Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 01:22:23 +0000 (UTC) From: acgib1943@protonmail.com Subject: Change of Plans - 9 Consider donating to Nifty. Recap: On my way home, I checked my phone. Four texts from Denny. I deleted them. Screw him. I did not need to deal with his crap. I opened the door. My mom met me. "Did you hear what happened to that friend of yours?" "Who?" That boy you talked about last week, Denny." "What about him?" Like I cared. It was on the news. A kid was assaulted after school on his way home. He is in the hospital, in critical condition. They think he might die. My friend at the diner saw the attack and called 911. She knew the boy and recognized him as Denny. I felt dizzy, the room spun, and then blackness. Denny had such a slight build and light features that he had been bullied for years. No one wanted to be his friend so they would not be bullied like he was. Then some jerks heard he might be gay, what had started as a plan to teach the gay kid a lesson went too far. The attack started in the alley next to the diner. Except when Denny fought back the others freaked and grabbed pieces of wood and started slamming him with boards. The attack spilled into the street in front of the diner as Denny tried to escape. The jerks kept hitting him until mom's friend came out screaming. The jerks took off. Denny lay on the sidewalk beaten, bloody, and unconscious. I felt like a total ass. He needed a friend and I had not tried to understand him. I felt he had dumped me, so I shut him out. I told mom I had to see him. She said she learned he was in the ICU and only family were allowed to see him. I did not go to school the rest of the week. Micah and Shawn brought me my homework every day and stayed to comfort me. I thanked them from my bed where I lay clutching my pillow, now soaked with my tears, drool, and snot. If Denny died, well, I did not know what I would do. Join him? I think the guys recognized the depths of my depression. They sat on my bed stroking me telling me I mattered, that they needed me. My mom knew I needed them, so she allowed them to come over anytime. One of them stayed every night on the air mattress next to my bed leaving in the morning. Friday morning, mom came into my room. "Phone call, Mac." I turned to the wall. I wanted to talk to no one. "It's Denny's dad." I flipped over grabbing the phone while hauling in a deep breath. "Hello." "Is this McKenzie?" "Uh huh." "This is Denny's dad. Denny is in the ICU. He regained consciousness around four this morning. He's asking, no he's crying for you." "I'm on my way." "No son. I will come to get you. Put your mom on." I handed mom the phone and started to dress. I heard her give him our address. "You need to shower before you go to the hospital. You have not showered all week. You stink. You need to smell nice for your boyfriend." I was in the shower when I realized what she said. "My boyfriend." I finished, dried, and walked to my bedroom with the towel around my waist. Mom sat at my desk. Before I said anything, she spoke up. "I know all about you and Denny. You cried and bawled asking for him as you dreamed. You said you loved him and asked God to save him. Micah and Shawn heard you, too. They confirmed you loved him. They would not tell me any details other than you were boyfriends and had had a fight. McKenzie. I love you. You are our son. Your dad feels the same way. We want you to be happy. We have prayed for your boyfriend, Denny. Denny's dad picked me up and we drove to the hospital in silence. Denny had been moved to a regular room. He was no longer was in the ICU. I stood at the door to his room, afraid to go in. "Go ahead son. He needs to see you," Denny's dad said, his hand resting on my shoulder. I couldn't. I did not know his dad, but I turned and clasped him, crying. He held me like a father holds his son as he stroked my hair. "McKenzie. Denny almost died. When he woke he cried for you. He cried for his boyfriend. He needs you. He needs you to heal him emotionally. His mom and I are okay with his feelings for you. We do not care that he is gay. He is our son. We love him. If he wants you to love, we are okay with that." He led me into the hall. "Look at me. Do you love my son?" "I do, so much. I'm not sure how he feels about me. We had an argument last Sunday. I had bad thoughts about him after we argued. I'd rather not say what caused it. I am not sure myself. He looked at me. "He's bandaged all over and does not look well. Go to him. Comfort him. He cannot see you. Just let him know you are here." I walked into the room and choked. His head and eyes were bandaged. His arms were in casts. I could not see his body as it was covered with a blanket. I stood at the foot of his bed. Hoses snaked from him. A beeping sound came from a machine behind his shoulder. "Is someone there? Who's there," he asked? I struggled to hear his whispered voice. I almost turned and ran. Overcoming my desire to leave, I walked to the bed's side and touched his shoulder. "It's McKenzie," I whispered. "Thank-you," he breathed. I pulled a chair to the bed, sat, and rested my hand on the blanket where it covered his leg. I did not know what to tell him. I felt my eyes mist. He said nothing. How long we