Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 23:25:41 EDT
From: ErastesTouch@aol.com
Subject: Throw Away Kid - chapter 4

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Throw Away Kid - by Erastes                         Copyright 2000 by Erastes
Chapter 4 - A perceived threat.                     June 2001

It seems that just as things were becoming bearable for Bryce, and he began
to think that he had found happiness, something unexpected happened,
something that would turn his world upside down.  His problems all began
when a simple audit was conducted at the Department of Social Services.
The problem didn't really concern him directly, but it soon began to affect
him when numerous charges were lodged against multiple individuals
connected with the department.  It turned out that one of the examiners had
uncovered the names of a dozen or more children on the department's lists
of placed children, but when he checked these names out, he discovered
these children were by now too old to be in foster care or they had been
taken out of the system prior to this audit.  During the course of
investigating this discrepancy further, the auditors discovered that these
supposed foster children all appeared under the supervision of the same two
caseworkers, out of a much larger staff.  These children were allegedly
placed in several different foster homes, all under the supervision of
these two caseworkers, and each of these homes also had other children
assigned to them.

After starting a legal investigation into the matter and interrogating the
foster parents and the caseworkers, one of the foster parents broke down
and admitted to the scheme.  What had been happening was this.  The two
caseworkers were creating the files and records for these imaginary foster
children and entering them into the system.  They would supposedly place
them with the foster families they were working with, sending them the
checks for their child's care.  The foster parents would cash the checks,
and then they'd kickback 50% of the check to the caseworker who had made
this assignment, so both parties prospered.  The foster parents and the
caseworkers both raked in the cash, without any expenses or much additional
work, so it was all pure profit for them.  It was ingenious in some
regards, but the attempt to pull it off was really dumb.  Things like that
get discovered sooner or later, especially when the participants get greedy
and try to amass even greater sums of money, in this case by adding more
and more imaginary children into the system.  That's what tripped them up
here.  The investigator may have overlooked one or two children, but when
they discovered a dozen or more, they decided that they had to check that
matter out in depth.  That was the crooks' undoing.

Once the fraud was discovered, the caseworkers were arrested, along with
the foster parents who were involved, so all of those foster homes were
closed immediately.  Because there were so many children involved in this
mess, the local system could not handle the numbers that were now without a
place to stay, so many of the children were sent to adjoining
jurisdictions, under an emergency mutual cooperation agreement.
Unfortunately for Bryce, his foster family was one of those involved in
this fraudulent scheme, and he was one of the children that got moved to a
new location.  This meant that he would not only be moving to a new home
and attending a new school, but he'd be moving away from the only true
friend he had ever had.  He didn't even have time to tell Greg what had
happened, as the authorities met the children when they came home from
school, ready to whisk them away.  They helped them to pack up their things
and load them into their cars, before they took them away.  Bryce had asked
to be able to call Greg, but he was told that wasn't allowed, so he didn't
know how Greg would find out that he was gone, except when he didn't return
to school.  He thought Greg deserved better than that, but he had no
control over the situation, so Greg would have no way to learn where he
went or how to contact him.  Maybe Bryce could find a way to get in touch
with Greg when he got to his new home, but he would have to wait and see
where they sent him first, and then he'd have to try to find a way to
contact his friend.

Needless to say, Bryce was upset and very distraught over this.  For the
firsst time he could remember, he was happy and had someone he was close
to, but suddenly he was ripped from all of this and now he was on his way
to who knew where.  He did all he could to keep from crying, especially
after they were given a brief explanation of why they were being moved and
where they might be going.  Oh, how he wanted to just break down and get
this out of his system, to just have a good cry and release his pent up
frustration, but there was no way he was going to do this in front of a
bunch of other kids, especially if there was any chance that they'd end up
in the same home or the same school.  Instead, he sucked it up, as he
always did, and retreated into his fantasy world, thinking of his fantasy
father who was supposedly coming to rescue him.  For as much progress he
had made since coming into the foster care system, he now regressed to a
state similar to the one he was in after the final incident with Maury.  He
was emotionally broken, mentally withdrawn, and now he was being physically
removed from the only source of security and hope he had - Greg and his
parents.

That first night was spent as a guest of one of the older unmarried women
who worked for DSS, and that was a trip in itself.  The department wasn't
prepared to have to find homes for the children so quickly, as no one had
been privy to the auditors' investigation until the improprieties were
exposed and those involved were arrested.  Due to this fact, temporary
placements were needed until more suitable accommodations could be
arranged, and members of the department were asked to volunteer to house a
child until a proper home could be found.  Bryce's host was a twenty-year
veteran of the department and she had never married.  As she lived alone,
everything had its place, and the apartment was in showroom condition.
Bryce was almost afraid to move, sit anywhere, or touch anything.  She told
him to make himself at home, but he was too nervous about doing something
wrong.  She turned on the television and gave him the remote, telling him
to find something that would interest him, while she went out to fix
dinner.  He thanked her and surfed the channels, finally finding a program
that looked interesting, and he sat and watched that until she called him
out to eat.

