Brother's Mate
Chapter 29
"Good evening," John said.
"Good evening sir. I am Sergeant Cooper and this is Sergeant Smith. Are you the owner of this property?" One of the officers asked.
"I am, but what's this all about?" John asked.
"We must ask you to step aside and let us enter the premises to make a search. We have received a report that there is underage sexual activity being permitted here." Sergeant Smith said.
"Well they didn't waste any time in making a report. Come on in and see for yourself and while you're looking we'll explain what has happened. Let me show you through to the back where we all are. If you then want to look through the rest of the house you can." John invited them.
When John led them out to the back and they saw the five teens sitting with other five adults, all dressed and certainly not compromised in any way John said, "Let me explain what I think has given rise to this report you've received and then you can ask any questions you want. With a nod from both policemen John told them about the incident with the McAllisters and suggested that it was probably Mrs. McAllister who had made the accusation.
"Sir, thank you for your frankness with us. While, now, we can see that this incident has been blown out of all proportion, we will still need to inspect the whole house so that when we write up our reports we can make the assurance that we covered everything." Sergeant Cooper said.
"No problem. Cal would you be willing to accompany the officers as they do their check please?" John asked.
"Sure dad. What must I show them?" Callum answered.
"We have nothing to hide. Show them the whole house including the storeroom and garage. And get a ladder for them if they want to go in the loft. Sorry we don't have a developed loft so it is only accessible by a ladder." John told them.
As they were moving from room to room Sergeant Smith chatted to Callum. "This is such a waste of time. I don't understand these people who can't accept gays. I mean I'm straight but I know a few a gay people and they're very nice people and I'd rather associate with them than some of the so-called straight people I've met. Like this bloody woman who has made these accusations. Are all five of you guys here gay?"
"We've all tried some gay stuff and three of us are definitely gay and two are still deciding." Callum answered him.
"And how do your parents feel about this?" Sergeant Cooper joined in.
"My parents are totally good with it. They've been very supportive and given us lots of advice. Brad's parents also have accepted it. Dominic and Ben's parents only found out tonight and so we don't really know how they'll be, but so far they've said that they're okay with it too." Callum told them.
"And do your parents encourage you to have sexual activity with others?" Sergeant Cooper asked.
"No. They've said that they would rather we didn't, but know if they banned us from doing it, we would only do it behind their backs. So instead they have advised us on being careful and safe." Callum answered.
"How old are you Callum?" Sergeant Smith asked.
"I'm fifteen." Callum said.
"You're a very confident and mature fifteen-year-old. No wonder your parents allowed you to accompany us." Sergeant Smith said.
"We have guests and they are the hosts. They still need to look after our guests." Callum replied.
"What's left for us to look at?" Sergeant Smith asked.
"Just the garage and store room. We have to go outside for them. I'll just get the keys." Callum told them and led them back through the kitchen and into the scullery where he took the keys off a hook, and then leading them past the rest of the party he opened the storeroom first and then the garage, and turning on the lights for them let them look inside both places. Callum locked up as the two officers made their way back to the group of guests.
"I'm very sorry we've had to disturb your get together. I'll certainly be making a good report on this house and will suggest that maybe a charge of wasting police time be levelled against your accuser. Thank you for your assistance in making this difficult call an easy one. You have a very good son there Mr. Ashbourne, I'm sure you're very proud of him."
"We have two very good sons whom we're very proud of officer. I'm sorry your time has been wasted when you could've been doing something far more constructive like catching real criminals." John replied.
"We couldn't agree with you more on that. I don't think you'll be hearing anything more from us, but that will depend on how our seniors react to the reports we make." Sergeant Smith advised.
"Let me see you out then." John said and indicated the way with his hand.
When John returned to the group they were all chatting again. "I must say John, this has been one of the most eventful BBQs I've been too." George greeted his return.
"Yes, well, I'm sorry. One of our hopes with this was to show David's parents a different approach to parent/child relationships. I guess we failed in that." John responded.
"No, you didn't. You showed George and me, and we now want to try to get that going with our two boys. So there's no failure in that." Mary said.
