Jimmy & Richie - 9. Chapter 9

Before going to bed, I laid out my clothes for work. I placed them in the clothes closet so I wouldn't disturb the boys in the morning. I took a shower, brushed my teeth and was ready to go to sleep. I'm not sure what time it was when I felt someone cuddling my back and someone moving in my front to cuddle. I fell back into a deep sleep. It seemed like I just closed my eyes when my watch started to vibrate, indicating it was time to wake up. I noticed I was up against Rich while Nick was up against me. I carefully extricated myself and got ready for work. I grabbed a cup of coffee and toast before leaving the apartment. I saw Gramp’s car coming for him and I followed him out of the gate.

Driving up to the front gate following Gramps was interesting. The guard stopped the car and said something to Gramps and then laughed.

When I pulled up to the gate and showed my pass, "Your grandfather said for you to stop at his office before you start work today.”

I thanked him as he waved me through. I parked in my usual spot, checked in at security and headed for Gramps office.

"Good morning James, I just wanted to know how the weekend went. We hadn't had a chance to talk much since your brother arrived.”

"Good morning Grandfather, everything is fine. We all are getting along just fine. It’s like having two more brothers.”

“Good, I have a report from your boss, he thinks you’re ready to move up to your next assignment. You're to go and see Mr. Chester on the second floor.”

"Thanks Grandfather, I'll do that. Have a nice day." I left with a big smile on my face. Gramps secretary gave me a thumbs up and a smile as I went pass her desk. I guess she knew who I was.

Mr. Chester's office was easy to find. He was head of one of the labs that did research on detectors. That was all I was told, what kind of detectors, I had no idea. My job was to assemble detectors. I was given an instruction sheet, several marked boxes and shown to a work bench. That was it. No one told me how to do it or how many I needed to do.

Looking over the instruction sheet, I arranged the boxes in the order I'd need to assembly the detectors. The first one took me several minutes, my speed at assembling increased as I became more familiar with the instructions and units in the box. After about an hour, I didn't need the instructions any more, by lunch time I had all the detectors finished that could be supported by the various boxes. Mr. Chester came by and told me I could go to lunch but report back here after lunch.

When I got back from lunch, I noticed twice the number of boxes I had this morning. By the time the day was over, they were empty. I had a pile of detectors. Mr. Chester was pleased to see all of the detectors assembled.

Leaving the plant was a reverse of entering, I checked at security before leaving the building and then stopped at the gate before exiting. By the time I got home, I was tired. I was hoping to take a nap before supper but that soon changed as soon as I entered the apartment, Rich was crying.

“Rich, what's wrong? Why are you crying?”

"Something happened today while you were gone.”

"Ok what happened?”

"You'll be mad at me and probably will want me to leave.”

"Did you kill someone, did you hurt someone, what happened?”

"After you left this morning, Nick cuddled against me. He put his hand in my shorts and started to play with my junk. I didn't know what to do but it felt good, so I let him continue. When I turned on my back, he took my hand and put it into his shorts. We jacked each other off.”

"Did you change the sheets?”

He looked at me totally perplexed, "I tell you I jerked another guy off, and you ask if I changed the sheets.”

"Yes, didn't you have friends when you were young. The first time I jerked off I did it with Mike. The first dick I touched that wasn't mine was Mike's. I think every boy has a friend that they learn from. It's no big deal, don't do it again. I'll do you next time.”

I laughed at the expression on his face. It soon became a smile, and there was a hint to my attraction. I never really noticed his smile but seeing him going from depression to happiness, was what I had been missing. Rich wasn't an Adonis until he smiled. His face lit up, he had the best smiling face I have ever seen. He must have smiled thousands of times at school, and I never noticed how has face changed. Going from a sad face to a happy face made me realize what it was that made Rich attractive to me. I took his face in my hand and planted a big kiss on his lips.

“Daddy is home.” He started to laugh and kissed me back. I hugged him as best as I could with a cast between us. "I'm going to take a nap before supper. Be good."

I woke up at five-thirty, enough time to get ready for supper. As long as Brand and his party were here, I’d eat supper at Grams. After they left, I’d probably eat at the apartment as well as at Grams. Walking out into the kitchen, there was Nick sitting by himself.

