Howdy Doody

The Geppetto Project

Chapters 45-46

Chapter Forty Five

"That don't matter Poppe as long as we ain't fuckin in front of them. They all know we ride nakey most of the time." Benji told the man. "Besides, a lot of the Camp Kenny kids ride nakey too, so they don't care about us." His twin brother Gavin now said smiling.

Dr. Lester looked at both the twins and his Grandson. Shaking his head, he had to chuckle to himself. All three boys were stark naked riding on lambs wool horse blankets with no saddle and somehow the twins had no erections despite the fact that they were

riding double and Benji was within striking distance of his brothers anus.

And what about the Intermediate girls?" The Dr. asked. "They're too chicken to ride nakey. Some of them ride with just shorts on, but the one's that do ain't got no tits yet

so they don't care." Gavin informed the man as Dr. Lester again chuckled.

Arriving onto the Meadow after traveling through a large strand of white birch tree's,

The twins and Bobby now gave the horses a tap on their sides as the horses took off across the field of shoulder length wheat that parted as they went into a slow gallop.

Dr. Lester stopped his horse and watched as the horses speed had the boy's longish hair now flying in the wind. The Chief Psychiatrist of the Institute that oversaw Green Tree marveled at both the boy's ability on horseback after only a few short weeks there as well as the stark beauty of the scene as it unfolded before his eyes. These were three boys who were running free and happy who just a few short months earlier were in emotional turmoil. The man wished he had a camera to show his wife how well her 15 year Grandson Bobby was doing as well as the twins who had become much more than just his Clinical Patients.

"They ride pretty well for boys that just arrived." Sarah said as the counselor pulled up on a horse alongside the Doctor. "Indeed! I was just thinking the same exact thing. It's as if they were born on horses." Dr. Lester said as a group of more than a dozen children on ponies now joined the other boys on the Meadow and put their horses into a fast trot.

The Dr. smiled as pony after pony past with two children on each one, all between 5 and 7 years old, and all as naked as the day they were born. With huge smiling faces and wave's they passed by. Each team shouted a greeting as they moved out onto the meadow followed by two senior boys on horseback chaperoning them. "I was a little fearful after my boys stripped down that we would come into contact with your group, but I see that that fear was unfounded." The Dr. told Sarah and now Martha who had joined them. Sarah smiled as she watched her brood protectively. "Being seen naked together is never a problem between the Camp Kenny children and the Intermediate camp. It's when our kids happen upon the Intermediates when they're romping that things can get a little dicey for us. The little one's watching the older boys kind of sets them off into overdrive

and it can take some time before we can settle them back down." Sarah replied.

"It's not a problem on horseback because they're all doing the same exact thing and you really can't see anything anyway unless you're studying the situation really well." Martha added with a giggle. Dr Lester laughed as he nodded. "It certainly explains why riding is such an important activity for them!" He told both girls. "Besides "Romper Room" at the pool, this is Camp Kenny's drug of choice." Sarah said with a deep smile.

As the Camp Kenny children ran their horses around the Meadow as fast as the ponies would cooperate, Dr. Lester and the girls walked their horses over to the water trough that sat under a strand of maple and oak tree's off to the east side of the Meadow and dismounted for some cold water that was always available in coolers for the riders.

"Some of them look old enough to be Intermediate boys." Dr. Lester observed as they sat down on the grass. "They will be in the Fall. They'll be moving into the new transition cabin that Anthony is going to head along with Stephanie and several senior girls." Sarah replied. "Caleb, Billy, Jacob, Steven, Scotty and Adrian will be moving up to transition from this group, so by fall, we should be out of the tooth fairy business." Sarah said as she pointed the children out to the Doctor.

"And what are your thoughts on the plan?" Dr. Lester asked. "They're a little disappointed they're not being sent directly into the Intermediate camp, but I think that some of them need the 6 or 12 months in transition to get accustomed to the Intermediates pace. They've been pretty sheltered these past few years and some of those Intermediate boys are mighty spunky." She told the Doctor.

"That's very diplomatic. I can think of several who rate a higher classification, including the twins." He said with a smile. "I was thinking along the lines of Carla and Jeannie. As a matter of fact, Adam's whole cabin and that cove is a beehive of activity from what I've heard. Plunking down my little lambs in that lions den keeps me awake at night!" Sarah joked as Martha giggled. "I like the new program. It not only gives the children time to adjust, it gives us time to let go of the children we've nurtured and come to love for many years." Sarah said with a hint of sadness in her voice.

For the next 15 or so minutes, a ballet of sorts took place on the Meadow with the Camp Kenny children demonstrating and showing off both their ponies and their riding skills to the "Big boys" who were now in their presence. Dr. Lester, Sarah and Martha watched as the exhibition unfolded. In just a few short months, the little ones would become "One of them." and they now wanted to prove how worthy they were.

By 4:30 the group arrived back at the stables and the little ones headed directly for the Kiddie Pool once they had danced under the outdoor showers to remove the wheat, straw and dirt that had kicked up from the trails and Meadow. With bare little asses gleaming,

Dr. Lester watched the small band of adventurers go skipping off towards the new pool.

Opting to swim in the cove instead, the twins and Bobby now rode down the path to the lower camp in the golf cart with Gavin at the wheel and Dr. Lester's knuckles stone white as he held on. Arriving in the cove in one piece, Bobby took off for Turtle Rock and half the mafia sitting on it while the twins headed for the refrigerator in Beachview.

"It looks like they've been running you around pretty good." Adam said as the Dr. sat down and wiped his forehead. "One forgets the boundless energy of youth. "I'm not sure I could keep up with them for an entire day if I was 20 years younger." The Dr. replied as Adam handed him some ice tea.

Adam smiled as he looked out at the rock as Bobby's welcoming committee mauled him

once he climbed up and threw him back into the water playfully. "That's OK Doc, I'm just about 30 years younger than you and I don't even try to keep up with them.

They run for 15 hours a day and sleep the other 9." Adam said as he sipped a beer.

"We met up with Sarah and Martha on the Meadow this afternoon." Dr. Lester now said. Adam again smiled. "Now there's a bunch of kids that can wear you out twice as fast as these boys." He said. Dr. Lester nodded as the twins now raced back out onto the porch with two handfuls of chocolate chip cookies apiece and watched the boys out on the water. "Where is everybody?" Benji asked as he studied the children in the lake and stuffed his mouth with cookies. "There's a bunch still up on the hill riding go-carts, but they should be back once General Swim blows." Adam told the boys. "No fair!" Both boys exclaimed. Adam shook his head as Dr. Lester chuckled.

Sid's arrival in the cove came just as the twins reached the rock and scampered on board. With shouts from the boys to come join him Sid shook his head. "I've just spent almost two hours in the pool. I think I'm water logged. Sid said as he rubbed his sore ass.

"How's the derrière?" Dr. Lester asked. Adam looked at Sid not completely knowing what to expect. Was the question off limits in Sid's "Safe place"?

"It isn't painful; more like I'm sitting on a big fat wallet stuck in my back pocket." Sid replied as he took out a beer and sat down. "I kind of thought it felt like I was hit in the rear by a pitched baseball. The feeling should go away in about a week." Dr. Lester said.

Sid nodded. "Did you have any side effects?" He now asked. "Two that I recall. I had some pretty consistent hot flashes for a good 3 weeks whereby I would be putting on and taking off clothing pretty often, and I also experienced intermittent hot spots in my thigh, almost always right here." Dr. Lester pointed on his right leg. "What did you do about it?" Sid asked. "Nothing, there's nothing you can do; it just goes away after about five seconds or so." The Doctor told Sid.

"What about sex? What did the Lupron do to your libido?" Sid now asked. "I thought we were in a Safe Zone Sid; Aren't the rules being violated?" Adam now asked somewhat confused. "Not at all good buddy, the rules say that you guys can't bring up any negative talk. I can bring up all the negative talk I want! Besides, I can't violate the rules, I made them up!" Sid said smiling. Adam shook his head "When all this shit is over, am I still going to be sane?" Adam asked as both Sid and Dr. Lester chuckled.

"So how about it Doc, have I finally found the cure for Geppetto?" Sid asked. "In my particular case Sid, I had the Lupron shot just after the biopsy results, and about 3 weeks before I had a Radical Retro pubic Prostatectomy. The Lupron wasn't in my system long enough for me to notice any changes if there were any. I masturbated right up to the morning of the surgery just to get everything up to tip top shape before I went under the knife." The Doctor reported.

"You're married Doc; why'd you jerk off?" Sid asked as Adam cringed a bit. "Why are you not having sex with Patty right now?" The Doctor asked. Sid nodded. "So you were bleeding too?" Sid asked. "Naturally, every man bleeds after a biopsy." Sid nodded once again.

"Where am I headed Doc?" Sid asked the man. "I'm hoping and praying Sid that the tests all come back showing that it's contained within the prostate and it can be completely eliminated by removing it. How that's accomplished is still a question, but that decision is yours to make." Dr. Lester told Sid. Sid smiled and laughed a bit. "Ya got any daughters Doc?" Sid asked. "Two" Dr. Lester replied. "Well I got eight of them!" Sid said.

"I haven't seen Barry, Bert, Thomas or the 3 girls now since lunch. Have you?" Sid asked. Both Dr. Lester and Adam said "No." "Well, you can bet your ass they're figuring out right now exactly what I'm going to decide!" Sid said as he got up and took off his shorts.

"So who made the decision about your treatment?" Sid asked the man. Dr. Lester smiled a bit as he shook his head. "My wife and children." He replied. "Case fucking closed!" Sid said as he walked down the stairs to the lake.

"If I prescribed an anti depressant, would he take it?" Dr. Lester asked Adam as Sid swam out to Turtle Rock." "It depends. If you gave the prescription to the Infirmary and the girls knew about it, he wouldn't have much of a choice in the matter. If you gave it to him and allowed him to take the medication by himself, probably not." Adam replied.

"You believe the girls have that much control over him?" The Doctor asked. "I know they do. More importantly, Sid knows they do. He practically raised them and the bond between Sid and the girls is probably stronger than the bond between a man and his wife." Adam told the man as the bugler blew General Swim. "It's the major reason he's so pissed off." Adam said as he got up to put together a cooler full of juice and beer for the boys and Sid out on the Rock.

"I don't think it's anger as much as it's a depression over the loss of control over his body. It's a fairly common reaction to a diagnosis of cancer or a life threatening disease.

I'm sure we have the additional problem of the loss of a good deal of sexual functioning. Geppetto boy or not, sex, and being able to perform is basic to a man's mental health. Take away a good deal of that functioning, and you've got a man in crisis." The Psychiatrist said.

"If his prostate has to come out, just exactly how much functioning is he going to lose?" Adam asked. "It depends upon whether or not the surgeon can save the nerve bundles that control erections. If he can save at least one of the two, there's a good probability that he'll be able to obtain an erection again. Some men have no problem a few weeks away from surgery, and some men can take two years or more before they regain control. In any event, the seminal vesicles and the vas deferens are removed, so any climax's he obtains will be dry." Dr. Lester said.

"Is that the same with you?" Adam asked. "Yes, I lost my left nerve bundle, but the right was saved. With drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Lavitra it can help, but some men need additional aids like penis pumps and shots directly into the penis." Dr. Lester replied. "There's no way in hell Sid's going to allow someone to stick a needle in his penis!" Adam declared. "Possibly not, but we won't know that until it comes to pass, if it does at all." The Dr. replied.

"With Sid, impotence won't be a big deal because he's already had a vasectomy. The lack of any seminal fluid may give him problems, but the real problem is going to be incontinence which can go either way. He may be dry within weeks or months. Then again, he may never be dry again and have to wear pads for the rest of his life. Every man reacts differently." The Dr. said. "Sid knows all of this?" Adam asked. "It's difficult to tell what he knows. He doesn't ask questions, at least not at the meetings I've attended." The Dr. said. "I've spoken to Bert about it and suggested he look into a site on the web called "Healingwell". It's a site for all types of cancer's including prostate cancer and it's the best source of support and information I've come across in my search for answers." Dr. Lester said. "What did Bert think about that idea?" Adam asked. "He's going to check it out and see if he can get Sid involved." The Doctor replied as the distinct sound of golf carts now came into hearing along with screaming kids voices.

The arrival at Beachview of the rest of the mafia along with all of Charlie's transitional

cabin ended the discussion about Sid for the afternoon as the arriving boys stripped on the beach and dove into the water with a casual wave and boisterous greeting to Adam and Dr. Lester on the porch. "I'm beginning to feel very sorry for your laundry people. How do they cope when these children just drop off their clothing wherever they might be at the time?" Dr. Lester asked as he handed Adam containers of juice and lemonade.

Adam giggled to himself. "You have to look on the bright side of that situation Doc; most

of the time the only thing they're wearing is a pair of shorts, or in the case of the Camp Kenny kid's, a pair of carter's or underoo's. Even still, the entire camp is canvassed twice a day for laundry by a team of Dave's Senior boys. The bigger problem use to be redistribution back to the clothing's owners, but that was cured with bar coding sewn into them." Adam replied as the two men now lugged the full cooler out on the porch and down to the lake.

"This should be a very interesting General Swim. Terry and Jonathan have never been allowed to mix with the Intermediate boys and whenever Jesse is available to them they practically declare a Holiday." Adam told the Doctor as the two waded out to Turtle Rock. "With the presence of Paulie now added to the mix, their testosterone levels are going to be going through the roof!" Adam advised the man."

"I probably should warn you; the likelihood of wood making an appearance is very high." Adam said. "Wood?" The Doctor asked. "Erections Doc. There's going to be some anticipatory stiffies flying around." Adam said with a smile.

Doctor Lester now smiled. "I'll tell you quite frankly, I really marvel at these children's ability to control themselves under some of these circumstances. I'm not sure I would have been able to do the same thing when I was a boy growing up." The Doctor said.

"Funny you say that Doc. I said the exact same thing to myself when I first came. It boggled my mind that they could be heavily sexually involved with each other one minute and yet seemingly sexually un attracted towards each other the next. I know damned well if it had been me in that situation, I'd have been walking around with an erection from the moment I woke up until the moment I fell back to sleep." Adam declared.

"And now?" the Doctor asked. "I guess now it's the "Nudist Colony effect". You see so many children naked; it kind of numbs you to the sight. The boys explained it to me as the "Chicken diet"; if you eat chicken 7 nights a week, you get pretty sick of it. When you throw in a steak, it's time to eat!" Adam said. "What we've now got out on that rock is a whole side of beef as far as the boys are concerned and the fur will fly until the last bone is picked clean." He said as he smiled.

Seemingly oblivious to his 3 inch [7½ cm] erection that now stuck straight out from Sammy's groin like a flagpole on the Plaza Hotel, the 11 year old stood on Turtle Rock as Adam and Dr. Lester approached. "Hey Uncle Adam, you bring any soda?" Sammy asked.

"No, I brought out ice tea, lemonade and bug juice." Adam replied as the two men now lifted the cooler onto the rock ledge. Disappointed, Sammy jumped into the water as he swam for a swamped row boat with half a dozen boys on it.

"I'm hoping you merely forgot to mention beer on that list." Sid said as he lay on the rock with Matty and Chris straddling his chest like they were riding a horse. Handing Sid a cold beer, Adam sat down next to Sid with Dr. Lester. "Where are the twins?" Dr. Lester asked. Matty pointed to a huge old willow tree that sat half in and half out of the lake. With branches that flowed to the water, the tree was a perfect spot to gather underneath unseen by those outside. Fully a dozen or so children could be sitting under that tree and another half dozen up in its limbs, and you would never know it unless you parted the curtain of vines that hung down like a giant curtain.

"They're playing in Wally World." The boy said. "Wally World?" Dr. Lester asked. "That's what they've named the tree. Wally the Willow." Adam said as Dr. Lester chuckled.

"I hear you took a little ride up to the Meadow this afternoon." Sid now said to Dr. Lester. "I'm going to deeply regret leaving this little paradise of yours. I can honestly say it was one of the most enjoyable afternoons I've spent in a very long time." The Doctor replied. "It's always been my favorite place to visit. I haven't been up there since the early Spring, but I hope to find the time before the Winter sets in." Sid replied. "When you go, can we go with you Uncle Sid?" Matty asked as he sat staring down at Sid.

Sid smiled as he brought the boy down and gave him a kiss. "When I go, you two will be riding at the head of the line." Sid told the boys who now slid off Sid and jumped into the water to relay the good news.

"You know of course that you're going to be hounded day and night until you make good on that promise, right?" Adam now asked his friend. "There are much worse things to be hounded about, and speaking of the devils, ain't that the lynch mob now?" Sid asked as he watched 4 carts rounding the path curve into the cove.

