There'll Be Storms (Spanking Story)

Chapter 9

I was sitting on the bleachers while Charlie was in the ring with Eryk. It didn't take long before they were both covered in sweat and Eryk was tired but Charlie kept pushing him on. He was fast, really fast, and extremely strong. His muscles clenched and tightened every time he threw a punch to the pads Eryk was holding for him.

"Hey Cody!" I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Josh?"

Josh was one of my best friends when we were living with Jeff. He was shorter than I was a lot heavier but he had blonde hair and dark eyes. I always said he looked like a shorter version of Dick Van Dyke.

"Dude, I haven't seen you in months!" He said as he came and pushed my shoulder.

On days after school, before Eryk was out, we would sneak behind the garage near an old shack and smoke cigarettes. He was the first person I ever drank with and trust me it won't be the last.

"I know I'm sorry, new house and everything."

"Oh yeah, I'm really sorry about your mom..."

"It's alright." I interrupted before I was reminded of everything that happened.

"How've you been man?"

"Good, really good Cody. My dad is going to sign me up for baseball after summer."

"Really? Mine said he would too." This would be perfect! I would know at least one person on the team and maybe we could even convince Matt and Ethan, my other best friends, to join.

"That's your real dad?" He asked, looking over my shoulder at Charlie in the ring.

"Yeah, yeah that's him."

He nodded his head and smiled at me, trying to ignore the awkwardness in the room.

"Think we could get Matt and Ethan to join baseball?"

He laughed. "Are you dumb? Ethan? Yes. Matt is too into football, he wouldn't know a baseball if you threw it at him and hit him on the head."

"Good point, good point." I laughed with him.

"Matt and Ethan are coming over tonight to drink...you wanna come? My parents won't be home and my grandma barely even knows her name."

"Umm, I don't know if Charlie would let me..."

"Just sneak out? We used to do it all the time."

"Yeah but this is different now..."

"What're you? A pussy? Just wait until I tell Ethan and Matt what a big pussy you turned into." He egged me on.

"Screw you. You know what?" I pushed him and laughed. "I'll be there, don't you worry."

It was eleven before both Charlie and Eryk were asleep. I guess they were both tired from the gym, and don't get me wrong I am too especially since we were there for two hours, but I couldn't let Josh tell everyone in the group that I was a pussy. He's a pussy.

I wanted to stop at the store around the corner for some coke so I went into Eryk's jeans and took a $5 out of his wallet. I felt like every noise I made was multiplied by a hundred, I know I'd get my ass kicked for even trying to sneak out of the house but I'll be back before Charlie wakes up. I opened our window slowly so the wood wouldn't creek and then I jumped onto the big branch on the tree just a few inches away. This was a great way to sneak out because it was so easy. Climbing down the tree wasn't hard either because there are so many branches. It was a ten minute walk to Josh's, I guess another lucky coincidence of living far out in the countryside.