by Trina Solet
Cory was at the hardware store obsessing over the case worker's visit when around 11:00 AM, he got a text from Alec. "Bringing the social worker to you. Hide the sex toys," it read. Even with no sex toys to hide, Cory was a nervous wreck. But it didn't go badly at all. The highlight of her visit was when the social worker, Mrs. Martinez, came in along with Alec and Teddy.
"And who is this?" she asked Teddy.
"That's my brother, Cory," Teddy told her solemnly. He obviously didn't enjoy her visit any more than Cory did though she seemed like a perfectly nice woman.
Alec was the only one who could relax under official scrutiny. He was as laid back as the stray cat sunning itself on the porch.
Cory talked to Mrs. Martinez for a while. He was afraid of saying the wrong thing so he didn't say much. She had already been in touch with his old case worker, Mrs. Fitzgerald, and had heard good things about him.
"She is so happy that you found some family after all this time. And I am happy for Teddy and happy to hear him speaking. I don't know if the police told you, but even with what Teddy told them, it's not likely that the woman who abandoned him can be located. I don't know if that disappoints you," she said while looking at him sympathetically.
"I'm just focusing on Teddy right now, what's best for him," Cory said.
After she left, Cory breathed a huge sigh of relief and slumped over the counter.
"I get such a kick out of you guys," Alec said as Teddy let out a small sigh.
"How did it go at the house?" Cory asked him.
"She noticed the results of your nonstop cleaning," Alec said. "And she was so pleased to hear Teddy speaking, she put a hand to her heart. Not that Mom let him get in a word edgewise. She and Mrs. Martinez yakked it up like old friends. It was all good."
To their surprise, the next question came from Teddy. "Why do the paintings have to hide?" Teddy asked. He looked confused.
For a second Cory wasn't sure how to answer that, then he asked Teddy, "Do you like Alec's paintings? The ones he was hiding."
Teddy shook his head. "I like the other ones," he said.
"Well, Mrs. Martinez wouldn't like the new ones either. We want her to like Alec so that's why we hide the paintings," Cory said.
Alec looked at him like he was crazy, but the explanation made sense to Teddy. It was basically the truth interpreted for little ears.
"Flip that 'Out To Lunch' sign and let's go eat," Alec said.
*
Alec didn't know what Cory was so nervous about. He always made a great impression. Easy on the eyes, soft-spoken and sincere, he was a mild-mannered dream. Of course Mrs. Martinez didn't see him jump Alec in the bushes, grope him into submission and suck the life out of him. That was the bad Cory he kept under wraps who only came out to torment Alec with that eager mouth of his. Damn. After that hot tussle in the bushes, Alec didn't know how he could stop what was happening between them. Hell, he couldn't even slow down. Only the vivid picture of Cory's heartbreak ahead could motivate him to put on the brakes. Too bad there were some other images mixed in. Lurid and hot, those other images made him feel like Cory was sucking his cock again then licking up his come, and looking up at him with sex-glazed, beautiful eyes. How was Alec supposed to resist him now?
Alec looked over at him as they walked to the diner. He looked so innocent. No one would think he could bring a man to his knees with one look.
By the time they got to the diner, both brothers were happy and relaxed. Remembering his art criticism, Alec asked Teddy, "So what should I paint instead?"
"Trees," Teddy said.
"Just trees?"
"And houses and birds."
"Anything else?"
"Don't paint so many butts," Teddy told him.
Of course Cory had to laugh at Alec for that.
"Can I paint Cory?" Alec asked. Cory didn't miss the wicked look in his eyes.
"Yes," Teddy decided immediately, not realizing what Alec had in mind.
Enjoying Cory's pretty glare, Alec told him, "I have permission." He was sure he would get to paint him one day, all of him.
That Saturday evening, the four of them drove over to Nancy's house. As they stepped out of the car, Mom checked them over like she used to do when Alec and Ian were kids and they were visiting someone.
"Look at all my handsome boys. I'm the luckiest woman in the world," she gushed.
Teddy smiled shyly, looking even cuter in the process.
They went around and to the back. Nancy was hosting a barbeque in her big back yard just for them and the kids. Nancy's husband, Bill, was away as usual, selling well-digging equipment. When Nancy saw them, she gave hugs all around. Teddy looked at Cory for permission before he went to join the kids.
