Author's Note
This is my first published story on Literotica.
The story is set in the mid-1980s so there's no mention of cellphones, laptops, or PCs.
The theme deals with two young men discovering footplay from opposing angles.
I hope you enjoy it!
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01: Gym Session - Stuart Confirms the Pecking Order
Abdul sat on the floor of the large gym hallway, waiting for the gym class to begin. The hall was packed with teachers as well as other students all his or similar age. The teachers discussed what activities they were going to proceed with. Many of the other students spoke to each other loudly and laughed while the teachers were busy making preparations.
Abdul sat with his smaller group of Pakistani friends a little aside from all the other students. They spoke to each other in their Punjabi language, more in their own group, and not mingling much with the louder, English-speaking white kids, especially Abdul. He was a quieter student who stuck to his studies which pleased his teachers but didn't make him many friends.
As Abdul sat there talking to his friends, restricting himself to talking to only them, and kind of just wishing class would get started, he felt a small weight on his right shoulder. His first thought was that it was a pat on the shoulder - perhaps from a teacher or maybe just from another student who wanted to do that to him arrogantly, because they knew they could get away with it with the reserved Abdul.
Abdul turned his head to see someone's white-socked left foot just casually using his shoulder as a footrest. In the process of turning his head, Abdul had inadvertently let the white-socked foot scrape his face and nose, catching a faint musky whiff of cotton and sweat, feeling the warmth too. He turned his head some more, got a face full of the socked foot, and saw that it belonged to one of his fellow students, Stuart. He had noticed Stuart when he first walked into the hallway. He was exempt from class that day due to an injury, but he was still present in the hallway anyway, sitting on a chair, unlike all the other students who were sitting on the gym floor. Stuart was in his green school uniform, shoes off, and wearing a pair of white socks.
Abdul and Stuart were both similar in age, Stuart, 18, and Abdul, 19, and were in the same class at the same school but there was nothing much else in common between them. Abdul was bulky, 6ft 1, 96 kg much of it coming from his lardy waistline, and had rather clumsy, wide, size 14 feet. He had center-parted, jet-black, wavy hair, which he liked to keep long down to his shoulders. It almost looked like the mane of a lion, giving Abdul an outwardly mean, gangster look, not least in combination with the pock-marked skin of his face and his overall very hairy body.
In contrast, Stuart was compact and very athletic, near hairless smooth-bodied, tan-skinned, 8-packed Adonis standing at 5ft 7, 71 kg nearly all of it from lean, toned, hard muscle with near zero fat on his body, and possessing shapely size 8 feet. Stuart had short, dark brown hair which he kept swept back with some of it spiking up a little at the front of his head, and striking, vivid, and large emerald-green eyes. His eyes seemed disproportionately large on his boyishly smooth handsome face but it only enhanced his appeal to the girls.
While Abdul was shy, quiet, and reserved, Stuart was the complete opposite - loud, assertive, and overflowing with confidence. And while everyone would describe young Stuart as a "boy" or "kid, Abdul, though only a year older, was always referenced by others as a "man".
To his buddies, Abdul was known as "Big Abdul" due to his imposing size and bulk. This helped boost Abdul's confidence in his self-image. It gave him a sense of something macho about him. He might be quiet and shy in a lot of ways but at least he was not some teeny, wimpy-looking teen. Oh no! He was this "
Big Abdul"
- someone, to his mind, no one should dare mess with beyond a certain point. Either to further boost his macho image or just because he felt it looked cool on him, Abdul also always wore a hefty, brass necklace chain, around which was strung an equally hefty brass locket medallion, on the face of which was inscribed some Arabic word in a stylish script.
Sure enough, these two aspects about Abdul - his imposing height and bulk, coupled with his brass medallion, and the fact his nick was "Big Abdul" did indeed all add up to give Abdul a semblance of at least some street cred and he secretly enjoyed this fact. It served as a counterbalance to his otherwise meek personality, which unfortunately made him the target of some bullying.
