Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:56:00 -0400
From: rob roberts <rr2254@hotmail.com>
Subject: Todd's Senior Year Awakening - Moving Past High School   ch. 7

Todd's Senior Year Awakening – Moving Past High School -   Ch7

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Morning came and I awoke to Cole eating me while holding onto my hard
boner. I was glad to see he at least, wasn't too despondent about last
night and was dong what he did for me every morning. I touched his head and
he looked up and smiled. I smiled back and pulled him up so our bodies were
together. I kissed him with tongue and tasted my ass on his lips and
tongue.  It didn't bother me and in fact, I liked the taste. I guess I
loved having Cole as my butt boy. I still couldn't get ove how he
worshipped me. "You ok?" I asked.

"Yeah, just doing what I do best, eating a sweet guy's hole." He laughed a
little.

"You know, I don't expect you to do that. Not to say it isn't the best way
in the world to wake up!" I laughed now. We kissed and hugged and I pulled
him up so I could play with his meat. ""Ya wanna stick it up my pussy?" I
asked.

He shook his head no as he played with my boner. "I want you inside of me."

I smiled and said your wish is my command ." He rolled over and pulled his
legs up and I moved around to insert my dripping cock. ""Ya want me to lube
you?"

He shook his head no and said he was a slut and could take it anyway I put
it in. I began to push in to him and his hole racted by opening for me. I
pushed harder and then once all or at least most of me, was inside, I began
to fuck him. He moaned biting his lip.  I knew I must have hurt him so I
went slower. "Treat me like a bitch", he said and I pushed and rode
harder. It didn't take long and I unloaded my usual big morning load in his
stretched pussy.  Once I did, I took his hard cock in my mouth and sucked
him until he came.

I rolled off and cuddled in his pit and asked him if he was really ok. "I
noticed ou seemed a little upset after last night. Do you want to do it
more or should we quit?"

"I need the money, babe, I can't just keep waiting for the settlement check
to come. I need to work and this seems like the best way to make bigger
money." I nodded and asked if he had any part of a good time.

"Watching you dance and knowing that cock was mine to enjoy was best. I
didn't really like getting touched all that much by the guys and the girls
but I think I kept up a good front." I nodded that he had indeed looked so
charming and sexy up there.

"I guess, for now, we will keep doing it as long as you are dong it too. We
can just pretend knowing we have each other when we get home."  He said
with some confidence.

"You know, that's right. If some guys want to touch us and play with us for
cash, than I guess we just allow it knowing it doesn't mean anything. We
just need to remind ourselves that they are just cash providers and we do
our real sexy stuff together." I spoke like I knew what I was saying.

Cole agreed and we got up and showered and dressed.

"got an early class today and I won't be back until around 3" Cole said.

"No prob. I have some stuff to do today too so lets just plan on getting
back here in time to enjoy one another before tonight." I told him.

We went out to find Ricky, naked, making food for all of us.

He looked a little embarrassed about being naked but we told him he was so
hot it was great and that the only reason we were dressed was due to early
classes. He seemed ok and we talked about last night. I knew Ricky wasn't
too thrilled about the dancing.  It just wasn't something he liked and with
his background, I'm sure it took everything in him to just do it. We sat on
the stools and drank our coffee and juice. Looking at ricky's hot ass as I
saw him taking some stuff out of the over made my dick get a little
hard. When he came over to serve us the egg bake he had made, I lamost made
him drop it as his hands were occupied and I just reached down to stroke
his cock. He gasped and I apologized but said I really enjoyed playing with
it. He smiled at me and asked what we really tought about him last
night. "I mean, I'm really no good at dancing. Just some guys seemed to
like my dick. It's noting to great. Loook at Todd's and hell, Cole, you
have the hottest body. Me, I'm just some skinny twink kid and I wonder why
anyone would want me." I saw he wasn't real happy.

"You, my friend, are very hot. We both think you got a nice body and look
at Max, he is in love with you. You give him great happiness."

"I think I almost killed him when I first fucked him. But I love him so
much and he seems to want me too."

"You're damn right about that. I just feel bad we haven't heard from him. I
feel kind of guilty doing everything we have done without him here. I
promise, I'll keep my hands off of you." I said meekly.

"Oh, no, don't do that. I wanted everything we did and I want to be your
hardest working , maid or whatever. I owe you guys so much. I wanted to eat
both of you but Matt, ah well, he had me busy."

