Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:18:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: The Alienist <alienist_hk@yahoo.com>
Subject: "Holding On For Dear Life"  Part 09

"Holding On For Dear Life"
Part 09
By the Alienist
Alienist_hk@Yahoo.com


DISCLAIMER: This story is a work of erotic and romantic fiction involving
teenage boys.  All the usual rules apply.  If you shouldn't be reading
this, then please don't continue.  Or at least try not to be caught!


COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This story is copyrighted August 2000 by the author, who
retains all rights.  You may distribute or copy this story in any way you
like, PROVIDED that this copyright notice remains intact and that you do
NOT change the story in any way.  I give it freely to all, please continue
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DEDICATION: This story is dedicated to all lovers, young or old, who manage
to reach out to each other despite vast distances and obstacles.  You have
my respect at your courage!


NOTE: All Thai words and phrases have been spelled so that readers may
pronounce them correctly.  Please note that I am an American listener of
Thai, as well.  Other transliteration methods may vary.

ANOTHER NOTE: For those of you who used to follow this story on the Teen
Boy Authors (TBA) site, please be advised that TBA was killed recently and
permanently.  I will continue to post here on Nifty, though.  And thanks be
to Nifty!

Constructive criticism, comments, suggestions, and questions are
gladly---no---eagerly accepted!  Please email me at alienist_hk@yahoo.com I
answer all emails, except for some of the ruder flames.


"Holding On For Dear Life"
Part 09


Securely behind the closed door of their bedroom once again, Sakjai turned
to James and hugged him close, relaxing himself against the American boy's
sturdy frame and heaving a big sigh of relief as he did so.  James had to
brace himself a little, but it was a pleasant adjustment to have to make.
Automatically wrapping his own arms around Sakjai's waist, he asked, "Are
ya ok, bud?"

"Yes, James.  I am fine now.  But being with you alone is better for me..."

James raised his head from the Thai youth's shoulder in surprise.  "You
didn't like my parents?"

Sakjai still held on, but moved back a little to be able to look James in
the eyes earnestly.  "Mai chai!  No!  Really!  I like them a lot.  They are
very nice to me, and they helped me be less...err...afraid."  He lowered
his eyes a bit at that last word.

Leading the Thai boy across the room, James said, "Afraid?  Afraid of what?
What do you mean?"

The two teens seated themselves on the bed once again, arranging themselves
facing each other as they had before, with their lower bodies in full
contact, and holding both hands in their joined lap.

"James, I am afraid of everything here in America.  No, not afraid, but,
err...alai wah?...umm...well, I think that I am always making mistakes with
my English, and I never know what to do or say, and I am not sure what
everybody means when they speak.  I do not know anything about your food,
even to eat with a...fork, chai mai?...yes, fork...I never eat even one
time at the school restaurant, because I do not know what to do.  I do not
know when something will taste the same style like Thai food.  I never had
any friends here before, nobody to talk to like this, not even one time!
My Auntie does not talk to me, and she is never home, and I cannot talk to
Nancy.  I never even met you before today, and I was very worried about
meeting your parents.  Parents are not the same here as in Thailand...or,
not the same as my parents.  So, I am afraid a lot."

Sakjai had never spoken so much all at once before, that James could
remember.  But he finally began to understand what all this must be like
for his new friend.

"Whoa, Sakjai!  I'm really sorry!  I didn't understand what you meant
before!  Jeez, what would it be like for me to be all alone in Thailand,
huh?  I'd be afraid, too.  I wouldn't understand anything either, would I?
Shit!  This must be awful for you..."  He gripped the Thai boy's hands
tighter, and tried to convey concern with his eyes and his body language.

"Yes, James.  Now you can understand more a little bit about me."

"Is that why you're sad, then?"  James spoke softly, not wanting to bring
up something too delicate, but at the same time, wanting to know everything
he could about his new friend.  His new love, as he reminded himself right
then, as well.

Sakjai reflected before he spoke.  Not only to get the English sorted in
his head, but to remind himself what he'd already told James, and what he
was still afraid to reveal.

"James, I am sad about many things.  Yes, because of all that is new.  But
also from before.  From a long time before."

"Oh."  James was thinking furiously whether he should press for more
details and ask questions or not.  Suddenly, he decided to be sensible, and
simply said, "Sakjai, can I keep asking you more questions?  Or do you want
me to shut up or something?"

"You can ask, sure, please.  I can ask questions about you, also, James?"
The Thai youth cocked his head a bit in that delightful way he had.  James
wasn't sure what Sakjai was feeling, but decided to go for it.

"Umm, sure, I guess...umm...it wouldn't be fair if I asked all the
questions, would it?  So, you have questions, too?"  He was nervous, of
course, but he was always nervous.  At least this was a normal kind of
anxiety.

"Yes, James!  We are new friends.  Nanohn, of course, we must ask questions
and tell each other about...what there is...in our hearts...Chai mai?"

"Chai."  James replied.  Honesty.  Revealing his heart to somebody because
they were friends and wanted to get closer to each other.  Wanting to
understand and be understood.  Such commonplace things, and yet still so
new to him.  He was spending so much time being amazed and surprised today!

"James, are you afraid sometimes?"

"Shit, yes!  All the time!"  That came unconsciously, but totally without
any internal censorship.  Another surprise for James.

"Really?  What are you afraid about?  You never look afraid to me."

"Huh.  I don't?"  Sakjai simply shook his head no.  "Well, I'm afraid of a
lot of shit.  Umm, like, I'm afraid I'll do something wrong all the time.
Ya know?"  Sakjai shook his head no again.  "Umm, well, I'm afraid right
now."

