Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 07:32:25 +0000 (UTC)
From: Ckskb Lfb <ckskb1@yahoo.com>
Subject: catch me if i fall epilogue, gay, young-friends

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Epilogue: Of loss and new beginnings

Andronicus could feel the void singing to him, the abyss calling him, a
weird sad calmness overtaking his lethargic mind as it slowly shut down
from oxygen deprivation. He was ready to die, his only regret that he had
not told Vasilis Romanos and his mother that he loved them.

Then someone or something was pulling him back from the dark abyss, from
the fringes of his consciousness he could feel someone pushing on his
chest, someone crying, then being covered with something warm. Sleep
overtook him.

When he woke up he was lying in a hard mattress in a white room with light
coming in from the curtains from two different windows, he was in a corner
room of some sort but not in his house. Groaning he coughed, having
difficulty breathing, something was stuck in his throat.

He fluttered his eyes, feeling so hopeless and vulnerable, trying to focus
in.

"Mum! Mrs. P, he's awake." A familiar voice called out next to him
squeezing his hand.

"Baby, relax, you're safe, everything will be okay." Andronicus turned his
head to see Vasilis standing next to his bed. His voice sounded strained
and under a lot of pain.

Andronicus tried to talk, he coughed, his eyes rising to meet those of
Vasilis he saw his mother enter the room. A few seconds later Vasilis'
mother with a nurse in light blue. She looked to be middle-aged. Her dark
hair was caught up in a bun behind her head under her nurse's hat.

"Easy there, love, let me get that catheter out of your throat." She told
him in a bed-side manner tone. "The doctor will be right in to inform you
all." She said and left the room after removing the tube from his throat.

"What...what happened? Last thing I remember a wave capsized the boat and
sent me flying, must have hit my head onto something." He asked clearing
his throat. His whole body felt heavy as he tried to stretch his arms and
legs.

Vivi looked just as bad as Vasilis, his mother looked relieved. She hugged
him giving him a kiss on his forehead.

"What happened? Where am I?"

"You're in Ydra's medical center sweetheart, everything will be okay."
Katerina replied caressing his hair.

"He knew instantly that she was avoiding something, he was about to ask
what just as a doctor, a young-looking man entered the room, a stethoscope
across his neck.

"Hello, Andronicus, glad to see you're doing better, we were worried there
for a moment. So I suppose you'll be wanting to know what's happened the
last couple of days?" The doctor asked him, he was pleasant but smileless.

Andronicus nodded.

"Well, the coastguard brought you in, you had a severe concussion and you
were had a subdermal hematoma on the back of your head from where you hit a
rock. We had to open up a small hole there to let the blood out and relieve
the pressure to your brain and prevent any brain damage. We could not be
sure that we had succeeded until you woke up. For a while there you had
trouble breathing on your own so we intubated you and decided to keep it in
until you woke up and we could see that you could breathe on your own. We
will keep you in for a couple more days to make sure everything is alright
and then god willing you can go home. I'll leave you four now, I
guess...you have things to talk about." The doctor left.

"Tell me everything." Andronicus demanded first of his mother. When she
would not speak, now actually looking sad he turned his gaze to Vasilis.

Vasilis took a deep breath. "I got an alarm on my smartphone that you were
in danger, you know from the app we installed a couple of months ago?"
Andronicus nodded. "Well it notified me that you were in danger and the GPS
coordinates it gave placed you in the middle of the sea, away from the
shore so...I first called Romanos...then I called Iraklis' father who works
in the coastguard. I tried to force him to let me on the coastguard rescue
ship but he would have none of it..." Vasilis sat on the bed's edge, a hand
on Andronicus' hand.

"Three hours later they managed to come in, the weather was...no one has
ever seen such a storm before, the news channels in Athens are calling it
the worst storm of the century so far...When they managed to dock, I saw
them carrying you out in a gurney and I almost felt the world go from under
my legs. I saw Iraklis' father and ran to him, our mothers as well. He told
us of what happened when they got there and what must have happened before
that..." Vasilis was tearing up.

