All The Charm

Chapter 4

Saturday morning

Charlie woke up realizing that she was sleeping on someone’s couch. She had woken up to the smell of coffee. She sat up and looked towards the kitchen. She watched Justin cook as Brian tried to distract him. They looked deliriously happy. She watched as Brian turned Justin around and kisses him soundly. Breakfast forgotten, they started devouring each other. Brian turned Justin into the counter, pulling his sweats at the same time. Brian produced a condom and lube and proceeded to prepare himself and Justin. They moaned as they made contact again. She watched them together. They were extremely beautiful. She got up and walked to the bathroom and started the shower.

After they climaxed, they realized that they had woken Charlie up. Justin turned red again as they cleaned up. Charlie came out of the shower wrapped in a towel. She walked over to the couch where she had laid out her clothes. Brian started to set up the table with his back to Charlie. As she dropped her towel, Justin couldn’t help but stare. She was probably the only female that he could think of that he would want to do a nude of.

“Charlie, stop,” Brian laughed, as she put on her underwear, “I don’t want him to be thinking about pussy, especially yours.”

Charlie laughed, putting the sweats back on, “Well fair is fair. I’ll be thinking about you two having sex till I have good sex again.”

Brian tackled her to the rug, he pinned her arms above her head. He started to tickle her. “Stop, Bri,” she managed to breath before she couldn’t get out another coherent thought. Justin watched the old friends. He saw the love in Brian’s eyes. He felt jealous. He went back to cooking. Justin knew Brian had said it last night, but he also knew that Brian and Charlie had more history than him and even Michael.

“Give in, Char,” Brian said grinning evilly. All Charlie could do was nodded. She couldn’t breathe since he was still tickling her. He stopped and helped her sit up.

“Fuck you, Kinney,” Charlie growled, when she caught her breathe, while she pushed him away. He laughed standing up, holding a hand to Charlie, who accepted. “Justin I feel sorry for you. You’re stuck with him.”

“Don’t start, Char,” said Brian moving closer, as she back away. She looked over at Justin for help. Charlie saw the look in his eyes, Justin was jealous. ‘He must be feeling insecure about him and Brian. My being here isn’t helping, but it can,’ she thought. “So Justin, ask me anything that you want to know about Brian or me or both.” Brian looked at her, she knew more than anyone, but she looked back at him and leaned and whispered, “You can stop me from saying anything but he is jealous of us and our history.” She pulled back and looked into Brian’s eyes, he nodded and said, “Go ahead Justin. Ask away.”

Justin thought about it. He knew what she was up to and was thankful for it. “Why don’t we eat first then talk?” Both nodded. They ate breakfast in a comfortable silence. Brian looked worried; he had no idea what Justin was going to ask or how he or Charlie would say about it. When they finished, they moved to the living room. Charlie sat across from Brian and Justin, who each sat on the opposite end of the couch.

“I want to know about Brian’s childhood,” Justin said looking from Brian to Charlie.

“Well, I’ve known Bri since we were both babies. I’ve witness first hand: Jack’s beatings, Joan and Claire’s indifference,” Charlie started. Justin looked at Brian, who was focused on Charlie. Charlie continued, “Jack never wanted Brian. He probably didn’t care one way or another about Claire so she was spared. Joan was only hit occasionally when she was trying to protect Brian. When Brian was five years old, she stopped protecting him. Then anything that Bri did good or bad, right or wrong, got either verbal or physical abuse.”

“Jack didn’t care who was around when he did it. I usually stayed at Charlie’s house. Her parents wouldn’t say anything about the bruises. They accepted me for me, but I always had to return home. Then one day, when we were 12, Charlie had been with me, Jack came home drunk out of his mind. He started yelling for me, about something that I hadn’t done or needed to do. We went downstairs to do whatever it was that he wanted us to do. When we found him, he just hit me, telling me that I was a disappointment and that I shouldn’t be alive. Charlie went over to Jack and told him that he was a sick bastard, a poor father, and that Joan and him should be in jail for what they do to their child. Jack snapped I guess and hit her. We both got up and ran from the house. When we had gotten far enough away, we stopped and I looked at Charlie’s face. The area around her eye was swollen and bruising badly. She tried to get me to go home with her.”

“He wouldn’t come. Stubborn son of a bitch. He said, ‘I have to go back. Just tell your parents that we got into a fight and that we aren’t friends anymore.’ I told him that I would do no such thing. Then he ran back home. I couldn’t catch him so I let him go. A week later, I heard from mutual friends that he had moved. It wasn’t until we were 16 that we saw each other again. Both of us had transferred to public schools. I was on the girls’ soccer team and we were cheering on our boys’ soccer team on an away game since we had already played our game. Brian’s name was called out for the other team. That was a complete shock. Not only was he on the other team, he almost single-handily kicked my team ass. It was funny.” Charlie and Brian smiled, “Anyway, he came up to me after his game and gave me a big hug. We really had missed each other. My friends on the boys’ soccer team were mad that I was hugging him. I told my coach that I was getting a ride home from a friend.”

