HELP YOU SLEEP BETTER: Dave Starts College
When Dave met Reed that first week of freshman year of college, he just sorta knew.
This guy.
There was something different about him.
Dave met Reed through Dave's roommate. Dave had just met his roommate and already he was intimidated by his roommate Scott's swagger, demeanor, outgoing personality, cool confidence and muscular physique.
Dave was, as he felt, cursed with height. Comfortably well-over six feet for years now, he was, as usual, the tallest young man on his college dorm's small residence hall floor. There were a few taller young men on the campus, Dave had already noticed, but they were basketball recruits living in a different dormitory.
He towered over his roommate Scott, but Scott had the body Dave had always wanted: proportioned, muscular, powerful. Even though Dave was taller, Scott looked like the one no one would want to tussle with. A fight with Scott would get even a bigger opponent hurt, it was obvious.
But Dave had struggled to build muscle his entire life, and his string-bean physique was probably why his school varsity days were now at an end in college. Dave had no idea then, but he would be watching with envy over the next two semesters as Scott became a campus intramural champion.
But that was far away, and in those opening weeks of college, Scott's physique was only something Dave acknowledged when Scott's back was turned, when the lights were off, when Dave was feigning sleep and peeking on his handsome, sexy roommate. Dave's delicately closed eyelids could not keep him from the sight of his roommates's V-shaped back or tight, taut ass.
Ever since their very first phone call, when they had been matched as roommates and connected over voice call to plan out their shared dorm room, it had been obvious to Dave that Scott was, as Dave thought of them, "one of those guys," which to Dave meant one of those men who are comfortable with their attraction for women, comfortable with women's attraction for them, and intent on making the two meet as quickly and often and with as many as possible.
Dave grew up seeing those guys, mostly in movies because his Dad, Larry, and men in his family were not like that at all. Dave's menfolks were the type of men who liked to take men's vacations, of long fishing and camping and other man activities that Dave, even as he aged, was never ever invited to. Women were never, ever discussed by Dave's Dad, or his Uncles or his Dad's Friends. Dave's Mom and of course his Aunts and other female relatives were acknowledged, of course, but they were not women or girls, they were family members, as sexless and as uninterested in sex as the masculine influences in the family.
There were never any sexually-themed gag gifts or trips to see movies with anything other than the most benign and chaste sensuality.
They were a church-clean family without being regular church goers. Reruns of Canadian comedy shows were even pushing the limits of what could be enjoyed or at least, acknowledged in public, though perhaps consumed alone, in private.
It was obvious to Dave, that his roommate Scott was not "one of those guys" who went on all-male fishing trips. Scott was "one of those guys" who might have been in bed with one or more of Dave's Aunts when Dave's Uncles were out in the back country fishing. Dave saw that Scott wasted no time getting his social life going, right as the freshman orientation started at the college. He was making friends from the very first breakfast, and Reed was one of those.
When they all met for dinner in the dining hall a few nights later, Dave looked his chocolate brown eyes into Reed's steely blues, and it was on. Finally. Someone who will get me. Dave almost knew that Reed thought that, too.
Looking at Reed was like looking at another version of Dave. Another high school track runner, not a champion by any stretch but someone who could make the team and needed to, because that was his only possible extra-curricular. Another tall and too-lean-to-be-more-than-freakish to women, merely a stretched-out oddity who made girls feel and act like they needed to protect them, than the other way around. Dave and Reed had never been surprised that none of the girls they knew ever seemed to feel protected and safer by being with them. The natural way, the way girls clearly wanted to feel.
Dave was a few inches taller than Reed, but Reed looked into Dave's eyes like an equal nonetheless.
They shook hands and said nonchalant "Sup"s like bros were expected to, at this college and at this time and place.
There was a lot to discover about each other at dinner. They had similar taste in music. They had gone to high schools in the same state, but too far away from each other to ever have played each other in interscholastic competition. Neither had a girlfriend at the moment, Reed insisting he and his high school girlfriend had broken up mutually, Dave admitting he had never had a girlfriend all through high school.
After dinner in the cafeteria-style dining hall, when the clique of new friends all lined up to get ice cream cones from the frozen yogurt machine, Dave stood with Reed and chatted. Reed's roommate was talking away with Scott, talking about some obscure movies they both knew about. Dave could smell Reed, breathed his scent in as they chatted. Something nice, something sweet. Like he was thoughtful and took good care of himself. Like his mother had taught him right and he had good home training.
He talked about his mother a lot and in a nice way, in a kind way that suggested they were close and his mother was understanding. Reed asked about Dave's mother and Dave said he thought she was just terrified that Dave's older sister was going to get knocked up before graduating from the University she was almost finished at.
"Tara came up to help me move in and she looked kinda chubby, so I think Mom thought she must be pregnant and about to start showing," Dave said.
Reed laughed and Dave liked Reed's laugh.
Dave was making conversation, and kept doing so until all of the freshmen cycled out of the dining hall options at the revamped Student Union and cycled in to the class-wide orientation activity that was mandatory for all six hundred new students at this exurban liberal arts college.
The orientation activity was engrossing but Dave only really had one thought in mind:
How can there be a situation where Reed and I have to take a shower together?
Dave kept wondering later that night, after he could hear his roommate starting to snore, while Dave touched his nineteen-year-old cock, virgin with man or woman, and pictured Reed's naked back and bottom in the steam and the spray, Reed turning his head to glance back over his shoulder to look Dave dead in the eye.