Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:07:08 +0000
From: Douglas DD <thehakaanen@hotmail.com>
Subject: Aiden II  Chapter 17

Welcome back. The New Year arrives and the twins celebrate separate
birthdays.  Enjoy.

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CHAPTER 17
NEW YEAR'S BIRTHDAYS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31

Wearing a University of Washington Huskies t-shirt and a pair of red briefs
with white trim, Aiden sat on his favorite recliner cuddled up to Phil who
claimed the recliner as his favorite chair. Aiden never tired of telling
his dad how wrong he was about that.

"You only get to sit in the chair because I say it's okay," the
ten-year-old would say with mock seriousness. "It's my favorite chair and
nobody else's."

When they sat together in the chair the argument as to whose favorite chair
it was became moot. What was important for Aiden was having the strong arms
of his dad cuddling him and what was important to Phil was letting his son
know how much he was loved. In the end, this was THEIR favorite chair. When
Aiden wanted to cuddle with Larry they would do it on the love seat, which
was nobody's favorite, but was special because it was where the two of them
could do their father-son bonding.

They were watching a college football bowl game that did not involve the
Huskies. The Huskies would be playing the University of Illinois in the
Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, but Aiden was wearing his UW Husky shirt in
preparation. He would wear it the next day as well, along with his Husky
boxers. He didn't like wearing the same clothes for two days in row, but
this would be an exception since he wouldn't be wearing the shirt until the
game started.

"Dad, have you heard anything from my father?"

"Only that he sent the package we told you about and that he contacted
Judge Moyer who told him he had to contact Judge Newman," Phil replied.

"I still don't get why you sent the package back to him."

"Your daddy and I sent it back to him as a message that we expect him to do
things the right way. If he wants you to get the present badly enough he
can always give it to you once he's straightened out his own business."

"And maybe I won't want him to give it to me."

"Yes, there is that. Those decisions will be up to you. Our decision wasn't
whether or not we wanted you to have the present, it was whether or not he
was obeying his restraining order. We asked Mary Polk and her advice was to
send it back to your father." Mary Polk was the attorney who had handled
Aiden's adoption. "That's why it went back." This wasn't the first time
Phil or Larry had explained the decision, but they understood that Aiden
liked to give a great deal of thought to the decisions that affected his
life.

"I think I get it. It's like in sports, you have to follow the rules if
you're going to play right."

"You've got the idea."

"And Judge Moyer doesn't want to decide things with my father because he
knows our family now and his son Nolan and I are kind of like friends
sometimes. And a judge saying he can't make a decision is called recusing."

Phil ruffled Aiden's already unkempt head of hair. "You're a smart cookie,
kiddo."

"I'm a good cook, too," Aiden grinned. He had cooked the morning breakfast
of French Toast and sausage that morning while Larry lurked in the
background keeping an eye on the little breakfast chef.

Larry entered the football viewing room and took in the sight of Aiden
cuddled snugly against Phil on the chair. "You two look cozy," Larry said.

"That's because we are," Aiden told him.

"Have you unpacked yet?" Larry asked. He was surprised when Phil and Aiden
answered "No" in unison.

"Have you showered yet?" This time the simultaneous "Nos" from Phil and
Aiden did not surprise him nor did their raucous laughter.

"I guess we'd better get to work, son," Phil said. But, before Aiden could
get up, Phil reached under his t-shirt and started tickling his belly,
causing the boy to laugh until tears started to flow.

"Stop or I'm gonna pee my undies."

"That's not a problem for me. After all, it's your underpants and your
favorite chair, so what do I care if you make a mess."

"You might not care," Larry laughed, "but I do, because somebody will have
to clean up the mess and I'm not sure that you two goofballs would be up to
it."

"I'm not a goofball," Aiden said as he fought for control, "he is." He
pointed to Phil then proceeded to try tickling him with little success.

"I am immune to the tickles of little goofballs," Phil bragged.

"I don't want daddy to have to clean my pee off the chair and off of you so
I'm gonna go shower." He gave Phil one more useless tickle, rose from the
chair and yanked down his briefs, mooned his dads, then pulled them back
up, running out of the room chanting, "Goofball, goofball, goofball..."

"You're not usually the goofball with Aiden," Larry laughed. "That's
generally been me."

