Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:08:55 -0800 From: Douglas DD DD Subject: Rough Edges Chapter 28 Greetings and thank you for sticking with "Rough Edges." Phil finds himself really getting into basketball. The Stallions work hard to improve their skills and teamwork before league play starts in the Holiday Tournament. This story is mine. Be safe always. Be 18 to read this. And please donate to the Nifty Archive to keep the stories coming. CHAPTER 28 HOLIDAY HOOP FEST It was senior finals week at school. Of my five math classes, two were almost all seniors and two had a smattering of seniors. It was the day after the Major League draft, which created a great deal of excitement because of Marty. When he went in the twelfth round, you could sense the pride among the athletes. Even though he had been away to college for three years, the seniors had been freshman at the high school when Marty was a senior. Chandler and Korey had even played baseball with him. Marty was the first Mayfield Mustang athlete to ever be picked in a major sports draft. While we all knew he was going to take a pass on signing a contract in order to finish his senior year at WSU, we still couldn't help but be proud. Marty dropped by the school at the end of the day and visited with me as well as some of the other teachers and coaches he'd had as a student at Mayfield High. I remember those teachers, most of them at the middle school, who said he would be lucky to make it out of high school. I think Marty was proud to have the last word. Kids like Marty and Connor, the bad boys, were the ones Phil loved to coach. He told me more than once that he saw a lot of himself in them. Knowing Phil for as long as I have, I don't doubt it at all. I looked at the tests I had to correct. I gave finals to all of my students, not just the seniors. Only the class without seniors would get their finals next week. After Marty left my classroom, my mind ended up focusing on my resident "bad" boy instead of on correcting my tests, thinking of the ups and downs of our early friendship. During the two weeks before Christmas break, Phil and I actually fell into a bit of a routine for the first time in our brief relationship. On Monday he rode the bus with me to my stop. Mom would have snacks waiting for us. After eating we did our homework. On the second Monday, Q and Jung joined us for the homework part. If we had time left before dinner we played video games. After dinner we kissed and made out and got each other off with a combo of jacking and sucking. We didn't get naked, but we exposed as much of each other as we could. Tuesday and Thursday he rode to my stop where it was snacks and homework. We changed into our practice gear and walked to the elementary school for basketball practice. After practice dinner arrangements varied. Jung, Q, Daniel, and the two of us had dinner at Q's on Tuesday. It was Phil and me at my house on Thursday. The next Tuesday Phil, Perry, and I had dinner at Jung's house. Perry sat next to me at the table, and when I saw that he had the front of his basketball shorts pulled down under his balls and rock hard three inch boy tool I was convinced he was a sex fiend. "You're crazy," I told Perry after we finished dinner and laid our homework out. "But you liked it, right?" I had to admit that I did. "Then next time, touch it. That's what Jung does." "He does it during dinner?" "Yeah, and sometimes Ji-min touches it." Ji-min was Jung's fourteen- year-old sister who was in ninth grade. "You guys really are crazy," I told them again, but in a kidding sort of way. "You can touch it while we work on our homework if you want." He sat next to me at the dining room table and pulled the front of his basketball shorts down to the same position they'd been in during dinner. I might have thought he was being crazy, but I was already too much the gay boy to resist the temptation. So, with my left hand I was jerking off Perry's hairless little boner while I was scribbling out my math work with my right hand as well as keeping watch for an approaching parent. When Ji-min came into the dining room I let go of Perry's boner. "It's okay to keep going," he whispered, and so I did. Ji-min stood behind our chairs and smiled. "You boys are just like my brother, always having a boner." "You know I have one," Perry said, "but you haven't checked out Larry." "I can see the bulge in his pants. My experience tells me he has a boner." Damn, I thought, she's fourteen...where did she get experience from? I found out later from Jung that his sister lost her virginity when she was twelve in seventh grade. A fourteen-year-old eighth grader was nice enough to take her cherry on his couch one afternoon after school. I asked Jung if he and his sister ever messed around. "She has masturbated me a few times and I gave her a lesson in giving a blow job and she practiced on me twice. Getting blown by the Wonkeys is a good experience in many ways. I have been naked with her and explored her breasts and fingered