Mayfield Magic

Greetings Loyal Readers and welcome back. Two days into his teenage years, Aiden learns that being a teenager feels really special, but also has its low points.

 

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CHAPTER 56

 

FRIENDS BEING FRIENDS

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

 

<Miller Residence>

 

4:00 pm

 

While Titus was being taught the wonders of a circle jerk by his two new friends, the boys staying at Aiden’s house were well-versed in the art of the circle jerk and more. Though not all of them were gay, they all enjoyed “messing around” with their friends. It was what friends did, even when they’re all boys.

 

Aiden informed his dads that there would be nine boys spending the night with him. His cousins Logan (12), Chase (15), Curt (13), and Eddie (13) were four of them. All of them were cousins as the result of Aiden’s adoption by Larry and Phil. His relation to Eddie and Curt was a bit more complex since they had been adopted as well.

 

Madison (11) was Logan’s boyfriend and Dillon (15) was Chase’s boyfriend. Ironically while Troy and Susan Miller’s two blood sons were gay, their adopted sons, Curt and Eddie, were straight. Curt did wonder at times if he might be bi.

 

Justin (9) was the son of Mike the Donkey and Ryan the Dawg. Darnel (13) had lived in Mayfield and been friends with Aiden before moving to Bellingham. And then there was Nolan (13), who is the birthday boy’s true love. Justin’s sexual preference was simply being naked with a friend or friends and having fun.

 

Darnell wasn’t yet sure what his sexual preference was; he just knew that he leaned to messing around with boys because his best friends were boys and he knew more about boys than he did about girls. He figured he would wait until he was a bit older to figure out where he stood. For now, he would have fun with boys but wouldn’t turn down a chance to learn more about girls.  

 

Like his boyfriend, Nolan knew without a doubt that he was gay. He and Aiden were both proud of who they were and were madly in love with each other.

 

The boys spent the day in the games room, in the pool, eating dinner, eating snacks, in the hot tub, playing games, and checking out the Mariners game on TV. At around eight-thirty they talked about who would sleep where and who they would be enjoying extracurricular fun with, if they so desired.

 

The who was sleeping with who arrangement was discussed in bits and pieces from dinner on. What they would be doing together would be up to them. They all agreed they wouldn’t be chaste. By nine they were ready for fun in bed. They sat in the backroom in the basement saying their goodnights and letting each other know how horny they were and making their final pairings. Six of the ten would be sleeping in the basement.

 

All of them were wearing T-shirts and underpants except for Madison. He had shucked his green and blue briefs the moment he entered the backroom. After everybody found a place to sit, he stood up, turned his back to the group and spread his smooth ass cheeks revealing his pink pucker.

 

“All I know is, whoever I, like, end up sleeping with, is welcome to stick his big cock into my little hole,” the purple haired tween said.

 

“Are you saying I have a big dick?” Logan asked as he pulled down the front of his white briefs and revealed his just under four-inch hard-on. Logan was the only boy Madison had bottomed for.

 

“It’s big enough for me, that’s for sure. But I wanted to go bigger tonight since there’s a lot of cocks here for me to, like, choose from, right?”

 

“Right as right can be.” Logan pulled his briefs all the way off, making sure everyone saw his hard, hairless cock. He then displayed his smooth, tanned ass, wiggling it back and forth enticingly. “I’ll take a big one, too.” Logan was an experienced bottom, with his brother Chase’s six inches being the biggest of the seven cocks he’d enjoyed in his ass.

 

 Chase shook his head as he remembered his brother as a shy eight-year-old hiding behind his mother. Now he was a wild boy who loved a good romp in bed or anywhere else he could get it, indoors or outdoors. The back patio was one of his favorite jerking off spots. Chase didn’t even want to think about his little brother standing in the park near their house pissing his jeans. Yet the thought of it sent a shiver through his cock. He had no doubt that sexually, Logan was the wildest boy in the group.

 

“How about it, cuz, are you ready to fuck me?” Logan asked Aiden.

 

Aiden pulled down the front of his white briefs exposing his hairless erection. “Does this answer your question?” he asked.

 

“Yeah, it does, but what are our boyfriends gonna do?”

 

“What do you think we’re gonna do?” Nolan asked as he pulled down his black boxers and revealed a throbbing six plus inch erection. “Is this big enough for you, Madison?”

 

“Like, holy shit, it’s beyond big enough. I’m gonna need an asshole stretcher to take that up my ass.”

 

“You’d be surprised. I mean, if Aiden can take it and with a lot of lube and me being careful you should be just fine.”

 

“Then I’m, like, good with trying it.”

 

Eddie and Curt agreed to stay together since all they planned on doing was jerking each other off and getting to sleep. They had brought their sleeping bags    and laid them out on the floor in the back of the games room. Both wanted their privacy, which is why they picked a remote area.