Dinner was another unique experience for him.  He had eaten at a lot of
different foster homes and had consumed many different types of foods, but
this was something else, the likes of which he never had seen before.  It
started out okay, with a lettuce salad, but it had cucumbers and some
stringy stuff in it too, and she put a very bland dressing over it.  Then
she gave him some kind of burger, but it certainly wasn't a hamburger.  It
was more like cardboard and she told him it was a veggie-burger, but he was
hungry, so he put it on a roll, smothered it in ketchup, and ate it anyway.
She also gave him cottage cheese, which wasn't his favorite, but she gave
him sliced peaches to go with it, which made it go down easier.  The meal
was strange enough, but the drink topped all of that.  It was some kind of
vegetable juice, he thought it was carrot juice, but he wasn't sure.  After
a couple of swallows, he asked for water instead.  She got it for him, but
told him the other was better for him.  He didn't care about that, he just
needed something he could swallow.  It was clear to him that she was never
around children very much.

After dinner, he helped her clear off the table and wash the dishes, his
suggestion, and then she offered to take him out for a frozen yogurt.  He
wasn't sure what that was, so she told him it was like ice cream, and that
made him think it was a good suggestion.  Actually, it wasn't bad,
especially after the meal, so it was a pleasant ending to a meal he'd
rather forget about.  Now he was really hoping that they'd find him a new
home soon.  Bryce and his host took their time with their dessert, talking
and eating at the same time.  She was nice, even though she ate strange
foods.  After they got back to her place, she let him watch the television
again, while she did some chores around the apartment.  When it came time
to go to sleep, she made up the sofa for him and he spent the evening
there.  It wasn't all that bad, in fact it was quite comfortable.  The only
problem was that he was out in the open and he was afraid that the woman
would see him in his underwear, if the blankets slipped off of his body
during the night.  This caused him to keep waking up, only dozing off for
short periods at a time, until he finally got up and got dressed again, and
then he fell asleep for good.

The next morning the woman woke him up to get ready, because he had to go
in to work with her, as she had no place to leave him.  She fixed him eggs
beaters and wheat toast for breakfast, and then she gave him a chance to
wash up and change.  When they were both ready, he rode with her to the
office.  He would stay there until they found him a home or until she got
out of work, and then the two of them would return to her apartment later.
It tended to be a long day for Bryce, as there wasn't much for him to do,
but one of the other kids was also there, as her host worked in the same
office.  They talked, drew pictures, and explored as much as they could,
but the best part of the day was when one of the younger guys who worked
there took them out to lunch - to a Taco Bell.  It sure beat the food Bryce
had eaten the previous night for dinner, and he was more than ready for the
change.  He ate as much as he could, not sure what his dinner would be like
again, and then they returned to the office for the rest of the day.  He
did get some good news when he got back, however, when he learned he would
be able to go to his new foster home tomorrow.  He couldn't go there
tonight, as the family had other plans, so he'd have to stay with the same
lady again.  She'd take him to his new home the next afternoon, as the
other kids were returning home from school.  That sounded acceptable to
him.

When the workday was over, the woman led him out to her car and asked him
if he'd like pizza tonight.  She told him that she realized that he didn't
care for last night's meal, but she really wasn't ready for a visitor,
grocery-wise that is.  She asked him what he wanted on his pizza and he
told her, so they stopped and picked up a half-pepperoni and half-Hawaiian
pizza, so they could both have what they wanted.  She also picked up some
soda for him, and she bought a small bottle of Thousand Island salad
dressing he could use.  When they got back to her place, she made two
salads, while he set the table, then they had pizza and salad, which was
much better than the previous meal there.  The rest of the night was
basically a repeat of the previous evening, except this time he went to bed
with his clothes on right from the start.

The next day he went back into work with her, but the other kid wasn't
there today.  Either her family could take her last night or the person she
was with temporarily stayed home.  When lunchtime came, Bryce went out with
that same young guy again, this time to a Wendy's, and when he got back he
was taken to his new foster home.  His new foster mother had agreed to let
him come a little earlier, so he could get settled in and learn the layout
of the house before the others got home, and that way she'd have some time
to find out about him too.  Bryce was just happy he didn't have to spend
any more time at that boring office, so he looked forward to the trip.
They had loaded what few things he had into the car that morning, so the
woman just drove him to his next foster home.  Bryce thought that they had
pulled into the wrong place when they first arrived, as this house was
nicer than the other homes he had stayed at, but it was by no means fancy.
He and his caseworker carried his things to the door, and she rang the
bell, waiting for his new foster mother to answer it.

