Watergame - 8. Chapter 8

6:30 AM on Tuesday morning arrived and the alarm sounded, waking J&J from their slumber. The first thing on their agenda, after silencing the alarm, was to share a loving and deeply romantic good morning kiss and to feel each other’s morning wood.

"Let’s go pee off the deck," Jeff said, "while we have the privilege," and the two boys immediately jumped out of bed and headed to the deck, holding each other’s stiff peckers and releasing their overnight pressure into two golden arches onto the grass.

Returning to the kitchen, Julian started a pot of coffee, while Jeff sat at the table taking in the view of his boyfriends smooth and handsome naked body. Jeff is still amazed at how much he is captivated by this young man, and how much he loves and absolutely adores everything about Julian.

While waiting for the coffee to brew, Julian sat on Jeff’s lap, and Jeff wrapped his arms around Julian’s torso, pulling him close, and kissing the back of Julian’s neck tenderly. Jeff can never get enough of his Julian, and it seems the feeling is completely mutual. One would have to search really hard to find another couple, gay or straight, that are any closer than these two young men are to each other. Levi was probably right, when he stated that these two are destined to be together.

While breakfast was cooking, they packed the cooler with their lunches and added some cans of soda. After eating J&J dressed in their work clothes, carried the cooler to Jeff’s car and headed to work about 7:30.

They arrived at the office at the same time as Gordy and Simon.

Jeff, as the four boys walked together to clock in, "Are you two still on for tonight?"

"You’d best believe it," Gordy replied, smiling, "and looking forward to the watergame too!"

Diane, as they were all clocking in, "Julian, you’re working on Alvin’s computer this morning, aren’t you?"

"As far as I know," Julian replied, "unless there is a change of plans."

"Alvin told me to open his office for you this morning," Diane said.

"Jeff," Julian asked, "can you bring my lunch in here, and I’ll put it in the office fridge."

"Sure, Baby," Jeff responded. Diane smiled at the reference Jeff made to Julian, calling him ‘baby.’ About three minutes later Jeff brought his boyfriend’s lunch in, and Julian placed it into the office fridge, then Diane unlocked Alvin’s office door and Julian entered to do his work.

About 10:00 AM Diane walked into Alvin’s office with coffee and a big piece of tasty looking pastry.

"Are you trying to sweeten me up?" Julian asked.

"Nope," Diane replied, smiling, "just keeping you sweet, along with my baby that I’m married to. My husband is very fond of these pastries, and I try to make them for him a couple of times a month. You’re just lucky I made some last night." Julian is beginning to like Diane a lot, of course Julian likes anyone that feeds his sweet tooth.

About 9:30 Julian had the new drive installed and was transferring the data from the old drive onto the new one. You gotta love Western Digitals drive software, it makes it quite easy to install a new drive and be able to transfer most of the data from the old one. Julian only needed a couple of the software CD’s to install Windows, as that was the thing the old drive failed on. By lunchtime Julian had the new drive installed, and took his lunch break, eating with Diane.

After lunch Julian put the case back on Alvin’s computer and placed it beneath the desk and reconnected all of the cables, including the ethernet network cable. He spent about half an hour making certain everything worked properly, just as Alvin returned from his appointment.

"How’s it going?" Alvin asked.

"Just like I planned," Julian stated, with confidence in his voice, "Try it out."

"What’s all this dust on my desktop?" Alvin remarked, "the other techs always clean it up before they leave."

"Sorry, sir," Julian apologized, "I’ll take care of it." Julian found a cleaning towel and came back and wiped Alvin’s desk down, removing any traces of his work. Alvin was already checking out some of his applications and seemed pleased that everything was working.

"Julian, son," Alvin stated, "you just saved us probably close to a thousand dollars, I’m really glad I hired you!" Alvin gave Julian a warm hug, which of course was soaked up quickly. Julian loves affection.

