Thursday, March 17, 2022

Jude Manchild (Part 3 of 3 Parts)

 Markwildyr.com, Post #212

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 Well, is Jude happy or in over his head. He’s clearly the junior member of this duo. So is he satisfied with the relationship? Let’s see.

* * * * *

JUDE MANCHILD

That phone call had been an hour ago, and the sympathetic side of me was beginning to fret while the cautious side relaxed a little. Bart just lived across town, no more than twenty minutes away. Ten, if he gunned his cycle. After a couple more hours, I tried calling him, but got no answer. So I started hiking to his house, expecting, hoping to see him coming toward me down the street. I reached his house. No one answered the door.

My “wanting” side clearly in ascendancy now, I headed downtown to see if I could locate his bike. No such luck. Maybe I should go back home and find him impatiently waiting to give me hell for not obeying his instructions.

On the way, I ran into a neighbor kid a year or so younger’n me, and I could tell he was busting to tell me some news.

“Hi, Fred, what’s up?” I asked.

“Did you hear about Bart?”

I hoped my startled reaction didn’t give me away. “No, what about him?”

“Got creamed by a car on Hobart Street.”

“Is he okay?”

“Hauled him away to the hospital. Broken leg or something.”

I thanked him and headed straight for the town’s only hospital. It took forever to find out he’d already been sent home. So I hiked back to his house and saw Mrs. Jewelson’s car in the driveway. She answered my knock and told me Bart was in his bedroom.

“You can go in for a few minutes, Jude but he needs to rest. He got knocked around quite a bit. Lucky it’s just his leg.”

I walked into his room and came to a dead stop. Old Bart looked like hell hit with a club. I always though “white as a sheet” was a cliché, but, man, was he white. And his right leg was encased in the biggest, heaviest-looking cast I’d ever seen. He sure as hell didn’t look like the swaggering semi-bully I knew. In fact, he looked vulnerable.

“Hi, Bart, looks like you’ve seen better days.”

He tried to muster a smile, but it didn’t work. “Yeah, thanks to old lady Tillotson. She just turned the corner and plowed right into me. My bike’s totaled. It’s gone, man.”

“Her insurance company will buy you a new one,” I said, drawing upon my deep inexperience with such matters.

Bart brightened. “Hey, yeah. Maybe I can get a brand new one.”

“Maybe. Uh, I waited like you asked me to.”

“Yeah, well, I didn’t make it.”

“Just wanted you to know.”

I only stayed about fifteen minutes, but it was enough to give me a different viewpoint on life. At least life with Bart Jewelson in it. As I tripped down the steps, his mom called to me and asked if I could come check on Bart around noon. I knew she worked at a lawyer’s office downtown and figured she needed to get back to work.

“Yes, ma’am. About ten be okay?”

“That’ll be fine, Jude. Maybe spend a little time with him. He’s going to get bored out of his skull before he’s getting out and about.”

“Be happy to.”

****

As soon as the Jewelson’s screen door banged behind me the next morning, I could see Bart was feeling better. Frustration at being tied down in a recliner in the living room clearly stamped his features. Geez, and this was only day two.

“Hi, kid,” he drawled, seeking to set things back the way they were. But that was behind us now, even though he didn’t know it yet.

“Thought you might need some relief,” said, walking over to his chair.

“Always, he said. “But I’m a little inhibited right now.”

“Leave that to me,” I said. “Your mom’s at work, right?” I hadn’t seen her car in the driveway, but a guy can’t be too careful.

“Yeah.”

Giving him a grin, I opened his robe and took a gander. He didn’t have anything on under it, so I had free access, except for that clunky cast on his right leg. It wasn’t a walking cast, so he was more or less confined to bed or a chair or hopping around on crutches.

Bart was pretty well built, not just in the manhood department, so I took my time touching and tasting things we hadn’t taken the time to explore before. He put up with it for a while and then started complaining I oughta get down to what counted.

