THE GENTLEMEN'S CLUB
Joey

Written by Lady Poetess
egiggles at moose-mail.com
http://www.asstr.org/~bbp

Please do not reproduce on any website without permission. This
story has no resemblance to anyone dead or alive.


ONE

Fourteen-year old Andrew James Lawrence huddled in their shelter
and watched as his brothers, twenty-two year old Matt and twenty-
six year old Joey, argue over how they would catch fish. This was
how his brothers had been since Andy could remember. Matt and Joey
could never get along. Their parents had given up hope on those
two men.

Thinking of his parents, Andy gave a miserable sigh. Would he ever
see them again? It had been almost a week since they were
shipwrecked on this miserable island, the only people on this
apparently deserted islands of jungles. They didn't even know
where they were as they barely paid attention on what was going on
during the cruise. Joey, as usual, was trying to score with as
many chicks as he could. His slutty brother didn't care how old or
how his conquests looked as long as he could get some from them.
Matt was too busy fucking that cute guy he met by the pool. Andy,
well, he watched his brothers in action and wished he could lose
his goddamned cherry too. That would make his brothers stop
treating him like a kid.

"Shut the fuck up!" Joey roared and pushed Matt.

Andy watched as those two hard-muscled hunks began pushing each
other and absently let his hand rub at his fast-filling cock bulge
in his tight little briefs. They had been wearing jeans until
those wet materials began giving them itches, so Matt, the smart
one, suggested that they ditched them aside. So now they were all
in underwear - Joey wearing a pair of jocks that expose his taut
bubble buttcheeks and Matt in a pair of low-cut briefs that
actually revealed more than it concealed. Andy's practical shorts
seemed never loose enough nowadays because his cock was always
ready to burst from watching his hot brothers. He had always
jerked off at nights when he slept between his brothers, their
steaming hard-muscled bodies pressed against his front and back.

"Guys, cut it out!" Andy called out to them as Joey began
straddling Matt on the beach as they started puching each other.

"Shut up, squirt!" Joey shouted at him.

"Yeah, shut up!" Matt added.

How predictable - the both of them always got together to pick on
Andy. Andy felt his cock deflate as he bitterly wondered whether
his brothers would ever treat him like one of them. Joey and Matt
didn't actually hate each other despite their fighting all the
time. But Andy wasn't sure if they even liked him. They always
ignored him because he was so much younger compared to them. Andy
knew that Joey taught Matt all about fucking - Joey took Matt to
his first woman on Matt's thirteenth birthday and rumor had it the
both of them fucked that woman together. Andy was fourteen now but
no one had taught him anything or explained about sex. They didn't
like him, surely?

Fighting back warm tears that flooded his eyes, Andy jumped to his
feet and ran away from the shelter, not caring where he was going,
only that he was hurting so much because he felt so alone and
unloved at the moment.



"Look what you have done," Matt grumbled as he watched Andy ran
away.

"He's always a sensitive squirt," Joey grumbled. "Let him cry a
bit. He'll get over it."

"Yeah," Matt agreed, but he hesitated. "I think I better go make
sure he doesn't get lost."

"Relax," Joey told him. "Come on, let's go get fish."

"We'll do it my way," Matt told him as they both picked up their
hand-made fishing spears and buckets.

"I'm the Boy Scout, you freak," Joey reminded him.

"Well, I'm the smart one, you dumb ass," Matt snapped back.

"So? You're the book smart one," Joey told him loftily, "but just
because you got into college doesn't mean I don't know nothing."

"Yeah, you plumb and fix cars," sneered Matt. "That is something
to be proud of."

Joey snarled and jumped on Matt and they both cursed and screamed
obscenities as they rolled on the beach. But soon they were
laughing as Joey sat back on the sand and half-heartedly pushed
Matt away with his foot. "Fucker," he said with a chuckle. "You
think you're so smart."

Matt grinned. Andy was wrong in this instance - the two older
siblings had many differences between them, but they never hated
each other. Joey was proud of his smart younger brother and Matt
was protective of Joey, always making sure that Joey didn't do too
many stupid things or let people take advantage of him.

