Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:34:33 -0400
From: David-Aidan Mackey <damackeynyc@gmail.com>
Subject: Speech, Debate, Sex and More: Part 11: And They Never Found the Breadcrumbs

Hello Nifty Readers! Apologies that this chapter took a little longer than
expected. Real life got in the way and I didn't want to rush the story just
for the sake of speed. There's a lot of ground to cover so it's another
extra long addition this time. There was more planned for this chapter, but
length prevented it so I will be extending the series yet again, now to a
planned 18 total chapters (reserve the right to go as far as 20) I hope you
enjoy it! There are still more chapters on the way.....and a possibility of
a side line extension once this main series comes to a close. Fingers
crossed!


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and just being an author in general. Your feedback and encouragement have
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really.

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They Never Found the Breadcrumbs

By D. A. Mackey


	The unrivaled way to rise each morning, should you have the option,
is to find yourself in that clouded place where your dreams and your
reality blend like watercolors, one into the next; where it's several
heartbeats before you come to realize that the dream has ended and life
begun anew. You want to stay in that limbo for as long as you can, to let
it revive you and comfort you in a way your waking life never will. There
is a small sense of loss that coats your mind for a while, a thin slick of
oil on water, once the clouds are burned away by life; a benign sadness
lingering just beyond recognition and evaporating to nothingness in a
blink, leaving only a dim fading glimmer of memory behind.

	When my eyes adjusted to the dim morning light, tinted blue and
pale yellow from the curtains that blocked out most of the dawn, I hadn't a
clue where I was. I expected panic to take hold immediately, for my heart
to race and my animal instincts to seize control of my muscles. But nothing
happened.

	Daniel's muscled arm wound under my own and over my ribs and pulled
me deeply into him. I sensed his presence and felt his warm skin against
mine; that was enough to temper my compulsion towards panic.  I felt his
soft chest hair tickle the skin of my back, his hips pushed into my ass and
softly thrusting with each deep breath. His thighs wound over and through
my legs so that I couldn't have moved from his vine-like grasp if I'd
wanted to.

	I could just make out the piles of black and white formal wear
tossed uncaringly into the corner. Bright red and blue satin gleamed every
now and then, when a dusty ray of morning light touched it's surface just
right. My shiny prom shoes, laces still tied in perfect bows shone like
beacons. Daniel's room solidified in my view, the familiar sights and
smells falling into place like puzzle pieces while the fog dissipated.

	It was all heightened by the touch, the feel, the smell of Daniel,
hugging me tight to his body, allowing no space between us. I felt small
next to him, though I was taller by full inches, but somehow protected and
sheltered. We had slept side by side many times now, but this was the first
time I could remember feeling this connected. Not just to him, but to where
we were.

	We had crossed some line after the prom.  I was unsure where the
path might lead us from here, but one thing was certain: we were now,
officially, an "us."  We were linked in a way we hadn't admitted
before. Maybe that link had always been there, even unrecognized.  It was
as if the admission itself granted a new perspective on places and things
that had once been ordinary only hours before.

	This was just Daniel's room yesterday. But now, I was a part of
Daniel. I felt like I had a true stake in the place now, one that I hadn't
felt before. I didn't own it, none of it was mine; but a part of Daniel
WAS, and forever would be.  His books, his bed, his body all became...more
precious...to me.

	I closed my eyes and snuggled back into him. Moving even that
slightly made Daniel's soft cock come to life against my ass. I arched my
back like a cat on a sunny windowsill and ground myself into him. I felt
his foreskin begin to pull back as his shaft swelled and grew along side my
crack. I listened to Daniel's breathing, trying to sense when he would wake
because of my movements, but I found no change. I smiled to myself and
ground deeper into him, testing the limits.

	My hole began to throb in anticipation every time Daniel's thick
shaft glided over it. I bit my lower lip between my teeth and held my
breath, trying with all I was worth to remain silent. I must have been lost
in the sensations and imagination of the beautiful man behind me because I
didn't hear his breathing change. I was in my own little world of ever
increasing pleasure when I felt his lips press to the nape of my neck, his
breath hot on my skin but sending shivers down my spine like I'd been
thrown into a lake in December.

	His next kiss was more forceful and he coupled it with a powerful
thrust into my backside.  My cheeks parted and held his entire rigid shaft
between them, radiating with his heat. I laced my fingers into his and lead
his hand and my own downwards.

	Together, we traced down my stomach and over my bellybutton, past
my well-trimmed pubes and right to the edge of my fully hard cock. I guided
his hand forward, urging him to do what I knew he wanted.

	"Fuck," I sighed when his fingers grasped the base of my shaft,
just barely closing around my girth when he squeezed me tightly beneath his
iron grasp. There was no denying that we were both fully awakened now, but
my eyes remained closed, reveling in the feel of Daniel's grip on my rigid
cock and his soft lips as he kissed his way up my neck to my ear.

	"Good morning, baby," he whispered softly, taking my earlobe gently
between his teeth when he spoke and then sucking lightly on my ear.

	"Morning," I groaned, my voice dripping with my rapidly growing
lust. I could feel his cock head dripping hot pre cum onto the top of my
ass even as he jerked me and worked my own clear liquor into the taught
skin of my quivering cock. His thumb pressed into the sensitive triangle
under my slit and my body shook uncontrollably.

	"Please." The word was so soft that I was almost unsure if I'd
spoken it or just thought it.

	Daniel didn't even respond with speech; he simply adjusted himself
behind me, his hips pulling away from me so he could line up his uncut cock
with my waiting cavity. I held my breath, as if I'd crested the first hill
on a roller coaster, just waiting for the imminent drop and rush that was
surely to follow.

	He pushed forward gently and my body reacted on instinct, opening
for him easily, pulling him inside me. His cock felt massive as it
invaded. My hole spasmed around him, squeezing him tightly and then opening
smoothly, begging him to continue his march forward.  He never stopped his
slow up and down movements on my cock as he eased himself gently, slowly,
lovingly inside me.

	I twisted my torso around, unwilling and unable to keep my eyes on
the far wall anymore, needing to see his face.  It was an awkward position
to be sure, Daniel's cock slowly pushing into my smooth white ass as I
twisted my upper body into knots to reach him.

	Daniel's brown eyes met my gaze and I was nearly struck dumb with
their beauty. His eyes were always beautiful and deep, flecked with bright
spots of gold and glowing amber on a background of warm cinnamon. But
they'd always been like a lake to me. No matter how clear the water, there
are places in a still lake where you can't see the bottom, can't even sense
it. It could go on for miles. Daniel's eyes had always been like that, deep
and mysterious and somewhat unknown. But today...the first morning after
our love for each other had received it's true naming...today, it seemed I
could see through them to the very core of his being, as if his soul was
right there for me to touch.

	"I love you," I whispered as I stared into him, watching his pupils
grow before me. I was rocked by that nearly painful level of bliss that
accompanies both love and mind blowing sex, like the pressure of a knife on
the sensitive skin of your wrist, pressing hard but never breaking the
surface, shot through with the full trust that it never would.

	"I love you more," he said with a broad smile, flashing me his
perfect white teeth, his newly revealed eyes brightening even further. My
mouth hung open a bit.

	Gods above, but he was so beautiful!

	Part of me believed that this whole thing must be a dream. This
couldn't be happening to me. I would wake up any moment and find myself in
the airport waiting to board the plane to Boston.

	His prick was nearly fully inside me, pressed tightly against that
magic spot. My cock pulsed a huge jet of precum into Daniel's waiting
fingers and my eyes fluttered closed, my neck losing the ability to hold my
head up. Daniel's lips on mine drove the last breath from my body as his
hips settled fully onto my ass, his black pubes tickling my smooth skin.  I
found myself flung back into that clouded place between dreams and life
once more, but fully aware that I was awake, alive, and on fire. The
watercolors swirled in my vision from the bright whites of passion to the
deep mossy green-browns of my connection to Daniel and the earth herself.

	Daniel went slow, slower than ever before. It seemed it took him
hours to draw himself from deep inside me, his cock head raking against my
prostate for minutes, sending me into spasms that paralyzed my nerves and
set my muscles to shaking. His tongue slowly swirled over mine, and the
deeply satisfied sounds that came from his chest, like a bumble bee the
size of a golden retriever approaching from beyond a distant hill, rumbled
into me and through me. Just as slowly, deliberately, he pressed back
inside and repeated.

