Kendall's P.O.V.
I remained completely still, but opened my eyes, when I felt a soft hand rubbing up and down the length of my soft dick, under my boxers. He kept his hand above my boxers but was very obvious about what he wanted, and what he was doing. Simply put, he was trying to wake me up, and get me hard. He was doing a bang-up job at both those things. The way we were laying, with his head on my chest, and one leg draped over both mine, while I laid flat on my back, was making my body go stiff and sore. But I let him continue to rub me as I looked up to the high white ceiling. I must have moved my hand or took in too a deep of a breath though, because his head raised off my chest and he turned it to look at me. I smiled small as he chuckled and laid his head back down on me taking his hand off my dick and moving it up slowly to my left peck. "Good morning."
"Definitely is, isn't it?" He laughed turning his head and kissed onto my chest softly. I raised both hands and ran them through his hair, yawning out. "I was going to go on my run this morning. Would you like to join?" He laughed again as he pushed himself up and over me shaking his head.
"I have some paperwork from work I need to look over before I go in tonight. I want to get it done before Robbie wakes up and wants to do stuff." I frowned removing my hands from him as he climbed off the bed, adjusting the sweats hanging off him. "Also…I use to do a lot of meal prep for Gabe when he was in school, and for Chris and me for work, so I'm going to cook a lot of stuff today, so I can take it for work all week. And you can too." I nodded sitting up slowly watching him go right to our dresser.
"Do you think it's good Robbie's slept this whole time?" He nodded as he pulled one of my many shirts out from my drawer and pulled it on.
"His body is telling him…he can finally relax. He's safe and now able to sleep without any worries." He turned to me, pulling the shirt down his sort of sculpted torso. I swung my legs off the side of the bed as he walked to me running both hands through his hair again. "I know I've said this like…a thousand times but thank you. Thank you for doing this with me, for me. I love you so much for it." He got right in front of me, putting his hands on my shoulders leaning down. He kissed my nose and then my lips, before standing up straight. "I love you." I chuckled sliding off the bed and gripped his hips kissing his forehead.
"I love you too." He smiled big squeezing onto my dick making me gasp and jerk away, lightly shoving him. "No fair…especially because you aren't going to do anything to help me fix it." He shrugged as he turned and opened our bedroom door walking out fast. I huffed out, looking down at my dark grey boxers, clenching my fists, as I looked at now growing hard on.
After dealing with my hard on the old-fashioned way…getting in a cold ass shower and just washing my body, I dressed in a pair of basketball shorts, a plain white t-shirt and put on my socks and sneakers. As I walked out of the bedroom slipping on my watch, I heard the sound of the TV and the laughs of three separate voices. I felt good as I walked out to the clean kitchen and dining room, knowing I had a family. A sort of out of place family, but a family none the less. And my good feeling only intensified when I got out to the living room, seeing Gabe on the floor with Logan who were both sitting on their butts, looking at Robbie, who was on the couch, a blanket up and over his head. I frowned as I got to the edge of the couch, and all three looked up at me. Robbie chuckled, as he pulled the blanket off his head and Gabe jumped up, running to me. "Kendall! Robbie was just acting out the scene from the movie we were just watching! He's really funny!" I let Gabe grab my hand and swing it as he turned back to the TV pointing up to it. "Daddy said I get to watch TV all day!" I laughed seeing Logan stand up and stretch.
"Yeah…he also said you were going on a run." I turned to Robbie slowly and watched him stand himself up. He was wearing a pair of black sweats, and no shirt, showing the thick bandage around this stomach. I tried my hardest not to look at the cuts and bruises littering his body, but it was hard. Between his broken bones, and broken spirit, this kid got fucked up. It made me so pissed. "I know I'm not allowed to run, but I was wondering if I could come with you? Maybe just walk along the beach while you run?" I locked eyes with the kid, I didn't really know and felt Gabe tug on my arm.
"I wanna go!" I snapped my head to Logan fast who laughed out loud and walked to Robbie, gently placing the back of his hand on his forehead.