The first new arrival to reach the rock was Christopher as his two Senior girl chaperone's, Jill and Claire now each pushed on a buttock to slide the boy onto the rocks ledge as he wallowed onto it like a beached whale. Getting to his feet, the boy complketly ignored the people already on the rock as he headed directly for the cooler and stood in front of it dripping wet in his swim vest. "Rink?" The boy asked as he signed for a drink and pointed to the cooler. With a "Yes" from Adam, the boy now smiled deeply as his eyes gleamed and he lifted the lid. His first choice was a Budweiser that Sid confiscated and told the boy to try again amid more chuckles as the rest of the new arrivals assembled on the rock. Bert, Barry, Mathew, Thomas and the three girls, Gloria, Jeanette and Johanna along with their three children now greeted those already there as Adam asked the boys still on the rock to make a little room for the adults.

"That was easy." Bert said as the last little ass disappeared into the lake and headed for the flotilla of sunken row boats, canoe's and capsized sail boats that littered the lake area

with the rest of the mafia clamoring for a seat or diving off the centerboards. "Only because the real attraction is in Wally World!" Sid replied as he sipped his beer. Bert and the girls looked over at the willow tree. "They're awful quiet if they're in there." Bert said. "It don't take a lot of talking to become a blood brother." Sid said cryptically.

"I'm glad this blood brother stuff is a guy thing!" Gloria now said as she shook her head

and slathered Timmy in sun tan oil. "Please tell me that they're not planning on accomplishing this barbaric ritual on each other in just one session!" Jeanette said as she lathered up Kenny. "I beg your pardon! I'll have you know that this time honored tradition goes back centuries. There's nothing "Barbaric" about two males forming an ever-lasting bond between themselves." Sid said as Johanna handed the man her baby and shook her head.

"Maybe you can explain it Uncle Sid; how does drinking each others urine produce a bonding effect? Wouldn't something like a secret handshake or a secret sign of recognition do just as well?" Johanna asked. "Certainly not! Don't the Catholics eat bread wafers signifying the body of Christ? Ya don't see them shaking the priest's hands do you? It's necessary to have your brothers fluid flowing through your veins in order to become a part of him!" Sid replied in mock seriousness as the rest of the adults chuckled.

"Has he always been this fucking crazy?" Jeanette asked Barry.

General Swim lasted an hour, and to their credit, the mafia had decided that since Bobby seemed to have gone a little overboard in the blood brother department and gotten sick, they would divide the celebration into three parts for Paulie, one for each cabin of the cove.

Paulie wasn't overjoyed at the prospect now before him, but both the enthusiasm of the Green Tree boys concerning the ritual and the assurances from Thomas and Michael that it was safe to do medically; he steeled himself to the process as Kevin's cabin now gathered under the willow tree. Since Bruce and the Twins had already exchanged fluids with Paulie the day before, the remaining 9 boys of the cabin waited expectantly for the Ceremony to begin. Having received no formal direction in the proper etiquette for such things, the Green Tree boys took the basic approach.

"First we'll become your blood brother and then you'll become ours once we can go pee." 12 year old Stuart told Paulie. "Ya don't gotta drink a lot, just a small mouthful." Bruce now advised Paulie as the cabin lined up behind Stuart as if they were at a buffet.

"If ya gotta go real bad, just let some piss out and then you can pinch your dick shut." Stuart said with a smile. "He just don't want you to piss all over his face!" Michael said as the other boys on line giggled.

One by one, a quick drink of warm lemonade right from the horses mouth made it past all nine boys tonsils as Jesse stood guard making sure nobody was cheating. It wasn't really necessary, the erections on all 9 boys declared loud and strong that every single one of them was more than agreeable to participate in this most solemn of occasions.

Pushing out the last available drops to the last boy in line had Paulie grateful he had just finished two containers of bug juice as the boy released Paulie's penis which was trying mightily not to react to all the attention it was receiving. Half the Ceremony was now over and it was time to find a way for the boys to rid themselves of erections that hindered their ability to urinate for the time being.

Never one for standing on Ceremony, Jesse laid down next to Paulie and started the ball rolling as he and Paulie went 69 for the 3rd time that day. Paulie was beginning to realize why the boy's caloric intake was so high, yet nobody was fat at Green Tree. With Jesse and Paulie buried in each others groins, the rest of the boys needed no engraved invitations as they paired off and found ways to satisfy themselves under the umbrella of a tree that hid them from the outside world.

"Do you really have to go back with your Uncle Michael?" Jesse asked Paulie after both boys had satisfied each other. Jesse was now laying his head on his friends stomach using it as a pillow as both boys stretched out on the thick green moss covering the bank of the lake. Opening his eyes and now looking up the willow tree, Paulie's thoughts about the events and feelings that coursed though his entire body just a few short seconds earlier switched to the present. "If I don't go back home to the Vineyard with him, how would I ever get there?" The boy asked as he kneaded his softening, but now extremely content penis. "Heck that don't matter! Uncle Bert can get that plane to take you home anytime he wants to." Jesse said. "Ya do want to stay here with us, don't you?" he asked.

Paulie's mind now considered the possibility and his thoughts went to his housekeeper. "Dora wouldn't like it. She's been very lonely and sad since Uncle Joel died, and she wants me to be around her to keep from getting upset." Paulie replied.

"But everybody in your whole family is there with her right now. She'll never miss you, and besides, didn't we come up there for two weeks on vacation?" Jesse asked.

"What do you mean she'll never miss me!" Paulie asked. "I don't mean she won't miss you, it's just that she's got so many kids around her right now and she'll be so busy she

won't have time to be sorry you're not there." Jesse said thinking fast. "Oh." Paulie said as he relaxed once again. "I don't know, I'll have to ask my Uncle Michael and Uncle Thomas." Paulie said. "But you do wanna do it, right?" Jesse asked. "Sure, I guess so." Paulie replied.

"Great! So we don't ask your Uncle's to stay, we first ask Uncle Bert and have him ask your Uncle's." Jesse said with a grin. "Why?" Paulie asked. "If we ask your Uncle Michael and he says "No", we're stuck! If we ask Uncle Bert and he asks your Uncle Michael, he most probably won't say no!" Jesse declared. "What if Uncle Bert says "No?" Paulie asked. "Then we get Aunt Jeanette to change his mind!" Jesse said confidently. Paulie shook his head in amazement. "How do you know she'll do that?" Paulie asked. "Because we'll get Spencer to ask her!" Jesse replied. Paulie relaxed once more and began kneading his penis once again. It wasn't a move on his part to engage, but merely to pacify his brain as he thought about the possibility of remaining at Green Tree for a few more days. The more he thought, the more he liked the idea as he closed his eyes once more and waited for the rest of the boys to complete the Ceremony.

"Uncle Dan don't want us pissin in the lake anymore." 9 year old Nicky now told his friend Keith as both boys awaited their turn to donate some water to Paulie. Walking up to the base of the willow, Keith donated a little more before shutting off the faucet with a choke hold on his penis. "C'mon guys, ya don't gotta drown him in piss!" The boy said as he danced around the water. Jesse giggled as he stood by Paulie verifying the act of becoming a blood brother. One by one, all 9 boys supplied Paulie with a small mouthful of their water as Paulie swallowed it down and occasionally let off a burp which always created a small gaggle of giggles and leaking penises.

"We only do this stuff once, right?" Paulie asked Jesse and Bruce as the last member of Kevin's cabin wadded for the shore to finish emptying his bladder. Jesse nodded and smiled. "Once we're blood brothers, we're blood brothers forever." He told his friend with a smile. "Good, it's kinda salty!" Paulie replied as he washed his mouth with lake water and spit it out.

"Well your eyeball's ain't yellowing, so you couldn't have gone too far overboard!" Sid said to Paulie as the boy climbed onto the rock with Jesse and half a dozen boys quickly following him. As the girls all shook their heads, Paulie turned a slight shade of pink. "One of the first things you'll learn around here Paulie is to forgive Sid for his extremely bad behavior. He assumes everyone is as crude as he is, and he needs to be constantly reminded to behave himself." Jeanette said as she took off Kenny's diaper and the toddler leaped back into the water. "You don't believe that garbage, do you pal?" Sid asked the boy. Paulie smiled somewhat. "No Uncle Sid." The boy replied as the girls all now looked at each other.

"Uncle Bert, can Uncle Paulie and me have Talk Time?" Jesse now boldly asked as Paulie went for the cooler and something to drink. "Now or soon?" Bert asked the boy.

"Soon." Jesse replied. Bert nodded. "We can take a cart ride after General Swim, or we can get together in my office after dinner." Bert told the boy. "After General Swim." Jesse told the Director. Bert nodded.

"Anybody have a "Heads up?" Bert asked as the last boy jumped back into the lake and swam for a diving raft. "Knowing Jesse as well as we do, you can bet your ass he's got something up his sleeve." Sid told his boss as the rest of the staff nodded. "What's going on?" Michael now asked. "Talk Time is the same as our kids request for Private Talk." Thomas told his brother as Michael nodded. "I guess we'll find out soon enough." Johanna said as the bugler blew Return to Quarters which ended General Swim.

The exodus that now began from the lake took on two fronts: The mafia swam for the shore to be first in the showers while the toddlers and Christopher wanted no part of leaving the water and ending their fun. Packing up on the rock, Adam smiled as Jeanette and Gloria implored Timmy and Kenny to return to the rock while Christopher's senior girls finally managed to dumped him into a swamped rowboat and swim it to shore with Christopher protesting every inch of the way to go back out into the cove.

After years of practice, Jesse knew how to phase a question in order to get a favorable response, or at least one that shifted responsibility for it being asked. "Uncle Paulie wants to have a vacation with us like we had up at his house. Can you invite him to stay with us

and ask his brother Michael and Uncle Thomas for permission?" Jesse asked as the 3 drove around the lake path. Bert now stopped the cart off the side of the path next to the now deserted lake.

"When?" Bert asked both boys. "Right now. He's already here, and he could just stay here for two weeks just like we stayed two weeks at his house." Jesse said with his best dimpled smile. Bert noticed the dimples and also knew that the boys, especially the mafia, had a knack for producing them when asking for a special request. "When did you

hatch this one up?" Bert asked Jesse. Paulie's stifled smile had Bert nodding. "First of all Jesse, it's a question that needs to be asked of your Uncle Thomas and Michael. Secondly, and far more important is the fact that Paulie is a viable male. There are females here that are not protected yet, not the least of which are Carla and Jeannie.

11 years old or not, they both have the capability of becoming pregnant until they have tubal ligations, and that won't be for another two years." Bert said.

"We all know that and Uncle Paulie ain't fucking them. Are you Paulie?" Jesse asked his friend who now turned a slight shade of red as he shook his head and looked at the floor boards of the cart. "I know that Jesse and we all appreciate that fact. But still, having a viable male around our girls who could become pregnant is a very serious risk

"He's been around them now for 3 days Uncle Bert and he ain't fucked any yet. He'll promise not to fuck them and we'll watch him to make sure he don't!" Jesse now pleaded. "I can't give you an answer right now, but I will discuss the request with our staff and Paulie's family." Bert told the boy after some thought. "When?" Jesse pressed.

"As soon as possible Jesse." Bert replied curtly.

Arriving back at Beachview, Bert dropped off the boys and headed back to his office. Once out of sight, Jesse headed for his golf cart. "Where ya goin?" Paulie asked. "Hop in, we gotta get to Spencer and get to Aunt Jeanette's before Uncle Bert calls her!" Jesse told the boy. "Jesse, we're still naked!" Paulie reminded his friend. "That don't matter, Aunt Jeanette's seen our dicks before!" The boy replied.

"Spencer, I will most certainly let the team know what you would like to see happen, but all 3 of you have to understand that we're talking about a security issue. If the Institute decides against it, the decision can't be over ridden." Jeanette told the 3 boys who now stood before her. "Then we just don't tell them he's here." Jesse said.

Jeanette smiled somewhat. "Jesse, if he's not on that plane, where do you think they might think he is?" She asked. "He's here right now. What's the difference if he stays over another few days? Uncle Thomas is here with him." Spencer said.

"Those are all very valid arguments, and I'm sure that Uncle Bert will take them into consideration, but I don't want you to get your hopes up if they don't allow it to happen." She advised the boys.

"Uncle Bert already called you didn't he?" Jesse now asked the girl. "Yes." Jeanette replied. "So do you think it's a good idea and will you tell Uncle Bert that?" He asked. Jeanette smiled at Jesse and shook her head. "Have I ever told you that you're as big a conniver as your Primary Uncle?" She asked the boy. Jesse now smiled. "Thanks Aunt Jeanette!" He said as left with Spencer and Paulie. "Who's your Primary Uncle?" Paulie asked as the boys skipped down the steps of Jeanette's cabin. "Uncle Sid." Jesse replied with a grin.

Don't them boys ever wear any clothing?" Kenny's senior girl asked Jeanette as the girl brought Kenny downstairs from the tub wrapped in a huge towel. "I didn't notice, were they naked?" Jeanette asked as the girl rolled her eyes upwards and passed the toddler over. "Aunt Jeanette, you do remember what a boys thing looks like don't you?" She asked as she left not waiting for an answer.

Jeanette smiled as she lay the 3½ year old down on her bed and dried him by massaging the towel around him while the boy lay there almost dormant intently watching the woman who had become all but his Mother by birth. "Silly Andrea, she thinks Mommy

forgot what your peepee looks like. I don't think that's going to happen do you?" She asked the boy as he giggled and reached under the towel. Grabbing a pair of Carter's training pants from the dresser, Jeanette returned to the boy and unwrapped the towel.

"There it is!" She said as she put a finger tip on the head of the boys small but stiff penis and pulled it down an inch or so and let it spring back against the boys groin with a soft slapping sound. Kenny shrieked in giggles as his hand found his penis and he wrapped his small fingers around it. "My peepee! The boy exclaimed with a happy smile on his face. "All yours forever and ever." Jeanette said to the boy as she pulled the underpants up with his hand still on his penis.

The day would come when the toddler was ready to give up Jeanette's breast, but that time was not yet here as the girl picked the boy up and laid him in her lap and opened her blouse as Kenny latched on and took in her milk. Here now was one very happy little boy as he closed his eyes and contemplated the feelings emanating from his underpants

while his tummy filled with fresh warm milk and his "Mommy" hummed softly.

"Hey Uncle Adam, we ain't got no more shampoo!" Trevor shouted down from the bedroom loft dripping water all over the place. "That's ridiculous; there were 4 full bottles up there this morning!" Adam replied as he brushed out Carla's hair in the living room. "It got all used up. All the guys from Coquina and Bay Watch was here today, plus we got all the guys from Uncle Charlie's cabin here too." The boy replied. Adam did a quick count in his head. At close to 50, he gave up shaking his head as he sent Matty to the supply closet.

"We've got to change the name of this cabin from Beachview to Grand Central Station." Adam told Sid who was working on Jeannie's hair. Sid nodded as Barry chuckled to himself. "It reminds me of the old days. Whatever cabin the 4 of us were in at school had the most traffic. Even when we first went out to Block Island as 5 and 6 year olds, we always had a gaggle of Island kids following us around. We all thought it was because of our magnetic personalities until one day Sid jumped off a swing and broke his leg. The Infirmary had a dozen beds in it, and every single bed had a kid in it to keep him company." Barry said.

Sid smiled as he continued to work. "It was a regular epidemic of upset stomach's as I recall." He said as he parted Jeannie's hair. Barry chuckled once again. "It kind of took the wind out of our sails for the rest of us; we thought we were the cause of all the attention." He replied. "So I'm supposed to take the blame for running out of shampoo?" Sid asked.

Adam smiled and shook his head as Sammy now came thumping down the circular steps from the loft followed by a train of other boys all neatly tucked into underoo's and designer briefs. Throwing a pair each into the laps of Carla and Jeannie, Sammy plunked himself down on the couch next to Adam. "I don't want Foghorn Leghorn. Ain't you got Daffy Duck?" Carla asked Sammy as she held the underpants up. "Billy's got them on." Sammy replied.

"There are no less than 3 dozen pairs of very nice, very cute underpants that were specially purchased for a sweet little girl like you. Wouldn't they be more comfortable than a pair of boys underpants?" Adam asked the girl sitting on his lap.

"Nah, girl's underpants ain't got no slit in them so you can stick your hand in there and touch your front pussy when you want to." Carla replied as she studied the back panels of the pants. Adam looked at Sid and Barry who stifled smiles. "Makes sense!" Sid replied as he avoided Adam's stare.

Dinner was un eventful except for the menu which was Spaghetti and Meatballs. The Chef made the dish maybe twice a month mainly because most of it was worn rather than eaten, and the clean up of both the Mess Hall and the children who wore it was substantial. As with all meals, the food was served family style, and Adam now looked down on heaping bowls of spaghetti that would soon start flying. Orange faces and floor's was the routine and he shook his head and closed his eye's. It was going to be another 12 shampoo bottle day.

"If Sid picks up the meatballs and start's juggling them, let's kill him!" Dan said to Adam as the mafia's staff headed to their tables. Sid did not hear the comment, but as he entered carrying Jeannie in the Mess Hall he stopped dead in his tracks. "Jesse! Hop on a cart and go back up to my cabin. We need 4 more bottles of wine for dinner!" He declared.