“In a minute. What’s the hurry?”

He tried for his usual snarl, but it didn’t work. “What’s the hurry? You got my nuts to aching, that’s the hurry.”

“Patience” I said and returned to sucking on his nipples. But then I had mercy on him and went to work in a serious way. Before long, he delivered. And delivered. Afterward, I leaned over his chair and looked him in the eye. “Bart, how do you think of me?

“Wha’dya mean?”

“Just what I said. How do you think of me?”

“You’re my old lady.”

I shook my head slowly. “No, I’m not. I’m your lover.”

That thought shook him. “It ain’t that way. I just take my relief. Love ain’t got nothing to do with it.”

I knew I had him shook up because he was tearing up the rules of conversational English more than usual. I squatted on my heels beside him and stroked his forearm. “Think about that a little harder,” I said. “And when you figure it out, give me a call.”

“Like hell. You show up here tomorrow. Eleven o’clock. And right now, go fix me a ham sandwich.”

I stood. “I’m really fond of you, Bart. Might even say I love you if you wouldn’t have a conniption fit. Give me a call.”

I did the hardest thing I’d ever done. Walked out on the only guy who gave me a little action. But it was deeper than that. He was the guy I’d come to love. But the relationship was lopsided and needed fixing.

****

He didn’t call until the next afternoon.

“Where the hell are you?” he asked.

“Home.”

“Well, get your ass over here.”

“Can’t right now.”

“Why not?”

“Just can’t.” And I hung up.

He didn’t call the next day, but when my cell burbled the following day, it announced his call. “Hello.”

“Man, you know what’s good for you, you’ll be here in five minutes.”

“Why?”

“I wanna shag your ass.”

“You couldn’t even if I came over.”

“I’ll figure out a way.”

“Not one that’s comfortable for me you won’t.”

“Hey, man, I need company. Come on over, we can just jaw, if you want.”

“I dunno.”

“Jude, I been good to you, time to pay back the favor.”

Now we’re getting somewhere. “You’ve been good to me? How?”

Bart dropped his voice to a near-whisper. “I give you want you want, man. You know that.”

“You mean you take what you want, don’t you?”

“Come on, you like it.”

“Yeah, I guess I do. But what I don’t like is that I do all the giving, and you do all he taking.”

“What’re you saying? I get you off, don’t I?”

“Bart, when’s the last time you jacked off?”

“I dunno. A while, now.”

“Kid stuff, right?”

Bart paused like he knew trap bait when he heard it. “Yeah.”

“So how come I get the kid stuff while you get the grown-up stuff?”

“Because I ain’t queer, kid.”

“Didn’t know I was until you raped me in that garage out in the middle of nowhere last year.”

His voice went high. “Raped you?” He settled down. “You ate it up, man, and you know it.”

“Not at first. But you went on and took what you wanted.”

The line went dead for a moment. “What… what you want?”

“I want you to do for me what I do for you.”

The snarl came back in his voice. “Nobody’s gonna fuck my ass.”

“That’s not what I want.”

“You mean… blow you?”

“That would be great, guy,” I said. “Tit for tat, and you get the added bonus of laying it to me.”

Silence again. Then. “Don’t our friendship mean anything?”

“Means a lot. And I give mine right back. But when you want friendship with privileges, as they say, I oughta get some privileges back.”

“You’re being a son-of-a-bitch, Manchild.”

“But a friendly one. So what do you want me to do?”

His sigh held frustration, but there was no anger in it. And when he spoke, I heard resignation.

“Come on over.”

I scooted my tail right down the street and arrived at his house in record time. After a little more resistance, Bart accepted that I was serious, and that afternoon turned into something memorable. Something indelibly etched into my brain. For the first time, it seemed more like a love session than a fuck session.

 * * * *

Guess Jude turned the tables and became an equal partner. Wouldn’t it be great if all of us could work out a relationship that easily? Let me know what you think.

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