"Ching, plaough?  I mean, really?!"  Sakjai exclaimed.  "Afraid now?  Why?"
He looked around the room for frightening things and back at his new
American friend.  He hadn't seen anything scary from his point of view, for
sure.

"Well, umm, I'm a little afraid that I'll say something wrong to you or do
something stupid, or something...so maybe you won't like me anymore...not
want to be my friend."

"Something wrong?  To me?  But, how?  Mai kawjai.  I don't understand you,
James.  What bad thing would I not like about you?  I think impossible, for
sure."  Sakjai looked genuinely puzzled.

James had been extraordinarily honest and open so far.  And he wanted to
take the next step and confess his attraction to the Thai boy.  But as he
drew breath to speak the words, he choked.  So he simply lowered his eyes
and his voice somewhat, and said, "Well, I always worry about whether I'm
doing something bad or wrong or something.  I really do.  A lot."

"James, you do nothing bad for me.  You are my James.  My friend.  You
helped me today.  You helped me a lot.  More than you know already.
Really.  You can never be bad for me.  Khun kawjai, mai?  You understand
me, James?  Please?"  The force of those words, and the certainty in
Sakjai's voice as he spoke, brought James out of his internal anxious world
again.

"Umm, ok, Sakjai.  I know I helped you before.  I'm really happy I did.
That I could.  Help, I mean.  But, what if I do something from now on that
you don't like?  Will you tell me?  Please?"

The Thai boy smiled.  And when he smiled, his whole face lit up.  For
James, that smile lit up the whole room.  Then Sakjai said, "Sure, James.
I think is impossible for you to do a bad thing to me, but if you want me
to say, I will say.  If I don't like, I can say I don't like.  Nobody has
ever asked me these things before.  Nobody knows if I like or don't like
something.  Thank you!  Very much!  I can do this.  No problem." Although
his accent turned that last word into something sounding like, "Prom-plem"
with the emphasis on the second syllable.  To James, it was cute.  He
repeated it back, the same way.

"Ok, Sakjai, no prom-PLEM!"  They were grinning like fools at each other
now, and moved into a huge hug.  They had to lift themselves from their
sitting position on the bed to achieve that hug, and it unbalanced them, so
they fell over.  Luckily the bed was king sized, and they fell in the
direction of more bed rather than onto the floor.  Un-self-consciously,
they stretched out simultaneously, and were lying in each other's arms
again.  Their legs entwined themselves, wrestling a bit as they did so.
The boys giggled as this was all happening.

Then they settled into a companionable quiet, resting in each other's arms.
James sighed.  Sakjai reached across the barely 3 inches that separated
their faces, and gave James another sniff-kiss on the cheek.  "James, thank
you for everything today.  Really, from my heart, thank you.  I never knew
anybody like you before.  I love you."

It was simply said.  But it hit James right between the eyes.

James hugged Sakjai even harder to himself than he had been before, if that
was possible.  He looked his newest and best friend in the eyes, and
replied, "Sakjai, umm, you, like, kissed me again.  Can I kiss you back?"
The Thai boy nodded slightly and so James leaned in and planted one right
on Sakjai's lips again.  Just like before.  Just like that first time
before supper.

Sakjai smiled contentedly.  When he did that, he reminded James of a cat.
A Siamese cat.  Beautiful, and mysterious.

James took another risk and stated, "Sakjai, I really like this.  I mean,
us together like this.  And kissing you.  I like it a lot.  I think I love
you, too."  He noticed that his dick was as hard as a rock, and it was
pressed right up against Sakjai's crotch.  But now he didn't care if the
Thai boy noticed or not.  In fact, he hoped that it would be noticed.

"Good, James.  I like it too.  Being with you.  Holding on.  It feels very
good.  Joop dee, doo-ay."

"Huh?"

"Oh.  Sorry.  Joop is kiss.  Dee is good.  Doo-ay means also.  Good kiss,
also."

"Umm, Sakjai, remember when I asked you about boys kissing before?"  The
Thai boy nodded affirmatively.  "Well.  You said that it isn't...umm,
usual, for boys to umm, like kiss each other, in Thailand, the same as
here.  Chai mai?"  The Thai boy nodded again, not even noticing that the
American boy used the Thai phrase so effortlessly.  "So, umm, why do we
like kissing?  Each other I mean.  We're both boys..."

"I don't know, James.  I just know I like it with you.  And I also like to
give to you because I think you like the same as me.  I want to give you
something you like!"  Sakjai spoke simply and sincerely. Which was good
news to James, of course, but wasn't really helpful in figuring out the
bigger picture.  So James tried again...

"But you kissed me first.  Have you, umm, like, kissed any other boys
before?"

"Mai coy, James.  I never have before.  Girls the same---never.  Have you?"

"Just my Dad, and relatives, and stuff.  Never any boys my age before.
Never with a girl, either.  But I like it with you..."

"Good."  And with that, Sakjai leaned over and gave James another
sniff-kiss.  And James couldn't help himself. He moved slightly so Sakjai
was kept in that position, and at the same time, the American boy ground
his pelvis into Sakjai's crotch.  And groaned softly.  And kissed the Thai
boy on the lips again.  This time, he allowed his tongue to slip from
between his lips and try to insert itself between those of the boy he
loved.  Another first for him...

