The Sage Haze- Chapter Thirty-Five (part 2)
Title: The Sage Haze
Author: Windseeker2305
Rating: R, NC-17(in later chaps)
Summery: An ongoing series focusing on a group of friends who would literally do anything for each other. Tony and Sheera have been best friends since almost birth and Tony's world is about to be turned upside down when Sheera's cousin Shane moves to town to attend Allmsted University and everyone's lives from then seem to get more complicated and little more thrilling.
Disclaimer: Characters within are of my own creation. Do not recreate or repost elsewhere without permission. M/M love and sexual situations as well as M/F love.
“You did good.”
Sheera looked at Mai as they walked out the front door, intending to head to the main building where they had pre rented snowmobiles waiting for them. She sighed and rolled her eyes. “Felt better after having woken everyone up. Besides Jake would have been insane not to have accepted Damien’s invitation. It would have gotten out had he turned our queer down, and you know what that can do to someone’s reputation. Also… it’s not his fault he was invited. Can’t do anything about it now, and Jake and I are friends… sort of. It might be fun to have him around.”
Mai laughed. “I like how you just threw my words back at me.”
“Well what do you want me to say?!” Sheera snapped.
Mai just smiled. “That you’re actually glad he’s here. Admit it, She. You’re happy he’s here.”
Sheera remained silent a moment, chewing on his lip and listening to the crunching of their boots through the snow. As she looked up, finding Jared headed their way from the side, she finally sighed. “Yeah,” she agreed, not looking happy about it. “Fucking Damien though. Bastard.”
Mai grinned. “Damien’s not the only one who knew it wasn’t a joke. The other boys knew about it too. They knew he was coming.”
“Fuckers!” she cried indignantly.
Mai snickered. They didn’t say anything else until Jared reached them and he started trudging along. “Everything clear?” Mai asked. “Are you going to relax now?”
Jared shot her a grin. “For a bit.” Then he leaned back and studied them from behind. “Nice.”
“Geez,” Sheera laughed. “Men.”
“How does one get into pants that tight? How can you even move?”
“Ask Damien. His’ll be tighter, I’m sure,” Sheera answered with a grin. “His is always tighter.”
“Splendid,” said Jared.
“Dork.”
The three tramped on in the snow in companionable silence to the main building where they then picked up the keys to the five snowmobiles they had reserved weeks ago.
“I’m so excited,” Sheera said, jumping up and down on her toes beside the snowmobile she planned to drive back to the lodge. “Can’t wait to teach Shane how to ski!”
“I thought he wanted to snowboard first,” Jared said, but he was ignored.
“Um… I think Tony wanted the pleasure,” Mai said to Sheera as she climbed onto a mobile.
“Tony can kiss my ass! He gets enough pleasure from Shane! Jesus! Did you hear them last night?!”
Mai mumbled something, averting her eyes and blushing while Jared rolled his eyes. “Their room is next to mine, so yes, I heard,” he answered as hopped on a third mobile. “Shane may be the one getting fucked, but it sounds to me like your cousin holds the leash when it comes to what happens in bed.”
Sheera blinked at him a few moments before she and Mai broke down into laughter.
By the time they had collected all of the snow mobiles and reentered the lodge, everyone was already awake and gathered downstairs. Jake, Caleb, and Tony in the den while Shane and Damien were in the kitchen. The moment Sheera, Mai, and Jared saw Tony, the girls started to snicker while Jared chuckled under his breath.
Tony narrowed his eyes. “What?” he snapped.
Jared moved along into the kitchen, letting the girls deal with him and found Shane and Damien sitting at the table, leaning close and talking quietly.
“Do you think he might?” Shane was asking; his blue eyes wide. “Mom never said anything about it… she really doesn’t talk about it with me.”
Damien nodded. “Daddy is being particularly secretive about this with me as well… I think there’s a chance.”
“Man,” Shane sighed and sat back. “This is… this is weird, dude.”
“Jared, what do you think?” Damien suddenly asked, dark head popping up, eyes immediately finding him standing against the counter where he’s grabbed another cup of coffee.
“How can I make an opinion when I don’t know what you two girls are talking about?”
“Hey!”
Jared smirked at Shane. “It’s true what Tony says. You do gossip like girls.”
This announcement didn’t bother Damien. Jared knew it wouldn’t. But Shane’s face was coloring with indignation, which was amusing.
“Bastard, you’re observant. What do you think we were talking about?”
