Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:39:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg <fotogme11@yahoo.com>
Subject: Us Guys ch 17

Us Guys

By:  Photo Guy (fotogme11@yahoo.com)
Proofreader and Story Consultant:  Steve

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from the author.

This fictional story involves gay sex between family members and their
friends, and it is written solely for the reading enjoyment of people who
aren't offended by material of this type!  If you are underage, or this
type of material is illegal where you live, please leave now.

***

I hope all of you had the very best holiday season ever!  I sure can't
complain about mine.  I was off work for almost two full weeks, and between
all the typical holiday activities, I buckled down and got a couple of
chapters of "Us Guys" finished and am working on the third.

I made a big mistake and decided to go shopping on the day after Christmas,
for the first time ever.  Never again!  The only good thing that came out
of it: I purchased Stephenie Meyer's book "Twilight".  Talk about an author
who knows how to write descriptively!  I'm going to try to learn from her
example.

I never expected to still be telling the story of my crew of guys after two
and a half years.  And I suppose, I'll still be writing about them until
you, the readers, show me by your lack of interest that they need to be
retired, or I'm too old and feeble to type.

I've said this to you many times, but I NEVER want the story to become
repetitive and boring.  I'll do my best to keep it fresh and exciting, but
if I slip up in that regard, please don't just stop reading ... but tell me
so I can try to correct it.

Well, enough of all that!  Let's get on with the story ...

***

Chapter Seventeen

(Chris has a few more words for us.)

Putting on clothes is such an ordinary routine.  All of us do it every day.
Let's face it, we all wear pretty much the same kind of stuff every day
... and other than choosing what we'll wear, we don't think anything about
it.  When I put on the 501s yesterday, my cock reacted because they were so
tight.  If I wore skin-tight jeans every day however ... like the J bar A
cowboys ... my body probably wouldn't react to them at all.  I guess that's
just how we're put together.

But all my nerve endings were still on heightened alert, after the workout
Tyler had given them.  They seemed to feel every fold of my shirt and
caress of the tight denim in a way I didn't know was possible!  It's hard
to describe ... but I've never felt quite the same way again.  Damn!

Anyway, I kept my vow ... riding Tyler's uncut cock with a vengeance later
that night in bed.  As our relationship has developed over the years, I've
honed my technique.  I do okay in the saddle, on the back of a horse, but
Tyler tells me, my REAL talent lies in riding bareback.  And I don't think
he's talking about my horsemanship!

We had brunch on Sunday morning, late.  And Kaiden and Ryan left as soon as
we cleaned up the mess, to goof around with Carlos and David.  There was no
ulterior motive behind what they did this week ... at least not that I knew
about ... although Ryan probably wouldn't have minded if there had been!
Tyler and I wandered around outside with our dads ... basically doing
nothing ... while we let the food digest.  Sometime later, with the early
September sun still high in the sky, we found ourselves in the backyard.

"I think I'm going to relax in the hammock for a while," Tim commented,
heading in that direction.  "Anybody want to join me?"

"So you're going to be a lazybones this afternoon!" Josh laughed.  "It
sounds tempting ... REALLY tempting ... but I haven't worked out in a few
days.  I think I'll head downstairs."

"You're sure?" Tim asked with what I've come to identify as his sexiest
grin.  "It's so pleasant out here."  He climbed into the hammock and lay on
his back.  Drawing a heel towards his ass, Dad raised a knee into the air.
"Damn, this is comfortable!"

Josh shook his head.

"I've gotta keep my body in good shape," he said.  "Mr. Right will be
coming along one of these days ... and I don't want a flabby body when he
does!"

Tim just laughed; it was his turn to shake his head, as he turned towards
Tyler.  "I guess he's just keeping me around as his boy-toy."

"You've got that right," Josh declared, lowering his hand to Tim's bent leg
and stroking the plentiful dark hairs that made their home there.

"Oh well," Tim shrugged his shoulders.  "I'll be down in a bit ... if I
don't fall asleep first."

"What a slacker!" Josh exclaimed, looking towards Tyler and me.  "Do either
of you guys want to join me?  I KNOW the two of you won't be taking naps."

I'd been enjoying the easy-going rapport between my dads.  Like all
teenaged guys, I guess, I sure liked to sleep.  And a nap right about them
didn't sound all that bad.  But after a moment's hesitation, I replied,
"Sure, Josh."  I hadn't worked out in a few days, either.

"Me, too," Tyler added; and moments later we were upstairs in our room
changing into knee-length gym shorts.  "Pull your shorts down a little
lower," Tyler directed.  "You look so hot that way!"

I carefully lowered my shorts until I could feel them circling my hips, and
Tyler kept his eyes on me as he stepped into his.  Both our semis were
obvious as the heads pressed against the satiny fabric.

