Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 01:15:31 +0000 From: Douglas DD Subject: Aiden 2 Chapter 73 Welcome back. Things heat up between Gordy and Kalie as well as with Aiden's friends. Please donate to Nifty and keep the fountain of stories primed. Email is always appreciated. thehakaanen@hotmail.com Douglas CHAPTER 73 FRIENDS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 Gordy and Kalie had enjoyed a fun morning riding horses. The weather was gray and chilly, but it didn't rain and the ground was dry. They both dressed warmly and sensibly. After taking care of the steeds, they went into the main house for lunch. "You two have such healthy looking red cheeks," Kalie's mom grinned. "I imagine you have an appetite to match." "I am starved Mrs. Carter," Gordy said with a heavy emphasis on starved. "Me, too," Kalie chimed in. "Let me get a picture of you two healthy children starving for lunch, and you each will get a bowl of hot macaroni and cheese to help you out." Kalie rolled her eyes, but said nothing. Her mother had already taken pictures of them mounting their horses, riding their horses, cleaning their horses, and working in the barn. Taking a picture of them before lunch was way too much as far as Kalie was concerned, but other than the adolescent eye roll she kept her patience. The two children posed for a picture, and then Gordy surprised Kalie as well as himself by scooting in close to his girlfriend and putting his hand around her shoulder, giving her a gentle squeeze. The two of them grinned while Kalie's mother photographed them while she thought about how wonderfully cute they were. Kalie's mom wanted to think that her daughter was a little young to have a boyfriend, but she had to admit Kalie couldn't have picked a finer boy, although she was partial to Kalie's friend Aiden based on his more outgoing personality. Because Gordy was such a reserved boy, she was also surprised when he posed with his arm around Kalie without being asked to. Kalie's mother had to admit she'd had her first serious case of puppy love when she was Kalie's age and with more than one boy. While she didn't lose her virginity until she was fifteen, she'd been quite active sexually with boyfriends and other boys and girls from the time she was ten until her senior year in high school. That was when she met Kalie's father and fell totally in love. It was a love she still had for her wonderful husband and father of her two children. There was one more lunchtime surprise, however, when Kalie turned and planted a quick kiss on Gordy's cheek. She kept her lips pursed, inviting Gordy to give them a kiss. Kalie's mom was alert enough to catch the quick peck of the lips in her camera. She was happy she'd had long talks about the birds and bees with her daughter. She was even happier that she'd made an appointment with Dr. Mercer to give her a graduate course in sex education and get her started on the pill now that she was having her periods. She knew that Gordy's parents had similar talks with their son. While she didn't have intercourse until she was fifteen, there had been plenty of opportunities before then which she had been able to turn down. She hoped Kalie would do the same, but decided in this age of the internet and blatant sexuality it wouldn't hurt to be cautious. She thought the little kisses were cute, but knew deep down that they weren't the first kisses between the two children. Just as Kalie and Gordy finished their lunch, Kalie's father came in and quickly attacked a bowl of mac and cheese. The two children told him about their horseback riding. "I think we got everything taken care of," Kalie said. "You did just fine, sweetie. And you kids got done just in time, too—it's starting to drizzle out there." The forecast had been for rain in the afternoon and on Sunday, which is why they had wanted to get a morning ride in. Gordy and Kalie left the table and went into the living room where a fire was blazing in the big stone fireplace. They turned the television on, found a soccer game on the Soccer Channel, and lay on the floor in front of the fireplace, absorbing the soothing heat. After Kalie's father finished his lunch, he took a quick shower. "Your mom and I are going to Centralia to do some shopping," he announced when he came into the living room. "I hate shopping this time of year, and I'd rather do it on a weekday, but your mother insisted." "I did not insist," Kalie's mother said as she entered the living room, "I strongly suggested. We'll be back by supper time. What time did you have to be home Gordy?" "I can be home anytime. I could even spend the night if we were going to ride again tomorrow, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen since it's raining," Gordy replied. Gordy and Kalie had discussed finding a way for Gordy, along with maybe Aiden or Miles, to spend a night in the backhouse. The idea of his staying alone was never brought up because they knew it would never be approved. Gordy and Kalie were both surprised when they