Sam the Ham

Red Rock Canyon

The challenge was to write a short story with the following setting: This large town is located in the desert and looks run-down. It is best-known for a tumultuous history and its beautiful park. Also, rumor has it that the inhabitants are hiding something.

"How much longer dad?" Alexandre asked as he stared out the window. The terrain that passed by was desert and rather uninspiring desert.

"About five minutes closer from the last time you asked," Their father responded.

"Why couldn't we have stayed in Vegas?" Louis complained. "That was fun."

"The convention was over. The rooms would've been too expensive to stay any longer and besides hotel security requested that we find other accommodations."

Alexandre smiling to himself, "For a place nickname Sin City, there's surprisingly uptight over a few water balloons."

"Your water balloons were exercise balls," Their father muttered. He had resigned himself to a pair of active boys. Their activities or pranks sometimes went too far, but they never seem to be particularly malicious, at least not since they were in single digits. Sometimes things just got out of hand.

The twins looked at each other across from the car. They both sat in the back having decided than fighting over the front seat was something their father didn't need. They would admit things maybe got a little out of hand with the water balloons, but whatever happened to what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?

Louis spoke up. "Hey dad. What were you and that guy at the gas station talking about for so long?"

"What? Oh he was just telling me a story of aliens and whatnot Roswell New Mexico isn't too far from here so I guess every little towns is going to have their alien story."

Alexandre glanced out the window. "Guess they need some reason for people to come here."

They rolled into town about 20 minutes later. A big sign said welcome to Red Rock Canyon. Alexandre peeked at the GPS and rolled his eyes as they passed roads that weren't appearing on the map. They eventually came to a stop in front of a small two-story motel. Like the rest of the town it didn't look that great. The doors paint was fated there was just a sense of grime. Alexandre wouldn't have been surprised if a tumbleweed blew by.

The inside of the motel was slightly better with the air conditioning on but not so high that it was a jolt from outdoors to endorse. At least it was clean. As they follow behind their father to check in and noticed a boy sitting in a swivel chair on his phone.

He was a cute boy maybe 12 with the reddest hair he had ever seen on anyone. He looked up from his phone smiled showing off perfect teeth and Alexandre smiled back before turning away. Their father had to ring a bell to summon someone from the back room. She had a similar colored hair which meant the boy had to be her son Alexandre thought.

As their father signed in a voice piped up from behind. "Hi, I'm TJ."

Alexandre turned back around to see that the redhead had moved from the chair to standing right behind them without making a sound. Alexandre eyed him up and down. He doubted puberty had sent in on the boy yet. "Hey, Alexandre."

"Louis," his brother chimed in a second later.

TJ stuck out his hand and it took Alexandre moment to realize he wanted to shake. Somebody must've beaten manners into his head Alexandre thought as he grabbed the hand and wondered if TJ would be interested in the BJ. He smiled at his own cleverness as they broke the handshake. Louis shook TJ's hand too.

"I would be happy to show you around the town. There's not much fun stuff to see but we do have a little arcade," TJ offered.

The twins looked at their father. They knew he had been hoping for family time. Their father smiled. "I'm a bit tired from driving so long. Why don't you guys go have some fun and will explore the park tomorrow. That's after you drop off your bags," the father warned.

"I'll just wait here," TJ offered.

They had rented two rooms on the second floor. Surprisingly there was no adjoining door between the two rooms. The twins smiled at that. They were no strangers to messing around with each other and the increase privacy was something they could appreciate. Alexandre plopped his back on one of the twin beds before moving to up the air conditioning.

"I'm surprised TJ doesn't look more like a lobster with that fair skin," Louis said moving to charge his phone.

"Yeah, think we could convince him that we need to check him for melanoma?" Alexandre asked standing by the door.

"I would love too. He's really cute."

"I didn't know you had a thing for redheads," Alexandre smiled. "You can have first crack at him."

Louis grinned. They both knew that it was a mixed of luck talking other boys into bed. Most boys weren't interested, but when they were the two of them seem to know how far to push. Still most of the time they felt each other's holes.

TJ was waiting for them outside the shape overhang his phone casually in his hand. As the twins approached he pocketed it and smiled. "You guys ready to go?"

The twins answered in unison and they set off down the street.

"So are you two friends or fraternal twins?" TJ asked.

"Fraternal," Louis answered. "Most people don't pick up on that."

"Will you are traveling together," TJ said. "You do sort of look like in a sibling way."