"I do hope that they go easy on David, but I fear he's in for a rough ride." Rose said.
"I'm afraid you're right. His mother did not look like she was going to let up in any way." Colin added.
"I'll try and phone him tomorrow and find out." Alexander said.
From there the conversation drifted onto other topics and within an hour the Ashbourne's adult guests had left. The five boys said they would pack everything up if John and Rose wanted to go and relax for a bit. This offer was taken up and the boys were on their own again.
"I appreciate my parents so much more now." Dominic said, "And there I thought I was the one who was hard-done by."
"We did tell you." Callum teased.
"I don't think I actually believed it until I saw it with my own eyes tonight. Not that I thought you were lying; just that I couldn't or wouldn't accept it as the truth." Dominic said.
"Oh shit, here he goes all philosophical again." Bradley said, and the rest laughed softly.
"Carry on and I'll begin to believe that my parents are better than my friends." Dominic countered.
The good-natured banter continued for a bit but then Alexander said he couldn't wait until the next day and pulled his mobile out to call David. "Shit and fuck!" he exclaimed. "They've only gone and blocked my number already."
"Let's try with mine then." Bradley said pulling his phone out. A few taps and a short wait told them his number was also blocked.
"They can't have blocked mine because I never gave it to David." Dominic said as he pulled his mobile out of his pocket. "Call out David's number and we'll try to get through with mine. Dominic tapped in David's number as it was called out to him and then pressed the green telephone icon to call David. While he waited he put his phone into speaker mode so that all five of them could hear.
To their dismay Susan answered the call, "This is David McAllister's phone, may ask who is calling?"
"Uh, ... I'm Gerald, from school." Dominic said.
"Then how come you sound like a pervert from the BBQ?" Susan said and disconnected the call.
"Well I guess I'm blocked now too." Dominic said.
The boys went inside once they had finished putting the BBQ's under cover and stacking the chairs away in the storeroom. Callum told his parents about the blocked numbers and they looked both angry and concerned at the same time. John suggested they get the air-beds in and blown up, and then he and Rose would be going to bed and the boys could watch some television or do what else they might want to do.
"But you said we couldn't go naked in the house if we had visitors." Alexander said, grinning at his dad.
"That's not what I was meaning and you know it. And yes, you still can't go naked throughout the house while we have guests staying." John replied.
"I think you lost out there Al!" Cal acknowledged that their father had got the best in that little spar.
Once the air beds had been blown up and the five boys were by themselves they plumped for watching a video as there no films that interested them available at that time on any of the channels. Before they got that ready, they all went up to Callum's room where they had left their bags and changed into some sleeping shorts and t shirts.
They had moved the lounge furniture to the sides to make room for the two mattresses, and now they pushed the mattresses up against the sofa and armchairs and half sat/half lay side by side on the mattresses propped up against the sofa and two armchairs. They had already opened their sleeping bags up as they had done in the tent for their last sleepover. Bradley after turning off the main lights leaving only the light from the film to fight the darkness, took one of the outside positions with Alexander sitting next to him. Callum was between Alexander and Ben leaving Dominic to take the other outside position. They pulled two of the opened sleeping bags up over them and settled down to watch the film.
They watched in silence with only the occasional rustle of the material as one of them moved a little, but after about five minutes of this Alexander untwined his fingers from around Bradley's and pulled the hand he had been holding over his crotch revealing to Bradley that he was already hard. Bradley didn't need any more of a hint and began to gently rub Alexander's cock through his thin shorts. This was not sufficient for Alexander and he began to wriggle about a bit which of course attracted the others' attention. While they were still looking at Alexander, rather than the film, he pulled his shorts out from under the sleeping bag and threw them onto the cushion of the sofa behind him. He just grinned at the others and gave Bradley's arm a few shakes to encourage him to carry on what he had been doing, before Alexander interrupted it to take his shorts off.
