Cody stepped forward and put his lips on Ted's and kissed him uncertainly. For a moment Ted did not react at once to the tender lips moving on his. But it did not take long for the sensation to become more that he could bear.
He clasped Cody's face in his hands forcing their lips to press even harder together. Ted was the first to ask the kiss to deepen, he slid his tongue in to Cody's mouth, then it was Cody's turn no to react.
But after what felt like a few seconds, their tongues began to chase each other around, stroking one another. Heat rushed through their bodies. Cody put his hands on Ted's hips and pulled his body closer to his own.
They let out echoing moans as the two hardened at the grinding friction. Both men wanted more. Ted suddenly pulled back. His hands still on Cody's face. Cody's eyes fluttered open, a whimper escaped his red lips when Ted pulled his body away.
Questions were in Cody's eyes. Ted moved his lips without sound for a few seconds before he finally got the words to come out.
"I'll see ya 'round Cody." Ted said quietly as he turned as to not have to look at the eyes that were so like his wives. Cody had obviously not mastered the art of forming a sentence, for he just whimpered again.
Ted did not reply, he walked to the door, and then he was gone, leaving Cody standing alone with the denim of his jeans uncomfortably tight over the bulge Ted had caused.
A loud bang came from the kitchen and a tousled haired Rainie came into the room to see her husband standing looking lost in the middle of the room. "Ted. Babe, what's up?" Rainie said, not bothering to stifle a yawn.
Ted was looking pale and, well, odd. "I kissed Cody." He said very quietly, barely parting his white lips to speak.
"You kissed Cody." Rainie repeated back to him.
"I tongued you brother." He said loudly, looking panicked.
Rainie laughed and covered her mouth. "You tongued my brother?" She asked. A little cress between her eyebrows, but she was still smiling.
"Yea! And don't laugh Rain, this is serious!" Rainie put down her hand and tried to straighten her smile into a concerned expression.
"Well, Teddy I'm not really sure what you want me to say?"
He threw himself onto his knees at Rainie's feet and clutched her left hand in both of his. "I want you to tell me I'm not gay." Ted said desperately looking up into Rainie's blue eyes with his own.
Her eyes were exactly the same shade and shape as Cody's. This did not make the thing any easier.
As she could see this was something that was really bothering him she knelt beside him and laid her right hand on his. "Baby look," She said softly. "I can't tell you if your gay or not. Only you can make that decision. But if you need me to tell you, then it sounds like you are having doubts, and you need to confront them. I love you but I don't want the man that I married wondering if he would be happier with my brother. Cody is a great catch I would never say that he wasn't and if you want a chance to find out, Becca invited me out of town for a week, I will go and you can decide when I get back." She said sweetly.
Ted did not speak just stared back into Rainie's eyes like a small child frightened of the dark.
Rainie ran a hand through Ted's blond hair and pulled him in for a kiss that she planted on his forehead. "Think we can go to bed now?" She laughed. He nodded silently and followed her back to their room.
Somehow that next day Ted found himself pulling into Cody's drive way. He parked his truck and walked up to the door and knocked. It was the first time he could ever remember knocking at the Rhodes house.
Cody opened the door almost immediately. "Ted. It's you." Cody said smiling, the unmistakable gleam of life sparkled in his eyes.
"I wanted to talk to you about, well about, about yesterday." Ted got out after several tries. Then he looked down not wanting to see the disappointment he knew was on Cody's face.
"Well, you want to come in?" Cody asked opening the door and stepping out of the way. Ted stayed stationary.
"I'm not going to bite you." Cody said and Ted kept looking down to speak. "I'm not sure that's a good idea."
Cody's face fell. "Well it is a thousand degrees out there. Just come in for a few minutes." Cody said and Ted looked up appraisingly at the bright sun. This might take a while, and it would be uncomfortable enough. Ted nodded, but did not look into the other man's face. If Ted had looked up, it would be to see that Cody too was looking down.
Cody walked back into the living room dragging his bare feet. It was clear from the nave sweatpants and white tank top, Cody had just been sleeping under the blanket on the couch.
