Never before was Liam this nervous. He felt pathetic and humiliated, convinced that he was about to lose his best and only friend he met in college. And he could only blame himself for this. Borrowing money from someone you care about is a recipe for disaster. How very foolish of him it was to believe he could pay this sum back on time.
Fast knock on the door. Liam jumped on his bed yet failed to stand up on time; his friend carelessly entered without waiting for any form of permission.
"What's up, homie?" Oliver greeted him cheerfully, closing the door behind himself, as he reached out for a bro handshake. He was a tall, confident extravert who 'adopted' the poor, shy Liam and basically forced him to have some resemblance of social life. "Sheesh, why so grim?"
Liam felt so small that he couldn't even look him in the eyes.
"Oliver... you will probably hate me," Liam began revealing the truth in the most pessimistic way he could think of. "I don't even know how to say it... I'm so sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to pay you back this month. My laptop broke and I've had to fix it or I could not attend the programming classes and it just swallowed my budget..." Oliver sat on his friend's bed right next to him, patiently listening. "I promise, I'll get a second job and I'll try to pay you these three thousand bucks back in a month. If you need them now... I guess I could sell few things but I doubt you'd get much for them..."
Oliver reached out, wrapped his arm around Liam's neck and brought him close to himself for a hug.
"Eh, calm down, buddy. You're literally shaking." Liam's heart began pounding like crazy. Was he really not angry? Would he give him another chance? "Keep these three grands. I don't need 'em." Socked, Liam looked at him, unable to find any words. Oliver snorted, seeing his face. "Don't cream your pants. Consider this a gift from your spoiled friend with rich parents."
"Oliver, this is way too much money! No, I have to pay it back, I..."
"Nah, man. I don't want to see you as a zombie, studying with two different jobs at the same time. It's not a big thing."
"No, Oliver, listen. At this point it's a matter of... I don't know, honor? I value your friendship too much to let that slip."
"Hmmm." Oliver frowned while still smiling, as if he was looking for an idea. "No, I don't want your money. I know it would take a huge tool on you to collect it. But if you insist on paying me back... perhaps there's a favor you could give me."
Liam raised his eyebrows, hopeful, with raising optimism. He was more than eager to listen, as he felt that accepting such debt to go unpaid would change things between them regardless of what Oliver said. Friendships should be equal, after all.
"What can I do for you, man?"
Oliver scratched his head and looked away.
"Funnily enough, just few moments ago I happened to be talking to my other homies and we came to a conclusion that we're all rather...
tense
lately. Not gonna lie, it's a pretty spontaneous idea but maybe you could help us with that? You know, with you being gay and all, it's not a big deal, eh? I mean, not to brag, but I think we're all pretty good looking lads, so..." Oliver's relaxed face went full panic mode, as he noticed Liam's reaction. "Oh God, Jesus, Liam! I'm so sorry, forgive me, bro! Don't freak out on me, I'm just a dumb straight jock, I'm sorry!" He facepalmed really hard at himself. "Please, forget I asked, I'm a fucking moron, let's pretend I never said anything..."
"Wait, what?" Liam cut him off, entirely confused. Whatever Oliver read on his face had no actual link to Liam's emotions.
"You're not angry?" Oliver gasped.
"Angry? No... Why would I be?"
"Well... the way you looked at me... I thought you were about to flip on me..."
"It was actually just a surprise. I don't understand, why would your friends..." Poor, silly, innocent Liam only now had the sudden realization that made his cheeks immediately burn with a blush. "Oh! Wait... you want me and your friends to...
bang
?"
Oliver laughed, nervously.
"No, no! Not 'bang'... they're not gay, lmao. Uhh... sorry. I was just thinking of some... some friendly brojobs, perhaps...? You know, so they can release tension..."
Liam's brain clearly bugged out, as he just couldn't stop blinking in confusion.
"So... you want to pimping me out...?"
Oliver gasped again.
