Chapter 21.                 Looking ahead and being Matt’s new guardian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Damn Matt you scared the hell out of me!” I laughed. “I just checked on you no more then ten minutes ago and you were sleeping on my bed right next to Nicky and let me tell you that was as cute as it gets!”

 

“Gee thanks JR… just really make it sound gay why don’t you?”

 

I laughed.

 

“Awww my poor baby…”

 

I held open my arms and he immediately came to me and I wrapped him in a hug.

 

“JR you were awesome today especially the way you got my aunt when we were alone in that room with her and my uncle. That was so awesome, I wanted to just scream out a few things to her. Thank for what you did for me, I love you so much.”

 

“Thanks big guy… I wouldn’t have done it for any other reason then for you.”

 

He looked up at me, he was beaming he was so happy.

 

“Yes.” He said to me.

 

“Huh? What do you mean yes Matt?”

 

“You asked a question before when I was behind you. My answer is yes.”

 

I thought for a second.

 

“You mean about adopting you?”

 

He shook his head up and down.

 

“Yes sir… I would love for you to be my dad some day. I already feel like you are him in a lot of ways.”

 

I looked down at Matt and tears began to fill my eyes. He got me good. I just brought him too me and hugged him tightly.

 

“Thank you Matt, you feel like my boy sometimes too, I really do love you so much.”

 

We stood there holding each other for a while, neither of us wanting to let go, or for the moment to end. Finally I broke away from him and dried my eyes. I got down on a knee and looked straight at him.

 

“I care so much about you and I want to make sure you understand Matthew, this isn’t always going to be great times, we are going to get mad at each other and sometimes argue and raise voices, hell I might even have to punish you or say no once or twice.”

 

He smiled and started to laugh.

 

“Yeah,” he said, “And I might have to get mad at you and slam my bedroom door and even say things that I don’t mean because I was mad and you said no. But one thing JR, I promise that I don’t ever think I could stop loving you, especially after what I went through this past week living there and wishing I was here and you being there to hold me and hug me when I buried my momma, those things I will never forget, even if I am mad at you, I promise I will do my best to always try and get over it as fast as possible.”

 

“I am gonna hold you to that Matt when it happens but right now I need to talk to you about something just as important, I need to ask you something right now even if its not a huge thing its something we need to discuss before I wake Nicky up.”

 

“It sounds serious JR.”

 

“Just a little but I need to ask you before I make a decision. You are my family now and what happens in this house most, and I say most of the time I will try and run it past you before any major decision is made.”

 

“So what is so important already that you need to ask me?”

 

“Come sit for a second with me at the table.”

 

He scooted around to the other side and I sat across from him.

 

“I talked to Nick’s mom today and she told me a few things, some that Nick doesn’t even know yet so its kinda important that we keep this between us for now.”

 

“Sure JR what’s up?”

 

“Well its nothing bad at all its just that she asked me… well she told me that they may start to rebuild their house soon and she asked if I wouldn’t mind allowing Nick to live here while that happens.”

 

“Sure JR, I think that is great that he can stay.”

 

“I do too but… it could be six months before its ready and that is six months of you not having a room for yourself and either sleeping with me or on the cot if you aren’t in the mood to be with me some nights. Now I told Margaret that I would ask you first, actually she insisted I ask you before giving her an answer.”

 

“Wow, okay what if I say no?”

 

“Then I tell you I understand and she will probably find a place close by to rent until the place is fixed up, but she wants to try and save as much money as possible before they have to move in and that means lots of bills for her, Nick, and Sara so I wanted to see what you had to say and also try to save her some money so when they do move back in their home they aren’t in trouble with bills right away.”

 

“Wow JR that’s a lot of stuff… I mean, I can tell you right off that I love Nick and I don’t care if he needs to stay here for six more months, that is fine, we get along great most of the time. I will always know that room will eventually be mine for good when his house is ready. But even with all that aside, is his mom gonna make it okay? I mean after all that Nick has gone through they will still be a family soon and will their mom will make enough money for them to live properly right?”

 

“I sure hope so Matt, I mean there isn’t a lot I can do to help with that. I make plenty to live here and pay my bills and all. Even if we don’t get money from your mom’s life insurance, I can still easily afford to keep you here and do everything we want because I make decent money, I am not sure what Nick’s mom is going to be doing or make. We will always be in good shape as long as I am a fireman.”

 

He smiled at me.

 

“That makes me feel really good to know that I won’t be trouble to you.”

 

“No way Matt, you will never be trouble to me.”

 

“And I don’t want to be trouble to you guys either!” a voice came from the other room.

 

Just then Nick walked into the kitchen.

 

“Nicky…” I got up from the table quickly and turned to him. “How long have you been standing there son?”

 

“Long enough to know how much both of you feel about me.”

 

He ran to me and hugged me tightly.

 

“Thanks JR… I know things are tough for my mom but thanks for helping us and taking care of me.”

 

He broke away from me and tears were running down his face. He looked at Matt.

 

“Thank you too Matt for letting me have your room, you are a great friend and I will never forget that.”

 

He went over to Matt and both boys hugged. I now had tears in my eyes again just watching the boys together. I walked over and joined the hug and held both boys tightly. This just couldn’t get any better right now.

 

“Are you okay Nicky?”

 

“Yup, I sure am with friends like you two.”

 

He wiped his face and smiled at me.

 

“I have more good news for you.”

 

“Really, what else?”

 

“Well I am not sure how much you heard you little snoop, but what I didn’t tell Matt was while I talked to your mom today I told her about us going away next weekend and she told me you are welcome to come with us.”

 

“That’s awesome!” he pumped his fist into the air.

 

“Yes!” Matt said when he heard it too.

 

“Okay you two, enough of this mushy stuff its getting late lets go to practice!”

 

They both cheered.

 

“I was hoping you would be able to say that to me again someday JR!” Matt said smiling.

 

He took off with Nick and they went to get their gear and put their girdle and practice pants on. I was so happy I felt like I was dreaming. I can imagine when the other guys see both of them dressed to practice tonight, we will all have a great practice. Too much good is happening. I just hope nothing sours this anytime soon! I followed them both upstairs after a minute and stood out in the hall.

 

“I have one more thing for both of you to know.”

 

They both popped their heads out of Matt’s… or should I say Nick’s bedroom which is where all their equipment is.

 

“I’ll remind you again but just so you both know… I am off this weekend so we can spend a lot of time together doing stuff if you two want and then I work Monday thru Thursday next week, then of course we will be leaving Friday to go away as long as everything works out well Monday. Then when we get back Sunday night or Monday morning, there is no rush there, then things are going to change some.”