	"D...Dan...Daniel...please...please...make me cum, baby."

	Part of me hoped my whimper-riddled begging would encourage Daniel
to pick up his pace. But Daniel read my body like his favorite book. His
slow and undulating thrusts stayed the course; he never let his passions
gain the upper hand and take control until he pounded my twitching ass into
submission. Instead, he tortured me and forced my body to respond to his at
his pace.

	I let out a groan that quavered and broke. Daniel just slipped his
cock deeper inside me again. I felt his shaft throbbing with a steady beat,
expanding against my button and driving me to the brink of insanity as his
talented fingers still played my cock like a concert violinist.

	"I'm close...oh jesus, I'm so close..."

	Daniel's free hand came to my cheek and turned my face towards his
again. He kissed me lightly on the lips and stroked my cheek with his
thumb.

	"Do you want me to shoot my load inside you?" he whispered. I bit
my lip and nodded for all I was worth.

	"Are you going to cum for me?" he teased. His grip tightened on my
cock and his speed picked up a bit on my shaft, while his cock still worked
in and out of my hole with measured slowness.

	"Yes," I croaked, my eyes begging him to release me.

	"I love the way your ass grips my cock, baby. You're so tight. You
feel that?"

	He pulsed his cock inside me, making it swell, pulling my hole open
even more. I screamed and a jet of precum flew from my cock and soaked the
bedsheets.

	"Shoot for me, David," he begged and pulsed inside me again,
thrusting in small motions, just barely pulling out and pushing in again so
that his rock hard cock head scraped and pressed into my prostate at all
times. "Cum for me and I'll give you my load."

	I panted on the bed, unable to catch my breath or form words. My
throat clenched up and I felt my chest tighten like someone was sitting on
me. My fingers grabbed at handfuls of the sheets and comforter in a death
grip that turned my already pale knuckles to the color of bleached
bone. The sounds that escaped from me were those of a strangled man,
breathless gasps and grunts I barely recognized as my human, much less my
own.

	I felt my balls pulling up tight and knew that I couldn't hold out
any longer, though I couldn't convey this to Daniel. He continued his slow
short thrusts against my prostate and my breath grew more ragged. I slammed
my mouth into his and screamed through the pleasure, pushing it into him,
feeling him receive it.

	I hit myself square in the face with my first volley and followed
it up with several more until I was covered in my own jizz. I lost count
when I felt Daniel finally cease his tiny thrusting against my spot and
slam his thick cock to the hilt inside me. His groan and my own melted into
each other through our kiss while I felt him spew his load deep into me,
jet after jet of his burning hot seed filling me up.

	Coming down from that euphoric high was like waking up all over
again. For a few moments, Daniel and I hovered in that abeyance
together. Daniel recovered first.

	"Screw Folgers," he quipped, rolling onto his back and thus freeing
his cock from my still aching hole, "THAT is the best part of waking up."

	I couldn't help but laugh. I rolled over and into him, throwing my
arm over his chest and resting my chin on his hairy pecs, completely
uncaring of the cum that I smeared onto the sheets in the process. I edged
forward and kissed him lightly.

	"You'll get no arguments from me on that front."

	Daniel ruffled my tangled mass of blonde hair and brushed an errant
strand from my face.

	"You sure you're okay, babe?" He asked. "I mean, about last night?
Amy and all that bullshit?"

	To be honest, I had almost forgotten about Amy and her tirade of
bigotry and hate. It spoke very highly of Daniel that something which would
have wounded me beyond easy repair a few short weeks ago was brushed off
without a second thought. Hell, some part of my brain was STILL stewing
over that B+ in Spanish; but, for Amy I felt...nothing.

	"I'm sure," I said, favoring him with my best smile, staring into
his eyes, so new again to me. "Who could remember you're sorry excuse for a
girlfriend..."

	"EX-girlfriend," Daniel corrected me quickly.

	"Ex-Girlfriend. Who cares about her when I've got you?"

	He smiled that crooked half smile and I kissed him again. It was
strange to feel my heart racing in my chest, skipping along lightly. There
was still a part of me that equated that heart-pounding feeling with fear
and anxiety and the desire to run from oncoming torment. I still had some
adjustments to make, old habits to break.

	"Good!" he barked and slapped my bare ass cheek with a loud
pop. "Because I'm on top of the fuckin' world!"

	I rubbed at the sore spot he'd just given me, sure that a
well-outlined five fingered palm print would appear there in no time, but
couldn't help but giggle as Daniel wiggled out from under me and leapt to
his feet. I was treated to a spectacular view of his rounded ass and
semi-hard cock as he danced and shimmied around his room, kicking his feet
and pumping his fists in the air. For such a masculine appearing man, it
was hilarious to watch him in a state of boyish glee. I imagined this must
have been what he looked like as a little boy on Christmas morning.

	"Remind me to get us some dancing lessons!" I laughed as he
continued to shake and shimmy. He threw back his head and roared a laugh.

	"Deal! But nothing's gonna bring me down today. Not even your wit,
you ass hole." He winked at me, turned, and waggled his ass in my
direction.

	"Careful with that thing," I admonished sarcastically. "I'm not to
be held responsible for what I might do to it if you keep presenting it to
me."

	I could have stayed there in Daniel's bed and watched him dance
around his room all day. There was a brief moment when I thought that might
actually happen.

	"Get up! We have to shower and get dressed," he said with
unencumbered glee, extending his hand to me and motioning me to join. I
took it and he pulled me from the bed in a swift motion that found my limbs
flailing in the open air before I suddenly crashed into his massive wall of
chest muscles. Before my feet could settle to the floor, his arm was around
my waist and we were dancing together in quick swaying motions.

	Well, HE was dancing, I was still not too certain my legs worked
after the fucking he'd given me. But I was content to let him hold me up.

	"Where are we going?" I asked through my fit of giggles.

	"Only the best for you, baby!" he intoned with pride. "I'm taking
you to the International House of Pancakes!"

	"Oo, la la," I joked and feigned a swoon. He caught me easily and
maneuvered my limp torso back up to his and kissed me dramatically.

	"I know, right? I'm an impressive specimen. So let's get that
beautiful ass of yours scrubbed up and out the door."

	He nearly yanked my shoulder out of the socket when he turned and
dragged me towards his bathroom.

	Our fingers were wrinkled like shriveled raisins by the time we
stepped out of the shower. We hadn't exactly been very conscious of the
time, after all; or utilitarian and effective with our time management. How
can you expect me to focus on the actual point of bathing when I got to run
my soapy fingers over every square inch of Daniel's olive skin in the
attempt to wash him clean?

	Eventually we had to turn off the steamy water. Even drying off was
a task that took decidedly longer than absolutely necessary. I took my time
running the terry-cloth over his high, tight calves and up his massive
thighs. He flexed for me as I worked, the ligaments standing out under his
hairy skin, rolling like gentle hills and valleys from one to the next. Two
could play at that game: I opened my mouth and sucked in his almost hard
cock and bobbed up and down for a moment, making sure his knees shook
before I stopped.

	"You are evil. We're already late as it is, and you're gonna make
me stay in this room for the rest of the day if you don't stop. The rest of
the team is probably already waiting for us."

	That certainly got my attention.

	"The guys are gonna be there?" I asked.

	Daniel nodded.

	"Is that okay? I thought...,"

	"No, no!" I started. "It's fine. Of course it is. I love the guys."
Daniel arched an eyebrow at me.

	"It took you nearly three months to say you loved me, but the
entire Baseball team get's it in a few short weeks?"

	I punched him in the chest. Sometime soon (for the sake of my
knuckles, alone), I would have to learn that trying to impress any
emotional outburst onto Daniel with my puny physical strength was as futile
as riding a bicycle from New York to London. He didn't even flatter me by
pretending to budge.

	"Shut your mouth. You know what I meant."

	"Do I?" He asked. "You may have to tell me again." He smirked at
me. I sighed dramatically and acquiesced.

	"I love you." I placed my palms on the wide planes of his chest and
gently scratched my nails over his skin. "You big hairy ox."

	He kissed me tenderly.

	"Good. Cause it would truly suck to love you as much as I do and
not have you love me back."