"It’s kind of late to ask you to go out to the work site today," Alvin said, "but I think I have another tech job for you. In the CAD room is a brand new pen plotter, that needs to be unpacked and connected to that computer, and I think you’re the ideal one to do it. You have a better understanding of this techy stuff than anyone else here. If you’ll go ahead and get that installed, you can just kind of hang loose until it’s clock-out time."

"Sure thing, Alvin," Julian replied, "I haven’t worked with those before, and I’ll likely need to read the instructions." Julian walked out of Alvin’s office and went into the room with the CAD machine. By 4:00 PM he had it connected and ran the sample drawing to test it. He carried it into Alvin’s office and showed the test drawing to Alvin, and Alvin smiled.

"Thanks, Julian," Alvin said, "you just saved us another couple hundred dollars."

"Sir, I hate to bug you about this," Julian said, "but Jeff and I need to have next Monday off, because we need to get registered for fall semester, and the following week will need to be our last here, as classes will be starting."

"Julian," Alvin said, grinning, "you’re too valuable here, I’m not going to let you guys go back to college, you’re gonna just have to stay here! I’ve enjoyed having you guys here this summer, and I’m really going to miss both of you. I suppose I’m going to lose Gordy and Simon too. The problem with hiring college students for the summer, is that summer ends, and we lose them! I hope you know that you have a job here next summer, you and Jeff both."

"I doubt that Jeff will be returning," Julian said, "He’ll be graduating, and will hopefully have a full-time job as an accountant, but I have another year of college, and I’ll likely be back." Julian walked out of Alvin’s office, and the pain of reality hit, he may be here next summer, but where will Jeff be?

All the workers were lined up, ready to clock out and go home. Simon, Gordy and Jeff were bringing up the tail of the line, until Julian became the last one in line. The four boys clocked out and headed toward the parking lot together.

"Julian, Jeff," Gordy said, "We’re ordering the pizza now, and we also need to pick up the water so we should be at your house in about an hour, is that cool?"

"Sounds good to me," Jeff said, "it’s about half an hour’s drive home so we will be home to welcome you when you arrive. Do you know how to get there?"

"Yep!" Simon exclaimed, "We’ve been there enough to have the roads memorized, will see you guys is about an hour or less." Simon and Gordy took off in Simon’s car and Julian and Jeff in Jeff’s car. When J&J walked into the kitchen, Julian instinctively went to the fridge and grabbed two Pepsi’s.

"Baby," Jeff said, "if we drink anything now, we’ll be setting ourselves up to lose the game. We can wait until we all start drinking the water." Julian put the Pepsi’s back into the fridge, and they went out on to the deck to await their guests.

Simon and Gordy pulled in at just about 6:20 PM. Simon carried a bag of ice and the 12-pack of water and Gordy carried the Extra Large Pizza. They were met on the deck by J&J. Julian grabbed a cooler, and they placed the water in the cooler, and then dumped the ice over it.

"Damn!" Gordy exclaimed, "We should have got some Pepsi to have with the pizza, it would have been better than water."

"We have Pepsi in the fridge," Julian stated, "I guess we can all have one with the pizza."

"We wanted to have us all equal to play the game," Jeff said, "but I guess if we all have just one Pepsi with the pizza, our liquid intake will still be equal." Julian went in and brought out four bottles of Pepsi and some napkins.

The four boys started in on the pizza, which was cut into 12 slices, just right for each of them to have three slices each, washing it down with the Pepsi’s. They then just relaxed and chatted for about half an hour, letting their stomachs settle.

"You guys ready to start the game?" Jeff asked.

"You bet!" Gordy exclaimed, "I have a feeling this is gonna be fun."

"OK," Jeff said, "We all need to empty our bladders first, so we can start on an even keel," as he stepped to the edge of the deck, pulling his cock out and draining his bladder onto the grass. The other three boys followed suit.

Jeff suggested they all empty their pants pockets of things like keys and wallets, just in case, and they all emptied their pockets onto the kitchen table.