 

“How do you mean JR?” Matt asked.

 

“Well for one thing school starts on Wednesday of that week and that means things are going to get a little bit more on schedule around here. Don’t get me wrong I am not going to crack a whip or anything but you guys need sleep and so do I, it hasn’t been easy going to bed at 11 or later and getting up at 5am so we will make a few changes after Tuesday. Also I am off Tuesday and going to see about taking Wednesday too so I can see both of you off to school on opening day.”

 

“That’s awesome… I mean you seeing us off, not school…” Nicky said.

 

I laughed…

 

“You don’t like school Nick?”

 

“Well I don’t go crazy there, but I know Matt likes it and he sucks, he was on the honor roll almost every time last year and we used to tease him and call him super geek sometimes.”

 

I looked at Matt.

 

“Yeah and I hated it but ya know it’s a price to pay for being so smart.”

 

Nicky rolled his eyes and I just lost it and started laughing out loud at him.

 

“Okay you two before you make me pee myself laughing here lets get going. We aren’t late but I would like to take my time for once… everything has been rushed lately. I am really looking forward to a quiet and fun weekend for a change.”

 

So Matt is an A student… that’s cool I got me a smart one not that I didn’t already know that. That makes me feel even better knowing Matt doesn’t struggle a lot in school. Now as for Nick I guess between Matt and me we will get him some help if he needs it. I hated school it just didn’t do it for me, don’t get me wrong I passed and graduated but I certainly wasn’t in the top ten of my class more like fifty, out of around one hundred and fifty or so graduating kids, I did okay I guess. I really didn’t have a choice my old man would have kicked my ass if I brought home anything under a C. I was mostly a B and C student but I got my A’s in gym and health, stuff like that always worked well for me as you can see by how I became a paramedic and fireman. Guess I never hated blood and guts that much. Anyway, the boys are both ready now so its time to head out to Friday practice with both of them... its like a dream come true almost… 

 

“I got shotgun!” Nicky yelled out as he opened the front door to leave.

 

“Crap!” Matt said and I laughed. “Okay I get front on the way home then!”

 

“No… you gotta call it!” Nicky squawked at him.

 

“JRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…” Matt cried out.

 

“Don’t get me involved, I’ll put both of you in the back seat.”

 

Nick laughed and of all things stuck his tongue out at Matt.

 

“Dad, he is picking on me!” Matt said.

 

We both looked at Matt.

 

“DAD?” Nicky said… “When did he go from JR to dad?” he laughed.

 

All I did was smile, I liked how that sounded.

 

“Oh hush Nick… if he wants to call me Dad its fine, I like it” I said.

 

“Oh great,” he said with great sarcasm in his voice.

 

Then he went on mocking Matt as I started the truck.

 

“Dad… hey dad…. Oh dad… hey daddio…”

 

I was laughing but I could see Matt was about to attack and then bang, Matt nailed him in the left arm with a solid punch. I laughed harder and Nick grabbed his arm and yelled out in pain. Then it just got worse.

 

“Dad…” Nick said, “Matt is hitting me!”

 

I rolled my eyes and turned the radio up. That ended it… for now. About half way there Nick started again and I did all I could not to laugh too loud.

 

“Hey Dad,” he said, “Can we go for ice cream tonight and DAD will you tuck me in later too?”

 

I looked in the rear view mirror and Matt was sitting with his back against the seat with this arms folded across his chest and looking a little pissed, but I wasn’t sure if he was playing or not. I looked at Nick.

 

“Okay, enough please.” I said as our eyes met. “It was funny, but someone might be getting mad.”

 

Nick didn’t say anything but he got the point. As we got there I had to put in my two cents just to bust.

 

“It’s a good thing you stopped Nick you don’t want Matt kicking your ass all over the field tonight during practice.”

 

I looked at Matt and winked as I said that and he smiled at me. Then I knew he wasn’t mad.

 

“Cchheeaaahhaaa yeah…. Like that might happen,” Nick said very sarcastically.

 

“Okay then I think I need to settle this.” I said. “Tonight you two go one on one and we will play a little dump the guy with the ball.”

 

I said as we got out of the truck to both of them.

 

“Then we will see who hits harder and who can dump the guy with the ball the most.”

 

“You’re on JR!” Nick said.

 

Matt just looked at me but said nothing. Now I guess I will find out who is stronger or at least faster. We walked over to the field, it was barely 4:45 and about half the boys were there already including Bill.

 

“Hey Bill,” I yelled out since he had his back to me as we walked over. “I brought you two tonight.”

 

I was smiling as he turned around and he saw both Nick and Matt dressed and he smiled widely.

 

“That is just great,” he said. “Nothing makes me happier then to see both of them with you, not to mention that means you apparently won today at the Will reading.”

 

“Not till Monday, but for the most part I guess I won. Monday the judge issues his final orders on it.

 

“Sounds good to me, he is here now so in my eyes you won. NO Sissy Soccer!”

 

I laughed.

 

“Oh, hey Bill we have a drill to run tonight.” I said

 

“We do, what drill is that?”

 

“Well apparently the boys were going at it in the truck on the way over, Matt called me dad and Nick started to tease him to no end.”

 

“Matt called you dad? Whoa, that’s pretty strong Jeremy.”

 

“I know, believe me it was total shock the first time it happened.”

 

“Are you okay with it?”

 

“Oh hell yeah, I just don’t know how much teasing and ribbing he is gonna take over it. Nick already started in the truck which is why I think we need to run dump the guy tonight. Put them one on one against each other.”

 

“You sure you want that Jeremy, I mean it’s a great drill but remember Nick is just getting over his knee injury and if Matt hits him wrong it could put him back on the sidelines.”

 

“I’ll check out Nick and get back to you okay?”

 

“Please… I can’t afford to lose him he is our wheels and final cog to run the backfield.”

 

“I know, I’ll go see now.” I walked over towards Nick. “Nicky come here please.”

 

He jogged over to me.

 

“Yeah coach, what’s up?”

 

“I want to test your knee.”

 

“Huh? How?”

 

“Agility drill.”

 

“Oh okay, where should I stand?”

 

“Over here.” I said pointing to a spot.

 

A few kids heard me and came over to watch Nick perform; I needed to know for sure myself so this will tell me.

 

“Okay Nick helmet off and hand it to me.”

 

Matt was watching intensely too as was Bill and most of the team. We need Nick almost as much as any of them.

 

“Okay Nick, get it up, follow the ball on the whistle.”

