Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:45:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Howard <randyhoward2@yahoo.com>
Subject: The Strathmore's / Chapter 11 / Beginnings

The Strathmore's
By
Randy Howard2
Chapter 11

This is a work of fiction. The names are in no way real or
to be associated with anyone alive or dead.  This is
copyrighted, and belongs to me.  No one is to copy this
without my written permission.

I want to give a special thanks to Bill H. for editing this
chapter of my story.

>From Chapter 10.

"I was so hoping that we would have a sunny day," Ryan
says looking at the sky from their bedroom.  "I wanted to
use the gardens for our guests to roam in."

"As long as the rain holds off love, it should be alright for
them to visit," Sean says.

"Well I have you and that's all that really matters," he says
kissing his man.

"If you keep that up you will get something else up," he
says moving Ryan's hand to his crotch.

"Does my cowboy want a rodeo?" Ryan asks undoing
Sean's pants.

"Now babe, we don't have time for this you know, we have
guests downstairs," Sean says trying to pull away.

"I can't have my cowboy walking around all tensed up
today," he says as he pulls Sean's pants down.  He drops to
his knees and pulls Sean's underwear down, then takes his
cock into his mouth.  Sean lets out a moan when Ryan
swallows his cock, burying his nose in Sean's bush.  Ryan
drinks in the scent of his man, as his throat muscles
massage Sean's cock.  Ryan's hands gently massage his
balls as he goes up and down on Sean's throbbing cock.

"Fuck babe you got this cowboy so close," Sean says as his
pleasure builds.  Ryan slows his sucking to prolong his own
enjoyment of the taste of Sean's cock.  Sean moans more
deeply as his climax builds, and he holds Ryan's head in
his hands.

"I'm cumming babe," he calls out as he spurts his first shot,
deep down into Ryan's waiting throat.  Volley after volley
he gives Ryan of his sweet seed.  Ryan moans in pleasure
as he swallows.  He is sucking on his man's cock until he
has no more to give him, when the door opens, and there
stands David.

"Oh fuck dad, did you have to do that now?" he says a bit
embarrassed as he sees Sean's cock buried in Ryan's
mouth.  "You have guests downstairs asking for you," he
says as Ryan drops Sean's now soft cock.

"Just taking care of some important business son," Ryan
says with a cum-covered smile.

"Well wash your face dad, and join us please, and nice
cock dad," he says to Sean.

"Pervert," Sean says to David, "You shouldn't be checking
me out," he says to his son.

"Can't help it dad, it was just hanging there," David says
leaving and closing the door.

"My God my dad has one fucking big cock," David says to
himself.  No wonder dad is smiling every morning.  I
would be too if I was getting fucked by that."

Ryan and Sean join the guests and they make their rounds
with the guests telling them how beautiful the house is.
There is a sudden rumble like the sound of a freight train,
as the lights suddenly go out.  The walls and the ceilings
start to come apart and the guests start to scream.

"Tornado," yells someone as the building starts to collapse,
and screams and cries of pain are all one can hear.


The sounds of people crying and yelling out for help were
deafening, as the mansion lay in ruins.  David could feel his
legs had something holding them, as he tried to get out of
where he was lying.  He felt a hand beside him, it felt cold
and there was no pulse.

"Kevin where are you?" he yells out, but no answer does he
receive.  "Dad can you hear me?" he yells again and still he
gets no answer.

"David is that you?" a woman's voice calls out.  "It's me,"
his sister, Jeanne Marie calls to him.  "Grandmother was
with me and now I can't find her," she says.

"Stay where you are, I don't know how safe it is to move
around," he says to her.  "Are you all right?" he asks her.

"Yes I think so, but I think my arm is broken," she says.

"Help should be coming soon," he says hoping he is right.
"I wonder how bad it is out there."

"Kevin babe," he yells again, and this time he hears a
moan.  "Kevin where are you, I'm coming," he asks and he
hears the moan again.

"David don't move, please love," Kevin says.  "The place
may fall even more.  I can't move, my leg is broken I
think," he says.

"Where are you babe?  You were right beside me before
the tornado hit," David says.

"I don't know, I think I am still close by you.  Your voice
sounds real close, but there is a part of the floor missing
love," he tells him.  They suddenly hear the sound of sirens,
as help starts to arrive.

"Dad can you hear me?" David yells again, and still there is
no answer.

