Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:23:08 +0100
From: Dean Lidster <dean@deans-domain.nu>
Subject: The Exchange - part FIVE (Dean Lidster)

                                                T H E   E X C H A N G E
                                                        by Dean Lidster
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                                  PART FIVE
                     (Chapters twenty to twenty-three)

DISCLAIMER
~~~~~~~~~~

This story contains sexual acts between boys. If this is not to your
tastes, then why in God's name are you reading this in the first place,
huh? If you're curious, then that's fine by me - just remember: an open
mind and an open heart is the secret to a good and happy life. If you
are UNDER the age of concent for state / geographical location / planet
that you're in / on etc, please leave now (unless you want to be
educated and have an open mind that is!)

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would not particularly want anyone to subtly alter it and pretend it
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THAT I STAY ACCREDITED AS THE AUTHOR AND YOU DO NOT CHARGE FOR DOING
SO. Easy :-)

The story is fiction, and whilst there are references to real live
people in here, none of this took place outside of my hormone-driven
mind...

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Cheers,
Dean




               Dedicated to Lee - I will love you forever.
                     Chapter Twenty

  It  was  tactically  hopeless: despite his high ground  (on  top  of
Nathan's  bunk)  Zac was well and truly surrounded by his  "Comrades",
Gareth  heading  them  up armed with the heaviest un-fluffable  school
pillow he could find.
  "Hanson the Bad - DO YOU SURRENDER?"
  "HELL NO!"
  "THEN  DIE!!"  yelled Gareth, hurling the Pillow from Hell  at  Zac,
causing  him  to fall back onto the bunk. Whilst he was incapacitated,
Gareth  clambered up on to the top bunk with Zac and pinned  him  down
using as much of his body as was physically possible.
  "NOW do you surrender?"
  "Why don't you play 'hide and go fuck yourself'?"
  Gareth  grinned  and pressed down harder on top of Zac,  emphasising
each word with a little bounce of his body.
  "DO    YOU    SURRENDER?"
  "Fucking EAT ME!" yelled Zac, laughing uncontrollably.
  Gareth tried again, his bounces this time a little more pronounced.
  "DO       YOU     SURR..." He was cut short by a rather impressively
loud cracking sound from the bunk, and a second later, the head-end of
the  upper tier  dropped through the frame onto the one below, Zac and
Gareth ending up in a ball of flailing limbs, laughing their arses off
along with the rest of the dorm. At least they were until Russell came
bursting  into  the  room intent on inflicting some  mental  pain  and
anguish.
  "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" he yelled.
  "Hiya  Dave!" giggled Zac from underneath Gareth. "I, uh, think  you
need to get this bed repaired! In fact, you may as well do, like,  all
of  'em  coz it sounds like a set of crickets in here when  we're  all
beating off..."
  Russell  was,  once  again,  shocked, angry  and  astounded  by  the
remarks that flowed from Zac's mouth. A myriad of images raced  before
his  mind,  including one that briefly showed him a  naked  Zac,  legs
spread, right hand wrapped around 5 inches of slender hardon with  his
back  arching  almost  painfully upwards as  if  trying  to  meet  his
impending climax...
  This  scared  Russell.  In fact, it scared him  so  much  he  simply
turned  and  walked briskly out of the room. Zac was  actually  rather
disappointed  by this as he had been mentally preparing a  barrage  of
insulting  and  belittling quips to hurl at him when  the  anticipated
temper tantrum erupted. This actually worried Zac as, from what Gareth
had  said, the guy NEVER backed down unless he was hopelessly  beaten,
and even then reluctantly.
  Zac  untangled himself from a still-giggling Gareth and  headed  for
the door after Russell.
  "Whe're'ya goin'?"
  "To  see  'him'  - keep the bed warm," grinned Zac, and  walked  off
down the corridor.
  Gingerly,  Zac  rapped his knuckles against the white, gloss-painted
wooden  door that lead to Russell's part of the house. No  answer.  He
tried  again, and after a half-minute or so, there came a  very  turse
"WHAT?"
  Zac  took a deep breath and lifted the wrought iron latch,  the  un-
oiled  hinges  complaining as the door opened. He was  presented  with
Russell's  kitchen, and his first impressions were that  it  had  been
vacated  it  was  so bare, but as he looked around under  the  sterile
fluorescent  light,  he  realised it  was  used,  but  was  also  kept
immaculately tidy.
  In  the centre of the creme-tiled floor was a white-topped oak table
with  a  single,  solitary chair. In the chair sat  Russell,  who  was
staring  absent-mindedly  at  a picture frame  that  had  been  placed
exactly on the table's centre.
  "Uhh, Da.. I mean Mr. Russell? Sir?"
  "What  do  you want," he snarled, Zac not being important enough  to
warrant a glance of any kind, never mind a death stare.
  Zac  decided to take a slightly less direct route than the one  he'd
originally anticipated and began to walk towards the table. "Who's  in
the picture?"
  Russell  snatched the frame off the table in an attempt to hide  it,
but  Zac  simply  reached out and pulled it away  from  him  slightly.
Surprisingly, Russell relinquished once more, allowing Zac to see  the
photo.  In it was a middle-aged woman who was "pleasant" to Zac's  eye
(good-looking not usually a term he applied to the opposite sex) and a
boy about his age who, despite having a fairly sharp, angular look  to
his face, was fairly good looking.
  Russell set the photo back down on the table and continued to  stare
at it.
  "Who are they?" asked Zac tentatively. No response. "Sir?"
  "That's my wife May and my son, Jacob."
  "Woah! You're married?"
  "I was..."
  "Oh... uh... sorry. What happened to them?"
  "She left me. Or rather we left each other."
  "Where's Jake now?"
  "He  was  killed  not  long after this was taken."  Russell's  harsh
voice  had begun to mellow somehow. "A car hit him when he was  riding
his bicycle."
  Zac was stunned. "Shit... Uh, sorry, man... I mean sir..."
  Russell  failed  to  notice Zac's choice  of  words  completely  and
sighed.
  "I  don't have a single picture of us all together, you know. It was
either him and her, me and him or her and him."
  Nothing  was said for a few moments as Zac just stared with  Russell
at the photo.
  "Where is your wife now?"
  "I'm  not  sure. The last time we saw each other was at the funeral.
We  didn't speak a lot, but I suppose we each blamed the other for not
looking  after Jake, or not spending enough time with Jake...  It  was
difficult  - we are both teachers, and you just CAN'T show  favoritism
towards a pupil, even if he IS your own son... In hindsight I think  I
was over-hard on him."
  "He's  kinda  cute..." grinned Zac, then realising what  he'd  said,
added " Uhh - for a guy, that is..."
  "He  was  the  year's heart throb," he agreed, a thin smile  briefly
appearing  on his face. "All the girls were after him, and I  wouldn't
be  surprised if some of the boys were, either... I never really  told
him I loved him. In fact, I was a complete bastard to him. Not just in
school  time  either  - for some reason I kept it  up  right  the  way
through the school holidays too...
  "May  told  me  to  ease off on him, but I just  kept  the  pressure
turned  up  - he was my boy, and it 'simply wouldn't do' if he  didn't
live  up  not just to my expectations, but to the rest of the  staff's
also.  May got so fed up with this, that she just packed and  went  to
her father's farm in Wales with him.
