Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:54:05 +0000
From: Douglas DD <thehakaanen@hotmail.com>
Subject: Aiden  Chapter 35

Greetings and welcome back. Aiden's night at his cousin's house didn't go
as he had wanted it to and left him feeling very confused.

For those of you who are reading the chapters as they post, I will be away
traveling. It will be at least two weeks before Chapter 36 is posted.

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CHAPTER 35

BIG BOYS DON'T CRY

Just about the time he was about to fall asleep, Aiden remembered that he
had not brushed his teeth, so he crawled out of the sleeping bag and went
to the bathroom. Darnell soon came in and joined him.

Aiden and Darnell brushed and flossed at the bathroom sink. Then they peed
together in the toilet after they finished. Deep down Aiden felt more
comfortable around kids his own age, especially when it came to messing
around. Chase had taught him a lot about sex things, but actually doing
stuff was more fun with his peers.

"Do you really think Hatcher and Chase and them pee on each other?" Darnell
had asked as the two preteens found themselves having a sword fight with
their piss streams.

"No, that's way too gross for anybody to do," Aiden replied. "Nobody pees
on somebody else or pees in their pants on purpose. I think they just like
to say stuff like that to gross us out."

They finished pissing almost simultaneously. The boys then grabbed a wash
rag and washed off the dry cum that had been left on them by the older
boys. Since they were naked, the act of stuffing their little peckers in
their non-existent pants wasn't necessary.

"I heard some guys talk about fucking in the butt, but that's the same kind
of thing. They just say it to gross everybody out, because nobody does that
either," Aiden said, showing off his sexual worldliness.

"Having a piss swordfight with you was fun, though" Darnell grinned as they
walked out of the door and into the rec room. "I've done that with Cooper,
but never when we were naked."

Hatcher and Chase came into the bathroom. They both sported hard-ons. Aiden
and Darnell left the bathroom to the bigger boys.

"Did you have fun doing what we did?" Aiden asked.

"Yeah, it felt real good and grown-up like," Darnell replied. "I wish I
could have done it with you."

"Me too, but Hatcher was fun. He said he wanted us to put our sleeping bags
together and sleep together."

"That's what Chase said to me."

"I want to sleep with you," Aiden said as they sat on the couch. He put his
arm around his new dark-skinned friend and placed his lips against
Darnell's. Darnell surprised him by taking the initiative and pushing his
tongue against Aiden's lips. Aiden let it slip into his mouth and the two
naked preteens were soon trading wet, sloppy kisses.

"Ooh, look at the two little boyfriends," Chase teased as he and Hatcher
came out of the bathroom. "Sitting on a sofa and K-I-S-S-I-N-G."

     Aiden and Darnell broke their kisses. "Me and Aiden wanted to sleep
together," Darnell said, his lips wet with his saliva combined with
Aiden's.

"I know, but I have this feeling," Chase said.

"What?" Aiden asked.

"You and Darnell are going to have more chances to be together, but I don't
know about Darnell and me, or even you and Hatcher. So, let's sleep the way
we planned this time."

"How will we be together?" Darnell asked. "We live really far apart."

"Trust me," Chase said. "I know how our dads think. I bet a BJ that Aiden's
dads and Darnell's dad will set something up."

Aiden hadn't like the decision of the two older boys, but had decided that
this was Chase's birthday and it was Chase's house and he wouldn't argue
about it-this time.

Aiden woke up with Hatcher draped around him. He had to pee, so he
unwrapped himself from the lanky blond and crawled out of the combined
sleeping bags. Light leaked from between the drapes telling him that it was
morning. He went to the bathroom and took care of his business. When he
came back he looked at the clock on the shelf to his left. The digital
readout said 7:55.

Aiden sat in the loveseat, looking down at the sleeping figures of Chase
and Darnell. They were barely visible in the dim light. Aiden thought of
the night before when what had started as a lesson on jerking off for
Darnell turned into sex with kissing and humping. He thought for sure one
of the older boys would suggest giving blow jobs, but it never came to
that. While that disappointed him some, he also knew that it might have
been too much for Darnell. He was certain that it would probably have been
too much for him, and he'd given a couple of blow jobs.

Aiden found the sex stuff to be very confusing and wondered if maybe he
should leave it to the bigger boys and wait until he was older. But then,
he was almost ten, and that seemed like it was almost grown up to him.