"David," Kevin says now in shock.  "There is something
sticking out of my side," he says.

"Don't touch it babe, wait for help to arrive," he tells him.

"It hurts David, so much," Kevin says.  "It's a long piece of
wood," he tells David.

"Babe you are going to be all right," David says now close
to panic.  "I love you Kevin," he says.

"I love you my love," he says as his voice gets weaker.

"Kevin stay with me babe, please don't leave me," he says
trying to get free.  "Kevin talk to me," he says, but now he
gets no answer.  "Kevin please babe, don't leave me."  His
heart is breaking as his thoughts flash back to the times he
almost lost his love.

"David is that you?" Sean calls out as he comes to his
senses. "Son where are you?" he asks.

"Dad I'm over here, Kevin is hurt bad and I'm afraid dad,"
he says crying.  "Where is dad?" he asks Sean.

"I don't know, he was right beside me," Sean says.  "I'm
pinned by rubble, son."

"Yes help us," yells David to the rescuers.  "We're over
here."

"Please do not move, the place is unstable," the rescue
worker says.  "We will get to you as quickly as we can."

"Ryan," Sean calls out and gets no answer and he feels
around with his hands.  He feels an arm and it's cold, as he
searches for a pulse.  There is no pulse, and his heart breaks
as he cries for the man of his life.

"David I think he's dead son," he says crying.  "I can feel
his hand and there's no pulse."

"No dad, please God," David cries out, "Not my dad."

"Hello," shouts a voice from outside.  "Can anyone hear
me?" it asks.

They worked for hours, and the time seemed like eternity to
those trapped inside.  Finally, they reached David, and he
had several broken bones.

"Please over there, Kevin is seriously injured," David says
in tears.

"Are you talking about the man with the wood stuck in his
side?" the fireman asks.  "I'm sorry son, he didn't make it."

David breaks down in tears as they carry him away to a
waiting ambulance.  He turns his head and sees his Kevin
as they lay him on the ground.

"Stop please," he yells but they refuse to stop, and he rolls
off the stretcher.  They pick him up as he struggles with
them and he asks to be taken to Kevin.  They quickly bring
him over to Kevin, his lifeless body lying on the ground.
They put the stretcher down beside him, and he reaches out
to touch him.

"Kevin wake up, you came back once before," he says
through tear filled eyes.  "Don't leave me like this, I need
you my love," and his heart breaks for his man.

"I'm sorry kid, but we have to take you," the attendant says
to David.

"No!  Please, check him," he pleads.  "I know that he's not
dead."

An attendant kneels with a stethoscope, and listens for a
pulse.

"I'm sorry son, but he's dead," the attendant says, "he has
no pulse at all."  David lays back and he loses control as he
screams out with the pain in his heart.

"Keeeevinnnn!"

The next day at the hospital, Sean is wheeled into David's
room.

"David, how are you doing son?" Sean says taking his
son's hand in his.

"Dad my heart hurts so bad," he says looking at his dad
crying.  "Tell me please, who else died," he asks.  Sean's
eyes well up as he hangs his head, his hand grabs tight to
David.

"Dad didn't make it son," he says and lays his head on the
bed and cries.  David rubs his dad's head for he knows his
pain, as they share their common bond.  After a while, Sean
composes himself and he looks at his son.

"Troy and Tyler are safe, they suffered several broken
bones.  Your sister is fine, her arm is broken, but your
grandmother died in the crash of the building son.  Julian
died also in the aftermath. He was trying to get out and the
rubble fell and crushed him son.  I guess it's just you and
me."

"Dad I am so sorry for you.  I know how much you and dad
loved each other," he says.  "I miss my Kevin dad, but I
miss dad more."

They went home from the hospital, and they buried their
dead, as their tears fell like rain.  Sean and David could not
be comforted, as hard as Tyler and Troy tried.

"I don't know how I can go on," Sean says to Tyler, who is
mourning also Kevin and his mother.  "David moves like a
zombie these days, just going through the motions of
living."

"I know Sean, but with time our scars and pain will heal,"
Tyler says being held by Troy.  "We must be thankful for
those we still have."

"Oh I am Ty, I am so thankful that I have David," Sean
says.  "I know how hard it must be for you, with Kevin
gone, and your mother."

"It's very hard, but I still have Troy, and my memories of
Kevin," he says and silently cries with tears rolling down
his face.

