I was going to post this yesterday, but my forth was pretty busy and I never got to it. Hope you enjoy it.
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Chapter 6
“What do you mean when you say family…like the whole family?”
“No.” He laughed. “Just my brother and sister. We always go out for brunch on Saturday to spend time together.”
“Oh.” I paused. “Are you going to tell them?”
“About what?”
“Us.” I said meekly as I watched the trees pass by on the side of the road.
“Do you think it’s too soon?”
“It’s entirely up to you, it’s your family and your life.”
“I was thinking of mentioning it to them.”
“Do you think they’d be supportive of you?”
“My sister, yeah, she wouldn’t care. It’s my brother that I’m worried about.”
“Is he homophobic.”
“No, he’s never talked badly about gay people but you never can tell with Louis.”
“Well…I’ve decided that I’m going to come out to everyone when we get back to school.”
“Could you not include me in that when you do it. I’m not ready to come out to that many people just yet. And with sports, it might raise problems for me on the team and everything so I’d really like if you kept me out of that.”
“No problem, whenever you’re ready you can tell people.”
“Thanks.”
“Can I tell one person though? She’s known about me since the first day of classes and she hasn’t told anyone. You can trust her.”
“Who is it?”
“You know that girl Christine.” He nodded. “Her.”
“If you’re sure about it, go for it.”
“She won’t tell anyone, I promise.”
“It’s okay, I believe you.”
We were now on a highway and were moving at a crawl since traffic decided to come to a stop.
“She has a huge crush on you, by the way.”
“Who?”
“Christine.”
“Too bad I found you, she would have been a nice girl to have around.”
‘Except that you said you don’t get anything out of girls.”
“Fuck you, Christian.”
“Give me a time and a place.” I smiled.
“I can pull over right now, if you want.”
“One day.” I patted his right thigh. “One day, Dalton.”
Traffic opened up and we were back to going seventy in the middle lane of the highway. I’ve never understood how traffic worked. One minute you would be sitting not moving, and the next you would be speeding like nothing ever happened. All that mattered was that we were actually moving and that we would be at the restaurant on time.
The trip only lasted about forty-five minutes from the house to the parking lot. It was only 10:30 yet the parking lot was packed with a variety of cars. We wound up parking in the back of the restaurant next to a red luxury convertible. When we got inside, Dalton gave the maitre de his last name and she escorted us through the dining room to a circular table by the window over looking the lake. His sister Gianna was wearing a pair of black leggings, a long blouse that rested at her mid thigh, and a pair of those UGG boots. His brother was wearing a normal black button down shirt and a pair of jeans as well.
“Hey baby brother!” Louis declared as he got up from the table and went to hug Dalton.
“I’m not a baby anymore bro, I weigh more than you.”
“I know, I just like messing with you.” He let go of Dalton and looked over at me. “Who’s this?”
“This is Christian, he’s a really good friend of mine from college and is helping me study during the time we have off for a test on Tuesday.”
“Nice to meet you, I’m Louis.” He held out his hand.
“Nice to meet you too.” I took his hand and shook it.
Gianna got up by now and was hugging Dalton. She was much shorter than him and her head didn’t even come up to his chest. They did look exactly alike though, and I can say that if Dalton were a girl, he’d be really good looking.
“Nice to meet you Christian.” I went to shake her hand but she hugged me instead. She came up to about my shoulder when I hugged her. “You smell nice.”
“Thank you?” I took my seat next to Dalton on one side of the table while his siblings sat on the other.
“I didn’t mean to creep you out by smelling you or anything.”
“It’s fine.” I laughed.
A waiter came over to our table and introduced himself. I think his name was James and he was cute. He wasn’t hot or masculine like Dalton, but cute in the young teenage way. If I had to put an age on him, I would say seventeen. Anyway, he took our orders and drinks and walked away.
While we were waiting for the food to come, Dalton and Louis started talking about sports and games on TV and how everyone played and such. It wasn’t my cup of tea nor was it Gianna’s so we engaged in small talk. She asked what my major was and how I met her brother and where I was from. She seemed to catch a sudden interest in the fact of how I’m from New York City. She asked me all about Broadway, if there really are a lot of taxis on the street, all about shopping, and about the night life. I asked if she had ever been there and she told me when she was much younger and that she wanted to visit soon. As our food was coming I told her I would meet her in Grand Central Station and show her all around.
I ordered a simple farmer’s omelet which consisted of a variety of vegetables mixed with two eggs and a piece of toast. I’m not much of a breakfast person so I didn’t order a lot of food. Dalton, on the other hand, had two Sunnyside up eggs, a few pieces of bacon and some sausage, and then three pancakes. I guess a guy of his stature needs to eat a lot of food in order to keep his muscles in shape. Gianna got some fancy omelet that had some foreign sauce on the top that I’ve never heard about. Louis just got a plate of French toast and seemed very happy with it.
