(Note: this story is focused on gay sex, but there is some straight sex in it.)
During my teenage years I worked summers as a counselor at sleepaway camps. I liked the job a lot; the work wasn't hard but it paid decently, and I got to hang around with a lot of horny female counselors. I lost my virginity one summer to one of the older girls, and after that enjoyed several summertime romances.
So when I got offered a great job after my sophomore year in college -- head counselor at a moderately posh lakefront camp in the Berkshires -- I readily agreed. The pay was much better than at other places I'd worked, and I figured I'd be able to save money while getting laid occasionally.
The counselors' summer started in early June, a week before the campers were due to show up. There were about 30 of us on the staff, mostly college kids, with a handful of high-school seniors. It was our job that first week to open and air out the cabins, get the canoes and rowboats out of storage, set up buoys around the swimming area and so forth. The early start also gave us counselors some time to get acquainted with each other.
One of the best parts of working at this particular camp was that the counselors got to live in four-person cottages instead of one big cabin. The cottages were pretty basic -- just two beds, a single chest and a bathroom with a shower -- but they were cleaner and quieter than what I had been used to.
The guys' cottages -- along with the larger cabins the campers lived in -- lined the shore of a heavily wooded cove on the eastern side of the lake, while the girls' area bordered another cove on the west side. All the other camp buildings, including the administration and maintenance buildings and the dining hall, occupied the south shore between these two areas.
We got our cabin assignments at the counselors' meeting on the first day. I lucked out: Because I was head counselor, I was given just one cabin-mate instead of three. This turned out to be a tall, athletic-looking guy from UNC named Brian.
Brian and I hit it off immediately: He was smart but low-key, with a matter-of-fact attitude and a dry sense of humor. He turned out to be a good roommate, too -- not too loud or too messy, and tolerant of my embarrassing tendency to snore.
Brian was also good-looking and in excellent physical shape, and I might have been a little jealous of him. But he was not the type to flaunt his good looks, and there was nothing stuck-up about him.
One thing we had in common was an eye for attractive women, of whom we met several that first week. I sensed a mutual attraction with one of the best-looking, a petite brunette named Amy, and Brian seemed smitten with one of her cabin-mates, a willowy blonde named Claire.
Both Amy and Claire had worked at the camp the year before. As we got to know them, they let us in on a few handy secrets about the place, like which of the full-time employees would sell you a little weed or bring you a bottle of liquor from town. It turned out, too, that the girls also knew the location of a great place for skinny-dipping, though we didn't find this out right away.
At the end of the first week -- the Saturday night before the campers were due to arrive -- the counselors threw a party. Strictly speaking such parties were not authorized, but the camp directors weren't stupid and they knew we had to blow off steam once in a while. As long as we were reasonably discreet -- not appearing drunk in front of the campers, for example -- they looked the other way.
The party was held in a pavilion on the lakeshore near the guys' cottage area. It was a low-key affair, partly because we all had to get up early the next day, and it broke up early when a sudden wind suggested a storm was coming. For a while I thought Brian and I might be able to coax Amy and Claire back to our cottage, but they peeled away before we could make our moves.
"Bummer," I said as we headed back to our cabin. "I'd hoped to start off the summer with a good fuck."
Brian laughed but didn't say anything.
It wasn't all that funny to me. I had a bad case of blue balls and was hoping I'd get a chance to jack off before bed.
But before I recount what happened when we got back to the cabin, I should say a further word about sex in a camp setting. (Just to be clear, I'm talking about the counselors only.)
Like I said, I'd enjoyed a fair amount of sex with female counselors over the years, but I don't want you to get the idea counselors were fucking each other all the time. For most of them sex was an occasional thing, if it happened at all; I'm sure there was a lot more sexual frustration than fulfillment. In that sense, camp was very much like the rest of the world.
Which meant, naturally, that there was a whole lot of masturbation going on.
I can't say a lot about how this played out among the female counselors, but among the men it was a constant, if seldom-discussed, part of camp life. Guys would beat off any time and any place they felt unlikely to get caught -- though plenty of them got caught anyway. It's a fair bet that every male counselor has caught another guy doing it at least once, and been caught at least once himself. (That goes for me, too.)
Now back to that first Saturday night.
As we got to our cottage Brian announced that he was going to take a shower. I was relieved, because I'd already realized he took longish showers and I'd formed a habit of jacking off while he was in there. (Bonus: I could watch myself in the full-length mirror on the outside of the bathroom door.)
Once we got inside, Brian got his towel and some clean boxers to change into and went into the bathroom. I flopped on my bed and -- once I heard the water turn on -- slipped off my shorts and took hold of my rapidly hardening johnson.
Just as I was starting to stroke a gust of wind came through the open window and blew the bathroom door inward. Evidently Brian hadn't closed it tightly.
It took me a moment to realize that the full-length mirror was now angled so that I could see into the bathroom. Brian was standing there naked, his eyes closed and his hand on his erect cock.
I froze, my hand still gripping my own rock-hard cock.
In the split second before I could cover up, Brian opened his eyes.
I held still, watching as his eyes took in the sight of my hand on my dick. Then he looked up.
Our eyes met.
Neither of us said anything.
Finally, after a long, agonizing moment, Brian reached up with his free hand and closed the bathroom door.
My cock was so hard it hurt. I started stroking again, fast. In my mind's eye I saw Brian doing the same on the other side of the door -- a surprisingly exciting thought -- and in barely a minute I spewed cum all over my stomach and chest.
I lay there a moment, letting my heartbeat slow and my breathing return to normal, before wiping myself off with a dirty T-shirt.
As I did, my mind was a whirl of confused thoughts.
Like I said, catching guys masturbating at camp was hardly unusual.
More than once, for example, I'd walked into what I thought was an empty cabin, only to find some guy whacking off in his bunk. In such cases I'd either back away, giving him time to finish if I had time for waiting, or make some kind of warning noise if I didn't.
I'd also been caught a couple of times myself. The most embarrassing incident had occurred the year before when an older counselor walked into the communal shower just as I was spilling cum onto the floor. He just shook his head and said nothing.
Never, however, had things happened as they just had with Brian. We had in effect caught each other.
It would be funny, I thought, if not for one thing: I had been more than a little turned on by the sight of Brian's hand on his cock.
This was a new and unexpected feeling for me.
Like all guys I've looked now and then at other guys' dicks in the gym, but I've never felt any sexual excitement as a result. And on those occasions when I'd caught guys actually masturbating, I'd never made a big deal of it.
I should add, in case you're wondering, that I've never been interested in actual sex with a guy.
Still, what had happened in the last 15 minutes felt different somehow.
For one thing, I couldn't get the sight of Brian's cock out of my mind afterward. I'd seen only glimpses of it in the few days we'd lived together, and hadn't realized until now just how big it was: His erection had to be at least eight inches long, and pretty thick, too.
Not that I'm a slouch in the dick department. My dick is just under seven inches long when erect, and is even thicker than Brian's; I'd actually had two girls tell me it was hard for them to get their mouths around it.
With a start I realized I was getting another erection -- and that I no longer heard the sound of running water. I quickly slipped on the boxers and T-shirt I normally sleep in and got back into bed.
A few moments later the bathroom door opened and Brian came out, wearing the boxers. He didn't look at me as fished a T-shirt out of the chest and made his way to his bunk.
The atmosphere in the room was off somehow. I tried to break the ice.
"That was awkward," I said, trying to inject some humor into my voice.
"I'll say," Brian said as he lay down, still without looking at me.
Another long silence. Evidently he didn't want to pursue the subject.
Finally I reached up to turn off the light.
"Well, good night," I said.