Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:50:28 +0100
From: Peter C <Peter_Co@web.de>
Subject: A new beginning - part 5

The following story was originally written for a german website and
later printed in my first book "Der Neuanfang". After I translated my
story "Never saw a miracle" into english and getting lots of good
feedback, I decided to translate this story, too. Some readers wrote me
that I don't have to apologize for my English -- so I won't anymore *g*.

The story is set in Germany, so of course there are a few things
unfamiliar to people from other countries. As example temperatures are
given in degrees centigrade: 0 C are 32 F, minus 5 C are 23 F and
so on. If there are any things you don't understand, please feel free
to ask me about it. I love getting emails anyway, and I'd like to say
my thankyous to all of you who already wrote me.

There are two other stories of mine published here on niftys:

"Never saw a miracle" in the gay/highschool section

and

"Different" in the gay/no-sex section

If someone is interested in reading the original german story, it's
here:

http://www.nickstories.de

Look for "Peter's Stories". And if some is interested in buying my
books (in german language, of course): they can be bought directly from
me, even with my signature which will be worth millions when I'm a
Nobel prize winner someday -- lol...


But now let's the play begin...

*-*-*

A new beginning -- Part 5

© 2001-2005 by Peter Conrad,  Peter_Co@web.de


What a restful night it was. Well deserved and well needed! But all
good things have to come to an end -- and what an end it was! No
friendly "Good morning!", only something wet and cold on my face. If we
had a dog I'd knew it was his tongue -- but we had no dog. I tried to
put the wet thing away -- only to notice that both my arms were hold by
strong hands.

"Damned, what's happening? Whoever you are, leave me alone!"

"Tim, did you understand anything?"

Oh. The voice of my futuer step father, so I guess it was he who was
holding me down on the bed. Thinking about his giant body and strong
arms I knew that this wouldn't be a hard work for him.

"No, dad. It sounded a bit like arabic, or maybe chinese."

Tims voice came from my right side. Oh well, I guess my words were
muffled through whatever that thing was that layed cold and wet on my
face. At this moment the next person stepped on the stage of my morning
drama.

"Did you wake sleepyhead yet? If I was you I'd take not only a wet
washcloth but a whole bucket of cold water. Danny can sleep through an
earthquake without waking up."

Ha, I knew it! Mom was the instigator!

"I think he's awake, Maria. At least he made some noise already. Should
we let him free?"

"Yes, but be quick! This son of mine can get quite vindictive."

"Thanks for the warning. Tim, on the count of three!"

Just wait! I started to flex my muscles to be ready.

"One ... two ..."

I was waiting for the "three" to come, but it didn't. My blindness
because of the washcloth on my face was exploited shamelessly, on the
count of "two" both of my tormentors jumped away before I even had time
to react. But maybe it was for the best, so I could concentrate on the
bad guy (or bad girl) in the background: mom! I threw away the
washcloth from my face, jumped out of my bed and started to run to my
mom, my eyes filled with murder!

"Now I'll get you! You didn't think I'll let you out of this easily!"

Half way to my mom I suddenly heard Tims startled voice.

"Danny, watch out! Stop!"

Before his warning reached my brain everything was to late. My feet got
in a muddle and in a not very elegant flight I landed on the floor.
Thankfully a floor with a nice, soft carpet. At least I was quick
enough to catch myself with both hands, but still the air was pumped
out of my lungs. Shit! Who or what tripped me? I didn't see any kind of
obstacle in my way before! While I tried to collect myself again, mom
came running to me.

"Danny, are you alright? Did you hurt yourself?"

Did I? Not too bad, I guess.

"I'm alright, I had worse falls."

I got up on my hands and knees, looking at mom. First relief showed up
on her face, then her mouth started twisting, and seconds later she
brought out lauhing loud, followed by Tim and Reinhardt! Ha! That's
what I call sympathy!

"I'm so happy to make you laughing!"

As a result the laughter got even louder, then Tim managed to get a few
words out.

"Well, Danny, your butt isn't SO cute that you need to show it to us
again and again."

What? I got on my feet, looked down my body and everything became clear.

"Oh shit!"

