"Godamn rain," Tony said, already popping open a Coors. His six-foot-one-inch body dominated the front room window as he gazed out at the lake. "We could still go, you know--- fish bite like crazy in this weather."
"I'm not going with lightning like that," DJ said from the kitchen. His blond head nodded out at the blowing trees. "Besides, the boat'll tip over."
"Shit," Juan said. His dark Latino body glistened as he towelled his round ass. "You nearly tipped it over yesterday...you keep horsing around," he said, nailing DJ with a smiling scowl.
Tony watched Juan wrap the towel around his tight waist. "What's to do on a day like this? Hell. We finally get to come here on our own, and....!"
"We could play cards," DJ grinned. "Strip poker!"
"Shit...listen to the big talker," Juan messed up DJ's super-curly hair. "Feeling a little horny this morning?"
"Sure," DJ knocked Juan's hand away. "Always. I'd go around bareass if you guys'd do it, too, man."Tony swigged some brew and came over to the breakfast table. His green eyes watched Juan and DJ intently, and his sheer height and size made the other two give him their attention.
"So?" his voice was deep and ballsy. "---join a nudist colony---that's what they're for."
"Would you get me a beer?" DJ said to Juan. He looked up at Tony. "Maybe I should---but they're just stupid. Big huge fences---a bunch of losers playing badminton. You know Mike Bates? He peeked over the fence at that one near Saratoga."
Juan's muscular triceps flexed as he reached into the fridge. "Most guys our age are pretty damn modest. You yack about strip poker, but you're the worst, Deej---always locking the bathroom, for cripes sake."
"All farm boys are. It's because of our parents." DJ looked fresh as all outdoors, his smile growing conspiratorial. "But you know---there're some dudes who AREN'T modest--- a lot of guys, actually."
He took the beer Juan handed him. "I've even got proof!"
"No shit," Tony swung his legs to straddle a chair. "DJ's got proof," he nodded at Juan, watching the handsome Latino go into the bedroom.
"Yeah. Proof. I got proof." DJ got up, his developed shoulders and pecs stretching his tee-shirted chest. "It's old proof.....but then, you know, proof's proof!" His shirt came only mid-waist, showing a sugaring of dark blond hair leading from his perky navel down his tanned, muscled belly.
Tony took in DJ's body, his eyes so dark, DJ didn't see him looking. Tony spoke right to his displayed, tanned abs. "This we gotta see." He nodded to Juan, emerging half-dressed from the bedroom. "Deej is gonna show us some old dudes that aren't modest."
"Oh really?" Juan rolled his eyes. "This'll be interesting. Where are they, DJ? --- waiting in the boathouse?"
"Shut-up," DJ brushed Juan's shoulder to go outside to the garage. "They're not 'old dudes'.... they're just.... oh hell. You two never believe anything I say. I gotta prove everything. So now I'll go get your precious proof."
Tony and Juan exchanged knowing smiles as they emptied their beers and crushed the cans. Juan went over to take out two more. The wind howled around the summer house, the picture window awash with pelting rain.
The three guys were buddies, growing up together in their small-town school and involved in things like 4H. Their lives had been spent earning merit badges in Scouts and attending their respective church's youth groups.
Getting to use DJ's great uncle's place was a first for them. They'd just graduated, and the understanding gentleman had even left them a couple of cases of beer, knowing they'd be wanting to celebrate.
A bolt of lightning split open the sky, followed by a deafening crack of thunder. No sooner did Juan pop the caps of two fresh ones, than DJ came back in with a filthy, water-stained, large, brown envelope. He tried wiping the dust and cobwebs off it, which only seemed to make it worse.
"What the hell is that supposed to prove, dude?" Juan backed his chair away from the little cloud of dirt and dried leaves.
DJ said nothing back. He opened the flap and pulled out two ancient-looking, pocket-sized magazines.
"Jeez, DJ," Juan eyed them, smelling the mildew. "What the hell are those?"
"Proof, bubba---proof!" Todd grinned, slapping them down on the table.
The weathered, black-and-white glossy cover of the first mag showed a photo of a smiling muscled teen wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and a little bulging loincloth. The title, "Physique Pictorial" was printed above his nearly naked photo. The date 1958 was in the upper righthand corner. He was standing on a mountain, his tanned muscles rippling, flexing his biceps with a big proud, happy grin on his cute face.