"Just to get a little jump start," Jeff explained, "we now all need to drink the first bottle of water in five minutes, then we take half an hour on the following bottles. I’m setting the timer on my phone for five minutes, so when the alarm sounds, we need to all have empty bottles. GO!" All four boys grabbed a bottle of water from the cooler and started guzzling.

"Jeff," Simon asked, "what happens if we can’t hold our pee?"

"Then," Jeff replied, grinning, "you start to piss in your pants. The winner of the game is the last one to still be dry, or the one to stay dry the longest. Most likely we’ll all wet our pants by the end of the game."

The alarm sounded, and all four boys held up their empty water bottles. They all pulled a full bottle from the cooler, and Jeff re-set the timer for 30 minutes, stating that they all needed to empty the second bottle by the time the alarm sounded. Julian and Gordy gathered up the empty pizza box, the empty Pepsi bottles and the first four empty water bottles and carried them to the trash dumpster. The four boys were sipping the second bottles much slower than the first, and starting to feel some pressure on their bladders, Julian and Gordy are starting to squirm in their chairs.

"Simon," Jeff said, "you’ll probably win this game, with that big cock of yours, you can probably hold more pee than the rest of us."

Simon, chuckling, "Just because I’ve got a big prick, doesn’t mean my capacity is equally as large. I’m getting mighty close to springing a leak right now!"

"Fuck!" Gordy exclaimed, "I just lost a squirt in my pants, I don’t think I can hold it much longer—I need to pee really bad."

"How you guys doing on the second bottle," Jeff asked, "we only got five minutes to go, and the second bottles need to be empty."

Jeff, as the alarm sounded, "OK guys, bottoms up!" as he and the other three all drained their bottles. While swigging those last swallows, Gordy lost two or three more squirts and had a noticeable wet area at his crotch.

"Time for bottle number three," Jeff announced, "are we all still dry?"

Jeff, Julian and Simon seemed to all still be dry.

"I’m not even going to try another," Gordy said, "I’m already squirting too much, I give!" as he spread his legs and saturated his shorts, with a healthy dribble of pee escaping his shorts and landing on the deck. One down and three to go.

J&J and Simon all grabbed the third bottle of water, and just as Julian took the first sip from the bottle, he felt a squirt escaping his cock and wetting his boxer-briefs, followed by about three more squirts. Simon also soon felt his cock starting to leak into his pants, and knew his time was running out. Jeff was still dry, but not for long. Gordy, Julian and Simon were all showing signs of wetting their pants, and Jeff proclaimed himself the winner. Gordy and Simon both felt Jeff’s crotch, verifying that he was still dry. About 30 seconds later, Jeff let go and pissed his shorts, and the others watched, then they all relieved their pressure, soaking their shorts and letting the pee run onto the deck and through the cracks between the boards. All four of the boys were grinning at each other, just having fun.

They all sat around in the deck chairs in their wet shorts, just chatting, until the sun went down.

As darkness took over outside, they all went into the house. Julian started to fill the washer, and all four boys removed their soaked shorts and underwear, dropping them into the washer, along with their tee shirts. While the washer did it’s job, they decided to play a game of monopoly. Julian picked up his and Jeff’s personal stuff from the table and took it back to their room and Gordy and Simon did likewise, taking theirs to the guestroom. Julian returned with the Monopoly game, and they set it up on the kitchen table.

J&J selected chairs on opposite sides of the table, and Gordy and Simon sat at the other two sides, all four boys naked. While playing the game they periodically played a little cock grab, reaching over to a neighbor and tugging on each others cocks, all in fun, and all four having fun.

After the monopoly game was finished, and after the Watergame, all four of the boys felt a need for a shower before bed. While Gordy and Simon shared a shower, Jeff and Julian made sandwiches for their lunch tomorrow. Simon and Gordy dried and returned to the kitchen and J&J then shared a shower together. Gordy pulled the wet clothing from the washer and put it in the drier, and he and Simon then headed to bed.