"You feeling okay? You look pale." Robbie nodded as Logan took his hand off his forehead and turned to me. "It's up to you." I smirked as I looked down to Gabe who was bouncing around, still holding my hand. I gently squeezed it, making him look up at me.
"Go get ready. Put on your sandals, because we'll be on the beach." Gabe let me go and was out of the living room faster than the speed of sound. I laughed turning to Robbie and nodded once. "I don't need to run this morning. We'll just take a walk." Robbie nodded fast and turned to walk out of the room. I watched the whole way until he disappeared before I turned to Logan who was sitting down on the couch, grabbing the remote. "Did you wake them up?" He shook his head, yawning and I sat down next to him, putting a hand on his thigh as he raised his legs, and set his feet on the edge of the table.
"No Robbie said he woke up at about 3 this morning. He came down here, got himself some food and a drink, cleaned up after himself and watched a few movies. He said about an hour ago, Gabe came down and asked if they could watch The Good Dinosaur, which they did, and then about 20 minutes ago, Robbie helped Gabe make himself some toast. I swear to God Kendall…this kid is going to break my heart eventually." I laughed as Logan turned the TV to CNN and let him lace our hands together. "You going to be okay taking both of them?"
"Yes. We won't go that far. I don't want Robbie to over do it." I saw him nod as he laid his head on my shoulder and went still looking up at the screen in front of us. I watched as a commercial for vitamins came on and started to let my mind go numb and blank. After a solid minute of commercials, the program on CNN came on, and there was a loud sounding alarm that came on as Breaking News flashed across the screen. Logan quickly turned the volume up, and an older guy, wearing thick black glasses came on the screen shaking his head.
"We have breaking news coming out of Langley Virginia right now…uhm…from what we have gathered, it appears there was an explosion at the C.I.A. headquarters about an hour ago." I stood up fast looking wide eyed up at the screen feeling Logan get right beside me. "We don't know much right now, but the local law enforcement are urging everyone to stay away from the area. We were told that several people were being escorted out of the building by paramedics, and other first responders but we don't know the severity of injuries, or if there are any deaths. When we have someone there, on the scene, we will keep you informed. Obviously, the biggest concern right now, is that someone has be able to get into a government building, where hundreds of valuable information to the security of our nation is housed, so…I mean I think it's safe to say that this is somehow terrorist related but…when we find out more, we will let you know. Please…do not go near that area as an investigation is under way." I watched as the camera showed an imagine of a building burning…a building that I had been in multiple times. A building that a lot of good people, friends even, worked in.
"Ken…your phone." I looked down fast pulling my phone out of my pocket and answered it, ignoring James's name and photo as I put it to my ear.
"Are you seeing this shit right now?" I let out a breath as I sat down and ran a hand over my face, looking up at the screen again, seeing Logan turning the volume down. "I can't get through to anyone back East. No one over here on the West Coast has been told anything. But this shit…"
"We don't know who did it?" I felt a hand rub over my shoulder as another one rubbed my thigh.
"No. And this fucking asshole on CNN is saying it's terrorist related which is going to send everyone in this country into a fucking panic. I think it's got something to do with Steven, personally but…"
"What's our game plan?" I hated hearing Steven's name come out of James's mouth. Knowing what I know now…it pissed me off. But I wasn't petty. And there was a lot more important things to deal with right now.
"When I hear something, you'll be the first person I call. But I can't do anything, without any information. If anything, they are going to send high ranking agents to Virginia to help out with the investigation, but as of right now, we do nothing. There is nothing for us to do." I let out a hard breath hearing the running of two little feet coming towards us. "I'm going to keep trying to make some calls. I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything." I hung up fast, without saying goodbye and looked back up to the screen as Gabe ran in, going right to a pile of toys on the ground.
"What's going on?" Logan whispered it in my ear as he continued to rub my shoulder and thigh.
