Second Chance, Chapter 70
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Second Chance Chapter 70
Dinner with Rob and his extended family was just what the doctor ordered to give Luc a different perspective on life and its value. He was inundated by all the love he saw in the household. Perhaps he could eventually find happiness again with someone. He was certain that it wouldn't be with Garret.
Rob could read his brother's body language very well and sensed that there was something going on besides longing for his boyfriend. He invited Luc to stay over since they hadn't been together much lately. Luc was hesitant at first, but decided that he needed to be near Rob and Blake. They made him feel better. Playing with Robbie certainly cheered him up.
"Call Mom so she won't worry. We can find you clothes and your toothbrush is always in the bathroom cabinet. You don't have much to shave, so you don't need a razor."
"I've got more to shave than you think," Luc insisted. "You're probably remembering your own scraggly beard at my age."
"Hey, a day's growth looks sexy on young guys," Rob laughed, taking no offense to his brother's teasing. "I'll look for a magnifying glass so we can all be in awe of it in the morning!"
Before going to bed, Luc was invited up to see Eric and Josh's apartment. He loved what they had done, but it made him kind of sad knowing that he'd probably messed up his chance of ever sharing that kind of experience with Garret.
"You'll have to bring Garret over to admire it as well," Josh joked. "It could give you guys ideas for your own nest in a couple of years.
Big tears started to run down Luc's cheeks. The mention of his boyfriend's name brought back the whole afternoon like instant replay.
"What's wrong?" Eric asked gently, placing an arm around Luc's shoulders.
"I've ruined everything," Luc sobbed. I messed around with Aaron and Garret's going to be pissed."
"What happened?" Eric exclaimed.
"I was over at his house and we were watching porn and I couldn't keep my pants on and he jacked me off."
"It could have been worse," Josh observed. "You didn't do anything intimate like go down on him, did you?"
"N-n-no, but I let him see me and handle me and I came a bunch."
"You'll have to level with Garret, of course," Josh continued. "If you aren't honest, your relationship is doomed."
"I know. I'm not sure I want to live if I lose him." Luc sobbed again.
"There's a chance he might forgive you. Don't talk about not wanting to live. Too many gay kids off themselves already. You need to remember that you're our brother just like Rob is," Eric added.
"Thanks. I guess I can face it if I have everyone's support."
Both guys hugged Luc tightly before he descended the stairs to the guest room.
When Thanksgiving Day finally arrived, the Larson-Brady household drove to the country club in two cars to meet the Mancini family. They all arrived at the same time and entered the dining room as a group.
The food and service were excellent. The boys thought it was almost as good as eating at home except for the fact of not having leftovers. They didn't realize that Scott and Ben had ordered a whole large turkey so that there would be extra to take home for sandwiches and soup. They were not the only ones who had done so.
When they had all eaten their fill, they sat back to visit while the wait- staff boxed up what was left. As they were sitting there feeling full and lazy, they were joined by Peter and Tinker Bell.
Tinker was very excited about the progress on the Morrison Hotel renovation and shared the pictures she had taken on Wednesday. She pointed out the special wall that was being constructed in order to safely display Josh's "Angel of Mercy." Everyone was pleased to see how well things were moving ahead.
When Garret got home on Friday afternoon, the first thing he did was to go to Luc's house to see him. He took his boyfriend into his arms and gave him a big kiss since no one else was in the foyer.
Luc tensed up and his reaction was half-hearted. Garret began to worry immediately. Luc escorted him up to his room where they could be alone. Once there, Garret wanted to know what was going on.
"What's the matter; did I do something wrong?"
"Nope, I did. I screwed up and I'm very sorry. I hope you'll forgive me someday."
"What exactly did you do?"
"I messed around with someone else."
"What the fuck?"
"I didn't mean to, it just happened. You can hit me if you want."
"How in the hell could you do that? You're the one who went ballistic when you thought I was getting it on with Jared. You were jealous and hurt to the max. How am I supposed to feel?"
"I'm sorry," Luc sobbed. "I'll never do it again, I promise. Please don't kick my ass to the curb!"
"When you messed around, what did you do? Did you suck his dick? Did he fuck you?"
"No, we were watching porn and pulled our pants down and he jacked me a couple of strokes and I blew."
"Who was it?"
"Promise you won't hurt him."
"I should punch his lights out, but I won't." Garret promised.