 

Nick was now doing high knee kicks and about to follow the ball left or right depending on where I pointed it. This drill is normally to determine the player’s agility in following a quarterback as he goes back to pass a ball but this time it’s so I can see Nick cut back and forth on his knee.

 

I blew the whistle and brought the ball, which was in my left hand to the left. He followed it by high stepping it left, I then went right and he changed gears and immediately went right. I brought it to my chest and he came at me. I went forward with the ball and that brought him away from me. I did this for about a minute quickly moving in every direction to gauge how he responded to the ball and how his knee was. I blew the whistle again and he stopped.

I looked at Bill.

 

“Perfect like a pro JR! I didn’t see one wince or one mistake, that boy seems fine.”

 

“And out of breath!” I added.

 

That drill takes a lot out of you if you do it longer then thirty seconds at a clip. I had Nick going for a full minute so even with him being in good shape he was panting a bit now. As the others began to walk away Bill blew his whistle and yelled for them to take a lap practice was about to begin.

 

“Not you Nick!” I yelled out. He stopped in his tracks and looked at me. I walked right up to him and stood inches away.

 

“Okay, it’s me talking now, not coach. No one is around but us, I want 100% truth, how did that really go? How is your knee?”

 

 “Its good, the first time I turned I felt a little twinge but that went right away and then no pain at all for the rest of the drill.”

 

He had his helmet on I reached out with a finger and pulled him to me, we were face to face and only the helmet kept us apart.

 

“Nicholas Dillon Melconian you swear to me you are telling the absolute truth?”

 

“Yes sir coach,” he shouted back to me in his football player voice.

 

“Good son because I love you and you best not be fibbing, I don’t want you hurt!” I said in a very low tone to him.

 

“I am really okay JR, thanks, I love you too,” he replied back in the same tone.

 

“Okay then…” I raised my voice back up to loud… “Get your ass going and catch and pass those boys!”

 

He took off like his ass was burning and the water was at the finish line. He was the second fastest kid on the team and the way he closed the gap of a good half a lap on the rest of the boys showed me that. I was smiling big time as I watched him tear ass and catch up to the last person in the group at the three quarter mark of the lap. He then passed 15 of the 17 boys that were ahead of him and actually finished third. And to think I held him back for that half a lap talking to him. Only Bastion and Matt beat him. Bastion being the fastest on the team and Matt who is a close second to Nick when they race, were the two he couldn’t catch. I was willing to bet that was because they saw him coming and turned it on just to bust his balls. I walked over to them as they were catching their breath from the lap. Bill was already there since the boys ended their lap at him.

 

“So what do you think Bill, from what you saw should we run dump the guy tonight?”

 

“I’d have to say yes JR.”

 

The boys heard that and cheered.

 

“Good, then let’s get this practice rolling!” I said aloud. “Josh, Kyle, please get two dummies and bring them here. Bill you want to split them up into two groups while we set up the dummies?”

 

“Sure JR.”

 

“Ronnie, please grab a football for me.”

 

“Sure Coach.”

 

Two minutes later the boys were split into groups and everything was set. I looked at Bill and he nodded his head. I took the football and threw it to Nick and then looked at Matt.

 

“Okay you two, on the ground!”

 

They got on the ground and lay flat, helmet to helmet waiting for the whistle to blow. The object here is for the boy with the ball to beat his defensive player flat out off the ground. Some of the boys were good at this and some were so slow it was a laugh to watch them.

 

“Okay boy’s, mouth pieces in,” I said.

 

“Tweet!” I blew the whistle.

 

A mad struggle ensued for both Nick and Matt to get to their feet as fast as humanly possible, both boys got up almost together. As Nick took a step forward, Matt joined him in the hole between both dummies. A loud clatter of plastic was next heard as their teammates cheered loudly. Matt came in low and buried his helmet into Nicky’s chest and drove his legs madly pushing Nicky back two yards before he wrapped, gained control with his arms and brought Nick to the ground. A cheer went up as both Bill and I blew our whistles to end their challenge.  Matt quickly bounced up off the ground and offered a hand to Nicky who took it as Matt helped him back up. They banged helmets briefly as the cheering subsided and round one went to Matt. Matt in turn looked at me and smiled widely as he turned to walk past me and get back in line. Matt went to the offensive side and Nick took his turn on the defensive side of the line showing no emotion to his defeat. One by one the remaining boys went through this drill for the next few minutes. Some excellent hits and blocking was done as both Bill and I watched them run through this drill. Finally we had gone through all the boys and we were back to the beginning. Ronnie, who went last on the offensive side, was holding the ball and getting up from being buried by Kyle. Ron gently tossed the ball to Matt who was next in line. Once more through the line for the others and then we will take a break. Parents who stayed for practice were watching intently as the boys ran this drill. It was always a challenge and great drill to get the boys up for practice. Now it was Matt’s turn to try and beat Nicky who was on defense. Both boys lay still awaiting the whistle. This time Bill would blow and I would coach.

 

“Mouth pieces in!” Bill yelled. “Tweet!” went the whistle

 

Both boys hurried to their feet. Nick was up first and fired across the hole between the dummies and met up with Matt who was running through the hole swiftly, with as much agility as possible. Both boys met with another loud bang and the battle began to see who would win round 2. So far Matt was lower and he was gaining on Nick, but Nicky was a very strong boy and he set his feet and grunted loudly as he got his hands into place. Suddenly he overtook Matt. As Nicky powered his way to get even with Matt, both boys lost control and started to fall to the ground. No yardage was lost or gained on their attempt as both boys fell directly in the middle of their running route. It was a tie as Bill blew the whistle to end it. Everyone cheered along with the whistle as both boys got up and Matt tossed the ball to me after they once again gently banged helmets as their way of saying ‘good job’ to each other before going back and taking a knee out of the way. This signaled they were done as the next two took their spots. Group by group, the boys settle into their spot to finish up the drill. After a very good second round of this, we finished up and sent all of them on a break as soon as the last whistle blew.

 

“That went well,” Bill turned and said to me.

 

“Yes, quite well,” I replied. “It looks like we have a lot of evenly matched boys,” I added.

 

“Yeah, I noticed that Matt and Nicky fought both times, I guess you really had them going in the truck,” he said.

 

“I guess you could say I pumped them up some when I suggested we do this,” I laughed as I replied.

 

We were alone so Bill grabbed me gently by the arm.

 

“So JR, everything went okay today, what do you think about Monday?” he asked, briefly continuing our chat from before practice.

 

“I think it’s going to go my way, but I can’t say for sure. I beat her down as much as I could today and if she gets enough crap from her husband, I am sure they will back off and accept things as they are with them getting Joey and Ashley, the monies that come with the life insurance for them, and partial control, after the paperwork goes through.”