"Sometimes I get carried away."

"Yeah, I know," Larry mused. "And ain't it grand?"

++++++++++++++++++++++++

When the Miller family arrived at the Lansing house, Gordy answered the
door. Aiden could see from the car parked in front that the twins and their
family had already arrived. Gordy and Aiden exchanged fist bumps.

Gordy's parents and the twins' mom were chatting in the living room. Brenda
was on the floor busily coloring in a very detailed coloring book. Gordy
and Aiden left Aiden's dads in the living room to get involved in adult
talk while they went to the small den to get involved in kids' stuff. Lenny
and Lance were stretched out on the floor watching a football game.

"Let's go up to my room," Gordy suggested.

"That's fine. This game is pretty boring," Lenny said.

Aiden wished Lenny a happy birthday and gave him a hug as he got up to his
feet. While Aiden and Lenny were a grade apart they were now ten-year-old
age mates.

"You should give him a birthday kiss," Lance suggested. "That way I can get
one on my birthday, too." Lance's birthday was the next day. This was the
one day a year that he and Lenny weren't the same age.

Aiden was surprised by the request and looked over to Lenny for
confirmation. Aiden received all of the confirmation he needed when Lenny
stepped over to him, wrapped his arms around him, and planted a kiss on his
lips. This time Aiden took the initiative and pushed his tongue against his
friend's lips, which Lenny instantly parted to allow Aiden's tongue into
his mouth. Aiden knew that the twins were learning stuff fast when it came
to messing around, but Lenny being so open to a French kiss still stunned
him.

"You guys just Frenched kissed," Gordy said, just in case his friends
didn't realize what they had just done.

"Oh, good job, Lenny. Now I get a French kiss from Aiden tomorrow," Lance
gushed. Aiden and the twins were spending the night at Gordy's house.

When they got to Gordy's room the twins sat on the floor while Aiden and
Gordy sat on the bed. They talked about the football games of the day,
although with little enthusiasm. They were excited about the Husky game
coming up on New Year's Day.

"They waited for my birthday to play," Lance grinned.

"I can't wait for our birthday party next weekend," Lenny said. Their party
was going to be at Aiden's house on Saturday with a sleepover. Aiden had
room for a party which was not the case in the trailer where the twins
lived. While the trailer park had a recreation room that could be reserved
it wasn't in very good condition. When Aiden told the twins about having
the party at his house they immediately took him up on it. Aiden had been
responsible and cleared the party with his dads first, so everything was on
the up and up.

"Who have you invited?" Gordy asked.

"We've got you and Aiden. We had to invite Aiden because he lives there,"
Lenny said with a smirk.

"I should take back my kiss for that," Aiden said. "Or better yet, tickle
you to death so you won't have to worry about your eleventh birthday."

With that, Aiden was down on the floor trying to tickle Lenny, who adeptly
managed to avoid any serious tickling. Both boys laughed as they rolled
around the floor in a not-too-serious wrestling match. The boys were evenly
matched, but Aiden managed to sit on top of Lenny and started unbuckling
his belt.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Lenny giggled.

Aiden got Lenny's button open and was unzipping him. "I'm pantsing you for
a birthday spanking."

"No way you're going to get to spank me."

"Okay, then I'll give you a birthday grope." He shoved his right hand
inside Lenny's boxers and gave his half-hard cocklet a feel, causing it to
harden even more.

"I'll let you do that," Lenny giggled.

Lance and Gordy watched in silent fascination as Aiden masturbated
Lenny. Aiden was reminded of what he and Darnell had done a couple of days
ago when they masturbated each other in their undies.

"You're going to make me cum," Lenny moaned.

"Well, it is your birthday," Aiden reminded him. Aiden was being more
aggressive than usual in a sexual situation. While he loved messing around,
he usually let the other boy or boys get things started, but he wanted to
make Lenny feel good on his birthday.

Lance had opened his pants, pulled them and his underpants down, and
started jerking off. Lenny saw what his brother was doing and asked Aiden
to stop for a moment so he could pull his pants and undies down. Aiden
stopped and restarted as soon as Lenny had everything pulled down past his
knees. While Gordy didn't go as far as the twins, he did open his pants,
pull his three and a quarter inch piece of boyhood out of the pee slit in
his boxers and commence to masturbate. Aiden was now the only one of the
four boys still fully dressed.