"It was Aaron and it's my fault as much as his. He and Sam are okay with doing some stuff with other guys. I should have left the minute he told me that. I was so horny that I wasn't thinking right. I'm so sorry."
"Yeah, you've said that several times, but it doesn't change what happened. I'm outa here. Right now I can't stand the sight of you. Damn!"
Having said that, Garret ran down the stairs and out to his car. He peeled away in anger and nearly hit a car that was coming from behind him.
Luc stayed in his bedroom crying for the next hour. Finally, he fell into a fitful sleep. When his mother came to call him for dinner, he told her he wasn't hungry.
"Hi Mom, what's up?" Rob said as he answered his phone on Saturday morning.
"It's your brother. He's been in his room crying half the night. Could you please invite him over to see if you can do something? I think he and Garret must have had a fight. Garret was here only about five minutes yesterday and left in a hurry. I'm worried."
"Okay, I'll see what I can do. Usually Robbie can cheer him up like he did a few days ago."
Luc looked like death warmed over when he reached the Larson-Brady house. Rob didn't say anything at first, but simply hugged his brother tightly.
"I fucked up," Luc whispered, not wanting to teach Robbie any bad words. "I cheated and Garret can't stand the sight of me."
"How? Why? Garret is such a nice guy. Anyone would be thrilled to have him as a boyfriend. What possessed you?"
"I don't know. Please don't rag on me. I've been beating myself up already."
"Does anyone else know about this?"
"I confessed to Eric and Josh when I was here the other night."
"Let's talk with Blake and them. Blake probably knows more about what to do since he was cheated on several times by Reese. He's had experience in forgiving. He'll have an idea of what Garret's thinking."
Rob summoned Eric and Josh to come down to their living room and the four of them talked with Luc while Robbie sat on his lap. Blake held out hope that things could be rectified.
"If jacking off with another guy was all Reese had done and if he'd have learned his lesson, I would have taken him back in a flash. If fact, I did several times. Of course if I hadn't finally booted his cheating ass, I wouldn't be married to your wonderful brother. So for me, it was actually better that he couldn't settle down."
They talked for nearly an hour before Rob suggested that Luc go home and get clothes to stay the weekend. He felt like his younger brother needed all the support and distraction he would have there.
Dinner dishes had barely been cleared when a knock was heard at the front door. Josh answered and saw Garret standing there looking about as bad as Luc did.
"Sophia said Luc was here. May I see him, or would he rather not have me around?"
"I'm sure he wants to see you," Josh said. "That is, as long as you're not planning to rough him up."
"Did he tell you?"
"Yeah, we got the whole story. Come on up to the guest room. I think he's there."
Garret followed Josh and Eric up the stairs.
"Garret's here to see you," Josh announced as he entered the half open door.
"Hi," Garret said with a weak smile.
"Hey," Luc responded not looking him in the eye.
"I want to talk to you, please."
"Okay."
"Uh, we'll close the door and leave you two alone. Come up and see our digs before you go, Garret." Eric offered as they left to go on up to their apartment.
Garret sat on the bed close to Luc. Luc began to tear up feeling him so close, but was afraid to say or do anything. Garret sensed his reticence and lay down on the bed pulling Luc with him so that Luc's head rested against Garret's chest.
"I guess I came down kind of hard on you, but I was really hurt." Garret began.
"I deserved it. I thought about ending it all." Luc said.
"Like dying?" Garret shuddered.
"Yeah, but Rob called me when I was at the river, and yesterday I searched Mom's medicine cabinet and she doesn't have any sleeping pills since she kicked our father out. There wasn't anything to take and I couldn't figure out another way to kill myself."
"Luc, if you had done that, I'd have followed you."
"But I deserve to die, not you! I cheated. I fucked up what we had."
"We still have it. After I got home, I started to think about it. What you did hurt me, but it wasn't the worst thing you could have done. You didn't fall in love with anyone. You didn't have real sex. I'm sure other guys have jacked off with buddies and done more without telling their boyfriends. It wasn't like a mortal sin. I did the same with Jared when we studied together."
"You didn't!"
"No, I didn't. I just said that to see your reaction. How would you feel if I had?"
"Awful."
"Would you have taken me back?"
"Yeah, if you promised not to do it again."
"How could you do that if I had cheated?"
"Because I love you a lot."