It did not take long for orange faces to appear all over the Mess Hall. Camp Tradition demanded the maximum amount of tomato sauce be covering the faces of the older campers and preferably the hair and ears of the younger set as well. With constant table waiters going back for garlic bread, milk and grated cheese, the noise level increased right up until desert of Jello with fruit made its appearance.

"Was this your idea or is John mad at us?" Gloria asked as she walked over to the Head Table. Bert smiled as Timmy sat on the girls hip with a piece of spaghetti sitting on the top of his head. Picking it off, Bert avoided the kiss the boy was now seeking.

"I swear I had no idea what was on the menu, if I did, I would have brought Christopher in here in a wet suit!" Bert told the girl as Christopher stood on the bench being washed off by his two senior monitors.

"Let's get together tonight at my cabin right after Dinner . We have two topics under discussion and I expect the meeting to take about a half hour. I'll notify the rest of them, you notify Johanna, Jeanette and Stephanie." Bert told the girl.

"What's the topics?" Gloria asked. "Sid and Paulie." Bert replied without explanation. Gloria nodded her head.

"You're notifying Patty?" Gloria asked. "No, do you think I should?" Bert asked. Gloria shook her head and looked at Helen. "Bert, she's living with him! Don't you think she needs to be brought into the loop?" Helen asked the Director. "I guess that means "Yes"." Bert said to Michael. "You notify Patty, but Sid's not invited, at least not yet." Bert told the girl who nodded and left.

Thomas's brother Michael spent dinner basically watching Christopher interact with the people at the table. "It's quite amazing that a child with his impediments can communicate his needs so easily. I haven't seen any signs of frustration at all in him." Michael said. Bert nodded as he now too looked at Christopher who was being dressed in a clean pair of bib overalls and shirt. "A great deal of it is anticipating his needs and wants, but he's being encouraged more and more to use sign and even some rudimentary speech to convey his needs. He has a library of about 150 signs that he knows, but it usually takes a verbal or visual cue before he makes the sign." Bert told the Physician.

"He just seems so naturally happy. Does he ever give you a bad day?" Michael asked.

"Not behaviorally. He can be off a little if he's not feeling well and lately he's shown more reluctance to change activities or whatever program he's involved in, but we're chalking that off to his level of comfort around us. When he first came, we wouldn't dream of refusing to follow instructions. Now he's secure enough in his situation to

assert himself now and then. We view it as a positive development." Bert said as Christopher now slipped off the bench he was standing on and climbed up onto Bert's lap.

"His senior girls aren't all that thrilled about it, but Bert views it as progress." Helen now said as her girls giggled a bit. "What? You don't think it's a positive development?" Bert asked his girlfriend. "Not if you're trying to give him a bath and he wants to go ride his rocking horse, or not if you've just finished dressing him for Vespers and he decides to take a dip in the lake." Helen said as the 4 girls all nodded. Bert wrapped his arms around Christopher and gave him a hug. "He just wants to have a little fun. Right pal?" Bert said as he patted Christopher's back. "Hey!" Christopher replied as he wrapped his arms around Bert's neck in a strangle hold and hugged him back.

"Do you have special pets up in the Vineyard's too?" Helen asked Michael. The man very wisely put his hands up and remained mute as Bert looked at Helen. "Special Pet! I give every kid here a hug every time I pick them up." Bert protested. "Yes, but you don't pick them up 100 times a day." Helen said as the girls once more giggled.

The meeting following dinner at Bert's had all 5 girls' there as well as Thomas, Michael, Barry, Dr. Lester, Charlie and Dan. Bert's first order of business after everyone sat done with a drink was Paulie. Bert made himself a double Gin and Tonic.

"The boys have asked me to allow Paulie to remain here for a 2 week vacation after Michael, Dr. Lester and Barry return home. The one and only problem we face is that Paulie is a viable male and we have approximately 23 girls of child bearing capability. The youngest is 10, the oldest is 13. The girls all have their tubes tied at age 14, so the older girls are covered." Bert told Michael.

Does Alexandria know what's being contemplated?" Dan asked. Bert shook his head.

"I don't want to bring them in unless it's something we feel comfortable with doing.

Paulie is more than welcome here, but with him being viable, we can't just turn him loose

and walk away." Bert said.

"If Paulie's given instruction not to engage the girls; is he likely to comply?" Barry asked. "He will follow instructions, but the question is; how available are the girls going to make themselves to him. He is a male, and he has good control over himself, but if somebody makes it difficult for him, in the heat of passion he could conceivably find himself getting sexually involved." Michael replied. "You're referring to Carla and Jeannie?" Thomas asked his brother. Michael nodded. "Primarily; they freely interact with the boys in the cove, and that's where Charlie's boys always head." Michael said.

"You know your children better than I do. Can those two girls be trusted not to attempt to engage with Paulie?" Michael asked the group.

There was a deafening silence on the porch as most staff looked around to each other.

Finally, Helen spoke up. "They've followed orders so far as far as having vaginal sex with any of the boys are concerned, but with Paulie being viable, it's not impossible for his semen to find its way into their bodies even if there's not actual penetration. More than a few young girls have become pregnant just by body contact during sexual play." She told the group.

"Do we move them out temporarily?" Charlie asked. "That would be a slap in the face to both girls. We're telling them we don't trust them." Bert replied as Dr. Lester nodded in agreement. Bert tactfully ignored the stifled smiles of more than a few of his staff.

"Why not put all three of them on birth control. Supply Paulie with condoms and tell him to use them, and put the girls on the pill until after he leaves." Thomas suggested. "Isn't that like telling them it's OK to engage?" Johanna asked. "Not necessarily, we explain to the entire group exactly why they need to be protected. They should have that information regardless of whether or not Paulie stays." Thomas replied. "Let's also keep in mind that even if the girls do become pregnant, that baby cannot be allowed to be brought to term." He told the group.

"Is it so boring down there in North Carolina that you people have to find ways to live dangerously?" The Chief of Security from Alexandria asked Bert. "We believe we have all the bases covered Harry. The bottom line is that the situation will be closely monitored and if we have an accident, it's going to have to be eliminated." Bert told the Colonel. "I want to hear that directly from Gloria, Jeanette and Johanna. If things go wrong, they are aware that the baby is aborted." Harry said somberly. One by one, each girl acknowledged the plan. "Dr. Lester is scheduled to return to Green Tree for the Labor Day Holiday. Paulie will return to Boston with the Dr. on that flight." Alexandria said. "And Bert, this conversation never took place." The Colonel said as he hung up.

"Thomas, Charlie and Michael will instruct Paulie and the boys. Helen and Adam will instruct the girls." Bert said as he made his notes in the girl's files.

"Let's move on to Sid." He said.

"What we're hoping for is for the cancer to be contained within the prostate. If the tests come out negative, then his prostate needs to come out. If the tests are positive, we have to look for alternative treatment such as radiation and hormone treatment.

If his prostate comes out, so does his seminal vesicles, vas deferens, possibly his nerve bundles and maybe a piece of his bladder. He will be incontinent for a period of time, possibly for life. He will be impotent, but he already is. He may not regain his ability to have erections if one of his nerve bundles is removed, and if the both of them are removed, it's a certainty. If he does regain the ability to climax, it will of course be dry."

Michael told the group. "What are those odds?" Dan asked. "If we can save at least one bundle without damaging it too much while taking out the prostate, he has a 70 to 80 percent chance of eventually regaining erectile control in one form or another." Michael said. "What's that mean?" Jeanette asked. "He may need the help of penis pumps, injections, medications like Viagra, there are many avenue's of treatment if we have the core basics." Michael told the girls. "You believe you're going to get Uncle Sid's penis within fifty feet [15 m] of a needle?" Johanna asked the Doctor as the rest of the team chuckle

What about if the cancer has already spread?" Gloria asked. "Then depending upon the place and degree of the involvement, our options are radiation or hormone therapy. Basically, we'll be looking to prolong his life for as long as possible. Prostate cancer is one of the more treatable forms of cancer that effect men. If I had to get cancer in my lifetime, this is the one I would probably choose." He said.

"The ultimate decision is going to be Sid's, but if the cancer is confined, he needs to have it removed. If not, we need to convince him to go for treatment. If he does nothing,

he won't be seeing Sidney Bertram or Joshua entering the first grade." Michael said.

"Where do we go from here?" Dan asked. "The day after tomorrow he's scheduled for a bone and CT scan. Where are we with that?" Bert asked the 3 girls. "There really hasn't been any talk of it, but he knows it's scheduled. I think he's resigned to having the tests, he just doesn't want to talk about it." Jeanette said. "So what are you doing?" Bert asked.

"Basically, we're handing off Kenny, Timmy, Sidney Bertram and Joshua to him as often as we can. Every time we see him, he gets a baby in his arms." Gloria replied. Michael now smiled. "It sounds like the same tactic we use with Dora!" The man said to his brother Thomas. "What's that?" Dan asked. "Guilt!" All 3 girls replied at the same time.

"Well sooner or later we'll have to have an actual talk with him. He's going to have to take a pretty strong laxative the morning of the procedure and they're going to be putting in an IV tube in his arm to put die in his veins for the bone scan. That's where you come in." Bert said to Stephanie. "I've drawn his blood now twice and he's about as cooperative as we can expect. I've used the smallest needle possible so he's been lulled into complacency, but there's a big difference between a blood draw and an IV tube. They hurt, and there's no two ways about it." The woman said. "We won't mention that fact in advance." Bert replied as the group chuckled. "We'll have a talk with him after lunch tomorrow. The less time he has to stew about it the better." Gloria said.

Following dinner, Jesse, Spencer, David, Bruce and Paulie all gathered just down the trail from Bert's office. Having seen the adult's all go into the Director's cabin after dinner. Jesse knew there was a meeting going on and it most probably included the boy's request for Paulie to extend his vacation. "Why are we waiting here?" Bruce asked Jesse as all 5 boys now sat in Jesse's golf cart. "Aunt Jeanette's with them at the meeting and when she comes out, she'll be going back to her cabin." Jesse explained.

"Waiting for a bus?" Jeanette asked as she pulled up in her cart with Johanna and Stephanie. "Spencer wanted to know if you told Uncle Bert you liked the idea about Paulie staying?" Jesse asked with an innocent smile and the biggest dimples he could produce. Jeanette shook her head and smiled as the other girls stifled one more smile.

"Can we expect Spencer's laryngitis to get better soon?" Jeanette asked Jesse. Spencer giggled. "What did he say Aunt Jeanette?" Spencer now asked. "He said that your Uncle's Thomas, Michael and Charlie will sit down and have a talk with you." Jeanette replied. "But did he say yes?" Jesse asked. "He said that your Uncle's will sit down and have a talk with you." Jeanette repeated as she drove off.

"What the fuck does that mean?" Jesse asked a little pissed off. "Jesse, if Uncle Bert had said no, he would have told us himself. He said yes, but he must have some rules or something he wants us to follow. Otherwise, why would we have to talk to anybody?" David reasoned. "Maybe" Jesse said not totally convinced as he headed for the path.

The lake took the brunt of the spaghetti sauce as most of the entire camp took a dip after dinner. By the time Adam returned to the cove with his staff, Turtle Rock was awash in campers and the beach was awash in laundry. "Look on the bright side." Adam said to Kevin and Greg as the 3 men picked up discarded shirts, shorts, underpants, socks and sneakers. "At least they left their clothing on dry land; it saves us from having to go diving for it in the lake." Adam said.

Bert's arrival in the cove almost an hour after dinner was watched closely by Sid who had taken up residence on the front porch of Beachview with much of the cove's staff as they watched the boys in the lake from a comfortable distance. "We had a meeting after dinner concerning Paulie. He has requested to spend some vacation time here with us, and its been approved." Bert told his staff has he mounted the steps and sat down with Helen.

It's going to present us with some problems, and their names are Carla and Jeannie." Bert said. "Adam, you and Helen will double team the girls. Helen will bring you up to speed on what's going on. Sid, you'll need to get together with Michael, Charlie and Thomas and make sure the boys know what the ground rules are. The girls will be on birth control and Paulie will be using condoms. We don't want to see a baby boom." Bert told the staff. "How much of a vacation?" Sid asked. "Two weeks." Bert replied.

"I guess we can we can keep a chastity belt on the two of them for two weeks." Sid said as he sipped a beer. "Are we using taser's or cattle prods?" he asked as the rest of the staff chuckled.

Picking up Thomas, Michael and Charlie at the Infirmary, Sid pulled up to Charlie's cabin as the boys swam off the back deck of the lakeside cabin. "Your Uncle Bert tells me you boys have been making some new sleeping arrangements." Sid said to the boys as they came in off the porch drying themselves.

"Did Uncle Bert say that Uncle Paulie could stay Uncle Sid?" Jesse asked as he gave the man a kiss. "Your Uncle Thomas and Uncle Michael gave Paulie permission to remain here, but your Uncle Bert put in some very strict rules about it." Sid replied.

"Like what?" Spencer now asked. "Like for example never forgetting that Uncle Paulie isn't shooting blanks." Sid said as Paulie now turned a slight shade of pink.

"You're all very well aware that Paulie is not a Geppetto boy. Unlike us, there was no reason to give him a vasectomy when he reached puberty, and he's still sexually viable." Sid told the boys. "That's OK Uncle Sid, we ain't fucking with girls, we just fuck with our friends!" Jesse said with a gleeful smile.

There was simply no way for the adults to stifle the smiles that now came as Sid tactfully ignored the reference. "That's very gratifying boys, but it doesn't quite hold water; we do remember the two little vagina's that adorn Carla and Jeannie do we not?"

Sid asked the boys. "They ain't so little!" David now said as the boys giggled and Sid shook his head.

"The point is, you can all do all the romping you want to with each other, but both Carla and Jeannie are menstruating, and we all know from Health Class what that means now don't we?" Sid said. "Yes Uncle Sid." All 5 boys said. "That don't matter Uncle Sid, we never fuck them in the front pussy anyhow. It's already against the rules!" Jesse replied with another innocent smile. "Anyway." Sid corrected the boy.

"I know it's going to be a little difficult to explain, but you don't necessarily have to actually penetrate a girl in order for her to become pregnant. It doesn't happen all that often, but under the right circumstances, if semen was deposited on or near the vagina,

it's not impossible for sperm to find their way to her egg and fertilize it. Trust me, there's more than a few children running around who were conceived in the back seat of a car by the boy "Dry humping" the girl. Just because he didn't get his wick wet, didn't mean that the diaper service wasn't called." Sid told the boys as Thomas now shook his head and stifled a smile.

"Sperm can get through pants?" Paulie now asked. "When's the last time you fucked around with your pants on?" Sid asked the boy. With giggles all around him, Paulie once more got pink in the neck and face.

"OK, so now that we all understand that Paulie's little fish can do the back stroke, we're going to have to take measures to counter their swimming skills. If either one of those girls accidentally became pregnant, that pregnancy would have to be aborted. If that happened, I would not like to be the one facing your Aunt's. That pregnancy would be stopped, but the grief that you would all get from them would never stop! You all know how they feel about babies and if you forced them to do that, your relationship with them would come to an end." Sid said in somber warning.

"To prevent that from happening, Paulie will wear condoms whenever the girls are present during play time. Additionally, there will be no romping between you and the girls. We don't even want them kissed." Sid told the boy who nodded. "The girls will also be protected, but there is still a complete ban on engaging either girl in sex play of any kind. Clear?" Sid asked all 5 boys. One more chorus of "Yes Uncle Sid!" greeted the man. "You mean for Paulie, right?" Jesse asked.

"What are you feeding that boy?" Michael asked as they returned to the cove.

"It's not like we have a high demand for it. Nobody here uses birth control, everybody is fixed." Sarah said to Adam as Carla and Jeannie sat on an examining table in the Infirmary. "Can we get some in town?" Helen asked. "I can have Dave pick some up.

Do we need a prescription for that?" Sarah asked. Neither Adam nor Helen had an answer for the girl as both Carla and Jeannie sat there listening to the conversation.

"Do we gotta get needle's?" Carla asked with more than a look of concern on her face. Shaking her head, Helen approached both girls. "No. Uncle Thomas will order some pills or a patch that you can wear. I don't know which one is more effective." The woman told both girls as she helped them get dressed. "Maybe both." Sarah said. "You girls don't know anything about birth control?" Adam asked the two women. "Why would we? We all have our tubes tied when we reach age 14, so why bother?" Helen asked.

"I don't know, I just assumed all girls knew that kind of stuff." Adam replied.

"So once we get birth control we don't gotta worry about fucking no more?" Carla asked. Adam breathed deeply and closed his eyes. "No that is not what that means! It merely protects you while Paulie is visiting, and the same rules apply that have always been in place; no playing in front!" Adam replied as both Helen and Sarah shook their heads. "Ya mean no letting a boy put his dick in there, right Uncle Adam?" Jeannie asked. "Yeah!" Carla said.

