Chapter 05: Bryan
'The Final Instalment Of The Legend Of The House Of Shame'
As I became more and more sexually fixated on Wolfie, Ian was worried on my behalf. I was never unduly concerned. Although some of my previous nervous symptoms returned, nail biting and stammering. And I admit, my thoughts did occasionally turn to alternatives.
I found myself thinking, with vague regret, about the Trustee I'd 'auditioned' for in the potting shed. In retrospect, the more I thought about it, the more it seemed the brief intimacy had been so good. Why hadn't it worked out? If he'd enjoyed me sucking him off, as he gave every indication of doing, why didn't he want to do it again? It made no sense. Would I give it another try -- even as a one-off? Sure I would, like a shot, without a moment's hesitation. In a more relaxed, less pressured situation, I'm sure I could make it better for him, if only he'd give me the chance.
What could I say? "Hey if you're fighting the temptations of the flesh, stop fighting, it's alright. If you're worried by guilt about exploitation, fear not, I can suck away your doubts, just let me at it."
Instead, I wrote a series of notes with the intention of slipping them to him as we passed in the hallway. Writing, then scribbling out, re-wording and re-writing. How explicit should I be without running the risk of scaring him off? Admit that I'd loved the taste of him? That I'd loved what I'd done to him in the potting shed that afternoon, and still thought of those moments crouched on my knees below him, with his hot cock pulsing in my greedy mouth. How I'd do anything he wanted me to, if only he'd grant me a second chance. I'd tell no-one, I'd keep the secret, I'd meet him wherever he wanted, at a time of his choosing, with no strings, no preconditions -- except one, that he'd get his cock out and let me do it to him again. Allow me to suck him off all the way. Any follow-up would be entirely at his discretion, I'd never bother him again afterwards, never.
I re-read what I'd written, and my courage failed me. I tear it up. Shred it. Write another, and tear that up too. Sketched an illustration of me with my mouthful of his cock -- how much more blatant an invitation can you get than that? But I lack Ian's artistic skill, and tear that up too. I fret and scheme, but it all comes to nothing. I pass him once or twice in the corridors and the Day-room, smile openly in what's intended to be an inviting way. A kind of fuck-me-in-the-mouth smile. But he blanks me. Deliberately ignores me.
I saw Stuart again on a number of occasions. The guy I'd sucked-off beneath the spreading tree, as a birthday gift from Wolfie. It was difficult not to encounter people within the enclosed confines of the institution, and he always smiled pleasantly. He seems nice. As though, through an attractive combination of shy interest and tongue-tied reticence, he might be angling for a repeat. Something I would not be entirely averse to. But I had to be careful, he was not 'Protector' material, and without Wolfie's specific instruction I was wary. My unspoken contract with Wolfie implies a level of exclusivity, and if he found out I was freelancing with other guys it made a nonsense of his claims over me (he didn't know about Ian, so that was different).
So instead I found myself thinking back, almost wistfully, to Dean. How it had begun with me scared and uncertain, growing into bleak resignation, but how it had then developed into a kind of kinky confidence and self-assurance. Remembering the feel of him, the taste of him, the way his hips undulate as he spurts cum into my mouth. Not missing him, not as a person, no, but missing it, the firm heat of it, the feeling of safe predictability. Where is he now? Out there somewhere in the real world, reconnecting with straight sex? Meeting girls? He'd never get a girl to suck his cock the way I did. Does he have a new partner? Does that new partner suck him off as well as I used to? With a guilty pride and no undue modesty, I very much doubt it. Does he still get a stir in his groin thinking of me, recalling me doing it to him, as I get the stir now, thinking of doing it to him? Does he miss the warm moist clasp of my mouth on his cock? There are layers of indeterminacy about looking back. Certainly the longer I get distanced in time from Dean, the better those incidents seem. Maybe I was lying to myself?
Then I begin to consider what Ian had confided to me about the privileges he'd received from the now-disgraced Care Worker. It sets me off wondering in new directions. For there are dark rumours now. Another mentor catering to problem youth. Another bent staff-officer.
"Have you heard those stories about Reed?" I venture to Ian hoarsely. We were lying nude together in the laundry room. My head resting on his bare stomach, my eyes fixed on his cock as I play his foreskin up and down. "Do you think they're true?"