"Let it out babe," Troy tells him, "you haven't cried that
much since that day,"

"I have, but when I'm alone dear," he says with a sad
smile.  "I don't wish to burden those others who hurt also."

"I remember Ryan told me once when I asked him what he
liked most," Sean says with a look of remembrance on his
face.  "He said 'the smell of flowers before you see them,
and the rain at the end of a picnic.'"

"I remember him saying that once while we were walking
across Boston commons.  He stopped me and said 'Tyler,
can you smell the roses?' I looked everywhere for the roses
and there where none to be seen.  He smelled them and
then around the corner of the next building there they were,
roses by the dozens."

"Are you staying here in Texas Sean, or going back to
Boston?" Tyler asks.

"Well we do have to go back for the will, David and I are
the heirs," he says.  "I have nothing left to stay here for
now," he says looking off as if seeing something that only
he can see.  "David mentioned going back also. What about
you two?" he asks.

"No we're staying here, our loved ones are buried here and
this is where I belong."

"I will bring my Ryan's ashes home and bury them in the
family mausoleum with his parents," Sean says.  "We'll be
leaving tomorrow at nine-twenty," he tells them.

"So soon love, we had hoped you would have stayed
longer," Tyler says putting his hand on Sean's hand.

"Too many memories here for me and David, we need to
move on Ty," he says getting up.  "I'm tired, I think I will
go and lie down a while."

"Ok. I'll wake you for dinner," Tyler says.  Sean starts to
walk away then stops and turns and says.

"You know the worst part of losing my Ryan, is the empty
feeling he left in my heart," he says and his tears start to
run down his face again as he walks out of the room.  He
walks up to his room and passes David on the stairs on his
way down.

"Where are you going dad?" David asks.

"I'm tired son, I'm going to lie down for a while," he tells
him.  "I love you so much, my most precious possession,"
he says as he takes David in his arms and hugs him tight
kissing him on the cheek.

"I love you too dad, you sure you're all right," David asks
looking at him concerned.

"Just missing your dad son, just deeply missing my Ryan,"
he says and he starts to cry.  David takes him in his arms
and he helps him to his room and lays him down on the
bed.

"Sleep for a while dad, I love you very much dad," he says
kissing his dad on the forehead.  He leaves the room and
pauses at the door, as he gets a strange feeling.  He just
stands and stares at Sean lying there, as his thoughts reflect
back to his childhood.  How happy he made him this man
he called dad, now he needs him more than he needed his
dad.  He went downstairs to discuss the plans for going
back to Boston with Tyler and Troy.

"I have a company to run now," he tells them.  "My sister
and I have joint shares in my grandparents holding, so she
is going to run the companies from here."

"Will you ever be coming back down here?" Tyler asks.

"Oh yes, there will be business that she can't do alone, that
both of us will need to be present for.  Besides, I still have
two of my favorite people here," he says looking at Tyler
and Troy.

"You know David ." but Tyler is cut off.

"Please don't say it Tyler," he says as his eyes well up.  "I
know what you're going to say and I don't want to hear it,
please," he says.

"But David, Kevin would want you to move on and find
someone to love again, son," Tyler says putting his hand on
David's knee.  "He wouldn't want you to be alone in life."

"I can't right now, I love him too much to think about
someone else," he says.  "I will never find a man to love
me like Kevin loved me," he says and buries his face in
Tyler's chest and cries.

Later that afternoon they had dinner and Sean said his
goodbyes to his friends.

"We are going to stay at the new hotel at the airport
tonight," he tells Tyler.

"Why do that Sean? We were planning on taking you to the
airport tomorrow," Troy says.

"It will be better emotionally for all of us this way," he says
with glossy eyes.  "I am not just thinking of myself and
David, but also of you two."

"Troy, he's right," Tyler says stopping Troy from arguing
the point. "Sean, I will miss you so much.  You have been
like a brother to me through the years.  I can't help feeling
that this will be the last time we will ever see each other my
dearest friend," he says as he gives him a soft kiss on the
lips.  "I love you my friend.  You take care of yourself and
David."