We all laughed and said what a liar Matt was. He likes you butt and your
whole body. Don't let him try to lie and say how straight he is. He likes a
hot boy just as much as Cole and me do." We were all laughing when Matt
strolled out, naked to, stretching. His hair was a mess but his dick looked
nice. He scratched his big nuts as he came out asking what was happening.

"You, boy, better not get too used to having Ricky service you. He belongs
to Max." I said sternly.

Ricky was red in the face and Matt just smirked and said anyone who shares
his bedroom gets to sample his hot body in anyway he wanted.  I smacked him
and grabbed his furry nuts and squeezed. "Just don't take advantage. Matt
laughed and tweaked my nipple through my shirt.

We all ate and joked around. Eventually, Matt went to get dressed for class
leaving just Ricky naked. "Is it ok if I get dressed?" Ricky was so meek.

"Of course. You can do as you want, Ricky.

"Ok. I will in a bit. I wanted to clean up first do the dishes and stuff. I
want to see if I can get my car running. I just didn't know if you wanted
your maid to be dressed or naked."

He spike with such sincerity. "Hey, man, you are not our maid. We just
appreciate it that you do so much to keep the place clean. You wear what
you want and do what you want." I spoke with some authority.

Ricky looked at me and was so shy. I almost wondered if he wanted us to
kind of see him as a slave or something. Hmmm. Interesting, but no that
wasn't us.

I hugged him and said as long as we get to feel his dick sometimes, he was
free to do anything. He smiled and we all laughed. He did tell us if he got
his car going, he would buy some groceries for the apartment.  I asked if
he needed some cash. I laughed and said Matt would give him some as I
pulled out my wallet."

"No, you guys do enough for me. I want to do my part. I got some money from
last night. I will use that. Do you think we might be able to go to the
gym. I really need to get some workouts. Damn, I never would have thought I
would say that. But, you know. I'm pretty skinny and shit."

 We all smiled and Cole said he would take him to the university student
fitness center and figure a way to get him in and they would work out.

Ricky reminded us that he might be next door helping the guys with their
website. "I'll just come and get you when I go." Cole told him

We left for class and I was embarrassed to run into one of the girls from
the bar last night. She didn't seem to mind and we walked together. "You
guys are all so hot. I'll be back this week!" she said.

I wasn't sure I really wanted that but not to offend told her I hoped she
would be back. Classes were ok and I got my first grades. After only a
week, I could see college was demanding more of me and worried that the bar
job might get in the way. I got an A- on a paper which seemed ok but I
really wanted an A. I knew my folks would like me to get top grades and
know that I was working hard at school. I knew Matt proably wouldn't get as
good a grades due to his working and practicing for the wrestling team. I
thought about what sport I might want and was thinking that Cole's idea for
swim team might be good. After all, I did life guard for a time and liked
the water. Just wasn't sure if I could keep it all up.

Lost in my thoughts, Jim came by and said he was really impressed with us
last night. "You guys were hot. Just got to do more private stuff to really
build up the pay. I got some more outfits for you guys if you want." I was
really pleased and thanked him and said I would come over later to check
them out. I also told him Ricky would be by to help with the website
stuff. "You guys ought to think about doing that too. I bet you all would
be good and makes lots of cash."

I thought about it as I had a coffee and looked around hoping not to see
any of our `customers' from last night. I went to my classes and made a
trip to the library to check out some stuff for a paper. Jim joined me in
the library and we had a nice chance to chat. He was such a cool guy and
accepted all us freshman like they were long lost friends.

I got home around 3 and Cole had just gotten home. He was naked on the
couch reading and taking some notes. I played with his body some and he
kissed me. Ricky came in dressed in shorts, tennis shoes and a beater
shirt. He looked kind of hot exposing his nice hairy pits looking like some
street kid open to sex.  He had been shopping and told us he got a new
battery for his car and now it was running ok. He was pretty smiley and
happy and hugged us both, his little boy side coming out. He said he was
going to help with the website unless we wanted him to do anything.  I told
him we might get some ideas later and smiled and laughed.