The woman who came to the door was not quite what Bryce was expecting
either, as she was much younger than he anticipated.  She was probably in
her late 30's or early 40's, and she was fairly good looking.  She welcomed
them to her home and invited them inside, and then she led them to the
living room, where they could sit down to chat.  She welcomed Bryce into
her family and thanked the caseworker for bringing him, and then she asked
him some questions about himself.  Even though she seemed nice enough,
Bryce was still reluctant to share too much with her.  He had learned early
that some things could be used against him later, but chances were he
wouldn't be there long enough for it to make a difference.  Regardless, he
gave her only limited and very well chosen information, and the woman
seemed disappointed that he wouldn't share more about himself with her.
The caseworker excused herself, saying she had to get back to work, and
Bryce's new foster mother showed him around the house after she left.  It
was a nice home and things were in decent shape, not quite as old as some
of the other places he had stayed, and Bryce thought this might not be too
bad.  The woman and the home were nice, so now he just had to meet her two
sons and her husband to be able to determine if he'd be able to survive
here.

The boys came home from school about an hour later, and Bryce's foster
mother introduced them to each other.  The boys were slightly older than
him, one about a year and a half older, while the older boy was probably
two and a half years older.  Johnny was twelve and Tommy was thirteen, but
they said 'hi' to Bryce and asked him if he wanted to go with them to meet
up with their friends.  He was shocked that they had asked him, but he told
them he'd like that, so the three boys took off to this other kid's place.
On the way there, the boys asked him the typical questions, such as how old
he was, what grade he was in, and why he was in foster care.  After he
answered all their questions, they told him he'd like it there, and then
they introduced him to the other boys when they got to where they were
going.  Everyone seemed nice enough, and it turned out that they were
planning to play basketball.  Bryce wasn't real good at the game, but he
wasn't terrible either.  He could play well enough so that the others
wouldn't complain or pick on him, so he was looking forward to being part
of the action.  The game was fun and Bryce did play well enough to get by,
and the other boys all told him that he could join them from now on,
whenever they were going to play.  That made him feel great, like he was
part of the group, and it seemed to please his new foster brothers.  On the
way back home, they joked about many topics and they talked about different
things that had happened during the game.

When they got home they were told to wash up for dinner, so they went
upstairs to clean up, and they heard the boys' father pull in the driveway
before they came back down.  When the boys all got down to the living room,
Johnny took Bryce over to introduce him to his father.  The man just gave
Bryce a cold stare and didn't say a word to him, which sent cold chills
down Bryce's spine.  Everything had gone so well up to now and Bryce had
such big expectations for this place, so he hoped this was a temporary
condition.  Tommy told him that his dad was the manager of the local Target
Department Store and that he worked long hours, so sometimes he wasn't in a
good mood when he came home.  Hearing that, Bryce figured the man was just
tired, had a bad day, or maybe something had happened at work that
distracted him.  He didn't give his initial meeting too much weight, and
they all went in to sit down to eat.

Everyone had their normal place at the table, with the mother and father at
the ends and Johnny and Tommy on either side.  Another chair had been added
to the same side as Johnny's chair, and Bryce sat between Johnny and his
mother.  All during the meal, Bryce noticed that the father kept staring at
him and scowling, so Bryce made sure he didn't say anything or eat very
much.  He was beginning to think this was more than just a bad day at work
with this guy, and Bryce wanted to try to make sure that he didn't make the
situation any worse than it already was by doing anything wrong.  He
thought he had accomplished that, as they had all finished eating and were
ready to leave the table, when his foster father announced that if he was
going to live in his house, he'd have to do some work to earn his keep.
Bryce was told that he would be doing the dishes after meals, and then the
father told Johnny and Tommy to show Bryce what that meant.  The boys
weren't about to question their father, and they seemed very intimidated by
him, so while the mother and the father went into the other room, Johnny
and Tommy showed Bryce how he was expected to do the dishes.  There was no
dishwasher here, so everything was washed by hand, and the other two showed
him where things were and how he was supposed to do things, and then they
helped him do the dishes that night.

While they were washing and drying the dishes, Tommy told Bryce that his
dad wasn't really that bad, it's just that he didn't want to take in foster
children.  He agreed to it only because his wife loved children and she
always wanted more than just the two of them, so the boys figured that's
what all this fuss was about.  The boys told Bryce that their dad would
probably mellow out after a couple of days, so he just had to do as he was
told until that happened, and then everything would be fine.  Bryce agreed,
telling them that he had to do chores at most of his other foster homes
too, so it wasn't all that bad.  He told the other boys that he'd be fine
and that they shouldn't worry about him, but the pair still seemed upset
about the way their father had treated Bryce.  After the boys finished the
dishes, the older pair suggested they go outside and stay out of the way
until bedtime.  Bryce figured that they knew best, so he did as they
suggested.  They played a little, but spent most of their time talking,
with the boys explaining to him about their parents, the school he'd be
going to, and about the teachers he might have.  Just as it was beginning
to get dark, their mother called them in and told them it was time to get
ready for bed.