"Fine, we'll fish your way," Joey snarled gracelessly, but he
always in the end did what Matt wanted him to. And he never held
Matt to it. They both knew and accepted that Matt was the smarter
one - the brain to Joey's brawn. When Matt graduated from college,
they would pool their savings together and start their own
business. Joey would charm the customers and Matt would make all
the important decisions. But first they had to get out of this
damned island. Jesus, Joey thought, how could anyone got
shipwrecked anyhow?

They had looked out for anyone searching for survivors of the
cruise ship sinking for the last few days, but they were
apparently forgotten. Now, survival was their top priority. Joey
was sure though that between his physical strength and his
survival skills and Matt's brains, they would be alright as long
as that annoying squirt Andy didn't give them too much trouble.
Joey didn't understand why his parents would have a kid so late in
their marriage and neither did Matt and they had both shut out
Andy from their relationship. Watching Andy ran away in tears had
Joey feeling a slight twinge of remorse, however, and he decided
to have a private talk with Andy later today. He had to let Andy
know that they were all brothers and it was time they all stick
together.




TWO

Andy wasn't sure whether he was in heaven or hell. He lay on their
bed (actually a sheet salvaged from the flotsam that washed ashore
covering the huge bundle of leaves, twigs, and grasses tied
together - it was surprisingly comfortable), trapped between both
of his brothers. Joey and Matt were snoring comfortably, and in
his sleep, Matt had turned around so that his face was so close to
Andy's that they could kiss if Andy dared moved his lips a little
closer. Behind Andy, Joey murmured in his sleep as he pressed
himself tighter against Andy's back.

Both men's hard cocks pressed against Andy's front and back, and
Andy's own cock was so hard even as his asshole ached from desire.
Matt's cock had popped out from the man's briefs, five inches of
solid hard male flesh protruding from the opening down the man's
hard-muscled right thigh. Meanwhile, Joey's cock was stretching
the confines of his jockstrap crotch, his cock crown protruding
and pressing right against Andy's anal pucker.

Andy had deliberately lifted his left thigh so that he can place
it over Matt's thigh. Joey instinctively pressed his cock harder
against the juncture of Andy's legs while Matt's hand ran along
Andy's thigh absently in his sleep. Andy let his fingers
"accidentally" caress the tip of Matt's cock until it was moist
and slippery with Matt's lubricative fluids and Andy licked his
fingers hungrily, loving the taste and wanting more.

Maybe it was wrong to want his brothers this bad, but Andy had
never been a good kid. He had wanted his brothers equally badly
even before he knew what lust was. His earliest childhood memory
was playing pony with Joey and enjoying riding on Joey's crotch.
Now he realized that the fun hard thing poking between his
vigorously moving thighs was Joey's erection, but back then, he
knew enough to realize that he liked playing with Joey's hard
part.

He tried to move to make himself more comfortable but froze when
he felt his shorts pulled down as he tried to move himself higher
up Matt's body. Joey's knee had trapped Andy's shorts and Andy
couldn't move without losing them completely. Andy gasped when he
felt Joey's cock bulge pressing right against his now exposed
pucker. Maybe... and he wanted so badly to be a virgin no more...
and he wanted Joey so much... Andy's trembling left hand moved
behind him and he watched as he carefully pulled down the
waistband of Joey's jockstrap so that his sleeping brother's full
steely erection sprang free. Feverish with lust to the point that
he was trembling uncontrollably, Andy pressed the tight entrance
of his ass against the wide tip of his brother's cock.

Pain tore through Andy as he bit his lower lip until it bled to
stop his cry. He pushed deeper down onto that cock, wanting to
scream in joy that his beloved eldest brother was making him a
real man at last, and he refused to let the pain stop him until he
felt the rough hairs of his brother's crotch pressed against his
own hairy gash. Still deep in sleep, Joey remained oblivious, but
his body's instincts prompted him to move his hips forward in
brief thrusts. Andy moved along, slowly so as to not wake his
brothers, slowly learning the rhythm of the fuck and loving it as
the pain slowly faded into the background. The pleasure pooled at
the base of his spine as his sensitive prostate received its first
stimulation, and Andy closed his eyes and fucked Joey hard until
his body exploded in a harsh climax that exceeded the best come in
his best jerk-off session. He felt hot creamy come spurted from
Joey's cock into his ass and he silently wept at the magical
feeling of having his brother feed his fertile seed into him. Matt
groaned too, his cock being stimulated by Andy's thighs rubbing
against it as Andy fucked Joey, and his own seed splattered onto
their tightly-pressed thighs.