	My knees trembled. I used my grip on his torso to steady myself. I
wondered how long it would be before those words tripping off Daniel's
tongue would cease to make my head spin. Part of me hoped that day never
came.

	"Woah there." Daniel said, lifting me up. "You okay?"

	"I'm fine, I'm fine," I assured him, "it's just a little
overwhelming still...hearing you say that."

	"I'll stop if you want?"

	"Absolutely not. Don't you dare."

	"Good. Cause that was a straight out lie. I love you, too."

	I laughed and turned to walk back to the bedroom, thankful that
Daniel had a private bathroom so there was no need to cover up.  I sat on
the end of the disheveled bed and finished drying off. Daniel stood in the
bathroom doorway and watched me, making no effort to conceal his stiffening
cock. I loved to watch his foreskin roll smoothly away from the darker skin
of his cock head as it lengthened and began to arch gently upwards, his
full balls always hanging underneath like sandbags on a hot air balloon.
The effect on my own cock was, as always, instant. I decided to change the
conversation as quickly as possible or else there was a distinct
possibility that we would NEVER leave his room.

	"After everything that happened last night, with Amy and all that,
and then leaving with me," I started before I realized I didn't really know
how to finish my question. I faltered and stammered a bit. "I mean, do you
think...? Fuck, I don't know. I mean, everyone knows now right? About us?"

	I was blushing. To this day, I do not know why, but my face was red
as a beet before I finally got out the thought. I guess it was the idea of
being a known item now, and all the changes that would bring. Daniel had
held my hand as he lead me from the ball room. Surely everyone had seen us
and guessed what that signified? Right?

	"I don't think so, babe," Daniel said with calm, collected ease. "I
mean, Ian knows, of course. I think Paul and Gordon were blitzed out of
their minds. It's a crap shoot wether they'll even remember anything at
all, much less the implications of me holding your hand."

	"And Coach B," I murmured to myself, my brain already going a
million miles an hour, planning for a hundred possible eventualities,
listing people who may know, did know, and didn't know.

	"Coach knows?" Daniel asked, a smidgen of concern finally entering
his voice. It took me a moment to register what he was asking and what I
had said.

	"Fuck. I totally forgot to tell you after last night. I'm sorry,
baby. Coach B talked to me for a while before all that shit went down. He
knows. He's known since that first morning he walked in on us in the shower
at school. Remember? After you made me run to school?"

	Daniel smirked and snorted a little laugh.

	"Of course I remember. I remember every time with you, David," he
said as he walked towards me and sat beside me on the edge of the bed. Our
finger laced together without the need for either of us to hold our our
hands in supplication.  It just felt right to be connected to him when he
was that close to me.  "I guess it makes sense, now that I think about
it. He smiled like a damned hyena when I suggested to him that you should
be the Team Manager."

	"You're not as sneaky as you thought, huh?" I teased. He squeezed
my hand and nudged me gently in the ribs.

	"It got me what I wanted in the end, didn't it."

	"Oh!" I squeaked, remembering another important tidbit of
information, "you're not crazy, by the way! There WAS someone watching that
night in your Jeep. Well, not watching,... not really. Coach just forgot
his bag and happened to see us. Said he had to run like hell and hid in his
office until we left."

	Daniel roared with laughter until his eyes brimmed with tears.

	"No shit?! That's hilarious! He could have at least told me so I
didn't think I was headed to the looney bin on the express train for
paranoid delusions and seeing shit!"

	Daniel did his best to ease any lingering fears I may have been
harboring while at the same time urging me to move faster. He had finally
checked the time and pronounced us, "late as shit."  I didn't have any
clothing other than my tuxedo, an outfit that would be out of place at an
IHOP, where the "No shirt, no shoes, no service" sign on the front door was
an actual necessity gleaned from past instances.

	Daniel handed me a pair of his basketball shorts and a tight black
t-shirt. Though he could have dressed in jeans and a nice polo, as was his
usual style most warm days, he mirrored my own athletic attire instead, and
to much greater effect if you asked me.

	We rushed down the stairs and towards the kitchen. I had to follow
behind him. I had been to his house many times, but I still wasn't entirely
sure where each hallway lead in the massive floor plan. Before we got to
the kitchen, Adam stepped from a side hallway and blocked our path.

	"Mornin', little bro. How'd you sleep?" He winked.

	"Fuck off, Adam. We're late," Daniel shot back, obviously annoyed
at the interference.

	"Cool your jets, dipshit. Just wanted you to know that you two
weren't exactly quiet when you came in last night. Catch my drift? I could
hear you from my room and Mom's is closer...so..."

	I could have died.

	I may have, actually. I remember the blood suddenly pounding in my
ears and my vision going kind of wonky for a bit. Daniel's brother had
HEARD us last night. After the limo ride home, we hadn't really stopped our
sexploration and utterances of sweet nothings and words of love and
devotion until physical exhaustion forced us to.

	"You can pick 'em, lil' D." Adam smirked. "He is definitely a
hottie when he's blushing to beat the band."

	Yep.

	Dead.

	Deceased. Please send donations to the David-is-Done-Fund in lieu
of flowers.

	"Hands off. You're older, but I can still hand you your own ass in
a skinny minute," Daniel warned.

	It sounded like a joke to me, sibling rivalry at it's most
basic. But buried beneath it's mundane normalcy, there was a razor sharp
edge of an actual threat. If it came right down to it, and Daniel had to
choose between me and his brother....well, hasta la vista Adam. That helped
to ease the burning ember that had become my face. A bit.

	Adam raised his hands in surrender and pressed himself to the wall
so we could pass.

	"Just thought you should know before you walk in there and Mom
stares at you till you spill your guts."

	I did my best to mouth the word "thanks," to Adam as I passed. He
winked at me again. There was something about that man that just...

	"Morning, you lazy Larry's!" Daniel's mom sang at us as we entered
the kitchen.

	"I thought for sure you two would sleep all day!"

	"Good morning, Ma'am," I said sheepishly, feeling the heat
returning to my face again in full force, accompanied this time with the
pounding heart and anxiety that damn near gnawed a hole in my stomach.

	"So, sit, sit, sit. Tell me everything? How was prom? Why'd you
come home early? I expected you to stay at the hotel last night. When I
heard the front door open I was half way to the shotgun under the bed
before I recognized your voice, Daniel."  I swallowed hard against the lump
in my throat.

	"I'll tell you all about it later, Mamma," Daniel said, grabbing an
apple from the silver bowl on the island counter and tossing one back for
me as well. I actually caught it. Me? The homosexual nerd caught something
thrown in the air. I was silently cheering for myself. "We're running
late."

	"Can't you at least stay for some breakfast?" she asked, actually
sounding hurt.

	"That's what were late for. But I promise we'll talk later,
okay. We really have to go." He leaned in close and gave her a peck on the
cheek.

	"Alright, then. Drive safe. Don't stay out too late."

	"We won't," Daniel promised in the way every teen always
promises. His hand was on the door handle when his diminutive mother spoke
again and stopped him in his tracks.

	"Don't forget you've got to take the SATs again tomorrow."

	"What?!" Daniel bellowed. "I've already accepted my place at State!
Why do I need to take them again?"

	Daniel's mom got very serious, very quickly. Southern Mammas have a
way of running to the extremes of the emotional spectrum like no
other. I've often wondered if Mercurial was originally a name for a woman
from the South.

	"David has been sweet enough to give you his time and tutor you for
weeks now. Place at State or not, you will not make his efforts go to waste
young man. Do I make myself clear?"

	"Yes, Ma'am," Daniel sighed, the wind gone thoroughly out of his
sails. My mouth hung open to my chest.  I would have to ask her to give me
lessons. It was truly an amazing trick.

	Daniel grumbled to himself all the way to the Jeep. He didn't stop
grumbling until we had both gotten in, strapped on our seat belts and held
hands over the center console.  I smiled as broadly as I could. I liked
Daniel when he was stewing and introspective. His eyebrows drew down over
his eyes and he stuck out his lower lip in almost a pout.  Watching a full
grown masculine man pout is cute sometimes. To a point. There are limits,
of course.

	By the time we arrived at the IHOP, he was back to his normal self,
his thumb running in small lazy circles over my hand.