 

“I’m surprised that you’re okay after what happened with you and Maria,” Curt said as he and Eddie worked on each other’s cocks.

 

“And between us two more times after that,” Eddie reminded his foster brother.

 

“Damn, dude, you better not get her preggers.”

 

“No worries. I wore a raincoat every time we did it since her ‘rents won’t put her on the pill since Maria has been told a half a zillion times that sex is a sin unless you’re married and until then no way she should do it. Plus, their religion is against birth control.”

 

“I guess that means she’s double sinning since she’s having sex and is just twelve and on top of that she’s using birth control.”

 

“She turned thirteen the day after our second fuck,” Eddie said.

 

“Whatever. How about we shut up and get each other off,” Curt said. And with that they started masturbating each other in earnest.

 

Justin and Darnell laid out their sleeping bags on the floor of the back room. That way they could watch Dillon and Chase, the big boys, do whatever they were going to do. They stripped naked and crawled into Darnell’s sleeping bag together. Justin, who was nine, snuggled up against Darnell and purred when the thirteen-year-old placed his arm around him. Even though Darnell wasn’t the first Black boy Justin had snuggled with and would be sexual with, he still thought his new friend’s dark skin was exotic.

 

Chase and Dillon also stripped naked, and the two younger boys ogled their athletic teen bodies. Both boys were fifteen.

 

“Do you dudes mind if me and Chase fuck on the couch?” Dillon asked. He saw no need to mince words since all of the boys who were staying the night at Aiden’s house knew that sex was part of the package.

 

Aiden had told Justin that the overnight would include messing around. “Messing around means doing sex stuff together. You might want to call your dads and tell them to come and pick you up.”

 

“I know what messing around is. My friends and me do it all the time,” Justin said. “I even do it with my friend Karl, who is Black like Darnell and really cool like Darnell, so I want to stay and mess around with Darnell.”

 

“If Darnell is cool with it, then so am I.”

 

An hour later Justin and Darnell were cuddling naked in Darnell’s sleeping bag.

 

Chase and Dillon were boyfriends. They knew that Darnell was active and had even messed around with Eddie and had no problem with being watched by him. Once they learned that Justin had messed around and wasn’t shy about sex, they decided he could hang around and watch, too.

 

“Do you wanna watch them?” Darnell asked Justin.

 

Justin’s answer was to place his lips around Darnell’s cock and start sucking. Darnell tried unsuccessfully to do the same to Justin. The boys quickly adjusted and got out of Darnell’s sleeping bag and crawled on top of Justin’s.

 

Darnell rolled onto his back. “Sixty-nine,” he whispered. Justin got into position above Darnell and the two quickly went at it. Darnell was amazed by Justin’s sexuality. He knew he never would have made the quick adjustments Justin had just made when he was nine years old, let alone know what sixty-nine meant.

 

Chase and Dillon had talked about taking their sleeping bags and moving to a corner of the games room in order not to offend the younger boys. But they ended up staying on the couch when they saw Justin and Darnell stripping naked before climbing into a sleeping bag.

 

“I don’t think we’re going to be doing anything they don’t know about, especially when you consider that Trajan lived in Tony and Marco’s house for a few weeks,” Chase said. “I’m willing to bet that Justin was there when a lot of sexy stuff was going on and participated in some as well.” Marco was Justin’s best friend, Tony was Marco’s older brother, and Trajan was their even older cousin.

 

“I mean, he might not know about fucking and...oh, look,” Dillon said.

 

Chase turned his head and saw Justin and Darnell on top of one of the sleeping bags. Justin went down on Darnell’s cock and Darnell put his lips around Justin’s. “It looks like they know about oral sex,” Chase grinned. He turned and put his lips around his boyfriend’s five-inch nail and sucked it into his mouth.

 

“Did you guys have fun?” Chase asked after both pairs had their orgasms and climbed back into their sleeping bags.

 

“The best,” Justin squeaked in his high-pitched voice. “What about you guys?”

 

“Ditto for us,” Dillon said.

 

Chase turned the light out and the boys were soon sound asleep, each in his own sleeping bag.

 

<Second floor>

 

Two of the pairings took place upstairs. They were the first pairings to be decided.

 

Nolan and Madison paired up in the guest room. Nolan knew how close Aiden and his cousin Logan were and how rarely they got to see each other, so he and Logan’s boyfriend was a natural matchup.   

 

However, since the day was Aiden’s official birthday, Aiden wanted to make sure that Nolan was okay with him and Logan having butt sex. “I’m going to be topping Logan, so you’ll still be the first to fuck my teenage ass,” Aiden told Nolan. Nolan nodded and said it worked for him.

 

“Are you sure you want to go all the way?” Nolan asked Madison as they sat on the queen bed and pulled off their underpants.

 

“Like I said earlier, I want your big cock up my ass,” Madison said.

 

“I’ll do all I can to not hurt you and make it a feel-good experience,” Nolan said. “But I do have a question before we start.”

