Because You Make Me

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Pretty typical... This story is about a budding relationship between homosexual teenagers. If you're too young to read then don't get caught doing so. If it's illegal for you to read this type of material then you probably shouldn't be doing that either. This story is copyrighted so please do not duplicate, in whole or are in part, without my prior written permission. If you'd like to e-mail me, you can send it to av8ormatt@yahoo.com.

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Because You Make Me Chapter 3 -- The Whistle Blows By: Meester Matt

Why is it that we always have to play basketball in PE? I mean, why can't we play fun sports? Like floor hockey. Or baseball. Or even soccer. I hate basketball; it's such a lame game. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I suck at it. I'm a baseball player. Sue me!

The whistle blew.

"Go get changed people! We'll see you Tuesday for Dodge Ball. Have a good weekend."

Yay! No basketball!

To my surprise, we don't have any showers in our locker room. So no one showers after gym. I guess that can be both good and bad. Good for me because I'm shy and self conscious. I have a hard time changing in front of people. I don't think I'd be able to handle walking around naked in front of anyone for showers. But bad because on days like today, where I'm already pretty dirty and smelly... I could have really used a good shower. I grabbed my shit and headed out to the main hallway to get a Pepsi from the vending machine. I took a long swig; it felt great to get some cool liquid in me.

"Whatcha doing slacker? Skipping again?" Danny! I turned around, prepared to answer with some smartass comeback but when I saw him, I lost my nerve and could only squeak out a "Hey."

"So are you going to answer my question? Are you skipping? Because if you are... I'll tag along if you want?"

"Shuddup! I'm not skipping. I just got out of PE and came to get a drink." Danny leaned forward a bit and pretended to sniff me.

"So THAT's what that smell is!" I punched him playfully and told him to fuck off. Jokingly of course.

"I'm never going to live this down am I?" I started to blush.

"No really, you're fine. I'm just kidding around with you." He can think that if he wants.

"Anyways... I wish school would hurry up and finish." I said.

"Me too" The bell rang. I noticed the thin mesh shorts and PE T-Shirt in his hand.

"Hey, do you have PE now?" Danny followed my gaze to his gym clothes.

"Oh, umm, no, I forgot my gym clothes in the locker room so I went to pick them up." Mmmm, Danny in thin mesh shorts....

"Oh. Okay. So umm, see you in an hour I guess?" Starting to get all horny over Danny again... those mesh shorts... Mmmm.

"Yeah, an hour... have fun, I mean, try to anyway... with math and all... cya after school."

"Cya."

I handed in my Math homework and lived through an hour of Mrs. Bitch's lecture on Quadratics. She made an extra effort to scare us with propaganda about they will become the most important thing in our miserable lives. Or not. That cute guy who came in late yesterday didn't show up to class today. I wasn't sure if he was just sick or skipping or what. Oh well, I could do without eye candy for a day I suppose. There's always Danny!

We were assigned 15 questions to complete in class. If they weren't completed, they were to be finished for homework. I worked at them for about 25 minutes and got them handed in 10 minutes before the end of class. I went back to my desk and started to daydream about Danny. About me. About... us. More specifically, our friendship and how quickly it's developing. The time we spent horsing around at lunch was great. We were kids being kids. But there was definitely something different about how we interact with each other when we're alone. We just become so comfortable with each other that we can touch and not think twice about it. We can be laughing, awkward, silent and even serious, but it's all so comfortable. All this after 2 days. I'll have to pay more attention, I wonder if Danny is like this with all his friends. Or if it's just with me. Maybe we just really hit it off.

My analytical thinking was interrupted by the 3:00 bell. Finally, Friday afternoon and the beginning of the Labor Day long weekend... I couldn't wait to be out of this place. I packed up my shit and headed for the door.

Danny beat me to the front doors. He was looking for me in the wrong direction, so I came up behind him and shouted right in his ear.

"Hey ass wipe! Ready to go?" Matty's my name and name calling's my game! He spun around, trying to disguise the fact that I scared him.

"I'm ready fucker! I just hope you're able to cope with getting your sorry ass whipped in Project Gotham." Danny's so sure that he's going to beat me at my own game. It's so cute, but we'll see about him beating me.