Darnell is really cute, he thought as he looked at the sleeping
African-American boy. I wish I could have slept with him and kissed him
some more, Aiden thought. But, sleeping with Hatcher was okay, too. He
snuggles good with his long arms, Aiden thought.

Aiden's thoughts were interrupted by the upstairs door opening, the ceiling
lights flicking on, and Chase's mother yelling out that it was time to get
up. "We're meeting your dads for breakfast in less than an hour, so get up
and shower quickly."

Darnell and Aiden glanced at each other when they heard Hatcher screech,
"Fuck," as soon as the door closed. It just seemed strange to hear the word
"fuck" come from the mouth of somebody as cute and sweet looking as
Hatcher. Aiden never considered the fact that he was perhaps even cuter and
sweeter looking and the word "fuck" amongst other curse words had passed
his lips innumerable times.

"I should have showered last night," Hatcher moaned as he crawled out of
the sleeping bag. "I got dried cum on me and feel all grungy." He was
sporting some solid morning wood.

"There's no shower or bathtub down here, doofus," Chase reminded him.

"So, I could have gone upstairs to your room."

"I like having cum on me," Chase admitted.

Aiden and Darnell gave each other another look, this one saying, "That's
one more gross thing."

"We better shower in pairs," Chase said as he headed for the bathroom. "We
don't have much time." He didn't bother shutting the door and the other
three boys could hear his piss hit the water in the toilet bowl.

"I'm gonna pee upstairs," Hatcher said, stroking his four-inch boner for
the benefit of the two younger boys. His erection was like his body, long
and skinny, but not as long as Chase's.

"We'd better get something on," Darnell said as they heard the toilet
flush.

"Don't bother I've got it covered," Chase said as he came back out. "No use
putting something on so we can go to my room and take it right back off
again." He looked at Hatcher playing with himself and said, "We don't have
time to jerk off-mom's gonna make us move fast."

"I'm not jerking off. I gotta piss bad."

Chase had no idea how that was all connected and told him to just go
piss. He picked up his clothes and started up the stairs. When he opened
the door, he called out, "Don't look, mom, we're naked."

"Okay, sweetie," Sue replied. Why are boys so fascinated with being naked
or just in their underpants, she thought. Troy had told her that as boys
get closer to puberty they start to become embarrassed by their bodies and
getting naked became less important, but that had not yet been the case
with Chase.

Even her husband liked moving about the house in just his boxers when he
thought he could get away with it. "It's how real men dress," he said. No
wonder my boy is slow to grow up, she often thought, my husband hasn't
succeeded, yet.

The four naked boys carried their clothes to Chase's room and threw them on
his bed. Chase decided to make up for stealing Darnell assigning him and
Aiden to the first shower. After seeing their little make out session on
the couch the night before, he felt it was the right thing to do. After
Hatcher finally took his pee, he told Aiden and Darnell to get into the
shower and to hurry up.

Aiden and Darnell had both showered with a friend, or a cousin for that
matter, but Darnell hadn't done what Aiden showed him. "The best way to
shower, is to wash each other," Aiden explained. He showed his new friend
exactly how it was done by washing his back, his front, including his
genitals, and cute little bubble butt, including inside the crack. Darnell
thought it was the best way to shower. By the time Darnell started on
Aiden, the boys' little preteen cocks had become nails.

The fact that they knew they didn't have time to mess around, plus the fact
they were not as hormone driven as the two twelve-year-olds in the bedroom,
kept them from dawdling too long in the shower. They quickly dried each
other off and stepped into the bedroom.

They saw Chase and Hatcher on the bed kissing deeply and sloppily while
jerking each other off. Aiden and Darnell stood and gaped. The constant
horniness of the older boys amazed them, although Aiden was used to
it. Sammy, Chase, Nick, Jeffrey, even Muddy, were role models of where
rampant adolescent horniness could lead. He could now add Hatcher to the
list.

Before Aiden or Darnell could react, Hatcher moaned, shook, and shot three
spurts of clear spunk into the air. The first landed at the bottom of his
sternum, the second next to his naval, and the third on his bare pubic
region. Two more globs of cum covered Chase's hand.

Chase let go of Hatcher and laid his head against his friend's shoulder. He
turned slightly and sucked on the notch where Hatcher's neck met his
shoulder and grunted as his cum shot out, with the first, heavier spurt,
landing right between his nipples. Three more shots came out, with the last
one sticking in the light hairs growing in his pubic area.

