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Mom and I were getting ready to have breakfast when the phone rang. Dad had gone to work. Having breakfast at home wasn't unusual, but it normally lacked the excitement of breakfast at the cabin. Today was different.
I could hear Mom talking on the phone. Actually, she was doing more listening than talking.
"I'll have to check with Buddy," I heard her say. "He needs to have some say in this too."
My curiosity was soon satisfied.
"Buddy, that was Cody's grandmother," she said. "She was telling me about your friend Josh. How good a friend is he?"
"He's my best friend other than Cody," I replied. "He's having a lot of problems at home. Cody and I like him a lot and we've been trying to be be good friends to him."
"What would you think about having him live with us?" she asked.
She had my full attention now.
"I would love it!" I replied instantly. "He's a really great guy."
"But what's happening?" I added, suddenly realizing that this was not all good news.
"Josh's mother is in jail for dealing drugs," Mom explained. "His brother Zach is in juvenile detention for his part in that activity. Josh needs a place to live temporarily."
I looked Mom square in the eye with all the seriousness I could find inside me.
"Josh doesn't need temporarily," I said firmly. "He needs permanently."
"I can't guarantee permanently," she said. "That's up to the social workers and the courts, and for now they are going to place him here temporarily. But I trust your judgement, and I will say that Josh can live here as long as he needs to and as long as they will let him."
I knew that Mom was going as far as she could.
"Thanks Mom," I said. I was almost crying because I felt so bad for Josh.
"When does this start?"
Mom got up and went to get her purse.
"Get in the car," she said. "I need to call your dad and tell him what to expect when he gets home. Then we'll be on our way."
We stopped and picked up Cody. He looked as grim as I felt. It was a very silent trip to town.
Josh lived in the trailer court at the edge of town. A social services car was in front of his trailer, and the social worker answered the door.
Josh was standing behind her, and the next thing I knew he was in my arms sobbing his heart out.
"It's gonna be OK, little bro," I said, hugging him close. "You're gonna come live with me for as long as you need to."
When Josh had settled down a little, the social worker and Mom helped him pack his things. There wasn't much to pack, just some clothes and a few personal items.
The trip back home was equally quiet. Cody sat in front with Mom, and I sat in back with my arm around Josh's shoulders.
When we got home, we took Josh's things down to the basement. He would have the spare bedroom next to mine.
"You get to be down here in the basement with me and the rest of the rats," I said, trying to inject a small amount of humor into the situation.
"When you boys get Josh settled in, come upstairs for some food," Mom said.
You could depend on my mom to know when food was needed.
Mom fixed a late breakfast for all of us. After Josh had eaten, you could see that his world was slowly starting to come back together. He actually smiled once or twice at the bad jokes Cody and I were making to try to cheer him up.
"Mom, is it OK if we all go to Cody's cabin for a while?" I asked.
"That sounds like the perfect thing to do," she said. "Please be back by the time your Dad gets home, and that applies to you too, Cody. Please join us for dinner tonight. I'll let your grandmother know."
There wasn't much conversation on the way to the cabin. All of us were trying to absorb this change and what it meant.
When we got to the cabin, Josh sat down on the couch and stared blankly straight ahead. Cody sat beside Josh and I sat in one of the chairs.
"You gotta understand that Buddy and I are gonna be here for you, no matter what," Cody said, putting his arm around Josh's shoulders. "We are both your brothers and we'll do whatever is needed to look after you, just like Buddy's parents and my grandparents will."
Josh had tears in his eyes.
"Thanks, Cody," he replied. "You guys are all I've got right now. In a way, that's more than I've had for a long time, but it's a big change."
"We'll help you get through the change," I said. "You just tell us what you need and we'll take care of it."
It was warm in the cabin, but Josh was shivering as if he were cold. I got a blanket and put it around his shoulders.
"I'm not really cold," Josh said. "I just feel completely exhausted. It was a hell of a night with the cops raiding the house and everything. For a while, I thought I was gonna end up in jail too."
"I think you should lie down on the bed and see if you can sleep for a while," I said. "We can talk later. You need some rest."
Cody and I got Josh into bed with enough covers that he stopped shivering. We sat in the living area until he went to sleep, and then quietly stepped outside.
"Let's go sit on GrandMom's porch for a while and let him sleep in peace," Cody said. "We can talk there."
