Chapter 10
Kyle's New Friend
Having taken the job on a moving van after hitch
hiking from
The job in Bishop
wasn't very big. We loaded furniture
that filled less than half the truck. I
moved small tables, lamps, and boxes.
Raymond worked hard. He broke a
sweat, and he didn't complain once.
Ingmar and Kyle carried the heaviest items, and Raymond and Kyle carried
the smaller pieces. I took inventory,
kept records and kept the blankets ready for the furniture. Ingmar mostly stayed in the truck arranging
and securing the furniture to protect it for transit.
We sat in
The first thing I
saw was a Polaroid picture. I seized it
from the envelope and stared at the image of my love. I couldn't believe the portrait. He had on a green helmet pushed far back on
his head, and combat boots with green socks sticking out of the top. He had a rifle in his arms at a forty five
degree angle across his chest, and the only other thing he had on was those
dumb green boxers. What I wouldn't have
given to have had him lose those boxers when they took that picture of him. I just stared at it for a long time. I tried not to show my feelings. Then Raymond came behind me and snatched it.
"Jesus fucking
Christ! This is him? Lord have mercy! He's a stud.
I didn't believe you, Billie Joe."
"Give me the
fucking picture," I said, snatching it away.
I read the letter,
keeping the picture under my thumb. I
wanted him to tell me how much he loved me and missed me, but he didn't say
anything about our relationship or the time we spent together. The boldest he got was saying he missed me
and expected me to be at the gate when he returned. I guess you must be careful what you write
when you are a Marine, but the last sentences made the letter worth while. The picture made it a treasure. I found a
safe place for it inside a pouch in my bag.
That was the day I started writing him every day. I didn't mail them every day, but I wrote
something every day. Even if it was only about my aching back.
We tossed a
football around the second afternoon in
Kyle was always
bringing me a coke or sharing something with me. I liked that.
He was like a big brother. We
joked and kidded around, and while we drove, we played chess or checkers in the
bunk. Raymond sometimes played and
sometimes didn't.
It was after dinner
at the end of the first week that Ingmar came to me. We walked off in the back
of the lot, and he seemed nervous. I
don't know why it made me uneasy, but it did.
Ingmar was a bear of a man, but a more gentle soul I'd never known. He was always gentle, and maybe he had to be
or else he would crush things. I just liked him. He was easy to like.
"You are quite
a young man, Billie. You seem so much
older than you are."
"Tell that to
my family."
"Families are
sometimes hard to understand. My father
and I didn't get along. Kyle's father,
my brother, is a hard man, too. He'll
regret missing Kyle's growing up. Do you
like Kyle. Does he treat you well?"
"Yes! Kyle is swell. I like him fine."
"I know that you
and Raymond are friends, Billie. This is easy for me to see, and this talk is
about that. I see you with him. I mean sleeping together. I know your fear from the man that did those
things to you. It's not easy for me to
talk of this, but I think I should."
I started
cringing. Ingmar had seen Raymond and me
sleeping naked together since we first started sleeping in his truck. He'd seen me holding Raymond almost every
night. He'd never mentioned it. Now he either wanted in on the action or he
wanted to split us. Either proposition
set wrong with me. I really didn't want to hear any more. Raymond was right. They all got around to wanting it sooner or
later.
"When I was a
boy in Sveden, I worked my father's farm.
I slept in the barn because it was easier than being around him at
night. I was not much older than you,
and younger than Raymond when I met Thorsen.
He was a worker for my father. He
too is sleeping then in the barn. It was
fine, warm, dry most of the time. We got
along. I guess he was twenty. I never knew how old he was. Old to me.
It was maybe a month after he came to work. One night he came over and pulled the blanket
off of me. He stood looking down at
me. I didn't know what it meant. I knew he was fine. He asked me could he lie there with me. I said he could. I remember like it was just now
happening. We ended up much like you and
Raymond every night. We were young men, and we had needs all young men
have. In Sveden, you see, this isn't
such a problem, and so I am having no problem with you and Raymond, but it is
Kyle that is worrying me."
"Kyle. He objects to Raymond and me holding each
other? We don't do anything. Raymond's still hurting from being
raped."
"No! No, never, Billie. Kyle is happy for you to be happy too. I don't think he's too fond of Raymond. His mouth you know. He can be pretty mean."