  "'Why didn't you just let him be a normal boy, David?' she asked  at
the  funeral. Those were the last words she said to me. I still  don't
know why I didn't."
  "It's,  like, the only way you knew, sir. You were just wanting  him
to do well."
  "It  wasn't that. It was me being selfish. I wanted Jake to do  well
so  that I would be seen as a good father and a good teacher.  Yes,  I
wanted  him to do well for himself, but it was more for my benefit.  I
felt  like  I couldn't cope with having a son that performed  anything
less than 110%."
  "Nobody  would have cared, sir. He was himself - if he  was  a  dumb
fu...  err... if he was dumb, he was dumb - no one would have  minded!
It wouldn't have been your fault..."
  "I  realise that NOW..." he said, turning to look upon Zac  for  the
first  time.  He  saw his concerned look, and smiled that  thin  smile
again. "Let me get you a chair."
  He  stood  up  and strode out of the kitchen, reappearing  a  moment
later  with  what looked like the matching partner to the one  Russell
had been sitting on.
  "Soooo..."  said Russell, sitting down next to Zac. "To  what  do  I
owe the reprieve?"
  "Huh?"
  "Why are you suddenly being so amiable?"
  "Oh...  Well you looked kinda upset... I was only being such a  shit
because you were to me! What goes around..."
  "It's the only way the boys will respect me."
  "RESPECT?  You  think they respect you? They're scared  shitless  of
you! They hate your guts, man!"
  Russell  looked  quite  surprised.  He  sincerely  thought  he   was
'commanding respect'...
  "Try  being  a bit more reasonable - explain why you do  things  the
way you do, and LISTEN to what they have to say."
  "I shouldn't have to explain myself to them!"
  "Why not?"
  "I just... Well.... I just shouldn't have to."
  "Says who?"
  "Well, I never used to have to..."
  "When did you start teaching?"
  "1962."
  "Thirty-six  years ago - that's a long time you know, sir...  Things
have  changed  just a tinsey bit! Try it - try explaining  why  you're
punishing someone, why you're not letting them do something  -  REASON
with  them! ASK them to do things rather than just barking orders  all
the time."
  "But they won't do what I ask..."
  "They  will  if  you give them incentives to do things  -  encourage
them  -  get  them  to WANT to try and please you.  I'll  help  if  ya
want..."
  "How?"
  "I'll behave."
  Russell laughed out loud.
  "I will!"
  "Zachary, I hav..."
  "Zac."
  "All  right, Zac - I haven't known you for very long, but I'm fairly
certain   that  the  term  'good  behavior'  doesn't  exist  in   your
vocabulary!"
  "OK  -  so I'm lousy at spelling, but I can behave - as long as  you
keep your end of the bargain..."
  "I'll try..."
  "Nuh huh - trying isn't good enough!"
  "OK - I will keep my end of the bargain to see how it goes. This  is
going to be strange for me."
  Zac  smiled.  "It is for me too! Me? Be good? I've... um...  got  an
idea  to help us get going." Russell raised an eyebrow. "Do you got  a
REALLY heavy pillow?"

                 ______________________


  Ike  wearily stepped out of the taxi infront of his boarding (or was
that  boring?)  house.  He trudged up to the door  and  half-heartedly
pressed  the  bell push, shivering as the cold wind was pronounced  by
his physical state.
  The  curtain of the TV room was pulled back, one of the lads  seeing
Ike  and  opening  the door for him. They exchanged customary  "hello"
smiles and immediately went their separate ways - the guy who'd opened
the  door went back to lounging infront of the TV, Ike upstairs to his
dorm.  He  flopped  onto  his  bed,  quickly  falling  asleep  as  his
indifferent mood could think of nothing better to do.

                 ______________________


  "Go on, Tay!"
  "Yeah, tell us!"
  "I'd  bore you guys to death! You got far more interesting  shit  to
talk about!"
  "Like hell we have! You're a superstar, man! WE'RE NOT WORTHY!!"
  Tay  smiled  that  wonderful 'I don't wanna' shy smile  of  his  and
reluctantly answered "OK, OK - so whaddya wanna know?"
  Assorted  questions about what it was like being famous, permanently
on  the  move and lusted after by a few thousand girls all  under  the
same  roof  followed, Tay actually quite enjoying being able  to  talk
perfectly freely about what he thought.
  "Ya  know how we always say we love the fans and shit? THEY MAKE  MY
LIFE  HELL!  Sure they buy our records, but hell they also STEAL  from
us!  Would you believe some jerkoff stole our goddamn lawn mower  just
because  it was ours and I  _MAY_ have touched the handles? Why  can't
they just leave us alone!"
  The  conversation  then  swung to the plus  sides  of  touring,  and
eventually  came to England's green and pleasant land. Throughout  all
this, Tony had sat cross-legged, his ear latching onto every word  Tay
uttered  as if his life depended on it. When there was a lull  in  the
conversation, he asked the question he'd obviously wanted to  ask  for
some time.
  "How did you actually meet Dean?"
  We  looked at each other and grinned, flashbacks of a rather  steamy
night in a certain theme park hotel giving us immediate hard-ons  that
didn't go un-noticed by the other three.
  "So it was like THAT was it?" grinned Jamie. "SAY NO MORE!"
  "Well,  I  did manage to get Tay's trousers off of him in  a  public
place."
  "You WHAT?"
  "Dilweed  here managed to pour steaming hot tea in my lap.  We  were
on  that  Eurostar thing and I was just like kickin'  back  trying  to
ignore  my bodyguard's snoring. Then Dean walks by and I'm kinda  like
'woah - that guy is hot!' but the fucker walks straight by me! I  took
my shades off to try and catch his eye, and I guess it kinda worked!"
  "Now THAT is cool," smiled Triv "but how did you DE-BAG HIM, Dean?"
  "As  far  as I can remember I asked for his autograph and  I  didn't
have  anything one me 'cept for a couple of napkins... I tried to pull
one  out  of my hand and managed to pull me Dad's cup of tea out  with
it!"
  "It  didn't  really hurt that much ya know - I just wanted  to  give
him a memory he wouldn't forget too quick! The coolest bit was when he
offered  to  give me a pair of his shorts - damn he was so  kind...  I
accepted and in the hotel that night in Paris? I didn't have  a  whole
lot  to  do,  so I... ummm... kinda jerked off in them thinking  about
Dean. Then I sent 'em back to him!"
  "You did WHAT?"
  "I  packaged them up a couple of days later after another few rounds
and sent them back to him... I just wish I coulda seen his face!"
  "As  far  as I can remember it looked something like this," I  said,
screwing my face in feigned orgasm as I yanked on an imaginary dick.
  We  all  dissolved into terminal fits of laughter for no real reason
- it just felt so good to be among friends with everyone having fun at
no-one  else's  expense - not a word of malice had  been  uttered  all
evening. It was so refreshing, ya know?
  "I  dunno  about you guys but I'm gonna hit the sack... I'm fucked!"
announced Jamie.
  "You  soon  will  be," smiled Triv and, so saying, dragged  him  off
into the two man tent.
  "I'm  gonna take a shower," said Tony, picking up his wash kit. "See
ya in a bit..."
  "And then there were two..."
  Tay  stood up and held out his hand. I took it, the strength  behind
it  seeming  to  contradict his almost delicate  physical  appearance.
