Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:19:45 +0000
From: Douglas DD DD <thehakaanen@hotmail.com>
Subject: The Perfect Game   Chapter 34

Greetings and welcome back. The baseball season is progressing and so are
the relationships between the boys. Not all of it is good as Hunter finds
himself in a tough and somewhat lonely spot. There is also a chaste, but
interesting, kiss between two of the boys. But overall things look good as the
baseball season and the school year both go tumbling towards summer.

CHAPTER 34
BOYS AND BASEBALL

Eric and Scott were snuggling on the couch in front of the big TV at Scott's
house late on Sunday afternoon. Scott's mom was away visiting a friend and
Lindy was upstairs in Scott's bedroom with Greg. Scott let her use his
bedroom to make-out in because it would be easier to hide Greg up there in
case her mom came home. They had already hatched an escape plan just in
case. Scott and Eric both thought back to how the plan came about.

They brought it up to Lindy who had been skeptical at first. "There has to be
a reason why you two are being nice to me," she said, standing in front of
them with her hands on her hips.

"Don't look at me," Eric said, "I'm always nice to you."

"She meant me," Scott said, "but you're guilty for being my boyfriend."

"You two are impossible." Lindy was acting angry, but actually she was
pleased her brother was actually thinking of her as something other than his
"bitch of a sister."

"Truth be told I was hoping mom would come home, he would be stuck up
in my room like Danny was in Tama's, and then I would get to see him
naked."

"Ohhh, you ARE impossible." She was about to go on when the front door
opened and Greg walked in.

"Anybody home?" he called out.

Lindy's eyes lit up and she headed toward the front door and greeting him
with a kiss and a hug. Greg greeted Eric and Scott and they all outlined their
plan to him. Scott didn't mention the part about hoping to see him naked.

"Sounds like a good plan to me." He had his hand on Lindy's ass and was
rubbing it liberally. Scott and Eric could see the tent in Greg's tight jeans
and smiled at each other knowingly.

As the two 15 year olds headed for the stairs Scott yelled out, "Be careful, I
don't want to be an uncle."

Greg reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a couple packs of
condoms. "I come prepared and prepared to cum" Lindy started to giggle at
Greg's commented while Eric and Scott laughed out loud.

So now the two teens were in Scott's room and the two pre-teen boys were
on the couch, getting naked from the waist down, but keeping their shorts
down at their ankles so they could dress in a hurry if need be. They were
watching baseball on TV and making out. The noise from Scott's bedroom
had stopped awhile ago, but they had become turned on by the moaning,
groaning, and squeaking that had gone on.

"Must be nap time," Scott said.

"Yeah. Lindy is going to change the sheets, right?" Eric asked.

"What, are you afraid of getting cum on you?" Scott asked.

"No, her twat juice!"

"Well, that's what she promised. She might be a bitch at times but she does
do what she says she'll do. At least stuff like that, not her threats which
usually don't mean nothing."

Eric gave Scott a quick kiss on the lips. "That was a pretty wild party at the
twin's house last night," Eric said.

"It sure was. I couldn't believe it when Noah fucked Bobby right in front of
all of us. Those two really have balls."

"Me either, but I knew they'd been doing it. I mean we both pretty much
knew it."

"Yeah but know it and seeing it were way different."

"The twins almost did each other in the morning. They were on each other
ready to go, but I think they were scared their parents would walk in since
breakfast was getting close. They sure made it obvious it wouldn't be their
first time doing it."

"Korey is pretty cool," Scott said. "I sure didn't do stuff like he was doing
when I was in the fourth grade."

"Me either. I didn't even know you could do stuff like that." Eric giggled,
thinking how naïve he had been at that age. "I was surprised to find out him
and Coach Ecklund's son were messing around. That is really wild. It
would've been fun if he'd been at the party."

"Only if Coach Ecklund never found out," Scott said with a chuckle. "It
would be fun to watch those too, though. Coach's son is kinda cute."

"Hey, watch it. Messing with him would really get us in trouble."