"Do you have any siblings?" Louis asked in return.

"An older sister. She is away at college. Where you two from?"

"Canada, the French-speaking part," Louis answered.

"Canada! Why aren't you dying from this heat?" TJ said turning and walking backwards to face them.

"We were in Vegas for about a week. We adapted. Besides it's not like it never gets warm up there just not quite like this."

TJ laughed. "Tell me more about yourselves. Do you play sports? Are you gamers? Masterdebaters?"

Alexandre had been content to let his brother take the lead in the conversation but when TJ had said master debaters it almost sound like masturbators. He eyed the redhead wondering if it had just been his imagination or was the redhead flirting with them.

TJ just smiled and turned back around. He continued walking but seem to side to side as if trying to show off his not really existent butt. It was enough for the twins to look at each other though wondering. They talked until they arrived at the restaurant which apparently doubled as the arcade. In the entry room there was seven different old arcade machines plus an air hockey table.

TJ pulled out a 10 and exchanged it for quarters at the machine which to the twins surprise he offered them access too. They brought their own money but want above sponging off of someone else. Alexandre eyed all the games. They all looked pretty old Pac-Man and X-Men were the only names he recognized. The latter game could be played by four people though so they moved over to that and all started playing.

They had just finished the first level when TJ shouted. "Max you're here!"

Alexandre looked away from the screen just in time to see TJ run around the air hockey table and embrace the boy who had just walked into the room. Max had a shaved head and skin as dark as night. To Alexandre's surprise he embraced TJ and the two hugged for a long few seconds.

TJ broke the race but kept an arm around his friend. "This is Max. He's my best friend and really good at this game."

The twins share a look. Alexandre knew what his brother was thinking. Was it normal for friends like that to hug here?

TJ's swan an arm around Max as he broke the hug. "Come on you can use my quarters. He's awesome at this game."

TJ ran back around the air hockey table to grab his controls again as Max sidled up to Alexandre. Looking at quarter from the pile he gently bumped Alexandre. "Hey."

Alexandre shot him a smile put the strange behavior out of his mind and he turned his attention back to the game. At least he tried too. As they played Max's arm would brush up against his or he would move his body to brush up against him. That alone would of been distracting but both TJ and Max seem to be making sound effects that sounded like little grunts or grounds on occasion. He was pulling his attention away from the game and what away from his brain towards his growing erection.

The small polyp orders quickly disappeared and one by one they dropped out of the game. Alexandre stepped back from the machine when he died and Max quickly followed when his character fell off of the ledge. Max stretched his arms and then reached under his shirt to scratch. His arm pulled up a lot of the shirt showing off his stomach. Alexandre's eyes lingered on the exposed skin and on the shirt fell back down looked up to see Max grinning at him.

TJ dropped out and Louis quickly died facing the loss of the level. TJ walked over to Max. The two younger boy stared at each other for a moment before turning to face them. "You want to go back to your place?" TJ asked.

"We have some more money," Louis said slowly.

"Yeah but we can't get naked here," TJ said casually stretching his back.

Alexandre and Louis stared at each other. No one had ever been that blunt with them before let alone someone who was younger than them. Being the prankster he was he started to wonder if the two might be pulling something.

"Come on. You know you want too," Max said. "We don't get too many opportunities like this."

"What exactly are you talking about?" Alexandre questioned surreptitiously looking around for a camera or something.

TJ answered. "I always wait around when I know were checking in families. I saw you two checking me out. So I called my butt buddy Max and told him to get down here. Usually we have to share. So what do you say? Stay here and play or go back to your place and play?"

Something seemed very wrong to at the center but his brother jumped forward. "Our place."

The entire way back to the hotel Alexandre barely felt the heat as both TJ and Max touching him or showing off a little skin here and there. It was very obvious they knew what they were doing and that seemed very wrong to him. I thought seem less and less important though the closer they got to the motel.

The shock of opening the door to the cold air temporarily jolted him out of his presumably sex starved stupor. He grabbed Louis arm and yanked him into the bathroom. Closing the door behind him he lowered his voice so the two other boys couldn't hear them even if they had their years of the door.

"Louis, something's wrong here."

"What your problem? Two fairly hot boys are throwing themselves at us. It's like a porno!"

"Yeah, and since when has our life ever been like a porno? There's something up here."

"Even if they're pulling a prank, so what?"

"What if it's a police sting? We could get arrested!"