We bullshitted our way to the train station boasting about our (non existent) Project Gotham skills and calling each other childish names. Basically, a couple of 16 year olds who act 13. At one point I told him he had really bad cunt breath today.

"Ewww, I do not!" Most guys would take that as a compliment. We're definitely not most guys, apparently.

"I hope Kyle remembers it's the weekend. He told me to bring my transfer cable tomorrow to transfer Pimpmaster."

"It'd be pretty funny if he actually did show up though! He's done it a few times already..." Danny said, laughing. I just smiled and shook my head.

We pushed and shoved our way onto the train and surprisingly, even managed to grab a seat. You don't get much personal space on the C-Train, so when you're sitting side by side on one of the small benches, you're shoved right up against the person next to you. Danny and I were no exception; we may as well have been Siamese twins. That, unfortunately, led to a stiffy that I had to hide with my backpack. I saw Danny pick up his backpack and rest it on his lap too. I figured he had the same problem, since I was now pretty sure he was like me. I looked out the window and suppressed a smile.

We got off at Dalhousie and walked, backpacks in front of us, over to the stand for the 54. It wasn't there yet so we sat down on a bench to wait it out. I can't speak for Danny but my erection wasn't going down at all.

"So what did you end up doing in PE?" I asked.

"We played Dodge Ball today. It sure beats playing Soccer all the time."

"What? No way! Soccer rules! Basketball sucks!"

"Whatever! Basketball rocks, Soccer sucks."

We both bumped each other's shoulders at the same time and started laughing.

"Truce?"

"Truce. We both agree that Basketball sucks and Soccer rocks."

"You wish dick face!" I did wish for his dick in my face. So I could open my mouth and...

I could see the 54 coming through the terminal and got up to get on before him. He jumped up beside me and we started pushing towards each other trying to be the first on the bus. The bus stopped in front of me and I jumped on first. I flashed my new bus pass and ran to the back to secure a window seat. Only a few people got on today, so the bus was pretty well empty. No sign of Josh anywhere. We had the back half to ourselves. Danny leisurely worked his way to the back of the bus, all the while grinning mischievously. I knew he was going to try something so I braced myself for an attack. When he got to me, he put down his backpack on the seat across the isle and fell back against me, crushing me against the side of the bus. I couldn't stop laughing, but I managed to push him off me and into the other seat. He slid down against the window and chucked his backpack at me. I chucked it back at him and that started a mutual backpack throwing fight. The bus driver probably thought were nuts. It only lasted a couple of minutes though before we settled down.

"I'm gonna shower when I get home so if you want to go home first to grab your bike and meet me at my house, we could save some time?"

"Oh ok, that's a good idea. I'll check my e-mail before I come over to give you some more time."

I gave him my address and told him to let himself in when he got there.

We got off the bus and went our separate ways. I ran all the way home so that I'd more time to shower before he got here. I unlocked the front door, went up to my room and stripped off my clothes. I grabbed a pair of Gap cargo shorts, a Nike t-shirt and some boxers before stepping in the shower. I turned the water on and adjusted the temperature so that it was just warm. God that feels good. I washed my hair and then soaped myself up, debating whether or not I had enough time to take care of my stiffy. I decided I better not chance it and turned the heat down a bit more to will my hard-on away. It mostly worked. I was in there for about 20 minutes before stepping out onto the floor mat. Shit. I forgot to grab a towel. I put my ear to the door and strained to hear if Danny had arrived. I didn't hear the front door open while I was in the shower, and I couldn't hear anything now so I didn't think he had. I opened the bathroom door and stepped out into the hallway to grab a towel from the linen closest. I heard a gasp from my room. I was caught off guard and turned right around to look in my doorway, where I saw Danny sitting on the corner of my bed. He was beet red and wide eyed but quickly looked away and mumbled "Sorry, I thought you heard me come in." I laughed nervously and sprinted over to grab a towel which I wrapped around my waist. Danny was still looking away when I turned around. What a gentleman!

"It's ok, you can look now, I'm decent. Besides, it's not like I uhh, have anything you haven't seen before." I gulped and could feel myself blush an even deeper shade of red. I was walking a thin flirtatious line. Danny looked back at me and gave a nervous giggle. To this day, I have never seen him so red.

