Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:09:07 -0500
From: meaningofsummer@gmail.com
Subject: Meaning of Summer - Ch 1.

The clock uttered a soft beep, indicating that it was the top of the hour.
1AM in the morning flashed in blue letters. I sat up in bed and rubbed my
puffy eyes, which were still adjusting to the shape of Keegan and Lee's bed
beside me. I looked first to Keegan and saw he was sitting upright as well.

"Keegan? We good to go?" I whispered at his direction. He tossed the
blanket off of him and gave me a thumbs up.

"Yep! Hold on let me get on some sweats."

Keegan stood up and put a pillow in his place. Lee, our other good friend
sharing the guest house with us, stirred a little, but then rolled over to
Keegan's vacant spot and relaxed back into his sleep. I could see the
outline of Keegan standing up and trying to find the pant holes of his
sweat pants as he stumbled in the dark. I noticed his blue checkered boxers
hugging around his hips and watched as he finally pulled his pants on and a
t-shirt over his head.

"Alright, let's go." Keegan whispered back, heading towards the screen door
of the guest house.

We were staying at our best friend Ryan's summer house for the first
weekend of summer. Ryan was in the same grade as we were and it was a
tradition to kick off the summer with a trip up to Charlevoix where Ryan's
family owned a large lake house. Ryan was in another room however, as the
guest house had limited space.The trip had been on everyone's mind even
before school ended. With the parents enjoying their side of the house, we,
of course, got the guest house to ourselves just like we did every year.

We stepped out into the cool night air and inhaled the scent of the nearby
lake as we stood on the wooden deck that connect to the rest of the house.

"So, where are we off to?" Keegan said in a normal voice, now that we were
outside. He playfully plopped down on top of the deck railing and swung his
feat over the edge. Letting out a stretch and a yawn, he extended his hand
signalling me to sit with him. I pulled myself up next to him and night
sky, feet dangling over the edge. There was a silence for a bit as I stared
into the clear, black sky until Keegan interrupted with a soft nudge to my
side

"Come on! How does a little swim sound?" He said in a playful tone as he
proceeded to lower himself to the ground. He fell softly to the grass below
and looked up at me.

I lowered myself from the railing and began to smile to myself. I took a
small jump off the railing and onto the cool grass, wet with the drops of
the sprinkler had been turned on earlier. My toes were now wet through my
Billabong flip-flops as they brushed across the lawn. I knew it would have
been a better idea to bring running shoes, but slipping out of the room
without Lee noticing was hard enough in the dark and I don't think fishing
through my bag to find running shoes would have been the best idea. Keegan
had a t-shirt on and his baggy flannel pajama bottoms on that sagged a
little bit under his hips, revealing the top waistband of his boxers. He
looked a lot warmer that I was, and I wished I had slipped something else
on over my Adidas shorts and t-shirt.

"Wish you would have brought warmer clothes, huh?" Keegan whispered back as
we walked across the lawn away from Ryan's house and towards the hill down
to the lake.

"Yeah, it really has cooled off since this afternoon on the lake. It was
probably in the nineties!" I stated as we walked down the dark street. It
felt mysterious to be walking around so late, but I felt a certain thrill
of adventure.

"Heh, well don't worry. You'll warm up once we start walking around out
here. Come on, let's head towards the lake."

Keegan started to pick up his pace a little bit, extending his hand out for
me to follow it. I grabbed at his hand and started to pick up my pace,
too. Ryan's street was dead quiet this late at night and everyone was
surely sound asleep..except for us night owls, of course. Keegan and I had
a reputation for sneaking out after dark, though. I guess you could call us
the daredevils of our group. We both decided that since we were only here
for the weekend, we might as well take advantage of the beautiful lake that
was only a short walk from Ryan's.

"So how did you like the boat today?" Keegan said as we slowed down our
pace. We were now on the sidewalk that went directly down to the pier. We
both knew the way by heart since we had made the walk down to the pier many
times over the years.

"Yeah, the boat ride was sweet. I don't think I've ever been on a speed
boat before. We were really flying when we hit the rough water," I laughed
as I remembered us four boys almost flying off the tube when we hit a few
rough patches.

"Yeah! I think Ry's dad wanted to throw us off the tube or something. He's
alway likes to test how fast his boat can go."

