Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:34:24 -0600
From: Luis Salazar <subfer1@gmail.com>
Subject: Nate's Wounded Heart Chapter 10

      Chapter 10 ----Martin's wounded heart (Party night)----

      "So our girl is single now?" He asked Luke.

      "So she said at lunch, she says Michael's behavior lacked some
manners lately and that she had to let him go." Luke said quoting the
wordplay Becca had used earlier that day.

      Nate arched his eyebrow at the cryptic comment and looked at Luke who
returned the look. They were getting ready to go have a short dinner with
Martin and Becca before the party. Luke was already getting dressed as Nate
was barely drying off after his shower. Luke stood behind him watching him
drying his legs and thighs, and couldn't stand it. Nate had been getting in
real good shape since they had met and now Luke couldn't stand to look at
him without having dirty thoughts cloud his mind and passion fill his
heart. He fastened his belt and walked behind Nate as he finished drying
off. He wrapped his arms around him and started planting kisses on his back
and shoulders, as he ran his hands along Nate's stomach and chest.

      Nate sighed in response and then placed his hands on top of Luke's as
they ran across his torso. Luke then started gently humping Nate from
behind, then he wrapped his arms around Nate hugging him tight as Nate
begun to wiggle his ass against Luke's erection.

      "Do we have time before we have to meet the guys?" Nate asked.

      "I guess so, what do you have in mind?" Luke asked back.

      Nate turned around and started to open Luke's belt buckle. "Just wait
and see, I'll give you a surprise that I've had in mind the last few days."
He said as he leaned forward and planted a kiss on Luke's lips, then he
started kissing Luke's neck as he helped him remove the belt and then his
pants and underwear, he hadn't had time to put on a shirt so after this
Nate pushed Luke onto Nate's bed and he began sucking on his nipples. Luke
moaned and started caressing Nate's hair as he kept on licking and gently
nibbling on Luke's nipples.

      Nate's erection was rubbing against Luke's thigh and he decided he
wanted to play with it, so he pushed Nate a bit so that he was kneeling on
the bed in front of him and then he got on his knees as well and then took
Nate's dick in his mouth. Nate started moaning and caressing the back of
Luke's head as he kept on sucking him for a while. After about 5 minutes of
this Nate grabbed Luke's head by each side and started thrusting his dick
while keeping Luke's head still. After another while of this he felt
himself close and Luke was eager to take Nate's load, but then Nate stopped
fucking his face and pushed Luke on the bed.

      "Why did you stop? You were about to cum." Luke said.

      "I have something else in mind. Send Martin a text message and tell
him we'll get there half an hour late and to tell Becca, same place and we
are going to the party, but tell him we're busy for a while before." Nate
said.

      Luke obliged, taking his cell phone and sending a message to Martin,
adding at the end the phrase: I think Nate's gonna pop my cherry!!!

      "Sent it?" Nate asked.

      Luke nodded and Nate got on top of him and started kissing him. As
they were kissing Nate started jerking Luke's dick in between of them and
with his other hand be began rubbing Luke's balls. Luke moaned in between
kisses and then started rubbing his hands on Nate's back, then Nate removed
his hand from rubbing Luke's balls and he used that hand to guide one of
Luke's hands to his ass. Luke took the hint and started running his fingers
along Nate's ass crack and pushing at his hole.

      Nate got up and shifted his position so he was now lying with his
head on the opposite side of the bed then Luke's head, he began sucking
Luke's cock and using some of his spit he started fingering Luke, then he
stopped and guided Luke's hand towards his ass again. They kept at it for
some time before Luke felt himself close and he tried to stop Nate, but he
kept sucking and fingering him, and so Luke released a copious load into
Nate's mouth. Nate swallowed the load and then he got up and went to his
desk, he opened one of the drawers and got out some lube and something
small that Luke couldn't see.

      "Now, we're going to do something new, just trust me babe." He said
as he kneeled in front of Luke on the bed. "Are you still sensitive or do
you think you can have another round?" He asked Luke.

      Luke couldn't figure out what was about to happen but he still
touched his dick and rubbed its tip with his fingers and noticed it wasn't
sensitive from his precious orgasm anymore. "I think I can go
again... what's about to happen babe?" He said.