My short pyjama pants were down at my feet, I guess the rubber band was
ripped. That was what I fell over! And of course I now was totally
naked, showing all my goods to the laughing world. Even though all of
them had seen me naked already, it was still very embarrassing! Quickly
I bend down to drag up the pants, but I realized to late that my left
foot was standing on the pants. Those pants weren't that happy with my
powerful tug, and with a nasty noise I had one part of the pants in my
hand -- the other was still under my foot.

"Goddamn!"

"Danny, watch your tongue!"

Mom was a little senstive about swearing, but at this moment I didn't
care.

"You want me to jump around in cheers?"

"I want you to get something to put on. You know how prude the
americans are, people get locked up here for running around naked. It's
called indecent exposure, if I remember correctly."

"Thank you soooo much for your good advice. You just don't have to look
at me!"

"Okay, okay. Tim, Reinhardt, I think we should leave him alone for a
while. And Danny, hurry up, breakfast is in 20 minutes."

After these words the others left the room, leaving me alone.

Just great. Once again I was the source for public amusement. And I was
still waiting for someone to amuse ME for a change! A quick look at my
watch brought me out of my musings, there wasn't much time left before
breakfast, so I took care of the usual morning things, jumped into my
clothes and joined the rest of the family. Breakfast was the same as
the day before, and after we were fed we left for Epcot.

I won't bore you with the details of the park, besides us visiting the
attractions nothing else happened. With one exception. Not only was Tim
put on his lead, no, Reinhardt really bought a second on and fastened
on MY right wrist! And mom, even though the day before she said that I
didn't need one, just grinned! How typical!

Thankfully we were set free a few minutes later, but not without some
serious warnings about being on our best behaviour or finding ourselfs
back on the leads!

At the World Showcase Reinhardt was smart enough to keep in the
background and was happily laughing about not so lucky visitors who had
to dance the Schuhplattler with the brass band.

The day went by with lot of fun for all of us and we left the park
around 6pm -- we were to tired to wait another 3 hours for the
fireworks. Supper this time was at McDoof ((a satirical german saying
for McDonalds, in english something like McStupid)).

At the hotel we talked about what to do with the remainder of the day,
and Tim managed to persuade me into joining him at the hotel pool. In
our room we changed into our swimsuits, I took my usual baggy ones but
I guess Tim wanted to tempt poor little gay me a bit and put on the
skimpiest speedos I've ever seen. Did he even know what he did to me?

"No fullbody suit today, Tim?"

"No. Do I need one? You want to race me or what?"

"In this case you'd need more than the suit to beat me. But aren't you
afraid that the prude americans will lock you up, showing so much naked
flesh?"

"Why? I'm dressed appropriately or not? We'll go to the pool, not to
the opera!"

If he thought so... I grabbed the towels, we said goodbye to our
parents and left the room. After a long walk we reached the pool area,
a large basin with lots of deckchairs around, palm trees and even a
bar. Tim was impressed.

"Wow, that's great!"

I guess it was -- at least for a water rat like him. I decided to look
out for a quiet place a bit away from the water edge and found two
empty deckchairs, while Tim was already running to the pool and jumping
into the water with a big splash. I was hoping for him to lose his
speedos, but no such luck for poor Danny.

Now that my brother was well provided with wet fun I got myself
something to drink from the bar and sat down on the deckchair, letting
my eyes wander through the room. To be honest: there were quite a few
cuties besides Tim, and I was glad to wear my baggy swimsuit and not
skintight speedos like my little brother!

Sadly my boywatching was soon disturbed by a very unwelcome visitor.
Very unwelcome because very female. A tall blonde girl with breasts
looking very suspicious like made of silicon sat down on Tims
deckchair, and started to talk to me. In English.

"Hi! What are you doing here so alone?"

I almost said "enjoying the silence, but then you had to destroy it",
but of course, I didn't. I'm just to well bred for this world!

"Resting after a long day."

"How nice. By the way, I'm Heidi."

Now I had to fight to not break out in laughter. Heidi! Yes, she looked
exactly like a Heidi!

"Danny."

I was hoping that my short answer would discourage her, but no...

"You're not from here, are you? You have a funny accent!"

Well, thanks a lot! Maybe we should switch to german!

"I'm from Germany!"

"How great! I never before talked with someone from Germany!"

And poor little Danny had to be the first!

"Could I see your in your Lederhosen?"

