Billy grabbed all the dirty towels and various piles of scattered clothing and piled them off to the side. He watched his dad escort a very naked Joel into the house. He left a trail of sweat and piss all the way to the kitchen door.
"Hey Ern" Billy started after them from a distance "need a favor."
"Sure Herms anything!" Ern looked around, watching Moose lower himself into the pool "this was fuckin the most gnarly thing..."
"I need a coupla favors. Go turn off that camera, put the tape in a safe place, where Joel won't find it -- I mean REAL safe okay? Then run down to the seven-eleven and get some more tapes -- "
"C'mon Billy you gotta know we're done -- "
"Maybe but I doubt it. Hurry back and..." Billy wrapped his arm around his shoulder whispering "and the sooner you get back the sooner you can go check on my dad and Joel upstairs okay?"
"But..." he looked at Billy, trying to see the catch.
"It's cool" whispering again "maybe y'might get a chance to get my dad alone?"
"C'mon Herms!"
"Hey I ain't objecting. Besides your Moose might be glad to get his few minutes with his hero and we both know he'd be REAL grateful to you right?"
"Shit..." Ern's face twisted this way and that "I -- shit I don't know -- I mean Moose is -- "
"Not gonna do anything too stupid okay?" Billy looked towards the pool seeing Moose watching them, then turned Ern so they were both facing away "but this is like super important to him Ern y'gotta know that right? Shit, y'ain't gonna lose him to the big Hank okay? Then we're both fucked, right, so I'm do my part to make damn sure that don't happen. After all I got my neck in this too right?"
"Yeah well" Ern tried hard not to turn around "but Moose is -- "
"Your number one bud. And that means you do him favors now and again right?"
"Well yeah."
"And right now, the favor is getting your butt outa here for a while" Billy pushed him towards his clothes "or I'll throw ya to the minnows."
"Funny..." he started putting on his shirt and pants, but the seed of an idea was planted. Damn, if he wasn't involved with Moose, what would happen if he had to "take on" the football team. He was stuffing his bone into his pants when he heard Moose,
"Ern y'ain't leavin?"
"Fuck no. Just gotta get more drinks for Billy -- "
"Y'want me t'come along?" Moose was heading for the pool railing.
"Chill out bud. It's cool, be right back" and he was heading down the driveway, carrying his shoes.
Moose had pulled himself from the water and was walking over to Billy,
"What'd y'say to him?"
"Moose everything's cool okay?"
"He ain't pissed -- "
"Fuck no!" Billy saw Big Hank and Mannie talking by Joel's chair "Mannie these yours?" Billy held up a t-shirt he knew was his.
"Herms leave my stuff --" and with another word or two to Big Hank, Mannie was double-timing over to Billy.
"Shit, I was just -- "
"I know what'y'was gonna just" he pulled it from Billy's hand and pulled it over his head "but I got my a bitch doin my wash already. I'll be right back" and he found his cut-offs and started leaving.
"Where are you goin now?"
"Home for a second, gotta check somethin."
"Now what?" from Billy.
"Chill Herms" and he started leaving.
"You comin back?" from Big Hank.
"Maybe" but it sounded like "doubt it".
"Y'got ten minutes bud" from Big Hank "or we start ringin doorbells" he looked down at himself "like this!"
"Shit..." Mannie was cutting into his yard "shit... fifteen" and he was gone behind the fence.
"Hank" Billy looked at the pile of dirty clothes and towels "Moose, you guys wanna help me a sec?"
"Say wha?"
"Help me get this stuff downstairs" Billy was grabbing as much as he could, but it kept falling out of his arms.
"Geez Herms" Moose looked at him like he was nuts, "gimme a break -- "
"Do it Moose" Big Hank started picking up some of the fallen towels "y'owe this bud at least this one favor."
"Shit okay" but Billy knew he did it for Big Hank not for him. However his plan was working, almost on schedule. He did not know how was going to get Mannie out of the backyard, but that was too lucky, so he just needed to get the last two downstairs and the coast would be clear for Ern to switch tapes with no one looking. And no one seeing where he was hiding it. Especially Joel and his dad. Billy could see his dad was getting caught up in all of this in a big way! Against his better judgement and then some. In spite of the fact his hormones got the better of him too often, his dad was still determind to find a way to do damage control over this whole operation. And especially the steadily deteriorating events this afternoon.