      Nate smiled and didn't answer, then he opened a small package and
Luke realized it was a condom, he got closer and started unrolling the
condom on Luke's dick. He was shocked. When he rolled the condom properly,
Nate proceeded to apply some lube to Luke's sheeted dick and then rubbed
some on his ass. Luke still couldn't believe this and he wanted to speak
but he couldn't get the words out at first, then he put his hands up
gesturing Nate to stop.

      "Wait, I thought... well I've always wanted you to fuck me, I hadn't
thought of this yet." He said as Nate smiled again, he moved closer and
kissed him.

      "I want you to experience this side first, I think it will give you a
good view on both things, we'll have it the other way around later, now
just relax and enjoy this." Nate said as he straddled Luke and used his
hand to guide Luke's dick to his hole.

      Luke thought his heart was going to pop out of his chest; he closed
his eyes and then felt the pressure of Nate pushing onto his cock. He kept
his eyes closed as he felt the tip of his dick begin to enter Nate, and
then he opened his eyes and saw that Nate had closed his and was biting on
his lower lip as he lowered himself on Luke. Nate opened his eyes and
looked into Luke's eyes, and then lowered himself more, Luke felt his dick
pop in Nate's ass and Nate moaned as he pushed down a bit more. It was so
tight that Luke couldn't believe it, he covered his face with his hands as
he felt his dick slide all the way inside Nate.

      Now that he knew most of Luke's dick was inside him, Nate opened his
eyes and reached down with his hands and used them to uncover Luke's face,
he grabbed the sides of Luke's face and began caressing it. Then he leaned
down and kissed him as he started using his legs to rise up a little and
then go down again, Luke moaned in between kisses and then he felt Nate
started jerking his own dick, he looked down and saw Nate jerking himself
off as he rocked his hips on top of Luke. he thought he was going to lose
his mind, it felt so warm, so tight and most of all he couldn't stop
thinking that he was inside Nate and that they were finally giving into
each other fully.

      Nate stopped and looked at Luke. "I want you to fuck me." He said.

      "Well I think that's already happening." He said breathing hard.

      "No, I mean I want you on top of me, fucking me." Nate said.

      Luke reached up and they both started to twirl in bed, and without
Luke's dick coming out of Nate's ass they moved so Nate was now on his back
and Luke was on top of him. Luke grabbed Nate's legs, parted them, and then
pushed them up. Nate was sweating and he started jerking his dick again as
Luke started thrusting into him. Luke found the bottle of lube, got some on
his hand, and then used it to start jerking Nate's dick. He let himself go
on top of Nate and started holding him as he slowly fucked him. Nate was
moaning and his chest was heaving as he breathed. Luke started kissing him
and kept on jerking him off.

      "I love you babe." Luke said.

      "I love you too." Nate said before he started kissing him once
again. Luke felt he was close so he started thrusting into Nate
faster. Nate moaned in response and held tight against Luke. After a few
moments Nate moaned aloud as he started shooting while Luke had his hand
wrapped around his dick and Luke moaned loudly as he felt Nate's ass clamp
around his dick. Then he held Nate as tight as he could against him as he
shot his load while he was still inside Nate. He collapsed on top of Nate
and then they held each other as their breathing began to go back to
normal. Luke kissed Nate's neck and Nate kissed the top of his head.

      "God I love you, that was good, can't wait to have it the other way
around." Luke said giggling.

      "Why did I know that was going to be your reaction?" Nate said
laughing, and then they started kissing again. After a while, they got up
and took showers again so they could go meet Martin and Becca.

      * * * * *

      "So they said they'd be here later huh?" Becca asked Martin.

      "Yeah, that's why I phoned you first, but they should be getting here
soon." He answered.

      Martin was wearing a blue button up shirt and grayish blue
jeans. Becca was wearing a red blouse, black pants and a gray jacket on
top. They were sitting at the bar of a small diner that was across the
street from the English building, Martin and Nate's favorite place to eat
at school besides from the dining hall. The woman behind the counter had
already offered to take their orders but they declined and said they were
expecting some friends of theirs.

      "My god I hope they have a good fuck `cause if not I'll slap them for
this I need food already!" Becca whined.