"Fuck, that was good," Hatcher moaned. He looked at Darnell and Aiden and
said, "You boys don't know what you got coming-no pun intended. Shooting
cum is way more intense than your little dry cums, not that what you guys
got is bad."

"Fuck yeah, to that," Chase said. "Now we really got something to wash
off."

"Or lick off," Hatcher grinned. "Do you guys want to try it?" he asked the
two younger boys.

Darnell gave the expected "eww, gross" reply, but Aiden walked quietly to
the bed, sat next to Hatcher and started licking the cum off of his chest
and belly. Unlike Darnell, he'd been around cum and was more comfortable
with it.

"Try it," Chase told Darnell. "Aiden hasn't been poisoned."

While Darnell was a quiet, bookish boy, he also had his daring side. If
Aiden did it, maybe it wasn't as gross as he thought. After all, he'd had
cum shot over him last night. He sidled over to Chase and licked the glob
off of his chest, wondering, as he did it, if his cum would be white or
black when he got old enough to make it.

"It doesn't taste gross," Darnell said, "but I sure wouldn't make a
milkshake out of it."

"Me either," Aiden giggled.

The two pubescent boys then got up, waved at the awestruck preteens, and
headed to the bathroom to shower.

"Watching them shoot that stuff was amazing," Darnell said. While he'd felt
Chase cum on him, and seen the results the night before, this was the first
time he'd actually seen semen being blasted. The events of the night and
morning had now changed Darnell's outlook on life forever.

Aiden had also seen sex that was more intense than anything he'd
experienced before. He found out yet one more time that there was much more
to "messing around" than he'd known before.

"We gotta work on our dads for us to do what Chase said," Darnell told
Aiden.

"You mean spend some nights together?"

"Yep. It will be mega-fun."

"For sure." Aiden pulled his orange and black briefs out of his overnight
bag and pulled them on. "I got a lot of new things to try with my friends."

"I got more to try," Darnell giggled, "cuz I've never done anything like
this before." He looked over at Aiden as he pulled on a fresh pair of
tighty-whiteys. "Hey, cool underpants."

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

When Sue Miller led the family into Max's Restaurant in downtown Seattle,
the four dads were already there. They'd procured a large table that could
seat ten.

"You should have brought Horace along," Chase told Aiden, referring to his
cousin's stuffed donkey.

"He'd just want to eat two meals," Aiden giggled.

"Why didn't you bring him? Hercules missed him." Chase was referring to his
stuffed bulldog.

"Horace misses Hercules, but he doesn't like big crowds, like at the
party."

"So? He could have stayed in my bedroom with Hercules."

Both boys giggled at their silliness. The fact that they still liked their
stuffed animals was part of the special bond between the cousins.

"What are you boys giggling about?" Tyson asked.

"Nothing," Chase blushed, not wanting to admit his weakness to his father's
friend. Aiden wondered if Darnell still had any stuffed animals. Well, he
thought, there was one way to find out.

Before he could ask anything, the waitress came and took their breakfast
orders. While Aiden ate out often with his dads, they didn't go out for
breakfast much, so this was a special treat. Special breakfast treats for
Aiden called for pancakes, eggs over easy, and bacon.

The conversation at the table bounced around between the boys, between the
adults, as well as between the boys and the adults. Chase couldn't help but
notice that his mom and dad were having a serious talk about something at
the other end of the table. He wondered if it had anything to do with his
dad spending the night with his friends. But, any concern he had ended when
they shared a laugh and a quick kiss.

Aiden found an opening to ask his question. "Mr. Carr?" he asked,
addressing Darnell's father, who was sitting across the table from him.

"What can I do for you, Aiden?"

"Do you think Darnell might be able to spend a couple of nights with me
sometime?"

"Well, we do live a long distance away, you know, and..."  But, he didn't
get a chance to finish.

"You and my dads were friends when you were little, right?"

Tyson was curious as to where that question was going to lead, so he
decided to play along with his son's new friend. "I don't know how little
we were, but yes, we were friends as boys."

"Well, it would be really cool if you and my dads had more time like you
did last night. At our house you can fish, and go boating, and water
skiing, and swimming, and you could bring Darnell with you and he could
sleep in my bedroom with me. It would be fun."

It was all Larry and Phil could do not to break out laughing, which they
knew would crush Aiden's little heart. They could see that their son was
quite sincere about that. The fact that he made the invitation without
consulting them would have to be dealt with on the trip home. But, the fact
that he made the invitation was just one more piece of proof that Aiden was
comfortable with his home and with his dads.

