David picked up his phone to look at the text message that had just come in. It read "I'm here." from his best friend Brandon. David and Brandon had been best friends for as long as he could remember. They did everything together, and when one got interested in something that the other didn't want to participate in, they still went along and cheered the other on. Brandon was 6' 1" and 185. He was thin yet muscular and prided himself on staying in really good shape. He had blonde hair and blue eyes and a smile that could charm the pants off any girl he wanted. David was a bit more reserved. He had dirty blonde almost brown hair with blue eyes. He was 5'10" and 150. He was skinny and not as muscular as Brandon.
This weekend, Brandon's parents were going out of town until Wednesday of the next week and they had asked David to stay at their house with Brandon till they came back so he wouldn't be all alone while he watched the house. Of course David had agreed the second they'd asked even before he found out he would be paid. After all a weekend of hanging out with your best friend, playing video games, eating junk food, and having no supervision? What could be better than that?
David grabbed his backpack of clothes and walked outside to see Brandon waiting in his Jeep Wrangler with no doors. Brandon was wearing a tank top that showed his slim yet muscular arms and shorts with no shoes. David tossed his bag in the back and climbed in.
"Hey how's it going?" Brandon asked.
"Fantastic," David replied "I can't wait to just relax all weekend. I could use the mini vacation."
"Yeah me too."
They drove to Brandon's house. David had always been a little jealous of the house. He had grown up in a small one story home in which he shared a room with his brother and one bathroom with the whole family. Brandon's home was a large 2 story house with a built in pool in the backyard, and multiple bedrooms. The master was his parents and the next largest was his. The other room had been his grandmothers until she passed away and then Brandon's mother had converted it to a craft room in her honor. Both his grandmother and mother loved every kind of craft you could do with your own hands.
As they arrived, Brandon's parents, Jim and Nancy were loading their car with their luggage,
"David!" Jim yelled, "So good to see you again. I hope you'll keep our boy out of trouble while we are gone?"
"Of course," David replied, giving both Jim and Nancy big hugs. They were practically his second set of parents and they loved having him around.
Well come in and let me explain how this will work for the weekend." Nancy told David as she walked him into the house. Brandon followed behind half smiling as he always did when he watched his parents gush over his best friend.
Nancy walked them into the kitchen and started explaining where to find certain food items and pots and pans. Brandon interrupted her, "Mom, he's been spending the night here since we were 9, I think he knows where everything is."
"Oh you're right." she said almost dejectedly. "Well in that case my phone number is on the fridge if you need it or have questions. Jim, can you show David where he will be staying."
"Sure honey," Jim said from the other side of the room "Come on boys." He led the boys upstairs past the craft room and past Brandon's room where David had always slept on an air mattress on the floor over the years. He continued onto the master bedroom and walked inside.
"David, you'll be staying in our bed, don't worry we changed the sheets and everything this morning so everything's clean and ready for you."
"Oh no that's too generous Jim, I would be happy to sleep on the air mattress like usual." David blurted out.
"Nonsense, we insist. Normally you just stay one night if you are going to be here for several I won't have you on an air mattress when a perfectly good bed is right here and empty."
Brandon jutted in "I tried to talk them into giving you my bed and giving me the master but, we all know who is the favorite around here."
David smiled as Jim gave Brandon his fatherly "Oh come on" look
"We need to go honey!" echoed up the stairs from Nancy. Jim checked his watch and bid the boys goodbye. They all walked downstairs and Jim closed up the car and got in. Everyone said their goodbyes and Brandon's parents drove off.
David and Brandon headed inside and shut the door. The possibilities for their bachelor's weekend were sinking in and there were so many options they didn't know what to do first. It was about noon when Brandon's parents left. They decided to sit down and watch some TV to just relax into the weekend. After a few hours of chilling and watching TV they ordered a couple pizzas for a snack and then to have for dinner later and they ate their snack.
After a while Brandon spoke up "Hey you want to go for a swim? I cleaned the pool this morning."
"Yeah let's do it."
They went upstairs and David went into his room. As he started to dig through his backpack he couldn't find his suit. He could have sworn he'd packed one. He dumped the contents out onto the bed and searched through but there was no suit to be found. He heard a splash from the backyard as Brandon jumped into the pool.
"Great," he whispered to himself, "Now what?"
He went downstairs and out onto the patio around the pool.
"Hey," he waved Brandon over, "I can't find my suit, I thought I packed it but I don't know what happened."
"Go in my room and in the bottom drawer of the dresser there are a few in there see if any will fit you."
David went back upstairs into Brandon's room and opened the drawer. He pulled four pairs out of the drawer and tried each pair of them on but all of them were a bit too big in the waist. they just fell right off his skinny hips. He put his shorts back on and went downstairs to tell Brandon the bad news.
"They won't stay on." He said as he stepped back outside.
"Well then just don't wear anything." Brandon said back. David was shocked at the idea and didn't reply.
"Look I'll do it too," Brandon said as he pulled his shorts off underwater and threw them out of the pool "I'll turn around while you get in too so I don't see you."