Bamm-Bamm Rubble smiled at Georgie Granite as they finished dressing in their usual room at the Ramrock Inn. "You should let me pay this time." Bamm-Bamm said, smiling ruefully at Georgie.
"No no, B.B. My cousin is a bellman here. He'll cover us." There was a ringtone.
"Is that your Istone?" asked Georgie, cocking his head.
"Yes, it's a Taylor Silt song, that's Pebbles." Bamm-Bamm picked up his cell and answered. "Hey babe, how's it going?"
"Well, I've been meeting with the wedding planner. Daddy's still making all kinds of fuss about the expense, but you know he's thrilled." Pebbles's voice was harried, but there was laughter in it. "What are you up to?"
"Um, I just met with Professor Granite, my history prof. He instructs my 'What Little Has Happened 202' seminar?" Bamm-Bamm felt anxious, although of course there was no reason for Pebbles to be suspicious.
"Well, I'll talk to you later, cutie…I love you!" And with that feminine squeal, the Istone was silent.
When Bamm-Bamm had had his first encounter with a member of his wrestling team at East Bedrock Junior High, he'd worried that Pebbles, even then his official girlfriend would find out, and that she'd be humiliated.
Bamm-Bamm loved Pebbles, although not in the way that everyone hoped. He'd felt sure, as he kept meeting handsome boys and having interludes with them—and it seemed to happen everywhere, in the bushes in Lyndon Johnstone Park, at the Olympic Baths on Feldspar Avenue—that he'd either get caught or get over what seemed like such a childish way of expressing love—after all, it's for men and women, right?
But Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles continued to date, to the pride of their happy parents…taking her to the Gravel City Cinema, but dashing off while she sat in the audience so he could make out with the male projectionist, or taking waltz lessons for their wedding at the Agate Murray Dance Studio where he had a "special" friendship with two or three of the somewhat effete teachers.
But how had this happened? As Barney, Bamm-Bamm's dad always said, "He's the strongest boy in the world, a total macho kid." Mom and Dad adopted me, was there something creepy about my original family?
But as he looked at Georgie Granite, a handsome, sensitive older man, now pulling on his tiger skin loincloth, Bamm-Bamm knew that there was nothing impure or evil about his loving and being attracted to such a man. Professor Granite was kind, decent, and sexy!
And how could he tell people—would they reject Bamm-Bamm…would it shatter Pebbles? After all it wasn't the Stone Age anymore…
Oh, wait.