While Tommy was showering, his mother was getting Bryce settled into
Johnny's room with him.  Things were going fine and they were almost done,
when their father came upstairs and announced that Johnny wasn't going to
give up any of his room to a stranger.  This sent the parents into an
argument, as the mother disagreed with her husband, telling him there was
no other place for Bryce.  He told her there was, and Bryce ended up in
what was an oversized spare closet that opened off of the hall.  It was a
windowless room, about half as wide as it was long, but it was clean and
not too spooky.  There was a single light in the ceiling, with a pull
string to turn it on with, and there were bars to hang clothes on lining
both walls, with shelves above them.  The father soon brought in a cot and
set it up in there, and the mother stopped arguing and went to get sheets,
blankets, and a pillow to make him comfortable.  The father went back
downstairs, as his wife made up the bed, and she told Bryce she was sorry
about this, but that things would change eventually.  Johnny even sneaked
over after his mother had left, telling Bryce he didn't mind if he shared
his room, but he didn't dare go against his father.  He said he didn't know
why his father was acting like that, but it was probably only temporary.
Bryce told him not to worry about it, adding that he'd do fine, so Johnny
shouldn't worry about him.  Hesitantly Johnny went back to his own room,
and the boys could hear the yelling down below, as the mother told her
husband how rude and childish he was acting.  The father screamed back that
it was his house and he'd make the decisions, and then he announced that
she could leave, if she didn't like how he did things.  After that it
quieted down, as the mother knew that she wouldn't convince her husband
otherwise, at least not now.

Bryce went to lie on the cot, closing the door to the small room behind
him, and he spent the next hour just thinking about what this new place was
going to be like.  It had started out so well and he thought he was going
to be very happy here, now the person that would have meant the most to him
had let him know that he wasn't wanted and relegated him to a small dark
cell.  As Bryce thought about this rejection, especially by another man,
the tears began to form in the corners of his eyes, and they would trickle
down his cheeks, as soon as gravity gained a hold on them.  As they rolled
down his face and then dropped onto his pillow or the sheet, Bryce relived
the pain of rejection all over again, going back over each occurrence of
his previous rejections in his mind.  Eventually he fell asleep, mercifully
ending his torment, and he woke up when he heard a knock on his door.  It
was Tommy coming to tell him to hurry down to breakfast.  Bryce kind of
took his time though, figuring he'd rather miss eating than to run into his
foster father again, but their father had already gone to work by the time
he reached the table.  His foster mother gave him a sympathetic look as he
came in, and she brought him over some breakfast, a small stack of
pancakes, a couple of link sausages, and syrup.  Bryce hesitated for a
moment, so she placed her hand on his shoulder and tried to comfort him.

"It's all right, dear, go ahead and eat.  Everything will be just fine.  I
know things didn't start out very well for you, but they'll get better.  I
know they will."  Bryce just looked up at her, but he didn't say a word.
As much as he might have wished to unburden his soul, he just couldn't.  He
had already begun to pull back within himself, and he didn't think he could
trust any adult right now.  She sensed his despair and tried to reassure
him.  "He's not really like that.  He's normally a very sweet guy, so I
guess it's my fault for forcing him into this.  He didn't want to do it,
but I made him.  He had a rough childhood and grew up with almost nothing,
sometimes even going without a meal here and there.  That's why he's worked
so hard to make something of himself, so that he would never go through
that again.  He also promised himself that his children would never have to
go without, and he sees you as a threat to that.  He thinks you're taking
food away from them and forcing them out of their rooms, but you're not.
He'll get over it eventually, just don't let it get to you in the
meantime."

Bryce still didn't say anything and he just sat there.  Finally his foster
mother couldn't take the silence or his inaction any longer, and she began
to cut up his food and feed it to him.  He wouldn't open his mouth at
first, still bitter at how he had been treated, but after a few failed
attempts, she finally got him to open his mouth and take a bite.  It may
have been due to her persistence or the fact that his hunger won out, but
she managed to get a few more forkfuls into him before she coaxed him into
feeding the rest of the meal to himself.  After he finished everything on
his plate, he began to pick up the dishes and take them out to the kitchen
to wash.  His foster mother stopped him and told him that she do all of
that, and then she sent him back upstairs to get cleaned up and dressed for
school.  She told him she'd be taking him there this morning, to enroll
him.  Bryce wasn't moving all that quickly on his own, so Tommy took him by
the hand and led him upstairs.  He took him to the bathroom, started a bath
for him, and helped him undress when he didn't do it by himself.  Actually,
Tommy ended up giving Bryce his bath, as he was a bit out of it at the
time, lost in his own thoughts, and then Tommy got him out and dried him
after it was done.  After his bath was finished, Tommy led him down to his
room, if you could call it that, picked out something for him to wear, and
then helped him get dressed.  Bryce was a little more cooperative with this
effort, realizing that Tommy did seem to care about him and was really
trying to help.  Tommy left Bryce sitting on his bed while he went to
finish getting ready himself, and then he and Johnny led Bryce back
downstairs, to let their mother know they were ready to go.

