Last Time . . .

“Justin!”

Johnny smiled and said,

“I love you Josh.”

Josh peeked his head back in and said,

“Only for my money!”

“A boy has to have his standards.”

Josh laughed and then heard Justin yell from upstairs.

“He is going home!”

“Curly don’t make me come up there and kick your ass!” Josh yelled then ran up the stairs into the main hall.

This Time . . .

            The light blue water was splashing up against the hull of the Lazy Girl. Her streamline white hull cut through the water with ease, Dominic stood behind steering her out into the sea. The soft cool breeze was coming from behind him and was pushing the Lazy Girl at a nice cruising speed. Above him, a lone bird soared, and its singing was blocked out by, the light crashing of the waves. A truly peaceful setting it was.

            The Lazy Girl was the name of a sailboat in Maine that he saw every once in awhile when it would go by the Island. He thought that she was the prettiest boat he had ever seen and as it would make its turn around the island he would follow it. He would watch her crew raise and lower the sails as quickly as they could. Dom never liked that part; even though she was a racing boat she deserved to be treated with a gentle hand and not sent racing through the rough waters of Maine. He promised himself, that when she went up for sale that he was going to buy her, learn to sail, and set out along the East Coast of the US until he got to some Caribbean island. Once there, he would live on that boat, and set out every once in awhile for a short sail, or maybe even head to Australia.

            Josh was walking down the hall, and he knocked on Dom’s door. Inside Dom opened his eyes. His hair a mess, he yawned and said come in. Unknowingly to Josh, the guestroom, had been transformed into the bridge of Lazy Girl and was sailing around the Caribbean Ocean. Even though it wasn’t really there, it all seemed so real. It wasn’t any type of normal dream a person has, there weren’t any strange things in it either, like dog’s walking backwards, or butterflies talking, it was just Dom and the boat on the open sea. It was so real in fact, that when Josh opened the door, the scent of salt water filled his nose. He looked around the room, and could feel a dampness in the air, and almost felt himself moving with the rhythm of a boat. But it soon faded, and he dismissed it.

“Dominic, I need to talk to you.” Josh said walking over and pulling out a chair to sit in.

“Sure, what is it? No more of this going back and forward in time stuff is it? Cause I really didn’t like that.” He said with a halfhearted smile.

“No, not about that. It’s about your team.” Dom sat up with interest. “See, I’m worried that if and when, the Vampires come, that we aren’t going to be right there to protect you guys. So, what I need from you is the assurance that you will not leave this part of the house, and when I say for you to get your team and lock yourself in a room, I need for you to be ready to defend yourselves. You and I both know who’s gonna come after you first, that’s IF they get by us.” Josh said looking dead into Dom’s eyes.

“My father.” Dom said sadly.

“Now, I know it’ll be hard, and I’m positive that he is counting on that, even though he isn’t your father anymore, that you’ll obey him. Now I need you to promise me that you won’t. If you can’t do that, then you know that it would be better for you to give your command over to one of the others.” Josh said knowing it would piss Dom off, but also knowing that Dom was a smart kid and would see that Josh was right.

It was a big responsibility for someone to take on, knowing that all the vampires in the world want you because you can make them an army.

“I . . . I’ll try.”

“Don’t try . . . that isn’t good enough. If you can’t promise me this, then step down as leader.”

“I promise.”

“Don’t take this the wrong way . . . but don’t just say you will to try and prove that you can take care of your family, if you know you can’t, step down, there’s nothing cowardly about it. We all know that it’s gonna be hard on you considering the circumstances.”

“I promise. If I find that I’m not gonna be able to do it, I’ll . . . I’ll step down.”

“Thank you.”

“Yeah . . .”

“God, Lance! Ouch!” Josh said as Lance started to apply makeup to Josh’s face.

“Oh stop, I pulled out one hair on your head cause it pissed me off. It will grow back, now hold still!” Lance said as he started to apply the black makeup under Josh’s eyes.