"Romanos got to you first, he fished you out of the raging sea and tended
to you as best he could, he knew he could not go back to Gaidouronisi as it
would kill you, the distance the coastguard would have to travel to get you
and come back to port would be...and he knew that with that weather and his
fishing boat he would not make it to the port...so he made circles around
Palamidas island where he had found you waiting for the coastguard rescue
ship he knew was coming." Vasilis paused obviously emotionally troubled.

"What happened? Where's Romanos?" Andronicus tried to raise himself higher
on the bed, sit up more rather than lie on it.

"The coastguard rescue ship arrived and tried to block the worse of the
weather off with their bulk so that the fishing boat could dock next to it
and they could get you and Romanos on board but the wind was constantly
changing direction, the waves, from what Iraklis' father told me the
waves...he has never seen such big waves before in his life, some
surpassing even thirty, forty meters in height...One of them...just as
Romanos had given you to one of the coast guard officers...a wave...a
wave..." Vasilis' breath was now ragged fast and irregular, tears flowing
down his cheeks.

"What...where is Romanos, I want to see him, now! Where is he?" Andronicus
demanded in a state of rising panic.

"Sweetheart..." Vivi spoke sitting on the other side of the bed, a hand on
his shoulder. "A wave tore the fishing boat off the coastguard vessel,
practically broke the ropes holding it and threw the fishing boat onto the
rocks...Romanos...they could not see him, or find him so the ranking
officer...he ordered them to abandon the search or you could end up dying
as well before they could get you to the medical center...the next day
after the storm had eased off the coastguard sent a helicopter from Athens
and the rescue ship to continue the search, they had divers in the water
for almost ten hours but...but...they did not find his body..." Vivi's
voice trailed, her hand wiping her tears from her eyes.

"No...no...NO! YOU ARE LYING TO ME!! WHERE IS HE!? WHERE IS ROMANOS!
I...I...Nooo...please no...no...no..." Andronicus tried standing up. He
wanted to run to Romanos' house, he was sure, yes he would be there waiting
for him. He tried to stand up but Vasilis stopped him wrapping his hands
around him, enclosing him in his embrace.  Andronicus tried to fight him
off in vain eventually surrendering to Vasilis' warmth and strength.

He wailed and cried and cried and cried. Katerina tried to sit next to him,
to comfort him. He reacted almost violently removing her hand from his
face.

"No! It's your fault...my fault, our fault!! If you hadn't...if..." He
started crying again, burying his face in Vasilis' neck.

"Sweaty...I, please forgive me, I should have listened to you...I...Vivi
explained it all and...how could I believe that Romanos could have hurt
you...it's just...you don't find this easy and as a mother I was afraid of
you getting hurt or having been hurt and I ended up hurting you so much
more...please forgive me for denying you this...someone who was there for
you in such a way...a father...I wish I could give you your father, I wish
that...I cannot take back what has happened, I can only promise to listen
to you from now on. Please, can you forgive me?" She rubbed his hair and
back, trying to show her remorse at the turn of events.

For a moment only Andronicus' crying could be heard. "Leave..."

"He really meant this much to you..." It was more of a statement of
something that Katerina just finally understood than a question.

"LEAVE!" Andronicus screamed amidst hiccups.

Katerina lowered her head and left the room.

Just then Vasilis' phone rang. He looked at the screen. "Hey, love, I have
to take this and I'll be right over okay? I can lie next to you then and
snuggle?"  Andronicus nodded and curled up on the bed.

Vasilis exited the room and came back a few minutes later looking sad and
yet not as much as before. He lay next to Andronicus and hugged him close.

"I'll be outside if you guys need me for anything." Vivi told them and left
the room.

When Vasilis returned he lied down next to Andronicus and snuggled next to
him with Andronicus holding him tight.

Andronicus was released three days later, his head still bandaged.