They watched Teddy playing with Nancy's daughter, Hannah, who was three. Her cousin was there too. Looking at him, Alec guessed he might be a year older than Teddy. Teddy knew them both and joined in naturally. The game seemed to be keeping Hannah from putting sparkly make-up on them. Teddy was doing a good job dodging her.
"Look at him running around. He's like a different kid," Mom said to Cory. "The first time we brought him to play with Hannah, he barely even looked at her."
"Then Hannah tried to put a butterfly clip in his hair, and he ran all around while she chased him," Nancy said. "She's used to playing dress-up with June's girls. Look at her. She doesn't know what to do with a boy."
"Just like her mother," Alec said.
"Shut up," was Nancy's witty retort.
"I guess you've known each other for a while?" Cory said.
"Ever since she had a hopeless crush on Ian," Alec said.
Nancy turned to Cory. "On Ian. Not on that." She pointed a finger at Alec.
"I've seen Ian's picture. You have good taste," Cory told her, the traitor.
"She was part of Alec's girl posse at school," Mom said.
"The gloomy girls. We wore black and wrote bad poetry," Nancy added. "Artistic loner Alec was like catnip to us, but we all had secret crushes on Ian."
"You were no good to me anyway. Except when you beat up those two assholes who were harassing me," Alec said.
"What's this now?" Mom asked, ready to go on the warpath.
"Simmer down. It's ancient history," Alec told her. "These two guys in a beat up old car were passing through town. They stopped for gas and started messing with me. The girl posse swooped in and tore them limb from limb."
"We yelled at them and called them names, told them they had tiny you-know-whats," Nancy said for the sake of accuracy.
Alec saw Cory smiling at her like it warmed his heart to hear that Alec had such loud and obnoxious defenders. It was kind of nice. Alec remembered how annoying, sweet and fierce they could be. Only a fool would mess with girls wearing that much black eyeliner.
The adults settled into lawn chairs with drinks in hand while the kids ran around. Unable to get much sparkly makeup on the boys, Hannah had put a ton of it on herself.
"I'm pretty," Hannah claimed.
Her cousin had nothing to say about that, but Teddy wasn't as wise.
"No. Rosa is pretty," Teddy told her, sending her to her mother for consolation. He looked confused.
"Breaking hearts already," Mom said and called him over to coach him on what to say to girls. It all amounted to lying a lot.
Alec turned to Cory. "That's why he didn't know I was good-looking. You have a little straight boy on your hands."
"You don't know that," Cory said defensively.
"Make him dance. Then we'll know," Alec told him.
"That's a great idea," his mom said, having overheard those fateful words.
"Now you've done it," Cory told him as Mom got Nancy to put on some music.
Luckily, Nancy put on something peppy and fast that only the kids could dance to. Even Mom kept her butt firmly planted in the lawn chair.
"You're not going to show us your moves?" Alec asked her.
"I have my mayoral dignity to consider. I sta
rt shaking my rump, the video goes viral and there goes my next election."
"What world do you live in?" Alec asked her.
"The modern world of YouTube and smear campaigns," she said while Alec shook his head.
"You want to see her dance that bad?" Nancy asked.
"No."
The kids did put on quite a show. Hannah's cousin danced like a little maniac. At first, Teddy just stood there and watched him with a frightened look on his face. Then Hannah got into the action. Forgetting her earlier grievance against Teddy, she took both his hands and started jumping around. Teddy did some crazy moves of his own. Alec saw all he needed to. He pronounced them all straight, but Cory still wouldn't accept it.
Alec made a prediction. "I'm telling you, when you walk that boy down the aisle, there will be a girl waiting there for him."
"Umm. The bride usually walks down the aisle to the groom," Cory reminded him.
"Not Nancy," Alec said. "That's how butch she is. She made the groom do the walk of shame while she waited at the altar."
"It's not a walk of shame," Nancy protested. "My leg was in a cast. It was Bill's idea to walk down the aisle to me. It was sweet!"
"You're not watching us!" Hannah complained. She had both boys by the sleeves now as they kicked and punched the air.