"Sometimes I think he likes his boat more than Ryan!" I replied. Ryan's dad
liked to keep his boat in tip-top condition at all times and spent most of
his time researching new boats or better engines."Maybe we'll go again
tomorrow, too. I'm gonna be bummed when we have to leave though. I hope Ry
invites us up her more often."

"Haha, with some persuading we can probably convince his mom to lug us up
here again. Besides, I think our parents like it up here, too."

"It's only June and we have tons of time to spare. It's not like there's
much to do back home," Keegan replied.

I nodded as we turned the corner. We were approaching the entrance to the
pier. The familiar picnic benches were deserted and the smell of dying
campfires and barbecues filled the air as we passed by the entrance onto
the dock where the boats were tied down. The dock was long, and had rows
and rows of fishing boats, yachts, jet skis, and speedboats. We passed
Ryan's familiar orange speedboat and proceeded to the end of the dock. A
little summer breeze blew across both our faces, which again filled my nose
with the scent of lake water. Keegan and I both took a deep breath, taking
in this familiar smell. There was some sort of zen-like feeling of being by
a lake at night. Especially one as big as Lake Charlevoix. The water gently
churned at the end of the dock and we could see our reflection in the water
as we passed by it, lit up by the moonlight. As we sat in silence, Keegan
dangled his legs over the dock. It was a pretty high up dock, so his feet
didn't touch the water. As I removed my flip-flops, I plopped down next to
him as I once again took in the scent of the lake.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Keegan said as he got up from the dock's
edge.

"Hm?" I questioned. I didn't think we would be swimming this late at
night. We didn't even think to bring a towel or a bathing suit. It was a
warm night, but we would probably be freezing walking home soaked with lake
water. I made a mental note to bring a towel next time we went.

"Come on, it shouldn't be too bad. It was pretty warm this afternoon so it
can't be that cold," Keegan said as he was pulling off his tshirt. Keegan
had a similar body shape to mine, with faint set of abs coming along, as he
liked to brag about. We had been on the school's soccer team for almost 3
years, but Keegan still was a little more toned than the rest of
us. Putting his thumbs in the waistline of his boxers, he nodded for me to
join him for a swim. A little unsure, I put my hands on the bottom of my
shirt, still thinking if I really wanted to get out of my dry clothes to
jump off into a cold lake.

"Alright, you're gonna make me get over there and get you in the water,
huh?" Keegan said as he lunged towards me and put me in a playful hug,
tugging at my shirt. He made an effort to pull my shirt over my head and
try to push me towards the end of the dock. I plopped down on the dock as
Keegan collapsed next to me, still grabbing at my shirt and laughing. With
a few quick moves, I managed to get Keegan down on the dock and pinned both
his arms down on the dock with myself on top of his stomach as he made a
helpless attempt to loosen his hands from my grip.

"Well well, look what I have here now" I teased as Keegan tried to release
himself from my grip. I looked down on his with a smile a lifted a hand up
to tickle his face. He swatted my hand away and flipped around and put me
in the same hold I put him in, sitting on my crotch. I was kinda amazed at
how fast it took to reverse the situation. He looked down at me with a
smile and his light piercing brown eyes looked down on me. I could smell
his sweet boyish scent as I looked up at him. I began to relax so he would
loosen his grip. "Well well look what I have here now," Keegan repeated
with a little sarcasm in his voice. He let go of my wrists and I got out
from under him, both of us panting a little bit.

"Alright, alright. Jeez, I'll go I'll go!" I finally agreed. I pulled off
my t-shirt revealing my goose bumped skin. Keegan was starting to throw his
sweats in a pile with his t-shirt and running shoes and socks. Standing
there just in his boxers, he looked up from his pile and stared in my
direction.

His teeth chattered a bit and he shook off the cold."Fuuuck, it

i is

i0 colder that I thought," Keegan whispered under his breath as I threw my
t-shirt on the dock next to his clothes pile. I then pulled down my Adidas
shorts and stood there in my boxers as well. I stretched my arms up into
the air and arched my back a bit. I could feel a sweep of goosebumps spread
across my skin. The air around the lake felt cooler compared to when we
were walking down the road earlier .

"Well, no use walking back in wet boxers either. I guess we'll be skinny
dipping! Hope you're little dick won't be too small with the cold!" Keegan
teased as he tested the water with his toe.