 

“So do you think this was about money JR?”

 

“I am almost positive. I’d go as far as to say that they knew what was coming ahead of time and they expected to get all of it and live comfortably for the rest of their lives on it.”

 

“Really, the kids are supposed to get that much JR?”

 

“Between you and me, if the insurance company finds no fault the total was ¾ of a million total, plus she was getting $50,000 per kid from work.”

 

“Shit! That’s amazing. She really covered her ass well.”

 

“No kidding Bill, I heard the amount and almost lost it. Matt was so worried about living with the old goat that the amount didn’t sink in until we got back in the truck and I wrote it out for him on paper. He saw all the zeros and it finally sank in.”

 

Bill laughed. “I bet it did.”

 

We walked over to the boys and Bill blew the whistle ending break. They all gathered around us for a brief discussion about what we just did.

 

“Okay boys,” said Bill. “That exercise went quite well. Joey, Bastian, Matt, Tommy, and Nick, you boys all did very well. The rest of you were okay and really need to work on your offense and defensive one on one skills. No one did badly but if we are going to be number one this year boys, I want, no I demand 100% from all of you. You all know how badly we want to kick Hillsdale’s ass when we play them in week four so I need everyone at their best. This is one of the best teams I have coached here this season, and as of right now I can see us going all the way if we play tough and keep our heads on straight all season long!”

 

Bill looked at me.

 

“Okay boys we have some run throughs to do tonight and then you guys are off for the weekend. Coach Bill will let all of you know over the weekend if we have a scrimmage Monday. If you don’t hear from either of us then its practice at regular time just incase we don’t get to go over this at the end of tonight’s practice. Okay boys lets go over some offense and then we will go over special teams before we end.”

 

The next hour we hit every play that we were planning on using if we had a scrimmage next week. Between substituting and making sure it all looked good, we spent a lot of time on offense. We took a break at 7:15 and gave them five minutes to rest as Bill, Eric, and I discussed what we saw that worked and didn’t work well. Coach Eric showed up around 6:15 and helped us out from another angle as we ran through the plays one by one. We spent the next 30 minutes going over punt team, kick off, and return teams. With all the running just about every boy was exhausted by 7:45. It was easy to tell that Nicky and Matt were tired after being out of practice for the past few days. They were both dragging their asses on the last kick off. Bill called the team in and we did our cool down for a few minutes. We watched them closely for any problems. With dark settling in around 7:55 Bill gathered them all together and we took turns talking about how the day went and what we thought of them. We kept it brief and by 8:05 we were packing up the equipment and heading towards the cars.

 

“I’ll talk to you over the weekend JR. As soon as the Millville coach calls me I’ll know about Monday.”

 

“So it will be here against Millville,” I said curiously.

 

“Yes, they should give us a good work out and I am looking forward to it.”

 

“Yeah, I guess so since they aren’t in our division, what made you pick them?” I asked.

 

“Two things, they are always good and I want to know how we stack up against a larger team and second, Jimmy asked me and I owed him one.”

 

I laughed.

 

“You and Jimmy huh, I didn’t know you owed anyone anything.”

 

 “Sometimes JR you have to make a deal, and last year he did me a big favor. Between us, last season he gave me some information about Hillsdale. It didn’t help because they were so much better then us, but I owe him so I said okay. He told me as long as things go well tonight and he doesn’t have anyone hurt, we will be good for Monday. He knows we are good and he is looking for a challenge too. This is going to be a great challenge JR. His team plays in the A division because they draw so many boys for tryouts they don’t have a choice. So, with his best of the crop playing us, it should give us a really good indication how good we really are. I mean an A team against us, a smaller B team. That will say a lot.”

 

The teams in the area were broke down by school population. Three groups based on student enrollment. A for the biggest towns, B for our area, and C for the smaller towns.

 

Eric chimed in.

 

“You guys know, if we beat them then we have to keep our guys in check. Our boys know the deal. I already heard some of them talking. They know how good Millville is supposed to be,” he said.

 

“Now how on earth did they find out? I didn’t tell anyone,” asked Bill with surprise in his voice.

 

“That’s easy. One of their kids goes to school during the year with Eric Jr., and he called to talk to him about it.”

 

“Damn, it figures,” Bill laughed.

 

“Sorry Bill, I didn’t want Eric saying anything but he got so pumped up about the possibility of it happening he was bragging most of the night.”

 

“Oh well, first I need to get a phone call, then we’ll know for sure,” Bill added.

 

I stood and listened, this being in my first season here I didn’t know anything about Millville since they weren’t in our division. Between weigh-ins and other activities I had learned lots about the teams in our group. The other seven teams we play run from weak to good as you get in any league, I knew that from seeing them at weigh-in and hearing things, but I didn’t know anything about Millville until now.

 

“This really sounds like an excellent work out for us. A good challenge and way to pump the boys up if we do well,” I said.

 

“It can go either way JR. If we do well the boys will get a lot out of it. If we do poorly… then we will see,” said Bill.

 

It was getting late so we ended it there. We said good night and each headed over to our vehicles. As always I had Nick, Matt, Bastion, Tommy, and the twins waiting for a ride. They squeezed into the truck with Matt up front and I got in with them. Nick must have gave in and didn’t argue about shotgun home.

 

“So guys, how was practice tonight?” I asked.

 

“I think it went good coach,” said Sebastian. “The beginning went good with us going one on one and then knowing we could scrimmage Millville on Monday. That has everyone excited,” he added.

 

“Yeah, I agree,” said Conner, one of my twin boys. “I am really looking forward to Monday Coach JR, I hope we scrimmage,” he added.

 

“I’m looking forward to Monday too Conner,” I said as I looked at Matt and gave his leg a gentle squeeze in the darkness of the front seat of the truck. He knew exactly what I meant as he smiled back. Other then Nick, I was pretty sure the other boys weren’t thinking about Matt and the appointment with the judge like we were on Monday. I looked closely at him in the little light we had, his hair was messed up from the work out he just went through at practice making him even cuter, if that was possible. My car smelled a little like a gym locker room tonight. Even with the air conditioner on, it didn’t clear the slight smell of sweaty boy that was in the car. I really didn’t mind it a whole lot, sometimes the musky scent of a boy after a good workout is sweet, but not five of them at once.

 

“Damn guys, don’t any of you every shower? It really reeks in here tonight,” I said jokingly.

 

Of course I was verbally attacked by all of them after that. Insulting their manhood! What was I thinking? I laughed aloud.

