Chapter 1: I Don't Want to Be Here!
I was begrudgingly unpacking my first suitcase, looking around at my new suite with utter distain, when my mom burst through the door with a sympathetic smile. "I thought this place would be so small, but this room alone is bigger than um... remember the trailer in Texas?" she said holding a box of DVD's that I took from her arms once she was in.
"Yeah, I remember not wanting to move to Texas either," I plopped the DVD's on the school provided chest next to my TV, hoping my mom wasn't curious enough to look in it.
"Carter, I know you want to retake your senior year back in Charleston. But this school, sorry academy, is more suited to the degree you want when you go to college. Plus, your father was willing to pay for it, and I wasn't about to stop him."
"Yes, a nice, all-boys, boarding school education rather than staying with the people you've claimed to love for over eighteen years. Seems like a fair trade off to me."
"Okay, I see my sassy ways have rubbed off on you, and I gotta say, I approve."
We laughed even though my dad leaving us has be the hardest thing my mom has ever been through. And, I guess, with me being at this academy, fully funded by my father, she won't have to worry about me. She can finally focus on what's next for her.
"I don't want to be here, mom," I confessed plainly.
"I know, and I don't want you to leave. But this is best for you, the teachers are apparently, like, perfect in every sense of the word. Plus, maybe you will find yourself a nice girl in the city and finally give me some grandkids," my mom laughed jokingly.
I was going to tell her that I was gay, but my dad stole my moment and announced the divorce papers on the same dat. Then came the news about the all-boys community college, which should have excited me, but the fact that the school was two states away made me nervous; and furious at my dad.
Hours later and I was completely unpacked, standing outside with my mother in her car. "Time to go mom," I said. My body shook with the desire to hug her.
"I know, I just...nope, I'm not going to say it. I'll call you when I get back home, have fun, and learn a lot." she smiled and gave me a long hug that ended too soon. As she was driving off, she stuck her head out of the opened window. "Oh, and I was just kidding about the grandkids. Don't get pregnant, Carter!"
I chuckled and waved goodbye, eventually thinking about what was next for me here. There was a welcome assembly soon and I didn't want to go back to my dorm then have to come back outside for it. Walking around this new campus made me sad about leaving my old high school, especially now that I have to live in this school. Thankfully, I had my trusty camera, the only great gift I'd received from my dad. I took some pictures of the scenery until I found myself at the student commons.
I sat down in a semi-open corner of the large clean building It was a white and grey dรฉcor with various eateries and a store full of the school's merchandise surrounding an open lobby/sitting area. It didn't take too long before I was people watching, or in my case, stare at a shit-ton of hot guys. I took a deep breath and feel into the idea of what an all-boys school could mean for me. There were more options here than I could count, and I couldn't help but imagine all of them in the most lecherous of ways; perhaps I wouldn't even need the special DVD's that were in the case while I was here. I started to think more on my DVD's when I was shocked from my gazing by a boy who tapped my shoulder.
"Sorry, I just wanted to see if I could sit here?" he asked pointing to a seat next to me.
"Oh, sure," I said not really minding the interruption.
"Thanks, so if you had to choose, basketball shorts or long sleeves?" he asked.
"What?"
He sat, "You think I'm here to contemplate life? No, when I find boy shopping for men, I want to be a part of it."
My eyes widened, and I turned to him with a jolt. "I'm sorry, what?"
"Your lap has exposed you," he said motioning to my very visible bulge I didn't realize I had.
I covered up and changed the conversation. "Okay, uh basketball shorts."
"Nice, leave me with the boy that wears long sleeve shirts in summer."
"It's August."
"It's summer enough."
I chuckled "I'm Carter Mann, I just came here from South Carolina," I held out my hand.
"Jack Dorne," he shook my hand. "From SC to lower Florida, how exciting."
"For me it's less exciting and more mandatory," I said. "I'm only here because my father said he would pay for my education rather than be there for my mom and me."
"Shit, that sucks. The black guy reading while walking or the twink in the cargos?"
"It really does suck; I hate being so far from my home." Part of me wanted to continue to vent but I was enjoying the distraction this sporadic game was offering. "My heart says reading boy, but my dick thinks there may be a BelAmi vibe about the twink."
"I hear you reasoning but we do need an answer, Mr. Mann."
Jack started to countdown and, nervously, I made my choice.
"Twink!" I said a bit too loud. Basketball shorts and long sleeves looked over at us and gave each other confused looks.
"So, you're gay?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, thank God. I thought that I was be the only gay guy in this place for another year."
"There's no other gay guys here?"
"None that have made themselves known to me."
"That really sucks." I look around and visualized my imaginary gangbang melting away, leaving me alone with my DVDs. "Okay, Dallas jersey or the boy that looks like a thin Josh Gad who obviously wants to fuck Dallas jersey?"
Jack smiled, and when we looked back Thin Josh Gad creeped behind Dallas and pantsed him revealing his round, hairy, ass in an amazing jockstrap. Everyone boomed in a choir of low toned laughter, as Dallas lifted his shorts again and faked a punch toward Thin Josh Gad. Jack smiled at me and pointed to what we just saw, I understood the mental message and went on with the conversation.
"Hot guys aside, I don't want to be here," I said. "I mean you are literary the only person I know in this state and meeting new people isn't really my thing, so I'm pretty much destined to have a tough time. Student worker or...the muscle-bound, god of reading, that I somehow have not notice until now?"
"I just saw him too. How long has he been there?"
"I really don't know."
"Anyway, the guys here are the same as any other and the city is full of fun things to do between classes." Jack leaned in and raised his eyebrows, "God of reading by the way," then moved back. "The movie theater's decent, there's this cool gamer bar called The Marina about 20 minutes out... other stuff. It's a couple miles drive but worth it."
"The Marina sounds promising. Not enough to change my mind and make me want to stay."
Suddenly, Dallas Jersey shoved one of the other boys he and Thin Josh Gad were talking with. Then he yelled something I couldn't understand and proceeded to take off his shorts again and threw it at the boy. Then, Dallas took off his shirt and threw it at the boy as well, he turned and walked out of the commons in nothing but sneakers and his jockstrap.
I got an instant hard-on.
"Still want to leave?" Jack joked, "or is this place...growing on you?" Jack leaned over and grabbed my bulge. "Wow nice. I require bigger so nothing will ever happen between us, but good for you."
I laughed, "Whatever, you know you want these seven inches of heaven," I stood in front of him and grabbed my package in his face.