“I don’t know why we have to do this now! The party isn’t till tomorrow, and I think I can put the makeup on myself.” Josh said flinching every time the makeup got close to his eyes.

“Look, I got this for you, so I want to see how it looks. Yah know, for someone with super human strength you sure are a wussy!”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Josh said.

Lance put down the makeup and said,

“No, put it on, and let see how it looks!”

Josh slipped the mask over his head, and looked at the mirror. He hadn’t seen the mask until he had put it on, and at that moment, he knew why Lance wanted the black makeup around his eyes. The mask was laced in diamonds that glittered in the light, and even though it wasn’t as big as he thought it was going to be, it fit nicely. Only covering his forehead, it curved off from the middle of his nose, then in the center of his cheek it moved straight down and came to a point. Nearly $400,000, diamond studded and absolutely beautiful. The black makeup around the eyes was there to bring out Josh’s eyes even more, and with the magical glow in them, it looked like two sapphires. Lance looked over it, and smiled, lustfully at Josh.

“Lance, I don’t mean to sound conceded, but DAMN! I look good!” Josh said with a smile, as his eyes glowed more.

“Now, we just need to see what it looks like with the tux and we’ll be set.” Lance said as he looked over to the two tuxes laid out on their bed.

“So do all the guys, have masks like this?” Josh asked as he took it off, and looked at it.

“Close. Course, I didn’t want the press to get a hold of how much money I had to spend to have them made. Let’s not forget the extra money I had to pay the people that made them. Johnny's is going to be here tomorrow, so, all of us will have them.” Lance said as he saw Josh carefully put the mask back in the box.

“You haven’t given them to the Dream Masters yet, have you?”

“Nope, you’re the only one that has gotten yours. Why?” Lance asked curiously

“Because, I want to give the mask to them. Well, you and me, I mean. Call it a late Christmas present.” Josh said as he walked over to the six boxes lying on the dresser.

“Whose is which” Josh asked Lance.

Lance smiled and walked over to the boxes.

“I wasn’t sure what to get them, so I tried my best to design the mask to suit their personalities. Here is Vanessa’s,” Lance said as he opened the box.

It wasn’t nearly as decorated as Josh’s. It was a simple mask that covered some of her forehead, and her eyes. It was dark blue, and it had four emeralds above each eye. The blue part of the mask would shine in the light, and with light reflecting off of it, it would turn different colors. Completing the mask, on either side, hung two 6inch strings of black pearls. Josh thought that with the right makeup it would fit nicely with Vanessa. He put it back and went through the masks as Lance said whose they were. Shawn’s was a lighter color that covered only a small portion of his face. It circled around his eyes, then hooked down to his mouth. It was thin, and light, and it was lined with small sapphires. Buffy’s was by far the most extravagant. Much like she was. It was white, and had only the lightest of gems in it, with white pearls that would go into her hair to hold it up. Sonia’s was much more calm and subsided. It was white, but it had one large ruby in the middle, traced with pearls, and covered most of her face. Leo’s was most likely the coolest looking one. It covered most of his face, and there was a shit load of small gems on it that went in the pattern of fire up past the eyes. Rubies and amber, were the gems that made up the fire, set to a gray smoke like color for the mask itself. Dom’s had a more dignified look to it. Simple and to the point, it was blue with blue sapphires that went from the corner of the eyes to the end of the mask, also with an emerald that was placed in the middle of the forehead. Josh smiled and picked up the boxes.

“CIDS, please tell the dream masters to meet us in the den.” Josh said as he walked out of the room, followed by Lance.

In the den the Dream Masters began to enter. Silent, as mice they sat and looked at Lance and Josh. Jack, Little Justin’s dog, ran and jumped into Buffy’s lap and laid down. She lightly petted him on the back and he closed his eyes.