He went next door and helped for maybe an hour. In the meantime, I sucked
my lover off and we both showered and cleaned out our holes.  We knew we
didn't have time for the gym. Ricky came back and said he was so sorry he
forgot he was making dinner. He stripped down naked and began cooking.
Cole and I stayed naked and helped him. A sweaty Matt got home from
wrestling and dropped is books off, announcing he needed a shower. I sent
Ricky with him to make sure we were all washed out and douched. Matt hated
that but did it anyway. I finished up making dinner.

 We all ate and talked about our day, me like a mom, asking Matt if he got
his work done. He said he had but needed some help with some math. We
finished and while Ricky cleaned up, I helped Matt with some math work. He
seemed so grateful that he kissed me and hugged me.

We got dressed for the club. Damn, I was already tired and knew we had a
long night ahead.

I drove to the club as Matt had little gasoline (as usual).  Arriving, we
joined the guys in the locker room where we had little issue with getting
naked and then dressed. One hot guy was in the shower. He was an African
American but quite light in skin color. He was kind of a milk chocolate
color and had a great face. His scholong, which of course, I noticed was
huge like mine. He came out and gave me a little fist bump. Man he was
hot. I don't know how I was going to be around all these naked guys so
often. He asked me to shave his crotch a little and of course I was only
too happy to comply. I got in nice and close. He was supposedly straight
but got boned as I moved his huge dick around to shave him just right. He
liked just a nice little hair ring around his dick and his balls were
shaved and smooth. I wondered who got to do that for him. AS I sat between
his legs, He smiled and reached out his hand and began to stroke me through
my tight little jockeys. "Damn, man you almost as big as me." He
remarked. He stroked me and I finally had to tell him to stop.  "I might
nick you if you keep that up." He laughed and said he would like to play
with me sometime. I said thanks but I belonged to Cole and he would have to
give permission. "Shit, that white boy can get himself any, anytime. He own
you or somethin'? "

"No actually, we been lovers since high school." I didn't add any more.

Cole came over and put his arm around me as I shaved the dude ever so
carefully. "Nice one.' Cole remarked.

Raymond looked up and thanked him and then asked if he kind of owned me. I
was turning red. "No actually, he owns me more. I'm kind of his bitch but
we are lovers too." I was shocked at what Cole said. Then he went on.  "He
pretty much tells me what he likes and I do it. I want to though so it's
cool"

The black dude looked at me and then Cole and said, "I'm straight and all
but sometimes, I like to play, you guys want to join me sometime?"
Straight my ass, I thought but said nothing.

"Todd would have to decide. If he says yes, then I guess we could." I
didn't want him to offer himself or me in spite of the hot cock that lay
before me now getting harder.

"Let's set something up. I got a place and you could both come over if we
got to do it as a 3 way. Might be fun though."

I told him we would think about it. I didn't want Cole agreeing to whore
himself out or me either.

We finished and then the head dancer gave us our order for performing.

WE would have to dance more tonight as there were fewer of us. It also
meant fewer private dances as most customers only paid for one a night. We
had to work being extra charming.  I knew Cole would get taken and I hope I
would too but figuring his sexy body, let alone his nice cock, he stood a
better chance.

We danced our first set in shorts. No tops or shoes as everyone liked us a
bare as possible. I constantly kept a look out for anyone I knew. I was so
concerned about having word of what we were doing, get back to home and
maybe my folks. I knew we weren't dishonest but rationalized it as four
struggling guys needing quick cash. How we were accomplishing that was the
issue!

I mingled some when I wasn't dancing, I preferred the younger guys but they
often didn't have the money for a private dance. It was the older crowd and
women who were more willing. Some of the women looked old enough to be my
mother yet they fondled and played with me as I gave them the best lap
dance I could, like they were teen girls with a new toy.

I just sucked up and took it trying to stay aroused around them yet not too
aroused.  They did let us beat off in the locker room if we had to which
most of the guys did.

I also got some older guys, some maybe old enough to be my dad. They just
said they liked young boys as they called us, and I let them even pull down
my jock to reveal my hairless crotch. One guy in particular, a regular I
guess, seemed to like my body a lot and played with my nipples, often a
little too hard and certainly wanted to suck on my cock.  He got huge
boners and I knew he wanted to fuck me but that was not allowed. He offered
me cash if I would suck him but I told him I couldn't. He would turn me
around and lick my exposed hole, another no no but he did it as he wanted
in the dark cubicle. He sometimes even just held me close and licked my
body.  I was very erotic but more so for him than me.