"Of course they're true. Haven't you noticed the way that he watches boys in the shower? He's queer as fuck. He loves to watch sweet boys with no clothes on. And more than watch them too. He'd love to see us like this. He'd love to see you with my stiff cock in your fist. He'd love to see you down there sucking me off, you are going to suck it now -- aren't you...?"
"Of course I am. Just try and stop me" I say. I've sucked Ian off more times than I can remember. But every time is a joy. I lick my way down his stomach, tunnelling my tongue through his downy pubic hair, circling and nuzzling around the base of his cock, then flick-licking my way up its shaft to the glistening knob-head. It slides so easily into my mouth, so familiar, then -- for a while, I'm unable to speak.
But while my mouth is pleasantly bulging with Ian's cock, until the delicious moment the flood of his orgasm jets into me, I'm thinking. Yes, the stories have the odour of veracity. The rumours that Reed takes advantage of his position. That he takes polaroids of entwined nude boys in light bondage and blindfolds. The stories seem very likely to be true. And surely his sexual favours would be sought after because of the treats and privileges he's in a position to bestow. And the boys he selects would generally be envied -- they'd get things the rest of us don't, things we all want, and all they have to do is suck cock to qualify. Hell, I'm doing that anyway. So I watch him, yes, he swaggers up and down, arrogantly complacent in his authority. But with ludicrous round glasses that make him look like a Benny Hill comedy-lecher.
It was said he makes his selection by watching us shower, basing his choice on penis-size. He prefers large ones. And, knowing this, boys strut and parade for him provocatively, vying with each other to gain his favour, his approval, stupidly proud of the size of their erections and regarding it as some kind of good fortune to be selected by him, hoping to catch his eye. I did. When he was invigilating while I was showering I ensure I was semi-erect and with my body glistening with water, making sure he notices me, swaying my hips so my genitals move in a way I feel sure he'll like, thrusting my hips forward to emphasise it, posing, tugging its length a little, absently, as though merely washing -- then smiling up coyly at him as if to say 'no, this is for your benefit', delaying dressing for as long as I can to ensure he gets a good look -- and he looks, I know he looks me full in the groin long and lingering, but he never makes an approach.
Perhaps my cock is too small? Perhaps he prefers cavaliers? I thought back with a kind of warped amusement to when I'd first arrived here, the cursory medical, the first time I'd had to strip naked and shower as the social worker watched me, how scared and shy and vulnerable I'd felt, doing my best to conceal myself from his gaze. How much has changed in so little time. Modesty is something we can't afford here. A luxury none of us are allowed. Bodies are common property, and nudity a part of it. Nude in the showers. Nude in the dorms. Sex is commonplace, not only tolerated but -- if those tales are true, sometimes even encouraged by the institution's staff. We learn to accept that our bodies will be intimately seen and used on a daily basis without our consent or permission -- indeed, without the slightest hesitation or consideration. It's a fact of life we must adjust to, and make the best of -- largely, of course, by acquiring a 'protector' who has special rights to our bodies in exchange for their protection.
Sex is frequent, and strictly functional. The object is ejaculation. Orgasm. Shooting spunk into an accommodating mouth or arse. Nothing more. That's a basic condition of sexual servitude we accept as a simple expedient for survival. But, it seems, he's not interested in taking advantage of what I'm offering him. Pity. I may not be the most generously genitally-endowed guy here, but hey -- it's not bad, and I could have provided him with polaroids to make his hair curl.
Instead, I had an oddly pleasing encounter. I was showering. I was aware someone else was there, but wasn't fully conscious of them. It was only as I emerge and begin to move towards my clothes that I feel nervous fingers reaching out and closing around my down-hanging cock. I turn in surprise. He's a naked young-looking guy, a recent intake. He appears shy and vulnerable. I smile encouragingly, and respond by trailing my fingers down the treasure-trail of hair from his navel to enfold his own nicely proportioned cock in my hand. A perfectly shaped arrowhead tip cresting a generously sized shaft surmounting a delectable set of softly-downed testicles. His stomach muscles shrink back, flinching as my fingers close around him, wary of my intentions. That reaction seems quite endearing to me. He relaxes a little as it becomes obvious I'm only intent on feeling him up.
We stand there stupidly, wordlessly smiling at each other, gently wanking each other. The warmth of his grasp setting up its inevitable magical rousing effect. There aren't many male bodies I'd describe as beautiful, but his is.