Jimmy

Jimmy 6 to 10

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Jimmy

By Captain J

Chapter 6

Jimmy woke to the wonderful feeling of a naked girl wrapped around him from in front and a naked boy pressed against his back. Tommy was hard and poking his butt and kind of humping at him, so he reached over Susan and got the lubricant from the nightstand and bopped Tommy on the head with it. “What?” the boy grumbled.

“If you’re going to do me at least use lube,” Jimmy whispered and dropped the bottle behind his head, right in front of Tommy’s face.

“Ok thanks! You’re ok with it?”

“If I wasn’t I sure wouldn’t have handed you that bottle.”

Tommy didn’t say anything more but Jimmy felt the liquid being applied to his rear and it wasn’t long later, before he felt Tommy enter him and then start slowly thrusting. He just relaxed and let him have his fun even if it didn’t do anything for himself. It wasn’t long until he felt Tommy’s grip on his hips tighten, and then relax and he knew that the boy had climaxed.

Tommy just kissed the back of his neck and then pulled him into a hug from behind.

It was now Tuesday morning and it would have been Jimmy’s last day with the kids, but their mother had called and said she was staying in Michigan until Friday. So now he had an extra couple of days with them. The only problem he had today, was the inability to even get an erection, not even with two willing partners right there. Cindy had drained him the evening before and his cock was just limp and unresponsive. ‘It’s supposed to go back to normal this afternoon’ he thought to himself. “Hell 3 ½ days ago I was a total virgin, and now I’m upset because I can’t have sex for a few hours? Where did that come from?’ passed through his mind.

Yesterday he’d tried to get out of bed without waking Susan, and slipped on a throw rug and pulled a groin muscle. Today, he wasn’t even going to attempt something like that, so he decided he’d better wake her up. His bladder was full and wanting emptied and he couldn’t last much longer.

“Susan,” he softly said to her where her head was nestled against his chest. “Susan I need to get up and go to the bathroom.” He said a little louder.

“SUSAN WAKE UP, JIMMY NEEDS TO GO TO THE BATHROOM” was all but yelled from behind him startling even Jimmy.

“Tommy you didn’t need to yell at her, I was just trying to wake her and it’s not an emergency yet.” Jimmy told the boy.

“I know but you have to be louder to get her attention. I know how soundly she sleeps.” The boy replied.

“OK I’m awake, give me one second and I’ll move out of the way,” she mumbled. Then stretched her body like a cat and slowly sat up and swung her legs over the edge of the bed until her feet touched down. “How’re you feeling this morning Jimmy?” she asked with a sleepy voice.

“A lot better, no pain of any kind,” he responded and moved over to the edge and put his feet down, then straightened his left leg to see if it would take weight.

“Go slow, and I’ll help you if you need it, I don’t want you hurting yourself again,” she told him.

Jimmy stood and everything seemed ok so he started to take a step with his left foot and extended it some to see if he was feeling pain or not. “Seems ok,” he reported and put weight on the foot, then started to move his right leg.

“OK but we’re not taking chances all of the way to the bathroom,” the girl said and pulled his arm over her shoulders while grabbing him around the waist. “I’m walking you there and if everything is fine, then ‘maybe’ I’ll let you come back alone, but this way I’m ready to take your weight if I need to.” She said then moved forward with him.

She walked him to the bathroom and guided him as he sat on the toilet, then sat on the edge of the bathtub while he both peed and emptied his bowels. He stood and wiped himself and she took his place, while he stood and leaned on the sink, then when she was done, she grabbed his hand and pulled it around her but didn’t try to take his weight on her small shoulders. “You really ok?” she asked as they walked slowly back to her room.

“I seem to be fine still no pain.” He replied.

“OK so you’re good on flat surfaces, but the steps will tell us the real story when we go downstairs.” She said as they reentered her room and both sat on the edge of the bed. “Jimmy I want you to be really careful today. I don’t want you reinjuring yourself or aggravating that injury. Cindy said it would be easy for you to do that for a couple of days, so you’re going to go slow and easy all day or I’ll be really upset with you. And if you do something stupid and manage to injure yourself again I’m going to spank that butt so red, that you’ll have other pain to worry about. Got that?”

“I’m not going to do anything to reinjure myself Susan, believe me, that hurt like hell and I don’t want that again, so you don’t have to threaten me.”

“I had to get your attention, it’s in both of the ‘Girlfriend’ and ‘Sister Handbooks’,” she replied. “The female is always in charge, threaten punishment if in doubt or attention is lacking.”

“Do we brothers and boyfriends ever get to see these books so that we can behave better for you girls?”

“Absolutely NOT! That’s secret, rule number 1 in all the books. “Sister, Girlfriend, Wife or Mother,’ all have the same first rule in big red letters!”

“Well ok then but it would be much easier to be good for you if we knew what was expected.”

“That’s covered by rule #2, ‘The female is always in charge! Obedience is mandatory!’ so just listen when we tell you to do or not do something and you’ll do fine.”

“Well OK I guess...”

“Tommy get up and go use the bathroom, then help me get Jimmy downstairs, I don’t trust him on the steps and I want both of us ready in case he needs help or starts to fall.” She ordered.

“OK Sis, be back in a minute.” Tommy replied.

“That was rule #3 in the ‘Sister’ book, give orders and expect them to be obeyed. Ask if you want to be nice, but requests are to be treated as orders when received by the brother. Giving options to little brothers gives them excuses to mess up.”

“I see this is much more comprehensive and complicated than I thought.” He responded.

“Yeah, well the male page only has three rules:

(1) The female is always in charge;

(2) the female is always right and

(3) If the female is wrong, see rule #2!”

“Well that certainly simplifies it for me then doesn’t it!”

“Yep, no problems for you as long as you remember those three rules.”

“I’m back Sis,” Tommy said out of breath. “How are we doing this?”

“I thought we’d get him to the steps and let him use the handrail on the left side in case he needs to use it to take his weight. You hold him around the waist on his right side until we’re sure he’ll be ok, and I’ll be a step or two below him to catch him if he starts falling.” She directed.

“Sounds like a plan. You ready Jimmy?” he asked.

“Yeah we might as well try this and see how it goes,” he said looking at the two younger kids.

It turned out that the easiest way for him was to hold the handrail and always step down with his right foot first and then bring the left leg down after. It only took one shot of minor pain to work that out, and once he tried it that way, he moved down the steps with no additional pain. Down in the kitchen, he was told to sit at the table while Susan made French Toast and Bacon, and made a small pot of coffee for him. Jimmy just let her run things, she seemed to be doing fine.

While they were eating breakfast, Tommy turned to his sister. “Can I go play ball this morning Sis? We had another pickup game planned.”

“Sure Tommy I don’t see any reason you can’t do that, just be home for lunch and don’t get into any trouble,” she replied.

It was apparent to Jimmy that both Tommy and Susan now assumed that ‘She’ was in charge at least until he was declared ‘well’.

“Problem Jimmy?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Nope, I would have told him the same thing.” Jimmy replied.

Susan just nodded that she understood.

Just as they were finishing breakfast, the phone rang and Susan answered it, then came back to the kitchen. “Cindy said she’d come back this morning and give you a final check up Jimmy, I told her how you were doing so far today and she seemed happy about it.”

“Whatever, I certainly couldn’t refuse her after all she did to speed up my getting well again.” Jimmy replied. “I need to figure out something special to do for her or give her for helping me.”

“Knowing her, a smile, a hug and a kiss when you tell her thanks is all she’d ever want from you Jimmy. She feels good that she was able to help you and she really does like you. She thinks you’re a special guy and I have to agree with her on that one.” Susan told him.

An hour later, Tommy was gone and Jimmy and Susan were sitting side by side in the family room, his arm around her and just quietly talking, when the doorbell rang. “That’s probably Cindy,” she said and got up to go answer the door. Instead it was Beth. “Hello Beth, come on in Susan Said to her friend and led her back to the family room and when Jimmy saw her he started to panic and then just remember to ‘act normal’ and then tried to do that.

“Hello Jimmy, don’t mind me, I just need to talk to Susan on how we’re going to organize the ‘diaper brigade’ for Friday and Saturday. We’ve got five girls on the detail but apparently two don’t have either any or not much experience at changing diapers. As of yesterday, we’ll be dealing with about 150 kids who may need our services so it looks like we’re probably going to be busy.”

“Sounds that way, are you going to set up a production line type changing or just do one at a time each” he asked.

“What do you mean ‘production line’ Jimmy? I’ve never heard of doing it that way?” she asked.

“OK well you have two inexperienced girls helping right? So break the job down so that each of you is just doing one task and give the easy ones to the two who haven’t done it much. I assume you’ll have five changing tables, so just put them in a row and when a kid comes in put him or her on an empty table, and brigade member #1 removes their clothes or just their diaper if you can manage that; #2 cleans them, #3 applies lotion and powder, #4 diaper’s them, and #5 gets them dressed and sends them on their way again. Each member just moves down the line, while the kid stays in place and you girls move from kid to kid, but always doing the same thing to each one. The other way is each of you take a table and do the whole thing from start to finish, but with that many potential kids and two of you not very experienced; three of you will be doing most of the work.”

“That sounds like a really great idea Jimmy, I would have never even thought of doing it that way.” Beth replied, while Susan just smiled.

“It’s just a thought and you can trade off who does what, so one person isn’t stuck with the messy part of cleaning them all day, but the one putting the diaper ON at the end needs to be one of you who really knows how to do it so that they don’t leak later. No matter what you do, you girls are going to be very busy with that many kids. You may want to talk to whoever is in charge and arrange for some other people to give you breaks periodically; I think you’re going to need it.”

“Jimmy’s an expert and changing diapers Beth, he knows what he’s talking about, he started diapering me and Tommy when he was only seven years old himself.”

“Jimmy diapered you Susan?”

“You bet I was only three and still needed them sometimes and he changed me, but he did Tommy a whole lot more. He’s really good at it too.”

“Too bad we can’t get him to come and help us.” Beth suggested with hope in her voice.

“I have to stay here and look after Tommy until their Mother comes home,” he replied.

“I thought she was coming back today?” Beth said.

“Now it’s late Friday,” Jimmy said.

“Beth quit trying to trap him into coming and helping us; it’s bad enough that we got ‘volunteered’ for this, we don’t need to do that to him too.” Susan scolded.

“Hey it was worth a try Susan; lighten up some girl, we’re going to need help!”

“Yeah we will but we don’t need to dump it on him. We’ll just use his ideas and try to round up some more help from people who are already there. With that production set up they don’t have to know much to be able to do a single task, so finding help will be easier.”

The doorbell rang at that point. “That’s probably Cindy,” Susan announced and went to answer the door. It was and they came back shortly.

“How’s my patient Jimmy?” Cindy said smiling at him.

“Patient? What are you talking about Cindy?” Beth asked.

“Oh hi Beth I didn’t see you there, but yeah Jimmy slipped yesterday and pulled a groin muscle and I came over and checked him yesterday to make sure it wasn’t something more serious, then gave him a massage in the morning and another in the evening. Hopefully he’s almost recovered now, but I just came by to check him.” Cindy replied. “So how are you today Jimmy?”

“A lot better Cindy, no pain after you left last night nor this morning. I got a small stab of pain coming down the steps this morning, but once I figured out to lead with my right foot when stepping down, nothing after that. It only happened once, and it didn’t feel like I strained it, more like a ‘warning’ flash of pain if you know what I mean.”

“Yeah I know exactly what that is; I’ve done this to myself way too many times, usually when on the balance beam or floor exercises. Those are the two we do a lot of splits on.” So how about I check you and maybe give you one last massage, just to help the healing along and then you should be good. Just be careful for a couple of days not to stretch that muscle.”

“Ok you’re the one who knows about this stuff; I’m just the one stupid enough not to expect a throw rug to move and pulled that muscle.” He said smiling at her.

“Oh Jimmy it was just a simple accident. Falls in that ‘Shit Happens’ category the way I see it; that could have happened to anyone.” Cindy replied smiling back at him. “So let’s check you and I’ll massage you again and then we can both just get on with our days.”

Moving over by the couch she picked up the towel and bottle of baby oil from the end table and moved in front of him. “Scoot your butt forward so it’s right at the front edge here Jimmy, this position will be easier than sideways like you were yesterday.”

“Can I watch Cindy, this sounds like something good to know about? I’ve pulled muscles there myself but they just gave me aspirin, and ice pack and told me not to move. If a massage would help I want to know about it.” Beth asked.

“Yeah ok I don’t mind but it’s really up to Jimmy here, he’s the one who’s going to be sitting here with his legs spread. What do you think Jimmy? Are you ok with Beth watching me do this?” Cindy asked, obviously concerned that he’d be embarrassed.

Jimmy looked up at Beth and then gave a sigh, “Ok this is something everyone should probably learn, so I don’t mind too much, just don’t be surprised if I blush at some point.” He replied.

Sitting on the edge of the couch beside him, Beth talked directly to him. “Thanks Jimmy, I appreciate you letting me watch this, it’s something I might need to know to help someone else in the future and I don’t want you to be embarrassed. I know it’s really personal and I’m glad you’re going to let me watch it but I don’t want you to feel bad or anything like that.” Beth told him in a serious voice.

“It’s ok Beth, I understand why you want to watch and yes it’s personal because I’m going to be wide open down there if she does it like yesterday, but at the same time if you learn something from it then maybe you can help someone, so I’m good with it. I’m going to try really hard not to be embarrassed, but I might blush, just ignore it if it happens and I’ll be fine. OK?” he told her just as serious as she’d been.

“Right, if Jimmy blushes, no one mentions it ever, we just ignore it because embarrassing our boy here is not what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to help him get well and that’s the whole point of what we’re doing.” Cindy told both girls.

Both girls agreed and Cindy got into position, then pulled Jimmy a little further forward so he was mostly laying on his back, his behind overhanging the edge of the couch his feet flat on the floor. Opening his legs she moved between his knees and then began telling the girls what she was doing.

“OK here’s what we are dealing with,” she said, tracing her finger along the inside of this thigh, this is the muscle he pulled, it attaches here below his sack and travels down the inside of his leg towards his knee, and actually attaches right here (drawing a line crosswise above his knee) along with several other muscles right here. It’s one of a group of stringy muscles that follow that same path along here, called Adductor muscles, and the one he pulled is called the Adductor Longus.” she said tracing a path about three inches wide along the inside of the thigh. “Now Jimmy pulled it up here near his crotch and it was slightly swollen for about 6” down the inside here as well as about an inch here across the joint with his pelvis. When you first check an injury like this you want to carefully feel along the muscle and it’s attachment point feeling for any bumps or even tiny ridges. Those could indicate either a tear in the muscle itself or in a tendon or ligament that attaches it. Any bump near the end is serious, because you may have a torn ligament or tendon and that needs surgery to repair it. Any large bump or ridge along the muscle should be checked by a doctor, because that could be an actual tear in the muscle itself. In Jimmy’s case the area was red and warmer than normal and slightly raised all along here; that told me that it was a simple strain and that he didn’t need to see a doctor. Now I need to tell you that boys are more subject to injury like this than girls because their hips are narrower and just not designed to be spread really wide. Their sex organs are also on the exterior here and subject to relatively easy injury, so any groin injury on a boy has the possibility of being serious more so than on a girl or woman, who’s sex organs are mostly interior and because our pelvis joints are more flexible. Boys also have a massive amount of nerves in their groins and can suffer nerve damage there. That’s why when you watch gymnastics, girls doing splits can have both legs out to the sides from their pelvis, but boy gymnasts do splits with one leg forward and one back. Their bodies just aren’t built to do a side split. Any questions so far?”

“Yeah you said Jimmy pulled one that ran along here, but where does it attach?” Beth asked.

“Well it runs from the muscle starting here, up and under his sack right here,” she said moving his balls and touching him below them. “Think of a ligament and tendons like a big rubber bands, they either tie muscle directly to bone or sometimes acts to hold a group of muscles into a bundle. Jimmy not only stressed the Adductor Longus muscle, but the thinner muscles here below his scrotum. The muscle itself was strained enough to have some swelling and that’s why you put ice on it, to reduce the swelling.” Oiling her hands up she demonstrated how to massage the muscles, not just the injured one, but all of them around it to reduce all stress on the injured one and well as to relax the injured muscle itself. Jimmy groaned a couple of times and she deep massaged some of his muscles, but was actually happy that he couldn’t get an erection right now, although Cindy told the girls that, that sometimes happened. The rule of thumb in treating groin pulls is R.I.C.E. = Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. Now if he’d pulled the muscle lower you’d wrap it with an ace type bandage to compress it, but up high like he did, massage works better, and elevation isn’t needed in his case, just minimal movement until the swelling is reduced then gently stretching, which I was helping along with the massage and then for the next few days, he’ll want to do gentle stretching, and low impact exercise, but nothing that really strains this muscle. So that’s how you treat this type of injury.”

Wiping the excess oil from him, she stroked his thighs, then leaned in over him and lightly kissed him. “All done Jimmy, you did really good and you’re healing nicely.”

Pulling her into a hug, he kissed her more deeply and then said, “Thanks Cindy you’ve been really wonderful with me, I just can’t thank you enough.”

Standing up she smiled down at him. “Getting a hug and kiss from you Jimmy is all the payment I’ll ever want, you’re a really good patient and a really nice boy.” She said as she stroked his thigh and patted it again.

“Can I give you a hug and kiss too Jimmy for letting me watch?” Beth asked.

“Sure Beth,” he replied and she leaned over and hugged him and kissed him lightly, “Thanks Jimmy I learned a lot today.”

Jimmy scooted back to a normal sitting position and Susan sat down beside him and took his hand in hers and gave it a squeeze, then held onto it as the three girls continued talking. Until Beth decided she needed to go and Cindy left at the same time, still talking about how to divide up the duties of ‘production diaper changing’.

“Jimmy I’m so proud of you today. You did really good in not getting all embarrassed or worried about Beth watching you get your treatment. I know that was really hard for you since you were wide open and no chance of modesty. But you handled it really well, I didn’t see a single blush from you today.” Then wrapped her arms around him and thoroughly kissed him to let him know just how well he did.

The two of them spent the rest of the morning just relaxing and talking and then went to prepare lunch, expecting Tommy home at anytime. After lunch, jimmy took a package of pork chops from the freezer and put them out on the counter to thaw. “We should invite your Mom again this evening for dinner Jimmy. There’s no reason for her to have to cook for just herself and beside, she works hard all day, this gives her a break.”

“So call her and invite her,” one more or less is no problem when we’re cooking anyway.

“I will, what are we having?”

“Well I’m thawing out some pork chops so how about them grilled with either buttered potatoes or I could make scalloped potatoes, and a vegetable, there’s frozen mixed veggies or there’s canned corn, green beans, carrots, and baked beans that I saw, probably more, if I dig back on the shelf.”

“OK how about steaming the mixed veggies and scalloped potatoes.”

“Fine and no problem to fix.” He said.

Susan came back a few minutes later and reported. “She accepted but said she’s providing dinner tomorrow; she’s going to pick up a couple of large pizzas and bring them with her.”

“Nothing wrong with that, I like pizza.”

“Jimmy I’m going to go hit my email list and see if I can’t round up some help for our ‘diaper brigade’ will you be ok down here.”

“Certainly, Tommy’s watching TV, I’ll just go sit with him for awhile. Jimmy joined Tommy who sat on his lap but carefully. They spent most of the afternoon talking quietly and only occasionally, actually watching TV

As dinner time approached, Jimmy got up and went to the kitchen and used the coffee pot to make tea for iced tea, then fixed a box of instant scalloped potatoes, just adding some onion to the boxed mix; got out the frozen veggies and put them in a covered glass dish to microwave steam them. Then went outside and started the grill to heat it up. At 5:30 he was standing on the back patio cooking the pork chops while Tommy was setting the table when his mother arrived. She saw him outside standing there naked cooking on the grill and just smiled to herself at his progress. “Anything I can do to help?” she called out to him.

“Punch 8 minutes on the microwave, the vegetables are already in there in a covered dish. I just need to nuke them to steam them.” He called back. “These chops are almost done so you can put the scalloped potatoes in a serving dish also I guess.”

Ten minutes later he came in the back door carrying a pan full of cooked pork chops and just put them on a hot pad on the table, all of the other food was there and ready and Susan, Tommy and his mother were already seated and waiting. “I assumed you wanted Iced tea since you made it,” Susan said to him. And he just nodded in response.

Once dinner was started, Susan told his mother that Cindy had checked him again and said he was almost healed, he just needed to go easy and be careful for a few days to not reinjure himself. “Jimmy was really good during his check by Cindy, Beth was here and he let her watch. Cindy gave us a little class on groin pulls and muscles and how to treat them and then showed us how to do that massage she did to help him. I was really proud of how he never showed that he was embarrassed, even though I knew he was feeling that way at least some.” Susan reported.

“That’s really good Jimmy, I so glad you gave the girls the opportunity to learn about treating those injuries without making a fuss. That may help someone else down the road when they’re injured like you were.” His mother told him.

“It wasn’t that big a deal Mom, I mean I was naked and Cindy was going to check me anyway and then give me one last massage, so it was just a matter of letting Beth watch. Susan had already seen her do that once.”

“But she also spent time explaining anatomy Jimmy, I didn’t know that the muscle going down the inside of our thighs was called the Adductor Longus, or that there was a group of Adductor muscles that let us close our legs or what to look for to tell the difference between a simple pulled muscle Vs a serious injury. And there was that RICE term to tell you how to treat that kind of injury, you know Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. So I learned a lot too even though I’d seen her massage you before; because she didn’t explain what or why she was doing it a certain way until today.” Susan told him.

“See Jimmy both girls learned something. So it was a positive thing for you to do.” His mother observed.

“All I did was sit there, Cindy did all of that not me, I was just a teaching aid for them to study. Like I said I didn’t do hardly any of that.”

“Just sitting there and letting us learn on you was something special Jimmy,” Susan objected.

“Ok so it was a bigger deal than I think, I’m not going to argue about it.”

Tommy was sitting there quietly playing with his food more than eating, he’d already eaten most of it and Jimmy’s mother noticed. “Something wrong Tommy? You’re awfully quiet.”

“Just thinking Mrs. Henderson. Jimmy’s been here all the time for the past five days and it’s been really nice. And this is the third day in a row that we’ve all had dinner together and that’s really nice. I was just wishing we could all live together and do this all of the time. You and Jimmy are part of our family just like we feel like we’re part of yours and well I’ve missed spending time with my family like we used to when Jimmy was here a lot or when we were at your house most nights. I mean you’re my second mother and Jimmy’s always been my big brother and I just wish we could be together more, that’s all.”

“Come over here Tommy,” the woman said, and Jimmy noticed a tear rolling down her cheek. Tommy approached her and she pulled him onto her lap. “Tommy I love you and Susan just as much as I do Jimmy and I know your mother treats Jimmy just like one of her children. Would you really like for us all to live together?”

“Yes more than anything. I need to be with Jimmy more, he teaches me things that Mom and Susan just can’t and is always there when I need a big brother to lean on or to support me. I know Susan feels the same, he’s our brother, he always has been, I can’t remember any time when I didn’t think of him that way. Just like you’re our second mother and we know you love us and treat us like we’re all one family, so why can’t we all be together?”

“Susan, Jimmy do you two feel the same way as Tommy?” she asked.

“I know I do,” Susan answered, “Jimmy and I have spent a lot of time talking this week and I realized how much I missed being with him almost all the time. You’ve always been an advisor to me and just as much a mother to me as my own mother.”

“Same Mom, I love Susan and Tommy dearly and didn’t realize how much I missed being with them until I’ve been here 24/7 and we got to be together so much. Why are you asking? Is this something that’s possible?”

“Very possible Jimmy, Carol and I have been talking about it for the past month. We never said anything because we weren’t sure how you kids would react to the idea. I see not discussing it with you three was a mistake since all of you seem to want that. The basic idea is that we’d sell this house and all move into our house, and use some of the money from the sale to pay off the house and some to do any remodeling we needed, and invest the rest. Our expenses would be much lower, with no mortgage payment for either of us and only one set of utilities bills and all of that; financially we’d all be better off, living together. There are some problems, like the fact that we only have three bedrooms, even after I convert our third bedroom back into one. But we could work that out.”

“Mom if you’re going do some remodeling, then why not turn that big recreation room into either one big bedroom or split it into two, and put in a smaller bathroom in the basement, you know just a shower, sink and toilet. Tommy and I could take rooms down there and you ladies would each have a room of your own on the second floor and your own bathroom. The basement is both heated and air conditioned, so it shouldn’t be that major a deal to make it usable that way.”

“Actually that’s a better idea than what Carol and I were discussing which was to build on an addition with two bedrooms, but we would have lost half of the backyard in the process and that would be much more expensive. Would you or Tommy mind having rooms in the basement?”

“Not a problem for me, that recreation room is nice, we just never use it. I could go with either Tommy and I sharing or splitting it; either works for me, he and I get along fine. The bathroom would be nice, though so we wouldn’t have to come upstairs in the middle of the night if we needed to go.”

“I’d love to share a room with Jimmy, we used to do that all the time when we stayed nights at your house and that room’s huge, I don’t think you’d need to do anything to it, just put our beds and stuff down there, and maybe build in some closets to hang clothes in, but I’d leave it open, we could put two desks and a TV and maybe a couch or something to just crash on. Jimmy’s right about adding a bathroom though.”

“Well this was sure an enlightening conversation. Like I said before, we should have talked to you kids about it before now, you have some really good ideas which fix the hang-ups we were having and it wouldn’t be that expensive to do them. We could add a full bath in the basement without much problem, and adding closets is just building a wall with closet doors in front of an existing wall. We should add electrical outlets for computers and a TV and you’ll probably want a stereo down there, but all of that is nothing compared to building an addition onto the house. So; I think this may happen pretty soon, because with the current economy, Carol and I have both been worrying about possibly one of us losing our job with a layoff or something and how we’d make ends meet. In one house with no mortgage, all of us could do as well together with one income as we currently do in two houses and two incomes. If you kids really want this then I think it will happen this summer maybe within a month because I know both Carol and I are in favor of it; it was just a matter of working out problems and details. I’ll be talking to her on the phone over the next couple of days and when she gets home, we’ll sit down and work out the details together. You have good ideas, and if we’re going to be one family, then we need to make family decisions together.”

“Will I get to call you Mom and sit on your lap like this,” Tommy asked smiling up at her.

“Honey, you can call me Mom or Janet or we’ll work out something else, with two ‘Mom’s’ in the house. But you can always sit on my lap, I love holding you little guy. Jimmy doesn’t let me do this much anymore, but I plan on changing that too, his mother sometimes feels a need to mother him some, so he’d just better get used to it.”

“Why didn’t you tell me that Mom, I stopped because I thought that’s what you wanted, because I got bigger and it was more awkward? I love doing that with you. I miss doing that!” he objected.

“Jimmy you and I need to sit down and have some long discussions, we’ve been drifting apart and it’s apparent that neither of us want that.” She told her son. “So is everyone agreed that we want to live together as one family?”

“Yes!” “Absolutely!” “You bet!” were the three answers she got. Then I need to make a phone call tonight and let your mother, know the good news.”

Tommy jumped off of her lap and turned grinning at her, “Don’t let me hold you up Mom, I want this! More than anything!” he said, then hugged her and kissed her cheek, getting a kiss and pat on the butt in reply.

“So do I Tommy, So do I.” she said, getting up and going to get her cell phone.

Meanwhile in the kitchen three kids were in a group hug and Tommy was getting kissed on both cheeks by his brother and sister and congratulated for finding a way to bring up the whole issue.

***

Talking on her cell phone as she walked home. “Carol, Janet, I just had dinner with the kids. Yes they’re fine. Carol I just had the most amazing conversation with them. All of them want us to live together as one family, they even figured out how to fix the bedroom problem with only minimal expense. No I didn’t bring up the idea; Tommy did, and both Susan and Jimmy both said that they were in 100% agreement. Yeah, amazing isn’t it? We’ve got three incredible kids, who love each other dearly and all of them love us; so I told them that we’d been considering it but that if that’s what they really wanted then it was something we could make happen. Jimmy had the big fix for us though. Convert the recreation room to a big bed room/lounge for him and Tommy and add a bathroom in the basement. That leaves us women each with our own room on the second floor and a ‘ladies’ bathroom of our own. No, converting that recreation room will be minimal cost, add some closets, and some electrical work is all it would take and maybe replace the carpet to something nicer, and adding a basement bathroom wouldn’t be that, bad. He suggested just a shower, sink and toilet, but I don’t see any reason not to give them a full bath like upstairs, the cost wouldn’t be much different to upgrade it. So anyway when you get home; I told them we’d have a ‘family’ meeting to work out the details. Wonderful isn’t it, and financially we’ll all be better off no matter what happens. Carol our kids have been a family for years and you and I are like sisters, we have been ever since we met in college. I think this will work out really well. OK I’ll let you go, Love you Carol, Bye.”

***

Three very happy kids cleaned up the table and did the dishes. Stopping periodically to exchange hugs and kisses. After a while it was done and they all crashed into a pile on the couch in the family room, Jimmy on the bottom with Tommy on top of his left side and Susan overlapping his right side, with him alternating kissing each of them while rubbing both of their backs.

“You know the only downside of this is that my bedroom will be upstairs and you two will be downstairs in the basement. Worse for me, since I’ll be close to our mothers who’ll know everything that goes on in my bedroom. You two could sleep together every night and fuck yourselves silly and no one would ever know.”

“Yeah but if they make our room into a bedroom lounge type thing you could come down and spent lots of time with us away from our mothers,” Tommy offered.

“Yeah and I plan on doing just that Tommy, that room will be ‘kid territory’ and we’ll have to teach our mothers not to trespass or bother us down there, because I want to spend as much time as possible with the two of you.” She replied.

“You think they’ll buy that?” Jimmy asked.

“I know they will. Jimmy both of them trust us totally or you wouldn’t have been here with us for the last five days. We would have been stuck with that old Mrs. Murphy. Your mom wouldn’t have even stopped in except for Sunday when she got home, except for you injuring yourself and wanting to check on you to make sure you were ok. And we called her and invited her to dinner this evening and tomorrow evening, and you noticed that each time, she’s left us alone as soon as the reason for the visit was accomplished. They trust us Jimmy, heck if we offered to take care of all of the laundry, they’d never have a reason to even go down to the basement unless it was to check on you boys, which I doubt they’d do; or if you asked them to. We’ll just convince them that the whole basement is a ‘No Adult Zone’.” She replied.

“You really think that will work?” he asked still leery.

“I know it! Believe your sister on this. What all’s down there besides that recreation room and the laundry? Those are the only two rooms I’ve seen down there.” She asked.

“OK well the recreation room takes up half of the basement, all of the North side, then there’s a small storage room on the other side, where the stairs come down, and the laundry room is near the middle and really wide open. They’ll probably use part of that space to make the bathroom, since all of the plumbing is right there and the space is open and never finished. That would put the bathroom right across from one of the two doors into the Rec. room. At the other end of the basement on that side, is just another small room that my dad, originally used for kind of a small shop area, you know it has tools and repair type stuff. It’s not very big maybe 6 or 7 feet deep and the width of that side of the basement. Just big enough for two workbenches with a walkway between them and some shelves with paint and stuff like that against one wall. There’s a concrete block wall that divides the basement in half, with two doorways between the sides. That wall is right down the centerline of the house and is part of the foundation structure for supporting the floor above it. Dad only finished the one side into that Rec. room. He’d planned on putting a pool table and stuff like that in there, but never did. Basically there’s nothing in there except some boxes of Christmas stuff, and Mom sometimes uses it when she want to iron clothes, because the lightings better, so her ironing board is just inside the door. Mom never goes in there much, because usually she gets sad when she sees the room that my dad built just before he died. Us kids used it as a game room when you used to stay over there more than it’s ever been used for anything.”