 

“What?”

 

“If you had pubes would you dye them purple like your hair?”

 

“Logan, like, asked me the same thing. I told him that hair on my head is, like, my public hair, but when I get pubic hair, it’s going to, like, be my sacred hair and will stay natural.”

 

“Sounds good.” Nolan reached down into his backpack which was on the floor at the foot of the bed. He pulled out a jar of lube and set to work getting them both ready to fuck.

 

In the guest room Madison was able to handle Nolan with little problem. The fact that he loved sticking things up his ass along with Logan fucking him hard had him ready for the teen’s larger cock.

 

There was little foreplay as Nolan entered Madison’s tight ass. Both boys were horny and ready to rock. Madison came first, firing squirts of clear cum on his belly as Nolan massaged Madison’s sweet spot like the veteran top he was. Nolan coated the tween’s anus with his thick teen cum.

 

The two shared a chaste kiss. “Did you like it?” Nolan asked.

 

“It was, like, different than with Logan, but I liked it. Your big thingy felt like it was filling me up more. I’d do it again.”

 

“No. I’m pretty tired. But I’d do it again some time if you want.”

 

 They got out of bed and headed to the bathroom where they took care of bedtime business.

 

Over in Aiden’s bedroom, Aiden and Logan sat naked on Aiden’s bed. The cousins admired each other’s smooth pubic area and pubescent cock. Both were around 4.5” even though Aiden was nine months older than his cousin. They both could shoot a modest amount of clear cum.

 

The atmosphere was different than it was in the guest room. Aiden and Logan had enjoyed sex together before and were ready for more. The naked cousins shared a French kiss, rubbing each other’s smooth ass as they kissed long and deep and wet. They then licked each other’s nipples and fondled each other’s smooth dicks and balls.

 

“You know that you still haven’t fucked me, right?” Aiden said.

 

“Of course I know. How could I not know? I mean, I’m a sex fiend, right? At least that’s what everybody says,” Logan responded.

 

“And just who is everybody?”

 

“Everybody is everybody minus anybody who is nobody. And I know I won’t be fucking you tonight since your boyfriend with the giant cock gets your teenage ass first”

 

“You’re starting to sound like Madison,” Aiden said.

 

“Whatever.  How about we quit yakking and get serious so you start fucking the shit out of me,” Logan said.

 

“I remember when you were a shy little munchkin.” Aiden was thinking of the shy little eight-year-old who had come to Aiden’s ninth birthday party and spent part of it hiding behind his mother.

 

“And now you can remember me as one of your best fucks. You’ve heard of kissing cousins, but you and me are fucking cousins, too. So, let’s kiss and then fuck. But before we do, I just want you to know that next time we’re together and fuck, I get to fuck you.”

 

“I have no problem with that.” Aiden reached into his nightstand drawer, pulled out a jar of lube, and set to work getting them both ready to fuck.

 

Logan then rolled onto his back, lifted his legs, and spread his pucker for Aiden to see. Aiden accepted the visual invitation and rammed his lubed-up cock into his cousin’s slick ass. From there the bed almost hopped as he rabbit fucked Logan’s ass until they came within seconds of each other. Logan shot on his belly and Aiden pulled out of Logan’s ass and shot cum on Logan’s belly as all. The boys mixed their light tween cum with their fingers and enjoyed their gourmet cum sample.

 

The wild fuck wore them out and after taking care of emptying their bladders and taking care of their teeth, they dropped onto Aiden’s bed, shared a quick kiss, cuddled, and fell asleep.

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

 

<Mason’s house>

 

8:30 am

 

The knock on the front door woke Mason up from a snooze. He was sitting on one of the two armchairs in the living room. His feet were propped up on an ottoman. Since his mother was at work, he elected to be naked and since he was sure who was knocking, he had no qualms about answering the door in the nude. He opened the door to see Alejandro sporting a large smile. He breathed a mental sigh of relief. Despite his confidence that his boyfriend was at the door, there was the slight chance it could have been someone else

 

 He noticed Jacob sitting in the driver's seat of the rented SUV. Alejandro waved to his bodyguard/driver/mentor and watched as he drove off.

 

“He’ll be stopping right around the corner,” Alejandro grinned as he stepped into the house. “Thanks for giving him a special view.”

 

Mason closed the door after Alejandro entered. Alejandro gave Mason’s boner a feel as Mason closed the door. “And thanks for giving me a special feel.”

 

“Sorry I didn’t spend more time with you while I was here, but things got pretty busy and time went by really fast,” Alejandro said.

 

“It’s cool. But you’re here now and I know we haven’t got much time. So, let’s get you naked so we can have some fun.”

 

Mason took Alejandro’s hand and led him to his bedroom. Less than thirty seconds later Alejandro was naked, his teen cock throbbing. They kissed, plopped down in Mason’s unmade bed, kissed longer and harder, felt up each other’s bodies, followed by Alejandro frantically making love to Mason. Their climaxes were almost simultaneous—Alejandro beat Mason by a few seconds.

