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HoT FuN iN THe SuMMeRTiMe: TRaNSiTioNs WriTten by T. Chase McPhee
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They played it by ear, first going for the necessities, Adam instructing, "Clothes first."
"What about my computer?"
Changing plans, Adam said he would gather Jake's clothing into the big garbage bags, "You get your computer and any other things you value. You let me worry about the threads!"
Fortunately they had comandeered one of the Shipman-Inc. limousines, so it was an easy task, other than traveling up and down a flight of stairs `a hundred times', for the two to load every stitch of clothes Jake owned, including those from the hamper, which of course Adam reminded him to take. For Jake, into his backpack he stashed his laptop and other techie devices, iPod, etc. Waiting at the side of the limo, the driver, Edilson, helped stuff the bags into the back compartment, big enough to hold the first four bags Adam brought out. Each time Adam or Jake would bring something out, he asked, "Is this it?"
Checking his watch, Adam says, "Right now they should be almost ready to leave the cemetary for the reception hall. Are you ready?"
"For what?" Jake asks.
"Have you taken all you wanted?"
"I think I have to go back for one more thing," Jake replies.
Looking upon the back of the limo, stuffed to the gills, Edilson, the driver comments, "I don't think we can fit another thing in here. These shocks were meant for people, not what they carry!"
Assuring him the things he was headed back inside the house for would not blow out the tires, Adam followed Jake back inside. They entered a room Adam was not accustomed to visiting. "Is this your father's office?" he guessed, noting the stationery items, computer, things a company businessman would stock a home office.
"Yeah. It's in here I think," Jake said, opening a file cabinet draw.
"What?" Adam asks, looking into the paper cavern.
Instead of a file folder, Jake extracts, "When my father `did' do stuff with me, it was mostly me following up on these," he said of the navy blue coin folders.
"Wow!" Adam said of the quarters with the states engraved on them. "You have all fifty?"
"See for yourself," Jake replied, handing Adam the folder, "then grab up some others out of the draw and hand them here."
Taking up his father's attache case, Jake opened it, placing it on the desk. Then he proceeded to arrange the coin folders neatly in the bottom. "This is where working out in the school gym is going to pay off!"
Still, when the case was filled to the edge, Jake had to take some out, put them in the only other holding container they could find, a small waste bin.
They were inside the limo, taking a breather when Jake exclaims, "Hold it... hold it! One more thing!"
Two minutes later, Jake was dashing across the lawn, holding up his toothbrush!
Once again inside the limo, Jake says, "I only have one regret."
"What's that?"
"I feel like I'm betraying Kip."
"Yeah. I do kind of feel the same, but there's no reason why you can't pick him up and do stuff together from time to time?"
"Right," Jake replies, "but looking to the negative is `the wicked witch of the west' going to allow me?"
"You can only do the best you can Jake," Adam this time doing the thigh pinching.
Edilson butts in, "Say, where are you guys going to stash all this stuff?"
Adam and Jake look at each other, jaws dropping, both enunciating the words, "OMG!"
"Didn't think of that little detail did you?" their driver asks.
"Not," Jake replies, but confronts Adam, "What am I going to do with all this stuff Adam?"
"We," Adam replies. "Remember, we're in this together, right?"
"Maybe for a night or two, but... frankly Jake, I don't think my parents would want you to like `live' with us."
"At least `they' understand."
Listening in, Edilson asks, "Understand about what?"
One thing Jake and Adam learned from this whole `out' business is older people, those like fifty and over had much less likely of a tolerance towards gay issues, let alone anything which has become more acceptable in society. But weighing the fact Edilson prying, they chanced him being okay with, "Adam and I are gay."
"Oh, so you're a couple?"
It was a sign of relief, Adam and Jake exchanging glances. Immediately, from Edilson's response, the two knew everything was copasetic, so Adam continues, "No. Just really good friends."
"Yeah," Jake carries it, "since we were in sixth grade."
"Long time," Edilson replies. "You know, I'm sure it would be alright with my brother if you placed this stuff in his garage?"
"Really?" Jake jumps at the chance. "Are you sure?"
"Sure I'm sure," Edilson replies. "And if you need a place to stay I'm sure he wouldn't mind taking you in."