"Holy shit," Juan picked it up, staring at the cover. His dark brown eyes widened.
Tony nonchalantly reached over to grab the second one. It said, "Athletic Model Guild" on it, with a black-and-white pencil drawing of a biker with tight leather shorts, his almost grossly over-sized chest unbelievably nippled. Next to him was a guy looking much like DJ--- big-nippled pecs, smooth-as-silk muscles---his arm slung casually over the biker's neck, wearing nothing but an obscenely packed swimsuit.
Tony's eyes narrowed. "These were out in the garage?" His voice was quiet as he pulled apart the water-damaged pages.
DJ laughed. "Would you believe it? They're my Great Uncle Jim's!" His voice got all excited. "Remember that World War II paper we had to do for Plover's class? ---back in May?" The other two nodded absently, absorbed in the photos. "We were all here for Memorial Day and Uncle Jim told me he had a bunch of old Life magazines out in the garage." He pointed at the mags. "And when I opened this up to see what it was? SHIT! I couldn't friggin' believe it! He must have forgotten he'd saved them."
"Godamn," Juan whistled, pulling at his crotch. "Who would EVER.....I mean, shit!" He looked over at Tony, who was totally absorbed in a photo of a muscleboy laughing at the camera, his little pouch bulged and sagging from being too stuffed as he sat with his legs spread wide open. Tony flashed Juan the picture.
"Shit," Juan thumbed through the glossies. "They put out stuff like this way back in the fifties?" He shook his head. "Hell, it's worse than hardcore porno shit. I mean, these dudes are still in high school.... you know? ---YOUNGER than that, even! Hell, this kid looks like he's friggin'....!" He rearranged the front of his jeans. "I can't believe it.... hell, it's makin' me...."
"Told 'ya's," DJ grinned over Juan's brown shoulder. "Just look at this!" He grabbed it away and showed them both a photo of a really developed kid, his string thong barely able to hold in his full-blown boner. The sides of the cloth were gaping open, pubic bush curling out. The kid had a great big smile on his face, like he was happy his picture would be looked at by the entire world. "One of these dudes could be Uncle Jim!" DJ crowed.
Tony's eyes flashed for a second. "Gimme that," he grabbed it out of DJ's hands.
DJ watched the big guy examine the kid's hardon, then turn to each photo, not saying a word. He whistled. "I don't know why this gets me goin', but it does." He thumped the picture of a kid with a fishnet thong. "They look so innocent or somethin'---like you two---like they're right off the farm." He showed Juan another photo. "They've all got these weird haircuts and grinnin' like it's gonna be in the fuckin' yearbook or somethin'. Shit. Can you imagine a kid back then lettin' himself be photographed like that?"
Juan took the mag Tony had been looking at, staring at the "Tom of Finland" drawing on the cover. "Looks almost like you, Tone," he said, pointing at the biker. "Looks like you doing welding in your dad's shop---hairy chest....big friggin' arms."
"Shit," Tony glanced up. "I wouldn't be caught dead in leather shorts like those."
"Oh yeah?", DJ's eyes twinkled. "Then, what about.......?", he fumbled back inside the brown envelope. "......what about......in THESE!"
Juan and Tony watched as he pulled out a handful of cloth. Only when he lifted one up did they see it was a little pouch held together by string.
"What the fuck......?" Tony seemed to lose his usual cool. He reached down and grabbed a blue one. The triangular bit of material looked absurdly small in his outstretched fingers. "Where'd these come from? Inside with the mags?"
DJ laughed, nodding his head. "He must have sent away for 'em! I mean, there's nothing to them! ---like there's no seat or nothin'....it's like a jockstrap with no straps. They're just like the ones in these old magazines." He laughed and threw a yellow one up in the air. "They're old as hell and faded and all, but they're not really dirty. We could wash 'em......"
"Oh yeah?", Tony looked at DJ, his green eyes intense. "What the hell are you sayin' man? ---that just because your uncle's an old fruit, we're supposed to put these on?"
"I dunno," he shrugged, looking to Juan for some kind of support. "We COULD....I mean, hell, why not? ---no one here but us chickens!" He grinned, his face growing pinker by the second.