Two boys were now jerking themselves off while one was being jerked
off. Lenny had an orgasm building within a couple of minutes of pulling his
pants down. "Ooof, ooof, ooof, Aiden, it's happening guys," Lenny
squeaked. He raised his butt off of the ground as his little cock tried to
find the extra length it would gain over the next five or six years to
increase the feelings. "Ooof, fuck..." Lenny squeaked again.

Aiden could feel the contractions of the two inches of preteen meat. The
thought that they needed to measure the twins' cocks at their birthday
party shot through Aiden's head as he completed his final strokes. He was
ready to pull down his pants and join Lance and Gordy. Just as he pulled
down his zipper, exposing his bulging briefs. Gordy's mother yelled out
from the end of the hall: "Boys, we need your help."

"Fuck," Aiden said as he zipped back up. Lenny pulled up his pants and the
other two boys put away their little hairless cocks. They were
disappointed, but not desperate for the relief that was imminent. That time
was coming.

As the boys headed for the living room and the source of their interruption
Aiden remembered that Lance hadn't told him who was coming to the party. He
would have to remember to ask him later.

The boys helped set the tables for dinner. The adults would be eating at
the dining room table while the kids were exiled to the kitchen. Brenda
whined about having to sit at a table full of dumb boys, but her pleas to
sit at the adult table were turned down.

After dinner, the evening was taken up by family games and fun. Even Brenda
enjoyed herself, although the eight-year-old made it a point at times to
let the boys know she was having fun in spite of them.

The four boys were eager to stay awake through midnight to see the New Year
arrive. The year before was the first time Aiden had been awake at midnight
for New Years. That was only because he was awakened a few minutes before
and managed to stay awake until a few minutes after. He was determined to
stay awake straight through this time.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31-MONDAY, JANUARY 1.  HAPPY NEW YEAR

Aiden's friends and family celebrated the New Year in various places and in
various ways.

<Marty and Rich>

Marty and Rich greeted the New Year at the Bednarzyk residence, which had
been Marty's home since high school. The house was a big one and needed to
be for the big party taking place there. Rich's parents and brother were
there as was Marty's family, including Marty's three-year-old little
brother, Drew, who stole the show. Jeffrey was there, of course, as well as
his best friend and sometime boyfriend, Nick. Mary Polk, the attorney who
had handled Aiden's adoption and who worked in George Bednarzyk's firm, was
also at the party along with her husband James and eight-year-old son Gage.

Sammy had spent the day figuring out how he could escape to a party of his
eighth grade peers. Even his thirteen-year-old mind could see that he
wasn't going to get away; somebody seemed to always be watching him. That
worked out for him in two ways.

First, parents learned about the party, which was at the house of one of
Sammy's friends whose parents were gone for three days. As a result, the
party underwent a parental raid at around ten and eight young teens and
tweens found themselves starting the new year in hot water.

Second, Sammy was able to see that it was possible to have fun without
alcohol. He was aided in doing that by the presence of his friends Bryson
and Dustin, who were steered to the Bednarzyk party by a combination of
parents who didn't trust the situation at the party they had been planning
to attend. Sammy ended up having a good time and quit fussing over what he
was missing, mainly because not going to that party didn't seem like that
big of a deal to his friends.

Sammy thought that drinking sparkling cider wasn't as good as having
alcohol, but he also acknowledged later that the night had been fun, mainly
because he could remember it and hadn't passed out. A couple of days later,
when he slowed down a moment and thought about it, he realized that Marty,
Rich's brother Mike, his dad, and Marty's dad were all alcoholics. Jeffrey
admitted to Sammy once when they were discussing Sammy's drinking, that he
thought he could be an alcoholic, too, and didn't want to test it out.

"I got plenty drunk the couple of times I got drunk," Jeffrey told his
brother. "I did it all, puked, blacked out, pissed my pants, and it wasn't
because I was a rookie. I think it's because I'm like dad. Something for
you to think about, bro."

Sammy thought Jeffrey had been full of bullshit, but when he saw how much
fun everybody had on New Year's Eve and how everybody smiled and laughed
and nobody puked or passed out or pissed his pants or pissed the bed or had
a hangover the next morning, he had something to compare to some of the
parties he'd been to over the past few months.