Gordy, just as the couple was cuddling for sleep, "Baby, what did you think of the Watergame?"

"It was different," Simon replied, "but it was a lot of fun too. I wonder if we could find some guys back at tech that would want to play it?"

"I don’t know," Gordy answered, "Julian and Jeff are so much fun to be around, I wish we could take them back to tech with us."

"That would be nice, but I doubt that would be possible, Simon replied, "I’m hoping we can find a way to spend some time with them, sometime during the school year. I feel a road trip coming up in the not too distant future." The two soon fell asleep.

Wednesday morning Julian started a full pot of coffee, and about the time it was ready a naked Gordy and Simon appeared in the kitchen. The four boys shared coffee and breakfast together in all of their naked glory. While J&J packed up the lunch for all of them, Gordy and Simon sorted out the clean clothing from the drier, and got dressed for work. They all left for Corbin Homebuilders at just about 7:30 AM, having enjoyed a very pleasant Tuesday evening and night together.

The rest of the week was quite normal. All four of the college boys did what was expected of them. Grady was happy and Alvin was happy, and the four boys were happy to be working together. Friday morning Jeff reminded Alvin that he and Julian wouldn’t be there Monday, as they needed to get registered for fall semester.

Friday evening right after he and Julian got home, Jeff made a quick call to Uncle Jim. Jim, noting the calling name on his phone, answered quickly.

"Hi Jeffie, what’s up?" Jim asked.

"Uncle Jim, are you planning to use the cabin this weekend?" Jeff asked.

"No, Jeffie, do you need to use it?" Jim asked.

"Julian and I need to register Monday for fall semester, and we wanted to come out Sunday and spend the night there, then we’ll be close to campus and can easily get there to register."

"Jeffie, you know you can use the cabin anytime you like, but thanks for asking," Jim said, "It could eliminate surprises."

"Have you and Calvin set a date yet, and are you planning to invite Julian and me to the wedding?"

"No," Jim replied, "we haven’t set the date, and you and Julian are on the top of the invitation list! We’d both be hurt if you guys declined."

"No way would I miss seeing my favorite Uncle marry his fiancé," Jeff replied, "we’re just waiting for the invitation. I love you, Uncle Jim."

"I love you too, Jeffie," Jim replied, "and Cal and I want to hook up with you guys soon, hopefully we’ll get a chance after school resumes." Jim and Jeff hung up.

Just as J&J were finishing their dinner of hot dogs and Mac & Cheese Jeff received a phone call from his Dad. Jeff, seeing the number, answered typically.

"Hi Dad," Jeff said, "is everything ok?"

"I think so," Bill replied, "what are your plans for this weekend?"

"We have to come to campus and register for the fall semester Monday."

"When you say we, should I assume that to mean you and Julian?"

"Yeah, Dad," Jeff explained, we’re coming in Sunday, spending the night at Uncle Jim’s cabin, then after we get registered on Monday, we’ll be heading back to Dunbar."

Jeff, Son," Bill said, "I would like very much to have dinner with you Sunday, with you and Julian, just the three of us. Is there a good restaurant near campus where we can meet?

"How about Texas Roadhouse?" Jeff suggested.

"That sounds good," Bill said, "what time is good for you guys?"

"If we leave Dunbar by 1:00 PM, we can be there by about 4:00," Jeff said, "Are you sure you want to see us, together?"

"Yes, Son, I’m sure," Bill stated, "your Mom may not be ready for this yet, but I am, and I seriously want to meet the young man you’re so much in love with. Son, I love you, and I can accept what makes you happy. So I will see you two Sunday, about 4:00 at the Texas Roadhouse, and I’m looking forward to it. See you Sunday. Son, I love you!"

"I love you too, Dad, see you Sunday, bye."

"Baby!" Jeff exclaimed, smiling, "We have a dinner date Sunday with my Dad, at the Texas Roadhouse, where we had our first date!"

"I’m apprehensive," Julian said, "what if he tries to break us up?"