I was actually getting comfortable being in public in just my jock strap or
whatever very revealing item I wore. It made me horny for Cole when he
danced. He was so much better than me. Matt was pretty good too. When it
got to jock strap time, Ricky excelled due to his big uncut cock that the
girls went crazy for. "Just like my little brother but so much hotter", one
Latino girl with big tits would say as she played with him in his cubicle.

We always ended the lap dances if we got too aroused and felt the urge to
cum.

The night went on and I admired our neighbor guys who really did well and
almost missed their dance times to do private dances.

By the end of the night, we were all pretty tired in spite of all the Red
Bull I had drunk. It did help us with our energy after a long day of
classes and then the dancing.

We went home again flush with cash. Ricky did better thanks to the Latino
girl who must have shelled out a bundle for two private dances with him. He
was pretty proud of himself and I think more comfortable with the whole
thing. Jim told us that thanks to Ricky, the website was up and running and
already had a few hits. We all stopped to check to see the evenings results
and Jim said they would have a long night responding and maybe setting up
some dates. He again asked if we would join them to spread the work load
out some. Some work load, getting paid to fuck or let someone fuck you for
cash!

I was still hesitant and so was Cole. Matt said he would try it and ricky
said he would prefer to just do the website. He even volunteered to respond
and do bookings if the guys wanted him to. They thought that a good idea.

We walked back to our apartment and talked about it. Ricky confided that he
was still kind of nervous about it and feared if his parents found out,
they would likely take him home and beat him. He hadn't told them yet where
he was and didn't plan to either.

He was still worried about Max as we all were and being in the dark about
him, couldn't do much . He was out of state and we had no time or money for
that matter, to go to him. Plus, his mother had said it wouldn't help
anyway as he was still in a coma.

We all felt bad and went home to wind down and go to bed.  Only Matt seemed
up and happy telling us how the ladies and the guys seemed to like his big
dick which he would make shake pretty good.  Cole and I went to bed and I
nestled into his arm pits to savor his manly smells. He always thought it
weird that I loved his pits so much. I just was weird that way liking boys
hairy pits and feet. He played with my balls and cock while I licked his
pits and we went to sleep that way in total bliss.

Morning came and I found Ricky at the foot of our bed going from Cole to me
and back licking our holes. I think we were both startled but loved his
affection.  He did ask if we would allow him to do it. "I need to do things
for you guys. You have shown me so much love and care and I want to do
everything I can to keep you happy. Eating you both, is one of the few ways
I can think of that I can do."

Damn, another submissive boy. I loved his tongue though!  We smiled at him
and told him he could do anything he wanted. We kissed while he ate on
us. Finally, with Cole's hot mouth on mine and Ricky's mouth on my hole and
dick, I could stand it no more and just shot off a huge load of cum bathing
Ricky's sweet face in it.  Cole soon erupted too and now Ricky was really
dripping. We pulled him up to us and I pulled his uncut meat into my mouth
and sucked him. I was surprised when he called us Masters. He wanted to
give himself to us? After he came, He tried to pull away from my mouth but
I told him he wasn't going anywhere. He just had tears in his eyes and said
we didn't need to please him. It was his job to please us.

Kiddingly, I said he was such a hot bitch.  He again thanked me and
referred to me as his master. I told him no, I wasn't his master and he was
just part of our love group. He smiled and shook his head no and said he
needed to go make our breakfasts if we were done with him. We nodded and
Ricky went to the kitchen.

I nodded and as he got up, I looked to Cole who said "I know how he
feels. I want you as my master too. I love you so much."

I was still stunned a little although we have been down this road before. I
kissed Cole and got up. I didn't know what to say. I went to the kitchen
where a cute Ricky was making coffee. I told him I wanted to talk with him.

"About this master thing. It isn't what I want or expect.  You are just a
good friend who is down on his luck. I think you are doing fine and doing
so much around here. You're doing more than your share of the cleaning and
cooking. But, I'm no master and don't want you to think of me as one. I
don't even know what a real master is."

"But Todd, I can't repay you for what you have done. I just appreciate how
you helped me. I know Max would do what he could, but he isn't here. My
family hates me and you , well you show me love and care. I just want to do
everything I can to make your life easier. You know, we Hispanics know how
to work hoard. Heck, that's all I was ever taught at home. I just want to
do stuff to make you happy and well, maybe keep me and let me stay. I don't
want to wear out my welcome.