When midnight arrived and hugs and kisses were exchanged, Sammy was
surprised to get kisses from his two friends. Dustin's was a quick, almost
obligatory, kiss, but Bryson's included some tongue. Sammy's friends were
going to spend the night and the look in Bryson's eyes said, Let's get to
bed fast and do more than kiss. Even if Dustin didn't take part, they knew
he had no problem with boys messing around. If he ended up wanting to take
part, that would be even better.

Their daisy chain on the floor of Sammy's bedroom ended up being quite
satisfactory. Sammy swallowed Bryson's cum for the first time in a couple
of months and was surprised by how much more he shot into his mouth than
the last time he'd sucked him. Sammy also realized that sex at a party was
so much better when he could remember doing it.

The Polks headed for home just after midnight. Gage had fallen sleep by
eleven and was barely awake at midnight. But, he was awake enough to yell
out "Happy New Year" before dropping to the couch and falling back to
sleep. His father ended up carrying the eight-year-old to the car, moaning
how heavy the boy had become.

The sex in Sammy's room wasn't the only sex in the Bednarzyk house. After
the Polks headed home everyone else was in bed by quarter after
twelve. Jeffrey ended up bottoming for Nick, Marty fucked Rich silly, and
George and his wife Lois did what happily married couples loved to do, even
in the wee hours of New Year's Day.

<Miles and Mason>

Mason's mother wanted to attend a party being put on by a fellow employee,
but she knew she couldn't leave her son alone. She thought about asking the
parents of one of Mason's friends if he could stay with them, but she was
too inexperienced in dealing with other parents to work up the confidence
to ask. The last thing she wanted was for Mason to be a burden on someone
on the holiday night.

The problem was solved when Miles and Mason conspired to put together a
plan that would allow Mason to spend New Year's Eve at Miles' house. They
were completely stunned when Mason's mother readily agreed. The way they
saw it, she would be the hardest nut to crack.

"Dang, that was easy," Miles said when they left Mason's house. "If my mom
and dad are that easy then we wasted a lot of time with our plans and
arguments."

"I sure ain't gonna complain about it." Mason said.

When Miles asked his mom he barely got the words out when she agreed to
have Mason stay over to celebrate the New Year. "Your brother is having two
friends over," she told Miles, "so I have no reason to say no. And Mason is
such a nice, well-behaved boy. What does his mother have to say about it?"
Miles' mom knew that Mason's mother tended to be bit overprotective of her
son.

"She said it was okay as long as you said yes. She said that now she can go
to a party since Mason would be with one of his best friends," Miles
said. "This is going to be so fun, even if John is going to have his dorky
friends over."

"Miles!"

"Well they ARE dorky. They always make fun of me and Mason because we're
littler than them."

Miles' mom promised to talk to John and told Miles to tell her if John and
his friends got out of line. "If I did that, they'd try to beat us up for
sure," Miles told Mason, later.

Everyone ended up having a good time. Miles was surprised how good his
brother and his friends were. He decided it had to be because his mom and
dad read John the riot act.

During the course of the night Miles and Mason sucked each other off once
and later enjoyed a sixty-nine a half hour before midnight.

"I know John and his friends are fucking in his room," Miles told Mason
after they each had their second orgasm. "He told me after dinner they were
gonna fuck before midnight and do it again after midnight."

"How do three guys fuck at once?" Mason asked.

"I dunno, but they must figure out something."

"I like sucking. I like having a dick in my mouth. I don't ever want to
have one up my butt or up somebody else's. That still sounds way too
gross."

"Maybe," Miles conceded, "but I wish there was a way we could watch them do
it the second time."

Miles knew better than to ask John to let them watch their after midnight
sex. He and Mason decided to discreetly sit outside his brother's bedroom
door and jerk off while John and his friends had sex. That ended up not
happening as they barely made it into Miles' bed after celebrating the
coming of the New Year. They fell asleep just fifteen minutes into the New
Year.

<Keegan and Natalie>

Natalie made Keegan promise that he would not bring up the topic of his son
on New Year's Eve or on New Year's day. As a result, he did his venting on
the 30th at Natalie's apartment after they ate dinner out.

