With inspiration from, and appreciation of, Roy Orbison.
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Nobody really knows the way I feel. Inside. Oh, I am the quintessential good time guy to the world. Then I go home. Hello. My name is Blake. I had the great misfortune of falling in love with my best friend, many, many years ago. Gay was still not a thing back then. Fag. Homo. Those were the terms most of us heard. I was barely 18 at the time, and Adam was a year older than me. We had been friends since early grammar school. He was gentle, kind, and soft spoken. I was ADHD overactive, an underachiever, and without a path to follow.
"No." I once asked Adam to get naked with me.
"Why not?"
"It's not right." He doesn't sound convincing. Heck, I had already jerked off with a classmate friend known to both of us. Jerry was a hit and run young buck. I would hit his orgasm out of the park...and he would run to other pursuits, leaving me high and dry. I just knew that Adam would be different, if only I could get him to first base.
"Then just kiss me."
"I..." His eyes are piercing my soul in search of something. "I can't." Can't. Not won't. Can't.
"It's okay Ad. Maybe it's not right for you like it is for me."
"But you're not a..."
"What I am is lonely, Ad. Dating doesn't do anything for me. I'm either terrified or plain uninterested. I'd rather hang out with guys. With you." His look is a mix of pain and questioning.
Oh, I almost forget to tell you. My underachieving status in school and in social circles came from some emotional trauma I had when I was seven. It left me with a very negative belief system; and an aversion to success. You can imagine, then, the forceful way my teenage hormones are propelling me to make it with Adam, despite all of my hang-ups. Sex is a very powerful motivator; and I am motivated to get into his pants!
"I like you...a lot. We're best friends, Blake." He's setting boundaries, the ones currently dictated by social 'norms.'
"It's okay, Ad. I like you too." Letting him off the hook hurts. Emotionally. And in my swollen balls. This feeling ain't right. It sucks. "Gotta go, bud. See you at school." What I really wanted to say was: I'm going home to my bedroom to rip off my clothes and stroke myself to a massive nut while thinking how wonderful it would have been to do it with you by my side.
"Blake?" Fuck. I am almost there. My dick is harder than ever; and lines of precum are laced all over my sheet.
"What's Up?"
"I got the date with Vicky!" He sounds gleeful. There goes my baby.
"Great. You gonna bang her?"
"Blake!!"