"It's more like he takes care of me," he says.  "But in all
truth my dear Tyler," he says holding both of Tyler's hands
in his, "I will be taking you with me in my heart dear
friend.  Your love through the years Tyler has held our two
families together, and it was your love that brought our
boys together.  That love is what I will take home with me
my friend," Sean says giving him a kiss on the lips back.
They hug each other tight as they start to cry, both feeling
that they may never see each other again.  David walks in
the room as he surveys the sight, and he tears up as he loses
control.

"This is why we are staying at the Sheraton," he says
giving Tyler a hug.  "I will miss you so much 'dad', he
whispers in his ear, as he cries on Tyler's chest.

"My Kevin loved you so much," Tyler says.  "Take his
love with you son.  I know you told me not to say it but I
do hope you find love again someday. I love you my boy,
as I did my Kevin, and I am sorry that you two didn't have
longer together.  Just remember David, he goes with you in
your heart," he says as he holds him tight kissing his
forehead.

Troy and Tyler take them to the hotel later that evening,
and the goodbyes are just as tearful.  They fly out the next
day for Boston, David looking out at Texas as he is leaving.
The arrival at Strathmore Estate in Boston is quite sad; the
house is silent and lonely.  Sean wanders around as if
looking for his Ryan, as David just watches his dad.

"Would you like to go out to dinner?" David asks because
they no longer have servants. Their servants went with
them when they moved to Texas, and all but one died in the
tornado.

"No son you go," he says in a quiet voice.  "I'm not hungry
son."

"Dad you have to eat or you'll get sick," David says to his
dad.

"The funeral service is tomorrow," Sean says completely
ignoring what David has just said.  "I want to be cremated
and put next to my Ryan someday son," he tells his son.

"Sure dad, but you have a long time before that day,"
David tells him, but he wonders about him.

"I know son, I love you," he says touching David's face.
"You know how much your dad loved you," he asks.  "He
loved you so much that once when you had the mumps as a
child, he slept on the floor beside your bed.  I bet you
didn't know that."

"No I didn't dad, thanks for telling me," he says leading his
dad to the sofa and the both of them sitting.

"I remember how he didn't want you to ride a bike.  He
was so sure you would kill yourself on it," he says smiling
looking off into another realm.  "That was long before they
had helmets and things like that.  Do you remember the
time, no maybe not, you were only six then, when you
came in our room one night because your stomach hurt.
All of a sudden, your voice came out of nowhere saying
'how come you are sucking on daddy's peepee?'  Well
your dad was so embarrassed as he pulled off my cock and
it squirted everywhere hitting even you in the face.  You
took the come that hit your face and put it in your mouth.
You made a face that said it all son, and Ryan could have
died.

'Sean are you crazy?  Put that thing away,' he yelled at me.
Well you forgot about your upset stomach. Are you sure
you don't remember that son?" he says looking at David.

"No dad, I must have been too young like you said," David
says worrying about his dad's mental health.

"Then there was the time that we had taken you on a cruise.
We had been drinking a bit too much and Ryan wanted to
go back and fool around. I told him that I had to find you
first and make sure that you were all right and I would meet
him in bed. Well I went looking for you and found you
with this boy in the bathroom with no clothes on.  He was
kneeling down sucking on your cock and you just stood
there.  I walk in and you don't bat an eye, as the kid jumps
fifty feet.  You say hey dad look just like you and dad, and
you kneel down and start to suck on this kid.

"I remember that dad, I was about nine, I think.  The kid's
name was Jason or Jacob something like that.  I remember
he wanted to experiment and I told him I knew how to do
it.  If I remember right you almost busted a gasket dad."

"I was not happy son, seeing my nine year old son sucking
cock. I made you two get dressed and marched you to your
room."

"What happened with dad?" David asks chuckling a bit.

"Oh he fell asleep waiting, too much booze.  The next time
I caught you was when you had that kid from school over, I
forget his name.  He was the only kid you ever brought
home."

"Oh that was Brian Richards, he was so fucking hot.  He
was the quarterback on the football team and we had the
hots for each other."

"Well your dad tells me to go check on you, because it has
been quiet for quite a while upstairs.  I go up and as I go
into our room, I notice the door between the two rooms is
slightly open.  I look in and there the two of you are, naked
on the bed.  You are fucking that kid's ass to beat the band.
His legs are in the air with you holding them by the ankles,
as you're slamming his ass for all you're worth.  Your cute
little ass is moving in and out as Brian's face shows the
pleasure that you are giving him.