Billy directed the two big lugs into the kitchen and down the stairs to the basement, thinking about that other Friday afternoon, the "working hard" afternoon, and what might have happened if his dad had not been busy upstairs in his bedroom filming everything. What if the camera was not there? Would his dad have "accidentally" shown up and busted up his little party? Right now Billy's guess was, yeah he would have. And maybe the reason -- okay reasons -- he was going along with the script today was... what? These two meatheads were too much for him to take on? Or maybe his dad could see Big Hank was Billy's "buddy" and his dad did not have clue one how to deal with that? Or was Ern just too good at keeping him "entertained"? Well, as long as Moose is cool with it, let's keep Ern all over his dad, Billy thought. Yeah, let's see how far that scene can be pushed.
"Shit Herms..." Moose threw the towels on the floor like they were skanky "don't say nothing about -- "
"About what?" from Big Hank, almost laughing "about you outside playing sex games?"
"Fuck..." Moose looked at them both "shit no, not that!. About me doing fucking laundry!" like that word was worse than anything else. Like he'd be more disgusted if people found out about that than even his "fundraiser".
Billy chuckled, but saw Moose was serious "you mean you really -- " and started to throw the washed clothes in the dryer, and the "skanky" laundry in the washer.
"Billy, Moose here's tellin ya he'd rather parade naked down eighth street before he'll admit to doin women's work, right?" Big Hank's arm was around Moose's slab of a shoulder.
"Well... yeah" he looked at them both "I mean laundry! Shit it's like -- "
"Gettin caught wearing a dress!" Big Hank smiled but no more.
"Worse!"
"Sorry Moose" Billy finished up everything and headed for the stairs, hoping to get back outside before anyone else "didn't realize you were so touchy about it, sorry I wouldnta asked if I knew, okay?"
"C'mon Herms..." now Moose felt he might be overreacting a bit.
"Don't sweat it. Look you two, there's a bathroom and another shower stall -- well the beginnings of one -- right over there if y'wanna get some of that sweat off ya" and he was up the stairs gone. Okay, Billy thought to himself, if I know Moose, he'll give his left ball to get five minutes alone with Big Hank in the shower. But Billy had more pressing concerns right now.
Mannie dashed through the back door into the kitchen, "who's here?" he yelled.
His echo bounced twice before he was up to his room. He did not hear a sound but he got the feeling someone was home. Cigarette smoke? Something was different.
"Anybody home?" but again nothing.
"He went into his room, still expecting to see the swat team at his window but nothing. He changed clothes as he found his phone. He called spead-dial 1.
"Hey" the voice answered.
"Hey Mister Harrison. Will home?"
"Not now. He's out workin. This Mannie right?"
"Yeah, I was checkin if he was around. Some of the guys are here at Herms'
-- a pool party like -- and" Mannie did some quick thinking "if he was just home chillin and -- "
"You boys ain't gettin into trouble like?"
"Shit no Bo, we're just like sittin around like little angels."
"You boys ain't drinkin are you? You don't have girls there?" just like Bo getting all parental all of a sudden. Maybe he's trying to regain some bit of control after everthing's gone down already, Mannie thought.
"Fuck no..." Mannie knew he was catching hell but "just some of the guys is all. Y'know Billy and some of his friends. You remember the Moose right?"
"Yeah... I... remember" sounding very slow and deliberate. What ya getting at, Mannie?
"Moose is here and even one of the football team, y'know Joel? Joel Merklins?"
"Joel who?" Bo sounded genuinely baffled.
"Joel Merklins, football team. He's at the Y with us -- "
"Well I don't get to the Y much" Bo cut in fast. Mannie filled in blanks.
"Don't matter" Mannie nodded and smiled "if that Will comes home send him over" and Mannie sent the torpedo home "tell him it's like a real eye opener. Something he won't be wantin to miss okay?" and he hung up.
So Bo don't know Joel, Mannie filed that bit of trivia away in the recesses of his devious brain. Well somebody's lying here and it was his job to find out who. That story Joel told sounded way too bogus, but somehow Joel sure got Bo's scene down cold. And it's not like public knowledge Bo likes it up the butt, Mannie thought as he changed into clean clothes. He was re-closing his door, heading down the stairs when he heard noises,
"That you ma?" he yelled, but no answer "who's home?"
He went from room to room, expecting someone, a burglar? a cop? to jump him, but nothing. Damn squirrels, he shrugged, and headed back downstairs, grabbing a bottled water as he did. He downed it and headed outside, the blast of hot air surprising him. Damn, he looked at the sky, seeing the clouds thickening, don't fuckin even think bout rainin tonight! Not with my date coming up.
"C'mon Joel let's get you cleaned up" Joe was directing Joel up the stairs and into the bathroom.
"Thanks Mister Herms -- "
"Joe already" he laughed "after all this I think Joe will do."
