I've decided after talking to a friend that its time I put a few thoughts down in writing, and share them. After all, what harm can it do? I've found retelling this story has rekindled a lot of memories and feelings, that I thought I'd left in the past.
This is a true story about how I found myself, and how my best friend and I found each other.
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Hi, my name's Paul.
I don't think I'd made it all the way through puberty before I started to notice the odd thing different about me, and in all honesty I don't remember noticing anything before that, but the signs must have been there. I was just too naive or ignorant to accept them for what they were.
Not that anyone else had picked up on anything different about me at all, and certainly no one had ever said anything to me to suggest it.
To get to the point, the first time I noticed that there was something "different" about me was when I was wanking, and men started to appear in my fantasies.
There I was, wanking about whatever girl at school that I was interested in at the moment, and then for some reason one of my mates would appear in there too, and before I knew it, it was just him and me in my fantasy.
God, it scared me! Those few moments after I came, as the realisation sunk in about how much I had cum, and the thoughts that made me cum so much, it was such a surprise, and it scared me. It got the point that I actually gave up wanking in the hopes that the thoughts would go away.
For the record, I gave up wanking for a total of 7 days, a record which to this day hasn't been broken, and I doubt it ever will.
I had success over the first few days after that, the little victories where it was just me and some girl, or girl's, in my fantasies, but the boys kept coming back. It was so difficult to shake those thoughts, and over time, I kinda came to grudgingly accept them, but not that I agreed with them.
I was one of those kids that didn't quite fit in all the time at school. Wasn't a member of the sports team, accept for that one time I accidentally did too well in athletics and qualified for the regional championships, but we don't talk about that, and I quickly slithered back into the background and just did my thing. As much as I wasn't in shape, it didn't mean I was out of shape, even though my low self esteem would have me thinking otherwise.
I'm an average height guy, which for my home town seems to be about 5"8, slightly better than average looks. Well I like to think so anyways, even though I'm told I'm much better looking than that, and not just by my mother, dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes, and pail Scottish skin. I'm plagued with needing to wear glasses, but that just "adds to my appeal" so I'm told. I also can't grow a beard for shit, but that doesn't stop me from trying. I hate it if I'm clean shaven, it's so much nicer to have a bit of stubble or a few days growth, if only cos it's nice to play with.
The more I think back about those days, the more I realise just how much confusion I created within myself about my sexuality, and it played havoc with my emotions and self beliefs.
I come from a small town in Scotland, and I'm talking about the late 90's early 00's, so you can imagine that "small town mentality" that I grew up around, with gay guys being calls fags and poofs, I always hated that.
I'm thankful that today most of those beliefs have disappeared and we've entered a time of acceptance, even in my small home town. Most of Scotland's political leaders are gay or lesbian, gay marriage is legal and has been for some time, it's no longer an issue at all! But back then it was, and it was scary for this small town guy to accept.
So, what does a small town guy do, who's kinda lost his way and doesn't know what he's doing?
Answer: He goes off to a big city where he's even more lost and still doesn't know what he's doing.
I moved to Glasgow as soon as I was able at the end of my 6th year at school. I wanted to study engineering, a decision I would later learn to regret, but more importantly I felt this was something I had to do for myself, and try and forge my own life. I'd been stuck in the shadow of my brother and finally I was out from that shadow and free, and I loved it!
My first year I had so much fun, was out drinking, partying, clubbing, making friends and socialising, and yeah, I learned a few things too, including about myself.
I finally lost my virginity, to a woman, and the relief that I was into girls, able to get a hard cock for a girl and fuck her till she said she loved me (which is so off-putting to hear, when you've just pulled the girl that night) and she came so hard and so did I. I was very pleased with myself, and I finally thought that was it, no more thoughts of guys in my fantasies, and again that lasted all of...well it didn't at all.
The thoughts about guys were still there, but I didn't shy away from them as much as I had before.
The feelings began to grow, but the thoughts I had for women didn't go away. It was more now that I was at uni, I had full access to the internet, and I began to understand my sexuality better.
I figured I was most likely bisexual, that I was into both sexes, and that I had wasted a week when I was younger not wanking because I was scared to think about guys. Such a waste of time, but this was something I made up for many times over since then, I'm sure.
So, I was bisexual. It took a bit of getting used to, and I always felt that no one would really understand and I couldn't figure out how to tell them, so I didn't. I kept it to myself.
It's more acceptable today, and people understand it better, but back then it wasn't so well understood. I even got into an argument once with a gay guy over the fact that he didn't believe it was possible to like both, and refused to believe me, he said it was a myth, and that I was in denial. So, I kept it to myself to save any hassles.
Sorry, I've gone off topic again, back to the story.