A Couple's Invitation - Chapter 2
Guys Night
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Seeing Alec on a Friday late afternoon throws me off immediately-- it's very unusual, and as he walks through the patio towards the entrance of the café we make eye contact and he looks happy to see me. He's wearing running shorts and a solid gray shirt, something I've come to know as his typical workout uniform. I feel my stomach flutter a bit and go back to finishing a cortado. It's been a month since I spent the night at Alec and Alice's...a month of hoping we'd get another chance to
'explore'
as Alec so innocently called it just 36 hours before torturing me in his basement with his girlfriend. It had been a month of replaying all of those small moments that still get me excited, jerking myself off to the memories...a month of pulling up the photos they sent me leading up to our night together...a month exercising more to both try to impress them and relieve my body of some of the endless sexual tension...a month of pretending everything was normal when I handed them their drinks, and wondering if each extra chuckle or quick glance was another form of invitation. They were extremely direct when they first invited me to their condo, so I assume now if they were interested in further exploring this dynamic they wouldn't be timid.
Over the last four weeks we thankfully have shared quite a few messages back and forth. Inspired by the video Alec showed me of them having sex in the hot springs I recorded a video of myself to share with them. I couldn't help but feel a little silly sending it, but I can't deny watching myself jerk off a few feet off a hiking trail covered in sweat, and ejaculating onto the weeds was extremely arousing. "Your cum dripping off and hanging from the weeds...fuck" was the only response I got from Alec. Alice replied, "Saving this one for my spank bank..." and we all laughed.
One night Alec messaged me he was bored and a few minutes later he sent a video of him fucking a clear penis sleeve. His dick slipping in and out mimicked his complex personality, alternating quickly from tender to rough and decisive. Massively aroused I jerked off in front of a mirror recording the whole thing. The video ends with my cum stuck across the glass. "Incredible" is all he said. They seemed interested still, but maybe distracted, and truthfully everything had gone back to a very normal routine until this surprise visit to the café.
A warmer than normal afternoon had the shop a bit busier leading up to our closing time than a typical Friday. Thankfully Alec is the last in our current line so I'm able to take a minute to freely chat with him. I place his long black on the counter and make eye contact with him. He steps over and thanks me for the drink. "Long night ahead of you?" I ask, pointing out how unusual this late afternoon coffee is. He smiles slightly, "Just a little pick me up. What are you doing tonight? You're done soon, right?" My pulse skips a beat and my conflicted-and horny-mind debates whether that was another invitation, or maybe he just wants to sit down and talk again. "Yeah--I'm out an hour early tonight because I covered someone's shift earlier this week and can't go over 40." I felt bad leaving the closing hour for my coworker Brittany, but she knew it wasn't my fault and we had been getting ahead as often as we could during the shift on cleaning and putting things away. "Mind if I wait for you to finish?" I look up from my working hands and he shoots me his now signature, barely-visible smile and for a brief moment I find myself missing his lips. "No--I'll just be a bit longer!" He nods and steps out onto the patio finding a table and he pulls out his phone.
I finish up my shift, hang up my apron in the back and sit down at his table. He sits up and collects his things, "Let's walk. It's gorgeous outside."
We make our way down the busy street, the orange sunset bounces off all of the windows of the store fronts and the apartments above them. He doesn't speak much, but that's normal. We exchange some small talk, and after walking a few blocks he surprises me by saying, "You live nearby, right?" "A few blocks west, yeah." He suggests we go and I am a bit surprised, but it quickly turns to excitement. There's something about his aura that I can't ever quite figure out. He always feels like he's somewhat in charge, but the arrogance I've witnessed in him before reads differently now.
I feel like my nerves will never calm down, but I smile because I feel a bit proud to be walking next to him through our neighborhood. "It's kind of funny--Some of my mom's family lived in this area so I used to come here as a kid." We casually walk and I just listen. "It was completely different though. The only thing still here is Seasons, which I would beg my uncle to take us to every time we visited...even in the dead of winter they would have a line out of the door for ice cream and milkshakes."
"I have a confession -- I haven't been there." His posture becomes animated and he looks at me shocked. "Oh, it's incredibly mediocre in the best way. We have to go soon!" We share a bit of laughter and both get quiet for a minute.
He finally breaks the silence, "Alice is out of town for the weekend. I took today off work and have just been hanging out at home." "Oh, yeah--she mentioned that a few days ago. Another work trip?" He nods. We turn the corner and walk up two flights of stairs into my small studio. I can't remember if I've left any messes and quickly scan the room as the door slips open. There's some empty takeout boxes, which I note to quickly toss back into their bag and tie up... and a few pieces of dirty clothes in front of the closet but I don't see anything majorly embarrassing.
"Sometimes I get bored when Alice is out of town..." He continues.
I pack up the takeout trash and set the bag next to my kitchen garbage can.
"...so I usually like to find some way to occupy my time instead of just spending too much time watching TV and YouTube."
He walks through the room. The sun is still above the horizon but the buildings around mine block a majority of the light and the studio is painted with the soft blue haze of evening. I watch him awkwardly and he pauses, leans over and grabs something. He spins around holding a used, tied up condom I had left on the ground.
Mortified, I step forward to grab it. "Fuck I forgot I left that there. I just used it for easy clean up this morning...sometimes when I don't until late morning..." He pulls away and won't let me grab it. "Gray--you're not the first man to jerk off into a condom." He laughed and I try to mimic his lightheartedness, "I guess I was in a hurry after I finished..." With squinted eyes he dramatically shakes his head pretending to be judgemental. "That's where you've taken all of your pictures and videos for us." He gestures towards my bed by the big window. I nod. He says, "When I was in college I shared a room with two other guys. They were kind of slobs and I must have stepped on one of their used condoms every few weeks for the whole school year. I moved off campus after that..."
I force a smile, somewhat relieved he's not mocking me. "I was way too embarrassed to buy condoms then...so occasionally I would steal one of theirs out of the box...but I mostly just used dirty socks. People do strange things for pleasure."
He migrates to the kitchen and tosses the condom in the trash. "I have trouble seeing you as embarrassed about anything." He leans on the counter, "Really? I guess I'm pretty different now. I was even more shy and had zero confidence. It's funny thinking about how much people can change...how in college you're just this malleable piece of flesh pretending to know what you want." Still nervous around him with no idea what to talk about I fumble around cleaning a bit more. "Do you want a beer?" He nods, "Yeah--whatever you have." I open my fridge, which is mostly full of groceries, but no beer left. "Sorry, I don't drink much and didn't realize I was out..." He smiles, "No worries." I feel like a bad host and I want to impress him as much as possible. "We could go grab a drink downstairs and--" I am nearly startled as I turn and find him standing inches from me.