"Thanks..." Joel headed into the bathroom, catching his reflection in the mirror "shit! -- oh sorry..."
"It's okay" Joe was standing in the hallway, not sure what to do "you okay?"
"I'm a stinkin mess" he saw how he looked, his hair matted and greasy, his face blotchy and streaked with sweat and dirt. His chest and stomach splattered with a combination of dirt and sweat, with drying cum and piss mixed in for good measure. His pubes were shiny and greenish in addition to everything else. And his cock looked like it had been in a fight and lost.
"I look disgusting" Joel looked around "and smell worse."
"Go ahead and take a shower. There's everything you need there" Joe turned to leave, a movement harder than he wanted to admit. Behind him he heard Joel close the bathroom door, the sound of the toilet seat banging down.
Joe went to his room, looking at himself in the mirror as well. Damn, he said to himself, what the hell you let youself get mixed up in this time. He pulled down his briefs, his crotch stubbly and itchy as all hell. He stood there scratching and looking at himself. You really think you still sexy? he laughed. To kids your son's age? You must be fuckin sunstroked, and he found some running shorts and a sleeveless pullover, ragged and splattered with paint stains. Yeah, real sexy, he laughed. He started to pull on the shorts but knew he needed to wash up before he could do that. He went back to the bathroom, not surprised to see the door swung open. Maybe tomorrow, definitely before the wife gets back, he promised himself. He saw the form of Joel in the shower.
"Everything okay?" Joe announced as he came in.
"Yeah fine?" Joel sounded a bit surprised. He had to adjust himself as he felt the water temperature change.
"Sorry" Joe yelled, rinsing his face in the washbasin.
"You wanna get in here before the hot water's gone?" Joel pulled the curtain half-way.
"What?!" Joe's reaction was stronger than he wanted.
"Damn -- I mean -- ah" Joel turned off the water "I'm finished, if y'want..."
"Oh.. okay" Joe watched as Joel pulled the curtain away. Damn, he thought, all cleaned up the kid ain't bad looking. A bit bigger and less toned than... what? now he's getting all super-perceptive about guys' bods? Joe caught Joel seeing where his eyes wandered to "sorry but..."
"It's cool" Joel shrugged "ain't like I got much left to hide" but he felt strange meeting Joe's gaze.
"Look Joel, about before..." Joe stood there, the water in the sink running, trying not to look at the naked husky guy standing in his shower "the guys went too far, they shouldn't have -- "
"It's like this" Joel stepped out of the tub, now a few inches from Joe's backside "if it had been the other way around I guess I would do -- "
"But physical violence is never -- "
"Like I said" Joel looked around for a towel, seeing nothing "and besides..."
"Besides what?" Joe looked almost nervous, this guy right behind him.
"Never mind" Joel reached around him and turned off the water "save your hot water right?"
"Oh! oh yeah..." Joe snapped out of it "right" and stepped into the tub, pulling the curtain closed, and then tugging the shorts off finally. When he turned on the water he realized Joel was not kidding. The water was barely lukewarm. He managed to lather and rinse as the temperature went to cool. When he turned off the water he heard Joel was still in the room with him,
"Joel you still there?" he did not want to pull the curtain aside.
"Yeah..." Joel sounded strange.
"Problem?" Joe pulled the curtain halfway trying to reach for the towel, but saw there was not a towel to be seen anywhere "oh there in the closet in the hall. Grab one for me too?"
"Nah it's..." Joel looked at the toilet "when you're finished in here I gotta use the facilities" and he went out the room to the linen closet and grabbed a towel for Joe.
"What about you?" Joe took it, still half-hidden behind the curtain. As soon as he was wrapped he stepped out, catching Joel's quick glance at his crotch.
"I still gotta..." but Joel did not finish.
"Sorry" Joe stepped out of the way, leaving Joel to use the bathroom in peace.
He heard the door close and was heading for his room when he heard footsteps on the stairs,
"Billy?"
"No Mister Herms it's me" Ern was coming up the stairs.
"Joe already. Call me Joe okay?" he said, his hands frozen on his towel "I think Billy's downstairs. We're making a lot of laundry today it seems."
"Yeah... sorry..." but Ern did not turn around.
"Hey don't sweat it" Joe looked at him carefully "nothin that won't come out in the wash right?"
"Mister Herms -- Joe -- y'mind if..."
"What's up Ern?"
"Is it okay if I talk t'you a second?" Ern looked around, seeing them both standing awkwardly in the hallway.
