I almost had to laugh at the incongruity of it. Hardy had patiently waited for me to neatly fold my clothes and had even brushed the dust off a stack of mats in the exercise room behind the Porterville High School gym before he'd wrestled me to a mat and incapacitated me while he got his dick inside me. It was all so unnecessary, him having me belly over a medicine ball with his body covering mine from behind and above while his beefy arms trapped my arms in a full Nelson hold. I didn't fight him. I wanted him to power fuck me. I didn't intend to lower the boom on him until after he'd done so. When he wasn't expecting it and when he was forced to realize there was no way out for him.
It had been the same five years earlier, on graduation night, when Coach Hardyāmy track and tennis coach, but also the wrestling and assistant football coach in this rural county high schoolāhad taken my virginity. Making doubly sure I was of ageādemanding to see my driver's license and allāhe'd gotten me drunk (or so he thought) then and bound me and fucked me in the bed of his pickup truck down by Bass Lake. But I wasn't that drunk. I had anticipated, wanted, and prepared for what he did. All he would have had to do was ask me if I wanted him to fuck meāto initiate me in what a man, twice my age and with the body of a god, could do to a younger, naĆÆve, but willing, young man.
But if he wanted it this way, incapacitating my body, covering me from above, and pistoning my ass with his thick cock, I'd let him have it. I wanted it this way from him. It wouldn't happen again.
It was part of the reason I'd come to my Porterville High School five-year reunion. A more acknowledged reason was the publicity angle, pushed by my talent agent, Scott, who was sitting at a table in the school cafeteria while Coach Hardy fucked me in a tiled weight-lifting room dimly lit from parking lot lighting coming in through high clerestory windows and that smelled like old gym socksāwith Scott fully knowing where I was and what I was doing.
I was one of those phenomena frequently happening in high schoolāthe guy few in his class could remember who had become a celebrity within five years of leaving school. In my case, it had been going to New York rather than college and falling into juicy stageāand more recently movieāparts that made everyone in my high school class dig into their memories to convince themselves and others that they'd been my best friend in school. Scott's idea had been for a movie magazine to do a "returning to his roots" spread on me. The coverage on that had been collected this afternoon. and the magazine people were gone, leaving Scott and me to pay our dues for the high school's cooperation by attending the alumni dinner.
It had all been touch-and-go on getting this set up with the high school because I had recently come out as gay. The intersection of my having an agent and juicy stage and movie roles was just what I was doing nowābeing fucked by someone who wanted me and who could do something for me.
In Hardy's case, it had been about special attention and favorable placement on teams that led to trophies. In Scott's and various producer's and director's cases it was access in exchange for favoritism. Most of my roles had me type cast as a vulnerable young man taken advantage of by an older man. The major movie I starred in and that had just come out was linked with my coming out in public. The older leading actor in the movie hadn't been exactly pleased by thatāmovie goers were suddenly looking at the film as a glimpse of reality rather than acting, which pulled the older actor into an uncomfortable position, even though he was a randy old homo himself. He'd never come out publicly, however, although I'd let him fuck me off the set to be happy with me being cast in the part. Scott had said coming out would boost my box office standing and visibility, and it sure as hell did.
Coming out gay also smoothed the extra reasons I had for coming back to this five-year reunion.
Hardy fucked me hard and deep just as he had done on graduation night in the bed of his truck under the stars. And this time I fully participated in the ride to the extent that he let me. I had been fucked a lot and learned a lot from some very important and expert men since that first coupling with the coach. I moved my pelvis with him, I pulled him inside me, and I set my muscles working on his cock, milking him dry so that his moans and groans overrode mine.
And then, as I was dressing and he was looking at me in a whole new way, I lowered the boom on him and returned to the cafeteria, the two of us taking separate routes, and slipped into my seat next to Scott. The lights were out in the audience and I hadn't seemed to have been missed. Speeches and entertainment still were spotlighted on the raised platform at one end of the cafeteria.
Scott nodded to me as I returned to my seat, a quizzical look on his face. I nodded back and then I caught the eye of my high school drama coach, Evan Norton, across the table and gave him a smile, which he returned.
You're next, ran through my mind.
* * * *
"Everything OK?" Scott asked sotto voce out of the side of his mouth while doing his best to pretend he was listening to the vice principal introducing a girls' singing quartet on the platform.
"Everything's great," I answered. I smiled at my former drama coach, Norton, again. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but the music began, slightly off key, and he settled back into his chair and turned his gaze to the platform.
One of the waiters for the evening, a member of the high school football team, and a particularly hunky one, came by the table and I made him lean in real close to me to ask him for another cup of punch. I prolonged our exchange, which the football player didn't seem to mind a bit, and made sure that Hardy, uncomfortably seated across the hall with his wife and at the coaches' table, saw me talking to Ron, the football player.
I almost regretted that I wasn't going to be spending more time here. Ron must have known what I likedāI'd just very publicly come out. It was almost like he was coming on to meālike maybe what he liked yin and yanged with what I liked. He was quite a hunk. I gave a sigh when I'd let him go.
Earlier in the eveningābefore Hardy had gotten me aloneāI'd seen the coach's eyes follow this particular player around the room. If he wasn't playing Ron now, I knew that he intended to do so soon. So this made me wonder againāwas Ron a top, and thus of possible interest to me, or a bottom, of little use to me? I wanted Hardy to see that I spoke to the young man, though. I wanted him to think I gave the football player a warning and possibly someone to call if he wanted to.
What I'd told Hardy after he fucked me was that his days of taking privileges with student athletes were numberedāthat if I heard even so much as a hint that he was fucking other students, like he'd fucked me, I'd manage to give a national interview of how and where I'd lost my virginity to a man and enough of an ID on who did it that everyone in this county would know it was Hardy. I didn't care if he was careful to ensure the guy was of age. I could muster enough of a national audience to nail his ass to the wall. I'd also been asked about my first time. It would be easy to answer that in a national tabloid.
He hadn't taken my lowering the boom on him all that well. He'd bluffed until he realized I could easily have a platform to talk about it and then he'd shown me how much he thought of himself.
"Hey, if it's more of me you want, just come back and I'll take care of you anytime you want."
"No, it's not more of you I want, Coach Hardy. I can get better than you right there in Hollywood."
After he'd gotten over that rejection, he offered me money to keep quiet. I laughed at that, of course, being able to say that I made more money in ten minutes in front of a camera than he made in a month.
I left him with the impression that I'd do itāthat I already had written out a mock interview and my agent had it. He just didn't know when I'd do it. Maybe not for a very, very long time if I didn't hear of any other students being manhandled by him.
"Is it time that we can start a merciful retreat then?" Scott asked, leaning in to me and putting his hand on my thigh and squeezing.