Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:39:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Billy Burrew <billy_burrew@yahoo.com> Subject: LOVE-THRU-CHAT-10 Love Thru Chat By Billy Burrew Legal Disclaimer: This story is totally fictional and not meant to imply anything about the sexuality of the guys of the BSB or NSYNC. If you are under the age of 18, offended by homosexual material, or it is illegal to view such materials in your area, please leave now. Otherwise, go grab a nice mocha or some chai tea, or hot cocoa, get comfy and get ready to suspend your disbelief. Have Fun and Enjoy the Story. An Author's Note: I had to drop the "dialog" writing style for this chapter....I originally wrote it out like that, then read it and decided it made the chapter really hard to read when any of the characters "emoted" or were involved in an "action". Tell me which way you (my all important readers) like to read it and I will try to keep that style when possible. I misquoted on my last chapter when I talked about Jeff's website. I was having another bout of brain nonfunction. I was attributing another author's website to Jeff. (oops!) I was thinking of Chip Dyp (who is a GREAT nifty author and has a neat site (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/2898/). Why I made that mistake is completely beyond me...(but it still makes no impact to my opinion of Jeff...who is a wonderful writer!) Last Time on Love thru Chat... Lance: Thanks for being here for me...and thanks for being there for Josh. I'd have never faced this if he hadn't faced it as well. Bill: No problem....I'd do anything for my friends.... Lance: Friends? Bill <nodding and grabbing Lance into a hug>: Friends. Lance: Let's go to bed. I have a long day ahead of me...and you have had a long day today and we both need more rest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 10: ...And Then There Was Three! <<The next morning>> Bill awoke slowly to a deep breathing against his left ear and a cool wetness against his neck. Bill opened his eyes and looked over at the clock, which read 10:30 am, and groaned softly. Bill used his free arm to shake JC's shoulder in an attempt to wake him. Bill: Josh? WAKIE WAKIES!! Josh: Huh.... Bill: Josh...wake up....its morning. Josh: Who...huh.? Bill? Bill: That's me...and that's my neck you've drooled all over. Josh: Oh....Bill...I...I...am REALLY sorry! Bill: No problem...I drool when I sleep on my stomach too...I think... Josh: Thanks....Thanks for singing to me...you really have a nice voice....very soothing. Bill: <smiling> You are too kind....I know I sounded like a cat being strangled to death. Josh: No...it was nice. I really appreciate it. I haven't slept that well in ages. Bill: Well...let's get up and get something for you to eat...your tummy was grumbling this morning. Josh <smiling>: Oh...so you were listening to my stomach, were you? Bill<laughing>: I was pinned down by a 170# chunk of snoring, drooling dead weight with a noisy stomach...yeah...I had the FRONT ROW seat to that concert of yours alrighty! Josh: HEY! I am only a 165# chunk of snoring, drooling dead weight I'll have you know! Bill: Oh yeah? Go weigh yourself! I am gonna go downstairs and get some breakfast started...after I wipe the Josh drool off my neck. Josh: <grinning> Fine! I am gonna go shower! -----------------in the kitchen------------ Bill looked in the refrigerator and pulled out one of the two packages of bacon as well as the eggs and milk and then began to prepare and cook breakfast. A few minutes later, as he finished turning the bacon over and flipping the first three omelettes, he heard a voice call from upstairs. "Oh my GOD! I smell FOOD!" Bill smiled and thought to himself, 'that'll be either Chris or Joey'. A minute later both Joey and Chris and Lance walked through the door, shocked to see the kitchen in full use. "What are you making?...It smells SO GOOD!!", Joey asked as he stepped over to the stove. "Well...there's bacon finishing up in that pan and I am just finished with the first three "mukiebitezas"", Bill said with a smile. "Mookeewhat???", Lance asked curiously. "Mukiebitezas.", Bill said as he quickly turned the three out onto the plate and poured three more in their place. "they're a Slovak breakfast dish..they're like an omelette. In my family, we used to spread some jelly on them like this and fold them up like this and eat them." "Can I have one?", Chris asked. "Sure!!", Bill grinned, "Dig in...I made enough batter for about 15 of them for y'all." "Oh COOL!", Joey said as he grabbed a plate and snatched up the topmost mukiebitza that Bill had made as well as a few slices of bacon. A few minutes later as Bill turned out the next three mukiebitezas, a