Chapter 15: Where the Path Leads

March 30th - May 16th, 1987

The following week, I was too busy getting any remaining work finished and preparing to take finals in my six classes to worry about anything else besides baseball. Mr. Drystone, my chemistry teacher, let me spend an extra fourth period the previous week so I could finish my last lab on Wednesday so I could take the final on Friday. I skipped going to lunch to finish writing it up.

I had straight As going into the finals, and the amount of written work I had turned in those two weeks was astonishing. Dr. Higgs showed up to my Algebra class Tuesday to witness me working on two assignments at once. I had a pencil in each hand where one copied the problem from the textbook while the other worked one out. I had to use masking tape to hold the paper in place and had two copies of the textbook propped up, each open to a different assignment page. While I couldn’t always keep both pencils going all the time, it was pretty cool being able to pass the coping off to my subconscious like that.

I used a similar trick but with just one hand to keep my pencil moving while working out what to write in other classes. History was a pain as I had to write summaries of events and shit into my notebook. That was just a lot of useless work to me, but my notebook was 30% of my grade in that class. Papers were another 30% and tests were 40%. I felt I spent way too much time on that class for what I got out of it.

I took three finals on Thursday using two continuous class periods each. I flew through them, usually finishing them a little over an hour - which was still longer than a single class period.

Our first game of the season was Thursday, April 2nd. Brad played first base, and I was shortstop for the first four innings while Joey played center field for the last three. John played catcher for the first three innings. We won 7 to 6, Brad batting in four of those runs and scoring two of them himself, including a homerun. He was easily the best batter we had. Joey and I scored one run each.

Friday I took my last three finals and celebrated after my last one by having a quick hardcore drink enhanced fuck with Sheryl. Damn, that girl could fuck when she was loaded up with drink. Joey had to come up and help me right after school so she wouldn’t go home still horny from the drink. We were only ten minutes late to baseball practice, and I was shit during it from having used up all my energy fucking.

That Sunday, I had just arrived home from spending the night at Brad’s when I got a phone call.

“May I speak with Tim Brandton please?” the female voice said on the phone.

“Speaking,” I said, finding the voice strangely familiar.

“Tim, this is Dr. Cain.”

“Dr. Cain?” I said, surprised. “Please, say no more. Is this about that thing we talked about last time?”

“ ... Yes, I suppose it is. Is that a problem?” she asked in a confused voice.

I was reaching out with my mind with all my might, but for some reason, I couldn’t get a lock on her.

“I’m sorry for not showing up for that appointment. Are you free in say fifteen minutes?”

There was a pause, then she replied, “Yes, I have an opening. But I have a client scheduled right afterward. I’m afraid I still have to charge you for the missed appointment,” she lied.

“Uh, okay, I guess. I’ll be there in a flash. Goodbye.”

My heart was racing. Not because of Dr. Cain’s phone call, but I had just got Midge home Saturday night and had planned on flying her that afternoon. Now I was about to fly her for the first time to pay a Doctor a house call.

Nobody was home to share my moment as I brought Midge’s engine up to take-off speed. She may have been older than Beany, but after the mechanic found the tiny cracks in the engine block, Midge had a new heart. The difference was amazing. Before getting the new engine block, I had feared she would shake herself apart if I ever could get her off the ground.

But as her pads broke contact with Mother Earth, she rose into the air like an angel, her blades purring above me and her engine singing in my ears. I wanted to yell and scream with joy so bad that ... Oh wait. Heh. I guess I did.

The weather was perfect, making my trip even that much more enjoyable. I was swerving back and forth, giving quite a few trees a trim on the top. Holly’s experience allowed me to do it without risking damage, but I nearly lost control when I spotted a power line just past a tree I was about to buzz.

I cooled the fancy stuff after that and concentrated on where I was going. The flight came to an end too soon for my taste. But the moment I saw Dr. Cain standing outside waiting, I knew something serious was wrong.

Even still, I thoroughly enjoyed the expression on her face when she realized I was waving at her. I sat Midge down in two parking spaces, not wanting to risk anyone dinging her paint. I also didn’t want to chop off anyone’s radio antennas either.