"I am just about to leave when he cries out, fuck David I'm
cumming and I can see him shoot his cum everywhere.  His
cock shot rope after rope of that sweet boy cum, as you
pounded his ass.  It was not a minute later that you cry out
to him; fuck Brian I'm cumming too.  Your ass is going a
hundred miles an hour, as you fill that boy's ass with your
seed.  I silently tiptoe away from the door just as you fall
on his chest."

"Why you pervert dad," David says softly hitting his dad's
shoulder.  "Did you get off watching your son have sex?"

"I went downstairs and attacked your dad, I did.  He never
knew what I saw upstairs, he would have branded me a
pedophile or something if he knew."

"Well dad, it's getting late," David says.  "Lets get you up
to bed.  We have a big emotional day tomorrow."  He takes
his dad by the arm and they walk upstairs, and he leads him
into his room.

"You all right to get in bed dad?" David asks.

"Of course I am Ryan," Sean says.  "You think I'm some
two year old or something?"

"Goodnight dad," David says as tears form in his eyes.

"Goodnight babe, don't be late coming to bed," he says
getting in bed naked.

David climbs into his bed and stares at the ceiling as he
wonders about his dad.  How can a man so much in his
prime, be lost so much in his mind.  He listens as his dad
cries in his room, and he thinks of the pain that he feels.
He goes to grab a robe and as he is putting it on, he hears a
strange noise from his dad's room.  He rushes in to find his
dad standing up beside his bed.  He turns and looks at
David as he comes close.

"Ryan I was just going to find you babe," he says taking
David in his arms.  "The bed is cold without your warmth
to warm me," he says as their lips meet in a kiss that is
forbidden.  David parts his lips as Sean's tongue seeks his
out, and they wrestle for dominance.  Sean moans out in
pleasure as he holds him tight, David's mind is not sure
what's happening.

"I love my babe, my sweetheart my man," Sean whispers
into David's ear.  "Ryan you have made me the happiest
man, my life with you is complete," he says and they kiss
again and he removes the robe letting it fall to the floor.
Sean leads David to the bed and gently lays him down
crawling on top of him.  Their lips meet in passion as
David now surrenders to his dad's visions.  Sean breaks the
kiss and kisses his way down as he moves in on David's
nipples.  He softly nibbles on each of the nubs, as David
arches his back.  He moans out in pleasure as his dad sucks
his nipples and he feels that what they are doing is not
wrong.  David runs his fingers through his dad's hair, as his
dad caresses each nub.

"Love me Sean, my lover, my man," David says to his dad.

Sean kisses his way down to David's cock and he takes it
into his warm mouth.  David lets out a sigh as he feels the
warmth and the wetness of his dad's mouth.  Slowly Sean
swallows David's cock, until his nose is in his bush.  He
moves up and down lovingly on his cock, and he soon has
David close to the edge.

"Sean my love, slow down, I'm so close," he says knowing
he won't last much longer.  Sean pulls off his cock and he
sucks on his balls, taking them one at a time into his mouth.
He gently rolls them around in his mouth, as he makes love
to them with his tongue.  He lets them go and lifts up
David's legs holding them by the thighs.  He runs his
tongue around David's rosebud, and David lifts up his hips
in pleasure.

"Oh fuck Sean that feeling you give to me," he says as he
grabs the sheets with each hand.  Sean plunges his tongue
in and it makes David moan, while he fucks his ass with his
tongue.

"Fuck me Sean, I need you deep in me babe," David cries
out in ecstasy.  Sean sits up and reaches for the lube, then
lubes David's ass and his own cock.  He positions himself
and then leans in for a kiss, whispering, "You ready Ryan,
for your cowboy?"

"Yeah babe, ride your bronco cowboy," David says feeding
his dad's fantasy.  Sean tenderly kisses him as he slowly
pushes in, and David pushes out.  He shudders from the
pain that his dad's cock gives him, but he lies there and
says not a word.  Their tongues are still dancing as Sean
finds his rhythm, and he fucks his lover with all his heart.

"I love you my babe," he whispers in David's ear as he
slowly keeps fucking his son.  David is holding his dad
tightly in his arms as the tears flow from his eyes.  He
knows that his dad is in love with his Ryan, and knows that
it is he in his mind that he is making love too.  He tenderly
caresses his dad's graying hair, as Sean lovingly fucks his
ass.  He feels his climax building within, and he searches
for Sean's tender lips.  They join in a kiss that is tender and
warm, as he shoots his hot seed between them.