"Cool!" both teens reply.
They did have reservations about Edilson dropping them off at the church hall, with all Jason was worth in the limo, including the twenty or so coin folders, worth plenty, but Adam had a good feeling and relayed it to Jake.
"I hope you're right," Jake says.
"When have I ever been wrong?"
It would not be the first time Jake has reminded Adam, "The time when you mistook the guy at the gas station for being gay and he wasn't?"
"He said we both could give him a blow job?" Adam replies, as always.
And always the answer, Jake says, "You're fuckin' lucky he didn't call the cops!"
"He was a nice guy."
"He was a little into himself."
"Yeah," Adam agreed, "and such an exhibitionist!"
But then they stood there at the entrance to the reception hall, Jake asking, "What do I do?"
"Be yourself."
"You mean myself before I alerted mother's church friends I was gay or before, when I lived in the stuffy closet?"
"Be yourself the way you are now Jake!"
"Okay," Jake replies, placing his fingers around the long door handle to the church, which resembled a plumber's pipe attached to two door knobs.
He opened it ajar, Adam placing his palm against it, closing it.
"What tha?" Jake asks.
"This is for good luck!" Adam gives him a kiss.
Jake immediately warns, "There could have been somebody watching, Ad?"
"Yeah right, but remember you're out. You don't have to worry about stuff like that anymore?"
Putting it to Jake, he thought it okay, but still had his reservations. "I suppose you're right, but can we off on the gay stuff after we get inside?"
"Sure. We're here to pay respects to your father. Not to cause a scene. Besides, we don't need your mother bitching about it, do we?"
In frustration, Jake replies, "It would make it so much easier if she would just accept things, instead of fighting them."
"I know, but it has taken centuries to get to where we are today. Give it time Jake. Probably fifty years from now it'll be as natural as shopping at a supermarket and it being commonplace for same-sex couples to shop without even caring they're a couple."
"Too bad people couldn't have thought like you do fifties years `ago'!"
"Things can't be as sweet as that all the time Jake."
Then, thinking about it, about how others have paved a way for future generations, Jake asks, "Adam?"
"What?"
"I'm not saying this because of my mother's unacceptance of who I am, but because maybe this church needs to wake up and start thinking about the issues. Maybe not for the adults, but for the children, someday they are going to have to be exposed to things like two guys walking down the street holding hands." Jake slips his hand into Adam's palm. Same time, his other hand is opening the door.
"Jake?" Adam says, pulling their hands apart. "You said...."
"I know what I said." Then grabbing Adam's hand once more, Jake replies, "I changed my mind, okay?"
And so it went, the two eighteen year olds walking into the Braxton Baptist Church and Community Center, conversation beginning to dwindle until only clinking forks on plates remained, a few stragglers from the conversation pools, their attention being cast towards the doorway to see the silhouette of the two high school graduates walking hand-in-hand.
Kip, first to encounter inside the door, he makes it as quiet as possible, "Mom's gonna kill you!"
The headlines flashed in front of Adam, `Baptist mother kills son at dead father's reception'.
Jake, totally ignored Kip's comment, responding instead, "Solidarity bro!"
"Huh?" the twelve year old replies, cocking his head to the side.
Adam breaks out of his newspaper in the air, asking, "Are you with us Kip?"
Still the young teen didn't get it, till Adam snatched up his hand. "Are you with us?" he reinforced his position.
"Okay," Kip replies and allows Adam to stay latched onto his hand.
Well, none of this lasted very long. Who were they kidding? Jake's mother allowing this to happen in front of all her Baptist friends? In two seconds flat, she was across the room, swiping Kip's hand away from Adam's, hiding the kid behind her back more or less, shielding him from the two `evil ones'.
"Your kind is not welcomed here!" Then to Jake in particular, "How could you do this to your father?"
Outside Jake said he wasn't going to make a scene, but he wasn't about to let his coming out be totally erased from peoples mind once the reception was over.
"I know you don't understand, but I like being with `my kind' mother. As for father, I'm sure he would not fit in the mold of your radical Christian beliefs."
"Your father is just as much a Christian as I am and furthermore...."