	The hostess in her white button down and blue apron barely looked
up from her station when we walked in the door before she mumbled the
apathetic greeting that Corporate Headquarters had commanded her to:

	"Welcome to the International House of Pancakes. How many in your
party?"

	"Umm, we're here to meet..."

	The roar of "DANIEL!!" and "DAVID!!" that assaulted the air waves
from a big semi-circular booth off to the left got not only our attention,
but also the hostess'. When she looked up and finally saw Daniel standing
before her, I was filled with a great swell of pride. Her eyes got very
wide and her mouth fell open a bit as she took in the beautiful man
standing before her, his toned arms and broad chest outlined perfectly even
in his plain t-shirt.

	And you can't touch him...he's all mine.

	I smiled very broadly and nodded my thanks to her as we headed
towards our waiting companions. To say they were the best dressed table in
the house was like saying that Marilyn Monroe was a decent looking chick.
They were resplendent in their finery from the night before, a little
rumpled and wrinkled here and there, but still dashing none the less.
Maybe it was a sign of their upper middle class upbringing that they had
chosen to retie their bow ties and vests. Their cufflinks were even still
on, their semi-precious sparkle lost on the fluorescent lighting of the
restaurant.

	Tall Paul and Gordon looked like they hated the world and
everything that walked upon it's surface. The bags under their eyes could
have held enough clothes for a honeymoon in Europe and they both had lost
some of their youthful color, replaced with a slight tinge of green. They
had joined Ian in trying to get our attention when we walked in the door
and seemed to be regretting the decision to produce sound or exert any
effort in the first place.

	Adrienne, Amanda, and Katy smiled pleasantly at both Daniel and I
as we stood at the head of the table. They looked identical to their
glamorous selves from the evening before: every hair in place, every pore
refined and eyelash blackened and curled.  Even carrying only those tiny
little handbags they had managed to scrounge together enough beautification
accouterment to maintain their flawlessness.  Daniel scooted in beside Ian
on the side of the booth occupied by the boys and I followed suit, taking
the place at the end. Ian wasted no time and dove straight into the deep
end.

	"Dude, are you okay?" he asked, leaning around Daniel to get my
attention. "That was some utter bull shit that bitch pulled last night." He
glanced at the girls. "Sorry. But she IS a bitch." The girls put up no
argument to the contrary.

	"I'm fine. Promise," I said in my best reassuring voice.  It really
was sweet of him to worry.

	"We are all worried about you, guy," Gordon slurred more than his
usual.

	"Mhmm," Paul added, apparently the worse off of the drunken duo.

	"Thanks, but I swear I'm okay."

	Daniel's strong hand rested on the exposed skin of my thigh and he
squeezed lightly under the table. I wondered if anyone had seen.

	"I don't know what got into her," Katy said. She had that strange
way of raising her inflection at the end of every sentence so that I was
never quite sure if she was asking a question or making a declarative
statement. Either way, I was touched that she was making an effort to show
any emotion towards me at all, much less sympathy.  I could count the words
she had spoken to me in our four years of school together on two hands.

	"Yeah. I mean, she's never been the nicest person on the planet,
but that was just..." Adrienne offered and shuddered in disgust at the end.

	"Totally."

	That was Amanda. She never was one for words. But I'd be damned if
she didn't have the body of a Victoria Secret model. I had no fears for her
future, despite her apparent and shocking lack of vocabulary.

	I didn't really know how to react. Even with my rising social
standing, these three former minions of Amy had never paid me much
attention. Begrudging smiles and cordial lifts of the head was about
it. Before Daniel, I doubt they even knew I breathed the same atmosphere.
For them to speak to me at all was overwhelming, and it conjured up the
memories of just how awful Amy had been last night.

	"Thanks." I whispered and stared at the paper placemat before
me. Daniel squeezed my thigh again and I brightened a little.

	"Has anyone heard from her yet?" Daniel asked. Our six companions
all shook their heads no.

	"She's probably lying in wait behind the bushes to take me out with
her fingernails sharpened to a razor's edge."

	I have no idea why I said it. I certainly had no intention of
speaking, but my inner monologue came rushing out and I spoke the words to
the table. My horrified expression when I realized what I'd just said
softened when the entire table, the girls included, burst into raucous
laughter.

	Our meal was a pleasant as any IHOP meal can be. We chatted amiably
about school and final exams and graduation. We dropped the graduation
topic rather quickly when we recalled that Katy wouldn't be walking across
that stage with us since she had to repeat her Junior year. It felt
strange, since she'd been a staple of the school hierarchy for all four
years I'd been there. But all told, breakfast was a success.

	Somewhere in the middle of our airy conversation, Daniel reached
for my hand under the table and took it in his own. My gut reaction was to
pull away as quickly as possible in case someone saw us. We were in an
IHOP. In the South.  I highly doubted there was a weekly PFLAG meeting
scheduled in that particular location. But Daniel held firm. When I tried
to move my hand his fingers gripped mine ever tighter and he looked at me
quickly. His eyes were almost hurt. My heart broke and I gave up any
attempt at resistance.

	But I still wasn't sure if anyone at the table actually KNEW.  They
made no hints, no comments, no jokes, nothing to indicate that anything had
happened last night except Amy had berated me, Daniel had confronted her
and then taken me home. None of them even asked if I had gone back to my
own home or to Daniel's.

	It was a weird place to be in. I was waiting for someone, anyone to
say something, drop a hint that they knew what was going on. Even a glance
down towards our hands. A smirk of disgust. Something to let me know which
way the winds were blowing. I could at least prepare if I had the slightest
clue. But I got nothing.

	I was on the cusp of "coming out" with Daniel as a couple. But they
weren't going to make it easy. It seemed that if we were going to be a
couple in public, we would have to declare as much from our own mouths. Our
little hand holding last night and the small clues I felt were glaringly
obvious from my point of view were not sufficient evidence to my peers.

	I was used to planning for every eventuality, each way things could
go down. I could find the quickest escape route and road to safety and
survival without even thinking about it.  But now I stood at the center of
an intersection with no road signs. How can you plan to run when you aren't
even sure when or where your feet will hit the ground?  Or even if they
will?

	My single solace came from the fact that Daniel was up in the air
with me. Better than that, he tethered me to reality, his fingers
interwoven with mine keeping me grounded. Without him....I didn't want to
think about what could happen without him. I squeezed his fingers tightly
and didn't stop until I could feel his heartbeat through my skin.

	I was shaken from inside my skull by the sound of a loud blast from
a car horn.  The girls reacted almost immediately.

	"That's our ride," Adrienne said as she scooted from the booth and
smoothed her gown.

	"Thank you for a lovely evening, gentlemen," Katy offered demurely,
following her friend out. Amanda was last and favored us with a smile and
twinkle of her bright green eyes. I wondered what was going on behind those
emerald spheres.

	The boys and I made our goodbyes and watched the trio leave. Katy
and Adrienne were already to the door when Amanda stopped, turned, and
shuffled quickly back to the table. I figured she must have forgotten her
purse.

	It wasn't until her arms were around my neck and her face pressed
next to mine that I realized what was happening.  I didn't know what to do!
I was frozen in my seat, smelling her light lavender scented skin and
completely unable to return her unexpected show of affection.

	"I really am sorry, David," she whispered close to my ear. "You
didn't deserve that."

	She straightened and smiled at me. I think I smiled back. I hope I
did.

	"You looked great last night, by the way. See you at school!" she
chirped and bounced off to rejoin the others.

	"Dude, you should see your face right now," Ian snorted as he let
out a laugh. "I know you're gay and all that, but she just hugged you. You
look like she just showed you her lady parts."

	Gordon and Paul (and yes, even Daniel) snickered at that. I was
happy to see that the effort redoubled the hangover on both of them.

	Once the girls were gone, it became apparent that Gordon and Paul
had both been just barely holding it together for their benefit. Paul
folded his gangly arms on the table and rested his head on them, covering
his eyes. Gordon didn't even cushion his head with his arms, just went
forehead first straight to the shellacked table top. I may not have been
raised in the Cotillion and proper table manners set, but even I could read
the signs that breakfast was at an end.

	The drunk boys shuffled towards the parking lot with unintelligible
grumbles about Ian hurrying up and driving them home before they puked in
his car. The door closed behind them and left Ian, Daniel and I to pay for
our meals.