That was it, I broke out laughing. I guess the Disney propaganda did a
good job on her. Anyway, seeing her greedy eyes watching me over she
wasn't so much interested to see me in my Lederhosen but to get me out
of them!

"Sorry, I don't have any."

Event hough my answer was a little gruff, she still didn't get that I
wasn't the least interested in her.

"Oh, that's a pity. And what are you doing here? Do you want to do
something together with me?"

Now even though I was afraid of the water I almost run to the pool!
Thankfully I discovered Tim, who looked at me grinning. I just hope he
can read lips! I sent him a silent "Rescue me!".

"Sorry, I have to look out for my little brother."

With much relief I noticed my brother walking to us. What a view, his
oh-so-cute body glistening with water! A much nicer view than this
silicon monster beside me!

"He, Danny, who's that? You won't become unfaithful to Olga?"

Olga? Who the fuck was Olga?

"That's Heidi. Heidi -- my brother, Tim".

They gave each other estimating looks. Well, Tims look at here was more
disdaining than estimating.

"Sweetheart, you better take your hands off my brother. He's taken, and
his girlfriend is the daughter of a russian mafia boss. If you want to
enjoy looking into a mirror any longer I'd recommend you to look for
another victim."

Oh! This Olga! What a clever brother I had. Heidi was looking from Tim
to me and again back to Tim

"She doesn't need to know about this, does she?"

"I wouldn't be that sure. Maybe she has someone spying on Danny?"

I could almost see it working in her head. Well, if there WAS something
that could work! Maybe it was only a bale of straw falling over.

"Oh my, I just remembered that I have to meet my mom! I'm sorry, but I
have to run!"

The next moment she ran off -- a little to fast, she slipped on the wet
floor, landing almost in the arms of a blond muscle guy. The meeting
with her mom was already forgotten, and the blond guy was chosen her
next victim. Together they left the pool area.

"I'm sorry, Danny, maybe the blond boy would have been someone for you.
Now she has him."

"No, thanks, I'm not into so much muscle. I guess there are more
chemicals in his body than in our school lab."

Tim laughed.

"You might be right."

"By the way, thank you for rescuing me from that dumb bitch."

"Well, that's what you get for being so cute."

Did I hear him right? Did Tim just call me cute? One more point to add
to my confusion about him.

"Don't know what you mean, I'm nothing special."

"Oh no, you aren't. And because of this you were attacked by that girl
only moments after she'd discovered you. Believe me, most girls would
be extremely happy to catch you."

Great, that's just what I needed. Was he right? I mean, at home I
didn't notice something like this -- but most girls from my everyday
troupe knew about my being gay, and that there was no hope for them *g*.

"I guess I need to do something about this. What do you think, should I
shave my head? Or put a thick ugly ring in my nose?"

"Not a good idea. You only want to scare the girls away and not also
the cute boys who might lay an eye on you."

Shit, he was right. Even though I hadn't noticed a cute boy laying an
eye on me yet.

"And what could I do?"

Tim thought a little, than he smiled evily.

"I know! We change you into a 120 percent faggot! From now on only
skintight clothes, maybe a little leather? A golden ring into your
right ear, and you have to learn to lisp. And start moving your arms
when you talk. And shake your butt when you walk! No girl will give you
a second look anymore."

"Aaaaarg! No, sorry, no way! That would scare away exactly those gay
boys I'm interested in. I want a `normal' gay boy, not a cliche faggot
-- or someone who wants ME to be a cliche faggot. And I doubt that mom
and Reinhardt would be happy about such a change."

"You're a really difficult patient, aren't you? You make really heavy
demands."

"Heavy demands? Me? Don't think so."

"Well, then I guess you have to live with girls making passes at you."

" Now that I have you as my rescuer I'll survive. You'll come to my
rescue again, don't you?"

"Of course, that's what brothers are for."

"Thanks, brother."

"Maybe you should get a picture of Olga and put it in your wallet, then
you can show it to every pushy girl."

"Good idea! But how does a russian mafia daughter look like?"

"It isn't important how the russian mafia daughter looks like -- it's
much more important how her grim bodyguard in the background looks
like!"

"That doesn't make my search for a picture easyier."

"You'll find one, just look on the internet."

I guess he was right.

