Looking back on it, Frank Doyle could have kicked himself for asking Gabe if he'd like to go along on the delivery of sacks of feed supplements to the Brighton Ranch. He'd had no idea that they were filming a movie there and he had no idea who was involved in the movie or that the ranch's manager, Sterling Fisher, had been one of Gabe's clients at the Lone Star Diner in Guthrie.
They were at one of the barns, within sight of the huge, rambling, weather-beaten wood Victorian main house that stood out on the flat arid land like some sort of alien spaceship plunked down in a desert. They were unloading feed bags from the back of Frank's pickup truck and wondering what all of the activity and unusual equipment surrounding the house, with its incongruous patch of grass lawn out front, was about when Frank went stiff. Gabe turned to see what Frank was looking at, taking a few seconds to understand why Frank looked so shocked and concerned.
There was a fancy convertible sitting in front of the ranch house--not really a ranch house; more a displaced Victorian mansion. It was a 1954 Ford Sunliner convertible, two-tone yellow and white. Perched on the top of the driver's seat was a young sunny blonde woman in a frilly yellow dress with white trimmings. And standing on the ground beside her, with an arm around her waist and all trimmed out in black leather faux cowboy apparel was... Collin Chisholm, Gabe's motorcycle lover from the Lone Star Diner. Three photographers were circling them, taking still shots.
"Isn't that--?" Frank started to ask.
"Yes," Gabe said, and then after taking a moment to absorb what he was seeing, he added, "I wonder what's going on."
Further speculation was short circuited when a small, emaciated woman with owl eyes and owl eyeglasses dominating her face, showed up, holding a clipboard, and said, "All of the extras are gathering over there near the horse corral."
"We're not extra, Ma'am," Frank said, with a smile, tipping his cowboy hat at the woman. "We're here to make a feed delivery. But can you tell us what's going on over at the house?"
"Filming a movie.
Big Sky Country
," she said, a cigarette wagging at the corner of her mouth. "An A movie. Epic. A Texas family goes from dirt ranching to millionaires in two generations and very nearly to pot after that. Those are publicity shots. Most of the 'before' part has already been filmed. The oil wells go in next week--that's the millionaire part. We're about to go on hiatus from the house remodeling."
"And those people--the girl in the convertible and the cowpoke?" Frank followed up.
"Pamela Barker. Surprised you don't recognize her. This year's ingΓ©nue bombshell. The daughter of the family. The young man is Collin Chisholm, up and coming heartthrob. On the porch, talking to who I don't know is Jay Jones, box office cash register and heartthrob of two decades ago. Jones is playing the family patriarch. Susan Tyler, leading lady, just flies in for her scenes and then flies back to California. The production had to lease a plane just for her. You sure you two aren't here to play extras? You're both perfect for it."
"The other man on the porch is Sterling Fisher," Frank said. "He lives in that house. But, no, Ma'am, I'm just here to deliver feed. Maybe Gabe here, though..."
He turned and looked at Gabe and his heart flipped up into his throat. The suggestion was the very last thing he should have said, he immediately recognized. Gabe had the star-struck look in his eyes and his gaze was fixed on Collin Chisholm, who had now seen them and was walking toward them, his eyes on Gabe.
"What's entailed in being an extra in this movie?" Gabe asked.
Gabe was so taken with exchanging looks with Collin that he didn't notice that the men on the porch--the ranch manager and major stockholder, Sterling Fisher, and the handsome, mature leading actor, Jay Jones, were now also looking at him. Fisher was talking, and Jones was smiling.
* * * *
"No, it's fine if you stay here until they don't need you any more for filming," Frank said, his voice sounding enthusiastic but the look he was giving Gabriel didn't match that. Gabriel, who had gotten the name upgrade when the casting woman decided that's what she'd write on her clipboard because it sounded better as a movie name, was starry eyed and looking at the activity going on around him, his gaze constantly going back to Collin Chisholm, rather than to Frank.
"There's probably room in the bunkhouse," the casting woman said, her cigarette wagging at the corner of her mouth, although she sounded a bit dubious. "Never can tell when we need the extras to form up, so it would be best if you were here when you were needed."
