I sat in the corner of a coffee shop Saturday morning, watching the local news on my tablet, earbud in my ear, when a man walked up to me. He wore a bright smile and a beige pea coat with silver buttons, skinny jeans and ankle height navy blue suede boots with a grey, 3 inch wooden heel. His hair was shaved on one side and flipped over against his shoulder on the other.
If you told me, when I was a straight male 6 months ago that I'd find this twink both pretty and desirable, I would have laughed.
"It sucks to find a handsome one like you and see that you're taken." He said with a flamboyant lilt to his voice. Not too much, but noticeable. He jerked his chin towards me, eyes on the leather strap hanging around my neck with a small padlock through the d-rings on each end of it.
"Something like that." I said, pulling the earbuds from my ears. I wound the cord around my hand and folded it on top of my tablet. "But I don't mind a chat."
The stranger took a seat across from me and he crossed his legs. I looked into those baby blue eyes, catlike with the perfect wing eyeliner.
6 months ago, I would have laughed at him and called him a faggot. It always made me feel so guilty about being friendly now, knowing how I would have treated him, had my life not taken the turn it did.
We probably never even would have said hello, or noticed each other either.
"Care to elaborate?" He asked, to which I followed up with a confused, "Sorry?"
"What do you mean, 'something like that'." He repeated. Oh. He wanted a story.
I shrugged. "I am a houseboy." I was shown off so often that the word was a fact of life, and he had no shame left to hide it away with. Besides, there were worse things to be called.
"You're far from looking like the usual submissive twink." He said with a laugh.
"And you look like the exact definition of a submissive twink." I smirked. "I play soccer. So I'm athletic."
"Soccer! Fun fun."
"You hate sports." It wasn't a question, but a frank observation.
"No, no... Hate is a strong word. Let's just say I'm willing to watch the boys and I can get halfway through any game and not even know what ball they're tossing back and forth."
I laughed at that, and crossed my arms across my chest absentmindedly. My coffee time companion must have enjoyed the way it emphasized my chest and arms because when his eyes moved down, he made a satisfied kind of "mm" sound.
"I have a small feeling that going from jock to houseboy wasn't on your bucket list."
"Your gaydar seemed to light up when you saw me, what makes you say that?"
"Sweetie, gaydar isn't a thing." he shook his head. "For all I know, you could have been some poor cuck with a wife getting in someone else's pants and letting you lick her load."
"Fair enough, fair enough." I said, almost too dismissively.
"Whoredar, however, I'll claim that's a thing. Wait, you're not really a cuck are you?"
I turned red and stared over his shoulder through the narrow windows at the front of the shop. "Isn't that when you can't have sex and your partner has as much as they want?" I asked. Half a year into this lifestyle, I was still learning about some of the kinkier stuff. And I didn't want to admit to this guy how inexperienced I was, despite how loose my ass was from servicing the house.
"That's right." he narrowed his eyes. "See? This conversation would be a lot less entertaining if this whole thing had been on your bucket list for 15 year old you creaming into a sock."
"I... ah...." I sighed, throwing my hands up. "Fine! Yeah, you're right. I was kind of given no choice in this." I rubbed the back of my neck, slightly embarrassed by his pointed questions.
"No choice?" his eyes furrowed. He looked like he was ready to kick someones ass. I couldn't imagine a man of his size would do much damage against anyone in the house, especially in those boots. He didn't even know me, I actually felt honored.
"Oh! No, no, nothing like that. Its just, I um..." I looked up into his baby blue eyes, lost for a moment. I was opening up to him pretty fast, considering how guarded I've always been in my life. "I had to trade, well, services... for some help in school."
"Oh! oh... Oh! So the epitome of jock stereotype does exist." he jabbed, laughing goodheartedly.
I chuckled with him. "Yeah, yeah. Well... I uh... I can't read." I swallowed. "So... there's that."
"What! No! Scandal! How did you even get through highschool?"
"I fucked half my teachers." I said, rubbing the stubble on my chin. "And I fucked the Valedictorian. And then I found out the Dean was sleeping with one of the female students and blackmailed him to get through my state tests. Plus a few other unworthy moments." I shrugged. "Then I got a full ride scholarship to the University, and I realized that high school is nothing like the real world."
"Why did you never learn?"
"My asshole dad, partially. He hated books, didn't allow any reading in the house, and so I hated reading because it always resulted in bad times. And then I fell through the cracks of the shitty dump of a public school system. My mom ditched my dad, married a rich guy, he sent me off to private school." I furrowed my brow. "I think my story has come full circle." Why the hell was I oversharing?
"Man. Thats a load. Well, you still have your insanely good looks. So how did you go from just trading favors to full blown house boy? Wait. When you say university, and houseboy... Don't tell me its the whole house!"
I didn't acknowledge that question with a direct answer. "I started trading favors to Bret, Bret told Jay, Marcus walked in on us, and on it went until the president found out. I was sure I was gonna get kicked, but he said if I became his bitch and serviced whoever he told me to, he would make sure my work got done and let me stay. But it wasn't enough because tests were still in class. I dropped out last semester. I'm only at the house until June when everyone goes home for the summer."
A playfully wicked grin cracked across this guys lips. It made me nervous. "So you're telling me you're a housebroken prostitute with nowhere to go."
I sighed. I wouldn't say all that. But I didn't dispute his declaration.
"Come on. You have to actually agree with me." He said.
I scoffed, "why would I call myself a prostitute? I don't do it for money."
"You're doing it for a roof over your head, and you've got a pimple telling you who to fuck. What else would you call it?
A pimple?" I laughed, but it was just to cover up my embarrassment. Damn he may be right.
"Pimple. A dick of a pimp. Come on. Say it." He stared unblinking at my face, an eyebrow cocked, waiting quite confidently.
"I'm a housebroken prostitute with nowhere to go." I grumbled reluctantly. I furrowed my brow in frustration before I snapped my head up, glaring at him. "Why am I saying that anyway? You're nobody to me, it's not your lock around my neck." I stood suddenly, my chair squealing as it pushed backward and banged into the wall behind me. I shoved my headphones into my pocket and reached for my tablet.
The boys hand slammed down over mine. His expression was wicked. "I can get you out of there and the only person you'd have to serve is me." He said. "You can continue being an unpaid prostitute, or you can come be a real houseboy, be spoiled, be adored."
I stared down at him. "Why would you do that?"
He shrugged. "I kind of like you, it's not often I can find a sub bigger than I am. And I have no problem being a sugar daddy. I live modestly with a pretty dispensable income."
"What, are you a nest egg baby?"
"Sweetie, I'm Lossy Silver. My clothing line is international." He shrugged, gesturing to his outfit. "I don't blow my money and so I can do whatever I wish. And right now, I'm looking for a model for the online thumbnails my new athletics line." He shrugged. "Win win, don't you think?"