This story will be a sort of coming-of-age High School story. All characters that engage in explicit acts will be of legal age in their state and consensual, and remember this is fiction. It will involve sports, drama, rivalries, there will be some uncomfortable topics like addiction, overdoses, and mental health issues. It is Hudson and my birthday week. We are also the week before spring break.
I am awoken by Hudson, he is straddling me bouncing up and down, and screaming, “wake up birthday boy”. This is quite possibly the oddest birthday awakening yet. I look toward the windows; fuck it still looks dark out. I say, “what the hell time is it”? He responds, “its 4:48 am, the exact time you were born, now wake up”. Ugh, I should have known he would do something like this. He knows the story, grams and mom always wake me and the exact time of my birth. I look toward the door as there is a knock, Hudson jumps off me and runs to the door, and in comes mom, dad, Jimmy, and Loki. Mom has cinnamon rolls and one has a candle in it. I am touched, sad, and happy. I set up in bed, mom sets my cinnamon roll on the plate, and gets the others plated. Dad lights the candle on mine. They, of course, sing a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday, with Hudson bellowing at the top of his lungs. I just look and Loki and say, “sorry you have to witness this buddy”. He licks his lips and looks at my cinnamon roll. Once they are done, mom says, “make a wish and blow out your candle”. Well, I close my eyes, I have a million things I could wish for, but there are selfish wishes, like, please make Hudson fall in love with me, or please let me have great fortunes. However, instead, my wish is, “I want everyone I love to be happy and healthy”. This is to me what matters most. I say it in my head three times and blow out the candle. As I am blowing out the candle, I look right into Hudson’s eyes. He is staring back at me. What is he thinking, is he trying to figure out my wish? Anyhow, I shake that thought off and consume my cinnamon roll in about 4 bites. These are one of my favorites, they are a homemade recipe that mom learned from her mom, who got it from hers and so on.
After we have all consumed way too much sugar before 5 am, it is time for our family tradition. Everyone must share a story about the person whose birthday it is. Oh boy this will be embarrassing, I’m sure. Dad goes first, he loves to tell the story about how we used to race when we were kids, and he would let me win, and then one day when he was in 7th grade, I was no longer letting him win”. He just smiled and said how proud he was of me. Mom says, “I’m next”. Oh, this one will certainly be embarrassing. She says, “I remember when he was about 5 years old, he used to stand on the floor of the farm truck between my dad’s legs. Dad would operate the pedals and let Austin drive. Well, they were going through the gate and Austin turned the wheels, and just never turned them back and they ran right into the gate. I asked dad why he let him hit the gate, and he just laughed and said, I thought he would turn them back”. Everyone got a good chuckle. Hudson said, “me next”. I was not sure what this was going to be, it sure as shit better not involve what he witnessed in the shower the other day. He then said, “we were in first grade, Mrs. Lawrence’s class, and we were all supposed to have school supplies and well true to form I had none, and Austin could see I was upset because all the other kids were sorting all their stuff out and putting stuff in their desk and I was just setting there. I look over and Austin is sorting his stuff into two piles, then he places half of his stuff on my desk and gives me his markers and keeps the crayons, he gave me pencils, notebooks, folders, ½ half of everything he had”. I could see a smile on his face, and I just smiled, and said, “if it’s mine, it’s yours”. He said, “yep that what you said that day too”. He just winked at me, and I could feel myself blushing. Mom just smiled at us and said, “oh you two, I don’t need to start this day off crying”. Jimmy said, “Oh I’ve got one, last year Austin helped coach my Pop Warner Football team, well he was trying to show off for the cheerleaders and he was trying to teach us his swim move technique, well his feet got tangled up, he not only tripped over the tackling dummy, his shorts halfway came off and he mooned the cheerleaders”. Everyone was laughing at me, and I must admit it was pretty funny, however the part of the story that Jimmy had wrong was I was not showing off for the cheerleaders, I was trying to show off for Hudson who was watching Jimmy practice. Then Hudson chimes in, “I remember that I wish I could say it was the first, or last time I’ve seen his hairy behind”. I promptly threw a pillow at him. And mom said, “well the last time I seen his behind it was smooth as a baby’s bottom and that’s how I wish to remember it”. I said, “ok enough of this, I’m going back to sleep”.