“You two actually becoming step brothers?”
“You know,” said Tony as he came in then, “I was only joking when I said that. Didn’t actually think it would happen.”
“That’s not what we’re talking about!” shouted Shane. “We were talking about whether or not his dad and my mom were going to show up here together. Besides, my mom’s not going to marry Shrod!”
Damien pulled his eyes away from Jared, narrowing them on Shane now. “What’s wrong with my father?” he demanded.
“Nothing… except he’s a billionaire who has assassinating psychos under his thumb!”
“I’m not a psycho,” Jared replied with an amused tone. Shane waved his words away.
“Again, what’s wrong with Daddy?” Damien went on. “He not good enough for your mother? I’m inclined to think it’s the other way around!”
“What?” Shane hissed, hands balling into fists upon the table.
Tony sighed. “Here we go.”
“Damien, that was uncalled for,” Jared chastised. “Especially when you don’t mean it.”
“He’s making it seem as if there’s something wrong with Daddy! Miss D couldn’t find better!”
“What’s all this shouting?” Sheera asked as she and the rest of the gang entered the kitchen.
Both Shane and Damien surged to their feet, pointing rigid fingers at each other. And their answering shouts were simultaneous.
“He doesn’t think Mom is good enough for his father!”
“He doesn’t think Daddy is good enough for his mother!”
“Oh god,” Sheera sighed. “Who started this bullshit?”
“Tony,” said Jared immediately while Tony announced, “Jared.”
The two turned and looked at each other blankly. Sheera threw her hands up and walked out of the kitchen. Caleb did the same, muttering about how he wanted none of it.
SHSHSHSHSH
By the time they were all ready to go, Shane and Damien were back to being the best of friends, with Damien’s arm nestled firmly over the younger man’s shoulders and the two were back to laughing and talking and avoiding the topic of their parents as they all trudged out onto the snowmobiles.
By the time everyone had their ski equipment and were at the base of the slopes, Shane stood in the middle of three people, all of who were fighting over the rights to teach him the basics of skiing. Never mind that he’d wanted to start out with snowboarding and that he really wanted to take a beginners class with the resort the first day. But Damien and Tony insisted he should learn skiing first. So now he was stuck between Tony, Sheera, and Damien.
Shane kept his mouth shut. He didn’t want to get pulled into this. He didn’t want to insult or hurt his boyfriend, cousin, and best friend by picking anyone. In the end Jared saved him. He handed his own snowboard over to Strathom and then tromped over, grabbed the back of Shane’s collar and yanked him away from the bickering trio. “Shane’s coming with us,” the man announced, gesturing to himself and a surprised Strathom. “All of you piss off. We’ll meet you later today.”
“But bastard,” Damien whined.
Jared thrust Shane over towards Jake before rounding on his boyfriend and the other two. “Didn’t you see you were putting him in an awful situation? Fighting right over him,” he hissed. This seemed to make the three pause and they suddenly looked guilty. “This is non negotiable,” Jared replied firmly as he turned away.
He grabbed Shane’s arm and started to drag him away with Jake trailing after them bemusedly. Shane could only give a little wave back over his shoulder at his boyfriend before they disappeared around a building.
“Did you have to say it like that? Fighting right over him? Do I look like a midget?”
“You’re short, Shane. Even Sheera’s taller than you.”
“Fuck you, Jared!”
The bastard laughed as they came before another building. “You wanted to take a beginners snowboarding course, yeah? I signed you up this morning,” Jared said as he passed over one of the two snowboards he’d been toting.
“What? Really? Thanks, Jared!”
“They mean well, but with you they can’t help but mother you.”
Shane sighed. “Yeah, I know.”
Jared lifted his arm, pushing back his sleeve to look at his watch. “You have fifteen before the course starts. It lasts a couple of hours, so that gives Tony and the others a few hours to warm up together, and then if you still want pointers from them, they’ll have remembered everything by then.”
“You think of everything, don’t you?”
“It pays to be prepared.”
Shane grinned. “So why’d you want to go out with Jake? You’re not going to do anything… bad to him, are you?”
Jared was expressionless. Shane smirked and Jake was grinning in an unconcerned way as he said, “have a feeling I’m going to be interrogated.”
“Let’s go,” Jared said, and Jake dutifully followed him, leaving Shane there grinning after them. Jake had to know that if he wanted Sheera, he had to go through all of them. He was intelligent enough to know he had to get on Jared’s good side.