"Sure what's up?" but Joe got nervous "you upset about what occurred before -- "
"Damn that's what I was gonna ask you about!"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean..." Ern tried to look anywhere but at Joe's front "well... if MY dad knew anything about... I mean, you and Billy -- I mean..."
"You uncomfortable with all of this?"
"No -- I mean yes -- I mean, when..."
"When what?"
"When you found out about Billy -- I mean... that Billy was..."
"You mean Billy was gay?"
"Shit..." Ern looked at Joe, expecting to see the displeasure but instead, Joe was almost shrugging his shoulders "I mean -- all of this... this... you and he musta -- I mean at least talked."
"Yeah we talked some."
"And you're like cool with all this?"
"Well not all of this -- "
"Y'mean like me touching..." Ern looked at where the towel was pulled tight.
"I mean like you boys ganging up on Joel and forcing him to do things. Like hurting him --"
"We were really -- "
"Yes, Ern" Joe was getting angrier by the second. Now, Ern got a chance to see what Joe looked like when he was upset "you were hurting him. And with that camera making it worse for him?"
"But..."
"Well I'm just glad there was no real film in it. You have any idea how much trouble -- "
"You mean worse'n at the doc's? Worse than that 'fund raiser'?"
"There's that too, yes."
"Can I ask you something, Mister -- I mean Joe?"
"Yes" Joe's anger was cooling a bit "just stop calling me Mister Herms. You make me feel like an old geezer."
"You ain't no old geezer" Ern blushed "you're too -- I mean -- you're cool and..."
"Sorry but I really gotta get dressed" Joe looked at the wet floor where he was standing "come talk to me in here" and he went into the bedroom. Ern followed him, more than a bit nervous. He found a chair and sat down. He saw Joe was making no motions to dry himself off.
"You gonna get dressed?"
"That what you came up here to ask me?" Joe saw the problem. What if someone saw him naked in front of this kid in his own bedroom. Indecent exposure for starters, he thought, not to mention statuatory rape.
"No... I mean" Ern looked at the rest of the room "you want me to leave while you..."
"Welll..." Joe again saw the options laid out in front of him, plain and simple. Ahead in the road was the fork, left and you're damned, right and you're... Damn, why did he always listen to his dick? Or was he just giving up?
"Up to you" he said slowly, his hands moving to his waist, the towel tight but starting to give way.
"I wanted to ask" Ern stayed put in response "if you don't wanna say, but like... I mean... when I saw you there at the doc's that afternoon..." both of them not moving a muscle.
"Yes?" Joe looked down at himself. Fuck, who was he kidding, this kid was not here to see some out-of-shape middle-age doofus do a strip. He pulled the towel away and started to dry his hair, his naked shaved crotch steered away from the kid.
"Wow..." Ern let slip under his breath "I mean... I freaked -- I mean totally lost it -- when I saw you that day, and I thought Billy would just die right then and there, but he seemed like... like it just happens every day. And you were going along with it. And then... y'know when they called your number..." Ern's hands were in his crotch, covering himself fast.
"Y'mean when I had to... perform?" Joe turned his back on the kid, not wanting to see the reaction. But he could hear the deep breathing behind him.
"Uh huh" he thought he heard.
"What about it?"
"Why... I mean..." Ern felt the pressure is his crotch again. Man, I think I've been more or less hard all day, he said to himself. He stood up slowly, taking a step "Why'd ya do it? Did they blackmail you into --?"
"You could say that" Joe half-turned to grab his pullover, catching Ern coming towards him, the swelling in his crotch no secret. He pulled it over his head and walked over to the drawers, finding a different pair of running shorts, "you see when I got the call from the doc's I got very scared okay? I knew Billy was working there and..."
"And what happened? What'd they tell ya to get you to --?" Ern was standing as close to Joe as he dared.
"Well they told me ALL the dads of the team were going to be there. Which was a lie, that was not the fuckin case. Sorry I shouldn't be swearing but it wasn't a lie that they said it would be a good idea to -- how'd they put it -- Billy's potential was not to be impeded with any difficulties. So when they -- Kroos actually -- said my presence was very important and okay by that point I was getting a good picture of what was going on down there okay?"
"Was that the first time?"
"First time what?" Joe pulled the shorts up, feeling almost human again.
"Y'know... you..." Ern walked up to him "messed around with... guys" and his hand went out and touched Joe's chest. Joe took a hard breath.
"Christ..." Joe looked around, waiting to be caught "well... not exactly..."
"Please don't tell Billy" and Ern dropped to his knees in front of Joe and pulled down the front of Joe's shorts. Before he could react Ern's lips were on Joe's cockhead, starting to pull it into his mouth.
