Like a Father
A Beau to Beau Romance short story
Sensual and Sexual, with Passion, Pleasure, and
Longing
INTRO:
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.
EXCERPT:
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.
Todd had had a very brief fling one night with Kyle’s father, when the two of
them had gotten drunk together. He had bet Todd that he couldn’t get off on a
man giving him a blowjob, and Todd had proven him wrong, very wrong. The man
had enjoyed it, too much for his own taste, and had spent much of his married
life sleeping with other women just to prove that he was straight. Deanna had
never known about Todd’s one little tryst with her husband, and never would, if
Todd had anything to say about it. He knew that her ex wouldn’t say anything.
He had been far too embarrassed to admit that he had had the best orgasm of his
life the night that Todd had sucked him off.
******
“Well, kid, I sunbathe naked around my pool,” Todd told his sister right in
front of his step-nephew. “I just want to get things out in the open from the
start here,” he had said. “I hope that won’t be a problem,” he added. She
shook her head. Deanna had been through too much to let a little thing like
that bother her.
Deanna and Kyle settled into Todd’s house quickly. They had spent quite a
few nights with Todd when Deanna’s husband was supposedly out of town on
business when he was really with another woman. The first night they moved in
with Todd, he took them both out to dinner.
“Your house is beautiful, Todd,” Kyle had said. “Thanks, Kyle. I didn’t
expect you to notice something like that, but I like your taste,” Todd had
teased. Todd made a pretty good living, and being single, he had no one to
spend his money on, except of course is nephew, so the house he lived in was
rather large and very tastefully decorated. One of his former lovers was a
decorator, so the house was really quite a showplace by even the toughest
standards. “A friend of mine decorated it,” he said, not wanting to say the
word lover in front of Kyle, although Kyle knew about his Uncle Todd, of his
homosexuality.
Being eighteen and very self confident, Kyle was not shy about asking
questions or speaking his mind. “Todd, can I ask you some things?” he said one
day while his mom was still at work. “Sure, Scout, sit down, take a load off.”