Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:53:00 -0500
From: J K <imawriter123@gmail.com>
Subject: funny things happen part 10

Comments welcome at: imawriter123@gmail.com

Authors note: To all readers, I just want to state, while this section on
Nifty is considered to be a completely sex-driven area, I felt it was right
to post this here, even if there hasn't been any graphic descriptions of
sex as of yet.  However I hope you continue to read, sometimes love takes
time to evolve.

Saturday morning, my eyes slowly opened up to discover two arms tightly
wrapped around me and I then suddenly remembered what happened last night
as my ass and legs awoke at the same time in an enormous amount of pain,
and I smiled and frowned at the same time. I smiled that I was finally
waking up with someone's arms around me, something that I had been missing
for so long, and at the same time realizing that they weren't the arms that
I wanted.  But I had to stop torturing myself with this, they never were
going to be his arms.  I slowly turned over to face Mark, and gave him a
quick kiss on the lips and his beautiful brown eyes and smile came into
view and he kissed me right back with a probing tounge, and I could do
nothing but accept it and give mine back. He slid out of my mouth and said,

	"Morning sexy, how you feeling?"  I just laughed and said,

	"Oh I'm doing alright, a little sore but well worth every second of
it."  He just smiled and said,

	"Good because I loved it as well.  You were incredible, and I look
forward to getting to do it again."

Oh you will I thought to myself, you will.  But then I realized someone
else was probably home at this point, so it wasn't going to happen right
now.  Admittedly in this place, even just down the hall you really couldn't
hear much, maybe a few muffled groans, but I'm sure even if Josh heard it,
he'd know what was going on.  And I said to him,

	"Oh trust me Mark you will. You definitely will.  But at the moment
I need to go to the bathroom."  He chuckled and opened his arms from around
me, and I not very easily-walked to the bathroom to release.  When I walked
back into the bedroom, there stood this beautiful man, which I still could
not believe that I had the ability to lay eyes on, but I just shook myself
and asked him,

	"Hey babe you want some coffee?  I'm sure josh is downstairs, but
trust me he'll want to meet you."  He nodded yes, and I just winked at him
threw on a pair of shorts and walked out of the bedroom, and down the
hallway to the steps to be met with the wonderful scent of freshly brewed
coffee.  As I walked into the kitchen I was greeted with a signature smile
and a kiss on the cheek,

	"Morning Dad!  I can see someone had a good night."  And I looked
at him and said,

	"Is it that obvious?"  He laughed and just said,

	"Oh you have no idea how obvious it is.  By the way is Mark still
here? How does he take his coffee?"  I just started laughing, he knew me
too well, just too damned well, and said,

	"I don't know you can ask him when he comes down, should be down in
a minute."  He just flashed me one of his devilish smiles and then Mark
walked into the kitchen and said,

	"You know, it's hard to find this kitchen in this place, good thing
the scent of coffee travels!"  We all just broke out laughing, I then
introduced the two of them, and as they shook hands and looked into each
other's eyes I could see that there was an instant connection, I wasn't
sure what kind but it was there, and I knew there was a discussion coming
up later.

We all went into the living room and talked, well Josh and Mark talked and
got to know each other, I just sat back and watched the entire the two of
them interact.  I caught a few looks from Josh, one of which was his
signature `good call' smiles and I just nodded.  After what must have been
almost 20 minutes of them just talking away, Josh got up and took Mark's
cup into the kitchen I would assume to get more coffee and Mark turned to
me and said,

	"Quite an amazing young man, it's obvious that the two of you have
a very unique relationship, I do envy that.  I never had the opportunity
for that."  All I could do was smile and respond,

	"Yes he is, and yes we do.  And I wouldn't trade it for the world."
He just nodded as Josh walked back into the room and said,

	"Ok guys, I'm off to my run.  Dad, see you later and Mark it was a
pleasure meeting you, and thanks for the offer at the gym, I'll definitely
take you up on it!"  And with that he ran out the door.  Mark just turned
and looked at me, smiled and said,

	OK babe, I've got to get running myself, I've got 2 trainings at
the gym and then my own work to do that I skipped out on early last night
for you." He just smiled leaned over and passionately kissed me and said,
"I'll call you this afternoon, maybe dinner tonight?"  I just smiled and
nodded, and then walked him to the door, got another kiss good bye and shut
the door.  I just stood there wondering, what the hell do I do now?  I have
a one sided love for 12 years and a man that I know for a few weeks that I
can see myself being very happy with, and I'm standing here saying how can
I be with him?  What the hell was wrong with me??