"And now, Danny, how about joining me in the water for a while?"

Ohoh. I guess my face showed my despair.

"Come on, I promise to watch out for you. You won't drown, I'll rescue
you. And think about it: when you're in the water there's a lesser
chance of any girl attacking you."

His last argument did it, and I decided to face my arch enemy.
Thankfully we stayed in the shallower parts of the pool where I never
lost my footing, and after a while I even forgot my fears temporarily.
I even allowed Tim to talk me into taking the long slide!

Some 30 minutes later I left the water, Tim stayed even longer. When he
finally left his most loved element we went back to our room, took a
quick shower and layed down in the beds. The day was a exhausting one
again, so it took us only minutes to fall to sleep.

*.*.*

The next day was december 24th -- holy night, in Germany the day we get
the christmas presents! And even a frostbite like me had to admit, that
christmas with 20 C and under palm trees wasn't a real christmas.

For this day we had planned our visit to Magic Kingdom, and we spent
the whole day there. It was an expensive visit -- on the white water
slide I lost my baseball cap and had to buy a new one for no less than
25 dollars.

I guess christmas isn't a really good time to visit Disneys, the crowds
were gigantic. Sometimes I felt sorry for the little kids who were
pushed and showed everywhere.

After an exciting day in the park we went back to our hotel, where now
the most important thing about christmas was taking place: giving out
the presents! Of course we didn't bring big presents, only a few small
things.

I had golden earrings for my mom. For weeks I had watched her looking
at them in a catalogue -- so I hadn't had a problem getting her the
right present *g*. She was really happy about the earrings.

It wasn't that easy to find a present for Reinhardt. Luckily I noticed
that his wallet was almost falling apart, so I got him a new one. He
smiled, but than his smile faded a bit, after he found no lucky penny
in it but a small tube of stain remover -- I just couldn't resist!

The best present for Tim would have been an olympic size pool with lots
and lots of water in it, but our property wasn't big enough for it -- I
had a real problem! Luckily I found a solution/present at almost the
last moment. I had to call for a few favours, but I made it. Grinning I
gave Tim a small envelope. He opened it, then his eyes became bigger
and bigger.

"I don't believe it! Where did you get those tickets? It's sold out for
months now!"

It seemed like he was happy with my present *g*.

When I was sick and staying in his room I noticed him trying to get
tickets for a mega pop concert, but he had absolutely no luck. As he
said: it was sold out for months. I was surprised that my shy little
brother was into such mass events, but at least I had my idea for his
christmas present! A couple of phone calls later I had two first class
tickets, including backstage passes. And to top it off I had to pay
nothing for it! But of course I would have payed every price to make my
little brother happy.

"Sorry, but I have to keep a few secrets to myself."

"There are two tickets, does this mean that we'll go together?"

"Do you want me to come with you? Maybe you'll find better company?"

"Never! You'll come with me, and that's it! I can't deny you the chance
of seeing the boys from Natural live on stage."

"Okay, if you say so. Josh, I'm coming!"

Tim smiled happily.

"We'll have a blast!"

I was quite satisfied with myself, all my presents were well received.

Tim gave his dad expensive looking sunglasses, my mom got a golden
necklace, matching the new earrings. No wonder, Tim and I bought them
together.

But what about me? Where were my presents? Ah, there it was! I made
short work with the packing paper and found ... an orange rubber
hot-water bottle!

"Thank you so much, Tim! You take good care of your brother."

He grinned.

"Sorry, I just couldn't resist. But look a little closer, there is
something in this thing."

Oh. He was right, the bottle felt a little strange. I mean, rubber
should be wobbly, shouldn't it? This one wasn't, and looking closer I
noticed that it was opened and later glued together again. I grabbed
the bottle, and with a mighty tug I ripped it open. And there it was, a
game cd for my computer. Great!

"Thanks, Tim. How did you know that I wanted this game?"

"Well, some people talk in their sleep..."

Oh. My. GOD! What else did he hear from me in my feaver dreams? Hot too
much, I hope. But seeing his smiling face I guess it wasn't too bad...

But now it was time for the real thing: the presents from our parents!
Mom started a little speech.

"Boys, Reinhardt and I thought that we chip together and give both of
you a present a little bigger than usual. We don't want to bribe you,
but we think you deserve it. And we got you things you'll need anyway."

