Post Eleven – Walter and Gabriel

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Post Eleven – Walter and Gabriel

Rarely did Kaci wear make-up, especially outside on the ranch. Typically she wore a cotton tank-top and Levi 501 jeans that fit tight around her narrow waist and shapely ass she thought was too big. The boys at school did not agree with her lowly self-assessment. They would stare in unison as she walked passed them on the way to class. At home she would pull her hair back in a ponytail and thread it through the opening on the back of a blue and white King Ropes trucker cap. She wore her pant legs inside her boots with custom made Garcia spurs her dad bought her one Christmas from J.M. Capriola’s in Elko, Nevada. The spurs were a constant attachment to her dusty, dirty boots even when she removed them on the back porch at the end of the day.

The only time Kaci ever wore make-up was when she had a date for the school formal or when her mom’s old friends from her modeling days in New York would visit the ranch. Jaylyn didn’t keep up with the other models after she left the business-they were too self-centered. She did, however, maintain lifelong friendships with some phenomenal photographers and eccentric gay make-up artists.

Walter and Gabriel were especially flamboyant. They were an old couple. They would cackle, laugh and flitter around like teenage school-girls when they got together with Jaylyn. They didn’t care who made fun of them. They were secure in who they were and had been out of the closet their whole lives. In the modeling industry around the world it was easy, accepted. In Llano, Texas it was a different story. Folks looked at them funny when they would go to town. Some would make snarky comments about “them fags from the city.” Jaylyn would always apologize to Walter and Gabriel.

Kaci’s dad Harold never really understood how a man could have those kinds of feelings for another man, but he accepted them completely as friends of his wife.  He genuinely liked Walter and Gabriel because they cared so deeply for Jaylyn. They were harmless. Walter and Gabriel would tease Jaylyn, in front of Harold, that if she wasn’t careful, they would steal her handsome Harold away. They all laughed deep belly laughs and drank several bottles of Llano Estacado Winery’s Muscat Canelli as they sat on the back patio overlooking the river.

These days Walter and Gabriel no longer worked in the modeling business. As middle- aged men they could not compete with the sexier, thinner and more hip young gay men in the fast paced world of high fashion. Their bigger girths, lack of tattoos and dated ways put them at odds with the new breed. They loved to talk smack and gossip about those pretty boys who pushed them out. Today they made their living as hair, make-up and fashion consultants for young women competing in beauty pageants around the country. They were in high demand.

Kaci loved Walter and Gabriel. They were like uncles to her. They in-turn loved Kaci. They marveled at how much she looked like her mom when her mom was her age. They showered her with compliments and had fun working their make-up magic on her flawless canvas. When they finished, Kaci no longer looked seventeen and innocent, instead she too looked like she belonged on the cover of Cosmo. The sexual transformation was stunning if only temporary. Kaci had fun listening to them carry on with their ooohs and aahhs, but she never left the ranch looking like a cover girl. She wore jeans and loose fitting baby-doll tops to school. That was enough to send the country boys of Llano into testosterone overload.