“I know it’s a big room Jimmy, do you know how big?” Tommy asked.

“Not exactly but the house is 60 feet long and 28 feet deep, so that would make that room about 14 X 60, we could make it into a suite of rooms if we wanted to and not be cramped. You know, like put a wall in the middle with a doorway so we’d have a big private bedroom, and use the rest as a combination study area/lounge/playroom even if we just cut it in half that would make two rooms, each 14 X 30’ and even losing a couple of feet to build closets we’d have a bedroom say 14 X 28 feet, that’s almost twice the size of my room upstairs.” Jimmy replied.

“Maybe you guys should make a drawing of how you want it, to give to our mothers when we have that family planning meeting; that way when they contract for the remodeling, you’d get exactly what you want. If you don’t plan it, then they will and it might not be what you want.” Susan suggested.

“Good idea Susan. We should go over there tomorrow and get exact measurements and stuff, so that we can give them more than just rough ideas.” Jimmy replied.

“Well none of us are doing anything tomorrow that I know of so we can do quite a bit of planning if we want to. What size are the bedrooms upstairs, I know they’re pretty big from what I remember, but the master bedroom isn’t quite as big as the one in this house.” She asked, “I’m going to end up with the smallest one, that’s guaranteed.”

“Actually that would be my room Susan and it’s good sized. It’s at the top of the stairs and is about 14 X 13 not counting the closets on the one wall. So it’s similar sized to the one you have now. Then there’s a storage room for linen and stuff and the other two bedrooms are I’m guessing here because I haven’t actually measured them about 12 X28 or 30 feet and each one has a 4’ deep walk-in closet taking up one wall. So I’m guessing the usable space is like 12 X 24 or so in each. The hallway up there uses up about 3’ for the floor space down the center line from my room to the door into Mom’s room at the other end. The room you guys used to share is the other bedroom, but when you didn’t need to stay with us she took the beds out and made it into a study or home office type room. She does a lot of her paperwork in there. But it’s really a big bedroom. So each of our Mom’s would have their own room about 12 X24 and each have a 4’ deep walk-closet. The house is really pretty big when you think about it. If they wanted to, they could have gutted the second floor and put in 4 or 5 decent sized bedrooms up there; but we definitely don’t want them thinking that way. I like the idea of having our own little domain in the basement for Tommy and me; with our favorite sister spending time down there with us of course.”

“Good save there at the end Jimmy. You two get your little private domain where you can have sex all you want, almost whenever you want, and I’ll have two mothers watching me upstairs. That’s really the only problem I have with this whole thing.” She grumbled.

“So you sleep up there like a good little girl, but spend all of your time otherwise down in the kid’s domain.” He suggested.

“That’s the best I can hope far and better than what I have now,” she replied.

“Speaking of sex. Are we doing that tonight? I mean is Jimmy well enough?” Tommy asked eagerly.

“I’m up for it,” Susan said and then looked at Jimmy, “Is Mr. Limp Noodle working again?” <snicker>

“Don’t know I haven’t tried since she drained me; but I was sure glad he was that way during your little anatomy class this morning, getting hard in front of Beth would have been really embarrassing.” He replied.

“And just WHY would that be embarrassing for you. Jimmy you have a very nice cock and it looks great when it’s erect. Cindy thinks so too, and you certainly weren’t doing anything to make it a sexual situation. It would have been a natural reaction of your body to all of the handling you were getting down there. It’s not like you were jerking off for us or something although that wouldn’t bother me at all.”

“But I’d be, you know hard, not just naked?”

“Jimmy did it really embarrass you when you got hard yesterday when Cindy was giving you those treatments and she’d even warned you that it would probably happen and not to worry about it?”

“A little, but she mostly ignored it when it happened. That helped.”

“So if it had happened today what would have been different about it? It was pretty much the same deal, just with Beth there and she wouldn’t have said anything. Knowing her, even if she did say anything it would be to complement you on having such a nice one.”

“Not much I guess when you look at it that way... So what’s your point?”

“That my beautiful brother/boyfriend, really needs to get over being so self conscious about his body. Jimmy you really do have a nice body and no reason to ever be embarrassed about it being seen; I just don’t understand why you’re having so much trouble with this whole idea and causing yourself to be embarrassed when there’s no reason for it at all.”

“So what am I supposed to do about it? I DO feel that way at times...”

“Simple really, you’re going to be naked as much as possible this summer, whenever and wherever it’s permissible. Then you’ll see that you have nothing to be ashamed of and accept what I’ve been telling you all along. You know your mother thinks the same thing, you have no reason for false modesty and I’m going to prove that to you, until you DO believe it and accept it as normal.”

“And our mothers will be ok with it? Really?”

“Absolutely, both of them think the same way, but I’ve told you that before. Neither will have any problem with it and will support your doing it. They may even force you to do it at times if they think you should be naked and aren’t; they’ll support you 100%. I’ll just tell them we are working on your ‘modesty issues’ and they’ll both be totally supportive.”

“Modesty issues? Is that a code or something for keeping me naked?”

“Partly, but it’s more about helping you becoming more self confident and proud of who you are and not letting other people dictate to you about your body.”

“You really think I should do this, I mean be naked most of the summer? Geese that was a stupid question; it’s obvious that you think I should or you wouldn’t have said it to begin with. But that would be really difficult, I mean people seeing me, and girls I know and probably ones I don’t know... “

“Trust me on this Jimmy, this will be really good for you and you’ll learn that it’s not as big a deal as you’ve always thought it was, and that you have absolutely no reason to ever be embarrassed or modest about your body. If you do this you’ll be more self confident and able to handle any social situation with ease after it’s over. Whether you continue after this summer will be something we can decide later; but for this summer, I want you naked as much as possible.”

“Susan, I’m not sure about this, <sigh> OK if our mothers approve of the whole thing and I want both of them to tell me that directly; because I can see where there may be times when they will have to explain it to other adults, then I promise to try my best to do this. I want you to understand though that this is going to be really difficult for me at times and don’t be surprised when I get embarrassed about it.”

Taking his face in her hands, she kissed him deeply. “Jimmy I love you and would never do anything to hurt you and I’ll always be right there with you to support you while we work on this. I know it will be difficult at first, but once you get used to it, it will become totally normal and you won’t pay any attention to it. You’ll feel really good about yourself by the end of the summer and be a much better person for having done it; I just know it.”

“So I suppose I’m going to be naked most of the summer too, Right? Because if our Moms want Jimmy to do this then I’m going to be doing it too; that’s a given.” Tommy said from behind them.

“Is that going to be a problem for you Tommy, because you’re probably right?” Susan asked

“Apparently not as much for me as for Jimmy because I’m naked most of the time anyway; I just wanted to know if I’m going to be included, that’s all. Besides if both of us are doing it, then neither of us will be singled out as being different or unusual; that will make it easier for both of us.” He responded.

“So you’re willing to help? This will help both of you be more self confident and I know it will be easier for Jimmy if he’s not the only one.” She said giving her brother a hug.

“Yeah, if Jimmy has to do it, then I’ll do it too. One thing Sis; I’m going to be expecting an awful lot of hugs and kisses for doing this and not putting up a fuss about it. Mom’s been telling me to do this for years and I do feel like it’s not that big a deal; most of your friends, the close ones anyway have seen me and not made anything of it; so like I said it’ll be easier for me than him. And easier for both of us if we do it together.”

“Tommy both of you will be getting tons of hugs and kisses for doing this, I promise. OK then modesty training for both of you starts now, and I’ll inform Jimmy’s mother tomorrow evening at dinner and we can discuss it and the details at our family meeting when my Mom gets home. Agreed?”

“Yeah, OK but I still have doubts about it...” Jimmy replied.

“OK Susan,” Tommy said with more confidence.

“Good I’m so proud of both of you!” she said giving each a big hug and kiss.

“So back to my question, are we having sex tonight?” Tommy asked with a smirk.

Jimmy just started laughing and was soon joined by the other two and both piled on top of him again. When they finally stopped laughing, Tommy just grabbed each by a hand and said “Let’s go!” and they got up and headed for the stairs. Tommy and Susan ran up ahead of him, while Jimmy made slower progress up the steps, being careful not to pull that muscle again, and both were coming out of the bathroom, by the time he reached the top. “Use the bathroom now Jimmy because I don’t think you’ll have a chance for awhile,” Susan warned with a giggle.

Knowing full well that at some point during the evening or night, Tommy would want to use his butt, he made sure he was empty and clean back there and emptied his bladder, which was good timing, since he’d had two big glasses of iced tea with dinner. When he got to Susan’s bedroom, they were both on the bed, and Susan was practicing her oral skills on Tommy, who was giving her pointers on how to do it better. “Couldn’t wait for me?” Jimmy asked with a snicker.

“Just warming up some,” Tommy replied with a giggle, “More on the head Susan; and watch the teeth,” he told his sister who had all of him in her mouth.

Jimmy climbed up on the bed beside them and watched Susan suck Tommy, trying very hard to do the best job possible. Tommy was holding her head with one hand and gently fucking her mouth, with slow strokes as she worked on him. “Closer Jimmy, and I’ll get you ready,” the boy said then reached out and started gently working his balls and then stroking his cock until it was fully erect. A minute later, Tommy shot a load into Susan’s mouth and she swallowed all of it, licking her lips when she pulled off of him. “Great Susan, that was really good,” the gasping boy said to his smiling sister.

To reduce the possibility of new injury to Jimmy, he started out on his back, with Susan kneeling above his head, lowering her pussy to him, while Tommy knelt over his hips and inserting Jimmy into himself. Susan lowered herself and Jimmy’s tongue was just starting to explore, when he felt Tommy slide down his pole until he hit bottom, getting a groan from both boys. Tommy because Jimmy was right on his prostate and Jimmy due to the feel of the hot flesh encasing him. By the time Tommy started moving, Susan was grinding herself against his mouth and he had to grab her hips to keep her steady enough to let him breathe occasionally. Tommy was humping up and down with a few hip swivels thrown in and Jimmy couldn’t take that for long, but had no control over what was happening. Both kids were making so much noise in pleasure sounds that he didn’t know what else they were doing, except that Susan had climaxed twice in the process. He knew Tommy came at least once because the boy shot onto his stomach, before he filled the boy’s insides with his hot cum. When Tommy stopped, Susan was collapsed on top of him and he had to lift her pelvis and move her to give himself air, her soft thighs were along either side of his face and her tight hole only an inch or so from his mouth. He gently stroked those thighs and massaged her behind, and the girl just quivered a little in response. “Everyone OK?” he asked as she finally rolled off of him to the side. Tommy was still sitting impaled on his still hard cock, and just grinning down at him, while trying to get his breath under control.

As soon as they recovered enough, Tommy did anal on Susan while fingering her, while Jimmy did him from behind and then switched and Jimmy used Susan’s behind, while Tommy did Jimmy and by the time they were done all three were exhausted, and just curled up together and quickly were all asleep. None of them even bothered to get up and turn off the lights.

Sometime during the night, Susan crawled out of bed long enough to turn off the lights, but got right back in, and curled up tightly against Jimmy facing him and that’s how they still where when he woke in the morning, with her stroking his body and gently kissing him, nibbling at his lips. Jimmy could feel Tommy’s warm body pressed against his back and just sighed. ‘I don’t ever want to sleep alone again’ he thought to himself, ‘this was just too wonderful a way to wake up.’

“God we’re all a funky mess and your beds a disaster Sis,” Tommy said from behind him.

“Yeah but it was worth it,” she mumbled in reply.

“Family shower? Then strip the bed and get these sheets washed, then breakfast and go do some measuring and planning...” Jimmy suggested.

“Works for me,” Tommy responded.

“Me too,” was mumbled against his chest.

“Then everyone up and at em’ the bathroom is calling to us.” Jimmy ordered and gave Susan’s behind a playful swat, and then reached behind him and did the same to Tommy, “Come on you two time to get up!”

Three happy and playful kids spent the next 30 minutes taking turns on the toilet, then making sure each of them were ‘very’ clean, before stripping Susan’s bed and she took the sheets directly to the washing machine, while Jimmy and Tommy worked on breakfast.

All three remained naked through breakfast, and were constantly touching each other, with lots of giggling and a little tickling here and there. Once they’d finished and cleaned up the kitchen Susan turned to the boys. “OK guys, I need to get dressed, and you two need only shorts and shoes, and only because we have to walk past Mrs. Murphy’s house and she’d have a heart attack if she saw you guys on the street naked. She never said a word to Tommy naked in the house, but I know she’s a real prude when it comes to naked in public. As soon as we get to Jimmy’s house it’s nude again for you two.”

“Tommy could you bring me a pair of shorts and my tennis shoes? I don’t want to go up and down steps any more than I have to,” Jimmy asked giving the boy a rub on the back.

“Sure Jimmy I’ll be back in a minute,” and was off running.

“I’ll be back in a couple of minutes Jimmy,” she said and started to leave.

“Oh I’ll need my house key from that duffle bag too,” he said remembering his mother would lock the house with no one home during the day.

“No problem.” She said and he was alone.

Jimmy sat down and waited for them thinking about all the changes that had happened in his life in just the past 5 days and those that were about to happen as his family all got together in one house. His mind was drifting when Tommy came back and Tommy ended up putting his hand on the older boys shoulder to get his attention.

“Hey Tommy,” he said with a smile, then “Thanks,” as he took his shorts and shoes from the boys hands.

“Something wrong Jimmy, you looked like your mind was a million miles away?”

Pulling the boy against him with one arm, and stroking his back, “No nothing wrong, just thinking about everything that’s happened and changed since I came here Friday, and looking forward to all of us living together as one family. I’m really going to like that Tommy, I’ve been kind of lonely at times and now that won’t happen anymore, I’ll always have you and Suzy to be with and not have to have an excuse to come see you.”

Wrapping his arms around Jimmy’s head and pulling it against his chest, he kissed his forehead, and hugged it as he replied, “You don’t ever have to be lonely again Jimmy, I don’t want that and neither does Susan and you never needed an excuse to come be with us. I love my brother and want to be with him as much as possible.”

“I like the idea of that Tommy, I like it a whole lot,” Jimmy replied and hugged the boy standing beside him tightly. “I love you to Tommy.”

“So get dressed and let’s go plan our new room,” Tommy said gently breaking off their mutual hug.

Not long later, Susan joined them and they locked up the house and headed down to Jimmy’s home, once inside, Jimmy threw his key on a table in the hallway and immediately unbuttoned his shorts, dropped them and kicked them aside on the floor. Tommy did the same while Susan just stood there smiling at her two favorite boys.

“OK let’s go up and look upstairs first, I need some graph paper, a ruler and a pencil from my room,” Jimmy advised and they headed up the steps. Both kids followed him into his room and he got the items he wanted from his desk while Susan looked the room over.

“This is really nice Jimmy, I won’t mind having this room, I’d like to repaint it though, you know put a little color into it and maybe change the curtains, but it’s a great room.” She said still looking around, “lot’s of closet space and a nice view out the window. This will work fine.”

“There’s actually a buffer zone between this room and the next bedroom, he said as he led them out into the hall. This door is the linen closet and storage and the first four feet of the next bedroom is a walk-in closet, so the actual bedroom doesn’t start until about here,” he said pointing at the wall and the entrance is down nearer the bathroom over here. There’s another small storage room between the bathroom and the stairwell,” he said opening another door, and they could see cleaning supplies inside. “Now assuming Mom keeps her current bedroom, this would be your mother’s room and it’s almost the same size as my Mom’s room at the end of the hall. Just that this one runs along the back side of the house, while Mom’s goes front to back on the end. The only reason my room is smaller, is because of the stairwell.”

“God this room’s huge Jimmy,” Tommy said, “I don’t remember it being this big?”

“That’s because it’s mostly empty Tommy, just a desk and a work table right now. When you guys slept over here there were two bed, two dressers, and at least one desk, and a couple of night stands beside the beds. It looked smaller because it was full of furniture.”

“I remember that huge closet,” Tommy said, walking to it and opening the door, “Susan locked me in here once.”

“That’s because you were being an annoying little brother and teasing me all night,” she replied, then hugged him from behind, “but that’s not a problem anymore, you’re much nicer to be around these days.”

“OK well, I’ll show you two my Mom’s room and you’ll see it’s about the same size, just with furniture,” he said leading them to the next door and opening it.

“Wow I see what you mean about furniture making a difference Jimmy, this room looks big but not huge like that other one, you say this one’s a little bigger?” Tommy asked.

“Only a foot or two but yeah slightly bigger.” Jimmy responded.

“This is a really great room Jimmy, I see why your mother likes it.” Susan commented. “I really like that canopy bed.”

“She does too, she told me that she and dad argued about it for a month before he finally broke down and let her get it. He thought it was too feminine, but she won out in the end.”

“So let’s go down and plan out Tommy and My’s new domain.” He said leading them downstairs, then through the kitchen and down into the basement. Jimmy got two measuring tapes from his dad’s shop room and then handed Susan the clipboard he’d gotten from his room along with the paper and pencil. “OK Tommy and I will measure stuff and call out the numbers,” then took the clipboard back and made a big rectangle on it with a line down the middle to represent the center wall. “Just write the number along whatever we’re measuring with arrows to stop points like this,” he explained drawing two arrows the width of the room with a gap to put the number in. “This will just be a rough sketch with measurements, so we know exact sizes we have to work with, then I’ll use the graph paper to make drawings to scale of different possible ways to lay it out to give to our mothers.”

The three of them spent the next two hours measuring all over the basement, making note of all of the electrical outlets and light switches and which switch controlled which lights and exactly where water lines ran as well as sewer lines. “Why are we marking all of these electrical and water stuff Jimmy?” she asked, “You don’t need that to plan your room.”

“No but whoever they have do the work and final plans will need it,” he replied. “They’ll need to know where hot and cold water lines are that they can tap into for the new bathroom as well as sewer lines and the same kind of thing on electrical wiring. They have to make sure they don’t overload on one circuit so we don’t blow breakers if there’s too much on it. And things like light switches? Look here, right now all of the lights in the Rec. room are all on one switch, but if we split this into two rooms, then we’ll need to split the lights also, so that we’re not lighting the bedroom when we’re not using it or the front room when we’re asleep in the bedroom and where are they going to pickup circuits for new stuff like more outlets? The more information we have the better, it just saves us from having to come back and measure more later.”

Once Jimmy was sure, he had all of the measurements he wanted, he asked Tommy to go up to his room for him. “Tommy I’m going to need more graph paper and some colored pencils from my room to make good drawings. The paper is in the left hand drawer of my desk and there’s a plastic holder with colored pencils in the middle drawer, oh and there’s a triangular shaped ruler with numbers on three edges in there also, could you get that stuff for me and we’ll meet you back by the front door.”

“Sure Jimmy no problem,” and the boy took off up the steps.

Soon they were back at the Campbell house and Jimmy sat at the kitchen table and looked at the drawings and notes they’d made and started drawing. The first was a utilities drawing with every electrical circuit and plumbing line marked and color coded. Then started working on redoing the recreation room, pausing only to eat lunch which Susan fixed and asking Tommy an occasional question as to whether he liked an idea Jimmy had or not. By the time, dinner time arrived, he had detailed drawing in a couple of combinations with notes as to where electrical circuits needed to be changed or added as well as walls, lights etc. His mother arrived later with the pizza she’d promised and saw all of the papers on the table. “What’s all of this?” she asked as she set the boxes down.

“Drawings of our basement,” Jimmy answered after standing and giving his mother a hug and quick kiss. “We went over and took measurements of everything this morning and well, I’ve spent some time working with them today, looking at how to lay out our new rooms.” He told her. Then handed her a basic drawing of utilities.

“This shows all of the utilities in the basement and the footnotes have what’s on which electrical circuit as they exist now. That new bathroom should be right in here between the storage room and laundry area,” he said pointing with his finger. There’s a floor drain right here, to take the sink and shower or bathtub drainage, but I think we’d have to have one of those up-flush toilets, because the main sewer tree is here and it’s cast iron and it would have to be tapped above the service port, about 14 inches above the floor. Now this drawing, and these are to scale by the way, would be redoing the rec. room. Originally I thought of regular closets, but as big as that room is, why not a big walk-in closet? You’re still only building one partition wall so it really doesn’t make any difference how far out it is from the existing wall. Then if we used those closet organizer systems, we could put our dressers in there too and each of us have lots of closet space and a kind of dressing area. Now Tommy and I looked at a few possible combinations and kind of ended up deciding on splitting the room in two, so we’d have an actual bedroom for the two of us, then put in another partition wall between it and what would be a study area and kind of lounge. Along this partition wall we’d put either three desks, one for each of us and one in the middle for my computer and printer or a single long counter, to do the same thing. Each of us would have kind of a study area, with the computer stuff in the middle. That would need outlets, here, here, and here and we’d either have to tap our DSL router with an Ethernet connection or get a wireless card for my computer so we’d have internet service down there. This also shows where we’d need more outlets and we’d need to split the current wiring on the lighting so that a separate switch turns on the bedroom lights, from the lights in what would be the lounge/study room; right now all of those lights are on one switch. So basically we’re talking building two partition walls, one for the closet/dressing area and one to split the bedroom from the lounge/study room. Changing the light wiring to split and adding a total of 10 outlet boxes between the two rooms, electric wise. I didn’t draw out the bathroom because I don’t know sizes on that stuff, I’d need more information before I could do that, but that’s the easiest place to put it and still leaves a big laundry room. What do you think Mom is this doable or too expensive.”

His mother looked through the detailed drawing he’d made and the attached notes and color coding and was in wonder of her 15 year old son. “Jimmy when did you learn to do this? These are amazing I could take these to a contractor and just hand them to him and say do it! You must have spent all day on this?”

“Remember that design class I took last year that you wondered about; as to why I wanted to take it? Well this is the kind of stuff we learned in it. I could have done this on a computer easier if I had the right software, but I didn’t so I drew it out by hand.”

“Jimmy I’m so proud of you. Yes this is something we can do. I don’t see any problems here. You really want this don’t you?” she said as she stood and pulled him into a tight hug.

“Yes Mom more than anything I’ve ever wanted.” He softly replied as he returned her hug.

“Then that’s exactly what’s going to happen, and we’ll do it exactly the way you’ve drawn it. I talked to Carol last night and we’re going ahead with our plans and these wonderful drawing of yours will just make it happen faster; I can have workers in there next week building your new room for you and that bathroom too and we can move Carol and the kids over within two weeks. None of this will take long. It will take longer for Carol and I to decide what furniture we’re keeping from which house and getting it moved than to make these changes.” Then released her son and stepped back. “Come on kids our pizza is getting cold.” She said and sat down to eat with them.

Chapter 7

During dinner the three kids and Jimmy’s mother were all enjoying their pizza and talking about various particulars of all moving to one house, when Susan brought up the one topic Jimmy and been dreading. “Janet, Jimmy, Tommy and I talked last night about a number of things, but one of the main topics was about the boys ‘modesty issues’ and I’m happy to report that the boys are willing to work on that this summer. Both boys have agreed to remain naked whenever permissible, at home all of the time and elsewhere, when it wouldn’t create a problem. Jimmy was concerned about you and my Mom agreeing to it and supporting them, in that Jimmy thought that you might have to explain it to other adults if needed. I assured him that you and Mom would give them your full support and backing, and also told them that you might require them to be naked when they didn’t think it was appropriate. That both of you were of the same mind with regard to false modesty and that boys have no reason to be modest in most circumstance unless custom or health required that they be clothed. So both have agreed to remain naked as much as possible this summer and I agreed to supervise them and support them in learning to address their modesty issues. After this summer it can be decided as to whether to continue or not; and of course, you and Mom as our parents may dictate changes as you see fit.”

“Boys I am so absolutely proud of both of you and I know Carol will be to. It’s just wonderful that you two are willing to address this issue and I couldn’t be happier about it. Of course Carol and I will support you 100% and give you our advice and guidance. My two wonderful sons definitely need a hug and kiss for this; come over here both of you!”

Each boy was thoroughly hugged and kissed as Susan proudly watched, and then hugged and kissed each one herself.

“So when will this start?” his mother asked, but it was Susan that replied.

“It already has. Unofficially last Friday when Jimmy arrived, but officially last night when they agreed to do it. Jimmy hasn’t worn any clothing since shortly after he got here last week. I had him wear shorts while on the street when we walked to your house this morning, then remove them as soon as we were inside, only because we had to pass Mrs. Murphy’s house, and then again when we came home; and Tommy has only been dressed to go play softball with the neighborhood boys and also this morning to and from your house.”

“Excellent! And don’t even worry about Mrs. Murphy, if she says anything, tell her to see me and I’ll straighten her out. She has no responsibility over these boys and has nothing to say about it! In fact I just might call her and warn her in advance so she won’t even attempt to interfere.”

“You really think this is a good idea Mom?” Jimmy softly asked.

“Yes I do Jimmy, and I’ve already told you that. Jimmy boys in general and young boys in particular have no reason for modesty and it’s only a problem when it’s illegal or a serious violation of community standards. I want both of you to be fully self confident about yourselves and your bodies and this is the way to develop that needed self esteem. To be quite frank, if you hadn’t volunteered to participate, I was considering forcing the issue; but I’m very happy that it isn’t necessary to do that. Both of you will benefit greatly and get past this unnecessary shyness about yourselves.”

“So I guess we’re mostly naked for the whole summer then...”

“Yes but there’s absolutely nothing to worry about it; just relax and go with the program and you’ll both do fine. Just act normal with people and be yourselves. That’s all you need to do here.”

“OK Mom if you say so. So far the only embarrassment has been what I brought on myself, none of the girls who’ve been here have done anything to embarrass me.”

“Jimmy that is the whole point, and very few people would react negatively and then it would mostly be because you did something to draw attention.”

“Alright Mom, I understand. I promised Susan that I would do my best with this and she agreed to help us get through it, so I guess that’s what we’re doing this summer. It helps that Tommy and I are doing this together, so that neither of us is the only one, but I still think this will be difficult at times.”

“Only if you make it difficult on yourself Jimmy, that’s the whole point in doing it.”

“So is there anything us kids should be doing to get ready for us all moving in together?” Jimmy asked.

“Actually yes, you can start by packing up all of the clothes you won’t be needing this summer and box them and go ahead and move some of it over to our house. Box up your own clothes Jimmy except for say two casual and one dress set; same thing for you Tommy; and move yours and Tommy’s clothes to the Rec. Room, just put all of the boxes in the new ‘lounge’ end of the room out of the way. Susan you can pack up anything you won’t need for say the next month and once Jimmy empties his closet, go ahead and move it over there.”

“Susan wanted to repaint that room and change the curtains,” Jimmy said, we could do the painting in the next couple of days if you get us the paint. Friday she’s going to be helping all day with that church school thing so Tommy and I could repaint that room while she’s away doing that. Then we can have our family meeting Friday evening when Carol get’s home and plan what to do from there I guess.”

“OK how about Susan and I sneak over to Wal-Mart this evening yet and she can choose a color and we’ll get the paint; then you boys can do that Friday while she’s gone.”

“That works, we’ll pack up clothes and any other stuff we won’t need soon tomorrow and move what we can and then paint on Friday I guess.” Jimmy replied.

“So Susan, let’s go get paint for your new room,” She said to the girl and they were quickly gone.

“Did you catch that ‘Susan Supervising Us’ in this modesty thing Jimmy?” Tommy asked.

“Yeah but I’m not too worried about it, she’s been good about it so far... Beside’s I trust her, she wouldn’t get too carried away with it.”

“Hope you’re right...”

“Me too!”

Jimmy and Tommy located some boxes in the basement and went to Tommy’s room and began packing his clothing, then emptied his dresser quickly, leaving out only some socks, two pair of underwear, one pair of dressier shorts, one pair of running shorts and an undershirt. Then started boxing up his hanging clothes. “Just pack the hangers in with the clothes Tommy, when we unpack this stuff it will be to hang it in our new closet.” Jimmy advised. So they did, and in his closet the only thing remaining was two dress shirts, both short sleeved and one pair of dress slacks.

Tommy remembered that there was a stack of collapsed boxes in the garage and brought back six of them and started packing other items in his room that he didn’t feel he’d need right away, books, CD’s, pictures, odds and ends of all types. “I didn’t realize how much stuff I had,” the boy said when all six boxes were full in addition to 5 boxes of clothes and there was still stuff all over the room.

“Tends to accumulate Tommy. I’m probably going to throw some stuff away that I know I’ll never use again but just never bothered to get rid of, rather than move it down to the basement, I’ll either trash it or box it for Goodwill.”

“Anything any good?”

“Not to me, once I sort it out, you’re welcome to any of it that I’m getting rid of if you want it though. I’d rather you have it if you want it.”

“I’m back!” Susan’s voice called out from downstairs.

“We’re in Tommy’s room,” Jimmy yelled back down to her.

“Hi guys, wow look at all of those boxes! Did you leave yourself anything Tommy?”

“Not much in the way of clothes, but then I won’t need much will I?” he replied. “But we also packed up my books, school stuff, CD’s, basically stuff I know I won’t need soon. Did you get your paint?”

“Yeah a real light yellow, should make the room sunny. And we got the new curtains too, they’ll go good with my bedspread that I already have.”

“Speaking of beds, did you ever move those sheets you washed this morning to the dryer? And we need to remake your bed, we haven’t done that yet today.” Jimmy interjected.

“No I didn’t and I’d better go do that, but there at least three more set of sheets in the linen closet that will fit my bed.” She replied and then ducked out the door.

When she came back she leaned against the doorjamb looking at the two naked boys as they worked. “Something wrong Susan?” Jimmy asked.

“No just enjoying the scenery <sigh> You two really are great looking boys you know and well I enjoy watching your muscles when you move... By the way, where did you get all those boxes?”

“Four from the basement the rest from the garage. There’s a huge stack of them folded up out there; I had no idea we had so many. Mom must have been saving them up anticipating this.” Tommy responded.

“Jimmy your Mom was really impressed with those drawing you did; kept going on and on about how detailed they were and all of the supporting notes with them. She said she’s going to make color copies at the office tomorrow and give them to a couple of remodeling contractors to get estimates. She said you probably saved us several hundred dollars in planning fees by making them so detailed with all of the utilities mapped out like that.”

“That was the whole idea Susan, if I gave her good drawings, the whole thing could speed up and cost less. I took that design class for a reason and this kind of thing is just one of them.”

“Oh and she’s going to change the carpet down there, she doesn’t like the stuff your dad put down, it was cheap at the time and that’s why he bought it; she’s going to get you something a little plusher and softer to walk on in you bare feet.”

“OK well I sure won’t argue about that. Did she say anything else?”

“Only how happy she was about you guys going along on the modesty training. Oh and since both of you have full size beds, getting matching headboards. We looked at some of those closet systems too, and she was doing some figuring out on what would work best for you guys. She was considering getting the drawer cabinets that go with those and then just selling your current dressers; that way everything would fit together in your new walk-in closet.”

“Are they expensive?”

“No not really and they come in modular units that fit together with the hanging systems, so they’ll actually work better, than trying to put shelves and hanging units around your current dressers.”

“OK I just don’t want her spending money on me that she doesn’t need to.”

“Jimmy you saved them more with your drawings today that all of the closet systems will cost from what she said.”

“OK then... Susan, how about you and I go make up your bed, then I’ll get you some boxes and at least bring them up here. Pack up seasonal clothes that you know you won’t need this summer first, both folded stuff like sweaters, coats and winter stuff; then things on hangers you know you won’t need and we can move that stuff first. I’ll clean out my closet first thing tomorrow and that way the hanging stuff can be hung immediately and we can reuse boxes. We’ve got a four wheel dolly over in our garage, and we can probably stack 10-14 boxes on it and that way we won’t have to carry them all. But for now let’s get that bed made up so we have somewhere to sleep tonight.”