"I'll be out in a minute, I just need to, you know, get dressed." I walked back into the bathroom and shut the door. I leaned up against the wall and took a deep breath. I was a little scared. Scared that Danny would freak out and leave or something, since I felt pretty sure he liked me the way I liked him. But also scared that he wouldn't like what he saw. I took another deep breath and put those thoughts aside to start getting dressed. I was going to do my hair but figured what the hell. I grabbed my glasses, hung up my towel and opened the bathroom door. The cool breeze felt nice against my now covered body. I walked back to my room and found Danny still sitting there looking a little flushed. He had changed into a pair of blue Addidas mesh shorts, I noticed. Those are so hot.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were here. I forgot my towel."

"That's o-okay. You just caught me a little off guard there." He held it together really well, I thought for sure he was going to run out the door.

He was sitting up pretty straight; I guess he was trying unsuccessfully to conceal that tent in the front of his shorts. I felt another stirring in my own. I bent down to pick up my dirty clothes so I could take them downstairs and thought... wait a second... I left these on the other side of the bed. What the hell? Am I going nuts or something? I shrugged to myself and asked Danny if he wanted to go have a snack.

"Uhhh, yeah, sure, I'm kinda thirsty."

"Ok, let's go downstairs." I led the way to save him any embarrassment from having to walk with a hard-on. I chucked my clothes into the hamper in the laundry room on our way to the kitchen.

"No one will be home until 10, so we have lots of time to do whatever. Mikey's doing tryouts for swimming and they run pretty late." I said, as I grabbed a couple of Dr. Pepper's from the fridge.

"Cool." Danny was still nervous so I motioned for him to follow me, and led the way outside so we could sit on the deck and enjoy the sun.

"Whoa, you have a pool? And a hot tub??"

"Yup, want to go swimming later? After we go biking?"

"Sure! I'll have to stop by my house to get my suit."

"I could lend you one?" I got a little hard thinking about what he'd look like in a Speedo.

"It's not a Speedo or anything is it?" He blushed after asking. I was a little surprised he even asked that to begin with.

"Why... do you want one?" I laughed. So did Danny, I was happy he was calming down. To be honest, this conversation was making me nervous. I was determined to stay cool though... in case the conversation moved into other... interesting topics.

"Uhhh, no......"

"It's ok, we're friends... But I have board shorts you can borrow too." Damn, I so wanted to see him in a Speedo.

"Ok, good, thanks." I took a deep breath.

"I uhhh, you know, wear them sometimes... when I'm alone.... and stuff..."

"Huh?"

"Speedo's...."

"Oh... um... why?"

"They feel great in the water. It doesn't feel like you're wearing anything."

"Oh." There was a quiet period where we just looked around at everything but each other. We were both a little nervous.

"Matt?"

"Yeah Danny?"

"Uhh... ummm, have you ever, umm, you know, gone... skinny dipping?" I giggled a bit. So did Danny. He's so cute!

"Yeah, once. Have you?"

"No, never. What's it like?"

"It's the best! There's no way to describe it." I was hoping he'd want to go skinny dipping later. And maybe more?

"Come on" I said. "Let's go find some suits. We'll go in the hot tub for a bit, then jump in the pool to cool off and go biking. We can swim again when we get back." I grabbed his hand and pulled him into the house. He followed me as I ran up to my room. I grabbed two sets of board shorts and tossed Danny a pair.

"You can change here or in the bathroom, wherever you like..." I said, peeling off my shirt. I hoped he'd stay in here. What's wrong with me? In the past 2 days, I've gone from being completely closeted, to acting like a total flirt. I swear, if I keep this up I'm going to blow my cover. I was determined to tone down my flirting, even if this was all new to me. Danny seemed to bring out this confidence in me that I didn't know existed.

"Uhhh, I"ll just go in the washroom to change..." and he walked backwards out my door, bumped into the door frame, smiled and went into the bathroom. I pulled off my shorts and boxers and pulled on my swim trunks, all set to go. I had to rearrange my dick a bit since it was starting to stiffen up. A moment later, Danny emerged from the bathroom with his trunks and t-shirt on.

"Come on, let's go swim."

We ran outside and over to the pool area.

"So what will it be, hot tub first? Or pool?"

"Hot tub!"