"I probably should have worn a jock, so my hard-on wouldn't show so bad," I
stated when I felt my dick begin to swell more.  Tyler was SUCH a hot guy;
just looking at the dark hairs of his wide happy trail disappear under the
waistband of his deep blue, mesh basketball shorts was turning me on
... big-time!

Tyler smirked because of the affect he had on me.

"I think you look good with a tent in your shorts," he laughed, putting his
arm on my shoulder and hugging our naked torsos together for a moment
before we headed downstairs.

When we entered the gym, Josh was too busy with the free weights to comment
on my predicament.  And as soon as Tyler and I got into our workouts, and
my mind was no longer on my lover's hot body, my dick wisely decided
... for a change ... it was time to deflate.  We'd only been exercising for
a short while, when I heard the kitchen door open and close, followed by
footsteps on the stairs.

"I guess Tim came to his senses," Josh commented with a slight grin,
gripping the barbell and preparing to lift it again.

"Anybody down here?"  It wasn't Tim's voice, but Jared's.  I supposed he'd
come over early for our Sunday football game.  Moments later, he came into
view.  "Tim said I'd find you guys down here."

"Hey, Jared!" Tyler greeted our friend.  "How's it going, today?"

"All right, I guess," Jared answered.  "Can I join you guys?"

"Sure," Josh replied.  "There's plenty of room for you."

Jared smiled as he stripped off his t-shirt, revealing his smooth,
golden-tanned chest and back, before joining Tyler and me in the rotation
of exercise equipment.  In no time Jared was sweaty like the rest of us, as
his muscles strained against the resistance from the various devices.  As
we worked out, the four of us joked around.  But at one point, after a
brief lull in the conversation, Jared spoke up.  Suddenly, the tone of his
voice was serious.

"Josh ... I need to talk to you about something," he said slowly.

I glanced at our friend and noticed Jared was looking at me, before quickly
averting his eyes.

"How can I help you, Jared?" Josh asked.  Moments earlier, when we were
joking with each other it was like he was one of us, but now he sounded
like a father.

I turned my gaze from Josh to Jared and then to Tyler.

When Jared didn't answer right away, Josh added, "Do you want to speak in
private?"

"Umm ... ye ... I mean no," Jared finally stated firmly.  He seemed to
think for a moment, as he looked from Tyler to me.  "I guess I want all of
you to hear what I have to say."

All of us stopped what we'd been doing; Jared sat beside Josh on the bench
press, while Tyler and I leaned against the tanning booth facing them.
Jared collected his thoughts, while the rest of us were silent.

Finally, with sadness on his face, Jared blurted out, "Josh ... I don't
wanna be gay!"

Smiling, Josh wrapped his arm around our friend's shoulder.  He didn't
answer right away, but when he spoke, it was in a gentle voice.  "Neither
did I, Jared ... when I was your age.  I've told you that before."

"I know ... but," Jared added, looking at the floor.

"Tim and I had a lot of fun together ... but deep down, I wanted to be like
all the other guys," Josh said wistfully.  "Or at least how they claimed to
be."

"Just because you fool around with us guys and your brother doesn't make
you gay," Tyler commented wisely.

"I know that," Jared answered, sad-faced.  "But I've been afraid I was gay
for a while.  I tried to prove to myself I wasn't for the longest time.
I've dated lots of girls."  He paused for a moment.  "I even got to second
base with one of the cheerleaders last year.  But feeling up her breasts
didn't do anything for me.  I mean ... I didn't get a hard-on or anything!
I was scared I wouldn't be able to get it up, if she'd wanted to go all the
way."

"That's one of the reasons why I was such an asshole to my brother before."
Jared shook his head.  "Yeah; I know I was a MAJOR asshole ... because I
was starting to look at him as more than just a brother and I was afraid."
He paused again, collecting his thoughts.  "But since Devon and I've been
fooling around, I know for SURE I'm gay.  And I'm SO confused and unhappy!"

I wanted to ask Jared why.  I'd been sure I was gay since the backpacking
trip with Tyler, and I'd enjoyed every minute of it.  But I kept my mouth
shut ... wisely, I think.

"You don't REALLY know my dad, like I do," Jared stated, glancing up at
Josh's concerned face.  "Don't get me wrong; I love my dad ... but he
wouldn't take the news well, if he found out.  I know he wouldn't."  He
paused for a moment.  "Dad's not like you, Josh ... or Tim."

No one said anything but a faint smile crossed Jared's lips with the
realization of what he'd just said.

"He's REALLY not like you, Josh," Jared smiled a bit more.  "I mean
... since you're gay and all."

All four of us laughed.  Sometimes, all it takes is a few humorous words,
intended or not, to change a person's mood for the better.