"Oh? Is that so mother? Would your Christian friends have a cow if they knew dad was an atheist?"
Maybe it was true, but fired up in emotional stress, Jake's mother's stress levels began to accelerate and she couldn't contain herself, yelling at Jake, then turning to violence. Her hand, stretched out to the side, flew sideways through the air, catching Jake on the side of the face.
"Ugh-h-h... oh shit!" Jake exclaimed.
If not for Adam standing next to him, chances are Jake would have wound up against the farthest wall, such was the blow to the side of his head.
"Jake... you okay honey?" Came Adam's immediate concern. And when Jake responded in the affirmative, still feeling up his teen shadow, Adam slaughtered with words, "Really Mrs. Calder... acting with a violent act in front of all your Christian friends?"
Then, coming forwards, taking Jake's mother's arm in his, the pastor of the church says to them, "In the best interests of the family I think you two better leave."
"What?" Jake got his last dibs in, "And not eat the food I so painstakingly gathered early this morning, so the reception for my father's gay and straight friends could pay honor to him?"
Oh, the pastor was a livid as Jake's mother, coming back at Jake with, "The only `vermin' in this church are you two boys and I would suggest your leaving before it becomes necessary to contact the police?"
"Here Jake, catch!"
At least there was one person on his side, Kip, throwing him one, then another apple.
"Thanks bro!"
But it wasn't a happy scene for the twelve year old, getting pretty much the same treatment as Jake, minus the swat aside the face, but a rugged tug at the collar of his suit jacket sent him reeling backwards, into the clutches of his mother's arms. She accused, "Oh no you don't. You two devils have done enough damage to this family and I forbid you to make contact with Cindy or Kip ever again!"
Cindy was off someplace in the nursery, but as for Kip he wasn't giving up. "Don't listen to her Jake!"
Out the door and down the steps, heading for the limo, Jake hands Adam an apple.
Adam says, "I'm going to save this."
"Not hungry?" Jake asks as he bites into his apple.
"Of course. We teenagers are always hungry, but I'm going to save this as a token of your first time standing up for the gay community."
"Well I don't think I did too well. Did you see the faces of all the others?"
"Matter of fact I did scout around the room," Adam replied in a way in which it left reason for doubt that everyone was in unison regarding their beliefs.
"Okay. What's up?" Jake asks as they near the limo.
"Do you remember the rookie pastor who was standing next to the others at the grave site?"
"The dark-haired guy with the white collar? Yeah. Actually I thought he was kind of hot. What a shame he's one of the bigots!" Jake says with accusation.
"Your mind was probably on what the dude reading the eulogy was saying, but I have to admit it was pretty much making me drowsy, so I kind of took up checking out guys and a few times I could swear his eyes and mine locked a few times."
"What are you saying Adam?"
"Wait. There's more. Just now, while the chief priest was over defending your mother, our eyes locked again and guess what?" Adam didn't wait for Jake to talk. "He cracked a little smile."
"No way! Do you think...."
"Could be nothing. Out of all those peops there's got to be one or two who doesn't agree with everything which was happening."
Jake giggled.
"What?"
"It's too bad the crew from the office weren't there."
"Yeah," Adam thinks too. "Oh could you see it? I bet Jonathan Trent would have turned around slapped your mother!"
"Yeah," Jake replies. "And I could just see him doing something like that."
"Yeah," Adam says too, as they climb in the limo, "and can you picture Sam wrestling the priest to the ground?"
Jake says, "Yeah and he'd probably rip open his pants and start sucking him off!"
Carried away with their joking, was lifting their spirits. Too, the smoky black glass windows of the limo played a part in them not seeing a figure walking towards the vehicle. Neither knew someone was standing outside until the heard a tapping on the window. With a push of a button, Adam is lowering it.
"It's you!" Adam exclaims.
"Me?" the dude asks.
"Hey Jake? This is the rookie priest I was telling you about!"
"Rookie priest?" the Christian dude questions.
Adam replies, "Well you're not the head priest, so I figured you were...." then forgetting all that jazz, Adam inquires, "Um, why are you like... here?"
