Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:39:33 +0000
From: pinkpanther2@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: 'A Warm April Saturday' chapter 15

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                           CHAPTER FIFTEEN

We've been back at school for just over a week. The weather's totally
changed; from warm and dry right up to the end of our half term break
to  cool and wet now. We arrive for our games class. It's not  rained
today,  but  it did yesterday and the day before. We're used  to  the
soccer  pitches being firm and dry; I can't see the being  like  that
today.  We get changed and troop out onto the field. There are twenty
seven of us. We split into three groups of nine. One group does  some
skills practice while the other two play a short match then we change
round.  There's no surface water, but the pitches are very muddy.  By
the time we go back in we're all filthy.

"Right lads, in the showers!" Mr. Maynard orders.

It's  the  first  time  he's said it. There's no  question  about  it
though;  we're dirty; we can't go back to class the way we are.  Even
so  there's  a bit of muttering; it's pretty clear that some  of  the
boys don't want to shower with everyone else. Daryl tries to persuade
Mr.  Maynard that he doesn't need one. He has a point, I guess.  He's
far  less  dirty  than  most of us; that's `cause  he's  done  hardly
anything  all  class. Mr. Maynard's having none of it. Daryl  pleads;
he's  still having none of it. Eventually Daryl comes through to  the
shower  area looking like he's about to burst into tears,  pulls  off
his  white underpants and gets under the water, his hand in front  of
his privates.

Satisfied that everyone has gone in, Mr. Maynard leaves us to  it.  I
use  the opportunity to have a quick peek at a few of classmates, the
ones  that interest me, that is. Andrew's got a beautiful cock to  go
along with the rest of him; I'd guess it'd be about the same size  as
Stephen's when he gets hard. He's the only one in the class with  any
pubes,  a  little  crop of jet black hair sprouting right  above  his
uncut  dick.  Alwyn's not that big, sort of average, I guess,  but  I
expected  that  `cause he's not very big anyway, a bit  like  Gareth.
It's  nice though, it looks just right on him. Josh is my height  and
at  least ten pounds heavier, but his cock and balls are very  small.
For some reason it was what I expected. Josh and Alwyn are uncut too,
like almost everyone else in the class.

About  a minute later, Daryl emerges from the shower. Most of us  are
still standing there getting dry. He's still got his hand in front of
his  privates, but he's not having much success. Now we know  why  he
played his face so much about having to have one.

"Batty-boy's got a hard-on!" Dalton sneers.

I  turn  and glare at him. He'll leave it there and I'll say nothing,
right? Wrong.

"Hey,  batty-boy!"  he calls, waving his little black  penis  around.
"You wanna suck my dick?"

Daryl looks mortified; most of the other kids look embarrassed,  like
they're  pretending they haven't heard what Dalton said. But we  have
heard  it, all of us. I don't think I could ever be mates with Daryl,
but there's no way he should have to put up with that sort of shit.

"Yeukkk! Who'd want to suck that?" I sneer back at Dalton.

"He's  a batty-boy!" he says, looking at me like I just grew a second
head.

"And  you've got shit for brains!" I snarl. "Boys get hard-ons!  It's
what  happens  when  you start growing up! Only you  wouldn't  `cause
you've got no balls!"

He  looks  totally shocked. Half the other kids are  trying  to  stop
themselves  giggling. I stomp back to my clothes  and  start  to  get
dressed. I'm seething; bullying's wrong, we all know that! There  are
enough  nice kids in the group that I shouldn't have had to  do  that
all  by  myself,  but  no-one else said a word. Michael  returns  and
begins putting on his clothes.

"Aren't  you worried about that big mate of his having a go at  you,"
he whispers, "dissing him like that?"

"I'll worry about it when it happens," I say curtly.

I'm still angry; Michael just caught the rough end of it. I guess I'm
not best pleased with my classmates right now. Andrew comes across to
me.

"Dalton's disgusting," he whispers. "Kids like him make me ashamed to
be black."