"They don't know. No one has been in contact with us, from back East. We have to wait to do anything, because we literally have no information." Logan sighed out quietly next to me and I shook my head folding my hands together, between my open knees. "James doesn't think its terrorist though."
"Steven?" I nodded turning to look at him. He was staring wide eyed up at the TV lips pressed hard together.
"I shouldn't be going on this walk but there is nothing I can do right now. Probably nothing I can do at this point." I turned back to the TV seeing several people now talking about this situation, they knew nothing about. "You ready Gabe?" I saw him nod as he tucked a teddy bear under his arm and walked to his dad's side.
"You going to take him with you?" I wanted to look to see Gabe's response but seeing Robbie walk in the room, made me stand up and look at him. He was wearing basketball shorts like me, and had a black, sort of baggy zip up hoodie over his torso. He was zipping it up slowly, showing he was wearing no shirt on underneath. Probably because it hurt his collar bone too much. "Okay…listen to Kendall please. And don't go off, running in the ocean, okay?" I felt my hand grabbed as I started to walk out, Robbie waiting for me to pass. "Don't' be afraid to let Kendall know you need to turn around."
"Okay." I walked Gabe right to the French doors leading to the deck outside, and pulled one open, letting his hand go, so he could run out in front of us. I moved out of the way for Robbie to go before me and once he did, I turned to come face to face with Logan. He put his hands on my chest and got on tippy toes, kissing my lips.
"I'll let you know if anything else is said on the news." I nodded as he pushed back and crossed his arms over his chest. "Be careful. I love you." I laughed walking outside and continued to smile seeing Gabe bending over in the sand, digging at something as he talked to Robbie who was standing with him, not saying a word.
"Love you too." I quickly took the stairs down to the beach and glanced over my shoulder seeing Logan shutting the door waving. I waved softly before turning to the two kids who were staring up at me. I put out a hand for Gabe who quickly grabbed it and started to pull me down the beach.
For the first couple of minutes as we walked, Gabe did all the talking. He was so excited to be doing a 'grown up' thing as he put it, and pointed every little rock, animal or random thing he saw. When I gave him the okay to run ahead of us and play in the sand as we kept walking, I turned to Robbie who had both hands in the pockets of his hoodie, looking straight ahead. I quietly cleared my throat and looked back to the front as I slipped my own hands into the pockets of my shorts. "I just wanted to tell you that…I know everything sort of seemed to move fast around you, and you are in a new house with three people you don't know, and don't trust but Logan and I are going to do anything and everything to protect you and give you the best life you could have." I saw him glance up to me as I watched Gabe throw a rock, at least I hope it was a rock, into the ocean in front of him.
"Yeah…I think…when Logan told me you guys adopted me, I was a little taken back. I know, you must have heard or at least seen my file that stupid social worker shows everyone. I know you and Logan must think I'm some thug and I don't blame you, but I don't want to be that kid. I want to live a normal life. I'm hoping I don't fuck this up." I looked down at him slowly and squinted my eyes seeing him looking up at me, a sad look on his face. "I've lived with my dad for the past 10 years…just him and I. Every day in those 10 years, he told me relentlessly I was a fuck up. No one cared about me, and if it wasn't for the fact that my mother was a good Christian woman, I would have been aborted." I gritted my teeth looking away really wishing I could have a chance to go toe to toe with his dad. "I acted out…I got into fights and talked back to every authority figure, because I wanted my dad to have to come to my defense. TO come rescue me, I guess. And he never did. So, I just kept doing it. But…I'm not going to be that way anymore. I promise I won't be a bad kid and screw anything up."
"Rob…" I looked back down to him shaking my head hearing a loud gasp from Gabe, followed by a fit of laughter. "We don't think you will. You are a good kid, who was in a fucked situation." He looked down fast, and we both stopped walking. I glanced over to make sure Gabe was still in a safe distance from me and when I saw he was, I looked back to Robbie, who was looking back up at me. "Don't tell Logan I told you this…but the reason I think Logan was so adamant on wanting to adopt you, is because he didn't have a perfect childhood either. His dad was…is…a bad guy. He knows, more than anyone else, what kind of pain and sadness you've gone through. You have to know…if you ever need to talk to anyone, about any of it, Logan is the guy to go to." I saw him nod as I started to turn to walk to Gabe who was sitting on his butt, digging in the sand.