"I know my Dad pretty well," Jeff said, "he’s a lot more open minded than my Mom, and she’s not going to be there. It’ll be just you and me and Dad, and he really does want to meet you. I’m so excited, I can hardly wait for Sunday!"

Saturday morning the boys got up and fixed themselves some coffee and breakfast. They were aware that Mom & Dad would be returning from vacation today or tomorrow, and they gave the house a once over. They decided to wash the sheets from the guest room, as well as their own, and all of the towels and washcloths.

After lunch they decided to cut the grass again, and use the weedeater to trim the yard. They wanted to show Art and Vi that they could be responsible for taking care of the house. By 3:00 PM everything was ship shape, with no evidence of even having had any company while the parents were on vacation.

The boys had not really made any plans for dinner, not knowing if the parents would be coming home tonight or tomorrow. About 5:00 PM Jeff made a trip to the Sub Shop and picked up subs for him and his boyfriend. Shortly after 6:30 PM, just after the boys had eaten the subs Art and Vi pulled in. The boys rushed out to greet them, smothering them with hugs and kisses, and making them both feel glad to be home.

J&J apologized for not having some dinner prepared, but felt better after Vi told them they had eaten dinner at Cracker Barrel so were satisfied for the night. The boys wasted no time in bringing the parent’s luggage into the house and carried it into Vi and Art’s bedroom.

Art asked the boys how everything went at work this week. Julian was excited to tell Art about his work at Corbin’s and how he had been able to save the company considerable money by being able to bring the computer system up, and then fixing Alvin’s office machine, and replacing the hard drive.

Jeff couldn’t wait to tell Mom & Dad that he and Julian were going to campus tomorrow to register for fall semester on Monday, and that his Dad had invited both boys to have dinner with him on Sunday at the Texas Roadhouse, and wanted to meet Julian.

"Well Son," Art said, "I read the letter that you sent to your Dad, and you most definitely put the ball in their court. It looks like your Dad, at least, wants to play ball. I hope your dinner date with him goes well."

"I guess Alvin is going to be really shorthanded Monday," Art said, "you guys are going to be registering for fall semester, and I’m taking Monday off as well. Your Mom and I have some business to take care of on Monday, and I informed Alvin before I went on vacation that I would not be working this coming Monday.

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Sunday morning things in the White household were pretty much back to normal. J&J woke up about 8:00 AM, typically sporting morning wood, but now that Vi was back home they couldn’t slip out the back door and sprinkle the grass. so they had to control their desires until they were flaccid enough to use the toilet. They still stood next to each other while they let their pee flow into the toilet.

After leaving the bathroom, they settled at the kitchen table and enjoyed that first cup of coffee with Art and Vi. Vi soon started to prepare some breakfast for her brood. Vi has always been a stay at home wife and mother, and truly enjoys cooking for her family.

"What time do you boys plan to leave today?" Art asked.

"I told Dad we’d meet him at the Texas Roadhouse about 4:00 PM, so we really need to leave here by about noon," Jeff answered.

"I thought it was only a three hour trip," Art said.

"It is," Jeff replied, "but we want to check out the cabin while it’s still daylight. Mom, could we scrounge a set of sheets from you?"

"Sure, honey," Vi answered, "I’ll dig some out after breakfast, would you like me to pack some lunch for you?"

"Nah," Jeff replied, "we want to be hungry for dinner at four, if we get too hungry we might make a quick stop at Burger King and grab a burger."

After breakfast J&J got their paperwork that they would need for registration together, and packed a change of clothes each. They were both dressed for dinner and planned to wear the same clothes to campus Monday morning. Vi placed the set of sheets in a plastic bag for them.

About 11:00 AM the boys put everything in Jeff’s car, kissed Vi and hugged Art goodbye and left, heading for the cabin. About 1:00 PM, still an hour away, they stopped at a BK, grabbed a burger and used the restroom. They arrived at the cabin about 2:15 PM. Checking the lantern, the realized it needed new batteries and planned to go to Target and get new ones, as Target was close to the Texas Roadhouse.