didn't hear an objection to Gordy spending the night, but they also felt it best to let the subject drop, at least for now. "Well, call your mother and let her know you'll be having dinner with us. Tell her if she has any questions, she can call me." Gordy thought it interesting that Kalie's mother told him to tell his mother, not to ask his mother. Kalie's parents put on their coats and went out the side door. Gordy and Kalie listened to her dad's truck roll down the gravel driveway and looked at each other. "It's kinda hot by the fire," Kalie said. "We could move to the couch," Gordy suggested. Kalie still couldn't believe what a doofus Gordy could be when it came to understanding her hints. She pretty much had to tell him everything. "I was thinking of staying here on the rug watching the game and taking off our pants to keep from getting too hot." "Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that," Gordy murmured, even though he had thought of it and was too nervous to make the suggestion. He was still wondering where he had gotten the audacity to kiss Kalie in front of her mom. Not waiting for Gordy to take the lead, Kalie stood up, opened her jeans, and pulled them off, revealing a flowered pair of girl boxer shorts. She lay down on the floor, her little girl ass creating a bump on her profile; a bump that tempted Gordy to touch it. His hand jerked, but he resisted the temptation. Gordy had a bump of his own, and he was smooshing it with the weight of his body. As Kalie dropped her jeans, Gordy's little cock became instantly hard. "Well, aren't you hot too?" Kalie asked as Gordy stayed on the carpet, focusing on the soccer game. "Oh, yeah, I guess I am." Even though Kalie had seen his boner many times, Gordy was still embarrassed about Kalie knowing how easy it was for her to make him hard. Well, not much I can do about it now, he thought. He rolled on his back, but didn't have a chance to do any more as Kalie reached over and unbuckled, unbuttoned, and unzipped his jeans, revealing his gray and black briefs. "Oh, you have a boner," Kalie cooed. "Did I give you that?" Gordy said nothing. Instead, he lifted his ass and pulled his jeans down and off. "I guess this is a lot cooler." He rolled back on his belly and tried unsuccessfully to refocus on the game. "Do you really grab Aiden's dick on the bus?" he asked, although he knew that Kalie knew that he knew the answer. "Sometimes. He won't always let me do it, but it's kind of fun to do when he likes it. The most fun is unzipping him and watching the high school boy who always sits across the aisle stare at us." "I wish I rode that bus." "Would you really let me grab you? I mean you're more shy than Aiden is and you'd probably knock my hand away." "I dunno, I might let you do it." "How? You aren't even letting me do it right now when we're alone in the living room and you don't even have your pants on." Gordy thought to himself that it looked like Kalie really wanted to mess around, although what had really happened was that he had convinced himself that he really wanted to mess around. He rolled on his back and said, "How far did you go with Aiden on the bus?" Once again he knew the answer, because Aiden told him about each of the sexual occurrences on the bus. He thought Gordy should know about them because Gordy and Kalie were going out together. "Every time she does it, I tell her I'm going to tell you, but she still does it," Aiden had told him. "I guess if a girl can be a horn dog, then she's a horn dog. She didn't used to be, but now she's almost like Autumn." "I got his boner out of his underpants and played with it a couple of times and he got his hand inside my panties once. I know he tells you all of this." "I just wanted to hear it again," Gordy said lamely. The truth was hearing Kalie say it made him horny. "Aiden's at Nolan's house today. I wonder if they're going to go all the way." "Does he tell you about doing that?" Gordy asked incredulously. That didn't sound like Aiden at all. "No, but we both know he wants to do it. It sounds too weird to me." "Me, too. But I think they're going to do it sometime, but I don't know about today. I know he learned some things about doing butt stuff from his cousin, Chase." "Do you want to do it?" "Not up my butt or anybody's butt. No way." "What about with me?" Gordy lay silently on his belly watching the television. Kalie filled the time by taking off her t-shirt and bra, her tiny nubs poking from her chest. Gordy's attention quickly turned from the soccer game to Kalie's breast. "Remember what we said. I make sperms and you're having your periods and we both learned what that means." Kalie started lifting the hem of Gordy's t-shirt; he took the hint and finished removing the shirt. "What if my mom puts me on the pill as soon as my doctor lets her. Would you do it then?" That brought another round of silence from Gordy. This time Kalie filled the time by rubbing Gordy's bare back until it found its way to the waistband of his briefs. She slid her hand