Our Sophomore Year

It was now early May and the school year was winding down, spring was in the air, it seemed each day was better than the next. One Sunday we were having dinner at Josh’s parents and his dad asked if one of us could co ordinate coming over for the pool company to get the pool ready for their annual Memorial Day party. The company had very few weekend openings and most openings were during the days on weekdays, so we gave him a list of days and possible times either of us could make it and he said he’d make an appointment on Monday and let us know, he said the winter was hard on the pool and the cover tore, the water was pretty bad, he also said they mentioned in the fall, at closing they should replace some part in the heating system as it was in pretty bad shape and leaking when they closed it up. With that work he said he went ahead and ordered a new filter system, so they might as well do a though job and have a problem free season, after all the filtering system was 15 years old. He said they could do it without anyone there, but he just would rather have someone here when they are.

Josh’s dad texted us all the next day indicating the Pool company would be at the house next Tuesday between noon and 2, I had class till 1, Josh could get there by 3, his dad would be out of town till Wednesday and his mom wouldn’t be home till 6 or 7. But the guys could start, if they got there before any of us but at least someone would be there shortly after. I acknowledged I would be there by 1:15 as I marked it in my appointment calendar.

Tuesday came. It was a beautiful day and supposed to be in the mid 80’s, a bit unusual for this time of year, I got to Josh’s house about 10 after 1, there were 3 vans in the driveway already, and 5 guys were busy making a mess and cleaning up, I opened the house and offered them some drinks, all were scurrying about carrying parts and tools and each a well orchestrated machine were doing what they did best I guess, I texted all, and sent a few photos, Josh’s dad replied with a big smiley face and a thank you. I pulled out some of the deck furniture and began washing it down and leaving it out in the sun to dry, I was wearing Jeans and I took off my t-shirt to get some sun, before long the first few items were pretty dry but my jeans were wet so I went inside and found a bathing suit (they always kept extras around) and put it on and got myself a lemonade and took a seat to watch the “hunky guy”, “the Bear”, “the Daddy” and the 2 young apprentices do their thing as they entertained my devilish thoughts. They were all shirtless except the daddy who wore a sleeveless tank top, and he seemed to be in charge. It was then I noticed the cute young Blonde kid who was our friend “the pool boy” from last year that Josh and I hooked up with, he noticed me staring as he acknowledged me sitting off to the side with a smile, I smiled back with a waive.

Josh arrived about 2:45 and the guys were just finishing up the bulk of the work, the Hunky guy and Bear left, as the daddy worked on removing the cover and packing it up, and told us the new replacement cover would come before the fall closing, they finished cleaning up and were pretty much done by 3:30. The daddy guy asked the two younger ones which one wanted to stay and vacuum and skim and the other was to head to the next job with him, both volunteered and the daddy picked one and left in the 2nd van leaving our Blonde friend and a van to finish up alone. By now Josh stripped down to his boxers and pulled off his shirt, he got us 3 beers and sat next to me calling Blondie over, as he held up the beer. Sure enough he dropped the skimmer and headed over.

He had quite the stomach, flat with well defined abs, and nice tan already, even though it was very early in the season, especially compared to me and Josh’s alabaster white pale almost sickly look. His fine blonde peach fuzz escaped the waistband of his cutoff jeans as if marching towards his navel, and droplets of wet sweat congregated all over his body almost like an oily sheen, as he squatted down in front of us reaching to Josh’s extended hand for the beer. Continuing to sit on the warm concrete pool deck knees pointed up slightly spread, exposing 2 white worn spots in the faded blue material presumably from rubbing tight against his balls. He leaned his elbows on his knees as he talked about us and our last experience, kind of hemming and hawing around until he asked if we might be interested in a repeat. Josh and I gave each other “the look” and “the nod”, as the cute blonde kid rolled onto his knees and reached for Josh’s Boxer briefs with one hand and my bathing suit with the other as he checked to see our arousal point and locate where everything was positioned, Josh leaned into me and I him, as we gave each other a kiss. Our pool boy then stood, unbuttoned his cutoffs, and low and behold wiggled his ass out of them, bare ass commando as they fell to the ground and he stepped out of them. His dick went from shriveled up limp to bouncing upward curve in about 3.2 seconds as he walked toward my face, my mouth opened wide and I could see Josh sat up and grab his ass cheek as he swung around licking his crack while grabbing his balls from behind. I reached up with my hands around both of them grabbing Josh’s head from the rear and pulling him into the pool boys ass, which pushed pool boys dick further down my throat, as I produced a suddenly coughed and mucusy slobber from a slight choking. After a brief enjoyment of that scenario, pool boy sat between my legs on the lounge he layback and Josh knelt above his head guiding his dick into pool boys mouth. I fingered his ass, I then reclined the lounge back flat, and approached pool boys ass, as he lifted his legs and rested them on my shoulders, I couldn’t help but slobber some spit to my raging hard on as I automatically entered his ass hole ever so slowly as he moaned and vibrated his mouth around Josh’s dick. I reached down and touched I grabbed pool boys harder than hard dick and began jerking him in my motion as I switched my watch from his balls bouncing up and down to Josh’s ecstatic face mannerisms, I knew from his facial expressions he was so close, watching me violate and man handle the pool boy. When pool boy began spewing, that did Josh in, as he folded down over pool boys stomach to try to reach the small puddles of his cum, then I came, gushing in his ass, but not stopping creating a lubricating frothy foam around his hole as I folded-ly collapsed onto Josh’s back in ecstasy. We all untangled and helped each other up, pool boy had a white ring of Josh’s cum on his lips that I quickly licked off in a slight kiss before he could, and Josh slid down to my damp softening dick too clean up any cum residue that was friction dried into my shaft, I didn’t want him to stop even though it was so sensitive, as pool boy reached into his ass looking for any slight residual of my cum to taste on his own.

