Author's note: This series contains (occasional) descriptions of rough and forced sex, some of which crosses the boundaries of consent. If this is not up your alley, please click elsewhere! All sexual contact described occurs between adults aged eighteen years and older.
Part 10.
"Come in, Paul. It's nice to see you."
Reverend Bjornsson held open the door it as I walked past him in to a large, light-filled office on the lower floor of the church. Up close, I realized just how big he was. A huge bear of a man, probably 6'4 or 6'5, and built like a tank. Walking past him, I felt like a child called to the principal's office.
He shut the door and ushered me to sit. He walked around his desk and settled himself in a large, high-backed leather chair and folded his hands in front of him on a dull green blotter pockmarcked with indentations and splotches of spilled ink. His dress shirt, a shade of lavender just shy of flamboyant, was unbuttoned at his neck, revealing a wide V of thick, blondish chest hair. His sandy beard was graying slightly and long enough to have a slight curl, and his golden coloring set off his bright, gray-blue eyes, which he'd fixed on me with an expectant smile.
Jesus
, I thought, suddenly flashing to the dreams that I used to have about this guy--the great, burly preacher--and the things he'd used to do to me in those dreams... I tried to cast the thoughts out of my head, given how dangerously close I was to a raging hard-on.
"So, Paul. Your parents tell me you're off to college in a few weeks. Congratulations, son, that's a big step," Reverend Bjornsson said.
"Thanks," I said, trying to keep my voice steady.
"Tell me, what are you looking forward to?" he said.
I swallowed and rubbed my wrist. This morning, I had reapplied my mom's foundation to cover my black eye--fading, now--and the bruises on the rest of my body, but I hadn't done as flawless a job as Stacy. I hoped that Reverend Bjornsson's seemingly intense scrutiny of me wouldn't reveal anything.
"Um..." I said, "...well, I guess I'm looking forward to being in a new place, meeting new people, learning new things?"
Reverend Bjornssohn pursed his lips and nodded, thoughtfully. After a moment, he said, "And what about your spiritual development?"
"My spiritual development?" I said.
"Yes, Paul. How will you nurture the love that God has placed in you? The tireless, loving investment he's made in you as you've grown from a child into such a fine young man?"
Oh boy
. I realized, now, what this "talk" was going to be like. I felt a shade go down in my brain. It had been many years since I'd felt any shred of "God's love" in my heart.
"Well," I said, "I guess I haven't thought much... about that."
"I think that's why your parents are concerned, Paul. They're are concerned that you have been neglecting your spiritual side."
"They told you that?" I said. As religious as I knew my parents were, they were pretty buttoned up about it, as they were about everything. It just didn't seem likely that they would ever say something like that. At least not out loud.
Reverend Bjornsson shifted back in his seat. His shirt strained against his massive chest and my eyes tracked across his torso, involuntarily. The buttons down the middle of this shirt looked like they were struggling to contain him, and I envisioned them coming undone, the erupting of his hairy chest from the fabric...
"Well, not in so many words, son," he said, smiling. "But I know that they--that all of us--are concerned haven't been nurturing the parts of yourself that God loves."
I wrinkled my brow and looked down at the floor. My bare knees were poking out of a new-ish pair of khaki shorts. I tried to keep from fidgeting.
"Let's take a step back, son," he said. I watched him put his hands behind his head. His large upper arms bulged under the fabric of his tight shirt, and I saw faint traces of sweat darkening his armpits. "Your parents tell me you've taken a job this summer. Tell me about it."
I shrugged and shifted uncomfortably in my chair. "I deliver pizzas," I said, "for Pizza Hut."
"You've been working an awful lot, I hear," he said.
"Yeah, I guess," I said.
"And you have been spending a lot of time with your co-workers, after-hours?"
I nodded.
"Drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco, Paul?"
I looked back down at my shoes.
"Paul?"
"Yes sir, sometimes," I said.
In here, under his direct attention--the big, intimidating pastor--it felt dangerous to lie.
"Smoking marijuana?" Reverend Bjornsson said.
I looked at him and shook my head, then dropped my gaze.
"Hmm," he said. He took a breath and then exhaled, slowly.
"What about fornication?" Reverend Bjornsson asked.
"Excuse me?" I said, looking up at him abruptly.
"Fornication..." he repeated. He lowered his hands back to the desk and cocked his head to the side, still watching me with a friendly expression on his face. "... have you lain with any of your new friends, had any sexual encounters with women, Paul?"