Author: Windseeker2305
Rating: R, NC-17(in later chaps)
Summery: An ongoing series focusing on a group of friends who would literally do anything for each other. Tony and Sheera have been best friends since almost birth and Tony's world is about to be turned upside down when Sheera's cousin Shane moves to town to attend Allmsted University and everyone's lives from then seem to get more complicated and little more thrilling.
Disclaimer: Characters within are of my own creation. Do not recreate or repost elsewhere without permission. M/M love and sexual situations as well as M/F love.
“You did good.”
Sheera looked at Mai as they walked out the front door, intending to head to the main building where they had pre rented snowmobiles waiting for them. She sighed and rolled her eyes. “Felt better after having woken everyone up. Besides Jake would have been insane not to have accepted Damien’s invitation. It would have gotten out had he turned our queer down, and you know what that can do to someone’s reputation. Also… it’s not his fault he was invited. Can’t do anything about it now, and Jake and I are friends… sort of. It might be fun to have him around.”
Mai laughed. “I like how you just threw my words back at me.”
“Well what do you want me to say?!” Sheera snapped.
Mai just smiled. “That you’re actually glad he’s here. Admit it, She. You’re happy he’s here.”
Sheera remained silent a moment, chewing on his lip and listening to the crunching of their boots through the snow. As she looked up, finding Jared headed their way from the side, she finally sighed. “Yeah,” she agreed, not looking happy about it. “Fucking Damien though. Bastard.”
Mai grinned. “Damien’s not the only one who knew it wasn’t a joke. The other boys knew about it too. They knew he was coming.”
“Fuckers!” she cried indignantly.
Mai snickered. They didn’t say anything else until Jared reached them and he started trudging along. “Everything clear?” Mai asked. “Are you going to relax now?”
Jared shot her a grin. “For a bit.” Then he leaned back and studied them from behind. “Nice.”
“Geez,” Sheera laughed. “Men.”
“How does one get into pants that tight? How can you even move?”
“Ask Damien. His’ll be tighter, I’m sure,” Sheera answered with a grin. “His is always tighter.”
“Splendid,” said Jared.
“Dork.”
The three tramped on in the snow in companionable silence to the main building where they then picked up the keys to the five snowmobiles they had reserved weeks ago.
“I’m so excited,” Sheera said, jumping up and down on her toes beside the snowmobile she planned to drive back to the lodge. “Can’t wait to teach Shane how to ski!”
“I thought he wanted to snowboard first,” Jared said, but he was ignored.
“Um… I think Tony wanted the pleasure,” Mai said to Sheera as she climbed onto a mobile.
“Tony can kiss my ass! He gets enough pleasure from Shane! Jesus! Did you hear them last night?!”
Mai mumbled something, averting her eyes and blushing while Jared rolled his eyes. “Their room is next to mine, so yes, I heard,” he answered as hopped on a third mobile. “Shane may be the one getting fucked, but it sounds to me like your cousin holds the leash when it comes to what happens in bed.”
Sheera blinked at him a few moments before she and Mai broke down into laughter.
By the time they had collected all of the snow mobiles and reentered the lodge, everyone was already awake and gathered downstairs. Jake, Caleb, and Tony in the den while Shane and Damien were in the kitchen. The moment Sheera, Mai, and Jared saw Tony, the girls started to snicker while Jared chuckled under his breath.
Tony narrowed his eyes. “What?” he snapped.
Jared moved along into the kitchen, letting the girls deal with him and found Shane and Damien sitting at the table, leaning close and talking quietly.
“Do you think he might?” Shane was asking; his blue eyes wide. “Mom never said anything about it… she really doesn’t talk about it with me.”
Damien nodded. “Daddy is being particularly secretive about this with me as well… I think there’s a chance.”
“Man,” Shane sighed and sat back. “This is… this is weird, dude.”
“Jared, what do you think?” Damien suddenly asked, dark head popping up, eyes immediately finding him standing against the counter where he’s grabbed another cup of coffee.
“How can I make an opinion when I don’t know what you two girls are talking about?”
“Hey!”
Jared smirked at Shane. “It’s true what Tony says. You do gossip like girls.”
This announcement didn’t bother Damien. Jared knew it wouldn’t. But Shane’s face was coloring with indignation, which was amusing.
“Bastard, you’re observant. What do you think we were talking about?”
“You two actually becoming step brothers?”