      Martin snorted and nodded. "Well I'm sure that they are having fun,
it's either that or poor Nate is being abused by Luke." He said as Luke
came up behind him and smacked him in the back of the head as Nate snorted
at him. "Well I sure didn't expect you to be behind me." He said.

      "Sorry we were late but I had to get Nate to pretend he was knocking
me up before our first school party together." Luke said with a devilish
grin on his face. He was wearing a green plain t-shirt and blue jeans, Nate
wore his new shirt and some jeans as well.

      Becca and Martin started laughing as a blushing Nate sat next to
Martin while Luke sat on the other side, next to Becca, leaving their
friends in between the two of them. "Well someone looks nice with his new
shirt and haircut." Martin said to Nate and made him blush a darker shade
of red.

      "We told him it looked good on him." Becca said.

      Nate slouched down on his stool and felt a little sting in his
ass. Luke was bigger then Derek, or him for that matter and he hadn't
realized or thought that he would end up in pain after having Luke up his
ass, though he was sure that he had loved it and would love to have it
again. They ordered some food and started chatting away and then they
decided that they should get going to the party so that they could leave
earlier and go back to their dorms before the party got too wild. As they
were on their way Nate couldn't help but notice how much more relaxed and
calmer Martin seemed.

      "You ok now?" He asked Martin as Becca and Luke were chatting as they
walked.

      Martin looked him in the eye and nodded. "Did I really appear to be
that bad?" Martin asked back.

      "Well it's not that you looked bad, it's just that you are a very
cheerful person most of the time and we all noticed you weren't acting your
usual way." Nate answered.

      "I guess I am ok now... though I don't think I want to..." He tried
to say before Nate walked to him and hugged him.

      "You don't have to explain, as long as you say you are ok and mean it
you don't have to give any explanations." Nate said as he kept his left arm
around Martin's shoulders.

      Martin smiled. "Thanks buddy." He said as they approached the
entrance to the dinning hall.

      They paid the entrance fee and went in the place, when they got in
Becca and Luke both started smiling and chuckling, while Martin and Nate
seemed to be surprised rather than amused. The beat of techno music filled
the air and the decoration just knocked the breath out of them. There were
rainbow banners hanging from the walls, as well as fliers with phrases such
as:
      Boys kissing boys=Kicks ass!
      Once you go dyke you never come back.
      Bisexuals rule...
      And on and on they went covering all of the walls as a disco ball
hanging from the center of the ceiling showered the place with tiny lights
that swirled and had a quite nauseating effect.

      "I never thought it would be like this, I knew it would be decorated
but I never thought that they would... show off this much." Nate said as
Luke laughed and dragged him towards some tables that had punch bowls and
snacks. Becca and Martin followed them to the table.

       "Well Nate you gotta give it to them, they are sending a message."
Becca said as she started to look around the table.

      Martin took some chips and started eating some as Nate took a plastic
cup and was about to fill it with some green punch when a tall guy with
dark hair came closer to them.

      "That one is spiked, not like disciplinary offices would find out or
the alliance would care, but you should know." He said to Nate as he smiled
and ran his eyes all over Nate checking him out.

      "Thanks, I don't drink so I appreciate that." Nate said as he pointed
at another bowl.

      The guy nodded. "That one is clean, the green one and the orange one
on the other side of the table are the ones that are spiked." He said, then
he reached out and placed his hand on Nate's shoulder, Nate looked up to
his face and saw his hazel eyes sparkling. "My name is Victor." He said as
he squeezed Nate's shoulder.

      Nate didn't know what to say and as he was going to tell the guy his
name Luke came from behind him and wrapped his arms around Nate just
beneath his shoulders. "Hi, my name is Luke and he's my boyfriend Nate." He
said merrily as if he felt pride in making that announcement.

      Victor nodded and smiled as he lowered his head. "I see, well I hope
you boys have fun." He said as he walked away from the table towards a
bench that placed near a wall covered in posters of athletes wearing skimpy
shorts and showing their washboard abs, large biceps and big breasts in the
case of the ones with women on them.

      "I hope he doesn't think we were rude, I got surprised by how forward
he was." Nate said as Luke got some punch for himself, then Luke stopped
and stared at him smiling. "What?" Nate asked.