"N-no," I stammered, feeling my face flush hot.
Reverend Bjornsson nodded, thoughtfully.
"What about men, Paul. Have you lain with men?" he said, dropping his voice low.
"Sir?" I said.
Reverend Bjornssohn wet his lips with his tongue and nodded at me, gravely. I was sweating, now--I felt my shirt start to soak through where my back was touching the chair.
"Let me tell you a few things, son," the pastor said, his face becoming serious. "Carnal urges are... well, they're an unfortunate burden of being a man. We men have a propensity to want things...
crave
things, that are, well, unnatural. We have desires that are... destructive to ourselves and destructive to God's love. Part of growing up is learning how to control those urges, put them in their proper place."
My face was burning red. I wanted nothing more than to get up and run out of here but I was rooted into my seat.
"You need to bury them, Paul,
bury
your urges. Here's what you do. You find a place, a box within yourself, into which you put your darkess. You keep it locked it away. Locked away from everybody--your family, your friends, and away from the wife and children that I know you will want to have, someday, Paul. The family that I know you ultimately
will
have, when you're older. Now, your urges may be inevitable, and constant, but if you keep them locked away, God will see your effort. He will feel your commitment, and he will know that you're worthy. Worthy of his love, of his grace. Do you understand what I'm saying, Paul?"
As he was speaking, he slipped into his pastor voice, the deep, resonant baritone that I'd heard since I was a child. The assured, confident cadence that he projected out onto the congregation from his billowing black robe every Sunday.
I nodded at him, not meeting his eye. I was burning with shame, but there was also a part of me that was burning with indignation. Who was he to lecture me on
the box
? Like I didn't already know.
Reverend Bjornsson inhaled a great breath and smiled. "Good," he said, brightly. "Now, I want you to know that when you make your way through the world, you're going to be tempted. Satan is
always
out there, waiting for you, waiting for your guard to fall--waiting for you to be weak, Paul. He'll try and he'll try, he'll send temptation across your path, and at your lowest moments..."
He stopped speaking, took a breath and wet his lips again, swallowed. He shifted his bulk in his chair.
"... in your lowest moments, Paul, sometimes, you won't be able to resist temptation. But don't despair. If you slip up, all you have to do is turn your face back to God, and put one foot in front of the other, son. God will always be there, if you move toward him."
"OK," I said.
Oh my God. How long is this going to go on?
"Remember, son. Your parents love you. Jesus loves you. I love you. And God loves you," he said.
There was a sense of finality in his voice. For a second I thought that he might say, "Amen."
Reverend Bjornsson stood up. Immediately my eyes went to his crotch, which was bulging out from his dark brown pants.
Holy shit.
If that bulge meant what I thought it did, it meant that every part of this man was
big
. I felt blood surge to my own dick as he walked from behind his desk and put his hand on my shoulder.
"You know, Paul, I've really missed having you in the alter server program," he said.
I'd been an alter boy for two ill-fated weeks in fifth grade, and I'd hated every second of it. The scratchy robe, the slow, measured pace that we'd had to adopt when walking around the sanctuary. On my second Sunday, I'd tripped on my robe and fallen while holding a lighted candle lighter. I'd almost set the choir director on fire. After that, to my parents' chagrin, I refused to participate.
I laughed nervously as Reverend Bjornssohn stood over me, squeezing my shoulder. His massive crotch was inches from my face. I gulped and looked up at him. He gazed down at me and he seemed to lean even closer. His crotch brushed my shoulder. Maybe I imagined it, but I thought I could feel the rigid hardness of an erection through his pants.
"Well, then," he said, patting my shoulder and moving away to open the door, "I'm glad we had this little chat, Paul. Good luck to you, son."
I stood up. I tugged at the hem of my shorts to adjust myself and then moved past him out the door. My parents, who had been sitting on an old wooden pew repurposed as a bench in the hallway, stood up.
"A fine boy you have here," Reverend Bjornsson said to my parents as we exited his office. "I'm confident that he will keep a good head on his shoulders, going forward."
My mom looked visibly relieved and my dad strode over to shake the pastor's hand.
"Thank you, Reverend," my dad said.
"Any time, John, any time. Paul, take care. Go with God, son," Reverend Bjornsson said. He patted the small of my back and I felt his fingertips trail over the top of my butt as he moved his hand away.
"Yes, sir," I said.