inside and started rubbing her boyfriend's ass. "I wish I could do that to you on the bus." "Would you do it to Aiden if you could?" Gordy asked with a hint of envy. "We don't have that much time." She continued to rub Gordy's ass. "You haven't answered my question about doing it." "I dunno. I mean we're only eleven. I don't think we're supposed to do that no matter what." "I don't know, Autumn and Barry Bender have gone all the way three times, and she's only eleven, but Barry's gonna be thirteen in a couple of days. I'll be twelve in a couple of months. Brittany Jordon and me watched them do it a couple of weeks ago." "Did you and Brittany do anything?" "Yeah," Kalie blushed. Gordy felt himself getting even harder if that was possible. Kalie left the subject and stopped rubbing Gordy's ass. She removed her hand from his underpants and scooted alongside him, their torsos touching. She kissed his neck until he got the hint and rolled onto his left side and placed a kiss on her lips. Within seconds the two almost naked children had their bodies wound tightly together as they French kissed and rubbed and stroked each other. Neither of them removed their underwear. After their discussion it was as if the topic of doing "it" was at the forefront of their minds and if they kept their underwear on then the confusing thoughts running through their young minds could be kept under wraps, so to speak. Kalie grabbed Gordy's almost four inches of boy cock through his underpants as Gordy found himself sucking on Kalie's left breast while feeling up her right one. He saw nothing wrong with what they were doing; while this was close to sex, it really was just serious messing around. It wasn't anything like fucking, which he knew he wouldn't do, at least not until he was much older. Even after Kalie stuffed her hand inside of Gordy's underpants, Gordy was convinced they weren't having sex—that this was the same as messing around with Aiden or Miles or even Mason. They turned on their sides, facing each other. They deep kissed and Gordy took things a step further by folding Kalie's boxer shorts down to expose her pussy and then placed his left middle finger into the dark, wet place. Before he knew it, Kalie folded his briefs down and exposed his erection and smooth ball sac. She increased the pace of her masturbating. In spite of all their caution they were now virtually naked, their exposed young genitals within inches of each other. Kalie was certain she knew what she wanted which was feeling what it was like having a boy inside of her and Gordy would be that boy. But, it wasn't to be; Kalie had taken him too far; he was close to cumming. He placed his erection against her abdomen and humped her. He moaned, let out a yelp, and shot his clear boy cum on Kalie's smooth belly. He rolled away from her, breathing hard, and she rolled on her back. They had come within inches of actually DOING it and the thrill of being so bad was overwhelming. Kalie used her finger to scoop the two drops off her belly. She placed them in her mouth and sucked them off, just like one of Gordy's boy friends would do. Kalie then pulled off her boxers, spread her legs, and masturbated herself to a body shaking orgasm. "Wow, that felt really good," she said while at the same time wishing that Gordy had brought her off himself. "Yeah it did. Sorry about cumming on you and not getting you off. I would have but I needed to recover." Gordy took a deep breath and went on. "That was scary. We came really close to doing it." "I wouldn't have let you," Kalie assured him, actually believing what she was saying. "Let's go take a nap, but not naked." She put her underpants back on and Gordy pulled his up. They went upstairs. Kalie opened the covers and they climbed into her bed. She covered them and they scooted closely together, their nearly naked bodies touching. As Gordy and Kalie fell asleep, they thought about what had just transpired and wondered how far some of their fellow sixth grade classmates had gone with the opposite sex. They would have been surprised to learn that they were much farther ahead than almost all of the others. Gordy had another boner when they woke up, but he knew Kalie's parents would be home soon. He left the bed and went to the bathroom to pee. When he returned Kalie was sitting up on the bed. He looked at her little boobs and his erection almost wanted to pop out of his briefs. He pulled his briefs down to flash Kalie, who laughed. "We'd better go down and get dressed," she said reluctantly Gordy agreed. Kalie's parents returned a half hour later. They ended up having dinner at the Mayfield Café after which they took Gordy home. Gordy wondered if he could have stayed the night if he or Kalie had asked. He knew he'd have to sleep in the backhouse, but he also knew Kalie would have snuck down to sleep with him. What he knew the most was he needed to jerk off badly, which is exactly what he did before falling asleep in his own bed. Miles, Mason, and Trent were sitting naked on Trent's bed. They