Chapter 1; Attraction

Cody Martin woke to the soft breathing of another person. He looked down to find that he and Vanessa had fallen asleep watching TV in her room. He slowly got up to find some food, hoping not to wake Vanessa up. He walked down the hall to the stairs and down to the kitchen. The stove was it was after eight. He grabbed a cold piece of pizza and a coke from the fridge and went to the front room.

Ethan, Vanessa's brother, was sitting on the couch watching Ridiculousness on the TV. Cody sat next to him. Ethan was a very broad shouldered guy. He avidly worked out and stayed in fit because as he said "Abs are attractive, not flab." His black hair was crazy as if he had also just waked up, but his green eyes were bright with laughter.

He and Ethan had known each other since ninth grade, they never hung out but they talked in school. During the middle of their junior year, Ethan's sister Vanessa had moved in from their father's. Starting tenth grade at their school, Vanessa had been shown around the school, by Cody. They had immediately hit it off. That was a couple months ago. He had been over to her and Ethan's house nearly every day since to be with her.

They sat there and watched TV for a while, just enjoying sitting and being relaxed by other people's pain. Ethan stood to leave.

"Gonna go work out some more?" Cody asked Ethan as he started to leave.

Ethan turned, "Yeah, football season is gonna be starting so I need to stay in shape."

He left and Cody sat watching TV some more and halfway listening to the music Ethan had playing. Cody lifted his shirt and stared at his flat stomach. He was in shape but not like he always wanted to be. Fit and abs of steel like Ethan. He stood, guessing he would work out too.

He walked into the room Ethan had set off for his workout equipment. The room had been their father's before he had left. Ethan was on the bench lifting some weights bigger than Cody thought was possible. He walked over to him and stood beside him watching him lift the seemingly weightless weights. He finished and sat up.

"How long you been standing there?" he asked noticing Cody.

"Well I decided I wanted to work out and get some awesome abs like you. I was hoping you would help me?"

Ethan shrugged and pointed him toward an elliptical in the corner. "Run for about five minutes then just go from machine to machine, do what you can do easily enough not hard till you get used to that then go heavier."

Cody ran as he was told, watching Ethan work out, wondering how long it took him to get that sculpted body. Cody checked himself, wondering if saying that made him seem gay. Nah, it just was the right word for a guy to use about another guy.

Yet he couldn't stop his eyes to run over his body when Ethan took off his shirt. For some reason Cody loved seeing the muscles move under his tanned skin. He physically shook his head, wanting the thoughts gone.

The sounder told him his five minutes were up and he stepped off the machine. Feeling like he was moving faster than he really was. He sat in the machine across from Ethan, the thingy you have to lift the bars above your head, Cody didn't know the name.

After about an hour of hard work and sweat, and Kyle's inability to stop staring at Ethan, Ethan got up and turned off the music. "That was some pretty good work for today. You know you're going to have to do this like everyday to get the abs you want you know? It helps to eat healthy and a lot. It isn't bad to gain some weight to turn it into muscle."

Just then Ethan felt cool hands start massaging his neck. "Look at my man getting sexier." Vanessa said with humor in her voice.

"Excuse me I was already sexy." He said standing and turning around, wrapping his hands around her.

"Ewe, you're sweaty!" She struggled to get out of his arms and stepped away. "Go take a shower. Bub, can he borrow some pants or something?"

Sure was his absent remark as he left the room. Cody kissed her, wanting to remind himself that he liked girls, then went to the upstairs' bathroom, undressed and stepped into the shower. He finished and dried off, wrapping the towel around his waist. He saw no clothes.

Peeking out the door to make sure no body, like Vanessa's mom, saw him, he walked down the hall to Ethan's room. He stopped outside the door to knock and saw the door cracked open, he saw movement inside. Being the nosy brat he was he sneaked a look to find Ethan changing.

He watched Ethan slip off his pants. For some reason this caused him to harden. Then off went his boxers, causing Cody to have to catch the towel because it was pushed off by his erection. He knew it was so wrong, but he continued to watch. The boy turned and Cody saw what he wanted to see, without knowing he wanted to see it.

Cody turned and ran back to the bathroom, unsure about the emotions that were running through him. He rubbed his erection wanting to think of Vanessa, but only images of Ethan in his room invaded his thoughts. Cody felt disgusted with himself after he came on the bathroom floor.