“You know,” said Tony as he came in then, “I was only joking when I said that. Didn’t actually think it would happen.”
“That’s not what we’re talking about!” shouted Shane. “We were talking about whether or not his dad and my mom were going to show up here together. Besides, my mom’s not going to marry Shrod!”
Damien pulled his eyes away from Jared, narrowing them on Shane now. “What’s wrong with my father?” he demanded.
“Nothing… except he’s a billionaire who has assassinating psychos under his thumb!”
“I’m not a psycho,” Jared replied with an amused tone. Shane waved his words away.
“Again, what’s wrong with Daddy?” Damien went on. “He not good enough for your mother? I’m inclined to think it’s the other way around!”
“What?” Shane hissed, hands balling into fists upon the table.
Tony sighed. “Here we go.”
“Damien, that was uncalled for,” Jared chastised. “Especially when you don’t mean it.”
“He’s making it seem as if there’s something wrong with Daddy! Miss D couldn’t find better!”
“What’s all this shouting?” Sheera asked as she and the rest of the gang entered the kitchen.
Both Shane and Damien surged to their feet, pointing rigid fingers at each other. And their answering shouts were simultaneous.
“He doesn’t think Mom is good enough for his father!”
“He doesn’t think Daddy is good enough for his mother!”
“Oh god,” Sheera sighed. “Who started this bullshit?”
“Tony,” said Jared immediately while Tony announced, “Jared.”
The two turned and looked at each other blankly. Sheera threw her hands up and walked out of the kitchen. Caleb did the same, muttering about how he wanted none of it.
SHSHSHSHSH
By the time they were all ready to go, Shane and Damien were back to being the best of friends, with Damien’s arm nestled firmly over the younger man’s shoulders and the two were back to laughing and talking and avoiding the topic of their parents as they all trudged out onto the snowmobiles.
By the time everyone had their ski equipment and were at the base of the slopes, Shane stood in the middle of three people, all of who were fighting over the rights to teach him the basics of skiing. Never mind that he’d wanted to start out with snowboarding and that he really wanted to take a beginners class with the resort the first day. But Damien and Tony insisted he should learn skiing first. So now he was stuck between Tony, Sheera, and Damien.
Shane kept his mouth shut. He didn’t want to get pulled into this. He didn’t want to insult or hurt his boyfriend, cousin, and best friend by picking anyone. In the end Jared saved him. He handed his own snowboard over to Strathom and then tromped over, grabbed the back of Shane’s collar and yanked him away from the bickering trio. “Shane’s coming with us,” the man announced, gesturing to himself and a surprised Strathom. “All of you piss off. We’ll meet you later today.”
“But bastard,” Damien whined.
Jared thrust Shane over towards Jake before rounding on his boyfriend and the other two. “Didn’t you see you were putting him in an awful situation? Fighting right over him,” he hissed. This seemed to make the three pause and they suddenly looked guilty. “This is non negotiable,” Jared replied firmly as he turned away.
He grabbed Shane’s arm and started to drag him away with Jake trailing after them bemusedly. Shane could only give a little wave back over his shoulder at his boyfriend before they disappeared around a building.
“Did you have to say it like that? Fighting right over him? Do I look like a midget?”
“You’re short, Shane. Even Sheera’s taller than you.”
“Fuck you, Jared!”
The bastard laughed as they came before another building. “You wanted to take a beginners snowboarding course, yeah? I signed you up this morning,” Jared said as he passed over one of the two snowboards he’d been toting.
“What? Really? Thanks, Jared!”
“They mean well, but with you they can’t help but mother you.”
Shane sighed. “Yeah, I know.”
Jared lifted his arm, pushing back his sleeve to look at his watch. “You have fifteen before the course starts. It lasts a couple of hours, so that gives Tony and the others a few hours to warm up together, and then if you still want pointers from them, they’ll have remembered everything by then.”
“You think of everything, don’t you?”
“It pays to be prepared.”
Shane grinned. “So why’d you want to go out with Jake? You’re not going to do anything… bad to him, are you?”
Jared was expressionless. Shane smirked and Jake was grinning in an unconcerned way as he said, “have a feeling I’m going to be interrogated.”
“Let’s go,” Jared said, and Jake dutifully followed him, leaving Shane there grinning after them. Jake had to know that if he wanted Sheera, he had to go through all of them. He was intelligent enough to know he had to get on Jared’s good side.