      "Honey, he was coming on to you, why do you think he left when I said
you're my boyfriend?" Luke answered.

      Nate looked at Martin and Becca to see if they thought the same, and
effectively they nodded while smiling at him. "Weird, I mean why would he
hit on me then?" He asked them.

      "Because you're good looking I'd guess." Martin said smiling at him.

      "That would be my guess too." Becca said.

      "I knew I'd end up fighting them bitches off of you tonight." Luke
said with a serious look on his face. Becca and Martin laughed as Nate
blushed and tried to remain close to Luke from then on.

      Becca looked around the room and saw that a cute guy, short looking,
with brown hair and a slim built was looking their way and at closer
inspection she realized the guy was looking at Martin. She smiled to
herself as she started thinking of how to get things going.

      "Hey Martin let's walk around to see if I find a straight guy around
here." She said and didn't even wait for Martin to answer or object. She
took him by the arm and begun walking towards the cute guy. As they were on
their way, she started looking around and as Martin saw her doing this, he
began looking around too, trying to spot someone who looked straight. "Hey,
don't you think that guy over there is cute?" Becca asked him as she
pointed at the guy that had been looking at them.

      Martin looked at where she was pointing and saw the guy, he was
wearing a black polo shirt, had longish brown hair that fell on his
forehead and to the left and he had a strong jaw line and also had thick
full lips. He immediately thought the guy was cute, and saw that the guy
looked at him, smiled and looked down before blushing. He felt himself
blush at this so he looked at Becca and nodded. "Yeah, he is cute." He
answered.

      "Let's go talk to him then." She said, and again she began walking
and dragging Martin along with her, not letting go of his arm. He wanted to
object but couldn't even get the words out, and then they were standing in
front of the guy. "Hi, I'm sorry, my friend and I were walking around and
we couldn't help but notice how nice looking you are." Becca said, and the
guy looked up startled and blushed when he saw Martin before him, Martin
knew the feeling because he was blushing now too.

      "Hey." He said as he looked up at them and Martin felt his knees
going weak when he heard the guy's soft voice and saw that his eyes were of
a sparkling green. "Thanks I guess, you guys are very good looking too." He
said as he looked from Becca to Martin.

      Becca elbowed Martin and he took the hint. "Hi, my name is Martin,
and this is my friend Becca." He said extending his left hand to shake.

      The guy extended his and shook Martin's hand. "My name's Brent." He
said and then Martin realized that they were still grasping each other's
hands. Brent looked at their hands, noticed, and quickly drew his hand back
blushing and looking down. Martin blushed too as he got his hand in his
pocket.

      Becca smiled. "Well I think I'm going to go see what Nate and Luke
are doing, you guys have fun." She said as she pushed Martin closer to
Brent. "Bye Brent, it was nice meeting you." She said as she walked away
smiling.

      "Well she goes straight to the point doesn't she?" Brent asked
looking up just a little bit.

      "Yeah, she's very forward." Martin said. He looked next to Brent and
saw that there was room to sit next to him on the bench.

      Brent noticed too and he moved a little to his right making more
room. "Have a seat." Martin nodded and sat down next to him.

      They both looked up as they heard Becca repeatedly saying: Yes!
Repeatedly as she walked towards them. "Ok, I know you, what did you do
now?" Nate asked arching his left eyebrow.

      "Nothing, I just found Martin a cute boy and left the two of them to
see if something good happens." She answered as she smiled and began
dancing a little.

      They both smiled and nodded. Becca moved closer and motioned to where
Martin was now sitting next to Brent. The three of them stared a little as
they saw both guys smiling as they were chatting. "The guy is cute." Luke
said.

      "So is our Martin." Nate said.

      "I hope Brent and him get along well." Becca said.

      "He's got a porn star name." Luke said. "Owww!"

      Nate laughed after Becca smacked Luke in the back of the head. "And
so, what? Maybe that means he's got some skills if you know what I mean."
Becca said with an evil grin. "Owwww!"

      Now Nate smacked her in the back of the head. "Stop it with the
innuendos the two of you." He said to the two of them. "Now, let's stop
staring before they notice and we make them uncomfortable." He said. They
both nodded and they went back to the table and started eating some chips.