Vasilis, his mother and sister helped him home. Christina was silent the
whole way from the medical center to the house.

Vasilis helped him change clothes and they left for Romanos' funeral.

They met up with Vivi, she was with Iraklis and his parents.

"Aren't we going to the cemetery?" Andronicus asked.

"No, this is going to be a naval funeral like they did them in the days of
old. We are going to the harbour." Vivi responded.

They walked in silence, dressed in black. Iraklis and Vasilis helped
Andronicus and Christina aboard the coastguard search and rescue
ship. Christine even mumbled something like "thank you."

"Is this..." Andronicus could not finish his sentence but Iraklis' father
new what he was asking.

"Yes, this is the coastguard vessel that saved your life. I only wish we
could have saved Romanos' but he was nowhere to be seen, visibility was
non-existent and you had a nasty looking wound on the back of your head."
Harilaos stated. He was not apologising. He knew that if he had stayed
there, with the worst storm of the century upon them he would have
endangered not only Andronicus' life but that of his crew as staying more
than he had to would have or might have endangered the lives of his
crew. There was something he had not told anyone. He had left the bridge
and gone to the deck outside, he had seen Romanos and the coastguard
personnel securing Andronicus aboard the vessel, the wind was far too
powerful for the chopper to attempt to drop a diver into the sea and pick
them up, and just before the wave smashed on Romanos' fishing boat he saw
the man signaling him with his hand to leave as if he knew his fate and had
accepted it. Harilaos, even under the almost-zero visibility, had seen
Romanos' face and the man was at peace. Now it made sense after Vivi had
told them of the close almost-father –like bond Romanos had developed
with Andronicus.

Andronicus nodded and walked to the bow of the ship, standing there alone
until Vasili, his mother and Iraklis joined him.

When the empty casket arrived from the funeral home with the priest that
would be performing the ceremony they departed.

It took them half an hour to reach their destination.

"Why here?" Andronicus enquired when they came to an almost stop, the
engines working only to keep the current from dragging them away.

"Beneath us...is the wreck." Vasilis replied.

"Oh..." He turned his head to his mother standing nearby. "Were their
bodies recovered? Grandad's and Grandmum's?" He asked her.

"No, sweetheart, I'm sorry." Katerina replied nodding her head negatively.
"I see...well at least maybe he'll have company then." Andronicus replied.

"Come on, the ceremony is about to start." Vasilis told him and taking his
hand in his they walked to the rear of the ship.

The priest started chanting from his holy book, shaking a golden bowl-like
vessel that hang from golden chains with fumes emitting from it.

The ceremony lasted for a good thirty minutes until four coastguardsmen
took the coffin in their hands lifted it and with some reverence threw it
in the sea with the priest ending his chanting with words like "Here rests
Romanos, may our Lord Jesus Christ king in heavens, the holy spirit and the
Lord's mother rest his immortal soul."

Andronicus hugged Vasilis crying into his embrace. Vasilis looked sad but
cried not.

As the coffin sank slowly beneath the surface Harilaos gave an order and
four different of his crew fired into the air. This repeated three times
more.

Vivi came closer to the ship's edge and threw in a flower-clad wreath. "You
whipped the sea with iron and then threw them in, when they died...as they
did in the days of old to express your grief. I chose to send you off with
their and my favourite flowers, with the white lilies that grow wild near
the beaches of our island. Rest well my brother, it has come early but you
have earned it. I will always remember your name and your actions in this
life."  Vivi spoke with a heavy voice, trying to not break into crying.

Vasilis walked up to her and hugged her now unable to restraint his
tears. She held him there kissing him on his forehead.

They travelled back to Ydra mostly in silence with some small talk here and
there.

"Andronicus, if you would come with me to our house, there's something of
Romanos I have been tasked to give you, it is private so I did not want to
bring it to the funeral." Vivi told him and motioned for the rest to not
wait for them.

Andronicus furrowed his brows and crossed his hands in front of his
chest. He nodded and they started walking. He followed her and Vasilis to
their house.