her vagina, but only a couple of times. It was more a learning experience than sex." "Yeah, that's what Jung wants to believe," Phil said after I told him what Jung had revealed to me. "I bet they've fucked. I mean he fucks Perry's ass, so why not fuck his sister?" "You have such a dirty mind," I kidded him, although I half-believed he was right. "Dirty minds are rarely wrong," Phil smirked. But that evening in Jung's dining room, Ji-min watched me masturbate Perry to one of his slimy climaxes. "Very nice," she said. "You make Perry feel very good. Now, show me your erection," she requested. Seeing no parents or little eight-year-old sister in sight, I pulled down my basketball shorts just like Perry had and showed her my wares. "Very nice," she repeated. She made her parental check, moved to the right side of the chair, bent down and kissed my glans. I shivered. Then she licked it and I shivered harder, surprised that a girl could make me feel good like this. "Be careful," Jung warned, "or she'll suck you right to an orgasm." "Do not tell my secrets, Jung," she laughed. Phil looked over at Ji-min and smirked. "We'll need to talk about this one," he giggled. "You must come when the parents aren't here," Ji-min said. "I will show you what I have learned about making boys feel good." It was later that I learned that her brother, Jung, had been her teacher. Much to my consternation she stopped playing with my boy tool and left the room. Between jerking off Perry and getting licked my Ji-min, I was close to cumming. We soon left for my house, with Perry walking most of the way with us as he returned to his house. I was becoming more and more convinced that Perry was some kind of pervert when we stopped a couple of houses away from Jung's to wait for him to take off his basketball shorts and his briefs, his little boner sticking up in the air. "Ah, that feels nice." I looked around wondering how many people were at their windows witnessing Perry's little striptease. Even though it was dark out, the street was fairly well lit, and his jacket was long enough to cover his junk. But it all seemed dangerous to me and I began to wonder how long it would take us to be arrested. "Perry, it's cold out." I knew I was stating the obvious, but I had to say something. "You're gonna freeze your balls off." "Could you hold my stuff for me so I can jerk off while we walk?" Perry asked as he started to hand me his shorts and underpants. "That should keep my nuts warm." "Hell, no," I squawked. "Why can't you just stick your stinky stuff into your backpack?" "Because I'd have to take my backpack off. What about you?" he asked Phil. "You are one sick dude, P," was Phil's response. "Don't call me P, P." As soon as we realized what Perry had just said, the three of us broke out into hysterical laughter. Even with Perry wearing no pants, all things sexual were forgotten and we were simply a trio of eleven- year-olds being silly and probably disturbing some of the neighborhood. When Perry got to the spot where he would leave us Phil asked him if he was going to put his pants back on. "What for?" he asked. "Won't you get in trouble for coming home without wearing pants?" "I know how to sneak past the `rents. And my jacket covers me. They will notice my bare legs if they do see me, but think I am wearing my basketball shorts. If Dean sees me he will think it's totally funny and probably give me a BJ." Perry waved good-bye and trotted to his house. "He's a total sex fiend," I said as we trotted off to my house. "And we're not?" Phil asked with a laugh. "I got a boner so hard it hurts." "Me, too." "I sure don't see how he could stay hard with his thingy out in this cold." "I think Perry could keep his dick hard standing naked on the North Pole." When we got to my house we were given some hot chocolate by my mother. Even though it was cold out, she didn't think it would hurt us to walk the half-mile or so between our houses. Both of my parents weren't into babying me, something I am grateful for as an adult. "You boys have a half-hour before I take Phil home," mother warned. "Okay, we're going up to my room," I informed her. "Is your homework done?" "Yes," Phil and I called out together. We had our pants off faster than Perry ever thought possible as soon as we got to my room. When we were a couple of houses short of reaching mine we agreed we needed to get off, once we got warm which wouldn't take long. We agreed how we were going to do it knowing we wouldn't have much time. There was no kissing or foreplay. Phil was on his back on my bed and I was on my hands and knees with my dick hovering over his head. I quickly had my lips around his three inches and dropped my body down until my cock slid between his lips and into his mouth. We knew about sixty-nining, but hadn't done much of it. We decided it was the quickest way to go and it would have the added benefit of feeling great. We were right. I came within ten minutes of us starting, my dry cum pulsing in his mouth. Within seconds I felt his cocklet