Chapter 28 #2
David looked up at Charlie with rage, but I didn’t know what for, blowing air out of his nose like the bull that woke us, that I didn’t want to startle upstairs earlier.
“Did that really happen to you,” he asked Charlie.
When he nodded silently, glancing down at his bare feet, the memory of the shame and fear he described coming back, I took his hand in mine, not giving a shit what David thought.
“I’m sorry that happened to you, Charlie. You didn’t deserve that.”
He looked back at me, glancing at our hands connected before he continued, “And I understand where you are coming from. I can’t imagine everything you both have gone through, but–” He shook his head, his anger bleeding out of him, with sorrow replacing it.
“David. It wasn’t about intentionally keeping you in the dark.
I wouldn’t have told anyone else either, if they were my best friend,” I reached over the table and placed my hand on his forearm, right below the elbow.
He looked at where my hand was touching him in question, like it now burned unlike it did before this morning.
I pulled back slowly. He looked up at me, with a question I could read and answered before he could ask, “Oh, God. No. I never saw you like that.”
David’s mouth dropped, and his palm slapped the table with a crack. “Well, that’s fucking insulting!”
Both Charlie and I laughed in surprise, not expecting that answer.
I welcomed the break in the gloom that had filled my kitchen.
My chest was starting to hurt from the hostility.
I calmed down and took a breath, giving a small smile to Charlie.
But David continued to gaff, “How could you not, my body is amazing and my dick is big!”
“Oh, I know,” Charlie replied, shaking his head, blushing a little.
“Hold on! How do you know,” swinging my head to and fro from Charlie and back to David in amusement.
“The hospital. We had to shower after we arrived with you. I teased him when he got a look at me, clearly in shock over seeing my swinging schlong,” David chuckled over the memory. “Now it all makes sense,” and pumped his eyebrows up and down suggestively, making us laugh.
“It was the first time I had ever seen someone else naked,” Charlie answered exasperated, continuing to chuckle.
“Who's bigger?” David teased, knowing full well the answer is him even though we have never seen each other hard.
“Do not answer that!” I said, laughing, also setting off the both of them again.
I am so happy we moved on from the doom.
It’s such a big relief that I won’t be losing my best friend.
Yes, I was going to have to tell him soon, because clearly Charlie was going to be around.
I guess David took care of that himself, per usual.
“So, this is a thing. A thing that needs to be kept quiet. Does anyone else know, other than me?”
“Yes. My dad knows,” Charlie answered. “He’s, umm, understanding. I don’t know if he fully supports this,” moving his hand between us, “but, he also isn’t against it.” He turned to me, “I should probably go back to his unit and see him today.”
“Why don’t we all go out to lunch,” I said, throwing out the idea.
“That might not be such a good idea,” David said, biting his entire bottom lip while scrunching his nose up.
I looked at him, worried that maybe he wasn’t fully on board, not wanting to be seen with us.
It must have read on my face because he continued, “No, not because of this. I mean, yes because of this, but also because of Richard.”
That shot me up and out of my seat, tipping it over backwards onto the floor. “What about Richard?”
“That’s why I came over. I was banging on the door, but you wouldn’t answer. I got worried something may have happened, so I found your spare key where you hid it and let myself in.”
That explained that question from earlier.
“Clearly, I should have come back another time,” David joked, with a smirk.
“David, Richard!”
“Oh right. He got out. This morning,” dropping that bomb in so little words, but still landing the impact like it was nuclear. We stared at each other in silence, probably like me, trying to process this turn of events, not understanding how this could have happened.
David broke the silence, “He has been raving all morning through town to anyone who would listen. Repeating what he was saying the day he was fired and arrested. Which clearly is true. Did he really catch you two–,” he pointed and bounced both tips of his index fingers together repeatedly to gesture what we could have been doing, but I rolled my eyes and he continued, “you know what, not important right now.”