"Wait stop!" Joe's hands were on Ern's head, trying to pull him away. But Ern's head fought back, his mouth starting to work on Joe's cock, feeling it respond to his sucking. Hell, he was hoping after everything so far, Joe might at least let him just tongue it before he went ballistic. Ern was almost surprised how hard and how fast Joe responded. Before he knew it Joe was starting the slightest rocking rhythm with his hips.
"No please stop!" Joe finally pulled himself away. He stepped back, almost falling onto the bed. He looked down at his hard red cock, and Ern's face covered with spit "we gotta get back --"
"You mad at me?" Ern looked up to him, his face naked with desire, his eyes locked on Joe's, a current of lust connecting them. Joe hesitated long enough for Ern's mouth to return to Joe's bouncing cock. Ern's tongue started a slow up and down licking along the underside, something he knew would get Moose wimpering. But would it have the same effect on Billy's dad? If anything Joe started shaking worse. Ern was in heaven, his mouth working Joe's cock to a pulp, his own cock out and responding to his grip.
"Oh damn oh damn oh damn" Joe's hands went to Ern's head, pulling it into his crotch. When he realized what he was doing he yanked them away fast "no stop!"
"Mmmnurrrrghh" was Ern's response, his tongue working the edge of the crown, down the underside of the shaft, then lapping Joe's shaved balls like Moose trained him. Joe's response was to grab his cock and start jacking fast.
Ern pulled his head back, seeing Joe jack his cock right into his nose. Ern pushed Joe's hand away, replacing it with his mouth. Joe moaned, feeling his balls crinkling and tightening.
"Yeah Mister Herms..." Ern pulled off, his free hand gripping Joe's balls "these all full of cum right? Y'wanna blow right? Y'want me to suck ya off?"
"Fuck yeah -- I mean no! I mean..."
"Exactly" Ern's tongue went back to work, up and down the shaft, spending more time on his balls than anywhere else. Joe was shaking with his building orgasm "yeah gettin close? Gettin close Mister Herms? Gettin close Joe?"
"Fuck fuck fuck" Joe tried to jack him over the top, but Ern kept sliding his hand away when he did. When he thought he was going to go crazy, Ern did something that almost made Joe jump; he pulled up Joe's shorts and struggled to his feet.
"You won't tell Billy!"
"Enough with Billy okay? I won't tell him okay?" Joe grabbed his shorts and was ready to pull them down again, but Ern was straigtening out his clothes and edging for the door "so we gotta get back okay?"
"Promise?"
"Okay I promise! But Ern why did you --" and they heard the toilet flush "oh shit!"
"Joel still up here?" Ern asked from the hallway, still dizzy from standing up so fast. Or was it from one of the most intense experiences since?
"Joel?" Joe was right behind him, grabbing his paint-stained top, hoping to get to the bathroom door before Ern. But Ern already had his hand on the know. Rather, he was to the door first when it opened from inside.
"Dude!" Ern wrinkled his nose and started to laugh "open a window already!"
"Ern enough!" Joe reached around him and grabbed the room freshener off the shelf "you okay Joel?"
"I'm fine" Joel had dashed to the shower as the door opened, pulling the curtain closed.
"Man Merklins you gotta warn somebody okay?" Ern was smiling.
"Ern stop it!" but Joe was giving him a friendly shove.
"Joel ain't you flushed out already?"
"Ern!"
"C'mon... Joe" Ern stepped over to the shower curtain "Joel here knows he gotta clean himself out for the next part of the show right?"
"Ern there ain't gonna be no more show okay?"
"Joel, you ain't thinkin you're finished for the day?"
"Ern, you know what happens if I try to leave" Joel stuck his head out from the curtain "right Joe?"
"Joel, we can all go down there and talk to them" Joe looked at Ern "you too. But first get out of there before you prune, the water must be freezing."
"It just ain't hot anymore" Joel turned off the water "but I still... y'know..." he looked at Ern.
"Joel here's still trying to get that green junk outa his butt, right?"
"Okay... yeah" Joel looked at Joe "sorry."
"You don't need to be sorry" Joe turned around and went to the linen closet. He dug around the bottom shelf and pulled out a box. He set it on the washbasin, "c'mon Ern, let's give the gentleman some privacy."
Ern looked inside the box, seeing the red plastic bag and the tubing "Joel, looks just like what the doctor ordered" holding up the nozzle.
"Eat dirt Ern" Joel saw what he had, and nodded at Joe "you don't really mind?"
"Mind?" Ern looked back and forth "Hell no. Just like you won't mind if Joe here and me stay and and watch right? I bet he ain't ever seen a guy do himself before right?"