"Your dad and I are good friends; and he's known I'm gay for a long time,"
Josh said looking Jared in the eyes.  "He might surprise you, if you told
him what you're going through right now.  But you're right, Jared; I DON'T
know your dad like you do."

Looking back on it now, I understand how unusual our family was.  When I
came to the realization I was gay, it was no big deal.  I didn't have to
make any big 'coming-out' pronouncement to everyone.  I am who I am and
everybody just accepted it.  I never went through all the turmoil that
embroiled Jared.

"Jared, if you want my advice ... and I guess you wouldn't have brought
this up in the first place if you didn't ... you need to accept who you
are," Josh stated firmly.  "If you can't tell your dad right now, then
don't.  But don't try to be someone you're not."

"If you've got a moment, I have a story I'd like to tell you.  A true story
of a friend of mine; a guy I met when I started college, here in Boulder."

Jared nodded that he wanted to hear it.  I wanted to hear it, too.

"I didn't know anybody on campus at first.  But my dorm roommate, Curt, and
I quickly got to know each other.  In no time, he and I became great
friends.  He was the straightest, straight guy I'd ever met."  Josh
chuckled as he remembered his friend.  "I had decided when I left home for
school that I wasn't going to keep my sexual orientation a secret anymore.
Curt wasn't happy when I told him about it that October, but our friendship
survived my revelation."

"Most of the time, when I go to bed at night, I'm asleep almost before my
head hits the pillow.  And when I go to sleep, Tim can tell you, I'm dead
to the world!  But one night, a couple of weeks into my first term at CU, I
was lying in bed awake with the lights out.  It must have been pretty late.
Curt unlocked the door and locked it behind himself, quickly undressing
with just the light coming in the window.  He crawled into his bed and
immediately began to pound his meat, fast and hard."

Josh paused for a moment and shook his head as he remembered those days.
Three sets of eyes were riveted on his face.

Josh laughed.  "I always took care of business in the shower each morning,
but after I heard him jerking off, I did it in bed some nights, too.  If he
ever heard me, he never said ... and I never told him I knew he jacked off
in bed, either."

"Anyway," Josh continued, "he got married the next spring and I was in his
wedding party.  Curt and his wife moved into married student housing and
had their first kid in the fall.  By the time we graduated, he had two
girls and a third was on the way."

"Wow!" Jared exclaimed, shaking his head.

"Yeah," Tyler added.

"I know," Josh laughed, before going on.  "Curt and I kept in touch for a
while after graduation.  But like usually happens, after a couple of years,
it was just a Christmas card every year.  I was SO busy making money."
Josh paused thoughtfully, before smiling wistfully.  "Of course, that's how
I was able to buy all this."

"Anyway, this past spring, out-of-the-blue I got a phone call from him.  He
sounded so sad.  His wife had found out a few months earlier that he was
seeing men on the side.  I guess Curt had been going to gay bars for quite
a while, when he was out of town on business.  Sometimes just to look, but
often he'd take a guy back to his hotel room.  Anyway, his wife found out
after he gave her an STD.  He never had any real symptoms and didn't know
he'd contracted it.  As you can imagine, she was furious ... and she kicked
him out of the house."

"Talk about being shocked!  I was speechless.  I'd have never guessed that
about Curt," Josh said.  "To make a long story short, Curt had always been
attracted to guys ... he said he'd even been attracted to me back in
college ... but had tried to run away from his feelings for years.  They
finally caught up with him, though, and he had to act on them.  It's ALWAYS
better to be true to yourself, Jared.  Whether other people fully accept
you or not, at least you can look yourself in the mirror each morning,
secure in the knowledge of who you are.  I can't imagine anything worse
than living a lie each day in front of your wife ... pretending to be
someone you're not.  And having all those kids, just to PROVE to yourself
that you weren't gay."

Josh shook his head, sadly.

"Curt had hurt his wife and six kids deeply ... and he couldn't stand
himself, either.  He told his wife he'd reform, go to counseling or try
anything to keep his girls.  His wife demanded he enter one of those
programs that claimed to be able to change a person's sexual orientation.
But of course, it didn't work and Curt hated himself even more.  He was so
screwed-up ..."

"What happened to him?" Jared asked.

Josh didn't say anything for a while as he thought.

"Boys ... he committed suicide a few days after we spoke," he finally said,
sadly and slowly shaking his head.  "I guess he left a note with my name in
it.  His wife called me and we spoke for quite a while."

"Chris, that was back in April, and I called your dad right afterwards.
Other than Tim, I've never told anyone else what I just told you three.  I
guess, in a way, I feel like I should have done more to help Curt."

