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That's What It Is

August 25, 4:47

Troy stood in Ryan's foyer, amazed. He was currently standing in a room which was probably the size of his house. He looked all around himself and saw what must have been the most beautiful house he had ever seen. The floor was covered in shining white marble, the walls were covered with a paintings and professional pictures. The ceiling (it was up there somewhere) had a beautiful design on it, with a window for the sun to come through; it was amazing.

He spun around again and looked at everything in the room. He was distracted this time by the blonde boy standing next to him. Ryan was watching Troy's amazed face, laughing his ass off. The boy stood there in only a bathing suit, nearly doubled over, laughing.

"What's so funny?" Troy asked defensively.

"No—nothing." Ryan smiled up at Troy. "It's just, you should have seen your face." Ryan had stopped laughing by now, and was smiling at the brunette beside him.

"Your house is… awesome!" Troy said, still amazed.

"Yeah yeah, come on. I figured we could go swimming." Ryan pulled Troy through other rooms of the beautiful house.

"Wait! Ryan! I don't have a bathing suit!" Troy tried to pull back against Ryan's tug, but was unable to stop the determined blonde.

"Then you can swim in your boxers. It's too hot to do anything else!" The next thing Troy knew, he was in front of a large, blue, cool pool. The Arizona heat was suddenly pressing upon him, wearing away his desire to remain dry.

"Fine… fine! Ryan. I'll go swimming." Ryan, now at the edge of the pool, looked up at him and smiled. Troy walked over to one of the pool chairs and pulled off his shirt. A dry breeze blew across the yard, and Troy could feel it play with his hair and his now bared chest. He heard a splash and turned around to see Ryan floating in the pool, looking at him expectantly.

"Come on! The water's fine!" Ryan continued to watch Troy as he tread the water.

Troy turned to the pool chair again, but he could still feel Ryan's eyes resting on his back. He undid his button and zipper and hooked his thumbs inside the waistline of shorts. He quickly pulled down the heavy cargo shorts and felt the breeze cooling his legs. He turned around and saw Ryan smiling at him.

"Hurry up, before I get a pruney." Ryan dove back under the water and swam to the other side of the large pool.

Standing there in just his boxers, Troy felt he had no choice but to join Ryan in the water. The breeze stopped and the dry heat once again pressed onto Troy. That was all Troy needed to get him to run and dive into the waiting water. The cool water felt refreshing on his hot skin, and when he came up from his jump he saw he was about 5 feet away from a smiling Ryan.

"Told you it'd feel good" Ryan teased.

"Yeah yeah" Troy said, swimming closer to Ryan.

But his procession towards the boy was cut short when a wall of water hit him in the face. By the time Troy had wiped the water out of his eyes, Ryan was no longer in front of him. Suddenly, another splash of water hit Troy from the left.

Troy immediately responded with a splash of him own. "You're going down Ryan!" He looked around the pool but didn't see the blonde head peaking up above the water. And then, Ryan was right in front him, only inches away from his face.

Troy stared at Ryan, who was breathing hard from holding his breath. Little droplets of water were running down him face, only to be blown away in a pant of warm breath. Neither boy moved. And then, Troy lunged forward. He grabbed onto Ryan's slim waist and then proceeded to pull him under the water. Troy began to wrestle with the wriggling Ryan as he held onto the boy. Ryan, realizing what was happening began to fight back. The boys surfaced, panting, and Troy smiled.

"Told you I'd get ya." And then he splashed Ryan.

In retaliation, Ryan jumped at Troy and pulled them both, once again, into the water. The two boys continued to wrestle in the water, alternating between splashing each other and pulling them down into the water. After a few minutes, Troy surfaced and heard Ryan calling out "Uncle! Uncle! You win!"

Troy laughed, panting. "That's right!"

"You are the master of the pool," Ryan said as he made his way over to the edge. "I'll go get us some towels."

Ryan disappeared inside the pool house, and Troy made his way over to the side. It wasn't until he tried to get out that he noticed he had a little problem. The close contact with Ryan had gotten him a little "excited". Troy looked down in the water and saw the prominent bulge in his boxers. He was about to get out of the pool and quickly throw on his shorts when Ryan came out of the pool house holding two towels.

"Come on Troy. Dry off and we can go get a snack inside." Ryan began to dry off his hair, watching Troy expectantly. "What are you waiting for?"

Troy didn't want Ryan to see his "situation", but Ryan just wasn't turning around. So he decided to bite the bullet and began to pull himself up out onto the side of the pool. Luckily, Ryan turned around just as Troy's waist came up over the edge. Troy quickly ran over to the pool chair and grabbed the towel, wrapping it around his waist. He watched Ryan as the boy dried off his stomach and arms, and as he continued to stare, he realized his bulge just wasn't going away.

He quickly turned around so that he could dry off the rest of his body without displaying his large erection to Ryan. When he had finished drying off the rest of his body, he turned around and saw Ryan staring at him.

"What do you wanna eat?" Ryan asked innocently.

"Um… why don't you just go pick some stuff out. I'll… uh… be there right after I put on my clothes." Troy tried to convince Ryan to leave with a smile, but the majority of his body was still suspiciously facing away from the other boy. Finally, Ryan seemed to give in, and made his way inside the massive house.

"OK, I'll get some snacks. The kitchen is right on the left."

Troy quickly finished drying off and threw on his shorts over is still damp boxers. He walked into the house as he put on his shirt, and began looking for the kitchen.

5:36

After snacking and talking for a little bit, the boys began to watch some movies in Ryan's room, which had a big screen TV, and was the size of Troy's living room. Halfway through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ryan ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut. When the movie and pizza ended about an hour later, the boys decided to try a comedy. It wasn't until they were halfway through Animal House when all hell broke loose.

As the boys in the frat house once again began to lose their minds, Ryan felt something soft hit the side of his head. He heard a quiet giggling coming from his side. He turned and saw that Troy sat there looking at laughing quietly with a pillow in his hands. "You jackass!" Ryan pulled the pillow out from under him. "You're going down!"

The pillow fight that ensued was one of the ultimate pillow fights of all time. That's what happens when your in a room with over 20 pillows on a giant bed. Had they been girls, it would have been a straight man's wet dream. Within 5 minutes, goose down feathers had flown all over the room. Troy ran after Ryan wielding two pillows, swinging like a madman. Both boys had forgotten the movie and were laughing like crazy. Suddenly Troy tripped over his shoes, which he had taken off to jump on the bed. As he began to fall, he let out a yelp which caused Ryan to stop running and turn around. What he saw was not just a falling Troy, but a Troy who was falling directly onto him. As Troy fell to the floor, his momentum propelled him forward onto Ryan. The two boys fell onto the carpeted floor, Troy on top, in a tangled mess.

Once they had settled onto the ground, with neither boy in any immediate pain, Troy looked down into Ryan's face. For the second time in one day, their faces were just inches apart. Ryan's warm blue eyes looked into Troy's gray blue ones. Troy was holding himself so that he was barely hovering over Ryan's body. He looked over Ryan's face and saw no amount of worry, and just a little expectation. And for the second time that day, he moved forward. Only this time, it was gently, as he slowly moved his face down to press his lips against Ryan's in a soft kiss. His lips gently pressing against Ryan's, and he could feel Ryan's pressing into his. While he was kissing the boy beneath him, he was thinking, "So that's what that feeling was."

When Troy lifted himself from the kiss, the first thing he saw was Ryan's slightly confused, but overall happy face. Then the reality of what just happened hit him, and the soft smile was wiped off his face.

"Oh, shit."