 

The lovers exchanged a couple of kisses. Alejandro took a quick shower and dressed. Mason elected to stay naked and shower after Alejandro left.

 

“Are you going to come back for my recital?” Mason asked. His big piano recital was slated for Sunday, September 13^th.                  

 

“I know I’ll be here for your birthday party, so I should be here for the recital, too.” Mason would be turning thirteen on Tuesday, September 15th, but his party would be on Saturday the 12^th.

 

“Aiden is having a water-skiing party, so I’m having my birthday party at his house. So, it will be, like, a two for one party. Or is that a one for two?”

 

“Right now I can’t think of a reason for me not to be here that weekend.”

 

“I was going to have it the next weekend, but we have a soccer game on Saturday and on Sunday. It’s like a little four-team tournament.”

 

“I have my own soccer that weekend or I’d see if I could come back for that,” Alejandro said. A horn sounded from in front of the house. “Oh, oh, I think Jacob is ready to take me to the hotel so we can pick up everybody and get to the Centralia airport.”

 

Mason reached up and planted a kiss on Alejandro’s lips. “I love you.”

 

“I love you, too, my love. I’ll see you in a couple of weeks.”

 

Mason opened the door and let Alejandro out. He wasn’t sure, but he thought Jacob might be admiring his naked body again, which didn’t bother him at all. He closed the door and headed for the shower.

 

<Miller Residence>

 

11:30 am

 

Aiden’s birthday visitors were gone; all except Nolan that is. But then, Nolan was considered a resident by the Millers and Aiden was considered one at the Moyer residence.

 

Nolan and Aiden were sitting on Aiden’s balcony. They were dressed in shorts, a T-shirt, and a hoodie. The early September day was sunny, but the temperature was in the mid-sixties. It was expected to warm up to the low seventies by midafternoon. The hoodies would probably be shed by lunchtime.

 

“I’ve gotta say that with three parties your birthday was certainly a big production,” Nolan grinned.

 

“Only because I turned thirteen,” Aiden pointed out. “Everybody seemed to want to be part of it, which I don’t get.”

 

“Maybe it’s because you’ve got so many people who love and respect you.”

 

“How? I mean I’m just a teenager. It’s not like I did anything special by living for thirteen years.”

 

“Well, my love, I disagree. I think you have done something really special by becoming the kind of person you’ve become. I wouldn’t have fallen in love with just anybody you know.”

 

“Hmph,” Aiden grunted. “This may sound weird, but sometimes I feel like I’ve led two different lives. My first eight years were one of them. And then my dads come into my life and bring me screaming and kicking to Mayfield.”

 

“Screaming and kicking?” Nolan knew Aiden’s story but still had problems thinking of him being a pain in the ass when his dads, who were his uncles back then, picked him up at his Seattle foster home.

 

“Dude, I’ve told you how I came here hating them for becoming my new parents, hating my Seattle foster parents, hating my Uncle Troy for making me live with two faggot uncles instead of becoming my foster parent instead. I mean, he had a wife and two boys, and I knew I’d be happy there. But I was certain he didn’t want me because I was no good.”

 

“And that was how you kicked off your second life.”

 

“Exactly.” Aiden was getting worked up. He took off his hoodie because he was getting hot, which showed his Marty Carlson Mariner t-shirt with Carlson and his number 3 on the back. Aiden had complained a couple of weeks before that his Marty shirt was getting small, Marty had sent him one that was a larger size for his birthday. But Marty gave Aiden another birthday present he liked almost as much—a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth that put the Mariners up 5-3 in a 5-4 win over the Guardians in Seattle.  Aiden sent him thank you texts for each present.

 

“When do I get to add ultimate pleasure to your second life by being the first to go up your sweet ass?” Nolan asked.

 

“Soon I hope, since I can’t be the bottom for anybody until you do it,” Aiden said.

 

“Hmm, well that would be one way to make you exclusively mine.”

 

“You can be an evil person sometimes, you know.”

 

“I know,” Nolan smirked. “But since I’m a nice guy at heart, how about I spend the night on Sunday? Shelby and Melanie will be leaving some time in the morning.” Shelby and Melanie were Nolan’s cousins from Vancouver, Washington. The        plan was for them to arrive with their parents around dinnertime on Friday and head back home Sunday morning.

 

“Sounds good to me. Let’s go ask the ‘rents.” The boys headed downstairs for lunch and parent negotiations. After all of the negotiating was completed, they received the okay from both pairs of parents to spend the night together at Nolan’s on Monday because Nolan would be going with his parents to the home of family friends Sunday night.

 

Soccer practice was scheduled for four o’clock. Coach Paxton’s work schedule for the day allowed him to schedule practice earlier than usual.  Gordy showed up at Aiden’s just before three o’clock. He’d had lunch at Kalie’s house and enjoyed making out naked with her in the back yard. “We didn’t fuck, so you don’t have to ask.”