I pulled the cover off the hot tub and hopped in. Danny started to pull off his shirt and I watched, in slow motion, as his smooth tummy and nickle sized nipples came into view. Thank God for the bubbling water cause at that point, I was instantly harder than I have ever been in my life. Danny looked back at me after chucking his shirt onto a deck chair, and smiled sheepishly.

"The water's nice and warm, come on, get in!"

He hopped over the side and yelped.

"It burns!!!" I was used to it so I just laughed at him.

"How can you stand the heat??"

"I'm used to it, I come out here a lot at night, when it's cool outside."

He slowly sank down into the water and sat across from me.

"This is great isn't it?" I asked.

"Yeah... what a great way to relax after a long day in hell." He let out a huge sigh, then shifted right around the hot tub and seemed to be feeling around for something. I gave him a curious smile.

"I'm looking for one of the jets" he said by way of explanation.

"Ohhh, there's one beside me here." He scooted around until he was beside me. Our legs touched but neither of us moved.

"That's better." He said, after he found a jet that massaged his back. I started to let myself float up in the water a little and made gentle kicking motions with my feet, causing our legs to rub together. Danny gave an almost silent whimper, but one that was loud enough for me to hear. I kept going for a little while, enjoying the sensation. You can't find two other people who are both so into each other, but both so scared to say anything that would portray their true feelings. Or as oblivious to each other's feelings.

I reached under the water to find his hand, and took hold of it. He looked up at me curiously.

"Come on," I sad. "Let's go for a quick swim, and then you can help me get my bike down." I pulled him up and we walked waist deep through the hot tub, my hard cock leading the way. I let go of his hand to steped out of the hot tub and onto the cement sidewalk. I waited for him to jump out, and I know he saw my hard-on tenting out my board shorts. He jumped out, sprinted over to the pool and dove in. I was just reaching the water when he came up for air. He looked up at me and smiled. I just stood there, not sure what to do.

"Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" He asked, the old catch line being totally relevant right now. I took a deep breath and replied.

"Both." I started to giggle. So did Danny. I did a perfect Cannonball right next to him and sent a tidal wave flying over his head.

We splashed. We laughed. We chased each other around for about 20 minutes before getting out to dry off. I got us a couple of towels from the mud room and we sat down on the sun chairs, letting the sun warm us up.

"So where are we going now?" I had never ridden through the park so I was curious how far we'd go.

"Well, I was thinking we can take the trail that runs along the creek for starters. It takes about an hour and a half to do." I looked at the clock. It was 5:00

"Cool, then want to come back and order pizza?"

"Yeah, sure!"

"Cool. Let's go get dressed and head out."

We went back up to my room to get dressed. This time, Danny changed in my room, only we did it with our backs to each other. That didn't stop me from taking a quick peek at his sweet ass though! Everything about Danny just screams hot.

We took our bathing suits back outside to dry in the sun. After hanging them up, we made our way to the garage.

"You're taller than me, think you can reach the wheel if you stand on this box?"

"I think so, here, let me try."

Danny stood on the wooden box and unhooked the front wheel of my bike from the ceiling. He gently lowered the bike down and I took it from him, lowering it to the ground.

"Thanks! Grab your water bottle and we'll fill them up before we go."

I opened the garage door and Danny grabbed the water bottle off his bike. He volunteered to check the pressure in my tires so I went inside to fill the bottles with ice water.

"All set?"

"Let's go!"

Danny went first and I rode up beside him as we made our way to the park entrance. The path became too narrow to ride side by side so I took up a position behind him. It was great... I got to stare at his cute bubble butt the whole time :)! Every couple of minutes Danny would look back to make sure I was ok. I think he caught me staring at him a couple of times but oh well.

We reached the bridge to cross over the creek and stopped for a break. It was still pretty warm out and all the riding had caused us to work up a sweat.

"Look! Over there! There's a deer!" I exclaimed. Danny motioned for me to follow him. We crept through the under brush and were able to get within 20 feet of it before it spotted us. It took off and we stood there watching until it was out of sight.

"Wow, that was cool" said Danny. He took a swig from his water bottle. I held out my hand for his water bottle, mine was still on my bike back near the creek. I took a swig from his bottle and handed it back to him. Yay! Danny germs!

"Yeah, that was cool. I've never seen one up close like that before."

"Wait until spring, they'll start coming out of the park and into our yards."

"Cool!"