When he could finally breathe steadily, he used his palm to
carefully wipe his brother's cock and other sperm-stained areas
clean and licked his palm to hide any evidence. He carefully
tucked Joey's cock back in the man's jockstrap and lay there in
his brothers' heavenly embrace, his left hand hungrily moving
between his swollen pucker to collect the juices seeping out from
his well-rogered ass for a luxurious post-fuck dessert.

The next night, Andy took Matt's cock into his ass while he played
with Joey's cock. It was amazing how his brothers slept through
the whole thing while Andy came so hard that he thought his whole
body would explode from the pleasure. It became his secret ritual
every night to use his blissfully oblivious brothers. As he became
more daring, he began taking cock more than once, often until he
had come at least three times. Needless to say, he was noticeably
a happier kid on the island, and this was noted by both Joey and
Matt.

"I don't understand it," Joey confided to Matt as they returned
from their fishing trip. "I feel... strange. A little tired and
sort of psyched-up, Matt, you know what I mean? Is this normal?"

Matt understood alright how Joey was feeling. He didn't know why,
but he was becoming more horny nowadays. He at first reasoned that
it was because he had accepted the reality of their situation and
his always persistent libido was returning. It was biological,
right? So he really shouldn't feel disturbed that he began noting
things he shouldn't, like how Andy's tight little boy butt was
tantalizingly displayed in the boy's tight white shorts that
stretched across those buns or how Joey's wet jockstrap was nearly
transparent and Matt could make out his eldest brother's thick
cock absently tucked to the left and half-hard from the perpetual
horniness they were both experiencing.

"My balls were aching like hell this morning. The last time I felt
this way was back in high school when I fucked the entire
cheerleader squad during a weekend getaway and they all rode me
hard for three days straight until I was sure I had nothing left
to shoot," Joey commented.

They both froze and looked at each other. "Andy!" they both
snarled at the same time.





THREE

They were going to kill him. He was so dead. Andy stumbled as he
ran wildly along the bushes. Joey shouted that he was going to
kill Andy and Matt called out to Andy to stop. But Andy knew
better - they knew what he did to them and they would beat him and
worse when they get their hands on him.

"No!" he screamed when he heard Joey say "Gotcha, squirt!" and he
was lifted off his feet into Joey's muscular arms - trapped and
captured by his brothers. "Please, I just wanted to stop being a
virgin and I know you guys hate me so you will never love me the
way I want you to which is why I did it!" he sobbed as he kicked
and flailed. "Let me go, Joey, please!"

"Hate you?" Matt echoed in bewilderment, a little bit breathless
from the chase as unlike Joey, who was the biggest jock around,
Matt was less athletic. "Why the fuck should we hate you?"

"Yeah! You're just annoying," Joey said.

"Shut up, Joey," Matt told him. "You're making him more
hysterical."

"I know how to shut him up," Joey growled.

Andy gasped when he felt Joey's cock forging into his unprepared
ass. Joey's arm was wrapped around his stomach, holding him steady
as Joey planted his feet apart on the ground and began screwing
his little brother standing up. "Yeah, what a tight hot ass," Joey
muttered. "Damn, it's better than I expected!"

"We don't hate you, Andy," Matt said, putting his hand under
Andy's chin and lifting the boy's face so that he could look at
Andy straight in the eye. "We don't get along, but that doesn't
mean we don't want you around." He grinned as he watched Andy's
flushed face. "And as from now on, I think we will get along
really fine."

"Yeah!" Joey grunted. "Fine tight ass. Best ass!"

Matt pushed his briefs down as Joey lowered Andy. Andy didn't
hesitate. As Matt's arms gripped his shoulders while Joey moved
his hands down to grip Andy's thighs, Andy opened his mouth and
took Matt's cock in. He was suspended off the ground and held
steady by his brothers as he was lustily fucked at both ends. Matt
and Joey grunted with pleasure as they began driving their cocks
into the respective heated orifice their cocks were sheathed in.
Andy choked and tried to relax his throat as he tried to suck that
cock that was raping his mouth. It wasn't easy when he was also
worked hard in the ass, but from Matt's obscene praises, Andy
guessed he was doing fine. He gripped Matt's waist for support as
Joey lifted Andy's hips higher to scissor around Joey's neck so
that Joey can plunge his cock deeper into that steaming boy hole.
Andy looked up at Matt's face, at his beloved brother's expression
of pained ecstasy, and felt the man's balls tighten in time for a
powerful blast of hot come to explode from his cock and flood
Andy's tonsils.