“Nick, where’s Rich?”

“He went outside. Jimmy, I did something terrible.”

Here we go again. Are these boys sheltered or what? “What did you do that was so terrible?”

“This morning I jacked Rich off while he jacked me.”

“You know Nick, that's very selfish of you. Now you're going to have to jack me off twice to make up for it."

The expression on Nick's face was priceless. He didn't know what to say. I started to laugh, I laughed so hard tears were coming down my cheek. “Nick, have you never jacked off one of your friends?”

"No, I'm not gay, why would I want to do that?"

"Nick, I'll bet that you're one in a million. Every boy I know has a friend or friends who have played together. Where did you learn about jacking off if not from one of your friends?”

"I read about it and then wanted to try it. You aren't mad? We’re still friends?"

"Yes, I'm not mad and we’re still friends."

Just as Nick was giving me a hug, Rich walks in. "What are you doing Nick? First, you jack me off and now you are trying to steal my boyfriend.”

Nick started to hem and haw, I couldn't help it. I broke down and began to laugh, giving Rich a high five, "Good one Rich.” Nick caught on and began to laugh as well.

"I came to tell you supper will be ready in fifteen minutes.”

"Let's go, that will give us a chance to wash our hands before we eat."

We were laughing as we entered the kitchen. Miss Marie looked at us as if we were crazy. "Better get your hands washed, dinner is ready.”

"Yes, Miss Marie" She heard three choruses of the same reply.

Washed hands, we sat at the table with Grams and Gramps. Soon we were joined by Charles and Brand. While we were eating, Brand asked me how work was today. I told him it was a tinker toy day. He caught on quickly, he knew a little about Gramps work and the tinker toy comment told him it was assembly day.

Dinner was delicious as always. "Miss Marie, if Grams ever decides to dismiss you, I want you to know you could come and work for me as my companion.”

Everyone complemented Miss Marie on her dinner. I knew that Miss Marie would never leave Gram. I think Gram loved her just as much as she loved anyone. She indeed was her companion.

After dinner, we sat around the table and chatted over cups of coffee. This is what a family is meant to be. Rich, Nick and I helped clear the table and brought out the coffee urn. Gram asked about the tour of the campus and what did Rich think of it. He told her what he thought and he was glad he decided to go to Ohio State. Nick said he might consider Ohio State. Charles said only for the undergraduate degree, for law school he would need to go somewhere else. Discussions drift from one subject to another without any notice. It’s like you start to discussing watermelons in Georgia and end up discussing figs in Iran.

I looked at my watch and noticed it was getting on to eight. “Gram, may I be excused, I have a phone call to make and tomorrow morning comes pretty early. Rich, I'm going to call Mike and see how he's doing, Do you want to come along? Nick, this is my best friend from home, why don't you come along as well. You can say hi.”

Brand being the ever smart ass, "Now that the children are gone, maybe we can have an intelligent discussion." We all knew he was being facetious and just laughed as we left.

"I'm going to try and Skype Mike, so stay close." I pulled up my computer, logged in to Skype and tried to contact Mike. The unit rang for a few minutes, before Mike came on.

"Hey guys, how's it going?”

"Hi Mike, I've got Rich here and a friend of my brother's Nick. Say hi guys.”

"You guys look like a three-headed monster." He was right. Each had a head on my shoulders.

"So how's it going Mike? Have you set a time to head south?”

"Dad and I just got back from checking the place out. It's very nice and warm. I'm planning on going there two weeks before school starts. Dad is going with me.”

"That sounds great. Make sure you give me your address. Any of you guys have anything to say?”

"Mike, remember what we talked about before I came here? Well, it has been slow, but progress has been made.”

"Good, keep it on track and keep me posted. I have a vested interest.”

"Gotta go Mike, work tomorrow. Take care will chat later.” The guys all said goodbye and I disconnected from Skype. "Sorry guys, but I got to go to bed."

I took my shower, brushed my teeth and headed right for the bed. I fell into a dreamless sleep like the night before. I woke up, and the guys were in the bed. Rich had pushed his body back into me and had his head on my arm. I could smell the shampoo on his hair. Nick was snuggled against my back, preventing me from rolling away, although I really didn't want to. I lightly kissed Richie's head and fell back to sleep.