 

“Okay, okay, I am only teasing!” I said loudly, quieting them down. “Let’s get your stinky butts home.”

 

That of course led to another round of abuse, verbally of course. I smiled as I put the truck into drive and headed to the twins house. Ten minutes and a bit of chatting later I had the twins dropped off and I was in front of Tommy’s house. He and the remaining boys were talking about some online game that he played. I was sitting listening to all of it not caring one bit. I do my own online stuff but when it comes to their weird games, I just blank out. All I know is Nick and Matt said something about seeing him in a chat room to get more information and Bastion said he already played it. Tommy thanked me for the ride home and I looked him in the eye and smiled as he exited the truck. I am sure he will be over tomorrow for some reason. I laughed to myself as I thought about that. He shut the truck door and I watched him into his house before I took off to head home. Even with half his gear on he still had a killer body. I headed home. I turned onto my ‘now darker then ever in the past road’ and turned into my driveway. Ever since the tornado wiped out the other side of the street it’s been quite a bit darker and eerier on my block. Good thing I have twin motion detectors in the driveway and on the side of the house to brighten things up in a flash. I parked the truck and everyone got out. Bastion thanked me as always as he headed over to his house. His mom was at the front door too, like always waiting for him. She waved and I waved back as Nick and Matt headed to the front door carrying their shoulder pads and helmets.

 

“Have a good night Bonnie,” I yelled over.

 

“Thanks Jeremy, you too,” she replied.

 

I opened the front door and was hit by the air conditioning from the house. It made me realize how humid it was outside tonight. It was comfortable in the truck but the house always seemed to be a little more comfortable to come home to. The boys scurried in before me, after I unlocked the door. I grabbed the mail that I forgot to get earlier and went inside myself. After throwing the mail on the table, I grabbed the lemonade from the fridge and poured myself a glass full as I heard the shower water start upstairs. I didn’t hear any arguing so I guess they either decided to shower together, which I doubted, or agreed who was going first in a civil way. As soon as I can, I want to talk to both of them and find out what they thought about their one on one tonight. That should be a real riot to hear. I went to check my messages and for once there weren’t any. ‘That’s a relief” I thought. I went to sit and open the mail. Gas bill, water bill, garbage advertisement, magazine, and so on. I went through all the mail throwing out the garbage and then putting my bills in their place until I was paid Tuesday. We get paid twice a month, not every two weeks. The checks always looked bigger but it had to go a little further too. I made a note on my wall board to check with the chief and ask for that Wednesday off too since school was starting, and I added a few items to the shopping list on the other side of the board so I wouldn’t totally forget if the boys distracted me too much tomorrow. While I was doing all this, the water turned off and then back on a few minutes later. So, between that and more footsteps I knew one of them was done and the other one was apparently in the shower now. The door closing and another almost slamming shut upstairs added to what I can guess at. I was relaxing nicely now reading my sports magazine as I heard someone come down the steps and head towards me. I glanced up from my magazine briefly to see which one it was. In walked Matt all clean, combed hair and smelling fresh, but acting a bit suspicious as he walked right up to me.

 

“Is this any better coach?” he said lifting his arm up to my face, teasing and joking about the stink comment I made earlier in the car.

 

“Gee,” I said playing along, “I really don’t know.” I added as I dropped the magazine and quickly reached out and moved my drink farther away. Then I grabbed for Matt. I got his arm and pulled him to me and began to tickle his ribs causing him to screech and start laughing as he wildly flailed his free arm trying to get away. “Let me check closer, smart ass!” I said as I tickled him all over.

 

“Ssss ttt tttop...” he squeaked out before letting out a massive cackle that was almost loud enough to pierce my ears. It didn’t stop me as I ran my hand up and down his side getting to every rib I could. He quickly turned beet red and I finally stopped. He lay on me totally exhausted and out of breath after I finally gave in. I supported most of his weight as he did his best to catch his breath and regain his composure some. When he was all but back to normal, he was still leaning mostly on me so I raised his arm in a very teasing way and smelled his armpit through his fresh undershirt he had on.

 

“Smells fine to me,” I said as I laughed.

 

“That’s not fair!” he finally managed to say. “I hate it when you sneak attack me like that!” he said trying not to smile as he squirmed his way around enough to sit on my right leg and lean back on me. Now I was supporting almost all of him as his back met my chest and he put his head back so my head was right next to his. I turned my head a little and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek as I put both arms around him and gave him a firm hug from behind.

 

“I love you so much Matthew. I am so glad you are here, stinky or not.”

 

I let up my hold on him and he turned partly to face me.

 

“If you are glad I am here then can you imagine how I feel about being here?” he said as he moved closer and put his head on my shoulder and hugged me back tightly, this time facing me. “I love you JR,” he said as he kept his hold on me. I held the 12 year old tightly for as long as he wanted before he finally hinted that he wanted to sit back up. He sat up and looked at me.

 

“You know Matt. I never, ever, would have expected to be lucky enough to have a cute 12 year old sitting on my lap and telling me he loved me.” I reached out and put my hands on him, one on the left side of his ribs and the other on the right. This time he knew there wouldn’t be any tickling. “I somehow got lucky enough to get a smart, beautiful, amusing, and fun to be with cutie named Matthew and he is sitting inches from me. I am truly blessed for some reason. You are here with me. I just don’t understand how I could have gotten this fortunate in such a short period of time. You really are my sweet angel boy and I am so grateful you are here.”

 

He looked at me and smiled wider the more I complemented him. When I was finished I leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. Then I brought my hands up and cupped his face. “Thank you for everything Matt. All the joy and happiness you have given me in this short time I have gotten to know you.”

 

His eyes started to well up and a tear rolled down his face.

 

“Are you okay Matt?”

 

“Oh yeah JR, I don’t think I have ever felt better. I know I just lost my mom and I should be hurt and I really do miss her,” he said as another tear rolled down his face. “But you see, I will always love my mom, even if she isn’t here. I never had a dad… until I met you.”

 

He buried his head in my chest and held me tightly as he wept silently. Tears were now in my eyes too. Then after a few seconds he pulled away and the sweet, beautiful boy with the tears in his eyes and running down his cheeks, looked deeply into my own teary eyes. “Now I have a dad,” he said.

 

I lost it some more as I brought him to me and hugged him tightly. We didn’t say anything for a while. We just held each other in silence until we heard walking around upstairs some time later and we knew this moment would have to end for now. Neither of us wanted Nicky to see what was happening down here for obvious reasons. I leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the forehead and then gently patted the side of his leg for him to get up.

 

“We better wash a little before he comes down or we will both look silly.”