"Why is it boys are so much easier to talk with?" Adam asked as both girls now went skipping down the Infirmary steps. "It must be a guy thing. Besides, you're the lame brain that let's them talk like that in the first place!" Helen replied. "Helen, they live in a cabin full of boys. Should I have one rule for the boys and another for the girls?" Adam asked. "Why not just tell them that none of them can curse?" Helen asked. "You don't know boys very well, do you?" Adam asked the woman as he smiled.

A normal summer evenings activity for the campers at Green Tree consists of outdoor play of one kind or another until Call to Quarters is blown at 8:30 and then it's shower time. Shower time at Green Tree is a very broad term, and sometimes even involves soap and water in small quantities. On this particular night, Dave's arrival from town with a supply of birth control for Carla and Jeannie and a supply of condoms for Paulie had something of a fashion show going on in Beachview with the better part of 50 campers all wanting to see and try on this new piece of attire Paulie was presented with.

"Are they Greek?" David wanted to know as he held a package of condoms in his hand.

"I don't think so, that's just the Brand name." Thomas replied as the rest of the staff chuckled. "Why's it all slimey?" Jesse asked as he held his in his fingers. "For the same reason your penis produces pre-cum. It's lubricated so it penetrates easier and safer." Thomas replied. "It smells funny. How are we supposed to give lollipops with these things on?" Trevor asked as the rest of the boys did some giggling. "Paulie is the only one who has to wear one if the girls are present, and you can always wait until he takes it off if the taste is objectionable to you. It will not hurt you, and most of it is gone in a short time." Thomas replied. "Gone where?" Carla asked. "Gone wherever its been." Thomas replied as more than a few snickers arose from the crowd.

"It's too big Uncle Thomas, it's gonna fall off!" Sammy said as he stood with a loose condom now wrapped around his erection. "Uncle Dave picked up the smallest size they make, but you have to keep in mind that generally these things are used on adult males. They really don't have a child's size." Thomas replied. "That's stupid! How's it supposed to stay on then?" Sammy asked as he clutched his erection.

Nobody really knows if the residents of Mt. Airy noticed on that hot August night that their towns supply of small sized condom's was greatly lacking on store shelves. What was noticed was a group of very intrepid boys sporting condoms that fit with varying degrees of success, depending upon the wearer's age. The twin's abandoned the new style for the bare back version straightaway. It was also noticed by Infirmary staff the next morning when a small gaggle of boys showed up to have condoms that had gotten lost in playtime revelry removed. "Next time, just give them small balloons." Sarah suggested as she withdrew her 8th condom.

The meeting between Sid and the girls concerning his upcoming CT and Bone scans the following afternoon came after Rest Period and was unannounced. "Let me guess, All 3 of you girls have decided to go on a trail ride together." Sid said to the girls as they all arrived together. "If you would like to take a ride with us that would be very nice." Gloria said as she placed Timmy on the ground to play with Kenny. "Isn't taking a ride on a horse and trying to balance a 10 month old while he breast feeds a little dangerous?" Sid asked Johanna who cradled Sidney Bertram in her arms.

"Busted!" Patty said as she led a horse out of the stable with two boys sitting on top.

Giving the horse a tap on its rear, Patty watched as the boys headed out for the trails.

"Tomorrow morning you are scheduled for tests at Duke Uncle Sid. There's some preparation work you need to do for the tests and you need to drink both of these bottles

of shake by 8:00 in the morning." Jeanette said as she handed Patty a bag.

"That is all very good news girls, but who said I had agreed to take any tests?" Sid asked as he tightened the girth on a horse. "You're not going to do this to us Uncle Sid!

You're going to take the tests and you're going to follow the Oncologist's advice once we know what we're dealing with. If you want a big huge scene with screaming and crying and hysteria, we can begin right here and now!" Jeanette told the man as she

became emotional.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't I been told that the choice of whatever course of treatment I chose to have including doing nothing about it is mine alone to make?" Sid asked. "Is that what we tell these kid's if we have to bury you? That Uncle Sid decided he just didn't give a shit enough about them to stick around a little longer? Do you really think we're going to stand by and watch you die when there are ways to prevent it?" Johanna asked. "You're not alone in this Uncle Sid, there are 600 people who have a stake in this and you're going to cooperate if we have to tie you down to do it! She exclaimed as she teared up.

Sid knew damned well that he could protest all he wanted; the tests were going to be made. "What kind of preparation work?" Sid asked after a brief lull in the conversation.

As blood pressures receded on the girls, Johanna gave Sid the baby to hold as she took out some papers. "All you need to do for the CT scan is to lay there still and now and then hold your breath. For the bone scan, you have to take a medicine that will show if any of the cancer has moved to other parts of your body." She said. "That's it?" Sid asked. Johanna nodded her head. "It should take less than 2 hours in total and then you come home." She said.

"You didn't mention anything about the IV tube." Gloria said as all three girls headed down the path to Bert's office. "I also didn't mention anything about him shitting his brains out after he drinks those two bottles of shake either. Why get him upset faster than we need to?" Johanna asked her friends.

"We've got Stephanie putting in the IV tube at Duke, but once that procedure is done, he's on his own with their staff. Is there anything we should be worried about?" Bert asked the 3 Doctor's, Michael, Thomas and Lester. "No. With the IV tube in place, all medication will be injected in it and Sid won't feel anything. The only thing he might notice is a taste in his mouth if they have to flush the tube, but that's no big deal." Dr. Lester replied. "I just don't want anything going wrong because it's going to be that much harder for us to get him to cooperate the next time." Bert said. "We'll get Uncle Sid to cooperate, you just make sure the Doctor's at Duke get it right." Jeanette replied.

"Every test or treatment suggested is sent on to Boston, New York and Houston for consultation. We've got 4 of the best prostate cancer facilities in the world watching over Sid, he's in good hands." Bert told the girls.

Sid's night ended on the porch alone with Adam once the rest of the staff drifted off.

With a stiff breeze blowing through the tall pine tree's that surrounded the cabins, low clouds drifted across the sky blocking out the light of the moon periodically as both men sipped on the last beer. The last of the bumps and occasional giggles had stopped coming from inside the cabin, and Adam knew his brood was down for the night.

"I should be back in time for afternoon trail rides. Are you going out with the boys?" Sid asked. "No, I have to set the schedules for the next 4 weeks, baseball season is almost done." Adam replied. "No 1st place this year for the mafia?" Sid asked.

Adam shook his head. "It really doesn't look like it. Last year the boys lived up on the hill and seemed a lot more inclined to step outside and right onto the fields. Now, they don't really go up there except for the horses and the go-carts, so baseball has taken a back seat with them. I don't even see a 2nd or 3rd place finish for any of them. Maybe they've outgrown baseball." Adam said. Sid smiled. "It's not very likely that 8 to 13 year olds have outgrown baseball. That only comes when a piece of pussy takes a home runs place. They've also got the new build that's taken a lot of their time." Sid said as Adam nodded in agreement. "And now, Paulie." He said. Sid again smiled. "Yes, there is Paulie!" He said with a chuckle.

"Is the novelty wearing off?" Sid asked. Adam shook his head. "Not at all. He became

blood brothers with the last of them tonight and they've been keeping his dance card pretty full." Adam replied. "For a non Geppetto boy, you have to hand it to him, he has ton's of stamina. There just aren't that many 15 year olds in the world that can hold their own against one Geppetto boy let alone almost 4 dozen of them. Are we sure his DNA has been tested?" Sid asked whimsically.

"The secret to Paulie's success is that he has the ability to hold off his own climax for hours on end. Apparently he climax's 4 or 5 times a day if he wants to, but he can hold it off and spread it out throughout the day while he induces his partners to climax." Adam replied.

"Have you been looking through keyholes lately?" Sid asked. Adam giggled somewhat as he took a friendly swat at his friend. "Don't be an asshole! That information comes from pillow talk with Sammy." Adam told his friend. "Straight from the horse's mouth then huh?" Sid said with another smile.

"I'm wondering if Bert has considered the possibility of Paulie wanting to become a full time resident? This place can get under your skin in mighty quick order. I can't possibly imagine my ever leaving this place." Adam said. "It's been discussed, but both Thomas and Michael feel that Paulie has enough of a support system back home to want to return there. He's got his brother Steven, not to mention Dora and the rest of the children on the Vineyard. Paulie has a life up there, a loving home and people who love and support him back. The consensus is that he'll want to spend some time every few month's on vacation here, but even that will cease once David transfers to Andover Academy." Sid replied. "Is that the plan?" Adam asked. "Probably next year." Sid said.

"Does David know?" Adam asked. Sid shook his head. "He'll spend Christmas vacation on the Vineyard with Thomas and Jeanette. It will be proposed to him then and he'll have

8 month's to think it over." Sid said. "Do you think he'll do it?" Adam asked. "Thomas's family has invited Spencer and Jesse to join them. They would all attend Andover and Spencer would then begin his studies at the Maritime Academy if that's what he chooses to do. With David's two best friend's accompanying him, it's highly likely." Sid said. Adam shook his head. "I can't imagine this place without those three boys here." He replied. "Most unfortunately, little boys grow up to be adults one day. We have to make sure they are the best adults we can make them. It's all part of good parenting my friend."

Sid said as he finished his beer.

Adam's day ended as he slipped into bed finding Sammy already there and sound asleep curled up around his pillow. Usually, Sammy fell asleep with the other children in the midst of playtime and didn't rendezvous with Adam until the early morning hours when he was wet and cold. Now still dry, Adam picked Sammy up and carried him into the bathroom. It was a slim chance, but just maybe the morning would break for Adam in a dry bed as he sat down on the toilet and steered the sleeping child's penis into position between his legs and encouraged Sammy to go pee softly in his ear. It was unclear to Adam if Sammy had heard his voice, or if the sound of Adam's own urine hitting the water triggered the boys reaction, but a goodly stream hit the water about 10 seconds later with Sammy still dead to the world.

Still sound asleep, Adam slipped the boy under the comforter as he lay down and gently pulled Sammy into himself. Wrapping his arm around Sammy's chest, Adam's nose snuggled into the boys hair in an embrace that by now had come to give both the boy and the man a peace and a serenity known to very few couples outside of this place. Adam drifted off to sleep with the smell and the feel of the one person in the world that mattered more than anything to him; a spunky, delightful 11 year old boy who could twist the man around his little finger at the appearance of a dimpled smile and sparkling eyes.

Unknown to any of the children at Green Tree, Sid's arrival in Raleigh-Durham for his tests came with a small entourage of almost a dozen people including 3 Doctors, Thomas, Michael and Lester. The technicians were very curious about Sid, but asked no questions, as they efficiently did their work and prepared him.

"I thought you said there wasn't going to be any blood tests!" Sid said to Stephanie.

"There aren't any blood test's Uncle Sid, they have to inject a dye in you to do the bone scan and this is the most painless way to administer it." Stephanie replied.

Sid looked at the woman who just a half year earlier was his mortal enemy as she recovered from a suicide attempt over the loss of her Son who was now a resident of Green Tree. Using "Tough love", Sid had pulled her through her depression, and now she was invoking the term "Uncle" regarding the man for the very first time. It was not a casual use on Stephanie's part; she had truly come full circle concerning Sid since her original encounters.

"So this is revenge time just because I tortured you a little bit?" Sid asked. "Shut up you old fool; you deserve to have your arm taken off by a chain saw. All I'm going to do is stick you with a tiny little needle." Stephanie replied as the technician's in the room look at each other.

"A tiny little needle! Are you fucking crazy?" Sid yelled as Stephanie inserted the plastic tube into his vein and withdrew the needle. "It's all over Uncle Sid, All I'm going to do is bandage the IV into place. There are no more needles." Stephanie replied as she held Sid's arm. "Sorry people." Thomas said to the technician's. "Sorry my fucking ass! I'm the one who's sorry!" Sid protested as Stephanie worked as fast as she could. "All done Uncle Sid, It's all over." She told him.

The two tests took just a little more than an hour and a half and Sid returned to the campus vowing to ask more specific questions concerning his treatment from that point forward. "Nobody told me shit about drinking that crap and having my bowels explode!

Not a fucking word was said about shoving a pipe up my arm! Do any of you know how to tell the whole truth?" He fumed on the way home.

The following morning, the results of the tests were reviewed. Sid's cancer was confined to the prostate and there did not appear to be any lymph node involvement.

"What everyone agrees to is that we have a window of opportunity to eradicate the cancer completely if we can catch it before it leaves the prostate. The Lupron shot has him on hold for the next 3 month's but we need to decide on a course of treatment as soon as possible." Michael told Sid's team. "The options are Da vinci surgery which is less invasive to the body or a Radical Retro pubic Prostatectomy. The success of the surgery depends in great measure to the experience of the surgeon. For that reason, it's recommended that Sid undergo an RRP using a surgeon that has done the operation more than 1,500 times. 5 or 10 years down the road, Da vinci will have those kinds of surgeon's, but they're very difficult to find in the present day." Michael told the assembled. Dr. Lester agreed.

"What does Uncle Sid want?" Johanna asked. "Sid wants to wave a magic wand and have it gone. Absent that, he wants Da vinci." Bert said. "So?" Gloria asked. "The best Da vinci surgeon's with the most experience are in California and Houston. If he want's Da vinci, he will need to travel." Bert replied.

"Uncle Sid won't do that. He knows that where ever he goes, we're going with him. He won't drag the little one's all over the country." Johanna said. "Then we need to get him to commit to surgery at Duke and the faster the better." Bert replied.

"Schedule him for surgery as soon as it can be arranged, we'll get Uncle Sid to agree." Johanna told the group as she got up to leave.

"Can they do that?" Michael asked as all 3 girls rode back to their cabins. "Sid and I practically raised those girls. They're well aware that if they turn on the waterworks we'll cave in to their demands. Fortunately for us they don't do it often, but when they do

they end up winning the battle." Bert replied.

"It will take several weeks to set-up the appointment for the surgery. In the meantime, we'll go back home tomorrow morning and arrange for the surgical team. My brother Phillip will be the attending Anesthesiologist. The people at Duke are some of the best in the business so there's no need to bring in another Oncology team. If we do need to bring someone in, it will be Dr. Catalano." Michael said as Thomas nodded agreement.

Life for the children at Green Tree would continue as normal, but for the staff, it would be anything but normal as preparations for Sid's surgery now moved forward.

Chapter Forty Six

Becoming a blood brother to a Green Tree camper is no simple task; a person needs to have a strong liking for very warm lemonade, or something that taste's very close to it.

Paulie found himself needing to go to the bathroom a lot more than usual, but that did not hinder the process, in fact it aided it.

Once goodbyes were said to Dr. Lester, Barry and Paulie's older brother Michael

and they were seen off, his vacation started in earnest. "These are the last two boys unless you want to become blood brothers with the staff too." Jesse told Paulie as both boys stepped out of the shower. "The staff? You become blood brothers with the staff too?" Paulie asked as he gave each one of his new brothers half a mouthful of his water and shut off the supply until he could get to the toilet. "Some. I'm blood brothers with Uncle Dan, Uncle Adam, Uncle Greg and Uncle Etienne." Jesse told Paulie with a small grin.

"Why not Uncle Kevin?" Paulie asked. "I ain't slept with him yet. Maybe I will someday. He usually doesn't sleep with anybody in his cabin but Michael." Jesse replied.

"Like Sammy and Uncle Adam?" Paulie asked. "Not really. Uncle Adam sleeps with Sammy all the time, but he'll also sleep with you if you ask him. All ya gotta do is to sleep in his bed and if you want him to play with you, just tell him. He's a lot of fun to sleep with because he really knows how to fuck." Jesse said.

"He's the same as you. The both of you are outside Uncles and you guys really know how to fuck great!" He said with another grin. Paulie once again turned a little pink, but by the 5th day of blushing at frank talk by his hosts, he was getting use to it and the shade of pink was becoming less and less. Once he completed his end of the ceremony and swallowed the last of the salty lemonade, a kiss for each of his new brothers sealed the pact and Paulie could now look forward to returning to normal bladder evacuations.

"What are we going to do today?" Paulie asked as all 4 boys now began dressing for the day. "We got classes in the morning but you don't gotta go. If you want, you can go up to the stables and see if you can get a horse or go over to Uncle Dave at the new canteen and help them build it." Jesse replied as he slipped into a pair of shorts. "Uncle Charlie's working today out on the Meadow. You can hitch a ride with Uncle Greg and go up there with him." Bruce said as he tied his sneaker.

"That would be neat! Uncle Charlie has keys to the canteen and he always stops there when he passes it and gets an ice cream soda!" Jesse told Paulie.

By 9:00 Greg had dropped off Spencer, Bruce and Jesse at school and slid over in the seat to allow Paulie to drive the golf cart. The 15 year olds normal attire whether at his boarding school or at his family's home on Martha's Vineyard was the standard fare;

Sneakers, socks, underpants, shorts or dungarees and a polo shirt.

Now, the boy was all but indistinguishable to the rest of the children, bare footed, shirtless and wearing a pair of gym shorts that did not go down to his calves and ride halfway down his ass. Greg smiled as the boy took the wheel with the look of a teenager driving his first car.

