Page 80 of Peach Tree Family

The guys were talking and the kids were playing with the dogs, when Ry came over to complain some more about DJ and Ace. "I'm cool too. Dads, tell them."

"Is this about Ace and DJ being friends?" Sam asked and got a nod from Ry.

"So you're not friends with Ace?" Wyatt challenged him.

"I'm friends with him," Ry claimed then he ran over to Ace to confirm it. "You're my friend, right, Ace?"

Ace didn't give him an easy yes. He shook his head. "No. You're my friend," he said then Ry screamed and started chasing him.

As they were both running around and screaming, DJ shook his head. "Being a big brother is hard," he said to Theo and made a very serious face.

"You know it," Theo told him and they high fived.

"They're making friends!" Ry yelled and he and Ace ran over and tried to tackle their big brothers.

Ry did tackle DJ, but Theo had his secret weapon. "I will tickle you," he warned Ace. Stepping away from the roughhousing, he asked Wyatt, "They don't act like that after school, do they?"

"Nah. Homework keeps them busy. DJ and Ace are pretty serious about school. And Ry... Uhh, yeah."

Before they left, Sam printed up a recipe for the pizza he made for Seth. They were off by themselves when Sam told him, "I used to live in that room above the hardware store. That was when I thought the best I could do was just to have a job and a place to live. Then I met Wyatt."

"You two did good finding each other," Seth told him, but he was thinking about Theo. What if he found someone? Could Seth be happy for him?

He was thinking about it that night in that lonely room in Peach Tree. With Theo too damn far away, it was like he could feel the distance between them in every part of him. That constant ache was something he would have to get used to.

Seth had never lived alone before. He always had his grandpa, and then he latched onto Theo and Ace. So far he couldn't say he liked it much, and nights were the worst. In the darkness, his brain turned over questions and came up with no answers.

The biggest question was what did he want. One thing he knew he didn't want was to see Theo with anybody else. But he might find someone the way Sam and Wyatt found each other.

At the inn, Seth had seen a guest flirt with him. The good looking guy only got Theo's professional smile, but it still worried Seth that it would be so easy for Theo to find some other guy.

He was almost asleep when he started thinking about Theo naked pressed up against another man, naked too but kind of invisible like he was mostly in shadow. But when Seth started picturing that man's hands on Theo, he had to push his fingers against his eyelids to make the vision stop.

Seth's dick was hard but be wanted that other man to stop touching Theo, get his hands off him and go away. That left Theo naked, waiting, needing. Did he need the same thing Seth did?

Seth's hand reached down, pulled his cock out. He stroked it and whispered Theo's name. In his mind, he was doing this to Theo, telling him, "You don't need anyone else. I can take care of you." Seth came much faster that he expected as he pictured how Theo looked as he was coming, as he was telling him, "Seth, you're all I need."

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