As we were eating, I heard Dalton put his fork and knife down on his plate. I looked over at him and he was taking a sip of his water. I went back to my eggs and thought nothing of it.
“I’m gay.” He blurted out.
Gianna and Louis just looked at him blankly.
“I’m gay.” He repeated. “And I don’t care if you two think of me differently.”
“Nothing like blurting that out over a nice breakfast, Dalton.” Gianna laughed.
“Yeah really, you didn’t even ease into it bro.”
“So you two don’t care?” They both nodded. “Holy shit, that was so much easier than I originally thought.”
“We’re your family Dalton.” Louis started. “We don’t care if you’re gay, straight, or bisexual, you’re still the same brother that we grew up with. Did you actually think we would be mad or something?”
“I honestly don’t know. I was just afraid you guys would stop talking to me and cut me out of your lives.”
“The fact that you actually thought that, disgusts me.” It was Gianna this time. “We’re going to support you no matter what Dalton. We’re family which means we’re in it together, forever, whether you like it or not. We both love and care about you very much and it will never stop. Who cares if you like men. As long as you‘re happy, why would we care?”
“I guess so.”
“Yeah bro, we’re one dysfunctional family, and you’re part of it forever.”
“Well that’s such a big relief.” Dalton leaned back in his chair.
Everyone went back to eating their meals and eventually everyone was finished and James cleared the table.
“So are you and Christian a couple?” Gianna pointed back and forth from me and Dalton.
“Is it that obvious?”
“Well the way Christian looks at you makes it pretty obvious.” She paused. “And you look at him the same way, so yes, it’s obvious Dalton.”
“I guess I have to stop looking at you Christian.”
“I don’t think you can do that.” I stuck my tongue out.
“I could of picked a normal looking guy, but no, I had to pick a hot younger one.”
“I’m sorry that I can’t change the way I look.”
“Even if you could change the way you look, I wouldn’t do it.” Gianna butted in.
“I’m not that good looking.”
“Yes…you are.” She said.
“Yeah, Christian. You need to work on that whole self-confidence thing you have going on, it’s getting annoying.”
“Sorry, I’ll try and work on it.”
James came back with the bill in hand and after a small argument over who was going to pay, Dalton won. He pulled a credit card out of his wallet and handed it to James. I knew he had money, but I didn’t know he had his own credit card with his own name on it. I just looked at him waiting for him so say something.
“What?”
“You have your own credit card?”
“Yes, is that a surprise to you?”
“Just a little. How do you pay for it?”
“I don’t.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s a company card.”
“Okay, go on.”
“The CFO of my company pays off all the debt I add onto it and makes sure there’s always room on it.”
“So you can spend whatever you want?”
“No, he can’t.” Louis snapped. “Our dad had something in his will stating how much Dalton is entitled to spend and the CFO is in charge of the spending.”
“He pretty much summed it up.” James came back will the receipt and placed it on the table for Dalton to sign. “I have a trust fund too that I’m not allowed to touch until I get out of college.”
“Okay, that makes sense.”
“We should probably get going before traffic gets too bad.”
Dalton left a generous tip for James on the table and said goodbye to the maitre de as we left the restaurant. We all walked to the back parking lot and I soon realized that we were all parked next to each other. Gianna had the red Audi convertible to our right and Louis had the black Mercedes sedan to our left. It wasn’t the outrageously expensive sedan but it was still up there in price. Louis just nodded to both of us before he got in his car and drove away. No handshake, no goodbye, but just a head nod.
“Well it’s been a pleasure getting to know you Christian.” She hugged me.
“I can say the same for you as well.”
“I’m holding you to showing me around the city one day.”
“It be my pleasure.”
“And goodbye my baby brother.” She hugged Dalton and kissed his cheek.
“You make it sound like I won’t see you again for awhile when I will next weekend and I’m sure I’ll be hearing from you tomorrow.”
“See, we told you he always bust peoples’ balls, Christian.”
I just laughed.
“Get home safely, Gianna.”
Dalton unlocked the truck, got in and just started it. Gianna pulled away while he was just sitting there looking at the steering wheel. He looked like a million and one thoughts rushing through his head and he didn’t know what to do. I rested my hand on his right thing and just squeezed it letting him know I was here for him. He snapped out of his daze and left the parking lot.
“What’s wrong, Dalton?”
“Nothing.”
“Don’t tell me nothing’s wrong because I can clearly see something’s bothering you.”
“It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.”
“It’s my job to worry about you, Dalton.” I squeezed his thigh again. “Does it have to do with your brother?”
“Yeah, he’s just so fucking annoying sometimes. He went from being so accepting of me and joking with me to a complete asshole within the matter of minutes.”
“I noticed that he changed. What was that all about?”