When they got there she unlocked a small desk drawer and removed an
envelope. "Romanos had kept a diary...since Pavlos and Niki died, I
convinced him to do that, to have something to do each day. I have kept the
rest of it, for now they are only for me to see, but he gave these pages in
this envelope to me to give to you if ever anything was to happen to him. I
think this qualifies." He took the envelope from her hand.

"I suggest you read them at home, you should not be alone when you do." She
tried smiling. He nodded.

Vasilis squeezed Andronicus' hand. "Come on, let's go to your place, I can
spend the night if you want?" Andronicus nodded smileless.

Andronicus closed the door behind them, sat on his bed cross-legged and
opened the envelope with shaking hands.

He unfolded the pieces of paper.

The first one was from May before they met.

"<...> another day gone by, meshing my nets, not much else to do around
here. I pass my days lost in my memories of happy days, reading a book
until the sun goes down. I was always an early sleeper, now I do not like
being alone with my thoughts after dark, they scare me. <...>

The second one must have been the day they met.

"<...> Curious how things come to be. I am accused by the villagers of
molesting my own flesh and blood, as if I could have ever done that to my
Pavlos.  I met this boy today. He said his name was Andronicus, he swam to
the island, swam! I don't think anyone knew he was here. I could have done
a lot of things if I was the monster I am accused of being.

There was something about this boy, he looked so sad and yet his eyes
pierced me like fiery daggers. I do not know what has happened to him but
underneath the hurt I can see a fire burning inside him. He asked me if he
could come tomorrow and despite my better judgement I did not tell him
no. If only those idiots knew they would probably crucify me alive without
need of evidence."

The next one must have been after he had told Romanos and Vasilis he was
gay.

"<...> Andronicus has been coming around and I find myself...no never
mind. He told me and Vasili that he's gay today, well to be accurate he
screamed it after I denied him basic intimacy afraid of him wanting
something completely different, something he was not after. I should not
assume but when you've been burned by the porridge you fear even the yogurt
as my father used to say. What those boys at his previous school did to
him...gay or not gay that is no way to treat another human being. They are
lucky he is not my son and I did not know him back then. I would have been
less than pleasant.

Funny how things are changing, back when I was a kid these things did not
trouble us, we did not think much of it. Guys married women, that was the
order of things. I suppose guys liking guys and women liking women have
always existed...god knows my ancient ancestors liked fucking anything on
two legs...or more.  Strange how it matters to me not whether Andronicus is
gay or not. Would Pavlos have been gay? Would he have liked boys or girls?
I would just want him to be happy either way.

I wonder...? Maybe...who knows time will tell, they definitely were not
knitting under that upturned boat the other day. <...>"

Andronicus could almost hear Romanos' calm voice narrating the diary pages.

"Vasilis came out to me today. I had been suspecting for some time
now. It's always the little cues and hints that give it away, not the large
things.  In his case just how he had been looking at Andronicus. He was
undressing and eating the younger boy alive.

All boys are blind, doesn't matter if straight or gay or whatever, I have
come to this conclusion, all boys are completely blind. If not Vasilis
would have seen Andronicus looking at him as if he was the best kind of
candy.

Funny how things turn out, but since I've met Andronicus, since he started
coming to Gaidouronisi I've been thinking less of...and yet always there.
My son, I shall see you one day again where no shadows lie. <...>"

Andronicus wiped a tear from his cheek and turned to the next page.

"Pavlos used to love my sand baked fish, most boys his age are bored having
to go through the bones and stuff but he always loved it, Vasilis too, it
was...I liked how Andronicus liked it as well, the joy on his face cheered
me up. Funny how a boy from Athens can be so similar to my son. Those two
were the best of friends before...

It is interesting how Andronicus does not seem to remember it, but when he
would come and visit his grandparents he and Pavlos were inseparable,
Vasilis as well. He was a sweet kid then and he's a great personality
now. Sometimes I wonder if I should tell him this, his old friendship with
my –now dead- son, but perhaps it is best that he remembers first.