 

“Did you have a cum at least?” Aiden asked.

 

“She sucked me to one and I finger fucked her to one. You guys both suck better than her, but you’re both experienced experts. She’s good though and she swallows, which I know a lot girls don’t do.”

 

“How do you know?” Nolan asked.

 

“She tells me this stuff. And what I tell you doesn’t go any farther.”

 

“Aiden and I both pinky swear that your secret stays with us. Right Aiden?”

 

“Right. Although what Kalie told Gordy doesn’t surprise me. All you gotta do is listen to the chatter from our own friends. That said, let’s get ready to go to practice.”

 

Aiden and Nolan put on their practice gear and hoodies and placed their pads in their bike bags. Gordy’s bike was already packed. They rode off to the middle school where they would be having their practice. They arrived at three forty-five for the four o’clock practice.

 

About half the players turning out were already there, including two new kids. One of them was Titus, who Aiden and Nolan had met, albeit briefly.  His bright red hair made him difficult to miss.

 

The other boy said his name was Vernon Wright.  He said he had moved to Mayfield from a city in Illinois called Rockford. He was thirteen and going into eighth grade. He had short cropped brown hair and an athletic build. He made sure to let everyone know he not only had played soccer but had been the star of his team and that a lot of people thought he was the best recreation soccer player in Rockford. And who was he to argue with that?

 

“Rockford is a big city, and I played on their top travel team. I am way too good to be playing on a team like this in a small town nobody ever heard of. Oh, and just so you know, I’m an even better baseball player. I bet baseball isn’t very good here at all. But don’t worry, I’ll be here to make your teams good.”

 

Aiden felt like he wanted to scream at Vernon and slap some sense into him, but he took a deep breath and paused. He couldn’t see this new kid fitting in with Mayfield the way he saw Titus fitting in, especially after what he had learned from Trent and Mason. Plus, he not only was sexy but seemed to be a really nice kid. Vernon, on the other hand, was not making a good impression.

 

“Do you play basketball?” Aiden asked hoarsely.

 

“Yeah, but I quit last year because the coach was a dweeb. He wouldn’t let me shoot whenever I wanted to.”

 

Vernon’s ego trip ended when Coach Paxton blew his whistle and signaled for the boys to meet him at the west goal.  Before they took off, Aiden quickly turned to Titus and told him he wanted to ask him something after practice and for him not to leave the field until they could talk. Titus nodded, pleased that Aiden, who Trent said was one of the team captains, wanted to talk to him.

 

Everybody hustled to where Coach Paxton and Coach Martinez were waiting. Aiden noted that Vernon ran as hard as the other players, which earned him his first plus point with the team captain.

 

“I don’t care much for that dude at all,” Nolan said to Aiden after they stopped at the west goal.

 

“I think we’ll have to watch him real carefully,” Aiden nodded.

 

Coach Paxton introduced the two new players. “I understand they both played soccer at their previous homes. Assuming they make the roster, that will give us a full 16 player roster.” The coach knew that injuries, illness, and family responsibilities can often lead to players missing games.

 

“Thanks for giving me a chance coach,” Vernon said. "I will do everything I can to be a total team player and help the team to win.”

 

“Thank you, Vernon. I appreciate hearing that,” Coach Paxton said. 

 

Nolan turned to Aiden and said, “What an ass kisser. We’re gonna have to totally watch him.”

 

Coach Paxton signaled Aiden and Lance to join him in front of the team. It was a request that the coach had told them he would be making, so they weren’t surprised. “I want to let our new players know, and remind the rest of you, who this year’s co-captains are. I like having a pair of co-captains who are chosen by the team and myself. They are Aiden Miller (Aiden raised his hand) and Lance Hazen (Lance raised his hand). You can tell the difference between Lance and his twin brother Lenny by the C on the left chest of Lance’s uniform and by the fact that Lance parks himself in the box.”

 

“I never heard of a keeper being a team captain before,” Vernon groused.

 

“Maybe not in a primitive place like Rockhead, Illinois, but here in Mayfield, also known as the Center of the Universe, it’s been known to happen, as you can see,” Nolan said.

 

“It’s Rockford, not Rockhead, and this place is more like the center of a swamp than the center of the universe. I can see I’m not gonna like playing with you guys, but I also know you’re gonna love having me on your team when I lead you to the league championship.”

 

“Whatever you say, Vern.”

 

“That’s Vernon to you, whatever your name is. In fact, let’s make it Sir Vernon.” Vernon thought about walking right up to Nolan and standing directly in front of him in an intimidating move but quickly decided not to since Nolan was a rare peer who was bigger than he was.