After dinner, Alec helped Nancy clean the grill. Through the kitchen window, they could see inside where Mom talked Cory's ear off while he did the dishes.
"Cory is the perfect guest," Nancy said.
"Yeah, he's always terrorizing us with his cleaning, vacuuming, putting things away."
"How horrible. I'll invite him to move in over here. If you are willing to let him go," Nancy said in the most insinuating way she could manage.
"Don't let your imagination run wild."
"It's not my fault you make an adorable couple," Nancy said.
"I don't know which one is worse, adorable or couple," Alec hissed at her.
"You break that boy's heart, and there'll be hell to pay," she warned him unnecessarily.
"That's what I'm trying not to do."
"In what way? By staying glued to him all night?"
"I wasn't," Alec claimed.
"You pulled your chair close to him. You ate food off his plate and whispered in his ear," Nancy said like she was brandishing the smoking gun.
"I was telling him how tall and ungainly you are and how you can't find shoes that fit."
"My feet are not that big. I find shoes just fine!"
"Sure. In big and tall men's stores."
She growled at him and threatened him with that scary grill cleaning brush.
It was past Teddy's bedtime when they got home. Mom went to bed too. That left only Alec and Cory, and Cory was restless. Alec noticed him pacing on the back porch and came out to lean in the doorway provocatively.
"Look at you. You're ready to maul me in the woods again," Alec accused him or maybe he was making a suggestion.
By the troubled look in his eyes, Alec could tell that there was more to Cory's edgy mood than the need to get off.
"Let's take a drive," Alec said. He wanted to satisfy his restlessness in more ways than one.
Cory was behind the wheel of Alec's Camaro, letting off some steam on the mostly empty, country roads. As he drove, he told Alec about what was on his mind. Everything he had found out from Teddy had been eating at him, but it was seeing Nancy with Hannah that set him off tonight.
"That's the kind of mom Teddy deserved to have," Cory said. "That should have been his life not..." Wearing a mournful expression, he stared at the road ahead of them.
Alec already knew some of what Cory found out when Teddy spoke to the police. Though the police had asked more questions than Cory, it was still only a small glimpse into Teddy's sad, young life. His mother had shoplifted, sold and used drugs and who knows what else that Teddy didn't know about or understand. There were times when she was passed out, and Teddy couldn't wake her. Other times she acted strange and scared him or hurt him. They moved a lot and lived with different men, all of them lowlifes. Sometimes Teddy's mother disappeared for days, leaving Teddy with unsavory people or all alone.
It was hard for Alec to hear how Teddy had lived. For Cory, it was an echo of his own forgotten ordeal. All Alec could do was remind him that Teddy was safe now.
After getting some stuff off his chest, Cory moved on to his next objective. When he felt Cory's hand on his knee, Alec told him to slow down. He saw him frown, not sure what he meant.
"If you want some action, you'll need to make a right turn up ahead. It's a dirt road that goes nowhere. It's half overgrown and easy to miss," Alec said and felt Cory's hand move up his leg.
Cory smiled and turned off the main road as Alec directed him. Once they parked and unbuckled, Cory was on him. His kiss was hard, voracious, shooting straight for Alec's cock. As Cory pulled back, his mouth slick from the kiss, he unbuttoned and unzipped Alec. In turn, Alec took hold of his crotch. At first, Alec only fondled him but didn't free him. He felt up his erection bulging against the front of his jeans. Cory was hard and irresistible. Alec freed his cock. Arousal raced through him, making him feel newly alive and hard as a rock in Cory's pumping hand.
Cory pushed apart Alec's legs to make room and slid down to kneel in front of him. Slipping the head of his cock into his mouth, he hummed and Alec writhed. Cory's mouth closed around his cock, tight and hot. He sucked slowly, pinning Alec's eyes with a predatory look. Alec's breath came fast. His hands were restless. Caressing Cory, he wanted to rush him, but he also wanted it to last. To leave his cock captive to that beautiful mouth was like an endless, wet dream. This was like no other back or front seat action Alec had ever experienced.
