Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:27:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: andy moore <andy_9529@yahoo.com>
Subject: The Tyler I Knew - Chapter 4

read this if you can't handle high-school sexual experiences

between males or if it's illegal where ever you live.



                The Tyler I knew - Chapter 4



     "I have to work tomorrow" Tyler said as they walked
down the steps from getting ready for the day.

"What time?" Andy asked.

"I have to be there at 4 o'clock and I work until 11. Will
you be in school?" Tyler asked.

Andy chuckled a bit. "No actually. I am suspended. That's
part of the reason I was in McDonalds the other day. I had
some problems at school, I went into the office and got into
an argument with the Principal and then left. I found out
from mom when I got home after seeing you at McDonalds that
he had called to inform her and said that I was suspended
for two weeks."

"Oh, what happened?" Tyler stopped walking and turned around
to face Andy.

Tyler explained the events of his last day in school as
Tyler listened.

"They didn't even care to hear you out?" Tyler said in awe.

"Not a bit. Oh well. I'm not too worried. I am thinking
about home schooling the rest of the year. It's my last
anyway." Andy said.

"Then we can both teach each other!" Tyler said smiling.

"Sounds like a plan! Do you want me to take you to your
house to get some clothes?" Andy asked Cautiously.

"I can just wash these or something." Tyler said rather
quickly.

"Hey, stop worrying. I'm not going to judge you on your
family. Besides, I will sit in the car, alright?"

"Alright, I guess." Tyler said and headed out the front
door.

Tyler directed the way to house as Andy drove. Ten minuets
later they pulled up in front of a light yellow brick house.
.
"Well, I will be right back. Wait here, ok?" Tyler begged.

"I'm not going anywhere." Andy said with a smile.

Tyler exited the car and walked quickly up the sidewalk
about fifteen feet and up his long narrow walkway leading up
onto the porch of  a small, single story brick house. He
knocked on the door and waited. A few seconds later the door
opened and Tyler walked in and out of sight.

"Who're you?" A young girl had appeared next to the car.

"I'm Andy, who are you?"

"I'm Tyler's sister, Erica"

"Hello `Tyler's sister Erica' how are you?"

"Is this your car?" She asked, not answering his last
question.

"Sure is! Hey, do you know how long he will be?"

"Nope, I have not been in there yet. She's probably yelling
at him for something, it's nothing new" Erica said.

"She do that a lot?" Andy asked.

"Yep, it's the only thing she knows how to do I think."
Erica said as she stared up towards the house.


They both turned as Tyler came storming out of the house
with a woman yelling behind him.

"Why don't you go live with your faggot friend then!" The
woman yelled out the door.

"Oh shut up you stupid bitch!"  Tyler yelled back as he
walked down the sidewalk.

The woman turned, walked back inside and slammed the door.

"I see she's in a good mood today." Erica said laughing.

"Yeah, what's new?" Tyler said as he sat down in the car.
"You doing alright, sis?"

"Oh yeah, I am fine." Well it looks as if I am going to have
to stay away for a while. Is there anyway I can get a hold
of you?" Tyler asked his sister.

"You can call me at my friend Jessica's! That's about the
only place, you know the number, right?" Erica said leaning
in the car a way's.

"Yeah, you be careful, alright. and stay out of trouble!"
Tyler said looking at his sister.

"I'm never really in trouble now am I?"

"No, thank god!" Tyler said.

"We can give her Marks number if you would like. He won't
mind, I am sure!"

"Ok, if you are sure it's alright." Tyler said turning to
Andy.

Andy handed her the number and told her to call if she
needed anything at all. They said their goodbyes and Andy
and Tyler drove off.

"You alright?" Andy asked Tyler.

"I didn't expect anything less before I went in there."
Tyler said smiling.

"Well, like uncle Mark said. you can stay there as long as
you want. Alright?" Andy said.

"Ok" Tyler said.

"What do you think about cooking dinner for everyone tonight
and inviting over my mom? I know she really wants to meet
you. It is Sunday you know. Family's get together on
Sunday's." Andy said smiling at Tyler.

"If you want! I am alright with it!" Tyler said, looking a
bit nervous.

"You're sister is alright there isn't she?" Andy asked.

"Yeah, she stays at the neighbors mostly. I think the only
time she goes home is to get more clothes. If she tried to
take her things with her, mom would turn her in as a
runaway, so she mainly leaves her things there and goes in
once and a while to keep up an appearance. As you can see,
she stay's away just like me."

"I guess I would too. How old is she anyway?" Andy asked.

