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 Chapter 11

   Jim and Charlie

   Jim was a newcomer to the building.  He was a Canadian by birth and came
to the United States some forty years ago to work in the construction
field. He had just turned seventy and decided to pursue a more leisurely
life, putting behind him the years he worked hard.  Added to the hard work
of his occupation, he came home to face the additional mundane chores of
housekeeping and lawn trimming.  His whole life was dedicated to his work,
his home, and his mother who lived with him the last ten years of her life.
His life was hard, but it was also dedicated to caring for others,
especially his mother.

   On his first day at Carter Court, ninety year old Charlie noticed Jim's
befuddlement over routines at meals.  He seemed not to be sure of mail and
other institutional arrangements.  After breakfast, one morning, therefore,
Charlie came to Jim, introduced himself, and offered to become his mentor
during this period of adjustment.  They hit it off immediately.  Charlie's
warmth and the younger Jim's need for assistance seemed fated.  For Jim, it
was a reversal of roles.  He had dedicated his life to others, particularly
his mother.  Here, on the other hand, was someone offering his help to him.
He accepted in bemused silence.  So when ninety-year-old Charlie's said,
"Let me be your guide while you're adjusting to Carter Court," Jim
responded with a firm handshake and a partial, affectionate embrace of
Charlie.  An indescribable electrical charge passed through Charlie and Jim
in that embrace and their friendship, unknown to both at the time, was
sealed.  Simply put, Charlie loved Jim and Jim loved Charlie.  Both noticed
something new in their lives.

   When Jim and Charlie met outside or in the building, real feelings of
warmth and closeness surfaced.  It was evident in their smiles.  It was
evident in their touching.  It was evident in their actively searching for
each other's companionship.  Jim may have initiated contact first. 
Neither, now, remembers who was the first.  But, one day, Jim, who drove,
asked Charlie if he'd like to take a drive in the country.  For both, it
turned into a day of joy and wonder.  It was a leisurely and slow paced
outing that ended with dinner at a country inn.  Another time, it was
Charlie who asked Jim to join him for a walk through the park.  Still,
later, Charlie asked Jim to join him for dinner at his daughter's house, an
hour's drive from Carter Court.  But there were other, more intimate signs.
Charlie spent most of his time in Jim's apartment where they sat and talked
and delighted in one another's company.  From the onset, they sat side by
side on Jim's sofa when they talked or watched television.  Often Charlie
would fall asleep during a program, his head resting gently on Jim's
shoulder or chest.  Jim would cradle Charlie's head gently in his arms in
these moments of spontaneous sleep.  Neither was embarrassed afterwards by
these manifestations of intimacy.

   As time went on, there wasn't even a subtlety about affection.  When
watching television, Charlie lay on his back with his head in Jim's lap. 
And as they watched, Jim's hand would find its way inside Charlie's shirt
and gently massage his chest and arms.  There was no conscious sexuality to
any of these actions at first.  Each felt free to touch and love without
resorting to genital love.  Charlie often responded to these mini massages
with, "That's so relaxing, Jim."

   One evening, Jim said, "Charlie, let's go into the bedroom and let me
give you a real nice massage.  It should make you feel real good."

   In the bedroom, Charlie sat on the side of the bed while Jim removed
Charlie's shoes and socks.  Then he removed his shirt to reveal a chest
covered with gray hair that extended down below the buckle of his pants. 
"Lay back now, Charlie, and let me get your pants and shorts off." Charlie
aided Jim by lifting his waist.  Charlie now lay naked, revealing gray
hairs extending down his oval belly to his navel, to his flaccid cock. 
"Now lay back, close your eyes and let me massage you into oblivion,
Charlie," Jim whispered softly.  Jim began with Charlie's head.  He
massaged his brow and face gently, taking pains to put gentle pressure on
the eyes and temples.  Jim coupled this massage with tender kisses on the
eyes and mouth.  These were only light lip caresses but they sent a shudder
of affection through Charlie.  "Oh!  That feels good, Jim," Charlie
murmured.

   The massage continued to the neck and chest.  In a circular motion,
Jim's warm hands massaged his neck and nape, putting a light relaxing
pressure on the base of the spinal column at the back of Charlie's neck. 
Jim's massage continued slowly and gently over the chest and stomach area,
interspersed with a gentle sucking of the nipples on Charlie's breast. 
They hardened as he did so and Charlie felt a tingling sensation that
delighted him.  Jim then moved to the pubic area, taking care to avoid
direct contact with Charlie's cock.  He massaged the crevices between
Charlie's testicles and groin, alternating with a gentle circular motion of
the entire pubic area.  He grasped Charlie's testicles tenderly in his hand
and kneaded them gently.  Charlie's cock responded to these caresses even
though it remained in a flaccid state.  But the sensuality of this massage
played on Charlie's excitement and sexual pleasure.  Jim continued down
Charlie's legs to his feet.  He worked the muscles of the groin and the
knees gently but firmly.  When Jim reached Charlie's feet, he took special
pains to massage each toe and the crevices of each toe.  He rubbed the
insole of Charlie's feet with the ball of his hand, putting hard and firm
pressure on those muscles.  Charlie could feel the effects of this foot
massage in the upper reaches of his body.  He turned Charlie gently on his
stomach now and began the massage again from the nape of the neck.  Jim
used long pressured strokes on Charlie's back that started at the neck and
extended down to his buttocks.  He spread Charlie's legs wide and kneaded
his buttocks tenderly, paying close attention to the base of Charlie's
spine and the anal region between Charlie's asshole and the base of his
cock.  It was the area of the prostate and the extended musculature of
Charlie's cock.  Under him, Charlie could feel his cock getting hard.  He
also felt Jim's tongue probing his asshole and the base of his cock.  He
moaned approval.  They continued this way for what seemed hours to Charlie.
Finally, Jim turned Charlie over on his back again to reveal a semi erect
cock dripping with juices from his prostate.

   Now, for the first time in this encounter, Jim attended to Charlie's
cock.  He took it deep into his mouth and sucked.  He alternated with
continued massaging of Charlie's stomach and testicles.  The whole massage
now led to a climactic end.  Charlie, at the peak of his excitement, thrust
his hips and his now hard cock into Jim's warm mouth.  He felt Jim's tongue
wrap itself around the head and rub it into a state of heightened
sensitivity.  As Charlie's thrusts grew faster, so did his excitement. 
Then it came.  He took Jim's head into the palms of his hands, pressed
downward, stretching taut the foreskin of his hard cock and exploded.  "Oh!
My God, Jim, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming," he cried.  It was an
orgasm that came from the deepest part of his body and mind, a result of a
long, gentle two-hour loving massage.  Afterwards, Jim undressed and lay
naked, his body pressed tightly to Charlie for the rest of the night.

   From that day on, they slept together and loved together.