Josh got some pool towels and we cleaned up, dressed, I grabbed the skimmer as Pool boy began to vacuum and Josh cleaned up and set up the rest of the pool deck with chairs and heaters and cabanas curtains, he threw the towels in the washer. Pool boy thanked us and left us with his number before he left. Meanwhile Josh and I got some beers and sat out by the whirling sound of the pool water trickling, Damn summer was so close, we discussed we’ll have to come here more often even though our complex has a pool, at least here we can have privacy during the day, while his parents were out.

It was about 5:30 and it was getting cool, we took some photos of the pool and the filter shed and texted them to Josh’s dad, he was pleased and thanked us for disrupting our day to get that work done, we told him it was a tough thing and screwed with our schedule but it was really our pleasure to help out, as Josh and I sneered giddily at each other at the cryptic true text.

Josh’s mom got home about 6:15 or so and as promised with bags of Chinese food in her arms. True to form there was enough variety and quantity to feed an army as we spread it all out on the kitchen island and all talked about our day, well in our case somewhat about parts of our day, as the three of us relaxed and it began to get late we were about to leave when Josh’s phone rang. I glanced over at it in bewilderment as the screen said “DAVES MOM”, Josh looked at me, and I him, as he brought it to his ear and answered,

“Hello”…..“Yes”…..“Yes”…..“OH my god”….”NO”

I jumped up “what?…..what?….. Put it on speaker…..”

Josh put his hand up to shush me and continued the one sided conversation with my mom

“Oh God”……”Yes I will”…..” we’ll figure something out”….”Yes…Well call you back as soon as I can discuss it”…. ‘Oh Man, I don’t believe it”….. How the Hell”….”Oh My God”…..”How is he?............” “OK, We’ll call you back shortly”…. “Good bye”

“Josh, what the hell is going on?” I got scared, Josh was white as a sheet and said “ Dave, Sit back down Please” Frantic I almost began to cry. Josh continued, “Dave, its Tommy, His dad passed away today” as he took my hand and I slid back to my stool, “Wait ….what? his dad, you mean his mom?” “ No, His dad had a massive heart attack and died, your mom and dad have been with Tommy all afternoon, she didn’t want to tell you over the phone and wanted me to make sure you were alright, Josh’s mom came over and began rubbing my shoulders as Josh leaned in hugging me tightly.

Yes it was Tommy’s dad, my tears began to flow as did Josh’s and then his mom, as I came to the realization that Tommy was now alone and his mom was dying in the hospital, and the devastating blow that must be to my best friend, and here I am 4 states away, I immediately said I was going back to the apartment to pack and drive out, Josh said I will do no such thing, he said “I told your mom he’d discuss it with me, and we need to come up with a sensible plan and we will call your mom back once you’ve calmed down.”  I had so many questions and my mind wasn’t functioning properly, eventually we called Mom back and after some talk she put Tommy on the phone, and we didn’t talk I heard him cry and I cried back, mustering out “ I’m….so…. sooorrry” when neither of us could continue my mom got back on the phone and asked me to give it back to Josh, Josh took the phone and assured her we’d call in the morning again. He said Tommy was going to my house with my parents tonight, at least I knew my mom and dad could be near him to help comfort him.