Damn he was so... so... It was useless my mind trying to strive for  a
mortal  word to describe him. Everything about him seemed so ethereal,
so  superior yet at the same time so real, so tangible - almost as  if
he were a metaphor for all things that were good.
  We started to walk along the path that skirted the campsite.
  "Three weeks," I said.
  "I know..."
  "What are we gonna..."
  "I  don't  know.  Flying you over won't be a problem...  But  that's
hardly fair on your folks..."
  "I never want this to end, Tay..."
  He  stopped and we turned to face each other. His unwashed hair  had
become  slightly greasy and straggly, but it simply endeared him  more
to  me.  The swooping lines that hinted at his cheek bones, his  dark,
defined eyebrows, his infinite eyes....
  "It  won't, Dean, it won't... Out of the billions of souls  on  this
planet  we are two, and we met. There's fate and then there's destiny.
Fate brought us together, but destiny will keep us that way. Trust me,
I know..."
  How did he? How did he know? "You can't say that, Tay..."
  "I  just  did. And I believe it too - I know it sounds  kinda  corny
and "moviefied", but think about it, Dean: So was the way we met!"
  He  did  have a point, and just the way he said it began to make  my
apprehensions  far  less  real to me. OK, so  we  lived  on  different
continents but hell, it were only six hours away! Dammit it took  that
long to get to Scotland!
  "I dunno where I'd get the money for the flights from,"
  "Dean you're such a freak sometimes! I'd fly you over!"
  "Yeah  but...  but... I'd feel guilty knowing you were  blowing  all
your money on me..."
  Tay  took  a  step forward and hugged me tightly. "I'd  get  rid  of
everything  I had if it meant I could be with you for just a  minute,"
he whispered into my ear. "You have to remember that the money is just
a nice side effect of a lot of people enjoying the music we make!"
  We  released  each other and he smiled at me. "Forget  about  'three
weeks'  for  now... How about we go take a shower with Tony?  My  hair
looks like it's been used in one of your chippies!"

                 ______________________


  I  reckon  Tony thought we'd followed Jamie and Triv's  example,  as
when  we walked into the shower room he must've leapt a good foot into
the air, quickly spinning round to face the wall and looking guilty as
sin as he stuttered "H... Hi, guys..."
  Tay and I looked at each other and smiled broadly.
  "Hey Tony," Tay grinned. "Whatcha doin'?"
  "I'm taking a shower. Ain't that kinda obvious?"
  "Uh, well, it would be if the water was running..."
  Tony, already ruby red, now turned a vivid beetroot colour.
  "I'm not gonna get out of this one am I?"
  "Nuh uh..."
  "Well,  umm....  D'you want to give us a hand?"  he  asked,  turning
round  to  reveal was, to my mind, the biggest hard-on  I  could  ever
recall  having seen. Tony must've had two inches on us at  least,  and
that were probably a rather conservative estimate!
  Sticking  out  at  a  perfect forty-five decree  angle  from  Tony's
crotch  were  8  inches of die-straight, throbbing, circumcised  meat,
complimented by a set of bollocks that looked like they could give you
a bruise should they swing in your direction.
  "FUCK!" was the only thing Tay and I could honestly think of  saying
as  we  scrutinised  this text book example of male genitalia.  Tony's
embarrassed grin turned to one of slight concern.
  "What? Woss wrong?"
  "Uh, nothing Spidey - it's just that... umm..."
  "WHAT?"
  "IT'S SO DAMN BIG!"
  Tony's  look  of  concern immediately turned  into  one  of  immense
pride. "Ya think?"
  "I know!"
  "Tay - do you want the honour or..."
  Tay  shoved a hand (with difficulty due to the large tent  that  had
formed  in the front of his trousers) into his pocket and retrieved  a
fifty pence piece. "Heads for head, tales for balls - your call?"
  "Sounds good to me!"
  Tay  flipped  the  silver coin into the air and  deftly  caught  it,
flipped it over and placed it on the back of his hand.
  "Heads."
  Tay lifted his hand away, revealing a tail.
  "Haha! Bollocks to you, man!"
  Tay  and  I  hurriedly pulled off our clothes, the  sight  of  which
obviously  pleased Tony - his hardon throbbing and  bouncing  as  even
more  blood was forced into it. Tony was visibly shaking as Tay and  I
approached  him,  hardons bobbing infront of us.  Tay  stood  directly
infront  of him so that the tip of his hardon touched Tony's,  causing
another  flurry of jerks and spasms. He smiled his wicked, sex  driven
grin.
  "Just  relax  and enjoy it..." and with that, Tay stooped  down  and
began coating the monster cock in liberal quantities of his saliva.  I
too  squatted  down next to Tay and began to tongue-bathe  his  heavy,
hairy  bollocks, occasionally straying up his shaft to get a taste  of
Tay's  sweet  saliva mixed in with Tony's incredibly erotic,  slightly
sharp  aroma  that  seemed  noticeably  'heavier'  than  Tay's  light,
delicate, almost fruity one.
  As  I  strayed up into cock territory once again, I met Tay's tongue
on the way to sample Tony's hangers. The moment they touched it seemed
like  an  electric  current passed through us. Our tongues  went  into
overtime as they slid over Tony's cock, bashing into and pushing  past
one  another in an aimless motion that seemed to send Tony to the next
level of pleasure. Gradually, we moved up his eight inch length to his
flared head, our lips meeting and creating an airtight seal around one
of the most sensitive organs in his entire body.
  We  sucked and slurped away as our tongues pushed over the head  and
onto   each  other's  mouths,  its  jerking  becoming  more  and  more
pronounced.  Our hands were roaming over any bare flesh within  reach,
indifferent to who any particular body part belonged to as long as  it
was  soft and warm: stroking, squeezing, rubbing and massaging, taking
us  all  into  a  friensied sexual state that  none  of  us  had  ever
experienced  before,  least so Tony. Granted it was  nowhere  near  as
fulfilling  as making one-on-one love with Tay alone, but the  thought
of  initiating Tony to the pleasures of gay sex introduced an exciting
sense  of  satisfaction  in that we could pass  this  simple  gift  of
pleasure to Tony.
  Then  it  happened.  With  a groan that practically  shook  our  rib
cages,  Mount Spider erupted with a force unparalleled by anything  in
the  Animal  Kingdom. Tony's initial copious jet of cum broke  through
our  lips,  curling round onto our cheeks and dripping down  onto  the
floor. Two eager tongues attempted to harvest all of the seed that was
produced,  but the crop was good: the first blast was succeeded  by  a
further  four, all of similar quantity but progressively less intense,
the final spurt dribbling into our mouths.
  Tony  now  looked physically exhausted, but had a dreamy, spaced-out
smile  on  his face that can only be produced when you've  gotten  off
good and proper.
  His  state of bliss was only momentary, however, as we heard a  pair
of voices that weren't Jamie and Triv's approaching the showers. In  a
panic,  we  all dived for our respective clothes that seemed  to  have
rearranged themselves whilst we weren't watching in order to  preserve
what  little modesty we had. The owner of one of the voices came right
to  the door, still talking to his friend, but thankfully they decided
to  visit the shop first before taking their showers, not knowing what
time it stayed open to.
  Tay,  Spider and I looked at each other and burst out laughing: From
the  way  we were dressed, even the most innocent of minds would  have
been easily able to decide what we had been doing.
