Dinner on the Open Ocean (Closed)

[brae]

Braedan had taken to take a nap from the afternoon's fishing, waking up in the oversized waterbed was an experience that he would live with for quite a while. He could hear laughter on the top deck of the yahct and the smell of good food being cooked, great he thought as he slipped out of the bed standing in a pair of borrowed swim shorts he walked out onto the deck. He was a little surprised to find that it was raining and that they were sat at a table under the over hang of the bridge.

"Your finally awake cous." Marco said to him.

"Can you blame me for not wanting to wake up in that thing?" Braedan asked as he sat down taking the bottle of white wine and pouring himself a glass.

"If your drinking you can stay on the boat tonight, your mother will kill me if I let you drink and drive." his stepfather said to him Braedan laughed.

"When did it start to rain?" Braedan asked them.

"About an hour ago." Marco said to him.

"Are we expecting a storm?" Braedan asked they both shook their heads. "Well thats good, it would be annoying to drown this far out from the main land you know." Braedan said to him Marco laughed.

"You complaining already?" Daniel asked as he came out of a hatch with a couple of plates of food.

"Damn is it safe to let him cook?" Braedan asked.

"I'm just bringing it up from the galley." Daniel said to him.

"Dan has his eyes on the new female chef." Cesc said Braedan chuckled.

"Tall leggy and blonde?" Braedan asked.

"Short and blonde but she makes up for it in other departments." Marco said the other two not concerned laughed.

"Laugh it up boys I'm the one who got the phone number." Daniel said as the other plates came up.

"My baby brother is so growing up." Marco said to them.

"Next thing you know his getting married." Cesc said the two older men laughed.

"Why did I come to this?" Braedan asked.

"The good food." Daniel said to him.

"Okay good point." Braedan said to him.

They sat eating dinner happily talking about their lives, Daniel asking about the car and then asking whether he could take it for a test drive the next morning. Braedan loved to spend time with the one man he thought of as an actual father besides his own. His mother could marry as many men as she liked but Cesc understood him to some degree.

When dinner was over the three of them kicked back into the sun loungers that had been brought up, each of them had a cigar, though none of the younger men actually smoked and were having a hard time not coughing madly.

"You may not tell your mothers about the cigars." Cesc said.

"My mother may actually throtle you for the alcohol." Braedan said to him.

"Good point, your mother has also asked me to tell you that your expected to resume going to synagogue starting next week. Non negotiable if you wish to keep the car apparently." Cesc said Braedan chuckled as he looked at him.

"I'll remember to remind my mom that bribary is a disgusting thing." Braedan said to him.

"You never explained why you stopped going to her, maybe if you did she would understand some more." Cesc said.

"Yeah because thats what I want to talk to my mom about Cesc." Braedan said to him.

"It can't be that bad." Daniel said to him.

"This is so not a conversation that I want to have with my family." Braedan said to them. "Can we just enjoy this without arguing about my relationship with my mother." Braedan said to them they laughed.

"Your mothe cares you know." Cesc said.

"I don't need to be told that to know it Cesc, I may not like my mothers choice in husbands most of the time. Having her around however seems to have some bonuses." He said to him the man laughed.

"Not me I hope?" Cesc asked.

"If I didn't like you, do you seriously think that I would be on this boat with your family?" Braedan asked him the man shook his head.

"Your mother hasn't found another potential father yet then?" Marco asked.

"Not that I know of, but her kids are usually the last to find out about these things, we usually just get an invite to the wedding and gifts. The last time she married her husband brought us all new wardrobes, I mean right down to the underwear it was just so wrong... it lasted three months for god sakes... her track record with men is almost as big as her bank account almost but not quite." Braedan said to him.

"You should cut her some slack." Marco said to him.

"I'm not complaining, my trust fund gets larger with each divorce, you'd think that the men she married would get her to sign a what ever to say that she wouldn't get anything in the case that they divorce." Braedan said to them.

"Pre nup." Daniel said.