Now I was wriggling on my seat nervously. Bigger present? Do I hear a
cars engine? No, I guess not. That would be a little too big. Come on,
mom, don't let us wait any longer!

"Tim, you're first."

Hmpf. Little siblings privilegue. Let's see. Bigger present? Didn't
look that way, only an envelope. Cash? Tim opened the envelope, and the
next moment he jumped up from his seat in joy!

"You're crazy! It's great! Thank you so much! It's exactly what I
wanted for a long time. Wasn't it too expensive?"

"Don't worry, we can afford it."

Now I'd really like to know what he got!

"Don't let me die dumb, show me!"

He did so, and I discovered a coupon. A coupon for a new computer! A
good present, Tim didn't have his own computer yet. The coupon was for
a new iMac, a good choice especially because of my own PowerMac system.
Hm. This was a *really* big present. And what was in store for me?

I didn't have to wait long. I got my own package, bigger than Tims, but
still small enough to bring it from Germany to Florida. I opened it and
my heart almost stopped. With eyes large like saucers I looked at mom
and Reinhardt.

"You know your son better than I do, Maria. Does this expression on his
face mean that he's happy or that he's shocked?"

"I guess both."

"Good as well. Danny, we thought about giving you your present at the
first day of our trip, but then we decided to stay in the christmas
tradition. But everything is ready and charged, you can use it
immediatly."

Slowly I closed my wide open mouth and was able to turn my eyes back to
my present. It was one of the best semiprofessional digital slr cameras
on the market, it's price easily matching the price of Tims new
computer!

Now it was my time to say my thank yous -- and of course I did so
wholeheartely!

It came the last part of the presents ceremony, and now Reinhardt
started a little speech.

"Tim, Danny, as you know this trip was -- among other things -- meant as
a little unification of our families. We, I mean Maria and I, think
that it worked very well. That's why we decided to use this day to get
engaged to each other in the presence of the two people who are the
most important to us. We hope that you'll give us your blessings."

Both Reinhard and my mom gave us questioning, even a little scared
looks. I guess it was really the evening of big surprises! Tim was
stunned, and I needed a little time to find my speaking ability again.

"Wow, that's great! Of course you have our blessings! You're with me,
Tim, aren't you?"

"Of course! I guess that's the best present ever. Congratulations!"

"From me, too. Reinhardt, I'm really happy that you make my mom a
honourable woman again!"

Everyone broke out laughing, and the strain on our parents faces went
away.

"Thank god! Reinhardt and I were a little worried about your reaction."

"Do you know us sooo little? If Tim and/or I had problems with you
getting together you would have noticed it long before."

"I know, Danny, but still... As I said, your the most important people
to us."

"Don't worry, we're more than okay with your engagement. But now we
should decide on how to celebrate this new development."

"We already did, everything is prepared. We reserved a table in the
restaurant, with champagne and candle light. Let's go!"

Reinhardt and mom started to get up, but Tim stopped them.

"Wait a minute. There's something missing, isn't it?"

The two adult looked at each other questioningly, then a knowing smile
showed up on their faces. The next moment they hugged and gave each
other the engagement kiss. But still Tim wasn't satisfied.

"That's all good and well, but I didn't mean this. I always thought
that for a real engagement you need engagement rings?"

Reinhardt and mom were shocked as if they were hit from a cold shower,
then they broke out in laughter.

"Oh my, Tim, you're absolutely right! We were thinking so much about
your possible reaction, that we totally forgot about the rings! Of
course we have some!"

"Then I guess you should put them on now, so everybody can see that
you're taken and not longer available."

Hm, maybe I should put on an egagement ring, too? As a matter of self
defense against Heidi and other pushy girls?

But back to the situation at hand. The two lovebirds changed rings now,
followed by another deep kissing. This time I had the new camera ready
and banned this picture on film (or better: on silicone) for eternity.
We then want to the restaurant, where I took a few more photos and at
the end a waiter took one of all four of us.

Dinner was great, Tim and I even got a glass of champagne, even though
the laws about alcohol and minors are a bit strange in the US. When our
plates and glasses were empty, I gave my brother a little blink with my
eyes.

"Tim, I'd like to play a little with my new camera, read the
instructions and so on. I guess the best place would be our room. You
want to join me?"