"I'm coming!" Matt howled as his hips slammed hard against Andy's
wide-open mouth with each powerful blast of his semen. "Hell yeah,
I'm fucking coming!"

"Me too!" Joey cried. "Oh, little Andy, get ready, I'm gonna fill
'im up, baby!" Seconds later, his cock blasted his hot come into
Andy's ass, flooding him until overflow.

"Well, well, little bro hasn't come yet," Matt said as they both
gently lowered Andy to his feet. "That means we can still have
another round, Joey."

"Please," Andy whimpered even as his cock jumped at that thought.
"I - "

"Grab him, Matt!" Joey said eagerly as he pulled at his still hard
cock. "We'll change places. I wanna see how well he suck cock."

"Not too well," Matt admitted, "but I can teach him."

Andy realized that Matt was also still hard and he gulped with
fear as much as excitement. "Teach me?" he asked breathlessly.

"Hey, Matt is as hot a stud as me, Andy," Joey told him. "He's
broken in as many cherry asses as me, only we don't normally go
for the same kind of ass. I think we both have screwed the entire
town by now, yeah, Matt?"

"Probably," Matt agreed. "I fuck the husbands and sons, and you
fuck the wives and daughters, isn't that right, Joey?"

"Damn right!" Joey concurred happily.

"See, Andy? Joey and I fight a lot, but we are really good
friends," Matt told Andy tenderly. "That's the same with you and
us. I'm gonna teach you how to suck cock, and now that Joey has
had his first taste of boy ass, I think he'll want more."

"Yeah, more! I want more!" Joey said as he greedily pried open
Andy's taut boy butt cheeks. He greedily took a long luxurious
swipe of his tongue along Andy's sperm-srained ass cleft. "I'll be
fucking you, Andy, and I will only stop when I knock you up. Which
means never, heh heh!"

Matt rolled up his eyes at Joey's awful joke. He and Andy shared a
smile, and Andy realized that while he loved his brothers, he and
Matt would have a special bond of understanding because they loved
guys. He eagerly took Matt's cock in his mouth again and this
time, he paid close attention to Matt's instructions and followed
every step as he sucked, licked, and pleasured Matt until Matt
came hard one more time in his mouth. And then he took Joey's cock
in his mouth and practised what he had learned until Joey pumped a
huge load down his throat while pronouncing Andy a prime grade
cocksucker. Matt, who fucked his little brother hard in the ass,
gave Joey a thumbs-up sign as he drove little Andy into a powerful
climax. He came hard one more time, shooting his creamy load along
Andy's back while Joey watched in fascination.

Finally, exhausted from their sexual excesses, the three brothers
took a long leisurely swim and slept under the sun, the warm rays
cooling their sweat-slicked bodies, Andy in his usual place in
between the protective embrace of his brothers. He had the best
brothers in the world, Andy thought before finally surrendering to
sleep.




FOUR

Andy screamed in pain but yelled at his brothers not to stop. Joey
and Matt held him as he got used to the feeling of both his
brothers' thick cocks filling his ass around three inches deep at
the same time. "Come on, let's loosen him up a little," Matt told
Joey. Andy moaned as his brothers slowly began thrusting their
cocks in alternate rhythm - Matt plunged in when Joey withdrew and
vice versa. The ease at which those two double-fuck Andy suggested
that they had done this before many times, probably when Matt was
still fucking women a few years back. Soon Andy's ass relaxed as
it stretched its elastic muscles to accommodate both well-endowed
men. And then Matt and Joey switched rhythms, the both of them now
thrusting and withdrawing in unison. Andy thought his prostate
would rupture from the wild stimulation it was receiving even as
he thought he would die from the pain-pleasure. He opened his eyes
and saw the startling sight of his brothers kissing each other,
Matt's head turned so that Joey could mate his mouth with his. He
reached out and pressed hard his fingers into Matt's nipples as
his ass received the raping of a lifetime.