"C'mon Ern let's go."
"Joel tell him" Ern looked hard at Joel "you let Joe here watch, me too, or you rather your 'friends' downstairs hear about this" he nodded towards the stairs "cause I got a hunch you rather do it here -- yourself -- than have them do it to you like, with the camera and everything -- "
"Ern!" Joe looked at Joel biting his lip "Joel if I had my way you would leave now okay?"
"And let him go to your friends at the doc's and tell them -- "
"Chill Ern" Joel took a step out of the tub, grabbing the bag "Joe, the little shit is right" he rinsed it off and started filling it with tap water, like standing naked in front of them now was the least of his worries "we all know I ain't getting outa here today without at least one of those goons taking a ride up my butt" he looked at Joe "one of you at least I would not put up too much of a fight over, okay?" he took the full bag and the tubing and stepped back into the tub "so if you two wanna stand here and watch, fine by me" he fitted everything together and brought the nozzle around behind him, finding the spot, "but not a word of this to those jerks okay?"
"Joel, maybe we should..." but Joe felt Ern behind him now, almost blocking the door.
"Go on Joel" Ern said, his hands now on Joe's back "we don't have long before they come looking for us" the palms massaging his shoulders and working down.
"Okay" Joel let the nozzle find his hole, then put his foot up on the tub edge and leaned back into it. He felt it slide in and then released the valve. He watched Joe's face as the water poured into his gut, feeling some of the itching and tingling start to ease. When it was empty he started to manipulate the nozzle, until he felt it rub into his knob. He grabbed the curtain rod with his free hand as he started a slow pushing into his butt, knowing it was making his cock come back to life in front of them. He closed his eyes, knowing he was giving Joe a show he had never seen before. When he felt his insides start to cramp he opened his eyes. Joe stood there, with Ern's one hand working its way to his crotch, his eyes glued to Joel's front.
Okay you two, I need the crapper now!"
Ern and Joe backed out of the room and Joel pushed the door shut. They heard the water hit the bowl and then a quick flushing. After a few moments the door opened. Joel stood at the sink filling the bag again.
"C'mon Joel enough already" from Joe who was very uncomfortable showing them how turned on he was by all this.
"One more okay?" and he stepped back into the tub and in seconds it was connected and back in him. Again he flipped the valve and flooded his insides, this time his other hand was slowly massaging his cock. Again Joel looked to see Ern's hand working its way back to the lump in Joe's shorts, seeing the distinct outline of the circumcised head through the material. Just when Ern was starting to tug at the waistband Joel pushed them out and let go again. This time he was clean. He could feel the steady itching inside him easing maybe a fraction, the worst of that green goo flushing down the toilet. When he was dry again he opened the door expecting the two to be standing at the door going at it like dogs. But no one was there.
He looked up and down the hallway, briefly sticking his head into the bedrooms, still expecting to see the two fucking in one of the beds but nothing. Shit, he thought, this stuff is starting to mess with his head now! Just what the hell was in that damn goo?
For a brief moment he toyed with the idea of sliding out a window and making his escape, a naked stuntman double would come in handy right now. Okay, a clothed stuntman maybe. He went so far as to go into Joe's bedroom to find clothes that might fit him. All he could find lying out in the open was a jockstrap and some damp shorts lying on the floor. He slipped those on then wrapped himself in a large beach towel hanging over a doorknob. Covered as best he could he tiptoed downstairs expecting to be ambushed at any minute. In the kitchen he found Hank,
"Now what's going on?" expecting some nasty kind of comment but Hank just looked up from what he was carrying outside saying,
"You can come outside now the coast is clear" and Hank was gone. Joel peeked through the window seeing Jeff getting ready to leave, and as soon as Hank joined him, the two were heading down the driveway. He could almost hear what they were saying but only caught a few words. When he saw Will Harrison appear from around the corner of the building he jumped back from the window. What the hell was HE doing here? Was he part of this too? Then when he saw that huge version of Will appear as well, he knew his life was over. Joel inched towards the window again, seeing that big guy -- no one other than Will's dad Bo -- start to shake hands with a few of the guys, including Joe. Joel knew he was in the deepest shit now. Oh well if he was going to die, he would die with a full stomach.
He went to the sink and helped himself to several glasses of water, no longer caring about those side-effects at this point. As he hid the glass in the dishwasher he recognized the throbbing hum coming up through the floor. He remembered his clothes downstairs, hoping they were dry enough to salvage from the dryer. He headed downstairs, no longer expecting any interruptions, and found his things in the dryer, thanking his lucky stars for once. His shoes were probably still outside but once he was dressed -- and keeping Joe's jock as a hostage! -- he headed back to the kitchen, hesitating to look out the window again.