"Oh fuck Ryan my love you made me cum," as Sean shoots
his seed in his son's ass.  He quickly keeps pounding away
at David's ass, as he shoots his hot cum deep into him.

"Fuck Ryan, your ass is so hot babe," he says as he pounds
away.  David can feel each shot that he gets, as his dad fills
his ass with his love.  He slowly starts to come to a stop, as
he drops to David's lips for a kiss.  They meet as lovers for
a kiss that is as eternal as time, as Sean kisses his man as if
it's for the first time.  They ride out the afterglow of their
lovemaking wrapped in each other's arms.  Sean turns
David around as he spoons him tightly against him.

"Goodnight my love, sweet dreams," Sean whispers in
David's ears.  "I love you my man, and I will see you in the
morning," he says and pulls David close kissing his neck.

"Goodnight my lover, my cowboy," David says and
suddenly he knows.  He holds his dad's hand as his arm is
draped over him, and he snuggles in close to his dad.  They
are both soon fast asleep, held in love's tender grip.

He wakes the next morning to his dad still sleeping and he
carefully climbs out of bed.  He goes into his bathroom and
bathes as he thinks of the night before.  He knows what
they did was not wrong; for to Sean it was Ryan he made
love to.  He lay there in the tub and he thought of his dad as
he silently cried to himself.  He got out and got dressed, as
he knew he would have to wake his dad shortly to get
dressed.  He went into his dad's room and he was still
asleep so he walked to the side of the bed.

"Dad it's time to get up," David says gently shaking his
dad.  "Dad, it's David, wake up dad," he says as he starts to
worry now.  He shakes him more aggressively, and he still
will not wake up.  He runs for the phone and he calls for an
ambulance worrying that his dad is dead.  They get there in
about fifteen minutes and he leads them to his dad's room.
They examine him for a pulse as they prepare to defibrillate
him.  They try three times to revive him, and they finally
declare him dead.

"I'm sorry son, but he's gone," the attendant says.  David
just stares at his dad lying there, as his tears start to flow
from his eyes.  He feels so alone dealing with his loss, as
they cover his dad with the sheet.

"We need to call the coroner, son," the attendant says
leaving the room to place the call.  The coroner arrives a
half hour later; he examines Sean and declares him dead.
As they are about to remove Sean's body, David asks for a
moment alone with him.

"Dad I shall miss you the most my friend," he says as his
tears start to flow.  You have been the most loved person in
my life dad, and unfortunately the one that I hurt the most.
I know you forgave me, I thank you for that, but please take
with you my heart dad.  I will no longer need it as long as I
live, for no other could I possibly love."  He gets up as he
softly kisses his dad goodbye, and he walks out of the
room.  They take Sean's body away to the city morgue for
an autopsy.

"What funeral home do you wish to use son," the coroner
asks David.

"Byron's Funeral Services sir, he is to be cremated," David
says to the coroner.  David watches as they take his dad
away, and he feels so empty and alone.

"Ohhhhh Daddddddd! He screams out in his pain.  He calls
Tyler and Troy in Texas, to tell them about his dad.

"Oh David, I am so sorry son," Tyler says ready to cry.
"We will leave right away son, and should be there by this
afternoon," he tells him.

"Thank you Tyler, I need someone right now," he says as
he loses it and hangs up.

Tyler and Troy get there later that day, and Tyler takes
David into his arms as he lets go of his emotions.

"Let it out son," Tyler says rubbing David's back.  David
cries for almost an hour, until he cries himself out.

"Thanks dad, for coming up for me," he says realizing that
he called him dad.  "I'm sorry Tyler for calling you that."

"Listen David, you have always been a son to me ever
since you were little boys, you and Kevin.  You honor me
calling me that, so please if you want to please do."

They sit down and David tells them about last night, how
he and his dad made love.  He explained how his dad
thought that he was Ryan, and he had not the heart to tell
him he wasn't.

"Wow, son," Tyler says. "That is so beautiful to be able to
give him that."

"Was I wrong dad?  Was it incest to do that with him?"
David asks feeling ashamed of himself.

"No son, that is not incest.  For one you are not blood
related, and you did not seek him out.  He thought you were
Ryan son, that's what made it so beautiful."

