Mikey, a studly 18-year old finds himself intimate for the first time with Mike, his namesake 24-year old uncle whom he's idolized all his life during a cross-country drive. Steve is the 20-year old collegiate gymnast who hitches a ride with them.
We had been in the truck for hours and hours and were ready for some stretching. We stopped at a big rest stop, and after answering the call of nature, Mike went to the back of the truck and rummaged through the cardboard box of miscellaneous stuff he'd cleaned out of his closet back home and grabbed his old football. The three of us (in just our running shorts) ran a few laps around the picnic area, first at a very easy jog and then a couple circuits in a flatout run. We tossed the football around, and gradually increased the length of our passes. Mike had a great arm. He would tell me to run a long pattern and hook right just beyond a trashcan, say, and when I did, all I had to do was just reach my arms out and there suddenly was a football in them. He could have beat out any quarterback in my league back home! And it felt so goddamn good to have some activity.
As we approached the main parking area, I said to Steve, "Show us a little of your tumblin' stuff, man."
Steve smiled an ok, and in a newly-mown flat area, he begin a few warm-up manoeuvres, and then turned to us and said, "Don't get your hopes up, guys, this isn't the Olympics." But what he did just fuckin' astonished us. He did part of his floor exercise routine, with flips, saltos, and a salto with a twist, in the layout position, high above our heads. Then he did more or less the same things, only backwards, this time with a salto in the pike position, and both times he nailed his landing. By this time he'd gathered a substantial crowd, who whooped, clapped, and asked for more. It's not the sort of thing you see every day, especially in a rest stop performed by a guy in nothing but a little running short and shoes. He grinned modestly (really!), and made another pass, this time with different amazing saltos; and then he threw himself to the grass, and did one of those impossible-to-believe-until-you-see-it things, starting from a sitting position with his legs an absolutely 180-degree line. He put down his arms and raised his entire body on his fingertips (yes!), and slowly closed his legs and then slowly swung his body between his arms into a hand-stand, with perfect control, his ropy forearms bulging, his perfect abs working, his upper arms and back flexing under his perfect control. It was his piece de resistance on his team, and it met with huge whoops and shouts there in the rest stop along the highway! From his handstand he did a couple of flair-like flourishes with his legs, and then with a mighty flexion of his trunk muscles, sprang into the air, and nailed his dismount, and with a big grin took a tight little bow to ongoing hollering and applause.
As we walked back to the truck, with him in the middle, he put one arm on each of our shoulders and we were so proud to be there with him. Secretly I was thinking, hell yes, it was unfuckingbelieveable, but know what, he could have gotten huge applause just doing anything, just doing a couple of jumping jacks, if it showed off his incredible ripped body.
Back in the truck, we settled down for another three hours on the road. It was late June, and the days were very long, but the last two hours on the road would be in dusk or darkness, and nothing to do but talk. Hell, there hadn't been much to see all day long in Nebraska anyway.
The conversation took a sort of loopy turn, as we told funny stories from our past. I'd heard most -- but not quite all -- of Mike's, but I loved hearing them again. As he told em they were always funny as shit, and some of them were regular set pieces, like the time he and his date were in a state park not too far from Palo Alto and had a late-night nude picnic on a blanket on a playing field, followed by a had a really good fucking and sucking session, under the stars. The park had been closed for hours, and they'd snucked in past a broken chain that was supposed to secure a little-used back entrance that Mike had spotted earlier in the week. When at last they had to head home, they found that the keys were supposedly in Mike's jeans, and Mike's jeans were, with all the picnic gear, and the rest of their clothes and even their shoes in the trunk of the locked car, a car a friend going out of town for the weekend had lent him. As Mike explained it, when your mind is on fuckin little practical things just don't register, and as he gathered up the stuff to stow in the trunk to get it out of the way, he had no idea of what kind of trouble he was getting into. Anyway, it wasn't his car, and he didn't know that you could lock the car by just depressing the button on the door and slamming it, something that his date had just unconsciously done, just as she had accidentally leaned against the open trunk. So intent on fucking this little beauty -- it was their first (and would be their only) date -- that he didn't think anything of it when he heard the fatal click of the truck lid. It turned out that the girl was a very talented lay with a real taste for cock, and their fuck and suck session was ball-breaking awesome. But when it was time to go and the realities of the situation dawned on them, she was less friendly. A whole lot less friendly. They wouldn't get home until about 10.30 the next morning, with a lot to explain to a county mounty. The way he told it, well, we almost puked with laughter.
I had a couple of stories, not quite so funny as Mike's, but pretty hot, and Steve told a couple. We were having a great time.
Steve said, "Guys, how about a change of plan? I was headed back to Laramie, but it was just to pick up a few things. I don't need to be anywhere for a few more days. Why don't we stop in Cheyenne and we can stay at my folks' place. They are in Europe for three more weeks." It sounded fine to us, great really, particularly since it was 50 miles closer and our original destination anyway. But also we didn't quite want to part with Steve.
Steve directed us to an exit off I-80, just west of Cheyenne, then to a outlying road that steadily climbed for a few miles, and then, past a gate in a fence to a long lane between two pastures, and eventually to a gigantic house situated on the highest rise for miles around. It was nothing like one of these new McMansion things you see. It was a gigantic log house. Actually, it looked more like a lodge at a national park than a private dwelling, though there were garages and outbuildings like a poolhouse and guest house, and a barn, and the grounds around the house were beautifully kept, mostly with dry-tolerant plants, but there was a lush perennial garden too that obviously was well-watered. We later learned the house had been built in the early twentieth century by an ex-governor of the state, but it had been extensively remodeled and updated and expanded by Steve's folks.