"He can bunk in my trailer," Collin Chisholm chimed in, with a smile. This made Frank's brow knit a little deeper, but the casting woman seemed to be cheered by the offer, completely indifferent to the dynamics that were playing out.
"Terrific. See costuming over there in that barn," she said, turning to the newly minted Gabriel, the housing issue being solved as far as she was concerned. "They'll have the last word on what you wear in the scenes where you're background, but I wouldn't be surprised if they decide you are perfect just the way you are--maybe even with the shirt off."
"Yeah, I think he's perfect just the way he is," Collin said, giving Gabriel the eye.
Turning toward the truck, Frank said, "I'll bring your stuff back when I deliver the next load of feed later this afternoon." It wasn't clear whether either Gabriel or Collin heard him, though, as Collin had a hand on Gabriel's forearm and was already moving out to show him to the actor's trailer.
As the male heartthrob second lead in the motion picture, Collin rated one of the bigger trailers. There were three compartments--the central compartment included the living area off to one side and a kitchenette and L-shaped bench, with a dining table, off to the other side. A short hallway, with a closet on one side, and a small bathroom, with shower on the other, led from the kitchen/dining space to a bedroom at the back of the trailer that was dominated by a double bed. Up front, off the living area, a small compartment accommodated two bunk beds and a built-in armoire.
Gabriel was shown the bunk beds after Collin had bent him over the dining table and fucked him doggie style, but later Gabriel was fucked on Collin's double bed at the other end of the trailer, with the new movie extra on his back, grasping the rungs of the headboard over his head, legs spread and bent and pelvis thrusting up to receive Collin's downward thrusts of his cock. Collin hovered over Gabriel's body, his fists buried in the mattress on either side of the young man's shoulders, and pumped and pumped and pumped.
Gabriel allowed as how the accommodations and hospitality attention would be just fine with him.
* * * *
As it turned out, extras, including Gabe, weren't going to be needed for much longer. Filming of the early-years phase of the movie was coming to a close. Before they could move to the "years later" phase, the house needed to be completely redone and the husks of oil well pumpjacks had to be dotted over the nearby landscape. The scenes already in the can had been filmed piecemeal, with an eye to the ongoing project needs of the actors, and all but one of Collin's scenes were finished already. Collin was actually in the "years later" portion of the film, as his own character's son, but he had another movie to go to and the magic of film editing would change his backgrounds. After this, there would just be this or that short take filmed of the early phase. Gabriel had learned this as soon as Collin took him to his trailer. Collin was already stripping off his shirt as they entered.
"Get comfortable, which means strip down, while I get a couple of beers," he said. "Then I want you to suck me off and I'll do you."
"Just like that?" Gabriel asked--with a smile, though, because he had no objection to Collin fucking him. He'd missed Collin. "No showing me where I'm to bunk or anything?"
"You bunk through that door there, and you can put your clothes there now, if you want, but for the short time I'm here, you'll probably be under me on my bed, which is that direction. Here's your beer. You aren't naked yet. Get a move on, lad. Time is short."
"Time is short?"
"Yeah. My last scene films this afternoon. Another day or two and I'm back in Hollywood. Just have to make arrangements on the shipping of my Harley."
"The movie is folding up?"
"My part of it is, but there will be time for you to be filmed. Some of the background stuff is still to be shot. What we don't have much time to do is fuck, and I've been thinking of you. On your knees. Give me good head."
Gabriel dutifully went on his knees between Collin's spread thighs as the actor sprawled on the built-in sofa. Gabriel gave him head while Collin swigged his beer and told Gabriel what he liked from the suck and what he liked more. When Collin was good and stiff, he just bent Gabriel over the table between the kitchenette and the bench, worked his cock inside Gabriel's ass, grasped the young man's hips with his hands, and started pumping him. This obviously was fine with Gabriel, who went completely docile as Collin spiked him and extended his arms straight out from his sides in a cruciform position and grasped the edge of the table top to hold himself steady under the rhythm of the fuck.