A five-hour long car ride wasn't what I had in mind for my Thursday, but it beat the hell out of being at work. I got the day off and the following Friday to go to a conference for work. I jumped at the chance to bump elbows with other businesspeople, and I really jumped when I heard it was essentially a paid vacation.
The only downside was I wasn't the only one who wanted to get time away from work, my coworker Ted also signed up. I had nothing against Ted, but he was at a different place in life than me, he was married and had a kid on the way. I wanted to enjoy the conference, its patrons if possible, and if not then I would want to hit up the bars. Ted didn't seem like the type, more of a homebody now that he'd settled down. We first met months before his wedding and he looked like an average Joe to me, 5'9" a little thick around the waist, and a goatee that grew on me. He was pleasant but we'd never really connected.
Since this was going to be a two-day event a long drive away, I asked Ted if he wanted to carpool. He didn't seem into it, but I laid it on thick about how it was better to have one car than two and this would be a chance for us to get to know one another. He acquiesced, and since I had the newer car, I drove.
I met Ted at work and picked him up while we left his car in the lot. It was earlier than work hours, but there were a few cars in early. He jumped in my passenger seat, and we headed to a coffee shop. He paid for our drinks, "since you're driving," he said. I said, "Such a gentleman, love a man who can treat me" and gave him a wink. He reddened a little bit and said, "my pleasure."
We hit the road and began the chatter that we hoped would fill five hours. I talked about my prior work before the company, he talked about his pregnant wife and the challenges she's had during the pregnancy. "Man, it was like every morning, multiple hours of her sitting by the toilet. She felt horrible, I felt horrible I couldn't help. Thank God the first trimester is done," Ted said. "Now she's nesting, and she doesn't really notice when I'm there. She's just plotting out the baby's life and I'm just supposed to go along."
"That sounds kinda one-sided. Have you talked to her about it, and her attitude change?" I asked. "No," Ted said, "I haven't. It's not worth it, I think it will get better when the baby's here. I hope so anyway. I miss the way things were."
"They were better before?" I asked. "It's been rocky sometimes, but overall good. I miss when she would care a bit more about my day, my personal stuff. But I really miss right before mostly," Ted said.
"What do you mean right before?" I asked. "Right before she got pregnant, it was the best. She wanted a baby, so we were going at it like rabbits for like two months. Best two months of my life. As soon as morning sickness struck, I've been exiled. And I get it, but it doesn't mean I have to like it," Ted said.
I felt for the guy, steady consistent sex to no sex is painful. I would know, having been celibate for 1.5 years since my last relationship. But I had my right hand and a plethora of tools to bring me pleasure. Something told me Ted's craziest toy was his wife's long vibrator. That only she used.
My quiet contemplation about what he said must have gone on for too long because Ted said, "Sorry to bother you man, I'm just plugged up" and when he said that I noticed he adjusted his shorts. I didn't notice before, but I noticed now that Ted had a little bit of a chubby going on. It was just a lump in his shorts, but the first time I'd seen a coworker any kind of hard. "You're really easy to talk to, you know that," Ted said while he groped his package again. He pulled it up, rubbed it twice, and pushed it to his left side. It was less noticeable, and I was thankful because hearing about his sex life had me kinda hard too. Not like him since he had vivid memories to go off of, but still a little uncomfortable. I didn't rearrange because I didn't want him to think I'd gotten horny or something from his talk.
Ted changed the conversation topic to TV, and we chatted for a while, and I noticed after a half hour that Ted's bulge was gone. I sighed an internal sigh of relief because I wasn't used to a guy being hard next to me in my own car.
Right then I realized that I had been paying attention to his bulge for like the last hour of this ride. I wondered why I had kept glancing at it, waiting for it to move, to deflate I corrected myself. I should be happy that it was gone and we're back to normal. But then I couldn't get my mind off it. I'd seen the general shape of his dick, and it was just lurking under that thin film of cotton. I wondered if I could get to see it again.