fine. He's a big boy and so are you, I know you are going to miss him when he's up there, I will too. He's a very special man, we're all going to make it through this just fine, I'm here for you, and you know he has his support system too." I just turned around and kissed Mark and said, "Thank you love bug, I don't know what I'd do without you." As we were kissing, I heard Josh clear his throat and say, "Forgive me for interrupting, but let's at least make a toast, and then the two of you can go back upstairs and fuck like rabbits in my honor and I'll call Jaime and do the same." We all just looked at each other and burst out laughing. So I took a flute in hand and said, "To the greatest gift that god ever gave me, I wish you everything that life holds in store for you. You deserve every bit of this and I know that you will succeed to the best of your ability in absolutely everything that you do." The glasses were all `clinked', and then he ran off to call Jamie, and Mark and I did exactly as we were told to, we went upstairs and fucked like rabbits for 3 hours. But it was again like that first night Mark and I were together, I wanted it to hurt, I wanted to be in physical pain – to add to the mental pain that I had. Neither Mark nor Josh, really had any idea what I was really feeling, not an ounce, it wasn't just my son leaving, it was the love that I had always wanted moving far out of my grasp. For Josh's high school graduation I asked him what it was that he wanted to do. I had figured that he was going to want to throw a party for all of his friends, which I would have been more than happy to do. I would have even supplied the beer-I know not a good parent to encourage underage drinking, but none of them would have left my residence if they weren't sober. So I figured I would have had that under control. But I was very surprised at his answer, actually very surprised. His request was very simple. "Dad, Mark, I know you may think this is an odd request for a 17 year old to request for his graduation celebration, but I don't want a party, I don't want a trip. All I want is for the 3 of us to spend the night together as a family. Let's be honest, there is no other family Dad, both of your parents have passed, I have no brothers and sisters-which I'm more than fine with, Mark your family is far removed as well. So all we have is us, and that is the most important thing to me. And that's how I want to celebrate an event like this-together with the people that I love." Both Mark and I just sat there stunned, this is not normal talk from a 17 year old that just graduated high school. Then again Josh is not your average teenager. He was never a crazy party kid, he went out and had fun, but not like I did when I was his age, he was a much more quiet and reserved person, so in a sense this really wasn't that surprising-but still what was different, was how adamant about it he was. But Mark and I could do nothing but follow his wishes. And we did. Before I even turned around, it was August. As I packed the last box into the truck for the 7 hour drive up to Stanford, Mark came up to me gave me a quick kiss and told me that Josh wanted to see me up in his room. As I was going up in the elevator back to the apartment, I just kept wondering how it was that time had gone by so quickly that Josh had gone from a beautiful baby boy to a beautiful man, I didn't know, but what I did know was that it happened. He was a man, a man going off to start a new life in college that he would love and enjoy. As I walked into Josh's room, I saw him sitting on his bed holding the teddy bear that I had given him for Christmas maybe 15 years ago, I don't even remember how old it was, and I felt a tear roll down my face I could see a little boy sitting in front of me waiting to be tucked in. I was brought out of my revere by the touch of a hand on mine. I looked down to see Josh looking up at me, without words asking me to sit down next to him. When we were eye level, for the first time in a while I looked directly into his sapphire blue eyes, and just completely melted, I didn't know what I was going to do without him. But he said to me, "Daddy, I love you more than anything in the world, you are in my mind, body and soul every minute of the day. There isn't a thing or moment that goes by that I don't think about you, how wonderful you are, and what you have done for me as a father and my best friend. Just remember, if you ever want to talk, or you need me for something, I'm only a phone call/few hours away. I'm here for you anytime you need me, just call." It's funny, I had intended on giving him the same speech once we got him all set-up in the dorms, but I guess I didn't have to. All I could respond was, "And the same goes for you Josh, anytime no matter what day or night." We just sat there in silence, staring at each other, looking deep into each other's minds and souls. I looked at and into him and saw love and devotion and a beautiful man, who was some day going to make some woman very, very happy. And in me, I don't know what he saw but I can tell you, there was a love and desire and yearning for him, that was getting stronger by the minute. And I don't know if he saw that or not, wouldn't surprise me if he did, but nothing was ever said about it. And finally he just slowly leaned over, and for a split second I thought he was going to kiss me on the lips, that maybe he did love me that way I did him. But to no avail, he leaned in kissed me on the cheek and said, "I love you, just remember that. Now let's get going!" And he jumped off me and ran downstairs. But I don't know, there was something strange about that statement. Was I reading this all wrong?