twitch and then tasted his warm liquid as it coated my tongue. "That was awesome," Phil said. "I'm so glad we're friends." "You mean because of the sex?" I asked, hoping there was more to his friendship than that. "No, because of everything." That was an erudite explanation for the eleven-year-old Phil and it summed up his feelings. Okay, so that wasn't really routine. But what I'd said earlier is that we'd settled into a bit of a routine, not that everything that happened could be considered routine. Which takes us to Wednesdays. On Wednesday, Phil went home on the bus. Thursday, of course was another practice day. On the weekend Phil spent Friday night with me and Saturday and Sunday at home. Believe me when I say the sex that first Friday was much more intense than our quick sixty-nine on Tuesday had been. School was out for Christmas break at noon on Friday, December 20. Vacation would be two glorious weeks long. The Wonkeys had overnights planned, mostly pairs or small groups. We still hadn't come up with an orgy date, but there was going to be a full Wonkey overnight at my house on New Year's Eve. My parents weren't big party goers. They were the kind of people who would be happier giving us kids an overnight party than going to a bash with a bunch of boring adults. The most exciting thing about the break was the Holiday Hoop Fest. It was a sixteen-team tournament consisting of local teams in our same age group. Our first game was going to be a warm-up game on Saturday. Monday would be the first game of the double elimination tourney. The tournament would be the first time Phil and I would compete together on the same team. We never imagined for a minute we'd be competing together right into adulthood. Marty being picked in the twelfth round of the Major League Baseball draft was so perfect. What an amazing success story that young man is. Of course the sports writer for the Centralia Herald and the editor of the Mayfield weekly paper had to call Larry and me for our opinions of our protégé. We were more than happy to say good things about his abilities, his integrity, his intelligence, and his leadership. The dark side of his life wasn't ours to talk about. Both newspapermen asked about Marty and his sexual orientation. Larry and I both told them that was a topic they'd have to discuss with Marty. Of course, they wanted to work in the angle of Phil and me being gay, but we told them our sexual orientation wasn't the story. We knew they were hoping to get some inside information since Marty being a gay athlete had quickly become national news. He was the first openly gay player to be taken in the Major League draft, which made him a huge media sensation. We ended up spending way too much time trying to avoid both the Seattle media and the national media. Marty had left for Alaska and who knew what he was dealing with there. The most common stupid question (and there were many of those) went something like this: "Do you think Marty Carlson's decision to go back to school is because of his fear of being a homosexual who is out and who has a boyfriend?" "No," Larry would reply, "I think Marty's decision to go back to school is based on his wanting to get his degree along with another year's experience to put himself in position for a higher spot in next year's draft." I thought about telling Larry that we should just issue a press release with that statement on it and be done with the entire affair. "Just wait until next year," Larry laughed. "You think it's bad now, wait until he signs a contract as a married gay man." Nobody ever asked Larry and me about being gay when we were athletes. That's because we didn't come out until we were in college, and even then it was to a select group of people. Our friends in high school, as in the Wonkeys, knew about us, of course. While we never denied anything in high school, we never admitted to anything either. The thing that made us different from the high school boys messing around with each other to take care of their insatiable horniness was that Larry and I didn't have girlfriends. In sixth grade, however, while we worried about maybe being gay, it wasn't a topic we discussed much other than to disparage one another with the words gay and queer. Even then we thought the word faggot to be insulting and had a silent agreement not to use it. Larry and I skirted around the topic of our attraction to boys. We would bring it up briefly, sometimes seriously, and then quickly back away from the topic and pretend we hadn't talked about it. I was learning I could trust Larry and I knew he was learning to trust me, but we were simply too young to be ready to bare our souls to each other. I'd come to where I was crying on his shoulder, but it would be awhile before we took our angst and followed through with a discussion that came from the heart and one without any kind of fear of what our friends would think. Saturday, the twenty-first, was the first day of winter. It was also the day of our first basketball game of the