had erections and were slowly playing with themselves as they talked about sex. Miles had a feeling that Mason was going to make something happen. Mason didn't disappoint him as he positioned himself between Trent's legs and went down on him. Mason was ready for a helping of Trent cum and Trent was willing to supply it. "Oh, fuck, Mason," Trent moaned. "Nobody in Mayfield likes sucking cock more than you do." Trent then shut his mouth, closed his eyes, and leaned back against the wall, prepared to enjoy Mason's talented mouth. Mason stuck his nose into Trent's little patch of pubic hair and deep-throated his four inches of boy meat. It didn't take Trent long to issue a muffled squeal and fill Mason's mouth with his sweet, clear preteen cum. Mason lifted his face from Trent's crotch and grinned, revealing Trent's emission before giving it a hard swallow. "Oh, shit, Mason, that was so fucking awesome. Thanks, dude." "You guys know I like eating cum, so thank you Trent for a tasty treat. Now, if I could just suck your brother sometime and get a lot of the thick stuff." Trent's brother, Jackson, was fifteen and generally reluctant about getting involved in messing around with Trent and his friends. He and Trent jacked off together on occasion, but that was the extent of their sex play. "He doesn't know what he's missing. I know John likes Mason sucking him," Miles said before he let out a groan of pleasure of his own when Mason placed his hairless cock between his lips. Trent considered himself to be straight. He was going out with Diane North, a seventh grade girl. While they hadn't yet been naked together, they'd been undressed from the waist up once and French kissed often. They had also exchanged gropes of boobs and genitals and flashed each other once in Diane's living room. Miles wasn't sure what he was. Mason was without question his best friend and he loved the sex between them. He also loved messing around with Aiden, the twins, Gordy, his brother, John and his friend Bryce, not to mention the few times he'd played around with Aiden's cousins. He didn't know whether he was gay or not, but he did know he had some powerful feelings for Mason that he didn't understand. While Mason was bringing Miles close to orgasm, Trent was jerking off Mason's little cock. Miles came first, enjoying a dry cum inside of Mason's mouth. As soon as Miles came, Mason rolled over on his back and let Trent finish him off. All three boys had been satisfied. They dressed and then left Trent's bedroom to play games and watch TV. For Trent messing around on his bed had been all about getting off with friends. For Miles and Mason being sexual with each other was beginning to mean more than simply working up an orgasm. They weren't sure what those feelings meant other than they were becoming more than simply best friends. After a lot of talk and a lot of plans that didn't come to fruition, Lenny finally was able to visit Keith in Kentburg. Leslie Hazen, Lenny's mother, drove him to Keith's. While she felt that either of the twins would be safe riding the bike trail to Kentburg, the weather called for a car ride. She was surprised that Lenny was doing this without Lance, but she felt that it was good for the twins to show some independence and step away from each other at times. Lance was spending the day with some friends from his class and Brenda was at a friend's house for the day. Until she started her drive home, Leslie didn't realize how much she was looking forward to some alone time. Keith's mother said she would bring Lenny home that evening. Both boys had discovered that they liked each other when they met at Aiden's house. Keith was eleven to Lenny's ten, at least for another six weeks when Lenny would turn eleven. Keith was a sixth grader in middle school while Lenny was a fifth grader in elementary school. Those facts didn't bother them because they liked each other. Neither boy had any idea of what would happen during Lenny's visit. While sexual thoughts resided in their minds, sex wasn't the purpose of their visit. Being older and already a bit into puberty, Keith thought of sex differently than Lenny; his thoughts were more frequent, more vivid, more intense. Even though he hadn't hit puberty yet, Lenny loved sex, especially with his twin brother. But, on their first afternoon together, bonding as friends was their intention. They talked and played cards for an hour and then prepared to go to open gym at Kentburg Middle School. The gym was open every Saturday during the school year from eleven to three for students thirteen and under. High school students had open gym at the high school. The program was paid for by the Kentburg Park Department and the Kentburg School District. A free cold lunch was served from twelve-thirty until one. The gym supervisor that day was Coach Walker, who was an assistant football coach at the high school and the head baseball coach at the middle school. Keith introduced Lenny to Coach Walker. "So, you're from Mayfield, eh? How did you and Keith