Cody sat down on the couch and pulled his legs up beside him. He was now staring at Ted who was standing by the door, looking at the floor.
"Sit down." Cody told the other. Ted made no sighs of hearing the command.
Cody sighed and shook his head and looked back down. "How long have we known each other? Seven years? Eight?" Cody asked.
"Eight." Ted answered.
"Well it looks like after all that time-" Cody started but was interrupted.
"I told Rainie what happened." Ted said.
"And?" Cody asked.
"She thinks we could use a brake. She went out of town with Becca for a week."
"Wow. You would think she would at least have told her brother." Cody said with a single sarcastic sound of laughter.
"I don't think she wants to talk to you."
"What do you want me to say Ted?" Cody asked loudly jumping to his feet.
Ted jumped a little bit, but looked Cody in the face. "Do you want me to say I'm sorry?" Cody asked stepping forward. "Well I can't. I don't know why I kissed you." Ted winced like Cody had just said something awful.
But Cody went own taking a few more small steps closer to Ted. "There was something in me telling me to do it." Cody reached out his hand and laid it on Ted's crossed arms. "And you were not exactly saying no."
This did it, Ted looked right into Cody's eyes, and his gaze was cold.
Cody put one hand Ted's shoulder and the other on the back of his neck. Slowly Cody brought their lips together. Once again Ted remained unresponsive for a moment but then roughly pulled Cody into his arms and forcefully kissed him.
It was like Ted's anger for the other man was coming out in the kiss.
"Mmmm." Escaped Cody's mouth. He could taste blood.
He tried to pull away but Ted's arms were too strong and kept him still. Cody used the wall to push himself away from the kiss. Ted glared.
Cody took a step backwards and pulled his index finger for Ted to follow him up stares.
They made their way slowly Cody walking backwards up the stairs not breaking eye contact with the other man. Cody could fell his heart beating against his chest and his breath hitting a brick wall in his throat.
Cody led them into his bed room. Ted stopped at the door.
Cody keep slowly walking back, stopping at the table by his bed and fumbled in the drawer for something, he pulled out a bottle of lubricant and tossed it to Ted who caught it. He looked at it then angrily through it back. Cody tossed it to the bed, and ran to Ted and put his arms around him and kissed him. Ted did the same. The kiss wasn't gently but it was definitely more timed.
Cody started walking backward again and did not break the kiss till both panting men were on their knees on Cody's bed.
Cody pulled away and slowly pulled his shirt over his head, concentrating on his lover's eye for any sign to stop. There was none.
Once the white tank top was on the floor. Ted's eyes drifted from Cody's eyes, to his chest, to his abdomen, to his chest, and to his eyes.
Cody reached for the bottom of Ted's tee-shirt, and started pulling it up. Ted raised his arms to let the cloth slide off of him.
Hearts were beating fast, breathing was shallow and mouths were dry.
Cody's eyes sweep over the newly reviled skin. He could fell himself Harding in his sweatpants.
Ted's hands went to the little carve above Cody's hips. Cody's eyes closed and he could fell the rust of goose bumps covering his skin.
Ted slipped his thumbs into the band of the sweatpants, still looking at Cody's closed eyes.
He slowly pushed them down to Cody's bent knees, to expose bear skin. A ghost of a smile flicked across Ted's face but quickly diapered.
Cody opened his eyes. Ted's face was blank. He unbuckled Ted's belt and opened his jeans. He pushed the blond onto his back.
Cody through the flip-flops to the floor and pulled off the pants and boxers at the same time.
Cody reached forward and touched the other man's hardening cock. Ted shut his eyes tight and held back a moan. Cody made a fist around it and began to move it up and down.
This was the first time Cody had ever done this, but he certainly had thought about it often enough. Pooling all his fantasizes, he kept moving his hand.
Ted let a strangled moan out.
"Ted?" Cody asked in a braking voice.
Ted made a little "M'?" Noise in reply but keep his eyes tight shut.
Cody stopped his movement. Ted whimpered. Cody straddled his lover. He placed a soft kiss under his jaw and a soft trial of kisses and gentle nips down to his hip.