"The fucking seventeenth of the month," he ranted. "Why is it the bitch of
a judge can't make an appointment with me until the fucking seventeenth? I
mean what kind of shit goes on in that podunk county that's so important?"

"I don't know sweetie," Natalie said. "Maybe it's because the judges got
changed."

"Well, even though I don't want to be, I'm gonna be good and obey that no
contact order and not go look him up. Unless she says I can't see him, then
all bets are off."

"Keegan, even if she says it's okay, your son still has to approve of any
meeting."

"That's a crock of bullshit and we both know it."

"How about we finish this bottle of wine and then go fuck?" Natalie
suggested.

Keegan thought that sounded like a better idea than ranting over something
he couldn't do anything about right then, so he and Natalie got pleasantly
drunk and then fucked twice.

They went to a party put on by some friends of Natalie's for New Year's
Eve. Drake managed to connive spending the night at Natalie's apartment
with his friend Lyle. Keegan and Natalie left a half-rack of beer for the
two thirteen year olds to get drunk on.

"No weed," Natalie stated firmly as she and Keegan got ready to leave. "I
better not smell any pot in here."

"We promise," Drake said.

"I'll rip you a new one if you use it here," Keegan threatened. "You could
get your aunt into a bucketful of shit if you smoke pot or if you make a
lot of racket. Keep the TV and the fucking stereo down."

"Whatever." Drake was willing to listen to his Aunt Natalie, but he didn't
feel Keegan had any right to boss him around. "Could we have more beer than
this? That's only a six-pack apiece."

"You're both only thirteen," Natalie reminded the teens. "That's plenty."

"I've got some beers in the fridge and you can have them if you finish what
we got you." Keegan said. Natalie glared at him, wishing he'd keep out of
her business.

The evening went as one would expect. Keegan and Natalie both got wasted at
the party and the hostess had to call a cab for them. Drake and Lyle got
naked at Natalie's apartment, but they did stick by her no pot rule, mainly
because they didn't bring any pot or any money to purchase any with them.

The young teens were naked within a half-hour after Keegan and Natalie
left. They fucked and sucked and humped enough for Drake to have four
orgasms and Lyle three. They ended up passing out on the living room floor
after Lyle had puked his guts out into the toilet just after the New Year
arrived. When Keegan and Natalie stumbled into the apartment they were too
drunk to notice the condition of the teens: drunk, passed out on the living
room floor, naked, with chests and bellies cum covered.

<Aiden and friends>

Aiden and Gordy were able to stay awake thanks to creative management by
their parents as well as an abundance of adrenalin flowing through their
systems. The twins ended up stripping to t-shirts and boxers, flopping on
Gordy's bed and drifting off to sleep with a promise from their mom to wake
them up before midnight. They had never been fully awake to see the New
Year arrive, although the discharge of fireworks close to midnight had them
partially awake the year before. Brenda didn't care at all about the New
Year; she just wanted to sleep.

At quarter to twelve Leslie Hazen woke up her sons, giving them plenty of
time to adjust to being awake at a strange hour. The twins came into the
den still clad only in t-shirts and boxers, but nobody seemed to care.

The two mothers embarrassed all four boys by placing conical party hats on
their heads. The fact that his dads were each wearing hats did not assuage
Aiden's embarrassment, but at least he didn't feel totally stupid.

Some of the neighbors shot off fireworks just before midnight. The boys
enjoyed the loud booms as boys that age often do. They watched on TV as
fireworks erupted from the Space Needle in Seattle at exactly
midnight. That led to everyone yelling "Happy New Year!" and tossing
confetti. Gordy and the twins followed Aiden's lead by tossing their hats
into the air as well.

Lenny yelled out, "Happy Birthday, Lance!" as the brothers were once again
the same age. Lenny gave his brother a kiss on lips. He didn't feel the
least inhibited by the fact that there were five adults among the
celebrants. Lance also had to deal with kisses on his lips from his mother,
Gordy's mother, and Aiden. Larry and Phil gave Lance birthday kisses on his
forehead while Gordy's father gave the new ten-year-old a hug. Gordy stayed
in the background, content with giving Lance a thumbs up.