  "May I make a suggestion?"
  "Go for it, Tony..."
  "How about we actually lock the door next time?"
  "And  just  exactly how do you now there will BE  a  net  time,  Mr.
'I've got a redwood between my legs'?"
  "Uh... I... I didn't mean it like that," grinned Tony awkwardly
  "But you're right, we will lock it next time!"



                   Chapter Twenty-One

  We  decided  that Tay and myself being together naked in the  shower
was  tempting  fate,  so the shower idea fell by the  wayside  and  we
headed back to the tent, Tony in tow.
  As  we approached, some very - well - "contented" sounds were coming
from  Jamie  and Triv's tent. I looked at Tay: He was in  exactly  the
same state as me - trousers remarkably tented and a hungry look in his
eyes.
  "Um, Tony? Do you mind if we... err..."
  Tony  grinned back and said he was going to go to the shop  and  buy
something bad for his teeth.
  Tay  tore  the tent flap open and pushed me inside. Without speaking
another  word,  we both hurriedly tore off our upper  garments.  Tay's
totally  hairless chest and lightly tanned skin really  did  something
for me that I simply couldn't explain. His flat chest just hinted at a
perfectly  symmetrical set of abdominal muscles  which,  although  not
pronounced, complimented perfectly his overall physique: To  my  eyes,
he was an anatomical masterpiece.
  My  eyes  wondered joyfully up to his armpits and then to his  upper
arms  themselves,  his biceps and triceps flexing  alternately  as  he
fought the tight pullover over his head. He flung it to the ground and
raked  his  hair out of his eyes in the same automatic way I  did  and
looked  at  me,  smiling shyly once again as he realised  I  had  been
admiring him once again.
  "I've  shown you mine," he said, crossing his arms so he was holding
his  shoulders.  "Your turn..." He looked soooo cute  kneeling  there,
naked from the waste up and biting his bottom lip in anticipation.
  I  pulled  my  T-shirt over my head and could feel  those  wonderful
eyes  of  his  drinking every detail of my torso, my mind turning  the
impression into a physical sensation that sent a tingle throughout me.
The neck of my T-shirt cleared my head and for a second, we just knelt
there, both in mutual admiration of the other.
  Tentatively,  Tay  extended  his  arm  towards  me  and  traced  his
fingertips  up the centre of my chest, then veering right, pulled  his
fingernails  over  my left nipple. Once again, Taylor  had  induced  a
feeling  in  me unlike any other I had ever experienced. Never  before
had  the  touch of another excited and thrilled me so - in  fact,  the
intensity  was so great that I had to concentrate hard to stop  myself
from cumming right there.
  Tay  smiled naughtily as he saw my eyes shut tight and my dick  flex
and jerk, but as I opened my eyes, that mischievous glint morphed into
something  a whole lot more deep and emotion driven. I looked  at  him
pleadingly  to  continue, but he seemed slightly preoccupied.  "What's
the matter Tay?"
  "I...  Uh...  I  can't believe just that made you  feel  so  good...
You..."  he was struggling for words. "I... I mean... It's so  amazing
that I can do this to you..."
  "Close your eyes."
  "I..."
  "Close  them," I said, reaching out and gently closing  his  eyelids
for  him.  Being careful not to touch him, I whispered  into  his  ear
"Just let your mind go...". The sensation of my breath on his ear  and
neck  had  the  effect  I  hoped  it would  have:  he  shivered  quite
violently,  his  smooth  skin becoming dimpled  as  the  thousands  of
minature  muscles beneath each follicle pulled the light blonde  hairs
on his arms vertical.
  Tay's  face  broke  into a wide grin as he suddenly  understood  the
effect  he  had had on me, and surrendered himself to the  cascade  of
feelings  that  partly me and partly his own mind were  generating.  I
slowly,  I  mimicked what he had done to me by oh-so-gently tracing  a
finger  from  his  navel,  up  his chest  and  onto  his  nipple.  The
sensations  that I was giving to his body may not have  been  intense,
but  the huge amplifier of love had the volume cranked all the way up,
and  was  powered  by extreme horniness. His entire  body  tensed  and
relaxed  as  if  sparks were arcing within his rib cage,  the  immense
voltages  almost overloading his motor control. I decided to  take  it
one step further, and lowered my moistened lips onto his now very firm
nipple.
  Tay  threw  his head back and screamed a scream that was  silent  to
the  entire  world apart from us. His entire frame tensed  and  stayed
tense  as  I  saw  the  bulge in his trousers jerk,  and  then  become
darkened  as his cum began to soak through the material. I wrapped  my
arms  around the now limp form before me and hugged him close, kissing
his neck and gently cradling him."
  "Damn,  Tay! If that was your nipple, I hate to think what  I  could
do with your dick!"
  Tay  began to kiss my neck back, and then began to chew and bite  on
me  whilst  pressing his slippy crotch against mine, becoming  aroused
again  as  he felt my as yet un-satisfied hardness pressing  into  him
with a delicious force.
  He broke off his chewing and kissed me deeply on the lips.
  "I  want  you  to  fuck  me Dean. You make me  feel...  Complete,  I
guess..."
  Without  moving my face from his, I pushed my hands  down  into  his
underwear  and clasped the firm globe of his arse, allowing my  middle
fingers to sneak in between his buttocks and play around his hole.  He
drew  breath and pulled himself into me once again and started to push
my  trousers down. As he lowered them, he ran his fingers  around  the
elastic  waistband so that he could guide it over my six  inches  that
has  long  since  escaped from my boxers. Once  they  were  clear,  he
wrapped  his slender fingers around my dick and jerked it a couple  of
times, causing my pre-cum lubricated foreskin to slip deliciously back
and forth over the head.
  Gradually, I began to pull Tay's trousers down as he'd done  to  me,
his  recently  exploded  cock already back to it's  full  hardness  in
anticipation  of  what  was to come. I pushed both  his  trousers  and
boxers  to his knees, the wonderful example of teen-hood bobbing  with
each  pump of his rapidly beating heart. I ran my fingers through  the
dark blonde bush of pubic hair that crowned his member, then turned my
attention  to  his tight, plump balls: The lack of all  hair  on  them
providing a dramatic but welcome contrast.
  I  squeezed them gently in the palm of my hand, feeling the testicle
itself  roll around inside. Tay obviously did too, moaning  from  deep
within  his throat. I took my hand away from his balls and brought  it
to  my nose, the smell of the pheromone-laden sheen of sweat making me
dizzy with desire.
  I  began  to suck on my index finger, Tay's unique scent  being  one
that  tasted  exactly smelled. Tay smiled and took hold of  my  wrist,
removing my finger from my mouth and placing it into his, his slightly
rough  tongue  swirling around and sucking on it. After  a  moment,  I
pulled it out and eased it between his buttocks, pushing gently at his
insanely  tight  rosebud. I felt him relax as he  tried  to  grant  me
access, but there simply wasn't enough lubrication. We began to repeat
the  process,  me  alternating between having  my  finger  sucked  and
pushing it into his backside.
  After a few repetitions my finger slid quite easily into him, so  we
added  my  index  finger to the equation, his arsehole  stretching  to
accommodate them after a couple more attempts. Feeling that  his  arse
was being wasted on my fingers, I motioned for him to turn around.  He
did  so,  and  in  the  process pulled off  his  trousers  and  boxers
completely, no longer a stitch of clothing to hide his beautiful  body
from my ravenous eyes.