"She is the oldest 14 year old you will ever meet!" Tyler
said. "She makes me look like a 10 year old at times."

Andy nodded towards the bag Tyler had in his hand. "Did you
get enough clothes?"

"I didn't know what all we would be doing or where we where
going so I brought some extra." Tyler said, getting the idea
that Andy didn't mean to grab so many.

"Not a problem. I would have told you to just grab all of
your things, but I don't have a lot of room in my car as you
can see." Andy said smiling.

"I don't have much." Tyler said, turning to look out his
window. "It isn't like mom gave us any money."

"Don't worry about it, if you need anything else we can go
to the store or something." Andy said, reassuring Tyler.

The two arrived home a while later and hung out together
watching television. Andy had called Mark to see if inviting
his mother over for dinner that evening would be ok, then
called his mother to invite her. The two started preparing
dinner at 4 o'clock.

At 5 o'clock a red truck pull into the driveway. The lady
driving, who wasn't much taller than Tyler got out. She was
very pretty, this had to be Andy's mother. Tyler understood
where Andy had gotten his looks. She had shoulder length
wavy brown hair, and was very slim.

"Hey mom!" Andy said as he opened the front door for her to
come in. "This is Tyler!"

"Hello Tyler! It's so great to meet you. I've heard a lot
about you!" She said with the most comforting smile Tyler
had ever seen.

This is what a real mother's supposed to be like, this is
what Tyler always wished he had. A mother who was glad to
see him, let alone his new friends.

"Hi!" Tyler said shyly.

"A shy one huh?" She said with a grin. "Andy didn't mention
that this morning when he told me all about you!"

Tyler just smiled nervously.

"Well, my name is Sheryl. But I would appreciate it. that is
if you don't mind, if you would call me mom. All his other
friends have called me that, and that's how I feel towards
them. Just like a second mom. Is that alright with you,
dear?"

"I, uh. yes ma'am. Tyler said stuttering a bit.

"No need to call me ma'am either. But it's great to see
someone has respect for their elders" She said looking at
Andy.

"You're not an elder, mom!" And protested. "You're not that
old!"

"A lot older than you are boy, that's why you should show
some respect!" She said hitting Andy in the arm with her
elbow.

"Yes ma'am. Would the dear old lady like to eat now?"  Andy
said sarcasticly to his mother.

"Yes I would!" She answered in a threatening tone.

"Well you can't. Uncle Mark isn't here yet!" Andy said.

"Where in the world is he? Out gathering up all the hot
guy's and not leaving me any?" She said smiling.

"No, him and Dave ran in after some drinks for us all. They
will be right back. I am sure we can go get the table ready
though!" Andy said.

The three went into the kitchen and prepared the table and
set out the food. Their time was impeccable. Uncle Mark and
David walked through the door as they all sat down.

"I wish I could come home to this all the time!" Mark said
with a  smile.

The four spent the next hour joking around and getting to
know each other. Tyler was impressed at how well Andy's
family got along.

"Well it's been fun guy's but I have to go home and put all
those papers in order for work tomorrow, otherwise my boss
will fire me." Andy's mom spoke up and glancing at Mark with
a grin.

"Your boss is a jerk, huh?" Tyler said to Andy's mom causing
everyone to start laughing.

"Yes he sure is!" Mark said with a smile.

"Mom was referring to Mark, he's the one who runs the farm
here." Andy spoke up, still lauging.

"Oh, you work here.. I.. I'm sorry.." Tyler said,
concentrating harder on taking a drink.

"Don't worry about it, I have been called much worse." Mark
said. "Besides, I can't fire her, she own's half of it all
too!"

"Well, you boy's have a good day!" Andy's mom said, getting
up and kissing all of them on the cheek. "Love you all!"

Andy jumped up. "Let me walk you out, mom." And followed her
out the door.


Mark looked at David and then at the door. David, taking the
hint got up and excused himself from the table and walked
into the living room.

"So Tyler, what are your plans?" Mark asked turning to
Tyler.

"What do you mean?" Tyler asked, starting to get nervous.

"Do you want to stay here?" Mark blurted out. You are more
than welcome to. Please don't be mad at Andy, but he said
you had it rather bad. He didn't get into details but he
told me you don't much like home. So I guess this is an
invite to stay here. You are more than welcome to. I don't
have a problem with it, and we both know Andy sure won't."
Mark finished with a short laugh.

"I didn't tell Andy this yet, but when I went home today to
get a few changes of clothes my mom told me I was not
allowed back." Tyler said, looking down at his plate.

"Well then it's settled. You're staying here!" Mark said
with a  comforting smile.