The boys put the clean sheets on the bed, relaxed and made out for a few minutes, then headed out toward the mall and Texas Roadhouse. Julian was very nervous about meeting Jeff’s father.

"Jeff, I’m afraid your Dad is going to hate me," Julian lamented, "Does he know I’m gay?"

"Baby, relax," Jeff assured, "Dad is not that naïve, he knows that if we love each other, we both must be gay. I’m sure everything will be fine."

When the boys arrived at the Texas Roadhouse, Jeff escorted Julian inside. Bill Parks was waiting inside and stood up when he saw Jeff and Julian enter.

Bill, giving Jeff a warm hug, "Good to see you, Son! And I presume this is Julian?"

"Julian White," Jeff said, "this is my father, William Parks."

Julian offered his hand to shake, and Bill surprised Jeff and shocked Julian when, instead of shaking Julian’s hand, he wrapped his arms around Julian, giving him just as warm a hug as he’d just given Jeff.

"Shall we get seated?" Bill said, leading them to the receptionist.

"Table for three?" the receptionist asked.

"Please," Jeff responded, "And is Cory available today?"

"Yes, sir," the receptionist replied, "I’ll be happy to seat you, and I’ll let Cory know that you requested him."

Within three minutes of sitting down, Cory appeared at their table.

"Cory," Jeff asked, "do you remember us?"

Cory, smiling, "I don’t remember your names, but I sure do remember serving you two on your very first date!" Cory placed menus in front of all three men,

Jeff, pointing, "Julian, and I’m Jeff, and today I’m introducing my Dad to my boyfriend, this is my father, William Parks."

"Good to meet you, sir," Cory stated, offering his hand to Bill, and they shook hands. "I’m Cory, and may I take your drink orders?" The three men gave Cory their drink requests, and Cory said he’d be back shortly.

Cory, when returning with their beverages, "Would you like to order an appetizer?"

"How about a Texas Rose?" Julian suggested.

"That’s an onion, baby!" Jeff stated.

"I know," Julian replied, grinning, "but it’s a good onion!" All three agreed on the Texas Rose. While waiting on the Texas Rose, they all studied the menu.

Cory, when delivering the appetizer, "Are you gents ready to order?" They were. "Separate checks?" Cory asked.

"Just one check," Bill replied. The three men gave Cory their orders.

"It seems like you know Cory?" Bill asked.

"Dad," Jeff replied, "Our very first date was here, and it was Julian’s first date, ever. Cory was our server that night, and we kinda got to know him. He’s one of us, and his boyfriend is one of the chefs here."

Bill, grinning, "Why is that not a surprise, he seems like an excellent server. So, Julian, what are you majoring in?"

"Information Technology, sir," Julian replied, "I still have two years to go."

"His training paid off last week," Jeff said, "the system crashed at work, and Julian was able to get it up and running, and saved Alvin a lot of money." Bill smiled.

"Well, Jeff, it seems you picked a boyfriend with a promising career, IT is one of the best fields to get into," Bill said. "Are you boys staying in a motel tonight?"

"Nope," Jeff replied, "we’re staying in Uncle Jim’s cabin, it’s only about fifteen minutes from campus. It’s a bit rough, no electricity, no running water, but the price is great—free."

Cory delivered their dinners, and, as usual, checked up on them often. The three men kept the conversation light, Bill avoided asking questions that were too personal, but was also trying to learn as much as possible about Julian. Shortly after they finished eating, Julian excused himself and headed to the restroom. Bill used Julian’s absence to talk to Jeff.

"Son," Bill said, "you probably know that Jim and Calvin are planning to marry. I hope they send us an invitation to their wedding. I don’t know if Elaine can bring herself to attend, but I would go, with or without her. I have no animosity toward Jim, I actually like him, and I feel badly that your Mom is so much against him, and his lifestyle, and I suppose that is now your lifestyle too."