happen to meet?" Coach Walker asked. "From playing baseball," Lenny answered. "Don't tell me you played for the Yard Goats." "Yep, I did," Lenny replied proudly. Coach Walker looked down at Keith. "You seem to have found the secret to making friends in baseball." Keith gave the coach a confused look, which he noticed. "Let me see if I have this straight. You knock down a player from the opposing team with a high and tight pitch and he becomes your friend, and then one of his teammates becomes a friend as well. It would seem that all you have to do to make friends is throw a baseball at them." "That's not exactly how it happened," Keith protested. He didn't realize that Coach Walker was pulling his leg. "I mean, yeah, I did knock Aiden down, but it was wrong and we became friends later because...well...just because." The coach ruffled Keith's fiery red hair and laughed. "I'm just yanking your chain a little, Mr. Barnett. Now, how about you and your new friend join the group that just came in. They look like they could use a couple more players for a half-court pickup game." Two of the boys in the group were Keith's best friends Shannon and Doyle. That made it easy to make the group of four a group of six. Keith introduced Lenny to his friends and they divided themselves into two teams; Keith, Doyle, and Lenny made up one team. The games they played were spirited, hard fought, and fun. The Kentburg boys were impressed by Lenny's prowess on the court, as was Coach Walker. They also found themselves feeling a kinship with the likeable, outgoing Mayfield boy. The six boys played a best of three set of ten-point games. Keith and Lenny won the first game 10-7, lost the next 12-10 (a two-point lead was necessary to be a winner), and then won 11-9. After that they had lunch. Coach Walker and a high school student who was assisting him set up a volleyball court. The kids played volleyball after lunch. The teams were mixed boys and girls. Nobody had a problem with Lenny and Keith being on the same team. "But, next time Lenny comes then he's just like the rest of us as far as getting picked on a team," Shannon said. Keith and Lenny readily agreed. Lenny liked hearing that he would be welcomed back. Kentburg kids weren't as nasty as everybody said they were. After open gym, Keith's mom picked them up because the rain was getting heavy. She insisted they shower once she got them home. Lenny had brought fresh underwear knowing they would be going to the gym. "Dinner will be as soon as Keith's father comes home," Keith's mother told the boys. "We can shower together," Keith said matter-of-factly. Since Lenny had developed a crush on the redhead from the time they first met, he had no problem with that. Even though Keith had an erection, there was little about the shower that was sexual. But, their being naked in the shower and washing each other was a step in their bonding as friends. By the time they finished showering, Lenny was hard, too. "Do you jerk off?" Keith asked after they returned to his room. They had laid their fresh underwear on Keith's bed. "Yeah, sometimes. Do you?" "I do it a lot," Keith replied. "I can cum a little, too." "I can't yet, but I'm gonna be eleven next month, so I bet I'll be able to do it pretty soon." Lenny knew that Keith had messed around at Aiden's house, so he didn't need to ask about that. Considering how often he and Lance messed around, most weeks he had more cums with another person than he did jerking himself off. He didn't know how much Keith messed around with his Kentburg friends and didn't ask. If he had, he would have learned that Keith and Doyle had jerked off together a couple of times and that Keith and Shannon had jerked off, sucked and kissed each other. Keith didn't pry into Lenny's sex life either. As they dressed, they agreed that they liked seeing each other with boners and talked about maybe jerking off together in the future. They also agreed that they needed to work on arranging an overnight. By the time they finished dressing it was time to eat. Lenny and Keith discussed having a future overnight with Keith's parents who agreed to consider it. Lenny said he'd bring up the subject with his mom as well. Lenny's long-planned visit had been a success. The boys had taken what had been a distant liking to each other and started a budding friendship. They were both eager to see where it would take them. Jeffrey was about to turn his bedroom lights off when the door opened and Sammy stepped in. At first Jeffrey thought Sammy was there for some sex, but then he noticed his younger brother was wearing boxer shorts which, for Sammy, made him way overdressed for bed, let alone sex. Jeffrey had noticed that Sammy had seemed down during dinner and into the evening. He'd been pensive ever since returning from spending the day with David Fitzgerald. "Hey, bro, what's up?" Jeffrey asked casually. Sammy plopped next to Jeffrey on his older brother's bed. "Nothin'," he answered indifferently. "Don't bullshit me, Sammy. You've been moping