  His  wonderfully tight backside was now presented to me,  his  "eye"
winking at me and his balls penduluming slightly directly beneath  it.
I  too  shrugged off the rest of my clothes and planted my face firmly
into  Tay's crack, causing him to squeak with delight. I lost no  time
in  trying to pump as much saliva into him with my tongue as I  could,
simply allowing it to drop to his balls every once in a while to allow
that wonderful taste to make my mouth drip.
  After  a  few minutes, I decided it was time to fulfill his request.
I  picked  up his boxers and wiped the copious load he had  shot  into
them  all over my dick and balls, then guided myself towards his hole.
With only a moderate amount of pressure, he granted me access, my dick
gliding into him until my balls touched his. Tay threw back his  head,
his  hair  travelling in a perfect arc until it landed  on  his  back,
mouth  open  in  agonising bliss. I bent forward and wrapped  my  arms
tightly  around  his  chest, his rapid breathing causing  them  to  be
prized apart and allowed back together.
  I  began  to kiss and nibble at his shoulders and neck, then started
to  slowly  pump myself in and out of him, the sensitive  head  of  my
uncircumcised  dick reveling in the pleasure his smooth  insides  were
giving  to  it. I was not the only one lost in both the  physical  and
emotional  sensations:  Tay  was  grunting,  shivering  and  squirming
beneath  me,  his arsehole clamping down tight every  time  my  flared
dickhead  rubbed  over  his prostate, causing him  to  literally  drip
precum on to the sleeping bags below us.
  He  shifted his weight to the left and balanced us on his left hand,
moving  his  right  beneath us. I stopped my humping  as  I  felt  his
fingers  reaching for my bollocks, and when they reached their target,
he  drew  my  balls  and  his together, the exquisite  heat  and  dull
pressure giving me a yet another unique sensation. I felt Tay  have  a
similar  response, his arsehole beginning to rhythmically  clench  and
relax around me - DAMN! He was jerking me off with his arse!
  I  began to push into him again by flexing my hips against him,  the
small  movements  adding  to the cacophony of  stimuli  we  were  both
subject to and in this instance, pushing us over the edge. With  three
or  four final pronounced thrusts, I felt as if my very life force was
being transferred into Tay with each blast of cum. Seconds later,  Tay
tensed  and began sending streamers of his pearly white cum  over  the
sleeping  bags to join the patch of precum that had dripped  from  his
dick.
  Such  was  the  effect of our mutual orgasms all of  our  limbs,  no
longer able to withstand our weight, collapsed sending us into a heavy-
breathing  pile  - but what a contented pile it was! I wrapped  myself
round  Tay  even tighter and kissed his neck once more,  my  softening
dick still firmly seated in his backside.

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  "Zac, I don't think this is such a good idea..."
  "Relax,  will  ya? You're bigger than all of us! Well,  height  wise
anyway..."
  "I know, but... but..."
  "Look,  it doesn't matter if you get the sh... umm, if you get  beat
- just enjoy it!"
  Zac armed Russell with a particularly large feather-filled pillow.
  "OK  -  I'll  take  the left and you take the right.  One...  Two...
THREE!
  Zac  planted  his trainer-clad foot firmly against the door  sending
the  waste basket that was behind it spinning across the tiled  floor,
distributing its contents over the battlefield. All the  boys  in  the
dorm  looked in utter bemusement as Zac and David Russell -  yes:  the
same  David  Russell  that was such a bastard  all  the  time  -  came
storming  into the room, bashing the crap outta anyone  in  their  way
with a pair of pillows.
  Of  course, it was Gareth who overcame his initial shock having seen
the  look in Zac's eyes and yelled "RETALIATE". The entire dorm  leapt
towards their beds and retrieved their "weapons" and began to lay into
Zac,  almost  scared  of the consequences of clobbering  a  member  of
staff.  Zac spotted this and pointed out to a couple of them that  the
whole  house would have been gated for a year by this time had Russell
not  been  game.  The logic followed, and the most tremendous  pillow-
fight that the junior boys' boarding house had ever seen since Russell
had been there ensued, allis being gained and lost with each stroke of
the pillow.
  "OK  -  TRUSE!" Yelled Russell after five minutes of clobbering  and
being clobbered. Everyone froze as if they'd been caught peeing  in  a
swimming  pool, and waited for the inevitable retribution -  even  Zac
thought he'd reverted to his former state. He needn't have worried.
  Russell  had  the biggest grin on his face he could  ever  remember:
Never  in  many years had he felt this good! He was actually  ENJOYING
himself  - not in the snidey, sadistic way he was used to,  but  in  a
childish,  happy way. It had been a long time since his childhood  and
even though he had been surrounded by children for the majority of his
teaching  career,  he  had  lost sight of  the  things  that  fuel  an
adolescent's life: Peers, dreams, ambitions... sex...
  Even  though the last thought concerned his "sensible" side  briefly
once again, he dismissed it as conjecture and put forward his idea  to
the nine nearly-naked boys in front of him: "DORM RAID!!"
  As  in  any good public school, dorm raids were a long-standing  and
fiercely  defended tradition. For the uninitiated, here is  the  basic
concept:  One dorm (let it be called 'Dorm A') will decide  to  attack
another dorm ('Dorm B') based on many factors including the age of the
dorm  members, the dorm's physical location, number of people  in  the
dorm,  aptitude of the dorm members etc. The members of  Dorm  A  will
enter  Dorm  B,  overpower  it's  members,  capture  certain  trophies
(usually essentials needed for sleeping such as the slats from a  bed,
duvets,  pillows etc) all as quietly as possible, and  to  the  extent
where the members of Dorm B are sufficiently pissed off as to try  and
retaliate, but not so much so that they go and whine at the master  on
duty.  This  in itself is bad enough, but given the usual  two-in-the-
morning  timing  of  these events, the MoD's wrath can  me  multiplied
accordingly.
  However  this  time it was different. The MoD's wrath  need  not  be
accounted for, as the MoD himself was initiating the raid...

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  I  woke  up  to one of the best feelings in the world -  that  of  a
Hanson  prodding  my balls from behind with a morning  piss-hardon.  I
took  a  deep  breath  as  my mind tried to  initiate  higher  thought
functions and felt the arm that Tay had draped over me hug me  to  the
hard body behind me.
  "Morning," he whispered.
  "Somebody's happy to see me,"
  "Don't  flatter  yourself, Brit-boy" he smiled,  making  his  hardon
flex between my legs.
  "Are you two EVER satisfied?" asked Tony, sleepy eyes opening to  be
presented with Tay's dick peeping out from under my balls, and my  own
very quickly growing to it's full length.
  "Ummmm - no." said Tay matter-of-factly.
  Tony  smiled.  "Well, seeing as you two seem to  be  quite...  uh...
well, excited, I spose the least I can do is return the favour,"
  "Tony, you don't have to, man... I mean, we both got our fair  share
last  night,"  interjected Tay, trying to make  sure  he  wasn't  just
caught  up  in the swing of things. "I mean, your first taste  of  cum
should be from someone you really care about..."
  "It was," he admitted shyly.
