"Ooooh, Sunshine! What the fuck happened to the backyard?" Brian asked when he got home from the office Friday evening.

"Huh?" was Justin's response, not bothering to look up from cucumber he was chopping.

"It looks like the set of Holes 2 out there, and I don't mean the porno."

"Oh yeah, that," Justin replied, still not answering the question.

Just then, Gus burst into the kitchen through the garden doors. "Justin, check this out! I bet this is totally a dinosaur toe bone, don't you think?" he said before noticing his dad standing there.

"Hi Dad! Ohmygod, we had so much fun at the museum this morning! There's this paleontology exhibit and all sorts of different fossils and dinosaur bones and recreated life-size models...so amazing. And then I couldn't wait to get back here to see if there were any fossils hidden in the backyard. I've spent the last three hours digging, and I think I found something!" He said this all with maybe only a short pause in the middle for a breath of air, not letting Brian get his own 'hello' in.

Taking the bone from Gus' outstretched hand, Justin examined it, but it was obviously a chicken or turkey bone that a raccoon must have dropped the few times they managed to ransack the garbage bin before they started keeping it inside the attached garage. Turning it over in his hands, pretending to ponder its origins more closely, the only thing he could think of to say without totally disappointing Gus was, "Why don't you go look through the fossil book we got today and see if there's anything to compare it to?"

"Right!" Gus exclaimed and tore out of the room to examine the book where he'd left it in the living room.

"So how much sugar did you feed my son today?"

Justin held up his hands in defence. "No more than usual, I swear. He's just super excited about fossils I guess."

"Well, if he's this excited everyday during his visit this summer, you and I are going to need a relaxing holiday when he leaves," Brian said, stepping in behind Justin and wrapping his arms around his waist.

"Not too relaxing, I hope?" Justin replied, turning in the embrace. He reached up, and wrapped his hands behind Brian's neck to pull him in for a kiss.

"Don't worry, I'll make you come so loud and so hard that you'll pass out...that'll be the relaxing part," he said with a smirk.

Justin pulled him in for another kiss. Brian pressed his tongue into Justin's mouth; the warm, wet heat was what he'd been craving all day.

"Oooo gross! Not you guys too! My moms do that all. the. time!" Gus protested when he returned to the kitchen with the book and the 'fossil.'

Breaking apart, Brian asked, "So what did you find out, Sonnyboy?"

"Well, it looks like that one there," he said as he pointed to a picture on the page. "So I guess it's not a fossil since that's a chicken leg picture." The happy, hopeful tone had vanished from Gus' voice; this was a major let-down.

"That's too bad, but maybe next time you could not dig up the yard on your search? Or take up a less destructive hobby, like dish breaking."

Gus just had a confused look on his face, and Justin gave Brian a smack to the stomach for suggesting such a thing.

"Kidding, kidding," Brian promised.

"Gus, why don't you go wash up for supper?" Justin asked.

"Fiiiine," Gus replied and moped off to the washroom.

"But the question is," Brian said once Gus was out of earshot, "when the fuck is the backyard going to be repaired?"

"Don't worry about it. I already called in an emergency landscape crew as soon as I realized what Gus was up to. They'll be here tomorrow, bright and early."

"Did you..." Brian began.

"Of course, they're the same guys I used last time....and Gus is getting picked up at 8:30 for a play date in the city with Grandma Deb and Auntie Em," Justin explained. "See, not everything turned out so terrible having a ripped up backyard. Hell, maybe it might just turn into the set of Holes 2, the porno."

Brian laughed. "Should I call Ted and get him to arrange camera crew?"