 

Matt shook his head yes as he got off me. We both went to the sink and took turns splashing our faces some to clear our tears away. I grabbed two hand towels from the draw and gave one to him to dry off and used the other for myself.

 

“I just wanted to tell you before Nick comes down that I was so happy and proud of what you did today for me and how you put Aunt Mary in her place JR. That’s why I don’t have a problem calling you dad. You protected me more today then my real dad ever did and you put my Aunt in her place today better then I ever saw anyone do,” he said smiling at me.

 

“Thanks sweetie, just remember we only won the battle today. Monday we have to hope we win the war after the judge hears everything and makes his final decision. Then we can really celebrate and we will!” I said to him smiling back.

 

“I know JR. I will be praying and hoping that judge does agree with my moms Will and not her or anything else.”

 

“I will be too. I am pretty sure she will back down now and there will be no reason the judge will say no. Monday is going to be tough until the lawyer calls me. I hope I can focus on work,” I said.

 

“I know what you mean JR. At least you will be doing something, I will be here thinking about it.”

 

“I’ll call you the second I know anything Matt. Just remember we might not hear anything until the afternoon. He has to do a lot of checking and stuff before he decides. He might not even decide if he wants to look into my background first. So lets not get too crazy incase it takes an extra day okay?”

 

“Okay JR, as long as you keep in touch with me, I will do my best not to go crazy.”

 

“I will keep in touch. Okay Nicky is coming down lets try to get ourselves back together some.”

 

He looked at me and smiled and then Nick walked into the room. He walked over to me and lifted his arm and said exactly what Matt said to me. Apparently they had this planned on some level before he came down and in all the confusion between Matt and I, Matt must have forgotten to tell me. I looked at him and then Matt and we both bust out laughing. Poor Nicky, he expected this to be funny and it backfired on him, even though we did laugh, just not nearly as much as we could or should have. He looked at me and then at Matt.

 

“What happened? I thought you said this would be really funny,” said a somewhat serious Nick.

 

“I’m sorry Nick,” I said. “It was funny when Matt came down and did it to me and boy did he pay, but we had a very serious moment while you were in the shower and it just wasn’t as funny the second time.”

 

“Is everything okay?” he asked with a serious look on his face.

 

“Yes Nicky, everything is perfect. I’m sorry your part of the stink joke didn’t work as well.”

 

“What happened?” he asked.

 

“Have a seat,” I said.

 

Both boys sat across from me at the table. I poured them both a glass of lemonade. Then I sat with them and explained some of what happened to Nick while he was showering. I didn’t tell him everything. Just enough so he would understand things were good in the house. Finally around 9:30 we were done discussing it and things went from somewhat serious to ‘I’m hungry’ as both boys suddenly got their appetite going. I was too, so I couldn’t really disagree with them.

 

“Sorry guys, we got so into that discussion I totally forgot about us eating. So, what should we have?”

 

“Pizza?” yelled out Nick.

 

“No,” said Matt. “I’m tired of pizza. Let’s have something else,” he added.

 

“Like what?” I said. It was getting late and all I could think of was Chinese food but if I ate that this late I would be up all night. On a normal night we were really a half hour from bedtime, or at least I was. Since it was Friday we were going to stay up a little later, but I was getting tired already.

 

“How about hoagies?” said Matt.

 

“I guess we can do that, the sub place is open until 10. Are you okay with that Nick?”

 

“Sure, I don’t mind a hoagie,” he said.

 

“Okay then, Nick that top draw, open it and pull out the menu.” I pointed to it.

 

He walked over to the draw and opened it revealing the menu for the ‘Sub Stop’. He brought it over to the table and we started looking for something to make each of us happy. As soon as I saw meatball parm I was in heaven. That made my decision easy. I announced it and suddenly both of them liked that idea.

 

“Yeah, meatballs, that sounds great,” said Matt.

 

“I guess I could go for that too,” added Nicky.

 

I grabbed the phone and called them. I place three orders for meatball parm subs and asked if they would still be delivering. The guy told me on Friday and Saturday nights they were open until 11 and they would be over within 30 minutes. I added a few bottles of soda and some chips and after giving him my address I hung up the phone. I told the boys I was going to watch TV until the order came and they both followed me into the living room. I was soon flanked by two cute boys after I sat on the couch. I took the middle, Matt took the left and Nick the right side. I put my arms out as both of them got comfy against me and I put each arm on them. What a life!! We got into the last half hour of some silly game show and as it was ending the doorbell rang. Both boys shot up and ran for the door as I went to grab a $20. While they grabbed the food, I paid the guy and followed the smell of meatballs into the kitchen. I expected to see the a bag ripped open and them wolfing down food, but when I walked in both boys were standing at the table looking at me.

 

“We decided to wait for you JR,” said Nick.

 

“Yeah, we figured it would be rude to eat before you got in here,” added Matt.

 

“Thanks boys, that’s nice of you.”

 

I walked over and ripped open the first bag and took out three subs and a big bag of chips. While I went to get paper plates, the boys took care of the soda. I came back with the plates and three clean plastic cups. We had long ago finished the lemonade and put those cups in the dishwasher.

 

“Okay guys, enjoy!” I said as I sat down and they joined me.

 

We each started to devour the 12” sub in front of us. I was going to get halves but I knew a 12 and 13 year old would only think half a sub was a snack, so I ordered 3 full subs and boy did we eat. At least when we were done, there were three solidly filled bellies at the kitchen table. All that was left was half a bottle of orange soda and half a bag of chips. We cleaned up and took things from there.

 

“Okay guys, I guess its back to the sofa for some TV. I’d offer us to go to the bedroom and fool around, but I am way too stuffed for that,” I said.

 

“I am too JR,” added Nick.

 

“Yeah, I think TV sounds really good right now. Maybe later we can do something,” added horny little Matt.

 

“Maybe,” I said as we sat back down in front of the TV. “Hey, now that I have you two with me I want to ask both of you something about practice. Things got crazy before and I almost forgot.”

 

“Sure JR, what do you want to know?” asked Matt.

 

“I want to honestly know how each of you took the one on one drill we made you do tonight.”

 

Nick spoke up first.

 

“I liked it even though I thought I was gonna kick his ass and I was surprised when Matt did that good,” Nicky said honestly.

 

We looked at Matt who suddenly appeared to be looking very humble. He smiled at us.

 

“Thanks Nick. I didn’t expect to get as far when I ran the ball, I really thought he was going to bury my ass when I was on offense. I was happy I got what I did but I was psyched on defense and I was trying to do everything I could so he wouldn’t beat me.”

 

“So you both think it was even?”