That  does make me feel a bit better, but why didn't he say anything,
back  there in the showers? I don't believe he's any more  scared  of
Courtney  Fredericks  than  I  am. In case  you're  wondering,  I  am
worried, but it's done now; I'll just have to get on with it. I  know
one thing; if Courtney and his little gang decide to make a thing out
of it, I'm not backing down.

It's  lunchtime when I see them, leaning on the wall of  the  science
block.  Dalton  and Courtney give me the hard stare.  The  other  kid
looks like he doesn't know whether he's on his arse or his elbow, but
that's  nothing  new. Hard stares I can handle; I don't  stare  back,
just ignore them and keep walking.

                            0 o 0 o 0 o 0

The  following  day we're back for our gym class; it's  cross-country
week. I'm not really looking forward to it; the course is going to be
very  wet and slippery. I don't fancy landing on my arse out  in  the
woods.  Still,  it'll  be  the  same  for  everyone.  We  finish  our
exercises.  As we troop outside, Alwyn and Andrew pick up small  bags
that they've left on the bench near the door of the gym. I've no idea
what they've got them for. I soon find out; as soon as they reach the
edge  of the playground, they pull off their trainers and change into
something else. Right, they're using soccer boots! I trot over to the
start  line. For sure, soccer boots will give them a bit  more  grip,
but they're not ideal for running in; the track through the woods  is
quite  stony underneath. Thirty seconds later, they're with us. Alwyn
lines  up  right  next  to me. I glance down. Strange,  those  aren't
soccer  boots  he's got on. Then it hits me; they're wearing  running
spikes.

The  race  is  no  contest. They've got all the grip they  want;  I'm
struggling  just to stay on me feet. Alwyn runs nine  minutes  twenty
two,  his  fastest ever time. Andrew does it in nine thirty  five;  I
struggle round is nine forty one. Shit! We go in to get changed. This
time  everybody's muddy, even Daryl. Drying off after  my  shower,  I
stand there glaring at Dalton, almost daring him to say something. He
scowls back and keeps his mouth shut. I stroll back to my clothes and
give myself a little pat on the back; I've just had a result.

                            0 o 0 o 0 o 0

I meet up with Tom outside our maths room.

"How did cross-country go?" I ask.

"Shit,  man!  It  was  all I could do to stay upright!  I  still  won
though."

"I didn't; Alwyn and Andrew beat me. What time did you get?"

"Nine thirty eight. So what happened?"

"They'd  got  spikes  on," I tell him, relieved  to  know  that  he's
struggled as well.

"Really?" he says eyes widening. "I'll have to ask mum if I can  have
some of those."

                            0 o 0 o 0 o 0

I keep having fantasies about Daryl. Ever since I saw him with a hard-
on  coming out of the shower, I can't get him out of my head. Here  I
am,  it's  Thursday night, I'm in bed and the images  just  won't  go
away.  We're  in the boys' room, in one of the stalls.  I'm  standing
with  my back to the toilet, shirt pulled up, trousers and pants down
round  my ankles. Daryl's kneeling in front of me sucking my dick.  I
pull my hand off my cock. Shit! I don't even like the kid; there's no
way  I  should be wanking off thinking about him! I turn over, hoping
I'll  fall  asleep.  The next thing I know we're in  the  boys'  room
again,  only  this time Daryl's bent over the toilet and I'm  fucking
that  cute round bum of his. My hand's flying over my cock  and  it's
too late to stop. I soak my underpants. Shit!

I  lie  back  gasping  for breath. Fuck! That is  well  weird!  Sure,
Daryl's  a  cute looking kid, nice cock too, about three and  a  half
inches uncut from what I saw of it. But we have absolutely nothing in
common; I couldn't hang out with him. I mean, it just wouldn't  work;
he'd  bore me shitless and those girly ways he's got set my teeth  on
edge.  But there's no-one I can talk to about it. For some  reason  I
don't want to tell James and I daren't tell Michael. Shit! If I  told
Michael  it'd  freak him out totally! He'd absolutely know  I'm  gay!
Fuck,  I  can't  do that! I'm worn out. I turn over again;  a  minute
later I'm fast asleep.

