Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:35:29 PST
From: Luke
Subject: joshua-20

Disclaimer:
Don't read this if underage or upset by teenage boys doing sex stuff, etc...
This is fiction. But hopefully someday the better parts of this will be fact.
Thanks to nifty for posting it.

				Joshua 20

"Noooooooooooooooooooo!" I screamed as I ripped the photos off the
notice board, and stuffed them in my pocket. I started to totally panic why
did this have to happen to us we where so happy. Why did I seem to be
having bad luck lately? Did I attract the damn stuff? The crowd jeered
and taunted us, the words 'fag' and 'cock jockeys' where been chanted
over and over again. I felt scared and trapped it was just me and Tom
stood in the middle of a group of assholes. I took a quick glance at Tom
who seemed to be frozen in fear, looking like a little rabbit caught in the
head beams of a car. Tears started to well up in my eyes and I fought to
hold them back.

"Aww look the little cock suckers gonna cry" the crowd laughed as I
burst out in tears. All too soon it happened the room started to spin, the
peoples faces became a blur and the voices became more distant, I
vaguely remember hitting the floor as I blacked out.

"Josh? Are you ok?" the blackness started to slowly dissipate brining a
fuzzy image of Tom into my view. He looked like shit, his eyes where red
and puffy and one looked like he had a black eye. I remembered where I
was and quickly sat upright, burly missing a painful collision between
Tom's head and mine. I looked around and didn't recognise my
surroundings.

"Tom where am I? And where did you get that black eye?"

"You're in the nurses office, and has it really gone black already?" he felt
his eye and winced in pain.

"Yea where did you get it? Are you ok?" I brought his face closer to mine
and inspected it.

"Yea after you blacked out, they where going to strip you and leave you
naked. I just snapped and started hitting the ones that where over you...if
the teacher hadn't come I think I would have killed them, I love you Josh"
I smiled at him and hugged him tight and gave him a quick kiss on the
lips.

"I love you too...so this is the nurses office? I really blacked out?" I
looked around the white sterile conditions, defiantly not a place I would
want to go if I got sick.

"Yup, and you hit the floor like a ton of bricks" we laughed a little then I
saw a geeky looking boy who was sat watching us intently, through his
thick glasses.

"What the fuck do you think your looking at? Take a picture it will last
longer" he quickly looked away sniggering to himself...git. I remembered
the pictures and I pulled them out of my pocket. We just both sat there
staring at them, Tom looked as cute as ever in them, but they had
captured my bad side.

"You look good in it" Tom said out of the blue.

"Hey" I socked him one in the arm and we laughed a bit. He hopped up
on the bed I was laying on and snuggled up close to me; the warmth and
closeness of his body making me feel like nothing in the world could
harm us.

"Josh what are we going to do? Everyone knows about us" he started
getting all teary eyed again, I slowly stroked the side of his face as I
rubbed our noses together.

"There's nothing we can do baby, were out, everyone in school knows.
But we have each other and that's all that matters I mean this means we
can love each other in public and not hide anymore" I said quietly.

"But they will pick on us"

"Then they are idiots and we can call them names back" I said trying to
fake a laugh at the end...I knew he was right.

"Josh I'm afraid" he whispered.

"I know...me too" I whispered back. We just lay there holding each other
wondering what was to become of us. An overweight nurse came walking
in and disturbed mine and Tom's little tender moment.

"Ah Mr Mcthomas your awake...good now you can go back to class, and
Mr Conroy you have an appointment to see the head for fighting" fuck I
didn't want to go to class, not now no! I looked at Tom and I knew he was
having the same thoughts as me.

"Ok...come on Tom let's go" we slowly got up off the bed and made our
way past the smirking geek and out the door. The halls where full with
activity of people moving to there next classes.

"Josh I don't want to go to class"

"Me neither lets ditch" I grabbed Toms hand and dragged him through the
crowds of people, pushing past some of the more stubborn people. We
got some more people shouting abuse at us and others 'accidentally'
knocking into us. We forced our way ever onwards and finally made it to
the front door. We stepped out into the sun and everything just seemed to
be fine for that split second I forgot all the troubles.

"Where we heading?" Tom asked, taking his rightful place at my side.

"The park, I need to relax and talk" he didn't argue, we headed for the
park where I first met Alex, it was a nice quiet park during the weekdays,
somewhere you could go to be alone. I noticed on our way there that Tom
seemed different, he seemed very quiet defeated almost like the spark of
life inside him had died. I know why though, he was thinking the same
thing about how the pictures of us got there...Justin. We finally made to
the park, my paranoia growing all the time every time people looked at us
I had the feeling that they knew and where looking down on us, it was a
horrible feeling. We found a nice quiet out of the way spot in the park and
we parked our asses on the slightly damp grass. We sat there for a while
in silence; Tom looking off into the distance with a vacant look on his
face...he looked so cute.