The two of them went and made her bed, while Tommy kept packing small items from his room. When they were done, Jimmy brought a dozen boxes in from the garage. “Tommy was right there’s probably a hundred boxes stacked out there, your Mom’s definitely been preparing for this.”

“It sure would have been nice if they’d told us before now. I wonder how long they would have waited before they said anything. It’s like they didn’t trust us to help make a big decision like that or solve problems that come up. But I guess we showed them; well really it was you showed them Jimmy that they need to talk to us. You fixed the bedroom problems and saved them thousands. An addition on the house would have cost at least 50 times more than anything they need to spend on remodeling a little. I just don’t understand why they couldn’t tell us they were even thinking about it and find out how we felt about it.”

Jimmy pulled her into a hug and tilted her face up towards him and her hands slid around his waist, then she pulled herself tighter before sliding down and cupping his behind. “Susan they’re adults and we’re kids and adults don’t often consult kids on major things until the main decisions are made. But don’t get upset about it and don’t mention it to them. Mom acknowledged twice at the table that they should have talked to us about it and then we gave her some fixes and now she has the drawings; so believe me she and your mother will be well aware that they made a mistake in not talking to us sooner. We don’t want to force them into a position where their authority feels threatened. So just go with the flow here; they’re headed in the right direction and I’m positive they’ll be asking us for opinions and help deciding things from here on out. So just relax about the whole thing and everything will be fine; can you do that?” He said softly, then kissed her first very softly, then more firmly, and felt her hands firmly griping his behind pulling him even tighter.

“So are you two going to have sex or what?” interrupted them from behind.

“I’m just kissing my boyfriend Tommy; is that a problem?” Susan replied.

“Nope, never would be, he kisses really good. I was just asking because you were working his butt pretty hard there Sis, that tends to get guys fired up and very hard on the front side. So unless you were planning on taking care of the results, you might want to ease up on that butt massage,” he said smiling at this sister as he casually leaned against the doorway.

“Oh!” she said with a squeak realizing where her hands were and exactly what they were doing and then blushed very red, removing her hands quickly and resting them on top of his hips.

“Tommy that wasn’t nice,” Jimmy said with a stern voice, but the grin on his face, where Susan couldn’t see it, ruined the effect. “Embarrassing your sister like that!” he continued as he wrapped his arms around her and laid the side of her head against his chest before, gently stroking her back and massaging the back of her neck. “Your sister wasn’t doing anything wrong. In fact I was kind of enjoying what she was doing; so just back off. She can feel my butt whenever she wants to.” He finished giving the other boy a wink. Tommy smiled back knowing that the ‘reprimand’ was for Susan’s benefit, and Jimmy wasn’t upset with him at all.

“OK, Sorry Sis I didn’t mean to embarrass you I was just kidding you know,” Tommy offered.

“It’s ok Tommy but Jimmy is the only one allowed to complain about what I do with his body, just like you can complain if I do something you don’t like. I was just feeling good and trying to let him know that... I probably shouldn’t have been so enthusiastic I guess...”

Tilting her face up he looking into her eyes, “Suzy you can be ‘enthusiastic’ whenever you want, I love you, you know,” then softly kissed her lips and got a smile in return. “Do I get to be ‘enthusiastic’ in return?” he asked as one hand gave her butt a squeeze.

“Yeah you do Jimmy,” was the soft reply...

“Guess that’s my cue to leave,” Tommy said from the doorway, “He’s about to get all mushy and lovey-dovey and I don’t need to watch that. Have fun Susan!” and he ducked out the door before she could even respond.

Jimmy reached down and scooped her legs out from under her and carried her over to the bed, then sat down with her on his lap, kissing her, then paused, “Young lady you have entirely too many clothes on for me to be properly enthusiastic,” and pulled on the elastic waist of her shorts and quickly had them down at her knees, her panties came down just as quickly and both were removed in a flash, then his hand stroked her legs, especially her soft thighs which parted in response to his touch and his hand was soon working between her legs and the sounds coming from her, as he continued to kiss her told him that she was a very happy girl right then, he kept it up until she climaxed, then brought his wet fingers up and licked then right in front of her eyes, smiled widely, then turned and dropped her on the bed, shoved her knees apart and dove between her legs and his mouth was on her so quick it surprised her. After two more orgasms from his talented tongue and mouth, she wasn’t capable of doing much except lay there smiling, her ragged breathing stopping even talking. Jimmy just finished stripping her top off, and tucked her into bed. “It’s bedtime anyway, I’ll be back in a minute,” he told her as he kissed her forehead, then left the room. Susan just gave a big sigh and relaxed, feeling every good and very tired.

Jimmy was in the bathroom brushing his teeth, when arms circled his waist and a kiss was planted between his shoulder blades. “I smell pussy juice,” Tommy said as he hugged his best friend; “Is she still awake? Knowing you I doubt it.”

“I put her in bed and she was fighting to keep her eyes open so I doubt it,” Jimmy replied then rinsed his mouth out.” Jimmy replied.

“Do you need to get off?” Tommy asked his hand drifting down and cupping Jimmy and was surprised to find him ‘not’ erect.

“No not right now anyway,” Jimmy said, “I’ve had so much sex in the last week that I’m surprised that it responds at all.” He explained. “How about you? You want to use my butt again and I’ll just hold Susan it’s no big deal if you want to.”

“You don’t mind?”

Turning to face the smaller boy and pulling him into a return hug, he lightly kissed him, “No Tommy I don’t mind. I love you and want you to feel good. Right now I’m kind of tired and really don’t feel like one of these sex orgies we’ve had this week, I just want to hold my two best friends, knowing that they’re happy and then sleep. So if you need to get off, I’ll hold Susan while you do my butt, then hold both of you while we sleep.” Was the soft explanation.

“Well I don’t really ‘need’ to but I’d like to...”

“Then let’s go to bed, and you can have a little fun before sleeping...”

Both walked to the bedroom and Jimmy lubricated his hole then handed the bottle to Tommy who was very erect and the boy put some on his stiff cock before turning off the lights and both crawled into bed. Jimmy curled up behind Susan and wrapped his arms around her, then reached back with one hand when he felt Tommy move in behind him and lifted his butt cheek and relaxed himself. Tommy entered him quickly and started slowly pumping and Jimmy laid there, gently feeling Susan’s body in front of him, until he felt Tommy cum, then Tommy slipped out of him and his body wedged up tight against his back, an arm draping over him as Tommy tried to get as close as possible. He heard Tommy’s breathing change and could feel it as air gently blew across his right shoulder, and then closed his own eyes and was quickly asleep, feeling very good about his life and his two best friends.

Jimmy woke to the feel of a soft hand gently caressing his cheek, while soft lips, gently kissed around his face. When he opened his eyes two chocolate brown eyes were staring into his, and he was quickly kissed full on the mouth. “Thank you for what you did for me last night Jimmy, it was wonderful,” she whispered.

“My pleasure sweetheart, I love doing that with you...” he whispered back, then returned her kiss.

“We need to get up, we slept in this morning...” she whispered “It’s 9:00 and I almost never sleep this late...”

“Is that a problem? Were we supposed to do something important this morning?”

“No just pack and start moving boxes of clothes if possible...”

“We can still do that, we’re just starting a little later...”

“Were you OK last night? I mean I didn’t do anything for you after you took such good care of me...”

“I was more than OK Suzy, I got to sleep cuddled between my two favorite people and I don’t know if I can ever sleep alone again after sleeping with you two the past week...”

“You won’t have to,” a soft voice said from behind him where a head was resting against him, Tommy’s chin brushing the top of his shoulder. “We’ll be sharing a room Jimmy and I don’t think one of those beds is going to get much use. At the very least, you and I can sleep together; too bad Susan will be sleeping upstairs, I really like all three of us sleeping together.”

“Me too,” Jimmy replied.

“You guys think I like even the idea of not being with you like this? It really sucks. I’ll have to start working on Mom as soon as she gets back! There will be ‘slumber parties’ including me or two women will never hear the end of it. I’m just as stubborn as they are when I want to be you know...” she replied more forcefully.

“Yeah we know how stubborn you can be Suzy,” Jimmy said with a snicker and then tweaked her nose.

Susan swatted his shoulder, “NO TEASING Jimmy Henderson, or you’ll really pay for it!”

“Not even a little?”

“Yeah ok, I brought that one on myself, I gave you way to big an opening when I said I could be stubborn, like our mom’s; but you didn’t need to jump right on it...” she grumbled.

“But that’s in the ‘Boy Handbook’ teasing Sisters and Girlfriends a little every now and then is a requirement? It tells them that we love them.”

“Well if you’re doing it to let me know you love me then ok, but don’t be getting carried away or I can think of some really, really nasty things for payback!”

“Are you two going to have sex again? Because that’s where it sounds like this is headed.” Tommy said from behind him.

<laugh> “No Tommy not right now anyway. All playful talking doesn’t have to lead to sex you know,” Jimmy replied.

<sigh> “Around here it seems to... Not that, that’s a bad thing of course...” he softly replied rubbing his head against Jimmy shoulder. And Jimmy and Susan just started laughing in response. When they settled back down Jimmy just said one word.

“Shower” and all three were quickly out of bed and into the bathroom.

In between giggles, tickles, and lots of rubbing of each other, Tommy said, “You know we should get an Environmental or Conservation Award of some kind...”

“How’s that?” his Sister inquired.

“Well, look at all of the water we’ve been saving with our group showers? I mean look at all we’re doing here to protect the environment and conserve ‘valuable resources’ and all that? Those Ecofreaks should be really proud of us! ”

“Tommy group showers so that we can feel each other up, doesn’t qualify to their way of thinking so you’ll just have to pass on the idea,” she laughed, then slapped his butt, “Rinse off, you’re wasting water!”

<smirk>”God here I am trying to save the world and not waste resources and what do I get for it a sore butt...” he grumbled but was grinning.

“I’ll show you sore butt, if you want, I didn’t even hit hard enough to leave it pink. I can change that pretty fast though...” she smirked back.

“No thanks, I’ll just rinse off here and then get out...” he replied chuckling.

Susan got dressed and then all of them went down and had breakfast and discussed what they were going to do. “We can go ahead and move the stuff Tommy packed last night to the one end of the Rec. Room where no construction will be going on and move at least the stuff from my closet down there to this morning,” Jimmy suggested.

“How much did you pack Jimmy?” Susan asked.

“18 boxes, almost all of my stuff, clothes, books just about everything except the few clothes Jimmy’s Mom said to keep out, and two books I’ve been reading...”

“So other than your furniture you’re all packed?” she asked.

“Well I got stuff around the house that’s mine, but as far as my room, pretty much yes.”

“You really want this don’t you Tommy?” she said wrapping her arm around him.

“Susan I wasn’t lying when I told Mom Henderson those things at dinner. That was what I was really thinking and the way I really feel. I want us to be together more than anything.”

“Your second mother understood that Tommy. She could see it and feel it from you and telling her like that forced the issue and made it all happen. Now we all get to live together because our mothers know that’s what we want and they’re moving quickly to make it happen as soon as possible. You did really good telling her like that Tommy, you helped all of us.”

“I didn’t intend to do that you know, it just kind of happened. She asked what I was thinking and feeling so I just told her. I can’t lie worth a damn Susan, you know that. I’ve never been able to get away with even a small fib; so she asked and I told her. It worked out well and I’m happy about that, but I didn’t plan it.”

“Regardless, you moved way up my ‘Brother Scale’ when you did that Tommy, you did really good.”

“Brother Scale? What the hell is that?”

“It’s an unconscious Sister thing Tommy, we all rate our brothers constantly and act towards you accordingly. On the bottom of the scale are ‘Brat and Pest’ and things like that and the top is ‘Wonderful and Deserves to have the stuffing hugged out of him’ boys move up and down the scale all day long and Sisters treat them according to where they are right then.”

“So you’re judging us and rating us all of the time? That sucks.”

“Not consciously no, but I’m sure brothers do the same thing with us.”

“No I don’t. I just know I love my sister and try to treat her like I want her to treat me. Well sometimes I tease her a little, especially when she does something to annoy me but I don’t judge you or rate you, I just love you for who you are...”

“Tommy I told you it’s not something we actively think about doing, it just happens. When you do something good, then I’ll think something like, ‘that was really good or nice or whatever, I should give him a hug and kiss to let him know’ or on the other end, ‘that was really annoying and he gets the cold shoulder treatment’. So the actual judging or rating, just happens in response to what my brother does or says, the only thinking is on how to respond. Regardless of where you are on the scale at any given point, I still love my brother even when he’s bad or anywhere else along the scale. Like I said, it’s just a ‘Sister’ Thing and you don’t ever have to worry about it because I love you.”

“Well ok then as long as you’re not intentionally doing it; I’d really hate that. Love you Sis!” he replied, and kissed her.

When they cleaned up from breakfast, Tommy brought two boxes down from his room while Susan got the two cans of paint for her new room. “OK boys Janet said there was no reason for you to be dressed just going down the street to the other house, so shoes only, no need for shorts today. Jimmy, I’ll carry the keys for both houses in my pocket.”

“But what about Mrs. Murphy?” Tommy asked before Jimmy could do the same.

“Jimmy’s mother called her and explained it to her, so she shouldn’t be a problem.” She replied.

“OK then but, I don’t like being out on the street naked. It’s one thing here in the house something else on the street.” Tommy replied and Jimmy nodded agreement.

Just as they were passing the Murphy house, the old woman came charging outside. “You Two! What do you think you’re doing!” she yelled at the boys. Susan immediately put down the paint cans and stepped in front of the boys.

“Hello Mrs. Murphy, is there a problem? I know Mrs. Henderson called you last night and explained this to you, I was there when she made the phone call.” Susan said to her politely.

“Well yes she called but they shouldn’t be out here naked like that!”

“Yes the boys are naked but they’re not doing anything but carrying boxes to Jimmy’s home. So what is the problem?”

“Well they’re naked!”

“And how is that a problem? Haven’t you seen naked boys before? I know you’ve seen Tommy?”

“It’s not right! And you’re with them! Girls shouldn’t have to see that!”

“And that’s a problem why? Tommy is my brother and I’ve seen him naked all my life. Jimmy is as close to being my brother as a boy not born from my mother could be, we’ve grown up together and I’ve seen him naked many times. Mrs. Murphy you’re making this into something other than what it is. Nothing sexual is going on, my brothers are naked carrying boxes. Both of our mothers are firm believers that boys in general and in particular; little boys have no reason for modesty; especially not false modesty, so our mothers have decided to work on the boys modesty issues to help them gain self confidence and esteem but you were told all of that last night.”

“Well it’s just not right!”

“Well our mothers disagree with you and what the boys are doing is NOT illegal, so why don’t you just leave them alone. Should I have Mrs. Henderson discuss this with you in person? I doubt that she’ll like that you’re interfering in how she chooses to raise her son; I know my mother wouldn’t be happy about that.”

“But other girls might see them?”

“So what? They’ll see a naked boy or two if they’ve never seen one before. At some point all girls see a naked boy; it might be educational for them.”

“But it’s not right!”

“Well that’s YOUR opinion and you’re entitled to your own opinions; however as Mrs. Henderson explained to you as long as the boys aren’t doing anything illegal you have NO right to interfere with them. So if you don’t mind, we’d like to get these boxes and paint down to Jimmy’s house. Just so you know some time in the next month we’re all moving into that house as one family, also the boys are going to be naked most of the summer so you might as well get used to the idea. I AM going to inform our mothers of this discussion with you today.”

“Well I never!”

“Have a good day Mrs. Murphy, we’ll be about our business so that you don’t have to be offended by two naked boys who were minding their own business and did nothing to provoke you in the slightest!” Susan said turning away from the woman and picked up the cans then just said, “Let’s go boys.” And they all started walking away from her.

“What a bitch!” Susan grumbled when they were far enough away that the still fuming woman couldn’t hear.

“Got that right!” Tommy said beside her.

Once inside the house, Jimmy put down the box, took the paint cans from Susan’s hands then picked her up under the arms and pulled her up even with his head and thoroughly kissed her. “What was that for,” she asked as he put her back on her feet still hugging her against him.

“Because young lady, you went right off of the top of my ‘Sister Scale’! I can’t believe how you stood up to her and basically told her off but so politely that she can’t complain about it!”

“Let ME have her Jimmy! She went so far off of my Scale that I can’t wait any longer!” Tommy said pulling his sister from Jimmy’s arms and then wrapping her in his and putting his whole body into the kiss while Jimmy held her shoulders from behind.

Susan was blushing quite nicely and had very puffy lips by the time Tommy finally released her and she was still in the middle of a ‘boy sandwich’ as both continued to hold onto her.

“Easy guys, I just did what I had to, to get her away from you. It wasn’t a big deal!” she gently told them.

“Maybe not to you Suzy, but it was a VERY BIG deal to us!” Jimmy replied. “We’ll have to treat you really well for a long time for THAT one!”

“100% agreement here,” Tommy added. “We owe you big time Susan!”

“Ok well the old biddy needed to be told to back off, so I told her, but I knew our mothers wouldn’t stand for me being disrespectful, so I had to really hold my temper not to tear into her and start swearing. And I AM telling our Mom’s that she tried to interfere.”

“Just know we really appreciate our sister standing up for us,” Jimmy said leaning over her shoulder and kissing her cheek while he rubbed her shoulders.

“Well I just had to didn’t I?” she said blushing again, “Now enough of this, we have work to do today. Jimmy are there any empty boxes here?”

“Yeah Mom always keeps some in the garage, I’ll go get some.” He replied and gave her another quick kiss on the cheek before heading in that direction.

“Tommy your boxes go down to the Rec. Room and I’ll take this paint up to my room, and when Jimmy brings the boxes in, we’ll pack the stuff from his closet and dresser.” She directed and got another kiss before Tommy picked his box back up and left her there in the hallway, still amazed by the boy’s reaction to her confrontation. “I just did what I had to, can’t they understand that?” she asked herself, because no one was there to hear her.

An hour later all of Jimmy’s clothes were moved to the basement along with much of his personal belongings. When they decided to return for another load of Tommy’s stuff. Getting the hand cart from the garage, they headed back down the street, and noted that Mrs. Murphy was glaring at them but didn’t confront them this time. The next trip by, Jimmy was pushing the 4 wheel cart with 14 boxes stacked on it, while Tommy and Susan each carried a box. Once it was unloaded and all of the boxes in the basement, they pushed the empty cart back to the Campbell house to have lunch.

“We’ll start packing the stuff you won’t need Susan, and move most of your hanging clothes directly from one closet to the other one,” Jimmy suggested while they were eating.

“Ok but I won’t need to keep that much out, just casual stuff, shorts and tops and maybe keep one nice outfit, in case we go someplace more dressy. Besides if I need something, I can always go get it from the other house.”

“You know we could almost empty out my room over there, knock down the bed and take it and my night stand down to the basement and put them in the storage room where they’d be out of the way and not get all dirty during construction. Moving the dresser out to the garage and the same with my desk. It would make painting a whole lot easier.” Jimmy offered.

“How are we supposed to move that dresser and desk?” Tommy asked, “Those are going to be heavy going down steps. The mattress and box springs are really just bulky, not that heavy.”

“Easy that 4 wheel cart is also a 2 wheel dolly, the push handle comes out and if you put it in the end and put the pins back in you have a dolly. You noticed that two wheels are bigger and it has that flat plate on the one end; that’s the dolly part. You just switch the handle.” Jimmy advised.

“But won’t they fall off going down steps?”

“Adjustable cargo straps Tommy, we have some in the garage, we just put a strap around it to hold it in place, easy really, I’ve moved stuff like that by myself before.”

“So if we break your bed down and put it in storage, where are you sleeping until our new rooms done?”

“Well Gee? <smirk> If I didn’t have a bed at home, maybe I’d have to come over here and bunk with Tommy until our new room is ready. That would be SUCH an inconvenience and SO much trouble; but I’d just have to SACRIFICE a little while they’re building our new room. Too bad really, but we have to make sacrifices for the sake of getting this move done don’t we?” <smirk>

“Jimmy did I ever mention how devious you are at times?” Susan asked, “When our mothers see that all of your boy clothes are already moved, and Jimmy’s room is empty, they’ll see how serious we are about getting this done quickly and move even faster to get it done. Not to mention the ‘major inconvenience’ of having to sleep in the same bed with Tommy when both of you want that anyway...”

“You’re giving me too much credit Suzy, but I love you anyway,” he said as he leaned over and kissed her cheek.

“Right and I’ve got a nice bridge or some good bottom land for sale...” she replied with a grin.

“No but the faster we get things moving, there will be a house for sale!” he replied grinning just as widely.

“Oh shit!”

“What?” two boys answered.

“I just remembered that Patty and maybe Connie are coming this afternoon to learn how to change diapers!” Susan told them.

“So and that’s a problem?” Jimmy asked.

“Only that it will tie me up for awhile...”

“So if you tell us what to box up, we can still be doing that while you’re teaching them?” Jimmy replied.

“Yeah I guess that will work...”

“So that’s what we’ll do then...”

“OK, I’ll need to dig out the stuff though. We still had a half a package of disposable diapers from when Tommy had his problem, those are in the linen closet I think and I know there’s some cloth ones in the basement storage room that Mom was holding to give away when someone needed them. So I guess we’ll have what we need...” she pondered.

“Are you going to need help?” Jimmy asked.

“I’ll let you know if I do, but I don’t think so...”

“OK, then in the meantime, let’s pack what you know you won’t need and will fit in the closet over there and get it ready to move it.” Jimmy said standing and picking up his empty plate and taking it to the sink. Then paused before turning around towards her again. “What are we doing for dinner?”

“Why don’t we get out the slow cooker and a small roast and some potatoes and carrots and just let them cook all afternoon?” she replied, “We won’t have to watch it or anything just throw it in there and let it do the work; Mom does that every once in a while. It always comes out good.”

“That works for me,” Jimmy replied and opened the freezer while she was digging under the counter in a cabinet for the cooker. Tommy got potatoes and carrots and all three of them quickly cleaned them and cut them up and put them in the cooker with some water. Susan threw in some spice on top of the meat put the lid on and turned it on.

“Dinner is cooking!” she announced and then all of them headed up to her room, where she identified what could be moved or packed to be moved immediately. They were still working in her room at 2:00 when the doorbell rang. “That will be Patty,” she said and left the boys there working.

About 30 minutes later, she called up the stairs. “Boys I need help!” and both of them headed down to see what the problem was. She met them at the bottom of the steps. “Guys I need your help with this. I explained it to the girls but they need to practice actually doing it, so I need someone for them to diaper.”

“You’re kidding right?” Tommy asked while Jimmy wasn’t looking too happy.

“Gee it wasn’t that long ago that I distinctly heard two boys telling how they and I quote ‘owe me big time’ or something very close to that? The girls are just going to diaper you and then change them a couple of times until they get the hang of it. It’s not like you have to wet them or poop in them...”

“OK but this will use up quite a bit of that debt, Susan,” Tommy replied.

“Yep the balance is definitely going down some,” Jimmy replied, “But I’ll do it because we do owe you this and more.”

“I love both of you,” she replied and then kissed each of them, before leading them to the family room where, two towels were spread on the floor. “Patty, Connie, the boys have volunteered to help by letting you diaper them to practice and change them a few times so we need to be really nice to them.” Then turned to the boys, “Pick a towel guys we’re using them as changing pads.” Both boys blushed but went over and each laid down on a towel and Jimmy looked up at the small girl kneeling above him.

“Hi Patty, we met the other day.”

“Yeah, Hi Jimmy, thanks for helping us, I really need to practice this before we get all of those kids dumped on us tomorrow. It’s so nice of you to let me practice on you. I really appreciate it.” She said smiling down at him.

Meanwhile Connie was telling Tommy basically the same thing. The difference was that Tommy and Connie were the same age and attended the same school and had classes together frequently. Tommy was feeling very nervous about her handling his privates like he knew was going to happen and then have to spend years in school with her. “Connie please just don’t tell anyone about doing this ok?” he said almost in a whisper.

“I won’t Tommy I promise. I’d never do that to you, I like you and would never cause you to be embarrassed like that.” She replied rubbing his shoulder.

“OK girls, we’re going to start as if you’d just removed a soiled diaper from our boys, first we’ll need to clean them, then put lotion and powder on, then diaper them; we’ll do this three times, twice with disposables because we only have four of those, then try it with cloth diapers. We won’t be using those this weekend, but you may run into them babysitting so you need to know how to put diaper pins in and take them out safely. Now tomorrow we’ll mostly use baby wipes to clean the kids, but today we’ll use a washcloth, mainly because I don’t have any wipes. Once you clean them and that’s one of the most important parts, then we move on to the next step, leaving any pee or poop can cause diaper rash from the germs, so all of the kids we work on have to be clean before we go any further. Now one thing you need to know how to deal with, is boys no matter what age may get an erection from you handling them down there. It’s a natural reaction from their body to being touched in a very sensitive area, they can’t control whether it happens or not, their body does it on it’s own. The older the boy is, the more likely it is to happen. So don’t react to it if it happens, just ignore it and take care of business. Don’t even mention it to the boy, because we don’t want to embarrass them over something they have no control over. Are we clear on that?” and both girls nodded. “OK let’s begin then, Jimmy you’re going to have to help Patty some, because of the difference in sizes, so hold your legs up if she needs you to, because she’s not big enough to both hold them up and work on you at the same time.” Jimmy just nodded that he understood.

Both boys tried to relax knowing what was coming, but regardless of how hard they tried, both had erections quickly, Tommy while Connie was washing him and Jimmy while Patty was putting the lotion on. Both girls just kept on working and not saying anything to the boys. Susan reminded them to be very careful with the boy’s balls and that they could be hurt easily, so the girls did that, Patty was almost afraid to touch them. “Go ahead and feel them Patty, as long as you don’t hit them or squeeze too hard, you won’t hurt me,” Jimmy told the nervous girl and she reached down and gently lifted them and felt them. Once she decided that she was not hurting him, she continued working on him just being careful not to bump them hard or anything.

Once the girls had the boys covered in their diapers, Susan checked them. “Connie, this side is fine, but see here where it’s a little loose near his crotch? That would leak if he peed in them so we need to make sure we get them really tight to begin with, because once the kid is up and moving, they’ll loosen a little on their own. If they’re already loose then the next time it will be running down their legs.”

Moving over to Jimmy, she smiled at him and ran her fingers though his hair before checking the diaper. “Good job there Patty and Jimmy is just about at the limit for this sized diaper so I know you had to work harder to get it on him good and tight. Was she ok handling you Jimmy I heard you say something to her but I wasn’t paying attention to what you said.”

Reaching out and taking Patty’s hand in his, he gave it a little squeeze before responding. “She was very good Susan, she seemed extra careful with me and was afraid of hurting me, so I just told her how to handle my balls without hurting me and she was fine after that. She did a really good job.”

“Susan, I was really afraid of hurting him, my brothers have told me a thousand times how sensitive boys are there and how easy it is to hurt them there. But this is the first time I’ve ever touched a boy there and I didn’t want to hurt him even by accident. Jimmy was really nice and explained to me what not to do, so that I wouldn’t hurt him and then I was ok from there on.” The girl replied.

“Patty you and Connie are actually lucky getting to practice on older boys, because they ‘Can’ tell you what hurts and what doesn’t and both have been diapered before; not for some time, especially Jimmy here, but they know what you should be doing and what it should feel like, so they can help you learn quicker. Heck Jimmy is an expert diaper changer himself and is probably the one who should have been teaching you instead of me.”

Jimmy continued holding Patty’s hand while they waited for Connie to tighten Tommy’s diaper and for Susan to recheck it. “OK girls, our boys have just had an accident and they need to be changed again, so let’s get to it.”

Once again the boys were washed, dried, lotion applied and powdered before again diapered and Tommy was breathing hard by the time the tapes were tightly in place. Susan checked them and then Jimmy and both girls had done it correctly. “One last time girls you’re both doing great, only this time we pin cloth diapers on them.” So their diapers were removed and they were washed again, this time as Connie was putting lotion on though, Tommy lost it.

“Damn!” he gasp his face turning dark red in shame.

“Tommy! Tommy are you ok?” Connie asked in a panic.

“What happened?” Susan asked moving over to them.

“I came...” Tommy mumbled, turning his red face away. “I tried not to but I couldn’t stop it! Damn!”

“Is he ok? I didn’t hurt him did I?” the girl anxiously asked.

“No he’s fine or will be, he’s just a little embarrassed right now Connie, you made him have an orgasm. I’m sorry Tommy I should have known this might happen, the girls have been handling you boys for over an hour and well I should have anticipated it.”

“I’m really sorry Tommy I didn’t mean for that to happen,” Connie told him, “I could see you were squirming a little and I thought maybe I was too rough or something then when I was putting the lotion on your penis it jerked in my hand and that stuff shot out. Are you really going to be ok?”

Hearing her worried voice he sat up and hugged her “Connie, I know you didn’t mean for that to happen, I didn’t either. I’ve been trying really hard for a while now to get it to stop from happening. But your hands felt so good down there the way you were touching me I just couldn’t stop it. You didn’t do anything wrong and you were really good in the way you handled me, but three diaper changes in a row was just one too many I guess. Don’t worry I’m just a little embarrassed but I’ll be fine.” He told her, then hugged her a little tighter and kissed her cheek, “You did really good Connie, don’t worry about it.” He said before releasing her and laying back down.

“OK then, let’s get our boys diapered using the cloth diaper then,” Susan commanded, but first grabbed the washcloth and wiped the cum from Tommy’s stomach and then told the girls how to pin them on securely. Once both boys were diapered and checked, she told them they were finished.

“Jimmy can I give you a hug and a kiss to thank you for letting me do this? I really want to do that, you were so nice and made the whole thing easy for me.” Patty asked in a very shy voice.

“I think I’d like that Patty,” he replied and sat up beside where she was kneeling and she pulled him against her body, gently hugging him and then stroking his shoulders as she softly kissed him first on the cheek and then lightly on the mouth. “Thank you Jimmy.” She said before patting his shoulder and moving back smiling. Jimmy just smiled back as she stood up.

Connie helped Tommy stand up and didn’t ask, she just pulled in into a hug and kissed, him, then stroked his back while still holding him. “Tommy you were wonderful with me today, and I really like you and I’d like to be better friends with you. Is that possible?”

“I think I’d like that a lot Connie, I mean we see each other all the time at school we just never talked much, but I’ve always liked you too you know.” He replied before kissing her cheek.

“Then we’ll get to know each other much better,” she said aloud, then whispered directly in his ear, “Maybe you’ll let me practice and make you cum intentionally next time.” Then stepped back and both were grinning at each other.

Each boy got another hug and ‘thank you’ kiss before the girls left and Susan told them she’d see them in the morning. After the door was closed though she turned to her brother, “New Girlfriend there Tommy?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Possibly,” he replied blushing nicely, “She says she likes me, and she’s a nice girl so that’s a good place to start.”

“That and the fact that she’s diapered you three times, feeling your goodies and made you cum even if it wasn’t intentional, tends to break the ice doesn’t?” she replied with a snicker.

“Good point Sis, I can certainly feel relaxed around her,” he said wrapping his arm around her shoulders.

“So let’s get my boys out of those stupid diapers and naked again. You both smell like baby lotion and powder, but that’s not that bad.” She replied and started removing pins while they still stood there until they were both naked again, Jimmy partly erect. “Little Patty didn’t quite handle you enough do you need to cum?” she asked brushing her hand against it.

“I can wait, it will go down in a few minutes as long as you leave it alone. But yeah she had me close a couple of times, then moved on before it happened. Like Tommy I was trying my best for that NOT to happen I was just luckier I guess. I didn’t need to be embarrassed more than I already was.” He replied.