The Thai youth broke the contact in surprise, and asked, "What you do?"  It
was out of curiosity.  There was no alarm in his question.  But James was
suddenly very self-conscious and ashamed of himself.  He flushed beet red
in reaction.

"I'm sorry!  That was bad...I shouldn't have tried...I mean, now you
know...now you'll think that..." and burst into tears.

Sakjai was certainly alarmed now!  But not at the attempted tongue kiss.
"James, what is it?  Why do you cry?"  He was concerned for his friend, and
really didn't understand what this sudden turn of events was all about!
All he could think of to do was to bring James back into a full embrace, as
the American youth attempted to pull away.  James was sure that Sakjai was
already disgusted at his behavior, and so was shocked when he felt Sakjai
pull him back.  It made him gulp a deep breath as he continued to weep.

"I'm really really sorry, Sakjai!"

"But why, James?  Because we kissed?  I am not sorry about that!"

"But, I tried...I wanted to... I don't...I..." And the water works started
again.

Sakjai was very good at remembering small details of body language and
such.  He had tried to observe everything he could, all his life.  So he
could learn from it.  Nobody had ever helped explain things to him before,
even in his life previous to coming to the States.  So he was able to think
back to the exact moment when James had become upset.  He kept the weeping
American boy hugged close to his body as he thought, and then he made a
decision.

Sakjai pulled James's crying face out of his own damp shoulder, and planted
one of James's style kisses (which, he had noticed, were quite different
from Thai kisses) right smack on James's lips.  James's eyes popped wide
open in shock.  Then the Thai youth moved his tongue to James's lips.  Just
as James had done a few moments before.  James stopped breathing.

But his lips opened a little in response.  Sakjai presumed that meant he
was doing well, although he really had no idea what was supposed to happen
next.  But, happily, reflex took over for one of them at least.  James
sucked Sakjai's tongue into his mouth, and began to feel its texture with
his own.  Sakjai let out something like a bird's chirp as this happened,
but it was a pleasurable kind of surprised sound.

Since the two boys were already hugging practically every square inch of
their bodies together, it didn't look like they melted together.  But
that's how it felt.  Four hands moved and stroked and caressed softly all
over the exposed parts of both bodies.  James finally got to touch Sakjai's
perfect buns.  Well, more like kneaded them, actually.  Sakjai chirped
again, although it was beginning to sound more like a cat purring.  Sakjai
found James's ears, and the nape of his neck, and stroked them ever so
lightly with his fingertips.  James moaned louder.  Both boys noticed how
complex it was becoming to breath and maintain their lip-lock at the same
time.  Especially since they were now taking turns trying to swallow each
other's tongues.  But they did have to breathe, which forced them to break
their longest kiss ever.

Sakjai was still feather-touching James's neck and face.  He said, "James,
you stopped crying already?"

"Yeah.  You got me to stop!  Wow...."

"Yes, James...Wow is a good word right now.  What WAS that we did?  Joop,
mai?  Was that a kiss?"

"Yeah, Sakjai, I think that would have to be officially called a real kiss,
no shit!"

"Joop dee Maak, loei!!  It was more than good.  It was, err...very good
good good!"  And with that, a sort of floodgate of feelings crashed open
inside the Thai boy.  He had never paid much attention to any sexual
feelings he had ever experienced before.  They simply hadn't made
themselves noticeable to him really.  Emotions like love or even horniness
had always been muffled under a blanket of isolation, distance, and
depression.  Nobody had ever gotten close enough to the Thai youth
emotionally or physically to ignite the latent fires within him.

So it was that Sakjai surprised even himself as he initiated another
marathon tongue kiss, James's head held in his two hands.  He had never in
his entire life felt any need as urgent as the one he felt to keep doing
this with James.  It was over-powering to James on the receiving end, too!
Sakjai had been so quiet, so sad, so soft seeming.  But now, all of a
sudden, James found that the Thai youth had pushed him onto his back and
crawled on top of him.  Sakjai planted his knees on either side of his new
friend, at about the level of his waist, and leaned into James, pushing his
tongue down the American boy's throat.  James was trying to suck great
gasps of air into his lungs, but it was difficult.  His heart was pounding.
Sakjai was humming continually now in the back of his throat.  It was a
sound that neither of them had heard before.

What seemed like about an hour later, (but was really of course only a few
minutes!) Sakjai pushed himself up onto his arms, still maintaining his
position on top of James.  James felt like a limp noodle.  Well, at least
most of him did.  His dick was still a rod of iron down below.  But his
arms were flung out to the sides of the bed.  He had been trying to grab
the bedclothes, the pillows, anything, but had just ended up flailing his
arms around in ecstasy as the Thai boy well and truly kissed him to a
fair-thee-well.  Sakjai studied the effects of his handiwork.

"James, was that correct?  Was that what you tried to do to me with
this...(and stuck the tip of his tongue out at James
playfully)...before...when I was trying to ask what you were doing?"

"Umm, well, sorta...But I really had no idea it was going to be like that!"

"For me the same!  Amazing!  (again, he made it sound like 2 words:
'amay---ZING!')  Schorp, mai?  You like?"

"Schorp.  I like...Truly amazing.  For sure..." James replied, still trying
to catch his breath.

"Good.  Dee-jai mahk...I am happy that you like it too."  And with that, he
pushed himself over onto his side, pulling the now pliant, and compliant,
James into their full body hug once more.

"Sakjai, I don't think guys are supposed to like this so much.  I mean, I
knew I would like it.  But I never thought that you...I mean...that
anybody...I mean, umm..." and his voice trailed off into pensive silence.