The trip up to the upper campus saw Paulie pass cart after cart with boys heading to school and taking very long extra looks at him as they passed..

"Why do they keep staring at me?" Paulie asked after the 5th or 6th cart passed.

"Because you're new here. It isn't very often that we have visitors as young as you, and they're very curious. They also know that you're now living in the new transitional cabin with Uncle Charlie, and that's something that just about every boy on campus wants to do." Greg explained. "They're looking at you because you're a very special boy, not because anything is wrong with you." Greg told him. Paulie smiled a little and hoped he wasn't blushing.

"How did you get to be an uncle when you're so young? Are you the youngest uncle here?" Paulie now asked the 17 year old. "No, you are!" Greg said as he laughed.

"I mean from Green Tree." Paulie said smiling. "Yes, I became an uncle when I was 15, the same age as you are now." Greg replied. "What's the usual age?" Paulie asked. "Usually, you don't get to be an uncle until you turn 21 or graduate college if you're going." Greg replied. "So how did you do it?" Paulie asked. "It was an accident. Uncle Bert assigned me to monitor Uncle Kevin's cabin when he first came to Green Tree and Bruce didn't know the rules and made me his Uncle. Uncle Bert and Uncle Sid didn't want to get Bruce upset, so they made me his Uncle and its been that way ever since." Greg told the boy.

"That's why he sleeps with you in your room?" Paulie asked. "Yes, most boys don't attach themselves to their uncles like Bruce does. He wants to know he's really special to one person, and he chose me to be that person. He stills romps and plays with the rest of the boys in the mafia, but he always needs to know that he has a special place to go when he wants to." Greg said. "Like Sammy and Uncle Adam?" Paulie asked. "Or like Spencer and Anthony, Jesse and Uncle Sid, Uncle Bert and Christopher." Greg said. "Do you love him?" Paulie asked. "Yes, he's like the brother I never had." Greg replied.

"At my school, you could get pretty beat up if the other kid's found out you loved another boy." Paulie now said. Greg smiled and nodded a bit. "And I'd be willing to bet that the boys doing the beating up are the same one's who would sneak into their friend's beds at night and play hide the snake!" Greg said as Paulie giggled.

"Most of the kids in my school are cool. It's the kids in the 11th and 12th Grade that can be jerks." Paulie said. "That's because they remember doing what everybody else was doing when they were younger and they're afraid they're gay for doing it. To prove they ain't gay, they beat you up and call you names to prove to themselves what big strong men they are. It's all an act." Greg replied. "That's just what all my brother's told me too!" Paulie said. "If everybody in the world who ever played with their friends when they were kid's are gay, then Uncle Sid and Uncle Bert say that the whole world is full of nothing but gay people. Don't worry about it, it doesn't mean shit!" Greg advised the boy.

"I really like Jesse and David and Spencer." Paulie said after a few minutes pause in the conversation. "I don't like them, I love them." He quickly added.

"So does probably everybody else here." Greg replied. "I don't mean just like them or love them. I like them like my Uncle Steven loves me, and my Uncle Thomas loves David." Paulie replied. "You mean you love them sexually." Greg said. Paulie didn't reply, he looked down and nodded.

At 17, Greg was still learning and growing, but as a Geppetto boy himself, he knew guilt and shame when he saw it. "Do you think that makes you gay?" He asked. "I don't know, I never loved another boy that was younger than me before, Not like I love them" Paulie replied.

"I don't think you're gay, and I don't think Uncle Bert or Uncle Sid will think you're gay either. If it bothers you, you should have Talk Time with them. There are hundred's of people here who feel the same way you do, but only a very few of them are gay. When it comes to sex, Uncle Bert and Uncle Sid are the smartest two people in the world. They can tell you if you're gay or not, but I don't think so and I can usually tell." Greg told the boy as they rode up onto the Meadow.

***

"The problem is, if we let them stay here and they keep digging these burrows a horse can step into them and get their leg broken. If that happens we have to destroy the horse. Either we trap these groundhogs and move them somewhere safe, or we have to kill them." Charlie explained to Paulie as he set traps by the holes.

By 11:30, the group of maintenance workers now on the Meadow had captured 8 animals who were less than pleased about their captivity. As Paulie watched, the animals were loaded onto a pick-up truck to be relocated on the opposite side of the mountain and away from all bridle trails. "Tomorrow we'll be back here and trap the one's we don't catch tonight, and by Saturday all we have to do is fill in the holes and watch for any new animals to show up." Charlie told his crew. "Why don't we just fill them in right now?" Paulie asked as he looked at the hole. "In all probability, there are young deep into the tunnels hiding from us. If we filled the holes, they probably aren't strong enough to dig their way out." Brian explained to Paulie.

"How come he's growing a beard already? He doesn't look like he's much older than you." Paulie asked Greg as they got into the truck to leave. "He ain't! I'm 4 years older than he is. He's been shaving since he was 6 years old. Aunt Gloria and Aunt Jeanette shaved him until he was 8, and then Uncle Bert and Uncle Sid did it until he was 10 and then he learned how to do it to himself." Greg replied. "He's going home in October, he's now big enough to fit in with the rest of the kid's his age." Greg added.

"What do you mean "Fit in"? Paulie asked. "He has precocious puberty. It means his penis grew into a man's when he was just a baby. He has more hair than Uncle Charlie!" Greg told Paulie as Charlie now looked at the boy. "You're taking an inventory?" Charlie asked. Greg giggled a bit and sat back. "What Greg means is that Brian sexually matured much too early in life and it's taken up until now for his age to catch up with his body and he won't have any problems when his peers see him naked." Charlie told Paulie.

How did he do that?" Paulie asked. Charlie shook his head. "Nobody knows. It wasn't something he did or his parents did, it just sometimes happens to children and they have to be handled very specially until their bodies catch up with their sexual maturity." Charlie said. Paulie nodded but didn't really understand. This was going to be one more question he had for his brother Thomas when he had the chance.

The return trip to the Mess Hall for lunch found Paulie traveling in Charlie's truck while 6 of his crewmen sat in the back. "This is one big truck!" The boy said as he looked out the window at the pine forest going by. "It's about as big as we could get it and still be able to travel down the bridle path's. We use it all year round, so it needs to be able to go through the snow on the trails if necessary. It can also plow the path's, so it needs to be this big." Charlie replied.

"So what do you think of Green Tree so far?" Charlie asked. Paulie's eyes sparkled as he broke into a smile."I never dreamed a place like this existed. I can't believe how lucky these kids are to be living here. It's a whole lot better here than it is at my school except for having to go to classes during the summer." Paulie said with a broad smile. "Yes, but on the other hand, these boys have their afternoons off all year long. They only go to school for 3 hours a day, and then they're off to go play or do whatever they want." Charlie said. "That's what Jesse and Spencer told me. That's really neat!" Paulie responded as Charlie nodded.

"The boys told me a great deal about your home. You must like living on an Island on the ocean." Charlie now said as Paulie nodded. "They had a really great time, just like I'm doing now. My brother Stuart says that Spencer and David will be coming back for vacations and stuff, and I'll be able to come back here." He said. "I've heard talk about that. I've also heard that Jesse may be spending some time up there." Charlie said. Paulie now smiled broadly. "He's a whole lot of fun. He wasn't as happy up on the Vineyard as he is here, now he's like my best friend." Paulie said.

"Jesse has always been a very special boy. I don't think he wasn't happy up North though, like most of our boys, they're usually very reserved and quiet in new surroundings. Here, boys like Jesse, David and Spencer are looked up to by the younger boys in the Intermediate camp and are held in very high regard by them. It also doesn't hurt them one bit to have personalities that naturally attract people to themselves, especially Spencer." Charlie said.

"How does he do that?" Paulie now asked. Charlie smiled. "If we knew that and could reproduce it, we'd make millions. Some people have the ability to draw people

in and Spencer is one of those people. I think the only other camper who has that same ability is Christopher who lives with Uncle Bert. The only difference is that with Spencer, you want to be his good friend. With Christopher, people around him want to protect him.

Exactly how they both have that effect on the people around them nobody knows for sure, it's just something you have to do." Charlie told the boy.

"Did you ever kiss him?" Paulie asked. Charlie smiled and chuckled a bit. "You kissed Spencer?' He asked the boy. Paulie nodded. "And when you did, you felt a tingling sensation down your spine and your head became a little light." Charlie said to the boy. "How did you know that?" Paulie asked. "Because that's what everybody who kisses Spencer feels. I've felt it myself." He said. "What does it mean?" The boy asked.

"What do you think it means?" Charlie asked. "I don't know. I just know it made me feel like I wanted to do it again." The boy said. "And that's bad?" Charlie asked. "Where I come from, it can get you beat up pretty good." Paulie told his counselor.

"Outsiders can be pretty stupid when they want to be. Here, nobody's going to beat you up for anything you do." Paulie studied Charlie's words and nodded. "My brother Tom-tom told me that. I knew he really meant it because he was raised by our Brother Marty and Uncle Joel the same way we all were." The boy replied. "And how was that?" Charlie asked. "Tom-tom didn't tell you?" the boy asked. "Tell me what?" the counselor asked. Paulie studied the man for a few seconds. "Never mind, I'll tell you some other time." He replied.

Paulie's arrival at the Mess Hall came just as 3rd period ended and the boys got out of their last class of the day. As usual, the boys left the school building in groups rather than

a few children at a time. "Why are they all walking together like that?" Paulie asked Greg as the two boys sat on a table waiting. "They almost always stick together by cabin. They usually eat, play, work and sleep together, and they stay as a group." Greg said. "The only difference is the mafia, they all stick together as a 3 cabin group, which is how they got their name." Greg told Paulie. "Now the mafia is 4 cabins." Paulie said as he pointed to Bruce, Spencer, David and Jesse. Greg smiled as a large mass of children now approached with the twins, Gavin and Benji, sitting on David and Spencer's shoulders.

"Did ya stop at the Canteen with Uncle Charlie?" Jesse immediately wanted to know as he jumped up on the picnic table. "No, Uncle Charlie said it was too close to lunchtime." Paulie replied. "Ya got cheated! Ya shoulda told him you'd save it for desert and he woulda stopped. Uncle Charlie loves an excuse to make a malted for himself." Jesse told Paulie as the other boys nodded agreement. "He'll remember that next time." Greg told the group as the last of the Camp Kenny toddlers and staff entered the Mess Hall and it was time for the Intermediates to enter.

"I see you found one of the camp uniforms." Bert said to Paulie as the Director entered the Mess Hall with Christopher in tow. Paulie smiled as he looked down at his bare feet.

"We just came back from the Meadow, I didn't have time to go back to the cabin and put some shoes and a shirt on." Paulie explained. "No problem Paulie, the rules don't require them, we only ask that the boys wear a pair of pants and sometimes even that is wishful thinking on our part." Bert said with a smile. "We don't go nakey in the Mess Hall Uncle Bert, but Christopher does." Sammy told the man. "Meee?' Christopher asked as he heard his name being mentioned.

"What's this all about?" Adam asked as he sat down sandwiched in between Sammy and Christopher. "Sammy mentioned Christopher's name so he latched onto him." Jesse said as he made a sandwich for himself. "So you're here visiting with us for lunch?" Adam asked the boy. "Hey!" Christopher replied with a dimpled smile as he now began heading for the counselor. Adam knew very well what was coming as he reached out and wiped Christopher's face with his hand. "He ain't slobbering too bad Uncle Adam." Sammy said as the boy gave Adam a kiss as he wrapped his arms around Adam's neck.

"Thanks" Adam replied as he wiped his mouth off and guided Christopher back down on the bench.

Amid a round of giggles, Christopher's attention now focused on food as he glared at the tray's of cold cuts and salads that sat in the center of the tables. "I'll make him some lunch Uncle Adam." Christopher's senior girl monitor Jill told Adam as she put a small bowl of black olives in front of the boy. Adam smiled as the boy dipped a hand into the bowl and came back with half a dozen olives in his fist.

"So how was your morning Paulie?" The counselor now asked as he turned his attention back to his food. "Uncle Greg and I spent the morning on the Meadow trapping the gopher's with Uncle Charlie. I really had a neat time." Paulie responded as he watched Christopher shove a handful of olives in his mouth. "Uncle Adam, if Uncle Paulie is an Uncle, is Uncle Greg and Uncle Charlie his Uncle too?" Trevor now asked trying to figure out Paulie's relationship to the group.

With many pairs of eyes around the table now on the counselor except for Christopher's, Adam looked for the easiest explanation that would make sense to the Green Tree formula of relationship's in the boys minds.

"Paulie is an Uncle to David because he is considered a brother to Uncle Thomas. All of the children in their family that are related to Paulie's brothers are considered nieces and nephews, so as Uncle Thomas's ward, David is a nephew to Paulie and therefore, his Uncle." Adam explained.

A consistent blank stare from the boys around the table told Adam he had miserably failed. "Paulie is an Uncle to you, and the staff are all Uncle's to him." Sid said as he sat down. "Except Uncle Thomas." Sammy said. "Except Uncle Thomas." Sid agreed.

A table full of nodding heads that went back to eating told Adam he was off the hook, but he didn't fully understand how.

"I don't think you two have met. This little troublemakers name is Caleb." Sid told Paulie as he tickled the boys stomach. "What's he been up to now?" Adam asked as the boy squirmed his way off Sid's lap and onto the floor in fits of giggles. "He decided to have a little bubble party and dropped a bottle of dish soap into the water fountain." Sid said as he picked the 7 year old back up onto his lap. "That must have made Uncle Dan very happy!" Adam said as the boy giggled once again. "He's dumping 5,000 gallons of water now to try and get the chemicals back to acceptable levels." Sid said as he poured a glass of ice tea for Caleb and himself. "Doe's Uncle Dave know that?" Adam asked. "Well, my little friend here can still sit down, so Dave hasn't gotten the word yet." Sid said as he playfully pinched Caleb's stomach. "They didn't make very many bubbles Uncle Adam, and Uncle Sid is just foolin you; Uncle Dave wouldn't spank me!" The boy said with a smile as he grabbed Sid's hands. "See that? Spare the rod and spoil the child! Didn't I tell you we should have started beating these guys a long time ago?" Sid said as the mafia giggled and shook their heads.

"So you were trapping gophers huh? How many did you trap?" Sid asked Paulie. "We got 8 of them this morning, but Uncle Charlie expects to trap another bunch this afternoon." Paulie said as he put together a submarine sandwich that needed two hands to hold. Sid nodded as he noted the boys appetite along with Adam and the rest of the staff.

"It's a shame we have to move them, but they're too much of a danger to the horses to let them stay there." Sid told the boy. "How are things going in the new cabin?" Sid now asked. "Really great, everybody got to go to Canteen last night and we stayed up till almost 11:00." Paulie said.

"We're all blood brothers now Uncle Sid!" Sammy said as he retrieved another bowl of olives from Christopher's reach. "All?" Sid asked as Paulie shrunk as low as he could get. "Yup, he finished up this morning and now he's one of us!" Sammy said with a dimpled smile. Sid looked at Paulie who was pink, but not nearly as pink as he would have been a week earlier. "Your eyeball's don't look too yellow, maybe you should invite

Uncle Peter and Uncle George's cabin over for an overnight?" Sid asked Paulie as the table erupted in laughter.

"What's he up to now?" Bert asked as he approached the table and stood in back of Christopher. "Me and the boys were just trying to figure out exactly what it is you do around here. Other than spoil old butterball here rotten, it's a big mystery to us." Sid replied as he patted Christopher on the head. "Mee?" Christopher asked as he shoved a piece of roast beef in his mouth.

Paulie was grateful the spotlight was now shifted off him while the table erupted in more laughter. "We're going to go and help Uncle Dave build the new Canteen after Rest Period Uncle Bert. Do you want to come with us?" Bruce asked the Director once the noise level dropped back down. "I'd love to stop by a little later Bruce. Right after lunch there is a Staff Meeting which we have to attend and it may take a little time." Bert told the boy and advised Sid with a glance. "Oh yeah, now I remember, he holds boring meetings all day long." Sid replied. "Come on Butterball, we know when we're not welcome." Bert said as he lifted Christopher up and returned to his table.

Paulie watched the goings on with keen interest. He had a very warm feeling in his stomach; this place and these people were not very unlike his own home and family on the Vineyard, and he never imagined another place in the world existed like that.

"Don't let Uncle Sid bust your ball's Paulie, he's had more than his share of warm lemonade in his day." Adam told the boy as Paulie smiled shyly. "Bust his ball's?"

Sid asked loud enough to be heard throughout the Mess Hall.

"Nice Uncle Sid, we're trying to teach the little one's proper mealtime etiquette and you turn the place into a bordello!" Jeanette said as she walked with Sid and the staff to the meeting. "Hey, don't blame me, that moron maligned my good character!" Sid joked as Adam shook his head.