stayed like this, I do not know. At some point I must have rested my head on the bed next to his leg, keeping my hand on his thigh as comfort and to let him know I was here. "McKenzie?" "Yeah?" "Forgive me." I rubbed him lightly. "I do. I'm not leaving. When you get better, I want to talk, about what happened." "I will," he said. I had to leave when the nurse came in to check him. When I returned, I saw a bag hanging from the bed with a reddish fluid in it. "What's that," I asked the nurse? "That's his urine bag. He has some blood in his urine. When that clears, we might be able to send him home." I continued to sit with my hand on his leg. He said nothing. We breathed together. My brain felt empty. I did not think. Just existed. I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked at his dad. He motioned me to follow him. Denny had fallen asleep, so I followed his dad. We walked to the floor lounge choosing seats across from each other. "Denny is in a bad way. His attackers, who are in jail, beat him so severely the doctors thought he might not live. It was close for a couple days. His condition is still guarded. Asking for you was the first thing he spoke when he woke. Do you feel comfortable telling me about your friendship?" I needed to be careful how much I revealed. I did not want to tell his dad all we had done. "Denny and I had a good weekend. We hung out at my house with friends from school. Denny came over Friday. We had a good time on Saturday, played games, watched TV, and hung out doing the usual things teens will do. Sunday, two of the guys left. Four of us were to stay until Monday. Then Denny told me he did not want to hang around. He wanted to go. He gave no reason. Nothing bad happened between us. Monday, at school he ignored me. I got pissed and ignored him. After school I went over to Micah's with Shawn. We left Denny." I sobbed, "Oh god, we left him. If we had let him come with us, this would not have happened." I lost it. I put my head in my hands and bawled. Denny's dad put his hand on my shoulder, resting it there. "McKenzie. Denny needs you now. He needs your strength. No matter what happened, you need to be strong for your boyfriend." I stopped sobbing. "You know he's my boyfriend. You are not mad?" "I know and I am not mad at either of you. I love my two boys. Yes, you are now my second son." I lifted my head and looked at him. "Are you ready to hear about his injuries," he asked? I swallowed, nodding. "It's bad. I'll give you the worst of it. His spleen had to be removed. He may have lost his sight. Internal organs are severely damaged. His kidneys were damaged as was his bladder. He has broken arms and ribs. Extreme damage occurred to his testicles, the doctors had to remove one. The other may not be viable. Time will tell. Last thing. There was slight anal tearing. That could not have happened during the attack. Do you know how that might have happened?" I nodded not looking at him. "Okay. No details. Was this consensual?" "Yes. We both wanted it." I could not meet his eyes. I knew my face was flaming. "I have to let the doctors know. You understand." I nodded. I did understand. What we had done was now known. I did not need to give his dad any details. He knew what we had done, well almost everything. I stood. "Can I go back to his room?' He stood and hugged me. I saw his eyes glisten. He kissed my cheek and straightened my hair. Days passed. My parents convinced me that I had to go to school for my lessons and to get Denny's work. Denny would need me when he went home. I brought the work to Denny's room. All the guys, even Sam and Jimmy came. We read to him, covering the assignments. He did not want to do any of it. We called him names and told him that just because he was injured was no reason to screw off. At first, he told us to fuck off, but we gave him no slack. He realized we would not let up and did this because we loved him. He did the work as best as he could. We wrote what he told us to write. I still did not know why he had ghosted me that Sunday and right now I did not care. Two weeks after the attack, Denny went home. The tubes and bags were removed. I was given instruction on how to care for him as I would be staying at his house. His eyes were still bandaged. The doctors gave him a fifty percent chance of regaining partial sight. I was nervous when I was shown how to treat his ball sack and what to watch for. He needed help going to the toilet both ways. He was adamant that he did not want his parents helping with this, especially his mom. He was okay with me and the guys doing this. None of us were grossed out having to wipe his butt after he pooped or holding his dick while he sat and peed. He would only let me change the dressings on his sack. Once we got him home his parents let him have their room since it had an attached bath making it easier to care for him. The guys and I washed him with cloths as no way could he take a shower much less a bath. The school was good about allowing each of us to miss one day a week to care for Denny. I came over and stayed all night sleeping on a roll away bed his parents rented. Time passed. His teen attackers were sentenced to prison because they were tried as adults. They would serve a minimum of three