I'm afraid that I need to start this story the same as so many others. I'm straight. Straight acting, straight looking, married, kids. I can't say I'd never thought about another man, I'd had some fantasies, I guess, but I'd never really been attracted to another man and never seriously contemplated anything sexual with another man.
I work out pretty regularly, usually about three or four times a week at the gym. I'm not super muscular, just a fairly regular guy in decent shape, but I work hard to keep myself reasonably fit. I don't have an awful lot of spare time and working out is something I just try to manage to find time to do. Some days it's in the morning, others mid-day or evening, whenever I can fit it in and I don't linger around, I just go in, get my workout done and go home. Despite the irregular schedule of my workouts, I do see some of the same people regularly. I guess we just go often enough that from time to time our appearances at the gym just match up.I don't generally pay much attention to other people there, but if some of the same people are there often enough, you really can't help but notice.
I don't remember when or why, but I began noticing a guy that was there sometimes. I guess I noticed him because he was built like I'd kind of strive for, obviously very fit, muscular, but not like a body builder, just very well defined. Unlike me, though, he was a big guy. I'm about average height, he was probably 6'3". He had short hair and for some reason just had the look of a cop. I don't have a fetish for men in uniform or anything like that, I'm not sure that it held any particular interest to me that he looked like that, it's just what I thought when I looked at him.
I really didn't pay too much attention to him at first, why would I? I just happened to notice him and I did take note that he had a good body. Just an observation, nothing more. Somewhere along the line, I began to notice him whenever he was there at the same time that I was. I found myself noticing when he was there and when he wasn't. I'm not sure that I even realized I was doing it at first, but soon I realized that when I walked into the gym, I always had a glance around to see if he was there. Of course, when this dawned on me, I became even more aware of it. Soon I found myself conciously trying not to look for him, or if I happened to see him, trying not to look at him. The more I thought about it, the more I found myself wanting to look. After a while, I found myself stealing glances at him while he was on the treadmill or one of the weight benches. Always when he was reading or looking away or some other discreet moment. I told myself that I just admired his physique and tried not to notice the feeling in my stomach or the stirring of my cock.
I came in to work out and glanced around the room. I noticed him on the treadmill, reading a magazine while he jogged. I noticed the flex and release of his thigh muscles as he strided, his broad chest as he paced himself with the movement of his arms. What the fuck, I thought to myself, what the fuck am I doing looking at another guy like that? I looked away and focused myself on my workout. I didn't look again, though I thought of it for sure and it was some effort not to glance around the room. I finished my workout and just wanted to get out of there, avoid the temptation to look and try to preserve my image of myself. I hurried for the locker room to shower and change, not at all comfortable with my mind. I walked into the shower room and he was standing under one of the shower heads facing me. I stood and stared for a second that seemed like an hour when I finally realized that I wasn't moving. I regained my composure and went to shower myself. I scrupulously avoided looking at him. I washed myself and paid no attention to anyone else. I'm not sure that I would even have noticed him leaving if not for hearing, "I've noticed you looking," and looking up to see him walk out of the shower room.
Panic set in quickly. Jesus, was he going to tell somebody? Did he think I was gay? I
didn't know what to think. Did I even really hear that? I finished my shower and quickly headed to my locker to change. Still in a panic, I was waiting for him to approach me the whole time I dressed. I didn't know if he'd proposition me or punch me, but I fully expected to look up and find him standing in front of me. I left in a paniced rush.
It was a couple of days later before I had the nerve to go back. By then, I'd half convinced myself that I'd imagined it, unfortunately, the other half of the time, I'd found myself jerking off only to realize that I was suddenly thinking about him while I did it. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't want to be thinking about him and couldn't understand why I was, but none the less, it seemed every time I had a moment alone, I'd find myself hard. I'd begin to stroke myself, thinking of nothing at all or maybe my wife, but before I'd cum it was always him that was in my thoughts. I walked into the gym that day and immediately glanced around and found him on a weight bench, doing presses. I looked and my stomach had that familiar nervous ache. My glance lingered a little longer than I intended and when he finished his set, he looked up to see me looking. Nothing registered in his face. I thought that I must have imagined the whole thing, but now I was obsessing rather pathetically. The more I tried not to think about him, the more I did. It was all I could do not to get hard right there in the gym. I finally had lost all shame, I didn't care if he knew that I was looking. When he headed towards the locker room, so did I. I stripped and headed for the showers. When I walked in, he was facing front, leaning his head back, rinsing his hair. I stared at his body, my eyes dropping to his cock. The last time, I'd been so shocked and paniced that I hadn't even noticed anything about him. I looked this time and his cock was gorgeous. He was probably six inches and thick. I wanted to see it hard. I wanted it in my mouth. There was no stopping myself from thinking about this. These ideas came unbidden but I couldn't and didn't even want to stop them any more. I walked to the shower next to him and began washing. Glancing at him openly. My cock beginning to harden with thoughts of dropping to my knees in front of him. He turned off his shower and walked out without so much as a look in my direction.
I don't know what I felt. Embarrassed, shamed, I don't know. I felt like a teenager turned down for the prom, by some imagined crush. Now I'd been hearing things. I finished showering and slunk home. I tried harder than ever to banish thoughts of him, but still I found the image of him standing in the shower, the image of his cock, in my mind as a stroked myself to orgasm. No matter how I tried, I couldn't stop thinking about dropping to my knees and sucking that beautiful cock. What the hell was happening to me?
I saw him from time to time at the gym over the next several weeks. He never looked in my direction and I got better and better at not looking his way. The feeling in my stomach never went away, that nervous ache that had been plaguing me, but I did manage to look less and less often. Finally, I found myself back to making a constant effort to look at no one. Into the gym, work out, gone. Only in my late night sessions with myself did I continue to see him. I felt like I was finally getting my obsession with him under control.
I was in my usual "workout zone" still. I'd dropped my things at my locker and headed for the shower and there he was. Still, I didn't stare. I don't know how, but I didn't. I saw him in the shower, but quickly looked away and turned on one of the showers a few spaces down. I kept my eyes to myself and concentrated on just getting cleaned up and out of there.
"Okay, meet me in the sauna.", I heard suddenly and it all came rushing back.