He saw Billy and Mannie pulling weight equipment from the garage and setting up next to the pool. The camera was noticeably missing for a change. Will and his dad were next to Joe grilling a fresh round of burgers, and that damn Soulman was splashing around in the pool with Moose, very chummy and very g-rated. Ern was on a lounge chair, looking the picture of underage innocence. Joel laughed out loud at the complete change from all of twenty minutes ago. How fucking wholesome and suburban, he thought. No more Playtime for Pervs! No more Hormones of Hell! He grabbed the door and started outside hoping to find the shoes and leave, no one would say anything with the Harrisons here. They wouldn't fuckin dare!
"Man what's he doin here?" Will spotted him the second he cleared the door "a damn minnow? Billy! What up wit that?"
Billy was emerging from the garage carrying the weight bench with Mannie,
"C'mon Will, you know Merklins! Don't be such a a-hole" looking at his dad, expecting a dirty look. But his dad was busy with Bo.
"Yeah we know Merklins" Will went over to him, a sudden silence over the backyard "still don't explain what you doin here."
"You and your dad drop by, right?" Joel held out his hand. He didn't expect Will to shake but was surprised to get a begrudging knock and slap. They squared off sizing each other up. Joel was a bit amazed how much Will had bulked up since he'd seen him last "man you gettin all bulked up now?"
"Damn straight Merklins" he flexed his bicep his eyes still fixed on Joel's "and it's muscle not fat" he looked down at Joel's belly "not like you minnow!" and let out a laugh, surprised no one else reacted.
"Why don ya leave before ya stink up the place" Will made no move, watching the rest of the group out of the corner of his eye.
"Will don't you be startin nothin today" from Bo coming over to them.
"M - mister Har--harrison?" Joel held out his hand hearing the deadly hush settle over the yard. But Bo just reached out and shook his hand like it was nothing.
"Sheeeet suppose you know my old man too?" Will nodded at his dad. Joel's eyes were almost bugging looking around the group knowing he was trapped. He almost choked,
"Sir?" Joel looked over to Joe hoping he might intercede if it started to go down.
"Jus call be Bo, son" and Bo slapped him on the back breaking the spell"you friend of my Will right?" cocking his eye at the word "friend".
"Shit no" Will cut in "he's a lowlife minnow. I don't --"
"Maybe, maybe not" Bo shot a nervous look between his son and Joel "why?"
"Well I ah yeah I'm at school with your Will and" Joel looked around and raised his voice "and I think I remember seeing Mist- I mean Bo here once or twice AT THE Y! Haven't seen you there in a long time. How you stay so big if you ain't a regular?" and yeah Joel was all but shaking.
"I don't go there much no more."
"Why-- I mean well if you did..." Joel was eyeing him up and down "you'd rule the place! Nobody could touch you!"
"Well I just don't" Bo broke the spell again "you comin or goin?"
"Going. I was just going" he looked around waiting for the reaction but only Joe seemed to have heard him"soon as I find my shoes and stuff."
"How'd you lose yer shoes, Merklins?" Will was smirking "y'mama didn't tie'm on good this mornin?"
"Something like that Harrison" Joel started to look around. When he went over to where he had been sitting, Big Hank came out of the pool.
"Leaving us Joel?" Big Hank was smiling but Joel could see the steely look of the rattlesnake beneath the smile, his hand reaching out and grabbing Joel's shoulder like a vice, the heat coming off him in waves.
"Maybe" Joel pulled away slowly and sat down looking for his shoes. He was just about to reach for one when Big Hank's foot came down on it.
"You sure you really sure y'wanna leave?"
"C'mon man you got your money's worth" Joel hissed so no one else could hear "lemme go."
"You SURE you wanna leave?" Big Hank ground his wet foot into the shoe "we still got a WHOLE lot of unfinished business here."
"Like what?"
"Like there's still a lot you ain't explained. Like the whole deal with..." Big Hank lowered his voice as well "like what happened with Harry..."
"But I already -- "
"Okay einstein lemme spell it out" Big Hank reached down and handed him the shoe "you get me Harry's tape, the original and any copies -- "
"You know I can't-- "
"The original and any copies" Big Hank was so close he was dripping water on Joel now "and when you hand them to me you get back your wallet --"
"My WALLET?" Joel screamed. He realized too late everyone heard and was looking at them now.
"Whatzamatter Merklins?" Will started over "lose yer wallet?"
