Milestones 35
"Here let me help ya, Ennis." Jack took the photo out of Ennis' hands and opened up the closet, he was about to place it on a shelf when a pair of hands grabbed it out of his hands. Ennis walked the photo back to the mantel and placed it back where it belonged.
"Ennis?" he came up to his cowboy and gazed at him questioningly.
"Ya ain't my dirty secret Jack. Maybe things were different before when we only saw each other once or twice a year. When we got together the way hell out in the back of nowhere. But things is different, my life is different now." He looked Jack in the eyes. "My life is with you. Made vows to each other. Your part of me and if Ellen can't handle it….well." he looked away.
Jack's hand caressed Ennis' cheek then planted his lips against his husband's. "I love you Ennis." He nuzzled noses with Ennis. "Are you sure cowboy? Ellen's your sister."
"I can't say I ain't scared, Jack, but I can't do it no more. Pretend like we ain't together. I won't."
"Ennis yer like a changed man, cowboy, was a time ya woulda hid me away or better yet we'd never had this ranch together ever. No sweet life."
"I am a changed man, Jack. It's because of you that I'm like this."
Jack wrapped hi s arms around him.
"You ever sorry bout that?"
Ennis looked at Jack, smiled at his man and kissed him hard. Stealing his breath away.
"That answer yer question?" Ennis released him and walked out of the room.
Jack stood there trying to catch his breath.
Kaylin was making dinner for the happy couple when they walked into the kitchen.
"Hi Kaylin." Jack greeted her, "mmmm something smells real good."
"Hi guys. I'm making my hungry men one of their favorites, beef stew. Lots of beef and potatoes. I know ya like that don't you Ennis?" Kaylin looked over and saw Ennis had been peeking inside the pot on the stove and he quickly closed the lid trying to act all innocent.
"Uh yes ma'am." He knew he'd been caught. "I wanted to ask ya something Kaylin. I know tomorrow is yer day off, being it's the weekend and all, but my sister and her husband are coming over tomorrow for a visit and well I was wondering if you could come in for a few hours and maybe fix up something special for dinner."
"We'd pay ya for your time," Jack added
"Sure I can come on over, I hope you don't mind if I stick around to meet her. I was wondering if you had any brothers or sisters. I guess I thought it might be too nosy of me to ask"
"I also have an older brother but he and I haven't spoken in about twenty five years."
"Gee that is a shame, I know how that can be. I haven't spoken to my sister in five years. What about you Jack do you have any siblings?"
"Nope, I'm an only child." Something about the dismissive way Jack said it made Ennis think there was something he wasn't saying. But he wasn't going to bring it up in front of Kaylin.
"Do you need me to fix up any of the bedrooms upstairs for them? I mean are they staying over?"
Ennis and Jack looked at one another. They hadn't thought about inviting them to stay. Jack knew the visit was making Ennis uncomfortable as it is, to have Ellen and Nathan stay the night might be asking too much.
"Uh I don't know if they'll be stayin over."
"It's okay if they wanna stay, Ennis." Jack put his hand on Ennis' arm.
"I don't know if they're gonna wanna, we ain't asked em."
"Why don't you fix up one of the girls rooms just in case, Kaylin."
"Sure, I'll get to it first thing tomorrow. What time do you want me here?"
"How about around ten?" Jack suggested.
"I'll be heading home now. I'll see you boys tomorrow." Kaylin got her coat on. "The stew should be ready in about an hour. Goodnight."
"I'll walk ya out." Jack offered. One of them always walked Kaylin out to her car and saw her off.
When he came back in Ennis was building a fire. Jack could tell he was stressed out again.
"Ennis? You having second thoughts?"
"I didn't think about them wantin to stick around."
"Ennis they're comin up from Casper. That is a bit of a trip. We can at least ask em if they wanna stay over."
"And what about us? Where are we gonna sleep?"
"In our bed."
"I just don't want em seeing us sleeping together."
"Unless you're plannin on invitin them into our bedroom I prefer keepin our door closed. What happens in our bedroom ain't nobodies business but ours."
Ennis moved into the kitchen and took the beef stew off the fire and started to spoon up bowls for Jack and himself.
"What happens if Nathan wants to punch my lights out?" Ennis said between bites as they both sat at the dining room table.
"I ain't gonna let em, it's like ya said if they can't accept us for what we are they know where the door is."
"I just don't know, Jack, one minute I feel okay and the next I just am afraid Ellen will storm out and we won't never talk again. I just feel I got a second chance to have her back in my life and I'd hate to lose her again."
"You wanna back out of this Ennis?" Jack watched Ennis glance at him then look down at his bowl of stew and stuffed another spoonful into his mouth.
"Ennis I don't want this to be harder on you. Look I'll sleep in Junior's room. Ellen knows were business partners, she won't suspect anything. I'll put the picture in the living room away and we'll just make sure we don't do nothin suspicious like kiss or hold hands."
Jack heard Ennis sniff and saw his eyes were glistening.
"Jack," he whispered, reached out and took one of Jack's hands. "I'd lived a lie for twenty years. Doing stuff like marrying Alma cause it was somethin I had to do. I mean I'd never trade my girls but…"
"Ennis I know cowboy. I couldn't imagine life without Bobby but my life with Lureen just felt wrong. I missed what I had on Brokeback."
"Yeah Brokeback got us good." Ennis squeezed Jack's hand.
"Whattya wanna do Ennis?"
"I don't wanna hide no more. I meant what I said yer not my dirty secret."
"We face this together right?" Jack rallied Ennis.
Ennis looked Jack right in the eye with that same stubborn, bull headed look on his face Jack knew like the back of his hand.
"Yeah together, just like always rodeo." Jack got up, sat in Ennis' lap and hugged him.