"Oh come on no police departments recruiting boys to seduce slightly older boys. You know how we are when we see someone like. We just found younger counterparts to ourselves."

Whenever Louis started using big words him and his mind was set. Alexandre couldn't think of anything else to say anyways and his brother turned towards the door and opened it. Alexandre followed him out quickly afterwards and they both froze.

TJ and Max are both stark, their naked bodies were pressed against each other the lips locked in an embrace. They each had one arm around the other squeezing the other as close as possible. There other hand was both for an enlarged up the others but fingers twisting around smearing lubricant. They broke away after a few seconds of their display.

"So, what some red meat?" TJ said his 2 inch [5 cm] erection sticking up towards his belly.

"And who want some dark meat?" Max said his erection sticking straight out.

Alexandre decided that even if it was a prank at that point it was worth falling for. Louis recovered slightly quicker and quickly scooped TJ up and embrace and together they collapsed on the bed. Alexandre walked up to Max who did a little twist and then stuck out his butt.

Alexandre touched it feeling the smooth skin of the younger boys rear. He had never been with a black boy but everything was in the same place. Max took him by the hand and led him over to the other bed. They stood at the foot of the bed facing each other but Alexandre's attention was briefly taken off of his younger companion was nearly hit by on or socks. His attention briefly turned to his brother was frantically stripping with the help of TJ. He watched for several seconds watching the familiar shape of his brothers body being revealed.

Max pulled his attention back to himself by laying a hand on his zipper and starting to undo his shorts. The black boy's hands pull down his shorts and underwear. As his erection popped out Max's mouth went over his tip, lips peeling back his foreskin and use the tip of his tongue to flick under the underside of his head. His brother did that to him and it drove him wild. His toes curled as he reached out to yank his shirt off.

Max's mouth came off his cock and started to lick his shaft. Max's tongue swirled around his clock slavering in saliva. Alexandre's reached down and grabbed his shoulders gently pulling him off. He looked into Max's brown eyes and let it slide down the black boy's body. His erection was stiff hard and not making any pre-cum. Alexandre pushed him back onto the bed and Max rolled with it looking his arms under his legs and pulling them towards his shoulders spreading his cheeks apart. His little hole very inviting in the bottom of the solstice feet were just so cute.

Alexandre put one knee on the bed before stopping. He showed really get some lubricant. It wasn't one of their bags only a few steps away. He was just easing off the bed when Max is what came forward and touched his stomach. He looked down at it admiring the five little toes and brought his hand up to feel the calf muscle. Well obviously Max was impatient.

Moving forward he pushed the link back until Max grabbed hold of it again and lined himself up. Pushing into the boy was amazing. He could feel Max's tidiness expand leading in his erection. He moved forward pushing his entire body behind his entrance. He didn't stop until he felt Max's heels against his chest.

Reaching down he grabbed Max's erection and forming a ring with his thumb and forefinger squeezed tightly around it before he started to pump the steps in a circular motion. Pushing and then slowly bring out and help he could feel Max's hard member slide between his fingers. Max made little bones keeping his hands on his butt winning the rest of his feet resting against his chest. As he found a rhythm one of Max's feet slid upwards caressing his lips before the big toe slid between his lips. Alexandre like that feeling, it seemed Max knew everything he like.

Judging from the sounds in the bed next to them brother had already finished up and he didn't feel very far behind. Max's toes slipped out of his mouth and then he exploded inside the boy. He pumped his hips a few more times jerking on the clock as he did so before feeling himself go softened sliding out the tight passage. He continued jerking until he felt Max's hands on his. Max pushed Alexandre's hand down hard and the expression on his face was one of pleasure.

Alexandre didn't remember laying down next to Max but he felt the younger boy spoon into him as his hand continued to play with the Max's soft member. Looking across at the other bed he saw that his brother had taken up a similar position playing with TJ's little soft member. His plane was still in orgasmic haze. He wondered if TJ and Max would be up for train. He wanted to feel his brother inside of himself while he was inside of TJ and TJ was inside of Max.

"Oh, I would like that," Max said.

Alexandre jerked away scurrying so far back he nearly fell off the bed. Max and TJ both jumped to their feet and stared at him before looking at each other. Louis sat up slowly. "What is wrong?"

"How did you know what I was thinking?" Alexandre demanded ignoring his brother.

TJ and Max looked at each other again. They didn't say anything but somehow reached a decision. They move they took a few steps so both the twins could see them at the same time.

"Okay, guys don't freak out," Max started.

"Just hear us out," TJ added.

