Why Me

Author's note: This is my first attempt so please be gentle with me. The story is part fact and part fiction. There's not a lot of gratuitous sex in it because it's a love story. I'll suggest the sex and let your imagination do the rest. I would love to get comments, both pro and con. Replies can be sent to: webworm@nex.net

Dedication: To the loving memory of Marcus Aaron, sweet little sixteen. I still miss you sweetie even after 4 hard years. There's a hole in my heart that will never be replaced but the fond memories of our time in the sun and the love we showered each other with warm me continually. I love you, MAC. Peace and love to your Mom and Aunt Wilma.

This story is protected by copyright. And if you don't know what that means go see your Lawyer `cause if you break the laws my Lawyer will be wanting to meet with yours.

Why Me? Chapter 7

The Sunday morning sun shot it's blinding rays through the slats of the blinds in Richards room. He frowned and rolled over with his back to the silent intruder. "What day is it?" he asked himself. "Damn, it's Sunday." he answered himself. He remembered that he and Chad had to meet and get everything ready for Richards eventual `revenge' on Eric. Just the thought of it excited him. This was going to be so sweet. That arrogant prick was about to get his because they had come up with the ultimate way to get even with him. He ran to the bathroom and took care of his morning chores. The thought of taking matters in hand after relieving himself crossed his mind be he was in too big a hurry to even enjoy that. When he finished he ran into the hall, grabbed the phone and called Chad. His Mom answered.

"Hello, Mrs. Tomzak. How are you this fine Sunday Morning?" Richard asked.

"Kind of rushed right now Richard. What can we do for you? You want to speak to Chad?" she asked.

"Sure do." Richard responded.

"You're too late, I'm afraid. He should be pounding your door down any minute now." She replied.

"Okay, Thanks." Richard said and he walked to the top of the stairs.

"Hello anybody." He yelled.

No answer so that means his parents had already gone to Church. Richard ran downstairs and opened the inside door and unlocked the screen and then went back upstairs. He stripped down and laid back on his bed in an erotic pose and closed his eyes feigning sleep. He heard the door bell ring and a Hello?' come wafting up the stairwell. Then he heard the screen door squeak as it was opened. Slowly, step by step he could hear footsteps up the risers in the stairwell and then onto the top step. Again a Hello?' was heard coming quietly from the hall. Richard could not go through with it, he got cold feet. Damn, he was horny but he was about to fall into that trap and he feared that if they `Slam Bam Thanky Maam'ed' it then it would ruin the majesty and grandeur of the ultimate gift of ones love. So he jerked the sheet over him to cover his nakedness and yelled "In here, Babycakes.".

"Folks must be gone, right? Or I sure hope they are if you're gonna talk like that sweetums." Chad quipped and grinned that all American boy next door smile at Richard.

"Yeah, they're at Church. Won't be back until after 12 noon. Then they might even go out for Brunch or Lunch or whatever. Come here to me you handsome devil." Richard said. Chad moved over to him and sat on the edge of the bed and leaned in for a morning kiss. Their lips met and Chad jerked back holding his nose and yelled "Brown mouth! Brown mouth!".

"You asshole. I'll have you know I have already been up and brushed my teeth and gargled." Richard responded.

"I know. Just had to rib you some though." and Chad leaned back in and kissed Richard first on his forehead then moving down to his lips, his ears, his neck, his nipples and Richard laid back on his elbows and moaned. "Oh Chad. You sure do know where my hot spots are but we better not turn this into a three alarm fire." Richard said. Chad had already seen that Richard was naked under the sheets and he had never known him to sleep in the buff before. Chad thought he was going to get lucky this Sunday morning but WRONG.

"Well, if you're not going to serve up your cherry for Sunday Brunch I guess we better get this plan rolling." Chad joked.