  "Eh?"  Now  it  was  my turn to become confused.  "I  thought  you'd
never..."
  "I  hadn't, but I couldn't exactly sleep on top of the mess you guys
left now, could I? I spose I cleaned up a little. Who's was it, coz it
tasted really cool..."
  Tay  owned up to squirting his rather generous load all over  Tony's
sleeping  bag,  just  the thought of which snapped  my  dick  to  full
attention.
  "Thanks for the concern, Taylor, but I'm sure I want to!"
  "OK, but remember that Dean kinda goes off like a fire hydrant..."
  "Tony  grinned  and  without another word, began  his  ministrations
upon our already aroused genitals, his tongue starting as far down the
exposed shaft of Tay's prick as it could reach, then travelling slowly
but  forcefully  along its length, then over my  displaced  balls  and
finally  along my length, licking off the drip of precum he's squeezed
out.
  I  have  to  say, it was astonishing: We were getting  a  lick  job!
Tony's  logic was that if he began to suck, he'd have to leave one  of
us  "in the dry", so licking it was. Despite Tay not having all of his
nads  exposed to Tony's rough tongue, the inaccessible bits were  well
and  truly sandwiched between my soccer-player thighs, giving him more
than  enough pleasure for his level of satisfaction to equal  that  of
mine.
  I  was  so  preoccupied thinking about Tony and how he'd  opened  up
(understatement  of the year there) that my orgasm really  managed  to
sneak  up on me. With little more than a "TONY I'M GONNA..." my  balls
drew  tight against me and four spurts of my cum flew from the end  of
my  dick: One onto Tony's forehead, one up his nose, and the final two
into  the  preferred  target of his mouth. My  tensing  and  shivering
effectively  made  it so my thighs were jerking Tay off,  and  seconds
later  he  hugged  me tight once again as his balls unloaded  for  the
first  time  that  day, painting Tony's neck and jaw in  hot,  sticky,
sweet-smelling cum.
  As  our  breathing slowed and our minds began to allow senses  other
than  the one created by one hell of an orgasm to have attention  paid
to them, we noticed Tony had that similar "absent" look that could say
nothing other than "I've just cum..."
  A  glance at his crotch confirmed this - his tight grey briefs had a
very  large  wet patch on the front, centered by the flecks  of  white
where the force of his ejaculation had projected his cum clean through
the flimsy material.
  Tony  followed our gaze and smiled. "Well, that was a first! I never
knew you could just, well, cum!"
  Then the grin on Tony's began began to change. His eyes, started  to
squint and his breathing became shallow, almost non-existent.
  "Oh fuck Tony NO!" yelled Tay.
  Too  late.  He  sneezed. Half of the cum from his  nose  was  sucked
viciously  into the back of his throat in the quick intake  of  breath
before the major event, and then every orifice in his face expelled  a
mixture  of  saliva and cum at a quite astonishing velocity,  spraying
myself,  Tay and practically everything else in the tent with  a  fine
aerosol of the stuff.
  Tony grinned, and proceeded to lick up the mess he'd created.
  "What  the HELL do you think you're doing in there?" boomed a  voice
from  outside the tent. Momentarily, we were all scared shitless until
Jamie's unmistakable giggle gave Triv's game away.
  Tony  stuck  his head out of the tent flap and grinned up  at  Jamie
and  Triv.  "What  makes you think we were doing anything  other  than
sleeee-eeeeeooooohhhhfuck..."
  There  was no way we could help ourselves: As Tony was on all fours,
his  tight  backside and damp-cotton-encased love  spuds  were  easily
accessible. A pair of tongues were soon being pulled across  the  cum-
soaked kegs, much to the owner's approval.
  "Oh,  nothing at all," smiled Triv back. "But now that  you  mention
it,  the look on your face and the drip of cum hanging from your  nose
may give you away slightly..."





                   Chapter Twenty-Two

  Zac  lay in bed, enjoying one of his favourite states of mind:  That
limbo time in the morning when you're neither awake nor asleep -  your
mind  just meandering aimlessly from memory to memory, perhaps a light
dream  forming  that you can influence and control  instead  of  being
whisked   along   by   the  preset  "plot"  that   your   subconscious
constructed...
  A  smile  appeared on his face as he remembered the previous  night,
and how sincerely happy Russell looked. Zac by his very nature was not
considerate. It wasn't a conscious decision, and it was not as  if  he
set out to hurt people - more like he was so extroverted that he spoke
his mind before he even considered analysing what he was about to say,
sometimes  the  most scathing remarks that he usually regretted  later
being uttered.
  He  was pleased that, for once, HE had actually made a difference to
someone's life in a positive way, and it gave him a glowie feeling all
through him.
  He  sighed  pleasurably as real consciousness displaced  sleep,  and
gradually became aware of his achingly full bladder and his five  inch
morning stiffie that was holding it all in.
  Hearing  the  "thump  thump  thump"  of  feet  running  towards  the
bathroom,  Zac  unbashfully  pulled his  bedclothes  back  and  ambled
towards the bathroom, his boyhood stuck out proudly infront of him.

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  Ike  was  in  a similar predicament, however the oldest brother  was
somewhat more concerned about other people's opinions of him.  He  was
depressed.  There was no other way to put it. When he was  around  his
brothers, their exuberance tended to bring him out of his shell  also.
On stage it was different - the screaming fans had a preconceived idea
of how he behaved and what he was like and for the most part never had
the chance to find out otherwise.
  The  phone call to Andy had shattered him. He couldn't really  blame
him for looking elsewhere, but it still left a hole in his psyche that
he was finding hard to come to terms with.
  'Tay  and Zac are so lucky...' he thought to himself as he  got  out
of  bed,  doing his best to arrange his hardon into a less conspicuous
position and trudged towards the bathroom. The sound of water  running
and  nylon bristles against teeth greeted his ears, and he took  up  a
stance infront of one of the urinals, nothing more than a polite "Hi,"
being exchanged between him and a few of the other lads in there. Some
of  them  were  laughing  and joking, but the pressure  of  'A'  level
modular  exams  was  weighing  heavily on  their  minds,  their  whole
(usually  frivolous) attitude to life suddenly being transformed  into
something a whole lot more critical.
  Ike  almost  wished he were under the same pressure  so  they  could
associate  with  one  another. This made him  think  -  he  had  never
actually  taken  an EXAM in his entire life, bar his  driving  test...
Sure,  his  mum  made them do tests, but never had  he  done  anything
official  - no SATs, no IQ tests - hell, at the rate he was  going  he
could  be  twenty-five  and not have a single academic  qualification.
What if Hanson's success didn't last? What if some new kid band turned
up   that  was  more  appealing  than  them?  What  then?  "Celebrity"
appearances on daytime chat shows, guest appearances in two-bit soaps,
more Eggo commercials and cameos on South Park. This was not good...
  Ike  sighed  and  shook  the last drip of piss  from  his  dick  and
proceeded to wash his hands and brush his teeth before hauling himself
up  to  school.  At least he'd be out of the place this weekend...  If
only he could have Andy back...

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  The  morning's walk had been less than demanding: the terrain  being
flat and our allotted time being nearly twice that required. Seeing as
the  pick-up time was fixed, there was no point in rushing at all. The
morning was chilly but fresh and sunny and, as ever at the end of  one
of these events, spirits and self-respect were high.
