Can A Friend Be A Predator.
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My name is Jim Copeland and I work in a large supermarket as a Deputy Night Manager, this is my first job and I am a first year student in their management training program. My job is to oversee staff that fill the shelves and serve the midnight customer's, it is quite demanding but the night's pass quickly. The staff are very good but there is always one or two who you need to keep an eye on.
The store is located in a Victorian seaside holiday town with some very nice beaches nearby, this is also my first time staying away from my family who still live in the city, and although I have been here for six months I still haven't fully settled into living on my own. I was fortunate I managed to rent a small apartment located on top of a double garage, not overly large but ok for me. The landlord and house owner told me at the outset that the bank were going to foreclose on him, but still gave me a short term lease which helped keep the bank off his back and would give me time to find somewhere.
Working long night's gives you a lot of free day time to this end I decided to start hobby studies at a local college, I always wanted to be able to draw and paint so I enrolled in a still life drawing class. I had absolutely no idea what this would entail, as it was a late morning class allowed me some time to sleep after a night shift.
My first class had about eighteen students in it, mainly retired or housewife's who wanted company and something to do two afternoons a week. In my first class we were shown how to draw hands and feet. The lecturer looking at my first attempt, smiled, took my hand in his and drew a clenched hand, then had me do it still loosely guiding my hand in his, it worked; well sort off. After five more attempts on my own I seemed to be getting the coordination of eye perception and hand strokes.
The class time quickly passed, as it was still early for me I had decided to go to the gym, the supermarket had a staff discount scheme with the gym. I wasn't really interested in the gym, as I did a lot of lifting in the store, but I liked the pool, sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi. As it was a mixed sauna I had my wet swim wear on when I went in, my art lecturer Alex was lying on one of the benches enjoying the dry heat. As the sauna cabin was not large sat up inviting me to sit beside him we were the only the two in the sauna.
We chatted away for almost an hour. Alex was probably in his late forties early fifties, I will be twenty one next month, taller than me and now a full time artist who also gave lectures and tuition to art students, not because he needed the money but because he liked doing it. According to the web he was quite a successful artist and gave many exhibitions of his works each year and now lived in an old farm house, a few miles out of town, which he had modernized and converted into a house with integral art and photographic studios. I told him my background, where I came from and worked and why I attended his art classes; not because I could draw but because I couldn't. He seemed to be quite impressed with my motivation to try something new.
After an hour we were both suitably broiled and decided to call it a day, Alex had another class to give and I needed to catch up on my sleep before tonight's shift. We headed back to the locker rooms together still chatting.
Normally I just towel dried myself and shower at home which was only a short walk away anyway I am not a great fan of communal showers. As I towel dried myself Alex stripped off completely and came over to me and stood in front of me as he continued with our conservation. As he talked seemed to be watching me as I striped off too, it was a bit disconcerting as I could see him twitch as he stood there which in turn made me twitch too. I also notice how evenly tanned all over he was and how toned his physic was. We were both standing facing each other almost touching as we talked. I could feel my anxiety build as I wasn't sure what was going to happen next. Nothing; he turned bid farewell and headed into the showers, as he did patted me with the palm of his hand on my bare butt and said nice artistic butt.
I finished getting dressed and headed home, my adrenalin was still quite high as I walked home and had a shower. After having something to eat I went to bed but could only sleep fitfully thinking about the two of us standing there, I couldn't fathom out why I was so high about it. My alarm woke me out of my dream reminding me my shift would be starting soon all during that night shift I kept having flashbacks of that moment.
My second art class a few days later was to start where we left off, I was the first to arrive for the class; I hate being late. Alex came over and asked me before anyone arrived if I was going to the pool after the class, I said yes are you. Yes and if you don't mind I will join you. We started learning how to draw the next part of the anatomy, arms and legs. Again I struggled to get my artistic eye to coordinate with my drawing hand, Alex bailed me out again, taking my hand in his and a leg appeared like magic on my sketch pad, then an arm. Before long I was managing to do it on my own.