Richard got up and wrapped the sheet around himself and went off to the bathroom to take a quick shower. He came back in the room with only a towel around his waist. Chad gave out a wolf whistle and Richard started humming the melody to the tune "The Stripper" and dancing erotically around the room. Chad reached for his billfold and took out a dollar and waved it around. Richard moved in closer and reached for the bill. Chad pulled it back closer to his body each time Richard would grab for it. Chad was in real close now and Chad took the bill and slipped it in the top of the towel that Richard had wrapped around himself. Richard continued his dance and then for the closing notes he turned his back to Chad and let the towel drop to the floor.

He then walked over to his drawer and pulled out a pair of Daffy Duck boxer shorts to the applause of Chad screaming `encore, encore'. Richard got dressed and they looked at the clock. It was nearing 12 noon and the mall would open then.

Richard left his `rents a note that he was going shopping with Chad and they left for the mall. The Food Court was already open so they went there first and got pizza and pop and hung out. Richard sat with his back to the tables and Chad kept a lookout for Eric. Well, they couldn't wait all day since they had a few things they needed to purchase so they left and took care of that. They were walking back to the food court and as they rounded the corner Chad grabbed Richards arm and pulled him back.

"He's here." Chad said.

"Oh God. I hope this works out okay. I wish I had a valium or a xanax. No, I don't either. My brain has to be clear to do this. Oh, shit. Now or never doll so wish me luck." Richard stammered seeming overly nervous.

"Break a leg for me. I love you Richard no matter what happens." Chad replied.

That was all it took for Richard to pull it all together. He walked around the corner and very coyly sauntered over past Eric. When their eyes met Richard motioned with his eyes and his head toward the bathroom door and walked in. He checked the stalls and everything was empty. A minute later Eric came walking in. "What do you want fag? A piece of me?" Eric said haughtily.

"As a matter of fact I do. But there's also a few things I want you to do for me." Richard said.

"Oh, I'm gonna do several things to you, Dude." Eric said and a evil grin caused his lips to curl. "Come on over here in the toilet and suck this big old cock of mine." Eric insisted.

"Not so fast big boy. You know just as well as I do that this place is under surveillance so we aren't gonna do anything here. I have to meet my parents back at Dillards anyway and we are going to eat and then to my Grandparents house. Are you going to be free tonight?" Richard asked.

"Sure thing. Just tell me where and when." Eric answered.

"Well the where is the john at the park where you ran into me that night, the when is tonight around 9 to 9:30 P.M.. Now, I'm real new at this, in fact I am a virgin, so you're going to have to show me how it's all done. I'm real nervous about." and the bathroom door opened and this stranger walked in. Richard nodded to go outside and they sat at a table. "Okay, to finish what I was saying, I'm real nervous about it so we're going to keep that stall wall between us. You will do me first, I can watch you over the stall wall to learn how it's done and then I'll do you. If it's something I really like then we can start meeting at my house after school as often as you like. Deal?" Richard asked.

"Damn right, Dude." Eric responded "See you tonight between 9 and 9:30.

"C'ya then" Richard replied and walked off toward Dillards.

He met up with Chad and Chad asked "Did he buy it?".

"Damn right he did, the stupid bugger. Tonight at 9 just as planned." Richard responded. The two bud's punched each other on the shoulder but would have rather played tonsil hockey right here in front of all the shoppers. Time really drug by but finally it was the appointed hour. Richard walked the 100 or so yards from the parking lot to the john and opened the door.

"Hey Dude." Eric said.

"Back atcha Dude" Richard responded.

So how we gonna do this now?" Eric asked.

Okay, now here's the way it's gotta work or it's no dice. I'm going into the stall and stick my dick through the hole and you're gonna suck me off. I'm going to watch you over the top to see how it's done and then we're going to switch places." Richard said.

"I don't know dude. What if someone walks in? Eric began to waffle.

"That's all been taken care of. As I was walking in I threw a whole handfull of `Atomic Balls' on the side walk. If someone walks up they will step on those and they'll pop. It's kinda like early warning radar." Richard said as he chuckled.

"Okay, well let's do it." Eric said.