"I felt the love he had for my dad, the way he gently and
tenderly kissed and made love to me, he loved my dad so
deeply," he says and cries again on Tyler's chest.

"Not many children experience the love that a parent has
for the other.  You had that special gift given to you that
will stay with you forever son. Don't ever look at it as
cheap or degrading, it was a moment of tenderness and
love, that will forever bond you with Sean," Tyler says
rubbing David's back.

"Thanks dad, and you also Troy for coming up and being
with me at this time," David says.

"Son we would like you to come back with us, be our son,"
Troy says.  "What is there here now for you, but sad and
hurtful memories?"

"I have thought of that, and I will let you know.  Thank you
for your love and understanding," he says giving Troy a
hug.  The doorbell rings and Tyler gets up to answer it.

"Hey David, I'm so sorry for your loss," Brian says with
red eyes showing that he too had been crying.

"Thanks Uncle Brian, you haven't heard yet, but Sean
passed today also," David says rushing into his arms.

"Ah shit kid, I'm so sorry you've lost both your dads.  I
was so jealous of him for years," Brian says as his tears
reappear. "He won the heart of the only man that I ever
loved," he says holding David tight in his arms.  "I came to
really respect and love that man," he says.

"Thanks Uncle Brian, he liked you also.  The service is
tomorrow, but I'm taking them back to Texas with me for
internment," David says.  "I want them with me," he says.

"And they should be David," he says kissing his forehead.
"I got to get going, I just wanted to stop and see you
David."

"Thanks Uncle Brian, see you tomorrow then," he says
giving Brian a hug and kiss.

"You bet kid, now take care of yourself," he says. "Nice to
see you again Tyler, and I hope all is well with you."

"He lost his son Kevin in the tornado that killed my dad,"
David tells him.

"Ah God I am sorry Ty, please forgive my ignorance,"
Brian says.

"Brian you had no way of knowing, but thank you," he
says.  "By the way, this is my love, Troy," Tyler tells him
and the two men shake hands.

"It's a good man you got there," Brian says.  "Well I will
see you all tomorrow then," he says as he leaves.

"Hey there is someone here looking for you," Brian calls in
from the front door.  David gets up and there standing at
the door is his sister Jeanne.  He runs to her open arms and
she holds him as he cries.

"When Tyler called me to tell me about Sean, I had to
come and be with you," she tells him.  "That's what family
does for each other, little brother," she says as he cries in
her arms.  She holds him for quite a while until he cries
himself out.

"I really need family now," he says to her.  "I'm going back
to Texas with Tyler and Troy after the service."

"That's probably best at the moment.  We need each other
for comfort and support.  You can have our grandparents
place," she tells him.  "It was not touched by the tornado
and I think grandmother would have wanted for you to
have it."

"It should be for both of us Jeanne Marie," David says. "I
can find a place of my own eventually."

"No I could never live there, too many memories for me,"
she tells him.  "You hardly knew them, so you should have
it."

The next day the service is touching to all who came.
David got up and spoke of the love that his dads had for
him and one another.

"In closing ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the greatest
legacy that my two dads have left behind is their love.
They had a love, not only for each other and for me, but
they loved life.  My dad Ryan loved the smell of flowers
before you could smell them, and the soft rain that would
fall when the picnic was over.  He would look at me when I
felt that I was a failure and say. 'Son there is no excuse not
to dream.  If you can dream you can accomplish anything
in this life'.  Then there was the time when we were stuck
in an elevator for an hour.  He looked down at me holding
my little hand and said.

"David you know what we're going to do son?  We're
going to sing along with the elevator music, and he would
start to sing.  Before too long the elevator was moving.

My dad Sean once told me something after an argument
with my lover Kevin.  I had called him and asked him for
advice as to what to do.  He told me 'to listen to my
heartbeat and dance.'  I hung up and could not imagine
what he meant.  However, I went home to Kevin and we
made up.  As I was holding him, I could hear his heart
beating, I started to dance to its beat, and we danced as we
have never danced since.  So dear friends of my dads, if
you take anything away from here with you today, take the
love that they had and give it away to someone, for as my
dad Sean once told me, 'Sometimes one smile means more
than a dozen roses.'"

David greeted the guests that came and thanked them, and
he finally went home.  He put Strathmore Estate up for
sale, and he flew out to Texas to live.

To be continued .

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