“Okay,” Josh said with a sigh, “ We have a party to go to, and . . .” He began but was cut off by Leo.

“Look, we’ll be okay here. You’re not going to have to worry about us.”

Lance smiled and said.

“Actually, we were hoping you would want to come with us. Everyone is going, or so we hope . . .”

Buffy gleamed with happiness, and said.

“Oh, I’m always up for a party.”

“Good.” Josh said. “We got these for you, and I hope you like them, cause we can’t take them back.” Lance and Josh gave out the boxes and the Dream Masters looked at them, and then each other.

“Yo Preppy open yours first!” Leo said as he looked over at Shawn.

“No, you open yours first.” Shawn replied

“I ain’t opening mine. Sonia, why don’t you do it?” Leo said as he nudged her in the side.

“Um, no, I don’t want to go first.” She said.

“OH for fucks sake!” Buffy said annoyed.

She pulled open the top to the box, and threw on the floor as she gazed into the box. She slowly put her hands into the box and pulled it out. The pearls hung down long from the mask and most of them where still in the box. All the dream masters were looking at it in shock as Josh and Lance smiled. Vanessa then opened hers and pulled it out, and soon after so did the rest of them.

“Are, are these real?” Buffy asked as she traced her fingers over the gems.

“Yup.” Lance said as he smiled.

Vanessa put hers back in the box and set it on the floor, as did Buffy. They both stood, Josh and Lance thought that they didn’t like them, but the two of them just looked at each other, grabbed each others hands and started to scream and jump up and down causing laughter to fill the room. Leo jumped up and so did Shawn and then high fived each other then jumped on top of Dominic who let out a hardy laugh and soon after, Sonia jumped on them. Vanessa stopped jumping and looked down at the ground and said,

“Okay, I just became the type of girl I hate.”

Buffy laughed and put her arm across her shoulder and said.

“Girl, ain’t nothing wrong with being happy about getting jewelry from two hot men.”

Lance and Josh laughed and sat down in their chairs.

“Okay, okay guys.” Josh said as he smiled, and waved his hands in the air. “We have to go over a couple of things first. For one thing, the party is tomorrow, and it is EXTREMELY formal. That means you guys get to go shopping tomorrow, for tuxes, gowns, accessories and so forth. Cheap is not an option. This is our money you’re spending so remember that we don’t need our guests looking like upper class trash, we want extreme upper class trash.”

“Yes!” Buffy yelled as she ran and gave Josh a big kiss on the lips then looked over and Lance did the same, then went and sat back down. She seemed to glow more than she had before.

“Alright guys, as in the gentlemen. That is how I expect you to act. Polite, and tempers under control. If there is going to be a fight let us handle it.” Josh said.  “And that’s all.” Lance leaned over and whispered something in Josh’s ear, to which Josh smiled and said, “So he should be down here any minute?”

Lance nodded and smiled. They heard the sound of footsteps coming from outside and the door to the den flew open and Johnny came running in with his mask his hand.

“Josh! This is SOOOO cool!” Johnny said ignoring Dream Masters.

“Johnny?” Buffy said.

Johnny turned around and saw Buffy. Their eyes met and a smile started to form on both of their faces.

“3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .” Josh said, and on one, both of them screamed and ran and gave each other a hug.

It was hard to understand what they were saying. So many words flying at the same time and after each question was asked they would answer it with a question. They walked out of the room like that and could be heard talking down the hall.

“Well, I guess you guys can go. Oh, one more thing!” Josh said just as they started to get up from their seats. He looked at Lance, who continued.

“Seeing as how you have all done well, for the past couple of days, given some minor set backs.” Lance said looking at Leo. “We’re sending Chris with you. You’ll have the freedom to roam. But don’t talk to anyone that you don’t know unless it’s a salesperson. And don’t go alone anywhere. Use the buddy system. Also, we’re giving you some wrist communicators so we can keep tabs on you from here. But right now, you guys are staying here. And, as per request, we opened the indoor pool in the gym.” Lance said with a smirk.