Thanos is back on the island, I do not know why but I feel a certain amount
of...loathing? Anger? Towards him. I cannot explain it. Maybe it is his
personality, all that smug poshness like he's looking down on us from atop
his mighty horse, makes me want to strangle him, but back to happier
thoughts. Andronicus and Vasilis "are an item" as they say it nowadays. It
is sweet seeing them together, the looks they give each other, the love and
lust in there. Makes me want to laugh heartily. I barely remember being a
teenager but I can remember all that raw energy and need to release.
Things are clearer now, less hormones, I just wish Pavlos and Nike were
alive. How would it have been? If they were alive, would Andronicus be
boyfriends with Vasilis? With Pavlos? Maybe they'd be friends with Pavlos
as they were when younger.

The way Vasilis and Andronicus look at each other's eyes, hold hands, it is
more than lust with them but who knows how long it'll last, all things end
eventually, even love. Why would Nike say these things to me? Did she
really mean them? Why would she? I never treated her in anything less than
a queen. She and Pavlos were everything to me."

Another page turned over.

"Things are changing I can feel it in my bones. Something is moving,
something is about to happen, all the hushed voices, the murmurs. The
weather is in a bad mood as well this year, three storms already? I have
never seen so much raining before in my life.

The rain blocked off the road to Molos yesterday, I wonder how much time
it'll take the morons in the municipality to clear it off this time, six
months without seeing my nephew or Andronicus is not what I want. Perhaps
I'll start picking them up with the fishing boat, although someone is bound
to see us and cause unrequired trouble. How has this come to be though?
That I feel so strongly, almost father-like for a stranger boy? Well not
stranger anymore.

Yes, very strongly indeed. I felt so proud when he dealt with those thugs
from his previous school, that he did not run away, he dealt with his pain,
his humiliation and now they lie behind him, he is stronger for it. And
Vasilis and the others were there for him. They pummeled on those older
boys as if they were sacks of potatoes.  Good those thugs should know
better than to treat another sentient being so.

Vasilis made me proud as well in that confrontation, that is how one should
stand by his friends and family. <...>

It is probably just me, but that look...maybe there is more to why I seem
to dislike Thanos so much...if he is the one who hurt my family...there
better be some galaxy far away from here he can ran to because there will
be no place in this Earth that he'll be able to hide from me.

<...> There is nothing I wouldn't do to protect Vasilis and Andronicus,
funny how this has come to be but I regret it not anymore, I am not doing
anything inappropriate with Andronicus. The kid needed some stability,
someone to be a father-figure to him, to show him the path to adulthood.  I
feel honoured to have done this."

The last entry/page dated to only a few days before the storm. It was the
shortest of them all.

"Why did I stay in Ydra? I could have left after the whole rumours and
exile incident, could have gone to Athens or anywhere else in Greece,
fishermen are needed anywhere, don't need anything more than my boat to
live in really. So why did I stay here? Because of death. Death has kept me
here, the death of my family and my seemingly inability to part from the
place of their demise. If I don't go once every week above the wreck, I
become weary.  Death kept me here and sadness. I go to that spot in the sea
and try to visualise Pavlos' face, what it'd be like if he was still
alive. I am unable to move on but maybe for as long as Vasilis and
Andronicus are still in the island, before they go to the university and
move on with their lives I can have a few moments of peace, after that...

Andronicus if you ever read this. Don't stay in a place, Ydra or elsewhere
because of death, stay because of life or change what you need to find life
and happiness in your life, because life without happiness, without
laughter, without life in it is no life at all. Life for life's sake is no
life at all.

Be happy Andronicus, "adopted" son of mine, how I wish that could be true
for you have such courage, hope, character, such spark in your eyes. Don't
ever give up and always search and try to be happy."

Andronicus let the pieces of paper fall from his hands to the mattress
crying in Vasilis' embrace.

