"Good night Jersey, you were amazing! We'll see you next time!" screamed Mason into the mic, as the rest of the band improvised an epic ending to the last song of the night, concluding our leg of the tour in the US. Fans cheered and begged for a third encore but this was it. 11PM on the dot. Curtains closed and as soon as we got the okay from the sound and light techs, we ran up on stage and started working on the load out. For the last show, we had hired extra help just to ensure everything went smoothly. And it did. Wires rolled up, speakers, amps, instruments packed and ready to go, lights and motors all racked up and placed in the 11 53' trucks parked in a row on the loading docks. There was only one forklift so as Mikey took care of the bigger heavier cases to tetris inside of the trucks, the rest of us loaded up the rest old school; rolling them onto the loading rails. I was sweating and exhausted but refused to let it show. This had been my first opportunity at an international gig and I jumped on it. In two days, we'd be flying to London for a double nighter show. Among the anxiety and nerves, I was psyched.
By 3AM, everything was packed, trucks had rolled out and the crew decided to celebrate at the corner bar. I however was never quite fond of the male bonding over beers, especially with this crowd. They were all good guys, but they were all clearly straight cis guys who loved talking about tits, which to me, got old after the first night.
"C'mon Alex, one beer. First half of the tour is done," lamented Nate.
"Next stop Britain!! C'mon one drink!" cheered on Simon, who for some reason seemed already pretty tipsy.
Fine, I replied, ordering a beer and took a seat at the end of the table with my peers. After the polite invite to the only gay guy on tour, the guys resumed their talks about tits and decided they needed to rise up to the band and petition for groupies of their own.
"You think Dave doesn't get like ten girls a night?"
"What about Mason?!"
"Apparently he's got his fave groupies on speed dial in like every city"
The whole discussion made me chuckle a few times. Though after all the talks of tits and fucking and being horny, I was beginning to feel it a bit. I hadn't gotten laid in weeks...
As I sipped on my drink and made sure the boys were all too interested in the sound of their own voices, I whipped out my phone and started up Grindr. I doubted anybody was available in Jersey at 3 Am but it was worth a shot.
Surprisingly I had my pick of about 40 guys... not bad, Jersey, not bad...
One of them particularly caught my interest and I sent him a wink. A few minutes later, he winked back. I gave him my hotel room number and said I'd meet him in an hour.
"It's facts though, isn't that right Alex?" yelled Pat, interrupting my ogling of Fuckmedaddy23.
"What?"
"Whatcha doin there? Looking at pussy and not sharing it with the class?"
"Uh, nothing you could handle, I'm sure," I jokingly said.
"Yeah you wouldn't catch Alex dead staring at pussy," yelled Simon, in a surprisingly proud way. It still caused me to blush, feeling a bit outed even though everyone on tour knew and acted like they were absolutely fine with it.
"Oh, right, my bad!" apologized a very drunk Francis.
"I'm sure you get plenty of dick. You're a good looking guy!" he continued.
"What the fuck, Frankie, you want him to suck your dick, too?" Mark yelled out. I'm sure they didn't mean to be offensive but I had taken all I could tonight and prepared to leave.
"Alex, he's sorry. He didn't mean it," lamented one of the other new guys. I didn't remember his name.
"Apologize, asshole," he yelled at Francis.
"Oh it was just a joke. I didn't mean it to offend. It's a compliment!"
"And on that note," I started to say as I placed a 10$ bill near my half empty pint.
"Alright, alright, I'm sorry! C'mon stay with us."
"Apology accepted, Frankie. I just gotta go." I stood up and hugged Nate, who was closest to me.
"No hugs for us, blondie?"
"Nate's the only cute guy here. He gets a hug. See ya later uggoes," I yelled through the loud music, cockiness in check. Nate smiled.
"Oh fuck you Alex!" they all yelled jokingly.
I waved at them, they waved back. I headed out.
Once at the hotel, passing the lobby, I stopped for a few snacks and headed to my floor.
I took a shower, cleaned and boiled some water for my late night snack.
Dube hanging on my lip, I took my ramen to the balcony in nothing but my boxers and relaxed as I waited for Grindr boy to show up. Feeling the effect of the weed a bit too much, I had the overwhelming urge to jerk off on the balcony, but my sudden shyness stopped me. I'd usually jerk off before a fuck date, but I felt I had enough in me to last a few times at least. I looked out at the quiet road below me and tried to clear my head. I gulped down the remains of my ramen cup and munched on chips, downing it with a tiny bottle of gin. My hand's second attempt at touching myself was getting more and more tempting. I placed my hand on my boxers and rubbed on the fabric, feeling myself already getting hard.
After a moment, I heard a knock on the door, which almost gave me a heart attack. I looked down at my boner, embarrassed, and tried to think of a million gross things before reaching the door. This guy is like 40 minutes early! I cleared my throat, tossed the noodle cup and gin bottle in the trash, quickly picked up whatever clothes were laying on the ground and bed and tossed them onto the corner seat of the room and ran to the washroom for some mouthwash.
"Hey uh, sorry about th-" I started, opening the door.
"Hey," said Mason.
My eyes widened in surprise, obviously expecting my excessively punctual one night.
"Oh. Hey... what are you doing here?" I asked, still in shock, desperately trying to conceal my nakedness. I couldn't tell if my heart racing was weed induced or something else.
"I got into a fight with Tristan, then Michelle over something stupid and I got pissed and got the fuck out of that club," he angrily mumbled under a faint whiskey breath.
"The crew guys are still at the bar a few minutes away from here if you want to join them"
"What are you up to?" His tone seemed lower, and gaze softer as if wanting to appear more sober than he was. I gulped.
"Not much... I was actually going to bed soon," I lied.
"Can I come in for a bit?"
My gaze on him lingered for a second, hesitant about the right answer to give. I could feel my heart accelerating a bit more, my brain quietly cussing at myself.
"I don't think that'd be a good idea, Mase," I started, my voice almost cracking at the amount of hesitation. I didn't want to just blurt out I had some random guy from an app coming in thirty minutes. But I found myself never really able to say no to him, either.
"C'mon, just five minutes." He looked at me with what can only be described as puppy eyes. It was almost off putting for his metal frontman aura, yet him almost begging me to come in was jumpstarting my erection again. I then felt my cheeks flushing and my heart beating heavier. I was torn and felt I had to say something rather daring to perhaps shoo him away, despite my smaller brain begging me to let him in. My date could be showing up any minute.
"Do you remember what happened last time you said five minutes?" I asked, letting a certain cat out of the bag. As I spoke those words, I myself remembered what happened and couldn't stop the blood rushing to my dick. Things only got worse when I saw in his face the attempt at embarrassment hadn't worked and instead, he showed a cocky grin. That stupid cocky grin.