A Summer Romance -- part 1Hi Boys - I'd like to shair with you a very romanticexperience I had. It happened a few years ago but it seemslike last week.......It was the middle of summer Summer when I  walked into aBroadway near my house hoping to find the perfect birthdaygift for my dad. I didn't realize that I would end up withthe perfect gift for myself.... I walked around the storewith a fraction of me looking at merchendise, and the restof me crusing the boys (standard mall proceedure). As Iwalked passed the mens shirt/tie counter I noticed thisawsome looking boy behind the counter. I tried not tostare, however, I realized that we had caught each othersglance. Embarased that I was caught crusing him, I quicklyturned away. When I looked back a few seconds later he wassmiling at me. I smiled back, then walked away.... "FOOL!"I said to myself. Go back and talk to him. ...."Naaaa.It's too late now. He'd probably think I'm a fag...." ButI am a fag, so I waited a few minutes then navigated myway back to the mens tie counter.... He smiled that samehart-melting smile and asked if I needed help. I told himI need a birthday gift for my dad and didn't know what toget. (A good line to use since now he could spend moretime helping me.) 30 minutes later I walked out with a newwallet and his name (which I got off his name tag,Brian)..... The following day I went back again and who doyou think I ran into?  BRIAN!  This time I told him that Iwas just hanging out.  We talked for about an hour then Iwondered off so he could help his customers.......A week later I was looking through my friends brother'shigh school yearbook. (A very rich source of eyeballentertainment.) As I'm flipping through the 12th gradepages, who do think I see??? Hmmm? That's right. BRIAN!"WOW"! I exclamed. I grabbed his brother to ask him if heknew anything about this awsome teendreem. He just smileda weard smile and said "No". ..... Well at least now I hadhis last name so I could look it up in the phone book andget his number....HA!. YES!..PROGRESS!...I did this. Hiswas the 4th in the list under his last name in the book.Cool. Now what the fuck do I do with it. I can't call him.What would I say?  I decided to let the whole thing dropfor a few days......I was living in an apartment at the time with a (verystraight) room mate. It was about 10:00 and I was gettingready to crash for the night. I looked and felt like totaldogshit from a very long day. ((Picture this: I amunshaven, hair is thrashed, wearing nothing but underwear,and walking around half asleep)) There's a knock on thedoor. Since my roomate was expecting his girlfriend, Iopened the door.....There stood my friends brother andBRIAN!!!.....with that same adorable smile.......            To be continued...Message #46To: ALLSubject: Summer Romance -- part 2Continued from previous post...Well, this is rotten timing. Of all the nights tojust.... drop in. There wasn't a whole lot I could doabout it NOW though, so I invited them both in. It turnsout that they've been friends in school for over a year.We all kicked back and talked for about an hour thenbrian and I exchanged phone numbers (even though Ialready had his). Although I still wasn't sure whether ornot Brian was into boys, I went to sleep that night with thebiggest shit-eating grin you've ever seen.The next day I called him. During the course of theconversation I learned that, while he did have agirlfriend, he was very interested in boys but had neverbeen with one. I told him that I would be happy tointroduce him to the "boy" scene. He was delighted at theidea and so we arranged to get together that Saturdaynight for an evening at Odyssey-1. (Those of you who wereprivlaged to be a part of the Odyssey generation willprobably go into a mental time warp about now...) Thatwas the longest week in my life. Saturday night finallyarrived, and I picked him up around seven o'clock. Helooked hot! I decided to cruse up the coast towardMalibu. When we arrived, we walked along the beach by thewater and watched the sunset. Never before in my life hadI felt such romantic energy for another boy. We talkedabout family life and family problems, and school andgirls and... whatever. As we stood at the water's edge,the gentle warm breeze, the last golden rays of the sundissapering over the horizon, and Brian standing besidebe made this one of the most intense moments of my life.I wanted it to last forever....I wanted so much to reachover and kiss him. But I didn't do it because I stillwasn't sure if he liked me in that way. We walked back tothe car and headed for the Odyssey.We arrived and entered the disco at around ten o'clock. Byeleven I had to fight my friends (and strangers) off ofBrian. BACK! BACK YOU MONSTERS!... We danced and had awonderful time till about one o'clcok, then Brian asked ifwe could leave. Since he didn't want to go home rightaway, we drove to a country club in the valley which, forsome reason, never locks the gates at night. The view upthere is spectacular, making it a great place to be alonewith someone special. Brian was certanly special to me.We walked along the green but it was so dark we reallycouldn't see where we were going. It was very warm outthat night so we decided to sit down on the grass andtalk awhile. We sat very close and discussed theevening. He thanked me for protecting him from theboy-eating mob in the club. We sat there talking forabout a half hour then I asked him what he wanted to do.He suggested going back to my apartment. Well, I couldhold back no longer. I reached over and kissed him verysoftly. As I ran my fingers through his silky smoothhair, the fragrence of his colone, and the softness ofhis lips, created emotional and physical feelings thatwere almost too powerful for us to handle.  That  firstkiss lasted for what seemed like eternity. We continuedholding and kissing on under the stars until we noticedthat the sun was begining to rise. Again, he suggestedthat we go back to my appartment. I took him homeinstead. I told him that in two weeks he would beeighteen and I wanted to be his birthday present.... Twoweeks later we had a night that made the evening on thecountry club green seem mild in comparison....Thank you Brian. I will never forget you.--