"Yeah that." Braedan said to him.

"You need to work on your English some more?" Marco asked.

"My English is fine." Braedan said to him. "Its just the drink." he added.

"Yeah thats what they all say." Daniel said to him.

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Braedan checked his watch it was near on midnight they were heading back to the dock, but they would all likely be asleep by the time they arrived back at the dock. He had truly enjoyed today, with Cesc and his cousins, his phone had barely rung all day. But that could have been because of how far out they were rather than people not trying to get a hold of him.

"Hey." Marco said as he came up beside him.

"I thought I was the only one awake." Braedan said to him.

"No I'm still up, you want to tell me if what you didn't tell Cesc. Something is going on with you." Marco said to him.

"Not much." Braedan said to him.

"Brae." Marco said.

"Seriously not ready to talk about it." Braedan said to him.

"Are you gay?" Marco asked Braedan said nothing. "Fuck me you are." Marco said to him.

"I don't know." Braedan said to him.

"Your what bi?" Marco asked. "Jes dude you have a girlfriend for every day of the week most of the time." Marco said to him.

"Seriously I don't know, and if you breath a word of this to my mother your castrated." Braedan said to him.

"Okay but if you want to talk you know where I am right." Marco said to him.

"Big house at the top of the hill right, white porche or is it a merc in the front of the house now?" Braedan said to him.

"I am being serious." Marco said.

"I know you are, but your about the last person I am going to talk about this to." Braedan said to him.

"Do you need to be such an ass?" he asked.

"I was born to be an ass remember." Braedan said to him.

"Good point." Marco said to him.

"It means quite a bit by the way, that you offered." Braedan said to him.

"Your my cousin even if its not by blood your family. You should know that and you should come up to the house next weekend, bring some friends, we'll throw a party, or we could just come out here again. You know what Cesc is like, he'll bring us all out here again without any issue." Marco said to him.

"You think your house can survive a party with common kids?" Braedan asked him.

"Only one way to find out about it, the parents are out of town for the next few months, I am in charge of Daniel." he said. "We've already had big parties at the house, why not have at least once more." Marco said to him.

"I'll think about it, though I have to say that I have wanted to try out the pool for quite a while." Braedan said to him the man laughed.

"Your brother says the same thing." Marco said to him.

"Lukas has good taste always said that." Braedan said to him.

"He is having some trouble you know that right?" Marco said to him.

"I know I'm in the middle of settling it." Braedan said to him.

"He needs his big brother to step up, or send him home to your dad." Marco said to him. "You know his arguing with your mom all the time, the husband every year is not helping him. The money isn't helping him." he added.

"And you think it is me, in case you didn't notice my life is pretty fucked up Marco." Braedan said to him. "I'll talk to him, we'll work it out together, we always do." Braedan said to him. "It wasn't my mom who said about me going back to service was it. It was Lukas wasn't it." Braedan said to him.

"Yeah it was Lukas." Marco said to him.

"Okay I'll deal with it in the morning." Braedan said to him. "You know that my dad wouldn't take him don't you." Braedan said to him.

"Why?" Marco asked.

"My father hates us for choosing mom over him. My elder sister she had it right, it was mom who screwed their marriage over not dad. I tried writing to him a couple of times last year, it was just before Lukas's birthday, and I wanted to arrange this surprise birthday party for him. He wouldn't take my call, my sister answered the phone and told me to leave them alone. She said that I was no better than mom cause I believed her lies over dad." Braedan said. "And sometimes I think shes right, I didn't believe dad because I didn't want to believe him. I didn't want to admit that mom was in the wrong." Braedan said.

"You were a kid, how were you to know?" Marco said.

"I'll let you know when I work it out for myself." Braedan said to him.

"Cesc still loves your mom." Marco said.

"I wish I could say that was mutual." Braedan said to him.

"Okay well I'm going down below to get some sleep." Marco said to him.

"I'll be down their soon." Braedan said to him Marco nodded and disappeared.