*
As he kneeled between Alec's long legs, Cory sucked slowly, savoring Alec the way he hadn't that first time. With Alec's hands playfully mussing his hair, Cory got lost in the feeling of the cock filling his mouth. The sensation spread down his throat, through his chest then reached lower making his cock achingly hard. Cory hummed, sending sweet vibrations through that beautiful cock. He was willing the pleasure to reach deep inside Alec, to make him come like a volcano. But not yet. Cory wanted to keep sucking him forever. He couldn't make up his mind, torn between wanting him to come and never wanting this to end. This wasn't a matter for the mind to decide. Alec grabbed hold of his head to hold him in place. He pulled back to give his cock room then he flooded Cory's mouth with come. Cory came as the first strong gush hit the back of his throat. He shot, pumping into his own fist. Cory was swallowing and coming, lost in ecstasy as Alec looked down at him and caressed his face. Murmuring his name, Alec wiped off the spilled come from his chin.
"That was hotter than I expected," Alec said.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"I know you're no expert. You must have natural cocksucking talent. Too bad I didn't get a turn," Alec said looking down Cory's body to his spent cock. He handed him some takeout napkins to clean up.
"I can be hard in two seconds if you want a turn so bad," Cory told him.
"I have that effect on men," Alec boasted. "Out of the car." Alec opened the car door and got out to give Cory room to get up.
"Really?" Cory looked around. It was a dark, moonlit night. They were enclosed by bushes growing wild, smothering the trees growing among them. The place was hidden, but it wasn't like the woods in the back of the Benchley house. This was unfamiliar territory.
"Don't worry. No one can see us. And I need room to play," Alec said. That sounded promising.
With both of them out of the car, Alec kissed Cory, walking him backwards until he had him where he wanted him. The spot was grassy but still hidden by overgrown bushes. Alec dragged Cory down to the ground. Cory's jeans were unbuttoned, and Alec pulled them down off his ass. He lifted his hips rolling him on his back.
Alec pulled his jeans down past his knees and stroked the inside of his thigh. Next Cory felt a kiss, a lick then a bite along
his thigh, each one closer to his cock. Alec's stubble was enticingly rough as Alec's mouth went higher and Cory panted. He was getting hard again.
The heat of Alec's breath made him shake, telling Cory how close he was. His mouth was almost on him. Then he made contact. It was only a lick and Cory squirmed. He wanted more, a lot more. Alec had something else in mind. His tongue slid up and down the shaft. His lips barely grazed the head. Stopping, he smiled at Cory's impatient groaning.
"Are you going to fuck me?" Cory asked. He wanted the answer to be yes.
Alec crawled up Cory's body and kissed his mouth. He gave him the disappointing answer with a shake of his head. Cory could swear that he was tempted. After a hard, hungry look into Cory's eyes, he got back to it. Lifting Cory's t-shirt, he kissed his way down his body to his hard cock. This time he started slow and teasing but sucked deep. He still didn't rush.
Alec had one hand on Cory's thigh, holding his leg in place. The finger of his other hand toyed with Cory's ass. The wet tip of Alec's finger circled his hole. Then Cory felt only the fingertip slide in and out as Alec's tongue licked up the underside of his cock. As his finger pushed in hard, Alec took the length of his cock in his mouth. The two sensations combined. Cory's body went hard, every muscle stood out. Alec could feel it from the inside.
"So tight," he mumbled ecstatically around a mouthful of cock.
Two wonderful, long fingers were driven into him. Feeling them twist, Cory bucked sending his cock deeper into Alec's mouth.
"Sorry," Cory gasped, but Alec just sucked him harder. His free hand swept up Cory's leg to his hip to grab hold, not to keep him still but to pull him closer, further in.
Alec sucked to the rhythm of his fingers thrusting inside Cory. All the attention he was giving Cory had a strong effect on Alec too. He was hard again but out of Cory's reach.
Steadily building up speed, he took his time and finally took Cory over the edge. His coming was a sweet relief to both of them. Breathless, Cory reached down for Alec's cock, wanting to help him come. With Alec's eyes burning into him, he stroked him only a few times before he felt him come, spilling over Cory's fist. They both moaned and collapsed against each other. Cory pulled away sooner than he wanted to. It felt too good, not casual at all. He wiped his hand on the grass and refused to look at Alec. Cory didn't want him to see how happy he was, for the moment anyway.