The three boys sat in the back seat as they rode to school, with Bryce in
the middle, and both boys kept telling him that everything would be all
right and he'd like the school.  It was a middle school, so all three would
be in the same building, and the boys went to their own rooms, while their
mother took Bryce down to the office to enroll him.  It took about 45
minutes before everything was completed, and then he was led to his room
and introduced to the teacher.  Bryce didn't say much and was very quiet,
causing some of the kids to think there was something wrong with him, but
at this point Bryce wasn't sure if he cared.  He managed to make it through
the day, and his foster brothers came to get him when it was over, so he
wouldn't miss the bus, and he sat with them on the ride home.  The boys he
had played with the previous afternoon tried to talk to him, but he
wouldn't respond, so his foster brothers told the others that he wasn't
feeling well, and they let it go at that.  When they got home, the boys all
went upstairs to change, and Johnny and Tommy tried to talk him into coming
out to play with them again.  Bryce refused and went to his room, staying
there until it was time to eat.

Bryce was conflicted when he was called down to eat, tempted to just stay
in his room instead.  Then he began to think he'd get into trouble by not
coming down or coming down late, so he went down, took his seat, and just
looked at his plate.  When the food was passed, he only took a very small
spoonful of things, not wanting his foster father to think that he was
taking food away from his own children, and the other three just looked
hurt when they realized what he was doing and why.  They wanted to make him
take more or tell him it was okay to eat normally, but no one wanted to say
anything in front of the father, fearing that might set him off.  Bryce ate
barely enough to keep a mouse alive, and then he took and washed all the
dishes when everyone was done.  When he had finished he just went up to his
room, shut the door, and lay on the cot.  He didn't want to risk doing
anything else wrong.

He didn't know how long he had been in there when Johnny knocked on his
door, opened it enough to stick his head in, and then asked if he could
come in.  Bryce nodded and Johnny entered, and the boy went over and sat
down beside Bryce.  "Come on, cheer up," he told him.  "All of us feel bad
that you're so unhappy now.  The rest of us like you and we want you here,
so don't let my dad get to you.  Okay?"

Bryce turned his head and looked at Johnny, seeing the sincerity in his
eyes.  He wanted to answer him, but nothing came out when he opened his
mouth.  He wanted to thank him for caring, but he didn't know what to say
or how to say it.  Johnny couldn't stand the silence anymore, so he began
to speak again.  "Please, Bryce, you can't just stay in here all the time.
I want you to come in and stay with me in my room, until it's time to go to
sleep, and then you can come back in here."

Bryce surprised even himself by answering.  "No!  Your dad wouldn't like
that."

"He wouldn't mind if you played in my room with me, especially since I
asked you to.  He's just acting weird now, but he'll get over it."

"I still don't know if I should."

"Come on.  I'll get Tommy and the three of us can do something in there."
Johnny grabbed him by the hand and dragged him across the hall, and then
Johnny ran to Tommy's room to get him.  Soon the three of them were
together and they closed Johnny's door.  After both boys tried to tell
Bryce that they wanted him to do things after school with them tomorrow,
they told him that all their friends asked about him too.  They told him
that they covered by saying he had an upset stomach, but everyone wanted
him to be there tomorrow.  This made Bryce feel a little better, and he
started to loosen up a bit, and then the boys talked about what they could
do, finally choosing to play a game of Uno.

The three of them had a good time playing, and Bryce began to relax a bit
and enjoy himself.  They were laughing and joking every time they skipped
one of the others or made him draw cards, and Bryce was beginning to think
he could survive here, as long as the others wanted him there.  He could
ignore their father and stay clear of him, and that room wasn't that bad,
just a bit small.  When the mother came up to tell them it was time to go
to bed, she was happy to see that Bryce was with her sons and having some
fun.  She gave him a hug, kissed him on the forehead, and told him good
night.  The three of them went off to bed, with Bryce feeling better than
the previous night.

