Part of the 'Butt Monkey' series of stories by Robert Furlong
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Jake and Simon were focussed on the afternoon's football game when they emerged from their hotel bedroom and there was no mention of what had taken place between their dads the previous night. Guy was his usual bright and breezy self, but I was feeling more subdued: troubled by the knowledge of what we had done together and plagued by regrets about how far I had allowed myself to go.
I wondered whether, had the tables been turned and it had been Guy's face underneath me licking at my most intimate area while I squatted over him, I would have felt less troubled now it was morning. I'm sure I would have been rather shocked that he had done something so base but I would still have felt guilty that I had gone along with it. I certainly wouldn't have been laughing and joking with the boys like Guy was able to.
As we ate what passes for breakfast at such budget hotels, Simon made a joke which I didn't catch about something Guy had said when he'd put them to bed.
Guy replied, "Yeah... we certainly did." And then added, glancing over at me with salacious smirk, "Didn't we, big boy?"
Jake and Simon found that very funny and in the time it took me to recover from my discomfort at the reference to my manhood, the conversation had moved on to more mundane matters before I could ask what the joke was.
I saw Jake throw me a discrete smile and I figured he was being supportive, knowing full well how self-conscious I was about my genitals and how upset jokes about my large build could make me feel. We'd had the conversation a few years ago, when it was becoming obvious that he was starting to take after me from the way he was constantly adjusting the noticeable bulge which was developing in his trousers. I'd told him how his gran had made me ashamed of how large I was growing when I'd been his age; an attempt to help him avoid feeling the same negativity about himself.
Jake had been relieved, I think, to discover that his sudden growth spurt was something he'd inherited and had told me that he was finding it increasingly difficult to pack himself into the underwear I was buying for him. Erections, in particular, were becoming awkward and almost impossible to hide from the inquisitive stares of his teachers and friends. After trying out a few different brands and styles, he'd settled on some Calvin Klein boxer-briefs which were roomy enough to contain his enlarging organ even in its most troublesome state, while supporting his developing testicles which he said had been feeling painfully constricted.
Unlike I had been at his age, though, Jake had seemed, if anything, quite proud of his size. These days, at eighteen and on the threshold of adulthood, he seems revel in showing off his endowments to anyone who happens to be in his vicinity. I'd had to have strong words with him, during the brief and ill-judged time we were Facebook friends, about a video that one of his friends had tagged him in which showed him and few other lads in the changing rooms after football practice naked and bucking their hips to make their floppy dicks swing around like windmill sails. Jake had easily been the most impressively built and had brandished his organ enthusiastically to the guy who was filming him, grinning and cavorting as he put the other lads to shame.
But even back then, in his early teens, he wasn't averse to strolling out of his bedroom with his shorts at full-mast first thing in the morning – something which I would never have dreamt of doing – and was starting to deliberately pick out trousers which were tight enough around the crotch to flaunt his bulge more prominently. He had also found it surprisingly easy to talk about how large his penis and testicles had developed, and had told me that he quite liked the fact that he was easily the biggest in his class when it came to showers after sport.
"Don't they call you names?" I'd asked. "I used to really hate that."
He'd smiled and said, "Well, I've never been called 'Footlong'!" I'd already told Jake about my most hated nickname at school.
I'd nodded. "Yeah... I guess these days, most kids your age would think of that as a Subway sandwich. But what about other names?"
He'd shrugged. "They're only jealous. And anyway, what's wrong with 'Jake the Snake'? I take it as a compliment!"
I'd smiled. "I wish I'd felt like that. By the time I'd got to about fourteen, I used to try and put off showering at school until everyone else had gone. I was so embarrassed about what I had between my legs."
"Why did gran make you so uptight about it? What's the big deal?"
I'd shaken my head. "I dunno, Jake. I guess it was a religious thing. I think she thought it was the devil's work or something."
Jake had laughed. It all seemed so absurd to him, and yet to me at his age the fact I was so much bigger than the other boys had made me feel dirty and impure. My older brother had exacerbated my insecurities by claiming, for many years, that his genitals were of 'normal' proportions and that I was some kind of genetic quirk.
"How big's an average willy, dad?" Jake had asked.
I'd shrugged. "I dunno exactly. About six inches, I'd guess..."
He'd looked puzzled at my use of such outmoded units. "How long's that in centimetres?"
I'd showed him with my hands and he'd asked, "Is that when it's... you know... hard?"
I'd nodded and he'd smiled, almost sympathetically.
"And how big can I expect to grow to? You know... from your own experience..."
I'd blushed a little at the implied reference to my own penis and had told him, without being specific, that in time he should expect to grow significantly bigger than average. And that however big his balls were now, they were going to get a whole lot bigger by the time he was a man.
He'd grinned enthusiastically, no doubt looking forward to the prospect.
Now, sitting at the breakfast table in the hotel, I worried that Guy was going to keep calling me 'big boy' but fortunately he didn't. Nothing else was said about the previous night – no awkward questions or suspicious glances – and it seemed that our shenanigans after lights-out had thankfully gone unnoticed by our sons.
This didn't help to ease the anxiety which I was feeling, and which haunted me throughout the day. Nor did the fact that Guy had said he'd enjoyed what we had done and, from his happy exterior at breakfast and on the drive to the game, continued to be untroubled by any feelings of guilt or regret himself.
What on earth had possessed me to put my mouth on another man's backside? I hadn't just done it in a kiss-my-arse kind of way that could be turned into a joke afterwards, but had had my face buried into his hairy crack, had been licking around his hole and – I could unfortunately remember it with surprising clarity – penetrating his anus with my tongue. And to think that I had not only found all that breathtakingly exciting but had actually climaxed – powerfully climaxed – as I did so. Jesus Christ!
And yet, try as I might, I couldn't help but steal glances towards Guy's backside while we were at the match, his tight jeans showing off the firm roundness of his cheeks and giving a hint of the alluring cleft between them. Every time I did so a conflict arose inside me between the feelings of guilt at what I'd done and an insistent sexual craving to do it again; feelings which seemed to originate from two opposing places inside me.
I was all too aware that my feelings of lust were homosexual in nature: how could I not be when the focus of them was firmly directed towards another man's behind? And yet, while I accepted that all men probably had a gay aspect to their sexualities, I didn't feel ready to embrace mine.
I'd only once before done anything sexual with another male and I'd never regarded that as being 'homosexual' as such. There had been very little intimacy between me and the other man and I had always mentally disregarded the experience as a case of two married men with high sex drives who should have known better.
My then-wife Linda and I had been staying over for a long weekend with a couple we were friendly with who'd bought a cottage in the Cotswolds. It must have been very early in our marriage because Linda was still serving up regular intercourse at home and Jake hadn't yet appeared on the scene to keep us tied down.
Their house was quite old and rickety, and every movement we made in the guest room made the door shudder in its frame and the floorboards creak beneath us. The bed we were sleeping in was also very squeaky and Linda said it would be too embarrassing for us to have sex while we were at the cottage (looking back, she was probably pleased to have an excuse). Although it was pretty obvious that the rhythm of our lovemaking, however we tried to position ourselves, would be heard in explicit clarity by our friends in the bedroom next door, I tried on several occasions to persuade Linda that Carl and Anna would expect to hear the natural sounds of intimacy from a husband and wife staying over with them. I even suggested that Carl was probably just as keen as I was for release and that if Linda and I were to set the ball rolling, he and Anna would probably seize the opportunity to start up a rhythm of their own. Linda, however, was adamant that such things should remain private and so I had to put up with the discomfort and annoyance of having an almost permanent hard-on during the first half of our visit.