                            0 o 0 o 0 o 0

Me  and  James get into the Saab. We're driving over to Tom's  house,
then  James is taking us to a shop in Teddington to buy some  spikes.
It's  a shop that a lot of runners go to. James says we'll get a much
better  choice  there, especially as most people buy  spikes  in  the
summer. Tom gives his mum a quick peck on the cheek and we're on  our
way.  Tom's  scruffy as always; ripped jeans, old Nirvana  tee-shirt,
and the black leather jacket his mum bought from a charity shop.

It's  a  bit of a trek, across through Croydon and Kingston. We  chat
about  this and that. We try really hard to get Tom to join  in,  but
he's so shy he won't say a lot. With him sitting in the back we could
almost forget he's there. It takes us almost an hour, but it's  worth
it.  I've  never  seen a shop like it; running shoes, running  vests,
running  shorts,  lycra training pants, whatever runners  want,  they
stock it.

We look at the spikes; James was right, they've got more than a dozen
different ones we could have, from cheap Gola ones up to some  really
expensive jobs. James said we should be able to get a good  pair  for
between  thirty and forty pounds, and I know that Tom's mum gave  him
forty pounds, so that's our limit.

"I'm having these for my birthday," Tom says quietly.

That  figures;  he'll be twelve in a few weeks,  and  I  don't  think
they've  got much more money than we used to have. We both settle  on
some  Nikes, red ones with the Nike logo in gold; they're thirty  two
pounds.  It's  time  to  try  them  on.  We  both  find  them  really
comfortable  and they look wicked! They feel a bit odd  though;  they
sort of push you up onto your toes. I guess we'll have to get used to
that.

I  do get one surprise; Tom's feet are actually bigger than mine; I'm
size nine, he's size ten.

"I'm still taller than you!" I say, grinning at him.

"I'm not sure about that," James says. "Let's check."

We stand back to back.

"Exactly the same height," James tells us. "Not a millimetre in it."

Wow! A few months back I was more than an inch taller. Well, I'm  not
now!

"You're going to use these for cross-country?" the assistant asks.

"Yeah," we tell him.

"You'll  need  some  long spikes then; twelve millimetre  or  fifteen
millimetre?"

He  produces  a couple of packets. It's hard to decide;  the  fifteen
millimetre ones look scary, but maybe they'd grip better. We describe
the school course to him.

"You  want the twelves," he says, smiling. "You only need the  bigger
ones  if  you're  running  through a total mud-bath.  You  boys  just
starting, then?"

We smile and nod.

"Great," he says, smiling. "Enjoy it; that's the main thing."

So  that's  it;  a  pair of shoes, a bag, a set of twelve  millimetre
spikes and a spike key; total cost thirty seven pounds each. He packs
them up for us and hands them to James.

"The  great  thing  about these is that's they're nylon  uppers,"  he
says.  "Once you've got the mud off them, just wrap them in  a  towel
and  throw  them in the washing machine; they come out  looking  like
new."

Before  we leave, James insists on buying me a pair of white  running
shorts. They've got sewn-in briefs so you don't have to wear anything
under  them.  It's a bit embarrassing though; they're so  skimpy  I'd
feel really self-conscious wearing them. We head out of the shop;  it
was great of James to bring us here; we'd never have been able to get
these  shoes  round  where  we live. I'm really  looking  forward  to
running in them.

                            0 o 0 o 0 o 0

Thursday after school is our activity evening. We can stay behind and
do all sorts of different things. I go to the computer club. We don't
play  games;  we start by learning about different types of  software
like spreadsheets and databases. Later on we can get into things like
designing websites and even writing our own software. It'll be a long
time before I'm able to do that though; I'm just at the beginning.

It's  nearly  five o'clock when I leave. Usually I go straight  home,
but  right now I need a piss so it's off to the boys' room. I'm  just
finishing  when  someone comes in and stands at the next  urinal  but
one. I glance across without even thinking about it. It's Daryl; he's
got a raging hard-on and he's playing with it. Holy shit! Now what am
I going to do? I know what I ought to do; ignore him, do up my flies,
walk out of the door and pretend it never happened, yada, yada, yada.
Yeah? Well you try it! My dick's just jumped to attention in, like no
seconds  flat.  My  heart's thumping, my  throat's  gone  as  dry  as
sandpaper and I'm stood there rooted to the spot like I was paralysed
or something. Fuck! If someone comes in now, we're dead!