Richard walked in the stall and unzipped his pants and pulled his dick out and stuck it through the hole. Eric started sucking on it and pretty soon it was at full mast.

"Damn, Eric that feels great. Let me see that big cock of yours. Lemme see you stroke it." Richard said.

Eric pulled his dick out and started whipping it up and down. He was jerking and sucking all at the same time.

"Damn, Eric you do that so good." Richard shouted.

Hearing the signal, Chad opened the door, snapped a quick picture and flipped the light switch off leaving Richard and Eric in total darkness.

"What the fuck?" Eric asked. He heard Richard zipping his pants up and a small beam of light from inside the stall. Richard walked over to the light switch illuminating the way with his pocket flashlight and turned the lights back on.

"Now, I want you to listen and listen good." Richard started. He had all kinds of obscenities he wanted to use on this lowlife in front of him. But Richard was a gentleman as well as a kind and caring individual.

"Don't you threaten me, you little faggot. I'll pound your ass into the sidewalk." Eric shouted.

"You touch one hair on my head or Chad's either, as a matter of fact, and that Polaroid shot of you sucking some guys dick off while you were jerking off will be on the schools webpage before you can land the first punch." Richard smirked. He was enjoying giving this piece of crap his come uppance.

"Listen, asswipe, if I go down, so do you. We were both in there." Eric snapped.

"Yes, asswipe, but that Polaroid only captured your baby blues. I was behind that wall and the only thing showing through was my dick and you're the only one yet who's seen it that hard that close so I won't be recognized." Richard smirked. Chad's plan had worked. Yeah.

"You've got to give me that picture back Richard, please. How much, what'll you take for it?" Eric pleaded.

"Not one red cent, and nothing you can ever do will make me give that picture back. But there is a way that the only people that will ever have knowledge of it is Chad, me and you. Want to know how that works, Dude?" Richard asked. He was feeling in total control and he loved it. This thorn in his side was going to make his life miserable if he didn't give him sexual gratification, not love but just to get his rocks off and now Richard was in the drivers seat.

Erics head fell to his chest dejected, beaten, deservedly so and he said "What do I have to do, suck you off, let you fuck me, you've got me over a barrel.".

"Nothing that easy, Eric. You're going to have to do something that you find extremely difficult to do and that is to respect other people. Let me tell you, butthole, if I ever hear you running someone down, calling someone a faggot or a fat ass or a slut or a whore or any other derogatory comments or hear of you bullying anyone for any reason whatsoever, then that picture will end up on the school web page the next day and it might even get sent to the Police for criminal prosecution. And one other thing, you've already started the ball rolling on the rumors about me and you're gonna turn that around. I don't care what it takes but you, YOU Butthole, are going to see that they are stopped. My sexuality is no ones freaking business except mine and any other person I might wish to share it with. And if you think for one second I am bluffing then you just go ahead and try me." Richard ended and walked out the door.

He drove home and pulled in the driveway. Chad pulled in right behind him. They had gone in separate cars and if Eric had pursued Chad, Richard would have delayed him enough to allow Chad to escape with the picture. They walked silently into the house and up to Richards bedroom. Once the door was closed, Chad threw the bag on the bed and grabbed Richard and they both shouted "YES!!!!" at the top of their lungs.

"We did it Bud. That sucker has been had." Chad said gleefully.

"He's ours now." Richard said feeling that in control situation.

"Now let's make love." Chad said.

"What are you talking about? We're taking it slow and easy." Richard said.

"Aw shucks, Richard. You've got such a nice peepee and I wanna play with it like Eric did." Chad said in his most perfect crybaby voice.

"Well, babycakes, I'm really surprised I could even get it up for him. I was worried about that. I detest that prick so much that thinking of you was the only way I could get it up. He makes my blood run cold. Now that picture please." Richard said.

"Can't I keep it, please? Chad pleaded.

"You certainly cannot keep it." Richard said and reached for the snapshot.