 

 Nolan had decided to turn out for the high school football team since he weighed enough to move up but changed his mind for two reasons. First, he wanted to play with his new Mayfield Middle School classmates, which meant playing soccer since there was no middle school football program in Mayfield. Second, his size might have been within the rules, but his parents felt he wasn’t big enough to compete with high school freshmen and sophomores (and even a junior or two) on the JV team and he agreed. Muddy was the only middle school player on the high school junior varsity team.

 

There were four seventh graders on the Kickers: Elwood Lively, Leif Carlson, and the Hazen twins. All of them were twelve and were         outstanding soccer players.  Aiden and Nolan both agreed they were cute boys. All four had caught Aiden’s eye the year before when they were sixth graders starting at the middle school.

 

“Okay, gang, let’s stop the chatter and form two equal lines behind our captains,” Coach Paxton called out.  He had already instructed Aiden and Lance where to stand. He left it up to the captains to make sure the two lines were equal. Aiden saw to it that Titus was in his line as he looked to take the new player under his wing. He hoped that Vernon wouldn’t be in his line and was disappointed to see him standing fourth in his line. And from there drill work began.

 

The practice seemed to go by quickly. Drill work filled the first half of their practice time. It was fast, organized, and often competitive. Most of the players were long-time friends which made it fun as well. The veteran players made sure to make the new players feel welcome.

 

Even though they found Vernon difficult to work with, they were impressed by his talent and hustle. But his mouth often turned them off as he complained about all the drill work. “A player as good as me shouldn’t have to work on the stuff you guys need to work on. I already know this stuff.” The players could see that he didn’t grouse when one of the coaches was within hearing distance.

 

“Most of us know this stuff too,” Aiden said to Gordy and Nolan during the mid-practice water break. He was referring to Vernon’s rants. “But we know that all of us have to work hard to make us better, which will make us a good team.” Gordy and Nolan were two of the top three players skill wise on the talented team.

 

“I will say this. For all his bitching and moaning Vernon worked his ass off during most of the drills, even the one he obviously hated,” Nolan said.

 

The second half of the practice consisted of game situations, finishing with an eight on eight full-field scrimmage. Vernon showed great ballhandling skills but also had a reluctance to pass the ball, even on a wide-open field.

 

When practice ended, Coach Paxton called the team together for a meeting. He talked about the next day’s game and reminded the team of the importance of team play on the field and that sharp passing was an important part of team play. Many of the players wondered if the last part of the pep talk was for Vernon’s edification. He reminded the players of the six-thirty game time and that they should be at the field no later than 45 minutes before the game.  He also let them know that since the game was a non-league game Vernon and Titus would get some game time in even though they’d only had one practice. “The State Youth Soccer Association rules state that they can play, but for no more than 25 minutes.”

 

He dismissed the team and told Titus and Vernon to see him. They headed right over. Vernon figured he would be getting his ass chewed for not looking to pass to open players. Aiden called Titus over before he joined the coach. Aiden reminded Titus he wanted to ask him something before he went home. “I’ll wait for you right here,” he said.

 

The two players trotted over to the coach and stood in front of him. “I have four kits in my truck, so follow me there. You should each be able to find a shirt and shorts to fit you,” the coach told them. That turned out to be the case. He also let Titus and Vernon know that being at the practice made them eligible to play by the soccer association rules.  Vernon headed to the parking lot where his father was waiting for him and Titus met with Aiden.

 

“Nice job in practice, Titus,” Aiden said.

 

“Thanks. Coach told me that too and now one of the team captains. I wish I could play more tomorrow, but I get why.  Vernon and I are not, like, in game shape yet,” Titus said.

 

“I also wanted to know what you are doing Saturday afternoon, say from around noon to six.”

 

“Are you having a party or something?”

 

“Yeah. I just want a little party for everybody to get to know you. Now that you’re a Kicker you pretty much know everybody who’s going to come.”

 

“Yeah, but now I get to eat with everyone and chat with them and play games or whatever and just chill and get to know dudes. Thanks for doing this, Aiden, it’s really cool for you to do this. Is Vernon going to be there, too?”

 

“I didn’t even know Vernon existed until today’s practice, so I’ll have to ask my dads about it.” Aiden could have given Vernon an invitation after practice, but he wanted to ask his dads a couple of things first. His first impression of Vernon was that he didn’t like him and didn’t want to invite him. But he was also a team captain which may mean he should invite him. He decided to ask his dads about it as well as Nolan.

 

“Is anybody else new?”

 

“Nolan is, but everybody knows him even though he’s new to Mayfield.”

 

“That sounds kinda different,” Titus said.

 

“Long story. I’ll tell you about it on Saturday.  Let’s trade phone numbers in case you have any questions.” The boys did so. “Just be at my house at noon on Saturday and if you need a ride give me a call.”

 

“Okay, great. I’ll see you Saturday. I’ve got some questions about school, but Trent’s been really good about telling me stuff. But maybe you can help me too. I’ve never moved and been new to a school.”

