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Sweet Grapes

My family owns a vineyard in central California for making wines. I was in second in charge of hiring the help to pick fruit, make the wine and bottle under supervision of my dad of course. The picking was mostly done and the crew was running things pretty smoothly prepping the juice for fermentation. I had a friend, Alex, arrive for a visit for a few weeks from Ohio, he and I had fucked around during our high school years before he moved away. He was very upset with his parents for taking him so far away from where he grew up and secretly away from me, we had made plans to move in together after high school was over. This was the first time we had seen each other in person since then and we were now 22 years old and only a few months apart in age. I picked him up at the airport and put his bags in the back of my old Dodge pickup and headed toward home. Alex was grinning about as much as I was, we had talked on the phone near every day since he left for Ohio and at least once a w