"Don't worry, but I can think about him being cute."

"Yeah. But we're sure sounding gay all of a sudden."

"Is that a problem?"

Eric gave Scott another peck and told him it wasn't a problem at all.

"Sure seems to be a lot of guys going it. Noah and Bobby. The twins and
their brother. Hell, even your sister isn't a virgin. Maybe it's time for us,"
Eric said.

"Maybe you're right. Let's talk to the Donkey. I'll give him a call." Scott
called Michael but found out that he and the Dawg had some other plans.
They arranged to meet at the Donkey's house the next evening.

"Do you think he'll say it's time?" Eric asked.

"I dunno. But we'll find out tomorrow."

They were disturbed by the sound of Greg coming down the stairs. He was
completely naked, his limp dick hanging nicely over his low hanging balls.
He had a nice nest of pubic hair. It was the only body hair that could be seen
on him.

"You homos having fun?" he asked.

"Don't knock it until you've tried it," Scott said.

"Maybe I will some day," Greg said with a leer. "But it would be hard to
beat your sister in bed."

"Maybe I'll show you what a really good BJ is about some day."

"Hey, if your sister's 11 year old brother can suck better than she can, I'd
like to check that out." Eric and Scott could see Greg's dick start to harden
some and they grinned at each other.

"Check what out?" Lindy asked. They saw her half way down the stairs
wearing just a thong.

"Wow, where did you get that?" Scott asked, changing the topic in a hurry.
He was also curious about it.

"My brother Cal bought it," Greg said. "He's 18 and got it for me to give
her. Pretty sexy, huh?"

"It would be if you wore it," Eric said with a big grin.

"You guys really are homos," Greg said, but not in a derogatory way.

"Like I said...," Scott began

"...don't knock it until you've tried it," Greg finished.

"You guys are being very weird," Lindy said. "I though you were coming
down to get a couple of sodas," she said to Greg.

"I was until your homo brother and his boyfriend stopped me."

"Maybe it's because you weren't wearing any clothes." She couldn't help
but notice that Greg was now at full mast, putting him in the same condition
as the two 11 year old boys on the couch, only he had over six inches on
display compared to their barely four inch hard-ons.

"Hey, maybe we could all have a four way orgy," Greg said.

Scott and Eric both chimed in with a loud, "Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww."

"What, with my brother? No way". "What, with my sister? No way," Lindy
and Scott said simultaneously.

"Just a thought," Greg said as he headed to the kitchen for the two sodas.

Scott looked as his almost naked sister. "You could take that off you know,"
he said referring to the thong.

"Greg thinks it's sexy." Lindy paused and then said, "You want to see me
naked? Is that it?"

Scott stood up and pealed off his t-shirt. "There, I'm naked. Your turn."

"You're impossible." But she pulled off the thong. Her pubic patch was
trimmed to the point that she was almost hairless down there. Eric wondered
why she trimmed it.

"You always say that."

Greg came back with the pops and looked at the brother and sister standing
naked in front of each other. "Oh, really sexy guys. All set for that orgy?"
Greg found himself strangely attracted to the two 11 year old boys, even
with his girlfriend standing next to him.

"Mom's due back really soon," Scott said. While the situation had him
turned on, he wasn't really that eager to play around with his sister. Greg,
however, was a different issue.

"He's right," Lindy said. "We better go get dressed."

"Spoil sports," Greg said. He handed Lindy her soda, and then kissed her,
making sure the two young boys on the couch could see him fondle her
breasts and then her genital area. Scott and Eric might both be sure they
were gay, but they couldn't help but be turned on by what they saw,
especially Scott who had never thought of his sister as being a sexual person,
let alone human, until recently.

Greg stopped his kissing and fondling. "Maybe next time," he said as he led
Lindy up the stairs.

"I guess we better get dressed, too." Scott said.

"What? I haven't cum yet." Eric protested.

"I can take care of that," Scott said and he did as Eric returned the favor in a
quick sixty-nine on the carpet, not knowing that the climax was being
quietly watched by Greg and Lindy.