 

“I guess so JR,” said Nick. I expected more from myself, but Matt was good and maybe just a little part of me was holding back some because I was a little worried about my leg. But I swear I am not trying to take anything away from Matt. He did good.”

 

“Matt, anything to add?”

 

 “Nope,” he smiled. Just thank you to Nick and I guess we were both evenly matched tonight.”

 

“Great,” I said.

 

“Even if I kicked his butt,” Matt added in a extremely low voice. I heard it and started to laugh.

 

“Huh, wait, what did he just say?” said Nick as he sat up and looked over at both of us.

 

“Nothing,” Matt said in a very sarcastic tone.

 

I was too busy laughing to add my comments in as they started to play fight. Only problem was I was in the middle as they started throwing insults and comments back and forth across me and playing to try to get at each other.

 

“I’ll show you who is stronger!” Nick said as he lunged across me for Matt. Playfully, I held him back as Matt taunted him. “You’re lucky JR is holding me back or you would be dead meat!” Nick blurted out.

 

“Ha!” replied Matt, “You and what army?”

 

I was thoroughly enjoying their banter back and forth as I kept them separated. Finally it calmed down to just a loud argument with each of them making it a point to say that they did better. It was all in fun so I quite enjoyed it. They did finally settle down and we went back to the TV. I got through one show and by the time the 11 o’clock news was coming on my eyes were shutting and both boys were awake but very still.

 

“What do you say we call it a night guys? We are all falling asleep.”

 

With that I turned the TV off and got up off the sofa. I stood there looking down at both of them. Neither of them wanted to move.

 

“All right then,” I said. “I am going up to bed, when you two decide you had enough down here you can go up too.”

 

I went and checked the door, alarmed the house, and put out all the lights except the hall light. As I put a foot on the bottom step Matt attempted to get up off the couch. No sooner then he got his butt up, Nick grabbed him by his Pajama bottoms and yanked him back down.

 

“I’ll show you who is stronger,” he said.

 

I stopped and turned around to watch them both start to wrestle on the couch without me in the middle this time. Nicky had Matt in a headlock turned facing the wall with Matt’s pajama bottoms half way down, exposing half of his ass as I stood there watching them go at it. It was very funny as they took turns trying to get the upper hand on each other while at the same time Matt tried in vain to pull his pajama bottoms back up. Finally after a minute of this, I had two tired and now very out of breath boys laying there on the couch. Both their chests rising and falling rapidly, neither had won. I guess I did as I got to watch them play.

 

“Okay now are you both ready for bed?” I asked with a laugh.

 

“Yeah…” panted Matt. “Carry me upstairs JR,” he added.

 

“Carry yourself, I didn’t tell you two to start round 2,” I said in jest.

 

Nick got up first and Matt went to follow. As Matt went to get up Nick grabbed the top of his head and shoved him back onto the couch and ran away laughing and making a yelping kind of noise like he didn’t want Matt to catch up with him, which I found very amusing. He flew past me and right up the steps laughing all the way. I stood there looking at Matt who lay there in defeat.

 

“You coming?” I asked.

 

He held out both arms to me like he was expecting me to go over and help him up. I gave in and did. Once he was up, he headed towards the steps and I gave him a good smack on the ass to help him along. It was loud but he didn’t say anything. I turned and followed him up. Before I could get there I heard more ruckus and it sounded like round 3 was starting up in Nick’s room. Boy, for two tired kids they are not giving up easily, I thought to myself as I hurried up so I wouldn’t miss any of the action.  I entered the bedroom and immediately started to laugh. In front of me were two butts sticking up in the air. They both had headlocks on one another and their heads were on the bed leaving their butts sticking up. I wasn’t mad but I had enough so I walked over and with each hand loaded up and laid into both asses in front of me. It went from a wrestling match to a double yelp as I got them both with a good smack.

 

“OWWWWW!” They both yelled as they stopped their wrestling and began to rub their smarting asses.

 

“Whud’ja do that for?” asked Nick. Matt remained quiet as he just rubbed.

 

“Because, as amusing as it was to watch both of you, I had enough.”

 

“But that really stung!” said Nick as he stood up rubbing his butt.

 

“Sorry. Guess I got your attention though. Want me to kiss it and make it better?” I asked sarcastically.

 

In one complete action Nick said “Yes” and he turned around dropping the back of his pajamas as he mooned me. All I saw as I laughed was my red hand mark clearly on his left cheek.

 

“You keep them down and I’ll kiss it!” I said half joking and half serious.

 

He then wiggled his ass which caused Matt to start laughing. I walked over and Nick hesitated like he wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do.

 

“Stay there,” I said. “If you keep them like that I will kiss it.”

 

He then wiggled it again. “Kiss my butt JR!” he demanded.

 

I walked closer leaned over and placed my lips on his red, left cheek and kissed it.

 

“That’s gross!” yelled out Matt before he started to laugh again.

 

Nick pulled up his pajamas and went over to Matt. “Shut up!” he said jokingly as he shoved Matt back onto the bed. He laughed harder at Nick and he leaned in and gave him a punch in the arm. In stead of stopping Matt grabbed his arm and continued to laugh. It hurt and he was half laughing and half writhing in pain. Finally he sat up while rubbing his arm and looked at Nick.

 

“That hurt you shit!” he said to Nick.

 

That started Nick laughing. I just shook my head and turned to walk out of the room.

 

“When you two are done, let me know.” I said as I walked out with a smirk on my face.

 

As I entered my room, I heard what sounded like another solid punch or smack and then Matt came flying into my room.

 

“JRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!” he screamed as he ran and tried to hide in front of me to get away from Nick. I turned and Nick came into my room rubbing his arm.

 

“That hurt too you ass hole!” he said to Matt who was now laughing back at him.

 

Even though I was still amused on some level, I didn’t want them killing each other so I proclaimed their fighting over.

 

“OKAY! That’s it. You both got your shots in, it’s over!”

 

“I’ll get you tomorrow!” Nick said as he leered at Matt. “Payback’s a bitch Matt so when you don’t expect it, I’ll get mine,” he smirked and turned to leave my room.

 

“JR he can’t do that!” Matt whined to me.

 

“Oh really, why not?” I said to him.

 

Not having a good reply he looked at me… “Because I said so!” he replied trying to reason an answer.

 

“Okay Matt, you go with that,” I said, pretty much ending the battle.

 

I pulled by bed back and he went to sit on the other side. Apparently now he is going to pout. I got up and walked across the hall and in by Nick who was getting into bed. I waited for him to settle down and then I sat next to him.

 

“Have a good night, I love you Nicky,” I said to him as I looked him in the eyes.