45 Minutes later, they were only waiting for Jimmy’s mother to appear before eating dinner, they’d checked it and it was ready whenever they were. The table was set, side salads made and everything waiting, when she arrived. “Hello boys,” she said giving each and then Susan a hug as she entered the kitchen. “Why do both smell like baby lotion?”

<laugh> “Because we’ve been coated with the stuff and powdered three times this afternoon,” Jimmy replied shaking his head.

“Why would you do that?” she asked.

“Because they helped me teach Patty Mercer and Connie Jones how to change diapers and take care of kids; to get ready for tomorrow, and they were both wonderful doing it!” Susan replied.

“Then I’m assuming you each got diapered and changed three time each? That would account for the smell.” She said with a chuckle. “That was nice of you boys I’m sure the girls appreciated you doing that to help them.”

“Yes they appropriately gave us hugs and kisses and lots of verbal thank you’s Mom, it wasn’t all that bad...” Jimmy advised her.

“Well I’m sure the other girls on the diaper brigade will appreciate it too boys, since those two knowing what they’re doing will take more of the load off of the other girls.”

“That was the whole idea in them coming over today.” Tommy reported.

“Any problems today?” the woman asked.

“Just Mrs. Murphy was all fired up this morning and came charging out to confront the boys about being naked when we were carrying the paint and two boxes of Tommy’s clothes over to the house. I got between her and the boys before she could do anything though and cooled her jets. Shot down her arguments and then we were on our way again.” Susan told her.

“You would have really been proud of Susan Mom, the calmly talked to the woman, dismantled every objection, being very polite and respectful, and basically told her she had no right to interfere, that we weren’t doing anything illegal and that if she had a problem to take it up with you or Mrs. Campbell as you were both approving what we were doing and why. She just stood there flustered but had no real complaint except that she thought it was ‘wrong’. She glared at us each time we passed her house moving more stuff over there, but didn’t say anything again. Susan was really something, but so respectful and polite the woman has zero complaints about anything Susan told her. It was great!” Jimmy said smiling.

“Well she had no right interfering anyway. She’s going to get a piece of my mind on my way home. How dare she! I explained it all to her last night! But she did leave you alone after Susan talked to her correct?”

“Never said another word, just glared at us when she’d see us,” Susan answered.

“That woman needs a severe attitude adjustment! And I’m just the woman to do it! How dare she!”

“As long as she leaves us alone, we don’t care whether she approves or not Mom, that’s our whole take on the thing.” Jimmy offered.

“She WILL leave you alone or I can make trouble for her the likes of which she’s never seen before; so don’t worry about it kids. She won’t be a problem anymore.”

“So let’s eat, I’m hungry!” Tommy said plopping onto a chair and getting the mood changed back to something much more comfortable for all of them.

“Did you say you were taking Tommy’s clothing over to our house,” she asked in between bites.

“Virtually everything from his room except the clothes you told him to keep out and the furniture is over there. We also emptied most of my room and moved it down to the basement, it’s all in one end of the Rec. Room, the part away from where the construction will be. All boxed up and out of the way. Tommy and I will go over and paint my old room, Susan’s new room tomorrow and we’ve already packed much of her things that she won’t need and plan on putting those boxes in the closet when we go to paint, so she’ll have quite a bit already moved too.”

“You kids are moving pretty fast, so I’m assuming you told the truth when you all said you really want this,” and was interrupted by three voices saying ‘We Do!’ before she could continue. “So I made color copies of your drawings Jimmy and gave them to two contractors to get estimates and both were surprised and very happy with the detail, especially all the utilities being marked and located. Anyway both faxed estimates back to me only a couple of hours later, and I selected one, and he’ll have a crew in there doing the carpentry work starting Monday. I’ll have to approve the bathroom plan tomorrow, but all of it will be done by the end of next week. So you boys could actually move in there if you wanted to next weekend. I’ll need to order the closet system and I want to get you new carpet and some matching lamps and things but all of that will be done next week.”

“Well we’ll have Susan’s room painted tomorrow so then it’s just furniture to be moved or sold mainly right?” Jimmy asked.

“Well Carol and I will have quite a bit more to do Jimmy but as far as you kids go, all of you could start living over there Saturday week, that is once we get Susan’s bed moved and that and Carols bedroom will probably be moved Tuesday or Wednesday, sooner if I can get movers over here. So you and Tommy would still sleep over here until your new room is ready. Carol and I will spend most of this weekend identifying which furniture, appliances, etc. from which house will be kept and then get the stuff moved one direction or the other. We’d already decided to have a public auction or sale to sell off the stuff we’re not keeping and the things from our house moved over here for sale will just be put in the garage; no need to even bring it inside. Once the auction is held, then the house goes up for sale and by then we should all be living together. I’ve already contacted a light moving company so once, we identify what gets moved which direction, they’ll be moving things sometime next week.”

“Mom, I’d already decided to knock down my bed tomorrow and move it into the storage room in the basement, out of the way, and sleeping here for a few days. Mainly because not having it or the other furniture in there, will make painting that room a whole lot easier. In fact if Carol wants her room repainted, it would be easier while it’s still mostly empty, and if she gets the paint she wants this weekend, Tommy and I can do it, before they move a bunch of stuff in there. Susan told me you were planning on replacing our dressers with that closet system, so I’ll just move mine out to the garage, same with my desk for now, they’re both empty anyway.”

“Ok we’ll have Carol pick out her paint and get it tomorrow evening or Saturday morning at the latest. You understand that you boys doing painting like that just save another couple hundred dollars don’t you? Likewise anything you move reduces moving costs, because we pay for that by the hour. Now about that desk arrangement, you had on your drawing, the contractor said he could build a custom unit the length of that wall, that would basically be one long counter, with three knee openings and drawers built in including both shallow drawers and file drawers as well as an underneath shelf for the computer, keyboard drawer, and a riser for the printer. He showed me pictures of two they’d built for other people and they looked really nice, furniture grade cabinet work. It will also have storage cabinets above it, with book shelves and desk lights on the underside of the cabinets, to give you good lighting right over your work space. So I ordered that also, we’ll just sell your desks unless we have another use for them.”

“Mom you aren’t spending a ton of money on this are you? I mean we can always use our old desks...”

“No Jimmy I’m not, the most expensive thing is the bathroom and that is going to run about $3500 mostly because of the fixtures and plumbing work. All of the rest is less than $2000 and that includes some other things I’m getting to make those rooms better for you boys. Jimmy the addition we were looking at was almost $25000, for just the structure, with nothing in it and no bathroom; and we were prepared to pay that, so this is nothing compared to that. Your ideas saved us a huge expense, neither Carol or I had even considered converting the basement like that. So don’t you be worrying about costs here; that’s my job and Carol’s and everything we’re doing will be very reasonable cost wise.”

“OK I just don’t want you spending a bunch of money that’s not necessary. Tommy and I don’t need anything really fancy. We’re boys and not into all the decorating girls and women are. If it’s comfortable, that’s all that’s necessary for us.”

“I guarantee it will be comfortable, so let your mother take it from here. Agreed?”

“OK I’m sorry Mom, I won’t argue or worry any more about it; financing isn’t my problem, I shouldn’t have even mentioned it.” He replied.

“Jimmy all of you have a right to be concerned about family finances. You’re a good boy Jimmy all of you are good kids and Carol and I understand how much you want us all to be together; we want that too and as quickly as possible so we’re moving as quickly as possible. Carol and I have spent quite a bit of time on the phone in the past few days and believe me when I tell you it will happen just as fast as possible without wasting money in the process. As I told you, we can all be living together as of Saturday of next week and considering that we were just in the talking stage two days ago, that’s really fast. It will take several weeks beyond that to sort everything out; but we’ll be together as quick as humanly possible. Money may be tight for a month or two until we sell this house, and I may have to draw on some of our investments in that time; but none of that’s of real concern, because as soon as we sell this house, then we can pay off the other one and replenish our investments, plus invest more. What I’m trying to tell you kids, is don’t worry about finances or what we’re spending. It’s all manageable and Carol and I will handle it.”

“Thank you for telling us that Janet but for what it’s worth, when it’s all done, could you and Mom sit down with at least me and Jimmy and show us how you worked this all out. I admit I don’t know anything about finances and it’s something I need to learn. I know Mom’s got a pretty heavy background in accounting and you know about these things too. Someday I may have to make the kinds of decisions you’re making now, and it would be a big help if we understood how you went about it and why you chose one thing or way over something else. Heck I don’t even know how to balance a checkbook, but then I don’t have a checking account; but I’ll need to know that stuff in the not too distant future.” Susan asked.

“Susan that’s a very responsible request and I know your mother and I would be happy to sit down with you kids and explain any of this. It may be a little over Tommy’s head for a couple of years, but when he’s ready we’d do the same with him too. There’s nothing secret here except we don’t want to talk about family matters like that outside of the family. My personal belief is that everyone should know as much as possible about personal and family financing. When my husband was alive, he handled most of our money issues; when he died, then suddenly I had to learn about it on a crash basis; and made a few bad decisions because I didn’t know what I should have. Your mother as you said has a strong accounting background, and in fact helped me sort things out when my husband died, unfortunately I didn’t consult her soon enough and lost quite a bit of money as a result of that. She and your father had more warning before he passed on; and had time to plan for it, but his medical expenses wiped out most of their savings and investments, so she had a hard time for a while. The best part of us all getting together, is that we will all be in a much stronger financial position and actually have more money available to handle anything that might happen.”

“Mom you don’t have to answer and I really don’t want to ask but what happens if one of you, I mean you or Carol died; where would we be then?” Jimmy softly asked.

<sigh> “This is something else we should have told you kids but never did, because we didn’t want to worry you about it. Jimmy legally Carol is already as much your mother as I am and likewise, I am joint legal guardian over both Susan and Tommy. We did that when her husband died, so that you kids would always have a place to live with someone who loved you. It also simplified things when you were staying here or they at our house. Had one of you been injured then either Carol or I could handle all medical decisions as legal guardian without any delay, while the hospital attempted to get any approvals they needed from your biological parent. Legally we are both your guardians and can make any decision we feel necessary with regard to you. That’s what ‘joint-guardianship’ means. We hold equal responsibility for all three of you kids. Currently she holds title to this house and I hold title to my house; but once we combine as a family, we’ll change the title to our house to joint ownership, because she will have a significant investment in the property. We’re going to do the same with all investments. So that if one of us dies, the other will own the property, without any legal proceedings necessary. Carol will maintain her income in her own bank accounts and so will I; but create a joint account for family expenses. If we decide to buy something major then each of us will contribute to the cost. There are other minor details and we will both have wills on file to protect you kids and make sure you’ll not ever be without a home or family.”

“So you’re my Mom legally?” Tommy asked.

“Yes Tommy, I have been for 7 years. Just as Carol has legally been Jimmy’s Mom just as long. We are jointly responsible for each of you.”

Tommy got up and walked to her and wrapped his arms around her, “I’ve always thought of you as my second Mom and it’s nice to know that it legal. I love both my Moms and I promise to always listen to you, and try my best to never do things to disappoint you.”

“Sweetheart you’ve never disappointed me. I love all three of you children and so does Carol, that’s why we filed that legal paperwork, we couldn’t take a chance that any of you would ever not have a family. I’m so proud of all of you and just love you so much, that you’d have to do something really drastic for either of us to think badly of you. You three are wonderful children and all we could ever hope for.” She replied pulling him onto her lap and kissing the side of his head. “I love you Tommy, I always have.” She said giving him a smooch.

“I love you too Mom,” he softly replied and buried his head against her.

Jimmy and Susan just watched smiling as their little brother got held and petted, very happy on his second mother’s lap.

“So is Jimmy my stepbrother?” Susan asked.

“No Susan, that term would be if your Mom remarried and then her new husband adopted him. This is different, because there’s no legal bond between Carol and I; we’re not married and couldn’t be. We are ‘Joint Legal Guardians’ that means we went to court and a judge allowed us to each give the other equal responsibility for our children. Once he approved and filed the court order; neither of us have more authority over you than the other. That’s an unusual situation and the judge talked to us about it, as to what we would do, if we didn’t agree, and we told him we would talk it out until we found a solution we could agree on. But Carol and I have known each other for a long time and spent many, many, hours talking about what we believe and how we want to raise our children and the values we wish to instill in them. So the odds of you hearing something with regard to you different between us is pretty low. I have full confidence that Carol would never steer Jimmy wrong or tell him something I wouldn’t approve of; and she feels the same way about me advising or disciplining with you two.”

“I guess that it just makes formal the way I’ve always felt. You’ve always been an advisor, teacher and supporter to me, just like my mother, and I loved you for that. You always gave me almost word for word the same answers to a problem as Mom. But I was always glad that you were willing to listen to any problem I had, sometimes it was easier for me to talk to you than Mother. I never had to worry that you would tell something I told you in confidence, but sometimes you told me I should really talk to my mother and let her know how I felt. Then when I did that, she never got mad at me, and we always were able to talk about it and either fix the problem or make me feel better about it afterwards. I also remember Jimmy sitting with my mother like Tommy is with you now, getting loved, and telling her his problems and her giving him her advice, just like she’d do with me and Tommy. So I guess it all makes sense that you’d share guardianship over us; you were doing it every day anyway.”

“So you plan on emptying your room before painting it tomorrow and staying over here with Tommy then Jimmy, was that what you said?” she asked her son.

“Yeah like I said it would make painting easier and let Susan’s stuff be moved in quicker; is that a problem Mom?”

“Not for me if it’s not for you. I know little Tommy here has always loved sharing a bed with you so as long as you two are ok with it then why would I object. You ok with it Tommy?”

“No problem for me, he keeps me nice and warm, I’m always cold sleeping alone.” Tommy replied smiling up at her.

“Then you have a bed warmer for another week Tommy, just don’t let him steal the whole bed or hog the covers,” she replied ruffling his hair and renewing her hug as he squirmed a little.

Chapter 8

Jimmy’s Mother walked home after dinner still amazed at the wonderful children she called her own; stopping along the way to give Mrs. Murphy a piece of her mind for her attempted interference with Susan and the boys that morning. When she got home, she poured herself a stiff drink; that woman was so frustrating that it took great restraint not to start swearing at her or just punching her out. The woman had finally agreed to keep her nose out of things which were not hers to be involved in. But it took a lot of work to get her agree to that.

Picking up Jimmy’s drawings she walked down to the basement comparing the drawing to what she saw. She almost never came down here, except to do laundry and usually only staying long enough to do what she needed to. Walking over to the Recreation room, she turned on the lights and walked in looking at the room closely for the first time in a long time. Looking to her left she saw two big piles of boxes against the wall, ‘The boys really did pack and move what has to be almost everything they own,’ she realized as she looked at the boxes. There was even sports equipment there with the boxes. Looking around more she noted the paneling and knew the block walls behind them were sealed and insulated; her husband took care to make sure that this space would never be damp or cold. The more she looked at the room the more she realized how much care he’d put into finishing it. ‘This really is a great room and will make a wonderful set of rooms for the boys once Jimmy’s plans were completed. Well Doug you gave your son a present; 11 years late, but he’ll enjoy the room you built for him.’ She thought as a tear leaked down her cheek. She glanced at the drawings then walked off distances Jimmy had indicated for the closet and the bedroom, Vs the lounge room. She could visualize what her son had planned and just shook her head that a 15 year old was capable of the accurate and detailed work he done. He’d even identified the optimum location for the bathroom and from what the contractor had said, was correct in the right places to tap into plumbing. The only suggestion the contractor had made, beyond what Jimmy recommended was to replace the hot water tank, if not now then soon, because with three bathrooms and 5 people taking baths and/or showers the current tank wasn’t big enough. She opted to do it now while the plumbers were already going to be there working; the service call to have them come back was half the cost of the new tank. ‘Jimmy probably never noticed the tank capacity, he sure noted everything else,’ she thought before turning off the lights and going back upstairs.

After looking into her son’s room and seeing how empty it looked with all of his personal item’s missing, she just shook her head, realizing it would be empty by the time she came home tomorrow and a girl’s room in only a few days. She loved Susan like her own daughter but Susan wasn’t Jimmy and he’d be sleeping down in the basement from here on. She collapsed with a sigh on her bed to go to sleep, wondering what she could do to make this transition easy for the kids. She loved all of them and they were excited about it, but it was going to be a big change for all of them with their new combined family all in one house.

***

“Boys we need to go to bed earlier tonight, because we’re going to have to get up much earlier than we did today. I have to be at Beth’s house at 8:00 so for us to have enough time for breakfast I want us up at 6:30. I’ll walk you to over to the other house, because I don’t want you two out walking around the neighborhood especially near Mrs. Murphy’s house naked and by yourselves. If you need to come here for any reason, and that shouldn’t be necessary since there’s plenty of food over there, then I want you to call Pam Martin and she’s agreed to come and walk with you. You know her Jimmy, she’s in your class at school and she’s going to stop in around lunch time just to make sure you two aren’t having any problems.”

“Susan she doesn’t need to check on us and we’ll just wait for you to come home before coming back here... “

“Jimmy I’m in charge of supervising your modesty program so she WILL stop in and check on you guys and no arguments. Furthermore, you WILL be naked when she stops by and you WILL call her if you need to come back here earlier. Do we understand each other on this?”

“Yes, But?”

“Jimmy I know you don’t know her that well, but I do, and she’s a really nice girl. Yes she’ll see you naked, so what? As long as you act normal she will treat you like she always has. No problem, unless you make one yourself. Have any of the girls done anything to intentionally embarrass you?”

“Well no, they’ve been nice mostly...”

“And so will anyone else I bring to be with us and there will be others; some you will know; some you won’t but none of them will be mean to you or make fun of you or anything else for you to worry yourself about. Just act normal and they will too.”

“OK...”

“Jimmy I’ve already talked to Pam and she knows all about what we’re doing. So she won’t be surprised to find you boys naked and she had better find you naked if you know what’s good for you. She was very nice to offer to escort you if you need to come here, so just be nice to her and she’ll be nice to you. Jimmy trust me on this it will be fine.”

“Ok Susan I understand...”

“Good now let’s go get ready for bed it’s getting late; both of you need a bath or a shower before, bed, moving all of that stuff today, got you a little grimy and I want clean boys in bed with me.”

“Yes Susan,” both boys answered together.

The boys got in to the shower together and were washing each other, when Tommy asked, “So you know the Pam girl she was talking about.”

“Well I know her when I see her but I really wouldn’t say I ‘know’ her. We’ve said a few words in passing and she’s in some of my classes but that’s about it. She’s taller than me, slim with short dark brown hair, kind of cute in a ‘tomboy’ sort of way and near the top of our class academically so she’s obviously smart. Beyond that I really don’t know her at all.”

“You’re nervous about her seeing you naked aren’t you.” Tommy said as more of a statement than a question.

“Yeah to be honest I am. I mean at the very least I’ll have to see her at school every day and sit near her and she’ll know...”

“Just how did you think I felt about Connie feeling me up today during those diaper changes. I’m in the same boat, if she ever told anyone about that at school; my life would turn to shit. As if the diapering and changing wasn’t bad enough, then I accidently cum while she’s handling me and I have to face her and see her more than you will with Pam. Because she’s not in ‘some’ of my classes she’s in ‘all’ of them except phy’s ed; I sit near her all day long!.”

“So what am I supposed to do?”

“Suck it up, act normal, be nice to her and hope for the best, that’s all either of us can do during this modesty thing.” Tommy replied.

“Guess you’re right.”

“Jimmy I hate to mention this but I think we are going to be seen by a whole bunch of girls and women this summer and I mean a ton of them. So we might as well get used to the idea that it’s going to happen. If we put up any fuss, our Moms and Susan will just find more ways for more of them to see us naked. Didn’t you hear how much your Mom is in favor of all of this? They will make sure we’re seen by a bunch of people.” Tommy advised.

“Yeah I heard, but I was hoping it wouldn’t be that bad. But I think you’re right we’re going to be seen a lot more than I’d hoped for. I mean at home it’s not so bad, even when some girl visits; but out on the street; that’s a whole different thing. So I guess you nailed what I need to do: suck it up, act normal, be nice, and hope for the best! What else can we do?”

“Nothing, we’re pretty much stuck no matter what.”

The three went to bed shortly thereafter holding each other but surprisingly no sex, Susan was tired and knew she had to get up early and wasn’t interested; Jimmy was worried about the next day; and Tommy was just happy to be cuddled up against his best friend and big brother. All three groaned the next morning when the alarm clock went off. “This is entirely too early,” Jimmy moaned.

“It’s barely light outside,” Tommy complained, “I was getting used to sleeping in a little later...”

“You’re both right but we have to get up now,” Susan told them as she threw the covers back and swiveled her body to sit up and put her feet on the floor. Then headed for the bathroom, pausing at the door to her room, “Come on you two get out of bed and get moving, I’ll expect you in the kitchen in 15 minutes.” She directed.

Both boys were out of bed by the time she returned and started getting dressed. They used the bathroom, and put their shoes on then headed down the steps. Susan already had a pot of coffee on and was cooking sausage links on the stove. Tommy make some toast and get plates out, Jimmy stir up a half dozen eggs, and just make a big pan of scrambled eggs.” She ordered without even looking at them and both boys immediately complied.

Ten minutes later they were sitting at the table eating, the boys wondering what was up with their sister this morning. Jimmy decided to just ask. “What’s up Susan, you’ve done nothing but give orders this morning, no good morning boys, not anything, it’s like your upset or something?”

<sigh>“Sorry Jimmy and you too Tommy, I’m not upset with either of you. I’m just not all that awake, and running on a tight time schedule and I’m not looking forward to dealing with 150 little kids with dirty diapers. I didn’t mean to be that way with you guys, you’ve done nothing to deserve that.”

“Ok well I can sympathize on the diaper front, you got ‘volunteered’ for that; it wasn’t something you or the other girls from what I heard them say wanted to do. I mean it’s one thing to take care of a few kids, but 150 is just a whole different matter. Just one thing, Suzy don’t take it out on the kids, it’s not their fault you got stuck doing this. Some are going to be scared with strangers changing their diapers and you still need to make sure it’s a good experience for each of them. Make sure all the girls know that and treat the kids really good.”

Moving onto his lap, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him before responding.

“What was that for?” he asked.

“To let you know what a great boy you are Jimmy. You’re always worrying about other people and how they feel. Especially kids younger than you. You were 100% correct that some of those kids are going to be scared; the babies won’t be; but the older they are the more they’re likely to be embarrassed about a stranger changing their diaper and we’ll need to take particular care to make them feel good. I’ll talk to all of the girls about that before we start this morning and I just wanted to thank you for pointing that out. I’d missed it, but my caring boyfriend and brother didn’t and made the effort to remind me so that we’re good to the kids.”

“When did you have to be at Beth’s house?” he asked stroking her side as she continued to sit on his lap.

“8:00 so we need to leave soon, so I’ll have time to walk from your house to hers...”

“OK that’s no problem Tommy’s just finishing up,” he said looking over her shoulder, “Do you guys have a thermos?”

“Yeah why?”

“I just thought that if you did, I’d take the rest of that coffee with us, no sense wasting it and I’m really not very awake yet.”

“No problem with that, it’s in the left hand cabinet, there by the sink, it’s old and beat up but it works. It used to be my dad’s and we don’t use it much but it was the best made when he bought it. He took it to work with him every day, because he didn’t like the machine coffee at work. Mom’s kind of sentimental about it.”

“OK, I’ll take good care of it then...”

“Don’t worry Jimmy it’s almost impossible to hurt it, and I know you can’t break it. It’s all steel and heck dad dropped it off of the roof of a building 6 stories high by accident and all it did was bend the cup/cap and put a small dent in the side; he just bought a new top for it and kept right on using it. Mom will be glad that it’s being used by someone.”

“OK, but I’ll still take good care of it.”

After they’d cleaned up from breakfast, Jimmy poured the remaining coffee into the thermos and the headed out the door, locking the house. “God it’s cold out here!” Tommy said wrapping his arms around himself “Cold and damp!”

Jimmy shivered himself, “Yeah overcast and foggy, feels like it might rain today. Glad we’ll be working inside, let’s go so we can get back inside where it’s warmer,” he said then wrapped an arm around Tommy’s shoulders and started them moving.

Once inside his house, Susan handed him the keys for both houses and he just put them on the table. “You boys behave yourselves today,” Susan admonished “I’ll be back around 5:00 at the latest, sooner if Beth and I can manage to escape. Remember Pam will stop by around noon and call her if you need to go home for some reason, I don’t want you walking past Mrs. Murphy’s place naked without an escort.”

“OK bye Susan and remember take good care of the kids even though you girls don’t want to be there!” he said kissing her cheek just before she left.

Jimmy carried the thermos to the kitchen and poured himself another cup of coffee, “want some Tommy it’s hot if nothing else?”

“Yeah but I need milk and sugar in it, I can’t drink it straight like you do...”

“Milks in the fridge and the sugar bowl is right there,” he said pointing to the table and handing the boy a cup and spoon, before sitting down and sipping the hot liquid. Once Tommy joined him, sitting close so that his body was touching against the bigger boy, he looked up at Jimmy. “Is this what’s it’s going to be like from here on, us sitting together at breakfast everyday and being real brothers? I think I’ll like that Jimmy.”

Reaching over and rubbing the boys back, “You’ve always been my little brother Tommy, we just didn’t get to live together as much as we wanted; now that’s changing and we can be together as much as we want or spend time alone if we want that. Those will be easy choices now, but neither of us will have to be alone if we don’t want to be. You’ll still want to spend time with your friends won’t you?”

“I don’t have all that many Jimmy. Going to that private school, kind of separates me from the guys here in the neighborhood; they all go to the public school. I get teased about that a lot, but Mom insists that we go there. She and Dad decided we’d get a better education there, the discipline is a lot stricter there I know that, and we wear uniforms so we all look the same, but I don’t see how it’s that much better.”

“So is it a religious school? You know Catholic or one of those Christian Academy’s I’ve never even asked? I just knew that you and Suzy went to a private school.”

“No it’s a Charter School started by a bunch of College Professors who didn’t like the Public System for their own kids, so they just started their own and got it licensed by the state. There’s two others here in the area, one’s a boys only school, kind of a military academy, and they have to live there; the other is like mine where you live at home, but it a girls only school. Our school is coed, but small class sizes and lots of personal attention. They don’t offer as many course choices as the public school at the middle school and high school level because they’re geared for college prep mainly, but they’re supposed to have one of the highest college admission rates of all of the schools in the state for their graduates.”

“It’s a good school Tommy I could tell that just from your books when I was packing them. You’re doing work about two years higher than you would have had in public school, some are about what I’m taking now; especially in math and science. The fiction books that looked like required reading were advanced from what public school uses too. That’s probably because of the smaller class sizes, they can move faster with fewer kids to teach.”

“Yeah but I hate that it makes me different from other kids here in the neighborhood. What’s really bad is I have to ride the school bus with them. They take us to a public school and then we change buses to one that takes us to our school. So I get teased almost every day about my uniform, that regular kids don’t have to wear.”

“Don’t let that bother you Tommy most of them are just jealous that you get to go there and they don’t. Besides if you get a better education, it’s likely that at some time down the road, they’ll be working for you when you’re the manager, or executive or president of a company and they’re the grunt labor force. The ones who tease you the most are probably the dumber ones who’ll be working minimum wage jobs anyway.”

“OK, so where are we starting today?” Tommy asked.

“First we go to the basement and get some tools and the painting stuff, we’ll need a hammer and a screwdriver at the very least, a couple of paint brushes, roller, paint pan and a drop cloth. Then we knock down my bed and get it out of there and then move the other furniture out.” <pause> “Shit!”

“What?”

“I forgot to bring the cart back! We’ll need it as a dolly to bring the dresser and desk down the steps and move them to the garage. Ok well I guess, we’ll just move them into the hallway while we paint and then I’ll have Pam go with us to get the cart when she comes at lunch time. I’m still kind of nervous about her coming here and seeing me though, I really don’t know her other than to see her in passing at school.”

“Well Susan seems to know her and said she’d be nice, so don’t go getting all worked up about it; just remember our rules: suck it up, act normal, be nice and hope for the best!”

“As always you’re right little brother.”

“I’m NOT always right, you know a lot more than me about a whole lot of things. But I’m right about this, I’ve been doing the modesty thing longer than you have, Mom started on me two years ago, but mostly only at home. Her favorite line was ‘Little Boys Shouldn’t Be So Modest!’ God I’ve heard that a couple thousand times...”

Once they’d retrieved the tools, they were soon up in his room and removed the mattress from the bed, then found it took a major effort to move the thing down the steps, through the house, down a second set of steps and finally into the storage room in the basement. “God that was work!” Tommy complained sitting on one of the basement steps breathing hard.

“Yeah harder than I thought, it wasn’t that heavy, just really awkward, too flexible and it kept falling to the side and hitting stuff. At least the box springs have a wood frame and will be stiffer, so it won’t be as hard to move.”

After resting a few minutes they went back to the second floor and 30 minutes later had managed to get the second part to the storage room before resting again. “Those were the worst we’ll have to move,” Jimmy told the smaller boy, the rest will be easy compared to those two things...”

“Hope so, I’m not in shape for doing that too much...”

Back up stairs, Jimmy removed the headboard, and used the hammer to knock the steel frame apart. “OK I’ll take the headboard out to garage, Mom said she was getting matching ones so this one probably goes; if not I can always get it from out there. You take the two smaller rails, then we’ll come back for the long ones and just carry one each. Be careful with the rails Tommy you could punch holes in the walls if you hit them with those.”

Once all of the bed was in the basement storage room, the only things left were the nightstand with lamp, dresser and his desk and chair. The smaller items were moved out to the garage and soon only the desk and dresser were left. “These will be lighter if we take the drawers out,” Jimmy advised and removed the top two drawers from the dresser and took them out into the hallway and stacked them, Tommy followed carrying one drawer. Jimmy removed the other two while Tommy brought two small drawers from the desk. Once all of the drawers were out, Jimmy tilted the dresser to check the weight. “This isn’t bad with the drawers out,” he reported, “Tilt it back towards me and you take the bottom, we only have to move it about six feet down the hall to get it out of here.” Tommy just nodded and lifted the bottom, then backed his way into the hall until Jimmy said to stop. The desk quickly followed, it was actually lightweight without the drawers in it.

Both boys plopped on the carpet covered stairway and rested again. “I don’t think I want to be in the moving business Jimmy, that’s just too much work,” Tommy mumbled.

“Me neither, but that was the worst we’ll have to do today.”

“So what do we do now?”

“Remove the covers from the receptacles and light switch, tape around some of the woodwork to keep paint from accidently getting on it, put down the drop cloth, then start painting. Jimmy showed Tommy how to use the masking tape to edge around woodwork and the boy started on that while Jimmy removed the outlet and switch covers, then taped the places too high for Tommy to reach. After spreading the drop cloth on the carpet to protect it, he realized he’d need a stepladder and went out to the garage to get it. Once they were done with taping. Jimmy opened the paint can and stirred it until it was ready, then poured some into the roller pan and handed Tommy a small brush. “This part takes the longest Tommy, we have to use these small brushes to ‘cut in’ all around the room,” then dipped his brush into the can and showed Tommy how to carefully paint around the woodwork covering the first two inches or so. “We need to do that all around all of the woodwork and baseboards and fixtures. Then we can use the roller to paint the big areas. I’ll need to do the same thing all along the top of the walls, because we’re not painting the ceiling and the roller can’t get up to the top of the wall without hitting the ceiling. So you work down here where you can reach and I’ll do the upper part of the doorframes and around the top of the walls. Just go slow and easy rushing doesn’t help Tommy.” He advised and they were both soon hard at work.

Awhile later Jimmy looked down from the ladder and started laughing.