"Ted?" Cody said looking to Ted's head lying on the pillow with closed eyes. He might have been asleep.
Cody knew he wasn't, and there was a good chance Ted was trying to imagine it was someone other than his best friend giving him so much pleasure.
"What?" He said.
"Say it." Cody said.
"Say what?"
"My name."
Ted sighed and did not speak for a few seconds.
Cody put his mouth on Ted's cock. He moved his tongue over the tip. He could fell the blood pounding through it. Ted moaned loudly.
"Cody." Ted breathed softly. Cody smiled.
Ted opened his eyes and sat up, so did Cody.
His fingers ran the length from Cody's chest to his bellybutton. Phrases like, 'Your beautiful.' and 'You look like your sister.' Floated to the top of Ted's mind but he felt like this was one of the times when it was best to say nothing.
Hot breath took Cody by surprise when Ted clamped his mouth to his neck. The kiss was surprisingly soft. Cody moaned and rolled his head back.
Cody went down on his back finding the bottle as he did so.
Cody put some on his fingers and made a fist around Ted's hard cock.
"Oh!" Ted called out at the sensation.
After Ted's cock was slick Cody rubbed his fingers over his own opening
Ted looked at Cody's hand then at Cody's face. "It'll hurt." Ted said looking worried.
Cody's chest was raising and falling quickly. "Only me. Just do it." Cody said, wanting it to be too late for him to back out.
Ted looked uncertainly at Cody's entrance.
Ted stuck two of his own finger in his mouth then gently stared pushing them into Cody.
This was not at all what Cody had expected. He expected Ted to be rough and not care about his comfort. A whimpered moan came from Cody at Ted's fingers inside him.
"Okay?" Ted asked his eyebrows were wrinkled. The last thing he wanted was for this not to be what Cody wanted.
He was obviously concerned about this. Cody nodded, biting his bottom lip.
Ted pressed the tip of his cock into Cody. It was ecstasy.
Warmth tightly enclosed Ted, it was ecstasy. "Uuhhh! Damn it Cody!" Ted said through gritted teeth, his eyes closed.
The pain generating from Ted's cock was Cody's ecstasy, as Ted pushed in slowly. Cody arched his back up from the pain.
He bite his lip at the point of penetration, this proved to be a mistake. He could taste the blood on his tongue again. Cody actually screamed in pain.
Ted moved in very slowly at first, and then picked up speed.
He was moaning and making obvious sounds of pleasure.
It only took Cody a few minutes for the edge of the pain to go away and a feeling of pleasure replaced it. It still wasn't comfortable, but he was staring to enjoy the pain.
His moans were colliding with Ted's in the thick hot summer air.
Cody's hand drifted to his own cock and he started pumping it in the same time Ted was keeping.
Teds hands were resting on Cody's hips, the better to bury himself inside Cody. "Oh fuck, Cody!" Ted said because Cody's entrance was constricting around him.
Cody screamed out as his own seed filled his hand. Ted opened his eyes for the first time and saw Cody's orgasm etched onto his face, and he released inside Cody.
He fell over Cody's seed splattered front. The lay there only seconds before he rolled off of the other man and lay on the bed next to Cody. They were breathing heavily staring up at the ceiling.
Cody wasn't sure what to do next, but if he was going to go for it, then he wanted the full experience. He rolled over and laid his head on Ted's sweaty chest. Ted did not protest, he even put his hand on Cody's head and put a kiss in his dark hair. The two men lay there not moving or speaking for over an hour.
Cody and Ted were sitting at the table eating sandwiches. "Well that was fun." Cody said blushing. "Don't you think so?"
Ted smiled guilty. "I'll have to tell Rainie."
Cody looked up from his plate. "Why?"
Ted looked at him like it was obvious. "Cause we're married and that was wrong. No matter how fun it was."
"My God Ted! Can you forget about Rainie, and what's right for just one damn day? This is about us." Cody said starting to get upset.
"There is no us. Cody, I'm not gay. Maybe you are, but I'm married to your sister. I love her!"