With Midge’s key in my pocket and the cockpit covered with a weather-tight hood, I nearly ran right into Dr. Cain when I turned to go meet her.

Dr. Cain said, “You certainly are full of surprises.”

I felt the familiar tingles of an experienced probe, but her experience hadn’t ever encountered one of my mother’s shields.

“I’m sorry,” she said when she realized what she was doing. “I wasn’t thinking.”

“That’s okay. I know how easy it is to get used to doing it,” I said, canceling the probe I had been unconsciously preparing. “What’s wrong? You look like you haven’t slept in a week.”

“That’s because I haven’t. Why were you so concerned about speaking on the phone?”

“Paranoid, you mean. Long story. I’ll tell it to you later if you really want to know. Actually, you might be in a little danger yourself if they suspect you’re a telepath. Don’t worry about that right now. What did you want to talk to me about?”

She said, “Let’s go to my office first.”

Before I had a chance to agree, she was hurrying across the parking lot.

“You redecorated,” I said when we entered her outer office. “I take it you didn’t have any more appointments?”

“I don’t usually work on the weekends. And I’ve been a nervous wreck for the past several days, “ she said as she unlocked her office door.

I followed her in, and almost did a double-take when she started pulling her blouse off over her head.

When she revealed what apparently was her sleeping attire, I asked, “What’s going on?”

Dr. Cain sat down on the couch and pulled her slacks off while saying, “Two weeks ago, I received red Baboon of Thoth pendant in the mail. Freud had a Baboon of Thoth figurine he kept on his desk, you see. I don’t know who sent it, but it makes my hand tingle like your coin does.”

Dr. Cain removed and handed me the pendant attached to a simple gold necklace. The squatting baboon pendant was obviously made of the same material as my coin, but it was only half the mass. I gave me the same comforting feeling, and I immediately pulled my coin out from under my shirt to hold in my other hand. For a split second I could have sworn I felt a surge of energy flow from the pendant through me to the coin.

I was then distracted by Dr. Cain saying, “Every night since, I’ve been having this dream only its not a dream. He’s been trying to tell me something, but I couldn’t understand it until this afternoon.”

Thinking I missed something, I said, “Huh?”

“He just kept mouthing his words over and over. I finally started to understand what he was saying. But I get so frustrated when I can’t move or talk, and he keeps...”

I exclaimed, “WHO?”

“I don’t know!” she said, taking the pendant back and laying down on the couch. “Whoever he is, he wants to talk to you. Aren’t you going to lay down?”

“Huh? Why? And what do you mean he wants to talk to me? Hey! Don’t fall asleep on me ... Shit.”

I laid down on the floor next to her and formed a connection to monitor her thoughts. But she was already asleep. Deeply asleep, and after I had laid there for nearly an hour without any sign of her dreaming, I gave up and wrote her a note.

When I got out to the parking lot, I immediately noticed the three guys around my age checking Midge out. I started to feel a little protective when one of them tried to make her blades turn, but I resisted sending the sensation that the blade was so sharp that it cut his hand.

One of them spotted me walking up, but then dismissed me as the possible owner and operator of my fine craft.

“Hi. What’s up.” I said. “Cool copter, huh?”

The one who had spotted me said, “Yeah. I’ve never seen one so small. We were just wondering if it actually flies or if it’s some kind of model.”

“It couldn’t fly!” the one who had tried spinning her blades. “I mean, it doesn’t even have a dome or nothing. Who would want all that wind right on top of you?”

I said, “Actually, there really isn’t much wind there because the cockpit is right in front of the axle. And Midge does fly. Flies better than a hummingbird.”

The third guy asked, “Are you saying this is yours?”

“Yep.”

“Bullshit. I bet you have to be at least 21 to fly something like that.”

“Excuse me,” I said, unlocking the hood. “I have to get home. Some friends are coming over tonight.”

They stood there watching me check everything, then they didn’t move when I had started the engine.

As I started to rev the blades up a little more, I shouted, “I’d STAND BACK, If I Was YOU!”

Two of them moved back, but the third ignored my warning, figuring Midge was too small to put out much wind.