After some general housekeeping matters, Bert pointed to Adam. "Next order of business; you're out of here." Bert said. "It's Miller time." Sid said as he got up and went for a beer. With Adam now returning to the cove, Sid retook his seat. For well over an hour, treatment options for Sid's prostate cancer were discussed with just about everyone in the room knowing there was going to be only one option acceptable, the surgical removal of the organ. "They do Da vinci procedures in Raleigh, why don't we just go for that?" Sid asked. "In 5 or 10 years Sid, it may be the only way we consider having it done, but right now, there just aren't enough surgeon's out there with enough experience under their belt to gamble with your life." Bert told his friend. "So we bring in somebody with that experience." Sid replied. "They don't do house call's Sid, you go to them." Bert replied.

"Uncle Matthew says that your surgeon has done over 1,800 operations Uncle Sid. He also said that all the Doctor's in Boston say that an open surgery gives the surgeon a better look and feel about what's really going on in there." Jeanette told Sid. "My surgeon! When did I decide to hire this surgeon?" Sid fumed.

Bert shook his head and went for the bar as he motioned for the rest of his staff to leave except for all 3 girl's who were now crying. Bert had hoped it would not be necessary to turn on the waterworks, but this was not to be. "When you can't get your way by talking, start blubbering." Sid told the girls as he got up for another beer. It took several minutes before the girls regained their composure enough to carry on, which gave Sid enough time to be feeling very guilty about his insensitivity. "We're not going to let you do this to us Uncle Sid! You're going to do what Uncle Matthew and all the medical people tell you to." Johanna declared as she wiped her eyes with a tissue.

"And just when did you have this little conversation with Matthew?" Sid asked. "Last night." Gloria replied. "And just when is this wonder surgeon going to be standing by the table with his chain saw at the ready?" Sid asked. "In 3 weeks." Gloria said. "So you're telling me I have 3 weeks of peace and quiet and I'm not going to get my ball's busted about this shit every hour on the hour. Is that right?" Sid asked. "Yes, Uncle Sid." Johanna replied. "I'm going fishing!" Sid said as he got up and left.

"That scam would never work on me." Bert told the girls as they gathered their things together. "It already has Uncle Bert." Jeanette said as she kissed the man on the forehead goodbye.

The long, hot, summer days of August drifted by amid an endless variety of activities for the boys, many of which were not all that common for Paulie to take part in like horseback riding, go-carts, over night camping and even an occasional baseball game. The swimming, boating and water skiing he was use to on the Vineyard, but the construction work on the new Canteen building and the driving of the different camp vehicles he now had access to was keeping him busy and happy all day long. At night after taps, the fun only increased in tempo for a good hour or so. While their staff sat on the front porches of their cabins, the inhabitants made the most of their Private Time secure in the knowledge that as long as they didn't raise the noise level too loudly, no adult would interfere.

When Paulie first arrived at Green Tree, it was impossible not to notice that the boys

body saw a good deal of the sun at home, but he had distinctive tan lines where his swimming briefs covered. Now a little better than a week into his stay, he looked like any other child, tanned from head to toe as he sat on the front porch waiting with several other boys for the girls to get finished having their hair brushed out by Adam and Sid. "Geez, you guys take forever doing that every night. Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to cut their hair?" Sammy asked. "Oh absolutely! Then all we'd need to do is to run faster than the bullet's that your Aunt's shoot at us." Sid said as he parted Jeannie's hair.

Once the giggling stopped, Jesse arrived on the porch drying his hair. Brushing Carla's waist length hair, Adam studied the 13 year old. What's wrong Uncle Adam?" Jesse asked. Adam shook his head. "Not a thing Jesse, I was just thinking about the very first time I ever saw you. You're a bunch taller, your hair is a little darker and a lot longer, and if I'm not mistaken, those are the beginnings of muscles on your arms and not pimples." Adam said as the kid's smiled.

Throwing down his towel, Jesse made a muscle. "I was there too Uncle Adam!" Sammy said. "Yes, and so was David. You've all grown a bunch during the last two years." Adam said as Sammy smiled and now made his own muscle. "What about us!"

Carla asked. "You've only been here for one year, but yes, you've grown too." Adam told the girl as he kissed her on her shoulder. "How have I grown?" The girl asked. Well, The both of you are about 2 inch's [5 m] taller, your hair is about 3 inch's [7½ cm] longer, and you've both become young ladies instead of little girls." Adam said. "And their Puss's are bigger and so is their tits." Trevor volunteered.

Amid all the giggling, both Carla and Jeannie checked out their breasts. "Do you think there's any milk in there yet?" Carla asked as she felt her chest. "No sweetheart, we discussed that in Health Class." Sid now said as he finished brushing out Jeannie's hair and laid the brush down. "You said our bodies will start making milk when we have babies drinking it. That ain't true Uncle Sid, The boys suck on our tits all the time and I ain't got no milk." Jeannie said as Carla very quickly agreed. "All the time?" Sid asked. "Well, not all the time, but when we have playtime." Carla replied with a smile.

Both Sid and Adam looked at Paulie who shook his head innocently. "As I explained to the both of you, it takes a great deal of work to get a women lactating if she isn't pregnant, and even then, you have to be at least 16 or so." Sid told the girls. "Do you think I need a bra?" Jeannie asked as she cupped her breast in her hand. "If you want to wear one, we'll have Aunt Helen get you some. Of course if you do start wearing bras, you should be wearing shirts too." Sid replied. "Forget it; I ain't wearing no shirts all day." Carla said.

As taps blew, the children on the porch lined up and gave Adam and Sid goodnight kisses as both girls stayed glued to the men's laps. Jesse, Spencer and Paulie were the last to abandon the porch swing they sat on as the lights in the cabin began going out and the rumble of bare feet climbing up the winding staircase faded. "When David goes to school up in Massachusetts's, he's going to be going with Paulie, right Uncle Sid?" Jesse asked.

"Yes, as far as I know. Paulie lives in a group home just off the campus in Andover, and he'll be living with 8 other boys." Sid replied. "What if Spencer decides to go to school up there too?" Jesse asked. Both Sid and Adam now looked at Spencer. "Is that something you're thinking about?" Sid asked. "I think so." Spencer replied as he looked at Paulie. Sid nodded slowly as he wrapped his arms around Jeannie and sat back in his rocker. "Have you discussed it with Anthony?" Sid asked the boy. "No, not yet. I haven't really decided if that's what I want to do yet." Spencer replied. "Well, we have a little more than a year to make any decisions like that, There's no big rush. If you want Spencer, we can sit down and have Talk Time about it anytime you want." Sid told the boy. Spencer nodded his head. "I know Uncle Sid." He said as he gave the man a kiss goodnight.

"If David and Spencer go, can I go too?" Jesse asked. Sid gave the boy a small smile as he took a kiss goodnight from the boy. "Jesse, David and maybe Spencer will be going up North to go to school at a place that has a very high academic standard to be met. I'm lucky if I can get you to crack open a book. How would you be able to function in a school environment without one of your Uncle's sitting on top of you? Going away to school means you have to be self motivated to study and learn. Your biggest concern in class is when the next bugle is going to blow." Sid said as Paulie, David and the girls all giggled. "That's not true Uncle Sid, I learn." Jesse protested. "There's no question Jesse that you learn, you're an extremely bright little codger who can pick things up in his sleep. However, at Andover you have to be a little more than just be sitting in a chair keeping it warm. These people actually want you to be involved and participating." Sid said as his friends continued to giggle around him. Jesse saw little humor in the comment.

"That's no fair Uncle Sid; you know I can do it if I want to." He said. "You're damned straight I do! And if you are serious about going North next year, we'll see a much more involved Jesse in class this Fall." Sid replied. Jesse now smiled. "But I don't gotta start until the Fall right?" He asked.

Giving the boy a playful slap on his ass, Jesse retreated towards the cabin as Paulie now came forward and bent over and gave Sid a kiss and then Adam. Both men watched the boy follow David and Jesse inside as the screen door slam behind them. "That's a first." Sid said as he hugged Jeannie and rose out of the rocker with the girl. Adam nodded his head. "For me too." He told his friend. "It ain't the first for us! We get lots of kisses from Uncle Paulie." Carla said as the girl was turned around and adjusted herself on Adam's hip. Adam patted the girl on her ass as he walked into the cabin followed by Sid. "A kiss is a very nice thing between friends. It's the necking part that can lead to trouble young lady! You do know the difference right?" Adam asked. Carla giggled again as she wrapped her arms around Adam's neck and gave him a kiss. "You mean like that?" She asked. Adam shook his head and looked at Sid. "Hey, don't worry about it! I ain't gonna tell her counselor you're into necking with little girls." Sid said as both girls now giggled their way up the stairs.

Except for the twins, Benji and Gavin, the bedrooms upstairs were all but deserted as Carla and Jeannie picked up their pillows off Adams bed and walked into the bathroom for one last pee. "They sure do go to sleep early." Jeannie said as both girls walked past the twins. With Benji's head laying on his brother's stomach, the twin had his hand wrapped around his brothers penis that was now flaccid. Carla smiled as she draped a sheet over the boys.

Both girls threw their pillows down on the deck of the back porch where close to 2 dozen boys were now fully engaged in what they referred to as "Playtime". The boys had long ago perfected different games to amuse themselves and those that wanted to have a Greek or Roman orgy could take lessons from these boys and learn volumes. "I don't want you wearing that silly thing. Your dick ain't big enough and it'll come off like it did with Matty and Chris." Carla complained as Trevor lined himself up. "It won't come off, I'll hold the top of it." Trevor replied as he held his penis. Carla shook her head as she lay on the blanket. "Ya don't need it silly, you ain't squirting anything anyway." Carla told the 11 year old. Trevor's ego was slightly deflated, but not his penis. "Do ya wanna have pussy or not?" He asked the girl. "Oh go ahead, but if that thing comes off, ya ain't doing it again!" Carla said.

"You guys fucking or fighting?" Chris asked as he backed off Sammy's throbbing erection. Sammy now giggled. "Cut it out Sammy, you're biting me!" Spencer said as he reached for his groin. "Sorry he's making me laugh." Sammy said as he continued to giggle which only created more giggles among the other partygoers.

"Gentlemen! Taps has blown. Are we keeping it down up there?" Sid said from the front screen door. A chorus of "Yes Uncle Sid!" followed while more giggles came from the loft area as Sid returned to his rocker with Adam. "Do you think he'll actually follow through and leave next year?" Adam asked. "I'd say no if David and Spencer weren't going, but if he has those two to keep him company, he just might." Sid told Adam.

"I can't imagine this place without those three, especially Jesse." Adam said. Sid nodded his head in agreement. "It's gotten a lot harder over the years. In the very beginning, we only knew each other for a few years. The boys kept getting younger and younger, and before we knew it, we had kids in diapers. Now, we've got them fresh out of the box and you just don't bond any closer than that. Nowadays, the boys that leave for college or to go out on their own have been with us for 10 or 15 years." Sid said.

The stillness of the night was broken by a small gust of wind that whistled through the tall pine tree's that surrounded the cabins. Adam listened to an owl hooting across the lake somewhere calling out for a mate as both men sat in silent contemplation.

"They're knee deep in plans to have me cut up." Sid finally said as he finished a beer and reached for another one. "Why do you say that?" Adam asked his friend. "You don't know?" Sid asked as he turned to his friend. Adam shook his head. "You asked me not to get involved because you wanted at least one place in camp where you could get away from it all. Bert has told everyone not to discuss it with me; my job is to be here for you, not to nag you to influence your decisions." Adam told his friend.

Sid smiled a little as he sat back in the rocker and took a sip of his beer. "In order to "Nag" me about any decisions I make good buddy, you would have to be talking to the

real powers that be in this camp. You, Me, Bert, Dave, John, Dan; we just think we run this place as the Administrator's. The real power is running around the pretty little heads of Gloria, Jeanette and Johanna and their merry band of women. Even the 2 year olds know that if you really want something, you don't go to one of us, you go to one of the girls and make them tell the big boys what to do." Sid said. Adam smiled somewhat. "And who was it that gave them this Supreme authority?" He asked. "Good point!" Sid responded without elaborating further.

"So what decisions have been made?" Adam asked after a long pause in the conversation. "They're all hell bent for me to go under the knife. I guess they're making plans for it now; I've washed my hands of it." Sid responded flatly. "That's a neat trick! Were you planning on sending me in your place?" Adam asked. Sid smiled and chuckled a bit. "I hadn't thought of that, but it sure ain't a bad idea, now is it?" Sid joked.

"When the time comes, they'll tell me where to go and what to do. Until then, I don't want to be fucking bothered." Sid said. Adam nodded but didn't reply; it wasn't necessary.

A little after 10:00 Adam finished brushing his teeth as Matty entered the bathroom bleary eyed and dragging his pillow behind him. As the boy stepped up to the toilet and began to urinate, Adam watched in silence as most of the urine made it into the bowl. Unsure if the boy was sleepwalking or not, Adam chose not to talk to him as the last dribble's fell to the boys feet. Adam smiled as Matty now bent forward and lifted the now soaked toilet seat up and drifted back into the bedroom without a word.

Most of the time, Adam spent the first half of the night alone in bed unless Sammy decided otherwise, and when that happened, he went to sleep with anywhere between 3 to 6 children in his bed. Now as he pulled down the down comforter, 2 heads rested on a single pillow with both boys sound asleep. Adam's first thought was that he was probably safe through the night from Matty, but Chris was a no show in the bathroom, and he generally took a bath every night. Since his only other choice was the other bed in the room which had the 8 year old twins in it, he opted to take his chances with Chris since the 11 year old was on the other side of Matty and he stood a remote chance of waking up dry.

Slipping carefully into bed so as not to wake up either boy, Adam settled down into his pillow as he pulled the sheet and comforter up. Within seconds, Matty turned his body around and curled himself up against Adam's side with the boys eyes never opening. Adam knew it was a matter of time before Chris realized, even dead asleep, that there was now no body contact on himself and that he too would soon search out someone warm to re attach to. Adam kissed Matty on the forehead very gently as he then turned out the lamp. His chances of waking up dry were becoming nil as he reached around Matty and cupped a cheek of the boys warm, dry bottom in his hand. If it took him more than 10 seconds to fall asleep, Adam didn't know it the next morning.

Paulie awoke in a dream he was having about standing at the rock ledge of Look-Out Point and having an orgasm that floated down to the treetops below the ledge in a ribbon

of semen. The image did not come out of thin air or fantasy; he had actually participated in the ritual on many occasions in the past week or so. It was a tradition among the boys

of Green Tree to fertilize the tree's and bushes below the ledge, and if they couldn't contribute some water, they could always come up with another source of nourishment.

The super intense feelings his body was now experiencing however exceeding anything felt during his waking time. These feelings were coming from the core of his soul and were always looked upon by Paulie as his favorite sexual expression.

On this occasion however, this was no "Nocturnal emission". His dream had a little help in the form of Jesse who was firmly attached to Paulie's penis and starting the day off right.

During the day, the boys of Green Tree rarely participated in group sex unless they were either swimming or on horse back. Especially on school days, the normal route taken by the boys to relieve themselves of pent up tension was to masturbate, either alone or mutually with another boy. However, awakening in the morning and going to sleep at night was always "Party Time" as far as the boys were concerned and jerking off was not their preferred method to romp.

"Now ya did it. Ya made him get tingles and he won't want to play with anybody else stupid!" Carla said as she sat on the bed watching. "I couldn't help it, he gets tingles a lot faster than we do and his dick just exploded." Jesse said as he kissed Paulie's retreating penis. "Bullshit! Ya know when tingles is comin. You coulda stopped it if you wanted to." Carla replied a little indignantly as more than a few giggles arose from the others on the porch. "Relax Carla. Uncle Paulie can do it again in a little while, you ain't gonna get cheated." David told the girl as he yawned.

"Did reveille blow yet?" Sammy now asked as he stretched out and deeply yawned. "No, I ain't heard it. Jesse woke me up when he crawled across me to make sex with Uncle Paulie." Carla said as she turned Trevor over on his back and began to bring the still sleeping boys penis to life.

"Do you want me to do you?" Paulie asked as Jesse now climbed on top of Paulie and laid down. "No that's OK, Me and Bruce already did lollipops. I just did you because your dick was standing up and you was rubbing it." Jesse said with a small grin. Paulie giggled along with half a dozen other kids on the porch. "Where ya goin Sammy?" Jeannie asked as Sammy stood up. "In with Uncle Adam. Ya comin?" he asked the girl.

After looking around, the girl shook her head. "No, I'm gonna go and take a shower with Billy and Michael. Where's Gavin and Benji?" She asked. "In Uncle Adams room with Chris and Matty. They all left after playtime last night." Jesse replied as Reveille blew.

With Sammy now gathering up his pillow and leaving the porch, Paulie watched as Spencer stirred and finally sat up with a substantial bladder erection in place. Standing up, Spencer took a piss through the porch screening that now flowed down to the ground

Splashing on a rock below. Within seconds, he had half a dozen boys keeping him company as very tanned, bare asses lined up along the screening to add to the showers.

Ain't you afraid it will stink and get Uncle Adam mad?" Paulie asked. "He don't get mad, Uncle Dave's maintenance crew washes down all the screens every week. The whole camp does it in the summer." Jesse said as he nestled his penis alongside Paulie's.

