Editor's note: this story contains scenes of gay male sexual content.
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Daniel lay there panting heavy shuddering breaths, soaked in sweat from Barb's harassing webcam session. Most of his body was in front of his chair, his butt and legs beyond the seat, his knees bent at ninety degrees, feet flat on the floor. Only his back lay on the seat, his shoulders rounded up against the back of the chair.
"What's happening?" Daniel asked himself. "Why is she picking on me? Is this workplace bullying? Can I take action through some labor board or something?" all of these questions swam around in his head.
He sat like this slouched low in his chair staring at the side of his desk, eyes unfocused thoughts turning. His cock returned to its normal state and began to hang straight down between his muscular thighs. Daniel thought it over and over and decided his only course of action was to cooperate with Barb, make his money and head back to university in the fall. Trying to fight a workplace bullying would end his employment at the Arms and he wasn't going to make twenty thousand dollars working at Gil's, Huron Beach's only gas station. The pain in his upper back from his current posture brought him back from his thoughts.
Normally Daniel wore clothes around the house, even when alone. The call from Barb had thrown him off and he got up, grabbed his phone and walked, naked, out of his room his lean toned body catching the light that flashed through the large cottage's upper windows. His butt, part of a stark white horizontal stripe that began just above his ass crack and ended a few inches below his round bubble butt, dripped with sweat. His back and legs, light butterscotch from the sun's rays showed the lean long muscular structure underneath his smooth skin.
Daniel stopped in the kitchen and grabbed the pitcher of protein shake he had made the day before and poured himself a large glassful. He quickly drained the glass and put it into the dishwasher. Breakfast was out of the way. Grabbing his water bottle he headed to the basement doorway and bounced down the stairs to his workout area. Noticing he was nude for the first time he decided to do the workout anyway. "At least I won't have to wash the clothes," he laughed to himself.
Twenty minutes later Daniel was finishing up his last set of ab crunches after several sets of weight training targeting his arms and shoulders. Forty eight, forty nine, "dong-dong-dong," his counting was interrupted by the unmistakable sound of someone knocking on the glass sliding door in the kitchen. "Shit," Daniel thought. "The one time I am working out naked someone comes to the door." He decided to ignore the knock. It was the side door though which told him that whoever it was it wasn't a stranger. A salesperson or canvasser would naturally go to the cottage's front door. "Probably Harry with more vegetables from his garden," Daniel surmised, "he'll just leave them."
"Dong-dong-dong," another knock came.
Daniel couldn't sneak upstairs without being seen by whoever was standing at the sliding glass door. "I have to close those fucking blinds," he thought to himself.
Steve Lalonde was standing at the kitchen door on the side of the large cottage belonging to his long time friends. He knew the couple was not in town, they hardly came up here at all anymore. Mr. Lalonde knew their son Daniel was there though and wanted to set a firm time for Daniel to come over and see the painting and general clean up job Mr. Lalonde wanted him to do.
Steve had been over many times and knew that the front door of the cottage was rarely used and the main door was the sliding glass door on the large deck attached to the side of the house, the door that led directly to the kitchen. No one was answering. He was sure Daniel was here somewhere though; he probably couldn't hear the knock.
He began to call, "Dan-iel?"
"Shit that's Lalonde," thought Daniel. He decided to stay safely in the basement until the old man went away. Daniel stood there shining wet with sweat, small wisps of steam rose off his arms and shoulders in basement air. He flexed his arms and looked in the mirror.
Mr. Lalonde stepped back and looked for any sign of a reply in the upper windows of the cottage. Nothing, no curtain moved or waving hands appeared. "Maybe he's sleeping still?" he wondered. "Maybe in the basement?" he realized in a flash recalling a time he tracked down Daniel's father Peter working in the basement. "I'll check the basement window," he decided. Steve walked down the four steps leading off the deck and into the hedged in backyard.
Daniel stood there facing the mirror, flexing, running his hand over his washboard abs, feeling the hardness of the muscles. Suddenly a shadow in the window appeared behind him, he could see the basement window directly behind him in the mirror he was facing. It happened so quickly a couple of sandals and then Mr. Lalonde's face appeared from above.
"Daniel?" The old man froze. He was staring at the most beautiful ass he had ever seen a wash of white between the butterscotch back and legs. It was round and looked firm and strong. It was Daniel!
Daniel saw Steve Lalonde's face appear in the window and panicked. He spun around and grabbed the small hand towel hanging on the barbells and covered his groin like a loin cloth. Standing there all he could manage to say was, "hi."
"Oh..uh.. sorry Daniel, I apologize, I shouldn't be sneaking around looking in windows. I was just sure you were here and," Lalonde caught himself still staring through the window and quickly raised his head so he could no longer see in the window to protect the twenty year-old's privacy, "I was pretty sure you were here," he continued speaking loudly and stiffly as he stared at the siding. "I was just trying to nail down a time for you to come by and check things out at my place for the work you will be doing."
"Uh, yeah. No problem, sure I can drop by around three. Sound good?" Daniel said sounding overly reassuring.
"Perfect." said Lalonde. "See you then and, sorry again."
"No apology necessary Mr. Lalonde," Daniel called, his face a beet red.
Steve Lalonde walked onto the bike path that served as a major pedestrian artery in Huron Beach thinking about the images he has seen of Daniel in the past 24 hours. That perfectly sculpted torso, the trimmed bush, his arms and legs and now his absolutely stunning ass. The best ass he has ever seen. "What has happened to Daniel?" he wondered. He was a boy who Steve had not even seen shirtless in all the years he has know his family. Steve tried to burn the images into his memory assuming that he would only see these things once.
Daniel stood there holding the rag over his privates, face as red as is possible. "What the hell?" he thought to himself. It was not unusual for Mr. Lalonde to come to a basement window or call in a window, he is close to Daniel's parents, very familiar. It was just incredible coincidence that Daniel was finishing the only nude workout he has ever done when Mr. Lalonde dropped by.
Daniel marched up the basement stairs shaking his head all the way to the second floor bathroom where he jumped in the shower and quickly washed his body. While in the shower he heard the chirp of his cell phone. "Probably Tim wanting to hang," Daniel thought. Tim was a good friend and Daniel had told him he was not working at the Arms tonight.