Chad reluctantly handed it over but only after kissing the object of his desires. Chad took the picture and placed it on his scanner and copied it to his hard drive. He then encrypted the picture and placed it back on the hard drive and on a floppy disk. He then took his dissection kit from biology class and took the scalpel and made an incision in the edge of his American History book hardback cover. He repeated the process until he was able to slide the picture up inside the jacket and then he took clear plastic shipping tape and covered the incision. The speakers on the computer `uh oh'ed' to announce the arrival of an ICQ message.

"Hey Richard" the screen displayed a message from Geoff.

"Who's Geoff?" Chad asked.

"Jealous?" Richard asked back.

"Oh, that's right. He's that guy from up in Michigan that was just outed." Chad answered his own question.

"Hey Geoff. How's things going tonight?" Richard messaged back.

"Oh, pretty good considering. I found out that the problem is not as widespread as I thought it was." Geoff responded.

"That's encouraging. How are things at home?" Richard asked.

"Pretty good. I did find out from my friend Jenny that my Mom is the one that is the source of my outings. It's only been very close friends that I have known for a long time that she confronted. It started when I copied a file of a cute young Dude and it got on the Desktop without me noticing it. She hasn't confronted me with it but she has nosed around with my very close friends asking very leading questions. They already knew anyway but they didn't tell her they knew." Geoff replied.

"That's kewl" Richard replied. "Oh, shit. I forgot to tell you. We pulled the prank on my tormentor tonight and have we got his balls in a vise. He's not only going to stop harassing me but everyone else. Plus he's going to undo some of the damage he has already done, tell folks that what he was saying about me was just a joke, trying to get even with me for something.".

"That's kewl. Serves him right for all the harm he's done. I've learned it takes years to build up trust but only suspicion and innuendo can tear it down overnight." Geoff replied.

"Pretty wise statement and true, also." Richard responded.

"Well, guess I better get off here and in bed. I have to be at work early tomorrow so it's up at 5 A.M." Geoff said.

"Goodnight Bud - TTYL" Richard replied.

Richard and Chad sat on the floor leaning back against the bed. Chad had his arm draped around Richards shoulders and he put one hand to the back of Richards head and drew his face near. Their lips met, both smooth and moist and the lips parted and Chads tongue darted inside Richards mouth. Richard slid his hand under Chads shirt and pinched his nipples to full erection and then caressed them with the tips of his fingernails causing Eric to purr like a little kitty. Chad broke the kiss and put his mouth over Richards ear and drew a vacuum flicking his tongue all around the silk smooth surface of Richards ear. This was driving Richard wild. He was experiencing a new erogenous zone and it was a good one. The ear sucking broke off and they went lip to lip again. Their hands wandering all over the back of their lover and down to the luscious booties that both boys possessed.

"Chad, I have a secret to tell you." Richard said.

"What's that babycakes?" Chad responded.

"I'm in love with a wonderful guy. He's so good to me." Richard said.

"That's okay, Love, as long as his name is Chad Tomzak. If it's not, you're in big trouble." Chad said and he silenced Richard by placing his lips to his lovers. They lay side by side kissing and groping each others backsides for quite some time with Chad not making any advances that Richard hadn't already made. Chad knew that Richard would lead the way when he felt comfortable enough to go all the way so Chad was not going to jeopardize the relationship by going into the attack mode. Richard recognized this and was happy to see signs of Chad maturing and feeling confident in the positive way things were working out.

Several weeks pass by, summer vacation is almost half way through and we find Richard and Chad walking the path down by the river in the park.

"Hey Sugar Booger, follow me, there's something I want to show you over here." Chad said and he headed off into the wooded area of the park. His ulterior motive was not to show Richard anything other than a nice set of lips. The two boys broke into a near run and as they rounded a curve they bumped into the backside of another human form.

"Oh, excuses us. Sorry, we didn't mean to run over you" Richard said as he reached to help the others up off the ground. It was none other than Zack and Brent. "Oh, hey there Zack. How's things going." Richard asked.