It got silent for a moment, then Mark spoke up again. "Don't
feel bad about it, I am completely confident that you will
be a wonderful house guest. Treat this like your home, I
won't accept nothing less."

Tyler nodded and spoke in a quiet voice. "Thanks."

"You're very welcome" Mark said. "Hey, do you have your
license?"

"No, mom told me we didn't have the money for it, that is
why I am working so much  to save up money." Tyler said,
sounding saddened.

"Do you like your job at McDonalds?" Mark asked.

"Not really, but it pay's."

"I see, well how about this." Mark said moving closer. "It's
coming up on Harvest season and I have a lot to prepare and
then all the fields to tend to. Have you ever worked on a
Farm?"

"No never. Why?" Tyler asked.

"Would you like to work for me then?"

Tyler sat quietly for a moment.

"Tell you what, I will put the offer on the table and you
take the time to decide." Mark said.

Tyler nodded.

"Here is what it will be." Mark started. "I will pay you
$10.00 an hour, you will do labor, but I won't work you to
death. I will pay for you to take the drivers ed course and
we will see about getting you something to drive. I will
withhold so much from your paycheck until it's paid back.
Does that sound good?"

Tylers eyes got big, but he remained sitting quietly.

"I will take that as a yes." Mark said, laughing again then
continued. "You willl learn to operate large equipment, and
I don't require you to work long hours. At least until
harvest time. Do you accept it, or do you want time to think
about it?"

"No, I will do it! But that is a lot of money." Tyler said
with surprise.

"What? Ten an hour? That's not a lot at all. It can be hard
work. I know you are not used to it, but I will give you
time to adjust. Just be honest and do try not to let me
down. Deal?"

"Deal!" Tyler said with a smile. "But there is a problem. My
mom will not sign for me to get into a Drivers Ed Class."

"How about you let me deal with that, ok?" Mark said with a
smile. "When do you want to start?"

"Tomorrow?" Tyler said excitedly.

"Don't you have to work tomorrow?" Mark asked.

"Yeah." Tyler answered sounded sad.

"Well, how about you go in to work tomorrow and talk to
them. See what you can work out. Maybe turn in a two week
notice?"

"Sounds good!" Tyler said almost instantly.

Andy walked back in the door. "What did I miss?" seeing that
Tyler looked Excited.

"Andy! I realize it is your day off, but why don't you take
our new employee here and show him around the other building
and the farm. Take my jeep, and let Tyler drive. He can't
hurt that old thing." Mark said with a smile.

"Every day is my day off! But I am sure I can handle that."
Andy said. "What will he be doing?"

"He will be working closely with you. The paperwork your mom
is working on is a new combine. We will have two so we can
get through this year quicker. We lost a lot of crop last
year and I feel it is time to get more equipment. Now don't
go getting too excited but you are going to be on your own
this year. He will be running grain cart and you will be
using the combine on your own. Are you sure you are up for
it?"

"Most deffinatly!" Andy said.

"Good! Now you two go, I will take care of this mess."

Tyler and Andy headed out the door without another question.

"Here!" Andy said as he passed Tyler the keys to the Jeep.

"But I have never driven before!" Tyler said with surprise.

"Well you're going to have to learn because you will be
doing a lot of driving around here, even without your
license."

Tyler walked to the drivers door and climbed in. Andy showed
him the proper way of starting it, and placing it in gear,
and they were off.

"Don't go so fast, you're going to kill us!" Andy said
lauging.

"I am not going that fast!" Tyler said back with surprise.

"Yeah, I know. That was sarcasm. Speed up a bit, it isn't
like there are other cars to hit here. Just bugs, birds, and
little furry creatures, and right now they are all moving a
lot faster than we are, so get on it a little bit!" Andy
said nudging Tyler in the leg.

A few minuets later they were at the barn on the other end
of the property.

"Why is it he needs this much farm equipment, there isn't a
lot of farm land here, it there?" Tyler asked as they walked
in the shop door.

"We have about 200 acres here, and several other places on
this end of the county with just as much if not more." Andy
said while climbing up on the big green farm equipment.
"This is a combine. It's not exactly the newest but it isn't
real old. We are supposed to be getting a new one that's why
he's hiring you.

"Oh, so what is that over there for?" Tyler asked pointing
at another large green vehicle.

"That is a Grain Cart. We use that to carry the crop after
we harvest back to the trucks to be taken to grain mills or
to our grain bins. It hooks to a tractor, which you will be
driving. Right this way I will show you that." Andy said,
motioning Tyler back outside. "It's right around back here.

