Stories included in:    A Familiar Place

Story 1:           My Son’s Best Friend

Story 2:           Brothers-in-Law

Story 3:           Father Figure

Story 4:           Like a Father

Story 5:           My Married Lover
 

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My Son's Best Friend

Kyle and Cooper have been friends forever but unlike Kyle, Cooper is attracted to men, not women.  Leery of anonymous sex, Cooper wants his first time with a man to be special, with someone he trusts, and with someone who knows how to please a man.  Arriving unexpectedly at the home of Spencer Davis, Kyle’s father, Cooper has carefully devised a plan to satisfy his desire for sex with a man.  Mr. Davis had told Cooper that he was always welcome in his home, but did this welcome include sharing his bed?  Cooper may have to modify his seductive plan somewhat if he is to convince his best friend’s father to go as far as he hopes he will.  

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Cooper went upstairs to the guest room and changed his clothes.  Spencer went back to his drink and to his movie.  He turned the sound down again when he heard Cooper coming back down the stairs.  When he walked into the family room, Cooper was wearing only a pair of bikini briefs, completely unexpected by Spencer.  Cooper was gorgeous, athletic, well toned, with youthful skin that seemed to have a glow all its own, but he was also his son’s friend and his son’s age.  Being a gay man, Spencer couldn’t help but stare at this young man with the perfect body.  When Spencer could finally tear himself away from staring at Cooper, he asked, “Don’t you want to put some clothes on, Cooper?”  Spencer had to move a little to find a more comfortable position in his chair to make room for what was beginning to rise inside his jeans. 
 

Brothers-in-Law
Chance had made them brothers-in-law, and time together had made them friends and confidantes, with a palpable sexual tension between them which was always carefully cloaked in friendly banter.  Since Andy’s divorce from the sister of Kevin’s wife, the two brothers-in-law have not seen each other nearly as much as they once had, and both missed this time together.  With Kevin’s wife out of town for the weekend, the two brothers-in-law will now have a chance to catch up.
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Alone for the weekend, Kevin had invited Andy to spend the night at his place and see a movie, hang out and drink, whatever they liked, just have a guy’s weekend.  Kevin’s wife had gone off for a weekend shopping trip with her sister, Andy’s ex-wife, and Kevin and Andy both missed each other in an odd sort of way.  They had been brothers-in-law, and still were in a sense, just not legally.  Andy had always been interested in Kevin, though Kevin had never known of his interest which was really more desire than interest.  There always seemed to be an undertone of sexual flirting between them that was masked in jokes made mostly by Andy, but Andy had sensed there was something more there, something more than sexual flirting, something sexually real. 

Father Figure
Lucas got his way, just like he always did.  Luke was Janice’s baby brother, and being married to Janice, Jerry just had to accept the fact that Luke was part of a package deal.  Jerry didn’t know that the kid thought of him as a big brother, or father figure, and wasn’t thrilled to be either.  He wouldn’t have minded being either, except for one slight problem.  Jerry was turned on by the kid.  Jerry’s wife had known of Jerry’s bisexuality, but Jerry hadn’t been with a man since they had married.  When Jerry and Lucas are alone on Saturdays while Janice is working, Luke tells Jerry quite a bit more about himself than Jerry wants to know.
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To Jerry, Lucas was a bit of a nuisance, and a dreamer.  He had a dream of being a rock star, the best the world had ever known, and had thought that just by showing up in L.A., everyone would fall at his feet.  He was the typical little brother, always wanting to tag along with them when they were dating, and even now after he and Janice were married.  But Janice, being the older sister, had always taken Lucas in stride, had babied him, and had doted on him since the day he was born.  Jerry and Janice were both twenty-five, but Lucas was only nineteen, and to Jerry, that was a child.  Janice fed Luke’s ego way too much in Jerry’s opinion.  “You know he’s not going to be a star, Janice.  Why do you fill his head with these pie-in-the-sky notions?”  Janice would look at her husband with her bedroom eyes, and say, “Honey, he might make it.  Anyway, he’s just a kid.”  Jerry thought that at age nineteen Lucas should at least start being independent.  But Jerry went along with it, thinking how nice it would be to have the easy life of Luke. 

Like a Father
Todd’s sister had married a loser, and was now divorced from a loser.  She and her stepson, always welcome in Todd’s enormous house, were now living with him.  Todd was like a father to Kyle, the young man he had nicknamed Scout, and Kyle loved the man he had come to know as Uncle Todd.  Having no idea that this young man, who would be in college soon, had feelings for his soon-to-be male roommate, Todd is surprised when Kyle shares with him his concerns about his own sexuality.  Kyle knows that Todd his gay.  Todd has never kept that a secret from anyone.  When Kyle comes to Todd one afternoon while he is sunbathing in the nude by his pool, the only thing he can do is what he has always done, and be like a father to this young man.  Neither Kyle nor Todd is certain, however, of the unspoken boundaries of their close relationship. 
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Kyle was good at everything he did.  He was good in school, good at sports, and yet he was very humble.  Deanna had raised him well, practically all by herself.  Kyle, or Scout, had been on the swim team in high school and his abilities had earned him a scholarship which was paying for much of his college.  He had a lean build from the sport, and had filled out nicely over the last couple of years.  He looked like a man now.  He carried himself with a great deal of confidence.  Kyle was built like his dad, about the only good thing that had come of Todd’s sister’s marriage, according to Todd, and because of the bulge in his pants, Todd could tell that Kyle also carried a rather large tool, just like his dad. 

 
My Married Lover
Each longing for the love that for years they had kept hidden somewhere deep inside them, Davin and Marcus find themselves together for a week without the intrusions of their own lives or the expectations of others.  They find themselves alone with only their feelings for each other.
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Davin and Marcus had been good friends, best friends in fact, for as long as they good remember.  They had gone to college together, and Marcus had been the best man at Davin’s wedding, a wedding which Davin had agreed to as an expected part of his future.  Marcus watched with envy as Davin took his vows.  He was envious of the bride.  Marcus would have done anything to have been standing in her place, vowing to love Davin for the rest of his life.  He knew that he would anyway.