Leaning with his arms along the window ledge, the young priest leans in and says, "I know I can't speak for those inside, but I would like to extend my apologies for the way they acted." Shaking his head, he tells them, "They are just not ready for the truth, so they make up excuses or totally ignore it." Then, switching from Adam to Jake, "I like the way you stood up for yourself in there Jake."
"Thanks. Um, does it look like I was scared shit?"
"No. Not really. I do admire you for turning the other cheek."
"Huh?" Jake asks, with not understanding.
"Jesus. He says something to the effect, when a man causes you harm, instead of acting out the same agression he has bestowed upon you, turn the other cheek."
"And?" Jake asks.
A love tap to the side of Jake's face, one Adam and he have often done to each other when they `don't get it', Jake takes on the faux slap. "What he means is for you take whatever the guy dishes out and don't get angry at him, right um... hey, what's your name?" Adam realizes they were talking to the dude without the respect of knowing who he was.
Reaching in, the white-collared dude replies, "I'm Adrian Devyn Boyet the fourth. And you?"
Adam smiles, replying, "Adam Oliver Telemann the first!"
Jake was bored before the two even got started, so turned his attention to Edilson, filling him in on what transpired a few minutes ago.
"Good to meet you," Adrian replies, but then adds, "my close friends call me Devyn."
With hidden motives, Adam asks, "Um, like what does somebody have to do to become your `close' friend?"
Devyn knows Adam `knows' and replies, "Um, you're not going to like tell the homophobics inside are you?" He thumbs over his shoulder at the church building.
"I could," Adam replies, "but I'm not really that type of guy. Y'know, `our kind' have to stick together?"
All Devyn did was smile.
Then Adam strikes up a deal, "Tell ya what though, you come with us now and help unload this stuff and maybe I'll keep my mouth shut!"
Little did Adam know, the twenty-four year old pastor standing, had such an urge to reach his bod further into the limo, take the back of Adam's head in his hand and kiss those lips! But what holy terror would be unleashed if one of the parishers caught him? He was taking a chance talking to Adam in the limo no less!
"I guess I would not mind a little slave labor in exchange for you to keep our little secret?"
"Are you going like that?" Adam asks. "Or do you want to change?"
"I'll just step over to the phone booth and change!"
Devyn helped himself, grabbing the door handle and pulling it open. At first, Adam and Jake occupied the two swivel seats with their backs facing Edilson, but when Devyn hopped in, Adam switched to the backseat.
"What's this?" Jake asks, turning his attention from Edilson.
"Devyn. He's coming along to help us unload the stuff in Edilson's brother's garage," Adam replies.
But the two teens stopped for a moment when Devyn paid them no mind, loosening the white collar from around his neck, then unbuttoning one, then two buttons.
"Keep going," Jake joked.
Inside, the limo took Devyn out of his pristine world, turning him into an ordinary, everyday gay guy. He asks Adam, "Is he horny like this all the time?"
Laughing, Adam answers the question, "All the time!"
"I am not!" Jake responds, reaching forwards and slapping Adam on the knee.
Nobody would have guessed it's the precise time Edilson takes it upon himself to pull forwards. Without the restraint of his seat belt, Jake took a nose-dive into the back seat.
Devyn says, "Oh my... truly this boy is horny!"
Jake's face landed right in Devyn's crotch, his knees hitting the floor, `assuming the position'! And as soon as he could steady himself, catching up with the inertia of the car moving, he backed out of Devyn's crotch and poised himself in one of the swivel seats, immediately fastening his seatbelt. While finishing up on the latch, he informs Devyn, "Sorry, but I don't swing that way!"
Getting it, Devyn again drops innocence and replies, "Good to know. Hmm, I bet you have a juicy piece of meat to tenderize?"
Adam puts it to Devyn, "Looks like Jake isn't the only horny guy around here!"
"Right now I'm feeling `very' horny," Jake says, clutching his crotch with his hand. "Anytime you want to come over here and take care of this reverend, feel free to make your move."
Devyn replies, "Next time your driver puts on the brake!" But of course, Devyn has his seat belt on. Also, out of the two in the back seat with him, he had more of a fond desire to making friends with Adam!