freshly showered Josh and a less than half awake Justin walked into the room. Josh shook his head as he walked up to the Bill. "OK...How did you know I weighed exactly 170#?", Josh asked incredulously. "Well...I guessed...you felt like 170# to me.", Bill said as he handed Josh a plate of mukiebitezas. "Uncanny", Josh replied then smiled and sat down at the table. "Justin? You wanna mukiebiteza?", Bill asked Justin, who nodded and grunted, then grabbed the box of cereal and a bowl from the cabinet as well as the plate of mukiebitezas. "So", Bill asked a few minutes later as he turned out the last three mukiebitezas, "how are they?" Joey looked up and smiled as he chewed on his fifth, "Mmmmm" Chris and Josh nodded at Joey's sound and Bill turned off the burner and brought a plate with the rest of the bacon and food over to the table. "Eat up fellows!", Bill said as he grabbed a glass of water from the tap. "Aren't you hungry?", Josh asked as he watched Bill drink a few glasses of water. "Oh...I never eat breakfast", Bill smiled, "it gives me heartburn when I eat early in the morning. I'll have a sandwich later on." A minute later, Lance got up and walked around the table and sat down beside Bill. Lance then smiled weakly and began to speak. "Um...Guys?", Lance started quietly, "Can I talk to you for a minute..on the serious side." The guys all stopped eating and looked at Lance hesitantly. "After y'all went to bed last night, when we ahh...finished um...checking up...on Josh and Bill...", Lance began, "I began to realize how really wrong and stupid and foolish I acted towards Josh and towards Bill. I...." "Scoop", Josh said, "Its in the past...we made up." "No", Lance said as tears began to fall from his green eyes, "I acted that way cause I was so angry at myself for not having the courage to do the same thing you did yesterday a long time ago. I was so afraid that all of you would hate me...then get rid of me...cause I am gay too! I ended up taking my anger out on you, Josh...and Bill as well." Bill put his arm around Lance's shoulder and Lance pushed his face into Bill's chest and began to cry. "Oh Lance...", Josh sighed, "I'm still not mad at you...it was really hard for me to tell you guys...and I had Bill and Justin to confide in and talk things over with...you did this all alone." Chris and Joey both agreed and got up and walked over to Lance and hugged him to reassure him of their friendship. "No...not alone...I probably still wouldn't have told you...but I listened to what Bill was singing to you last night and it made me decide that I couldn't lie to myself or to you guys anymore." Lance said quietly. "Bill found me in front of your door sometime last night after I cried myself to sleep there...I talked to him about it last night and it all came out...and he told me to tell you about me and that the trust and love that we have, that kind of understanding that comes 'part and parcel' with a family like the one we've become of the last few years would not let me down. "And it didn't, Scoop", Joey said a second later, "We still care about you now as we did before...nothing can change that." Lance looked around at the guys and smiled, then noticed that Justin was still sitting at the end of the table with a dumbfounded look on his face. "Jus...what about you?", Lance said quietly. Justin stared at the guys at the opposite end of the table and began to nod his head. "It's all good, Lance....it's all good." "Thank you Justin.", Lance asked, then looked again at Justin and shook his head, "What's the matter Justin? Are you OK?" Justin nodded and got up out of his chair. "I'm fine...just need a little time to digest this...and the cereal and everything...it's a lot of stuff to take in all at once, ya know?" Lance and the guys smiled and nodded. Justin walked over to Bill and put his hand on his shoulder and gave a mischievous grin, "I am gonna go take a shower, and get cleaned up. Remind me when I decide to tell you all that I am bisexual to NOT do it over breakfast. It's a little too much to digest so early in the morning. I'll definitely shoot for lunch or dinnertime." Justin grinned widely then turned and walked out of the kitchen and up to the stairs to his bedroom, "See you all in a bit." All five guys in the kitchen sat stunned for a minute, still taking in the full effect of what Justin, who had just joined the ranks of the masters of the understatement, had said. "Was he fuckin' with us...or was he being serious?", Chris said with a grin. Bill began to giggle lightly and soon all the guys at the table were all laughing. "Well..I guess good things really do happen in three's, huh?!", Bill said with a laugh and then got up and walked upstairs for a quick shower himself.