As Spencer squeezed out the last drops, he turned around and walked over to where Paulie and Jesse lay and sat down. Giving Jesse a kiss on his shoulder, he move to Paulie and gave Paulie a kiss without comment.

"I'm gonna take a swim to Turtle Rock, anybody wanna come?" He announced as he stood back up. With almost half of the 2 dozen boys now headed for the stairway, Paulie remained pinned to the porch floor by Jesse. "He don't usually kiss other boys like he just kissed you. That means he really likes you. He kisses Anthony and our Aunt's like that, and even Uncle Bert and Uncle Sid, but he usually just gives people a hello or goodbye kiss. That ain't what you just got." Jesse told Paulie as the porch emptied of campers.

"Did he ever kiss you like that?" Paulie asked. "A few times, but not when it was just a good morning kiss. I'm not his best friend, David and Brian and Sammy are. If Spencer kisses you like that, you're more than just one of his friend's." Jesse replied. Paulie smiled as he contemplated Jesse's words. Without speaking, he reached out and drew Jesse's face down to his and kissed the boy as tenderly as he had just been kissed by Spencer. A very warm feeling within Jesse grew which had little, if anything, to do with sex, the message he received from the boy he was laying on was loud and clear; he had another best friend, and this one was an Outside Uncle.

"What took you so long to come to bed?" Adam asked Sammy as the boy climbed up

the end of the bed and slid his way up Adam's torso. "I didn't pee last night. I didn't wake up until just now." Sammy said as he nuzzled his face into Adam's chest and molded the rest of his body to his counselor's. Adam kissed the top of Sammy's head as he ran his fingers up and down the boys spine in a gentle massage. "I didn't pee the bed, but Chris did." Matty now said as the boy rolled himself against Adam's side. Adam chuckled a bit. "I know, I had to get a blanket to sop up the flood." He said. Chris now giggled into his pillow. "You've been awake all this time and you're still laying there in that swamp?" Adam now asked the boy. "It's OK Uncle Adam, it keeps warm if I don't move around." Chris said as he picked his head up off the pillow.

Adam took his foot and put it along the boys side and started nudging him off the bed. "Go take a shower. You can't go into the Mess Hall smelling like your Uncle Sid." Adam told the boy as he fell to the floor dragging the blankets behind him.

As both Matty and Chris headed for the showers and closed the door behind them, Sammy heard the click of the lock on the door and raised his leg up alongside Adam.

After more than 2 years, it was a well choreographed signal on the 11 year olds part that he was ready to receive some much needed attention after a long nights sleep.

Adam reached down and pulled a sheet up over Sammy and as it settled down on top of the boy, Adam began massaging Sammy's bottom and his perineum which was one of Sammy's favorite spots to play near. Gently massaging between Sammy's anus and the bottom of his scrotum, the boy developed goosebumps as he shivered in anticipation. "That tickle's. Do you want to do pussy?" Sammy asked as he lifted himself just a little higher on Adam's chest.

"Wow! You mean we can do pussy with staff?" Benji asked from the other bed.

"What are you two still doing here? Adam asked once he recovered from being startled at the boys voice and presence. "We just woke up. You two gonna fuck Uncle Adam?" Gavin now asked as he climbed up onto the bed and sat down Indian style waiting for the show to begin. Adam closed his eyes as his penis retreated. "Gentlemen, do we have any

rules about Private Time that you might recall?" Adam asked as Benji now joined his twin brother. "Like what?" Gavin asked with an innocent smile. "Like when the door is closed, the people inside don't want to be disturbed?" Adam replied. "Ain't nobody disturbing us Uncle Adam, see, the door's still shut." The boy said as he pointed to the door.

"Uncle Adam is an outside Uncle and he has funny rules about fuckin. He ain't like us

who don't care about fuckin with everybody, he likes to fuck alone.' Sammy now said.

"How do you fuck alone?" Gavin asked with a curious look on his face. "Don't'cha gotta have somebody else with you?" he asked. Adam shook his head as he put his hand over Sammy's mouth. "First of all gentlemen, the term is "Play" not "Fuck". He said. "Secondly, unless I'm sadly mistaken, your English is getting worse by the day.

What Sammy was trying to tell you was that I prefer to make love with someone in private. I wasn't raised the same way you boys were and I'm just not use to romping with half a dozen friends at one time." Adam told the twins. "Not ever?" Benji asked with a plainly serious look on his face.

Adam smiled as he had to chuckle. "Maybe once in awhile, but not as a routine" He told the twins. "How come?" Gavin asked. "I was just raised in an environment where people didn't have group sex. If they wanted to make love, they did it in private." Adam replied.

"That's silly. Everybody knows what everybody else is doing, who cares?" Sammy asked. "Here Sammy nobody cares, but once we're out beyond the front gates, everybody cares, so we don't bother to go out there unless we have to." Adam replied as all 3 boys nodded in agreement. "So is you?" Gavin asked as he grabbed for his groin. "Is I what?" Adam asked. "Gonna have goop sex!" Benji replied. "You mean group sex." Adam said.

"He means are we all gonna fuck!" Sammy replied as he lifted his head off Adam's chest and giggled. Adam closed his eyes once again as he shook his head. "I mean make love." Sammy quickly added.

For Adam, this Saturday began a little a little more energetic than most. Up to this point in time, Adam had not engaged the twins, and there was no request from them to become blood brother's with him. Now however, the boys had decided that if they were going to allow someone to make love to themselves, they would become blood brothers first.

As Benji sat down on Adams chest with his penis headed straight for Adam's chin, the man didn't need a guide dog to figure out where things were going. "You know that it's not necessary for us to empty our bladders to become blood brothers right?" Adam asked.

"That's not fair Uncle Adam, we seen you drink all of Sammy's pee before plenty of times!" Gavin replied as he waited his turn. Adam pondered explaining "The heat of the moment" to the twins, but figured the concept was beyond understanding for the time being. "Fine! But it's not necessary to squeeze out the very last drop is it?" He asked as all 3 boys giggled once again. Moving his hands behind the boy, Adam cupped both warm cheeks in his hands and drew him in as Benji closed his eyes in a dreamy bliss as

he felt his body releasing the liquid that would make his counselor one with him.

"Jeez Uncle Adam, we didn't think you was ever going to come out of your room." Trevor said as Adam sat down on the front porch with Gavin still attached to him soaking wet. "Some of us do take showers Trevor." Adam replied as he dried off Gavin's hair.

"You wasn't taking no showers Uncle Adam. There ain't no showers in your room" Matty said as he giggled. "We became blood brothers with Uncle Adam this morning." Gaven said from underneath the towel. Adam now felt about 10 pairs of eyes on himself.

"Ya ain't never slept with him before?" Chris asked as he pulled up a pair of underpants.

"We didn't sleep with him, we slept in our own bed." Benji now said. "Not that kind of sleep stupid." Billy said. "Gentlemen, I do not see any stupid people on this porch. Do you?" Adam asked as he looked directly at Billy. To a chorus of "No Uncle Adam!" Bert pulled up in his cart with Christopher sitting on his lap steering.

Without too much interaction with anyone on the porch, Christopher headed straight for Adam's kitchen once the boy mounted the steps. "Don't you ever feed him?" Adam asked the Director as the boys now started to giggle. Bert sat down on a rocker as Matty landed on his lap and gave the man a good morning kiss. "He's probably just going to the bathroom." Bert said as Matty settled into the man's chest. "Since when did he start using toilets?" Adam asked as the boys continued to giggle. "Since Uncle Dave made it a rule not to take a leak in the lake. He's concerned about the lack of rain and the lowering water flow." Bert said as he looked at the boys on the porch. "We ain't pissing in the lake no more Uncle Bert. We wait until we get to shore." Chris said as he put a pair of shorts on and pulled them up. Bert nodded. "That's great boys, one of these day's your Uncle Adam will introduce you to those big white things with the water in it, and you can start pissing in there instead." He said as the boys giggled once more.

As the screen door slammed shut, Christopher walked out onto the porch with a tall glass of milk in one hand and a peeled banana in the other as Adam looked at Bert in silence. Bert shrugged his shoulders as Christopher sat down on a porch swing dripping milk all over the place. "Hey Uncle Adam, why's there a whole container of milk all over the kitchen floor?" Carla asked as she came out of the cabin with a towel wrapped around her head. "It's a new way of eating your cereal. You just pour some cereal on the milk and sit down on the floor with a spoon and start eating. It saves us the trouble of washing bowls." Adam replied dryly. "Is that a joke?" Gavin asked as he turned around and looked at Adam. "Not if you're in Housekeeping it isn't." Adam replied as he gave the boy a kiss and put him down as Carla moved into his lap.

"What's Uncle John making for breakfast Uncle Bert?" Carla asked as she unwrapped her hair for Adam. "Belgian Waffles and French toast sweetheart." Bert replied as he wrapped his arms around Matty and gave the boy a hug and a kiss on his neck. "I don't think you've parked your bare little hiney on my lap for quite a while now tiger. Have you been hiding from me?" Bert asked the boy as Matty giggled. "Your beards tickling me Uncle Bert! Ain't you took a shave yet?" Matty said as he squirmed. "No I ain't took no shave yet, have you been to English classes lately?" Bert asked as he rubbed his face on the boys neck. Wiggling his way off Bert's lap, Matty rolled around the floor of the porch in giggles as Adam shook his head and began brushing out Carla's hair.

"Go put some draws on Matty, it's almost time for Assembly." Adam told the boy as Jeannie now appeared on the porch and headed straight for Bert. "Uncle Adam is gonna take us all on a hike to Rainbow Falls Uncle Bert. Do you wanna come with us?" Jeannie asked the Director as she handed him a brush and sat on his lap. "A hike? You got your Uncle Adam to actually agree to walk?" Bert asked.

"OK guys, unless you're planning on humiliating yourselves in front of the Senior girls at breakfast, let's put the twins under wraps." Adam told the boys on the porch.

"Eeee?" Christopher asked as he got off the chair and came over to Adam. "Very soon Christopher. Are you hungry?" Adam asked the boy. "Hey!" Christopher exclaimed as he

put his hands on Carla's knee's and jump up in excitement. "Shit Uncle Adam, he's getting me all sticky with his banana!" she said as she looked at her knee. "Shit?" Bert asked the girl. "Get use to it, they've been hanging around their Uncle Sid a great deal lately." Adam said as he wiped off Carla's knee and cleaned up Christopher.

"We got rules Uncle Bert. We can say curse words in the cabin, but not in public." Carla said with a dimpled smile. "Wanna hear some?" Benji asked. "No, that's OK; I'll take your word for it." Bert said as the bugler sounded Assembly.

"So where is Sid?" Bert asked as the two men sat in their golf carts on the way to the flagpole. "He's been ending his days with us in the Cove for the past few days and beginning them with the babies in either Beth's cabin or Johanna's." Adam replied as he grabbed the wheel and turned the cart away from a rock that Sammy was heading straight for. "Ya don't gotta do that Uncle Adam, I wasn't gonna hit it, I was just gonna see how close I could come to it." Sammy said as he pushed Adam's hand off the steering wheel.

Adam nodded his head. "Let's humor me and see how far away we can stay from the rocks and bushes, OK?" he asked the boy.

"Gavin and Benji became blood brother's with Uncle Adam this morning Uncle Bert. When do we get to become blood brothers with you?" Carla now asked the Director.

Bert now glanced towards Adam as most of the children in the carts now looked towards Bert. "I would love to become blood brothers with you Carla, but I'm allergic to urine and I break out in hives." Bert told the girl. "What's that?" she asked. "It's like bumps Uncle Peter say's. Uncle Bert is only blood brothers with a couple of kid's in camp, right Uncle Bert?" Trevor asked with a grin. "Who?" Jeannie asked as Adam now looked towards Bert. "Uncle Charley, Uncle Etienne, Spencer, Jesse, David, Caleb, Matty, Christopher." Trevor ticked off on his fingers. "Meee?" Christopher now asked as he heard his name. "No, not you Christopher, I meant the other Christopher!" Trevor told the boy as he pointed. "Really?" Adam asked as he looked to Bert.

"How come you ain't lergic to their pee Uncle Bert?" Carla asked. "Yeah Uncle Bert, I'd be interested in hearing that explanation myself!" Adam chided his boss. "As Matty and Chris can tell you themselves, we became blood brothers before they reached age 6.

I guess that a boys urine before that age is different." Bert replied. Carla now looked at Jeannie who shrugged her shoulders. "I'll ask Uncle Thomas how come." The girl said as she finished tying her sneaker.

"You know of course that she's going to ask him, right?" Adam asked Bert as the 2 men walked over to the flagpole together. Bert nodded his head. "And knowing her as well as I do, I wouldn't be surprised if she asked Helen and the girls as well." Adam added.

Bert now looked towards Adam. "You mean you think I should tell half the staff that I don't get hives from drinking piss that's younger than 6?" Bert asked. "Well you're the one who fucking lied!" Adam replied smiling.

One warm summer day followed another until it was time for the return of Dr. Lester

and Sid's brother Barry. As Bobby, Gavin and Benji watched the Sikorsky land in the FEMA Depot with faces beaming in anticipation of seeing Dr. Lester once again coming for a visit, Sid watched knowing that Barry's arrival signaled that the time was quickly approaching for his upcoming operation for Prostate cancer.

Up to this point in time, Sid wanted minimal involvement, which meant no unnecessary discussion about the topic. If a blood test or a EKG was needed, it was just done, and there was no idle chit chat about it, Sid did not want to be bothered. The Surgeon wanted a blood supply available if a transfusion was necessary and 2 units of blood was donated by 2 volunteers who matched Sid's blood type so that he didn't have to go through what everybody knew was going to be a fight from beginning to end.

From the greeting between Dr. Lester and the boys, one would never know the Doctor had left just under two weeks earlier. "We missed you Poppe, did you miss us?" Benji asked as the man juggled both boys in his arms. "You bet I did. Grandma says "Hello" and wants me to take a lot of pictures of all 3 of you." Dr. Lester said as he put the twins

down on the seat of the golf cart and wiped the happy tears off Benji's cheeks. After washing Bobby's face in kisses, the man took a seat in the back of the cart as the twins mauled him once more.

How is Max working out?" He asked all 3 boys. "Great Poppe. We only use it in the morning for school, but the other kids think it's pretty cool." Gavin told the man. "The other boys are using it?" The Dr. asked. Benji shook his head. "They tried it out, but they said it gave them tingles too fast. They use their own toys when they want to play." The boy said with a dimpled smile. "Too fast?" Dr. Lester asked as both twins nodded. "The

guys don't like to get tingles too fast unless we're at school and gotta go to class. After school, we all ain't in no hurry anymore and we get to fuck with each other longer." Gavin said.

"This is acceptable?" Dr. Lester asked his Grandson. "All the Intermediate's talk like that Grandpa, even the girls like Carla and Jeannie do it. They know they can't do it in front of the senior girls or when the Camp Kenny kids are around, but when they're with each other, they don't get into trouble for it." Bobby told his Grandfather. "What other new tricks have we learned since I've been gone?" He asked the twins. "We learned how to sail the boat and Uncle Dan taught us to water ski!" Benji said smiling. "And we became blood brothers with all our friends and even Uncle Adam and Uncle Peter!" Gavin added. Doctor Lester turned once more to his Grandson.

"It's OK Poppe, they asked to become blood brothers with Uncle Adam and Uncle Peter, most of the Intermediate boys do it." Bobby told his Grandfather as he looked in the rear view mirror. "And what about you Bobby?" Dr. Lester asked.

"Don't be silly Poppe, Bobby ain't a Intermediate boy, he's a Transitional boy!" Gavin replied as both twins now giggled to each other.

"Uncle Bert says that it's OK if the Intermediate boys want to be blood brothers, and we can be blood brothers with them too, but once we become senior boys, we can't do it anymore. They can become blood brothers with their Uncle's if they want to, but we can't." Bobby said. "And what about you becoming blood brothers with the Uncle's?" Dr. Lester asked. "Uncle Bert says that the reason the Intermediate boys become blood brothers with their Uncles is because they live with each other a lot closer than the senior boys do, and at their age, the Intermediate boys need to have a special bond with their Uncles. When we get older, we don't need that special bond, but most of the boys are already blood brothers with their Uncle anyway because they raised them." Bobby explained. "And how do you feel about that?" The Dr. Asked.

"It's OK, besides, Uncle Bert said that if me and Uncle Paulie really wanted to become blood brothers with an Uncle, we could because we didn't grow up here." Bobby replied. "Is that what you're going to do?" Dr. Lester asked. "I don't think so; the guys here become blood brothers when they want to play with each other. Jesse say's that Uncle Adam don't play with the senior boys because he says they don't need it, especially now that we got the girls here to play with." Bobby replied as the twins giggled. "You're dating the girls?" Dr. Lester asked. Bobby turned slightly pink as the twins continued to giggle. "No Poppe, only the senior boys can date the girls." Bobby said somewhat sheepishly. "But he gots lots of books and pictures of nakey girls all over the bathroom walls in his Cabin." Gavin said still giggling. "They ain't mine!" Bobby quickly told the twins somewhat agitated. "But ya do look at them!" Benji retorted.