Alexandre glanced at his brother who still seemed a bit confused on what was going on, but knew something was up. Unconsciously they move towards each other so they were both on the edge of their beds just in case they would need to support each other quickly.

Neither TJ or Max made any effort to cover themselves they did look at each other and more time before TJ started speaking. "We're telepathic," the redhead waited a few seconds before continuing. "Well not exactly what sort of it. We can only hear your thoughts when you're in direct contact with us. We can however pick up on emotions I guess you could say. Like when you two walked in I knew you were both checking me out. When I shook your hands I definitely know. Since Max has the same ability as I do though I can exchange thoughts with him as long as we can see each other."

"You're telepathic?" Louis said doubtfully.

"Max read my mind, I was thinking about something and he told me he would like it. That's why I reacted like I did," Alexandre said glancing at his brother.

Louis nodded accepting his brother at his word. "So that was how you knew everything I like?"

Alexandre glanced at his brother not knowing he had received the same treatment from TJ he had from Max.

"Yes. I didn't… We were trying to… Just wanted to have a little fun," TJ said his shoulder slumping. "I mean it wasn't like you weren't interested so where was the harm?"

As incredible as it sounded it made sense to Alexandre. They had been far too confident that they wouldn't receive a bad reaction. Both of the boys were younger and smaller, but they haven't been hesitant at all. The sex had been great too. "And how did you become telepathic?" He was pretty sure that wasn't the right word but whatever.

The two 12-year-olds looked at each other again. "Well, it's not like anyone would believe you anyways," TJ said. "Last October we were practicing soccer outside when we heard a sonic boom. We all looked up just in time to see this thing streaks across the sky and crashed maybe 300 yards away. Our coach tried to stop us but we all ran over to see what it was. When we got there we found the silver sphere may be about half the size of a car. As we watch this thing started to crawl out, I guess it was like an octopus only with all tentacles. Several of them shot out and grabbed me. It happened so fast that I didn't have a chance to move. As soon as it touched me, I could hear it in my head. It needed help. It was an alien obviously. It's ship had malfunctioned and crashed. It didn't mean any harm and well it's been here ever since. It's trying to fix it ship or at least try to communicate with someone but no luck so far."

Louis and Alexandre looked at each other having their own form of twin communication. "So it's still here?" Alexandre asked.

"Yes. Not too many people know about it. Everyone on our team knows course but we all have the same ability now," Max answered.

"Will you show it to us?" Louis ask.

The two 12-year-olds looked at each other and nodded. "You two can definitely keep a secret."

Alexandre thought back on some of the secrets they knew. Not exactly compared to this but he wasn't going to argue.

Before them got dressed and they followed Max and TJ out the door. Max tried to touch him a few times but he pulled away not liking the idea of the boy being able to read his mind. His brother didn't seem to mind TJ's touch. As they left the motel again they walked into town. They talked as they walked.

"How did you move the spacecraft so no one else could see it?" Alexandre asked.

"Our coach used his truck and it's not that heavy really," Max answered stumbling a bit just as he stumbles and Alexandre reached out to grab a hold of him so he wouldn't fall.

That sounded reasonable to Alexandre who was a bit of a science fiction fan. The spacecraft would probably be made out of some composite metal that didn't exist on earth. He asked a few more questions and one of the boys would answer.

The reach the elementary school which was a small one-story building that sprawled out rather than buildup. They had to jump the fence to get onto the field and Alexandre wondered if the ship had crashed here wouldn't more people have noticed? He glanced over at his brother but Louis just smiled back at him.

"It's in that supply shed," TJ said pointing. "It really doesn't like the heat."

"Yeah, neither do we," Louis said swiping at his brow.

As they approached the shed Alexandre looked around. "It happened here?" If something had crashed here more people would have seen it. The sonic boom probably would've even broken a few windows.

"No, we only use this field for games. The practice fields outside of town," Max said opening the door.

Cool air rushed out at them hitting them like a physical force and for second Alexandre just enjoyed it. Max held the door open for them as they all walked inside and he closed it so quickly that he bumped into Alexandre was just thinking it was weird to have to fields when one seemed good enough.

He wasn't sure what he had been expecting but there was nothing out in the open as TJ flipped on the light. The two younger boys walked over to the room and moved a few boxes around and then gestured for them to come closer. Alexandre took a few steps course them before feeling like something was wrong. He hung back as his brother looked over the boxes.

Louis peered over the boxes. "Wow."