      "I bet you don't get that much free time, you know being an R.A. and
all." Brent said.

      "Actually besides from the rounds I do a couple of times a week and
your occasional complaint, I do get some time to spend." Martin said when
in reality he wanted to tell him that he'd make time for him if he'd just
as much ask.

      Brent smiled and nodded, he looked around the room and was just about
to speak when he stopped and stared towards the center of the room, Martin
looked the same way to try and see what had caught Brent's attention and
then he felt his stomach clench. Michael was standing in between some guys
that were dancing in couples and a few girls dancing very close to each
other.

      "I think that guy has been staring at you, do you know him?" Brent
asked Martin.

      Martin felt like throwing up. He stared at Michael and then saw how
Michael pointed at him and was quite sure he was mouthing the words: You're
mine. "I do know him, uhm could you wait for me here a few minutes, I'm
going to go get a friend of mine." Martin answered.

      "Are you ok?" Brent asked.

      "Yeah I'll be right back." Martin said, then got up and started
walking. Brent thought he was not ok, and then saw how Martin started
walking towards the table where the snacks and drinks were, but he avoided
the center of the room where the tall guy that had just been staring at
Martin had been. The tall guy disappeared just as Martin started
walking. He was debating about what to do, Martin wasn't ok, and the tall
guy looked suspicious, he got up and started walking before thinking more
about it.

      Martin saw that Nate was standing in front of a bench that was next
to the tables. He was alone and Martin thought that at least this way if he
had to tell Nate, Becca wouldn't find out. "Nate, I need your help... I
just saw... he said not to say anything but I don't care..." He tried to
say but couldn't get any coherent sentences out.

      "Ok, take a deep breath and tell me." Nate said, as he got closer and
put his hands on Martin's shoulders.

      Martin took a deep breath and looked down. "Michael, he came to my
room on Monday night and..." He took another deep breath. "I had this
bottle of vodka from this drunk kid I took it from his room and warned him
to stop drinking, well I was going to throw it away, but Michael suggested
we'd drink some of it." Nate squeezed his shoulders tighter, Martin looked
up into his face, and then his words came out as whispers. "I got real
drunk, he barely drank any of it, and then he... started touching me... and
then he..." He closed his eyes and felt himself shaking.

      Nate grabbed him by the chin making him look up. "Martin, are you
sure of this?" He asked. Martin nodded. "Did he do anything else to you?"
Again, he nodded. "Did he hurt you?" Nate asked in a whisper. Martin nodded
again and felt tears falling down his face. Nate hugged him tight and he
let out a small sob. "It's ok, you saw him here?" He asked as he parted a
little.

      "Yeah, I was with Brent and then Brent said some guy was staring at
me and it was him, he was glaring at me and then I came to look for you."
Martin answered.

      "Why didn't you tell me before?" Nate asked.

      "I was afraid, you guys are so cool and I though if you knew you'd
hate me for screwing up." Martin said as tears kept rolling down his face.

      "How could you think that? He used you, he got you drunk and
then... He raped you! You should've told us, and we would've helped you"
Nate started rasing his voice a little and then he decided they had to move
from there. "Come, let's go outside, actually you stay at the exit and I'll
go get Luke, he went with Becca to the ladies room." He said as he dragged
Martin with him.

      Martin came to a halt. "Don't tell her; please I don't want her to
know."

      "I won't tell her, but later we will have to, and besides she broke
up with him already." Nate started looking around. "Just wait here, don't
move, I'll go get Luke. Martin nodded and then Nate walked to the other
side of the dinning hall were the restrooms were. As he was taking deep
breaths and wiping the tears away from his face, he felt a pointy object
pressed to his back and then a hand grabbed him by the stomach.

      "Don't move and don't even dare to scream." Michael said from behind
him.

      He felt a lump in his throat. "Ok, I won't." He said as clear as he
could.

      "Now move I'm going to teach you a lesson." Michael said and then
pushed him; they started walking towards the exit.

      He found Luke at the door to the women restroom and motioned for him
to come. Luke started walking towards him. "We've got trouble, Martin just
told me something... horrible, we have to help him, he's waiting for us..."
He turned around to point at where he had left Martin standing, but felt
his stomach drop as he saw he wasn't there anymore. "Oh my god, he found
him!" He said real loud.