From the porch, we could see the cabin door in case Josh woke up and came looking for us.
GrandMom joined us on the porch.
"How's it going?" she asked us.
"He's pretty strung out right now," I said. "We put him to bed and he's sleeping. I'm trying to figure out what to do next, and I know Cody is too."
"It's more important to 'be' rather than 'do' right now," GrandMom said.
"Just be there for him and be normal. I just talked with Buddy's mother, and as far as the 'do' part goes, everything you have done so far is absolutely right. That includes both this morning and since you two became friends with him. I have every confidence that you will continue to do just what he needs."
"Buddy's parents are just right for this too," GrandMom continued. "I have known them for a long time, and they are both warm loving people. They are going to be there for all three of you, just like George and I are."
"Thanks for the advice, GrandMom," Cody said. "Buddy is particularly good at knowing what to do. He did it for me earlier this summer, and he's doing it again for Josh. I'm trying to take lessons."
GrandMom went into the house and came back with a big plate of fresh-baked cookies and two glasses of water.
"Take whatever is left to the cabin," she said before going back inside.
"When I was stressed out earlier this summer, you took me down to the creek to listen to nature," Cody said. "I suggest the same thing for Josh."
"We're thinking alike, as usual," I said. "I have a specific place in mind. If we walk up the creek for about a half mile, there's a waterfall and a natural park. So far as I know, I'm the only person who ever goes there. It's on state land, and it isn't accessible except from our property. I've been wanting to take you there, but it hasn't worked out before. This is the perfect time."
We sat on the porch talking occasionally and watching the world go by for nearly an hour. It was unusual for the two of us to spend that much time just meditating, but we needed to regroup also. Our world was going to change too. Both of us saw it as being all for the better, but it still required some thought.
Eventually, the cabin door opened, and Josh looked around outside for us. We got up and waved at him and went to the cabin with the rest of the cookies.
"I thought maybe you had abandoned me," Josh said with enough of a smile that we knew he was kidding.
"Nope, you can't get rid of us that easily," Cody replied. "Here are some cookies that GrandMom made."
"Do you think I can call your grandparents GrandMom and GrandDad too?"
Josh asked Cody.
"I think they would be unhappy if you didn't," Cody replied.
While Josh was having a cookie or two, I made a half dozen sandwiches and put them into one of the packs with the drinking water. The blanket went into the other pack.
"We're going for a short hike," Cody told Josh. "Buddy has a private park on the creek complete with waterfall to show us."
"Shorts will work best for this activity," I added. "I think they are all still here from our last adventure."
Cody had washed the shorts. I was surprised when he brought out three pairs of red shorts and handed the new pair to Josh.
"Yours, Josh," he said. "GrandMom knows about the identical shorts that Buddy and I got at the ocean, so when she went shopping in the city yesterday, she got you a pair too. I guess they're part of the family uniform."
Josh actually grinned for the first time that day.
"We need a family name," he said. "Maybe we can come up with something this afternoon."
"That's a great idea," I replied. "Let's each think of something on the way to the waterfall."
The route to the waterfall took us to my parents' place and then up the creek. I stopped at the house to tell Mom where we were going and that we would be back in time for dinner.
There wasn't a real trail to the waterfall. We just walked up the creek, sometimes beside it and sometimes in it. Part of the time there were cliffs on both sides. It could only be accessed during the summer when the water was low.
The waterfall was about twenty feet high. It was spread out so that it was more of a fountain than a waterfall. There was a large grassy area on one side of the creek and a vertical cliff on the other, but the valley opened to the south so it was sunny most of the day. It couldn't have been much more secluded. It was a place that I had often visited in the past, but I hadn't been there since I had met Cody.
"It's absolutely perfect," Josh said. "You couldn't make anything this beautiful."
"It has always been a special place for me, a spiritual place like my own private church," I said. "Sharing it with you two makes it even more special."
We all undressed and took a quick dip in the pool below the falls. It was deep enough to submerge in, but not to swim in. Then we relaxed in the warmth of the sun and let the music of the creek and the wind in the trees work their magic.
"I'm hungry," Josh said. "I've been eating all morning and I'm still hungry."
"Well, it's a little after noon, so let's pass around the sandwiches," I said.
"So, what about this family name?" Cody inquired.