“Well, I have. So, if there’s anything I can do to help, let me know.”

 

Titus said he would, and took off to meet Trent, whose mother was giving them a ride home.

 

<Mayfield Inn>

 

9:45am

 

The East Harbor boys were scheduled to meet in the lobby of the Mayfield Inn at 10:00. Alejandro returned from his tryst with Mason at 9:45. Connor, Cooper, Michael, and Jaden were already in the lobby.

 

Connor and Cooper had been telling Michael and Jaden about their night with Lenny and Lance when Alejandro came in. “We were naked in the twins’ room and had big time boners,” Connor said. “Their sister Brenda, the brat, was watching Lance fuck me on his bed. After he came Cooper fucked Lenny on Lenny’s bed.  Brenda sat on a chair so she could finger herself. But before she could Cooper and Lenny cummed.  I told the brat to come with me on Lance’s bed, and I fucked her and even made her cum. We were glad the twins’ mom wasn’t home.”

 

“This place is wild,” Cooper said. “Just with Lenny and Lance the twin power is awesome here and with all four of us it is TWIN POWER!”

 

Connor asked Alejandro what he and Mason did. Alejandro said, “All I did was tell him good-bye.”

 

“But HOW did you tell him good-bye is what we want to know.”

 

“Whatever we did you’ll just have to imagine, because unlike two chatty twins what I do with my friends is my business.”

 

Jacob saved Alejandro by announcing their truck was loaded and it was time to head to the Centralia airport. The East Boys’ time in Mayfield had come to an end.

 

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<Miller Residence>

 

Aiden double-checked that everything in his e-mail was the way he wanted it. He clicked on “send” and it took off for the office of the Lewis County Young People’s Quarterly. He felt confident that the story he had sent was a good one and would be published in the quarterly.

 

It was titled “Furry Love” and was the story of two middle school friends who collected stuffed animals for Operation Teddy Bear. But they often handed them out to young children from poor families as well. Aiden’s story tells how the two thirteen-year-olds befriended two five-year-old twin boys and their single mom with the gift of two stuffed donkeys. It follows their lives for five years until the older boys leave for college and shows how a simple act of kindness can change lives.

 

Aiden’s English teacher edited the story for grammar and spelling. Aiden also did a grammar and spell check on his computer. He, Larry and Phil read for continuity as well. Larry said it was Aiden’s best story yet and was sure to be published in the quarterly. Aiden had worked hard to get the story told within the maximum space allowable. Everyone agreed he had succeeded wonderfully. Nolan, Gordy, and Kalie did beta reads and agreed that the story kicked ass.

 

“Well, the story is out of my hands and out of your hoofs,” Aiden told Horace. “My teacher thought it was weird that my story had two stuffed donkeys instead of two teddy bears. But that’s because she’s never met you, my friend.”

 

Aiden thought of how lost he had been as a nine-year-old and how Horace had always been there for him. He thought about how scared he had been that he wouldn’t have a birthday party. After all, how did his uncles even know he was going to be nine in a couple of days. And even after they told him they would have a party for him, he didn’t trust them to do it. But he ended up having a nice little party. It was the start of him learning to trust and then even love his uncles, who were now his dads.

 

“I named the donkeys Howard and Henry,” Aiden told Horace. “That helped make them like you since their names started with H. Of course, in the story Kurt and Kent, the twins, name their donkeys.”

 

It was the first time in a couple of weeks that Aiden had talked to Horace. He wondered if he was outgrowing the stuffed donkey. He hoped not because Horace had been an important part of his life for a long time.

 

Aiden then set Horace on his shelf and joined his pop Larry and his dad Phil in the Mariner watching room. “You look good in orange and blue boxer briefs,” Phil said as Aiden sat in his spot on the loveseat.

 

“I know. They look so good I decided to wear them instead of less,” Aiden smirked.

 

Aiden had agreed with his dad that he’d grown to the point where the two of them could no longer fit in the chair. However, he took the stand that if he sat there first the chair would be his. Phil told Aiden where he could stuff his stand. They finally compromised; Phil got the chair on odd dates and Aiden got it on even dates. If it wasn’t a person’s day and he got there first he could keep the seat until first commercial, or a chapter was finished, along with a few other esoteric rules.

 

“I take it you guys plan to have George put all of this information in a legal contract in order to keep things moving smoothly,” Larry chuckled. George Bednarzyk was their friend and the father of Jeffrey and Sammy. He also was head of the law firm that did Larry and Phil’s legal work.

 

“I can do it,” Aiden said. “It will give me practice for when I become a lawyer.”

 

“Is that what you plan on doing?” Larry asked.

 

“Either that or a high school teacher and baseball coach.”

 

“Whew, you had me worried there for a minute.”

 

Aiden considered suggesting they just buy another chair, but he decided it was a good time to switch topics instead. “There’s a new kid on the soccer team named Vernon. He isn’t trying to be a good teammate. He’s kind of a know-it-all.”