	"And I thought I was supposed to be the dense one," Ian said,
elbowing Daniel in the ribs, which given the height disparity was located
closer to the shoulder than the ribcage. He handed the cashier his credit
card. "Seats 1 through 6 please." He smiled at the middle aged woman
manning the register. I watched his pecs bounce beneath his tuxedo jacket
and saw the poor woman's eyes bulge a bit.

	"They really don't know do they?" Daniel asked. I had finally
shaken off most of the shock from Amanda's unexpected physical interaction
and returned my attention to their conversation.

	"Apparently not. I mean, I guess I had more clues to go on, given
the hotel room at the away game and all but still..."

	Ian blushed a bit and glanced at me. I winked at him and watched
his color deepen to an even more intense scarlet.  I loved my natural
ability to turn such a large and masculine man into a stereotypical
quivering school girl with only a wink of my eye.  Ian cleared his throat
and ran his fingers through his short hair while he composed himself.

	"So how was your night?" he asked me, stuffing his long white paper
receipt into his pocket as Daniel handed the cashier his debit card to pay
for his and my meals. I didn't even hesitate or try to offer him money to
cover my own breakfast. It hadn't taken very long for me to get used to the
idea that, sometimes, Daniel would just take care of me. I made a mental
note to save up some money to take him out to dinner on my own dime someday
soon.

	"Good," I said, my face heating this time as I recalled our
sexually adventurous trip back to Daniel's house from the ballroom. "Very
good."

	I smiled and glanced at Daniel, found him already looking in my
direction. We shared a small smile and I walked past him when he held the
clear glass door open for me and Ian to leave International waters and
return to American soil.

	Ian followed us to Daniel's red Jeep, easily found amongst the
assembled vehicles. I scooted in on the passenger side and Ian followed
Daniel to the driver's. Daniel sat and started the Jeep easily. Ian rested
his forearms on Daniel's fully open window and leaned easily inside the
cab. His massive shoulders and bull-like chest blocked the entire open
space.  I realized that perhaps Ian's own massive SUV wasn't a sign of his
parent's higher than average income level, but rather a necessity for a boy
who was built larger than two average men put together.

	Daniel reached for my hand on the middle console and I took it
without thought. I was amazed at the quickness with which ease of affection
had taken over my life. At least around Ian.  I instinctively trusted
him. Yes, we were in public, but the semi-private space of the car, only
seen by Ian was a safe space for us.  Ian smiled at us from his easy
leaning stance.

	"Nice. Very nice.  I'm happy for the two of you. Really," Ian said,
his usually macho bravado replaced with sincere interest. Daniel returned
Ian's smile and squeezed my hand again.

	Ian straightened and looked around the parking lot for his own
vehicle. It was easier to find, even than the bright red Jeep; not only
because it was a massive black vehicle that wouldn't have been out of place
in a war zone, but also because either Gordon or Tall Paul were loudly
depositing the contents of their stomach on the ground somewhere near it's
general vicinity .  Ian's face screwed up in annoyance.

	"Jack asses. Both of them," he sighed. "See you guys at school,
yeah?"  we both nodded. Ian waved his goodbye and vacated the driver side
window.

	His shoulders were gone for only a moment before he returned in a
flash.

	"By the way, I know they rest of these weirdoes are blind, deaf,
and dumb, but what's the deal with school? Are you guys...are you 'out?'
Boyfriends? Not that I care, of course. I just wanna know what to expect is
all."

	Daniel looked to me and raised his eyebrows with the questions,
allowing me the honor of response. His eyes were open and hopeful. And my
stomach was suddenly in knots again, and not just from Daniel's beauty.

	"I don't know yet," I said quietly.  "We are...we...I,... I don't
know. We're together. Boyfriends, I guess, works. Maybe. I'm just not
sure."

	Daniel's face fell a little bit. I wondered if he was somehow
excited to come out, like a soldier on the front lines on an ancient battle
field waiting for the horn to sound the advance, bouncing on his toes,
adrenaline making him feel invincible and immortal.  I envied him that.  I
was excited, of course I was. But I was also even more terrified. Daniel
and Ian hadn't ever had to undergo the negative side of the social order.
Their optimism was infectious, but I had real life experience, honest to
god scars and wounds that would never let me forget that people, even or
maybe especially teenagers, have a capacity for causing pain and torment
the likes of which would make a serial killer blush.

	"I love him. He loves me," Daniel said, turning to face Ian again
and favoring me with another squeeze of my hand.  He could have been
saying, "My Jeep is red." It was that matter of fact.

	Ian's face split into a wide smile. When he smiled like that, I was
able to forget his bulk and muscles, his masculinity and bluster. That
smile revealed the boy he'd been, and the teenager he truly was.

	"Heard, received, and understood," Ian quipped, his voice
rising. It was a little disconcerting to watch a man like him bounce on his
toes in excitement. Disconcerting because it ran counter to my own
stereotypes of how a guy like him SHOULD act. But I'd be damned if it
didn't make me love the big muscled lummox. I wondered if I had somehow
stumbled into a "big brother/little brother" kind of relationship with him.

	"Oh. I forgot to tell you. You owe me fifty bucks," Ian said,
holding out his open palm as if he expected Daniel to fill it with cash
right then. "My Dad got a call from the Limo company that there was an
additional cleaning charge. Apparently, someone left a bit of a sticky mess
in the back seat?"

	Daniel cleared his throat and adjusted the rear view mirror to
avoid looking at his teammate directly.

	"I'll give it to you at school."

	Ian laughed, waved to the both of us and walked to his SUV and the
two jocks-in-distress that waited for him there.  Daniel and I were in a
full blown fit of giggles and guffaws before we had fully pulled out of the
parking lot.

	The next afternoon, a bright and clear Spring Sunday, I waited in
the parking lot of one of the gigantic public high schools for Daniel to
finish his SAT's.  He had huffed and puffed and sulked about having to wake
up at the crack of dawn to take a test that was essentially for the sake of
his health at this point. But his mamma had held firm and Adam had held his
smirks and side-eyed glances to a minimum as his littler brother twisted
and tried to evade three and a half ours of pointless standardization.

	I had picked him up from his house early that morning, the first
time he would be riding in MY car.  He was too pre occupied and brooding
over his own misfortune to put up any resistance when I offered to drive.
I spent the hours in the parking lot studying for finals next week and
listening to the radio. Unlike the commonly held assumption of teenagers
and their loud, crazy tastes in music, I preferred NPR.

	 Surprise, surprise. The nerd enjoyed public radio.  But at least I
could pronounce the name of the Prime Minister of Israel. I doubted the
majority of my classmates could.

	People began to trickle out of the square brick building. In one's
and two's at first, around the two hour mark.  Soon, they began to leave
the building at a faster clip.  I exited my car and leaned casually against
the hood and waited for Daniel to appear. Before too long, he emerged,
located me immediately and walked towards me, picking up his speed as he
approached. He wore a look of abstract annoyance that quickly brightened to
a broad smile when he was nearer.

	"So, how'd it go?" I asked as brightly as I could without being
comical, wanting to show my support of his academic endeavor, but also back
up his own obvious feelings towards the futility of the task in the first
place.

	"Better than expected," he said when he was within a few feet of
me. "Might actually get a better score. Guess I had a good teacher."

	Though dozens of students and their parents milled about the
parking lot around us, Daniel paid them no mind. He pulled near to me and
pressed himself against my legs to lean in and kiss me fully on the
mouth. He held the kiss for a while, enough time for the shock of the
public display to wear off and my stomach to launch the squad of
butterflies it kept in reserve for moments like this when Daniel touched
me.

	When he pulled away, he looked into my eyes, searching for some
sign of how his kiss had been received. To his credit, he had kissed me so
thoroughly and my emotions for him ran so deep into my core that I didn't
even glance around to see if anyone had been watching or if we had been
discovered. It was highly unlikely that any of our own classmates would be
in attendance, but still, the possibility of a negative reaction from the
strangers in the parking lot was high.

	"Gross," one pimple ridden red headed boy muttered as he passed.

	"Fuck off, ass hat," Daniel spat at his retreating back.