"Is this what you were afraid of with me, James?  Why were you afraid of
this with me before?  Is that why you were crying?"  James tried not to be
distracted by Sakjai's resumption of the feathery caresses of his neck and
back, and yes, his own butt as well.  Here he was, in the arms of the boy
he had just been kissed by, and this gorgeous youth was playing with HIS
butt.  Jesus Christ!  And he had always imagined that he'd be the one that
would have to do all that stuff.  In his fantasies, he had never dared hope
that somebody might want to take the active role with him as much as he
wanted to with another.

"Umm, yeah...  I was afraid that you would get freaked out when you found
out I'm...umm, like, well...gay."  He was sort of getting used to being
shocked by the things he'd been able to say out loud today.  But this one
took the cake, it really did.

"James, are you gay?"  Sakjai looked surprised, although not upset.  Which
was just a tad confusing to James, especially right after the Big Kiss!
Although the American youth's fears were forgotten for the moment.  James
propped himself up on one elbow as he thought of how he could answer this
seemingly obvious question.

"Well, duh!  Of course I'm gay.  I just felt the most perfect feelings
ever, when I was being kissed by a boy!  I've been trying to touch you all
afternoon!  I was always looking at you at school, from that very first
day.  Which was May 16th, by the way, chai mai?  (The Thai boy nodded
affirmatively.)  All that is cuz I think you're so awesome looking!  I
followed you home from school lottsa times, so I already know where your
house is.  I think about you all the time, I wonder what you're doing at
night and on the weekends.  I'm all hard right now, and I'm on my bed
hugging you and I love it!  I accidentally slipped and told my Mom that
you're cute.  I love holding your hand.  I never want you to go home.  I
wanna do...umm, more stuff...with you.  So I think that qualifies me as a
100% gay person.  I'm not even bi, cuz I have never thought about wanting
to, ummm, well, you know...with a girl...  What did you think when I wanted
to really kiss you, with my tongue, I mean?"  He hadn't fainted himself
when he'd come out to the Thai boy, and now here he was laying it all right
out there in full view.  And he felt like he had to talk the boy he loved
into believing that he was gay.  None of this had ever been part of any of
the fantasies of his romantic musings or his solo erotic activities!

All the while James had been speaking, Sakjai had been concentrating very
hard to understand everything that was cascading out of James at such an
anxiety-driven rate.  At the same time, his hands unconsciously continued
stroking the American youth's hair and neck and up and down his back.
Possibly this had been part of how James had found the nerve to spill his
guts like this.

"But James, you do not look gay to me.  You look like a man, for sure!  How
can this be?"  Again, just a clarification question, not disgusted or
alarmed.

"Whaddaya mean, I don't look gay?!  And of course I'm a guy!  What do ya
mean?  What about everything I just told you?  What about what we've just
been doing, fer Christ's sake?  Ya can't always tell just by looking when a
guy is gay or not.  Thank God!"

"James, in Thailand, to say gay means to be the same as a lady.  To be
looking the same as a lady walks and talks and speaks.  Gay, in Thai
language, usually means, err...(thinking of how to literally translate the
term) 'lady-man'.  James, you are not a lady man, chai mai?"

"You mean like a fem or something?"  Sakjai looked blank.  "Sakjai, there
are lots of different types of gay people.  I don't know much about it, but
even I know that much!  Some gay men are femmy, a little like a lady or
something.  I suppose.  But lots of effeminate guys aren't gay.  Lots of
gay guys aren't, like me.  At least I hope so.  I don't wanna start acting
all fem.  But trust me, I'm pretty gay.  I only ever liked guys."

"I think I understand, James.  You are a gay king.  You are not really gay,
like you said before, because you are a man.  A man who likes other men is
called a gay king.  A lady-man is also called a gay queen.  In Thailand, it
is not the same."

"I'm a gay, umm, king because I don't act effeminate?  But I'd be a gay
queen if I did?  But, that doesn't make sense!  Gay is gay, right?  Don't
gay kings and gay queens...I can't believe I'm talking about all
this...don't all gay kings and gay queens like to be with guys?  Here in
the States, we call all of them---all of us---gay.  Just plain gay."

"Ah, James, maybe Thailand is different about this.  I never think, I mean,
I never thought this before.  Gay is gay, all the same.  Hmm.  But gay king
and gay queen like some different things, err, about sex."

"Different things about sex?  Whaddaya mean, different?"  What the hell,
James thought, let it all hang out.  He doesn't seem to think I'm weird.
He's just trying to figure out what to call me.  Huh.

"Different things.  Gay queens like, err, umm, I do not know the words for
these things very much, sorry.  Usually gay queens like the man to be
inside..."

"Inside?  How do you mean?"

"James, inside down here."  And with that, Sakjai patted James's bottom
suggestively.  And then rubbed it.

"Oh!"  was all that James could manage to say right at that moment.

But Sakjai was enjoying this lesson.  "And James, gay kings in Thailand
usually like to put it, err, inside...down here...At least I think so." And
kept rubbing James's butt.  It would have been very difficult to determine
which of them was enjoying it more.

"Oh!"  James was still far from being his old talkative self.

"James, do you understand me?  I am not sure about my English.  In Thai
language, we talk about this as 'Yet toot'.  This is not polite slang.  But
I have never talked about this before, in Thai the same!"

Uh oh.  New Thai words to remember in the middle of all this openness and
honesty?  Concentrate, dude!  "Yet toot?"