The boys were soon running on fumes and retreated to Gordy's bedroom. Aiden
and Gordy stripped down to their underwear. Aiden climbed into Gordy's bed
to be next to his friend. Gordy hadn't verbally invited him in, but it was
understood that Aiden would be sleeping with him. The twins stripped off
their boxers and t-shirts and crawled into Lenny's sleeping bag.

The four boys remembered their unfinished business from the previous
afternoon when Lenny was the only one of them to have an orgasm. They had
bragged how they would get each other off to start the New Year. That
didn't happen as sleep overtook them before they could even make an initial
move, although Gordy and Aiden managed to share a New Year's kiss before
falling asleep.

MONDAY, JANUARY 1

The first order of business for the boys on New Year's Day was sleeping
in. It was almost ten when Aiden's eyes fluttered open. Gordy was snuggled
up next to him, his face just inches from Aiden's. Aiden wanted badly to
kiss the smooth face that was so close to his lips, but he had to pee badly
and rose out of bed to do that instead.

When he returned he found Gordy sitting on the edge of the bed, his hard
little prick sticking up through the pee hole in his boxers.

"Gordy has a boner." Lance, who was still in his sleeping bag, pointed to
Gordy's midsection. When Gordy saw the state of his penis he turned a deep
shade of red and quickly covered it.

"We've seen your boner before," Aiden told him.

"Yeah, but only when I wanted you to."

"Well then, I want you to see mine." Aiden pulled down his briefs to show
off his cocklet that had quickly gone from flaccid to hard when he saw
Gordy's boner.

"You can see mine, too," Lance announced as he wiggled out of the sleeping
bag, his two inches of boy meat sticking proudly up.

"Okay, I get it," Lenny giggled. He joined the parade of aroused preteens
strutting their stuff.

"We never did get off last night," Aiden reminded them.

"And we're not going to get off this morning," Gordy said with an air of
relief. "I smell breakfast cooking."

"Maybe I can get today's birthday boy off right now," Aiden said. "I mean
it worked with yesterday's birthday boy."

Before anybody could say anything, Aiden got on the floor next to Lance,
placed his lips around Lance's little boner, and started sucking. When
Aiden had jerked Lenny off the day before, Lenny had already been worked up
and didn't take long to have his orgasm. Even though he had popped a boner,
Lance hadn't gotten sexually excited until he'd felt Aiden wrap his lips
around his erection.

That lag cost him as Gordy's mother pounded on the bedroom door, sending
all four boys quickly scrambling under blankets and sleeping bags for
cover. But, Flo Lansing was a wise enough mom to know better than to open
the door to a room full of sleeping boys. She simply told them to wake up
and to be ready for breakfast in fifteen minutes.

"Do we have to get dressed?" Gordy asked. "Can we come out in our
underwear?"

"That and a t-shirt is okay."

Aiden wished he had his long t-shirt with him so he could try to get away
with not wearing his underpants. His saner side quickly told him that it
was probably a good thing he didn't have his long t-shirt with him.

Breakfast was pancakes and sausage. After the breakfast, the boys
showered. Aiden showered with Lance and was able to get his cock slicked up
so he could masturbate Lance to a birthday cum.

"It's okay you couldn't suck me," Lance told Aiden. "Lenny can suck me
tonight," he added with genuine innocence.

Gordy and Lenny showered together. They washed each other's backs and ass
cheeks, but nothing sexual happened, even though each wished, in his own
way, that something had happened.

Gordy's dad, with the prodding of Gordy's mother, ruled that everyone now
had to be dressed normally—at least in t-shirts, jeans, and socks. There
was surprisingly little grumbling. It was a holiday with a lot of people
visiting and the boys knew their parents well enough to figure out what was
going to be expected of them. They may have enjoyed minimal clothing when
they could get away with it, but they were all good boys and usually knew
when to be responsible.

Leslie Hazen, the twins' mother, showed up with Brenda a little bit after
twelve noon. Larry and Phil showed up not long after that. Leslie had baked
two apple pies and planted candles in them for Lenny and Lance to blow out.
Phil had brought what he needed to finish preparing potatoes au
gratin. Aiden loved pulling Phil's leg by calling them potatoes au rotten,
a term he had learned from Marty. Gordy's mother had prepared a large ham
and had it baking in the oven to be ready for an early New Year's dinner.

Aiden had two missions he wanted to accomplish before dinner. One of those
missions involved the twins.