We walked side by side back to our bikes then up the bridge so we could lean over the railing to look down at the water. We leaned there for a little while, elbows touching.

"It's so peaceful in here." Danny nodded in reply. You could only hear the gentle gushing of the creek and the odd bird call. There was no wind today, so you didn't even hear the leaves rustling on the trees.

"There's a fish in there!"

"That's why it's called Fish Creek numbnuts!"

"Shuddup! I knew that!" We giggled a bit.

"Come on, let's start heading back."

We got back on our bikes and worked our way back to my house. I was once again blessed with a front row seat to Danny's cute butt. It's pretty painful riding a bike with a stiffy you know!

Back at my house, my dad's Malibu was in the driveway. I didn't think anyone would be home tonight.

"I wonder what my dad's doing home. I thought he was going straight to Mikey's swim tryouts."

Danny shrugged but looked a little nervous, I guess about meeting my dad. I punched in the code for the garage opener and we put our bikes inside. I hit the button to close the door and stepped inside, Danny in tow. I called out "Hello?"

No answer.

"Maybe he just dropped off his car." I called again. "Dad? Are you home?" Still no answer. I looked at Danny and shrugged.

"Let's go order a pizza, I'm starved." We walked into the kitchen and I found a note on the counter.

Matt,

We just came home to drop off dad's car. Mike's tryouts finish at 10:00 so we should be home by 10:45. It looks like you have a friend over so here's some money for pizza. Be good!

Love, Mom

I crumpled up the note and threw it out.

"So what'll it be? Dominos, Pizza Hut, Little Ceasars...."

"Dominos! Peperoni pizza..."

"Cool! That's what I would have picked too." We bumped fists. I ordered a large pepperoni pizza from Dominos and got a couple more Dr. Pepper's so we could relax. I picked up the remote and turned on the TV as we walked into the family room. I sat down on one end of the couch and Danny plopped down on the other. There wasn't much on so I thought about putting in a movie. I had bought Be Cool a couple of weeks prior but still hadn't watched it. Get Shorty is my favorite movie and I just had to see the sequel.

"Want to watch Be Cool? I got the DVD a couple of weeks ago but haven't watched it yet."

"Oh cool, sure, that's the sequel to Get Shorty right?"

"Yeah, that's my favorite movie."

"Cool, put it on!"

I told Danny to stay put, and ran up to my room to get the DVD. I tore open the wrapper and threw it out before running back downstairs. I popped the disk in the DVD player and sat back down on the couch. Only this time I sat in the middle, closer to where Danny was sitting. The movie started playing and I put my feet up on the coffee table. Danny shifted closer to me for a second and pulled out the pillow he was leaning against. He put it under his left arm and went back to leaning against the side of the couch. About half an hour into the movie, the door bell rang and I got up to pay for the pizza. Danny started to get up to help me but I told him to relax, I'd manage.

I paid for our pizza and went back to the family room. I set the pizza down on the coffee table and passed Danny a couple of napkins. We each grabbed a piece and went back to watching the movie. We were sitting pretty close together now because the pizza box was on the end of the coffee table, closer to where Danny was sitting. The pizza didn't last long -- hungry teenagers and all -- so we were back to relaxing as the Russian Mafia guy got punched in the face by John Travolta.

"He's a pilot you know. He has his own Boeing 707 and Gulfstream II."

Danny shook is head at me and laughed. I reached over him to grab my Dr. Pepper on the end table and ended up leaning against the pillow he had beside his left arm. He was focused on the TV again and absently put his arm around me as I was leaning over him. I took a sip of my drink, put it down and then continued to rest against him with his arm around me. Hey, I was comfortable, and if he was then why make an issue about it? After all, he DID make the first move!

We stayed that way until the movie finished. By then he was gently stroking me arm. As the credits came up, I yawned and stretched out, and took his hand in mine. While my arms were outstretched, I patted him on the back of the head and smiled up at him. He looked down at me and smiled back.

"Wanna go for a swim? Or play X-Box?"

"Swim."

"Cool. Lets go suit up. Unless..."

"Unless..."

"Ummm, nevermind, let's just go suit up." I don't think I'd have the balls to go skinny dipping either cause uhh... for obvious reasons I'd have a hard time... you know...