"I know. I hope Kyle doesn't take it personal. He's been like that since I knew him."
"No! Kyle,
he's a good boy. I see him with you
Billie Joe. I see Kyle's eye on
you. I think he is looking like Thorsen
did when he looked at me. I know he is
not with a girl friend. He never has
been much interested in things that he couldn't study or some good hard work
for his back. He's a good boy, but almost
seventeen now. I think there is
something inside him going on pretty good when he's watching you with that eye
I see."
"What should I
do?"
"I'm telling
you this from my heart. I do not know
what it is you should do. I know it is
not good he wants to look on you and sees you and Raymond alone together. He might like to be sleeping closer. That could be good for him. I don't know this, Billie. I only speak out of concern. Kyle is a good boy, and I don't want him
denied things he would want. I know what
Thorsen meant to me at the time. It was
good for me. Very good for me! I like the ladies, now, but I'm so big and
awkward that they don't see Ingmar. Only when I lift their ice box, or carry
their couch do they see me as a man.
Other times, I'm just Ingmar."
"Any woman
would have a treasure if she married you, Ingmar. I've never met a person I thought was nicer
or more gentle."
"I'm only
Ingmar, Billie. I know no other way to
be. It is me. That's all."
"You'd still
be a prize for anyone, Ingmar. They
couldn't do better."
Ingmar's big hand
grabbed the top of my head like he did a lot.
He hugged me to his side as we walked.
There was nothing else said, but I couldn't help but wonder what it
would be like with someone like Kyle. I
then thought of the picture of Carl, and I couldn't wait to take it out when I
got back to the truck. I agreed with
Ingmar I shouldn't say anything about our talk.
I didn't know what to do about Kyle, but I would do something. I liked him.
We went to bed
late. We sat on the tailgate of the
truck and talked late into the night. Raymond went to bed first, and I
followed. I heard Kyle come and start to
undress in the pile of blankets on the other side of the truck from us. He always slept there alone and out of sight.
"Kyle."
"What?"
"You
okay?"
"Sure. I'm fine."
"I worry about
you sleeping all alone over there. Why
don't you come and sleep with us."
"You want me
to sleep there?"
"Yeah! You're big and can furnish more heat. Gets chilly at night you know."
"Yes. I do know.
I get cold myself some nights."
I listened as he
put his pants on and came to stand over the pile of blankets where Raymond
slept and I watched, thinking of an image Ingmar had given me from his
boyhood. I lifted the blanket and Kyle
took the corner and lay down just close enough not to touch me. I could still feel the warmth from his naked
chest.
"You'll be
more comfortable if you take off your pants, Kyle."
"You think I
should?"
"I'm sure you
should."
There was a little
light coming from the moon out of the open doors of the trailer. I watched him
turn over on his back and unzip and undo his pants. He pulled them down to his
knees and then off his bare feet. The sharp
white cotton of his briefs were all the detail I could really see back in the
dark of the van. He lay back closer and
I could feel his chest against my arm.
"Are you
comfortable," he asked.
"Very
comfortable. Are you?"
"This is
nice. I've thought of this in the
morning when I see you and Raymond sleeping."
"Why didn't
you say something?"
"I don't know
much about saying things about . . . you know.
I don't know anything."
"You mean
sex?"
"Yes."
"It's better
to say what's on your mind than to try to keep it inside. I used to keep it inside. I couldn't take it any more. I had to get it out."
"You and
Raymond are . . . do you . . . ?"
"No. Yes."
"No - yes -
what?"
"No we aren't
lovers. Yes we've done it."
"You are
pretty bold with telling me."
"It's what you
want to know. I like you. I will answer your questions."
"Do you ever
have people tell you they like you?"
"Seldom. One.
Now two with Raymond. I think
possibly three with you."
"I know who
two is. What about one?"
"Got a few
days. I'll tell you about every minute
we spent together."
"I don't think
I'd like that. Maybe we can talk about
three."
"Talk."
"I don't know
what to say."
Raymond's voice
startled us both. "Say let me fuck
you and go to sleep. Will you two shut up.
I'm sleeping here."
"Sorry,
Raymond."
"It's all
right, Kyle. You don't know any
better. He does. I need my beauty sleep."
"You don't
need any more sleep, Raymond," Kyle said.