"Jesus, Liam! Of course not! If you say no, it's a no. I'd never demand that of you or anyone else, sheesh... I just... assumed that you as a gay guy are thinking similarly to us, straight guys... if we were asked to 'sisjob' some chicks, we wouldn't be thinking long..." He gulped. Now he was the one avoiding Liam's stare. "Yikes, what was I thinking? Bro, come on, forgive me... You know I'm a fucking moron... let's forget that I asked it was..."
Liam fixed his hair, scratched his head and then did the same to his beard, considering things in all the awkward silence that Oliver generously constructed.
"I mean... you're not wrong, dude," Liam admitted. "Your friends are rather hot and I truly am a horny gay man willing to go through a slut phase..." Oliver finally looked at him, surprised. "But I'm still confused. So these guys would actually be eager to receive, as you called it... 'brojob', from me? But why? Don't they all have girlfriends?"
Oliver snorted.
"To be honest, mate, you couldn't say anything more gayer right now. You clearly really don't get how the chicks are. Their willingness to play with their boyfriends is very rarely enough to cover all the sexual needs that guys at our age have... In other words, there are some raging boners out there... and no one to suck 'em."
Liam had to admit: Oliver was doing a great job advertising his idea. The thought of sucking other dudes' cocks was very appealing on its own, but Oliver's
friends
? They were all among the most gorgeous men Liam ever saw. He knew he would feel anxious at first to do this, but also had no doubts that he would be very fast to fall in love with it.
"To be honest, Oliver... your idea benefits me more than it does you guys..." Liam admitted, smiling.
Oliver brightened up and gave his friend this "you sly dog" kind of smile.
"My man! I knew I could count on you, bro. And I promise to make sure that the other gentlemen treat you with as much love and respect as I will."
Liam only now realized...
"Wait... as
you
will?" Liam blushed again. "Meaning that..."
Oliver chuckled nervously and looked away again.
"Well... I did say that
we
are tense lately, did I not...?" Oliver gently grabbed Liam's hand and slowly moved it towards his crotch. Liam immediately felt like he was in a fever, when his fingers rested against the fabric of Oliver's shorts and sensed the growing bulge underneath. "See how tense I am? It's insufferable... It would take a really good friend like you to help me out with that..." He left Liam's hand there and moved his own to caress his gay friend's face with his big thumb, while staring deeply into his eyes, smiling charmingly. "A cute little twink like you going down on me... What more could a guy want?"
Enchanted, yet confused, Liam moved his blushing face, failing to hide his worried expression.
"But... we're friends... I don't want to trade that for... five minutes of pleasure..."
Oliver laughed, loudly.
"
Five minutes
?! Precious, coming from a guy who loves to refer to me as to a fuckboy..." He surrounded Liam's neck with his heavy arm once again, getting their faces closer to one another. Only this time, Liam realized that his friend was wearing a sleeveless shirt, that exposed his hairy armpit. And while Liam did not believe in human pheromones bullshit, inhaling Oliver's scent covered his thoughts with some blissful fog that made everything so much... swifter. "Unless you meant that you're just so good at blowing guys that they won't last longer than that..." he whispered, again in this charming, bad boy tone of his. Liam finally understood what all of these girls saw in his best friend...
Suddenly, Oliver leaned over for a kiss and Liam fully surrendered. It was gentle, yet deep and sensual at the same time. Liam was not blind; he always knew that Oliver was a hot jock, yet he was convinced that he was straight, so nothing really got to his head. And yet now, their lips were locked together in a passionate kiss. It was a very pleasant dissonance to have. Liam regretted that it couldn't last forever.
"See?" Oliver asked, after breaking the kiss, while remaining so close that Liam could feel the breath from each word that his jock friend spoke, on his own lips. "We kissed and all is good. We're still friends. You could even say that now I love you more than ever before..."
"Why didn't you tell me that you're gay when I came out to you?" Liam asked, quietly.