"Is it gonna be just between us, or something that we share openly?" I asked.
"I suppose if it's gonna be shared, it should be socially acceptable," Josh observed. "In that case, 'Bareback Bros' wouldn't work."
"How perfect is that?" Cody said with a grin.
"Absolutely perfect," I answered.
"I guess we're not gonna share it then," Josh observed.
"I guess not," Cody said.
"That was easy," I concluded.
"Another thing that belongs to us is this place," I said. "Cody's cabin has become our clubhouse because it's the natural place for us to get together. This should be our private park."
"Let's drink to that," Cody said.
"Well, all we have is water, but that will do I suppose," I said.
I looked at Cody, and suddenly I knew that we had more than water.
"OK, Cody," I said. "What have you got? Cough it up."
"See that little side pool up there, the one surrounded by rocks?" he asked. "Go look in it."
Josh was up and moving first. He came back with three bottles of cold beer.
"You sneaky son of a bitch," I said. "When did you put those in there?"
"I didn't," he said with a twinkle in his eyes. "It's a miracle. This is such a spiritual place that nature provided them."
"Well, God forbid that we should turn down nature's bounty," I said.
We toasted the family name, the family park, and the family clubhouse. I thought about toasting the parents and grandparents, but that would have reminded Josh of the hole in his life so I kept that silent toast to myself.
"There's one more thing that we gotta do here," Josh said. "We gotta fuck and live up to the family name. It's who we are."
Cody and I had been waiting for Josh to take the lead on that one, but once he had suggested it we were willing participants. There was now a second place, even more remote than the cabin, where we could fuck our brains out without any constraints. We spent a couple of hours doing so.
"I could really use another beer," I said when we had taken another dip in the creek and were once again warming ourselves in the sun.
"Josh, go look in that pool again," Cody said.
Josh came back with three more beers.
"There were only three when I went there the first time," Josh said.
"Where did these come from?"
"It's another miracle, Josh," I said. "But I think it was helped by the fact that when you are fucking me, the world could come to an end and neither one of us would know. Now are there any more?" I asked Cody.
"You can only have two miracles in one day," Cody said. "It's a rule. That is especially true when we gotta walk down a half mile of creek to get home."
We got back to my house in time to go downstairs for showers. I provided Cody with jeans and a shirt so that he could be civilized for dinner.
Not knowing Josh's favorite things, Mom had produced mine - fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and apple pie for dessert.
"Cody, thank you for joining us," Mom said as she and Dad sat down at the table. "You and Josh can call me Rose if you like, and Buddy's father is Jim."
"So, how was your adventure up the creek this afternoon?" Dad inquired.
"We went to the waterfall and relaxed in the sun mostly," I said. "We had a lot of things to talk about too."
"That's a beautiful place," Josh added. "It's nice to have a natural park like that so close."
"I'm glad that Buddy shared it with us," Cody said. "You don't find a place like that very often that's not overrun by too many people."
When we were done eating, Dad had some more observations for us.
"Josh, we are very happy to have you living with us," he said. "I know that Buddy likes you a lot, and he's looking forward to having a brother as well as a friend. You need to think of yourself that way. You're one of the family. Cody, you need to consider yourself one of the family too, even though you don't stay here all the time. I know you three boys are all closer than most brothers. As Rose and I see it, you are all part of our family, and I know Cody's grandparents feel the same way about all of you."
"Thanks a lot," Josh said. "I'm very happy to be here. I can't think of anywhere I would rather be right now."
"Thanks from me also," Cody said. "Buddy and Josh are special to me, and I'm very pleased to be part of your family."
All three of us thanked Mom for the dinner and went downstairs. There was a third room downstairs, a small family room with a television where we could hang out. We watched television for a short time, but well before dark Cody headed up the old logging road to his cabin.
I said goodnight to Josh, and he went into his room and closed the door.
I undressed and climbed into bed. After staring at the ceiling for about two minutes, I knew exactly what I had to do.
I gently knocked on Josh's door and went inside when he didn't answer. Josh was in his bed. He was lying on his stomach with his face in his pillow. I could see his shoulders shaking. The last twenty-four hours, both the bad and the good, had been way too much for anyone.
I got into bed with him and held him close until he went to sleep. Then I stayed for the rest of the night. Josh was my real little brother now, and he was going to get all of the love and care that a brother should have.