A lot of people will talk about Chicago winters, and yes, they're just as bad as people tell you. But as terrible as they are, Chicago's Summer is a straight-up dystopian nightmare. It's hot, muggy, humid, sweaty, loud, smelly and leaves you feeling like you just walked through a pile of someone's used laundry.
But the Summer of '95 was hot like nobody had ever seen before. The heat was unreal. Triple digits were the norm, and the heat index was so bad the city eventually had to set up emergency cooling shelters. April was bad, May was worse, but it didn't start getting supernaturally hot until that June.
I remember coming home on the train one day and seeing the outside temperature registering a cosy 116 degrees. It was no better in the train. A tiny ceiling fan sputtered away as best it could, but the train was crowded and hot and thick with humidity and sweat.
I had managed to get a seat that day, which wasn't always possible. Lucky too, since the train was extra crowded. The guy standing in the aisle next to me had to lean further and further over me just to make room. I felt for the guy, he was pretty big and was having a hard time not crowding people out. I did what I could to ignore the fact that his crotch was just a few inches from my face.
The air was still and humid, and I swear I could faintly smell the musk coming off his balls. Out of the corner of my eye I could see his package, clearly outlined by the thin gym shorts he was wearing. The damp fabric clung to his skin so tightly I could tell he wasn't circumcised. He had a pretty formidable cock, no lie, and it was hard to pretend it wasn't two or three inches from my face. I did my best though, and buried myself in a book.
Still, it was a bit of a surprise when the train jostled and the unmistakable weight of his cock thumped me in the side of my face.
Feeling that soft thump, I naturally turned to see what had just hit me. I found myself face to cock with a trouser snake that literally filled my entire cone of vision. I blinked in surprise, and looked up at the guy to say something when another jostle sent his crotch straight into my face. There was a brief, warm moment when his cock pushed firmly against my cheek. I remember how warm it was, and not very flaccid.
"Oh shit!" He said from somewhere above me. He squirmed a little and managed to free my face from his twig and berries. "I am so so sorry! It's really crowded in here!"
I looked up into his clean-shaven face, clearly distressed and embarrassed at what had happened. He was right too, the train was packed. It wasn't that he was trying to teabag me, there just wasn't enough room for all of him in the aisle anymore.
"It's cool." I said, still smelling his sweaty cock. "I totally understand. Fuck Summer, right?"
He smiled, and made a wry look at the crowd over his shoulder. I leaned over as best I could to give him and his nice package some room as we went home. I did my best, but the whole way home all I could think about was that cock, just inches from my nose.
Normally I don't notice people on the train much, but that was such an unusual encounter that I started noticing Cock and Balls Guy on my train at least a few times a week. There was obviously a gym somewhere in this guy's life, because he was often in workout gear, but sometimes he had semi-professional dress. He obviously didn't work in a corporate office, but he was usually at least semi-professional. Every now and then, we'd catch one another's eye and nod.
That Summer continued to be brutal, and the municipal train budget wasn't anywhere near adequate to keep the trains air conditioned. It was a nasty way to come into work, and it was just as hot and nasty on the way home. I'd like to say I got used to it, but that would be a lie. I suffered, like everyone was suffering. There's a reason people still talk about the Summer of '95.
One day in July, I found myself on the train again sitting in an aisle seat and Cock and Balls Guy standing next to me. He was in his gym shorts again, and the train was just as crowded as it always was. Our eyes met and we shared a smile and he leaned in to talk to me.
"Hey," he said, over the racket of the train, "I'm sorry to crowd you out, if you need me to move, just let me know, okay?"
"No problem," I said. "You're not crowding me at all."
He smiled and gave me a thumbs-up and went back to staring out the window and listening to his headphones.
I, too, went back to my book trance. I wouldn't have given him a second thought except that another train jostle caused his dick to thump into my face again. It wasn't a passing bump either, the train was turning and he was being pressed into me. I felt it pressing into my cheek, soft and hard at the same time. I smelled his sweat and musk and heat. I don't know what got into me, but instead of pulling away, I closed my eyes and pressed back into him.
My cock jolted from soft to diamond in a flash. At that moment, all I could smell was him and the whole train just faded away. The heat of his cock radiated through his shorts, making me sweat against his crotch. His firm shaft lay against my jaw and I swear I felt it shift and swell just a little.
Then the moment was broken as the train jostled itself again. His cock pulled away, and he was swaying and stumbling with everyone else to stay upright. He managed to keep his balance, but his dick wasn't quite so close as it was. Every now and then, we'd make eye contact and then look away awkwardly.
After that, it seemed like he was standing near me on the train more and more. Never in a creepy way, I just noticed him on my train a lot after that. We always catch one another's eye, spend a few moments looking at one another and then look away. Honestly, I didn't know what to make of it.
Then, one sweltering day, fortune had it so that we found seats next to one another in the back of the train. Like, literally the very last seats in the back, where the fans never reached and the air was always stale and hot. Still, a seat on the train in rush hour is nothing to sneeze at, and he collapsed next to me gratefully.
After a second, he reached his hand over to shake mine. "I'm Brayden, man," he said, giving me a name to put to his cock. I mean face.
I shook it and said "Keenan. Fuck Summer, right?"
"Goddamn, for real. This is total bullshit." He wiped a towel over his face and offered me a bottle of water.