Things remained like that until the weekend, when his foster father was
home for the entire time.  The minute Bryce came down for breakfast on
Saturday morning, his foster father told him that another of his jobs would
be to cut the grass, and he told Tommy to show him how to operate the
lawnmower.  Tommy began to argue with his father, telling him that was his
job, but his father became very loud and forceful, telling him that it was
now Bryce's job and he would be able to have more free-time.  Tommy began
to argue with his father, trying to explain to him that it wasn't fair to
Bryce, but he stopped his protest when his father became even angrier and
began to scream at him.  That's when Tommy took Bryce outside, showed him
where everything was kept, and instructed him on how to start and care for
the lawnmower.  When Tommy had finished telling Bryce everything that he
needed to know, he apologized to him for what his father was doing.  Bryce
told him it was okay, and that he understood, and then he started mowing
the yard.  It took him nearly two hours to finish the whole thing, then his
foster father came out, told him that he wanted him to rake up the
clippings, sweep the clippings off the driveway and sidewalks, and then he
was to bag everything and set it out at the curb.  Once again, Bryce did as
he was told, and it took him another two hours to complete that, not
including the short lunch break he took in between.  He wasn't called in to
eat until the others had finished, so he ate alone.  He could see Johnny,
Tommy, and his foster mother looking sad about the way he was being
treated, but none of them dared stand up to his foster father and tell him
he was wrong.  Bryce finished his meal quickly and went back outside to
finished up the rest of his chores.

When he had completed all of that, Johnny and Tommy came out to get him,
taking him off to one of their friends' homes.  Bryce wasn't sure if they
had permission to take him or not, and he wasn't sure he should leave until
he got his foster father's permission, but both boys insisted and dragged
him off with them.  When they arrived at the other kid's house, there were
other boys there too, and soon they were picking up teams to play ball.
Bryce had a wonderful time that afternoon, being able to be a boy and have
some fun again, but soon it was time to go back home.  The other boys all
said good-bye to him and told him he could join them whenever Johnny and
Tommy did, and Bryce thanked them for their offer.  On the way home, the
three boys talked about many things, including how unfair the other two
thought he was being treated.  Bryce told them not to worry about it, and
he was just happy that they were nice to him and wanted to include him in
the things they did.  Then Bryce asked them if they told their friends
about what was going on, and they admitted they told them a little about
it, but Bryce wasn't angry or anything.  He just asked them if they could
keep that stuff just between themselves in the future, as he didn't want
everyone else to know what types of things were happening to him.  The boys
agreed, and they walked the rest of the way home in silence.

It was nearly dinnertime when they arrived, and they were told to clean up
and get ready to eat.  The boys did as they were told, sharing the bathroom
to do this.  When they went back downstairs, the meal wasn't quite ready,
so they went in to watch some television until they were called.  Finally
they were summoned, so they went out at took their places at the table,
with Bryce being very careful about how much food he took as the dishes
were passed.  At one point his foster mother added extra to his plate,
knowing that a growing boy needed more than that to survive, and he smiled
at her and said 'thank you' in a soft whisper.  She smiled back,
acknowledging his good manners, but hardly anyone spoke through the entire
meal.  Just before everyone had finished, his foster father announced that
he and his wife would be going out for the evening and that the three boys
would be staying home alone.  He made it a point to tell Bryce that Tommy
was in charge and that he was to do whatever Tommy told him, or else he'd
face the consequence for it tomorrow.  Bryce let him know that he
understood, and his foster father glared at him for a few seconds, before
he let it drop.

Later the parents got dressed and drove away, and the boys were on their
own.  Bryce wasn't sure how Tommy was going to behave, seeing he was in
charge, but he soon discovered that he didn't have to worry, as Tommy was
just his normal fun loving self.  The boys did things downstairs together,
like playing with some of the toys or watching television, and then they
decided to go upstairs for the rest of the evening.  They all went to
Tommy's room, and it was the first time Bryce had ever been in there.  It
was about the same as Johnny's room, but slightly bigger, and he had some
nice things decorating the walls and other surfaces.  It was certainly
nicer than Bryce's room, but Bryce wasn't about to say anything.  Now that
they were there, the older two boys seemed to have an idea about what they
intended to do, and they soon let Bryce in on their plan.

 "Do you want to do something fun?" Johnny asked him.

"I guess," Bryce responded, not quite sure what they were up to, but he
thought he'd better try to find out more before he committed himself fully.
"What are we going to do?"

"It's something that Tommy and I have been doing for a while now.  It's a
lot of fun and you'll really like it.  You still want to do it, right?"

"Yeah, okay.  What do I have to do?"

"First, we all have to get undressed," Tommy told them.  Bryce was a little
excited, thinking that they would be doing things like he had done with
Greg, been then he hesitated, because he was afraid that they might try to
do things to him like Maury had done.  He knew they probably weren't as big
as Maury, especially in that way, but he wasn't sure what he should do
next.  The other boys, who were already down to their underwear, noticed
his hesitation and commented about it.