all evening. And I don't think you wandered in here this late at night because you want my cock up your ass." Sammy lay still and Jeffrey waited patiently for his brother to reveal things at his own pace. One of the many things Jeffrey understood about his thirteen-year-old brother was not to push him into chatting. He knew that Sammy would say what he needed to say when he was ready and not before. He would often clam up totally if he was pushed. Jeffrey knew from past experience that Sammy tended to open up in the dark. He turned off the bedroom lights as Sammy opened the bed covers and slid under them, cuddling up to his seventeen-year-old big brother. "You're naked," Sammy grunted. "This surprises you how?" "I was just saying. You always sleep naked and I just wanted to...fuck, I don't know why I said that. I mean I always sleep naked, too. Fuck, Jeffrey...it's just, well..." Sammy rolled onto his side and placed his head on Jeffrey's bare chest. Once again the room was silent. Jeffrey was thinking of breaking the silence when he felt moisture dripping onto his chest. Jeffrey ran his hand along his brother's thick mane of hair as he felt Sammy's quiet sobs and the wetness of his tears. "Help me Jeffrey. I'm scared. I'm afraid I'm gonna drink or use or do something stupid. I am so scared." As the sobs became longer and louder, Sammy's body started to shake with each one. "Hey, bro. I love you and I'm here for you. How about you end the mystery and tell me what has you so afraid." "I got dressed to sneak out of the house and go to a party at Rodney's house." Rodney was a fellow eighth grader whose parents gave him a long leash when it came to parties with his friends. Sammy had attended a few before he decided to sober up. "Did you call Mel?" Jeffrey asked, referring to Sammy's AA sponsor. "He answered and I told him I wanted to drink. He just said, `I can't help you," and then hung up on me. I mean, he was rude." "That doesn't sound like him at all. What about calling Marty?" "He's always telling me stuff I don't want to hear." Jeffrey thought that sounded like the old party boy Sammy. "I took my clothes back off and went into my bed and kept thinking how I wanted to drink and get high and so I got up and put my boxers on and came in here." "That still doesn't answer my question about what you're afraid of." Sammy took a deep breath. "Well, you know that last weekend I went to Susan Fielder's house on Saturday, right?" "Yeah, I remember you telling me." Sammy had told him more than that, but Jeffrey elected to let his brother tell his own story. "And, well, like I told you, we got naked and made out and she let me titty fuck her again and I came on her chest and her neck. And she said it was kind of gross and maybe we should not get naked anymore and just make out with our clothes on and shit like that." "Okay, you told me this. So why should this scare you?" "Because I wanted so bad to break up with her and now she was going to let me do it, but I was afraid to break up with her because then, well because, you know, it would mean I didn't have a girlfriend." This was something Sammy hadn't told Jeffrey the week before. "Well, I got news for you, bro, you wouldn't be the first kid in eighth grade to break up with his girlfriend." "But what scared me was that I didn't want to even be there with her. I didn't want to get naked with her. I wanted to be with David and in his bedroom and not in hers so he could fuck me and I could fuck him. I wanted to kiss him and suck him and jerk off with him and fuck with him and do all that gay shit. I wanted to do it more than I wanted to be with a girl." "I didn't know you had it that big for David," Jeffrey grinned. He was pretty sure he knew where the conversation was going. "This is serious shit, bro. I...I...I think I might, like, be in love with him or something. It's like here I am naked with a girl in her bedroom and I was falling in love with a boy and I wanted to be with him instead. I think I'm gay and that's what scared me. That's why I really wanted to go to Rodney's party so I could get a girl in bed and fuck her silly. I don't know if I really wanted to get drunk. I just wanted to show I wasn't gay, especially after what David asked me today." There was another long silence, which Jeffrey ended by telling Sammy to go on. "His parents were somewhere and we fucked on the couch in the den, but don't worry we put towels on it. I was his bottom and when we finished he asked me if maybe we should become, like, boyfriends. As soon as he asked me I felt so happy and said that I wanted to and we kissed and then he fucked me again and I got home and that's when I kinda like realized that all of this meant I was gay and I wanted to fuck a girl and go to a party with booze and weed and shit and, okay, I lied, I wanted to, like, fuck a girl and get wasted. Or maybe it was get wasted and fuck a girl and I am so fucking confused, Jeffrey. You're gay and I need you to help me." "So you aren't sure if you wanted to get drunk or