year. Even though it was the first game of the Holiday Hoop Fest it was, in essence, a practice game. The first games on Saturday matched teams from the opposite bracket in a non-counting contest. Our Jubilee Hamburger team played Ron's Auto Repair. As far as we were concerned our team was the Stallions while Ron's was the Hawks. And of course we thought of ourselves as stallions—after all we were eleven and twelve and tough and sexy. When Larry's father asked Larry and me if our nickname meant that Jubilee's burgers were made from horsemeat it took me a moment to comprehend what he was getting at. Larry, who was better with words than I was, picked it up quickly and started laughing. A few seconds later the pun hit me and I joined him. We ended up rolling on the floor with laughter, which I'm certain amused Larry's dad. While I stayed overnight at Larry's on Friday, we didn't do anything sexual that night. We slept together, but in our underpants. Larry said we needed to conserve our energy for the game and I went along with it. Before the season was over that philosophy would frequently be ignored unless the game was a morning game requiring us to wake up early. We won the game 35-21. Nate started at point guard instead of me, which was something else that wouldn't last long. I checked into the game at the end of the first quarter. We were down 9-6. Mom was at the game along with Troy and an obviously bored Keegan. As in baseball, I wouldn't see Keegan at very many of my games. Both Troy and Art, Larry's dad, told me I added a whole new burst of energy when I took the floor. "Plus, you had no problem passing the ball, bro," Troy said. "I was proud to watch you play." At the half we were up 17-14 and made it 27-17 after the third quarter. Nate played the fourth quarter and I watched from the bench. Everybody played hard, including Nate who got an assist. I ended up with two points, scoring my first official basket ever, and four assists for the game. Larry led us in scoring with 11 points and Daniel ripped seven rebounds. We went to Jubilee for milkshakes after the game. The team was in good spirits after our win and Nate was actually nice to me. I spent the rest of the weekend at home. Troy and I slept together on Sunday night. I was too tired to wait for him to come home Saturday night—I assumed he was at his girlfriend Tracy's house. But Sunday night was sixty-nine time. We lay side-by-side sucking each other while Troy finger fucked me with his middle and index fingers. He found my sweet spot and worked it, putting me into total ecstasy. I wasn't ready to put my finger up his ass yet, and he didn't push the issue. We also had some serious pillow talk after we came. I could tell Troy things I couldn't tell Larry because of our difference in age and maturity. By talking to Troy, however, I was also learning how to articulate my feelings for the time I would be ready to express them to Larry. "Are you still scared bro?" Troy asked as he petted my bare back and ass. I didn't want to answer him—I wanted to purr with contentment. "I'm never scared," I boasted. "Don't go getting all macho on me. We both know different. You're scared of your feelings—you've told me as much. You're scared how you felt about Andy and how you feel about Larry." "It's cool. I got all worked up over shit, when all we do is mess around with sex stuff just like everybody else." "We're as sick of our secrets." It wasn't the first time he'd told me that. His petting relaxed me. His quiet voice sounded strong to me. He was right about my having fears—I'd told him as much. For a moment I was sorry I'd shown him how I felt inside. "I'm good tonight," I told him. "I just want to go to sleep thinking about basketball." We had our first counting game of the tournament the next day. "It's all good, bro." Troy never forced me to do anything. All he did was quietly wear me down. "We'll talk about it some other time." I snuggled up against his warm, strong body like I had done so often. My big brother made me feel safe and loved. "I love you." Troy was the only person in the world I could say that to and really mean it. I fell asleep with his arms wrapped around my soul. ++++++++++++ It was Friday and I was happy to see the weekend come. Next week was finals week and the last week of school. It was also senior week with the seniors getting ready for graduation. They were no longer required to attend classes and the school would feel empty without them. Phil would be home in about a half-hour. We ate out almost every Friday and had plans for tonight's dinner. We decided to eat at the Roadside Inn, which was just west of Mayfield on the main highway. While waiting for Phil I thought about our first school holiday as best friends. School was out at noon on Friday and Phil spent the night at my house. We spent the afternoon being active with the other Wonkeys, which included a lot of shooting and H-O-R-S-E games, as well as some two-on-two and three-on-three basketball on the covered court at the elementary