"Is that a
compliment I hear from the strong, silent type.
You've hardly spoken all week."
"That doesn't
mean I'm blind. Just because you have a
wise mouth doesn't mean you aren't attractive.
I'm quiet, not blind."
"Okay! Okay!
Stick him in the middle, Billie Joe.
That's the nicest anyone's been to me in months, and he doesn't even
like me."
"I don't like
the way you treat people."
"Get in the
middle, Kyle," I said.
"You think I
should?"
"He says you
should. I say you should. What do you
say?"
Kyle climbed over me
brushing his long smooth legs across mine.
The front of his briefs rubbed my stomach. He was providing plenty of heat, that was for
certain! He lay flat on his back not
touching either of us.
"On Three
Billie Joe. We hug him to death. One . . . two . . . can't wait to three!"
Raymond and I
crossed arms over Kyle's chest. I could
feel him shaking. I was surprised that
Raymond just rested his face against Kyle's chest and started going back to
sleep. I kept my arm around his waist
and wanted to do more, but Kyle seemed to be relaxing with us touching him, so
I let the moment pass and rested my face against him and drifted off to
sleep. I
woke up first and was surprised that the sun was shining and Kyle wasn't
gone. Usually whenever I woke in the
morning he was already up and out. I
never saw him still in the blankets when I woke up. I turned to see him in my position against
Raymond. He still had on his briefs, but
his arms were around Raymond and his front was pressed right up to Raymond's
naked butt. I couldn't believe how
beautiful that looked. They seemed to be
so comfortable. I saw Ingmar walk past
the back of the truck and I pulled on my pants and headed out putting on my
shirt.
"You are up,
Billie."
"Yeah! Just
woke up."
"Kyle, he's
still sleeping?"
"Yes."
"I see you got
him to sleep with you. I'm happy it
worked out. I'm glad I spoke up."
"I don't think
he was sleeping with me. I think he has
eyes for Raymond."
"He doesn't
like Raymond."
"I think you
ought to go take a peek. Kyle may have
changed his mind."
Ingmar came back
shaking his head.
"I thought it
was you he had eyes for. You are so much more. Much more! I was sure it was you he wanted to be close
to."
"Maybe, but he
must have changed his mind last night.
We did kind of lie all over him.
Nothing happened. I mean we just
hugged him. He seemed to be comfortable
with that."
"He is growing
up. I just thought I knew him
better."
He paused to
reflect.
"Raymond? That surprises me. Coffee?"
"Yes."
We loaded the truck
that afternoon and the following morning in
The chicken,
burgers, fries and cokes were plentiful.
Ingmar sat on the ground peeling off pieces of chicken and feeding a
stray dog that wasn't sure about the chicken or the large hands that held
it. Only the tip of his nose and mouth
got close enough to take the food.
Raymond and Kyle leaned on opposite sides at the back of the van. They were obviously worn out, but still
managed to look at each other most of the time.
Kyle had taken off his shirt while we were gone, and his chest was full
and thick. His shoulders bulged from
carrying furniture. His waist was almost
tiny. There were fine blond hairs on his
arms, but none I could see in the dim light furnished by a single lamp run from
the house to the rear of the truck.
Raymond dozed after
a time. The work obviously took its toll
on him. After about eight he disappeared into the truck without saying
goodnight. Kyle and Ingmar talked of family and friends. They liked to laugh together. I hadn't made
up my mind if I wanted to go to bed with Raymond or wait for Kyle to go to bed
with Raymond. I wanted to sleep away
from them since they seemed interested in each other. No one said anything and I yawned and
stretched while sitting on the now cooling concrete curb and resting my hands
in the cool blades of grass beside the truck.
Finally Kyle got up and said good night and disappeared in the
truck. His back showed the same
abundantly developed musculature as his chest, shoulders and arms.
Ingmar said good
night and went to read in his bunk. I
slipped quietly inside the truck and moved blankets to a pile where Kyle
usually slept. I left on my briefs and
curled up without a blanket on top. It
was much warmer in this part of the state.
Even the nights took time to cool. I listened for Raymond and Kyle, but
didn't hear anything until they started giggling. I smiled but still felt left
out. I had gone on the road to stop
feeling alone, and now I was feeling very much alone. I wanted to get out the picture of Carl, but
it was too dark to see it.
