In two weeks, both boys had formed a habit of walking home together from school.
Xie started dreading the junction where he had to turn to go to his house.
Wei wished that he could ride with Xie, like the first time. He also figured out a few more things about his disease. Mornings, when he woke up he had to do it. If he didn't think about it, or didn't touch it to see if it was leaking, he could go a whole day without the need to pump.
Science text books helped a lot. All the laws about force and velocity made his head ache and that somehow helped with reducing the swelling in his dick.
But there was still a dilemma. Was it better to pump often and flush the puss out? Or do it once a day? He hoped once a day in the morning was sufficient.
"Do you want to go to the girls' school playground?" Xie asked, they were nearing the junction and he didn't want to go home and be alone.
In the island, schools were gender based from middle school. The girls' schools were in the north end close to the coconut farms.
"Why?" Wei asked.
Xie shrugged. "To watch girls run?" All his other friends went there every Friday. He went with them even though he found the whole thing boring. They had to hide behind the playground wall and watch girls run the track. He didn't find anything interesting about running girls and kneeling on his bike seat made his knees sore.
"To cheer for them?"
"No... No... you can't make any noise. If their teacher finds out you will get a note of warning."
"Then why?"
"Don't know, friends go all the time. If you don't want to, can we do something else?" Xie asked, he didn't care as long as he had Wei with him.
"Have you ever been to the dam?" Wei asked, suddenly eager to take Xei to his favorite place.
"No. Isn't it far though?" The dam was on the west side of the island.
"I can ride with you. It's a super cool place. We can eat mango and rikla."
"Rikla?"
Wei stared at him shocked. "Don't you know rikla? I make it too. I'll bring you on Monday. It's super tangy and spicy."
"Alrighty. Hop on and tell me the way." Xie turned his bike and sat. This was a way better plan than watching girls.
"Can I sit in the front?" Wei figured it would be better.
"Ok. I never had anyone in the front. Let's try."
And so they tried. Within a few miles, they both secretly admitted to themselves that it was the best way to ride doubles.
Xie loved the fact he could talk to Wei without turning his head. Wei loved the fact that he was riding a bicycle without actually pedaling it.
But when they hit the sixth mile marker, Xie stopped. "I can't." He panted. "Water... my throat... burns... my chest... water..."
They had six more miles to go.
"Let's go to the water falls then. There's a small one right behind that mound." Wei pointed to their left, getting down from his perch.
"Can't you ride?" Xei asked, disappointed. He hoped Wei would offer.
"No. I don't know. Never learned." Wei said. The truth was he never had a bicycle to start with. It wasn't something his parents thought to buy him.
"I'll teach you then. It's easy. We can go to the ground tomorrow and do it huh?" Xei started rolling the bike, wetting his tongue with saliva.
"Really?" Wei was surprised by the offer. Xei often surprised him by being so open and friendly. It was almost like having an east town friend. Xei never made him feel lesser like other boys. He didn't laugh, he offered to teach. Wei felt lucky to have made friends with him.
"Really."
" Ok. But on weekends I can't. I help my mom." His mom had a fish cart that she daily pushed around the streets of the island selling fresh seafood. Wei helped her on weekends.
"Ok, weekdays after school."
"Ok." Wei felt a little thrill at learning to ride a bicycle. It'd be cool.
The waterfall was pretty small to the island's standards. There were two gigantic falls further west. But Xie was impressed at the hushing water surrounded by green rocks and big trees with screeching birds and no other humans about.
He promptly dropped his bicycle and went to the falls and directly started drinking from it.
"Hey... stop... you shouldn't." Wei pulled him to the spring close by. "Here. Drink."
"This is so sweet." Xie exclaimed, gulping hands full of dripping water.
"Yeah. It is. Let's swim, come on." Wei called out. He already removed his shirt and trousers. Fresh water always made him remember about his sweaty body. He had to take a bath.
Xei saw the other boy in briefs and blushed. To Wei, briefs meant modesty. But to Xei, it meant naked. He wasn't used to seeing anyone naked.
Wei waved at him to join as he ran to the tumbling water. Xei wondered if he had siblings would he be more comfortable with this kind of display.
He cursed his parents for the zillionth time and shedded his clothes. When he was down to his briefs he looked at himself and wondered if he was easy on eyes. His ribs were showing, his knees were jutting sideways, his feet looked like lizards. He looked back at Wei, who was splashing water over his chest standing under the water.
His ribs were showing too, but his chest was thick. His shoulders looked bigger. He was brown all over his body, not like Xie. Xie was quite multi-colored. Wherever his clothes covered him he was light caramel, on the exposed places he was brown, under his eyes he was black, under his foot he was white and inside his briefs he was pink.
As Wei rubbed his chest, splashing the water, Xei got a weird notion of rubbing it for him. Maybe tickle him too.
That thought made him smile. He would very much like to see the gaping laugh of Wei's. So he padded over to stand under the water and while Wei was washing his hair Xei placed his hands below Wei's shoulders and gave a good tickle.
They both went down in the water when Wei flapped like a fish laughing and screaming.
"I'll kill you! Stop! Now you are dead." Wei scrambled to stand again and started his attack on Xei.
Xei was never tickled by anyone other than his own mom. His mom's tickles were gentle. But Wei's were not.
Xei giggled with flailing arms and limbs and kicked aimlessly trying to hide his body from the relentless fingers. By the time he took hold of both the hands and effectively stopped the attack, he was breathless and his eyes were streaming.
"You're the worst." He declared.
Wei chuckled, "you started it."
And then they just looked at each other, smiling, not even aware that they were staring at the other person.
And then it happened.
To both of them.
Thankfully they were submerged in the water and it wasn't showing.
But they both feared that the other might know.
And so the beautiful moment was broken as they frantically dunked their heads in and swam in the opposite direction.
**** End of Chapter Three ****
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