not, right?" "That's got nothing to do with if I'm..." "Sammy, just shut up for a minute, will you?" "How come everybody is on my case all of a sudden?" "Nobody's on your case, I just want you to answer my question." "Yes, I'm not sure, okay? Satisfied? I thought I really wanted to get wasted and I called Mel and then after he hung up I was more sure, so I got dressed and wasn't sure and here I am. I hate Mel. He could have made this easy and talked to me." "Call him now." "FUCK, have you heard anything I've been saying?" Sammy pulled the blankets back and started to get out of the bed. "It's not too late for me to go to that party." "Call him, bro," Jeffrey said with the even-toned calmness that so often frustrated Sammy when he was drinking and using. "Only, this time, tell him you DON'T want to drink." That brought on another bout of silence. This time Sammy broke it. "Oh. I think I get it. He can help me if I don't want to use but he can't help me if I do, is what he's saying." He took a deep breath. "I gotta get my phone." "Use mine." For the second time that night, Sammy called Mel. Only this time he said that he didn't want to drink and that he needed help. "Where are you?" Mel asked. "In Jeffrey's bed." "Stay there. I'll stop by in the morning and you and me can go out to breakfast. Now that you don't want to drink, I can help you." Jeffrey and Sammy had correctly figured out Mel's reason for hanging up. It was a big dose of tough love. Once again, Sammy turned and cried on his brother's chest. "I'm not upset," he sniffed. "I just love you so much and I'm crying because I got the best brother in the world." Jeffrey put his right arm around his little brother. If he hadn't known about the contradictory behavior of the young adolescent before, he learned it that night. Sammy had bounced from a vulnerable little boy, to the sureness of a young adolescent, to not quite knowing how he fit into the world, and back to once again displaying his vulnerability. Jeffrey understood like he hadn't before how much Sammy looked up to him and how much his love for his brother meant to both. Even though there was no sex in Jeffrey's bed that night, there was more love exchanged between them than in any of the nights they'd slept together. They started messing around when Sammy was a little eight-year-old learning the arts of masturbation and fellatio. When he was ten and they started making love together, but that night their brotherly was as deep as it every had been. Jeffrey vowed to himself never to violate the total trust Sammy had placed in him over the past few weeks, and on that night in particular. The two thirteen-year-old boyfriends were breathing hard. Chase had given Dillon a workout for the second time that night. Their naked bodies were entangled, their faces inches away from each other. "I love you, Chase," Dillon whispered. "And I love you, Dillon. If you hadn't been sitting next to me in Mr. Saxton's class that day, we'd never have become boyfriends." Chase was referring to the day Dillon had seen him jerking off in class. "Sometimes I can't believe one of the most popular boys in seventh grade is my boyfriend." While Dillon was believing in that fact more and more, he still had his doubts. Boys like Chase had always ignored him at best and picked on him at worst, a way of life that had gotten worse in middle school. "Believe it, Dillon, because it's true." The boys then exchanged some long deep kisses. When they came up for air, Chase asked Dillon if he was ready for one more round. "Sure, but my butt's a little sore. Can I be the top this time?" "Sounds like a plan to me." "When are you going to do Logan?" Chase got on his back and lifted his legs, showing Dillon his wares. "I told him we'd talk about it when he turned eleven, and that's not until June." "And then what?" "And then, with your permission, I think he'll enjoy his surprise birthday present." "You know I'll be okay with that." "I know, but I'm just giving you what the timeline is gonna be. And speaking of timelines, Drake really wants a three-way with us. He emailed me again about it." "And?" "And we'll wait and see what happens with him and Uncle Keegan first—like where is he gonna live and shit like that. Maybe by then he'll have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or some kind of friend and we can do a four way," Chase laughed. "But, right now all I know is that I want you to fuck me silly, like NOW!" Being horny young teens, that session ended a successful night of sexual fun between the geek and the jock, whom many thought of as a pair of unlikely friends, let alone a pair of boyfriends. Aiden was in bed by ten in the evening. He had texted Nolan that he was home safely and thanked him for a great time. Nolan had texted back, "u r welcome sleep good ILY." Aiden thought about his day with Nolan and how special and sexy it was. He knew that even without the sex, just being special would be, well, special. But the sex made it extra special. Kalie had it figured out right when she