The little office was cramped and cluttered, and the tall ginger youth who seemed to be in charge had to move a few boxes of disposable coffee cups aside before he could shut the door.
Once we were alone I could tell how nervous he was: he'd clearly never had to deal with a problem like me on one of his shifts. His name badge announced that he was called Elliot and was today's duty manager. I'd only noticed one other employee working in the cafe - a spotty lank-haired girl who looked like she'd just crawled out from a well on someone's TV - so I figured he must be managing her.
He said, with his voice faltering like an adolescent's, "If it was drugs you guys were doing in there, I'd have already called the police."
I nodded and smiled pleasantly at him. "Lucky we weren't then."
"It's a coffee shop bathroom," he went on. "You can't just do the stuff you were doing in a public place like that."
"It's hardly a public place," I countered. "It's private enough for people to defecate in it, so it has to be private enough for what we were doing."
"It's in the middle of the cafe," he argued back. "Little kids could be running in."
"The door was locked," I asserted. "Or at least it was until you unlocked it with your master key. I should point out that it was you, Elliot, who opened it and allowed any little kids who were running about to see what we were doing."
He blushed at that and then, realising I had the upper hand by having read his name badge, stuttered, "Wha... what's... er... your name?"
"Robert," I smirked. "Pleased to make your acquaintance."
"I'd had a complaint from a couple of customers who'd seen you both going in there," he argued. "I think it was reasonable for me to unlock the door to the toilet."
"You could have warned us by knocking," I quipped cheerfully. "I'm no expert in the law but isn't illegal for a person to deliberately expose the public to a sexual act? I suppose the police will know about that, when you call them, that is..."
He flushed more deeply and muttered, "Look, I don't want to have to involve anyone else in this." His body language betrayed how uncomfortable he was feeling; I noticed a thin film of sweat forming on his forehead.
"You said you had your policies to follow," I reminded him.
"Well... er... yes... I did," he stammered, and then remembering something from his training and hoping to diffuse a problem for which he was clearly feeling at least partly to blame, added, "but we also have anti-homophobia policies and I wouldn't want to... you know... tread on any of those."
I was about to continue toying with him by telling him that we were okay on that score since I don't label myself as gay, when suddenly his greasy-haired colleague poked her head around the office door and asked her duty manager when he'd be coming out to help her deal with the queue.
"I can't come now!" he snapped. "Can't you see, I'm interrogating this guy?!"
She threw him a weary look of exasperation and then disappeared off again, closing the office door behind her.
"Why would you do something like that in a cafe toilet?" he asked, perhaps trying to reassert his authority and get his 'interrogation' off to a more promising start.
"Something like what?" I asked, wondering if he'd seen me with my face planted firmly in my brief acquaintance's backside.
"Something like what the two of you were doing," he said, as if unable to elaborate on the shocking sight he'd witnessed.
"Okay," I said, remaining warm and cordial. "I was about to do a favour for the young man who you saw make such a hasty exit. So in return he was doing a favour for me."
"What favour were you going to do for him?" he asked.
"A favour that was very much between him and me," I returned.
He nodded and hesitated before suggesting, "So let's say I just drop all this, Robert."
I smiled even though I couldn't really see what other option he had.
He tensed up and looked uncomfortable again as he added, almost like he was forcing himself to, "But if I do drop it, that means I'm doing a favour for you, doesn't it?"
I nodded. "I suppose it does, yes."
"So... what do you think you could... er... do for me?"
"What could I do for you?" I chirped. This was suddenly turning out more interesting than I could have hoped.
I'd been wishing I'd followed Curtis out of the bathroom, pushing past the gawky duty manager and following my young conspirator across to HMV, so I could have bought him the game I'd promised him. I might not have achieved exactly what I'd hoped to when I'd had my face pressed into his odorous butt, but since he'd given me his anilingual virginity, if I can call it that, I felt it was only fair that I repaid him in full.
But now I suddenly understood why Elliot had appeared so tense. There was a good deal more in this for him than just giving some pervert he'd caught in flagrante in the cafe bogs a stern telling off.
"Yeah," he nodded, trying to seem like he was the one in control. "Like you and your... er... friend in the loo... doing favours is a two-way thing, isn't it?"
He would sound a lot more convincing, I thought, if he was saying all this with a confident sneer and forcing a more assured cockiness from his body language. As it was, though, he was making it obvious that he was out of his league, with his bunny-in-the-headlights stare and an involuntary fidgetiness that was becoming quite distracting.
"What do you mean, Elliot?" I asked, hoping that some of my relaxed composure might rub off onto him.
"I just mean," he said, swallowing with a noisy gulp, "that if I don't call the cops... that maybe... you could do something for me in return...?"
"Okay," I smiled. "That sounds entirely reasonable. What would you like me to do?"
If he was thinking of getting me to clean the coffee-making machine, I'd do the runner I perhaps should have done when the young man calling himself Curtis had legged it from the cafe.
But fortunately his intentions were far less honourable.
"I want you to do to me what you were doing to that other dude when I opened the door of the toilet," he said, managing to get it all out without stuttering this time.
I looked him up and down. He was quite attractive in his way. He was tall and slim but a little geeky and obviously very shy - not that those last two counted as firm negatives, but rather as contrasts to his positives - and in his coffee shop uniform and with his ginger hair gelled into a quiff he came across as somebody one wouldn't immediately say 'no' to.
So I didn't say 'no' but instead said, "And what was I doing to that other ... er... dude?"
"Sucking his knob," he replied with misplaced certainty. It seemed that my companion had already swivelled around as he hitched his trousers up by the time Elliot had seen him.
"Actually, I wasn't," I grinned. "I was rimming his arse."
He faltered at that, suddenly unsure of what my motives with him might be. "What does that mean? I didn't see you guys doing anything... er... too full-on..."
"It means I was licking around the muscular ring of his anus."
He stared at me for a few seconds, his eyes tending towards disbelief without him being able to shake off the conviction that I was telling the truth, before saying, "Okay, so I'm not really interested in that. I just want you to suck my cock."
He stared at my face intently, perhaps expecting revulsion, but I just stared back impassively and he thought it prudent to correct himself. "I mean, it's not that I want you to. Well, not you specifically. I just want a mouth around my knob... but obviously I'd prefer it if it was a girl who was doing it."
"Oh really? A girl?" I smirked back with a heavy dose of incredulity.
He held my gaze and said, "Of course a girl."
"Okay," I chuckled. "I'll suck your cock, if it'll stop you from doing the unthinkable and calling the police about me."
"What... like all the way until it's proper in your mouth?"
"If that's what it takes," I sighed, with a weary shrug.
"Alright then, kneel down in front of me," he told me. His voice was shaky: he was really agitated about wanting this. I wasn't sure if his nervousness stemmed from the fact he really did fancy girls but none of them had obliged him orally, or if he was actually gay but had never had the guts to explore it.
I rather suspected the latter from the way he was trembling and the sweat that was pouring out of his forehead.
I went over to him and knelt down between his feet among plastic-wrapped cylinders of coffee cup lids. He unzipped himself and pulled a surprisingly large tube of meat out from his fly. It was limp but lusciously long and thick and had a chubby, bulbous head underneath a foreskin which was so much longer than it needed to be.