SINCE THEY LIVE right across the hall from me i have seen them on occassions but apart from greeting each other i never knew much about them,being the only black family living in an hispanic tenement perhaps made them unsociable but after three years had passed personal family issues compelled the oldest boy who today is 15 years old to get outdoors and find a job...of course he had no prior training in any field and i had to agree with his mother and grandfather that no one was going to hire him and certainly not for 50 dollars a week.i have a work studio in my home where i design custom made bikes and framed fantasy artworks to sell to the general public and i always thought he was a nice kid who was quite and kept to himself so when he asked me for a job i decided to find out what he knew about bikes but his age was a concern so i told him that i would need to speak with his mother,they all showed up at my place and from years of experience i knew something was wrong with his grandfathers behavior but with them present i conducted a visual test to see what the young boy knew about bikes and unfortunately he knew nothing so of course his mother proudly stated that i had made her point because he just wouldn't listen to her when she told him without education and skills no one was going to hire him.i gave the kid ten dollars and gave him some advise that his grandfather and mother totally agreed with and though he didn't get mad i sense something was wrong because he looked at me like he wanted to tell me something but didn't dare to in front of his family.his mother was a very nice lady and she thanked me for setting an example of the obstacles her son would have to overcome to get ahead in life then just before she left she said her son could really use and need a friend like me that he can talk to but the grandfather who didn't seem very sociable was extremely silent.i told her i was a 34 year old single man and thought it would be innapropiate for her son and me to be friends telling her he just needs friends his age he can relate to.the next few days i didn't hear from them and concluded they worked out their family issues and i hoped them the best but suddenly one late afternoon while i was watching a movie on youtube there was a knock on my door which i thought was strange because my family and friends know as a rule to call me before coming over since i do value my privacy.i went to open the door and was somewhat surprised to find him there but when he asked me if he could inside to talk to me about something very personal i told him i didn't think that was a good idea unless he went and got his mothers permission first.sincerely i didn't want to get involved in their issues and of course anyone can easily sense something wrong was going on if this kid felt the urgent need to come see me.he assured me his mother knew though his grandfather threaten to throw him out of the house if he went around telling strangers their family issues and it caused them any legal trouble,still unsure i took a deep breath and let him in.he went and sat on my living room sofa while i went to the kitchen to get him a can of coca-cola and a cold beer for myself then went over to sit across from him in my office chair that i use when i'm doing computer work.when he got straight to the point i wasn't exactly prepared to hear what he had to say but certainly understood why his grandfather wouldn't want him in my home talking about their family secrets.three years ago they had moved out of the projects because some older boys from a school nearby used to follow him around because they were part of a black and hispanic gay group who liked to initiate young boys.he was too young to understand what they were talking about but he liked how friendly they were with him especially one black boy who usually came over to visit him and play games on his x-box.but one day when they were coming out of a pizzeria the boy invited him back to his apartment where he started doing stuff like touching him and trying to kiss him in the mouth but when he refused the boy put him in a choke hold and forced him to unzip his pants and pull down his underwears.they were alone in the boys bedroom somewhere on the 17th floor of the projects where the boy forced him into having anal sex for a long time.the boy kept doing this to him every chance he could promising him that the other boys in the group already knew he was the boys favorite and didn't need to be initiated by the group as long as they were able to have sex when ever the boy wanted.he thought about it and decided if it was just him and the boy then it was better than having sex with all the boys of the group and besides he found that he sometimes liked it.there was a long silence in my living room when he said this but he just shrugged his shoulders telling me that he wasn't going to sit in my house and deny it...he and the boy had sex often but one day told him he had to have sex with the group and tried to convince him with threats.the boy broke into his house and stole his x-box and mothers jewelry and smashed the windows of his grandfathers car.this led to him telling them the truth and they moved out of the projects.his mother was a single woman and though he always wanted to ask her why she always slept in the same room with his grandfather he never dared to though he could hear them late at night having sex.several months after they had moved in down the hall his mother found a job so his grandfather took care of him,they often talked about what had happened in the projects and one day while he was taking a nap his grandfather came into his room and started doing that stuff the boy used to do.i remember thinking how uncomfortable his grandfather behaved in my apartment sensing something wasn't right and his grandsons honesty was pretty much self explanatory.he told me his grandfather had many opportunities because he never complained though sex with him really hurt for a long time.his mother knew what was going on and told him to go out and find a friend from school or our neighborhood instead of having sex with her father.naturally his mother seem to like and trust me and unlike his grandfather he felt the same way assuring me he liked doing that sex stuff anyway and would understand if i didn't want to be that kind of friend.i sat beside him on my sofa taking a deep breath and leaning my head back to close my eyes because i was speechless,tired and unsure.the truth is up to that point i hadn't had sex in a long time much less with some one of my same sex gender and the fact that he was young not his race was a concern.during a long silence between us he gently put his hand on my lap and with my eyes closed i felt him slowly moving his hand up and towards the slightly growing bulge in my gym pants,my silence seem to encourage him to go further putting his hand inside my gym pants and within seconds i was semi-erect in his hand while he stroked it up and down.he certainly felt confident at this point to expose my erect penis and surprising me with how good he was performing oral sex...we stopped at this point when his mother came knocking on my door but for some strange reason i will never understand they moved out several days later..true story.