From woody757@comcast.net Sat Oct  1 08:41:06 2005
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:01:37 -0400
From: Mike and Frenchie <woody757@comcast.net>
To: admin@asstr.org
Subject: Mike Our Star Player II-I


 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:04:10 -0400
From: Mike & Bagger <woody757@verizon.net>
Subject: Mike Our Star Player II-I

Sorry that its been so long in between stories that are fictional based on
stories as told to me via a tape-recorded. First off I have to let you know
the writer is blind, and is using a screen reader to try to make sure that
the spelling is proper.  An and all flames will be deleted immediately, and
I am always open for possible story improvements.  The characters are based
on two friends of mine that meet during high school and some 30 years later
still together as a couple.

Mark has decided to take over this chapter and possibly the next as well
because of what happened just after school got out, and what he did during
the summer prior to football season practice as well as scrimmages along
with the open of the season.

It was nice having all those (AP) Advanced Placement Test over with so that
Mike and I would be in the same grade instead of me always being 10 credits
behind, and not listed as a Sophomore like I want to be when school starts
up again in late August.

 Marty understood when I told him that I had agreed to watch Mike and my
friends guide dog while he was in the hospital along with helping him out
after he got released from the hospital.  I had talked to Mike about
helping me out with the lawn to earn a few extra dollars.  It was like I
had suggested that he be castrated as Mike yelled at me," Why work when dad
has all that money".  Well the week after school closed for the summer, and
explaining to Marty that I had made a promise to our friend to watch his
place, along with his guide dog while he was still in ICU after the
surgery.

Marty, really threw me for a loop by telling me that he was glad to see
that I kept a promise, and Marty also told how proud he was of me that I
wanted to earn my own money.  I was invited to visit or stay at his
Rehoboth Beach house if I had the time.

Mike, was really mad at me because we where not going to be together all
summer alone, and he told me that Marty had reduced his credit card because
his dad told him that he should also have gotten a summer job like I had
lined up.  So until both Mike and Marty left for the shore house, I got the
cold shoulder from Mike.  He knew that I liked to be able to have my own
money to buy something, and if I can not afford it than I would either have
to hope to get it as a present for my birthday or Christmas.  I wish that
Mike had remembered the ring that I saved up to buy for him last year, and
how proud I was that it was the ring that I had paid for by myself.

Some of our classmates had been telling me to go ahead and become
materialistic like Mike was, but that just was not me.  I am so afraid that
Mike will not want to be with me anymore because I am working this summer.
Just to be on the safe side I had Marty draw up some legal papers so that
our friend who I was going to be working for could if necessary take me to
the doctor if I got sick.

After I moved into our buddy Mike's house to take care of Bagger while he
went into the University of Maryland Hospital for what I would consider as
minor surgery, but than again I am not allergic to medicines like Mike.
Bagger his black lab guide dog came right over to give me a big wet lick
welcoming me to the house.

It was really nice feeling loved again not just by Mike who listened to me
cry about how Mike had treated me for the last few weeks, but to have his
guide dog ( who had bonded with Mike already) show me the same
unconditional love that all dogs have for any humans.  I had taken Bagger
for a long walk so that I could ask a couple of the neighbors to help me
load some of the weights and deliver them to Mike's place.

Marty got a call that probably scared the hell out of him not soon after
both he and Mike arrived in Rehoboth Beach.  First a couple of the
neighbors called to tell him that some of the neighborhood kids where
loading weights into their cars while I stood their with Bagger.  He also
got a call from Mike who supposedly chewed Marty a new asshole for raising
such a spoiled brat ( that is what Mike said to Marty).  He went into
detail about all the crap that Mike had been doing to Mark, also he let
Marty know that even though his surgery is scheduled for the morning that
he has postponed it because Mark has been crying himself to sleep the past
week thanks to "Our Star Player".  Later on I found out that Mike had
actually referred to him as "Mike Our Star Asshole", and he also informed
Marty that as the new Principle of New Town High that he may have to take
drastic action and force Marty's son sit the season out because of his
actions in school towards another student.

When Mike told me what he had told Marty about forcing Mike to sit out the
season for his actions during the last weeks of school.  All I was thinking
was if I lose Mike and Marty totally cause of Mike's call to the beach
house.  I was told by Marty as well as our friend Mike that if anything
should happen between Mike and myself that both where willing to open their
houses to me so that I would not be taken away from my friends.

After Marty called to tell me that our buddy Mike had called him in
Rehoboth, to give him a piece of his mind and also to let Marty know he had
postponed his surgery because of how upset I was about how Mike had been
treating me since the Spring Fling.  I asked Marty," Why would Mike
postpone an important surgery like the one that he was scheduled for
without telling or asking me if it was alright?".  When Marty told me in
nut shell how upset that our buddy Mike was about me crying myself to sleep
that he did not feel like the surgery was as important as my mental health
and well being.

Hearing what Marty had said to me made me really feel loved for the first
time in well over a month, and I knew that Marty loved me also even though
it was not the same as my lover and partners love with had disappeared once
I accepted this job.

Maybe I am not the best athlete in the world but I always do my hardest,
and once I got the weights delivered as well as setup.  I started to setup
a workout schedule so that I would be in good shape when summer practice
started, but first I need to have a heart to heart with my friend Mike
about him postponing his surgery without asking me about it before he did
it.

Taking Bagger into visit Mike while he was laying in the rented hospital
bed, I told him that the hospital had called asking if he could reschedule
his surgery till the following Monday and I told them that he be there with
bells on.  I than started to ask Mike a bunch of questions about why he had
postponed it to begin with, and about his telephone conversation with Marty
dealing with Mike.  What shocked me was his very blunt responses to the
questions.  "Mark, I called the hospital and postponed the surgery because
I heard you crying yourself to sleep the past week which broke my heart" he
said.  " I never wanted you to know about my call to Marty, because it was
originally going to be as Principal to Football Coach, but I had gotten so
pissed off at Mike's actions towards you ever since the two of you went to
the "Spring Fling".  I told Marty point blank Mark that I considered Mike
to be a materialistic, spoiled brat, and I also told him that since Mike
had violated a number of school rules that I was considering declaring him
not able to play this season.

Mark, you have good friends that you can turn to besides myself in Marty.
I think that it took another adult to tell him his son is a spoiled brat
who thinks that if he can use a credit card to buy something, that he has
to have it right than instead of working to earn the money to buy it.
"Mike is totally a materialistic type of person while you Mark are not as
you have learned the value of a dollar at an early age" both Marty and Mike
would have stated if Marty was there at that moment.

Now about me postponing the surgery to have my back operated on is not as
important to me, as your mental and physical health.  I asked Marty to make
sure that you are ok both physically as well as mentally, and I let him
know how pissed I was at Mike for causing you to cry yourself to sleep the
past week.  I called the surgeon also asking him to talk to me as I needed
his advice on taking care of a teenager, and his twins are in your class so
he knows by the grapevine so to speak about Mike's attitude towards you
ever since the two of you attended the Spring Fling as a couple, also how
he treated you afterwards till school got out.  Believe me Mark, the doctor
would not have allowed me to postpone the surgery if he did not care for
you also.

My buddy Mike had a suggestion that I take over writing the first chapter
or two just to vent my anger about how I was treated like second class
citizen by "Our Star Player", The keyword there is "Player", because there
are now times that I think that Mike is just playing us all.


In the next installment Mark has asked once again to express his views
about what had happened.  TBC.