"We got bad
breath or something," Raymond said, while I drifted in my thoughts.
"What?"
"Get your
skinny ass over here where you belong.
You divorce us or something."
"I just
thought."
"You aren't as
clever as you think, Billie Joe. No one
wants you to be over there alone but you."
I could see Raymond
holding Kyle's big arm as I stood over them with my blanket in hand. Kyle grabbed my arm and pulled me on top of
both of them where they slapped my chest and stomach with their hands. They laughed as I tried to wiggle away when
they started tickling me. I hadn't been
tickled since I was ten. I was afraid
I'd embarrass myself from being touched. We
ended up wrestling, but being out-manned and out-gunned, I mostly tried to keep
from being tickled to death. My hand
slid down on Kyle's manhood and it shocked me when I felt the naked hair and
then the almost hard result of our physical contact. I froze still holding him trying to see his
face for some reaction. I was
there. I wanted to know what he thought
about it.
"You're
naked," I said, shocked for some reason. "Don't
look at me. Raymond did it this
morning. He said either to take them off
or get out of his bed. I wasn't ready to
get up, then."
"You didn't
have any trouble getting up, Kyle," Raymond said.
"You're
telling secrets, Raymond."
"Secrets? That's Billie Joe. He's been sleeping with his dick against my
ass for a week. I doubt it is a secret
when guys sleep with their arms around each other that it might be a sign
something is going on."
"Nothing is
going on, Raymond. Not this
minute," Kyle laughed looking at where I held him.
I squeezed the item
in my hand. I heard the sound in Kyle's
throat. I'd heard it before.
"Maybe soon,
though," Kyle added without laughing.
Kyle's had the same
skin as Raymond's. It seemed tighter and
was barely on the head at all. I
expected him to be more reluctant, maybe squirm or move away, but he leaned
back on his hands looking at me lying across his legs with my head on Raymond's
stomach and holding onto his pride.
I was still
contemplating my options. Raymond's hand
touched the side of my face as we all grew silent at the same time. It was just a lot of breathing and the heat
of the night seemed to be growing. I
don't think any of us were really sure what we were going to do.
"We should put
Kyle in the middle, Billie."
"What
for?"
"We're going
to make a sandwich out of him. What do
you think."
"Make a
what?" I said.
"Two pieces of
bread on the outside. The meat on the inside.
"You're nuts.
What's Kyle say?"
"I don't have
much to say right now. You're making it
hard to resist."
"Billie Joe
has that effect on people. He comes off
as this innocent little boy, but he's always where the meat is."
"Fuck you,
Raymond. If I had your experience I'd
have to use clothes pins to keep myself closed."
"You little,
fuck," Raymond said, grabbing my hair.
We started
wrestling again and I only let go of Kyle after we shifted our positions so
that Kyle ended up facing Raymond and I slid down beside him pressing myself
into his back with my arms around him.
He was even bigger when I held him than when I looked at him. I had to put my arm under his to reach around
his chest. I kept on my underwear but my
best part was pressed into the crack of Kyle's butt. I put my face just under his shoulder blades
and liked the warmth coming from him. I
felt comfortable and relaxed. I could
feel Raymond's hair next to my hand as his face lay on Kyle's chest. Then I
could hear Kyle through his back. The
moaning was a vibration through his skin.
Raymond's hair moved up and down against my hand as I could hear him
slurping up and down on Kyle. I placed
my hand on Kyle's stomach and felt that tell tale quiver. The more Raymond sucked, the more intense it
got. Kyle was panting without
restraint. His chest was like he was a
man running. I slid my hand down into
his hair and felt the wet results from the action I listened to. I let my fingers wrap around it, and pulsing
vibrations passed on to me. I rubbed my
front into Kyle's crack. I knew I was
straining against my briefs. His hips
rolled slightly, causing more heat to rise inside of me as his crack moved up
and down on me. My head grew light and
the warmth just rolled over me. I
squeezed him and felt Raymond's lips on my hand as I stroked in small motions
so I didn't disrupt the flow of Raymond's and Kyle's movements.
Kyle's rear forced
itself back against me in a quick motion.
"You better
stop Raymond. I'm going to do it in
pretty quick now. I can't stop it. Ohhhhh! OHHHHHhhh."