After jogging the school track in a drizzle with Carl, Danny ended up in
Carl's bedroom to watch him to some pushups and crunches. Carl did as
much as he could, which is more than he had done on Thursday, the last day
they had worked out together.

"Not bad," Danny said. "You're getting better."

"I'm still fat," Carl said.

"True, you are, but now you're working hard not to be so it will only get
better."

Carl started peeling off his clothes, no longer embarrassed about being
naked in front of Danny. "I'm gonna go shower," he said. "I'm tired and
damp and sweaty and smelly."

"Especially the smelly part," Danny said.

Carl flashed him a look, then realized that Danny was kidding him. He
wasn't used to good natured kidding from a friend, but once he realized what
it was he held up his right underarm for Danny to smell.

"Eww, no way, it's bad enough as it is." Carl was naked now. "What did you
think of last night?" Danny asked him.

"It was fun once I got used to it."

"Would you do it again?"

"Yeah, I think so."

There was a moment of silence, and then Danny, with a surge of feeling
coursing though his insides, said quietly, "Would you do it just with me?"

"You mean, like mess around? Like what we were doing? Jerking off and
kissing and...and...even sucking?"

"Yeah, all of that." Danny didn't know why, but he was in some way
attracted to Carl. He knew that beneath his blubber there was somebody
really sexy ready to bust out. Wow, a sexy boy, the thought. I'm actually
thinking about more than just getting off, like everybody else at the sixth
grade JV table.  He knew he was getting hard underneath his sweats.

Carl was amazed that Danny was being more than just the big jock kid who
lived a few houses away who was willing to talk and do stuff with him
sometimes. Danny was actually being his friend. He wasn't sure why, but he
liked it. And he knew that Danny could see that he was boning up.

"Do you think maybe we could shower together?" Danny asked hoarsely.

"I wish, but everybody is home." Carl looked shyly at the athletic boy
standing next to him in his bedroom. He saw that the boy was sexually
excited. "Do you think that...um...maybe you could like stay overnight this
weekend."

Danny was disappointed about not being able to shower with Carl, but he
liked the idea of staying overnight. "I'll ask if I can and let you know."

"I better ask, too."

Danny gave his naked new friend another look, seeing his little boner
sticking up from his hairless crotch and paying particular attention to his
well padded ass. He left the room and headed for home. Both boys took care
of their own business very quickly after that. Carl thought about Danny
sucking his dick, but Danny's thoughts were on Carl's ample ass.


That night just before bedtime Bobby and Noah were lying naked in Noah's
bed. Bobby was spending more and more nights at Noah's house. Noah's
parents were aware that Bobby's home life wasn't much and were willing to
let him stay pretty much when he wanted. But they also made it clear that he
had to spend time at home as well, and if Bobby's mom called wanting
Bobby home then they would honor that call. As far as they knew Bobby
wasn't being abused, but they also knew he was often unhappy at home.

The topic of conversation between the two of them was their fucking in front
of the other boys at the twin's party. They were pretty sure it wasn't the right
thing to do, yet everybody seemed turned on by it and nobody had anything
negative to say.

"It's a good thing Hunter wasn't there," Noah said. He was pretty aware of
Hunter's sexual outlook.

"If Hunter had been there I wouldn't have done it," Bobby told him. Noah
was in complete agreement.

The two of them learned for sure that the twins weren't virgins since they
often did each other and that they had done their little brother Korey as well.
The twins had been close to doing it in front of them in the morning. They
were happy to know they weren't alone in what they were doing. They did
decide they wouldn't fuck in front with anybody else again, unless the other
boys did it as well. With that Bobby kissed Noah, got on his back, raised his
legs, and let his lover insert his boner into his bowels.


Monday lunch had the usual sixth grade group together. They talked about
the party at the twin's house and assured Noah and Bobby that what they did
wasn't wrong, it was very sexy. They talked about getting together again to
do more sex stuff as a group. None of them noticed that Hunter was sitting
by himself in another part of the lunchroom.