"Couldn't be better" he said as he reached for Brents hand. Brent tried to have a cow and jerked his hand back.

"Oh, cool your jets Brent. It's safe. You don't have to worry around us." Chad said as he reached for Richards hand and pulled him close in to his side.

You could see Brents face turn from it's normal shade to a bright red.

"Sorry guys. This is all so new to me. So you're `family' so to speak?" Brent asked.

"Yeah. Never thought of it in that light but I guess it does make sense that we're kinda like family." Richard said grinning from ear to ear.

"Well, guess you guys came out here for a purpose, just like we did, so we'll leave you to it. Oh, do you guys have Sunday's free?" Brent asked.

"Yeah. Neither one of has to work on Sundays." Chad replied.

"Good. How would you two like to join us and drive up to Saugatuck, Michigan and spend the day." Brent asked.

"Kewl. What's special about Saugatuck?" Richard asked.

"It's a gay friendly town. One where you can just be yourself without worrying about getting hit over the head with a baseball bat, just for being diffrerent." Zack replied.

"That sounds like a winner to me then. You name the date." Richard said.

"Okay then, how about Sunday after next, the first Sunday in August?" Brent said.

"Sounds good to me. How about you Richard?" Chad asked.

"Should be okay with me also. I'll have my girl call your girl to set up the particulars." Richard joked.

"They said their C'ya's and parted company going opposite directions to accomplish the missions they had initially set out to do. After a few good tongue lashings, Richard and Chad remembered that they were eating at Chads house that night and it was nearing the dinner hour. They walked back out onto the path and headed for the parking lot. There were three kids on roller blades cutting through the north end of the parking lot. They noticed that Eric was sitting right by the ramp from the lot floor to the sidewalk. He had his back to Richard and Chad so he was not aware of their presence. The first two kids skated right up the ramp but the third one made a wide swing and attempted to jump from the lot floor to the sidewalk but he crashed and burned on the sidewalk. Richard and Chad quickened their pace and they noticed that Eric rose and went to the boys side.

"What happened little bro? Eric asked.

"Well, you usually trip me up when I come up the ramp so I was just trying to avoid you. Looks like it wasn't such a good idea, huh?" the young kid said.

"Not a good idea. But you don't have to worry about me trying to trip you anymore and if I'm around, no one else had better try it either." Eric said.

The young kid had a quizzical look and so did Richard and Chad who were still positioned behind Eric with him unaware of their presence.

"Looks like you got an Ooey on that elbow. It's bleeding. Let me take care of that." And Eric got up, took off his T-shirt and went to the water fountain and wet one end of the shirt. He then became aware of Richard and Chad.

"Oh, hey guys. How's it hanging today?" Eric asked.

"Real good, and you?" Richard asked.

Eric leaned over the little guy and, using the water in the shirt, rinsed the blood off his arm and then dried the wound and said "Lot's better.".

"You better scoot or you'll never catch your friends, little guy." Eric said and the kid jumped up, thanked Eric and flew off to rejoin his friends.

"Eric, I have to compliment you on your actions. That was way beyond what I would have ever expected you to do." Richard said.

"Richard, you don't have to hold that picture over my head to keep me in check anymore. I don't know what has happened to me. That's a lie, yes, I do know what happened. I have found out that you can catch more flies with sugar than you can vinegar, so to speak. Since that night in the park john, I have been trying to do what you called `right' and I have found a source of happiness that I never knew was there. When I left the park john that night I was hating your guts and trying to figure out ways to get even yet could not come up with anything that would work so I decided that I had better do like you asked or be a headliner on the webpage. And you know what, I have never felt so happy in all my life. I regret getting off on all that power trip heman macho bull crap that I used to. It's much more rewarding the way I am now." Eric said and beamed a broad smile showing his pearly white teeth.

Richard opened his arms and drew his former tormentor in to him and hugged him and said "I'm happy that things are working out for you, Eric. I really am."