I could feel him
shivering and shaking as Raymond's slurping grew really loud. Kyle's chest took massive amounts of air as
he gasped, rolling a little bit back on me.
Then he took a deep, deep breath and his chest swelled up and he just
held it as he shook more. I squeezed him
and felt it pulsing out the liquid Raymond now collected with his lips pressed
down on my fingers. I felt the hot liquid
on my hand. Kyle blew out a gush of air,
shook two, three, four times like he was having some kind of fit before his
chest filled up again, and then he froze again with me holding his tight
muscles. Every muscle tensed in his
body. He shook more but didn't breathe
at all. He moaned louder and more air
blew out.
I reached inside my
briefs with the hot liquid that escaped Raymond's mouth still on my hand. Holding Kyle's now heaving chest I stroked
myself once, twice, and then turned my face up against Kyle's warm back and
emptied myself in a heat I'd never felt before while doing it myself. I jerked and spasmed against him and held his
body close to me as liquid squirted out of me and onto his crack and back as I
rubbed myself against him. I leaned
against his body to keep from falling into some deep, orgasmic hole. I pressed my nakedness into his crack as it
pulsed, and slid into the warmth there while depositing more white liquid. I fell asleep pressed there in the crack with
Kyle struggling to recover and Raymond falling quiet.
I woke up some time
later and Raymond was in the middle and his mouth was working on my
stiffness. It's not a bad way to wake
up, but where was Kyle? It only took a second to put the scene into
perspective. Kyle was behind Raymond
grunting and groaning. I could feel the
motion of him shoving himself deep into Raymond. Each time Kyle hit bottom, Raymond's mouth
buried itself on my hair and me in his throat.
I woke up the same way I went to sleep, extremely hot and dizzy with the
lust that was in my heart.
"Oh! Yes! Ohhhh!" Kyle growled and grunted as his
actions seemed hard and rough.
"Yes! Yes!!"
He seemed to be
someplace else. I reached out to touch
him and felt water running down his thin stomach. I moved my hand on his chest as he thrust
like he was possessed. The sweat ran off
of him, but it didn't slow him down.
In another minute I
couldn't continue to touch him. All my
attention was once more devoted to my own passion. I held Raymond's face hard against me and
forced myself as deep as possible. There
was no resistance from either assault.
He followed my demands and I drove myself and my love cream down his throat. He made sounds when he swallowed his reward,
and at the same time Kyle started rolling and rocking hard as the sounds of his
orgasm rang through the rear of the truck.
I felt him rock Raymond with a vicious slam and then he shook while
buried far inside. He growled deep in
his throat and kept trying to somehow go deeper into Raymond. I could feel him pulling and pushing at the
same time, while trying to plumb the deepest depths.
He dropped over
Raymond and wrapped an arm over me. I
slid my hand down to feel that he was still completely buried, his balls
hanging low and empty. Raymond made no attempt to release me or to remove
Kyle. We lay there for a few minutes
trying to breathe before I once more fell asleep.
Later that morning
I woke up with the light just starting to come through the back of the
truck. I could see cars turning off a
street in the distance as the blurring left my eyes, and I felt motion next to
me. I rolled over and Raymond was on top
of Kyle. Kyle was on his back and Raymond
was slowly working his whole body in a slow rhythm. His arms were wrapped back around Kyle's bent
knees and his back rested against his legs as he slid up and down on him. Kyle held Raymond's waist and his hair was a
strikingly pale blond down there against Raymond's ass. As the two of them moved in rhythm, I saw the
thickness I'd only felt the night before.
Kyle was quite a bit thicker than me.
There was a vein along the side of his that wiggled when Raymond drew it
up and pressed it down again and again and again. It was like a snake appearing and
disappearing out of Raymond, and so slow and easy like. Raymond's eyes were closed and Kyle studied
the middle of Raymond's chest.
Raymond's manhood
stood straight as a spike and danced from side to side as he worked. The head was out of the skin and dark, dark
red. The pure white of his skin had
taken on an almost blue hue. His face was angelic. I'd never seen greater pleasure on any face,
a face that truly expressed ecstasy.