"You are not alone Andronicus. I'll always be here for you. Don't feel
guilty, Romanos loved you baby, he thought of you as his son." Vasilis
whispered to him.

"Why...?"

"Why what?"

"Why did I have to live? Why did he have to die? I want him alive..."

"No, don't think like that. What would have I done if you had died? I love
you. Romanos did not think like that. Yes, I would have wanted him alive as
well but...I would not want you dead either, you mean everything to me and
I want you alive, I want to make you happy and you to make me happy. Okay?"

"Promise me."

"Promise you what?"

"That you'll catch me if I fall."

"No, I won't but I'll always be there to lift you up, falling on our faces
is not the end, we just must always get up again."

"Okay...I love you." Andronicus whispered back.

"Yes, I love you too and I'll always help you back on your feet should you
fall."

"I will do the same." Just then Vasilis' phone started to vibrate.

"Oh, I have to get this, I'll be right back ok?" Vasilis left before
Andronicus could reply.

Andronicus used a tissue to clean up his nose and face from the tears and
snot. Turning his face towards the door he expected to see Vasilis coming
back but instead there stood his sister, hands in her footer's pockets
looking very awkward and hesitant.

Andronicus just stared at her not knowing what to say or do.

She breathed heavy and turned to leave, then turned again. She whimpered.

She turned to leave again.

"No, please, wait. Is there something you want to tell me? Please tell me."
Andronicus stopped her from leaving.

"I..." she took a step inside his room, now fiddling with her fingers
outside of her pockets.

"Please, I don't want us to be like this or...how we were before. Can't
we...move on? I want to us to be friends. I mean we do share...half our
blood right?" He told her.

"Yes...you're right..." She sat next to him, she looked to have been crying
just moments before. She had indeed changed drastically since that night
and the revelations their mother had made.

"I...have been such a colossal bitch towards you all these years. Why...why
did I even behave like this. I mean...I...I hated you for our...my father
not talking to me, he has not even picked up the phone to call me on a
single birthday in years, hasn't replied to my text messages...nothing. And
instead of blaming him I threw the whole thing to you...why?" She spoke
quietly, whisper almost looking down at her fingers.

There was a moment's silence. "I guess it's easier to behave badly towards
the ones we love, maybe we feel like we have more allowance rather to
strangers who don't have to put up with our shit...does that make sense?"

"Yes...I think so, I...am so sorry Andronicus...I should have been there
for you, after the death of our grandparents, after those fuckers treated
you like that in school...I should have been your sister and not some
demon-possessed bitch. It's my fault isn't it?"

"Hmm? What's your fault?"

"Romanos...you..."

Andronicus nodded negatively. "No, it is not, it's not your fault or mine
or mum's...I guess shit happens. Mum would have insisted on leaving for
Athens with what happened earlier that night and I would have reacted
exactly how I did rather than try and convince her otherwise the next
morning or make my stand in a different way. No things are the way they are
and it's not your fault."

"Can you ever forgive me...for all these years of shitiness? I mean I'll
understand if you don't...or can't."

Andronicus breathed out a sigh. He smiled and extended his hand to
her. "Hello, my name's Andronicus, I am your half-brother, what's your
name?"

She looked up and smiled. "My name's Christina and you're not my
half-brother, you're my brother, I don't care that we have a different
father and I am very pleased to meet you."

"Good, then this is a new day and we start anew okay?"

"Yes." She hugged him out of impulse with him reciprocating the hug.

They stayed like that for what seemed like an eternity, mere seconds in
reality.

The doorbell broke their moment of sibling tenderness.

Vasilis knocked on the door, "I am glad you two are starting new but
there's...someone that is here to see you." He told Andronicus.

Andronicus broke away from Christina's embrace and looked at his boyfriend
with a furrowed look on his face.

"Hmm? Who's here? Here to see me?"

"Yes, come on now, both of you, it's a surprise." Vasilis motioned them and
started climbing down the stairs.