Alarm bells were going off in Alexandre head. He took a step back away from the group. TJ had his hand on Louis's arm. Unconsciously Alexandre had made the decision not to touch one of the boys but realized how many times he had accidentally come into contact with Max.

"Touch it," TJ said. "You'll get the same ability we have."

"Yes, Alexandre come here and touch it," Max said. "You'll love what sex feels like when you can feel what your partners feeling and feel what you feel."

"Stop!" Alexandre barked in French.

His brother's hand had been reaching out down and he jerked it back mocking another box loose and exposing the creature. It looked very little like an act course and more like a bowl of spaghetti.

"What is it?" Louis said.

Alexandre switched to French. "Something's wrong here. Things aren't making sense."

"It's fine," TJ said his tongue completely flat still holding onto his brother's arm. "Do it."

Louis was standing there looking confused. Alexandre looked around and saw a poll the type you stick in the ground to use as a marker. Max started towards him. Alexandre lashed out with the kick catching the younger boy in the stomach and throwing him back a few feet. Before even thinking of the consequences Alexandre raised the stick like a spear and charged the mass of pasta that was an alien. His makeshift walker wasn't very sharp but as it slammed into the alien it threw it against the wall and pierced it soft outer body. It twitched with no tentacle shot out to defendant. He formed the stick around flicking the thing across the room has reddish green liquid boost from the open wound. When it smacked into the far wall that this formed it went splat like a giant spitball. It slid down the wall and lay there silent losing out liquid.

Simultaneously both Max and TJ collapsed without any warning. Louis like he was coming out of the haze. Alexandre walked over to the thing and stabbed it a few more times just to make sure it was dead. By the time he had finished the thing was almost split into and he was out of breath.

He turned to look at his brother who finally seemed to be coming out of the fog. "What the hell was I going to do?"

"Well, I don't know about you, but I either just save the earth or started an intergalactic war."

Before they can decide what they should do with TJ and Max the two boys started to come around. This time the twins were very careful not to touch either one of them until I got a very different story out of the two of them. According to them that alien had not been innocent stranded traveler, but more like an evil parasite. They had not seen it crash and had not been accidentally exposed to it. There coach had called them into the supply room one by one and force them to touch the alien infecting them with it sort of presents.

As TJ explained. "He said he needed our help with something in here. He showed us the alien and forced us to touch it. When you touch it, it shoots this thing into your skin. It's really small like a little paper cut. Before you know it, it is controlling you."

"Not really controlling," Max said. "It influences you. It can't make you do anything to out of character. It just sort of enhances what you're willing to do. It did crash around here, but wanted to come to earth. It was planning on taking over eventually."

"So how did you get infected? When I secured that thing it didn't exactly move to protect itself," Alexandre demanded.

"It was our coach," TJ said quietly. "He did it."

There was a brief silence before Max took the story up. "He told us to come in here to help them and when he got close he opened the box and made us touch it. It injects these things into you like little machines. They all shut off when you tell that I think."

Alexandre looked at his brother who looked back and ventured the question they were both thinking. "How do we know you're still not being influenced by it?"

Max shrugged. "Were not. He kept us from saying anything earlier. Liking the videogame there were just these invisible walls we couldn't get past."

"You were affecting us when you are touching us somehow," Alexandre said.

"Yeah, it was some sort of secondary effect," Max shook his head. "I don't have all the answers. I was able to get some information when I was being controlled but not a lot."

"You said it couldn't make you do anything to out of character. You are both willing to take it up the ass," Louis said.

TJ's face turned scarlet red and he tried to cover his face. Max looked down too but he glanced over at TJ. "I um will I didn't mean to keep it a secret you."

TJ lowered his hands looking at Max with a strange look. "You mean…"

"Well, yeah. I mean been my best friend for years. It's just all little strange."

"I…"

"Would you two fags kiss already!" Louis always the romantic said.

Neither Max or TJ took his brother suggestion that Alexandre was satisfied that the situation had been resolved.

The twins weren't sure what to think as they made way back to the motel. Despite the extraordinary events of the day the room look just as boring as one and check them and their father wanted to go out to dinner. That night they both laid in bed half expecting something to happen but when it didn't they fell asleep. It turned into a very normal vacation at least until they saw Max and TJ again. It was a day later and apparently the to work things out. They wanted some lessons and the twins were all too happy to help them out. By the time last left and they were confident that they had stopped an alien invasion and help you get a couple on their feet.

The End