“What?” Tommy asked from where he was kneeling along the wall painting along the baseboard and looked back up at Jimmy, and Jimmy started laughing harder. “Why are you laughing at me? What did I do?”

Jimmy came down from the ladder and just chuckled and said, “Be right back,” and left the boy kneeling there wondering what was so funny.

When Jimmy returned he had a wet rag in hand, “Stand up a minute Tommy,” he said still chuckling to himself.

“What?” the boy asked again getting flustered.

“Tommy you have a big blotch of yellow on your butt and half your nose is yellow. If you’re going to rub your nose or scratch your butt with paint on your hands, you need to have a rag to wipe it off!” Then proceeded to clean the boy. Tommy just stood there blushing and let Jimmy clean the paint off. When he was done, he ruffled the boy’s hair and giving him a one armed hug, and kissed his cheek. “Don’t worry about it Tommy that’s happened to me before, too you know, no big deal. I’ll leave this cloth handy in case you need it. What do you say we break for lunch?” Jimmy poured the paint from his tray back into the can and put the lid on lightly while Tommy went to the bathroom and washed his hands to remove the paint from them. Jimmy joined him and cleaned up while Tommy was drying his hands.

Down in the kitchen they made sandwiches for themselves and were just sitting down to eat when the doorbell rang. “I’ll get it, that’s probably Pam...” Jimmy offered.

At the door it wasn’t who he expected, it was a FedEx delivery man. “I have a delivery for the Henderson residence, this is the right house isn’t it?” the man asked as Jimmy peeked around the door.

“Yes sir this is the right place,” Jimmy replied.

“OK, well I need a signature,” The man said. Extending an electronic clipboard. “Legal papers of some kind I presume from the sender, we get quite a bit from them,” the man continued.

“Uh.. ok come on in, Uh.. I’m naked I hope you don’t mind...”

“Doesn’t bother me son,” the man said with a shrug and stepped just inside the door, then pointed to where Jimmy needed to sign and once that was done handed him a cardboard folder type package, and was quickly gone.

“Who was that?” Tommy asked as Jimmy sat down again.

“FedEx delivery, legal papers of some kind for Mom I guess,” Jimmy replied pointing to the flat package.

Jimmy had about two bites left of his sandwich, when the doorbell rang again. This time he knew it had to be Pam and his stomach was doing flip flops all the way to the door. Opening it enough for her to step through, but mostly hiding behind it, he said, “Uh... Hello Pamela, please come in we were expecting you...” and gulped hard, his mouth suddenly very dry.

“Hello Jimmy and please don’t call me Pamela, I’m just Pam, only teachers and my mother call me that, and my mother only when I’ve managed to get her upset with me...” she replied smiling as she walked around the door and stood as he closed it. Jimmy was standing there frozen in place like a deer caught in the headlights of a car at night, as the taller girl stood before him, and he watched her eyes sweep up and down his body quickly before meeting his.

“So Susan asked me to stop by today and see if you guys needed anything and to escort you to her house and back if you needed to go there. So how’s it going?”

Jimmy was in a panic, he was standing naked in front of a girl he’d seen every day for years, a girl who went to the same school and was in his classes. His mind was frozen and so was his body, he was getting light headed and suddenly he wanted to vomit, but he couldn’t even move... his body started swaying and he couldn’t even reach out to stop from falling...”

“Oh dear,” she muttered to herself and stepped closer to him and put her hands on his shoulders, then lifted his chin and looked directly into his eyes, he was gulping and having trouble breathing. She pulled him forward and wrapped her arms around him and pushed his head against her shoulder. “Jimmy you’re having a panic attack and you need to relax, take slow deep breaths,” she softly told him as she held him against her and stroked his back, then massaged the back of his neck occasionally running her fingers up the back of his scalp. “It’s ok Jimmy there’s nothing to be afraid of I’m certainly not going to hurt you, just breath slow and take deep breaths and blow them out. I’m going to hold you until I feel you relax and your breathing goes back to normal. There’s absolutely no reason for you to be feeling this way,” she softly told him as his body trembled against her while she supported him and gently held him.

They stood there a few minutes and he was starting to calm down.

“Is something wrong with Jimmy? Does he need help?” Tommy asked from near the kitchen.

“Hello Tommy nice to see you again.” She said still holding Jimmy against her body. “Jimmy’s really nervous and had a little panic attack but he’s starting to calm down now, he’ll be fine in a few minutes...”

“Hey I know you, you’ve been over at our house a few times with Mom’s women’s club haven’t you?” Tommy replied.

“Yes but not recently, you’re a little taller than I remember you Tommy...”

“Yeah it’s been about a year since you’ve been there, and yeah I’ve grown a couple of inches not enough as far as I’m concerned but I can’t seem to hurry it any. I remember you but I didn’t put your name together with your face, when Susan said who was stopping by. But it’s nice to see you again too. Is he going to be ok? He looks limp?”

“He’ll be fine in a few more minutes. What have you two been doing today, painting something I’m guessing since you have yellow paint on your leg.”

“Uh.. yeah, moving furniture out of his old room, which will be Susan’s room by the end of next week and repainting it. We’re all moving in together, we’ve always been like one family anyway, so now we’ll live in one house.”

“Susan told me she thought that was going to happen but not so soon, I know she’s happy about it, and you seem excited about it, I assume Jimmy wants it too, since everything seems to be speeding up.”

“Yeah all of us want it, all of us kids and both Moms, it’s going to be great, we’re all pretty excited about it. Like I said we’ve always been like one family anyway; now we just get to live together.”

“So have you finished lunch? Do you need anything from me?”

“I just finished and Jimmy was just about done. But we need to get a hand cart from over at our house, so we’ll need you to walk us over there and back at some point if that’s ok... Old Mrs. Murphy has been putting up a fuss about us being naked and Susan doesn’t want us walking by her place without an escort, to intercept her if necessary.”

“That’s no problem I’d be happy to do that.”

“So Jimmy will be alright?”

“Yes, just a few more minutes, he’s calmed down quite a bit already. I think he and I will need to talk some though once he gets back closer to normal.”

“Ok how about it I go back up and paint some more and leave you with him. You can have your talk and when you’re done, we can go get that cart so we can move the rest of the furniture out to the garage yet today.”

“Sounds like a good plan there Tommy, I’ll call you when we’re ready...”

“OK I’ll just go paint some more then...”

“Jimmy?” she softly said as she continued stroking his back, “I can feel your breathing is better and much slower like it should be, are you still feeling faint? You were swaying just before I grabbed you like you were going to pass out or something.”

“I’m better, but my stomachs still doing flip flops, I thought I was going to throw up there for a minute...”

“Ok let’s go sit down somewhere and relax some then, until you’re feeling better, you really scared me there for a couple of minutes. We can talk about it and hopefully you won’t feel so nervous, when we’re done. Can you do that for me?”

“Yeah, let’s go in the living room, it’s behind us to your left...Pam I’m really sorry I reacted this way I don’t understand what happened but you shouldn’t have had to help me like this... I’m really sorry...”

“Shhhh easy Jimmy it’s not a problem, we’ll talk about it to help you understand why you reacted and hopefully you’ll feel better about yourself and avoid getting all keyed up like that, in the future so it won’t happen again.” She said while gently leading him into the living room and once there, she sat on the couch and pulled him down beside her, then pulled his torso across her lap, with him turned onto his side cradling his head against her chest. She hooked his knees and pulled them against her side, then used that hand to continue stroking his back and side. “I think you need to be held for a while yet Jimmy, that’s why I’m placing you like this,” she explained, “Now I just want you to totally relax and let me hold you and take care of you for a little while, while we talk and I think you’ll be fine when we’re done.”

“OK...” his voice responded almost like a whimper.

“Jimmy I think I know what happened to make you react like that,” she started softly, “We really don’t know each other that well, we attend school together, but you and I have never really talked to each other; other than to say hello or about school stuff. I’ve seen you for years of course, and always thought you were a nice boy always helping other kids when you could. You’ve always struck me as being very shy though and I never understood that, you’re good looking, better looking than many of the boys, but you never approached girls or talked to them unless they started the conversation, then you’d open up and be really friendly with them. So I just knew that it was because you were shy with girls. So now you’re having to work on not being so modest and that must be really hard for a boy who’s shy to begin with. And you have to face a girl who you go to school with and attend classes with and be naked in front of her. Not to mention that it’s a girl who is a little intimidating to most of the boys in our class. I know I am so don’t even try to argue that one. I’m taller than most of the boys and that intimidates some of them, and I get better grades than most and that intimidates more, and then we add in the facts that you really don’t know me, and your shyness, and being new to this whole modesty training thing, all piled up on you at once and that’s why you had that little panic attack there. Do you think that’s a fair description of what you were feeling?”

“Yeah mostly... you being taller or smarter than me never bothered me. I always thought you were cute; kind of a tomboy until recently, but nice looking even then. But no taller doesn’t bother me any. And well, I actually like girls who are smarter than me, you know I don’t do sports so I’m not into all that macho jock stuff, and smart girls interest me, so that doesn’t intimidate me either. But you were pretty much right on, about the other things. I’ve always been shy with people especially girls I don’t know that well. And all this modesty training stuff has been really hard for me. I get embarrassed when I know I shouldn’t and all the girls so far have been really nice to me; but I have a really hard time getting past how I feel when I’m naked with them, even when I know that it’s not sexual or any of that stuff... Pam I’m fighting against what people have told me all my life and it’s really difficult to change how I feel about being naked with people seeing me.”

“So tell me exactly what happed today...”

“Well I found out yesterday you’d be here today and I worried about how you’d react to me; knowing that we went to school together and all that. I know I shouldn’t have but I did. Then the doorbell rang earlier and I was kind of prepared for it thinking it was you; but instead of you it was a delivery guy. So I went back to eating lunch and was getting more nervous while waiting, and then the doorbell rang again and I knew it had to be you. As I was walking to the door my stomach was really doing flip flops and I was starting to feel sick, then I opened the door and well I just panicked when you came in. I mean you were right there in front of me and I was standing there naked and no place to hide or anything.. and well I just lost it.. I got light headed and had trouble breathing and felt like I wanted to vomit and my mouth was so dry and I was gulping for air and felt dizzy and then you grabbed me and held me and talked to me and then I relaxed some, enough not to throw up on you anyway. That’s what happened.”

“So this has been building up since yesterday from what you said, then you got the false alarm with the delivery guy, and then when it was me, it all came crashing down on you at once. Well that explains your reaction; but you really shouldn’t have put yourself through all of that, it just wasn’t necessary. Jimmy you can sit up some now, I think you’ve recovered enough; but I’d still like to hold you if that’s ok with you. You cuddle nicely you know and I’m just enough bigger to make this feel really good to me.”

Jimmy rolled onto his back and scooted up so his butt was against her leg, then let her hold his torso as he looked up at her, “How’s this?” he asked and she just smiled in reply. “Now to answer your question, yes basically I did this to myself. You didn’t do anything to provoke it, it was already there just waiting to crash on me when I opened the door. Pam you’ve been really nice about all of this and I’m sorry for causing so much trouble for you. You didn’t need to have to deal with my emotional rollercoaster. I understand all of the reasons why I shouldn’t be so shy about myself or my body, I’ve heard all of the arguments and they make sense. But emotionally, I get all tense inside when I have to face being seen naked by someone new and worry about how they’re going to react. The more warning I have the tenser I get. I know I shouldn’t, but well I do, and I don’t know what to do about it. It would have been easier for me if I hadn’t known you were coming and you just showed up at the door and told me Susan asked you to stop by. Then I wouldn’t have had time to have my emotions running all over and I’d just react on the spot. Hopefully I’d react the way I’m supposed to. Does that make any sense at all?”

“Actually it does Jimmy. And your analysis is most probably correct. You’ve had to face other girls that you knew in advance about and I’m assuming some you didn’t know about, so you know better than anyone, how you felt about both types of situations. As far as your emotional response, because you say you’ve accepted the logical arguments for doing this; the only solution is to put yourself in those situations repeatedly until you don’t get all tense and emotional about it. Basically you need to learn not to be concerned about other people’s reactions and just be who you are and be proud enough of yourself not to worry either beforehand if you have warning, or on the spot if you don’t. And that Jimmy is what this modesty program is all about. Giving you opportunities to deal with the situation and your emotions, in a controlled manner with no danger to you; so that you can become more self confident in the end.”

“I understand all of that, but doing it is something entirely different.”

“Jimmy do you feel uncomfortable sitting here with me now, you naked and me wearing clothes?”

“No... Actually I’d almost forgotten I was naked until you reminded me just now,” he said with a light blush.

“Now don’t be getting embarrassed at this point we’ve been sitting here for quite some time!”

Looking down, “I know that Pam, and my brain is telling me I have no reason to be embarrassed about sitting here naked over your lap and you holding me and touching me and that we’re not doing anything even remotely sexual, but my emotions caused me to blush a little when you pointed out that I’m naked and you’re not.”

“But you’re not uncomfortable with being with me like this are you?”

“No Pam I’m not, you’ve been really great in helping me get through this. You’ve been really good to me and I feel comfortable like this with you now. Tommy keeps telling me to suck it up emotionally, act normal, be nice and hope for the best and that usually things will be fine. He’s been doing this longer at home, so I’ve been trying to do it that way and mostly it works. Today I just lost it totally and well you were really good in helping me...”

“Well Tommy has the right idea, my younger brother has been doing this for three years now and he’s comfortable in almost all situations.”

“So this whole thing isn’t new to you? If I’d known that, that alone would have made it easier.”

“No nothing about this is new to me Jimmy, I wish Susan had told you that. I have an older brother who went through this and Joey, my younger brother is 10 and like I said has been doing it for three years. The only time he ever wears clothes is if we go out somewhere, where he has to wear them. He actually prefers to be naked 99% of the time.”

“Well you’ve been really nice about the whole thing anyway and I want to thank you for that.”

“You’re welcome Jimmy, like I told you I’ve always thought you were a really nice boy, just too shy, so hopefully this will get you past all of that. Besides, I like you and I’d like us to be much better friends in the future so helping you a little today at least got us talking to each other and moving in that direction.”

“I like you too Pam, now that I know you some, so yeah, we could be better friends, after this I feel like I could tell you anything and not worry about it. Is that ok?”

“Jimmy I’d love for us to be close enough to trust each other totally. I want all of my friends to be like that. So how are you feeling now; everything back to normal?”

“Yeah I’m good, but only because you got me through it.”

“So Tommy said something about needing to get a cart of some kind to move furniture?”

“Yeah, we’ve got one of those carts with 4 wheels that can be either a flat cart or a two wheel dolly by changing the handle and I need it to move a desk and a dresser from upstairs out to the garage, but it’s over in their garage right now.”

“So let’s round up Tommy who went back up to paint while we talked and go get the cart, then you guys can get back to what you need to do and I can go back home and keep my little brother out of trouble. He was reading out on our deck when I left, working on his all over tan; god only knows what he’s up to by now.”

“OK,” he replied, then kissed her cheek saying “Thanks again” before getting up and helping her up from the couch.

“My pleasure Jimmy, glad to help.”

Going up the steps, they found Tommy almost lying down as he was finishing painting along the top of the baseboards. “Almost done Tommy?” he asked.

“Four feet more, then I’m done with everything I can reach. You ok now Jimmy?”

“Yeah Pam was very nice and got me through it and then we talked about how it happened and hopefully I can avoid it happening again. But I’m good now.”

“Good, I was worried when I first saw you, it looked like she was holding you up to keep you from falling.”

“She was, Tommy I was dizzy and about to faint. Like I said she was really nice to me.”

“So are we going after the cart? Wait how about you two just go get it and I’ll finish this, shouldn’t take you long...”

“You won’t mind us leaving you here?”

“You won’t be gone more than ten minutes at most, unless you manage to get lost going down the street 5 houses. But then you might get waylaid smooching or something <giggle>.

“Not likely, Pam and I never said more than a few words to each other before today...”

“Possible Tommy,” she replied to Jimmy’s surprise, “I mean he’s awfully good looking and a nice boy, I could definitely be interested once we know each other better.” Her arm sliding around his waist.

“Yeah my sister keeps telling him that but, he can’t seem to believe it. So go, I’ll be fine until you get back, and don’t forget to take the keys Jimmy.”

“Right! Be back soon...”

They went to the Campbell house quickly and Jimmy unlocked the garage and got the cart and was shoving it back to his home, when Mrs. Murphy appeared. “What’s this a different girl today? Have you no shame?”

“Mrs. Murphy my mother already talked to you about this; please just leave me alone. I’m not bothering you and I’m not doing something illegal.” Jimmy said with a sigh.

“I don’t care what your mother says it’s NOT right boy!”

“Thank you for opinion Mrs. Murphy, now if you don’t mind, we’ll be going,” Pam said stepping between the woman and Jimmy looking down at the woman as she motioned Jimmy to leave. Pam had a staring contest with the woman for a minute using her height to intimidate her, then just turned and left quickly catching up with Jimmy.

“You’ll burn in Hell!” the woman yelled after them.

“Maybe but you’ll be there long before us Bitch!” Pam mumbled beside him so only he could hear, “God I hate fundamentalist bigots like that!”

“You won’t get any argument from me Pam, thanks for stepping between us, I was close to telling her what she could do with her opinions.”

“Now I know why Susan was concerned about you boys walking past that house alone. Glad I was here for you Jimmy.”

“She tried the same crap yesterday morning, even though my mother had called her and explained it all the night before; and last night told her in person to back off that she had no right to interfere. I’m getting really tired of her tirades.”

“Well if she keeps it up she’ll have about 15 women on her case, all of that Women’s club your Mom belongs to and I can guarantee, my mother will be right there to give her a chewing out she’ll never forget! She can believe whatever she wants but she has no right to force her beliefs on other people.”

“OK well we’re here, thanks again Pam.”

“Jimmy is what you’re going to move that dresser and desk that was in the hallway? If it was I’ll give you a hand with them, Tommy’s a little small to help with those especially bringing them down the steps.”

“Would you mind? Once they’re down the steps I don’t need any help at all with this cart, but the steps were going to be a bear.”

“No problem, it will only take a couple of minutes. In fact we can probably move them down the steps easier without the cart, if it’s you and me carrying them.”

“I’d really appreciate the help if you really don’t mind.”

“Then let’s go move them and I’ll leave you alone,” she replied. So they left the cart on the ground floor converted into a dolly and went back upstairs. “We’re back Tommy, we got waylaid by Mrs. Murphy for a couple of minutes but that’s all.” She said as she rocked the dresser to check the weight. “Jimmy and I are going to move these to the bottom of the steps then he can cart them from there.”

“You’re going to just carry them?” Tommy asked.

“Down the steps yes, they’re not too bad and Jimmy and I are big enough to get them down without the cart. So we’ll just carry them it’ll be easier that way.” She replied.

“OK do I need to do anything?”

“You might wash the paint off of your hands and bring the drawers down, they shouldn’t be too heavy for you. But don’t get paint on them.”

“OK I’ll do that then,” Tommy replied.

“Alright Jimmy grab an end on the desk, and we’ll get it down there. You want to go first or me?”

“I’ll take the bottom, just go slow and don’t push as I back down the steps.” He advised. Two minutes later the desk was sitting beside the cart. “Now the dresser,” he said as they headed back up the steps. “Tilt it and I’ll take the bottom,” and they were moving again. Almost at the bottom step, “Ouch damn!” he said but didn’t stop moving until he could set the dresser on the floor.

“You ok? What happened?” she asked as she put the dresser upright.

Jimmy blushed, “I’m ok, it just bumped into my balls and hit them pretty good.”

“Let me see,” she said, then just reached down and cupped him, gently rolling them in her hand, as she leaned over looking at his sack. “No cuts or red spots or anything visible, do they still hurt?”

“No I’m ok, I just banged them and it hurt when it happened.” He replied as she released them from her hand.

“Well take good care of those Jimmy you can be hurt really easy down there, and you’re going to want them in working order when you decide to have a family of your own. My older brother mashed one of his when he wrecked his bicycle once and almost lost it; he was sitting on ice packs for over a week and hurt like hell all of the time. Swelled up about three times normal size, you don’t want to have to go through that one!”

“Yeah I think I’ll pass on doing that; thank you very much. Pam thanks for all of your help today you’ve been really great.” He said and reached out his arms to see if she’d accept a hug, not wanting to be pushy.

She saw his arms out and just smiled and stepped right into them, “Yeah and I’ll take this nice hug too Jimmy, you’re a great guy. I loved helping you.” Then kissed his cheek and lightly on the mouth, before stepping back and was quickly gone, waving as she walked away from the house.

“That went well at the end after your less than spectacular start with her Jimmy; I was really worried when I first saw her holding you up right after she arrived.”

“I was an emotional mess Tommy, I totally lost it. I couldn’t breathe, wanted to vomit and pass out all at the same time!”

“But everything worked ok right? So don’t go and get all emotional about a girl seeing you no matter who it is. It’s not worth the torture you put yourself through.”

“You don’t need to tell me Tommy, but it’s easier said than done, where I’m concerned. I just have try harder I guess...”

Jimmy saw that Tommy was carrying drawers for the desk so he took it out first and Tommy followed and put the drawers directly into it; then went back for more while Jimmy moved the dresser out to the garage. Both boys finished carrying the drawers out and putting them in then decided to take a break with Pepsi’s before going back to painting. Jimmy showed Tommy how to use the roller without getting paint all over him and set him to work on the wide areas while Jimmy finished cutting in around the ceiling, then took the roller and quickly finished the upper walls. By 4:00 they were done and cleaning up the room. After putting the paint away and cleaning the brushes and roller and roller pan, he just turned to the smaller boy and said, “Come with me young man,” and guided him back upstairs towards the bathroom.

“What?” Tommy asked.

“Shower! Even though you managed not to get heavy paint on you, you and I both have little specks all over us from the roller, so we’re going to take a shower and get this crap off of us.”

Jimmy washed Tommy and was amazed at how the boy had managed to get paint in his hair, as well as hand prints on his behind and even had some on his balls. Tommy just stood and let Jimmy clean him then did the same for the bigger boy, but that went much quicker since Jimmy and been more careful. They’d no more than gotten out and were drying themselves when Susan arrived and was calling for them. “Up here in the bathroom Susan!” he called back.

“Hi guys!” she greeted them smiling as she watched them finished drying off.

“Hi Sis, and Hi Suzy” were the responses. “We just finished cleaning up and as soon as I put the covers back on the outlets and light switch, your new room is ready,” Jimmy announced.

“Wow! This really looks different!” she exclaimed when they entered the room. “And so much bigger when it’s empty,” she continued.

“Yeah well remember your bed is bigger than the one I had in here, so it will fill up quickly once that’s here,” Jimmy offered as he was putting covers back on. But as soon as we hang your new curtains, your stuff can be moved in and you little lady will have your new domain.”

“You really did a good job boys this looks perfect,” she said giving each a hug and kiss. “So any problems today?”

“Actually yeah, I lost it for awhile and Mrs. Murphy was being her normal bitchy self; but let’s go sit down and be comfortable while we talk about it.” He replied then guided her down to the living room and they sat on the couch together, while Tommy went to find them drinks. Jimmy recounted the problem he’d had and how good Pam had been in helping him get through it and then their discussion as to how and why it happened. Followed by Pam going with him to get the cart and being confronted by Mrs. Murphy on the way back and Pam stepping in and helping again, then her helping him move the dresser and desk down the steps. “She was really great to me today Susan I couldn’t thank her enough for the way she treated me; I just wish I hadn’t gotten all worked up like that and lost all control of myself. I know I did it to myself, it wasn’t anything she did; heck she was only two steps inside the door when I was in full panic mode. But talking through it with her really helped; hopefully I can avoid doing that to myself again.”

“Part of that’s my fault Jimmy, I should have told you that she knew all about the modesty training thing, because her older brother and had gone through it and her younger brother’s doing it now, has been for a couple of years. And yes she’s a really nice girl as you saw today and she already thought well of you. I should have made the point that you could trust her about it and not to worry yourself like that. I should have realized that she would cause you to worry more because she goes to school with you and is in your classes and the same age as you. I just didn’t think of what impact her visiting would have. So I need to take some of the blame for how you reacted. You made yourself sick with worry and I’m partly to blame for that. Jimmy just so you know all of the girls who’ve seen you so far have brothers who either have or are going through this at least to some extent and none of them will give you bad reactions because they’re used to seeing it. You can trust all of them to care about how you feel and to keep private anything you tell them or about any embarrassment you might have. There will be more girls and any in the near future will be similar, so please don’t get all worked up like that, just go along with the program and get comfortable with having girls and women see you naked. The whole point is to make you comfortable about your body and have confidence that you are a good person with nothing to be ashamed about or embarrassed about.”

“Susan don’t blame yourself about this, you asked me to trust you on having her visit and I didn’t trust you enough. So I worried about things, I shouldn’t have. I’m at fault for not trusting you to look out for me and protect me. I won’t do that again. If you tell me someone is safe or not to worry about that person, then I’m giving what you tell me much more weight. I can’t guarantee that I won’t worry at all, depending on who it is; but certainly not enough to make myself sick again. I just have to trust you and your opinions more. I’m not used to doing that but today taught me that I need to trust what you tell me.”

“Did you plan anything for dinner this evening?”

“No how could I? I’ve been over here working all day. I barely got lunch in me, then almost upchucked it all when Pam arrived. Tommy and I have only taken a couple of short breaks mostly to catch our breath, all day.”

“Was there anything in the fridge we could fix fast?”

“You mean over at your house; no not really, lots of stuff in the freezer, but not much in the main compartment. Let me look here and see if there’s anything.” Then got up and went to the kitchen, when he came back he just shook his head. Same thing here lots of things in the freezer but nothing we can fix fast.”

Susan got up and called Janet and got her cell phone and explained the situation. Talked for a few minutes and then hung up. “She’ll pick up dinner at the chicken place on her way home, she was just about to leave the office; I was afraid I’d miss her if she was already driving. She usually doesn’t answer in the car, she just let’s her voice mail take it until she stops somewhere.”

“How do you know so much about her phone habits. I mean, I knew that, but how did you?”

<giggle> “She’s my second mother of course. I probably call and talk to her more than you do Jimmy. She’s very easy to talk to, sometimes more sympathetic than my Mom, so I talk to her quite a bit.”

“So are we eating here or there?”

“Here, she wants to see what you boys got done today, I told her how nice the room looks. Oh she talked to my mother last night and Mom was picking her paint up on the way home today, but she won’t be here until 8 or 9:00 she wasn’t even going to attempt to make it here by dinner. They want to have our family meeting tomorrow evening when I get back from the diaper detail, sometime after dinner. The two of them will be doing some shopping together for things they’ve decided to get so you and Tommy will be alone most of the day; probably painting Mom’s room if that’s ok.”

“Yeah no problem with that, even though the room is bigger, we can paint it faster than today because we spent a couple of hours just getting the furniture out and put elsewhere. That room only has a desk and a table and unless Mom wants them out immediately, we’ll just move them to the center of the room and cover them.”

“Would you mind Pam stopping by again, just in case you need to go to our house for something or need something?”

“No problem, she and I are fine now. Or anyone else you choose because I know not to worry and get all worked up again. I do trust you Susan, I know you love me and wouldn’t put me in a bad position if you had a choice in the matter.”

“OK that works, I’ll ask her to stop by then. I was planning on packing some more this evening and maybe you could bring a cart load, first thing in the morning, when you come over here.”

“I don’t see why not, just remind me to take the cart back this evening. That was the only reason we needed to go over there today. I forgot to bring it with us this morning and we needed it to move furniture.”

“Oh one thing Jimmy, we don’t get to sleep all in one bed now that Mom will be home, so you’ll be bunking with Tommy. Just make sure you keep the noise down in there. Mom doesn’t want to know you two are having sex <giggle>.”

“I’ll miss that Suzy, I really will, I love sleeping in the same bed with both of you, whether we do anything or not. Just cuddling together is really nice.”

“Well just so you know, I’m going to be working on my Mom on that; your Mother trusts me when I tell her that nothing is going on that could cause problems. It’s just a matter of getting MY mother on board. There’s no reason why we three shouldn’t be allowed to do that when we want to as long as my hymen is still intact, it’s obvious that I can’t get pregnant and that’s the only thing they could really have a problem with. Anything else is just playing around a little and I trust you boys totally not to get me in trouble like that.”

“Suzy no one’s going to put anything in there until you ask them to. You know I wouldn’t and neither would Tommy. We love and respect you too much to do something like that.”

“Was that a car pulling in the drive?”

“Yeah Mom’s home, so we need to find Tommy and set the table...”

Chapter 9

Just as the kids set the table, Jimmy’s Mother arrived with a bucket of chicken, coleslaw, mashed potatoes and gravy, with biscuits.

“Sorry you had to pick up dinner Mom, Tommy and I’ve been working hard all day and I just didn’t think to take something out of the freezer to thaw. Otherwise, I would have fixed us something.”

“Not a problem dear and you certainly don’t need to apologize about it. From what Susan told me her new room is ready to move into, so you removed all of the furniture and got the painting done?”

“Not quite ready, we still have to switch the curtains to her new one’s but otherwise, it’s ready. We broke the bed down and moved it down to the basement storage room, all the other furniture is out in the garage for now until we know, what’s being kept and what’s going. I didn’t think the desk or dresser would be kept from what you told me, but I didn’t know about the nightstand or lamp.”

“Neither of those are being kept either, in fact the headboard isn’t either. Since both you and Tommy both have full size beds, carol and I decided to get matching headboards and matching night stands and lamps, just so it’s all coordinated. And before you ask, it wasn’t that expensive. Jimmy, Carol and I want you boys to be happy with your new rooms and we intend to do what we think you will like when it comes to decorating. We’re also getting you matching bedspreads and we’ll put the sofa and TV from her house there in your lounge room. I also bought a small combination microwave/refrigerator, unit so that you can have cold drinks down there or make snacks easily. Carol is also going to give you boys the stereo system she has since we already have a good one upstairs.”

“Well Tommy and I are kind of thinking of the Lounge area as a lounge for all three of us kids, Susan’s welcome to hang out down there any time she wants; in fact we want her to come down and be with us. We kind of view our rooms down there as ‘kid space’ and she can be there as much or as little as she wants.”

“That’s no problem at all Jimmy. Kids we trust you three totally, you’ve never done anything not to warrant that trust. As far as I’m concerned, that’s your space and I won’t trespass there unless you ask me to or I need to come there for something. You’ve earned the right to have a little privacy, especially after you boys agreed to working on your modesty issues. So if you want a place where you can have some privacy as long as you continue trying so hard to make the modesty training a success; then you’ve earned that small island of privacy.”

“Could Susan come sleep with us sometimes? She and I occasionally sleep together especially if one of us is having problems or bad dreams. I’ll miss sleeping with her sometimes.” Tommy softly asked.”

“She can if she wants to Tommy, but that’s up to her isn’t it. But if you really felt you need to spend a night with her, you could also come up and stay with her for a night, as long as she agrees, of course. Kids I told you we trust you completely. At one time or another all of you have slept with each other and even all together, many times. We know you’re all comfortable with each other’s bodies and are very close physically as well as emotionally, we raised you that way and even as you’ve gotten older and start thinking of sexual things, we trust you never to do anything that could hurt each other or in Susan’s case get her pregnant. You’ve touched each other intimately all of your lives and we wouldn’t try to make you stop something that natural and loving. All Carol or I will ever ask is that if you do things together, be discreet, no one outside of our family is ever to find out about it. You love each other and part of the responsibility that comes with that is to protect each other. We’ll talk about this more when your mother is here, so that all of us understand the limits and expectations. Is that enough for now Tommy?”

“Yes ma’am, I just need my sister some times and well I like to cuddle with her...”

“I understand Tommy, and she probably feels the same way about you. We all need that some times.” She replied.