school most of us had attended. It was an afternoon of fun and camaraderie—sex and sexual play was never a factor. We didn't even talk about the striptease on that same playground the spring before. That night, I told Phil we'd sleep together, but not naked because we needed to save our strength for the morning game. One would think we were playing for the tournament championship the next day rather than our non-counting opening game. I could be such an officious boy sometimes it's almost embarrassing. Phil tells me that is still true for me as a man. We ended up with a 35-21 win and then had to wait until Monday for the first official tournament game. We had the 6:30 game Monday night, playing a team that would be in our league, the Hillside Recreation Center Pioneers. They proved to be a tough foe with us prevailing 29-27 on my 15-footer from the `L' with seven seconds left. It was sweet being the hero of the game. The postgame found some of us having pizza at the Stevens Avenue Pizzeria. Yeah, the name wasn't very original, but the pizza was great and there were lots of video games to keep preteen boys amused. Jung, Daniel, and Q were there along with Phil and me. Tyson Carr, the only black player on the team, also came along. Like Phil, he was new to our team. He'd moved into the area just before school started. He was a talented player who was learning our system. Of course I got pats on the back mixed with some middle school humor designed to keep my ego from expanding too far. Once again, Phil spent the night, only this time it was sleeping naked after some rousing sex. For me this was no longer messing around, it was sex. Even though Phil and I wouldn't admit it to each other, for him it was sex as well. Our sex was even rife with foreplay. We kissed as soon as we said goodnight to my parents and went to my room, with mom reminding us to shower before getting under the sheets. We then stripped down to t-shirts and underpants and kissed some more. The final step was to get naked and kiss some more. We both needed a shower after playing the game that night, but we didn't care. The sweaty boy aroma seemed to be a turn-on for us. I was soon sucking Phil's cock and finger fucking his ass. While Wonkeys outside of Jung, Perry, and maybe Ben, weren't keen on anal sex, we gave in to the idea enough to get into finger fucking; after all, it made our buddy feel really good and made him feel obligated to return the favor. There was also some thorough hand washing when we finished. Phil shot his clear sweet crude into my mouth, something I was finding more and more sexy, not to mention tasty. After recovering, I lay back on the bed and let him suck my three plus inches. His finger found its way up my ass as well and rubbed my sweet spot sending me into paroxysms of pleasure. In my frenzy, I couldn't fuck his mouth hard enough. After a convulsive orgasm I came down hard, feeling a bit sad that I couldn't shoot the same kind of tasty treat into my friend's mouth that he shot into mine. The next day, Tuesday, was Christmas Eve and Phil had to be home by one. Before he left for home we exchanged Christmas presents. I gave him a Ken Griffey Junior t-shirt, which he loved. I received a gift card from the big book and music store on Stevens Avenue, which I loved in turn. Phil knew how much I loved reading and books, and even if he hadn't known it all he had to do was check out all of the books on the shelves in my bedroom to figure it out. I had a great Christmas. I didn't get everything I wanted, but then I never did. I always seem to receive a lot of things my parents thought I needed along with a couple of items I thought I needed, which were really items I wanted more than needed. We had to head right for the high school on Thursday for our next tournament game. This time we had the 7:30 game and played a team from Federal Way, which was in King County. They would not be playing in our league, but we'd heard they were good. They'd won their practice game by 25 points and won their Monday game 51-29. They were big, strong, fast, worked the boards, and could shoot. Their nickname was the Bucks. "Other than rebounding, running, and shooting the eyes out, they suck," Q said dryly as we dressed for the game in the locker room. The Bucks were dressing at the other end of the big high school locker room. "Hey, you didn't mention defense," Jung piped up. "Nobody plays the Big D like the Stallions." He had a point. Once again we followed Phil's lead and played like banshees on defense while playing a controlled offense—at least as controlled as eleven-year-olds could make it. We also boxed out on the boards, something Coach Zimmer had taught as to do back when we were fourth graders. Not many teams did that, even high school teams, and for the first half we frustrated the Bucks, who were somewhat undisciplined on offense, and held a 22-18 lead. But as often happens, the talent rose to the top in the second half. While they were more talented than we were, the difference was not as