Everyone left, except Hudson of course. He climbed back in bed. I lay there, unable to go back to sleep. I said, “Hud, are you awake”? He said, “yeah why”. I said, “I meant what I said, I’d give you half of anything I have”. He replied, “I know buddy”. Oh, if he only knew. I said, “and in 2 days, I am coming up with the most embarrassing story I can think of for you”. He just laughed and said, “be careful, I could have told a much worse story about you and winked again”. What was with this winking.
He then asked if I was looking forward to football camp next week. I said, “yeah kinda, I just hope I don’t get a terrible roommate”. I was going to an invite only football camp for Juniors and Seniors, it was about recruiting more than fundamentals. It would be good, but in all honesty I was nervous. I would be there pretty much alone, I knew some of the other guys going but there were a lot I did not know. We all would be staying in dorm rooms and practicing with the team sort of. In my mind a lot could go wrong, but it was a good opportunity. I then asked Hudson if he was looking forward to traveling for his tournaments. The baseball team was traveling south to Texas for a 4-day tournament. He said, “fuck yeah, it will be great competition”. I was excited for him, I actually wish, I were just going to watch him, but I must do my thing, and he needs to do his.
By now, it’s time to get up and head to school, so I get up and shower, when I was about done Hudson showed up sans clothes, and waiting for the shower. I leave the water on and get out as he is getting in, he brushes behind me and slides in the shower. I freeze, fuck I’m pretty sure his dick just brushed my ass, what the hell, was that intentional. He acted like nothing happened, just got in the shower and began. I stepped out and was drying off. I looked in the mirror, and he was just smiling at me, and then he winked again. Fuck what was this. Was he just toying with me? He wouldn’t do that.
I went out in the room and dressed, I was packing my backpack, Hudson came out drying his hair and said, “could you grab my clothes from the washer, those are my only clean underwear”. I said, “sure”. I hurried and got them and came back and threw them on the bed. Then I said, “there are only 3 pair here, is that all”. He kinda looked down and said, “yeah that’s all I have”. Ahh mental note, we need to go shopping for his birthday. But I can’t make it obvious. So, as a joke, I say, “well you can have half of mine, but you might not fill them out”. He said, “well I might not fill out the back, but I sure would the front”. This caused me to suck in a deep breath. Fuck, that backfired. I just said, “well I do have good assets”. We both laughed.
School went fine there were lots of birthday wishes etc. I just wanted through the day, honestly, I did not like all the attention. I would rather be the one in the background that no one was paying attention to. Then there was a call over the intercom for me to come to the office. So, I got up and went. I got there and Mrs. Mullins the administrative assistant said, “well there is Mr. Popular, you have a delivery”. I turn and look, and there are 18 roses and a huge balloon. I was going to kill my mom. I picked them up and looked at the card. I opened it up and it just said, “Happy 18, here’s to many more”, it was signed, “Secret Admirer”. Well, that was perplexing. I took them to mom’s office and said, “did you do this”? She laughed and said, “no I wish I had”. I went back to class. Between classes I asked Cole, nope not him, Sara and Rose, nope not them. What the heck, I asked Hudson, he said, “bro why would I send you flowers”. Ok, this was going to bug me.
The day ended and Cole and I worked out, I asked if he wanted to come to dinner tonight, he said, “well I kinda promised Jacob I would go watch him practice”. Without thinking, I said, “bring him”. He said, “really”? I said, “sure”. I told mom to expect 4 more for dinner, Cole, Jacob, Rose and Sara. This made her happy.
I got home, and went upstairs, the bedroom door was closed. I didn’t even think, I opened the door and walked in. Right there on the bed was Hudson, stark naked, stroking his cock. His eyes shot open, I stood in the doorway in total shock. He recovered quickly and without hesitation, he said, “oops, maybe I should have put a sock on the door”. He popped up and went to the bathroom and closed the door. Fuck me, that was so hot, but so embarrassing. I just closed the door and flopped on the bed. I put in my air pods and started scrolling my phone. A few minutes later Hudson appeared out of the bathroom, in shorts. He came over to bed and said, “dude I’m sorry, I didn’t think you would be home this quick”. I said, “it’s all good, I am sorry, we both clearly need private time sometimes”. He said, “yeah or something”. I was not going to address the or something. I told him that Cole and Jacob were joining with Sara and Rose for dinner. He just smiled and said, “Good for Cole”. I agreed. He then said, “are you going to ask him if he and Jacob are a couple or what”. I said, “nope, if he wants to tell us he will”. He said, “yeah everyone has to do it on their own time”. I nodded.