  We  sat on the kerb of the car park designated as our pick up point,
idly chatting about nothing at all, just enjoying the "we've done  it"
atmosphere.  Life was just so good at these times - any  worries  were
well  and  truly  overridden by the feel-good factor provided  by  the
achievement of having walked through the countryside "on our own"  for
a couple of days, and any differences between the members of the group
- if they even existed - were also forgotten.
  The  end  of  our two-and-a-half day adventure was signaled  by  the
filthy  Transit  van screeching round the corner at a  very  unhealthy
angle,  the  smoke trail behind it something the Red  Arrows  would've
been proud of.
  It  pulled  up sharply, Gillie rolling down the window and  grinning
at us. "Still alive then?"
  "Just about..."
  "Good! Enjoy it Mr. Hanson?"
  "Yeah man, that was cool!"
  "I'm  glad  you think so! Your group seems to have faired  the  best
anyway  - none of the others are at their pick-up points yet. You  may
as well get in..."
  Five  rucksacks were hurled oh-so-carefully into the minibus and  we
took  up  roughly  the same positions as we had done on  the  outbound
journey.  Tony looked distinctly isolated, so Tay tapped  him  on  the
shoulder  and motioned for him to come and sit on the back  seat  with
us.  He  grinned  as  we  squashed up against each  other,  the  usual
uncomfortable feeling created by you wondering if you were sitting too
close to someone for comfort completely absent.
  The  abused vehicle coughed into life, scrambled to find first  gear
then  gazzelled  across  the  car  park  in  the  vague  direction  of
Derbyshire. Suddenly, the threadbare seats of the Transit became very,
very  comfortable when compared to the carrimats that we'd been  lying
on for the last couple of nights: Soon, we had all slipped back into a
deep, contented sleep.

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  "FUCK!"  yelled  Zac as he picked himself up from the  tarmac.  He'd
managed to quite convincingly trip over his own hockey stick again.
  The  Saturday morning game of roller hockey on the school  car  park
had, supposedly, been blessed with a player who could out-skate anyone
on  the  "field". Actually, he could. Only problem was that  he  could
only  do  it  WITHOUT his hockey stick, as it seemed to  have  a  huge
affinity for the wheels of his in-line skates.
  Ike  couldn't help but laugh as he leaned against one  of  the  huge
beech  trees  that surrounded the car park. Zac was so used  to  doing
everything  without  thinking that now he  had  actually  come  across
something  that  took a little effort on his part, he was  getting  as
frustrated  as hell. Ike didn't like to think of himself as malicious,
but  it WAS funny. He had an audience too, which did little more  than
to quite obviously add to his frustration.
  Zac's  salvation  came  in  the form of the  noisy  arrival  of  our
battered  Transit hurtling into the car park, sending skaters  leaping
out  of its path, bringing the game to a premature conclusion. Wanting
to pre-empt the possibility of the game re-starting with him involved,
Zac skated over to the Trannie and feigned interest in our return.  We
wearily  dragged our rucksacks out after us as Zac did a very bad  job
at  pretending to be interested in what we'd been up to. Tay read  Zac
like  a  book, grinned and lobbed his rucksack straight at his younger
brother, causing him to go arse-up yet again.
  Ike  meandered  over and was, in complete contrast  to  his  younger
brother,  actually genuinely interested in what we'd been  doing,  the
friendship  between him and Taylor - even though Ike felt overshadowed
by  him  sometimes - still well and truly cemented  in  the  way  only
siblings know how.
  We  all  enthusiastically recounted the experience,  especially  the
part  where Taylor "rocket-scientist-wannabe" Hanson made a  concerted
effort  to  be  the first human to put a Primus stove into  low  earth
orbit under its own power.
  "Oh,  Ike  -  this  is  Spider, A.K.A.  Tony."  said  Tay,  suddenly
realising that the identity situation was very one-sided.
  "Hi there," smiled Ike, managing to produce a warm, gentle smile  as
opposed  to  the  slightly goofy one he wore usually. Tony  positively
grinned  back  and  extended  his  hand,  a  move  usually  considered
excessive  by  us lot - however, if I simply wanted to  touch  another
person,   perhaps  that  was  as  good  a  way  as  any   to   do   it
inconspicuously...
  Zac  was now back on his feet and ready to retaliate. "Hey Tay,  I'm
glad you didn't spend TOO much time in the shower... I don't know what
the flies'd be doing without you!"
  Tay looked at me with a raised eyebrow, then sprinted at Zac.
  "Oh  fuck," he yelled as he desperately tried to avoid his  brother,
turning round and skating at top speed away from him. For all of  five
metres,  Zac looked like he may actually evade capture, but  alas  his
discarded hockey stick was destined to piss on his strawberries.  Once
again, Zac's blades stopped dead as the top half of his body continued
oblivious.
  Tay  pounced on the once again spread-eagled Zac and got  him  in  a
headlock, giving his head a damn good scrubbing with his knuckles.
  "Gerroff me you freak!"
  "Not until take it back!"
  Tay  smiled inwardly as he heard the all to familiar dialogue  begin
between him and Zac for the umpteenth time.
  I,  on the other hand, smiled outwardly along with Jamie and Triv as
we  were  presented  with  the wonderful  sight  of  their  two  tight
backsides  waving  and  jumping infront of us. Had  there  been  fewer
people  around,  my will power would've buckled and I'd  have  had  to
teach them both a "lesson" for fighting...
  I  was actually quite annoyed when a subtle nudge from Triv broke my
train of lust over Tay's posterior, but nonetheless followed his gaze.
Now  THIS  could  be good - Ike and Tony seemed to be hitting  it  off
rather  well,  Tony's  usual  eyes-to-the-ground  character  seemingly
completely absent as he started at Ike, Hanson senior quite  obviously
returning his stare with equal intensity.
  Tay  gave Zac a final Billie-bop for good measure and leapt  off  of
Zac,  evading  the guaranteed random swipe that always  followed  such
sessions.
  Our  group  plus Tay and Zac ambled over to the bothy  to  hand  our
borrowed  kit  back  in,  Zac "helping", Ike and  Tony...  well,  just
talking with each other.
  After  failing miserably to come up with an excuse other than Taylor
blowing  the fuck out of it, we were all charged the best  part  of  a
tenner and told to "piss off before you break anything else!".

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  The  look  on me Dad's face when he came to pick us up  was  one  of
bemusement,  to say the least. Not only had the number of people  he'd
expected  to  be  taking home increased by two (Gareth  and  Tony  had
decided  to  invite themselves along) but one of us had assorted  cuts
and  grazes  over his elbows and knees and the other two  looked  like
they'd  been  dragged through multiple hedges backwards, forwards  and
every other way one gets dragged through a hedge.
  He  sighed,  thanked the Lord that he didn't have a  car  that  that
he'd  feel guilty about getting dirty, and motioned for us to  get  in
with the oh-so-familiar "boys will be boys" look on his face.
  I  can swear that my parents would have got the part if they'd  gone
to  the  auditions for "The Brady Bunch" - just once in a  while  they
could  come out with what they thought were the most "hip" and  "cool"
statements: "So - do you guys have anything planned for this weekend?"
  My  dad  never used the word "guys". "Lads" and "blokes",  yes,  but
never "guys". It  just didn't sound quite right.
  "Not that I know of, Dad..."