But they don't. They're not likely to either; we're probably the only
ones  left  in  this  part of the building. Daryl  looks  across  and
smiles.

"Very nice!" he whispers.

I'm  still  in shock. I've been having these fantasies about  me  and
Daryl  in  the  boys'  room for the past week; now  we're  here.  How
fucking weird is that?! The thing is; I still don't have a clue  what
to  do next. My head's saying that having sex in here is a really bad
idea.  Well  my dick's not listening.  I move across so I'm  standing
right  next to him. He reaches over and fondles it. The touch of  his
fingers is electrifying; I almost cum on the spot. This is still  way
too risky. I jerk my head towards the stalls; he nods and smiles.  We
go into the furthest one and bolt the door.

"Have you done this before?" I whisper.

"No; never had the chance," he says, still smiling at me.

I'm  not  even thinking any more. I open the top of his trousers  and
pull them down followed by his underpants.  He's got a gorgeous body;
him  being so useless at sport just doesn't make sense. I fondle  his
cock, stone hard and throbbing like crazy. Fuck! This is so hot! He's
got my trousers and briefs down without me even realising it. He puts
his hand round my dick again, his fingers running along the underside
of my shaft. Holy shit!

"Beautiful cock!" he whispers, eyes sparkling. "Can you cum?"

"Yeah, can you?"

He  shakes  his head. Suddenly any inhibitions I had just  disappear.
I'm  going to go for it and fuck what happens. I drop down  onto  the
toilet seat, lean forward and take his cock into my mouth, sucking it
right  down  to the base. It feels awesome! I run my hand up  between
his  legs so I'm tickling the sensitive area right behind his  balls.
He  rests  one hand on my head, spurring me on even more. I  move  my
fingers a bit further back, not actually touching his bum but heading
that  way. I don't even have to ask; he loves it! Without any warning
at  all he shudders violently, his cock springing up between my lips.
I suck and lick till he goes limp then gently let him go.

I  look  up; he's got a serene smile on his face. Yeah, well  I  know
what that's all about. He's just had his first sexual experience with
another boy and he can't believe how awesome it was.

"Will you do me now?" I ask.

"Yeah, cool!" he whispers.

I  get  to  my  feet. I'm expecting him to just wank me off,  but  he
kneels down in front of me, like in those fantasies I've been having.
He pauses for a second then goes right down on me. If he's never done
this  before  he  must  have been born to it;  he's  a  natural,  the
sensations in my cock are unbelievable, I stroke his hair;  he  sucks
even  harder,  working his tongue all over the end  of  my  dick.  My
orgasm's getting very close. The muscle spasms hit me like an express
train;  I  have  to grab the loo roll holder to stop  myself  falling
over. The spunk surges through my cock and squirts over and over into
Daryl's  mouth.  My  cock's so sensitive I have  to  pull  away.  I'm
wondering  if he'll spit it out; he doesn't, he swallows every  drop.
We  dress  in  record time, unlock the door and  head  out  onto  the
corridor. The place is deserted.

"I  just  want  to  say thanks for standing up for me,"  Daryl  says.
"Nobody else did, not even Andrew."

"Why Andrew?" I ask, thinking that he can't possibly be gay too.

"Oh,  Andrew's  always going on about standing up for the  rights  of
minorities,"  Daryl  says. "Well gay people are a  minority,  but  he
didn't stand up for me."

That  takes the wind right out of my sails; seems like Daryl's got  a
lot more about him than I'd given him credit for.

"You know we're not going to be mates," I say.

"Yeah," he says, smiling but looking a bit sad at the same time.

"We don't have much in common," I continue, by way of explanation.

"Apart from being gay," he says.

"Yeah, apart from that."

"I guess not, but thanks anyway."

"You  won't  say anything, will you?" I ask, suddenly feeling  a  bit
nervous.

"Kiss and tell? I'd never do that," he says, smiling at me.

