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Center Elementary: Dru & Braden

It was an extremely dark night out. The moon was new. And the stars hardly light up behind the deep clouds. Dru woke up from a nightmare about Justin as an actual vampire coming after him to kill him. Only, when he caught up to him, he sucks the blood from Dru’s penis. His body was covered in sweat and his underwear was sticky and pulled at his shrinking penis.

Dru got out of bed and went to the bathroom. He stripped down and got in the shower. He turned the water on. It was cold for a short time, making him gasp. While it warmed up, Dru got the soap. He started scrubbing his body, paying close attention to his penis and balls. He tried to was the nightmare away.

When he was satisfied with how clean he was, he turned the water off. Pulling the curtain to one side, a figure stood there, scaring him. It was his little brother, Braden, standing in his Ben Ten little-boy’s-briefs.

“What’s wrong?” The young boy looked worried.

Dru let his heart beat slow back down as he tried to understand Braden’s question. At first, he thought it was a silly question because someone standing outside a shower curtain at night was frighten anyone. Then, he realized that his brother knew something wasn’t right with him. That’s when his lower lip started to quiver.

“I had a nightmare. I think I did something bad.” It took everything for him to keep his voice from shaking, to not seem near as upset as he felt.

Braden nibbled on the side of his lip, thinking. He grabbed a towel and handed it to Dru. “Dry off.”

Dru took the towel from his younger brother. He felt so confused, but he dried off. When he was dry, Braden sat him down on the toilet and combed his hair. Each stroke felt excellent and calmed him down.

Braden took a hold of Dru’s hand. Their fingers interlaced. His younger brother lead him to his room. In the room, he lead Dru to his bed, broke their hands apart, and pushed Dru down on the bed by his shoulders, sitting him down. Crossing the room, the second grader crept back over to his fifth grade brother.

“Lay on your belly,” Braden commanded.

Dru obeyed, even though he was still naked.

Small hands lightly rubbed Dru’s back. It felt amazing.

“What happened?” Braden’s voice was soft and calming.

“I went to this guy’s house—”

“Justin?”

“Yeah. And something weird happened.”

“What?” Braden really began to work Dru’s shoulders.

“He bit me.” Dru rolled over and showed his brother the mark.

Braden reached out and placed two of his fingers over the two triangular marks. His eyes squinted as he studied them. “These don’t look like teeth marks.” He scrunched up his nose, confused.

“He put his vampire fangs in.”

“And then?”

Dru sat up and looked into his brother’s steady eyes.

“Well, he sucked the blood, and I liked it.”

Braden smiled. His front two teeth were missing.

Dru lied back down, rolled over, and closed his eyes.

One hand ran up and down his back. “Why the nightmares?”

Dru stayed quiet. The hand ran down his back. At the lowest part of it, he expected the hand to stop, but it didn’t. The hand ran over his butt cheek. He lifted his hand. “What the?”

“Making sure you’re still awake.” Braden giggled.

“Think I’m wrong for enjoying it?”

“No,” Braden simply answered.

Dru rolled over and grabbed his brother and held him against his chest. Braden nuzzled into him.

They fell asleep together.