Compromising Position
I am not sure how to write this tale but my instinct tells me to set the stage, briefly describing where we are now and then going back to the beginning as a way of explanation.
The present is summer break, mid-July, and I am hanging out in my best friend's apartment waiting for him to get dressed to go out on his boat. We are typical, more or less, 18-year-old boys in a time when 18 was more grown up than today. No cell phones or internet and we had to be content driving around in old cars, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. Nevertheless, life was good.
My friend Carl was a bit of a character. A bit spoiled since his parents had their own business and made a decent living. They also indulged him to compensate for the lack of attention they gave him due to their working almost seven days a week. He was also tough, having three older brothers who didn't spoil him or indulge him meant he had to take a lot of hard knocks. But he was fun loving, handsome, good natured, sexy and attractive. The girls liked him and his uninhibited ways but so did most people who knew him.
As I sat in the corner of the couch in my tee shirt and bathing suit, thumbing through a magazine, Carl walked out of his room, naked, holding his bathing suit. He stopped by the arm of the couch facing me, his half-erect penis pointing in my direction and started chuckling, asking if I wanted to hold it. His sense of humor sometimes got sexual but since we were still feeling the effects of puberty and our own sexual awakening, this was as natural as breathing to us. 18-year-old boys joked about sex, talked about sex, dreamt about sex but never had much of the real thing. Asking me if I wanted to hold his dick was goofy fun for him.
However, there was something different about his tone this time and it seemed that there was an underlying message coming through the smile and laughing. I told him to go point that thing in another direction since I was not interested but today that response was proving unsatisfactory. Carl responded that he heard from one of our other friends that I was seen in bed with an older guy, someone who gave blowjobs to the local boys at his house and who we would visit when we were in the mood for such a thing; if I would go to bed with this fellow why wouldn't I at least stroke his dick? He saw from the look on my face that he struck a chord with me and did not want to back off, plus it was fun for him to see me in such an uncomfortable position. Carl was horny and if he could have someone play with his dick, it would be the beginning of a good day.
Although no one ever discussed the matter when I was in earshot, I was indeed caught in this compromising position very late one Saturday night and Carl was waiting for just the right time to confront me with the information. I had hoped that I had gotten out of bed quick enough and managed to get dressed without too much attention that night so the guys who arrived, friends of ours and guys also visiting a gay man for sex, would not make much of my presence. They may not have said anything at the moment but clearly the story of what, or rather who, they found when they entered the house had made the rounds in our circle of friends.
When I climbed into bed with this guy, Ray, it was the first time I had ever done such a thing. I had visited him with the other guys several times and had gotten blowjobs but that was it. This particular night I went to see Ray with another boy but stayed later just talking to him since my friend had to leave before I did. Ray and I were alone in the house and during our conversation he confided in me saying that he really felt like getting fucked and asked if I would be interested in doing it with him. He said that he struck out with the other guys and hoped that I would agree since he was getting very horny. He also said that he felt that I was different from the others although he did not explain the remark. He promised that it would be fun and he would be grateful.
When he saw that I did not immediately dismiss the idea he suggested that we get comfortable on the bed and talk about it, maybe take off our clothes and relax since he knew that I wanted a blowjob anyway. The suggestion appealed to me for a couple of reasons, the first being that I had often wondered what it would be like to be completely naked with him while he sucked me off instead of the usual pants down version and, secondly, I had begun to wonder about my own sexuality and being in bed with another man might help my understanding of my own feelings, so I readily agreed.