much as we thought, plus we were far better coached. But, they grabbed some key rebounds for easy put backs when we didn't box with the fervor of the first half. Their zone also started to frustrate us and we started dribbling too much and passing too little. It was early in the season and we would improve, but in the second half we showed that we weren't ready to defeat a team the caliber of the Bucks. The Bucks outscored us 12-6 in the third quarter to take a 30-28 lead. In the fourth quarter they slammed us with a half-court trap that we weren't ready for. Again, we would be, and very soon, but there were only so many things we could work on during the few practices we had. Coach Zimmer emphasized the basics, saying we'd work on other things we needed as the season progressed. We were killed 14-5 in the fourth and ended up losing 44-33. Coach Zimmer told us we'd done a good job of competing and that playing better competition, even if they beat us, would help us in our own league. "We can beat them if we ever get to play them again," Phil said as our postgame meeting broke up. Except for Nate, none of us doubted him. We all had the feeling that when Phil and Tyson gained experience with our system and learned their fundamentals from Coach Zimmer we were going to be the best team in the league. Nate spent too much of his time sulking because he had lost his starting spot to Phil, so he wasn't ready yet to help us get better. We had to come right back on Friday to play a losers' bracket game against the Greg's Grocery Hilltoppers. If we won we'd play next week for fourth or seventh place. If we lost, we were out of the tournament. The Hilltoppers would be playing in our league. Tyson played with more confidence than he'd shown in our first games and scored 14 points as we beat the Hilltoppers 36-24. We would have our last tournament game on Monday against the Tumwater Rafters, a team from near Olympia. They would be in our league. Phil and I spent Friday night at Q's house. We stayed up late watching two movies and were too tired for anything but crashing by the time the second movie finished. We did talk about the upcoming New Year's Eve party at my house and decided we would make it the sexiest party ever. Talk about having sex was pretty much the extent of our sex that night. Phil spent Saturday night at my house, and that night was sexier than Friday had been. We kissed and dry humped and kissed and dry humped some more, until, with Phil on top of me on my bed, we had orgasms within thirty seconds of each other. Then Phil got into one of his dark, questioning moods after we finished. "Kissing another guy is gay, you know," he informed me. "I figured it was," I said. "I like kissing, and I like you, and so I kiss you. And you had no problem kissing me back." "I know, I like it, too. I was just saying." "So, if you like it, why say it?" "I dunno," he said. "I kissed you because it feels good and I like you and humping feels way better when you're kissing." "The way I figure it is if we like it and we do it because we like it let's not worry about all the gay stuff. We do it because we're friends." I was definitely waxing philosophical for a preteen. "I don't care about the gay stuff. I mean, we're just kids, so who cares? Everybody does it." "Do all of the Wonkeys kiss though?" "I've kissed every one of them except Ben, and I saw him and Daniel kiss. So I guess they must all kiss." "Good enough for me." I kept wishing Phil would get over his whole "being gay" hang up. I was thinking more and more that I must be gay given the way I thought about boys and the way I liked sex with them. Also the feelings I was getting for Phil were sending me messages, too. If Phil didn't think he was gay he could at least shut up and enjoy what we were doing together. Like I told him, in the end "who cares?" We won ou r game on Monday with a 31-17 win over the Tumwater Rafters, another team that would be in our league. I led the team with 10 points and even hit a couple of three point shots, something I was getting better at, probably because I was bigger and stronger than when I was in fifth grade. The next day, Wednesday, was New Year's Eve. All of the Wonkeys would be at my house for the night. We all crowed about how sexy the party would be and what we were going to do, but as Jung said after our game on Monday, it was unlikely the action would match the talk. I said we'd find out; in the end it would all depend on what my parents did and where they planned on stationing themselves. The rest of winter break would have two big sexual incidents for me and Phil. The party was one of them, although it wasn't exactly the orgy we had envisioned. The other happened on Friday when I made my first visit to Phil's house. The two incidents were loosely related and would affect how both Phil and I would look at sex as we barreled into puberty. Next: Sex Ed. Email is always appreciated. Thanks to those who have commented on the story—it really does mean a lot. Douglas thehakaanen@hotmail.com