"Yes, James.  'Yet' means to put it inside.  'Toot' is Thai slang for down
here..." patting James on the tush again, for emphasis.

"Riiiight...  'Yet' means fucking.  'Toot' is the word for my butt?  My
butt's my toot?"  He couldn't help it.  He giggled again.

"Yes, James.  Is this a funny word in English?"

"Yeah, well, a little!  Toot, toot!"  and shoved his crotch into Sakjai's.
Not only funny, but fun, too.  "I won't have any trouble remembering that
word, will I?  Toot...yet?  Fucking is yet?"

"Yes, James.  Oh!  There is this same word in English, chai mai?  Yet.  Not
yet.  Already.  NOT.  YET!"  And he started giggling himself.

James understood what the Thai boy was getting at, and laughs filled the
room.  "Not yet, please, not yet!  Not yet in the toot, sir!  Yet, mai?
No!  Not yet!"  Their voices intermingled in delight.  And then they wound
down again, the stress of the moments before released in sweet peals of
adolescent mirth.

It was Sakjai who brought them back to the topic again.  "So, James, you
understand what I mean?"

"Yeah, well...I never talked about it much myself, ya know, but yeah.  I
think I get it.  You're saying that Thai people think that gay kings like
to, umm, fuck, and gay queens like to, umm, get fucked down there.  In the
'toot'.  Right?"

"Fucking, yes.  That is the meaning of 'yet'.  This is a proper polite
word?"

"NO!  NOT, for sure.  Slang, not polite like you said.  It's fine by me
with just us talking together.  But don't say it at supper time with my
parents, ok?"  Through the strangeness of the moment, James had to giggle
again at the image of Sakjai discussing 'fucking' with his folks...

"Thank you for explaining to me, James.  I always want to be polite with
your parents!  So, what about you?  You like fucking like a gay king?  You
are not a gay queen, so I think you not enjoy putting, umm, something
inside down here?"  He had been stroking and kneading James's bottom the
whole time.

Oh, God, James thought.  Then he realized that he had nothing to think, 'Oh
God...' about!  "Sakjai, I really don't know!  I never thought about doing
that.  Never thought about anybody doing that to me, either.  What if I
like them both?  Or neither of them?  I'm pretty sure everybody can't be
classified like this."

Now Sakjai was confused.  "I heard before one time a combination word.  For
when somebody likes both.  Not king, not queen, but 'quing' You understand?
A combination of king and queen is quing.  I never think about somebody gay
not enjoy something about fucking. James, how can you be gay?  Gay means
you want something about fucking, chai mai?  Oh...James, maybe I don't know
enough about all this.  Maybe other Thai people understand these things
much better than I do!"

"Yeah, Sakjai.  Maybe what you're talking about is like some sort of
stereotype.  Lots of Americans say, 'Gay guys are all like this or that'.
But my Mom and Dad say that stereotypes are wrong, because they are too
general.  Sure, some things might be true about some gay people most of the
time.  But everybody must be different about what they like and don't
like. I don't think it's a requirement to just like fucking.  I read in a
book once that sex should just feel good to both people.  Whatever they do,
technically speaking, I mean.  So I think there must be gay guys that don't
like 'yet toot'.  I'm not sure what I want, I never done anything before
except kiss you!  I do think about other things.  I just never thought
about fucking before.  Really!  But I always think about guys, though.
That makes me gay.  At least, I'm pretty sure."

Sakjai had missed big pieces of what James had just said.  But he didn't
really feel like getting up and finding the dictionary right then, either!
So he hoped he didn't look too confused as he said, "You never want to be
fucking with girls?"

"Nope.  Never thought about it.  Never did it.  Never will want to, I'm
pretty sure.  And that's not just fucking.  I don't even wanna kiss a girl
like I did with you."

"So, you say you are gay, but not about 'yet toot'.  You like kissing for
sure.  Me, too!  What else do you think about, then?"

"Umm...well, I think about, umm, like, lots of things..." And moved his
eyes away from Sakjai's for the first time in ages, blushing blood red to
his roots.

Sakjai pulled James into himself.  Hard.  And said, "James, please do not
be afraid to tell me these things.  I want to know.  I need to know also!"

James blinked and his focus returned to Sakjai.  "You need to know about
what I think about...umm, sex stuff?  Really?"

"Yes, really.  I need to know for myself also."

"For yourself?  How do you mean, Sakjai?"

"You say you never think about these things before.  But you say you think
about me a lot!  I never think about these things before, also.  Only one
time.  Now, with you."

"Huh?"  James was too busy trying to keep up with the conversation to worry
about being profound.

"James, you say you are gay.  But you do not think about gay king and gay
queen the same as me.  You just said 'gay is gay'.  You think a lot about
being with me.  But you don't think about fucking.  Chai mai?"

"Chai..."

"So, James, what about me?  What am I?  I never think about anything with
anybody.  I never think about fucking, ever, not even one time.  Even when
my friends in Thailand talked about it.  I never think about anything sex.
Only when we...joop.... Just now...  So, what about me?  Am I gay like you?
Gay like a Thai gay king or gay queen?  I want to know!  I want to know why
I like kissing you, too!"

These were such simple questions.  Why did neither of them know the
answers?

"Sakjai, you mean to tell me you never think about sex?!"

"No, James.  Not usually."

"But, I thought... I mean, everybody thinks about sex.  I don't get it!  I
think about it all the time!"

"So can you please tell me, James, what about sex do you think all the
time?  Maybe this is something I can learn."