Everyone was quiet for a moment.  Josh had given all of us a lot to think
about.  About being true to ourselves, yes ... but also about helping
friends in need.  I hope I always remember what he said to us that
afternoon.

Tyler stepped forward and wrapped his arms around Jared, hugging him
warmly.

"Jared, you've got friends who'll accept you, no matter what," Tyler said.

The two of them held each other for a few moments before Jared reached out
with his left arm and pulled Josh into a three way.  And right away, I
joined them.

I knew Jared was feeling better about himself, when a few moments later, he
pulled back from our group hug, smiled and said, "Thanks, guys!  Josh, what
you said about Curt, really helped."

This is going to sound corny, I know, and I almost don't want to say it.
But maybe something positive came out of the tragedy of Curt's life and
suicide.  Jared says, at least, he's never looked at his life in quite the
same way after that afternoon in our gym.  Not to say that everything has
been a bed of roses for him; it hasn't.  But Josh was right ... if you can
look yourself in the mirror each morning and be happy with the guy staring
back at you ... that's half the battle.

***

We finished our workout, and the four of us decided to relax in the hot tub
for a while.  Tim was asleep in the hammock as we walked by and my second
dad changed his mind, deciding to join him there.  Josh woke Tim up, while
awkwardly falling into the hammock, and my dads hugged.

"That is SO awesome ... the way they love each other like that," Jared
commented as we crossed the driveway.

"I know," I replied sincerely.  "I know."

"Nude?" Jared asked as we approached the pool building.

"I wouldn't get in the hot tub any other way," Tyler laughed, quickly
pulling off his shoes and shorts and stepping into the water.

Jared looked around for a moment before kicking off his Nikes.  Next, he
slipped his shorts and briefs off his tanned, almost hairless legs, before
joining Tyler in the steaming water.  Jared's five or six inch cock was
hard and pointing straight out from beneath a small mound of pubes.  They
were the same dark blonde color as Kaiden's ... and not much larger
... even though he was two years older.  And the ivory-colored globes of
his tight ass contrasted nicely with the smooth, golden skin on his back as
he crossed the small pool and found a seat.

I smiled as I watched Jared settle into the water.  Then, after getting
nude myself, I set the timer and joined my lover and friend in the frothing
pool.

"Well, Chris," Jared began with a big grin.  "Now that the two of you know
my secret, I might as well tell you.  I think you're hot!"

"And I'm not?" Tyler responded, pretending to be hurt.

"Um, you're okay, Tyler," Jared laughed, before turning to me.  "But Chris,
if you two guys ever decide to break up; let me know ... all right?"

"Will do," I chuckled.

"It'd better not be any time soon!" Tyler shot back.

I just laughed, and Jared joined me.  I didn't think Tyler had anything to
worry about.

"Or maybe you two want to become a threesome," Jared added with another
smile.

I had no plans for Tyler and me to become a threesome ... on a permanent
basis, at least.  But hey, I guess you never knew about stuff like that.
And my cock was sure up to the idea of fooling around with Jared and Tyler!
For the next fifteen minutes, the three of us laughed and joked around
while enjoying the sensations of the hot, churning water as it massaged our
bodies.  And moments later, when the timer had shut down the pump, Jared
commented, "I think I'm gonna tell Robert and Luke about me being gay after
the game today.  Those two guys are my best friends.  I've known them like
forever.  And they accepted both of you, so I bet they'll be okay with it."

"I know they will," Tyler replied.  Although we'd never really come right
out and TOLD either Luke or Robert about our sexual orientation it was
obvious from our lifestyle.  And they were both smart guys.

Tyler was right about our two sixteen-year old friends.  Sometimes, we're
afraid of how our friends will react to news they aren't expecting.  And
sometimes they don't take the news well, at first.  But the good friends
... the really, REALLY good ones, the ones worth keeping ... will accept
you for who you are.

At least ... that's how I look at it.

***

I think I'll end chapter seventeen right here.  There's some deep subject
matter in this chapter.  I guess it wasn't a very lighthearted way to start
2009.  But I promise more fun in the near future.

The character of Curt was very loosely based on a good friend of Steve's
from his college years.

From when I first introduced Jared as this asshole of a big brother, I
envisioned him as a guy who was struggling with his sexuality.  And when I
was trying to decide what I should include in this chapter, I decided to
make it about Jared.  I hope all of you enjoyed it.  An e-mail from you
readers is always appreciated (fotogme11@yahoo.com).

If you would like to join the Yahoo! Group for my stories, you can do that
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read the earlier stories in this series, you might enjoy them.  They're
also in the Gay/Incest area of the Nifty Archive.

"I'll Suck You"  Final Post Date: June 25, 2007
"I've Got the Best Family"  Final Post Date: May 23, 2008

Have a great week, everybody!  Greg