"You didn't have a problem with any of that a few hours ago." Cody stayed firmly crossing his arms across his bear chests.
"I have to go." Ted said standing up.
"Okay then! Why don't you just go?" Cody said his temper flaring and swiping his plate off the table. It hit the floor and shattered. Ted looked disbelievingly at Cody. Tears were making the corners of Cody's eyes glitter.
He was kind of beautiful.
Ted felt gilt hit his stomach. "Codes-"
"Get out!" Cody yelled standing up so fast he kicked his chair over.
Ted shook his head. "Are you alright?"
"Leave!" Cody shouted tears spilling from his eyes.
Ted did as he was told and left the house.
Ted had just made it back into his driveway when the realization of what he had just done hit him; he had cheated on his wife, had sex with a man, broke a heart, and lost his best friend, all in the same day, and it was still early.
He started crying.
He laid his head on the string wheel and cried harder than he had ever done in his life. After ten minutes of unchecked sobbing and whaling he sat up straight. Forcing himself to think.
First things first, He was worried about Cody; he had never seen him so upset.
Ted called Randy. If there was one person that knew Cody as well as Ted and Rainie, it was Randy.
After Ted explained what had happened Randy called him an 'asshole' and said he would check on Cody.
Next his wife, he had to tell her. Ted called Rainie. Chances were she was on a plain, but maybe by some miracle she would check her messages.
"This is Rain. Leave a message."
"Hey Rainie. It's Ted. But I guess you knew that. Look baby, I really need to talk to you. It's about Cody, I think he needs you. Call me as soon as you get this. I love you."
Ted sat there with no desire to get out, or even move.
Cody was sitting on the kitchen counter. His knees were drawn up to his chest and his forehead was resting on them. He was crying, not as hard as when Ted first left, but still crying.
The front door opened and a moment later Cody hared soft footsteps interning the kitchen.
"Cody." Randy said softly.
Cody looked up. Randy quickly saw red puffy eyes and tears cleaving to dark eyelashes before Cody roughly wiped them away.
"What are you doing here, Randy?"
"I came to check on you." Randy said.
"Check on me?" Cody asked his voice was tear stand and quiet.
"Ted called me." Randy confessed. Cody rolled his eyes and nodded. "He said-" Maybe this was not the time to be crude and say, 'He fucked you' "well, that you were upset."
"He should know." Cody said and replaced his head on his knees.
"You want to talk about it?" Cody turned his head to look at Randy.
"Do you want to hear about it?"
"Only if you want to talk about it." Randy said as he walked to stand in front of Cody. Cody nodded, tears were running silently now. "Well, get off the counter. Let's go to the couch." Randy said and stuck out his hands to help him down, Cody took them and jumped.
Randy led Cody to the loveseat and sat down with him.
Unexpectedly Cody laid his head on Randy's shoulder. Randy put an arm around him and pulled tight.
"Cody, man, when I said you might be gay; I didn't mean you should make a move on Ted."
Cody sobbed.
"You had to know this wasn't going to end well." Randy said.
"Shut up." Cody command.
Randy did as he was told. Normally he wouldn't have stood for being ordered around by anyone, but he didn't want to upset Cody further.
The phone rang.
Randy stretched out his fingers to reach the wireless on the end table.
"Hello?" He answered.
"Randy. I'm glad you're there. How is he?"
"Not good, Rain."
"Give him the phone." Rainie said.
Randy offered the phone to Cody. "Here, it's you sister."
Cody took the phone, lead his head across Randy's lap and put the phone to his ear.
Rainie could hear Cody breathing.
"Hey champ. How do you feel?"
"I'm sorry Rainie." Cody said starting to cry hard again. Randy put his hand on Cody's hair and began to pet him like a lap dog.
"Shhh." He cooed softly.
"Cody-" Rainie started.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry-"
"Cody."
"Rainie I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry-" Cody said very fast not even bothering to breathe.
Rainie interrupted him again. "It's Okay Cody! It's all alright."
"B... But-t, Ted?" Cody sobbed.
"It's okay Cody. I'm not angry. He told me what happened. I thought something like this might happen, that's why I left. I'm not angry at you."