"Thanks," I say quietly. "You're all right."

He  walks  off along the corridor and out onto the yard. I watch  him
go,  trying  to  get my head back together. That just shouldn't  have
happened. I don't care how hot it was; that was not a good idea. I'll
say one thing though; I got Daryl completely wrong. Under that showy,
pain  in  the arse exterior there's a really nice kid trying  to  get
out.

                            0 o 0 o 0 o 0

Sunday  afternoon and I'm cycling over to Tom's house. We're  working
on  a  science project and there's some stuff we need to  check  out.
It's  strange;  Michael's  always been my  best  mate,  but  now  I'm
spending so much more time with Tom, things are changing. I feel much
closer to him now than I do to Michael. Tom's mum is as welcoming  as
always;  I  guess its one reason I love coming here. We  head  up  to
Tom's  room  and  settle  down to work.  Forty  minutes  later  we've
finished; we've done it well too. We head back down the stairs.

"I'm  glad you've teamed up with Tom," his mum says, smiling  at  me.
"Gareth's  a nice kid, but he's like a nine year old; just  wants  to
play all the time, and his mum and dad don't bother. You seem to push
him along a bit."

"Yeah, well we like working together; it's cool."

There's a piano in the living room. It's always been there, but  I've
never heard anyone play it. I know Tom does play `cause Gareth's told
me,  but  he was asked to play once or twice when we were  at  junior
school and he shied away, said he didn't really play or something.

"Do you play this?" I ask him.

He looks embarrassed.

"Oh, he doesn't like playing in front of other people." His mum says.

"So how did you learn?" I ask, pretty well knowing that he hasn't had
lessons.

"Picked it up mainly from listening to my old records," his mum says.
"Ray Charles and that; we like Ray Charles, don't we Tom?"

"He  was  awesome," Tom says quietly. "That film they made of  him  a
couple  of years ago, we went to see it, didn't we mum? We've got  it
on  DVD  now; I've watched it loads of times; it's amazing and that's
just a film. Seeing him live must have been unbelievable."

I'm  totally gobsmacked; most of the time he never says more  than  a
few words. I've never heard him talk like that, not ever!

"Come on, Tom!" his mum says. "It's Chris, your mate! Let's give  him
a tune."

He  sits  at  the piano, and plays some chords running right  up  the
keyboard.  I  don't  know about not being able to play  properly;  it
sounds  pretty  good to me. To my amazement his mum starts  to  sing.
It's slow and very sad.

"It brings on tears
 Into my eyes,
 When I begin,
 To realise,
 I've cried so much,
 Since you've been gone,
 I'm going to drown,
 In my own tears."

Tom  plays  beautifully and the power in his mum's  voice,  wow!  She
sounds  like one of these black singers, only better. She's  amazing!
The song ends. I sit there completely blown away

"I'd  no  idea you could sing!" I say, still hardly able  to  believe
what I just heard.

"Oh,  I've been singing since I was little," she says, smiling. "When
I  finished  university I gave it a go for a couple of years.  That's
how I met Tom's dad; he plays the saxophone, wonderful player, seemed
like  a  marriage made in heaven to start with. But I couldn't handle
the lifestyle; I needed something more secure, that's why I went into
teaching.  He didn't, of course, playing was his life. The thing  was
that  he liked to have a girl at every gig, and after Tom came along,
most  of the time it wasn't me. So when Tom was five I threw him out;
I'd had enough of it. Well, that's what marrying a jazz musician gets
you. Never showed much interest in you, did he Tom?"

Tom just shakes his head, looking slightly embarrassed.

"To  be  honest,  I  don't  think he ever really  wanted  kids,"  she
continues.

I  ride home with my head spinning. I had no clue about any of  that.
Tom's  mum's always been pretty cool, but all I knew was  that  she's
head of biology at the girls' high school. I'd no idea she'd done all
this  other  stuff; that's amazing. It sort of explains a  bit  about
Tom,  too; even his choice of clothes is mixed up in there somewhere.
And that thing about his dad never showing any interest in him; right
now I feel closer to Tom than ever.