It was a boring Saturday morning only a few months after my 18th birthday when it happened. I was reading a book, sitting in a little coffee shop on a busy shopping street not minding anything but the words of some story I've already forgotten about.
There really wasn't anything worth mentioning going on. Until I felt the gaze of someone. Both curious and slightly deranged like one often feels when they are ripped out of a story after some intense reading, I looked up and met the eyes of an incredibly tall and equally incredibly broad-shouldered guy.
In fact, he was so tall and just big all around that I, even though I was 6'2" tall myself, knew without standing up that I was just smaller in size. Of course I really was more of a skinny guy but it wasn't often the case that I felt as small as in this very moment. "Excuse me?" I asked slightly awed, since the tall man was still just looking at me. His appearance rather intimidating.
He wasn't just tall and obviously muscular, but was also wearing a anthracite colored suit and a black dress shirt that made his piercing blue eyes even more, well, piercing. Unnervingly enough, he didn't reply but continued to look at me. I coughed a little, closed the book in my lap and looked back up. "Er... Can I help you Sir?"
As I said this, he reacted. He raised his eyebrows and turned around, wandering away without turning around again. Although this was certainly weird, I was even more concerned by the fact that started to follow him, without really deciding to do so.
I followed him for awhile, he was certainly easy to keep in sight, even through the masses of shopping people, until we reached a black car, at which he waited for me. Standing in front of him I was able to take a better look at how tall he was, guessing him at around 6'9".
He also was almost twice as broad as me. I looked at him in some weird kind of anticipation, still wondering why I even followed him. Continuing his silence, he opened the door behind the front passenger seat and indicated me to get in. Curiously enough, I followed his mute order again. Taking a deep breath as he walked around the car to get to the driver seat, I realized that I had no idea what was going on, but also, that I definitely wanted to find out.
We started to drive in silence as I looked around the, due to toned windows, dark car, trying to find cues about this strange man. After some time I realized his piercing blue eyes, observing me through the rear view mirror. There was an amused kind of expression to his eyes as he raised his eyebrows. And I understood that he wanted me to get naked. I stared back into those piercing eyes for a moment, until I felt like I couldn't stand it any longer and looked at my knees.
Interestingly enough, I realized, I wasn't very alarmed by this very strange thought, this knowledge that he wanted me to strip my clothes off. Even though I wondered why that was, I started to obey this non-spoken order, and unbuttoned my shirt. After exposing my chest, I moved on to my shoes and socks, unbuckled my belt and started to pull down my pants. Only as I was left in boxer briefs, I came to some of my senses and wondered again. "Why was I doing this again?"
"Wait a minute, I'm not gay... Am I?"
Questions raged inside of my head and left me clueless. In fact I never had any sexual experience with men, but here I was, stripping for some guy I had just met, not even thinking about it. I hesitated, looked up again and saw his eyes and felt a weird kind of encouragement.