After our rendezvous in the IT closet, it was a couple of days before I met John again as he and his colleagues were busy in another part of the building. One morning he and his buddies showed up in the lab to continue their work. John was friendly, but awkward, it was clear that he was afraid I might say something in front of his colleagues. I just kept on working and acting completely normal. He should not have had any worries as there was no way I would "out" either him or myself.
Later during the day, we were alone again and he was squatting down working under a lab bench sporting that famous plumber's crack. There was still some awkward tension even though we were alone. I took a laboratory water bottle and squirted water down his crack. "Motherfucker!" he yelled and jumped up and shoved me playfully. We had a good laugh about it and after that everything was back to normal even when his colleagues were back. I was of course still interested in doing something with him, but I thought it best to let him give an indication if he was interested.
On Friday of that week, we accidentally drove into the parking lot at the same time and walked together to the main building which was a good 300 yards away. "Hey man, how's it going?" I said to start off the conversation.
"Good man, glad it's Friday." He seemed friendly enough, but I could sense he was nervous and I wasn't sure why. "You know I'm not gay or anything, right?"
"Yeah, sure man, I know," I responded. "Don't worry, I would never think that, tell anyone anything or bother you."
"Thanks man," he said and then there was a long pause. "I was wondering if you might like to come over tonight and watch the boxing match, I can make some Moscow Mules and get some pizza."
"Sure man, sounds good, you still live in the same place?"
"Yeah, come on by about six-thirty." We had reached the reception by that point and we parted ways without any more conversation.
I was intrigued the whole day wondering if he was interested in something again, or was this just a way of being friendly and showing no hard feelings for the awkwardness earlier in the week. I was a little ambivalent about the whole thing. I knew myself well enough to know that I wanted something to happen and that I would be disappointed if nothing happened. Anyway, I got through the day and the suspense of wondering if something might happen.
Before going over to John's, I took a shower, shaved my ass crack and cleaned myself out. I had never had anal sex, but thought back to my boy scout days, "always be prepared."
When I arrived, he had just gotten out of the shower, had hopped into some sweat pants and a black wife beater that really showed off his biceps and pecs. He was clearly not wearing underwear as his beer can was filling out the front of the sweat pants nicely. His beard was still wet from the shower and he smelled of a masculine sports soap. Damn, I was already horny for him, but I was determined that he should make the first move if he wanted anything more than company to watch the match.
We sat on each end of the sofa in front of the TV with our drinks and talked just like any two guys meeting to watch the fight. It was still too early for the match so we were watching sitcoms and the pre-fight show. We each had three of his Moscow Mules which were damn strong and we both seemed to be pretty comfortable.
The fight turned out to be a bust, a total knockout in the second round. "What the fuck is this shit? I spent fifty dollars on the pay for view!" We both laughed and he turned the channel over to a hockey game that was in progress.
I noticed that he kept looking me out of the corner of his eye and every now and again looked directly into my face with a weird, little smile. I just smiled back, thinking, "is this guy interested or not?" I could see his bulge was larger and he scooted around on the sofa until his sweat pants were slipping down over his ass cheeks a little. He dropped the TV remote on the floor and I got a nice view of his hairy crack peeking over the top of the sweat pants. Fuck! There it was in all its glory. My cock stiffened, blood rushed to my forehead and my breathing quickened. I was thinking "hmmm, was this a move?" but he retrieved the remote and sat in his position on the sofa again.