"You can stay as long as you want. You know, this is actually Cole's
apartment, not mine.  And, I know he feels the same way as I do."

Well, if you say so, but I will do anything for you. Just tell me and it
will be done if I can."

I nodded and hugged him. His nice uncut long dick rubbed my leg. "Ricky,
you feel so damn good. I love your hot body and more importantly,
you. You're a great friend!"

"My body is yours. I know you love Cole most but if you ever want me to do
stuff that maybe he won't do, please tell me. I so miss Max and his
loving. I hope I'm not in the way for you and Cole. He is so great to me
too. I never would have imagined all this. I mean I was just a nobody at
school. When we were first friends, I loved you so much but never had the
balls to tell you. Then, when you moved into the cool crowd, I thought I
had lost you. I was so glad when you talked to me that night of prom in the
restaurant. I was overwhelmed and you , well you sexy guys just brought
back all my feelings and when you let me come to the after party, I was so
shy and wanted you so much, and you let me come and I had no idea about how
sexy you guys are. Meeting Max, and you encouraging us to have a
relationship, well, that was over the top and I was glad to have Max and
you.

Ricky, I had no idea you had a thing for me. I wished I'd known sooner. But
then, maybe I wouldn't have joined basketball and gotten to know
Cole. Well, things just took off from there."

"It's ok. I'm glad everything worked out and now I get to be with both of
you. I am so blessed!" He gave me a quick kiss and said I feel really good
serving you. It makes me feel , well, kind of important. You are someone I
will always look up to and would cut off my balls to help you.

"Don't even think about that." I laughed. " I love your balls and the rest
of you too."

We both smiled as Cole came out from his shower, naked as the day he was
born. Both Ricky and I got hardons just watching his smiling face come in
to the room.

"How are my favorite guys?" he asked. Cole walked up , stroked my cock and
kissed me. He said `little Todd" looked to be happy. I said seeing him
always made little Todd happy!

Ricky poured us all juice and said our breakfast would be right up as soon
as he fried some bacon. "don't burn yourself" I reminded him.  I said to
keep his hot little body ready for Max's return.  I suggested he wear an
apron or towel just in case. He smiled and did what I suggested only
dropping it off when he was done and sat down with us to eat. We marveled
at his cooking and he got red in the face.  "I'm not that good but thanks
for saying it. I love you guys so much!"

Cole rubbed his hairy leg and said, kiddingly, that if we didn't have the
bacon, there was a nice sausage for us to eat.'"

Ricky told him any time he wanted his own sausage sucked or licked, he was
more than ready. "Mine, ain't that special. I wish is was cut like you
guys."

We told him he was beautiful and we loved his uncut cock. "I love the way
the head peeks out when you get hard." I told him.

We laughed and joked around all during breakfast. I finally went to get
Matt up and get going.  He always appeared naked and stretching his hot
body. He knew it turned us on and loved making us hard.

Matt strolled out and poured some coffee and joined us as we talked about
our day ahead. We didn't need to work that night so it was going to be a
more relaxing day for all of us as we agreed that we would all try to stay
on the same schedule. Ricky said he was going to clean the apartment today
and although thrilled we didn't have to do it, told him he was working too
much for us.

"I really want to. You know, my home life was kind of being made to work
hard all the time. My parents insisted on it. I can't seem to get that out
of my head. I just feel I have to do stuff or else."

"what do you mean `or else'? Nobody here expects that." I told him

"You guys don't know what my life was. I never said. I always assumed that
all boys were raised like me. See, my folks were real strict. Both my
sister and I were made to work all the time. We didn't get to have much
fun. She had to cook and clean and I had to clean and work outside.  My Dad
was a tyrant. He would check the list he left with my mother everyday and
see that we had done it all. See, my dad always told us that we weren't
like the lazy American kids. Our church demanded work and toiling. We
would, if we were good, get our rewards later on, in heaven I guess. I
didn't know how other kids lived and just did it and took his beatings as
normal. I got beat a lot as I never measured up to what he wanted. I
couldn't play sports or anything and the only real time I spent with my
father was him teahing me how to work hard or when he punished me."

"Why did he do that?"