Eric and Noah also talked about their science report. Their teacher had
assigned the class to do a report on electricity, specifically how it was used
in technology, in mechanical devices, or in industry. He assigned the
students into pairs, drawing names out of a hat at random; both an oral and
written report was required, with illustrations if possible. Eric and Noah
were more than pleased when they were paired up, although the teacher
wasn't, but he knew he had to live with the draw. He knew that the strength
of the random draw was that the pairings were fair, but that its weakness was
that its fairness could create an unbalanced pair like this one. Eric and Noah
were two of the best students in the class and having them matched up
together seemed almost unfair. It was pairings like this that made the random
system just one way he used of pairing students. The teacher, Mr. Stanley,
liked variety in how he did things, both because it kept him fresh and
because it kept the students from getting into too much of a routine.

When the boys had their first meeting as a pair they had to pick their exact
topic and then have it turned in the next day; nothing else was required. One
of the things Noah learned about Eric was that he not only loved baseball, he
also had an affinity for trains. One of the things Eric missed when he moved
to Mayfield was being able to watch trains. Their house in Tacoma was just
a couple of blocks from the mainline to Portland and he loved riding his bike
down to the tracks to watch the trains roll through town, both freight and
passenger. For his eleventh birthday he had received a nice camera and used
it to take pictures. The closest tracks to Mayfield were either the short line
going through Kentburg or the mainline that went through Centralia. Eric's
suggestion for a topic was how trains used their traction motors both to
power the train and to brake it though the use of dynamic braking. Noah
surprised Eric with his knowledge of trains. While he wasn't the fan of them
that Eric was, he did like them and his family often took the train for their
trips. Noah also knew a winning report topic when he saw it and was totally
for using Eric's suggestion.

The report was due on Thursday. The teacher said they would have library
time on Tuesday and class time on Wednesday to finish their reports. Noah
and Eric both knew they were all but finished, but they wanted some extra
time to polish up the report and put some finishing touches, like their
pictures, to it. Noah said they could meet at his house after practice and
invited Eric to come straight to his house and have dinner with him and his
family. Eric accepted and received the requisite permission from his mother.

Eric and Scott had discussed Eric's date with Noah over the weekend. Scott
was in the second period science class, while Eric and Noah were in fifth
period, so there had been no chance of them being paired up. While Kevin
and Danny were both in Scott's class he ended up being paired up with
Desiree Clemmons.

"That is so fucked," Scott said. "You get Noah, the smartest dude in the
sixth grade, not to mention one of the coolest, as your partner when you're
close to as smart as he is and I get Desiree Clemens who never met a donut
she didn't like."

"Hey, at least she's smart and a good student," Eric offered.

"Yeah, smart and stupid at the same time. And on top of everything else,
you're going to his house for dinner and to finish it up."

"We're just finished a few little things. Besides, you told me you guys are
pretty much done."

"We are, but that isn't the point is. The point is you're the luckiest guy I
know and you owe me."

"I am always happy to pay my debts," Eric said with a cute, sexy grin. "I
guess you're not going to be doing any of the report at Desiree's house."

"Fuck, no! Not only is she a girl, but I'm also allergic to fatness."

"Does that include Carl?"

"No, it only includes girls I don't like." Their topic was the ways in which
electricity was used to heat or cool a house, which Scott thought as lame and
not nearly as exciting as writing about big railroad locomotives. Eric had
told Scott that he and his dad were going to go train watching a few times
over the summer. Scott thought it was cool that Eric liked trains and was
determined to learn some things about them so he wouldn't be just standing
around waving at trains and looking like a little kid.

"Are you and Noah gonna sex at all?' Scott asked.

"I dunno, we haven't talked about it. You know if we do it won't be more
than a BJ. But I think we'll just eat dinner and do our report. I don't want to
do anything with anybody else until you and me do...you know...IT!"

Scott knew perfectly well what Eric meant and gave his boyfriend a squeeze.