"And what about you?" I chuckled taking my hands out of my pockets as we got closer to Gabe. "I've never met a secret agent before. But from what I've seen in the movies…most of them are thick skinned, ill mannered, tough to crack open, bad mother fuckers." I laughed loudly making Gabe turn back to us and stand up.
"About half of that is true." Robbie laughed beside me as Gabe turned completely to us, raising his unhurt hand.
"Look what I found!" He proudly showed exactly what he found. A small, but pretty pissed off looking crab. Robbie squatted down in front of Gabe who was grinning up at me. "It's a crab Kendall!" I nodded also squatting down and gently took the claw Gabe was holding and quickly set it on the ground watching it scurry away fast. "Hey!" Gabe went to cash after it, but I wrapped around his tight, and fast and stood up, throwing him over my shoulder. "Mr. Kendall!"
"Those things are mean buddy. He could hurt you."
"Not uh!" I laughed putting out a hand for Robbie who was slow to stand himself up. He ignored my hand, getting himself back up and I sighed out. "I want a pet crab!"
"You know what's better than a pet crab?" I turned Gabe, so he could get face to face with Robbie, meaning my back was too both of them. "Someone who will play tag with you on the beach." I chuckled as I felt Gabe push on my back and watched Robbie appear in front of me, smiling small. "You're it Gabe." He turned and started a slow jog along the beach, heading back to the house.
"Put me down Kendall! I have to catch Robbie!" I laughed and carefully and gently put Gabe down, who immediately took off to Robbie, struggling with running in the sand. I chuckled as I slowly started to walk after them, inhaling deeply, the fresh salt water in the air.
I let Robbie and Gabe chase each other around and even get me involved in their game of tag. By the time we got back to the house, both Gabe and Robbie were panting, and sweating. It was already hot out, even at 7:45 in the morning. I walked up the stairs to the house first since Robbie and Gabe were talking about the day they wanted to have. Gabe wanted to swim in the pool with Robbie, who politely said he would sit at the edge, but wasn't going to go in all the way. Gabe was happy with just that. As I walked past the pool, looking down seeing it needed to be cleaned out, I looked up to the house slowly. I stopped fast. The French doors leading into the house, that I know I saw Logan close not 15 minutes ago, were wide open. I glanced around the area of my house I could see, and swallowed hard, seeing and hearing nothing. "Mr. Kendall can I…" I put my hand out quick seeing Gabe trying to walk past me. He went quiet and grabbed around my arm as I started to pull my phone out of my pocket.
"Kendall?" I turned quick and gently pushed Gabe back to Robbie, who wrapped an arm around his shoulder.
"Stay out here." He locked eyes with me but nodded fast holding tighter onto Gabe. I turned and walked quickly to the house stepping in, quietly, still hearing and seeing nothing. "Logan?" I took a few more steps inside and peered around the wall that went into the living room. The TV was off. I frowned walk-in slowly towards the living room but stopped fast. I heard something that sounded like…a cough. I turned my head to see the other side of the dining room table, a body lying on the ground. From what I could see, it wasn't Logan. And it didn't look like the body was doing a lot of moving. I rushed to it, wishing I had some kind of weapon, but let the thought pass seeing who was actually on my floor. I got down to my knees and quickly flipped the body over, gasping out quietly. It was Jimmy. He had a slice to his throat that was pouring out blood. His eyes were wide open as one hand started to reach up to me. I carefully and softly put a hand on his throat and he closed his eyes, tears pouring out of them. "Who is it?" I said it softly and quietly, making him open his eyes. His hand gripped onto my bicep and his mouth opened but closed quick. And then I felt something hard poke at the back of my head. It was a gun. I knew that for sure. Who was holding it, was another mystery.