Weeks and then month's started to pass, and my relationship with Mark
continued to grow and flourish, I could see that this was really leading to
a true partnership.  He and Josh got along fantastically, he was there for
Josh's 17th birthday party, even helped him pick out a car.  It was
funny-well it really made sense that they had the same tastes, they picked
out a black BMW Z4, and he absolutely loved it.  By April Mark had moved in
with us, and in my eyes was a part of a very important event.  It was a
Saturday afternoon and the Mark and I were sitting in the living room
drinking a few beers when Josh walked in with an envelope in his hand and
said,

	"Dad, Mark, this is it.  Here's the answer as to where I'm going to
college."  I looked up at him and could almost see fear on his face.
Something I had not seen in as many years as I could remember.  He had
already gotten into UCLA, so it was not as if he didn't have somewhere that
he would be happy to go.  But this was the answer from Stanford, it was
where he truly wanted to get it.  It killed me that he might be moving so
far away, that one love in my life that I so wanted but couldn't have,
would be leaving me.  Not to say that I didn't love Mark-I did, he was the
most wonderful person and I loved him dearly, I knew that I was going to
spend the rest of my life with him, but this was going to be a true turning
point in life.  As I watched Josh open the envelope and take out the
letter, he started to read and within 30 seconds his face broke out into
one of his million dollar smiles, he had gotten in!  He literally ran over
to me and jumped into my lap just as he had when he was a little boy and
kissed me and then Mark, and almost screaming out

	"I got in! I got in!"  My happiness and excitement for him could
not be expressed in words.  The look on his face was of pure bliss and
ecstasy it was one of his ultimate goals that he had worked so hard
for. Writing and rewriting his essay for them countless times, studying for
the entrance exam and even SAT's previously.  I could remember there were
days that he never left his room, just stuck to his books.  And now, it was
obvious that it had all paid off.  In the midst of my thoughts, I never
even heard him talking to me until he shook my shoulder and said with tears
in his eyes,

	"Dad, come with me for a minute I want to talk to you."  He took my
hand and I got up off the couch to follow him out onto the terrace, and he
pulled me into him and lay his head on my chest and squeezed me in a very
tight embrace and very quietly said,

	"I know that you didn't want me to go that far away from you for
school.  And truthfully I didn't want to go that far either.  But you have
Mark now, a man that loves you more than you could ever imagine and I know
that you feel the same about him.  And it has made me so happy that the two
of you found each other and can share the love that you have.  You aren't
alone anymore, not at all.  And now knowing that, I can go without having
to have one ounce of worry that you might not be OK, because you will be.
You have no idea how much I love you, and how much you mean to me and
thanks for everything."  I just stood there in tears, I couldn't believe
what I just heard, in a sense it was more or less a blessing on my on-going
`marriage' with Mark.  What a role reversal!  But in all honesty, I knew he
was right, I wasn't alone anymore, I am happy, I do have a strong love for
Mark and he has one for me. I am going to be OK.

I walked back inside and Josh had gone and gotten 2 bottles of champagne
that we had been saving for a special occasion, and this was as good a one
as any.  As he walked over to us with the ice bucket and bottle he shot me
one of his signature smiles, and Mark came up behind me and wrapped me in
his arms and whispered in my ear,

	"You're going to be fine.  He's a big boy and so are you, I know
you are going to miss him when he's up there, I will too.  He's a very
special man, we're all going to make it through this just fine, I'm here
for you, and you know he has his support system too."  I just turned around
and kissed Mark and said,

	"Thank you love bug, I don't know what I'd do without you."  As we
were kissing, I heard Josh clear his throat and say,

	"Forgive me for interrupting, but let's at least make a toast, and
then the two of you can go back upstairs and fuck like rabbits in my honor
and I'll call Jaime and do the same."  We all just looked at each other and
burst out laughing.  So I took a flute in hand and said,

	"To the greatest gift that god ever gave me, I wish you everything
that life holds in store for you.  You deserve every bit of this and I know
that you will succeed to the best of your ability in absolutely everything
that you do."  The glasses were all `clinked', and then he ran off to call
Jamie, and Mark and I did exactly as we were told to, we went upstairs and
fucked like rabbits for 3 hours.  But it was again like that first night
Mark and I were together, I wanted it to hurt, I wanted to be in physical
pain – to add to the mental pain that I had.  Neither Mark nor Josh,
really had any idea what I was really feeling, not an ounce, it wasn't just
my son leaving, it was the love that I had always wanted moving far out of
my grasp.

