Beginning With Brad - Part 2

I just layed there holding the telephone reciever to my chest thinking about what Brad and we had just talked about. I was lost in these feelings that where surging through my body from head to toe. My penis was as hard as a rock as I though about Bradley and how shy and sweet he is. I didn't come out of my little fantacy until I heard the telephone still on my chest "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and dial again" the recorded female voice said over-and-over.

FUCK! - Just like a woman, my dick went soft, and she ruined a perfect moment. FUCKING TUNA!

PART TWO - Beginning With Brad

I hung up the telephone and wallowed in the fact that Brad did love me even though he didn't say it as directly as I said it to him. It didn't matter, he loved me and that was what was important. As I layed there in my bed, I began to wonder what Brad was doing, and or thinking at that very moment. Did he know that when I said "I love you" what I really meant was "I'm in love with you?"

I had the most wonderful dream about him that night. It was so vivid and unlike any other dream that I have ever had. You'd think that a guy my age would dream of hot steamy sex, but I didn't. I'm not saying that the thoughts that I had about Brad where not arousing, and didn't cause the hardest erections known to man because they did. But in these dreams, Brad in all of his sweet shyness managed to confess that he was in fact, very much in love with me and hoped that I might feel the same way. In these dreams, upon hearing him say those three magic words, I'd fall apart and cry with my face burried into the center of his chest, unable to speak. I'd always wake up at this point without answering and begin to cry in the real world upon realizing that it was only a dream.

The very next day, Brad arrived at my house in the morning to pick me up for school. As soon as I opened the door, he put his hand over his heart and said with a tone of relief "Good! you're still alive." I just smiled at him and we went about the day like and other, except there was something new and unspoken lying just below the surface. Sort of like an understanding of things yet to come. 

It remained this way for many months until Brad took a part time job at Shakey's Pizza Parlor. His manager took a liking to Brad and hired me on his recomendation. Life couldn't have been better, and I got to spend more time with Brad then ever before. Our manager's name was Ted, and at 25 he seemed like a grown man to us, but acted like he was a high schooler. You couldn't help but notice some girlish mannerism's about Ted. But it never occured to us that he was a homosexual. We'd soon learn that he was, and we'd also learn that it was easy for Ted to see that Brad and I where headed towards that highway ourselves, but couldn't seem to find the on ramp. Ted had a friend named Brian that stopped by very often, and there was nothing girlish about him at all. He was very muscular and had a deep, manly voice. 

About a month down the road, we where at work and it was just Brad, Ted, and myself. Brian showed up right around closing time and I saw Ted grab his pack of cigarettes and walk out back with Brian. This was something that was not uncommon and that's why Brad and I didn't give any thought to carrying some empty beer kegs out back. We saw it at the very same moment and froze, looked at each other, and then back at the where Brian had Ted pinned against the wall, and was kissing him. I dropped my keg and they both jumped and quickly seperated. Brad and I did our best to pretend that we hadn't seen anything and quickly went back into the kitchen.

It was the first time that I had even seen two guys kissing, and all Brad and I could do was look at each other in total silence waiting for the other to make a comment about what we had just seen. Neither of us was willing, or simply didn't know exactly what to say about it. It didn't matter because less then a minute later Ted came back inside and his face was bright red. He looked frightened, and that in itself frightened me, and I could see that it was no "walk in the park" for Brad either. 

"Come here guy's!" Ted said.

Brad and I walked over towards the back door where Ted was standing. We stood there like a couple of children waiting to be scolded. 

"I guess you guy's know my secret now, and I'm hoping that it will stay that way." Ted said.

I was the first to speak and I muttered something very nervously like: "Oh sure, no problem!" and Brad repeated something similar. That seemed to satisfy Ted and as bad as I wanted the subject to continue, it didn't. I had a million questions swimming around in my head that I wanted to ask Ted. But that was it except for an odd closing comment from Ted.

"Okay.....so I guess I owe you guy's one. So if you ever need anything, just ask." Ted said, and to my shock and surprise, Brad said: "like what?" Ted just smiled at Brads' comment as if he read something into it that I obviously hadn't.

"I don't know? - if you ever want me to score you some weed, or beer, or somthing like that, just ask and I'll be glad to help you out. But if you get caught with it, it didn't come from me, okay?" Ted said.

Having this secret knowledge about Ted changed our relationship, and soon after we would joke with him about it when it was just us and nobody else was around. Brad was the first to take that bold step the next week when Brian appered again at closing time. The front door was locked so Brad got on the pick-up order microphone and said "Teddy, your boyfriend is at the front door."

From the kitchen microphone, Ted called me back there. "Seth! - come back here and get the keys so your boyfriend can let my boyfriend in. Thank you - Over & Out!" Ted said trying not to laugh. 

It was the first time that he had made any type of comment like that about Brad and I, and I just looked at Brad as I handed him the keys to open the front door and let Brain in. Niether of us said or did anything to dispell what Ted had just said. I just sood there watching Brad fumble with the keys and thought about how Ted had just called Brad my boyfriend. It made me feel all warm along my back and I could feel my armpits getting sweaty.

From the corner of my eye, I noticed that Ted had walked up beside me and when I looked at him, he smiled and shook his head. "I'm not the only one with a secret am I?" He said.

"What? I don't know what you're talkin' about" I replied.

"It's cool. I've been where you are. If you ever want to talk, ya know?" Ted said.

I remember swollowing hard and just shaking my head up and down, and then looking away so my face wouldn't get any redder then it already was. I just finished cleaning up while being consumed by a single thought. "Oh man! - Ted knows." 

When Brain walked into the kitchen, Ted told him that we both knew and that we where cool with it. He looked at Brad and I, shrugged his shoulders, and gave Ted a quick hug and a kiss. Nothing like what we had seen on the back patio, but still a warm embrace and a loving kiss that made me feel jealous for the first time. 

That night, Brad and I drove home with nothing to say, yet it was painfully clear that we wanted to talk about Ted and Brian. I was too scared and I could tell that Brad was too. It was amazing how pathetically chicken we both where. I relied on Brad to say something, anything so that I could reply in my usual, bold, and thought provoking fashion. He didn't let me down because when we got to my house, Brad didn't just come to a stop in front of my driveway. He pulled up along side the bushes in front of my house and turned off the engine.

After 10 or 20 seconds of gruling silence, Brad spoke looking straight ahead. "Did you hear Ted call me your boyfriend tonight?" He said. I didn't skip a beat with my emphatic reply.

"Well.......you're a boy, and you're my friend. So I guess he was correct in saying that." I said.

"Yeah, but that's not what he meant and you know it." Brad said.

"So sew your button's - who cares?" I said. - "It didn't bother me. I mean I wasn't offended by it or anything." 

"No! - me neither, but it was just wierd to hear. Do you think that he really thinks that?" Brad said.

"I think Ted thinks and knows a lot more then we think he does." I said.

"What does that mean?" Brad said.

"I'm not 100% sure, but when I am, you'll be the first to know." I replied.

"DAMN IT! - What does that mean?" Brad said, and looking right at me this time.

"That mouth! - since when do you use words like that?" I said. - " You kiss your mother with that dirty mouth?" I asked

"Seth! - what do you care who I kiss with my mouth?" Brad said.

"Now you're catching on! - Goodnight! - Love ya! - I'll see you when I look at you." I said, and then opened the door and got out before Brad could reply to my last comment.