"That's ok Mrs. P. I'll get the door, it's someone to see Andronicus." They
heard his voice muffled below.

Andronicus looked at his sister who shrugged her shoulders and motioned
with her head. He nodded and they climbed down the stairs.

His mother stood near the sofa rooted there looking awkward. Vasilis stood
next to a blond-haired man who had just entered the house and was removing
his scarf and coat. The man looked oddly familiar.

"Vasili, who's that?" Andronicus asked coming closer.

"Andronicus, Bartleme, Bartleme, your son." Vasilis said with Andronicus'
eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"What? How? Who? How...?" Andronicus was speechless. Christine and Katerina
looked equally stunned.

"Let us all sit down and I'll explain." They sat down with Katerina asking
Bartleme if he wanted anything to drink. Bartleme just said "some water."
In a French-Italian accent.

"So...I first realised that Christine's father was not yours...probably
when I saw that photo of yours a few months ago, the man in that photo,
Christine's father was not blond and then you said that neither of your
grandparents, your mother's or your "father's" parents were blond so I got
curious and started searching. I didn't tell you anything at first because
I didn't want to get your hopes up until I was sure I had something and
afterwards because I wanted to surprise you. I found that your mother had
gone to Switzerland as laws are looser there on this matter, she got
pregnant and returned, she of course did not know the name or identity of
the sperm donour. Of course it was not difficult for me to find that stuff
out and after I did I started communicating with Bartleme...took some doing
to convince him I was not a hoax or fraud and then to convince him that you
were his son and I was not trying to fraud him out of money or
whatever. So...you two have some catching up to do I think." Vasilis said
falling silent.

There was a moment of silence before Bartleme got up and kneeled before
Andronicus.

"I...have a son!" He exclaimed hugging the boy tight. "I never thought it
possible. I have always been so...-he searched for the word- dedicated to
my career in the bank and my wife never wanted children...that is why I
went to that "other" bank. I hoped that at least someone else would...and
now I have a son. Yes we have much to talk about. Would you prefer we talk
here or go someplace outside? Nice sunshine."

Andronicus scrutinized him from top to bottom and smiled. "Outside is nice,
we can go to the sailing club. It has a nice view and coffee."

"Coffee? So young? Ayeee, you are too much like me, dad never liked that I
drank coffee so young but eh..." Bartleme shrugged his shoulders grinning.

Andronicus giggled. He stood up and gave Vasilis a hug. "Thank you so much!
I love you."

"I love you too," Vasilis whispered to him in the lowest of whispering
voices. "Enjoy this, and at night I have something to give you, my most
prised possession." Andronicus looked up, Bartleme must have heard him tell
Vasilis he loved him but he did not seem to mind or care. He doubted his
father or anyone else for that matter had heard what Vasilis had replied to
him but it made him blush for he knew exactly what Vasilis meant.

He put on his coat and left with Bartleme. Vasilis had found him his actual
biological father.

Yes, he concluded, Romanos was correct, he would stay in Ydra because of
life and happiness. He couldn't wait to learn all that he could about his
father, and visit him in Switzerland, yes, there would be a lot of stuff to
deal with the next few months, Thanos' trial, whatever legal stuff for his
father to legally recognise him as his own. He also wanted to have a
relationship with his sister which now seemed like a very good possibility,
and sooner or later his relationship with his mother would also be fixed,
she had to understand he was not a baby anymore and she would his mother
was always a work in progress, but things would work out in the end and
above all he had Vasilis who would help him stand up again if he fell.



End of the story.

Thus ends another story, one of mystery, love, anger and various other
emotions, twists and turns. A small snapshot in the lives of these boys,
how their lives will continue is up to the imagination of each and every
one of you.

I hope you enjoyed the story and went through the emotions of the
characters, their agony, sorrow and love for each other and that for these
past eleven weeks you managed to escape from your reality in the world of
Vasilis and Andronicus and their friends.

Send your comments, critique, feedback and correspondence to the email addy
at the beginning.