 

“And what does team captain Miller plan to do about it?” Phil asked.

 

“Set a good example, remind him of what the expectations of the coaches and his teammates are.”

 

“That’s a good start,” Larry said. “Just remember, you’re the captain and not the boss.”

 

“Which means I should encourage him any way I can, right?” Aiden asked.

 

“Right. And remember to keep Lance involved and to make sure the two of you are on the same page. From what I’ve seen of Coach Paxton, I think he’ll do everything he can to make the Kickers a smooth-running machine.

 

The conversation ended there. Aiden hugged his dads good night and headed upstairs to his room. He stripped off his undies, went to the bathroom, took care of his hygiene, and climbed into his bed. But he ended up tossing and turning and couldn’t calm his mind down. The issue in soccer practice bugged him, along with one other thing he felt bad about. He decided to do something he rarely did any more. He pulled on his boxer briefs, took Horace down off of his perch and headed down to his dads’ room.

 

Larry and Phil were surprised to hear Aiden’s knock, but they were prepared for the rare occurrence and slipped on boxers. “Come on in son,” Phil called out.

 

Aiden entered the room, parked Horace on Larry’s nightstand and then worked his way between his dads.

 

“To what do we owe this pleasant surprise?” Larry asked.

 

“I couldn’t sleep,” Aiden said. “I needed to get calmed down. Vernon and one other thing had me thinking. You helped me with Vernon, so now for the other thing.” Aiden lay quietly soaking in the warmth and love from his dads. It may not happen as often as it did when he was younger, but it was just as important.

 

Phil and Larry lay quietly, each with a hand on Aiden’s bare torso. They knew that letting their son set his own pace worked best for him. “Well, I was thinking earlier today about how you guys had a birthday party for me just a couple of days after I moved in. I was scared you were lying and nobody would come if you did have a party.

 

“But here’s what the other thing is. I didn’t know it then, but that birthday party was the real start of Mayfield and the Miller house becoming my home. I didn’t know that four years later I would be afraid that we wouldn’t have enough room for everybody and we ended up having three parties, even if one of them was an ‘end of summer party’.

 

“So, what I haven’t said with all that was going on is how lucky I am to have two dads like you. I am so grateful for you being in my life. Your love is why I have so many friends and am as happy as a cranky teenager can be. I love you more than you can ever imagine.”

 

“All I can say, and I think I speak for your dad, is how grateful we are to have such a wonderful boy in our lives,” Larry said. “You are as good a son as we could ever ask for.”

 

“Even on my cranky mornings?”

 

“Especially on your cranky mornings, because of how you’ve learned to handle that and your other setbacks. It’s why we’re confident that you’ll find a way to deal with Vernon and show him how to be a positive member of the Kickers.”

 

“Wow, if you love me more when I get cranky, then I know you totally love me and I love both of you.”

 

“I was going to ask if you enjoyed your birthday, but how could you not enjoy it when you end up with three birthday parties,” Larry said.

 

“Two birthday parties. One of them was an ‘end of summer party’, remember?”

 

“Whatever you say, son. Your pop and I can go along with the two birthday story.”

 

“With all of these parties, birthday or not, did you get everything you wished for?” Phil asked.

 

“I got everything except pubic hairs. I mean, I’m a teenager without pubes,” Aiden said. “Nolan’s my boyfriend and has a ton of pubes—it’s like I’m a little kid next to him.”

 

“Don’t waste your time over something you can’t control. Does he give you a hard time over it?” Larry said.

 

“Nope. He says that each day he likes me the way I am that day.”

 

“You’ve learned enough about human growth and development to know that kids develop at their own pace. Plus, he’s around ten months older than you. Just quit comparing yourself to everyone else—you’re giving them all a bunch of rent-free space in your head.”

 

“I just want to look like I’m a teenager when peeps see me naked.”

 

“And a teenager who is thirteen years and two days old is supposed to look how?”  Phil asked. Aiden shrugged. He was losing an argument he knew he wasn’t going to win when he started it. He figured it was time to “wave the white flag”, as his dads liked to say, and surrender.

 

“Think about it; when the pubic hairs start sprouting on you, it’s very possible you’re going to wish you could find a way to slow down their progress,” Larry said.

 

“That’s not gonna happen,” Aiden giggled. “Oh, and I decided I’m going to ask Vernon to the welcome to Mayfield party. Thanks for helping me with that, pop. And now I’m tired, so good-night, dads.”

 

 Aiden snuggled up to Larry and Phil and as so often happened when he slept with Horace and his dads, he enjoyed their warmth and love. Talking with them openly and honestly during his cuddle time made him feel better, even when he lost a disagreement. As much as he hated to think about it, he had to admit his dads were usually right and that they told him what he was supposed to hear. He felt calm and content. He quickly fell into a deep, comfortable sleep.

 

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