Garret stripped Luc of his shirt and jeans and did the same to himself. He pulled the bedding back and lay down again on the sheet easing Luc into the same position as before, only now skin to skin. Luc began to cry again silently as he listened to Garret's heartbeat. The tears splashed on Garret's chest making him cry as well. He ran his fingers through Luc's hair caressing his head lovingly. They stayed that way for several minutes, simply purging their hearts with their salty drops.
"How can you forgive me?" Luc sniffled.
"Same way you would have forgiven me if I'd have done it with Jared," Garret responded. "We're young and we make mistakes. We have too many good things between us to let this mess us up forever."
"I'm such a shithead." Luc cried.
"Yeah, but I love you, shithead!" Garret teased.
"You don't have to agree with me!" Luc grinned through his tears. "I still don't know what I was thinking."
"It wasn't WHAT you were thinking, but HOW you were thinking."
"Huh?"
"I saw a program on public television about the brain recently. It said that teen brains don't have fully developed connections to the frontal lobes. That's why we do irresponsible things. We don't have the judgment capabilities to understand where our actions will lead. We can't project the consequences very well. The woman who did the research had a 16 year old son who started going Goth and losing interest in school and all. She intervened and got him back on track. Now he's finished college with great grades and studying to be a doctor."
"So there's hope for me?"
"As long as you learn from this and don't cheat on me."
"Do you want to take my cherry now so I'll belong to you totally? It's yours for the asking. I'm ready to commit," Luc said.
"Nope, I want to lie here holding you against my heart. Let's open the door so the guys will know we're okay."
"Alright, but please call your mother and tell her you'll be staying here tonight. I don't know what you're doing for clothes tomorrow." Luc said as he opened the door a crack.
"I put some in the car hoping you'd ask." Garret admitted. "Mom's not expecting me home tonight."
Rob came by the room a few minutes later to see if all was well. Through the partially open door, he saw the two of them lying nearly naked, snuggled together asleep. He smiled at the knowledge that his brother and Garret had evidently made up. After pulling the sheet and blanket over the couple, he went up to share the news with Eric and Josh.
Luc awakened with a start about a half hour later. He looked at the sleeping form of his boyfriend beside him and thanked God that things were going to be alright between them.
Garret woke up realizing he was being stared at. He yawned and pulled Luc against him again, kissing his neck.
"Let's go pee and come back to bed," he suggested.
"Let's take a shower too - in case we want to demonstrate how much we love each other," Luc said.
"I'm cool with that." Garret smiled. "Demonstrations can be very, uh, demonstrative!"
When the pair came down to breakfast in the morning, they were holding hands and looking radiant. They even held hands during the church service. It was evident that their relationship was back on track.
The two of them went to Luc's house for lunch and were welcomed with a warm embrace by Sophia.
"I guess you know we had a fight, but are back together," Luc said to his mother. "It was totally my fault and I'm not going to let it happen again. We DO love each other."
"It's good to see both of you happy," she responded. "Please don't hurt each other again. I know that no one has a perfectly smooth road when they're in love, but please be sensitive and caring."
"We will," Garret promised, looking her in the eye. "I know we're really young to commit, but I want to stay with your awesome son if he'll have me. I'm going to go to the university here in town so we don't have distance to tear us apart. You'll probably see me more than you want to."
"You're always welcome," Sophia smiled. "Because my son loves you and you make him happy, I love you too."
Later in the afternoon, Luc locked the door to his room so that he could demonstrate his love for Garret again physically. He fell to his knees immediately and began to nuzzle Garret's crotch making him rise to the occasion. He reached up to unzip his khakis and free the trouser snake inside. Sucking in the tip, he made Garret shudder with anticipation.
Garret pulled him up to a standing position and kissed him, tasting himself on the lips that had just pleasured his cock. Then he knelt and did the same thing to Luc. This led to more making out and undressing. In a few minutes, both teens were naked on Luc's bed. They got into the 69 position and quickly brought each other to an awesome climax.
They kissed tenderly in the afterglow and fell asleep for a few minutes to recharge their systems. Then they helped each other dress before Garret had to leave for home.
Author's notes: Thanks to Rutabaga, Bill, John McD, Paul R, Ed H, Mark H, Rad, Walt S, Richard Y, Jim We, Paul F, Polar, Bobby M (Christmas Story), Chris B, and Chea for emailing since last posting. Your responses keep me going!