My name is Angus Macbeth, I am 18 years old, five foot six, lightly built but could afford to gain some weight, light brown hair, blue eyes. I am not very outwardly going or confident in myself. My hobby is on line computer games, reading and cycling.
I have just finished an inbetween year at college getting some additional qualifications for my University entrance requirements and have now been accepted by a local university starting this September to study English and English Literature. I am hoping to be an author one day or a school teacher, or both; who knows. I also have a summer job in a local supermarket three days a week, stacking shelves but I have difficulty filling the top shelves due to my height and I take a lot of ribbing about it. All in good fun but somehow I don't like it.
Apart from my cycling I play on line computer games which I am quite good at. Don't go drinking, not my thing as I get embarrassed having to prove my age each time. So I don't get much opportunity to make new friends or meet girls, I suppose I should go. I also have difficulty talking with girls, lack of confidence I think. Jason who I work with at the supermarket suggested I use some of the dating apps to try and gain confidence chatting with someone online and who knows I may meet someone through it. I said I would give it a try.
At nights I searched through the apps but you have to join and put in your name, what you are looking for and photographs. I tried it a few times but ended up deleting my profiles before they were fully uploaded. I mentioned this to Jason one night during our evening coffee break, he showed me his profile I must admit his profile was quite good including his site name of Islander.
I tried his site that night looking at it as a visitor, didn't get very far so I joined it as I liked its name, my site name was Cyclist. As I filled it in, it was then I realised that Jason must be gay. I had never thought of him that way before, maybe he thinks I am gay too, I do like him but not in that way. I then checked out his profile with this in mind, must admit I got a bit excited about it as I read it, I didn't know why, I knew I wasn't gay, anyway my family would never have approve of it or let me be gay.
It was then that I thought I could use this site to see how it works and how to chat to people on line. I created my profile, including photographs of me cycling in my shorts and at the beach last summer in my swimwear and uploaded them to see what reaction I would get. My written profile was more or less a copy of Jason's.
Next morning I had six message replies waiting for me, asking what I was looking for, two also asked to meet for some fun, although I looked at their profiles I didn't know what to say or do. One gave a general introduction reply, his site name was Ken, and went on to explain that he was finishing his first year at University studding similar subject as I would be in September and was looking for someone to go cycling with during the summer. I don't know why but I replied, giving him my background, explaining that I was interested in cycling too.
Over the next few days I received a number of replies and photo likes, most I just deleted after a polite reply as they all were a good bit older than me but that didn't seem to bother them or me I suppose. I learned how to chat on line with a degree of confidence, fending off embarrassing questions or suggestions and making a few of my own. Actually it was quite a lot of fun doing it as it was a bit of a game of words.
I continued to exchange messages with Ken on a regular basis they were very straight and honest questions and answers. We talked about our lives in general, where we had cycled to and where we would like to cycle to. Initially we messaged daily then several times a day, I started to look forward to our on line discussions and debates sometimes. We seemed to, I don't know to explain it, build a confidence and trust with each other.
I think we both had forgotten that we were chatting on a gay site, maybe not, we then started to exchange photographs and video calls. Most times in our bedrooms at nights, nothing sexual, erotic or anything like that, but we both had posed naked to each other on a few occasions, at the time it seemed the right and natural thing to do. I took a screen shot photo of Ken as I think he did of me.
Ken was about my height, a bit heaver built than me though, darker hair, turned out to be a bit older than me, just over a year I think. During our discussions neither of us had realised that we only lived a few miles apart although at opposite ends of our town. Don't know why but we seemed to have been content with just chatting on line together. I think Ken like me was slow making friends face to face, our comfort blanket and shield was the internet.
He invited me to his place one Saturday morning, his father would be out for the day and his mother lived separately from them. Although I wasn't concerned about meeting him, actually I was a bit excited about it, I wasn't so sure about at his place but I couldn't think anywhere else to suggest. I cycled there, although I knew approximately were it was I didn't realised how big his house was. As I cycled up his driveway and it was quite a big driveway he came to the door, which I was glad off. We offloaded my cycle in his garage and headed round to his back garden.
It was enormous with many trees, bushes and a large lawn. We sat down on his sun loungers as it was to be a hot sunny day, at least that's what the weather forecast was, I was wearing my cycle shorts and light top as was Ken. I also had swimwear and a towel in my bag as Ken's house was not far from the beach. We had a strong unusual tasting coffee together and started chatting, which was more personal face to face rather than across the internet. We seemed to hit it off on the friendship front.