      "Who found who?" Becca asked as she walked out of the restroom.

      "Come on, we have to find Martin before Michael does something to
him." Nate said. Both Luke and Becca felt a chill go up their backs but
they started walking when they saw Nate had started almost running across
the place pushing people away.

      He saw the tall guy and Martin were walking out, at first he thought
he had wasted his time hitting on a guy that was taken, but then he saw
that Martin was walking carefully and the tall guy was walking right behind
him and he had a terrible feeling about it. He saw them go out by the exit
on the west side of the dinning hall and sped up to try and catch them,
then as he exited the place he started looking around and saw that it was
almost deserted outside. He gave a few steps and came to a halt next to a
light post that rested in front of the entrance to the dinning hall, then
as he was about to give up he heard Martin speaking.

      "I didn't tell her anything I swear!" Martin said.

      "The hell you didn't she broke up with me! You told her you little
fag and I warned you!" The other guy yelled. Brent started running towards
the voices without even thinking, they were behind some bushes that were
next to the sidewalk that led to the library. Then as he rounded the bushes
he saw that Martin was on the ground and the other guy was holding a big
knife and was about to stab Martin.

      "Noooooo!" He yelled as he jumped on top of the guy. He grabbed on to
him and the guy staggered a few steps back.

      "Who the fuck?! Get off me!" The guy yelled. They fell backwards and
Brent had the breath knocked out of him. Then he started struggling to get
up and saw the tall guy was on his knees and then felt the punch on his
face. Everything went dark, the punch made him flinch and he went dizzy.

      "Leave him alone!" Martin yelled. He ran and tackled Michael onto the
ground. The knife fell out of his hands and then they started struggling,
Michael tried to reach for the knife but Martin pulled him back and punched
him in the back. Michael yelled and turned, he backhanded Martin and sent
him onto his back, and then he reached for the knife and grabbed
it. Michael jumped on top of Martin with the knife in his right hand,
Martin reached out with both hands, and gripped Michael's wrists. They were
struggling and Michael kept pushing hard with his right arm trying to bring
the knife down.

      "Michael stop!" Martin heard Becca yell from behind them. Then he saw
a pair of hands pulling Michael by the neck from behind and off Martin, he
sighed as he saw Michael fall on his back, and saw that it was Nate that
had pulled him off him. Luke and Becca were standing besides him, pale and
both obviously frightened, he looked around and saw that Brent was sitting
up and looking around a little confused. Then he saw Michael getting up
raising the hand with the knife.

      "Watch out Nate!" He yelled. Then he saw Michael jumped towards Nate,
but Nate jumped to his left, and Michael fell on top of the ground and slid
a few feet forward on the grass. He had dropped the knife when he slid and
as he started looking for it Nate jumped on top of him, grabbed him by the
shirt with his left hand and then punched him in the face with his right
fist. The punch was so hard that Michael fell unconscious.

      * * * * *

      He was looking out the window as he heard them speak inside the
bathroom. He hadn't felt so frightened in his whole life as he had felt
that night. They had saved his life. Brent and Nate had saved him. They had
spent over two hours explaining the situation to the university security
guards after they had taken Michael in custody. Brent asked one of the
officers for some paper and a pen and wrote his building, room number and
cell phone number and gave the paper to Martin, he felt a warm feeling when
he saw the number and they didn't exchange any words.

      Brent left to his room and Nate and Luke said they'd spend the night
with him so he went with them to their room. Now they were speaking to
Becca in the restroom, and he felt a knot in his stomach waiting for her to
come out, she had heard the story as they told it to the officers, but now
he knew she was for sure going to ask him about it directly. He heard the
restroom door open and saw Becca walk down the hall and towards him. He
could notice that she had been crying, and as he realized this he felt he
was about to cry himself.

      "Are you feeling okay baby?" She asked him. He looked up and
nodded. "Did he hurt you?" She asked with her voice breaking. Again, he
nodded for he couldn't get the words to come out of his mouth. She sobbed
and sat down next to him as she wrapped her arms around him, at first he
stiffened but then he started sobbing too.