After dinner they all went up to Susan’s new room and looked at the paint job the boys had done. “Nice work boys, and Carol will have the color paint she wants when she gets home this evening so you can work on her room tomorrow.”

“Oh Mom a FedEx delivery guy brought a package for you this afternoon, it’s on the table there in the entrance hall. He said it was legal paper of some kind, apparently he recognized the sender.” Jimmy advised.

“Yes I was expecting those papers, that’s from the title company to process the joint ownership on this house. It will change the title from just me to me and Carol equally.”

“Mom what about the table and desk in Carol’s room? I’d move them out but you have papers on both the desk and table and I didn’t know what to do. Do you want that stuff moved to the garage too?”

“Yes Jimmy, I’ll pack up those papers this evening, and you can move both to the garage to be sold.”

“OK we’ll do that in the morning then, before painting the room. Susan said you and Carol were going shopping most of tomorrow?”

“Yes, but we’re going to a flower show at the Civic Center in the morning and shopping in the afternoon. We won’t be home until about dinner time.”

“So since Susan’s gone all day too, should I plan on fixing dinner?” he asked.

“That would be wonderful Jimmy, you’re an excellent cook.”

“OK I’ll pull something out of the freezer in the morning and have dinner ready when we’re all home. I’m not sure what yet, but I’ll fix something good.”

“Well you boys did a wonderful job on this room so I know you’ll do just as well on the other one.”

“Susan you wanted to pack some stuff tonight so we should probably head back over there after we do the dishes.”

“You kids go ahead, I’ll take care of the dishes, there’s not that many and that’s what I have a dishwashing machine for.”

“OK then Mom, we’ll see you tomorrow, probably in the morning before you leave.” Jimmy replied and headed down the steps.

“Jimmy don’t forget we need to take the cart back,” Susan reminded him.

“I’ll get it Jimmy and meet you two out front on the driveway.” Tommy volunteered.

Outside Jimmy and Susan waited, holding hands, “Susan did I hear my mother correctly that we have our Moms permission to have sex and play around all we want as long as no one is hurt, no one forced, you don’t get pregnant, and we’re discreet?”

“Yeah that’s what I heard too, I don’t believe I heard that, but that’s what I heard.” She replied. “Now if my mom thinks the same thing, we won’t even have to sneak as long as it’s in the house and meets those rules. We wouldn’t want to throw it in their face though. I think it’s more like they know we want to; they know we will no matter what; so give them permission and put some limits on it and keep it secret in the family. Kind of them saying something like ‘what we don’t officially know we won’t worry about and make sure we, meaning both moms don’t see or hear anything which would require them to ‘officially’ notice;’ because then, they’d have to take some action.”

“My thoughts exactly, and with our little private domain, with maybe a pretty sister visiting for a sleepover, that could be a nice thing every once in a while. We shouldn’t push them on that too soon; maybe too often later; if they don’t object. But I want to hear your Mom say something similar before we get carried away and do anything they might notice or object to...”

“Want to place a bet on what color paint my Mom bought?”

“Just what am I betting if I lose?”

“Oh I think three orgasms with oral sex will cover it...”

“And if I win?”

“Same, three orgasms, but I’ll give you the option of mouth or butt or any combination.”

“OK well her current room is kind of a pale rose red almost pink so I’m assuming she likes it and will want something similar.” He offered.

“Wrong, it will be ‘robin egg blue’ really pale like a light blue sky, with white woodwork.” She said.

“You’re sure about that? Isn’t blue a color for a boys room?”

“Well it’s that too, but she loves that color and I just know that’s what she’ll want.”

“Now there was no advance information here was there?”

“Nope, I just know my mother.”

“OK then the bet is on, it shouldn’t be long before we know, since I’ve got to use that paint tomorrow.”

“Agreed!”

“Are we doing anything tonight?”

“Not sex wise we’re not, not you and me anyway. Mom may show up at anytime and I’m not doing something to get her on my case until I hear it’s ok with her. I’ll be a good little girl packing up my stuff.”

“Want help?”

“Of course, that’s a given, you WILL be helping.”

“I want to do that anyway, so you don’t need to get pushy here...”

“Sorry Jimmy I’ve just had a really long day, between us we changed over 400 diapers today, I personally changed about 100 of those; we barely had time to eat lunch and had to do that in shifts. Some of those diapers were really nasty and I’ve got to do it all over again tomorrow...”

“Didn’t you use that production line system?”

“Not at first, because there weren’t that many in the first hour. But by the second hour we had to because they were backing up on us. But we found that with little kids, babies and toddlers, it worked really well, but the older the kid was the more fuss they’d put up on being changed that way. We had about 35 or 40 kids in the 5-8 age range who were in diapers for whatever reason most on the lower end of that, and they just couldn’t take being changed on the production line without fighting us. So I ended up taking most of the oldest ones and doing them one at a time, especially the 5 who were 7 year old boys and one seven year old girl and 2 eight year old boys. They were having a hard enough time being diapered to begin with; and having to be changed by girls not all that much older than them was making it even worse for them. All but one of the oldest ones were having medical problems causing them to be diapered and were really embarrassed about having to wear them. So I set up a table away from the others and did those one at a time and the boys were much happier that way and didn’t give me any problems. Meanwhile, the other girls ran the production line.”

Wrapping his arms around her, “I bet each of those older ones got treated really well knowing my Sister, talked to gently, handled gently and probably got a hug and kiss at the end too. Didn’t they? I’d bet all of them left with a dry diaper and a smile on their face.”

“Yeah they did Jimmy,” she said leaning into him, “They were feeling so bad about being there in diapers and then having to be changed, so I did my best to make them feel good about it. I just thought to myself ‘what if this was Tommy?’, ‘how would he feel?’, and remembered how you always treated him when changing him, even when he was older and just treated them like you used to treat Tommy. So I did my best for them. The oldest boys had to be changed a couple of times each during the day and they seemed glad it was me when they came back for another change.”

“That’s because they were being taken care of by a very caring and loving girl who was concerned about them and how they felt. Kids can feel that quickly; you’ve always been good at communicating care and concern in how you treat people.”

“I had to be good to them Jimmy, I felt sorry for them being in that situation and didn’t want them to feel any worse than they already did.”

“I’m sure they could tell that and appreciated how you were with them.”

“Yeah the two 8 year olds, stopped by at the end of the day, just to thank me for being so nice to them. I got hugged really good by both of them. So I guess it was worth the extra effort.”

When their mother finally arrived home a 9:30 she found the three kids sitting together on the couch, Jimmy and Tommy naked side-by-side and Susan on Jimmy’s lap wearing only panties, asleep, her head on his shoulder, him gently holding her and stroking her back. Tommy was fighting to stay awake (mostly losing) and was leaned back into Jimmy’s other shoulder. She smiled at the sight of them together and walked over to them. “She’s asleep?” she quietly asked.

“She had a really hard day, she told me she’d changed over 100 diapers and was really tuckered out.” He whispered back.

“Maybe we should just put her to bed then,” her mother suggested.

“No she knew she’d probably fall asleep and told me to wake her when you got home. She at least wanted to say goodnight to you, she’ll be upset with me if I don’t do that.” he replied. Then gently shook the girl on his lap. “Suzy, Suzy your Mom’s home. Come on Suzy you wanted me to wake you.” He said louder, then patted her rear and shook her a little harder. It was when he tweaked her nose that she finally stirred.

“What?” she said rubbing her left eye with her hand.

“Your Mom’s home and you wanted me to wake you.”

“Oh!” Then suddenly sat up and looked around and found her mother standing beside them. “Hi Mom, glad you’re back! Did you have a good trip? Is Uncle Bob going to be OK? Did you know my new room is all ready to move into?”

“Hi there sweetheart, I’m glad to be back too. The trip was fine and your Uncle’s getting better and now properly ashamed of insisting on riding that stupid motorcycle, and yes Janet told me about all the things you kids have been doing to help get us all together. I’m so proud of all of you. But you little lady were sound asleep and Jimmy said you’d had a really hard day, and I know you’re doing it again tomorrow, so why don’t we get you up to bed. Tommy looks like he should be headed to bed also, he’s fighting to keep his eyes open.”

“Well Tommy had a busy day too Carol, he helped me move all of the furniture out of my old room, so that we could paint it for Susan. That was more physical labor than he’s used to and then we got all of the painting done, by this afternoon. He’s a little tired as a result.” Jimmy advised.

“OK then let’s get our two sleepyheads here to bed and then if you’re not too tired, I’d like to spend some time talking to my other son. You take Susan since you already have her and she’s already dropping off again, and I’ll take Tommy.” She directed and then lifted the semi-sleeping boy who wrapped himself around her and Jimmy stood up carrying a now sleeping again Susan. Both were soon tucked in bed and he and Carol went back downstairs walking together with her arm around his waist. “You’ve really grown some Jimmy, I didn’t realize you were almost as tall as me now, but we haven’t seen you here as much in the last year.” She said as she stroked her hand up his back.

“Yeah I grew 3 inches in that last growth spurt, and I still feel kind of awkward and uncoordinated at times from it, and I’m too skinny, I need to get some muscle built back up.” He replied.

“Well don’t be trying to force things Jimmy it will all happen on its own, you just need to let your body adjust to your new height,” she said as they reached the couch again. Turning him to face her, by his shoulders, she looked deep into his eyes. “Jimmy I just can’t tell you how proud I am of my second son, you’re a wonderful boy and all your mother and I could have ever hoped for. I can tell you’ve taken such good care of the kids while I was gone and they love you so much. We’ve missed the time you used to spend with us and I’m so glad that we’re all finally getting together as one family now. I love you Jimmy, I always have, you’re such a good boy.” She said with tears in her eyes as she pulled him against her hugging him tightly and kissing him.

Jimmy returned her hug just as tightly and kissed her cheek, “I love you too mom, I always have.”

“Did you just call me ‘mom’? I like the sound of that.”

“You’ve always been my second mother, I’ve always thought of you that way and I’ve always loved you just as much as my own mother. We never knew until last night that you’re also my legal guardian and that my Mom is also that to Susan and Tommy but all of us kids always felt like both of you were our parents to all of us anyway. We love both of you.”

Sitting down and pulling him down beside her with her arm still around him, “So Janet told you kids about that last night? We’ve been meaning to tell all three of you for several years but never seemed to get around to it, the time just never seem right to bring up something like that. Jimmy we did that years ago as a way to protect you kids; doing that made sure that all three of you would always have a home where you were wanted and loved. We just couldn’t take a chance on any of you being sent to a foster home or something. So we made it legal and it was always something that could be changed if our circumstances changed like both of us got remarried or something like that.”

“Well I like the whole idea that you’re my legal guardian in addition to my Mom, the other kids like the idea too. It actually makes me feel better knowing that I’ll always have at least one of you to look after me until I’m an adult and out on my own. I couldn’t ask for better parents than I’ve had all my life.”

“Just out of curiosity, how did the subject come up that she told you. Like I said, we’ve been meaning to for a few years but it never seem like the right time.” She asked.

“OK well it was near the end of dinner and Susan asked Mom if sometime you and she could sit down with at least Susan and me sometime when the move was all finished and explain what all was involved in us becoming one family and the financial decisions and legal stuff. So that we could learn about those kinds of things in case we ever were faced with a similar situation. You know what kinds of things had to be decided and why one thing was chosen over some other possible option. Anyway, she said the two of you would do that, since we should know about financial and legal matters; that everyone should know about them. She said something about making some bad choices after Dad died and losing some money before she got help from you, so she wanted us to know about how to do those things. Somewhere in there, I asked what would happen if one of you died, since we’d all be living together. She explained about selling one house and changing the title on our house to joint ownership so that the survivor would own the house and that we didn’t need to worry because you were already my guardian and she was to Susan and Tommy, so our family would still be together. Then explained kind of like you did about having done it years ago as a way to protect us kids and also to make it easier if one of us got hurt, you know medical decisions and such.”

“So it just flowed into the conversation on its own then. What did Susan and Tommy think about it?”

“Susan was just as happy about it as I was, but Tommy <chuckle> he just gets up, walks around the table, climbs up on my mother’s lap, wraps his arms around her neck and kisses her, then very sweetly says ‘Do I get to call you Mom now and sit on your lap and get cuddled?’ while smiling as widely as possible.” Mom just wrapped her arms around him and told him she loved him and that he could do that all he wanted. So he stayed right there on her lap getting cuddled while we continued talking.”

“Yep that’s my Tommy” she said laughing. “Any excuse at all to get hugged and cuddled.”

“Your other son loves that too you know,” he replied grinning at her.

She just pulled him face up across her lap held firmly in her arms, then kissed him, before saying, “And your second mother loves doing this with her other son, just as much!”

“Jimmy I love you so much,” she said softly brushing his hair back then caressing his cheek. “You know that it’s because you found the solution to the bedroom problem that we’re able to finally get together as one family don’t you? That was the only thing holding your mother and I back from doing this for some time now. Neither of us even thought of converting that finished recreation room into a suite for you boys. And building an addition was just too expensive. We even were looking at selling both houses and buying or even building a new one to house us all, but you dear boy found a way to do it inexpensively and quickly. I’ll never be able to thank you enough for that. Then Janet tells me about these wonderful detailed plans you drew up and that she was able to just hand them to a contractor and get estimates in hours and then able to contract the work the same day; no delays at all. Neither of us realized you were capable of such work. We both feel bad about not talking to you kids about all of this sooner, it would have made things so much easier and I’d have fewer grey hairs from trying to find solutions, when all we had to do was involve you to begin with.”

“I didn’t do anything all that big. Tommy had told my mother that he wished we could all live together and then she said, that the two of you had been discussing doing just that, but that we didn’t have enough bedrooms. Then said something about building an addition but that it was too expensive. I was just sitting here and remembered that huge finished room my dad built, heated, air conditioned and all of that, and the idea just popped into my head and I realized the only thing really lacking down there was a bathroom. The nearest one is the guest bathroom on the first floor. So I considered it a few minutes and realized that a small one down there could be done and just told her about it. So the four of us kicked the idea around for a few minutes, and I was visualizing the space and realized that we were just talking adding a couple of partition walls, one for the closets and one to separate a bedroom. And adding a bathroom, but none of that seemed like it would cost anything like an addition. So I just threw it out there and everyone seemed to like it.”

“Yes but it was that solution that allowed your mother and I to finally get things moving and get us all together. Then there were those drawings. Jimmy that saved weeks and paying a renovation design architect to do the same thing.”

“But that kind of thing is why I took that design course last year to learn how to do that? Those drawing weren’t that great. They were detailed, accurate and to scale, but they were crude and hand drawn. I mean we measured everything twice to make sure it was correct and traced utilities and all... I could have done much better and faster on a computer, with the right software, but it didn’t have that, so I had to do them the old fashion way.”

“Jimmy they were good enough to impress the hell out of two contractors who make their living with drawings of renovation plans. Both asked your mother how old you were and if you might be interested in working for them in the summer after you turn 16. They can’t hire you younger than that, but both thought you’d make an excellent renovation designer, because of all of the detail you’d included.”

“She didn’t tell me that. They’d actually want to hire me? That could be interesting work.”

“Yes as a trainee, to work with their designers, but it would be a good start if you’re interested in that as a possible career. Designers get paid pretty well and top ones, make millions.”

“Wow, who’d have thought all of that from a few drawings... I’ll have to think about that... Oh did you get the paint you wanted? Tommy and I were planning on doing your room tomorrow if you did.”

“Yes it’s sitting in the kitchen just inside the door.”

“What color?”

“Robin egg blue and I’d like the woodwork painted white. Why does it make a difference?”

“You didn’t tell Susan that in advance did you?”

“No I’ve never mentioned it to her; why?”

“Because I just lost a bet. She named the ‘exact’ color you chose and even the trim color.”

<chuckle> “Well she knows my tastes pretty well, so I don’t think it was a fair bet on her part. This isn’t costing you too much is it?”

<laugh> “No I just have to do a couple of things for her and I’d do them anyway,” (remembering that he’s be eating her little pussy for her) No big deal really.

“So it’s getting late and we both need to get up early, I assume you’re bunking with Tommy, although a full size bed isn’t all that big. But it doesn’t make any difference to me where you sleep anyway. Where’ve you been sleeping this past week?”

“Well, I’ve slept with Tommy and with Susan, and I guess starting on Monday, we all kind of crashed on Susan’s bed and spent the night together and well, we’ve been doing that mostly since then. Neither wanted to sleep alone and it was nice.”

“That’s fine with me, you can sleep with either or both. Jimmy you blushed a little when you answered me, but you were truthful with me you always have been. I’m not worried about you sleeping with either of my kids because I trust you never to hurt them. You never have and you never would. Jimmy you three are closer both emotionally and physically than most brothers and sisters ever are; your mother and I raised you that way. You’re totally comfortable with each other and each other’s bodies. That Susan was sleeping peacefully on your lap wearing only her panties while you held her comfortably in your arms tells me how much you love her and how much she trusts you and I know that you’d never break that trust. Being that close, with each other it’s a natural progression that the three of you would experiment a little with sex but never do anything to hurt each other. So yes your mother and I fully expected that to happen and it’s not a big deal to us. I know you’d never do anything with either of them to hurt them in anyway. You’d get hurt yourself, trying to stop them from being hurt; you’ve done that before. Just don’t get my daughter pregnant, she’s not ready for vaginal sex yet and I’m sure you know that. But I’m not worrying about you doing that anyway. You kids can have fun lots of other ways without doing that particular thing.”

“I’ve hurt myself? I don’t remember doing that, but I know I’d do that.”

“Yes and you’ve got the scars to prove it. See this scar on your arm? And the one on your forehead up at your hairline? Do you remember how you got those?”

“Not really, I know I cut my arm on the frame of Tommy’s bedroom window and got hit in the head by a swing seat, but not how those happened.”

“Then I’ll tell you why I trust you so much young man. When you were 7 and Tommy a toddler, he climbed up on his window ledge and was sitting up there and started to fall out the window and you ran across the room and grabbed him as he was falling and in the process cut your arm on the frame. He would have fallen 12 feet to the ground and been injured; but you stopped him and cut yourself doing it. It took seven stitches to sew your arm back up but you were more worried about Tommy than yourself. That one on your head was you catching Susan falling off of a swing when she went too high and fell backwards off of it. You broke her fall but got hit in the head as you caught her. You’d just turned 9 if I remember right and you got three more stitches for your effort. You didn’t think about it either time, you just rushed in and stopped them from being hurt. You’ve done it many other times too, but just got scrapes or bruises. Jimmy I know you love Tommy and Susan more than anyone; you wouldn’t do those things to protect them if you didn’t. So I could never worry about you hurting either of them.”

“I do love them that much,” he softly replied, “I’d do just about anything for either of them...”

“So go pick a bed and make one of them happy to cuddle with you or just grab Tommy and both of you keep Susan warm. I’m fine with any combination you kids want. Just be good to each other, but then all three of you always have been.” She said as she helped him sit up, then stand, and gave him a playful swat on the behind as she sent him on his way.

Upstairs, Jimmy went to Tommy’s room and picked him up out of bed, Tommy woke only enough to wonder what was happening as he by reflex wrapped himself around Jimmy. “What?” he mumbled.

“We’re going to go keep Susan warm,” he said kissing the boy on the cheek.

“But Mom?”

“Say’s it’s ok... “

“Oh good...” then laid his head on Jimmy’s shoulder and was back asleep before he’d even made it out of the room. In Susan’s room he used one hand to flip the covers back and then crawled still carrying Tommy onto the bed, and laid him down, then slipped in between the two of them and pulled the covers over them. Susan stirred just long enough to realize what was happening as she rolled to face Jimmy and cuddle into him.

“Your Mom’s ok with it,” he told her lightly kissing her lips, “Go back to sleep,” and wrapped his arms around her as she moved in closer.

“K...” was the only verbal response he got as she dropped back off to sleep.

When her alarm clock went off in the morning, Susan realized she wasn’t alone, of course that assessment was easy since an erect cock was poking her belly. “Jimmy what are you doing in bed with me, Mom’s home?” she asked as his eyes opened.

“She and I talked last night and she said the same thing as my mom. As long as no one’s forced, no one hurt and your little pussy stays intact for awhile, we can do what we want and sleep where we want, as long as it stays in the family. She didn’t say it exactly that way but that was the message. Oh and you won the bet by the way. ‘Robin Egg Blue’ with white trim on the woodwork.”

“Told you,” she said with a giggle as she poked him in the chest, “And I will collect mister!” <giggle>.

“So you’re on the same schedule as yesterday?”

“Yeah we need to get up. Breakfast at your house though, there’s only two eggs left here.”

“OK head for the bathroom and I’ll roust Tommy he’s still out of it. Meet you there in a few minutes.”

“God a hundred more diapers give or take a few, how did I get wrangled into this. I know, my loving mother volunteered me! She owes me big time!”

“Well letting us sleep together and play like we want sounds likes a pretty big payment to me.”

“Point taken, I’ll have to be nice instead of complaining at her.”

Twenty minutes later Susan stuck her head in through her mother’s bedroom door. “Mom we’re leaving, we’ll have breakfast over there, there’s only two eggs and like three strips of bacon left here.”

“OK Susan take those with you and I’ll come join you for breakfast at Janet’s house then.” Was the response.

The boys pushed a cart load of Susan’s belongings over with them and left the loaded cart in the garage to be dealt with later, then Susan woke Jimmy’s mother and told her they would have breakfast shortly. Tommy started cooking bacon while Jimmy made coffee and making toast. As soon as the bacon was done, Tommy was buttering toast and helping Susan set the table, and Jimmy was fixing eggs, when the two mothers arrived almost at the same time. Jimmy put Susan’s plate in front of her and got the two women coffee before returning to the stove. “Susan needs to leave first so she got hers first,” he advised the women, who just nodded as they sipped their coffee.

“I think I’m really going to like us all being together if this is how I can expect breakfast from now on,” his mother observed.

“I agree Janet, we have three very industrious children and I won’t expect them to do all of the cooking, but it will be nice to share it more than we have in the past. I’ll never complain if one or more of them takes on a meal for the family.”

“No problem for me, I like to cook,” Jimmy replied “Speaking of which what do you want for dinner? Whatever it is, I’ll need to thaw out the meat?”

“No problem for me either,” Susan replied. And Tommy chimed in with “I’ll help!”

“Pull out five steaks Jimmy, we can grill them and I think a celebration is in order anyway. Our first family dinner as it were...” his mother replied.

“OK and we can bake potatoes but we don’t have salad stuff, we’re out at both houses.” Jimmy replied.

“Alright then while Carol and I are out we’ll hit the grocery store, you kids have probably wiped out the breakfast things this week and we need fresh produce anyway.”

“This was the last of the eggs and bacon from both houses,” Susan advised in between bites.

By then all of them were eating and soon Susan had to go. Jimmy and Tommy cleaned things up from breakfast and were bringing in the first boxes of Susan’s belongings while the women compared notes on grocery items needed. Soon they left the boys alone in the house.

When all of the boxes were in the boys took a break. “Jimmy how did I end up in Susan’s bed this morning? I remember Mom putting me to bed in MY bed, but not how I got over there?”

“I carried you over there when I went to bed. Don’t you remember that?”

“Not really, wait, yeah I remember you picking me up and you said something but not what.”

<chuckle>“I got you out of bed and told you we were going to go keep our sister warm, and you asked about your Mom, and I told you she was ok with it and you replied, ‘oh good’ and went right back to sleep. You must have been really out of it!”

“Hey I was really tired last night! I’m not used to all this manual labor. I’m the executive type remember? You told me so yourself!” the boy replied with an attempt to look important but not doing a very good job of it. Jimmy just laughed in response.

“Well today you get to ‘supervise’ or ‘manage’ a paint brush, after we move that desk and table out of the room,” Jimmy replied with a snicker.

“Slave driver – no respect at all...” Tommy replied with a grin.

Just as the day before they moved the furniture to the hallway and proceeded to start painting the room, This time though, Jimmy had Tommy paint the woodwork, while he was cutting in the ceiling edge. “You can go faster on this, don’t worry about getting some on the wall because as soon as it’s dry, we’ll cut in around it with the blue paint,” he explained and Tommy was quickly moving down the wall along the baseboard, then door trim and onto the second wall. He had to slow down around the closet doors, but was quickly moving along the fourth wall while Jimmy was just finishing the ceiling edge joint on the second wall. “Do the woodwork around the two windows and window sills too Tommy,” he instructed as he moved his ladder again. By the time he’d finished the third wall, Tommy was done. “OK let’s take a break while that dries some and it should be ready to start cutting in back where you started when we get back. This is latex paint and it dries pretty fast.”

The two boys washed up and were drying their hands when Jimmy noticed that Tommy was sporting an erection. “What’s got you all excited Tommy?”

“Nothing really, it’s just that I haven’t cum for two days now and that seem to be about my limit. I guess I’m getting full. Anything will cause it when I get like that.”

Pulling the smaller boy into a hug, he kissed him and rubbed his back, “Then let’s go take care of you, while we wait for the paint to dry. We can’t have you walking around popping boners for no reason can we?” he asked as the boy melted against him.

“You’d do that?” Tommy asked looking up shyly.

“Sure why not?”

“It’s just that, well I know you’re not into doing things with boys...”

“But I’m into doing things with you Tommy, because I love you more than anyone except maybe your sister. So come with me little guy and I’ll take care of you so our mothers won’t see you running around all stiff like that.”

They went down to the living room and Jimmy sat down and pulled Tommy to set on his thigh, his legs dangling between Jimmy’s. Then took hold of his stiff little cock and started slowly stroking it, Tommy put an arm around Jimmy’s shoulders and had his eyes closed, concentrating on how good Jimmy’s hand felt then suddenly the boy stopped. “What? I was getting close?”

Jimmy pulled him all the way onto his lap and held him a minute. “I know you were Tommy but I thought maybe I could make it better for you. Remember I told you to not even ask for a blowjob? Well and it’s only because it’s you, I think I should try that at least once. But even if I like doing for you, I don’t plan on doing it often; I’m just not into boys and it’s only because I love you so much.”

“Well I know I’ll like it Jimmy, it’s almost impossible to do wrong, so if you really want to try it I’m as ready as I’ll ever be. Just remember to watch your teeth and you can’t mess it up. I love you too Jimmy and I know this is something special or you wouldn’t do this with me.”

“You’re the one who’s special or I wouldn’t be doing it at all Tommy,” he replied and then stood the boy back up between his legs and held him by the hips facing him, then just leaned forward and sucked him right into his mouth, gently sucking and working him with his tongue. Tommy started thrusting at him, while holding onto his head and he let the boy fuck his mouth as he continued working him, and Tommy didn’t last long at all. He’d already been near the edge, and this was too much to take for long and was soon shooting his cum right down Jimmy’s throat. Jimmy kept sucking until Tommy was limp and then gave it a final lick before pulling the unsteady boy back onto his lap. “That wasn’t too bad, you just taste a little salty,” Jimmy said smiling down at the boy, who was still trying to get his breath back.

“Well it was great for me!” the boy gasp out, then after getting himself back together, “Thanks Jimmy that was really good... Do you think you’d ever want to do that again sometime?”

“For you? Yeah I’d do it again but not often...”

“Well this dick belongs to you anytime you want it for whatever you want,” so you don’t even need to ask.

“Ok well now that we’ve got you taken care of let’s get those drinks and get back to painting.”

“Somehow I knew this was too good to last long,” Tommy grumbled as Jimmy put him back onto his feet.

By 11:30 Tommy was using the roller while Jimmy was working across the room from him and they were making good progress, when the doorbell rang. Jimmy got off of the ladder where he’d been cutting in around the closet doors and went to answer it, picking up a rag as he left the room. He looked thru the security peep hole and saw it was Pam and used the rag to open the door. “Hi Pam good to see you again,” he said smiling as he let her inside. “I’d give you a hug, but I’ve got paint on my hands,” he continued as she returned his smile.

“Well this is certainly different than when I came in yesterday isn’t it? So I’ll just give you the hug instead,” she replied and slid her arms around him under his arms and pulled him close, stroking his back and kissing him lightly. “No fainting or panic today, so you must be ok with me now.”

“Yeah we’re fine and I still want to do something special to thank you for you for being so good to me yesterday.”

“That’s not necessary Jimmy just having you as a new friend is thanks enough for me. So we’re painting something blue today I take it?”

“Yeah Carol’s room. This is a real pale blue, officially ‘Robin Egg Blue’ it’s lighter on the wall when it’s dry than it looks on my hands...”

“And a little on your cheek,” she chuckled.

“Probably elsewhere too, but I haven’t checked myself lately; hope I didn’t get any on you...”

<laugh> “No I looked before I hugged you! So everything’s ok today? Need any more help?”

“No escorts needed anyway, but I’ve got another small desk and a table I need to bring down, if you wouldn’t mind helping with those...”

“No problem there, up in the hallway again?”

“Yeah but I need to get this paint off my hands before I touch them. Come on up Tommy’s up there painting, you can talk to him, while I do a quick wash-up.”

Jimmy ducked into the bathroom and Pam went to see Tommy and he’d just wet his hands when he heard a crash. Then he heard Pam laughing ‘What the?’ he thought and went to see what happened. When he got there, Pam was doubled over laughing and Tommy was sitting on the floor with the paint roller in his lap leaning against a wet wall, so he had to have it all over his back too. Tommy looked totally flustered.

“Tommy? How the heck did you manage that?” Jimmy asked with a chuckle.

“It’s NOT my fault!” the boy grumbled looking down at his paint covered crotch and legs. “I was getting up when she came in and startled me and I fell and Shit, now I’ve got paint everywhere!”

Unable to stop laughing any longer, Jimmy laughed too, then walked over and took the roller from his lap and put it in the tray, then pulled the boy up and said, “Come on we need to get that off of you before it dries, then guided the boy to the bathroom and turned on the shower. “IN THERE!” Jimmy ordered and Tommy quickly complied. Jimmy stepped in behind him and pushed the boy under the water. “Pam could you get me the wet rag we had over there for spills, I don’t want to ruin a washcloth on this?” Jimmy asked.

“Sure,” she replied and was quickly back with it and handed it to him. Then stood and watched as Jimmy cleaned the other boy.

“Tommy you’ve got it all over you,” he said as he washed the boy’s back, then knelt and was carefully cleaning the boy’s crotch.

“Well I didn’t do it on purpose!” Tommy whimpered.

“I know you didn’t and it’s ok, don’t be getting all upset about it, another minute and I’ll have you as good as new,” Jimmy replied and finished washing between Tommy legs, then looked him over and turned him around to make sure he hadn’t missed any. “All done!” he announced then guided him out and handed him a towel. How about fixing us some sandwiches, while Pam and I move that desk and table down the steps. Can you have lunch with us?” he said looking over to her.

“Love to, I’m home alone today, Mom’s at the flower show and Dad took my brother to a baseball game.” She replied.

“OK then 3 sandwiches Tommy and we’ll be there as soon as we move that furniture.”

“OK,” Tommy replied as he’d just finished drying off and was quickly out the door. Jimmy was still standing there drying himself.

“You’re really incredibly good with him you know. I don’t know many eleven year olds who would calmly stand there and let another boy or anyone for that matter, wash them like that.”

“Pam I’ve been diapering him, cleaning him up and giving him baths since he was a toddler, he trusts me. What else can I say? He knows I’d never hurt him in any way. Not much recently of course, since he’s old enough to mostly take care of himself, but hundreds of times over the years, since he was about three I guess.”

“Well it was just amazing to watch. I’ve done the same things for my brother for just as long and he would have had a fit, if I washed him like that. Tommy just stood relaxed and let you do what you needed to. That’s something special Jimmy, don’t discount it.”

“I’m not, Pam, believe me I know that we have a special relationship. He’s like my little brother and has always been like that with me.”

“Jimmy could I ask you something kind of personal and I’m not trying to embarrass you or anything...”