“It has to do with the money from my parents.”
“What do you mean? He drives a nice car and wore nice clothes, he has to have money.”
“Like I told you before, my dad just left Louis the cars he had, one of them was the one he had here today. He had to sell the other two to pay off the bills he had from college and in order to get a house so he could start his family.”
“So he got absolutely no money from your parents when they passed away?”
He shook his head side to side and had tears forming in his eyes.
“You don’t have to talk about this if you don’t want to, Dalton.” I rubbed his thigh this time.
“No.” He wiped his eyes. “I want to…you deserve to know everything.”
“If you need to stop or don’t want to continue any longer, just stop.”
“So back to him and my parents.” He sniffled his nose. “My dad didn’t get along with Louis that well because he got his girlfriend awhile ago, who’s his wife now, pregnant and he didn’t want to support her. He wanted her to get an abortion because he was scared and didn’t want to be a parent yet. My dad told him he didn’t want to see him any longer and that he needed to move out. So long story short, his girlfriend had a miscarriage and my brother lucked out on that. My dad somewhat got over it but I guess he didn’t want to leave any of his assets to him so he left him with the cars.”
“So Louis’ wife is pregnant now and he’s fine with it?”
“Yeah, he’s ready to start a life but he’s living way beyond his standards and is having trouble with his finances.”
“Does he work for the company?”
“Nope, my dad cut him out of that too. My dad decided to leave Gianna with the money he was going to give Louis in addition to hers.”
“So you got the whole business, the rest of the money, and the houses?”
“Yeah, my dad trusted me with money and knew I wanted to work for him one day so he left it all to me.”
“And now Louis gets mad that you’re sitting high up on your horse while he’s rubbing two pennies together.”
“What did you just say?”
“Sorry.” I laughed. “It means that you don’t have to worry about any finances while he has to work hard just to scrap by.”
“He’s not scrapping by though. He has a good job and his wife used to work so they have money. He just wants to live the life he used to live while he was growing up with my parents.”
“Gotcha.”
The rest of the car ride we didn’t speak to each other, I just left my hand resting on his thigh as I looked out the window. There wasn’t much traffic on the highway and we were cruising at a constant speed. By the time we were parked in the garage, the clock in the car read a little past one.
Dalton took his jacket off and draped it over the back of one of the stools in the kitchen. He also took his shoes and socks off and left them by the garage door. I took my shoes off and placed them next to his but I left my socks on. When I turned around Dalton was standing at the island staring at me.
“You have a cute ass.”
“I told you that you wouldn’t be able to stop looking at me.”
“I’m serious though, it’s so round and fills your jeans up nicely.”
I walked over to him and hugged him. He brought his head down to mine so our lips were level with each other. I pressed my lips against his and let him do all the work. He kissed me harder and with more passion and let his hands run up and down my back. They eventually stopped on my butt where he grabbed it in both hands. I let out a little moan in his mouth and kissed him harder. I felt the bulge in his pants get larger as he was pressing it against me. He went to unzip his pants but I grabbed his hand and pulled it away. I also stopped kissing him and just looked up into his dark brown eyes.
“Why’d you stop? Don’t you want to do something right now?”
“Not right now, but maybe later.” I kissed him one more time but pulled away before he could kiss back.
“Oh, come on! I’m so horny right now and you aren’t helping at all.”
“I like to tease you, that’s all.”
He went to grab me but I ran around the other side of the island. When he went right I went left so the distance between us stayed the same. He then just ran around the whole island and eventually caught up to me, wrapping his powerful arms around my waist and picking me up.
“That’s not fair! You can’t just pick me up!”
“I just did.”
I tried to break free of his grip, but he was too strong. He carried me into the living room where he laid down on the couch with his back propped up against the pillows. He placed me in between his legs so I was resting against his chest and torso and continued to wrap his arms around me. He held me close and tight.
“This has to be my favorite thing, Dalton.”
“Yeah, me too.” He rested his chin on my head. “I’m really glad I met you, Christian.”
“I feel the same way. I say we make a good couple.”
“Yeah, we do.”
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The rest of the afternoon, we just laid there on the couch watching TV. Dalton occasionally kissed the top head or the nape of my neck as we laid there. Each time he sent a warm fuzzy feeling through my entire body which made me feel at ease with him.
We ate a heavy dinner since we had a late breakfast and no lunch, and both decided to go for a swim after. Dalton insisted on going in naked, and he eventually won me over. Before we knew it a few hours passed by and it was getting late. We grabbed a quick shower together and changed to get ready for bed. Dalton wanted to hold me again but I wouldn’t let him because he would of gotten a bad night sleep. I laid on my right side facing the wall with no windows and Dalton got behind me in a spooning position. He put his left arm around me and pulled me closer to him. With the body heat he was throwing off, I quickly fell asleep in his arms.