After a short confusion he got my drift.

"Sure. Dad, Maria, can we go?"

Of course they easily got my number.

"Boys, you don't have to leave us."

"I think you two need a little time for yourselfs now. I'll go with
Danny. Take as long as you want, if it gets to late we just go to bed."

"If you say so. But you really don't have to go."

"Tim is right. Have a nice engagement evening, and good night."

With these words we left our parents at the restaurant and went to our
room.

"Now the two lovebirds can do all this mushy stuff lovers usually don't
do with their kids around. I don't know what you want to do, but I
really want to have a closer look at my camera. What about you?"

"It's whirlpool time! This thing is big enough for a whole soccer team,
so you're invited to join me."

Oh oh. Sure, it was big enough for a whole soccer team -- but was it big
enough for Tim and me? If I was lucky Tim would wear his bathing suit,
but what if he wouldn't? Oh my...

"I'll start the water running, you'll have a little time to decide."

While he did so I managed to play a little with the camera. It was a
really great model, I took a few pictures and admired them on the
little lcd screen. Then Tim disturbed my playtime.

"How is it? You'll join me or not?"

I looked up at him, and there he was, standing in the door of the
bathroom, wearing only a white towel. Okay, I didn't know if he was
really wearing only the towel, but if he had his bathing suit on, the
towel wouldn't be necessary, would it? I was totally at lost about what
to do. I would really like to try the whirlpool, and having a naked Tim
beside me would be ... fun. But this fun was also my problem. How would
I react? And I don't mean the reaction of my brain but the one of some
lower body parts!

"Come on, don't make a fuss about it. You got nothing I didn't already
see."

Well, he was right, but there were a few things *I* didn't see before!
But chicken out on him? My little brother? Never!

"Okay, okay, jump in, I'll follow you in a few minutes."

"Great!"

With these words he started to leave.

"Tim!"

He stopped and turned back to me again, and I used this moment to get
another picture of him. He gave me a grin and the finger, then he left
and I was alone with my feelings and my thoughts.

But I didn't have the time to stall any longer without looking like a
coward. I put the camera away, put off my clothes, took a towel around
my waist and went to the bathroom. Tim already was in the bubbling
water, only his head still showing. Music from the radio was playing,
on a little tray beside him he had a glass of coke (and also one at the
place he selected for me).

"There you are. Hurry up, come in, it's great! We should get such a
thing at home, it's sooo relaxing after a long day."

Okay, now or never. I put the towel away and climbed into the
whirlpool. Tim was looking at me with a cheeky grin.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing. I guess I have to apologize to you again. I didn't think
you'd really go through with it."

"What? Did you think I'd chicken out on my little brother?"

The grin on his face got even wider, and while I sat down my brother
stood up, and I discovered ... his bathing suit!

"He, unfair!"

"Okay, okay! I'll take it off."

He did so, and I watched furtifely (and I guess with a VERY red head)
the parts of his body I didn't know yet. Well, I HOPE that my looks
were furtive! I wasn't dissapointed, these part machted the cuteness of
the rest of his body easily. Moments later we both were under the water
with the exception of our heads.

The next hour or so we spent in the water, relaxing our tired bodies
and talking about both the last days and our future together. I was
really admiring my self-control, the whole time little Danny was
totally relaxed!

When our skin started to shrivel up we decided to get out. I didn't
want little Danny to finally raise up after all, so I turned away from
Tim while we dried up. After that we discovered that we forgot to bring
clothes to the bathroom. The towels were wet now, so we couldn't do
anything else but going to our room as naked as god (or whoever) made
us. There we decided to put on our sleepwear already. We were just
laying in our beds, when the door went open and the two fiances showed
up. I didn't even want to think about what would happened if they came
in a few minutes earlier, when to buck naked teenagers ran throug the
room!

"He boys, how are you? You didn't get bored, did you?"

"No, we're just out of the whirlpool, and now we'll watch a little tv.
And, how was your evening?"

"It was really nice, thank you. Tim, your dad is soooo romantic! He
even got a violinist at our table! But you know that you really didn't
need to leave."

"Yes, mom, we know. We didn't need to leave, but we wanted."

"Thanks again, Danny. Maria, I guess we're very lucky to have such
great sons."