Josh drove me home and put me to bed, we awoke the next morning and he said he booked us a flight, and we leave tomorrow Thursday morning, we would miss Thursday and Friday classes, I needed to contact my instructors and let them know, hell we were in the end of May and classes were over next week anyway, but we did have a couple of tests to take, he said we’ll fly back Sunday and if need be we can go back after next week to be with him. I thanked him and we called my mom who said she and dad would go with Tommy to help with the arrangements later this morning, and she gave us a few more details of what had happened.

Josh’s dad took us to the airport and on the way he said that his law firm had some contacts close to my home town and he arranged them to contact my parents and recommended that Tommy have a Lawyer to help them out. He said he would take care of any initial fees for us, and not to worry about it. I thanked him and phoned my mom from the gate to make sure she knew about the lawyer, she assured me Josh’s dad was a great help and is glad he did that, then she said that Tommy said you guys didn’t need to come out, but I told him you did. She said Dad will pick you up at the airport, when you arrive, she also said the wake will be Friday afternoon and the funeral will be Saturday.

We arrived and my dad sent a text saying what parking lot he was in, as Josh and I grabbed our carry on’s and headed to the parking lot. I spotted my dad standing by the car and with him was Tommy, I wasn’t prepared for that, as I handed my overnight bag to Josh and ran towards the car grabbing Tommy with an all my might in a hug, I saw Dad begin to cry as Josh embraced my dad in a hug then grabbed onto us, we wiped our initial tears and surprisingly had a down to earth conversation on the way home, Tommy was surprisingly very composed as he talked but I detected a few voice cracks here and there.

Tommy said he was going to his house tonight as he’s been staying in my room, I made sure he was ok with that, he said yeah, he’s been going over to take care of the horses everyday but being alone my parents have been a big help, I insisted I go with him and stay at his house with him and Josh also insisted I should go be with him. Tommy and I went to his house and we stayed up talking most of the night, we even had a few laughs, he said it felt good to be with me again and expressed how alone he would be without his parents, he also said that Josh’s Dads Lawyer contact spoke to them all this morning and he felt good about it, he had no idea all the stuff that needed to be done as his mom was probably the inheritor but they’d need to transfer all to Tommy or a relative since his mom is also too ill.

Friday came and we went to the wake mom and dad picked us up and we got to the funeral home, Tommy didn’t have any close relatives a few distant ones, and most of the attendees were friends of the family, towns people, Tommy and my High school crowd. Tommy asked that I stand with him to greet people, again I wasn’t prepared for it, but I did, constantly looking back at Josh for support who kept giving me a thumbs up. Suddenly in walks Maryann (Tommy’s ex girlfriend from just before Thanksgiving) and on her arm was Billy Prescott an asshole schoolmate she dumped Tommy for. Billy and I never got along in fact he was a bully type that called me a faggot when we were in high school. I immediately approached them saying I didn’t think it was a good idea, first she dumped Tommy in his time of need when his mother took ill, and he had to help and devote his time to his dad with the Horse farm, and then to go off with that jerk Billy no less, and now she decides to show up, Billy just said get out of the way faggot, as I turned red with anger, Josh sensed something was wrong and rushed to my side as we escorted them both outside to discuss, my dad knowing Billy quickly followed, just as Billy told Josh he must be my faggot boyfriend and Josh punched him across the jaw just as my dad pulled Josh back in restraint. Maryann began crying as she attended to her boyfriend Billy, as my dad led Josh and I back into the funeral parlor.

The funeral was Saturday at the church Josh, me, mom and dad, sat with Tommy as if we were family, we buried him in the local cemetery and the church ladies had a small reception in the church basement afterwards. Maryann showed up alone and seeked me out first and apologized for Billy and said she just realized how things went down and she just wanted to give her condolences to Tommy. Josh and I led her over and knowing about the day before events, they exchanged condolences and hugged and she quickly left with tears in her eyes.

After the reception we all went to the hospital to visit with Tommy’s mother, a tough time that was, the whole weekend was emotionally draining. Josh and I flew back Sunday morning, and Dad said he’d check on Tommy daily and mom left him with an open invitation to eat, sleep, whatever with them.

On the trip home, Josh and I discussed it, I told him I’d like to go back to help Tommy out for a few weeks as soon as school was over next week, and Josh said no, I looked at him surprised at the response, as he said “we’d both head out to help Tommy, for as long as he needed help, heck the whole summer if necessary”. I held his hand and leaned over to give him a kiss. He then asked if I ever joined the mile high club, proceeding to grab me in my crotch, giving me a squeeze. God I love Josh.