"I fear that Elaine’s homophobia and hatred is tearing our family apart, and it’s tearing me up too. Julian seems to be a delightful young man, and I can’t condemn the love that you two seem to have for each other. Just being with you today, I can feel the love that you two share. I’m impressed, and I can’t help but like Julian. I like him a lot. Son, I just want you to know, regardless of your mother’s attitude, I’m on your side. I love you and I respect your feelings and your love for Julian."

"Thanks, Dad," Jeff said, with tears in his eyes, "you have no idea how much that means to me, and to Julian too. He thought you were going to hate him, and I’m very happy that you like him." Julian returned.

Cory came back and offered some sweet endings, which were declined as all three men were very comfortably full. A few minutes later he returned again with the check. Bill paid for the dinners, and added a $25.00 tip, and they all got ready to leave. Bill followed the boys to Jeff’s car.

Bill, wrapping his arms around Julian, "Julian, I would like very much to welcome you as part of our family, but Jeff’s Mom is a stubborn and homophobic bitch. I love her, but she needs some work done on her attitude. I personally welcome you as my second son, and if you ever need to talk, please know that we can talk, and I do care about both of you. I’m very happy that we were able to share some time together today, and I finally got to meet my son’s boyfriend!"

"I’m also happy to have met you, Mr. Parks," Julian said, smiling, "and I need to tell you DAD, I’m not afraid of you—not anymore! Oh, and thanks for dinner." Bill smiled.

"Sons," Bill stated, "have a good semester, take care of and protect each other, like all couples in love should do. I hope to see you both again before too long."

Bill entered his car and took off for the long drive back to Summerton, and the boys took off for the cabin.

"Baby, I’m impressed," Julian said, "your old man is pretty cool, and I like him, I like him a lot.

"While you were in the restroom, Dad and I talked a little. Julian, my Dad likes you—he likes you a lot, too. I know he’s going to work on my Mom, and try to do some attitude adjustment on her. I sure hope it works, but at least I know how Dad feels, and I’m a lot more comfortable knowing that he accepts us, as boyfriends."

The boys went to Target and picked up some batteries for the camp light that was in the cabin, and then headed to the cabin to sleep. Monday morning they awoke and got dressed and stopped at a café just off campus and got some breakfast.

After breakfast, they went on campus and got registered, then went to the Dorm office. As Jeff suspected, Julian was not permitted to get a bed in the senior dorm, but they were able to get a shared room in the junior dorm, and got that taken care of.

Now that registration was taken care of, the boys were free to return to Dunbar for the rest of the week, but needed to return to campus the following week to start classes, one week before Labor Day. They left campus about 2:00 PM on Monday afternoon.

Julian received a phone call about 4:00 PM from Vi, wanting to know if the boys would be home for dinner, and he told her they were about an hour away. That’s all she needed to know, and was planning to start dinner shortly, and they could plan on having dinner about 6:00 PM.

The boys got home about 5:00 PM and informed Mom and Dad that they were all set for the fall semester, and needed to be on campus by Sunday afternoon to get settled and their first classes would be on Monday, the week before Labor Day.

When they sat down for dinner of Baked Chicken, Baked Potatoes and fresh Corn on the Cob, Art told the boys to not leave, as they had something important to discuss after dinner. It didn't really concern Jeff, but they thought he would be interested also. Neither of the boys had any idea what was up, but both were anxious to find out.

After Vi cleared the table, she sat back down and the discussion began.

"Julian," Art said, "do you remember me asking you, a few weeks ago, how you would feel about your Mom and I adopting some younger children?"

Julian, suddenly excited, "Are you going to—are you gonna give me siblings?"

"Son, that’s the business we had to take care of today," Art explained. "We’ve applied to adopt a young pair of half siblings. The adoption procedure will take two, maybe three months, but we may be able to foster them in just a couple of weeks, while the adoption takes place."

"What are they like, have you seen them?" Julian asked, excitedly.