"You can say this again. But now I'm tired, let's go to bed. And boys,
don't stay awake to long, tomorrow we'll go the last theme park. Good
night."

We promised to go to sleep soon, then we were alone again. The next
moment we broke out laughing.

"Oh my, Danny, thank god we were in bed already when they came in! A
few minutes earlier and they would have seen us in full glory!"

Great minds think alike.

"And it could have been even worse. What if one of them had grabbed the
camera! How would you explain such a picture to your grand children?"

Now Tim almose choke on his own spit, and I had to help him out buy
patting him on his back.

"You always expect the worst, Danny."

"It's called experience of life, Timmy. You'll learn it in time, too."

"Thanks, but I already did."

Oops, he was right, that wasn't very sensitive from me.

"You're right, I'm sorry."

"It's okay. And maybe it's good to remember it from time to time. But
to change the topic: why did you make such a fuss about joining me in
the whirlpool?"

Hm, the 100.000 dollar question. I need a quick answer, and a good one!
I mean, I just couldn't tell him the truth like `because I'm falling
madly in love with you and didn't want to show it.'. Okay, let's try
this one. Not quite the truth, but near enough.

"Ah ... well ... it's just that I'm gay ... and I didn't want you to
feel strange or funny with me being naked with you, sitting so close to
each other."

"Now just stop it! What can I do that you finally believe me that I
don't have a problem with you being gay? Going to a gay strip bar with
you?"

I gave him a little unsecure smile.

"For the last time: I don't have a problem with sitting at the same
table with you. I don't have a problem with laying in the same bed with
you. And I don't have a problem with being naked with you in a
whirlpool. Understood?"

"Okay, okay, I got it! Thanks."

"There's no need to thank me. Now, let's see what's on the telly."

We zapped through the channels, but almost everywhere were only
commercials. I'll never complain about german television again! Finally
we deciced on MTV, and while we were listening to the music we studied
the information material for tomorrows theme park: Animal Kingdom.

After a while I heard a melody which made me look at the the tv screen.
Tim noticed it.

"Danny? I think you're gay!"

"Of course I am!"

"Then why are you watching this Britney Spears video so closely?"

I grinned.

"Don't worry,  I won't turn straight. I'm not watching that stupid girl
but one of her dancers. Look, the one on her left. Isn't he cute?"

"Dark hair with blonde streaks? This one?"

"Exactly. He has such a cute smile!"

Tim watched the remainder of the video closely.

"Hm. I guess I know what you mean. He looks nice. For a boy, I mean."

I grinned again.

"Oh yes, he does! For such a view I even can stand a Britney Spears
video."

"Okay, now I know what kind of boy you find cute. But he isn't blonde!"

"But at least he has blond streaks. And if the rest is sooo fine I even
could live with a redhead."

"Looks like you're not *that* choosy -- good for you. So you'll have
more chances finding a boyfriend."

"I hope so."

We didn't stay awake much longer, a few minutes later the tv was off
and we went into dreamland. Everyone in his own bed...

*.*.*

The remainder of our Florida trip was over much to soon. Not everything
was so good organized as our stay at Disneys, sometimes it wasn't easy
to find a room for the night. It looked like the whole US and half of
the rest of the world decided to spend the time between christmas and
new year in Florida! But finally we always found a place to sleep, even
if it meant that Tim and I had to share a (big) bed sometimes.

Mom and Reinhardt were on cloud nine for the whole time, running around
with everlasting smiles on their faces. They fulfilled every wish from
Tim and me -- and we tried hard to not take advantage of it.

Thankfully no other Heidi showed up, and I didn't even had to change
into the 120 percent super faggot.

We visited Animal Kingdom and the Kennedy Space Center, then went down
the coast to Ft. Lauderdale and Key West. The drive over the bridges
was breathtaking, but seing what the last hurricane did to the Keys I
decided that this was a nice place to visit -- but not to live. We
enjoyed the famous sunset at Mallory Square, and our parents were
totally lost in the romance of this moment.

Going north again we visited the everglades, the gulf coast and finally
turned back to Orlando where we sadly had to enter the plane which
would bring us back to good (c)old Germany...

*.*.*

To be continued in part 6...

I wish all of you a happy new year!

Peter