	The boy turned, obviously shocked that his utterance had been heard
and unsure what to do next. Daniel lurched towards him, as if he would
pounce on the poor boy (who I shouldn't really sympathize with, given his
apparent bigotry) stumbled backwards, lost his footing and crashed to the
ground. He scrambled to get up and gather his fallen pencils and calculator
and walked away at a much faster pace than was absolutely necessary, never
quite breaking into a run, though he pushed the limits of walking to their
edge.

	Daniel and I were both watching his retreating back when a familiar
voice grabbed our combined attention. I was seated on my hood with my legs
slightly spread, Daniel's arms around my waist and his thighs in the open
space between my own.

	"Well, that makes much more sense," it said.

	Daniel and I turned and the blood drained from out faces, which
meant I must have been nearly translucent while Daniel took on my usual
pale pallor.

	Katy held her binder in her crossed arms and a designer bag was
looped over her shoulder. She wore a tight white button down blouse and
deep green pencil skirt that hugged her thighs all the way to her knees and
highlighted her cream colored high heels. Leave it to one of the popular
girls to dress to the nines for the SAT's. She got no few looks from boys
and girls alike as they passed, mostly dressed in plaid pajama bottoms and
hoodies, but she didn't pay them any mind.

	My mind was in a whirlwind of panic and fear.

	Katy! She was the logical successor to Amy, now that the former
it-girl seemed well and truly dethroned. And she was staring at me and
Daniel. This wasn't an easy explained hand holding. We had kissed. In
public. How could we have been so stupid!

	"Katy!" I stammered, trying in vain to disentangle myself from
Daniel. He was having none of it. He held me firmly in his arms and refused
to move his knees from my front bumper, effectively trapping me beneath
him. "Umm...I...It's..."

	Katy giggled a bit. I had heard that laugh before. It usually
preceded a popular girl launching into an attack that would leave her
victim breathless and destroyed while she remained poised and aloof.

	"Save your breath, David." She started and my heart sank. "I guess
Amy was right, huh? I mean, she still deserved what she got, and more
besides, but she was right." She laughed again. "Close your mouth, hun, or
you're liable to catch flies."

	My mouth snapped shut with an audible click of my teeth. My eyes
remained wide and unblinking. I wondered if Daniel wore a similar
expression but I dared not tear my gaze from Katy to check.

	"You make a cute couple. Odd. But cute," she declared, cocking her
head to the side like an inquisitive owl as she examined us. "What? You
were expecting me to be a hateful bitch? You haven't met my little
brother. He's in the sixth grade, but judging by the N'SYNC and Britney
Spears posters he thinks he's hidden in his closet, you probably will soon
enough."

	I had to concentrate on keeping my mouth closed. I heard my teeth
creak from the pressure and my jaw began to ache. What was happening?!

	"I assume no one at school knows yet?" She asked.

	"Ian. And Coach." Daniel said calmly.

	"And you want to keep it that way?"

	Daniel turned to me, leaving me the room to answer her question. I
was still paralyzed so Daniel took the lead.

	"For now."

	Katy nodded.

	"Cool," she said easily. "How'd you do? I think it was okay, but
I'm shit at math still."

	Just like that, it was done. I was suddenly wracked with guilt. For
months, years really, I had judged Katy to be a vapid soulless automaton
incapable of her own thought and blindly following the social norms. And
here she was faced with something that went fully against those expected
norms; and she took it in stride without a moments' hesitation. She showed
none of the apprehension and anxiety that I myself struggled through even
now.  Though we hadn't ever spoken and my judgements of her had always been
internal, I felt the need to apologize to her for my inner monologue. I
didn't. But I felt I should.

	"It was alright," Daniel said.

	"Well, I'll see you guys at school tomorrow then?"

	Daniel nodded and I think my head may have bobbed up and down
imperceptibly. That was all I could manage at the time. Katy smiled again
and swayed away, tottering confidently on her designer high heels towards
the bright gold Mercedes convertible I should have recognized as her own
parked a few spaces away.

	Daniel was positively BEAMING at me. He kissed me dramatically and
his face shone like the sun.

	"Well, that went better than I'd anticipated!"

	I tried to work some moisture back into my mouth, which had been
dry as a bone since Katy first approached.

	"Yeah. I...I...dunno what to think."

	Daniel's hand came to my cheek and he turned my eyes to focus on
his own.

	"Think about how nice it will feel to jump into my swimming
pool. Come on! We've got a few good hours left before the sun sets and I
want to go swimming."

	"You drive," I said, fishing my keys from my front pocket and
handing them to him. "I don't think I can focus."

	Daniel took them and in no time, we were headed back to his house
in my old beat up Toyota, apparently planning to take a dip in his swimming
pool.

	There was a note on the kitchen counter when we entered stating
that his Mom and Dad were out at a church function and wouldn't be home
until around 7:00 PM and that Adam was at a friends' house until later in
the evening as well. There was a casserole in the oven if he got hungry.

	"Looks like we have the place to ourselves for a few hours," Daniel
said mischievously as he read the note and placed it back on the marble
counter. "What ever shall we do?"

	I cozied up to his broad chest and snaked my arms around his lower
back.

	"You mentioned something about a swim?" I said and kissed him
gently. He moaned a bit when our lips touched and ground his pelvis lightly
into mine.

	"But I don't have a suit. Can I borrow one?"

	"Mmhmm," Daniel said, letting his hands rest on my ass and pinching
it firmly. "I have the perfect one picked out just for you. It's out back
in the pool shed."

	I hadn't ever been to Daniel's back yard before. I had spied the
pool and it's accompanying hot tub from the driveway, but it did little to
prepare me for what I found. The pool itself was large and shaped vaguely
like an amoeba of some kind, with a wide stone stairway at the shallow
end. At the far deep end of the pool a constant waterfall flowed from about
3 feet above the pool's edge, the source of which was the large hot tub
built above it. The hot tub itself was big enough to easily accommodate 5
or more people and began bubbling away when Daniel flipped a switch on the
wall next to the back door.

	The large multi-level wooden deck wrapped the entire length of the
mini-mansion and the grounds were landscaped to perfection. A hammock hung
between two tall sturdy trees near the far left corner and a stone fire pit
and outdoor permanent cooking area rounded out the space. My family had a
little circular charcoal grill that we kept out back. The gas fueled
monstrosity that was built into the cooking area was twice as wide as a
normal stove.  Fourth of July Barbecues would be a simple affair on that
grill.

	The "pool shed," as Daniel had called it, was most certainly a
misnomer. Most middle class people in the south have a shed out back to
store their yard equipment. Daniel's family was not most people. Where I
was expecting a modest 10 foot by 10 foot siding cover windowless shack, I
found instead a brick lined square building complete with windows and a
sliding glass door that could have easily been large enough for a one
bedroom apartment in any major metropolis.

	Inside, it was carpeted and held a seating area and full bathroom
with a shower and a small mini kitchen area.  Imagine a beach house but in
smaller proportion.

	Daniel paid no attention to his surroundings as he headed straight
through the sliding glass door for the tall white dresser in the back and
opened the bottom drawer. I, however, did my best not to have my eyes pop
from their sockets.

	"I have a lot to choose from," Daniel called boyishly. "But, I
think I want to see you in this one."

	The sheer paucity of fabric that he held between his long fingers
was appalling. Well, enthralling AND appalling. The black and white lycra
was done in a checkered pattern that made my head spin a bit from the
busyness of it...and man, it was TINY.  Speedo cut in the briefs style, it
looked like it would ride high up on my hips. I idly wondered if it would
even cover my cock and balls. I wondered less idly if that was the point of
Daniels' choice in the first place.

	"You have a dirty mind, my love," I said as I paced towards him and
took the suit from his outstretched arms, brushing a quick kiss across his
lips in the taking.

	"You knew that from day one," he announced, fully taking
responsibility for his choice. "But fair is fair. There's a lot to choose
from. I picked yours, so you get to pick mine."

	I surveyed the drawer and found it to be stuffed to the brim with a
blinding array of colors and options in every conceivable style, cut, and
fabric. I sifted through them for a bit and finally settled on my choice. I
held them out for Daniel to see.

	"Now who's got the dirty mind," he mused, taking my offering. "Get
dressed in here. I'm gonna change outside. I want to be surprised when I
see you."