"Never mind boys, that's considered private business. Besides, you'll probably have the same thing when you grow up and become Senior Boys." Dr. Lester said as Bobby watched the twins in the mirror.

"We can't Poppe! We're in the mafia and Carla and Jeannie ain't allowed to go into their bathroom and see the pictures, they're off limits to them." Gavin told the Doctor.

"Why is that?" Doctor Lester asked. Gavin shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, Uncle Bert says it's because he don't want us looking at Carla and Jennie as sex objects. What's a sex object Poppe?" The boy asked.

"So where are the butchers?" Sid asked Barry as the two men drove back to Camp. Barry shook his head as he watched the trees go by the path. "Thomas's brothers are coming in Sunday afternoon with Matthew. Have they told you what the process is going to be yet?" Barry asked his lifelong friend.

"They tell me when to be here, and when to be there, and when to stick my arm out and take another gallon of blood or pint of piss. Other than that, they leave me alone." Sid responded flatly. "Are you curious?" Barry asked. Sid shook his head. "What for? They're going to do what they're going to do, so why should I get all worked up when it's a done deal?" Sid said not expecting an answer.

"Why is Matthew coming in, just to watch them turn me into a eunuch?" Sid now asked. "Stop talking stupid Sid, It doesn't become you." Barry replied sharply.

"You just flew in from New Hampshire to tell me not to act stupid? You could have just called you know, it would have been a lot cheaper." Sid replied. "Matthew and I are going to be here to give you our support. We're not here to listen to you spout off any bullshit you feel like handing out. You've been a little bastard since you and I were in diapers, knock it off." Barry told his friend. Sid smiled slightly. "I'm glad to see you too Barry, you planning on leaving soon?" He asked as Barry now chuckled somewhat.

Entering the clearing through the woods that led to the cart trail around the camp lake, Sid steered for the trail to the upper camp where his cabin was. "Where are you going?" Barry asked. "I was just going to drop your stuff off at the cabin and then I figured we could take a quick spin over to the stables." Sid told his friend. "I'm not staying in your cabin on this trip Sid; take me to the Cove." Barry replied.

"Nobody invited you Barry, the cove is reserved for me as the only spot in this entire camp where I can get some peace and quiet about this shit. I have one last weekend to live a normal life, and I ain't giving it up." Sid responded as he stopped the cart and looked at his friend. "Nobody's asking you to give anything up, I'm aware of what the rules are concerning the cove and I'm willing to abide by the rules. You've got the girls, Bert Matthew, Thomas and his brothers nagging you about the medical stuff and I'm satisfied that they'll take you kicking and screaming to do what you have to do. My place is at your side just as you've already asked Adam to be at your side. This isn't a debate Sid; this is the way it's going to be!" Barry said to his friend.

"Whatcha doin Uncle Sid, kissin him?" 7 year old Caleb asked as a group of Camp Kenny children surrounded the golf cart. Sid smiled as he backed away from Barry. "No, when we kiss each other, we do it in the cabin where we belong. We were just having a family hug. Want one?" Sid asked the children who were now clamoring on board the golf cart from all sides.

"Am I right in assuming that use to be a nice clean suit you had on?" Sarah asked Barry as the pile of children got off both men and settled into the seats of the cart fully expecting a ride. Barry smiled as he brushed the sand off his now fairly wet suit. "It was coming off in 5 minutes anyway." He said as a spunky 6 year old climbed into his lap without bothering to ask. "What's your name?" She asked. "I'm Uncle Barry. What's yours?" He asked. The little girl blushed a little and smiled. "I'm Catherine. I'm Six! How old is you?" she asked. "Be careful Barry, She's been on the prowl for a date lately!" Sid said as both men giggled a bit. "I'm honored. Do you usually prefer older men?" Barry asked as he kissed Catherine on the forehead.

"I'm going to the cove gang, where can I drop you off?" Sid asked as he started back down the path. "You can drop us off at our cabin Uncle Sid. We gotta take showers and get ready for lunch!" Caleb said with a grin. "When did you move your cabin down to the lower campus?" Sid asked. "That's silly Uncle Sid, we ain't moved our cabin, you're gonna to drive us up the hill." Samantha said giggling along with the rest of the cabin.

"Silly me!" Sid said as he swung the cart around and headed up the path.

The arrival of Sid's cart on the upper campus caused its usual stir and with Caleb and

Catherine now both ringing the antique ice cream truck bells as they traveled across the baseball fields, the front porches of the cabins along the way began filing up with small wet bodies glistening in the sun from the showers they were in just seconds before. "If I were you Uncle Sid, I wouldn't stop; Martha and the rest of the girls don't look all that happy." Sarah said as Sid waved to the children on the porches. "Look on the bright side sweetheart, the floors in the cabins probably needed washing anyways." Sid said. "Uncle Sid, the floors are now carpeted!" Sarah reminded him.

Sid swung his cart back around as Sarah's 6 campers mounted the steps of their cabin with some climbing the steps on all fours. Barry smiled and shook his head. "I kind of miss the younger children now and then, but I'm not sure if I have the stamina to keep up with them anymore. Chasing after them 13 hours a day isn't something I'd look forward to." Barry said as the last of the bare little bottoms entered the cabin. "13 hours a day my ass! Those children are up and awake by 6:00 and their heads don't finally go down on the pillows for the last time before 9:00 most of the time." Sid told his friend. Barry shook his head once again.

"How is Bobby getting along?" Barry now asked Sid as the two headed back across the baseball fields. Sid chuckled to himself with a great big smile on his face. " I'm hoping you didn't come here expecting to see the same boy you dropped off a few weeks back.

That boy disappeared a while back and some strange boy they now call "Thumper" has taken his place." Sid told his friend. "Thumper?" Barry asked. Sid nodded. "As in the rabbit." He said with a grin. "Has he attained puberty?" Barry asked. Sid shook his head. "Not quite yet, but he really doesn't give a shit anymore. Most of the Intermediate boys tend to gravitate towards the other boys who are still shooting blanks and Bobby's dance card is usually pretty full every morning and night." Sid advised his friend.

"What about Paulie and Jesse and the other boys in the cabin that have reached puberty already; don't they interact with the Intermediate boys.?" Barry asked. Sid nodded. "They do, but chiefly because they grew up with the younger boys like Sammy and Trevor. The Intermediate's consider Jesse, Spencer and David as one of the mafia, not just a Senior Boy. Paulie is an Uncle, so that makes him acceptable, and Bobby is the oldest boy they know who's still dry, so he's still OK to sleep with." Sid replied.

"And the nickname?" Barry asked. "Bobby's a Scale 3, but he can still function as a Scale 2 when he wants to. I guess that's because he's still shooting blanks. If he gets a tap on the shoulder, apparently he's ready to rumble, so the mafia nicknamed him Thumper in honor of his stamina. The girls think it's cute." Sid said with a smile.

Arriving in the cove in front of Beachview Cabin, both men unloaded the luggage and went into the cabin. "No school gentlemen?" Sid asked Matty and Chris who were sitting on the living room floor playing a game of chess. "Matty had a stomach ache this morning Uncle Sid, so I stayed home with him to keep him company." Chris said with a grin. Sid looked at the 2 empty wrappers of Oreo's and a gallon of milk now half empty.

"Has Doc Thomas seen Matty and this debilitating stomach ache?" He asked as the boys giggled. "We went to Sick Call this morning Uncle Sid and he said I should stay in the cabin and rest if I wanted to." Matty said as he looked up and smiled to Barry. Sid nodded his head. "And Uncle Adam knows the two of you are sitting here playing hookey?" He asked. "He gots Uncle Greg to stay with us in case I got sick and he needed to take me to the Infirmary." Matty replied innocently. "And since I don't see a box of Oreo's puked all over the rug, you managed to keep them down?" Sid asked.

"Hi Uncle Barry. Is Uncle Matthew with you?" Greg asked as he came down from the loft bedrooms and gave the man a kiss and a hug in greetings. "No, he will be coming in on Sunday afternoon." Barry replied. "How come? Is it somebody's Birthday or something?" Chris asked curiously. "No, it's a Holiday weekend and we just have some guest's coming from up North. Sid replied as he walked towards the downstairs guest bedroom. "Uncle Barry is going to be staying with the mafia for a few days guys. He's getting to be a very old man, so try not to disturb him too much, he needs a great deal of rest." Sid said. Matty again looked up from the chess board and studied the man. "How old is you Uncle Barry?" He asked. "The same exact age as your ancient Uncle Sid boys; he's just being a smarty pants once again." Barry told the boys. Both boys now looked to their Junior Counselor. Greg nodded his head in silence as the boys shook theirs and went back to their game.

Once changed into comfortable clothing and back in the golf cart, Barry chuckled once more as he thought about the two boys in the cabin. "That was an interesting game they were playing. Maybe I'll see if I can't get one going later on this evening." He said as he watched the small army of boys now headed towards their cabins after school let out. "That would be the biggest mistake of your life unless you enjoy being humiliated. These kid's were all taught to play chess by Peter. They'll all kick your ass in, even the 6 year olds." Sid advised his friend. "You don't play anymore?" Barry asked. Sid shook his head. "Not since Peter came. Do you know how humiliating it is to get your ass whipped at chess by a kid who is pulling his baby teeth out at the same time?" Sid asked.

Stopping at the Camps Infirmary, Sid reviewed the Sick Call List. "Looking for anyone special?" Martha asked the Assistant Director. After giving the Nurse a kiss, Sid scrolled down the list. "I just stopped in at Beachview. Matty says he had a stomach ache this morning?" Sid asked. Martha nodded. "Thomas took a look at him and gave him a stool softener. He's a little impacted, but nothing serious. I'll be checking him this afternoon

before Dinner." Martha replied as she tended to a scrapped knee on a 4 year old. Sid nodded as he opened the lid on a jar and took out 3 lollipops. Handing one to Barry, he then unwrapped another and popped it into his mouth and approached the little boy sitting on the examining table. "What dragon did you run into?" Sid asked as he put a lollipop into the boys mouth and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I fell off my Bike Uncle Sid, I didn't see no dragon." He said. "Well you watch out, this is dragon season and I hear they're all over the place Kyle." Sid told the boy as he giggled.

"We have a meeting after lunch Uncle Sid. Did you get the memo?" Martha asked as she put a Band-Aid on the boy and lifted him back off the table. "No, was I supposed to?" Sid asked. Martha shook her head as she let the boy out the door. "Are you coming too?" Martha asked Barry without answering Sid. "No, he's taken himself out of the loop. Him and Adam are going to be playing stupid together." Sid replied. "He and Adam Uncle Sid. No wonder these children can't speak proper English!" Martha said as she cleaned up the examining table. "I love it! I'm getting my balls cut off and I get an English lesson." Sid said as he gave Martha a goodbye kiss.

Listening to the chatter mixed with the laughter and the requests to "Pass this" or "Pass that" at Lunch, nobody would have guessed that anything was going on in camp outside of the ordinary. It was a normal Friday as far as the children were concerned, and that's the way the entire staff wanted it to remain. Sid's surgery for Prostate cancer was set for the following Tuesday, and the Labor Day Weekend helped to mask the arrival of the people that were coming in from New Hampshire and Massachusetts's. With the exceptions of David and Paulie, no campers were aware of the impending operation and all was "Normal" in their world.

"Where is everybody?" Adam asked as he plunked Carla down on the bench and sat down. "A bunch of the guys decided to eat lunch with Matty." Etienne said as he grabbed a handful of French fries. "Really?" Carla said as she started to spin around on the bench to leave. "Whoa sweetheart, Uncle John will have a fit if you all took off for Beachview."

Adam said as he grabbed the girls arm and looked at the rest of the children at the table who were all ready to leave the Mess Hall. "No fair Uncle Adam! Nobody told us we was eating in the cabin today!" Carla whined as she turned back around. "Don't feel bad Carla, nobody told me either." Adam said as he spooned a small pile of fries on the girls plate. "What are they getting to eat?" Carla asked as she poured a ladle full of brown gravy over her roast beef and French fries. "Uncle John sent a tray of cold cuts and fruit salad. Would you rather eat that instead of your hot open roast beef?" Etienne asked the girl. Carla giggled a bit as she looked at the Junior Counselor, but didn't answer as she picked up a fork and knife.

"What did you do, forget to take a shower again today?" Sid said as he swung a leg over the bench and sat down across from Adam. With Sid now taking Adam's plate of food and replacing it with his empty one, the children at the table giggled as Adam looked at his new plate with a fork in his hands. "Glad you could visit with us Sid, would you like some food?" Adam asked as he re-loaded his plate as the giggling continued. "Nah, I got my own thanks." Sid said as he poured some ice tea. "So how's Matty?" Adam asked once the snickering died down and the children went back to eating. "No progress yet, but Doc Thomas say's we should be seeing some action long about 2 or 3 this afternoon."

Sid said cryptically as Adam nodded.

"I-eee?" Christopher chirped as the boy now put both arms over the bench in between Adam and Carla and started wiggling his way onto the bench. "Is this your idea of a joke?" Adam said as he looked at Sid. "Don't look at me good buddy, I just got here myself." Sid said as he continued to eat. Dressed in his usual pair of bib overalls, Christopher finally situated himself down on the bench and looked around the table with his usual dimpled grin and black twinkling eyes. "Hey!" the boy said as he looked to Adam. "Hello Christopher how are you?" Adam said as he kissed the boy on his forehead and slid his plate of food in front of the boy. "Hey!" The boy repeated as he grabbed a fork in his fist and began eating. "Sorry Uncle Adam, he slipped away from me when I wasn't looking." The boys 14 year old monitor Robin said as she approached the table. "That's OK. Have you eaten?" Adam asked as he grabbed for his third plate of the meal.

"Yes, and so did Christopher." The girl said as she sat down. Many eyes around the table now watched as Christopher continued to eat as if he had just begun. "Where does he put it all?" Carla asked as she went back to her own plate of food. "You have to keep watching his tummy. He'll keep eating until he throws up." Robin said as more than a few of the boys looked up. "I sure am glad he ain't sittin next to me!" Michael said as a bunch of his friends nodded in agreement.

"You said you was gonna go with us on a overnight Uncle Sid. The summer is almost over. When are we gonna go?" Billy asked in between forkfuls of gravy covered French fries. "I'll check the schedule that Aunt Patty has posted, but maybe we can all convince your Uncle's Adam and Barry to volunteer their excellent services and help supervise the trip for this week-end." Sid said as he poured himself a beer. "Me? I went on the last overnight and damned near drowned if you recall. Don't you think I gave enough at the Office?" Adam said as he stared at his friend and Administrator.

"Good, that settles that! Your Uncle Adam will be delighted to accompany us on an overnight; I can see him just bubbling over with enthusiasm. Who's going to break the good news to your Uncle Barry?" Sid said as he sat back and drank. "What?" Barry asked from about 10 boys down the long table.

"Don't feel bad, I spent 30 years getting myself volunteered for things I had no intentions of doing. I once found myself on a roller coaster because Sid had promised 2 boys he would go with them!" Barry told Adam as the 2 men walked to Burt's Office after lunch. "You don't think I was going to get on that silly assed thing did you?" Sid asked. "Besides, do either one of you think I'm going to be sitting on a horse very much after Tuesday?" Sid said. Adam shook his head. "How long do you think he's going to be milking this basically simple operation?" Adam asked Barry in mock seriousness. "He had us running to the refrigerator for ice cream every 30 minutes for a week when he had his tonsils and adenoids out, so there's no telling how long he's going to be playing the invalid this time around." Barry replied.

The afternoon Staff meeting was brief consisting of general business while the campers returned to their cabins for what was left of the afternoon rest period following lunch. As the regular staff members along with Sid, Adam, and now Barry rose to leave, Bert stood up and walked over to the bar and poured himself a drink. "Is a horseback overnight a good idea right now? Suppose he ends up catching a cold or getting into an accident?" Bert asked Thomas. "All of a sudden you're worrying about my health?" Sid asked as he opened a beer. "I just don't want you falling off a horse on purpose just to use it as an excuse." Bert said as the rest of the staff chuckled. "When's the last time you knew me to fall off a horse?" Sid asked. "Just making sure Sid, I never know what that crazy head of yours is thinking." Bert replied as he sat down with his drink.

The Labor Day week-end ahead signaled the end of summer and the beginning of the fall at Green Tree and already the mornings saw a few more quilts and blankets on the beds of some of the campers and most of the staff. It would be a long week-end for the children, and all too short for many of the staff who knew that Tuesday morning would find Sid in the hospital being prepared for prostate surgery. Adam looked out over the lake that had a small ripple of waves flowing across it pushed along on the breeze. He knew nothing about the place he ever wanted to change, but he also knew that things were about to change and they were not going to be for the better.

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