Charlie had stiffened up next to me, so I put my arm around his waist, but it didn’t help the quiver in his bottom lip. “How could they have let him go after what he did to Jimmy?” He looked at me, “What are we going to do?”
Looking at the fear in his eyes, all I wanted to do was hide him away from the world. But that would only make him miserable, like he was before. Scrolling through multiple solutions in my head at rapid speed, I started talking before I knew the whole plan, “We are going to do nothing.”
“Really?” David looked disappointed, like he was raring for a fight.
“Really. We are going to go about like nothing is happening or has happened. Charlie, go see your father today. Maybe suggest what David did and go to lunch with him. David and I,” I looked over at my best friend, “can have some bonding time today elsewhere in public, too. Show people that one, we are not afraid of Richard or his accusations. And two, nothing is out of the ordinary.”
Then a light in my brain showing more details lit up, “Also, I won’t be back at work until the following week, while Charlie goes back tomorrow, getting back to his normal routine with his father.”
Charlie was biting his lip with worry. I pulled it out saying, “What did I tell you about biting your lip,” hoping the tease would calm him.
“I hope it isn’t what I think it is,” David said, smashing his eyes shut, shaking his head, attempting to shake the image loose.
“Get over yourself,” I laughed, but turned serious wanting to get this point across.
“You are eventually going to see us kiss. I refuse to hide in the comfort of our privacy, what little sanctuary we have. It’s already hard enough being together in public and not being able to even hold his hand.
Even though we have been careless a couple times already, we still need to watch.
But I won’t hold back within safe walls, got me? ”
David slowly just started to nod, “Okay. I’m sorry.
And you are right.” At that point he got up and came around to us, putting his big arms above both of our shoulders and around our necks, his big palms flat on our backs, pulling us into a three-way hug.
“I support you. I will be better. I promise,” his words came out muffled but still loud with his Italian vibrato.
He pulled back with a warm one-sided smile, “I will help protect this, Jim. You are my best friend, and if you are happy, then I am too. Charlie,” David actually cupped his face, “Jim is my best friend, and if he wants to be with you, that makes you my best friend too.”
I was getting misty eyed, “What the fuck, David.” I rubbed my nose, making Charlie giggle.
“So, this is love, huh?” David’s finger swinging between us.
“Freshly declared last night,” I stated, pulling Charlie against my side, planting a kiss to his temple. David took a breathier, probably out of seeing two men being affectionate, but I knew he would be okay.
“Okay, why don’t you two go do what you need to.
I’ll wait here. Then we can start our day.
” I clapped David on the shoulder before taking Charlie by his and pushing him toward the stairs, when David yelled, “And no funny business! We don’t got time for that.
” Before switching to a whisper to talk to himself, “God, that probably creates a mess,” Making me laugh and Charlie blush.
The memory of last night and how he felt, his hole hugging me like a constricting rubber band. The tightness as I moved in and out of him created a pleasure I had never experienced before.
It was otherworldly.
We were like cesium and sodium coming together mixing with our sweat, causing an explosion of ecstasy. Hearing him feel for the first time what it’s like being with a man, seeing his facial expressions while taking my cock completely inside him.
Stretching him.
Oh God, it was phenomenal. I was starting to grow in my pajamas just reliving it.
We were getting changed when Charlie bent over, taking his pajamas off, his ass presenting itself when I realized with all the commotion this morning, I never checked on him.
Make sure he wasn’t hurting. I placed my hand on his lower back, making him stop and turn in my direction.
“How are you feeling? From last night?” I placed my hand lightly on his one butt cheek.
He grinned, “Why Jimmy, are you worried you ruined me?”
Okay, clearly, he is fine, his response making me chuckle. I didn’t fully ravish him last night, but I’m not small so even going easy could have taken its toll.
“I’m okay, Jimmy. I wouldn’t say I’m sore. It’s an odd feeling that I can’t explain,” he reached back behind himself with his hand, but I couldn’t see what he was doing so I looked around and he had his fingers in his crack. “It’s like I won’t close, now that I have been opened.”