Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:49:11 -0400
From: Alan A. <eastcoastasulax@gmail.com>
Subject: Jake Grimke Chapter 9

NOTE:  This is the fictional coming of age story of Jake Grimke as he
matures through high school, into college and eventually into
adulthood in the Baltimore, Maryland region.  It contains and embraces
accurate representations of life in Baltimore and its suburbs;
Maryland's traditional sport of lacrosse and the career path a
firefighter might follow in his profession.  All of the characters in
this story are fictional and resemblance to any one person whether
dead or alive is purely coincidental.  If you liked this installment,
please send me some feed back; I got a rough idea where this is headed
but I am always open to some suggestions. Needless to say, if you are
offended by handsome athletic young men growing up gay and the
obstacles they will encounter as well their personal triumphs, you
should use the BACK button on your browser forthwith.

Now it all began to click in Will Hurley's head why Jake Grimke had
been asking all the gay questions on the way home from the interview
at St. Michael's not long after Thanksgiving break.  Jake hadn't asked
any real specific questions and Will hadn't volunteered any real
specific answers but a new question lingered in Will's mind and he
brought it out to Jake very pointedly.  "So, if you are gay, or think
you are gay, then what was with bringing Anna to the Holiday Dance
last night and then to Beecher's for the after-party?" Will demanded
to know if he was going to guard Jake's secret; "tell me that and I'll
tell you how to ask out Jose."

"It was all Jackie's idea; the Pences are Anna's co-sponsors while she
is here on the exchange program.  Jackie wanted her to have a date and
nobody else from the football team had ponied up to ask the "fraulein"
out to any of the school functions so she weaseled Evan into asking me
to ask her out," Jake explained, "I felt miserable the whole night,
especially when I looked over at you, like I was part of some big
conspiracy.  The saving grace is she has a boyfriend back home in
Munich and hopefully I wont have to do it ever again."

Will blushed a little, "you were looking at me?  Like you did in the
locker room earlier in the week?"

Jake nodded yes, hung his head and smiled a little, "yeah, busted."

"Listen, you don't have to do this alone, there's plenty of people
ready and willing to help you through this," Will offered followed by,
"who else knows?"

"Mom and Dad, told them about a year ago," Jake replied.

"Anybody else?" Will followed up.

"Evan of course; sneaky little devil twisted it out of me back in
August," Jake recalled the day hiking a few months back, "and now
you."

Will Hurley appreciated the gravity of the situation he was in;
probably the most popular guy in the graduating class at Severn High
coming out to one of the lesser popular guys of the same class.  Jake
continued, "I appreciate your advice about `ringing and un-ringing the
bell', it makes a lot of sense and I promise to follow it."

"You and Evan ever....?" Will bravely advanced.

"Nope, don't even go there," Jake warned, "my wingman is straight as a pin."

"You ever do anything at all?" Will asked?

"Well, one time at lacrosse camp," Jake started with a smile as he
remembered Bryant, "I met a dude, Bryant, Bryant Williams.  He was
couple years older than me.  We were in the showers after a canoe trip
and he showed me how to jack off but nothing happened between us."

"And now?" Will continued with his line of questioning.

"I jack off a lot, sometimes in some lacrosse gear.  Hell, after you
left the other night I was so mad horny I shoved my old lacrosse stick
up my ass," Jake recalled and then looked over and saw the pained look
on Will's face.

"Dude, did that hurt? Sounds awful," Will said with a cringe.

"You know, I'm not sure, not sure what any of it is supposed to feel
like," Jake said staring him in the eye.

Will took his cue and moved closer to Jake and first put his hands on
Jake's shoulders before Jake put his own hands on top of them and
nodded that it was okay to proceed.  Jake felt the cold on Will's
hands as they stood in the unheated garage with Jake's parents out
Christmas shopping and guided his hands under his hoodie and on to the
warm skin of his smooth abs making Will smile.

Jake smiled back and Will leaned in and began to give him little
kisses on his neck and cheeks while he worked his hands up to Jake's
firm pecs.  Jake let a moan out as Will played with the defined pec
muscles shrouded under the layers of sweat shirt and jersey material
as Will's lips moved onto Jake's lips for a longer kiss. Jake tried to
keep his eyes open for his first erotic kiss but closed them as soon
as Will's tongue dove into Jake's mouth for a swim.  Jake proved to be
a quick learner and pushed his tongue into Will's mouth to return the
favor while Will's hands worked to liberate Jake's chest from the
confines of his hoodie and jersey underneath.