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Back at the office, the elder Shipman had called TJ into his office and regarding a serious matter. He started into his long speech about the acquisition of some stock, "Thomas, we have to handle this situation with the utmost sensitivity."
"Regarding?"
"It's a good thing Jake Calder got ticked off at his mother."
"How so?" TJ asks, kind of confused at where his father was going with this.
As plain as he could put it, Shipman tells, "The sensitive thing I'm talking about here is the `gay issue'."
"What about it?"
"Well, if we ever intend on creating some type of merger with his father's company, we're all going to have to pitch in and try to work this out smoothly, regarding Jake's mother's attitude towards homosexuality."
"You can't turn it on and off like a faucet," TJ replies, getting what his father is driving at.
Part of his plan, he tells his son, "I think in order to get around the issue, we need to take precautions. First off, I want to you to layoff Jake and his friend... what's his name?"
"What?" TJ acts in a furiated manner. "Layoff? You mean `fire' Jake and Adam! Wouldn't that constitute slander? Bigotry? How can you..."
"Now calm down son," his father said, placing his hands on TJ's shoulder and gently depositing him back into his chair.
In TJ's thinking, for a moment he put the subject matter away. There it was again, the `son' biz, something lost between them years ago, resufacing. Too, TJ can't remember his father treating him in such a gentle manner, his hands used to heal and not hurt him.
"I'm not out to fire anyone, nor cause anything as disturbing as your thoughts have dictated. No, I want you to temporary give them a leave of absence, which would...."
"Oh, leave of absence. Now that's different and yes, I see your point."
"Oh really?" TJ's father replies. It's rather `new' to the old man, his son acting with intelligence, like something snapped and he's able to think on his own!
"C'mon dad," TJ talked frankly, "y'know," he confesses, "I know I acted like an asshole for the past few years..." he stands, gets back up on his soap box.
"Yes, you have," his father replies, but instead of seriousness, he cracked a little smile.
"But I've changed."
"I can see that," his father said, standing, walking over to him, "and I'm glad we're finally seeing eye to eye, son."
The promotion was one thing, business, but his father placing his arms around his son, hugging him, it meant something entirely different to TJ, more than signing a paper, closing a business deal or recorded thoughts from a board meeting. Human emotions lent a hand in healing the rift between the two, which had kept the two from leading a solid father-and-son relationship.
"I'm really sorry for being the way I was."
Breaking, his father replies, "Why don't we just put it all to rest. Besides, it's not you I'm worried about at the moment."
Sitting back down, TJ in the chair, his father on the ledge of the desk, they have their first warm father and son chat, which has not transpired in numerous years.
"Chip has changed," TJ puts it in perspective.
His father agrees, "Yes, though I've only seen it happening more recently. Lately he and I have drifted apart."
"I know," TJ replies. "You two were always so close."
It shed some darkness of Alexander Shipman's past relationship with his son. "Most likely the problem, whereas you and I began having our falling out. If only I had paid more attention to you Thomas... um," his coughs, "I mean TJ."
"I think I prefer you calling me Thomas."
"Oh?" Alexander asks.
"Ah yeah. It's different than the staff addressing me. More personal."
Alexander smiled. Some real, warm feelings were surfacing here. "Alright. `Thomas' it is!"
"About Chip," TJ dives back in, "it could be he's just feeling the transition."
"From? To?"
"Every guy goes through it, the high school years fading away and a course set on college ahead of him. I have to admit it was a bit different for myself, but I think because, and this is not meant to make you feel guilty, your spending much time with Chip has made him more grounded."
"But the way in which he is acting?"
"Curiosity," TJ replies. "Haven't we all been through it?"
"Yes and I've been meaning to explain it to you," Alexander says with a smile.
"You don't have to dad. It doesn't matter if your bisexual or gay or whatever you are. I'm following through with how I want to live, as Chip is. It's no different for you."
"At my age I suppose you could term me a late bloomer!"
The two laughed and when it died down, Alexander relays, "I'm glad we had this time to chat."
"Me too," TJ says. To get there before his father thinks of is, "And, I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'll handle Jake and Adam's temporary status."
Moving both hands like crocodiles or hand puppets, Alexander's words accompanying seem to aid in the matter, "Money talks!"
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