"But you can do anything you want with Desiree Clemmons," Eric said with
a giggle, which earned him a good natured punch on the arm.

Noah told Eric at lunch that everything was all set for Wednesday; both boys
knew that all they had to do at Noah's house was put the written report
together in a binder and finish dividing up the topics they would present in
their oral report. Eric would be bringing an HO model of an EMD SD60
locomotive to help illustrate their talk.

Practice ended a half-hour early as the spring rains came in. The next game
was tomorrow. Marty learned that he was going to suit up with the varsity,
which was playing on the road. There was speculation in the locker room
about whether or not Marty would do some kind of sex thing on the bus.

Eric was surprised to learn that he was going to be the starting pitcher but
wasn't surprised that Kevin would be his catcher. They would be playing
Dan Evans Middle School. Both teams had 4-1 records and since the game
marked the half-way mark of the season it was a big game for the JV team.
A loss would pretty much end any hopes for first place.

Eric wasn't able to sleep Monday night. He wished Scott was in his bed with
him. The two of them had stayed together in his bedroom until Scott had to
leave. They got naked, did their homework, and dry humped, ending up
becoming sticky with their pre-teen cum. They were unable to meet with the
Donkey and the Dawg as a couple of rain delays had them coming home late
from their game. They set another appointment to meet.

Eric tossed and turned and worried about the upcoming game. He swore he
never got to sleep even though he was asleep when the alarm went off. The
rain had stopped during the night, as promised, but it the sky was still gray.
The weather report said that the skies should start clearing during the
afternoon with a high around 60.

Eric went through the prescribed pre-game warm-ups for the starting pitcher.
The bus carrying the Evans Vikings arrived on time. When both teams
completed their infield practice the umpire had his home plate meeting and
the game started up under partly sunny skies.

Eric got off to a rocky start, giving up a lead-off single and walking the next
two batters. He was overthrowing and getting mad at himself for letting his
emotions affect his pitching. Coach Sanders came out to settle him down
after the second walk, reminding him that his strength was being smart and
throwing strikes. It was not his ability to blow the ball by people as he was
trying to do. Coach Sanders told Eric to work on limiting the damage, gave
him a pat on the ass, and headed back to the dugout.

After Eric went 2-0 on the next batter Kevin came out to the mound. Eric
could feel his frustration grow and he didn't want another lecture on easing
up. But Kevin surprised him by pointing to Scott who had started the game
left field.

"Has he stuck it up your butt yet?" Kevin asked.

"Huh?" Eric was, of course, surprised by the question.

"You heard me. Has he done it yet?"

"No."

"Too bad." He winked at Eric. "But when he does do it he could do it hard
and fast. It feels real good like what Kraig does to me. But sometimes you
gotta do it slow and easy to get good results. Just pretend all those Vikings
want your dick hard and fast in their butts, but you're gonna give it to them
slow and easy and make them stand there and take it all game."

The ump yelled to "play ball" and Kevin went back behind the plate. He
wasn't sure if what he said made any sense at all but he just wanted to get
Eric's mind off his problems on the mound for a minute.

What Kevin said made no sense to Eric, but he heard the part about slow and
easy and he knew how good that could feel when he and Scott jerked each
other off. So he would go slow and easy on the Vikings, who had a lot of
cute boys on their team. His next pitch was the first one of the game that was
his pitch. It was a fastball at the knees on the outside part of the plate for a
called strike.

Eric managed to get a strikeout, a popup to short, and a fly to Scott in left as
he got out of the inning unscathed.

The Titans failed to score in their half of the first. When Kevin came out to
warm-up Eric the umpire asked him what he had said on his visit as Eric had
settled down considerably.

"Oh, I just said that pitching is a lot like sex."

"You said what?"

"That pitching is a lot like sex. I don't know if it is or not, but it worked."

"And you're the expert on it?"

"On pitching or on sex?" Kevin asked.

"Both," the ump said with a slight laugh.

"I know a lot about both, if that's what you mean. I mean I'm a catcher and
gotta know something about my pitchers. And all 12 year old boys gotta
know something about sex."