Keegan laughed as he pulled down his boxers and shyly tossed them aside. I
snuck a glance over as he tossed his boxers on top of our heap of
clothes. Keegan had been getting a slight tan as the warmer months of
summer approached. Our soccer practices and games were held on the school's
field outside. I could see an even tan line starting where his waist line
was then transitioned into a paler shade of skin on his cheeks and
thighs. Keegan covered his crotch at first, but then dropped his hands down
to reveal a pretty nice package with a small shrub of pubes above it. He
repositioned his dick a bit as it was pretty cold out and was suffering
from some shrinkage, if you know what I mean. Keegan and his siblings were
all blonde, so his pubes were pretty light, but could be still be seen as
they darkened a bit towards the base of his package. He didn't seem to be
shy about his nakedness, despite it being a public dock. He leaned on a
post and examined how far the jump was. I fidgeted with my boxers, still a
little shy (And cold, dammit!) about skinny dipping at the end of a public
dock.

"How is it? It's not that far up is it?" I questioned, still with my hands
on my boxer waistband trying to work up the courage to be completely nude
in front of Keegan. We had seen each other naked a few times in the locker
rooms, but there was an unfamiliar initial awkwardness between us at this
moment

"Nah, only like 5ft or so. It looked a lot higher when we were walking up
here. I've done this a few times before with Ryan and Lee. You just gotta
run and not think about jumping off." Keegan trailed off and looked around
to see that it was still deserted around the pier. "We gonna jump in now,
then? Or do I have to help you get your undies off too" He questioned over
his shoulder with a small grin on his face.

"Yeah yeah, let's go." I said as I pulled down my boxers and tossed them
aside as well. I took a minute to shake off the uneasiness of being
completely nude but quickly started to feel more comfortable. Keegan's face
lit up as he glanced in my direction.

"Alrighty.. let's do this." Keegan said as he backed up and ran full speed
off the dock and into the lake with an added "WOOO" as he hit the water. I
rolled my eyes and backed up to do the same, thinking that yelling would
probably not be the best idea late at night.

I counted down in my head and ran off the dock towards Keegan, who was
already swimming around below. With a loud splash, I hit the water and
resurfaced to Keegan's smiling face. His hair was a mess, pointing in all
directions and beads of water were dripping off his face as he beamed a
smile towards me.

"Phew, at least it's warmer in here than standing on the dock" Keegan said
as he floated on his back, looking up to the moon.  He dunked himself under
to smooth out his uneven hair.

"Yeah, just hope we don't run into some killer fish or anything" I added as
we both giggled and swam towards the adjacent beach. We both swam freestyle
towards the beach and away from the gross sea-weedy areas to find a soft
patch of sand in shallow water. When we found a spot that was about waist
deep, we stood up and took in the scenery once again, thinking of all the
stuff we could do this weekend.

"Man I love it up here. I wish we could spend the whole summer. Just us
guys hanging out at Ryan's place." Keegan said, locking his hands behind
his head and looking around the shore.

"I know what you mean, that would be awesome. This weekend's gonna
rock. It's such a relief to finally be done with grade 8."

I glanced up at Keegan who was sort of staring up at the sky zoning out a
bit. I thought of earlier on the dock when he tried wrestle me out of my
clothes and into the water. This was a perfect time to get him back. I
shifted my position and got ready to tackle him into the water.

"Hey Kee, think fast!" I shouted as I threw myself towards him, knocking
him backwards on his ass and back into the water. Keegan resurfaced
spitting water and splashing me, re-"fixing" his hair again. I playfully
punched his arm and splashed him back

"Hah, gotcha back." A smile flashed across my face as Keegan wiped the
water from his eyes. Rubbing his hands up and down his his arms, he
signalled that he was getting cold standing here and ready to get out. I
joined his side as we walked towards the beach and back to the dock to
retrieve our clothes. The sand was soft on our feet and sunk downward as we
started to walk up the beach. I gave Keegan's hair a little ruffle because
I knew it annoyed him. Keegan had a short sag to about his ears, similar to
mine but a lot more blonde compared to my dark brown. He always spent extra
time in the shower washing it and styling his "swoop" to his liking. Even
though it was still wet from the lake, it fell into its classic swoop shape
with just a few shakes of his head and some help from his fingers.

