The next morning, Chad and I woke up to the sound of gasping and groaning in the next room. Apparently Amy and Dylan were fucking. I was a little grossed out at first, because after all, Amy was my damn sister. Then again, it didn't seem worse than she'd walked in on me and Chad. I knew she had needs, the same way I did. So if she was getting good dick, I figured more power to her.
I never expected to see that dick for myself, but when Chad and I went to get ready, we caught Dylan in the middle of a shower. He'd apparently forgotten to lock the bathroom door, and we stepped back before he realized we were there. Even so, we got a hell of an eyeful, which was practically imprinted on my brain. Dylan's shaft was nice and thick, still semi-hard from what he and Amy had done. His cockhead was downright beautiful, and his balls were swinging back and forth like a couple of pendulums. At that moment, he was sticking his face in the water, and he was letting it pour all over him.
"Damn," Chad said as soon as were behind closed doors. "Your sister has good taste."
"Don't be getting ideas," I said.
"You know I'm not," he replied, "but you gotta admit, you can see why she'd dig that."
"Yeah, well... I've seen better."
"What do you mean?"
"When I first laid eyes on you. In our dorm showers, freshman year."
"Oh. That." Chad licked his lips. "I guess that was kind of an important moment...."
"Well yeah," I said as I looked at his engagement ring. "Considering how far we've come...."
"Mm-hm." He kissed my neck, then nibbled on my earlobe. "Though we still need to figure out what comes next."
"What do you mean?"
"Well," he said, "before I can properly have marital relations with you--"
"Chad--"
"Are you saying you'd rather be living in sin?"
"Not exactly," I said, "considering I was the one who proposed. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not like I mind a little sin--"
"Oh believe me, I know," Chad replied. "And thank God for that."
I gave him a kiss, and I wanted to go further, but I knew we couldn't get too frisky. After all, we did need to hop in the shower as soon as it was free. "Anyway... you were saying? About what comes next?"
"Well, we've got a helluva lot to figure out," Chad said. "About the wedding, I mean. I don't know about you, but I don't know where to start. Hell, I've never even seen a gay wedding."
"That makes two of us," I said, "though we could always ask Thaxter and Bruce... or maybe Tony and Craig."
"Yeah I guess," Chad replied, but before he could say anything more, we heard the bathroom door open. Chad looked in my eyes, and I nodded; we knew we'd need to save this conversation for later.
Our shower was pretty uneventful, though it got me pretty horny. After all, it did mean getting naked with Chad. We lathered up each other's hair, followed by the rest of our bodies, while the steam swirled around us. I would've loved to have taken things further, but I knew we didn't have time. Once again, we'd need to hold off till later.
We spent that whole morning with my family. Mom encouraged me to check out her and Dad's old wedding stuff, which they'd kept in the attic. I wasn't opposed to it, but I did feel like we needed to do first things first. We still hadn't announced our engagement to Chad's parents, nor his brother for that matter. As much as we wanted to put that off, we knew we really shouldn't.
We ended up Skyping his mom that afternoon. Linda had obviously realized something was up, since Chad didn't usually call her out of the blue. She brought Patrick into the room, so we got to tell them both at once. They both acted cool about it, though I'm not sure if they really knew what to make of it.
Of course the bigger issue was Chad's dad, who was still in L.A. with his sister. We did feel like Pam would be in our corner, considering she was a lesbian herself. In fact, she even had Gladys join our Skype. But Bill's reaction was exactly what we'd feared.
Chad was about halfway through his announcement when his dad butted in. "Wait a minute," he said. "Why the hell would you want to marry a man?"
"Dad," he said, "it's called being gay--"
"Why can't you just marry a girl like a normal person?"
Chad blinked. "A normal person?"
"I should've fucking made you enlist," Bill said. "That would've kept you away from all that liberal bullshit."
"Liberal bullshit?" Chad asked. "Dad, I was gay the day I was born. Hell, I was gay when you taught me to shoot hoops. And when you lectured me about my report card. And when you tried to tell me about the birds and the bees."
"Oh please," Bill replied. "You know you need to get help."
"Dad--"
"A fucking psychiatrist, that's what you need. I don't know what the hell your mother did to you."
Chad sneered. "I don't think you want to go there."
"Why not?"
"Because she's not the one who fucked me up. Okay?"
"Woah," I said without thinking. I wanted to tell them both to calm down, but I never got the chance.
"I didn't raise you to be a faggot," Bill was saying.
"You didn't raise me at all," Chad shot back. "You think you can spend all that time away from your kids, then parachute into our lives like we're some other mission you've been given?"
"You ungrateful little shit--"
"And you wonder why your marriage didn't last. Well, you know what? I'm not gonna make the same mistakes you did."
Pam cleared her throat. "Now Chad--"
"Why are you letting him talk like this?" Chad asked. "Go ahead. Tell him what you really think."
"Your father's got a condition."
"You think I don't know that?" Chad snapped. "I was the one who took months out of my life to help him through it. But you know what? That's not what made him homophobic."
"Oh come on," she said, "now show some respect."
"I'm the one who needs to show some respect?" Chad asked. "Not to mention I'm the one who's ungrateful?"
"Don't talk that way to my brother."
"Why are you defending him? He's just as homophobic about you. You even said so yourself."
Pam and Gladys exchanged looks. "Well...."
"Here's the bottom line," Chad said. "I'm getting married to Scott. Our guests are gonna be people who support us, and who care about us, and who are gonna be happy for us."
"Chad--"
"If you want to be one of them, you can. And I seriously hope you do, you have no fucking idea... but if you're gonna be an asshole about it, then we don't need you there. Or in our lives for that matter. It's your choice."
Pam seemed like she was about to say something else, but before she could, Chad hung up the call. With that, their images disappeared from the screen, and the computer went silent.
Chad just sat there at first. Then he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and buried his face in his hands.
"I'm sorry babe," was all I could say.
Chad's phone started buzzing, and Pam's name flashed up on the caller ID. Chad just scoffed and let the call go to voicemail. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised," he said. "We knew this was coming."
"Well... it doesn't make it right."
"I never said it did," he replied. "But you know I was serious... with that part about him being part of our lives. Or not."
I chewed my lip. It broke my heart to see how much Chad had tried to get through to his father. They'd obviously had their issues long before Chad and I had met. I hadn't forgotten how Chad had struggled to come out, including how long he'd stayed in denial. And I definitely hadn't forgotten what had felt like an eternity when we were apart, when Chad was in his father's hospital room, trying to smooth things over. Yet none it seemed to have worked. "Baby," I said, "I am so incredibly proud of you. To see how strong you are, and how gutsy you are... I'm fucking in awe of you, and I'm not just saying that."
"Well," Chad said, "I hope he takes this as seriously as you do. I'd give anything for that shit... though I'm not getting my hopes up. And if he does let me go, then fuck him."
I didn't know what to say to that. I just held my man as tightly as I could.
"You know," he said, "there's something I've been wanting to give you."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
He turned to his suitcase. "I found it yesterday, when we were in the city. I was gonna surprise you later, but I guess now is as good a time as any."
"Surprise me with what?"
Chad pulled something from his suitcase, and he handed it to me. It was a framed copy of a poem.
We two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,