"What's this about sex?" the Viking batter asked as he entered the batter's
box.

"I was telling the ump that Titan boys get more of it than Viking boys."

The Viking batter, a cute blond haired seventh grader, shook his head and
proceeded to strike out on three pitches. Maybe I should get them all
thinking about sex, Kevin thought. It sure worked with him. But he put his
mind back to the game, though he couldn't help but admire the ass on the
Viking hitter as he walked back to the dugout.

The first inning had taken some of the steam out of the Vikings and while
they got a couple more hits they couldn't mount anything serious against
Eric. The Titans scored twice in the second and held a 4-0 lead when Eric's
turn on the mound ended at the end of the fifth inning. Mitch, a quiet seventh
grader with long, curly brown hair pitched the last two innings, giving up a
run as the Titans won 5-1 to move into sole possession of second place.

The Viking blond and Kevin had one more little chat at the plate before the
game ended.

"You've done sex?" the batter asked as he took his place in the box.

"Of course. Haven't you?"

"More than you have, I bet. And your hand don't count, dude."

"Maybe we should test out that theory some day," Kevin said.

While the umpire was getting some perverse pleasure from the conversation,
he knew he had to step in and tell them to show appropriate behavior and
play ball. He was sorry to have the chat end.

The blond grounded out to short and walked by Kevin on his way back to
the dugout. "Wish we could hook up some time. I'd teach you a few things."

"Maybe we will. You never know. And I think you could learn things from
me." They smiled at each other and then the Viking went back to the dugout
and Kevin went back behind the plate.

"That was a rather interesting chat," the umpire said.

"And it was true for me. I've done a lot."

"And you're just 12?"

"Not just 12---I AM 12 and horny all the time."

The ump called for the batter and though he knew better than to think it
wished he could get to know the Titan catcher better. As for the Titan
catcher, Kevin made sure to get the name and phone number of Lars, the
cute Viking blond

Wednesday ended up being a beautiful, clear spring day. The usual group of
sixth graders sat together at lunch; all but Kraig that is. Kraig was a few
tables down sitting with Hunter.

"I heard about you and Tama in the shower and her kicking you out," Kraig
said. "She said you tried to fuck her."

"That's a fucking lie. Fucking girls, they lie about everything. Now none of
the girls will talk to me. They all think I tried to rape Tama or something.
Fucking Mary Alice is the blabber, I know it. Her and Tama are probably a
couple of  lesbos who eat each other out. Fucking girls. I hate them."

"Well I know a lot of the football jocks think you're pretty cool. Why aren't
you sitting with them?"

"Because they think I should've tried to fuck her. All we did was take a
shower together and I washed her back." He didn't mention including
Tama's ass as part of her back. "It wasn't like sex at all. There wasn't even
any kissing. I got tired of listening to the girts trying to make more out of it
than it was and the guys trying to make more of it. Listen to those guys and
you think they'd fucked all the girls in the sixth and the seventh grades and
maybe even the fifth. Bunch of liars. Call me a fag because I said I wasn't
trying to fuck her. Pisses me off is what it does."

"You should have figured her out after what happened to Danny."

"Fuck Danny. He's a fag like everybody at that table over there. I'm so sick
of them..." He didn't have a chance to finish as Kraig grabbed his lunch and
started to get up from the table. "What? What did I say?"

"You know what you said. You're talking about my friends and my brother
and me. What you said is just wrong."

"Oh, so you're not fags? I've been to one of your parties. And I bet I know
what happened last weekend at that party."

Kraig sat down and looked straight at Hunter. He said very quietly so only
Hunter would be able to hear, "I seem to remember spending the night with
you a couple of weeks ago. I seem to remember your tongue licking my balls
and my cock a couple of times. I remember you shooting your wad twice
that night. So don't go talking about them."

"So, you're going to blab this all around like the girls did about me and
Danny? This going to be like blackmail against me or something?"

"That ain't the way I am and you know that. I was just saying that you can't
go talking about them like that."