"He said punishment was part of growing to be a man. I hate to say so, but
eventually, I got to almost look forward to his punishments as that was the
only time he touched me. He said in our culture, and our religion, too much
contact was not acceptable. I often wondered if he and my mom were ever
intimate, you know, having sex and loving one another. She wore very
depressing looking things and kept herself covered all the time. My sister
was made to dress the same way. I was given a little more freedom but not
much. I was to wear loose clothes all the time, jeans and normal shirts. I
could never dress in anything popular and always felt I didn't fit in. I
was so glad when Todd was friends with me. I really needed a friend but
could never talk about my life. I was sorry to kind of lose him when he got
more popular and joined some teams. But, Todd, you were still always nice
to me. I just wished I could be like you or the other guys. "

I felt real bad for Ricky and mad at myself for not being more attuned to
his needs. I felt like crap.

"So what happened to you when you were punished?" I asked.  Well, ah it
kind of awful really." Ricky spoke more quietly and seemed to not want to
tell.  " I want to know and I'm so sorry I was such a prick and didn't stay
close to you." I said

"Oh, it's not your fault. I just dreamed that someday I would get away and
could do stuff I wanted. And, I was attracted to guys and never thought I
would be able to get so close to anyone like I did with you guys and
Max. You sure you want to hear this?"

We all said yeah.

"Well, we went to church on Sundays, most of the day. We also had to go
weeknights on Wednesday and classes on Thursday. On Friday, all the kids
had to go with a parent, to see the head preacher. Girls went with their
moms and boys went with their dads. When we got there, we had to admit
anything we did or didn't do and should have. We even were told to tell any
thoughts we had which I usually didn't do. I just couldn't tell all the men
present that I liked boys. Once the confessions were done, the preacher had
the dads give us the suggested beating. Mostly, it was paddling but if it
was considered bad, a strap was used. We all had to line up and then one at
a time, stand in front of the other boys and parents, drop our pants and
bend over to allow them to hit us on the ass, or wherever they minister and
the dads chose.  Once I hit puberty, like the others, I got real
embarrassed as my penis was bigger and I got hair down there.  Sometimes, a
boy was made to get totally naked so his father could strike him on the
back as well. There was lots of crying as we had to count out the strikes.
We were made to stand there and watch and chant shit like how the badness
was leaving our bodies and we would be better. I hated to stand with my
dick exposed for all to see. Some boys later would make fun of those who
were real small down there and I got ridiculed because my dick was big,
bigger than the other guys it seemed. I think most of us were uncut. The
biggest problem for me was that seeing other boys dicks and butts and naked
bodies often made me get hard. It was so embarrassing.  That's why I didn't
and I guess still worry when someone sees me naked.  Anyway, after the
`ceremony' was done, we couldn't get dress right away.  We had to stand and
show our naked bodies , not really show, but allow others to see our welts
and bruises as a kind of testament to our fathers for making us better
boys.

I had some laugh at me for having this big hard on dick. Not the dads, but
the other boys. The men sometimes even touched us chastising us if we had
any liquid seep out of our dicks.  This was impure and we sometimes got
beat again, this time on our dicks and balls. It only made us more hostile
and we couldn't figure out how to prevent it. The minister would sometimes
grab us by our dicks and tell us we were fornicators or other words. All in
Spanish of course but we knew what it all meant.

After that, we finally dressed and our fathers would take us home where we
were made to kneel and pray for forgiveness, usually in just our
underpants, in our rooms, but with them watching. I wondered if my dad got
off on that but never could say so. When they found pictures of Max on my
phone, they went crazy and threatened all kinds of mean stuff. I just had
to get out. I wonder how the other boys are doing and the girls too."

By now, Ricky had tears in his eyes and we all felt so awful for him. Who
knew such strange things went on in the name of religion. I just felt that,
although not religious, no god I ever heard of would want that.

"so, you can see why I want to and know I need someone to control me and if
you guys are willing, I chose you guys to serve and do anything for."

I nodded and then hugged his naked body. Such pain this boy suffered and I
didn't want that.

Cole was particularly moved and then told his own story about how he grew
up, his father's beating of him. Matt and I both felt so lucky to have been
raised normally. We both put our arms around both of these great guys we
had come to know and so wanted to comfort them. Just how was the
question. We had to help them as best as we could and meet their needs
whether from how they were raised or how they now saw life in the world..

We finished and dressed and went off to class leaving Ricky to do some work
but only after telling him he must not do too much.