“You have an indoor pool?” Shawn asked as he carefully put the mask back in its box.

Just then Joey walked in a pair of shorts followed by Beryl.

“Lance, Josh, is the pool ready?” Beryl asked.

“Yes.” Lance said smiling at them.

All the Dream Masters looked up at Josh and Lance.

“Go have fun!” Josh said causing the Dream Masters to jump up and run after Beryl and Joey.

“Feel like going for a swim?” Lance asked Josh after they were all gone.

He lightly rubbed his hands just above Josh’s cock, slowly rubbing back and forth. Josh leaned in, kissed him and held him close to his body.

“Sure. But, you know, there is no time to play if the . . . Kids are there.” Josh said smiling.

Lance smiled back and then walked towards the door.

“Well, I’m going for a swim. Join me if you want.” Lance said as he shut the door.

            Joey and Beryl sat in the pool talking to each other; their only conversation being about the situation at hand and nothing else. They saw Lance come in wearing blue swim trunks, and he had a towel draped over his right shoulder. He smiled at them as he entered, and then looked around.

“Where’s everyone else?” His voice echoed in the huge room.

Joey and Beryl shrugged, suddenly there was a loud thumping sound of feet running through the hall. Justin and Jonathan ran through the door and both jumped in the pool. As Johnny was flying in the air, Justin froze him in mid air. When Justin came back to the surface he swam to the side, smiled at Beryl, and said,

“God I missed having someone to pick on!” Then he waved his hand in the air, and his little brother fell into the water. When he came back up he saw Justin sitting at the side of the pool smiling.

“Hey! You used your powers! I would have beat you!” He said pulling the hair back out of his eyes.

Justin just laughed and then looked over at Joey and the others and said.

“What’s up?”

Soon after Sonia and Buffy walked in. Sonia was wearing her suit under her shirt and she blushed when she saw the four guys sitting in and around the pool staring at her. Buffy was wearing a t shirt too, but she just smiled and set her towel on one of the chairs that were across the pool, then looked over at the guys and said,

“Hey honeys.”

She took off her shirt, and her firm figure was out lined in a single piece blue bathing suit. Her, long blond hair fell to the side and she walked over to the pool and put her toes in to test the water. Then in one graceful movement she dove into the water and the resurfaced. Joey and Jonathan’s eyes were all over her body like the water was. Beryl looked over at them and then started to sing,

“Dream weaver, I believe you can get me through the night.”  Joey splashed him with water and smiled at him and said,

“Shut up! You know you were starin too!”

Justin started laughing.

“Come on Daddy!” Little Justin said as he ran to the side of the pool, with his water wings and his small swim trunks. Chris came walking in, with two towels in his arms, and his palm tree swim trunks.

“I’m right here.” Chris said as LJ jumped into the pool, looked around and laughed. He walked over to the edge of the pool where everybody else was and said.

“I have all this super power, and I teach at a high school, and yet this five year old,” There was a high pitched barking sound and the small Jack Russell terrier went and jumped in the pool next to LJ, “And his dog, are kicking my ass. How is that possible?”

“Maybe you’re getting old.” Joey said smiling at Chris.

            Soon enough, the rest of the Dream Masters came into the pool area. All went and jumped in the pool except for Vanessa. She was still fully clothed; she just went and sat on one of the chairs, and pulled out a minidisc player. Justin looked over at her and then pulled himself out of the pool. As he strolled over to her, he saw that she was watching him. He had to hide his smile because he knew that he looked good.

“Why aren’t you in the pool?” He asked, to which he didn’t get a response due to the MD player.

“What?” She asked loudly as she pulled off her headphones.

“Why aren’t you in the pool?” He asked again.

“Oh, I don’t know how to swim.” She said as she smiled.

He laughed then sat down next to her and they started talking.

TBC . . .