"Cuz the truth hurts?"

Kraig took a deep breath and once again looked straight at Hunter. "I'm
probably gay, okay? And then maybe I'm not. But if you call my friends or
me fags in a mean way again I'm gonna kick your sorry ass." He grabbed his
lunch again, got up and started to leave the table.

"So that's why you came to spend the night with me. I get it now. Fuck, I
can't believe I did all that and fell for it. I sure won't be staying anywhere
with you again. I'm really glad I suck at baseball, because I hate all you
guys."

Kraig walked away not saying anything. He went over the sixth grade JV
table and sat down.

"What was all that about?" Danny asked.

"I think it was about Hunter needing a good BJ really bad," Kraig said.


Practice went well. Jerome didn't practice with them. It was his turn to suit
up with the varsity. Scott was named the starting pitcher, his second start of
the year. Vince was going to be his catcher. Vince was okay, but Scott
wished Kevin was his catcher. They were going to be playing the Pine Lake
Panthers at home. They had beat Pine Lake 6-3 in their first game, the game
that Eric helped win and helped make him totally accepted by his
teammates.

Eric went to Noah's house after practice and had dinner with his family.
After dinner they went to Noah's room and worked on the report. They were
so well prepared that it only took them an hour to apply the finishing
touches.

"That is an A report if I ever saw one," Noah said.

"No doubt," Eric agreed.

At his point the topic could have drifted to sex as both boys were attracted to
each other and knew it as well as being good friends. Perhaps some other
time when they were alone together it would, but the combination of their
concentration on their report and the upcoming game the next day had them
behaving like two boys who had gotten together for the purpose of working
on a report. What they did to was lay side-by-side on Noah's bed, fully
dressed, and talk about their favorite discussion topic, baseball. The
discussion was why they liked the sport so much and, most importantly, why
they liked it much more than any other sport.

"It's the best because it doesn't have a clock to it. A game is never over until
it's over," Eric said.

"Yogi Berra," Noah said.

"Huh?"

"Yogi Berra said that. He said `It ain't over `till it's over"

"Oh, yeah, I thought I heard that somewhere."

"Good. I was worried that it might have been over your head, then it would
be over."

Eric gave Noah a friendly punch in the ribs. "You and your silly puns."

"They're supposed to be the lowest form of humor, but people who are
smart understand them the most, so you figure out how it works."

Eric decided to get the conversation back on topic by saying, "It's also the
best because hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do, but it is so
great when you hit it hard and get on base."

"It's even worse when you hit it hard and don't get on base, which happens,"
Noah added. "It's also the best because everything is the right distance to
make it work, even the accidental six inches from the mound to the plate.
And it's the best because you can watch it and think about what you're
watching. It's the best because you can do so many things to help a team
during a game, like hit, or bunt, or run the bases, or make a great play.
You're alone out there and you're part of the team."

"The pitcher can be really alone out there," Eric said. "But then there's the
catcher who makes you less alone."

The boys shot some other ideas back and forth. Noah turned on his side and
looked at Eric with the look in his eyes that everyone knew meant he was
involved in deep thinking. "You know what the biggest reason is why it's
the best?"

"Why?"

"Because it's the perfect game."

Eric could find no argument with that, especially since he totally agreed. He
noticed that it was eight o'clock and that he needed to get home. Noah said
that since he took the bus to school he'd take the report so Eric wouldn't
have to carry it all in his backpack. Eric said he would bring the model
locomotive. As they got up from Noah's bed Noah brought up the subject of
sex for the first time that night. "If you ever want to mess around sometime
or spend the night or something I'm okay with it."

Eric grinned and said he was too. They looked at each other for a few
seconds, saying nothing. Noah moved in and gave Eric a kiss on the lips,
which Eric returned. No tongue, but a beautiful friendly kiss, with just the
right touch of sexuality.

"I guess that makes us best friends," Noah said. "The best report in the
world, baseball, trains, and now a kiss."

"Best friends it is," Eric said. "We both have boyfriends and we're both best
friends with each other. I think that's pretty cool."