"No, we haven’t seen them yet," Vi stated, "but we have a picture of them."

"What are half siblings?" Julian asked.

"They have the same mother, but different daddy’s," Vi explained, "Do you want to see the picture?"

"Oh, YES, PLEASE!" Julian exclaimed. Vi picked up a folder from the counter and pulled a photograph from it, handing it to Julian. Art is smiling at Julian’s enthusiasm.

"Oh my God, they’re beautiful!" Julian exclaimed, "I want to grab them, and hug them! How old are they?"

"Samantha is five and Dominic is almost two." Their mother is Caucasian, and both of their daddy’s are black, so we were told." Julian handed the photo to Jeff.

"Weird," Jeff commented, "Samantha is as white as you, Mom, and Dominic is just as dark as Julian."

"Jeff," Vi stated, "when two races intermingle, sexually, we never know what the offspring will look like. For nine months we had no idea what color Julian might be, until that beautiful day he arrived, and we painted him love!"

"I don’t care about the color of their skin," Julian blurted, "I’ll take them both, and love them the same!"

"Oh!" Jeff exclaimed, "If only more people in the world had a heart like Julian, we could end all the hate!"

"Thanks, baby," Julian said, "I think love is colorblind anyway."

"I have to agree with Julian," Jeff said, "Love has to be colorblind, look at Julian and me, and I damn sure have nothing but a heart full of love for him!" Julian quickly planted a kiss on Jeff’s lips, and Jeff returned it just as quickly. Art and Vi just smiled, totally in agreement.

"So when do I get my siblings?" Julian asked.

"They could be living here in as little as two weeks, as foster children," Art said, "but legally, as siblings, might be two or three months. Samantha, being a girl, will need her own room so she would take over the guest room, and you will likely have to share your room with Dominic."

"Hell yeah," Julian said, grinning, "I’d even be willing to share my bed with him! And I could cuddle him to sleep."

"You might just have to share your bed with him," Art replied, "You’re really into this, aren’t you."

"I would like to have had siblings when I was younger," Julian said, "but I’ll take them now, I still want siblings!"

"Baby, are you going to tell Mom and Dad about meeting my Dad?"

"Oh my gosh," Julian stated, "Mr. Parks was nothing like I pictured, He’s really nice. I thought he would hate me, but I was totally wrong, he acted like he really likes me, and I like him too."

"My Dad really surprised me today," Jeff said, his eyes getting wet, "we had a chance to chat while Julian went to the restroom, and he told me that he really likes Julian a lot. I know my Dad, and I can take that to the bank! I’m convinced that he accepts our relationship. Just as we were all getting ready to leave Texas Roadhouse, in the parking lot, he told us to take care of each other and protect each other, like two people in love should always do. He also said he was going to work on Mom, and try to give her an attitude adjustment."

"So it seems," Art said, "That your dinner engagement with your Dad went a lot better than either of you two expected. I’m glad it went well."

"I’m glad too," Jeff said, "Dad has come around, now if he can get Mom to come around, I’ll feel like I have a family again."

"Jeff," Art said, "you know you do have a family, just maybe not in Summerton. At least now, you and your Dad are in a better position, and you can communicate without fear."

J&J went to bed about 10:00 PM Monday night, knowing they needed to rise early and start their last week of work before starting fall semester.

"You know baby," Julian spoke softly, "this has been a most wonderful weekend. It seems like everything is going our way!"

"Julian," Jeff said, "when we get married someday, I want to adopt some children, and I can tell you’re going to be one awesome daddy! I’m pretty anxious to meet your future siblings, and I know you’re going to be on cloud nine—without drugs to help! I just love you so much, goodnight, baby."

Julian, snickering, "We might have to sleep three in this bed, and we’ll probably be fighting over who gets to cuddle Dominic!"

"He sure looks like a sweet little boy," Jeff said, "worth fighting over."

J&J held each other closely and drifted off to sleep.

To be continued……..