There wasn't any other way around this.  James had already trusted Sakjai
with more of himself than anybody else knew.  He knew he wanted to become
closer still. So he decided to keep revealing more.  "I think about it when
I umm, well, when I, you know?"  And with that he made the seemingly
universal up and down motion indicating masturbation.  Sakjai observed the
hand motions, and indeed understood what James was referring to.

"James, you chuck wao?"

"Chuck wao is..." (up and down motion again).

"Yes, James.  You do this?"

"Yeah, I do.  Doesn't everybody?  I thought everybody does that.  Don't
tell me you don't do that either!"

"I do, James.  Sometimes.  Not often.  And you?"

"Well, what's not often?  I'm a little shy about this, ya know!  How often
is not often?  Like, not every day?"

"Every day, James?  No!  Maybe in two or three weeks, one time.  Sometimes
when I shower, it wakes up.  Sometimes when I am in my bed.  My friends in
Bangkok say they do this much more often than me, chai mai?  To me, it
never seems like a lot of fun.  A little bit, sometimes, but not a lot.  I
never did it in America, not even one time."

"Huh.  You REALLY don't think it's a lot of fun!  You been here a month
already, too.  Jeez, I sure do.  Think it's fun, I mean.  I don't know what
life'd be like if I couldn't at least do that to brighten things up a
little.  I can't even begin to imagine not doing it for a month!  I'm an
everyday guy."  And looked away from Sakjai in embarrassment again.

"You chuck wao every day?!  Really?  When?"

"In the morning when I wake up.  In the afternoon when I get home from
school.  At night here in bed."

"But, James, which time is most usual for you?  When is it the most fun?"

"All of them, actually.  Almost all of them, almost everyday.  They're all
fun.  Jeez, how could it not be fun for you?  Maybe you're not doing it
right or something..." James had a flash image of teaching him how to make
it more fun, and blushed again.  But Sakjai didn't notice that.  He was
still busy being astonished.

"James!  Two or three times in every day?"  The Thai boy couldn't quite
believe it.

"Yeah.  Do ya think that's too much?  I never got to talk to anybody about
it before..."

"James, you must be sooo strong!"

"Huh?"

"If you can 'chuck wao' so often, you are very strong!  I am sure that I
cannot do it so much."

"Strong?  I thought it was a sign of weakness or something.  They teach
that in my church, anyhow."

"Weak?  How can you be weak when you can do that so often?  Not weak, for
sure!"

"Sakjai, I don't mean weak like that.  I mean, what if it's a bad thing to
do it so much?  What if we aren't supposed to do it?  Maybe you're the
strong one cuz you don't do it very much..."

"You think so?  I do not think so.  I think it's OK.  If you like it.  You
like it, and you say it is fun, chai mai?"

"Yeah, I like it..."

"Good.  If you like it, and it does not hurt yourself, why not enjoy it?"

"But you don't do it that much, and my church says..."

"James, I don't do it often, because I don't think about it very much.  It
is not so much fun for me, maybe.  Perhaps you think about it more because
you are strong.  I don't understand your Christian church.  For Buddhists,
the monks do not chuck wao, and they cannot have sex.  But for everybody
else, it is usual, I think.  And maybe I do not think about it enough..."

"I try not to pay too much attention to my church about sex stuff.  My
parents say the same thing, so I think that's ok.  It's really hard to find
out about stuff like this.  So it's difficult to be really certain.  But I
sure never think of myself as strong because I do it a lot..."

"You ARE strong!  You are my James!  I could hold on this afternoon,
because you are so strong.  I am happy to have such a strong new friend.
And you joop---kiss, very strong, too!  That was fun.  More fun than
anything for me before.  You gave me something new.  I like it a lot."  And
it was Sakjai's turn to blush now.

"I made it that good for you, really?  I thought you were pretty good at it
yourself!  So can I do it again, now that you know I'm gay and all?"  He
looked hopeful.

James giggled.  "Of course!  You already did it before, when I didn't know.
And I still want to know about myself.  Something more fun, please!  Can
you help me, sir?"  That last was said in a playfully childish way, and
James laughed, too.  But then, all of a sudden, they weren't laughing
anymore.

Sakjai rolled onto his back, and pulled James on top of him, evidently
wanting the American youth to take command this time around.

So James did.  And he wasn't anxious about himself for a change.  He was
eager to please Sakjai.  He started slow and gentle.  But he had to
whisper, "Sakjai, close your eyes.  I have a surprise for you."  Dutifully,
the eyes shut tight.  Although they twitched a bit when James started
kissing them.

And as he did that, he copied what Sakjai had been doing to him...the
feathery light finger-tip stroking of the Thai boy's ears and the sides of
his neck.  Sakjai made a surprised chirping noise, followed by a muffled
giggle as James moved from his eyes and started kissing that cute Thai
button nose.  Then back up to his forehead.  Sakjai's face was pretty moist
by then, but James heard no complaints, and those Thai eyes remained
contentedly shut.

James then moved his tongue to where his left hand had just been playing
gently at Sakjai's ear.  He softly licked around the rim of that ear, and
the skin behind it.  Sakjai shivered underneath James's body.  Then, as
James stuck his tongue right into the center of Sakjai's ear, the Thai boy
gasped, "Oh!  James..."

James whispered, "Fun?" and continued the tongue bath, moving down the side
of Sakjai's neck as far as the collar of his light blue shirt.  Sakjai had
started to mumble something affirmative when the tongue began its downward
slide.  So his voice went up an octave, and all he could manage was a
strangled, "Ah..." The Thai boy threw his arms around James's body as it
hovered above his own on the bed.