"So do I," Noah grinned.

Noah's dad gave Eric a ride home, getting him there just before 8:30. He
called Scott, knowing they had a half hour to see each other. Scott was over
almost before Eric ended the phone call.

Scott wasn't the bundle of nerves that Eric had been before his start, but he
did have some butterflies Wednesday night. Eric hoped to ease those
butterflies with his tongue and his mouth. To do that they hoped to be able to
spend the night together, even though it was a school night. They almost
talked Eric's parents into letting Scott stay over on a school night, but
parental stubbornness won out. The boys knew, however, that they were
close to succeeding.

What they did do, however, was get their parents' permission to meet the
Dawg and Donkey for burgers after the game the next day to discuss some
baseball things. The two high school boys had practice and would probably
be at the Middle School Field before the game ended. Scott had no problem
getting permission. As usual Eric had to work hard to get what he wanted.

"Why do you need to meet with two high school boys?" Eric's mother
asked.

"Because they're on the varsity and have been through stuff like we're going
through at the middle school. We want to pick their brains," Eric said.

"Stuff like what?"

"Like being in a race for first place."

"You're playing on the JV team. I thought nobody cared where you
finished," Eric's dad said.

"Well, we care. We still get a playoff game if we win and that would be so
fun. Besides, the varsity sucks so we're the team to care about." The varsity
finished the first half with a 2-4 record.

"Aren't they the two guys who came out? The ones who said they're gay?"
Eric's father said. Eric's stomach suddenly started churning as he became
afraid that his dad would make the connection between the two being gay
and why he and Scott wanted to see them.

"Yeah. And so what? You keep telling me about accepting people the way
they are. Well, we accept them and we've talked to them before about
baseball. Now we're going to have some burgers at The Barn and find out
more."

"You're right. Just don't let them try anything you don't want," his mom
said, a bit too sweetly, like she was sure the two sophomores were ready to
rape her poor boy but she didn't want to upset him by coming right out and
saying so.

Eric wanted to scream at her, but he kept his cool. He knew his mom meant
well and he knew that he was on the verge of winning his argument. He'd
had enough of these discussions to have an idea about when things were
about to break his way and he didn't want to mess up what he figured to be a
sure victory. He glanced at Scott, giving him a look that told him to sit and
keep his mouth shut.

"Don't worry mom. I promise they will never do anything I don't want them
to do."

That got him a quick look and the barest hint of a smile from his dad. But,
they both agreed that they could meet with Mike and Ryan at the Burger
Barn after the game as long as they made sure their homework was done.


The Thursday afternoon game wasn't nearly as tough as the first meeting
with Pine Lake had been. Pine Lake had only a 1-5 record and while they
weren't a really bad team all the losing was having an effect on them. The
Titans scored four runs in the first inning and ended up with a five inning
mercy rule win by the score of 14-2. Scott went four innings to get the win,
giving up 2 hits, no runs, while striking out 6 and walking one. He and Eric
both got singles. Noah ended up with his third hit of the season, a hard shot
up the middle in the fourth inning. Marty send a ball over the left field fence
with a runner on and everybody knew they were going to hear a lot about
that shot for awhile.

It wasn't perfect, but both Eric and Noah knew that it was perfect because it
was baseball and because they were privileged to be able to play it.

After the game Scott and Eric quickly showered. Marty was busy telling the
twins what it was like being with the varsity and riding the bus, but Scott
and Eric didn't hang around to listen. The fact that Marty had a boner while
showering may or may not have meant something sexy happened on the bus
since Marty almost always had a boner when he showered.

The Dawg and Donkey were waiting outside the gym for Eric and Scott.
Since the game was shortened they only got to see the last three outs. It was
time for Eric and Scott to find out if they were ready to do each other's butts,
or the "wild thing" as they had heard it called. The fact that they were
walking down the street with two openly gay high school boys didn't bother
the two of them at all. In fact they were somewhat proud of it.

Next: The Wild Thing