"You never got a chance to tell me who was coming to your birthday party,"
Aiden said to Lenny and Lance.

"I couldn't help it; you started to jerk me off," Lenny laughed. "I asked
Mason, Miles, Brody, Gordy, maybe you...."

"You better invite me," Aiden interrupted with a giggle. "I mean the party
is at my house."

"We could lock you in the bathroom during the party," Lenny laughed.

"I'd fart a lot, take a big dump, and then make sure to blow all the stinky
air downstairs," Aiden threatened.

"Yuck," Lance said. "I guess we'd better invite him, Lenny."

"I suppose." Then Lenny laughed again. "Or, we could just bring a lot of
air freshener." Lenny then got serious again. "And we invited Tommy, Jose,
and Matt." Tommy and Jose were fourth graders at Parkwood School who had
played on the soccer team. Matt was a student in Lenny's class whom the
twins liked to eat lunch with. They had also been invited to Matt's house
on occasion.

"You forgot Muddy," Gordy pointed out. "Can't he come?"

"We never invited him," Lenny said.

"That's because we don't like him," Lance explained.

"And he don't like us either."

Aiden was saddened that his friend hadn't been invited, but he also
understood. Muddy had pissed his friends off frequently since the school
year started. He made no secret of not liking the twins since they were
"just little fourth graders."

"Just me and Lance, Gordy, Miles, and Mason, and maybe Aiden are going to
spend the night," Lenny concluded.

"We could maybe let Aiden sleep in the bathtub," Lance suggested.

"Only if I get to fart in your faces first," Aiden told the twins.

"Dang, you are really nasty today," Lenny said.

"Only because you guys make me."

"I think the party is going to be mega fun," Gordy said, trying to get the
conversation back to normal.

Aiden's other mission was to learn what Gordy had named his panda. He had
come up with a name for his penguin while he was in the Natural History
Museum.

"That is a really cool panda," Lance remarked. "Maybe Gordy could name it
Peter Panda."

The other boys laughed at Lance's unexpected play on words. Then Gordy told
the twins about Peter Astor. "Me and Aiden don't like him," Gordy
concluded. "Just be happy you don't know him. No way I want a Peter sitting
in my room."

"I'd rather have a Peter hard in my room," Aiden giggled.

"You've got a dirty mind, Aiden," Lenny said, "but that's okay."

"I'm going to name him Andy," Gordy told them.

"Andy Pandy?" Lance asked.

"Something like that."

"Your penguin is cool, too," Lance told Aiden. "What's his name?"

Aiden took the penguin off of the shelf and held it up so that he looked it
in the eye. The stuffed animal was black and white, like Gordy's panda. He
had a red beak.  He wore a green scarf with red tassels around his neck and
a green stocking cap with a red ball attached to the end. The penguin was
about half the size of Horace the donkey.

"I'm naming my penguin, Megrez," Aiden told them. "Hi, Megrez," he said to
the little stuffed animal.

"Megrez?" Gordy asked. "Who is Megrez?"

"I learned that Megrez is a star in the Big Dipper. Penguins live in the
Antarctic, which is all the way south. I learned that you can't see the Big
Dipper in the southern hemisphere, so by naming him Megrez I learned
something new and he also did since he lives here where he can see the Big
Dipper."

"You're smart, Aiden," Lenny said with admiration. "No wonder you get
straight A's."

Aiden smiled in appreciation of Lenny's remark and went on. "Megrez is new
in my life and he is new to the northern hemisphere. So, I gave him a name
that makes him feel at home in the north. I think that makes sense."

"I don't really get it," Gordy said, "but that's okay. Megrez is a star in
our lives and that makes it all pretty cool." Aiden agreed and set Megrez
down next to Andy Panda.

"Boys, we need you to help set things up," came the voice of Flo Lansing.

"I guess that means us," Aiden said.

"I KNOW that means us," Gordy said with a grin.

"Aiden?" Lenny asked as they started out of Gordy's room.

"Yeah?"

"Are we going to be able to mess around during the overnight at your
house?"

"It's you guys's party," Aiden answered.

Lenny looked over to his twin brother and smiled. That gave away what Lenny
and Lance had in mind after lights out the next weekend at Aiden's house.

Next: What Big Brothers Are For