Joey came first, and Matt followed, and there was so much of their
juices combined that white creamy come spilled down Andy's ass to
coat everyone's thighs and cocks and balls. This resulted in a
three-way ball and cock cleaning as each brother hungrily lapped
at the other's cock, Andy sucked Joey who was sucking his first
cock by taking Matt into his mouth and Matt sucked Andy, three
brothers loving each other in the most intimate manner possible.

Joey's fingers pressed against Andy's very wet and slippery ass.
Matt watched in delight as all five fingers slowly penetrated
Andy's ass. He licked at Joey's fingers and the rim of Andy's
pucker even as Andy began convulsing in response to the intimate
invasion. "Stop!" Andy screamed in genuine fear as Joey grinned
and moved his fingers deeper. "You hate me, you really hate me and
you want to kill me," Andy wept before lifting his hips and
thrusting his ass in greedy need. Joey's fingers were now embedded
to the second knuckles. "Oh, I'm gonna die," Andy wailed as he
began coming hard at Joey's skilful manipulation of his sensitized
depths. Was that Joey's fingers rubbing his bruised prostate? Andy
didn't even know if that was anatomically possible, but whatever
that sensation was, he was coming so hard in what seemed like an
infinite orgasm that he didn't know where pain ended and pleasure
started - he just wanted this feeling to go on and on. He felt his
anus stretch painfully and then there was a loud tearing sensation
and the pain evaporated as instantly as it appeared. Andy closed
his eyes, trembling and weeping at the powerful waves of ecstasy
he was experiencing.

"Holy hell!" Matt gasped as he watched Joey's hand moved deeper
into Andy's ass. His eldest brother had his entire fist stuffed up
their fourteen-year old brother's ass up to at least four inches
past Joey's wrist. Joey grinned at Matt as he lifted his brows
mischievously and began moving his fist slowly in and out of
Andy's obscenely-stretched ass. Matt was so turned on by the sight
that he always came on the spot. But he wanted a better come and
after watching Joey's skilful rape of Andy's, he knew he had to
have that cock that had fucked and even knocked up so many women
in town. He straddled Joey's thighs and as they both watched Andy
getting fisted by Joey, Matt reached down and fed Joey's cock into
his needy ass. Joey lay on his back, one hand moving in and out of
Andy's ass and the other holding Matt's right thigh steady as Matt
began riding Joey hard.

They all came hard, but it wasn't enough to satisfy the three
sexually-voracious Lawrence brothers. Now it was Joey's turn to
get his dessert, and he took Matt's cock very well for a first-
timer. Andy fucked Matt at the same time, and all three brothers
eventually climaxed one more time before they crumpled onto the
shelter floor in a tangled heap of sweaty limbs, tensed perfectly-
sculpted muscles, and absolutely sated bodies.

"Man, I love all of you so much," Joey mumbled as he embraced both
his brothers. "I know you are a good fucker, Matt, as I taught you
everything you need to know, but Andy, damn, you're a natural,
bro!"

"You taught Matt all you knew?" Andy asked curiously.

"Nah, he didn't fuck me," Matt told Andy. "Not until recently
anyway, Andy. But Joey taught me all about the changes of my body
when puberty struck me."

"Yeah, I showed him how to jerk off," Joey told Andy proudly.

"Jerk," Matt told Joey playfully. He told Andy, "I was ten and I
didn't even know what jerking off was. Imagine my horror when Joey
pulled down his pants to reveal his hairy dick and started pulling
himself until his come blasted all over my face. He thought it was
so funny."

"It was!" Joey said with a hoot of laughter.

"Yeah, you think? Shut up, Joey. Andy, that was when I realized
that I kinda liked guys. I like fucking girls, and you probably
know how Joey took me to visit that whore staying at the end of
the street when I was thirteen. But after I had my first cock and
ass, I realize that I am gay and I fucked only guys ever since.
How about you, Andy? Are you like Joey or are like me?" Matt
asked.

"Who cares about labels?" Joey cut in. "Dude, it's just fucking,
man. I want to fuck the both of you all the time, but I want to
fuck women too. I just want to fuck, man."

"I don't know, Matt, Joey," Andy said timidly. "I just want to
stay with you guys."

"Well, since we're bros, and since we are stuck here for the time
being, you will be staying with us whether you like it or not,"
Matt teased Andy.

"Yeah, and my cock will be staying in one of your asses all the
time," Joey announced.