asked if Nolan was gay like him. The way he saw it now, the question could also be was he gay like Nolan? It didn't matter who was gay like whom. It didn't matter if they were even gay. What mattered was that they were boyfriends and loved each other. What mattered to him at that moment was that he needed to cuddle with his dads. He put on a fresh pair of briefs with alternating light and dark blue stripes. The underpants he'd worn during the day had seen a full day's use at Nolan's house. For the first time it was important to him to have clean briefs on. He wondered if he should have showered before going to bed. He sniffed his underarms and decided they were okay. Grabbing Horace off his bed he went downstairs and knocked on his dads' bedroom door. Larry and Phil quickly pulled underpants on. "Come in Horace," Larry called out. "And you can bring that Aiden kid with you if you want." Aiden entered the room and set Horace on the end of the bed. "You guys are way too silly, sometimes," he said, hoping they didn't take his complaint seriously. He liked it when his dads got silly. While his pop got silly more often than his dad, he looked at it as team silliness. "What brings you down to the master bedroom?" Phil asked. That afternoon he and Larry had discussed how Aiden's night visits had tapered off since he started middle school. While they still loved having him come into bed with them and cuddle up to sleep, they also saw his weaning from the bed as a healthy sign. Just in case of a visit, they always either had underpants on when getting into bed or had a pair nearby and handy. "I just wanted to be with you," Aiden said as he crawled onto the bed between his dads and then wriggled under the covers. Phil and Larry said nothing, knowing that lately Aiden almost had a hidden motive when he came to bed with them, even if he wouldn't always discuss it. Sometimes that motive would be no more than needing the comfort of their arms and their love. Putting his arms around Larry he sighed with contentment. After a couple of minutes, he revealed what was on his mind. "If I have a boyfriend, does that mean I'm gay?" Aiden had just come up with another of his surprise questions. Phil and Larry pondered a possible answer. While they knew Aiden was sexually active with his friends, they weren't quite prepared for the "boyfriend" question from their eleven-year-old son. "You and Nolan?" Larry asked. He had observed a lot of interesting behaviors and looks and touches between them on the rare times they were together. Besides, he had spent the day at Nolan's house. "Well, does it?" Aiden asked, avoiding the question. "No, all it means is you have a friend who you like to...um...well, do things with. You have a lot of time yet to decide if you're boyfriends. Just enjoy being best friends and being boys." "Weren't you two boyfriends when you were my age?" Phil coughed lightly. "We were a little older." But not by much, he thought. "But you were in middle school, right?" "Yeah, but in seventh grade." Aiden chewed on that for a moment and then asked if they thought they were gay then. "We were clueless about what we were," Larry replied. "All we knew is how we felt about each other. Everything else was words. Gay. Straight. While we weren't all that sure about what it meant then, looking back on it, I'd say love was what we had and that is the only word that was important." After another silent pause, Aiden decided to tell his dads what he figured they probably knew by now. "Nolan is my boyfriend and I am his boyfriend." "And I'm your pop, and Phil is your dad, and we love you more than anything in the world." Larry gave Aiden a loving squeeze. "And don't you ever forget it." Aiden felt Phil's strong arm wrap around him. "I second that. Son, we know you and Nolan live far apart. So, you two enjoy every second you have with each other. You be best friends, boyfriends, whatever you want to be with each other, but enjoy every second. Like your pop said, don't worry about gay, straight, bi, or any of that bullshit. Just enjoy each other. Your pop and I wasted too much energy worrying at times and not enough just accepting and loving each other." "But, you did okay. You're married and you're my dads and got me for an awesome son." "True, but we just hope you can skip the worry step." Aiden shifted himself so he could feel the bodies of both of his dads. "Tonight, I love my dads because they're the best in the world. Oh, and don't tell Nolan I told you we are boyfriends until I say it's okay to tell." "Mum's the word," Larry said. "And your dad and I love you back and then some." While Aiden didn't need to be in bed with his dads as often as he once did, he found that their presence, experience, and wisdom showed him how to deal with a lot of questions. His dads, along with his big bro Marty, made him feel safe and loved by men who were successful gay men and helped him work to accept who he was. Aiden felt calm and comforted as he fell into a deep, untroubled sleep. Next: Nolan and Aiden