"Tell me that's not what I have to drive!" Tyler said
looking a bit scared.

"Sorry to say, but it is!" Andy said lauging. "That, my dear
is an 8650 John Deere. An awesome tractor, isn't it?"

"It has EIGHT WHEELS!" Tyler said,  looking as if he were
about to pass out. "And they are all nearly as big as the
barn!"

"That it does. I love working here! I love big equipment."
Andy said, winking at Tyler.

"Funny." Tyler said walking closer to the Tractor.

"Yes I am!" Andy said wrapping his arms around Tyler from
the back. "What do you say we check out the rest of the
farm?"

The two got back into the Jeep with Tyler driving. Fifteen
minuets later, after checking out the Grain bins and driving
around the edges of the fields they pulled up to the very
back of the farthest field and stopped.

"Stop here a minuet. You hear that?" Andy said looking off
into the tree line.

"Yeah, what is it?" Tyler asked.

"It's 4-wheelers." Andy said getting out of the Jeep.

A moment later two ATV's exited the woods and headed
straight for where they were standing.

"Seth!" Andy yelled at them waiving.

The two boys pulled up and turned off the bikes.

"What's up, man?" the boy on the red 4-wheeler said climbing
off and walking up to Andy.

"Not a lot, just showing the new employee here around." Andy
said making a motion towards Tyler.

"I thought your dad was going to hire me to do some work
this year!" The boy said, looking a bit upset.

"He may still. He keeps saying that last year we lost a lot
of crop because we didn't have enough time or help. So just
ask him!" Andy said.

"That's what I have you for, to put in a good word!" The boy
said. "So does your friend here have a name?"

"Yep, this is Tyler. Tyler is going to be staying at my
uncles and working." Andy said smiling.

"Just out of curiosity, is the same boy from the field
yesterday morning?" Seth said with a large grin.

"Yep! He sure is. Andy said in a proud way. "Tyler, this is
Seth. I was telling you about him after his nutcase dad
showed up in the field yesterday.

Tyler nodded.

"He's a jerk isn't he?" Seth shot off. "Well it's for that
reason I will have some problems getting my dad to let me
work for your uncle. I think he suspects your uncle to be
gay as well."

"When are you just going to tell him about you?" Andy asked.

"Probably around the time hell freezes over!" said Seth
looking a bit sad. "Wish my family was like yours. I doubt
my mom would care at all, but my dad would have a heart
attack, I am sure of it!"

"Grow some balls man!" Andy said laughing. "He does have
some, right?" Turning to the other boy, making him blush.

"Of course I do!" Seth said defensively. "This is Gregg.
He's 14."

"And I suppose you two are not out to just ride the 4-
wheelers?" Andy said with a smile.

"We are going to go down to the tree house next to the
river" Seth said with enthusiasm. "Care to join?"

"No, not this time. I am sure you two will have plenty of
fun without us." Andy said in a serious tone. "Besides, it's
getting late and we have to be up early in the morning.

"Alright then, but you're missing out!" Seth said getting
back on his 4-wheeler and starting it.

"I'll see ya later! You can come over later this week if you
like!" Andy

"Mike is staying the week,  mind if he comes too?"

"Not all all!" Andy answered

"Alright, see you later then!" Seth said as he drove off.

"Why do we have to be up so early tomorrow morning?" Tyler
asked getting back into the Jeep.

"Cuz we have some things to do tomorrow." Andy said
passively. "And don't ask what it is."

"He was kinda cute!" Tyler said as they walked onto the
front porch. Realizing what he'd just said, added. "Not
quite as good looking as you though."

"Yeah, I know" Andy added back "C'mon, lets get ready for
bed."

"Good idea, I am tired." Tyler said walking for the stairs.

The two took their turns in the shower and headed for their
bed.

Tyler laid there looking at Andy sleeping peacefully,
thinking about his own life and the horrible things that
he's been through. He can't remember the last time he was
ever so happy about something and didn't want it to end.

"Please don't go away." Tyler whispered quietly to Andy, and
kissed him on the forehead, then dozed off to sleep.



**Chapter three wasn't the best, in fact if I could go back
I would change a lot in it. As I have said before I am not
the greatest at this writing thing, and hope to do a lot
better in the future. Please be patient for I really am
straining my brain to do this right. Sorry it took so long
to post another one, I had intended on giving up on it, but
have recently changed my mind and decided to pick up where I
left off and try to turn it around. Again, feel free to
email me at andy_9529 @yahoo.com with comments, and/or
questions. Thanks again for the emails.