There was a pause.
"You should be. I started it."
Rainie smiled to herself. Cody never took charge of anything, and look what happen the one time that he did.
"It's okay Cody. We both know that none can make Teddy do something he doesn't want to do."
"When are you coming home?" Cody asked.
"I was waiting on a connecting flight when I got Ted's message. As soon as I can get a plane back, I will be on it."
"Good." Cody said quietly. "He's an incredible lover, isn't he?" He added.
Cody could hear the little pops that told him Rainie was smiling.
"Yes he is. Let me talk to Randy." Rainie said and Cody held the phone up for Randy to take it.
"Yea?" His deep voice said.
"Will you stay with him tonight?"
"Sure Rain."
"Randy, if he tries anything; don't." Rainie knew that the offer of sex might be more that Randy could resist, even if it was from Cody. Lately the people, who knew Randy, were realizing that he had a problem.
"I think I can handle it Rain." He said impatiently.
"I have to call Ted. Call me if he gets worse."
"Will do." Randy said. He pushed a button on the phone and slid it back on to the table.
"Anything I can do?" Randy asked stroking Cody's cheek with his knuckles. Cody was rather attractive. Randy could see Rainie would worry about leaving Cody alone with him when he was in such a delicate state.
"It hurt." Cody said quietly. Randy looked down at the younger man. There was no way he could take advantage of him.
"Was he mean to you Cody?" Randy asked.
Cody shook his head and sniffed. "Good. I didn't want to have to kill him." Randy said and felt Cody's cheek tense into a smile.
Teds phone rang. "Hello?" He said quickly not looking at the number, part of him was half hopeful it would be Cody.
"Hey Teddy." Rainie said.
"Rainie." He greeted guiltily.
"I just talked to Cody." She told him because she knew he was wondering.
"How is he?" Ted asked.
"He's really upset Teddy. What did you do?" She asked and then she heard him sigh.
"I just went to talk to him about last night. I was going to tell him-" He stopped.
"Well I don't know what I was going to tell him. But he kissed me and I kissed him then we were on his bed, and things happened, and I keep thinking about you and I'm sorry." Teds sentence was incoherent and spoken quickly.
"I'm not gay." Ted said forcefully as an afterthought.
"Is that what you told Cody?" Rainie ask.
"Yes." Ted said quietly. "I told him I had to talk you. He just snapped. I didn't know what to do."
Rainie's eyes had tears in them.
"They don't come through a lot, but when Cody's felling gets involved in something, they're tender." She said.
"I know. I know him as well as you do remember." There was a silent moment.
"Did he ask about me?" Ted asked. Rainie smiled despite herself. "He said you were a great lover. I have to agree."
Ted smiled, "I miss you baby. I wish you were here so I could see your face."
"I miss you too. I'll be home soon. I have to go, I love you."
"I love you too."
Randy and Cody where sitting on the love set. An empty pizza box was on the coffee table. Cody was sitting up alone on one end of the couch and Randy was sitting on the other end.
Randy looked down at his wristwatch. "It's twelve o'clock. I think it's time for bed. What you say?"
Cody looked away from the TV. "I don't want to sleep in my bed. I'll sleep here."
Randy stood up and looked around. "Alright, well you sleep here and I'll sleep over there, and we will just camp out."
Cody smiled at him. "Maybe we could just share the couch if you wanted."
It took Randy by surprised but after a moment he smiled and stroked Cody's face. "I think we better go with my plain tonight Cody."
It was almost six A.M. Ted was parked in front of the airport waiting on Rainie. She opened the car door and sat down in the passenger seat. She leaned across the console and kissed him.
Ted was reminded how much he missed his wife's kiss. The soft feminine fell of it. At the same time as he was thinking of how good it felt to kiss someone and not feel ashamed, he thought of Cody. Probably because Rainie had opened her eyes and Ted was looking into eyes that were Cody's. He pulled away and settled into his set.
"Where to?" He asked trying to brush off the awkward moment.