But Midge showed them she wasn’t a wimp by making him eat her dust as we took off.

That night after Joey and I passed out from fucking the twins for God who knows how long, I felt a mental contact brush my mind.

I thought back, <Sleeping ... Not now Joey... >

Whispers ... then almost like someone clearing their voice but without making a sound. I was starting to get a little irritated when suddenly the room lit up.

“What the...” I tried to say, but my mouth wasn’t working. In fact, I couldn’t move at all. I was lying on my stomach with my head pointed towards the bathroom. I was only able to see that my room was lit by some kind of sparking light, the source out of my viewing range.

My mind was a little groggy, yet I was having trouble staying calm. Then when the light began shifting, I really started to panic. I knew whatever it was, it was coming closer.

With a surge of fear, I commanded my body to turn. It responded sluggishly but rolled over to face the source of the light.

“Oh my...” I tried to say, catching myself since it might not like me saying that.

“goodness,” I managed to whisper.

In front of me was a twister or tornado of white sparkling light. The base of it was coming from...

“My coin,” I barely uttered.

The normally red translucent coin was bright white with even brighter sparkles flowing from underneath it, passing up through and into the twister’s vortex.

It was terrifying, yet somehow I knew it wasn’t there to harm me. I gathered my courage up and with all my might and energy, I mumbled, “Hello?”

Whispers ... Whispers that seemed to come from every direction. My ears were twitching as they involuntarily were trying to track the moving sources.

Then suddenly, the light surged and the whispers seemed to congeal at the center of the twister of light.

“Tim,” they said.

A mouth made out of light formed at the spot where the sound appeared to have come from. The mouth was human-looking, appearing to be emerging out of the light like it was immersed in a pool of water.

The mouth was followed by a chin, then its cheeks started to emerge. When the forehead came out, leaving its eye sockets still under the surface, I couldn’t help but shiver from the sight.

But the moment his eyes were above the light’s surface, I recognized the face instantly. Every hair stood up on my body as the most powerful chill ran down my body.

“Michael?” I whispered, as my goosebumps competed against each other for being the highest one.

The face stared blankly for a moment, then broke out into a smile of relief. Michael’s image started to say something, but there was no sound to his mouth’s movements.

“Michael, I can’t hear you,” I said very slowly. “Can you hear me?”

He blinked several times, almost as if he was waiting for a translation. He finally nodded and his mouth formed a “yes”.

“Are you okay? What happened to you? Where are you?”

When he comprehended my words, he slowly mouthed “I don’t know.”

“What do you mean you don’t know? How are you doing this anyway?”

His face became very serious, and he mouthed, “Tim, help David. Please help him and Penny.”

“I have tried everything I can think of. God, Michael, I’ve ... Oh shit. Michael. Do you think ... Do you think you’re like dead?”

To my surprise, he nodded. He mouthed, “He’s been helping me to find you.”

“He who?”

Michael gave me an irritated look, then glanced up at the ceiling.

“Oh,” I said as my goosebumps held another contest. “You’ve met him? You’ve spoke to him? What’s he like?”

Michael frowned, then mouthed, “I can’t remember.”

“Michael, I can’t help David or Penny if I can’t find them. Can you find them?”

Michael shook his head and mouthed, “I can feel them, but I can’t talk with them.”

His eyes were sad and the light dimmed a bit.

“Tell me everything you know about what they did to you and to them. Please? It might help me.”

The light started dimming even more, and he barely was able to mouth, “tomorrow night,” before his face disappeared in the column of light.

The twister pulsed, seeming to fight against its diminishing power. Suddenly it tipped forward, it’s vortex of light heading right for me.

I felt a strong pull on my arm, causing me to sit up as I opened my eyes and found myself being shaken by my mother.

“What! I’m awake!” I said. “Why did you do that!”

“You were having some kind of nightmare,” she said, calming herself down. “You woke me up with your fear and I’ve been trying to wake you up for five minutes. What’s the matter Timmy? You look as if you’ve seen a...”

“Ghost,” I said as my shivers and goosebumps returned.