Abdul looked up at Stuart's chiseled, handsomely boyish face, peered into the teen stud's vivid emerald eyes, saw him absent-mindedly chewing gum, and looking indifferent to the fact he was publicly, and so casually, using the much bigger Pakistani student as his powerless little human footstool bitch like it was just something he had the right to do and it didn't matter that Abdul wouldn't appreciate it. The two kids then made more intense eye contact, Stuart giving Abdul a dismissive look, almost looking oblivious to the fact that he was using bulky Abdul as his human footstool.
Abdul didn't know how to react at first. He had had problems with other students treating him in ways that he didn't like in the past but this was definitely the most humiliating. Stuart was an athletic kid and Abdul wasn't sure how much he wanted to physically challenge the much shorter and smaller, but undoubtedly stronger student.
Abdul looked in another direction to see one of the female gym teachers, Mrs. Redden, who he thought was kind of hot, walking towards them. He had a bit of a crush on Mrs. Redden since she showed him more attention than any of the girls in his class, so he was a bit embarrassed that she was going to see Stuart doing this to him. But another part of him was glad that she was going to see it so she could at least put a stop to it.
She looked right at it happening so she definitely saw it, Abdul was sure of that. But she also looked busy, and a little stressed out, so she walked right by not thinking much of it. Breaking up one 18-year-old student picking on another in a non-violent way was not on her agenda when things were so busy.
A guy student bigger than both Stuart and Abdul noticed the event. Abdul wondered if he would laugh at it or, hopefully, get Stuart to stop but he didn't seem to care either. Two cute white girls walked by laughing. Abdul didn't know if they were laughing at him, but he didn't like it either way.
Stuart didn't think much about it when he put his foot on Abdul's shoulder. He just did it. It was one of those cool things where the idea popped into his head when he was looking for a place to put his foot and he just went ahead with it, knowing that Abdul wasn't the kind of student that was going to be able to do anything about it.
Now that Stuart had it planted on Abdul's shoulder, he decided that his socked foot was going nowhere. He knew Abdul was in no position to challenge him. Unfortunately for Stuart, his hot girlfriend, Nadine, wasn't around to see this but he noticed a couple of the other cute girls that walked by got a laugh out of it. Stuart was always happy showing off for the girls, so their amusement only motivated him to dig his socked foot deeper into Abdul's shoulder.
Abdul looked back at his friends, part of him wondering if they were going to help him, part of him wondering if any of them were going to be laughing at him, as they clearly saw what was going on and weren't at least going to be indifferent like everyone else. But the looks on their faces made it appear that they were just glad it wasn't them the tough smallish kid, Stuart, was making his footstool. Abdul realized he was on his own for this one and had to deal with it himself.
The thought of tackling Stuart alone made Abdul nervous. Confrontation just wasn't his thing. Fighting wasn't his thing. The situation was especially painful and humiliating because Stuart was quite a bit smaller than Abdul, although he, unlike Abdul, had a toned, muscly build so Abdul still wouldn't have dared to mess with him. And since Stuart was humiliating him in more of a passive way, Abdul would have to be more of the aggressor to get him to stop, which wasn't something he was used to. After all. Stuart wasn't beating Abdul up or anything. He was simply, leisurely using his footstool.
What's wrong with using Abdul's ideal, big and cushiony body as my footstool anyway?
thought Stuart
. Footstools are for resting feet on, right? Abdul is the perfect footstool for me right now, sitting on the floor conveniently within leg reach. It would be madness for me not to get myself more comfortable when the desired piece of furniture is at my disposal.
Abdul discreetly looked around the hallway some more. Most of the people weren't paying any attention to what was going on. But some were. Mr. Matthews, the gym teacher as well as the baseball coach, was talking to another teacher while he was looking over at exactly how Stuart was casually resting his foot on Abdul's shoulder, right next to his face. Lightly touching the side of his face with it, in fact.
Mr. Matthews was focused right on them and clearly saw what was going on. But he also didn't act like it was anything out of the ordinary, almost like the school's star athlete needed the perfect spot to rest his foot for comfort, and the big Pakistani student's broad shoulder was just a completely normal place for him to do that.
All this seeming indifference to Abdul's plight made him wonder,
perhaps it's me who is being the prick here and not Stuart? Stuart has a leg injury, no doubt, that is why he is not participating in the gym activity. The sporty kid needs a place to rest his foot on something. There are no footstools around so he is using me as one. Simple as that. What are good classmates for?