“Then Deb and Michael ran up to congratulate me. Deb pulled me into a bone-crushing hug. Mikey just stared. If you think we look alike now, think about high school.” Brian smiled, “Well Deb thought Charlie was great.”

“And I thought Deb was the perfect person in his life at the time. My parents had come to my game and stayed to watch the boys play. My mom came up and lightly hugged Brian and my dad touched Brian’s shoulder. I had told them what had happened and they had wanted to call the cops but I made them promise not to. They were happy to that he was ok. We all went out to dinner. It was good to catch up with my old friend. Although I’m still not sure why you hung out with Mikey.” Charlie laughed, “He was so jealous that Brian had another friend, one that knew Brian better and longer. He pretty much glared at me the entire night.”

“Oh well, some things don’t change. We hung out with each other every weekend after that although we couldn’t always ditch Mikey. We hung out at the mall, at the park, anywhere. One day we were walking in the park, without Michael, we ran into some of my soccer buddies. They saw us together and asked if I wanted to play a pick up game. She told me that she would call me later tonight, and then she kissed me and I kissed her back. My friends started making kissing noises and hollering. She left and I was told have well we looked together. If you ever wanted to thank anyone for my kissing ability, it’s Charlie. After that, my senior year was ok. My teammates watched my back about all the queer jokes. Charlie and I put up pretense of dating. Then she got her full scholarship to Yale University.”

“Yeah. Brian may have had the smarts but he also had Jack and Joan. So Penn State was good enough. Oh well we got together as much as we could. Our plan was to start our own agency, but we had also decided that would get experience first. He went to Ryder and I went to Kyles and Mitchell. About six years ago, both partners in my firm retired and I took over. The business boomed, now it’s an international office. Now we have out dream.”

“Yeah. Well, Mikey has seen us having sex after graduation from high school. It’s not like I was…” Brian stopped.

“Let’s just say that it wasn’t normal hetero sex.” Charlie laughed at the look on Justin’s face, “We did the same for graduation from college. Although we vowed never to have sex again, because normal hetero sex wasn’t for us, we ended up doing it both ways around the same time I came into control of the company. I think that I needed it; I was completely drunk and high. Both of us were.”

“That’s the short version of my life,” Brian stated looking Charlie and then Justin. “Justin if you ever want to know anything about me, you’ll deal with the resistance on certain things but I’ll try to tell you. I love you, Justin.”

Justin looked at Brian, he knew that Brian felt vulnerable about what they had just talked about, “I know. All I ask is that you try and not to shut me out.”

“Ok,” was all that Brian could say. Justin pulled Brian into an embrace.

“I knew that my psychology degree would come in handy,” Charlie said and laughed when Brian flipped her off. “Lets go out for lunch. I’m hungry.”

Brian and Justin showered, got dressed, and they left the loft. “Nice car,” Justin said when he saw the black Porsche.

“Yeah. Expensive,” Charlie shrugged. “Hey Justin,” she tossed her keys at him, “you drive to the diner.”

“Really?” Justin looked excited and scared at the same time.

“Sure. Just don’t drive extremely fast. In this car it is extremely easy. Come on Bri, get in. I’ll drop you guys off afterwards.” Brian climbed in the back, Charlie got in the passenger seat.

Justin drove the Porsche right up to the front of the diner where there was a spot opening up. Emmett, Michael, and Ben were walking towards the diner.

“Man, look at the Porsche,” Emmett said. They all stopped when Justin got out of the driver’s seat. “Hey sweetie. Where did you get this car?”

Charlie got out of the passenger seat letting Brian out of the back. “It’s actually my car. I crashed at Brian’s last night.”

“Wow,” Emmett said speechless.

They all walked into the diner and took their regular booth. Charlie sitting on the inside of the booth, with Brian sitting next to her, and Justin in his lap. Brian whispered something into Justin’s ear; Justin smiled his best smile and kissed Brian softly.

“So, you two seen to be doing ok,” Emmett stated as he pulled up a chair, leaving Ben and Michael across from Charlie, Brian and Justin.


”Yeah,” Brian stated. “We’re ok.” He smiled. He was thinking hard about something that he needed to talk to Charlie’s opinion of.

“Brian, are you coming to Woody’s with us tonight?” Michael asked testing the water, since their conversation last night; Brian hadn’t said anything to him.

“I don’t know. I was thinking about taking Justin to dinner,” Brian stated, glaring at Michael.

“You mean like a date?” Justin asked cautiously, not knowing what this Brian would do.

“No, he doesn’t. He probably means eating and then fucking,” Michael said, “He doesn’t do dates.”