 

“Thanks, I love you too JR.”

 

I leaned in close. “And go easy on him tomorrow,” I said in a low voice.

 

He smiled at me.

 

“I will, I promise,” he replied back to me in the same tone.

 

I leaned in and gave him a kiss on the forehead.

 

“Thanks JR. I love it when you do that to me.”

 

I ruffled his hair.

 

“I love doing that to you. Good night,” I said as I got up and turned out his light.

 

 I walked out leaving the door open a crack and went into my room closing my door the same way. Matt was still sitting on his side of the bed half sulking and probably half waiting for me to get back in there.

 

“Ready for bed?” I asked. 

 

“I guess,” he said.

 

I got in and put my feet under the covers. Then I reached out and turned off my night light leaving the room dark. Matt was still sitting up.

 

“What’s up sweetie?”

 

“Just thinking about the day. How everything went.”

 

“Good thoughts I hope.”

 

“Mostly good,” he hesitated. “Thinking about mom,” he hesitated again. “Wondering if she is watching over me now.”

 

“I’m sure she is Matt. Just not too closely or she might get mad at what we do.”

 

He turned and got into bed.

 

“Nah, I don’t think she was too mad JR. If she was, she never would have given that letter to her lawyer giving you custody of me.”

 

“When did you get so smart cute boy?”

 

“Dunno,” he said as he put his head on his pillow. “Just guessing.”

 

I leaned over and gave him a kiss.

 

“Guess all you want Matthew, because I think you are right. I just hope she doesn’t look too close or she might not like everything she sees.”

 

He reached out and grabbed my right hand as I lay next to him on my side. At the same time he lifted his shirt exposing his belly. He put my hand down on his belly.

 

“Rub me JR, please.”

 

I started to run my hand up and down his belly and chest slowly. Every so often I would catch a sensitive spot and he would jump a little. I purposely let the middle of my arm run over his crotch after doing this for a good minute and it brushed a new lump that formed in his pajamas. I didn’t stop to touch him there. I just kept running my hand up and down his belly as I listened to him breath as he lay completely still. Finally I stopped and pulled away. Before I could readjust myself he started to speak.

 

“Why did you… ohhhh,” he said without finishing.

 

I moved my hand from his belly down to his stiffie and was now running my hand over it.

 

“JR that feels so good,” he said in a whisper.

 

After several passes he stopped me.

 

“Wait a second,” he said.

 

The bed moved as he picked up his butt and pulled them down to his knees.

 

“Okay, now I am ready.”

 

I reached back over and felt his hardness without anything in the way. I began to run my fingers up it and over the tip. He let out a soft moan.

 

“Ohhhhh yeah,” he said softly.

 

I brought my fingers from the tip down the sensitive underside and then back up to his hole again. I did this several times with just one finger before I stopped and reached lower to gently rub his balls. I found them somewhat down between his legs and hanging away from his stiffie. I gave each one a little attention and he cooed at me. I went back up to his hardness after that and began to stroke it with my thumb and index finger. From top to bottom slowly up and down. After several passes I felt wetness start to form a little at the top. I touched it with a finger and brought it to my lips. Sweet nectar! I went back to what I was doing with my two fingers. After three or four minutes he started to squirm a little. I knew I was getting to him.

 

“JR if you don’t stop I am going to make a mess,” he said quietly.

 

“I can fix that sweet boy,” I replied.

 

I repositioned myself bringing my face to his hard cock. I opened my mouth and found my prize. As I started to wet and taste him he gasped in pleasure.

 

“Wow that’s so awesome,” he whispered.

 

I slowly started licking every bit of his cock as he squirmed some at my tongues touch to his sweet, beautiful member. When I had him wet enough I took all of him into my mouth and tightly closed my lips around his entire cock. Then I slowly pulled off him, holding his boy meat tightly between my lips. This caused him some extreme level of bliss by the way his body was reacting and twisting around. I was doing everything I could to please him. I could tell I was doing it well by how he was lifting his hips slightly to meet me as I pumped up and down it. I added my tongue as I flicked it across his cock head without letting go of him with my lips. I finally released him with a little pop as I sucked as much as I could all the way to the tip of his rock hard boy meat. I went back again. I started to work him good now as I also ran my free hand over his right butt cheek to add to his delight. It was time to give my angel his gift. I stopped briefly to allow him to settle down since we were rocking the bed some with all our action, not to mention the noises I was causing him to make. Then I took him back into my mouth and concentrated on just the head of his cock now. I began to flutter my tongue over his sensitive piss slot which quickly made him move his hips back away from me as the feeling apparently became too strong. I stopped once more before I went down and took just the entire head of his cock into my mouth and sucked with everything I had and then sped up on just his cock head but not the shaft. I could tell my teasing was driving him insane.

 

“JR… I am getting close. You are making me crazy it feels so good! I am gonna cum!” he said loud enough that if Nick was awake he could have heard him.

 

I didn’t stop or slow down as he said that. I kept going and after four more passes over his bulging, engorged penis, he let out a moan and began to fire into my mouth. I took three decent shots of his love seed into my mouth swallowing as he shared it with me. After he dribbled out his last shot I backed off and let him enjoy the blissful pleasure he was getting. I sat there licking my lips and listening to him breathe, fast but steady as the orgasm overtook all of his precious senses. I waited as he slowly came back to me moments later.

 

“Oh man!” he said. “Oh man!”

 

I reached over and grabbed a few tissues and put them on his belly.

 

“You should probably wipe up some. I know you dribbled after I pulled away.”

 

 “That’s okay JR I need the bathroom.”

 

He sat up, pulled his pajama bottoms off and left the room half naked. A few seconds later I heard the water running in the bathroom and then the toilet flush. After that, he came back into my room and got back into bed as he was, half naked, leaving his PJ bottoms and underwear on the floor.

 

“You aren’t getting dressed?” I asked.

 

“Nah, not after that, I don’t have a reason to. I feel okay sleeping this way with you.”

 

 “Okay, that’s fine. I was just wondering. You can sleep any way you want.”

 

I lay back down on my back and he got comfortable briefly on his side of the bed after he pulled the covers up.

 

“Thanks JR,” he said reaching out his hand to me. “I loved it and I love you so much.”

 

He scooted over closer to me and leaned in and gave me a kiss. I sat up some and gave him one back. I lay back down and he got right next to me and I could feel his naked lower half as he touched his leg and hip against my leg. I put my arm around him and slowly started stroking his head.

 

“I like that,” was all he said as he began to fall asleep. Soon after that I joined him.

 

 

 

To be continued…