Time will tell, I thought when I left the house earlier that day. My intentions were to just let the relationship, the friendship, be whatever it turned out to be. I was open to what felt comfortable to us both. Reggie had seemed to be surprisingly accommodating and comfortable with what happened between us so far.
I returned home about 6 that evening. Reggie was gone, at work I supposed. Later I got a text indicating that he was coming by after he finished his shift if I was ok with that.
I texted back, "Great. I look forward to your arrival." He returned a smiley face.
Soon we were snuggled in my bed, stripped down to our boxers. I was in front, spooned up next to his body behind me with his strong arms wrapped around me, my face on his right bicep. I wasn't sure where this was going to go but damn, it felt so good right now.
Reggie began talking, in just a regular voice, about his day. This very unusual thing was now feeling so normal to me. I listened to him and ran my hand slowly up and down the arm he had wrapped around me. Without much thought, I leaned forward and kissed his arm. He quit talking suddenly.
Silence fell. I kissed him again.
Reggie said, "Thom, I don't want to hurt you. I like being here with you but I'm not sure how much of the kissing and such I can do. I'm open to a lot but I'm not sure how you are thinking about us."
I rolled onto my back and stared straight up at the ceiling. I was confused by his reaction.
I whispered, "I'm not really thinking about anything but just enjoying you. I like hearing about your day and it's nice to get to touch your skin and lie beside you while we talk. If that's all we do, I'm in heaven. Beats the hell out of lying in bed alone."
Reggie began rubbing his exquisite hair across my chest unhurriedly. I moved my arm around where I could touch his back as he knelt over me. He moaned loudly as I kneaded at a knot I found in one of his back muscles. His face collapsed onto my stomach as he oohed into my skin.
"Want a back rub?" I asked.
He moved to where he could lie face down and with a muffled voice, with his face deep in the pillow, he said, "Oh yes, please."
I crawled up and sat on his ass, reaching my hands forward toward his shoulders. His muscles were taut and curvy there and down his arms. I ran my hands along both arms lightly. He sighed deeply, and I felt his body relax under me.
I began a gentle touching of his skin, from his shoulders to the top of his boxers. Using my fingernails, lightly, I raked up his back gradually. I did that over and over a few times. My hands slowly went up his neck and I buried them into his luscious hair. I leaned down and put my nose and mouth deeply into his afro and I breathed out warm and languidly.
Reggie lifted his head, pushing my face up. "Do you have a hard-on?" he asked.
I laughed, "Of course, I do. I am sitting on your gorgeous ass and I'm getting to touch your beautiful body and I'm face deep in your hair. Yes, I 'm very turned on by this."
Reggie then said two words that startled me, "Me, too."
Again, silence fell between us. He dropped his face back to the pillow and I sat up and grabbed a bottle of lotion I keep by my bed. I smeared a large bubble of lotion back and forth in my hands, warming it. Then I began working my hands over the smooth dark skin of his back.
He made all the sounds that urged me on in rubbing more and lower on his back, gently smoothing around the curve of his waist, sometimes running my hands slowly under him, feeling his muscular stomach and the light scattering of tight little hairs there.
At one point as I pulled my hand down his back, unhurriedly slipping down to his underbelly, he raised his ass and I explored his stomach and chest, finding his nipples and gently flicking them with my fingers.
He hissed at that contact and put his body down quickly trapping my hands under him.
"Gotcha now!" he said, laughing. I laughed with him, pulling my slippery hands out from under him.
As I got lower on his back, I scooted back to sit on his thighs. And his ass, covered in dark blue boxers, sat between us as still and formidable as a gemstone. I stared at that cloth-covered space, mesmerized, while continuing to rub his lower back, from time to time rubbing a bit over the waistband.
Reggie became very still as I continued the massage along his spine and his strong lower back muscles. I scooted further down, grabbing the lotion bottle and squirting more into my hand. I now sat over his calves, while warming the lotion in my hands.
"Want me to rub your legs?" I asked, not sure how much he would allow me to touch or where this was going. But I was willing to ask.