“Who said I didn’t?” Brian was angry, “Yes, it is a date. A fancy restaurant, candles, and maybe a walk in the park afterwards.”

Charlie, Emmett, Ben, and Deb, who had just come up to take orders, smiled. Michael glared at Justin, “Since when Brian? You’ve never wanted to do those type of things.”

“Since I realized that I love Justin,” Brian barked at Michael, who was speechless. “Since I realized that I am in love with Justin,” Brian said softer looking into Justin’s eyes. He pulled Justin into a kiss. He whispered into Justin’s ear, “I don’t need anyone else but you. You are enough for me.” Justin smiled trying not to cry.

“Brian fuckin Kinney is off the market. Yahoo!” Debbie yelled. Brian winced at the sound of her voice; he hadn’t realized that she was there. Charlie and Justin laughed at Brian’s face. The rest of the lunch went smoothly.

When they got back to the loft, Brian said, “hey, I’ll meet you upstairs. I need talk to Charlie.” “Ok,” Justin said. He kissed Brian and went inside.

“Charlie, I was thinking about asking Justin to marry me. I’ve realized that he is everything for me and that I don’t need anyone else.”

“Wow, Bri. I’m happy for you. You’ve finally grown up.”

“Yeah,” Brian said softly. “You have always had a way of grounding me and making me think about what is important. I will always hold you in my heart.”

“What do you need me to do?” Charlie asked.

“Well a few things. One, could I borrow your cabin Vermont? And two, if Justin agrees to it, I would like you to mother our next child.” Brian looked at Charlie’s face, he couldn’t read her expression.

“Yes, to the first and let me know about the second, Justin’s opinion,” Charlie smiled. “Have fun.”

When Brian got upstairs, Justin jumped into his arms. “Wait, Justin. I need to talk to you,” Brian said walking to the couch. “There are three things I want to ask you. One is about the loft. I want to buy a house, one that we pick out together.” Brian paused waiting for Justin’s response.

“You want to sell the loft?” Justin look shocked.

“Yeah. I want to make a home with you. Second, is that I want to take a trip to Vermont this weekend and,” Brian paused again, wondering if it was ok, “and get married.”

Justin launched himself into Brian and kissed him passionately. Brian smiled.

“Justin, baby, we have a blood test appointment in an hour, we can’t start sorry,” Brian said as he pulled back. Then there was a knock on the door. Justin got up to answer and found Charlie standing on the other side.

“Hey, Jus. Bri, here is the spare key. Hey I need to see your ring fingers.” She pulled out a sizer. She sized both of the ring fingers and wrote down the sizes. “I’ll bring the rings back in about an hour or two.” She turned and left.

Justin remembered that Brian had said he had three things he wanted to talk about. “Bri, what’s the third thing you wanted to talk about?”

“Well, I know you want kids, so I was wondering if you would mind if Charlie had our baby.”

“No, but with the two of you as parents this kid will be a knockout and a sex fiend,” Justin laughed, Brian joined in.

“Well, I was wondering if you would like to father our child,” Brian said softly.

“Me, a father?” Justin looked ecstatic at the prospect. “Man, I’m becoming a husband and a potential father in one day.” He started dancing around the loft.

“Justin, we have to go get our blood test. So let’s get going,” Brian said swatting his ass. They left.

When they returned two hours later, they found their clothes packed in two suitcases and two suit bags. Charlie was sipping JB and watching TV. “Hey guys.”

“You have our rings?” Justin asked wondering if they were ready.

“Well, at first I wanted to get handcuffs for Brian and a nice ring for you, but that wouldn’t be right.” She ducked as Brian swatted at her head, Justin just laughed, “But I got these.” She pulled out the little jewelry box out of her suit. Justin and Brian looked inside and smiled. The rings were perfect. They had a Celtic knot engraved on the outside and, ‘I love you,’ engraved on the inside with their initials. “Here are tickets to use my plane. Have fun. I expect you two to be at work on Monday though.” She smiled and left. “Oh,” she popped her head back in, “I have reserved parking at the airport. There will be a guy standing on the side with a sign with your names on it. He’ll have the car moved and escort you to the plane.”

“Thanks, Char,” Brian leaned in and kissed her.

“Are you ok?” Charlie looked at Justin.

Justin smiled even wider, “Yeah. Ok, will talk about that when you come to work on Monday. So, go get married.” Charlie kissed Justin, who felt his body respond. “Have fun you two.” She left.

“Well since everything is already done, why don’t we head out,” Brian said as he wrapped his arm around Justin who was trying to will his erection down. “She has the same effect on me. It should be easy to get her pregnant.”

“Eww.” Justin winced as Brian laughed.

They grabbed their bags and headed for the airport. There was the guy holding the sign, who had another man to park the car. They were escorted to the plane. They were getting married tomorrow.