Callum just shook his head but the idea had taken root and it was not long before his hand slipped over and began to fondle Ben's cock. Ben followed Alexander's example and with a grin threw his shorts behind him onto the sofa as well. Ben saw this as an opportunity and reached out with both his hands to play with Dominic's and Callum's cocks at the same time. Alexander had already beaten them to it with Bradley's cock and soon three more pairs of thin cotton shorts were lying on the cushions of the sofa. Bradley had thought ahead and he pulled a couple of tissues out of a box that he had brought with him from his home, and remembered to carry it down stairs when they returned to the lounge from changing. He passed the box over to Callum who realising what he was being offered in the half light of the film took some tissues out for his use and passed the box along. Ben didn't have a free hand to help himself, but Callum and Dominic between them had enough ready for all three of them.
They all knew that with the openness of the lounge area and the small possibility that either John or Rose might need to come downstairs for something, jerking each other off was about the best they could hope for on this sleepover. None of them were in any rush to cum though and neither were they in a hurry to make the one they were jerking off cum. Dominic not having a cock to play with used his hands to fondle his own nipples and increase the sensation he was experiencing. This led to him being the first to cum, especially as Ben was not as efficient yet in recognising the signs of an impending cum and did not take action to try and prolong it for either Dominic or Callum. This put Callum in second position to cum. Ben being newer to the party of assisted sex was the third to cum even though Callum tried to stretch his wank out. On the other hand Alexander and Bradley knew each other's bodies the best and were able to drag the other's orgasm out for much longer. When they did cum it was together because they had worked it to get it like that, throwing caution to the wind had thrown off the sleeping bag to allow their hard spurts room to shoot. Callum had to pull out some more tissues and hand them over to the two for them to clean up, as the ones Bradley had got ready were not sufficient for the mess that needed to be cleaned up.
With the boys' concentration on the film being compromised by the more enjoyable act of being wanked and wanking someone else, they had lost track of the plot of the film and decided to call it a night and just go to sleep. They pulled their shorts back on and got their pillows ready. With two sleeping bags opened up underneath the five of them and two over the top they snuggled down together and after a bit of chat in the darkness of the room they drifted off to sleep.
Not having overdone things the night before, they woke at a reasonable time and were washed and brushed a little before Rose and John had got their breakfast ready for them. While they were eating their breakfast John advised the boys to leave David and his family alone for a while. "As hard as that might seem, I think if you persist in trying to find out how David is doing it will only antagonise his parents, or at least his mother, and it could make it worse for David rather than better." John concluded his bit of fatherly advice.
On the Thursday of the same week, John arrived home from work and took Rose aside for a private conversation. When the two of them came back into the lounge both Callum and Alexander could see that their mother was upset.
"What's wrong mum?" Callum asked.
Rose just looked at John who answered for her, "There has been another twist in the tale from the BBQ. The Carters and the Wrights will be here soon and then we'll all discuss it and make a decision on what we think is best."
"What twist?" Alexander asked.
"I'd rather we wait until everyone is here so that I don't have to go through it too many times. It upset me enough telling your mother. I know it's hard but please help me out on this one. It'll only be for a very short while." John asked. The two boys realised that this was something very serious and bowed to John's request.
Half an hour later and both the other families had arrived. All eleven of them were sitting in the lounge with the five boys sitting on the floor to leave enough room for the adults on the chairs.
John began; "Today I got a call from your Head Teacher, Mr. Crowther, and was asked to attend a meeting with him at the school this afternoon. When he told me that Colin and George had also been asked to be at the same meeting I realised it had to be something to do with what happened at the BBQ. Mr. Crowther was very understanding and I really believe he will be as supportive as he can with you boys. The McAllisters, or at least David's mother has given the Head Teacher a rather hard time. They have pulled David out of the school and will be sending him to a different school because they can't let him, and I quote, `associate with the disgusting sexual deviants' that the Head Teacher allows to pervert his school." John had to stop there to get a bit of control before he carried on. "Mr. Crowther records all the conversations that are held in his office and he played back to us the recording of the meeting he had with the McAllisters. To say she was vitriolic would be putting it mildly. Anyway, we can't be sure just who else she has taken this information to and so it might be that by the time you boys go back to school some of your peers might know that you are gay. Mr. Crowther has promised that if you need his help he will not turn you away, but he doesn't want to get involved if you don't want him to. So he will not be making any announcements at the beginning of the term. He's hoping that the news would not have got out and that things will remain quiet."