"Yeah I mean no" Joel was looking back and forth "I mean -- "
"Either ya did or ya didn't" Will looked at Big Hank "what you gotta do with this?" Will had a good idea the Soulman -- as he was introduced -- yeah that dude from the pic at school, was putting the muscle on the minnow here but for what reason he could not figure. Will was assuming it was something to do with the school year starting and the upcoming minnow vs. crapper stunts. Something more sinister was still a few minutes away from getting through that skull of his.
"Yes Joel here is missing his wallet" Big Hank left it at that and returned to the pool and Moose, who was watching the whole scene with the other eye on Ern.
"Sucks man" Will laughed and went back to his dad and Joe. When Mannie gave him a yell he left them, but with burger in hand, and joined him and Billy.
"Shit Herms" Bo muttered, his mouth full of burger "some sweet kinda set up ya got back here."
"Thanks" Billy was busy connecting bars and loading weights.
"So how come you never invite me over here?"
"Cause he didn't wanna see ya sunburn yer black ass" Mannie tried to steal the burger but Will pulled away.
"Zat right?" Will was trying to give Billy his dirtiest look "you afraid I'd get my black ass all dirtying up yer lily white pool?"
"Cut the shit Will" Billy wiped his forehead "y'know damn well you wouldn't show up here with the team here and all, after..."
"After what?"
"After..." he lowered his voice "that Saturday okay?"
"Shit" Will looked around "everyone keeps tellin me all that shit blew over" he looked at Mannie "you said -- "
"I said nothin ain't happened yet, is what I said" Mannie looked at Billy "YET. okay?"
"You tellin me shit's comin down now???" he put the remnants of the burger aside, not as hungry as five seconds before "but why now?"
"Why you bring your dad here Will?" Mannie shot Billy the smallest of looks.
"He heard about the pool and..."
"And what?"
"And I wanted to make sure he wasn't hangin at home when that fag cousin of mine -- "
"You cousin? Klu?" Billy stood up to face Will "what's--"
"Yeah Klu" Will shot his dad a glance to make sure he was not listening "gotta keep that fag -- "
"Stop callin him that!" from Mannie of all people.
"Well he is! It's sick what with him and my pops -- "
"You sayin Klu and your dad?"
"Can keep yer mouth shut for one second, okay?" Will spat on the ground "it's all I can do t'keep him from horning after the old man" Will shot another look, but Bo and Joe were busy talking by the grill "so Billy if like he calls lookin, we ain't here okay?"
"But he knows we're always here" Billy shot Mannie a look: shut up! "and he's been over before -- "
"Shit Herms" Will was not smiling "you invite the fag -- okay okay, that perv-- over an not me?"
"Y'know you wouldn't if we did okay?"
"Maybe not but maaaan..." Will waved them away and went over and sat down next to Ern. The two were smiling and even laughing in a very short time.
"Wonder what those two are talkin about?" Mannie looked at Billy.
"I don't wanna know" Billy signaled Moose in the pool "Hey Moose you still wanna get these set up?"
"Hell yeah" Moose made a few hushed comments to Big Hank then pulled himself outa the pool "but for different reasons now we got company."
"Moose c'mon!" Billy slugged him "it's Will and Bo okay? They're on our side remember?"
"Yeah but I was really lookin forward to Joel and -- "
"Well afraid it ain't happenin now" Billy nodded at them "okay?"
"Damn..." he looked at Billy "you must be getting a real bad impression about me, hatin -- "
"I don't fuckin hate you!" Billy said a bit too loud.
"You just know how cranked up I get and -- "
"And?" Billy looked at Big Hank "you tellin me I got something to be worried about?"
Moose saw the look to Big Hank "Shit, if it was me I'd be real mad right about now."
"So I should be mad!"
"If I were you I'd give me..." Moose looked around "a good hard beatin right about now" and winked.
"You askin for the 'treatment' y'mean?" Billy knew what their code word meant "Shit you'd like that if I made you do that right now in front of everyone knowing you. You tellin me you been a bad crapper?"
"Yes sir real bad" Moose looked at Billy with a wink and a crooked smile "maybe your friend Soulman can help with the treatment" he reached down and scratched himself through the shorts, his cock starting to grow, making sure Billy noticed.
"AssHOLE!" Billy laughed and gave him a push. Moose went along with it and made a huge backflip into the pool.
That got everyone's attention, not only Billy's shout could be heard four blocks away, but the splash almost drained the pool. Of course seeing Billy flip the Moose was worth the price of admission by itself. Ern fell out his chair, the high point of the afternoon. Well the second high point, he chuckled, picking pebbles out of his ass.