	With that, he bounded out of the pool shed and out to the yard.  I
removed my pants and boxer briefs, letting the warm summer air flow over
the skin of my cock and balls. I stepped into the tiny swimsuit and pulled
it up to my hips. I had to admit the feel of the fabric stretching over my
bulge was...alluring. The sides were maybe two inches thick but the front
covered my ample package with ease, stretching to accommodate me while
lifting and pushing my manhood out for full inspection.  I did a quick turn
in front of the full length mirror and was not disappointed with what I
saw. I giggled how the black and white checks over my cock were MUCH
stretched and distorted when compared to the less fully packed areas of my
ass and hips.

	I grabbed a towel from a large pile on one of the padded chairs by
the door and headed out to the yard.

	Daniel had his back to me, allowing me to gaze hungrily over the
wide broad plains of him, from the mounded shoulders to his narrowing
waist.  His skin was smooth and gleamed in the afternoon sunlight, seeming
to drink it in. I could tell that when I finally touched him, he would be
warm like something delicious just pulled from the oven. My mouth watered.

	My choice for his suit was...perfection.

	They were small shorts in hunter green nylon that resembled
parachute fabric, but matte not shiny. The detail on the hems and the
string that tied in front was a neon yellow so bright it would never be
seen in nature. One reason I had chosen the suit was for its cut. The back
and the front were not joined by a seam at the hips, they simply overlaid
each other, creating a little flap that would widen when he moved his legs
in any direction. Built in, was a mesh undergarment meant to hold his ample
balls and uncut cock in place and from where he stood with one leg slightly
in front of the other, I could see the split at the hips giving me a small
peak at the white mesh that ran around his thighs. The shorts cupped his
muscled bubble butt perfectly, stretching over his cheeks while displaying
them in their individual glory. And the length was ideal, at least for
me. They stopped just at his upper thighs, maybe two inches below his ass.

	"Holy mother of god," I nearly bleated, gaining his attention so
that he turned to face me.

	"Speak for yourself..." Daniel sighed, looking me up and and own
and doing nothing to cover up his obviously growing lust. His hand cupped
his own well amplified package and he squeezed himself hard.  With his
other hand he beckoned me forward to meet him.

	I walked a little cautiously, letting the feel of the spring grass
beneath my bare feet sink in and the warmth that began to stream down on my
shoulders and chest bring me to life. When I was within his arms reach, he
grabbed my hand and pulled me into him. My lycra covered cock ground into
his nylon shorts and his strong fingers gripped my ass, lifted me onto my
toes.

	"I am going to do horrible, unspeakable things to you," he
announced quietly as his lips pressed close to my ear. "I hope you didn't
have plans today."

	"Mmmm," I whimpered, feeling his hot wet tongue as he traveled the
sensitive skin of my neck and up towards my ear. "I'm all yours."

	He pulled my face down and kissed me fiercely, pulling my breath
into his mouth and driving me onto my toes. I felt my cock twitch to life
in my speedoes and felt Daniel's member growing inside it's mesh binding. I
lost track of where I was, the sun blinding me from nearly directly over
head and my body responding to Daniel's touch and kiss by firing on all
cylinders. I didn't even sense the change in motion or directions, never
realized my feet had left the ground...

	Until, still locked in Daniel's kiss, my world went into total
shock when he leaned back and dragged us both into the water.

	I knew right away not to struggle. There was nothing to struggle
against. I held my eyes closed and marveled at how cold the water was on my
formerly hot skin.  I could still feel every degree of body heat from my
man who grabbed me tightly to his chest, as if the water should be boiling
around our hips and cocks from the temperature difference alone. I didn't
kick my feet or search for the surface. I let Daniel hold me there, knowing
he wouldn't harm me or let me drown. He would bring us up.

	I felt my head rise above the water but I didn't gasp for air. My
lips were still on his, my tongue swirling around in his mouth and his in,
over, and around mine. I breathed through my nose and felt Daniel do the
same. The water against my back, flowing over my sides made it clear Daniel
was moving us. My own legs had wrapped around his waist, my arms around his
neck and I clung to him like a very wet, very satisfied Koala.

	My back crashed into the tile of the pool wall, knocking my mouth
free from Daniel's with the impact. He didn't miss a beat, but placed his
lips on the crook of my neck, licking and sucking at my now wet skin,
grinding into my hips and thrusting me against the wall.

	"Oh fuck, yes..."I groaned, one of my hands grabbing for the molded
concrete lip of the pool that hung somewhere above my head, taking some of
the pressure off Daniel to keep us afloat.

	Daniel's lips left my neck just long enough to speak.

	"I know I just got you into that suit, but now I want you out of
it. Come on."

	He dove under the water and I watched as his body rocketed away
from me, towards the shallow end of the pool. Even with the rippling water
distorting his image to my eyes, he was still too beautiful for words. I
dove and swam after him before he got too far ahead.

	My feet on the bottom of the pool was a welcome reminder that I
still had legs and they worked, however shaky Daniel's opening forays had
made them. Daniel had pulled himself up onto the wide cement steps that
took up the largest portion of the shallow end. He lounged back on his
elbows so that the water came up to his chest, and his feet floated out in
front. His dark black hair shone wetly and made him look even more
dangerous and appealing than usual.

	I swam up to him and pulled myself so that my body floated over
his, kissing him and pressing him into the stairs, thankful that the water
was shallow enough he didn't slip under it's surface. Daniel's fingers
pried the tight fabric away from my waist so that he could grab both globes
of my ass directly, maneuvering the fabric under my ass cheeks, exposing my
nakedness to the warm sun.

	"God, I love your ass, baby," he groaned into me, one thick finger
working into my crack and pressing lightly on my hole, never pushing
inside, just pressing to the brink. I kissed him and sucked air through his
lungs against the shaking his finger had set me to.

	"Mmmm?" I moaned, "Prove it."

	Daniel's athletic abilities still shocked me. I should have known
better than to dare him to do anything when he could have snapped any bone
in my body without breaking a sweat. My torso flipped and I just had time
to bring my arms down in front of me onto the second highest step. Daniel's
body was suddenly no longer underneath me, and my ankles were flying
backwards so that I was held in a super man position on my forearms.

	Daniel's head emerged from under the water right between my
knees. He spread my legs easily and placed them on his shoulders, wrapping
his forearms around my thighs so that I couldn't escape him. I'm not sure,
but I think he knelt on the bottom step, the water came just to his collar
bones. He had to sink below the surface again to pull my suit fully from my
legs and toss it with a wet thump to the pool deck in front of us.  I
didn't have any warning or signal for what he was going to do. My legs
behind me and my arms folded in front of me, I couldn't see Daniel no
matter how hard I twisted my torso to catch a glimpse.

	But I felt him.

	His teeth bit down hard on my left ass cheek and I screamed in
pleasure. His strong fingers kneaded my muscles, deep and hard, spreading
my cheeks with ease and exposing my pink opening to the sun.

	He dove at it with gusto. His tongue flicked and swirled on my
hole, making my body shake. If I hadn't been supported by the step I would
have lost all control.  I let out a long wordless "ahhhh," while he worked
me, over and over and over. He was not being gentle. Not loving licks or
small swirls of light pressure. No. He was well and truly fucking my hole
with his strong tongue with everything he could.

	He growled in his chest as he did, shaking his head back and forth
and pushing his tongue deeper into me. I could feel the coarse yet soft
hairs of his chin against the skin of my perineum.  My cock pulsed and shot
a jet of precum into the clear water, mixing and disappearing. I didn't
even care that other people had to swim in there at some point. I was too
focused on the firestorm of pleasure and sensation Daniel had just released
onto my hole.

	"Ahh...oh...god, baby...mmm...don't stop...oh god, please...fuck
me...god I want you to fuck me so bad."

	I am not ashamed to say that I whined and whimpered those words
like a bitch in heat. Because I was. I was so turned on I wouldn't have
stopped Daniel had the entire school suddenly waltzed through the back door
with towels in hand ready for a pool party. Let them watch. This felt too
good to stop for any reason.

	My legs were suddenly drifting to the steps, no longer supported on
Daniel's rippling shoulders. Before they reached the step three below my
arms, Daniel's hands were on my hips and his suit-covered-cock pushed
against my well-loosened hole with such force that I jerked forward.

	"You want my cock, baby? You want me to fuck you out here in the
open?"