Andy and Matt shared a smile and kissed. Joey might be dumb and he
was obsessed with sex, but both of them thought he was hot stuff
and would fuck him any time, any day. Joey joined in the kiss, and
soon all three brothers were sucking at each other's tongues and
lips even as their hands began exploring each other's body. Fuck
sleep, their energetic and virile bodies could stand a few more
rounds of hard fucking!





FIVE

Three years later

"Damn, Andy's actually graduating from high school," Joey Lawrence
said as he fidgeted uncomfortably at the seat. His legs were too
long for him to sit comfortably and he finally gave up and stood
instead against the wall. Damn, he hated attending graduation
ceremonies. "That means you are no longer the only brain the
family, Matt."

"Hah!" Matt said. "Is that his new boyfriend?" he asked.

"That?" Joey glanced over to see Andy whispering to a boy's ear as
they awaited for their names to be called out. "I guess so. He did
mention that he's seeing some guy named Dean. You're not jealous,
are you, Matt?" he asked, giving Matt a cheeky sidelong look.

"Not that much," Matt admitted. "Maybe a little."

"Hey, we all get together in the end, so it doesn't matter," Joey
said.

"Yeah, I guess," Matt said.

"Come on, Matt," Joey tried to console him. "I know you really
hate to see Andy grow up - you're not his only big brother, man. I
know how it feels. But Andy's just like his big brothers. He can
fuck a thousand other people but in the end it will be the three
of us, always."

"Yeah," Matt said, thinking of his own active social life as well
as Joey's. They had never let their one-night stands and short
relationships with other people interfere with their relationship
with each other.

Joey chuckled in a most smug manner and Matt gave him a nasty look
before he gave up and laughed along with Joey. Since they were
rescued, they tried to get back to living like normal brothers,
but it wasn't long before they all ended up screwing each other
like they used to back at that island. Right now, they were having
an open relationship. All three of them dated and slept with other
people (Joey more often than the others, naturally), while knowing
full well that other people meant nothing other than pleasant
diversions. In fact, they enjoyed sharing sexual exploits with
each other, where they would get so turned on that their fucking
was always vastly more enjoyable as a result.

Joey and Matt were already living together and Andy would be
moving in this weekend. Their parents were so proud of the two
elder siblings for changing their attitudes and becoming great big
brothers to sensitive little Andy. The two men shared a private
laugh with Andy over the fact that "sensitive little Andy" was
turning out to be a heartbreaker like the other two Lawrence
brothers, only unlike his brothers that slept with either men or
women exclusively, Andy didn't care as long as he got to come in
someone. "Sensitive little Andy" had knocked up several teenaged
girls (and their mothers and sisters) in the neighborhood while
breaking the asses and the hearts of their brothers and fathers at
the same time. But he always got away with anything because
everyone thought "sensitive little Andy" was a good boy that could
do no wrong. Now Andy was graduating at the top of his class and
he swore that he didn't have to fuck any teacher to do it. Joey
and Matt believed him as they had seen how hard he studied when he
had to, and they were emminently proud of him, just as he was
proud of them for starting up and turning their Italian restaurant
into a success.

"I'm so proud of you," their mother said to Andy as she hugged the
boy after the ceremony.

"Me too," Matt said in pure brotherly niceness as he hugs Andy
hard.

"And me," Joey added.

And to celebrate Andy's graduation, the three brothers took leave
of their family and friends early to do what their father
laughingly called "men's stuff". He would be surprised, as would
the many lovers of the brothers, should he discover how Matt and
Joey lovingly plunged their hard cocks into Andy's mouth and
asshole, sometimes one cock in each other orifice, sometimes both
cocks in Andy's mouth or ass at the same time, the irrascible teen
stud of the neighborhood begging for more as he was fucked,
rimmed, fisted, and lovingly dominated in the ass and mouth and
cock by his two stud brothers.

As Joey and Matt came hard, covering almost completely Andy's
handsome face with come, their bond could only be strengthened
with each act of physical love between them. It was love, pure
love, a love that all three brothers would find strength and
pleasure from as they forged ahead in life in the long years ahead
to conquer their dreams and became successful and respectable men
of power, wealth, prestige, and influence in the eyes of the
world. Many lovers came and go, but their love and lust for each
other burned strong and constant. The legend of the powerful,
lusty, and inseparable Lawrence brothers had only just started.