For Josh's high school graduation I asked him what it was that he wanted to
do.  I had figured that he was going to want to throw a party for all of
his friends, which I would have been more than happy to do.  I would have
even supplied the beer-I know not a good parent to encourage underage
drinking, but none of them would have left my residence if they weren't
sober.  So I figured I would have had that under control.  But I was very
surprised at his answer, actually very surprised.  His request was very
simple.

	"Dad, Mark, I know you may think this is an odd request for a 17
year old to request for his graduation celebration, but I don't want a
party, I don't want a trip.  All I want is for the 3 of us to spend the
night together as a family.  Let's be honest, there is no other family Dad,
both of your parents have passed, I have no brothers and sisters-which I'm
more than fine with, Mark your family is far removed as well.  So all we
have is us, and that is the most important thing to me.  And that's how I
want to celebrate an event like this-together with the people that I love."
Both Mark and I just sat there stunned, this is not normal talk from a 17
year old that just graduated high school.  Then again Josh is not your
average teenager.  He was never a crazy party kid, he went out and had fun,
but not like I did when I was his age, he was a much more quiet and
reserved person, so in a sense this really wasn't that surprising-but still
what was different, was how adamant about it he was.  But Mark and I could
do nothing but follow his wishes.  And we did.

Before I even turned around, it was August.  As I packed the last box into
the truck for the 7 hour drive up to Stanford, Mark came up to me gave me a
quick kiss and told me that Josh wanted to see me up in his room.  As I was
going up in the elevator back to the apartment, I just kept wondering how
it was that time had gone by so quickly that Josh had gone from a beautiful
baby boy to a beautiful man, I didn't know, but what I did know was that it
happened.  He was a man, a man going off to start a new life in college
that he would love and enjoy.

As I walked into Josh's room, I saw him sitting on his bed holding the
teddy bear that I had given him for Christmas maybe 15 years ago, I don't
even remember how old it was, and I felt a tear roll down my face I could
see a little boy sitting in front of me waiting to be tucked in.  I was
brought out of my revere by the touch of a hand on mine.  I looked down to
see Josh looking up at me, without words asking me to sit down next to him.
When we were eye level, for the first time in a while I looked directly
into his sapphire blue eyes, and just completely melted, I didn't know what
I was going to do without him.  But he said to me,

	"Daddy, I love you more than anything in the world, you are in my
mind, body and soul every minute of the day.  There isn't a thing or moment
that goes by that I don't think about you, how wonderful you are, and what
you have done for me as a father and my best friend.  Just remember, if you
ever want to talk, or you need me for something, I'm only a phone call/few
hours away. I'm here for you anytime you need me, just call."  It's funny,
I had intended on giving him the same speech once we got him all set-up in
the dorms, but I guess I didn't have to.  All I could respond was,

	"And the same goes for you Josh, anytime no matter what day or
night."

We just sat there in silence, staring at each other, looking deep into each
other's minds and souls.  I looked at and into him and saw love and
devotion and a beautiful man, who was some day going to make some woman
very, very happy.  And in me, I don't know what he saw but I can tell you,
there was a love and desire and yearning for him, that was getting stronger
by the minute.  And I don't know if he saw that or not, wouldn't surprise
me if he did, but nothing was ever said about it.  And finally he just
slowly leaned over, and for a split second I thought he was going to kiss
me on the lips, that maybe he did love me that way I did him.  But to no
avail, he leaned in kissed me on the cheek and said,

	"I love you, just remember that.  Now let's get going!"  And he
jumped off me and ran downstairs.

But I don't know, there was something strange about that statement.  Was I
reading this all wrong?