"Okay Matty."................."So are you planning to get up today or are you going to lay here holding my hand for the rest of the night?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah, in a minute, I'm too lazy to move." Danny laughed at me.

"If it's possible to believe... you've kinda... I dunno, become the best friend I've ever had... ever will have... in like 2 days." I looked up to see his reaction to what I said.

"Really?" He leaned forward to look me straight in the eyes, upside down. I blushed.

"...Yeah. I can't explain it."

"Cool." He squeezed my hand.

I sighed comfortably and let go of his hand.

"Come on, let's go swim for a bit." We got up and went outside to grab our swim trunks. At 8:30, it was still daylight but it had cooled off quite a bit.

I tossed Danny his suit and made my way back inside to the mud room to change. Danny followed me in and shut the door.

"Matt?"

"Yeah?"

"You too."

"Me also what?"

"You're the best friend I've ever had too." I turned to look at him and my eyes started to water. I quickly looked away and pulled off my shirt, wiping my eyes in the process.

"Thanks Danny. You... you have no idea what that means to me." Danny surprised me again by hugging me from behind and resting his chin on my left shoulder. I reached back and returned the hug, feeling his smooth bare back. It wasn't at all erotic, it was comfort. It was security. It was something we both needed in our lives at that moment. We stayed like that for a few seconds before continuing to get ready.

"Pool or hot tub?"

"Pool, then when we get cold we can warm up in the hot tub."

"Let's go"

We walked side by side over to the edge of the pool. Danny dropped in off the side and sunk to the bottom before surfacing. I sat on the edge and stuck my feet in the water. The pool was heated so it was pretty warm compared to the cool 15 degree air. Danny swam to the edge and pulled on my leg. I slowly slid myself into the pool and like him, sank to the bottom before bobbing back up to the top. Danny splashed me so in retaliation, I dunked him. We kept that up for a little while, it was pretty funny.

"Want to play Marco Polo?"

"Don't you need more people to play?"

"Well, yeah, but, we can still play with 2 people."

"Alright, who starts?"

"I will. Go swim somewhere, I'll count to 10." I heard Danny swim off behind me as I stood in the middle of the pool with my eyes shut. I admit, I just wanted to get in a few cheap feels :). But it's still a fun game.

"MARCO!"

"POLO!"

"MARCO!"

"POLO!" He's off to my left somewhere.

"MARCO!"

........

"MARCO!" He must have gone under water.

"POLO" I spun around in the water and swam directly behind me. I could hear him giggling now, and splashing, trying to get away. I caught hold of his foot in the water and opened my eyes. He was still struggling to get away so I pushed myself off the bottom and caught him around the waist.

"Caught you big boy!!" I started to tickle his sides, unsure if he was ticklish or not. Apparently he was, because he started laughing and kicking, begged me to stop. I had no choice but to, cause he narrowly missed kicking me in the balls!

Once he calmed down enough to breath normally, he pulled me close to try and dunk me. I got a sudden cold chill and shuddered. He felt it and asked what was wrong.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, sudden chill." He pulled me a little tighter against him. Danny was nice and warm despite the cool water.

"Come on, let's go sit in the hot tub."

"Okay." I followed him out of the pool and over to the hot tub. I hopped over the side first. The water was boiling hot compared to the cool pool and even though I'm used to it, it caught me off guard enough to make me yelp.

Danny giggled at me, and jumped over the side himself. He jumped right out though, shouting "FUCK THAT'S HOT! TOO HOT!" My turn to laugh. He tried again and this time made it in without cursing. He sat down across from me but I reached out, found his hand and pulled him across to sit by me. He put an arm around me under the water and pulled me close. With his free hand he sprinkled some of the hot water over my head to warm me up.

"Lets get you warmed up." He whispered.

"Can you sleep over Danny?"

"I'll have to call home and ask."

"Okay. Let's stay in here a little while then you can call."

"Kay."

We stayed in another 10 minutes just enjoying the warmth. He never let go of me. I started to doze off against his shoulder and suggested we go inside. We got out, put the cover back over the hot tub and went inside to dry off. I found a couple of dry towels and tossed one to Danny. He turned around and started to pull off his board shorts. I turned the other way and did the same. Once I was dry enough, I put on my boxers, my shorts and pulled my t-shirt over my head before turning around to hang up my towel. Danny was pulling on his t-shirt and tossed me his towel to hang up.