With Jake's chest in the open, Jake put his hands on the placket of
Will's shirt and began to undo the buttons and pushed it back until it
began to fall off his arms and shoulders.  He yanked up the white tee
shirt and exposed Will's less defined chest and began to kiss on each
pec before returning to Will's mouth for a longer kiss while his hands
felt and learned Will's upper body until Will grabbed them and stuffed
them down into his crotch.

They broke the kiss and Jake stared at his hands inside of Will's
khakis and underwear while Will kicked off his dress shoes and fumbled
with the belt, button and zipper all at once.  Goose bumps formed
immediately as Will fell backwards onto the old cold sofa in the
garage and Jake collapsed on top of him with Will now working to get
Jake's Nikes off followed by his jeans and underwear, all the while
kissing each other.

Will, the more experienced of the two gained control of the situation
and put the brakes on Jake, warning him to slow down as he knelt in
front of a now standing Jake.  Jake looked down and watched as Will's
mouth opened towards his cock that was jutting out perpendicular from
his body.  Will glanced up into Jake's eyes as he took the jock's dick
in his mouth and gently eased it back until his nose was in Jake's
bush while Jake gently held his hands on the back of Will's head and
looked up the and out the garage windows facing the street.

Jake looked just in time to see the Honda turn into the driveway and
start the climb up the long modest incline, noticing the shapes of his
parents belted into the front seats. "Fuck! Stop! Stop! Stop!" Jake
exclaimed with hushed urgency.

"You close?" Will asked, backing off his cock long enough to ask in a
single breath.

"No, my parents are back! Get dressed, now!" Jake sad as he heard his
dad set the hand brake on the commuter car and watched the car doors
open.

"Damn your parents have a helluva sense of timing," Will said already
on the floor and into his white briefs and socks as Jake slid commando
back into his jeans.

"Dude, get dressed fast," Jake said, glad that he still had his socks
on as he slipped into his still tied Nike Shox.  He watched his
parents look at the SUV on the driveway and could hear them wondering
out loud who it belonged to as Will finished buttoning his shirt and
started stuffing his feet back into his dress shoes.

Jake saw his own black boxer briefs still on the floor and kicked them
under the old sofa in the garage as John and Emma walked towards the
side door of the house.  Jake and Will laughed briefly together that
they had gone undetected and high-fived each other then followed with
a hug and a quick kiss just before John Grimke flipped on the garage
lights remotely from inside the house.

Will saw John Grimke about to enter the garage from the side door and
had a hearty "Hi Mr. Grimk...uh John, how are you tonight?" as the
door swung open.

"Hey Dad,' Jake chimed in, "you remember Will don't you?"

"Sure do Jake," John said after a hugging Jake and offering his hand,
"how are you tonight young man?"

"We're fine," Will volunteered, shaking Mr. Grimke's hand, "we were
just finishing putting the stuff away from the concert.  Sorry if my
car was blocking the garage, I can move it if you like."

"No rush," John said looking around, not sure if anything was out of
place or not, "how did the concert go Jake?"

Emma walked out and put her arms around John and John reciprocated as
Will and Jake took turns sharing the details of the concert to Jake's
parents.  "I already had a phone call from Dr. Pearce on the Vestry,"
Emma said, "where did you boys get that money?"

Will answered up for Jake, "it was Jake's idea to make the school
concert a fund raiser for the show at Children's, he didn't tell you?"

John just shook his head no while Emma smiled and listened to Will's
slightly embellished version of the events of the week.  Jake, not
wanting too much attention focused on him realized the Saab was gone
and asked, "Where's the Saab?"

"I took it to the mechanic, your Mom said it wasn't running right
yesterday," John started, "you know anything about that?"

"No sir" Jake answered when interrogated by his father, "ran fine all
week for me.  The stereo still sucks on that thing...who still listens
to cassettes?"

"Well, they are going to look it over but it may not be back before
Christmas, you might have to rely on Will here and Evan and your other
friends for a few rides `til we are a two car family again," Jake's
dad warned.

Emma asked, "What do you boys have planned for tonight?  Jake are you
still going to Jackie's party?  Will are you going too?"

Jake looked at Will, "you wanna go?  I got to make an appearance but
we can do something after that if you want."

"And you are not going out like that Jake," Emma began getting all
maternal, "get out of that grungy sweat thing.  Everybody knows you
play lacrosse for Severn, you don't need to dress that way 24/7.  Why
don't you put something nice on like Will here. You got a closet full
of nice stuff we've bought for you."

Jake knew this was not a time to whine and just sucked it up while
Will basked in the compliments and secretly laughed inside that their
son's cock had been jamming the back of his throat only minutes
before.  Emma finished with, "you can have a pass on church tomorrow
since it's Christmas Eve on Monday night and you will have to be there
early with me for the final rehearsal and all.  And remember, it's
your Dad's swing day on Christmas Eve."

