James had parked the F 150 truck under a cluster of nearby pine trees about 18 hours earlier. We awoke almost at the same time in our Sportsmen SE travel trailer. I looked over at my boyfriend seeing only his bare chest. The blanket on our queen bed covered him from just below his pecs.
His body is toned, the result of many many hours of weightlifting. At 5 10 his eyes are two inches above mine. His light brown hair frames a square face. His blue eyes gleam in the light.
My body is contrasted with his. I'm shorter and somewhat more slender. My hair is black and my eyes brown.
I asked, "how did you sleep."
He said, "It didn't take long once we finished."
I pushed the blanket off my naked body and got up. I needed coffee if nothing else, but eggs would be good.
James came to the table less than a minute afterward. Our lips touched sending the sound of our kiss through our trailer.
James is forty one and I am 21. The story of how we met is most unusual.
A year ago
My appointment at the medical center had been scheduled for 10 A M that Tuesday in June. A Google search had pointed me to the clinical psychiatrist doctor James Kent, someone who could help me come to terms with being homosexual.
I had been waiting some 10 minutes past the sceduled apointment reading a copy of Popular Mechanics when he finally gestured for me to follow him.
"How are you today?"
"I'm well," I said.
He asked, "when did you first realize your orientation."
"At puberty," I replied. "I've never actually been interested in girls."
He said, "I had dated girls in highschool."
I asked, "and you switched sides."
He said, "switching sides is more common than you think."
"Really," I said in disbelief.
He related his life story. "I enlisted in the army out of highschool and had to deal with DADT. The desire for man on man sex was coming to the surface and I couldn't act on it."
"Everything I was taught tells me that it's so wrong."
He said, "so now you have to re learn."
I said, "I can't bring myself to come out to anyone."
He said, "I came out to friends I knew were gay."
"I worry about what people say behind my back, and about relentless teasing."
He said, "you can't worry about that crap."
I said, "I guess you're right."
"I am right. You have no reason to be ashamed. Being gay is NOT your fault. It's genetic."
That last sentence would stay in my subconscious.
I wanted to relate sexual fantasies about being with a man. As if reading my mind he asked, "do you pretend there's a man with you when you masturbate."
The question made me blush.
He continued making his point. "Masturbation is a natural and normal thing to do. It means you really want to have sex with a man and that's ok."
"I do," I said.
He mentioned that "a great many celebrities are gay and lesbian."
"Uh huh," I said.
"Society is changing," he said.
I asked, "what about friends."
"Your true friends will stand by you. If they go away then they never actually were friends."
I said, "I don't want to be seen as effeminate."