"Call home and see if you can sleep over. My parents won't mind."

"Ok, but I'll need to go grab a change of clothes."

"See if it's ok first and I'll go with you."

Danny called home and got permission to sleep over. He said his sister was going to bring him a change of clothes and his toothbrush.

I looked at the clock and it was 10:00. I took Danny's hand and pulled him over to the couch. He plopped down as I turned on the TV. I flipped through the channels and the only thing worth watching was a Family Guy repeat on the Cartoon Network. I plopped down beside Danny and shuffled over to lay down with my head on his stomach. He's always so nice and warm. He put his arm around me and we sat there watching Lois being interviewed about life in Petoria by Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa. The doorbell rang a few minutes later and we reluctantly got up to answer it.

"Hey Dan, here's your stuff."

"Matt, Marissa, Marissa, Matt." Danny introduced us.

"Hey"

"Hey" I could tell they were brother and sister, they had the same captivating brown eyes, same nose and skin tone. Marissa's pretty, if I was into girls I'd be after her the way Josh is.

"So are you coming home tomorrow?" She asked Danny. I answered before he could."

"Monday night, he's gonna stay for the long weekend."

"Cool. Ok, well, have fun guys." She said and started walking out the door.

"G'nite Mariss." Danny and I both said as she left. I shut the door and looked at Danny. He looked a little surprised.

"What, you didn't think I'd let you go so easily did you? We've got a lot of stuff to do this weekend."

"Oh yeah? Like what?"

"You'll see!"

We walked back to the family room as closing credits came up for Family Guy. The phone rang and I answered on the second ring.

"Hello?"

"Hi honey, we're just leaving now so we should be home in about 45 minutes. Is everything ok?"

"Hi mom, yeah, everything's fine. My friend Danny is going to sleep over tonight ok?"

"Ok Matty, we'll be home soon. Bye!"

"By mom." I put the phone back on its cradle and went back to sit with Danny. I was a bit itchy from the chlorine and I wondered if Danny was too.

"My parents are leaving now, they'll be home in 45 minutes. Do you want to have a shower before bed? I'm feeling kind of itchy from the chlorine."

"So am I. Ummm, do you want to go first or should I?" How about together? I didn't have the balls to ask.

"You can go first, come on, I'll get you setup." I turned off the TV and followed Danny upstairs to my room. He put his overnight bag down on my bed and pulled out some Bart Simpson PJ's and his toothbrush. I laughed when I saw them. He turned around and tried to tell me to shut up, but he was giggling too.

"I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing because I have the same ones!" I pulled open one of my drawers and pulled out an identical pair of Bart Simpson PJ's.

"That's scary man!" We laughed again.

I got Danny a towel and showed him how to work the shower before heading back downstairs to put away the pizza box. I gathered up our empty bottles of Dr. Pepper and tossed them in recycling. I went back upstairs to my room and dug out the sleeping bag for Danny. If everything goes right tonight, he won't need it but gotta keep up appearances. I rolled out the sleeping bag on the floor beside my bed and setup a pillow too. I heard the shower shut off so I got my PJ's ready and flopped down on my bed. I turned on my TV and flipped through the channels waiting for Danny to come out of the bathroom.

He came out a couple of minutes later dressed in his Simpson's PJ's. He looked cute enough to eat!

"Your turn" he said as he bounced down beside me. I hummed an ok and got up.

"I setup the sleeping bag for you." I paused for a second and then said: "Or... uhhh, if you... you know, want to share the bed with me, there's e-e-enough room for both of us..." He smiled and nodded an ok. I smiled back.

"We'll just wait until my parents get home and then we can, uhh, you know, go to sleep..." He winked at me, I think he understood what I was saying. No sex! Just... sleep beside each other... for security. We're best friends now you know!

I winked back and walked out of my room to take my own shower. I picked up a towel and closed the bathroom door. I turned on the water and stripped naked before getting under the nice warm spray. I washed myself real quick, but I was so horny I had to get off. Remember when I said I had enough jack off material to last the semester in my gym class? Forget that, all I need is Danny. I reached down and went at it. It didn't take me long. The events that transpired today got me off in 3 minutes at the most. I rinsed off and stayed under the warm spray for another couple, then shut the water off.