years and a maximum of seven. For what they did to Denny, they should get life. I just hoped that I heard happened to teens in adult prison happened to them Denny insisted I attend his checkups and be in the exam room. When he needed his groin examined, he told his parents that only I could be with him. I would report what the doctor said. The doctors were certain losing one ball would not affect his fertility or the ability to produce an erection. I checked the internet and learned they were right. A male needed only one ball to produce sperm. Denny could be a father. I tucked the information about boners away for later. I would test it out. When he was fully healed, of course. The eye doctor removed the bandages. At first Denny's vision was blurry. In two days, his sight was almost back to normal. His bones were healing, but the casts needed to stay on for a few more weeks. His legs were okay so he was cleared to return to school. He would start with morning classes, then return home. At the end of the first week, he would go full day. If one of us did not have a class with him, we would escort him. We carried our own backpack as well as his. One of us had to take him to the bathroom and care for his needs. The school gave us keys to the teacher's bathrooms for privacy. We grew to care for him emotionally as well as physically. At his house, one of us would strip and get with him in the shower and wash him after covering his casts. None of us got turned on from doing this. What we did was patient care, not sexual. Four weeks had passed since the attack. Denny and I were alone. He was sitting at the kitchen table and I was feeding him the spaghetti his mom made for supper. The way his arms were casted made taking care of basic functions impossible for him. He took a break from eating to look at me. We stared at each other for the longest time. "Why are you so good to me, Mac? He had switched from using McKenzie to just Mac. I liked his nickname for me. Before I responded, he continued. "I treated you like shit that Sunday. I wouldn't blame you if you abandoned me." Before I could speak, he continued. "That Friday, when we did sex stuff, I was so turned on. I wanted to do more and never stop. Then on Saturday when all of us fooled around, Mac, I felt I was going to lose my mind. Watching the guys and what they did and us doing it with them made me wild with lust Then in bed sharing that experience with Micah and Shawn, Mac, I never imagined myself doing that stuff. I had looked at dirty magazines before. They were pictures so I knew kinda what went on. All of us doing that stuff, at first, was so wild. I enjoyed it, so much. Then on Sunday when Jimmy and Sam said they would be going, that what we did was too gay. That they were not gay. I snapped. I did not want to be gay When you told me you loved me, I lost it." He stopped, still looking at me. "That's my story." "How do you feel now?" "Different. You and the guys have done stuff no teen boy does for another teen boy. If you guys had not been there, my parents would have to do all that. Very embarrassing. You guys have showed me what love and care is all about. I am totally lost in where my feelings lie. I know one thing, I really, really love you. I am sorry I left without a word that Sunday." "Yes, you hurt my heart, very much. I left school one day and walked to the river. I figured it would serve you right if I jumped in and died. Then I remembered the others. I would not do that to them. I headed back to school and they met me, and we walked back together." "I saw you that day. I tried to text you to meet after school so I could explain, and apologize, and we could start over. I was on my way to your house when I got attacked." I could not easily take Denny's hand. Instead, I put my hand on his thigh resting it there and stared at his eyes. "In a tiny voice, he asked, "Can we start over?" I nodded. "How about we start with a kiss?" His shining eyes said all that was needed. I leaned over his parted lips, putting my tongue between them. His tongue met mine and we explored each other. My hand moved higher on his thigh and I felt the tent in his pants. I moved away from that. "No, Mac," he moaned. Please, hold me there." "Are you certain?" "Please," his voice was a moan. "I was wrong. You are my everything. Do me. I'm sorry I can't do you, but once these casts are off, I'll make it up to you. I lowered his sleep pants and boxers and looked at him. His cock jutted hard and straight up. "Losing a ball did not affect your boner," I smirked. "Jack me, Mac. I need to see if I can produce sperm." "He could. It was watery, but he produced more that the last time we did this. It tasted so sweet; I had a hard time sharing his sperm with him. READER: Where do I go from here? How do you see the lives of the boys developing. I want to keep the activity only between teens, no adults. Also, even though anal sex has been done, it is not all that common for boys in their early teens according to my research on Nifty writing guideline sites. Would bringing other friends in be okay. Should the six friends continue in their relations? Continuing the story beyond high school I believe would make it too long. Anyway. Let me know at acgib1943@protonmail.com