Tyson looked down the table at Larry and Phil "Is this your idea?"

"It's the first we've heard of this," Phil replied. "What do you think of
the little schemer's idea?"

"I like it, but it's your house."

"Great, then all we have to do is set a date."

Aiden and Darnell looked at each other and grinned.

"Hey, what about me and my dad?" Chase asked.

Troy knew what it was Aiden really wanted-time with his new-found
friend. "I think we should give them their space for this one," he told his
son. Along with Larry and Phil he could see the instant disappointment on
Chase's face.

"How about this idea," Larry said. "I think Phil and I would like to spend
time with his brother-my brother-in-law and our manly twelve-year-old
nephew."

"I'm officially twelve, tomorrow," Chase reminded them, but the
conversation went on as if he hadn't said anything.

"Not to mention, our charming sister-in-law and younger manly nephew," Phil
said with a nod to Sue.

Sue was quiet for a moment, and then said, "There will be two summer visits
in Mayfield. The first will be for the men, and the second will be for the
families. How does that sound?"

"Perfect," Troy said, "except there is something you don't know."

Sue gave him a suspicious look, but didn't say anything as two waitresses
arrived with their breakfasts. She simply gave her husband a look that said
she suspected the man was losing his grip.

After the waitresses departed, Sue asked Troy what he was talking about.

"Well, there is another birthday coming up soon, in case you forgot," he
reminded his wife.

"And, what does that have to do with this conversation."

"Well, you know that there is a honeymoon cruise to Alaska coming up the
first week in August." Sue looked at Larry and Phil and nodded. "What you
didn't know is that there will be a birthday cruise coming up that same
week on the same ship."

Sue let out a surprised shriek and yelled, "Oh my God!" The diners around
them glanced over at the table as Sue wrapped her arms around the neck of
her always surprising husband and planted a gigantic kiss on his lips.

"That is so mushy," Chase grumbled.

"I wasn't going to tell her until her birthday," Troy told everybody at the
table, "but the conversation seemed to call for an early birthday
surprise." Sue's birthday was two weeks away.

"Do I get to go?" Chase asked, a quake of apprehension in his voice.

"Of course you do," Troy told him. "Like I said, this will be a family
outing."

"Did you hear that, cuz?" he said to Aiden. "We're going to be cruise
mates!" Then he stopped and scrunched up his face. "Is Logan going, too?"

"Of course he is," Sue told him, certain that a family outing meant an
entire family outing."

Chase smiled at his little brother and gave him a thumbs up. Logan gave him
a shy grin in return.

The conversation died down some as the plates full of food on the table did
the talking. The five boys dug in quickly, getting admonishment from the
parents to slow down some. Hatcher was grateful that his parents weren't
there, because they always complained about how fast he ate.

Aiden was able to talk to Darnell briefly about the summer visit. He was
sure to tell him how cool the house on the lake was. "We have a swimming
pool, and a dock, and everything." He finished by dropping a hint. "If you
have a stuffed animal, bring it if you can." Darnell didn't say anything,
but his little grin was a positive answer in Aiden's mind.

When the meal was over, Phil and Larry talked to Tyson and Troy about
setting up dates for their visits to Mayfield with their boys. Tyson said
that Monday was an open day on his summer teaching schedule and perhaps he
and Darnell could make a three-day visit. Phil, Larry, Aiden, and Darnell
were enthusiastic about that idea.

The good-byes were said and many hugs were exchanged. Larry, Phil, and
Aiden loaded themselves into the Odyssey. Larry and Phil didn't know how
many kids and adults they would be carrying at any one time, so they came
prepared. The rest of the party took the Miller's SUV to the Miller
residence in Magnolia.

"That was a fun birthday party," Aiden said as they hit Interstate 5 and
started out of Seattle. "I wish we could have stayed there longer."

"Well, you now have something to look forward to," Phil reminded him.

"Big time," the boy grinned.

Before he could open his book to read, Larry chastised him for making
invitations without consulting his fathers first. "We could have done
without the surprise," Larry finished.

"But everybody is happy," Aiden said, "so why is it a bad idea?"

"It wasn't a bad idea. It's the execution that was bad. Make sure you ask
us before you jump into something like that."

"You mean, I should look before I leap," Aiden concluded.

