"So you wear jockstraps," I asked Mitch.
"What's wrong with that," he said curtly, stating his girlfriend Jamie was completely fine with it.
I don't know how he and I came up with this part of our conversation on a Sunday as we were watching football. Perhaps the beer and brats got to us while either of us weren't around our women (I had Trina as my girlfriend at the time), but the talk unraveled more as it continued.
"Bro, how many you've boned in your lifetime? Like, tell me an approximate number of times you've entered vagina, " I asked.
"Sooooo, where are these inquiries coming from? Shawn, I mean really, what are we talking about," Mitch asked.
I could tell he was either agitated or a little uncomfortable, and I started to change the subject but he flipped the script.
"How would you feel if I started asking you these questions," he asked.
"No type of way. My body count has to be in the 30s, maybe 40s," I said.
I being 35, black and inducted into a fraternity my junior year of college, the numbers probably should've been higher, but in some of those 'bodies,' I was in a monogamous relationship, albeit at times we indulged in a third joining us.
"Those stitches of pussy were included in the count," I told him.
I explained this to Mitch unabashedly. He looked spooked.
"What," I asked.
"That dick been is well traveled, " he said with a giggle.
"I mean, what can I say? I'm a good looking brother," I told him.
And I was as I didn't have gray hairs or a gut, just a fine six foot two, 190 frame that ran 10 miles three times a week, and took in quality food in succinct amounts daily. Mitch was the buff brother between us, as he could've been slightly shorter at six feet, but had to have been stacked at 230 lbs. of pure muscle. He was much darker in complexion than myself, but carried naturally pearly whites in his mouth that always lit up a room.
"When's the last time you been tested, bro," he asked.
"Two weeks ago," I told him, advising him I go once a month.
The game we were watching would spill into halftime as I got up to get another brew.
"You ever trot to the gym Shawn," he asked.