Chapter Six: Everything Goes
As soon as the school year at Dartmouth was over and Rich had graduated, his training as a Chippendales-style dancer and performer--both on stage and in bed--began at the Berkeleynotsquare nightclub in Boston's south end. He was given a small room and a bed--and bed partners, both female and male and in combination--at the club and put through his paces for a few weeks before being unveiled to the paying public. He proved to be a fast study on the dance stage, because of his athletic prowess and dexterity and his musicality. He had no trouble determining the beat and coordinating his dance movements to it. And, as he was a god physically, he quickly moved to the front and center of the dance line and became a favorite for high-flyer patron's "after the dance" cards.
In the "after the dance" card respect, Howard wisely kept Rich on the rare-availability status, which only served to heighten the interest in engaging the young man's services. Such was the demand, though, that "rarely available" still meant three or four times a month. Since he was an accomplished musician, he was brought in mostly to answer the wishes of patrons who were in the arts themselves. Regardless, they were people rich enough to afford him.
But first, before he was offered to high society, Rich had to be taken down to the depths to maintain his perspective in what the services were. Rich's "coming out" party at Berkeleynotsquare was a gang bang, in which, after performing a dance routine before a carefully selected audience, an auction was held, and seven men, especially selected for their well-toned bodies as well as their plump pocket books, paid upwards of a thousand dollars each to enjoy him together.
The room was purposely small. The floor, walls, and ceiling were painted black. A series of mirrors and cameras were mounted on the walls and ceiling to catch Rich mounting a beautiful-body man or being mounted by men from varying angles. The room was dominated by a four-by-five-foot black vinyl-covered ottoman placed in the center of the room. The atmosphere was intimate, oppressive even. Red-beaming lights were set in the upper corners of the room, focusing on the vinyl cube, pulsating at a rhythm that started slow, with the "lubbing" sound of the heart beat and, over a twelve-minute period, increased in intensity to a crescendo, with the participants told that the goal of the "game" was to ejaculate at the height of the crescendo. This rhythm was set at the beginning. At the beginning the time period was set longer, to eighteen minutes.
It was all filmed and sold to a select audience, with Rich being paid five thousand dollars for the performance.
Eighteen minutes was the time given to Rich to come with one of the patrons, the goal being for them to come off together, as Rich fucked him on the vinyl cube and the other six patrons, stood around, naked and dicks in hand, and watched. Patron A was graying and might be anywhere between forty and fifty, although his musculature and the trimness and hardness of his beautifully formed body belied the upper reaches of that age range.
Rich fucked him in the missionary position, holding the man's long, lean legs raised and spread, with the man's arms spread-eagled up and out, wide, the wrists restrained at the top corners of the cube, and Rich taking him, at first, in long slides, all the way out and all the way in, picking up in intensity as the pulsating of the strobe lights and lubbing of the beat of the surround sound picked up in intensity. He didn't wear a condom with this first man. The man didn't care and Rich had just been checked. He met his goal of coming on the eighteenth-minute driving beat, as did Patron A, arching his back, crying out to the ceiling and arcing his cum up his belly. Rich's cum was shown dribbling out of the man's hole.
That was the signal for the other six men to descend upon the two, repositioning their bodies so that Rich was on his back, stretched out in one direction, and Patron A was on his belly stretched out in the other direction. The six went through a rota, maintaining pace with the changing pattern of the strobe lighting and lubbing of the sound system. One patron was stationed at the head of either Patron A or Rich, the heads of the latter suspended over one side of the cube, and fed their cocks into the mouths of the reclining man. Another patron was at the other end of the cube, fucking. The third was teasing the body of his reclining prey as he wished. At the explosion of the lights and sound at the end of a twelve-minute period, the fucking patron had either come or hadn't and needed to move on anyway. The six men went through the line, ending up at the head, on the probing, and in the fuck of both of the men reclining on the cube.
The course of this nearly two-hour game was supervised by two body-builder club bouncers, who had the duty of keeping order and maintaining the rota of the gang bang and the reward of each getting to take either Patron A or Rich, slung over their shoulders, and taken to the club taxing room torture chamber to do what they wished with their charge for an hour. Patron A was put in the block, kneeling with wrists and neck incapacitated while a bouncer fucked him like a dog, and Rich was bound to an X-frame and flogged before being fucked from behind by his tormentor.
At the end of the encounter--not called an ordeal as Rich had now been trained not only to expect but to enjoy such treatment--Rich was declared more than ready to be included in the main stable of the club.