"You're lucky I'm getting tired or I would have dunked you under too,
dork!" He refuted as we climbed back onto the dock. Trying to find our
clothes in the dark was quite a challenge, but hilarious at the same time
seeing Keegan stumble around stark naked. My foot brushed against Keegan's
pile of clothes and my feet found my flip-flops. I threw Keegan his shirt
and began to wipe the beads of lake water dripping off my face. I slipped
my shirt on and watched Keegan hop around to find the leg hole of his
boxers in the dark. I giggled and pulled on my briefs and shorts and made
sure I wasn't leaving anything behind. Keegan followed suit and pulled on
his sweatpants and pulled out his phone from the pocket.

"Wow, almost 2:00am already?" Keegan said with a hint of surprise in his
voice. He shut his phone and shoved it back into his pocket.

"Really..? It hasn't really felt like we've been gone that long. I bet Lee
is still fast asleep though. Little baby," I joked as we swiftly made our
way to the entrance again. I could feel the grains of sand rubbing at my
feet from the bottom of my flip-flops. My clothes felt slightly damp as we
continued walking and I thought to myself how stupid it was not to think to
bring a towel along with us. Next time we would plan ahead.

A shower was sounding pretty nice at the moment, but it would have to wait
until tomorrow morning. It would seem suspicious waltzing into the bathroom
around 2:30am to have a nice shower. Especially if we woke up Ryan's mom,
who isn't too forgiving those who woke her up. Another wave of summer air
found us as we left the entrance of the pier and back up the road. It sent
goosebumps up my back and quickened my pace.

The walk back was quiet as we crept through neighbors' back yards and
through short cuts to avoid the main streets. Before we knew it, we were
walking back up to Ryan's balcony, where we would have to climb back up to
get back into the guest house unnoticed. We slowed down our pace and were
careful not to turn on the automatic lights hanging off the side of the
house. We were pros at sneaking in and out of the house by this age.

"Man, I always hate this part. I always think Lee's mom is gonna be waiting
up there for us or something like that." Keegan whispered as I decided
which way was the best to climb up. I grabbed a bar from the patio fence
and hoisted myself up to the edge and pulled myself up with an over
exaggerated grunt.

Keegan smacked the bottom of my flip-flop and held a finger over his
lips. "SHHH. What the hell man, you want Lee's mom to skin us?!" Keegan
hissed as he pulled himself up to the ledge as a grasped his hand helping
him up. I flashed a little smile and ruffled his hair as we tip toed back
to the guest house door. Keegan leaned up to the door cupping his hands
over his eyes and looked into the room. I put my chin in the crook of
Keegan's shoulder and looked in as well. Of course, Lee was still passed
out on the bed, still sprawled on both Keegan's spot and his own.

"Heh. Just like I left 'em," Keegan grinned as he quietly cracked open the
door and slipped inside, holding the door open for me as I followed
him. Slipping off my flip flops, Lee stirred a bit in his sleep and
extended his leg out from under the covers as his breathing got more
shallow and settled back into his spot. Keegan shut the door and pulled the
blinds down.

I held my hand over my mouth to keep myself from giggling. Every little
creek or noise sent us both in a fit of giggles. Several times I felt
myself bump into a shoe, carelessly left in the middle of the room, or one
of Keegan's pairs of jeans or shorts. Luckily, Lee remain asleep despite
all the noise we created. I was heading to backpack to get some pajamas out
when Keegan tapped my shoulder.

"Well.. how do you suppose I get myself back in there? It kinda looks like
Lee is pretty comfortable snuggled up in that mass of blankets and
pillows." Keegan switched his eyes from Lee over to me with a puzzled look
on his face.

"Eh, we'll talk for a while on my bed and see if he wakes up. Ryan's up in
his own room tonight so I have an extra spot." I headed for my twin bed and
plopped down on it. The softness of the comforter felt soothing under my
damp skin. I began to warm up from the cool night air and my goosebumps
started to disappear. I rolled off the bed and went to my bag and pulled
out some pajama pants and slipped off my shorts and tossed them aside. I
retrieved them and hung them over one of the arms of the chairs to air
dry. I stood up and slipped the pajama pants on and also got my iTouch and
cell out of my bag. Keegan took off his shirt and tossed it aside into his
messy pile, disregarding the fact that he should let it dry like I did with
mine. Putting my hands behind my head, I extended onto the bed and let out
a soft yawn and rubbed my eyes.