The `swing day' was the twenty four hours between the end of the last
day of day work at 5:00 p.m. and the start of the night work tour at
5:00 p.m. the next day.  John smiled at Emma and then Jake, "listen to
your mother, go get cleaned up and be home at a responsible hour. I'll
see you before I leave for work in the morning, okay?"

"Alright Dad," Jake resigned himself to getting showered and changed
for Jackie's party.  With the rule what it was and is, Jake said to
both of them, "Will is going to be up there with me okay? Maybe he can
help me put some clothes together for tonight, don't worry, the door
will be open."

This statement elicited a quizzical look from Will that Jake began to
explain once they hit the second floor.  "Mom and Dad have a rule that
I am not allowed to have any guys up here unless they are home and
even then, the bedroom door has to be open."

Will connected the dots, "Ah, that's why I was whisked out of here so
fast the first time I was here."

"Yeah, sorry, I wasn't 100% honest with you about that," Jake said
apologetically, "don't worry, no more secrets, no more surprises."

"It's cool, your parents seem pretty cool and laid back," Will
observed, "mine are total control freaks but they've gotten better
since I haven't tried to attract so much unwanted attention on myself.
 They're much happier now that I am on the track team, in the Honor
Society and veep of the senior class.  That's what parent's get off
on, not what I did before.  It wasn't wrong to do, it just wasn't the
right time in my life to do it."

"Take a look in the closet and see if you find something in there for
me to wear tonight," Jake said feeling Will's eyes on him as he
undressed, keeping his jeans on until he walked into his own bathroom
as Will prattled on about his own coming out experiences.

Jake left the bathroom door open just wide enough for Will to get a
look while he turned on the shower water and took a long piss in the
commode. While Jake showered, Will surveyed the room, seeing the
gauntlets of the lacrosse gloves slid down the shaft of a lacrosse
stick in the corner.  Will wondered if that was Jake's surrogate as he
opened the closet and paired together a charcoal v-neck sweater with
midnight blue jeans, short black slip-on boots and a short black
leather coat that Jake must have forgotten he owned.

The water down the hall shut off and Jake wrapped a towel around his
waist and headed back to his room.  Inside he reached into a dresser
drawer and pulled out his favorite Under Armor black boxer briefs
which he slid up his muscled legs almost to the waist before shucking
his towel.  With the towel dropped he reached in and adjusted his
semi-hard cock while Will pretended not to be interested and just
looked at the spines of the books on the shelves.

"Really, this is what you think I should wear?" Jake asked looking at
the mostly black ensemble.

"Trust me, you will pull it off, you won't be all Goth-like," Will
said with confidence.

Jake sighed and finished dressing with Will watching each step.  Jake
started to comb his hair like he normally does forcing Will to say,
"got some gel?"

"Yeah, but I almost never use it," Jake added, stopping himself before
saying it's so gay.

"Get it," Will ordered, "I'm tired of seeing you as Mr. Uber-Preppie Jock"

Jake walked down to his bathroom and came back with the hair product
and handed it to Will.  "Face me," Will commanded, "don't look in the
mirror, just trust me on this."

Will dabbed some clear gel on his finger tips and worked them through
the jock's hair until it appeared to be an organized mess at best.
When Jake saw it in the mirror he winced at first and then smiled,
seeing his friend in the mirror next to him, "It's cool, let's roll."

John and Emma were enjoying a glass of wine and watching a favorite
movie on the big flat screen in the family room.  Emma nudged John
when she saw Jake all dressed up saying "Awww Jake, you look so, so,
awwww, handsome."

John did a double-take as the boys got ready to leave and nodded his
approval, reminding Jake to be home at a responsible hour which meant
1:00 a.m. at the latest.

Will and Jake walked in together to the party at the Pence's.  The
usual crowd of seniors were there, girls from the cheerleading squad,
members of the Show Choir and guys from the football and lacrosse
teams.  Evan was there, having weaseled his way out of hanging with
his father all night.  And Will was already chatting up everybody he
knew at the party until he ran into Ernie Holst and Chord Michaels.

"What, you have to bring your bodyguard with you now?" Michaels
snarked to him before Ernie jumped in.

"Or is it a date for you two?" asked Ernie trying to escalate the situation.

"Guys, just leave us alone, I don't want any problems tonight.  Can't
you two just be civilized at Jackie's party?" Will asked them.

"Just answer the question," Chord pressed, "is he your bodyguard or your date?"

"Inquiring minds want to know," Holst added.