  "Well, I'm thinking of buying Kev's Defender off him."
  "Kev as in Chatsworth Kev?"
  Kevin  Lauden was a gardener. Not just any gardener, mind  you,  but
the  head  gardener of the Chatsworth Estate. Eight hundred  acres  of
gardens, lakes, meadows, tracks and hilly terrain - a large proportion
of  which had been turned over just recently to the RAC rally for  one
of their stages.
  "Yeah."
  "How long are you there for?"
  "A  couple of hours, I'd have thought - plenty of time for you to go
yomping!"
  "Yomping?" asked Tay, slightly confused.
  Please  don't  ask  where  the  term "yomping"  came  from,  I  have
absolutely no idea! Suffice it to say it was our word for Greenlaning,
i.e.  taking some form of 4x4 and charging through mud and undergrowth
much   for  the  same  reasons  as  mountain-climbers  seem  to  climb
mountains: because it's there.
  "Oh cool man! Do we get to drive?"
  "If  you're careful, yes," grinned my dad, who was looking  for  any
excuse  to part company with our aged Series III in favour of  one  of
the  later 'Defender' models, complete with the ride comfort that coil
springs provide. The Discovery had obviously spoiled him.

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  "OK, your turn, Zac!"
  "It's  impossible!  There is no way we can get up  there!  Ike  just
proved that!"
  A  forty degree muddy slope can seem a bit daunting, it's true,  but
it IS possible.
  "You've driven a manual car before, right?" I asked.
  "Huh?"
  "He means stick shift..."
  "Oh, yeah - Ike's truck,"
  "Good  - this is just the same, but remember you're in low box here,
start off in third..."
  "OK  - hang on to your butts!" yelled Zac as he gripped the steering
wheel  and  dumped  the clutch. The BFGoodrich tyres  did  their  job,
sending  four  fountains  of  mud a good  ten  feet  in  the  air  and
catapulted us forward towards the slope. About half way up,  we  began
to  loose  traction and gently slowed to a halt, wheels still spinning
unchecked.
  "See? Now how the fuck do I get down from here?!"
  "Just  put it in reverse... That's it, and gently let out the clutch
until it starts to bite... OK, now take your feet off all the pedals."
  "WHAT??"
  "Just do it."
  "I can't touch the brake?"
  "You can't touch the brake."
  "Uh, OK, but it's your Dad's truck..."
  Zac  turned  round as best he could, gritted his teeth and  released
the clutch and brake.
  Gently  and professionally, the car reversed steadily back down  the
hill, the engine-overrun keeping all wheels braked, but not locked  so
the vehicle was still under control.
  "Cool!  I never knew you could get an adrenaline rush at five  miles
an hour!!"
  "OK, Tay's turn,"
  I  decided  to give Tay a bit of an unfair advantage. As he  sat  in
the driver's seat, I whispered a couple of tips into his ear.
  Just  like  Zac, he selected third and charged at the hill,  letting
the  momentum  of  his run-up get him to the halfway  point.  However,
instead  of  following his instinct and gunning the  engine  like  the
other  two  had,  he  studiously followed my advice,  and  eased  off,
allowing the revs to drop. The further up we went, the slower the  car
was going until the engine was almost stalling, but he made it.
  Tay turned round and grinned smugly at his brothers.
  "Cheat," pouted Zac.
  "Dean,  umm,  is  it OK if we get out and walk for a  while?"  Asked
Ike.  Never one to get in the way of a budding friendship, I  directed
Tay  to  a  spot that seemed less muddy than the rest of the field  we
were in and let them out.
  "When d'you want picking up?"
  "Oh,  no  hurry," grinned Tony. I smiled back and climbed back  into
the Landie.
  As  we sped of in a cloud of smoke and a shower of mud, Ike suddenly
felt guilty.
  "Uh,  sorry  man  - I just remembered you've spent that  last  three
days walking!"
  "S'OK, I don't mind..."
  They  turned and began walking down the gentle gradient on the other
side  of  the hill not saying a word, Ike ever so slightly infront  of
Tony. Then he stopped, Tony managing to walk straight into him.
  "Uh, sorry ma..."
  Ike  grabbed his shoulders and looked straight into his  eyes.  "Umm
Tony, uhh, D'you think... would it be pos..."
  Tony  leant  forward and gave him a quick kiss on the  lips,  rather
taking Ike by surprise. "I'll take that as a yes, then," he smiled. He
pulled  Tony  to him, luxuriating in the feeling of closeness  he  had
been longing after for so long.
  Tony  felt the same. He'd never consciously allowed himself to  look
at other guys before, and here he was in the arms of one - and it felt
so right! Sure, he'd been hugged and kissed by girls before, but there
seemed  something  so...  so  real about this,  more  sincere...  Less
innocent.  He  knew  that  the  establishment  would  scowl  upon  the
lifestyle he'd opened himself up to, but what the hell? He'd spent his
whole life so far trying to please either his parents, his teachers or
his  peers,  and had quite successfully managed not to  on  all  three
counts.
  Now  he was, quite literally, going to please himself. He wanted  to
go for it, so screw everyone else - he damn well would. If they didn't
like it, tough. They weren't him.
  Tony  allowed  his  right hand to move down and squeeze  Ike's  arse
cheek, and rested his head against his new found friend's.




                  Chapter Twenty-Three

  The  bastard  who  invented  time must've  been  a  vindictive  sod:
whenever  you  were having a really good time, you'd suddenly  realise
the  four hours you had had turned into four minutes. Conversely,  the
forty-minute  maths class seemed to be the only time when  the  second
hand of your watch took five seconds to move on a tic.
  Time  flies.  Bollocks. Time is friggin' jet propelled! The  weekend
had  been soooo good - after our yomping session we went back home and
just  did a lot of nothing in particular - chatting, eating everything
that was bad for you and generally kickin' back and enjoying life.
  Sunday  was  almost as bad time wise - we meandered into  Derby  and
had  a good four rounds of Quasar (Team Hanson vs. The Rest), spent  a
fortune  at  Pizza  Hut (how on God's earth can Zac  eat  so  friggin'
much?!) and rounded the day off with a movie.

  Although uneventful, the following week at school raced past  simply
because  Tay  and I were together in every lesson we had. His  parents
had  obviously  not taken their sons' homeschooling  lightly,  as  Tay
breezed  through the lessons and tests without effort, dispelling  the
roomer  that pop stars may be able to sing and look good, but  usually
only have one brain-cell to share between them.
  Zac  seemed to settle in extremely well, but much to the  dismay  of
his teachers, never for one moment settled down. However, his interest
in  history  and maths stood him in good stead, allowing his  behavior
(or lack thereof) to be held in perspective.
  Ike  was  now happy. He had found someone that had been  in  exactly
the  same predicament as him as regards his sexuality - unsure of what
or  who he was, and not wanting to admit it to himself. Being able  to
both  recount and listen to experiences they had had turned them  both
round.  Ike started talking to people, and they talked back. Being  in
different  forms,  and hence having different timetables,  meant  that
they couldn't spend half as much time together as they had wanted to.
  All  this  was  about  to change: the week had passed,  and  it  was
Saturday again. I was excited. Hell, I was more than excited! My dream
of  visiting the States was just around the corner and who  better  to
give me the tour than THE cutest guy on the face of this earth?