"Love ya cowboy,' they kissed then cleaned up the dinner plates and put the leftovers away.
"Come on rodeo let's go upstairs." Ennis grabbed his hand and led him upstairs to their bedroom.
Ennis had a certain bedtime habits. He liked to brush and floss his teeth, said his mama started him doing this and his sister made him keep this routine going.
So this evening wasn't different, while Ennis was in the bathroom doing his thing Jack was busy in the bedroom getting ready too.
"Hey Ennis?"
"Uh me der inna minuut." Ennis said around his mouth full of toothpaste.
"Ennis?" Ennis spat out the toothpaste and started to floss.
Again Jack said sweetly. "Oh Ennissss."
"I told ya I'd be out in a mi…" Ennis stopped in mid sentence at the sight that greeted him in the bedroom.
Jack was sitting on the reclining chair in the corner. He was naked and his legs were spread wide apart and he was stroking his erect cock.
"What took ya so long, cowboy? I had ta start without ya."
Ennis' mouth dropped open and his eyes were wide like saucers. His cock twitched as he slowly walked over to the chair, unbuttoning his shirt and jeans and by the time he stood in front of the chair he was naked too.
Ennis fell to his knees in front of Jack, his hands on his man's thighs.
"Jack," he whispered reverently. Jack leaned forward and Ennis met him half way and they kissed.
Ennis ran his hands through Jack's unruly hair as he gently kissed Jack's forehead then cheeks and finally the tip of his nose.
He looked Jack up and down. "Beautiful." He whispered.
"Ennisss." He hissed as Ennis sucked on one of his nipples then gave the other one his attention. He touched everywhere on Jack except the place between his legs that he knew Jack wanted him to touch most.
He licked around Jack's belly button and dipped his tongue inside.
Jack threw his head back and grabbed Ennis' hair. "Please Ennis, please?" he thrust his hips forward and his cock stood tall and was leaking.
Ennis stopped his teasing and looked at Jack's burgeoning cock and quickly covered the tip with his mouth. He had to hold Jack down cause of his thrashing.
"Yeah rodeo, ya want me inside ya?"
"Yes, yes Ennis I wanna feel that big cock a yours fill me up now come on!"
Jack pulled his legs up and spread them wide so Ennis could clearly see his pulsating hole that wanted to be filled.
Ennis grabbed some lube from the nightstand and slicked himself up real good. Then he squeezed some onto Jack's hole and stuck his index and middle fingers inside Jack. He was so ready for him he felt Jack's muscles clamp down on his fingers.
"Relax Jack I am gonna go slow." His big cock replaced Ennis' fingers.
"Oh yeah," Jack hissed when he felt the tip slide past his entrance and slowly stretch him till he felt Ennis' balls hitting his ass. Didn't take long for Ennis to get a rhythm going and Jack was shooting all over his stomach and chest.
"Yeah, oh gawd." Jack could feel Ennis fill him up with his hot juices. Jack kept hitting his head on the back of the reclining chair. Ennis' weight kept it from going back but as Ennis pushed forward the footrest came out and Jack's upper body laid back. Jack's legs came down on either side of Ennis hips and wrapped around them pulling him close. He clenched his anal muscles around Ennis' cock.
"That was so good," Jack whispered he kissed Ennis nose at the part where it arched downward.
"Yeah real good," this is where they would have taken out some cigarettes and smoked if they hadn't both given it up a while back.
Jack had moved over so he and Ennis were lying on their sides on the reclining chair. "I love you Ennis." He whispered as he continued to kiss him and caress his cheek.
Ennis was running his fingers through Jack's hair and returned the kisses.
"Love you too, Jack Fuckin Twist." He pulled Jack into a tight embrace. "Let's go to bed." Ennis got up and helped Jack off the recliner and they cleaned each other up and then slid under the warm comforter.
They both fell asleep in each other's arms. A short time later Jack felt Ennis moving about in his sleep.
"No, no don't. Please Ellen don't leave." He was talking in his sleep. "Nathan leave Jack alone, no don't Don't"
"Ennis." Jack tried to soothe him.
"NO DON'T!" Ennis sat up he was breathing very quickly and sweat covered his body. He looked around the room wide-eyed until he gazed at Jack.
"Ennis it's okay, you're okay cowboy."
"Jack, oh shit. I had a bad dream. Ellen and Nathan found out about us and Ellen got angry and Nathan grabbed the poker out of the fireplace and started hitting you with it. I tried to stop him but it was like I couldn't move. Oh gawd he was hitting your face, uh, there was blood all over." Ennis looked over at Jack and he took his face in his hands and looked him over. "No blood, there's no blood." He started to sob.
"Ennis, it's okay cowboy. I'm okay. It was just a bad dream it didn't happen." He wrapped his arms around Ennis and held him tightly.
"It could happen, could happen tomorrow when they come. Maybe I oughta call them up tomorrow mornin and tell them not to come."
"Ennis, that what you really want? I thought we weren't gonna hide no more."
"Just that, Jack I don't wanna see you get hurt."
"How about I hide the fireplace poker and the guns and all the knives in the kitchen. Make sure this place has nothing Nathan can use to hurt us."
"Jack this ain't no jokin matter."
"Who's joking. I'll make sure all the sharp implements are out of the way."
"Impla what?"
"Anything that could be used as a weapon, Ennis. We'll make sure Nathan can't hurt nobody just in case he gets a mind to. Now let's go on back to sleep, baby." Jack lay down and pulled Ennis back down next to him. He held him and stroked his back in a circular soothing motion until he saw Ennis close his eyes and go back to sleep.
"Ain't nobody gonna take away what we got here, Ennis, nobody. Ennis I swear." He whispered into his husband's ear.
TBC