“Wow, “ Joey exclaimed after telling him and Suzi the whole story the next morning.

Suzi asked, “You really think it was more than a just a dream?”

“Yeah, I’m sure. I called Dr. Cain from the 7-Eleven’s payphone before I came to school. Her dreams were pretty much the same as mine, but Michael had been trying to talk too fast or something. She couldn’t understand him, especially since she could never move her body to look at him right.”

Suzi asked, “Did he say anything else about Penny?”

“We didn’t have time. I don’t know why it ended as soon as it did. I don’t think my mom shaking me had anything to do with it.”

“Tim,” Joey said with a look of concentration. “If you and I can stay linked while we sleep...”

“Yeah! Maybe if we...”

We spent the first part of the morning talking and making plans for that night, Suzi patiently listening and adding her own ideas once in a while. She was worried about Penny and David, but more worried about me and Joey. It didn’t seem to bother her that she was in as much danger as I was. Steven knew I’d do anything to keep her safe.

Our discussion ended about twenty minutes before the end of the second hour, but none of us wanted to go to class. We were talking about how close Janos, Linda, and Missy had become, reminding us of, well ... us. Janos had permanently removed his ring last week in a sign of loyalty to the girls. Gwen and Robin were talking about doing it too, but Sheryl said she wasn’t taking hers off until she graduated. The three of us were thinking of having them all take them off at the end of the school year, then if we wanted to start it up again next year, we’d just get another set of rings made. Kyle and Sheryl were the only two who were insisting they wanted to continue it next year.

Julie was on the fence as she and Ben were getting serious. Ben apparently enjoyed being the dom to her sub, but could also play the sub to Julie’s dom. Yeah, I wasn’t sure how well that could work. As Julie put it, it was a work in progress.

I had laid down on the floor against the couch next to where Suzi was sitting. I started to use my sock feet to rub her side, not trying to turn her on or anything, just comforting and loving. I finally gave up and moved up to sit beside her, then used my hands on her shoulders.

“Mmmm,” she said when I found her pressure points. “I’ve forgotten how good that feels.”

I said gently, “Yeah, I’m sorry about that. You know we haven’t had much time together lately. Not with Steven screwing things up. We never even had our three-way last month.”

“Suz,” Joey said, laying down on the other side of her with his head next to her feet. “Do you remember when Tim and I did that thing to make us look like we were all muscle?” he said as he pulled her socks off.

She replied in a relaxed tone, “How could I ever forget?”

Joey slipped off his shirt and then took her left foot and pressed it against his chest. Suzi’s eyes snapped open when she felt his muscular chest flex and took it all in as he made his muscles bulge.

Since I couldn’t take the bus to school, I had a parking space since the start of that semester. I shared it with Joey where sometimes I’d leave my car at his house and we came in his Mustang. Because of that, since late January we had been coming in early to use the weight room together to meet with Suzi’s cousin Pete to try and build up our muscles for Suzi. While Suzi had noticed the results in the past, only in the past month had we focused on building our six-pack abs that Suzi drooled over the most.

Suzi gave out a yip when my bare chest pressed against her arm as I moved to tease her ear lobe. With one foot exploring Joey’s stomach and a hand doing the same to mine, Suzi teeter tottered for several moments until she sent them both to our crotches.

Suzi exclaimed, “Even they’ve gotten stronger!”

But then she moved her hands away and Joey and I both noticed the teary look in her eyes.

“What’s wrong?” we both said.

She smiled and looked down at the floor, releasing the two tears to roll down her cheeks.

“You guys did it for me, that’s all. I love you both so much, I...”

Joey and I sandwiched her between us in probably the greatest hug we had ever shared. Never before had the love between the three of us be as strong as during that hug. For several minutes we were of one soul, one heart, and one mind. Unfortunately, we had three bodies who were starting to get aroused by the close contact.

Who knows which of us started kissing one of the other’s bare skin, but soon Suzi was giving Joey a big hickey, Joey had his hands inside my shirt, and I was licking under Suzi’s earlobe which I knew drove her crazy.