"I've even decided that I want to be a Nurse when I get out of school. That way I can have more opportunities to help people. It would have been nice to be a Doctor but I am afraid my GPA isn't good enough to get into any of the better schools pre-med programs." Eric stated.

"Don't give up on that thought, Eric. Call the school and see if a counselor would have time to sit down and discuss it with you. Chad and I both will help catch you up, if it's possible." Richard replied.

"You'd do that after what I did to you?" Eric said reaching out to grab the two boys and pull them into a group hug.

"Hey, let's go to Shakeys, my treat." Eric said.

"Can we have a rain check on Shakeys? We've committed to dinner over at Chad's. Hey I have an idea, Chad you know that your mother always fixes enough food to feed an army. You think she'd mind if we brought Eric along"? Richard asked.

"I'll check but the more the merrier." Chad said. They went to the payphone and called, got the green light and Eric joined them for dinner.

That night after he got home Richard could not wait to get online and meet Geoff. He had so many things to discuss. He sat there thinking about all the positive energy that was given off today. He searched the internet looking for Gerald Anthony Jennings when he had a spare minute. He had learned from Bob that Tony was a very good artist and had intended on making that his life work. From that lead Richard had started visiting the various chat rooms for artists. He had found this one for Taos, New Mexico earlier and decided to be nosey. He signed into the room and looked at the room occupants. There was no Tony listed. He did his normal `Hi room - Rich from Illinois here' speech and they all welcomed him. He then got down to the serious business of searching for his friends son.

"I'm searching for a Gerald Anthony Jenkins. He ran away from home 20 years ago and I am trying to get a message to him from his father." Richard typed. He knew that was a little white lie about the message but he had to try anything to contact Bob's boy.

"There's no one here in the Taos community by that name but when I was in Denver about 5 years ago there was a Tony Jenkins that was doing sketches of the tourist down on the lower east side. I have his card back in my room and if I remember correctly, he has an e-mail addy." Came the reply from the screen.

"Hey, that's great. My e-mail addy is rdean@yohoo.com. Could you have him contact me?" Richard asked.

"Do you have ICQ?" the screen asked.

"Yeah, ICQ # is 16000587."

Pretty soon the glass breaking sound' on ICQ signaled someone trying to reach him. He clicked on accept' and a message came through.

"Hey Rich - this is Dave from the Art Colony at Taos." appeared on the screen.

"Hey Dave." Rich responded.

"Rich, I don't want anyone to get their hopes up. That's the reason for privacy here. Can you give me enough sketchy information that I can e-mail this guy and he can determine if he is the one and also, if he wants to get in contact with his Dad?" came across as an ICQ message.

Richard gave Dave some data that should let the Tony Jenkins there be able to determine if he was Bob's son and he gave Dave his contact information. Richard was hopeful that this might be the right one. All the leads that Chad's father had come up with were dead ends. These were all people with credit and being an artist it was highly possible that he lived on a cash only basis.

Maybe this would not end up as a dead end. Then the speakers announced the familiar `uh-oh' that an ICQ message was coming through.

"Hey Richard" the screen announced.

It was Geoff. Richard could hardly wait to tell him all about the new Eric and their discovery of Brent and Zach AND the fact that they were going to Saugatuck in a couple of weeks.

"Damn, man, would you slow down and let me get a message in edgewise. ;-)" Geoff chided.

Geoff had news of his own to tell. He had met a `new friend' and they had pretty much hit it off. AND he wanted to know if it would be okay for them to meet up with them in Saugatuck. It seems he only lived 30 minutes from there and knew quite a bit about the area.

Richard thought it would be a cool idea but he wanted to clear it with the others. They said their good byes and Richard went off to bed with visions of Chad spinning in his head.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WOW!!!! That's all for now folks. Next Chapter - the continuing search for Gerald Anthony Jenkins? What did you think of the revenge? Got a direction you'd like to see the story take? I greatly appreciate all the positive comments I have gotten. Haven't gotten a negative one yet. BUT all are welcome and you can E-mail me at webworm@nex.net