The Seed

Hard to Forget

     And then one day, Uriah caught Ashley slipping a note to Parker, the new guy at school that played football like he was born with a helmet on his head. Uriah also saw the wink and
the smile Ashley gave Parker. Uriah erupted and rushed Parker, who then commenced to beating Uriah into a bloody mess in front of the whole cafeteria. Ronald jumped in and helped Uriah gain the upper hand just as the school security arrived to carry them away. Ronald and Uriah were both suspended for five days. Parker was simply sent home for the rest of the day. Ashley followed him there after school. On top of that, Uriah had fractured a bone in his foot in
the middle of the fight and had to go to the hospital.
     Later, when Uriah was back at home in bed with his casted foot propped up, Ronald came by to check on him. Smiling, Uriah’s mom let him go right on up. Uriah was actually very happy that Ronald had not completely turned his back on him and was willing to fight with him
rather than see him hurt. But Uriah could not tell him this because when Ronald walked into his bedroom, Uriah was asleep in his bed, drugged from the pain medication.
     Ronald stood there, looking at Uriah sleeping in nothing but his boxers with one hand across his muscular stomach and the other arm resting on the pillow above his head. He saw the huge bulge along the leg of his boxers and the tip of Uriah’s manhood poking out the bottom. Pre-cum glistened on his thigh. Ronald knew that he should just ignore Uriah’s erection and just wake him up for a quick visit and then leave as soon as possible. But there was a need inside of Ronald that had been
growing for a while now, a burning sensation that caused his nerves to shake and quiver.
     Horrified at what he was doing, trying to fight himself to regain control, Ronald bent over to lick
at the glistening flesh poking out of Uriah’s underwear.
     Ronald expected to be punched in the face and yelled at, but at first nothing happened. Then Uriah began to stir, his manhood jumping between Ronald’s lips. A deep “mmph” came
out of Uriah, then he lifted his head and looked Ronald dead in his eyes. Ronald’s heart leapt into his throat and he thought to himself, “Damn. This is it. I’m about to get dog-walked.”
     But Uriah instead reached down to pull his boxers all the way off.
They never talked about it again after that day. Ronald never came by Uriah’s house again, and Uriah did not call Ronald anymore. Uriah found another girlfriend not long afterward, and Ronald continued to be the weird loner no one bothered. Ronald and Uriah might see each other in the halls at school or might cross paths at the mall or at the movie theater or at the store. They might even see each other right outside of their own front doors since they were neighbors. But outside of an exchanged glance or a nod of the head, they did not speak. Everything that they had been told and everything that had been taught made them think that they had done something wrong. Avoiding each other, they said to themselves,
helped them to avoid facing what they had done and how it had made them feel. But on certain, long nights, they both could not help but to think about each other.
     The seed had been planted.
Or maybe – just maybe – it was a seed that had been there all along….