"Cody's. I need to see him." She said opening her bag. She ran her hand along the inside and pulled out a bottle. She started applying make-up under her eyes.
"Did you get any sleep?" Ted asked it was suddenly awkward to speak to her.
"I slept on the plane. Did you?" She returned the question.
"No." He said simply.
When Ted pulled into Cody's driveway Rainie had barely waited until the car was stopped before she jumped out and practically ran into the house.
Cody was laying on the love set under a blanket. He was staring at the wall. Randy was lying asleep on the other couch. "Cody." Rainie said softly.
"Rain." He said quickly and jumped to his feet.
They hugged.
They stood arms around one another for several long seconds. They did not embrace like two people in their situation. They embraced like a brother and sister who loved each other very much.
Cody pulled away saying, "I'm so sorry Rain."
Rainie put her hands on her brother's shoulders. "Don't start that Cody. You don't have to do apologize to me."
"I'm so glad you're here." Cody said. "Is Ted with you?" He asked.
"Yes. He's in the car; he will be in, in a minute." They keep looking at each other.
"He was great Rain, he really was, and for just a few hours it felt like it should have been that way, just me and him. But I'm not stupid. He loves you. He's not gay. I wasn't angry at him." His eyes started to tear up.
Rainie's face had streaks running down it already.
"I was angry at myself, for making myself think-" He broke off. "Rainie it was so nice to think that it could be that way. But looking back now, it didn't fell right." Cody was saying, looking down in to his sisters crying face.
"Oh. Cody." Was all Rainie could choke out. She brushed a hand across Cody's cheek.
Ted walked in the front door. They both looked at him. He made eye contact with Cody.
"We need to talk." Cody said and stretched out his hand to Ted. Ted's eyes slid over Rainie before they went back to Cody's face. Ted reached out his hand and took a step forward and took Cody's hand.
They walked up stares hand in hand.
Cody closed his bedroom door behind them. "Teddy-" He was cut off by Ted's lips crashing into his. Ted was kissing him softly. Cody instinctively wrapped his arms around Ted's neck and moaned softly.
Ted's right hand rubbed across Cody's chest, and his left hand pulled him closer.
Ted's lips went to Cody jaw and down his neck. "Mmm." Cody moaned again. Quick, hot kisses where interrupted by Ted's words.
"Cody... I'm, sorry... If this is really... what you want, then I want it too... You're my best friend... We can make this work... I just hope your sister don't take it too hard." Ted was kissing Cody through his shirt.
Cody's breath was catching in his throat. "Ted- Ted, stop." Cody said; he could fell himself becoming aroused.
Ted had raised Cody's shirt and was kissing his skin. "I want you." He whispered letting his hot breath wash over Cody's body.
"Teddy. I'm not gay." Cody said his voice shaky.
"What?" Ted asked from Cody's navel.
"I'm not. I'm sorry. It was great, but are you telling me you can look into the future and see, us?" Cody said.
Ted stood up. "I thought this was what you wanted?"
Cody smiled and laid a hand on Ted's cheek. "So did I, but I was wrong."
Ted grasped Cody's face and pulled him in and kissed him on the forehead. Cody smiled.
"I'm so glad you said that." Ted said.
"Let's go tell Rain." Cody said, and the two men went back down stairs were they saw Rainie and Randy sitting across from one another.
Both heads turned to look at the interning men.
"We're not gay!" Cody said holding their hands high in the air like they had just won a match.
Randy was the first to act. "Thank God." He said standing up then pulling them both into a hug. They laughed and patted him on the back, but he quickly stepped back.
"I'm glad to hear that." Rainie said. She wrapped her arms around her husband's waist and laid her head on his chest.
"I think we should celebrate" Randy said.
"Actually, I need some sleep." Ted said.
"No," Rainie said. "You still have to prove to me, you're not gay." Rainie said smiling up at her husband seductively. He smiled back.
"Right. Well Cody there is this girl, her names Tracie. I'll give you her number if you want." Randy said, looking from Ted and Rainie's embrace to Cody.
"Yea, man. Hot right?" Cody asked.
Randy smirked all too mischievously. "Smokin'."