I tip the cute baggage handler as he places my luggage on the hotel bed. I had visited Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico once before, during the cool days of March. Here I am again, alone this time. I decide to leave the hotel and go for a walk, take in the view, and see the people and the culture. I get lost and cannot figure out how to get back to the hotel. I end up at a large corral. The foul stench of chickens overwhelms me. I hear a man curse and praise at someone. I inch closer to the noise and in the midst of the corral is a young man. I lean up to the wooden fence to take a closer look.
In the midst of the dirt in an otherwise clean corral, stood this stud, at least 6 feet tall, with a V shape torso and a tight eight pack barely covered by his open blue shirt. His muscular arms flex with each movement as he tries to get the red rooster to fight the white one. His loose blue jeans held up by a tight, old, leather belt with a huge belt buckle showing a rooster's head in mid croak, barely hid the bulge inside. His voice is a gentle caress in my ears, cursing at the rooster. His light brown hair covered by a brown straw sombrero with brown and red feathers matching those on the rooster he was training.
I could not stop starring at this creature. My loins were stirring at the tanned tight body in front of me, a few feet from me.
"Hey. Vale," he yelled.
Startled I look up. "Huh?"
He stood up, buttoned his shirt and walks very sure of himself. He comes up to the fence. His clean and musky scent makes me fantasize of nights of hot passionate sex with him.
I see his deep brown eyes drawing me in as if it were a deep cave. "What? I'm sorry." I almost fall in a trance staring at his virile face.
"You're not from here, are you?" he asks in English, looking at me with a sardonic smile as if he knew my secrets.
"No. I was visiting and I left the hotel this morning and got lost," I barley said without a tremble.
"What are you doing here?" he nods at me. "Other than stare at me?"
"I heard you calling out names and I felt curious. And, no. I was I was not starring at you, I was looking at your rooster."
He stretched his hand outward towards me, "My name is Pablo."
"I'm Blade, nice to meet you." His hand grips mine and squeezes hard. I hold on to it as long as I can before he takes it away. "Are you fighting cocks?"
"Yeah. I train them and then I fight them. Most of the time I win."
"Oh. I've never seen one."
"I see that you like my cock." He says with perfect white teeth in a clean-shaven face. Maybe you should come tonight and see it fight."
"I don't believe in cockfights of this type." I pivot and walk away.
"I get it." He yells out, "You're just chicken."