"You aren't scared about us seeing your thing, are you?" Johnny wanted to
know.  "I mean, we've all kind of seen each other before."

"No, it's not that," Bryce reassured him, "it's just that I'm not sure what
you're planning to do.  I don't know if I want to do it, unless I know
exactly what it is."

"That's cool," Tommy reassured him.  "You can watch us first, and then you
can decide if you want to do it too.  Would that be okay with you?"

"Yeah, that sounds okay," Bryce told them, relieved that they weren't going
to try to force him into anything.

"But you still have to get undressed," Johnny told him.  "If you're going
to see us without our clothes on, it's only fair."

"That's fine, I'll do that, as long as I don't have to do anything else
unless I want to."  He looked at the other two for their assent.

"I promise," Tommy told him, giving him a comforting smile, so Bryce began
to take all of his clothes off, as the other two finished removing theirs.
Bryce was surprised at how much bigger their penises were than his own, but
they were older than him, and it was the first time he had seen anyone this
young with hair down there.  Tommy had little ring of hair above his penis,
but Johnny just had a few scattered hairs above his.  They were both cut
like him, which should have come as no surprise, but Tommy's dick was
probably more than three inches soft, and it was about three times bigger
around than Bryce's.  Johnny's was about an inch shorter than his
brother's, and only about two-thirds as thick, but they both made Bryce's
penis look quite small in comparison.  The boys must have guessed what
Bryce was thinking, and they tried to make him feel better about it.

"Don't worry," Tommy told him, "it will start growing in about a year or
so.  We were about the same size as you, when we were your age, but it will
start getting bigger about the time you start to get hair down there too."

"Really?  You think it will?"

"Yeah, it will," Johnny added.  "I was worried too, when Tommy's started to
grow, but after a few more months mine did too.  It will happen, you just
have to wait for the right time."

Bryce felt relieved now, and not quite as conspicuous.  The boys had
addressed his fears and dealt with them successfully, now he was willing to
see what they suggested next.  It wouldn't take long for him to discover
what they had in mind.

"You watch what we do, Bryce, you'll see it's really neat.  Tommy you get
on the bed."  Tommy got onto the bed and lay on his back near the center.
Johnny got on the bed beside him, rubbing Tommy's penis and testicles until
his penis got hard.  It had gotten even bigger than it was before, and was
now probably over four inches, maybe even five inches in length.  Now that
it was hard, Johnny wrapped his hand around it and started to jack him off.
As his hand flew up and down on his brother's erection, Tommy relaxed and
closed his eyes, enjoying the sensations of what was being done to him.
Bryce watched in interest, realizing that these two boys were really
enjoying what they were doing, and he noticed that Tommy was breathing
harder and more deeply now.  Johnny's hand was going even faster than it
was before, sliding up and down the shaft of Tommy's hard-on, and Tommy was
beginning to moan, not very loudly, but he was still making enough noise
for Bryce to hear.  At first Bryce thought his was in pain, but then he
realized that it was the same kind of noise that Maury used to make when he
did things with Bryce.  He knew that Maury made those sounds because what
he was doing felt good to him, so he assumed that Tommy must be enjoying
this too.  Suddenly Tommy's body went rigid and he arched his back off the
bed, and then thin white strings of liquid shot from the slit on the end of
his penis, and the creamy substance fell harmlessly on his chest.  Johnny
kept pumping and more of the stuff shot out of his dick, until finally the
last of it oozed out from the opening, covering Johnny's thumb in the
process.  Johnny looked up at Bryce and gave him a wicked grin.

"That was really neat, wasn't it?  Bet you've never seen anything quite
like that before."  Bryce wasn't about to tell them about Maury and what he
had done to him, so he decided to play along and pretend that this was the
first orgasm he had ever seen.

"No, that was great.  What is that white stuff that came out?"

"Tommy calls it cum.  He says it's what makes girls have babies, if you
shoot it up inside of them.  I don't shoot as much as Tommy does, but I can
make a little bit."

"That's great, but I don't think I can do that."

"Probably not, but it will still feel good to you when you rub it like
that.  You'll have to wait until your cock gets bigger and maybe get some
hair first, before you'll start shooting too.  Don't worry, though, because
it will happen.  Would you like to do that to me now?"

"Well, yeah, if you want me to, but don't you think Tommy will want to do
it for you?"

"Nah, he doesn't mind.  Besides, he'll do it to you, if you decide you want
to try it."