Dinner went smooth, everyone had a good time and I was happy. It was obvious that Cole and Jabob had a good time. Cole even said that he was going to travel with Jacob and his band next week something about a battle of the bands in Chicago. I could tell they were looking forward to getting away from here and maybe out from under a microscope of the small town.
Saturday Hudson and I did some chores for dad and then spent the rest of the day playing video games. We got some Chinese take-out and kept playing. We played well into the night. We had decided the day between our birthdays would be just for us. It was nice. A bit after midnight, I was beat, and so was Hudson. I said, “hey Happy Birthday buddy”. We laughed. I brushed my teeth, and so did he. I crawled in bed, and true to form Hudson, stripped everything off and crawled in bed too. We said our good nights. I fell asleep in no time.
The next I decided it was revenge time. Without thinking I jumped over on him and said, “Happy Birthday Hudson”! As I did this, I immediately felt it. Oh no, I set straddle of him, and he was hard under the covers, I immediately dove off the bed. I was apologizing profusely. He was laughing his ass off. He just said, “well, it was almost a happy ending happy birthday, a little more bouncing and it would have been”. I just said, “ummm gross”. He kept laughing. I threw some shorts at him and said, “here”. He slipped them on and got up. I was pissing, he came in, as I finished, he started. I said, “see you downstairs”. As I got to the kitchen mom had a huge breakfast. I thought it was odd Hudson had not come down yet. So, I went back upstairs, he was setting on the bed with his head in his hands. I went over to him and said, “what’s up”. I could see he was crying, I said, “Hudson, what is it”. He just showed me his phone, it was a text from his mom. It just said, “enjoy your day”. I said, “do you know where she is”? He said, “nope this is the first I’ve heard from her”. I said, “what are you going to do”? He said, “well what can I do, I tried to call her back, and she sent it straight to voicemail 3 times”. I set down and put my arm around him. He just lost it; he was sobbing into my chest. I just held him, and said, “let it out”. And let it out he did, there were big ugly tears and sobs”. I just held him. Pretty soon mom came upstairs, and into the room, she looked at me and I mouthed “mom”. She nodded and understood. She set down on the other side and put her arms around him and said, “we are here for you”. He started to regroup himself, and all he could say was, “please don’t tell Jimmy”. Mom said, “he is still out with Mike”. Hudson said, “ok good”. Jimmy gathered himself, and we went downstairs.
A few minutes later dad and Jimmy came in with Loki, and Jimmy was grinning ear to ear, he ran over to Hudson with a package. He handed it to Hudson and said open it. Jimmy opened it and it was a baseball jersey of his favorite pitcher Tarik Skubal. Hudson said, “Jimmy, where and how did you get this”? He just smiled and said, “I saved all the money I have earned doing chores”. Hudson gave him the biggest hug and Jimmy was so proud. We had breakfast, we cleaned up and I said, “come on Hud, get in the car we need to go shopping”. He said, “what”? I just said, “let’s go”. We headed out, and an hour later Hudson had new clothes, so he would have more that 3 pairs of old underwear. He was resistant at first, but I explained that he was going on a trip and needed stuff. He reluctantly agreed. That night, we celebrated with the family for his birthday. Cole and Jacob were already off to Chicago and Sara and Rose headed to the Caribbean for Spring Break with their parents. Tomorrow I would be off to camp, and he would be off to baseball.
We had a great dinner and headed to bed after Hudson profusely thanking my parents for everything. We both packed our stuff so we could leave tomorrow. I was dropping him off at the bus then headed out myself. I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow, after saying, “good night”.
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The next two chapters will be about Austin at football camp, Jimmy on his trip, and Cole and Austin in Chicago.
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