Just one of those 'things'
By Dawn R
All the characters in this story are over eighteen.
Just when it seemed like spring was here, we had one of those 'Texas Lows' blow in. The high for the day had struggled up to minus five Celsius, but the strong icy wind driving the snow was making it feel in the minus double digits. It was four-thirty on a Friday and my last client of the day had just gone in to change for his one-hour appointment. I had a date with my new boyfriend, Hector. It was our third date and on the last one, things had got interesting, so I was feeling excited about tonight. I was already looking forward to getting home. Perhaps that's why I was a little quicker than usual to lightly tap on the door.
"Okay," he said. I looked in and he was standing beside the massage table in his jockey shorts. That was all right then, and I entered.
"Hi, I'm Beverley, you can call me Bev," I said, I could not help noticing he was rather well put together: nice defined abs, etc. I figured he must work out regularly. My name is Beverley Makin and I'm an RMT, a registered massage therapist (the US equivalent designation is LMT). I'm twenty-seven and have been in practice for three years.
"Hi, I'm Devlin," he replied, and in that moment, he peeled off his jockeys and climbed on to the table to lie face down. I normally ask my clients to keep their underwear on, but my partner Janice, who is thirty-two, says she lets them do whatever makes them comfortable. Right now, she is in Australia for a five-week 'trip of a lifetime', so a number of her regulars are coming to me.
I figured it would only get awkward if I asked Devlin to put his jockeys back on. Besides the truth is it is much easier to give a full-body therapeutic massage to someone who is naked. In lots of countries it's the norm. I'm just not used to it. As I picked up a light blanket for draping, I would be lying if I said I did not see what had popped out of his jockeys and the way he had carefully tucked it under him as he lay down. I blame my anticipation of tonight's date for the fact it gave me just a brief tingle you know where.
The fact is that apart from an older man, who had been one of the volunteers we practised on when training, this was the first white guy I had seen totally naked. I should explain my parents had emigrated from Jamaica to Britain in the mid-eighties and fifteen years later to Canada when I was five years old. My upbringing was quite conservative and my 'serious' boyfriends up to now have all (all five of them) been from the Caribbean community. My last three relationships have been quite long term and I have only gradually got comfortable with my own sexuality. Yes, I did lose my virginity with my last boyfriend and tonight might be a 'first time' with Hector.
I carefully placed the blanket over Devlin covering him from his shoulder to the back of his knees. Then I laid a warming pad across his shoulders for a few moments. Should I say anything about his nakedness? I decided not. It's not that I am totally unaware of the male anatomy. Before my first serious relationship I did go on occasional dates. It was my first year in college and almost all the other students were white. Yes, with three of them I did get to see and touch their penises, but they were not naked. I won't go into details but if they weren't fully erect to begin with, they were before the end. Put it down to a combination of my curiosity, all our hormones, and their expectations.
So now I just said, "I believe you are one of Janice's regulars. You must let me know if you need me to press harder or more gently, or anything else." He just grunted to let me know he had heard me, as he was face down in the face cradle. I folded the blanket back to his waist moving the warming pad to his butt and began to massage the knots from his shoulders and neck.
"Any problem areas then?" I asked as I moved from his shoulders to his feet.
"Tightness in the glutes, the quads and the adductors," he responded lifting his head slightly from the face cradle. Trust someone who does regular workouts to have the correct terminology down pat.
"and hamstrings?" I asked, naming the major muscles in the back of the thighs. He grunted.
"Well, we'll get to all of them," and I continued to work. I guessed he was about my age or, maybe a year or two, younger. I wondered what he did, but sensed he was not eager to talk while he had his face in the cradle. Every muscle I touched was toned and in great shape, so different from most of my clients. Having finished with his calves I briefly went back to his shoulders. I removed the heating pad from his butt and repositioned the blanket to cover his upper body to his thighs. As I worked on the hamstrings, he parted his thighs slightly and I found myself looking at a pair of large and hairless testicles. I guess he shaved them. I wanted to look away, but they were right there, and they were large.
Each time I pressed into the muscle he inevitably pressed into the table. I moved on to his glutes. If you don't know, they are the large muscles in the butt. I pressed in with the palms of my hands. He was right they were very tight. To apply more pressure, I pushed the blanket up used the point of my elbow on his naked butt. He squirmed and gave a groan.
"Is that too much?" I asked.
"No, it's good."
I went back to his hamstrings before adjusting the blanket and saying, "time to turn over." I raised the side of the blanket closer to me to screen him, but he hopped down to the floor. I was caught by surprise. I tried not to look as I readjusted the position of the pillows for his head and knees, but I could tell he was noticeably aroused. Just in case you are thinking that makes him some kind of pervert, I can tell you it's a pretty normal physical response for a male lying face down having their butt and thigh muscles pummeled.
What wasn't so normal or so I was given to believe is the equally natural physical reaction I had to seeing his nakedness. He climbed back on the bed, and his thing gave a little wave before it fell back on his stomach. It was really quite large, matching the testicles I had already seen. "Not fully hard, but well on the way," I thought, as I tried to put such thoughts aside and get my mind out of the gutter.
I carefully draped the blanket from his navel to his feet. "I'm a professional. Working with the human body is what I do day in and day out. I must have worked with several hundred clients by now in over two thousand sessions." These were the silent thoughts with which I now disciplined myself, as I took his right arm and began to work on it. However, my mind had a mind of its own. I could not help being aware of the shape beneath the light blanket.