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For the rest of the summer Rich danced the line four nights a week at Berkeleynotsquare, two nights each for the ladies and for the men. After his last of two sets, if a bid had been placed for him, he either fucked or was fucked in the room he also slept in at the back of the club on the nights he performed at the club. Once or twice in the week his services were claimed by either Horace or Alma Butler too under the first deal. On some days, evenings, and/or nights he was not working at the club, he was hired out from Howard's escort agency.
Because he was of concert pianist quality and would be studying musical composition in the fall at Julliard in New York City, the clients he served through the escort agency often were from the entertainment industry, and sometimes the meetings were in New York City, which gave him occasion to check in with his parents. The hours he'd spent with them when he'd intercepted the tax bill were to be the last glowing hours of full lucidity that his mother was to enjoy. She was steadily going downhill that summer and Rich's father didn't seem to be far behind her in failing health and lagging desire to live. Rich had paid the quarterly taxes, but he thought the decision point on keeping the house very likely might come up before the next bill arrived. Still, he took what work from Howard that he could to pay off the advance he'd gotten and to build up another infusion for the taxman.
There was the visiting Chinese violinist at the New York Philharmonic who, after a couple of gay bar stops in Chelsea, only wanted to kiss, to fondle Rich's body, and to sixty-nine and have the two jack each other off in his hotel room. And the zaftig Spanish opera soprano from a MET production who wanted Rich to bring her off with his mouth working her clit and cunt and then who wanted him on his back while she rode him and sang Galician folk songs. The assignment that amused him most was the one where he was hired to play the piano at the wedding of a twenty-something blonde bimbo to some rich dude who was fifty-something, but pampered, well-gymed, and not badly preserved. The service didn't stop with the musical entertainment, though. Rich became part of the wedding night celebration, fucking the bride on the bed in the bridal suite while the groom came in behind him, grabbed his hips, and fucked him. Rich was commissioned to do the couple regularly.
A couple of them took him by surprise. Jordan Gamba was a visiting Nigerian conductor at the Boston Pops, who worked on experimental music with various African orchestras. The Boston Pops wanted to introduce Americans to this music. When he signed up for an escort, he said that all he wanted was to have someone show him some of the sights of Boston during his off day, to give him some company for lunch and dinner, and to attend a concert of experimental music at the New England Conservatory's Brown Hall that evening, with maybe a nightcap at his hotel. And that was it, he had said. He was gay and was most comfortable with other gays and that's why he had contacted Howard's agency.
The day with the visiting African conductor was bearing Rich's expectations out, although Gamba was a surprise to him--over six foot five, and a tower of ebony muscle, and handsome as sin. Throughout the day and evening, though, he was the perfect, refined gentleman. By the end of the Brown Hall concert, Rich was wishing that Gamba was interested in more than just the company. He was commanding, intelligent, witty, and, above all, sexy. And he was huge. Rich was wondering if he was huge in all respects, like Sonny Taggert was, and how he would be as a lover. But the man had made no moves; he hadn't even touched Rich other than on the shoulder or the small of the back to guide him. By the time they reached the concert, Rich was aching for the man to make some signal of his reported gayness and to indicate his preferences--to palm Rich's butt at least. The young man was almost getting the impression that Gamba had no sexual interest in him at all.
But Gamba did have a sexual interest in Rich. As they were leaving the concert and flagging down a taxi, Gamba said, "There's a club I would like to go to for a drink before calling it a night. It's called Berkeleynotsquare for some reason. Have you heard of it?"
"Yes, of course," Rich had said in relief. The man wasn't built of ice after all. "The name is rather a pun. The club is at the corner of Berkeley and Tremont. Berkeley Square is a famous place--staid and very proper. The club's name is a riff on that--not proper. Definitely not proper. Are you sure you want to go to a place like that?"
"Very sure," Gamba murmured, putting his mouth close to Rich's ear. "The escort agency said they have a special room there. This is where that high price I'm paying for your time comes in. I want to bind you and whip you and fuck you hard. Will you go to this club with me? Will you submit to me there--totally? I was told you would."
"Yes, oh yes," Rich said. He felt himself go hard. The uncertainty in the buildup had put him off center.
Gamba stole a kiss from him in the cab when the driver wasn't looking and then another. And he felt Rich up and put Rich's hand on his cock, laughing when Rich discovered he was magnificently hung. Rich was in high heat when they got to the club. Gamba tied him to the X-frame in the club's "taxing" chamber and whipped him and fucked him and then whipped him again. He then dragged Rich off the frame, tied his wrists and ankles together, pushed him down to a cushion on the floor, gathered Rich up into his chest, and fucked him again.