Bryce thought that seemed logical enough, so he decided to give it a try.
Johnny made Tommy move over on the bed, so he'd have room, and he took his
place on the mattress, so Bryce could start rubbing his own package.  Bryce
found this fascinating, feeling the soft, pliant skin that covered his
penis and testicles, but he was even more intrigued when Johnny's dick
started to swell and expand, becoming very hard in the process.  Other than
Maury's dick, which he never touched, this was the largest dick Bryce had
ever had the chance to play with.  It always fascinated him how something
that soft and floppy just a minute ago, could suddenly become so stiff and
firm.  He didn't understand the biology involved, but he was sure
fascinated by the pure mechanics of it.  Johnny encouraged him to wrap his
hand around it and to begin pumping, and Bryce needed no more than that
gentle coaxing to begin.  Now his hand went up and down, gripping that firm
flesh between his fingers and palm, and Johnny watched Bryce's face as he
did this, noting the pleasure on it.  Johnny was also feeling pleasure, as
Bryce was doing a very good job, and he knew it wouldn't take long before
he'd be shooting out those few precious drops of liquid.

Bryce experimented a little, as he masturbated his foster brother, first
using his whole hand, and then trying it with just two fingers and a thumb
or one finger and a thumb.  He also tried different things with his fingers
when he changed back to using the whole hand, like letting the thumb go up
and over the crown to tease the slit on the up-stroke.  He could tell that
Johnny was enjoying what he was doing to him, as he would gasp at times and
he would make other little noises, so Bryce kept doing what he had seen
Johnny do to Tommy.  As he continued, Johnny's mouth dropped open and his
body went stiff, then a few little drops of a cloudy liquid spurted from
the tip.  Johnny was really panting, as the liquid hit his belly, and Bryce
felt the last drop or two coat his thumb, as it oozed from the slit.  Bryce
just held on to Johnny's softening member, not wanting to let it go, and
Johnny finally opened his eyes and smiled down at Bryce.

"Thanks.  That was great.  You learn pretty quickly."

"Thanks, it was fun for me too.  I've never done anything like that
before."

"Do you want Tommy to do it to you now?"  Bryce tried not to act too eager,
remembering how good it felt when he and Greg had done it, be he was more
than happy to continue.  After switching places on the bed, Tommy began to
rub Bryce's crotch area, like Bryce had done to Johnny.  Bryce couldn't
believe how much better this felt than when he and Greg had done it,
because Tommy's hand also rubbed over his scrotum, something he and Greg
had never tried.  Soon his little boy dick was standing out straight and
proud, ready for even more attention.  Bryce looked down at it and giggled,
realizing that his penis was letting the other two know how much he really
enjoyed this.  There was a time when he didn't know if he would ever be
able to enjoy anyone touching him again, especially after what Maury had
done it to him, because he didn't really enjoy that all.  He never cared
for Maury and he knew Maury didn't care for him, except to help him get his
jollies, and the fact that they had to hide it made him feel dirty and
maybe even a little sick when it happened.  Greg was the first to make him
change his mind, but now he was convinced that not all sex play was bad.
He had wondered if what he had done and enjoyed with Greg was just a fluke,
but Johnny and Tommy proved to him it wasn't.  Bryce was really beginning
to care for these two, and he felt they cared about him too.  Even though
their father was harsh to him, the boys had always tried to help him and
include him in the fun things too.  Now they were doing it again, and he
was really glad that he had them to make him feel better.

Tommy was using only two fingers and a thumb to stroke him, as Bryce's
penis wasn't big enough to use his whole hand, but Bryce soon learned that
was enough to do the trick.  After continuing this for a short time,
Bryce's body began to tingle all over from the stimulation and it made him
feel all warm and happy inside.  He loved the feel of Tommy's fingers going
back and forth on his shaft, and he could feel Johnny playing with his
balls at the same time.  It was really an awesome feeling as the two
manipulated those sensitive areas, and he could tell his breathing was
becoming ragged as they did so.  He and Greg had never done it for this
long, so this was a new experience for him.  Although he couldn't produce
any semen yet, he did feel those tingling sensations when he reached his
dry orgasm, like little electric jolts were shooting up through his cock.
Bryce was gasping and rigid when this took place, and his body collapsed
back onto the bed when it was over.  He felt better than he had in a long
time, and he knew that it was his foster brothers who were responsible for
this feeling.  The boys agreed to do things like this again, but now they
had to prepare for their parents to come back home.

Their parents didn't come home for another half hour or so, and the boys
were in bed by the time they arrived.  Bryce felt it better that way, as he
didn't want to give his foster father any reason to find fault with him.
Bryce went to bed that night feeling better than he had in a long time, but
unfortunately that feeling wasn't to last.  The next morning at breakfast,
his foster father announced that he expected Bryce to wash the car and
vacuum out the interior today, after which he'd have to round up the rest
of the trash and take it out to the curb with the lawn waste, as the
garbage would be collected tomorrow.

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