	I nodded vigorously and wiggled my hips against his obviously hard
cock, trying to fuck myself against him even before he was exposed.

	"Mmm, yes baby. Pound my ass. Please!"

	I was out of control with lust. I prided myself on always being in
control of my emotions and my body, but I had lost all of that. I was an
animal right now, acting on instinct alone. I knew exactly what I wanted
and who was going to give it to me. Decorum and control be damned, I needed
to get fucked right then.

	My heart was fluttering like the wings of a hummingbird, my body on
high alert in the hunt for what it craved.  Daniel's hips were suddenly
absent from my ass, his hard cock missing from where it belonged.

	Without warning, my vision flashed to whiteness, my muscles turned
to water and I collapsed to the step, just barely avoiding cracking my chin
on the hard cement. My mouth opened, my throat seized, a strangled grunt
the only sound I could manufacture.  I felt as if I was completely outside
of my body, the part that made me somewhere far away, leaving my physical
form to survive as best it could, a match head flickering to bright flame
in the space of a heartbeat.

	Daniel had not held back when he slammed his cock into me, not
eased in or waited for my body to respond and react to him. His fingers
ground into the tender skin of my hips, pressing until I felt the bones
creak beneath his pressure. The soft hairs of his pubes were forced to my
ass as he wiggled himself deeper and deeper inside me.

	My body shook, and my skin was on fire but I shivered all the
same. Daniel sensed my surrender to him, my total and complete willingness
to put myself in his hands. I hadn't even fully registered what had
happened when he pulled himself nearly all the way out of me and forcefully
slammed back inside, reigniting the waves all over again.

	At the edge of my mind, where I still had some connection to my
body I could just make out a rhythm, like war drums, never ceasing,
pounding out a steady beat.
	Prum. Prum. Prum. Prum.  I focused on that sound, let it guide my
mind, lead me back to my body.  The mists lifted a bit and the drumming
became clearer, it's origins easily explained: Daniel's hips ramming into
my tender ass over and over as he fucked me senseless.

	"Take my cock, baby! Yeah...god it's so good!" Daniel grunted
behind me. The dichotomy between the gentle sincere words of love and honor
we had exchanged and the pure lust that saturated his voice as he took me
only served to heighten my pleasure. I screamed with abandon, letting it
pour from me without reservation, thought, or care. Let them hear me,
whomever they may be. I didn't care. I was somewhere beyond bliss.

	Daniel never slowed, never slackened, only sped up to a blistering
pace, his cock a pistoning blur as it invaded me. My hole jerked and
twitched around him, but as hard as I squeezed, no matter the force I could
muster to hold him inside, my defenses were no match for his power. He
owned my body, he could do what he liked, with my full permission. I felt
myself getting nearer to that cliff, felt Daniel pushing me ever closer to
it. It would be a race to see who would get there first. I dared not reach
beneath me to touch my cock, dared not try to stem the near constant flow
of crystal pre cum that I leaked into the clear, cold water.

	"You're gonna take my load. I'm gonna bust inside you....FUCK! God,
baby, take my load!"

	Daniel's cock slammed into me to the hilt at the same time that his
hand slid around my waist and grabbed my cock in a vice grip, squeezing
until I thought he might cause it to explode. His first jet of cum was
hotter than anything he'd ever given me before, more full of his animal
passions. It permeated me and stopped my breath. I felt my orgasm coming
with extreme force...until it ran into Daniel's hands and was stopped. He
held my cum inside me, refusing to let me spill myself until he allowed it.

	Slam.

	His hips pounded me again, punctuating his throbbing cock filling
me with a second stream of white hot love.

	Slam.

	A third.

	Slam.

	A fifth.

	And then...I was empty. Daniel's cock was gone from inside me and I
felt his cum leaking from my abused hole, down my thighs. I didn't have
time to miss it....Daniel's free arm wrapped around my stomach and pulled
me backwards from the step I leaned on, throwing me over his head until my
back splashed to the open water. His hands never left my cock, never
allowed my still pent orgasm to go. I don't know how he did it, what level
of acrobatics it required for him to achieve it, but before my feet settled
to the pool floor, Daniel's black hair disappeared beneath the water and
his mouth engulfed my cock head, his lips forming a tight ring just below
the rim.

	And then he let his grip on my cock slacken.

	Have you ever seen the videos of people waiting outside of the
Wal-Mart on Black Friday? The mad-dash rushing when they finally open the
door?  Yeah, that's nothing compared to the force of my first shot.

	I half expected to watch Daniel be blown bodily away from me. I
felt my cock head on his tongue, the tip of it tickling my shaft. My
fingers immediately went to his hair underneath the water and I emptied
myself into him, over and over until I was sure he would drown.

	My cock was still twitching wildly beneath the water when Daniel
surfaced, wiping his eyes and licking his lips. He smiled at me and made a
great show of swallowing my load as I watched.

	"Well that took some talent."

	Daniel's body was instantly in front of mine, his arms spread wide
and his back pressed to my chest as if to shield me from whizzing bullets.

	Adam stood on the pool deck, arms folded across his chest. From our
position below him and with his back to the sun, his face was partially
obscured.

	"I hope you swallowed all of it. I don't want to be swimming in
David's baby goo," he chuckled. He peeled off his shirt and let it fall to
the ground in a heap.

	"What are you doing here, Adam?" Daniel asked brusquely. "Mom said
you were gone for the evening."

	"Change of plans, dipshit." Adam kicked off his sneakers and pulled
off his socks.

	"How long were you watching us, fucking pervert?"

	"Long enough." His belt buckle clicked metallically as he undid the
clasp.

	I had never seen Adam without his shirt. To be sure, he was nothing
when compared to Daniel. He was somewhat taller, more lean than muscular
with a small amount of fat that clung to his stomach and sides. He didn't
have the washboard abs of his younger sibling or the mounded chest. Where
Daniel had a forrest of soft black hair, Adam sprouted only a few curly
hairs in the middle of his chest and a few around each nipple. It was
amazing to me that these two could be related and yet so different.

	Adams shorts hit the deck and he stepped out of them. He wore a
pair of green plaid boxer shorts. He adjusted himself in the thin fabric
and made his package bounce before my eyes.  Seemed like Daniel got the
better end of that bargain as well.

	Daniel took my hand under the water and walked me towards the
stairs. I followed without comment.  My tiny swimsuit was still a good
distance away. There was no way I could retrieve it without exposing my
nakedness to Adam.

	"Daniel, he's going to...." I whispered.

	"He's already seen more than he's gonna tell us. Trust me. The guy
can be a real dick head sometimes. Eyes forward. Concentrate on me and
let's just get back inside."

	I stepped up onto the first step and felt my bare ass cheek rise
out of the water at the same moment I heard a giant splash that meant Adam
had dived in. Daniel squeezed my hand and walked at a stead pace up the
steps. My knees wanted to shake, and it seemed like I could feel Adam's
eyes on my skin. I wasn't sure if it was his eyes on me or the cooling air
that made me break out in goosebumps.

	"You have a good eye, little bro." Adam teased.

	Well, at least I knew he was looking, now.

	"Shut it, fuck face," Daniel snapped.

	I didn't turn to look at Adam as Daniel gathered my suit and handed
me a towel. I was wrapping it around my waist when I felt something slap
against my skin, right between my shoulder blades, then drop to the deck
with a splat.

	"Can you put those on the chair for me, David?" Adam asked.

	I turned and saw what he had apparently thrown at me. The green
plaid of his discarded boxers was almost black when wet.

	"Get it yourself," Daniel nearly screamed. I finished putting the
towel around my waist and let Daniel lead me quickly back into the main
house.

	Adam's childish laughter was cut off by a loud thud when Daniel
slammed the door behind us.

	"FUCK!" he bellowed.

	I wrapped my arms around Daniel's waist and pressed my chest to his
back, feeling his breathing return to normal, his heartbeat slow. I kissed
the back of his neck and heard a little sigh escape him. We were dripping
onto the kitchen floor, but I don't think Daniel cared.

	He had given me what I'd needed. And it was my turn to return the
favor.

	I was coming to see that this give and take, in balance and turn,
lay at the heart of love; At least, at the heart of this, my first love. I
wondered what more I had still to learn.

	I would wonder tomorrow.  Now, Daniel needed me, and that was all
that mattered.