The five boys had sat in silence with their mouths open listening to John as he explained things. Colin took up with a bit more information for the boys, "Mr. Crowther did tell us that he knows of at least eight other pupils in the school who are homosexual. Both male and female and he assured us he had nothing against homosexuals and would not treat you any differently than he would treat any other pupil in the school."
"But know this boys," George began, "every one of you has all of our support. We will do what we can to help you in any way we can. To do that, though, we need to know what is going on. If you are being victimised by anyone or any group of people or anything else. I can get away from work fairly easily most of the time so don't hesitate to phone me if you need some quick help."
"And that goes for your mother's as well. We're also here to help whatever way we can." Rose said with both Mary and Angela nodding their agreement.
"There is one more thing. I told you that Mr. Crowther has a recording of the meeting he had with David's parents. He would like to take that to his solicitor to see if he can bring a case against them. However, on that recording all five of your names are mentioned along with your parents' names. Mr. Crowther would like your consent before he takes the recording to the solicitor. The solicitor is duty bound to keep the information offered on the tape confidential, but if it does go to court then the tape will have to be played in court and although the judge could order it to be held in camera, there is always the risk of something slipping out and into the wrong mouths. Please think about this and have a chat amongst yourselves before giving us an answer. I will pass on each of your responses to Mr. Crowther. Also, if you decide you don't want him taking it to the lawyer there will be no recrimination taken against you." John told the boys.
"What's recrimination?" Ben asked.
"That's when someone takes some sort of action against you because you didn't do what they wanted." Colin told him. "In other words, Mr. Crowther will not do anything to you if you decide you don't want that tape played to anyone else."
"If all that can happen is that we get outed by the tape then as it seems that might happen anyway, can we wait and see if we are outed? After all we can't really be outed twice can we?" Callum said.
"That is a possibility but I think Mr. Crowther would like to take some action sooner if he is able to." Colin said. "I think he would like to see this at least in progress before the end of the school break. But as John told you, we don't want an answer straight away. Think about and talk about it with each other and then come back to us in a couple of days. Okay?"
"Ben and Dominic, I know we don't have the same open relationship that Callum and Alexander have with their parents, so if you have questions you want them to put to their parents then we are okay with that. I would hope you feel you can come to either me or your mother with your questions, but know we still have some way to go before we have changed the way we are together and this cannot wait that long. So you have our blessing." George told his sons.
"Thanks dad; that's a very special thing you've done for us. But I don't think there are any questions on this matter that we would feel we can't talk to you about." Dominic said.
"I think we need to start thinking about something else for a bit. This has all been a rather heavy load and a shock for all of us. I'd like to suggest we all go out together to KFC or Pizza Hut for our meal. I know I can't expect Angela to go home and start cooking for us now." Colin suggested.
"If Mary is happy with that, then so am I." George added.
"I think we would not be against it either. What do you say Rose? Boys?" John asked.
"Well I had started preparing our tea, but there's nothing that can't hold on until tomorrow." Rose said.
"We're happy to go out too." Callum answered for both him and Alexander. "So are we." Ben chipped in.
"As the ladies are in the minority here, let's let them choose where we go then." Colin suggested.
The three mothers looked at each other and then began suggesting different places.
"Dad you should have known better than to suggest they choose. We'll all be withered skeletons by the time they make their minds up." Bradley teased.
"Bradley Wright, I hope you are good at making grovelling apologies or you might be sitting in the car while the rest of us enjoy a meal at the carvery." Angela told him off but in such a way they all knew she wasn't really upset with her son.
"Don't worry Brad, I'll only eat half of mine and ask for a doggy bag for the rest for you." Alexander said which got the all six adults laughing.
"I guess it's the carvery then. Perhaps we'd better give them a call first and make sure they can fit a party of eleven in." John said and pulled out his mobile.