“What would you like to know?”

“Jimmy I noticed you don’t have any hair, you know, down there... You’re 15 same as me and well, I would have expected some there anyway...”

“That would be because Susan shaved the few I had there off. She said she didn’t like it there and asked to shave me, and I couldn’t see any reason not to let her so I did,” he replied blushing slightly.

Pam stepped over and gave his arm a stroke, “Jimmy I didn’t want to embarrass you and now I’ve done just that, I’m sorry.” She softy said.

“It’s ok Pam, I did that myself, you didn’t do anything wrong. So anyway Susan told me she likes the way I look better without hair there, and it wasn’t all that heavy anyway, so I let her shave me. That’s why I’m bald down there.”

“Well actually I agree with her, that boys look better without hair on their crotches. It’s healthier anyway. Hair traps germs, so it’s easier to keep clean without it. Actually I shave myself for that same reason, I’m just as bald as you are down there. The only surprising part is that you let a girl do it, you’d have to really trust her with a razor to let her do that.”

“Just like Tommy trusts me totally, well I trust Susan just as much. She’d never hurt me intentionally and she was very careful when she did it to make sure she didn’t cut me even by accident.”

“Well just for the record, if Susan’s not available and you need it done, and you’ll have to be shaved at least every two weeks you know, weekly is better; just give me a call and I’d gladly do it for you. I’m an expert at it; been shaving myself for 3 years now and I’d be just a careful on you as I am on myself.”

“Thanks for the offer Pam I’ll keep it in mind if I ever need that.”

“You should keep it that way you know, it’s not only healthier, It feels better both to you and your girlfriend. Not to mention it looks much better.”

“I think we should move that furniture, Tommy’s probably waiting on us and wondering what’s going on.”

“Right enough talking about crotch hair and move furniture, Sorry about that Jimmy, I was just interested because like I said, I shave myself down there.”

“No problem...”

It wasn’t all that long before they joined Tommy in the kitchen having moved the furniture from upstairs down to the main floor. Jimmy would use the cart to move it to the garage later. “Ham and Swiss Cheese on wheat and I found some macaroni salad in the fridge,” Tommy reported as they moved to sit with him at the table. “Two kinds of mustard, regular and spicy or mayo,” the boy continued.

“Looks good Tommy thanks for fixing one for me too,” Pam said smiling at the boy.

“No problem, once I had the stuff out then making one more wasn’t any trouble at all.” Tommy smiled back. “What’s Joey up to this summer? He’s one of the few friends I have around here, most kids won’t talk to me since I go to a different school; but he’s always been nice to me.”

“Well today my Dad took him to a baseball game. They asked me to go, but I begged off. Honestly, ‘watching’ baseball has to be the most boring sport there is, playing it or softball’s fun, but watching it? It’s like watching grass grow... Anyway not much this summer as far as I know. He was trying to get Mom to let him go to some camp somewhere in late August, but that’s the only plans I’ve heard from him. So far he’s just been knocking around the house and working on his suntan.”

“Ok well until we get this move done and all of us over here, I won’t be able to do much anyway, but once we get it all sorted out, I’d like to hang out with him some if possible. He’s really a nice guy. A lot smarter than most of the idiots who live around here.”

“I’m a little biased, but he is a good kid Tommy, top of all his classes and good looking too, you know if his hair was a shade or two darker, you and he would almost look like twins. And you’re a good kid too and very smart from what Susan tells me, especially in math and science.”

“I do ok, my grades are decent, but some of that stuff is really hard. I have to really work at it sometimes to figure out what they’re doing with some of that math stuff. Once I figure it out, then it’s not bad, but trying to get the concept of what it’s about is a real pain sometimes.”

“Tommy if that calculus book I saw in May is the one you were using, then you’re way beyond me in math. That’s high school level math in most schools.” She replied. “That’s advanced stuff Tommy.”

“Yeah we were using that one in April and May and will use the same book to start in the Fall, most of this last year was geometry in one form or another. I’m not looking forward to that ‘Tensor’ stuff near the end of that book though, that stuff looks really tuff.”

“You’re doing THAT kind of math Tommy? I’m impressed!” Jimmy said reaching over and patting his back. “Tommy we were only on Algebra and beginning Geometry, this year and I’m four grades ahead of you? I may have to have you help me with my homework this next year.”

“Yeah well that’s just the way my school works. I told you we have small classes and if you show you can pick up something quickly, then they work with even smaller groups and move as fast as possible as far as you can handle it. Mr. Marks our Math teacher has been working with me and two other kids almost one on one and pushing us as hard as we could take it. Sometimes it’s almost too much. But I’d be happy to help you with homework if you need it Jimmy, learning all this stuff has to be good for something...”

“Well regular schools don’t work that way Tommy, you go at whatever pace the teacher planned or the class can handle.” Jimmy informed him.

“Ok well I just happen to be good at math, in some of my other classes I’m doing good to keep up with the class. I really suck at languages, and just can’t get my head around Spanish, that Mom registered me for; heck, I have enough trouble with English!”

“You’re doing foreign languages too?”

“Yeah they started it last year, some study said that the younger you try to learn another language, the easier it is; so they’re making all of us try that. I told you our school was founded by a bunch of college professors and the board is still all professors; so if some professor comes up with something like that language study more often than not, they try it on us to see if it works. We get to be the basis of someone else’s study. We have College Graduate Students running all over the place studying us and how we learn things, to write their Masters and Doctorial papers. They also tutor us, so that helps with being watched all the time.”

“All I can say Tommy is it sounds like a really good school and you’re lucky to get to go there, I wish I could, I’m bored half the time with my classes, they’re just too easy for me. So don’t let the neighborhood dummies teasing you bother you. You’re much smarter than them.” Pam advised.

“Mostly I just ignore them, but riding the bus with them every day is a real pain at times.”

“Anyway, I’ll tell my brother that you asked about him and see if you two can get together. Hey maybe he could come over and help you and Jimmy and Susan, with this moving stuff? I know he’s been really bored for the last few days, he might want to do it just to have something to do?”

“OK well I don’t know exactly what we’ll be doing besides sorting stuff and packing things but if he really wouldn’t mind helping, we could probably use the help,” Tommy replied.

“Actually I’d prefer to do that myself, instead what I will actually be doing. My mother decided that I needed to ‘broaden my horizons’ and ‘gain an appreciation of the fine arts,’ as she put it so she signed me up for some art class being taught this summer over at the community center. It’s part of some ‘outreach’ program being funded by the Arts Council. So I start next week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for two months! None of my best arguments worked so I’m stuck.”

“That could really suck depending on what it really is. It might not be too bad if it’s hands on stuff, but if it’s ‘Art Appreciation’ well I spent two months bored out of my mind as we watched slides of paintings and sculptures and crap this winter, before they finally gave it up as a bad idea, that we were ‘Too young and immature to appreciate the subtlety, delicate, emotional content of the works’; (he quoted trying to sound snooty) as the final report stated. So they let us go back to trying to draw or paint things. Neither of which I’m any good at but at least it’s fun to try.”

“God I sure hope it’s not something like that! If it is, I’ll be catching up on my sleep three morning per week...”

Jimmy for the most part had just sat and listened to Pam and Tommy talking back and forth and came to the realization how in some ways his little brother was incredibly smart and that his school was far advanced beyond the public school he attended. He’d already known that Pam was smarter than him academically, but Tommy? So Susan must be way up there too! ‘Guess I’m the dummy of the group’ he thought to himself, but neither of the kids ever treated him that way or hinted that they were smarter; in fact they usually looked up to him and asked for his advice.

Pam helped them clean up following lunch and then gave Tommy a big hug for making it for her. “Thanks Tommy, and I ‘will’ talk to Joey and see if he wants come over and help, I know he’s bored, so he most likely will, if Mom will let him.”

Jimmy walked to the door with her, “Nice seeing you again Jimmy and I’m really happy that you’re much more comfortable around me today. Yesterday scared me a little and I’m really glad you feel better about us today.”

“Nice seeing you again too Pam, and yeah I do feel comfortable around you now. Yesterday was, just me getting all worked up over nothing and causing myself that problem. But you were really good to me about it and I really appreciate you helping me that way. I still think I owe you for being so good to me, so like I said, anytime I can do something for you, please tell me and I’ll be happy to do it.” Then by unspoken agreement, they each stepped forward gave each other a hug and lightly kissed.

“Bye Jimmy, I really wish I could come help you more, but with those classes Mom stuck me with; I don’t know how often I’ll be able to. Like I said in the kitchen, I’d much rather be here than there.” She said smiling and then left.

Jimmy went back to the kitchen and pulled the steaks from the freezer to let them thaw and then went back up and returned to painting the room. He finished the edging quickly and then he and Tommy traded off using the roller, Tommy taking the lower parts of the walls and Jimmy the upper half’s. By 4:00 they were done and had cleaned up the room and were both in the shower, cleaning paint speckles off of each other.

“You know Tommy, Pam was really surprised at how relaxed you were when I cleaned that paint off of you earlier,” He told the boy as he gently washed him, “She kept saying that her brother would cause a fuss if she cleaned him like I did you. I explained that I’d been doing it a long time with you and that you were calm and relaxed because we trusted each other. But she just kept saying how special it was to see you so relaxed about it. I’d never thought about it like that Tommy because you’ve always been that way with me. OK you’re clean now.”

Looking up at him, Tommy hugged him his chin resting against Jimmy’s chest, still with his face looking up. “Jimmy why would I get upset or make a fuss about you helping me like that. You’ve always been really good to me and never ever hurt me. I love you and trust you totally so that just doesn’t make sense at all. Making a fuss, would just make it harder for you to get that crap off of me and make us both feel bad; so why would I do that? Guess we’re closer than she is with Joey or it wouldn’t have been such a big deal to her.” Then laid his head sideways on the bigger boy’s chest as they stood there under the hot water, gently stroking each other.

After about two minutes, Jimmy moved him back, “We’d better stop; our Mom’s could show up any time now and we can’t have you popping another boner can we ,<chuckle> no time to take care of it <chuckle> so let’s get dry and go wash some potatoes for dinner.”

<giggle> “Right no boners allowed and definitely no time to take care of them...<giggle> was the response.

The boys were standing at the sink scrubbing potatoes when the women arrived with Susan in tow. “Hi Boys, how did it go today?” Jimmy’s mother asked.

“Hi Mom, we got it all done, the paint’s still drying, but it came out good. That color looked too dark when I first started putting it on, but it dries lighter. I think it will look really good with Mom Carol’s furniture.”

“You know Janet I think Jimmy just fixed another problem.” Carol said suggestively.

“What did I do now?” Jimmy asked with a sigh.

“Well it’s been confusing with two ‘Moms’ when you kids have been talking either to or about us, always having to clarify which mother was being referred to. Now I know my children’s voices so if one of them is addressing me as ‘Mom’ then I know they’re talking to me. Same with you and your mother; and neither of us object to you children addressing us by our names. But you just said ‘Mom Carol’s’ furniture, to clarify that it was MY furniture, you were referring to not your mother’s. Jimmy you can call me ‘Mom’, which I happen to enjoy when you do that. Or ‘Carol’ or ‘Mom Carol’ since you kids think of us as both your mothers; but using either my name or ‘Mom Carol’ to clarify which mother you’re talking about especially when talking to a third person makes it clear, without all of those awkward, your mother Vs my mother statements we keep running into.”

“But I’ve always thought of both of you as my mothers? And sometimes I don’t think calling you just ‘Carol’ feels right, It doesn’t let you know how much I care about you? At other times it wouldn’t be respectful to do that.”

“We feel the same Mom,” Susan said to her, “I know Mom Janet, has told me to call her just ‘Janet’ but sometimes it just doesn’t feel right doing that. At times I just have to call both of you ‘Mom’ to tell you how much I love you.”

“OK I give up, call us whatever feels right to you then, I’m fine with any of those or any combinations for that matter, because to me all of you are my children and I know Janet feels the same way.”

“So ‘Mothers’ did you two get the rest of the stuff for dinner? If so, I’ll start these potatoes baking in the oven, and you can go look at our painting job, and we can have dinner in oh.. about an hour.” Jimmy replied.

“Pushy... Did we create a monster?” Carol said to Janet smirking.

“No he’s probably hungry and wants to get dinner cooking. He gets that way when he’s hungry and he’s doing the cooking so I suppose we should humor him... <smirk>” his mother replied.

“I suppose humoring him would be a good idea, something about ‘not upsetting the cook unless you want your dinner burnt’ I recall...”

“And a true axiom I might remind you, besides if he were to get ‘too pushy’ we just swat his butt like we always have... That tends to bring him back to earth you’ll recall...”

“Hey! If you two keep this up, you can cook this dinner yourselves!” the frustrated boy replied.

Suddenly he was sandwiched between the two women. “Sorry Jimmy, you’re a wonderful cook and we both love you that’s why we tease you...” his mother said kissing him, “And I don’t want my steak burnt,” Carol said from over his shoulder where her hands were massaging and she leaned over his right shoulder and kissed his cheek.

“So did you get the stuff or not?” he asked.

“Of course we did, it’s out in the car with a bunch of other stuff that needs to come in,” Carol replied giving his butt a playful swat, “So come help unload the car and we can get this dinner underway!”

Chapter 10

The newly formed official ‘family’ had an enjoyable dinner, then once the table was cleaned and dishes in the dishwasher, they sat down again to go over plans and schedules. His mother gave Jimmy copies of the computer generated finished plans for the construction. He was looking them over as she talked.

Sunday would be spent packing items in the Campbell house, in particular all of Carol’s room and items from elsewhere readily apparent that were going to be moved over.

Monday the construction crew will arrive at 8:00, remove the current carpet from the Rec. room and rough in the partition walls in there, install doors and rough in the walls for the new bathroom. Once the framing is done, the plumbers and electricians will be rewiring electrical circuits and installing new wiring and plumbing as needed. Also Monday morning a light moving crew will arrive and move both Susan’s and Carols bedroom furniture over to the house as well as some other furniture they’d decided to keep, and move some items from the house to the garage to be sold. Likewise a few items from Janet’s house would be moved over there to add to the ‘sale’ items. “That means all of you boy’s stuff that’s currently in the Rec. Room will have to be moved either to the storage room or out into the laundry area before Monday morning, sorry about that boys, I should have caught that sooner.” She told them.

“We can do that tonight, it won’t take long, we’re only moving it a few feet.” Jimmy replied.

Tuesday the bathroom fixtures will be delivered and installed and the plumber will do the hookups, while the carpenter(s) finish installing any doors not completed and the outside walls of the bathroom and paneling the walls in the Rec. room. Once the plumber is done, the electrician will run lights and receptacles in there having hopefully finished in the Rec. Room.

Wednesday, the carpenters will finish the Rec. room and build the new desk and cabinet fixtures, while tile is being laid on the floor and shower enclosure as well as knee walls of the bathroom. Closet systems and new headboards, and a pair of matching nightstands were to be delivered that day.

Thursday, the ceiling will be completed in the bathroom as well as any trim work and the electrician and plumbers would do final installation and checks. Any work not completed in the Rec. Room would be finished and that includes the installation of the closet systems. New carpet would also be installed in the Rec. Room with an insulation layer under it to make the floor softer.

Friday, the light movers will be back and move anything from one house to the other, that still remains, in particular Tommy’s bed, and any large items we still need to shift back and forth. “You boys will need to paint your bathroom, I didn’t contract for that after seeing what a good job you’ve done so far,” Jimmy’s mother advised. And the boy’s nodded.

“Every evening all of us will be packing stuff from Carols house to be moved canned food, pots and pans, dishes we’re keeping all of that kind of thing; and light stuff you can move yourself if you have time during the days. But especially Monday and Friday someone will need to be at each house to let the movers in and tell them what goes where, and we’ll have a list of those things to be checked off. Carol and I will be in and out all week during the day taking as much time off work as we dare to help supervise things but you kids are going to have to do a lot of it.”

“Jimmy and Tommy you’ll probably be camped out on the floor either here or over there one night, in the process, because your new rooms won’t be ready to move into until sometime Saturday; but by Saturday evening, we should be 95% or better completed on all of the moving, but still have unpacking to do for several more days.” Carol advised.

“Jimmy during most of the construction I’m going to want you over here because the crews are working from your plans except for the bathroom. So you’ll need to be here in case they run into a problem and need to make changes. All changes have to be approved by us; and you will be the one doing that. That will also make you available if they have a question on something. Also while the crews are working in the houses both here and there I want you two boys wearing shorts and shoes only to avoid having to explain it to a bunch of people when it’s not necessary. All other times, you’ll be naked as usual. Susan on those two days, we want you over there at the other house directing things while Jimmy supervises here. Tommy you can help out on either end as needed.”

Jimmy gave a sigh of relief at that statement on clothes, as he wasn’t looking forward to being naked with all of the workers coming and going.

“So do we all understand what we’re doing? It’s going to be a really busy week and things will be happening really fast, we’ll have construction crews and movers and deliveries all happening at the same time, so things are going to be noisy and hectic all at once. But by the end of the week we’ll all be living here and hopefully all happy as one big family.” Janet finished.

“Jimmy I want you to look through all of the tools and things in the garage and basement over at my house and pack or move anything you think will be useful. You already know what you have here from your father, but anything you think you or we might want or need in the future, just pack it or move it; that includes some camping gear my husband had, that you boys might want sometime. Anything left will be sold or given away, so if you want it or might need it move it or it will be gone. We’re still debating as to whether to have a ‘tag’ sale or a straight auction; but everything we’re not keeping from either house will be sold off or given away.” Carol advised. “We’ll still have some time after next week to get things from there if we change our minds on something or decide to keep something; but not more than a week or so because it won’t be long before we put that house up for sale.”

“I can do that,” he replied.

“In fact all three of you kids look all through the house and garage, if there anything you even THINK you MIGHT want, now is the time to make sure it get’s moved over here or it will be gone.”

“Now on to a topic that Carol and I have already touched on with at least two of you, but we want everyone on the same page and no misunderstandings in our family about it,” Janet started, “That subject is sleeping arrangements and sex. You three kids are closer than 99% of all brothers and sisters out there and have always been totally comfortable with each other and with each other’s bodies. With all three of you now at ages where sex becomes interesting and something to experiment with; we fully understand that if you haven’t already explored that topic and each other’s bodies, you will and we would never attempt to stop you; because as close as you are, it would happen no matter what we said.” Holding up her hand to stop the protests all three were about to offer, they remained quiet. “So your two mothers want you to know that we won’t object to those explorations or experimentation, as long as you follow these rules and they’re not negotiable: First - No one is to be forced or coerced in any form, not physically nor pressured verbally, any sexual activity must be 100% voluntary and both parties must agree; Second – If any one says “stop” or “no” the activity stops right then and there and no arguments!; Third – Absolutely No Vaginal sex with Susan until we give the go ahead, whether she asks you too or not, and I might add that will be several years from now; Fourth – Who you sleep with and whether you do anything together is between you kids and we don’t want to know what’s going on as longs as rules 1-3 have been met; Last – NO ONE outside of the 5 of us sitting here are to know about anything of a sexual nature occurring between any of you three. Now anytime any of you have questions regarding sexual activities please feel free to talk to either of us and we will not judge you or think less of you no matter what the topic. We want you to be as free and loving as possible with each other the way you’ve been all of your lives; and sex is just another way to express love for another person, one that can be very pleasurable but one which can hurt a relationship if trust is abused. We don’t believe that would ever happen with you three, but it’s possible in every relationship. We trust you totally to be good to each other and you trust each other not to hurt you; don’t abuse any of the trust we have in this family and we can all be very happy with each other.”

“One warning I’d like to add,” Carol tagged on, “There are all kinds of sexually transmitted diseases out there, I know they cover them in your school health classes. So a restriction I would like you to follow is this. If any of you are doing anything sexual do not engage in similar activities outside of your family partner or partners. You don’t want to play around outside the family and bring diseases back and spread them here. I’m not telling you that you can’t have other relationships; just that if you do, then don’t engage in sexual activities here, where if you got infected, you could pass it on within the family. We can and will talk to you about safe sex practices when dealing with other people, but most of those aren’t necessary between you three. Contraceptive protections should be taken but you don’t need to worry about STD’s within our family as long as we follow that restriction.”

“So it’s ok if I want to sleep with Jimmy or with Susan or all of us together?” Tommy asked, “Just sleep or do sex things, as long as both or all of us want to?”

“Yes Tommy and we don’t care what you kids choose to do together as long the rules I mentioned are followed. No force of any kind so no one gets hurt or feels bad about it; Stop or No means just that; No vaginal sex with Susan even if she asks you too, she’s to remain a virgin that way until we say it’s ok; and no one knows about anything that happens outside of this family. Add Carol’s warning as another rule though. If you’re doing things with someone else; then you stop doing things here until at least you’ve broken that activity off AND we’re sure you didn’t pick up something you could give to the other kids.” Janet replied.

“So do any of you have questions about this?” Carol asked. “We’re trusting you to be good to each other and protect each other. Don’t abuse that trust.”

“No Mom,” three blushing kids replied.

“So unless you kids have some questions about anything we’ve covered tonight, Janet and I need to identify furniture here that will be going or staying and you three probably have some things to talk about as well as Susan has packing to do, and Jimmy needs to take a good look around our basement and garage.” Carol stated basically dismissing them.

“Ok Mom’s we’ll see you in the morning then, it sounds like tomorrow is going to be a very busy day.” Jimmy said as he stood and the other two kids quickly followed and they headed for the other house.

Outside they got the cart and Jimmy was pushing it as the other kids walked on either side of it. “Jimmy did they just tell us we could have sex and sleep however we wanted as long as we follow those rules? I’m sure that’s what I heard?” Tommy asked.

“Yes they did Tommy, they both said that they expected us to play around if we weren’t already and that they were ok with it as long as we keep it in the family and of course the no force, no hurting, and no using Susan’s cute little pussy for a couple of years, so she doesn’t get hurt or pregnant, not even if she asks us to. But we’d already agreed to those kinds of things anyway.”

“Well saying it that way was clearer than all of that extra she threw in there... <giggle>”

“Both of them are Mom’s Tommy,” Susan replied, “They can’t just say go fuck yourselves silly but don’t hurt each other; and we don’t want to officially know about it! That’s just not allowed in the Mother handbook, but it would have taken a lot less time.” <giggle>

“Yeah but that was the message wasn’t it?” Tommy said.

“That’s the shortest version, yes, Tommy,” Jimmy responded.

“So are we doing anything tonight?” Tommy asked as they reached their house.

“Only if we can keep it very quiet, because Mom Carol IS sleeping just down the hallway, and I don’t want to be testing her tolerance with an orgy like we’ve done a couple of times. But we can still take care of each other quietly if we want.” Jimmy replied.

“At the very least I plan on collecting 1/3 of a certain bet tonight Jimmy, after changing diapers all day, I need some serious distraction before going to sleep and that just might do the job.” Susan smirked.

“Suzy Baby, you can have that anytime you want, bet or no bet makes no difference, Tommy and I both love doing that with you...” Jimmy said patting her behind.

“What’s that?” Tommy asked.

“She wants her pussy licked until she cums,” Jimmy answered.

“Anytime Suzy, I love doing that, you taste really good,” Tommy responded.

“Well both of you plan on doing it a lot then because I love it and it’s the only way my pussy get’s used, other than fingers and tongue’s are SO much better...!”

***

Inside the house two women were still sitting at the table. “So Janet did we just create problems or solve them? Three very red faced kids just left the table so I have no doubt that they’ve been playing around some. But I’m sure Susan’s still intact, I’ve impressed her with the need for her to remain away from vaginal sex for several years, and no matter what, I’m sure they haven’t done that. I’m confident that she has and will remain intact until we tell her it’s ok and provide her the protection she’ll need.” Carol remarked.

“I believe we actually took some pressure off of them, sanctioned what we already believed was going on and put some limits on it. Carol our kids have always been more physical with each other, it was only a natural progression that they’d moved on into sex at some point and I’m sure that anything that’s happened has been recently. I’m also pretty sure that Susan probably initiated it. Jimmy’s just too shy and loves your two too much to have done anything without them asking him to.”

“Actually, I would have suspected that Tommy would ask to play around some before Susan? I caught part of a conversation between my two a couple weeks ago, where Susan was telling Tommy to quit playing around with some kid called Eddie, that it wasn’t safe and he could get hurt or in trouble. He agreed, but wasn’t too happy about it. But knowing Jimmy, Tommy would have to ask directly, Jimmy’s never struck me as interested in doing things with boys. But Susan has been in love with Jimmy her entire life and wants Jimmy on a permanent basis; I know that and Jimmy’s old enough to be looking around; so her staking a claim and doing things to keep him away from doing things with other girls wouldn’t surprise me either.”

“Given that she told me that flat out a few days ago, that Jimmy would be the perfect husband for her down the road, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was keeping him close and interested either Carol. But you have to realize that we’ve expected that all along. Susan and Jimmy have always been a pair, but Susan’s always been the initiator and Jimmy the submissive of the two, not that, that’s a bad thing, it actually makes it a safe relationship for our daughter and Jimmy loves her more than I ever thought possible and always has. But he cares almost as much for Tommy and even though I’m positive he’s not interested in boys sexually, he might, no make that probably would do some experimenting with Tommy, if Tommy asked him to. I just know he wouldn’t do that on his own, and I know he’d never hurt him if they did things.” Janet replied. My only concern with Susan and Jimmy is that overall they are both on the submissive side and even though Susan has been trying to take on a dominant role; I wonder whether it will work in the long run...”

“Oh I’m not worried about Jimmy hurting either of them. He’d never do that, he’d hurt himself first. Jimmy’s the most caring boy I’ve ever met, he’s spent half of his young life, looking after, taking care of and loving my two kids. He’s never done anything to hurt them in the slightest and I don’t believe he ever would. If anything he’s always been overly careful with them. It used to amaze the hell out of me when he’d come over after school and then spend the evening with one or the other and sometimes both of my kids cuddled on his lap or up against him and Tommy just loved doing that with him. Then he’d change their diapers or give them baths and was always so gentle and loving to them. Most boys 7-13 years old just aren’t like that. They’d have a fit, if some toddler wanted to sit on their lap and be cuddled, but not Jimmy. The first time he came over, Tommy met him at the door and wanted to be picked up and held and Jimmy just calmly picked up the toddler and held him on his lap and played with him and both seem happy about it. He’s done it ever since with both of them and all of them enjoy being close like that. Heck, when I came home last night, they were sitting on the couch together, Susan on his lap asleep getting cuddled and Tommy was as tightly against Jimmy’s side as he could get without being on his already occupied lap fighting going to sleep. Both boys were naked and Susan was only wearing her panties but I don’t think it would be possible for 3 kids to be closer or more comfortable with each other than ours are.”

“Well no matter what they’re doing or not doing, I’m not too concerned about it and I doubt they’ve done anything before this past week. But I’m pretty sure that they have played at least some this week, they’re closer and more physical than ever, always touching and hugging, but they’ve always done that a lot. I know they’ve been sleeping together, because the times I’ve been over there, Susan’s bed was the only one that looked like it had been used...”

“You nailed that one. Last night Jimmy and I had a long talk after putting the other two to bed. When he was having trouble staying awake, I told him to go to bed and asked him where he’d been sleeping. He said he’d slept with Tommy and Susan individually and that they’d all been sleeping together since Monday, and looked worried that he’d done something wrong. I just told him that he could sleep with either or both in one bed that I trusted him and sent him off to bed. So I wasn’t surprised when I checked later and found all three cuddled together in Susan’s bed.” Carol responded.

“So you’re not concerned that Jimmy and Tommy might be doing things too?” Janet asked.

“No not at all, boys do that at that age just like girls experiment some at that age. It would be better if they did actually. It would make sure Tommy stays away from that Eddie kid, because Jimmy and Susan wouldn’t allow it, and Jimmy’s as safe a boy as Tommy could ever be with; beside’s it would take some of the pressure off of Susan, if they did play a little.”

“I’d have to say that’s a pretty liberal view Carol...”

“Janet, I seem to recall spending more than a few nights in bed with my college roommate and Sorority Sister, both of us enjoying ourselves. So if our sons wanted to play a little, I’d be a hypocrite, trying to deny them that pleasure wouldn’t I?”

“I wondered if you remembered us doing that. Carol the only one I’ve ever enjoyed sleeping with more than you was my husband, he was a lot like Jimmy, the most caring man I’ve ever known, submissive and incredibly gentle... God I miss him at times...”

“Janet, I feel the same, and we’ve both slept alone for far too long, how about I just stay over here tonight and share a bed. I need to be close to my sister tonight...”

Without further discussion, two women headed up the steps to Janet’s bedroom...

***

Five houses down the street, Jimmy stood Susan in front of him in her bedroom and was unbuttoning her blouse, and whenever she’d reach to help swatted her hands away. “Relax Susan and let me take care of you, you’re very tired, you’d had a long day working hard on that diaper detail and I intend to make sure you get what you need here.” He softly told her.

“Jimmy I can undress myself...”

“I know you can <kiss> but I’m going to do it for you <kiss> now just stand there like a good little girl and let me take good care of you <kiss> I’m going to undress you and wash you <kiss> then make sure you’re totally relaxed <giggle, kiss> then we’re going to sleep together with our brother, who’s getting clean right now <kiss> so just be quiet and let me do this <kiss>.”

“Ok but just hurry up, my panties are soaked,” she grumbled “you’re going entirely too slow!”

“Don’t worry about those wet panties, you won’t be wearing them much longer and not at all tonight, <giggle> and I’ll make sure any ‘excess moisture’ down there get’s taken care of <giggle>, then removed her top and quickly had her shorts and panties down at her ankles and she just kicked them across the room.”

Jimmy smiled as his eyes took in her firm young body and she blushed as she saw him scanning her. “Susan don’t be embarrassed by me looking at you,” he said as he sat on the edge of the bed and pulled her onto his lap. You’re gorgeous and have a beautifully body, I’ve always thought that. You keep telling me not to be ashamed of my body and not to be embarrassed about people seeing me. Well you have even less reason to be that way than me. So no more blushing when I see you this way, there’s no reason for it. You have zero reason to be embarrassed with me ever.”

“I know I shouldn’t be that way Jimmy, because I know you love me just the way I am. But I worry when older girls make offers to you like I know Cindy and probably Pam either have or will, I don’t want to lose you. I love you too much and well I’ve still got this little girl body and can’t offer you what they can...” she shyly replied.

“Well quit worrying about that baby girl, because you are beautiful and you give me something they can’t, and you know me better than anyone else ever could; yet still love me and care about me even when I’m all messed up and my emotions all over the place. So I plan on keeping you a long time. I don’t want those girls, I want the one I have on my lap right now and I’m not giving you up no matter what they offer me.”

“You really feel that way?”

“Suzy I could never feel about another girl the way I feel about you. I’ve loved you as long as I can remember and I don’t and never have wanted another girl to be with. It’s like we were made to be together Suzy and I like it just fine, just the way things are. Now let’s go kick your brother out of the bathroom and get you squeaky clean, so that I can begin paying off this bet you won. I still think you cheated somehow you were entirely too accurate in your guess...”

“I did not cheat! I just know my mother!”

<giggle> “I know that, your Mom told me she’d never said anything about it to you,”<giggle> but you’re not embarrassed any more are you?”

“Oh you!... Come on if you’re going to wash me let’s get too it... you just know what buttons to push and sometimes it’s really frustrating you know...”

“I know but I can’t let you have all of the fun <chuckle>” then stood her up and they headed to the bathroom where Tommy was in the shower and immediately found himself under tickle attack by four hands and all of them were quickly laughing and making sure each other was clean.

Susan collected 2/3’s of her winnings that night, as Jimmy couldn’t stop at one orgasm, he loving doing it too much, and Tommy kissed her throughout to keep her quiet. Then Jimmy relieved himself inside Tommy’s rear, which made Tommy a happy boy, and both fell asleep with Jimmy still inside him.