Our hands began wandering, freeing the remaining clothing from our bodies as we continued our three-way loving. As if of one mind, we all began moving our oral attentions down the body of our recipient, spending a small amount of time on our nipples before continuing our trek down.

I kept expecting Joey to break off and help me pleasure Suzi, but that never happened. When I finally plunged my face into Suzi’s sex, I heard Joey moan the next moment, then I stiffened as I felt his tongue teasing one of my testicles. This was something I had never expected to come from Joey, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted it to happen. I didn’t understand what was driving Joey’s sexual attraction towards me when I had felt the exact opposite for him.

I tried to concentrate on the wiggling pussy I was sucking, but I couldn’t keep my mind off of Joey’s increasingly stimulation caused by his mouth and tongue. I made the decision that as long as he didn’t attempt to blow me, I wouldn’t interrupt his attempts to pleasure me.

When he paused to catch his breath a bit, his breath on my wet nut sack spurred me to make Suzi squeal. That triggered off a chain reaction, making her crotch press against my face in desperation, and apparently causing her to pull all the stops on Joey’s blowjob.

I say a chain reaction because moments after Joey had taken a deep breath, I suddenly felt his mouth envelope my nuts again, and then found his hands pushing against my ass and pushing my crotch against his face.

While I was madly licking away, I found my nut sack tingling from his energetic tongue. So when Joey’s fingers had finally made their way to my rose, I outright moaned my approval. My rose tingled as he squirted some lube on it and his fingers started working it in. I had no idea when he got the lube.

I found myself falling down a hole of lust, for once forgetting about Suzi’s puss as Joey used his own version of my magic touch on me. If anyone else had been doing it, I would have never submitted myself to the pleasure. But because it was Joey and Suzi who I was with, I let down every defense I had and gave myself to their control.

And I wasn’t disappointed. I felt Suzi’s hot breath on my very needy dick while Joey’s fingers pulled out to his lubricated dick’s head pressed against my ass. I was entirely lost in their touches and motions, never once resisting their suggestions to adjust my position or to hold my legs up with my hands.

When Joey’s cock stretched my asshole, I didn’t feel any pain or even mild discomfort. It was like I was feeling it for the first time all over again, but without the negative aspects. And when he began his first full pumping motion, I felt as if an electric current had started to flow from his dick to my ass, through my body, then passed through my own dick into Suzi’s wonderful mouth.

Suzi’s mouth was as great of a sensation as Joey’s cock up my ass, seemingly pulling the sexual electricity through my body just as much as Joey was pumping it in. I vaguely remember recalling how similar Leanne had felt when she thought herself as a sexual machine. And that actually disturbed my otherwise perfect bliss. She had been the one who was giving out the pleasure, while I was simply receiving.

From an intelligence I had never realized I possessed, I suddenly saw a bigger picture. The sexual current flowing through my body could be diverted and shared with my lovers without reducing its flow through me. In fact, it would sustain the source of this energy instead of using it up like I could sense we were.

Suddenly, without warning, Joey and Suzi felt the familiar presence of a three-way forming, while at the same time an invisible cock was pressing against their back doors. I added a third for Suzi’s front one, then began the fulfilling what would be the greatest sex the three of us would ever have together.

My three invisible dicks began their pumping sensations and I could feel the current slowly being diverted through my mind and out my invisible cocks to complete the loop through their own bodies.

It was like having gotten used to seeing by candlelight, then suddenly someone had switched the power on and the lights had come back on. The revived energy was like water flowing through us that pleasured every nerve in our body with its simple touch. All three of us were thrust up onto a new level of pleasure we had never felt before. And all the while we felt it together, sharing in each other’s pleasure at an intensity that should have blown our minds away.

And similarly, the explosion of our combined orgasm should have crippled our minds to the point we should have never spoken again. But we were not even knocked out, and even had enough energy to curl up together on the floor and share in a three-way kiss I will never forget. Afterward, we slipped into a peaceful shared dream, full of love and images of us living our lives together in perfect happiness.

Little did we know that would be the last time the three of us would make love together until the night of our senior prom, and even longer before we would obtain something even close to what we had that day.