Jake scanned the room looking for Will and saw Joey Gardner's eyes
fixed on his team mates and started heading towards the encounter.
Jake tapped Evan as he headed for Will's side who then got the
attention of Beecher and Syms.  The four lacrosse players peeled off
almost in formation from the group they were in and headed towards the
foyer where Joey had just arrived to intervene.

"Shut your pie-hole Ernie, now!" Gardner barked at the second stringer.

"Hey, we just were wondering if Grimke here was his date or his
bodyguard.  It was just a question.  We weren't going to lay hand on
the little flower," Chord added, knowing that football season was over
and there would be little repercussion from Coach Dase.

The rest of the Mohawks arrived at Will's side seconds after Jake
stood next to Will listening to Chord and Ernie's juvenile locker room
banter as their team captain tried to get them to shut up and not ruin
the party.  But Michaels and Holst knew that Joey Gardner and Coach
Dase had no real power over them anymore and they persisted.

"Ah, did little Will do Jake-i-poo's hair tonight, it looks so
special," cooed Ernie.

Jake bit his lip, he knew he was safe in numbers while the rest of the
party grew silent and began to focus its attention on what was
happening in the foyer.  Gardner tried once again to diffuse the
situation which Chord and Ernie enjoyed escalating, Chord telling
Gardner to "go piss off, football is over, you're nobody now."

Joey looked at the Mohawks and at Will and everybody in the room and
tried one more time, "I think, we think it's time for you guys to
leave."

"Fuck off Joey, you're just Coach Dase's bitch boy." Ernie added defiantly.

Jake squeezed Wills hand and held it, and then flashed Evan with a nod
yes that Evan nodded yes back to and asserted himself, "Yeah, so what;
I'm Will's date, why is that a problem?"

The room remained silent and grew tense as Jake stared them down and
waiting a long pause, he asked them again, "Why is this a problem
Ernie? Chord?  What's the problem?"

They stared at Jake holding Will's hand, Will lifting it up just
enough for the second stringers to see that their eyes were not
playing tricks on them as the lacrosse players tightened their body
knot around Will and Jake.  "Leave guys, c'mon, this is a no-win
situation for you guys; this isn't the locker room," Joey said one
last time.

Chord looked at Ernie, then looked at Joey before looking at Evan, his
arm around Jake's shoulder, Beecher and Syms behind Evan, Jake and
Will, their arms outspread over the three men in front.  Seldom heard
Aaron spoke next, "These guys are my friends, you come after any of
one of them, WE come after you, got it?  Just leave, the party's over
for you guys."

"Ditto for me," said Erik, "Make everybody's holiday happy and leave now."

Evan picked up on cue after Erik, "You guys already had one run-in
with just one of us that didn't turn out well, I don't think you can
handle four. Jackie and I and the rest of us just want you to leave
quietly.  Now."

"Faggots," Chord said as he turned towards the front door.

"Cocksuckers," Ernie said as he turned with Chord.

For the first time in his life, Jake Grimke heard those hateful words
hurled directly at him; making him boil with rage.  Will squeezed
Jake's hand as hard as he could as the second stringers swung the door
wide open and swung it as hard as they could to slam it shut on their
way out while the rest of The Mohawks tightened their grip around Jake
and Will until the immediate urge to pummel Holst and Michaels
subsided.

As the giant group hug ended Jake looked at Will, then Evan and said
hoping for a small laugh, "Well, that went well."

Will looked at Jake, "Uh Jake, you rang the bell pretty early dude,
you can't un-ring it now."

"Maybe we should go too, I think we've caused enough of a disruption
here," Jake said to Will at first and then to Jackie Pence who had
taken station at Evan's side.

"Don't you dare leave Jake Grimke," Jackie laid in to him, "don't you
dare leave!  Your friends are here Jake, all of us are your friends
and we're Will's too.  Your team mates just circled the wagons around
you two, you can't leave them now, not after what I just saw."

Jake looked almost guilty into the eyes of Aaron, Erik and of course
Evan and the other athletes there.  Evan stepped in and hugged Jake
and then drew in Will and the rest of them all hugged in a huge huddle
until Erik did the traditional team countdown, "three, two, break" and
then they all shouted "SEVERN forever!"

As Jake wiped the tears up from his cheeks he turned to Evan, "Sorry,
bro, the coming out timetable got moved up a little bit due to
unforeseen circumstances."

"It was a bit of a shock, but, what give's with Will here?" Evan asked
politely.

"I'll fill you in later, let's just enjoy the party," Jake said,
"thanks wingman; always and forever."

"Always and forever" replied Evan as they bumped fists.