James got up from his place at the quaint café down the street from his apartment. Shrugging into his jacket, he waved to the young guy behind the counter and left his half full coffee cup on the table. The air outside the small café was chill but not unpleasant and James sucked in a deep breath that felt sharp entering his lungs.
He hadn't been out without Gloria for a while but he had needed some time to think. She had finally brought up the big M word. James definitely loved Gloria and wanted to get married but with him studying and her only working part time, was now really the time for it?
It had ended in a cold night of excessive politeness and not really talking to each other which had made James feel terrible. The real problem was of course the massive debts he had racked up and hadn't quite found the right time to tell her about. He knew that he should have told her a couple of years ago about his financial situation, but it seemed to be so much easier to go on living off credit cards and pretend that he didn't have a big black mark against his name on every lending establishment within 100 miles.
It wasn't until James had almost walked into the man that he noticed someone standing in front of him.
"I'm sorry" Said the man once James had stopped and looked up at who was blocking his path.
The guy was about 5'5, middle aged and a bit podgy all over. He wore an old fashioned suit and looked well off although a bit fashionably challenged.
He had a strange European accent, like Dutch or German or something.
"I couldn't help but notice you inside the café. You are most thoughtful looking." Said the man in his slightly clipped but musical accent.
"Ah yeah." Said James, not really sure what the guy meant.
"I am once again sorry. The reason that I noticed you, was not in fact for your thoughtful looks, but I am very interested in seeing you." The man said.
James wasn't sure if he was losing something in translation but it didn't sound as though this guy was making any sense.
"I don't really get what you mean." James said, trying his best to hold on to his patience.
"I would like to see you." Said the man, unhelpfully. "I would pay you much, to see you."
"You're seeing me now." Said James. He was definitely getting a bit irritated by this odd guy. But if he was honest the comment about paying you much had caught his attention.
"Ah yes. What I was meaning, was seeing more of you." The man gave him a slightly embarrassed smile.
"What I mean to say is, I think you have a very nice body and I would like to see you without your clothes on."
The man smiled warmly at him as though he had just commented on his sports shoes or something.
"Whoa, hold up buddy." James stepped back and held up his hands.
"I don't know how you got the wrong idea, but I'm not gay or anything." He said defensively.
The man also raised his hand in a placating gesture
"There would not be any need for touching." He said, reassuringly.
"I would just like to look at your body. I would pay you one thousand of your dollars." He finished
James lowered his hands. As creepy as this whole situation was. A thousand bucks for just looking at him naked was nothing to be scoffed at. He would need a lot more information before he could agree to anything like that though.
"So you would want me to take my clothes off here?" James looked around as though someone might be spying on them right now waiting for him to show off some flesh.
The man smiled again, his plump face taking on an eager shine.
"No. No. I have an apartment just a block away. You would come with me, I pay you your money and then you take your clothes off so I may look at you." He smiled again but it was coming across even creepier now.
"How long do you want to look at me for?" Asked James, feeling a bit defensive or insecure already, even with his clothes on in the middle of a public street.
"For just one minute." Said the man, holding up his pudgy index finger."
"You stand, then turn around for me to look and then you can put your clothes on and go with your thousand dollars."
James was wavering. This seemed like a simple thousand dollars, but there was something about this little man that he didn't like. Quite possibly the fact that he was propositioning men in the street to put on a private strip show for him.
"Here" Said the man pulling something out of his jacket pocket. "I give you half now and then the other half when we get to my apartment."
The man opened a leather wallet that was absolutely stuffed with one hundred dollar bills. He pulled five out of the wad and handed them to James.
The look and feel of the bills in his hand made him feel good. He rubbed his fingers over the crisp bank notes. A thousand dollars wouldn't be nearly enough to clear his debts, but it would definitely be a start. All he had to do was strip off, stand for a minute while a creepy pervert checked him out and then he could get out of there a thousand dollars richer.
"Okay." Said James, feeling a bit dirty.
The apartment was only just over a block away, back past the Café. The man led him into the building up two flights of stairs and opened his door. It was an ordinary town apartment, tidy and almost bare. The windows in the living room looked out over a busy street and into a small green reserve.
The man gestured for James to go into the bedroom and he followed quietly behind him then walked over to the bedside table and placed the extra five hundred dollars down where James could clearly see it.
"Please take off your clothes." Said the man. His clipped accent making it half a question and half a demand.
The whole situation flashed through James head again but at the end of it all he could really focus on was the money. This would be over in a few minutes and he would be out of here a crisp grand richer.
He unbuttoned his shirt and took it off, revealing his long slim athletic body. Next he kicked off his shoes, then undid the button on his trousers and slid them down his legs before stepping out of them and throwing them onto the bed beside his shirt.
The man stepped forward a bit now to see more closely and James saw a hungry look in the man's eyes. If this weird little man tried to touch him he would kick his ass. The man gently picked up James' clothes and placed them almost reverently beside the five hundred dollars he had put down.
The man turned quickly back and gave James a nod to indicate that he should take off his boxer shorts.
James did. He slipped them quickly down his legs and kicked them off. The man grabbed them and added them to the clothes pile, as though he couldn't handle the scruffiness of the clothes being on the ground for a second.
"Your socks too please." Said the man and James obliged by taking off his black socks and tossing them to the man.
Now James stood completely naked in front of the man. He was a tall athletic guy with good muscles and not much fat on him. He was pretty proud of his body if he was going to be honest. He went for the natural look, no porn star shaving or even trimming for him. He loved that his dick was big when flaccid. It hung between his legs about 6.5 inches before it got hard and easily 9 when he was properly turned on. Not that there was any risk of that happening with this creepy man looking him up and down as though he wanted to eat him.
The man came a lot closer and looked closely at his dick before looking up at him.
"You truly are beautiful. It is a shame that you are so hairy." The man said.
"Turn around now please and bend over slightly." He kept his head close to James' waist as he rotated on the spot and bent down a tiny bit.
"Bend over more." The man said. James noted the lack of please, but he complied.
"Put your hands back and spread for me please." The man was back to using please, but that seemed a bit of a stretch past his initial stand here while I look at you deal.
"Are you keeping time?" James asked back over his shoulder while he bent over, not yet spreading his ass open as the man had asked.
"Once you spread yourself open for me to have a look at, it will be time up." Said the man.
James put his hands back onto his butt and parted his ass cheeks. He felt dirty and used standing there bent over while a man looked at his asshole from less than a foot away, but he just wanted to get his grand and go.
The man suddenly stood up and stepped back.