Up and down lightly, James continued to move his tongue on Sakjai's neck,
and back up behind his ear.  Once in a while, he dove into that ear again.
Sakjai began a quiet keening sound down deep in his throat, and his grip on
James tightened.  Then he moved back over to kiss him on the mouth.  Sakjai
immediately sent his tongue probing urgently into James's.  It was James's
turn for a pleased "Ghaaah!"  But he didn't break contact.  He returned to
the tongue duel, pleased that he was making this fun for Sakjai, and more
than excited for himself, too.

James moved to the other side of Sakjai's face, and repeated the same
delightful procedure that he'd just used.  The tiny hairs on Sakjai's arms
all stood on end, and his body bucked under James.  So the American youth
ground his hardened dick downward.  The excitement came for both of them in
waves.  James's tongue became more forceful and ardent, moving down to
bathe Sakjai's Adam's Apple and underneath his chin.  There was no beard at
all, James noticed.  No stubble, nothing.  A completely hairless face and
chin.  He loved it.  Sakjai was arching his whole back in an effort to give
more of his skin area to James's tongue.  His head was pointed backward,
the moans escaping his lips coming louder and more softly in turn, as James
moved his tongue around.  James used Sakjai's volume to gauge where he was
doing the most good for Sakjai, and concentrated on those places!

Then James stopped, and simply planted a dry kiss on Sakjai's partly opened
mouth.  Sakjai whimpered a little in protest, and lifted his head toward
James, ready for another lip-lock.  But James just leaned back slightly and
smiled down at his prey.

"Ya like that, Sakjai?"  In response, the Thai boy lurched his groin up
into James's, as he tried for another kiss.  James resisted the urge to
give in immediately, and moved his fingers up to where his tongue and lips
had just been playing.  He pushed his hardened crotch down against
Sakjai's.  The Thai youth groaned as his own hips thrust upward again in
turn.  James's "Hmmm...?" was both playful and excited at the same time.

And then James whispered, "I think you DO like that, Sakjai.  You like
this, too, huh?"  And moved his hard dick around in a circle on Sakjai's
crotch.  There was something UP down there as well, now.

"Ahhh, James...schorp...schorp mach.... Hmmm...!  I cannot think...in
mmmmph...English....  Now...Ohhhh...!"  The last moan had been disappointed
sounding, because James had raised himself pretty much completely off the
body underneath him.  Sakjai's middle spazmed upward twice more, trying to
re-establish that delightful pressure down there.  Then he collapsed into
himself, his eyes still closed, just as they had been the entire time.  He
was panting.  He was sweating.  It looked to James like the Thai youth was
having fun...

James then surprised himself by running one open hand down the form beneath
him, moving with certainty down the shirtfront to the waist, and then
lower.  He gently grabbed onto the hard-on now evident under Sakjai's blue
khaki pants.  He felt over the form of it, from its head to the root.  He
squeezed it, and it jumped under his touch.  Sakjai moaned louder, and
pushed upward against the hand.  The movement settled into a gentle rhythm,
James on his side again facing Sakjai's prostrate body as it moved under
his control.  Then he leaned over and suckled the side of Sakjai's neck a
little as he made an enquiring sound.

Sakjai's body pushed up against James's hand down below and against that
delightfully torturing tongue before he opened his eyes and looked at
James.  His violet eyes were smoldering with newly awakened passion as he
gazed into the brown eyes next to him.  A huge shuddering sigh escaped his
lips as he attempted to put feelings into any words at all, let alone
English.  It was difficult to think, with James's hand still holding his
erection as it was.

"James...James...more!  Please..." was all he could say at the moment.  He
tried to pull the American on top of him again, but James was enjoying
being in charge right then.  He smiled and raised his eyebrows, squeezing
Sakjai's erection again, and thumbing the head under the layers of cloth.
Sakjai groaned again, and bit his lower lip in pleasure.

"Mmmmm?"  was all James said, and squeezed again.  Sakjai's member gave off
another excited shudder under James's hand.  Then the Thai boy put one of
his hands over James's, not to remove it, but to quiet it, to hold it still
for the moment.

"Oh, James...!  I never..." He blinked twice, trying to focus his thoughts.
Then he swallowed, and tried again.  "James, I never...think that this is
sooooo good!"  He squeezed the hand that was squeezing his hard-on.

"See why I like to 'chuck wao' a lot?"  He gave the Thai youth a wicked
grin.

"Mmmm...!  James, is this how you feel when you do that?"

James laughed.  "No, you idiot!  I can't lick my own ear, now can I?  But I
love thinking about it!  I wanna think about all the possible ways to make
somebody feel good...somebody like you..." The voice was tender, and filled
with wonder.  "Sakjai, what do you think about when you chuck wao?"

"Think about?  Nothing.  I don't think about anything.  Nothing like this,
anyway...  This is amazing...I never knew about my neck, my ear, what you
did..." And he lightly stroked his own face and neck, where James's tongue
and lips had just been.  And moved his hips side to side a little.

"Really, Sakjai?  How can you not think about anything at all when you do
it?"  He started to lightly move his fingertips up and down the length of
Sakjai's hard dick, which pulsed in time to his heartbeat.  Sakjai found
his hips moving in response to James's fingers.  He lifted his head for a
moment to watch his own crotch lift itself and try to follow the fingers.

"No, James, I never think about anything like this.  But now I
will...ohhhh!" And his head fell back onto the pillow, his eyes shutting
again in pleasure.