I stepped out and dried myself off. I got out my toothbrush and started to brush my teeth. Sex wasn't important. Just being around Danny was enough to last me as long as I needed. Well, enough to last me between jack off sessions :)! I rinsed my mouth and my toothbrush, put it away and got dressed. I hung up my towel, picked up my clothes and stepped out to join my best friend, my better half back in my room.

He was watching King of the Hill, another re-run. We laughed at Bobby falling out of Connie's window with Kahn yelling at the "Redneck Hillbilly" in the background. I jumped on the bed beside Danny and we unconsciously slid closer together so that we were touching. I didn't realize it at first, and I don't think he did either, but I did notice during the commercials when we made small talk about other episodes.

The garage door opener rumbled beneath my floor around 11:20. We, again, I think, unconsciously slid apart but continued to lay there watching TV. The garage door opened a couple of minutes later and I could hear Mikey kicking off his shoes and making his way through the house. I grabbed Danny's hand and pulled him up, and we walked down the hall to say hi. Obviously we weren't holding hands at that point. That'd be kinda hard to explain.

"Hey Mikey! How did tryouts go?" He looked like a zombie. Poor kid was probably totally beat from swimming all night.

"Hey Matty! I made it as a starter for Grade 6 backstroke!" I was so happy for him, he practices all the time.

"That's awesome! I'm so proud of you!" I pulled him too me and ruffled his hair. It was still damp from swimming. He gave me a quick hug and looked timidly at Danny.

"Mikey, this is Danny. He's sleeping over this weekend."

"Hi Mikey, nice to meet you." Danny stuck out his hand and Mikey shook it.

"Nice to meet you too Danny." He looked back at me and yawned. "I'm going to sleep Matty, I'll see you in the morning. G'nite Danny!"

We said G'nite to him and he hobbled up stairs to get ready for bed.

My parents came in the door laughing about something Mikey said earlier. I couldn't quite understand more than that.

"Hey buddy!" My dad called as he took off his shoes. He's always called me buddy, it's sort of my nickname from him. "Hey dad, how was work?"

"Good. Well, as good as it gets when using Lotus Notes." I laughed. He was always having problems with his e-mail.

"Dad, this is Danny, he's sleeping over this weekend." My dad looked over from the laundry room and waved to Danny.

"Hi Danny! Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too" Danny said. I could tell he was feeling a little shy.

My mom walked past my dad carrying some papers for Mikey's swim team stuff and said hi to Danny. She gave him a hug and he was kind of taken aback. My mom does that to everyone and I just laughed. She took another look at us, wearing identical PJ's.

"Ah ha. John, we've been invaded by twins!"

My dad came over and ruffled my hair and shook Danny's hand. He just laughed when he saw our identical PJ's.

"Kids these days."

"We're kind of tired, long day. So we're going to sleep ok?" I said.

"Ok kiddo, but listen, the Change Oil light is on in the van, so if you want to get on that and change the oil in the morning before we leave for Edmonton..."

"I'm on it," I replied. I love working on cars remember? So I volunteered to do all that sort of stuff. It's not like it's hard.

"Ok, sleep tight guys, we'll see you in the morning."

"G'nite!" We answered back.

Danny and I went back upstairs to my room. I closed and locked the door before shutting off the light. Danny hopped on the bed where he was laying before and I turned on the lamp beside my bed so we could see. The TV was still on but Southpark was starting.

"Want to watch a bit more TV?" I asked.

"Sure, maybe just one more episode."

"So are you going to take the sleeping bag or sleep up here in the bed?" I just wanted to make sure....

"I'll sleep in the bed with you. But only because it's warmer!" He giggled and I pushed him playfully in reply. I kicked off my socks and tossed them on the floor. I pulled back the covers and got underneath. Danny copied me and soon we were resting side by side under the blanket. We watched the rest of Southpark and shut off the TV. My window was open a little and I could hear a freight train passing through down the hill. It blew its whistle briefly as it plowed through the crossing. I whispered G'nite to Danny and turned on my left side, switching off the lamp. He whispered G'nite back. I could feel him turn over behind me and rest his arm behind my back. I scooted back against him and he snuggled up to me in return, reaching his arm over to hold me gently. I reached up and held his hand, giving it a light squeeze. And that's exactly how we fell asleep. Comfortable and secure.