Future events will change us into near-strangers, and we all would make mistakes that would cost us dearly. However, this is not the end of our love. That dream would become the seed which each of us would take a turn carrying before giving it up and passing it on. And the seed would eventually rebloom to bring us together again, but not before we had become stronger and more independent of each other.

But just to give you the peace of mind and heart, being independent means we don’t need to express our love to prove it still exists. They are my soul mates, I am theirs, and they are each other’s. So even though we now live on nearly opposite sides of the planet living completely different lives, we can never be truly apart.

But to get that way took a lot of hope, pain, and...

Well, this is a sex story, isn’t it?

The purple tube turned and twisted as I continued to slide down its slippery interior. Loops and sharp turns constantly caused me to lose my orientation as I slid sideways and backward as much as I did forwards. The speed at which I was traveling was always increasing, but never to the point where it was so fast that I didn’t see the turns the moment before I hit them.

I wasn’t scared in the least. I could feel Joey right there with me, going down that tube just like I was. Even though I couldn’t see him, I knew he was right beside me, experiencing everything I was. So instead of being scared, we were enjoying ourselves. Neither of us realized we were dreaming, but we somehow knew there was no danger.

But just as we were finishing a triple loop with a hard-right turn at the end, I felt an incredibly strong force pull me right through the purple surface of the tube.

My panic started to rise when I found myself free-falling in space ... without Joey.

I reached out and tried to find him, becoming very alarmed when I found nothing but emptiness. No one was out there with me. I was completely alone.

There was nothing but blackness all around me. I wasn’t cold or hot, and there seemed to be plenty of air to breathe. But I felt completely naked and defenseless and finally gave in to the urge to curl up into a ball to block out my empty surroundings.

Only moments later, I felt a warmth on my right side. I opened my eyes and found myself lying in my bed alone, facing a brilliant column of light.

I turned back to the column of light and called out, “Michael?”

A flash of light to the left of me drew my attention to the coin on my nightstand. As the coin began to glow with white light, the other column of light suddenly flashed and surged forward towards me.

Before I could react, the column of light passed right through me, making every hair on my body stand on end. The moment it made contact, I knew it wasn’t Michael. This was something far more powerful than anything on Earth. But before I could even process this information and wonder who or what it was, it was gone.

When I got over my shock, I found myself watching Michael’s vortex of light grow to full size and remembered that Joey should have been here with me. I forced myself to look around and confirmed Joey wasn’t there. He should have been sleeping right next to me. Try as I might, I couldn’t feel Joey or anyone for that matter. I wasn’t powerless, just blocked from the real world somehow.

The whispering started again, but something was different about how the sparks of light were acting and the tone of the whispers. I nearly jumped away when Michael’s hand formed out of the light and reached out to grab my foot.

His grasp was feather-soft, but it felt as if it was pulling energy from my body at a near painful rate. His grip got stronger as my very being was pulled from my body. I felt like one of those Stretch Armstrong toys with two boys trying to stretch me so far that I snap in half. Luckily, just like the toy, I didn’t snap in two. But I was pulled out of my physical body and suddenly found myself in a gray place.

There was nothing around me but gray. I appeared to be standing upright on a floor, but when I tried to judge how large of an area I was standing in, I couldn’t tell where the floor ended and the sky began. Everything was just gray.

Suddenly I felt a hand on my ‘shoulder’. I turned around to find Michael standing behind me with a grin on his face.

“Hi,” he said.

“Hi,” was the only thing I could think of.

Michael asked, “So how does it feel to be dead?”

“Dead?!” I exclaimed, slightly alarmed.

“Don’t worry. You’re not really dead. You could say you’re just visiting.”

“Is this heaven?” I asked, looking at the nothingness around us.

“No. I’m not really sure what this place is, but it’s kind of neat. Here, have a seat.”

A pair of gray overstuffed chairs and a gray table suddenly appeared beside us sitting on top of a circular patch of gray carpet. Michael walked over to the chair nearest to him and sat in it, almost disappearing because he too was gray in color. In fact, I suddenly realized that I was also gray and that if I looked too closely at anything, it disappeared to my ‘vision’ because everything was actually the exact same color of gray.