James decided to make another one of his fantasies real.  He moved his body
around slightly, so it was angled away from Sakjai's.  And lowered his head
into Sakjai's crotch.  He looked up towards the Thai boy's face, and it
appeared that he was listening to Sakjai's dick underneath his ear.  But he
wasn't, of course.  He moved his head around a little, just rubbing on the
front of Sakjai's pants.  Sakjai raised his head again, to see what James
was doing now.  Another groan escaped his lips as his head flopped again
back to the pillow.  He was James's prisoner.

James immediately moved one hand upward and stroked Sakjai's face, lips,
and eyes.  Softly, softly, but the reaction wasn't soft.  Sakjai's
murmuring voice sounded urgent and a little frustrated as he tried to kiss
the fingers moving around his face.  James allowed one finger---his
pinky---to be grabbed between the Thai boy's lips.  Sakjai explored the
finger with his tongue for a moment before James withdrew it again.
Sakjai's crotch bucked upwards against the side of James's face in protest.
James just smiled and softly said, "Poor baby...."

And then James gently moved his exploring hand down Sakjai's neck, which
arched in pleasure.  But the hand kept moving lower.  To the top button of
Sakjai's light cotton short-sleeved shirt.  He undid the button.

The Thai boy's voice was quiet but intense as he asked, "James, what you do
now?"

James replied, "Something fun.  You just relax, relax..." And the hand
moved down to the next button, and the next.

The last button above Sakjai's waist was right at James's face level.  He
could see the Thai youth's abs scrunch themselves reflexively as he gently
pulled the shirt from where it had been so neatly tucked into the pants.
He pulled, and Sakjai tried to help by raising himself, which pushed his
groin more powerfully against the side of James's face pressing against it.
The shirt came free from the restraining pants, and Sakjai's body flopped
back down onto the bed as James finished un-buttoning it.  He spread it
wide open to either side of Sakjai's body, like he was unwrapping a gift.
He could see the hairless chest rising and falling as Sakjai's breath
heaved in and out of his lungs.

The first thing James noticed was that all of the skin he'd just exposed
was entirely hairless.  Not even anything in the Thai boy's armpits.  James
then noticed the two nipples up there, hardened and pointy looking.  He
moved his hand up from where it had been resting on Sakjai's newly revealed
abdomen, and gently tweaked the left nipple.

A surprised "Ah!" was heard.

James moved his hand to the other nipple, flicking his fingertips over the
hardened tip.

"Ahhhh...!  James..." The Thai's entire body seemed to writhe under James's
touch, as his hands now both roved here and there, all over that beautiful
torso.  The skin was sooo soft.  Both nipples received a lot of attention,
and Sakjai lurched to and fro under James's light but forceful touch.  He
seemed almost electrified by those touches.  "Ohhhh...!  Ahhhhh...!  Hmmm."
His pelvis thrust itself against James's head again and again.  James
couldn't help himself, and buried his face in Sakjai's crotch.  He breathed
in the faint odor of young teenaged boy, and opened his mouth slightly
against the cloth layered between his lips and the hard dick he wanted so
much to feel.  He began to move his mouth up and down the material covering
that erection, faster and faster, never once slowing his hand movements up
above.  He was moaning to himself now, too.

Sakjai's body seemed out of his own control.  He thrust himself against the
hands and the face bringing him such delight.  His own hands moved with
James's, sometimes exploring himself in a way he never had before.  And
then he suddenly grabbed James's hands in his own, trying to hold them
still.  His eyes flew wide open, and his moans turned into gasps.  He
thrust himself rapidly and urgently against James's mouth.  His whole body
arched and every muscle seemed to writhe in ecstasy.

He came.

Sakjai's orgasm was nothing like he had ever given himself.  He was
astonished and carried away on the tidal wave of feelings that radiated
from his groin and his nipples to every extremity of his body.  His hard-on
expanded under the restraint of his pants and briefs, and James could feel
the jets of semen flood the crotch under him.  He buried his face in it,
glorying in the moans of pleasure from above, and the spasms beneath.  Hot
liquid seeped through both layers of cloth, and James added his own saliva
to it.

It seemed like forever in an instant, before Sakjai's body stopped jerking
and his heaving gasps turned to soft sighs.  James felt the body beneath
him slowly begin to relax.  He kept gently moving his cheek and lips
against the wet spot he had helped create.  Sakjai's hands both moved down
to rest themselves on James's head in his groin.

"Ohhh, James....mmmmm...."  Goose bumps began to form all over Sakjai's
frame, and he heaved another sigh.  This time it was contentment.  His
fingers played almost absently with James's hair, stroking it.  His dick
gave one last turgid shudder.  Yet another sigh.  This one from James.
Sakjai could feel the warmth of the breath against his now-softening penis.

The Thai boy pulled James up along side him again.  They smiled into each
other's eyes.  James raised his eyebrows again, asking an unspoken
question.  Sakjai's smile turned tender for a moment in reply.

Then the Thai smile turned a little wicked, too.  "James?"  he asked.

"Hmmm?"

"What you do to me, hmmm?" and pushed one of the American boy's hands back
into his sopping middle.  James rubbed softly, but didn't answer.  Just
raised his eyebrows again at his new love.

"Oh, James...."

"Hmmmm?" again.

"James, I think now you must give me a bath!"

James's eyes sparkled as his smile turned into a huge grin.

End of Part 09
"Holding On For Dear Life"
By alienist_hk@yahoo.com


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