The motion seemed
almost too slow to accomplish anything, but I was new to all this. Just at a point where Raymond sunk as far
down as he could get, his body quivered and vibrated in a most exaggerated way
as he ground himself into that blond, blond pubic hair. The fluid streamed onto Kyle's chest and neck
in one long, continuing shot. Then more
unloaded on Kyle's stomach as Raymond hummed a tune I didn't know while
grinding his hips down. Another stream hit Kyle's chest and then it kind of
leaked out of him into a puddle cupped in Kyle's belly button. He never once touched himself, and Kyle never
touched it. Kyle rubbed Raymond's smooth
thighs and pressed up into him. Raymond
leaned hard against the legs and held tight.
He once more seemed
to be lost somewhere a lot nicer than where we were. I still liked looking at his red hair and
that awkward-colored manhood of his. I watched for it to bend and sag and for
the skin to cover the head up like when I first saw it, but it continued to
stand straight up after he ejaculated and never did bend over. It was a few minutes before Kyle moved him up
with his legs, exposing himself to me.
"I was real
close, Raymond. I need to bad. Is it okay?"
"I'm
fine. Great. I don't believe you can go again."
"Me either,
but I'm wanting to if I can."
Raymond slid up the
length of Kyle very slowly. Up, up, up
-- hanging and squeezing his buttocks, and then, when Kyle's fat head started
to come into view the first time for me to see it all, Raymond dropped like a
rock, forcing Kyle to groan and thrust up. He repeated this long slow rise and
the quick drop again and again and again, over and over. Kyle's head turned from side to side. He gasped for air as his hips now refused to
give Raymond all that time on his up motion.
I could see beads of sweat on Raymond's face, and Kyle never slowed
up. I once more felt my own passion
starting to come back. I watched the
muscles in Kyle's chest, arms and legs.
He was like a well-oiled machine picking up speed. Soon Raymond just held himself up six inches
above Kyle's hair, and Kyle drove into him hard and fast. Like the inside of a piston engine the stroke
was regular and fast until a burst of air came out of him and he once more
pulled Raymond all the way into his hair as he tried to thrust up while
growling and grunting like some rutting animal.
Raymond's eyes never opened and his head rolled from side to side. With Kyle still inside him he leaned forward
and pressed his chest on Kyle's and wrapped his arms around him. Kyle's arms reciprocated as they hugged and
shuddered and drew one another impossibly close while they fought to
breathe.
I collected some of
Raymond's love juice and oiled myself up as they fell back, virtually comatose
in each other's arms. With the picture
of them making love I once more had to meet my own insatiable needs. With my briefs on my knees and my hips in the
air, I collected periodic scoops of sweat and cum from between them and worked
it in to achieve the mother of all erections.
I punished myself hard and long before depositing steams of the stuff in
my hair and on my face. I was still
picturing Raymond and Kyle linked together and caught in the madness of
physical love. As I emptied the last of
it, Kyle's hand fell flat against my stomach where the puddle had settled. I looked to see him smiling at me as he rubbed
my juice into my skin. I hadn't known
I'd been discovered. He was smiling as I
tried to find some good air, and then he held my hand as I laughed with the
pure joy of feeling so good and sharing.
We must have made
quite a picture for Ingmar. I opened my
eyes to find him standing over me. My
briefs still to my knees. Raymond on top
of Kyle, and Kyle still buried inside.
"Wake
them. Don't let them know I came
in. It's time to go to work."
He smiled
broadly. "I see we've all done
well."
I watched Ingmar
walk away. Why couldn't my parents be
like that? Why couldn't the kids at
school be like that, I thought. Why do I
have to risk my life to find out what life and loving is about? Why can't I just be myself without everyone
making me feel bad about it? I pulled up my briefs and woke Kyle
first. He rolled Raymond down onto the
blankets under him forcing Raymond to wake up on his back.
"Again."
"I wish! It's time to work."
"Just a few
minutes. Just do it for a few
minutes," Raymond said kicking his legs up across Kyle's shoulders.
"We need to
work."
"That's what I
said. Just for a few minutes. Get your ass to work."
I was amazed that
Kyle was still up to the task. I watched
him pumping into Raymond as Raymond looked at his face and ran his hands on his
chest. I could no longer see the wiggly
vein, but Kyle's was nice, almost brown.
I dressed and left the trailer before I could rise to the occasion
again. I was almost raw as it was. But my heart was very full as my mind drifted
to thoughts of Carl.