"You're not tired, are ya?! That swimming got me wide awake!" Keegan was
propped up on his elbows and grabbed my iTouch and began to shift through
the pages of games and tapped away at the screen. I put my legs underneath
the covers and leaned over to Keegan to see which game he had chosen.

"Eh, a bit. I mean we did spend most of the day on the lake. We'll be able
to sleep in tomorrow though. Got anything to do?" I answered as I glanced
over to Lee's bed, who was stirred a bit and repositioned his head on his
pillow. I again put a finger to my lips signaling that we should keep it
down.. but that wasn't really possible for two rowdy teen boys.

"Well right now i'm kicking your butt on the game. You high score is weak,
man!" Keegan playfully shoved me back onto a pillow and continued tapping
away at the iTouch screen." After several minutes of tapping, cursing, and
cheering, he put his arms up signalling an obvious victory in whatever he
was playing.

"WOOO. Your high score is officially beaten." Keegan cheered as he tossed
my iTouch back to me. I glanced over to Lee, who was now rubbing his
eyes. His head popped out from underneath the mass of covers. It took him a
few moments to regain rub away the sleep from his eyes as he sat upright on
the edge of the bed.

"Man, you two dumbasses don't know how to be quiet, do you? I was having a
nice dream until you two assholes started to shout and holler," Lee half-
yawned at us as he threw the covers off from himself into a giant heap on
the bed.

"Well you kinda stole my spot, dude. Was I supposed to get in there and
spoon up with ya..? Anyways,you're up now, dork. Come over and sit with
us," Keegan answered. He tossed a few pillows aside and patted a spot
across from him on my bed. Lee sat up and repositioned his dick which was
poking against his pajama bottoms and responded with a tired grunt and made
his way over to the bed and fell face first onto the comforter making a
fake snoring sound.

"Well you can't be too angry about us waking you up. You look pretty happy
to me." I giggled as I rolled Lee over and gestured towards the obvious
boner still poking against his pajama bottoms.

Lee blushed as he again tried to hide his wood by repositioning his pajama
bottoms. I gave him a little shove to say I was just kidding.

"Man, think we can pull an all nighter?" Keegan questioned us, getting
underneath the covers along with me. Lee had a gotten the blanket from the
foot of the bed and was sitting with his legs folded with the blanket
wrapped around his shoulders, still waking up from his disturbed sleep.

"Pfft, some of us actually sleep at night..unlike you two night owls." Lee
reminded us.

I repositioned myself so I was on my side facing both of my friends. "Well
we're up for the time being, let's talk for a while." I switched my glance
between Keegan and Lee's faces, who seemed down for a little chitchat
before we got tired to stay up. I wasn't sure if I could last all night
like Keegan suggested, but decided to wait and see where the night's
conversations took us.

"We kinda went out awhile ago while your fat ass was sleeping." Keegan
informed Lee with a little grin on his face.

"Wooow. You should have woke me up to go with you guys! Where did you go?
The lake?"

We both nodded our heads simultaneously and shared with Lee how we made our
way down the balcony and into the lake to have a nice skinny-dip under the
moonlit lake.

"Well we'll have to go some other time before the weekend is over. Maybe
Ryan will want to come, too. And you have my permission to wake me up if I
fall asleep next time."

"Ooh, so now you want to be woken up. I was sure you would slapped me in
the face if I woke you up to go swimming." Keegan teased.

I let out an over exaggerated yawn. I tried to think of something for us to
chat about when the thought of a game came to mind.

"Let's plaaaaaay....Truth or Dare?" I asked them. It was a classic game
that we usually played at our sleepovers.

"Fuck that, man. I'm too lazy to get out of this bed to put up with your
silly dares." Lee said as he buried his face into the blanket.

"We could just do the truth questions, I guess?" Keegan suggested. Lee
shrugged at the suggestion indicating that he would take part in whatever
game.

"That could work.. alright. Let's go around in a circle starting with
Lee. And remember what we say here never leaves this room." I had to
reminded everyone to keep their mouths shut because these games have a
reputation for getting a little bit personal. We had all made a promise at
our countless sleepovers that we wouldn't tell anyone our secrets except
each other.

Lee's face lit up as he thought about who to call on for his question. His
eyebrows lowered as he thought about what he was going to ask, as it was
pretty open to any topic.

"Alright... startin' with you I guess, Eric." He said, looking in my
direction as he threw a head nod at me.

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