"You know you look cute when you look dumb"

"What? Oh thanx Josh" he sounded so upset and just as that thought
crossed my mind he started to cry. At first that small sniffling sound he
made but than the full fledged tears came. I scooted up close to him and
held him tightly as he cried into my chest...I'm sure I'd get my turn later.

"It's going to be ok Tom where going to get through this" I quietly said as
I stroked his hair, he quickly sat upright and looked me dead in the eyes.
"I know we will get through this Josh, I'm more upset at the fact the only
person who could have done this is Justin. My own brother is the guy
who outted me. I mean why josh why did he do it?" he seemed to be
searching for a sensible answer.

"The pictures we took" he fell back onto the grass.

"Of course, well we have to retaliate, we can spread the pictures of him
around his school" he sat up on his elbows reeling off this little plan of
his.

"Tom we can't do that"

"Why not? He did it to us"

"Because he did this for revenge, he knew we couldn't retaliate because if
we spread those pictures of him around that means he gets a hold of Alex
and Jason again. And as much as I'm pissed of with them right now I can't
do that to them." I so wanted to retaliate though but my sensible side won
out.

"Damn it! We will have to find something else to do to him, something so
horrible he will be feeling the repercussions for all his life" all the sadness
I had seen before had been replaced with anger towards his devious
brother. We laid on the grass for a while longer observing the clouds as
they slowly passed by with out a care in the world. A rustling in the bush
behind us started us as three boys jumped out the bushes. I recognised
them from been around school, in fact they where the main three guys
who where picking on us. Non of them in my opinion where good
looking, in fact one of them had a nasty black eye and another a busted
lip, they all looked as common as dirt. I looked at Tom and saw fear in
his eyes and I had a deep feeling that Tom was the cause of that black eye
and vice versa.

"Lookie, lookie what we have found boys" the one which I assumed to be
the leader said, the one with the black eye. Tom and me quickly jumped
to our feet; something told me that we were going to be expecting trouble,
we stood defensively ready for a fight.

"It's the two cock suckers, I have a bone to pick with you" the one with
the busted lip came forward ready to push Tom. I jumped in-between
them.

"Aww he's defending his boyfriend" the third guy said while stepping
closer.

"Fuck you!" I shouted at him.

"Yea that's right, hey boys how about we teach these limp wristed fags
how to suck a mans cock?" the one with a black eye said while grabbing
his crotch, the other two agreed...eek.

"Oh please I wouldn't touch your dicks with a 10 foot pole, and any way I
didn't bring my tweezers or magnifying glass" I think that was the straw
which broke the camels back. The next thing I knew the one with the
busted lip lunged at me, but with a quick movement of my hand his face
landed on my fist busting his lip over again. This caused the other two to
attack, I managed to kick the one with the black eye square in the groin,
and he went straight to the floor. As he went down he tripped the third
guy over. I savoured my victory for only a second before I grabbed Tom's
hand.

"YOUR GOING TO FUCKING PAY FOR THAT!" the leader shouted
as he tried to stumble to his feet.

"RUN!" was the only thing that escaped my lips as we made our way
quickly from the park. About 30 minutes later and after checking to see
we weren't followed we stopped to take a breather. Our faces where
completely red as we tried to catch our breath.

"Something tells me those guys are going to be trouble for us Josh" Tom
said, while looking back over his shoulder one last time to make sure we
wasn't been followed.

"I know what you mean" I sure wasn't looking forward to school, no way
in hell. We started walking again, with no direction in mind but we ended
up at my house...naturally. I think Tom had a secret crush on my auntie,
he denies it but I like to be suspicious. He stopped me just before I
opened the door.

"Josh I love you so much, and I think I can just struggle through what
where going through but that's only because I have you beside me" he
said rather tenderly.

"I know and I'll be here with you we can get through this, our love will
get us through. I love you Tom" I leaned in closer and kissed him
tenderly on the lips. Both our heads shot towards the door, just in case we
had a repeat performance of before with my dad. We both chuckled to
ourselves. We opened the door and walked into the house, the minute I
stepped in I could feel it, there was something wrong.

"Joshua could you come here please" my mom said from the living room,
she sounded kinda sad. I was starting to panic, especially when I walked
into a darkened room to see my mom, she looked dreadful her eyes where
all red and puffy. She had been crying.

"Mom what's wrong? Is everything ok? Where's auntie?" I looked around
frantically.

"I'm here," my auntie said scaring me shitless as she stepped out of the
shadows, her eyes where red and puffy too. Now I was starting to panic,
what the hell was going on?

"Josh sit down" I did as I was told, Tom took a position by my side
looking just as worried.

"Mom?" I asked quizzically fear showing in my voice.

"Josh I have some bad news, your dad's lawyer just rang up. Apparently
he want's full custody of you, he want's to take you back to England."


End of part 20


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