"Exactly. But, you did show how much you are at home with us and how much
you trust us. Just, next time please follow proper procedure."

"I will," he said. He opened up "Where the Red Fern Grows" and went back to
reading about Old Dan and Little Ann, Billy's Redbone hounds.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

As they drove along Highway 12 to Mayfield, Aiden had tears flowing down
his smooth, freckled cheeks. Larry expected the tears to happen. He had
read the book and knew what happened at the end. He turned and reached back
to ruffle Aiden's hair.

"Do you need a tissue to wipe away those tears?" he asked.

He nodded and Larry pulled a small box of tissues out of the glove box. He
handed it to Aiden, who pulled a couple of tissues out of it, using them to
wipe his face and blow his nose.

"I'm sorry I'm crying," he sniffled, "but Old Dan died saving Billy's life
and Little Ann died because they missed Old Dan and then the red fern grew
on their graves and it's really a sad ending."

"I know," Larry said quietly. "I read the book a long time ago."

"Did you cry?"

"Yep. I cried both time I read it. But, for all its sadness, I still liked
the story. There is a lot there besides just a sad ending."

"I like it, too. But...but, why did Billy's dogs have to die?"

"That's what Billy asked too. But, remember, there is the story of the red
fern."

"Yeah, it can only be planted by an angel. And it means that Old Dan and
Little Ann will be remembered forever and ever. That part of the ending is
happy sad."

"Exactly."

"You know what daddy?" Aiden asked as they turned off the highway and
headed towards the dam and home.

"What?"

"There is lots of love in that book, just like in 'The Cay'. Love is pretty
important, right?"

"You are so right."

"I learn a lot from reading books." Aiden got lost in thought for a moment,
and then said, "I'm going to do my last book report on The Red Fern. It was
sad, but I liked it a lot, just like you." He grabbed his tissues and wiped
away a few more tears. "But, it was still sad and I wish the dogs didn't
have to die."

"Me too, son, but life happens."

"Yep, even in books."

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Aiden didn't want to be read to at tuck-in time. His mind was still on
"Where the Red Fern Grows" and he didn't want to think about a different
book. After Phil left his room, his mind kept spinning. His thoughts
bounced from Billy, to kissing Darnell, to sexy Hatcher, to licking up the
cum, to his cruise, to future visits from Darnell and Chase, to the little
boner poking out of his groin.

The sex at his cousin's house confused him. It went way past jerking off,
what with the hard kissing and the cum being shot on him. He wondered why
he didn't even think about licking Hatcher's cum in the morning-he just
went over and did it. He simply didn't understand the sex and the kissing
and the cum and why he felt like he did. He didn't understand why Billy and
his dogs made him so sad and why sex made him so confused. He felt a sudden
desire to talk to his mother. He wanted to cry, but big boys don't cry, and
he'd already cried once that day. He didn't want do it alone in his bed
with his feelings.

He turned on his desk lamp and got out of bed. Reaching into his hamper he
grabbed his orange and black briefs and pulled them on. His little hard-on
had quickly gone flaccid.

Aiden grabbed his stuffed donkey off of his shelf. "I can't let you spend
another night without me, Horace, so we're going downstairs together."

The boy and the donkey went to his dads' bedroom and knocked on the
door. He received permission to enter. He entered the room, set Horace down
on the dresser, and took his usual place between his two dads.

Aiden wrapped his little arm across Phil's shoulder and bare chest from
behind. "I love you, dad." And then to Larry, who was now situated behind
him he said, "I love you, daddy."

Phil then felt the wetness of his son's tears as they dribbled onto his
back. He waited for Aiden to say something, but all he heard was quiet
sobbing. He slowly turned and wrapped his muscular arm around the soft,
warm skin of his son. In the dim light of the room he could see the tears
glistening on the young boy's smooth face and felt the tears dripping onto
his chest.

Aiden thought sleeping in the safety of his dads' bed would keep him from
crying, but he was wrong. He was almost ten, which made him a big boy in
his mind. But in reality he was a little boy who tried to be tough-skinned,
but who all too often was confused and vulnerable and afraid. Aiden finally
quit trying to hold back and sobbed out loud, his tears now drenching his
dad.

This business of being a father can be very confusing, Phil thought. He
held the distraught little boy tightly against him with all of the love he
could muster as the boy eventually stopped crying and drifted off to sleep.

Next: I Am the Greatest.