      "I thought he was just being friendly, but then he started touching
me and he wouldn't stop, not even when I told him it was hurting me..." He
said as he cried, and she held him tighter.

      "Why didn't you tell me when I asked you back in your room? If you
had told me I would've helped you, he was being an ass to me, he even got
violent that day and I thought he was going to hurt me, knowing what he did
to you would've only made me know I did the right thing!" She said as she
pulled back and looked at him in the eye.

      "I was afraid, I haven't had any friends since a long time ago, and
you guys are so good to me, I was afraid that you'd get mad at me and I'd
lose you guys, you're the only good friends I've had since my parents
died..." He said as he started crying and shaking.

      She held him, but hearing this left her in awe, she had no idea that
Martin's parents were dead. She looked up and saw that Nate and Luke were
standing next to the bed and the two of them looked as surprised as she
was. "Honey, why didn't you tell us that your parents are dead?" She asked.

      He took a deep breath and wiped his eyes. "I don't know, I don't like
telling people, in high school everyone looked at me as if I was a freak
because of it, so I stopped talking about it." He said.

      "How did they die?" Nate asked.

      Martin looked up. "My dad died of stomach cancer when I was eight."
Luke looked down and felt like crying with just that. Martin continued: "My
mom started drinking a lot and one day when I was fourteen I got home and
found a police car out front, when I got inside they were speaking to my
brother, she had been drunk while driving and she drove off a road into a
cliff." Becca held him and started silently crying.

      "What about your brother?" Nate asked.

      Martin almost started crying again. "He was 6 years older then me, so
when mom died, he found a good job and he took care of me, he was great,
Matty always made sure I'd study and had fun, he tried so hard to get me to
have friends but kids always treated me differently so I never did have any
friends after mom died." He took a deep breath. "But I knew he was doing
drugs, I noticed when I was fifteen, but I didn't care he always treated me
well and he never skipped work, he would just do drugs on weekends. But
then when I was sixteen, a Sunday morning I went into his room to tell him
breakfast was ready and I found him..." He let out a sob and stopped, took
a deep breath and then spoke as tears fell down his face. "He was dead, I
tried to wake him but it was useless, I called nine-one-one and when they
got there they said he was dead. After that I went to live with my
grandparents, and then I came here..." He said before he started crying a
little more.

      Luke had his back to him and he was crying, as he held Nate's left
hand. Nate got on his knees in front of Martin, and wiped the tears from
his face. "Martin, we don't think you're a freak, we won't leave you and we
love you." He said. Martin took a deep breath and wiped his face, looked
down at Nate and nodded.

      "Thank you." He said.

      * * * * *

      She opened the door as quietly as she could, she went in the room and
tip-toed her way to her bed, she dropped her sweater on the floor, sat on
the bed and took her pants, shoes and socks off. Then she turned and got
under the covers, facing the wall. She wanted to sleep, forget about all of
what had happened that day. She covered her face with her hands and started
sobbing, after a few seconds the sobs turned into loud cries, she thought
she had to calm down but couldn't stop.

      Jessie woke up, stayed still, and quiet trying to listen and then she
realized that Becca was crying on her bed. She didn't know what to do, they
didn't get along all that well, but hearing her cry made her feel terrible,
something bad had to have happened to make her cry like this. She sat up,
looked to the other side of the room and saw Becca curled into the fetal
position, facing the wall. Fighting her fears, she got out of bed and
crossed to the other side of the room, and then she hesitated before
sitting down on the bed next to her.

      Becca felt Jessie sitting down next to her, and she started wiping
her eyes and trying to calm down, but she couldn't. Then she felt Jessie
running a hand on her hair, caressing her, then she placed her other hand
on her shoulder. The contact helped her calming her down.

      "Are you ok?" Jessie asked her.

      She took a deep breath. "I'm going to be." She answered. "Thanks."


      I'm sorry for the delay in sending this one in, I have been extremely
busy with school, but I have been writing new chapters. All of them are at
the gay stories subforum at www.justusboys.com and they are also on
www.crvboy.org look for the story, either by its name or by my name. Thank
you for the patience, I hope you guys like how the story is going, and as
always, your comments are welcome.