Susan woke first and got up and went to the bathroom, her mother’s bedroom door was open as she went by and it was empty. When she returned, Jimmy was laying there awake. “Jimmy I don’t think my Mom slept here last night, her room’s empty and the bed doesn’t look like it was slept in?”

“So she must have stayed over at my house...”

“But there’s only one bed over there right now? That would mean...”

“Don’t even go there... I don’t want to know...”

“But?”

“Susan, they don’t want to know what happens with us and I ‘certainly’ don’t want to know what happens with them... got it?”

“Uh... yeah... Uh... they’re really close... used to be roommates... I don’t think I want to know either come to think of it... so we’ll just drop the whole thing...”

“Good, So let’s wake up sleepyhead behind me, load up the cart with some of your stuff, then head over there for breakfast.”

Forty minutes later Susan and Tommy were eating at the table and Jimmy was cooking when their mothers arrived in the kitchen. “Morning Mom’s, the coffee’s done and I’m fixing ham and cheese omelets if that’s ok, just pull up a chair and I’ll have yours done in a few minutes.” He offered.

Walking over behind him Carol wrapped her arms around him and hugged him then kissed his cheek, “Jimmy you keep this up and I’m not going to know how to act, I’m not used to having my breakfast ready everyday when I walk into the kitchen, and this is two days in a row!” she said as she kissed him again.

“Mom Carol, I love cooking and anytime I’m up in the morning before you, I’ll have it ready for you, both of you ladies work too hard all day, every day, so if fixing your breakfast is all it takes to make you happy, then I’d love to do it for you.” He replied leaning back into her.

“You don’t have to do that Jimmy, but you’ll get hugged and kissed every time, and that’s a promise!” she said kissing him again and then getting her coffee.

“Jimmy was smiling as he looked over towards his mother and saw her smiling back. Shortly he delivered their plates and got hugged and kissed by his mother after he put hers down on the table, then got a pat on the rear as he went to fix his own breakfast. “Thanks Jimmy this looks really good,” she said looking up at him. “Oh and don’t worry about dinner tonight, you’ll be too busy to mess with fixing it, I’ll order some pizza or something.”

The day flew by quickly with all of them sorting, packing and in the case of the kids, moving boxes from one house to the other. By dinner time all of them were tired and Janet just decided to call in an order for three large pizzas to be delivered. Jimmy answered the door when they arrived and other than getting a ‘weird’ look from the pizza delivery boy when he answered the door naked, all went well that day. They’d managed to move almost all of Carols clothing over to the house except for a few boxes and the clothing she intended to wear to work the next morning and much of the personal items from her room; what wasn’t moved was packed in boxes and ready to be moved. Likewise all of the linens, towels and such had been packed and much of it moved over by the kids. Furniture to be moved was identified and two lists made, one for Susan to tell them what to move and where, and one for Jimmy to tell them where to put the items arriving at the other house. By 11:00 all of them were tired and tomorrow was the start of a hectic day and hectic week if the truth were told.

The kids spent the night together in Susan’s bed, the last night that it would be easily available since as of Monday, it would be moved and both Susan and Carol would be taking up residence in the other house. Jimmy and Tommy were the only ones who’s be sleeping in the Campbell house for the rest of the week until their new rooms were done. They had a box open and waiting to put Susan’s bedding in as soon as they got up, so that all they had to do was strip the bed, fold it and put it in the box. Both the movers and construction workers were to arrive at 8:00 so all of the family was up early to have breakfast together, before the Mothers left for work and Jimmy and Susan needed to be ready when the workers got there. Both boys were dressed in shorts and shoes and Susan was wearing a t-shirt with her shorts, but they were all gearing up for a long day.

“Jimmy and Susan, call my cell-phone if there’s any unforeseen problems today, I’ll have it with me and turned on all day. I don’t expect any problems, but with everything that’s going on, it’s possible. Just tell the workers anything they need to know and then stay out of the way and let them do their jobs. Be available to answer any questions but unless you see a problem just stay back and let them do it. They’re all professionals at what they do and don’t need you to help or interfere. Jimmy, Mr. Crawford, the contractor will be coming with his crew at least to get things started and wanted to talk to you for a few minutes, to explain a couple minor changes he made. He was very impressed with your work on those drawings, and just wanted to let you know why he made those changes.”

Jimmy was waiting when two trucks pulled into the drive and four men started unloading equipment and lumber. He blocked the side door of the house open so that they had a straight line down into the basement and they immediately started carrying items down there. Another man, (dressed better) parked his car out front and walked up the driveway. “You must be Jimmy?” the man said smiling, “I’m Ed Crawford the contractor your mother hired,” he said offering his hand and Jimmy shook it.

“Yes Sir, Mom said you made some changes you wanted to explain to me? Why don’t we go to the kitchen, there’s some coffee left if you’d like some and we can get out of the way of your crew...”

“Sounds good, and I’d love a cup of coffee,” he said with a smile and followed Jimmy inside.

Once they were at the table, Jimmy remembered something. “Before we get started Mr. Crawford, and it won’t be a problem for a couple of hours yet, your crew will need to pull further into the driveway. They’re fine where their trucks are right now while unloading, but Mom has some movers hauling stuff from the other house over here this morning. It’ll all be going in through the front door, because 90%’s going upstairs on the second floor, but they’ll need to be able to back up to the front walk. Same thing on Friday but those are the only two days; otherwise your guys can park wherever they want.”

“That’s not a problem Jimmy, once they get their tools and supplies downstairs, they won’t need much from their trucks, not today anyway. May my men use one of your restrooms? It will save time if they can, but some folks don’t like workers doing that.”

“Certainly, likewise we have drinks and things for them if they’d like them. Mom said to help anyway I could but stay out of their road and let them do their jobs. So anything they need, just let me know.”

“Well the men will be happy to hear that, some jobs, the people are so fussy about the smallest things and it makes things all that much harder. Upset over a little dust or noise, when they want major renovations, I don’t understand how they expect to have it done without that happening, but they do and we have to deal with it.”

“We know we’re in a construction zone for the week, so they can just do whatever they need to and like I said, if they need something from us, just let me know.” Jimmy replied.

“Good, now I wanted to show you a couple of minor changes I made, and given the quality of the drawings you provided thought you’d like to know why I made them, so that you could take them into consideration if you ever did something like this again. Nothing major, you did really fine work, young man and you might want to consider renovation design as a career, you have a good eye for details.” Then rolled out construction blueprints on the table and both stood over them. “OK first let’s take a look at doors, you specified where they should be but not which direction they should open and that can be important when you consider space utilization. See here on the one from the lounge to the bedroom, it should be hinged on this side so that when open it will be against the center basement wall and not obstruct either the desk on this side if you had it opening in this direction or a bed on the other side if it opened the other direction. I chose to have it open into the bedroom against this wall where it’s out of the way. Like I said, nothing major just something you need to consider. On the walk-in closet, I used pocket doors that slide into the wall to either side so that they don’t obstruct in either direction.”

“I see, all of that makes sense, I just knew where I wanted the doors, but didn’t think of those things...” Jimmy replied.

“Ok now this one, is something you didn’t need to consider, but I did, since I had to do the final design. Your partition walls are 13’6” long and panels or drywall sheets if those were used, but we’re using paneling that matches your existing walls in this case, come in 4’X8’ sheets and that means that on one end, you’re going to have a strip 1’6” wide, so that requires an extra stud in the wall to attach it to, it’s also better to place that narrow piece as far away from high traffic areas as possible so that the seam isn’t too noticeable. So in both cases I put it near the outer wall because the traffic flow in the room is all on the other side of the rooms near the center wall of the house.” Jimmy just nodded that he understood. “The only other changes weren’t so much changes to what you planned on electrical work, but specifications to meet city code. This is a basement and the city requires that any electrical outlet below ground level must be at least 3’ above the floor or be a ground-fault interrupter outlet, so that if the basement flooded for some reason, the circuit would trip the breaker and shut off the power to it. I only had to put three like that in, to meet your needs and plans, the others could all be mounted higher and not create a problem; so these, (pointing) are special GFI circuits, the others are all standard. The only other major item and it wasn’t on your plan, was that I recommend to your mother that we install a bigger hot water tank, with the additional bathroom and 5 people, the odds of multiple showers being used would quickly cause you to run out and I didn’t think any of you wanted cold showers. So it’s cheaper to do it while the plumbers are here than having it done later and your mother specified that change be made.”

“I never even thought of that one, but I sure don’t want cold showers so thanks for catching that!” Jimmy replied.

“Jimmy you made my job very easy with the work and detail you put into it and the drawings to scale. I only had to charge one hour of design work on this project and usually we end up charging a whole day, just getting accurate measurements and half my clients come in with a rough idea but no firm plans as to what they really want done. I could tell at first glance that you’d given me accurate measurement and knew what you wanted, so other than these minor changes and using one of my preplanned bathroom designs, and just modifying a little on the plumbing work to fit it to your drawing, planning this job was nothing for me. Now your mother told me you’re only 15 but if you have an interest in this type of work, I’d like to take you on as a design trainee the summer after you turn 16. I’m not allowed to hire someone younger than that or I’d offer you a job starting right now. You did impressive work young man and I’d like to see you on my staff. I’ve hired college graduates who didn’t do as well as you did with no formal training.”

“Well I did take a design course last year... but mostly I was just visualizing the space and how to maximize its potential with the least modification and cost...”

“Jimmy that’s 85% of a designers job; give the client the most for their dollar, and the least amount of time and resources from the contractor, so that he maximizes his profit margin and the client get’s the best possible deal. And I’m serious about that job offer Jimmy, I’d hire you today if I could.”

“OK well that’s a year from now and I liked doing this, so I just may take you up on that offer. Would I need a college degree for this?”

“Eventually, but come work for me for a summer as a trainee and get your feet wet and if you enjoy the work, then I might be able to help out with getting that college degree, if you’d work for me for awhile once you graduate. You’d be paid the same as any other graduate, but say one year of working for me for every year, I help pay for your education, as a trade off.”

“OK Mr. Crawford, well we’ve both got lots of time to consider it, and I really appreciate the offer, but I should really talk to my mother about it before doing anything...”

“Just what I would have expected your answer to be Jimmy, that tells me you’re a very responsible young man. Now let’s go down and see how my crews doing and I’ll have them move that truck as soon as they can and tell them about the bathroom and such.”

Down in the basement the carpet was already gone and the workers were laying out lumber like a puzzle on the floor about to create a wall frame when it was nailed together. They walked over to a tall black man. “Jimmy this is Joe Maxwell, he’ll be my supervisor on this job and is in charge of my workers while they’re here. If you see any problems or have any concerns, then Joe is the man to talk to and get it resolved. Joe this is Jimmy Henderson, the owner’s son and the one who made up the drawings we worked from, his mother’s given him the authority to approve any changes you might need to make on the fly and he’s given permission for your crew to use the bathrooms upstairs and said he has drinks for them if they want them.”

“You are the one who made up those drawing? Good job there Jimmy, you made life easy for us, especially all of the utilities being mapped and I’ve checked some of the measurements and they’re right on the money.” The man said as they shook hands.

“We measured everything at least twice,” Jimmy replied, “So I’m sure I got them right.”

“Excellent, measure twice, cut once, that’s the rule in construction Jimmy and having the right measurements to begin with it half of the battle,” he replied with a smile.

“Oh Joe, once you get everything unloaded pull the supply truck further up the drive, they have some furniture being delivered upstairs and need to be able to back up to the front walk. Today and Friday are the only days that will be a problem.”

“How soon do you need it moved Jimmy?” the man asked.

“About 10:00 or so I’d guess, they’re loading stuff into the truck down the street now and I doubt they’ll even get here that quick, but your truck just needs to be moved maybe 10 or 15 feet further to give them the room they’ll need to unload.”

“Well if that’s all it needs to be moved, we can do that right now, we’ve already got all of the framing lumber down here, so we’re only talking small items from there, today anyway. Once the bathroom fixtures arrive that won’t be the case... Any delivery’s tomorrow? That’s when that stuff is coming in?”

“No nothing except what you have delivered until Wednesday, and that’s the closet systems and just a couple of nightstands and headboards; then Thursday morning first thing the carpet and Friday afternoon, more furniture that goes in here.” Jimmy advised.

“Well this room will be ready late Thursday, afternoon at the latest so they can deliver stuff in here anytime after that. The bathroom, finals should be the only thing left on Friday unless we run into some unanticipated major hang-up. The only thing that might be left to do in here on Friday is some minor trim or detail work. But that won’t cause any problem with the movers.”

Just as they were finishing up, one of the carpenters turned on an air compressor and using a nail gun, shooting nails into the lumber, constructing the wall frame. “Wow, that’s fast!” Jimmy exclaimed.

<chuckle> “Yeah a lot faster than pounding them by hand!” Joe replied.

“OK well I’ll leave things in your capable hands Joe and go check on the crew at the Robert’s house,” Mr. Crawford advised. “Jimmy nice meeting you and please think about what I told you.”

“Yes Sir, and thank you sir...” Jimmy replied as the man headed up the stairs.

“OK Jimmy, I’ll have one of the guys go move that truck as soon as they get this wall up in place, and if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to ask me. You know Jimmy your drawings impressed a man who’s rarely impressed, and when he found out your age, he kept talking about it all afternoon. He offered you a job didn’t he?”

“Yeah when I’m 16...”

“Think hard on that one Jimmy he’s a good man and a wonderful boss and he doesn’t make offers like that often. I’ve been working for him for 23 years now and I’ve never had a single complaint. He’s one of the best at what he does and he only hires the best to work for him. You could do a lot worse and he’ll take you under his wing and make sure you’re trained right.” The man advised.

“I will he was really nice upstairs explaining the changes he made and why. I learned a bunch just in the few minutes we talked.”

“Jimmy he doesn’t have a son and well I shouldn’t say this but you may be the person he’s been looking for to eventually turn his business over to when he retires. That may be quite some time down the road because he loves his job. But like I said, you impressed a man who’s rarely impressed, and his opinion didn’t lessen any after meeting you in person and talking to you today.”

Jimmy stood considering what he’d just been told as he watched the men power nail the partition wall into the cement floor and through the paneling into the block wall on both ends. “OK Mr. Maxwell, I’ll think about it. I’ll be upstairs moving some stuff out to the garage, if you need me, I don’t want to be in the way or under your feet down here, so just yell if you need anything.”

At 10:20 the movers arrived and Jimmy directed them as to which furniture went to which room as well as boxes of clothing and personal items that had been packed for Carol the previous day. Once the truck was empty, they reloaded it with the furniture to be sold to be taken back to the Campbell garage, everything that was scheduled to be moved one direction or the other was completed by 2:00pm. Shortly thereafter, Susan and Tommy came over and the three were sitting on the deck drinking iced tea, before going in and setting up the two beds upstairs.

“Jimmy? Got a quick one I need to inform you of,” Joe said sticking his head out the doorway. Jimmy got up and followed the man to the basement where one of the plumbers was waiting. “OK we were tapping into the floor drain and the pipe collapsed back about 18 inches here, so we’ll need to dig that line out and replace it. We’ll patch over with new cement and it will all be covered by the new tile floor anyway, except about 4’ where it will cross the laundry room floor. I just needed to let you know about the problem and what we’re doing to correct it. No big deal this happens frequently with this type of drain.”

“So are you putting the same stuff back in, if that collapsed won’t it do it again if you use the same type? Can you make it better?”

“It would, but we’ll replace it with PVC pipe Jimmy,” the plumber advised, “That old tile line just fell apart at soon as I removed the trap, so it was pretty rotted. The new line will have a check valve as well as a trap to prevent backup from coming from the sewer and any odor that might try to come up also, so it’s a better hookup anyway. It’s just that the floor won’t quite match in the laundry room and that needs approval. But I’d have to replace the pipe regardless.”

“Ok well if it has to be done anyway, then go ahead and do it, the new line sounds better also; the floor not matching isn’t any big deal, if we don’t like it we can always paint over it. So do I need to sign something or just you telling me covers it?” Jimmy asked.

“Just initial the ‘Change Sheet’ here Jimmy, that tells Mr. Crawford , that it was discussed and approved, the cost change is very little, about $50, and within budget anyway. This happens so often that he just factors it in to begin with, but it wasn’t on the original specifications so it’s a change.” Joe advised and handed him a clip board to initial, beside the notation.

“Anything else?” Jimmy asked, “If not I’ll be on the second floor putting a couple of beds together.”

“No that was it, Jimmy and it’s handy that you’re around for stuff like this, otherwise we’d have to wait to get approval when we run into minor problems.” Joe replied.

“Ok well I’ll just grab a hammer and screwdriver and be upstairs then...” Jimmy said and left them to do their jobs.

“Told you the kid was smart, he asked the right questions and didn’t hesitate to make the right decision,” Joe said smirking at the plumber.

“OK so you told me so; I’m just not used to asking a teenager for approvals.” The man said.

“Don’t be surprised if he isn’t your boss some day, Old Man Crawford’s got his eye on that kid and likes him a lot. Already offered him a job for a year from now...”

“You’re kidding?”

“No Max, I’m not, the kid drew the plans we’re working from on this job...”

“Shit! And he’s only 15? Damn!”

Upstairs, Jimmy laid out the bed frame where Susan wanted it and then quickly assembled it and attached the head board, then all three of them wrestled with her box springs and mattress until they were on the bed properly. He had to move her dresser a few feet from where it had been deposited and reposition her desk also but the nightstand had ended up pretty much where it belonged. Tommy helped his sister unpack her bedding and make her bed up while Jimmy was in Carol’s room assembling the bed frame. When he came back he used her desk chair to stand on while replacing the curtains with her new ones and then Tommy and Susan went with him to help with their mother’s mattress and box spring set. Once that bed was assembled, Susan returned to her room to start unpacking her clothing and personal items, while Jimmy, finished hanging new curtains in Carol’s room. By the time he was done, Joe was calling for him from the bottom of the steps.

“Yes Sir?” Jimmy yelled back, “I’ll be right down! Is there another problem?”

“No problem Jimmy it’s 4:30 and I just wanted to let you know we’ll be leaving. We’ll be back at 8:00 sharp and take up right where we left off. Other than that one drain line, things are moving right along and most of the rough in work is done. Tomorrow will be a big day with the bathroom fixtures arriving and installing them, but we’re right on schedule.”

“So that drain won’t delay things? I thought it might...”

“No, like I said, that happens so often that Mr. Crawford built it into the schedule just like he’d built it into the budget. It’s already replaced and new cement over it, just don’t step on the new cement overnight.”

“Ok well I’ll see you in the morning then, thanks for all of your help today.” He said smiling and the man was gone shortly thereafter.

“Good kid,” the man said to himself as he walked to the truck, “smart and polite, wish mine was like that...”

Jimmy was in the basement, when his mother came home looking at how much had been accomplished that day. “Looks like they made good progress,” his mother said from behind him as he looked at the repaired floor.

“Yeah they really work fast,” Jimmy replied as her arm draped over his shoulder. “They had a problem with the drain line and had to replace it, it collapsed when he pulled the trap, so they put in a new one all the way to the sewer tree. Mr. Maxwell said it happens a lot, so it was already factored into the cost of the job.”

“Who’s he?”

“Oh he’s Mr. Crawford’s crew supervisor, he’s the one who’s actually supervising this job. He’s nice and easy to work with. Said he’d been working for Mr. Crawford for 23 years.”

“Did the moving go ok?” she asked.

“As far as I know it did, I’ve been here all day so I’d have to check with Susan, but I checked off all of the items on that list you gave me that were supposed to come here and they took the stuff from the garage as well as the other things, you had marked to go over there. So I think so, they left here at about 1:45 and Susan and Tommy came over at about 2:30 so I assume they were done over there.”

“So where are the other kids?”

“Upstairs unpacking Susan’s stuff. I’ve only been down here a few minutes. I got both beds set up and new curtains hung, but I need Mom Carol to tell me exactly where she wants her dresser and stuff before placing it.”

“I got a big pan of lasagna from an Italian place with garlic bread and salad for dinner the lasagna’s in the oven keeping it warm until Carol’s home then we can have dinner. They really did get quite a bit done today...”

“Yeah, both partition walls are up in the other room, in fact, the closet wall is done except for the molding and baseboard. Those pocket doors are kind of neat, I would never have thought of using those, they just slide right into the wall. The room partition is still open on one side, where they’re running the electrical circuits but the wiring’s all there, they just need to put the boxes in. Did you know that Mr. Crawford was going to offer me a job as a design trainee when I’m 16? He’s really nice and was so careful to explain the changes he made and why. He even offered to help pay for my college if I’d work for him for a few years after I graduate.”

“Jimmy he said that when I talked to him, but I didn’t mention it in case he changed his mind, but he never mentioned helping with college; so he must be serious about it. He was really impressed Jimmy, what can I say?”

“Yeah, Mr. Maxwell said that too, he said, ‘I’d impressed a man who was rarely impressed,’ or something close to that, so I guess that means I did good.”

“You did VERY good Jimmy and you should be very proud of that.”

“I am Mom, but it didn’t seem like that big of a deal at the time, I just did my best, that’s all...”

“Just keep doing your best and you’ll never hear a complaint from your mother Jimmy...”

“I will... How long until Mom Carol get’s home? I’m hungry?”

<laugh> “Any time now Jimmy, and you DO know that she all but melts when you call her that? She’d do almost anything for you when you refer to her that way...”

“No I never considered that. It just feels ‘right’ to call her that, she’s always been my second mother...”

“Well she loves you too Jimmy, just as much. So let’s go up and round up the kids and set the table, then we’ll be ready to eat as soon as your second Mom comes in.”

“Works for me!” he replied and they headed up the stairs.

Over dinner they compared notes at to what all was accomplished that day and all of them were happy with the progress. “Mom Carol? Once we’re done with dinner, I need you to show me where you want your furniture, so I can place it for you, before you start unpacking and loading it. I put the bed where you wanted it, but I didn’t know exactly where you wanted the other stuff, so it’s in the general areas you indicated but still needs to be put into final position. Oh, Tommy and I got your new curtains hung too.” Jimmy said.

“OK Jimmy we’ll go up as soon as we clean up here then...” she replied.

“We’ll take care of cleaning up Carol you and Jimmy take care of your room and let the rest of us worry about a few dishes.” Janet directed.

Later up in her room, Jimmy and Carol moved her furniture around to where she wanted it, and then he helped her make up her bed, with a skirt around the bottom and when the bedspread was put over it and shams put on two pillows, they stepped back and looked over. “Looks good,” Jimmy offered, “I like it Mom.”

“I more that ‘like’ it Jimmy, I love it! This room is much better than my room in the other house, and you boys did such a wonderful job on the painting!” she responded hooking her arm around him and smooching him.

“I just want you to be happy with it and with living here, Mom, I want all of us to be happy living together...” Jimmy offered.

“You beautiful sweet boy,” she replied with tears in her eyes, as she pulled him onto her lap on the edge of her bed, “I could never be anything but happy living with my family and you are an important part of it. You’re always concerned about how all of us feel and I just love you more than I can ever tell you for that and how good you are with the kids.”

“I love you too Mom and I just want us all happy...” he softly replied, a little embarrassed.

“We are happy Jimmy, we’re all getting something we’ve wanted for a long time and I hope you’re just as happy as I know the Kids and I are about all of this. You gave up your room and are doing so much work to get us all together, I’ll never be able to repay you for everything you’re putting in to this.”

“You don’t owe me anything Mom, you never will, if anything I owe you more than I can ever repay for being so good to me all these years. I just want us together and everyone happy, that will make me happier than anything.”

“Well you’re getting what you want and so is everyone else Jimmy. Just please, if I can ever do anything for you let me know, because you’re the one who made it happen. Yes we all helped but you’re the one doing most of the work and finding solutions to every problem that’s popped up. I know you don’t believe that, but it’s true and it makes us all love you that much more.”

“OK... well I don’t believe it but I won’t argue... I should let you get your stuff sorted out... Tommy and I were going to go pack some more stuff tonight. I still need to look over those tools and things and see what we might be able to use...”

“Jimmy I meant what I said about the stuff still over there; look over the entire house and if there’s anything, anything at all that you even think you might want now or in the future, then make sure it gets packed and brought here. There are a bunch of my husband’s things in the basement and garage, and he would’ve liked nothing better than to know that it went to a boy who would put it to use.”

“You mean that?”

“Absolutely, things like that thermos you put to use haven’t been used in years; they been waiting for years for a boy who could use them to dig them out and make use of them. Bill would have been glad that his favorite thermos found its way to you; he knew you as a baby and loved you as much as I do and he’d be happy that you could use something he left behind.”

“OK Tommy and I will look, but Tommy gets first choice on anything we find, he should have some things from his Dad, its only right.” He replied as he stood and got a final hug and kiss before leaving her.

Stopping off at Susan’s room, where she was still unpacking. “Susan, Tommy and I will be going back to the house. We still have to go through that stuff in the basement and garage and figure out what to keep. I guess I’ll see you in the morning.” He said giving her a hug, “I’ll miss sleeping with you tonight, I’ve gotten used to you curled up against me,” he whispered in her ear.

“Me too, it’s going to be lonely in that big bed alone.” she whispered back, giving him a kiss before stepping back, and letting him leave.

“Come on Tommy,” Jimmy called out as he reached the bottom step, “we have work to do over at the other house. We need to sort out those tools and stuff and pack it,” he continued as much for his mother’s benefit as Tommy’s. Then directly to his mother, “Mom, we’ll be back over at breakfast in the morning, the work crew will be here at 8:00 so we’ll be here at 7:00,” he advised.

“OK boys see you in the morning and don’t stay up too late,” she replied.

As they walked past the Murphy house, the old woman was sitting on the porch. “So you finally have clothes on!” she yelled at them. Both boys stopped and just looked at her and then by unspoken agreement, both removed their shorts and rolled them up and tucked them under their arms. Then stood facing her for a minute before turning and walking on home, leaving her fussing and fuming. Both were giggling softly with an arm around each other, but they never said a word to the woman. By the time they got to their house, they were laughing and once inside all but fell on the floor continuing to laugh, then did and ended up side by side on the carpet gasping for breath.

“Did you see her when we stripped? I thought she was having a heart attack!” Tommy gasped.

“Yeah but it sure shut her up, didn’t it!” Jimmy giggled.

A few minutes later the phone rang and Jimmy answered it. “Jimmy what did you boys just do? Mrs. Murphy called here yelling and screaming?”

“Mom she’s gone out of her way to make comments to us every time we’ve passed her house naked always on our case. This evening she yelled that ‘we finally had clothes on’ and well Tommy and I figured it was because she ‘wanted’ to see us naked, so we both just stripped off our shorts so she could see us, and then walked on home. We never said a word to that old biddy, heck, we never said a word to each other, we just looked at each other and did it. It was really funny and sure shut her up!” <chuckle>

“Well if that’s all that happened, then she has no complaint! Actually if that’s what happened I think it’s funny too! Good one boys! Maybe she’ll learn to keep her big mouth shut!” his mother replied chuckling. “Good night Jimmy,” she said laughing a little harder.

The boys went to the basement and started looking through Tommy’s Dad’s tool room, Jimmy set all of the power tools aside to be kept as well as tools that were duplicates of one’s he already had but in good shape. He figured you could never have too many tools when you came right down to it. Tommy was looking around going through boxes and found the camping gear in the corner, that his mother had mentioned, there were two bedrolls, a tent, a pack, and a hand axe and folding shovel. Jimmy spotted a couple of fishing poles on nails in the rafters over head and added them to the ‘keep’ pile, he’d only been fishing once, but put them in the ‘might want’ category to keep. Moving to a small storage room, they checked boxes to see what was in them, and found several with Susan’s clothes and put them aside to keep or at least for her to check, same with a few with Carol’s clothing.

Tommy found a small wooden box on a shelf and pulled it down and was looking through it, when Jimmy heard him sob. “Tommy? Tommy what’s wrong?” Jimmy asked when he turned around and saw the boy sitting on a box with the small box on his lap and tears flowing down his cheeks.

“What’s that?” he asked moving over beside him.

“My Dad...” Tommy answered, holding a picture in his hand of a boy in a baseball uniform, probably about the same age as Tommy. Jimmy looked down into the box and it was full of old pictures and small items, rings, a knife, an ID bracelet, small souvenirs apparently accumulated by Tommy’s dad as he grew up. The pictures were from toddler to married. It was a small collection of Tommy’s dad’s life, all in one small box.

“Tommy you should keep that,” Jimmy softly said rubbing the boy on the back. “I only have a couple of pictures of my dad at all, he died when I was little only about three...”

“Jimmy I don’t remember my dad at all,” the boy whimpered, “Mom kept a few pictures of him from when they got married up stairs, but I don’t remember him. The only memory I have that ‘might’ be him, was Mom taking me to see someone in a hospital, and there was a man on a bed and looked really sick, with tubes and wires hooked up to him, but I can’t see his face in my memory. Mom wanted me to go to the man but I wouldn’t. I hung on to her. The man told her not to force me, that I was scared and that it was ok. I don’t know if that was my Dad or my Grandfather, but probably my Dad, and he was sad that I wouldn’t come to him. Jimmy that’s the only memory I have of him and I was mean to him...” the boy whimpered and was openly crying.

Hugging the boy tightly from behind, Jimmy rested his chin on the boy’s shoulder. “Tommy how old were you when your dad died?”

“About two, from what Mom said.”

“Then it’s not unusual that you don’t remember him, I can’t remember anything from before I was almost 4, just a flash here or there, but not much at all, even with those. Tommy I want you to keep that box and sometime sit down with your Mom and have her go through that stuff, especially the pictures and tell you what she knows about them. You can see by the pictures that your dad was a normal kid just like you growing up, and you look almost like that one in the baseball uniform. If the picture wasn’t so old, it could be a picture of you. Talk to her and tell her you’d like to know about your Dad. Both of you might cry a little but Tommy you need to know who he was and what he thought about things. I know he loved you, but you need to know about him even if you can’t remember him. Your mother can give you that and she’ll want you to know those things.”

“It’ll make her cry and I don’t want to do that,” Tommy whimpered.

“Yes it probably will but she’ll cry about the happy times too as well as being sad that he’s gone, but she’ll want you to know about your dad, and you need to know about him, she knows that, and she’ll want to do this with you.” He advised. “Tommy that box is special, I don’t have anything about my father, from before he and mom got married. Both his parents were already dead when my parents met. The only picture I have of him before then is the one in his high school yearbook when he was 17. He didn’t keep things like this box or if he did, they’re gone, so I don’t know anything about him really before he met my mother. Tommy you have your Dad’s past, and moments of his life in that box and that’s special. That box gives you a way to get to know your father, better than I’ll ever have...”

“Now I’m made you sad too,” Tommy whimpered.

“Just a little, but it’s ok Tommy, both of us need to remember we had dads who loved us and try to be the best we can be, even though they’re not with us anymore. Look we’re both pretty tired and it’s late, we’re dirty and need a shower, and have to get up early. So let’s get cleaned up and just go to bed. OK?”

At breakfast the next morning, Jimmy told Carol about the box and Tommy’s reaction to it. “Oh dear, I’d forgotten all about that box. Jimmy I knew Tommy’s father most of his life, we grew up near each other and went to school together. I know about many of the things in that box and tonight Tommy’s going to find out what a wonderful man his father was, as well as a wonderful boy he’d been, very much like Tommy in many ways. Thank you for telling me about this Jimmy, Tommy needs to know about how much his father loved him.”

“Don’t forget to do the same thing with Susan some time, but right now I think Tommy needs it more,” Jimmy suggested.

“I know Jimmy and thank you for reminding me, Susan needs to learn about her father too.”

(End of File)