Tags: gay romance, gay relationship, gay men, British, cooking, cocksucker, rimming, deep throat, gay blow job, 69
People in established relationships should still have their erotic stories told: there's not enough of them. Nor enough queer ones. I wasn't going to write a Valentine's story this year, but then one bad joke got in my head...
This is a stand-alone story. Adrian and Dan previously starred in 'Turkish Delight' (6 pages) where they went to Istanbul on holiday, mentioned in this story. They got together during the 14-chapter series 'Smoking Hot.'
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I stroll down towards London Bridge, on my way home. The small shops have exploded into pastel pink (cards and chocolate shops), or bright scarlet (lingerie shop, M&S) or an embarrassed cluttered mix of both (mini supermarkets).
It's that time of year again.
Valentine's Day. It's not been a highlight of my life over the years, never.
'Ooh, Dan, do you have a girlfriend?'
No.
'Oi, don't you even want a girlfriend?'
No.
'You a fucking poof?'
Probably. Well, yes. But let's try that girlfriend thing.
A year later, coming up to mid-February:
I'm sorry, love. Everyone was right about me being just a great big poof.
Just because I look straight, tall with short blond curls, jeans, casual shirt, liking my beer and football, didn't mean I could
do
straight. I should have known.
Thank fuck, she's now happily married and all. Anyway, that was when I moved to London. I know there was a Valentine's Day a bit after. I think, I went to a singles night at a club, took some excellent E, and got some adequate sex. That's what I did most weekends, anyhow.
A year later, I'd recently broken up with a guy -- wasn't too heartbroken, don't worry -- so I just bought a new PlayStation game and a case of beer and had a night in.
And then I met Adrian. I've been living with him about 18 months now, so there must have been a V-Day last year, but I don't remember it. I remember drawing my own card to send for Mother's Day that March, seeing as I couldn't find any in London saying 'Mom'. The woman would kill me if I sent one to Birmingham saying 'Mum', all Southern. She's as proud a Brummie as Ozzy Osbourne and Spaghetti Junction, Mom is.
I flip through my previous sketchbook. I get through one every year or so, drawing people and places, some of which I create better pieces from. So it's a bit like a diary.
There's Mom, some drawings that really shouldn't be sharing a book with my mom as now I have to apply the brain bleach, and then, before that set of pics of Adrian's stretched arsehole, the Blue Mosque from Istanbul.
Ah, that explains it! I'd been studying frantically for my diploma, then during my half-term break Ade whisked me off to Turkey, so he could get warm and we could both relax and fuck our way round the locals.
I remember us and two masseurs having a right excellent day in the Turkish baths. Forget happy endings -- we went back and had happy beginnings, middles
and
ends... Which I guess makes that the best Valentine's Day I've ever had.
So by the time Ade gets in from work, round nine pm, I'm still smirking from remembering that holiday. I've cooked dinner, and serve us it.
"Ah, thanks for that, love," he goes. "I needed it. What's made you so happy?"
Him coming home, his smile when he sees me, his chiselled jaw and swept back sandy hair and his smaller body that tucks into mine, his chin on my shoulder, his gravelly voice...
I tell him, I was recalling that trip. He crinkles around his stunning blue eyes, merrily remembering too. I mean, it's not like we don't go out every few weeks to find some top dirty action, exploring London's finest gay saunas.
Finest? Scuzziest, more like. Watching Adrian sucking off some geezer, kneeling on a floor covered in piss and not caring, bunch of other guys fondling each other and watching us. Then I stroke Ade's face so he knows it's me, and shove my cock in him so deep it's practically coming out his mouth. That's my idea of a fab night out, nowadays. Can't take the beers and drugs like I used to.
There's a wee one in walking distance -- doesn't always have anyone else we want in it, but a sauna, a shag and a shower -- that still counts as a good night now I'm nigh thirty. Adrian'll be forty in a couple months, so likes playing up to clichés of middle age.
I wonder what his take on Valentines is. I imagine, not too bothered either way, seeing as he's never mentioned it. Or perhaps, doesn't want to think about it, being a widower and all. His Diane died five years before I met him. She sounds like she was a great woman. She liked watching him with other men, too.
I wonder how to ask. Then I have it.
"Adrian?"
"Mm?"
"Do you know what the best thing about me being gay is?"
He rolls his eyes. "My body. Duh."
He has a point. "Yeah, but apart from your sweet arse?"
He humours me. "I don't know. What is the best thing about you bein' gay?"
"You don't have to wait for March for Steak and a Blow Job Day, because Valentine's Day
is
Steak and a Blow Job Day!"
He gives one of his hard stares. "Isn't there one of those every month or so?"
He means the steak. We like splashing out on really good ones. Not Bern Inn shite. The blow jobs are much more frequent. They're always really good ones, obviously.
I have to explain the meme, about men who resent buying cards and flowers and chocs because they think they get nothing out of it. Hence them pushing for what they want, a month later.
"Cunts." Ade succinctly summarises such men. It's one of those insults you have to be Irish to use properly. Or Scottish, but I'm not that, neither.
"Yup. I mean, I did get Lou a card and some choccies for us to share, she got me some card -- we'd just got together so it was a bit sappy -- but we cooked, we had some sex. Or did we go to the cinema, and did the food and fucking the next night? Anyhow, it was fine."
"Aye. Cos you
talked
to each other, 'bout the important stuff." He laughs when I snort. "OK, aye, telling her you were a queer shirt-lifter a tad earlier might have been an idea, but you know what I mean! What you both expected from the day. There's this thing -- Five Love Languages, they call it. You know it?"
"Go on."
"So, like, people want to be assured they're loved in different ways. So some people want to be given big gifts to show off, others couldn't give a monkey's. Some need to hear words and I love yous or get lots of hugs and cuddles, others don't care. Some sorta appreciate all that, but if the other person makes them a cuppa and not them, or leaves a mess for them to sort out, then they feel taken for granted and unloved, right?"
"Yeah, because that's being a fucking twat."
"That, too."
"Want a cuppa?" I'm on my way to make tea, and wonder if it was a hint.
"No, but thanks. Or, you're a doormat putting up with abuse, t'other way round, if you ask me. What was the fifth thing? Oh, if your partner just doesn't seem to want to spend time with you. Time, that's a big one.
"Anyway, cliché goes that women want prezzies and men want sex, but we know, that ain't always true and you've missed what I just said. If what someone really wants is a walk holding hands, couple hours in the countryside with ya, or watching a fillum together all snuggling up, but you just want to have a fuck then out with your mates: if that's the case, giving her a big bouquet and a teddy ain't gonna cut it."
"Ah, the classic Disney Dad!"
"Dad disnae do what?"
"No, no, Disney, like the mouse! Divorced dad, right, sees the kids once a fortnight when he can be arsed, but spends loads of money on them, on impractical shit like giant teddies and trips to Disneyland. But never on the boring stuff like new school shoes or a school trip."
"And doesn't give the mum money for it, neither? Aye, I've met the type."
"Yeah. I always vowed, if I'd unexpectedly become a father, I wouldn't be
that
shit."
Ade takes a deep breath. "You'd be a good dad, y'know?"
Adrian's always maintained he's too fucked-up to ever want kids. Now, he's way more sorted, but bet he's still too frit to want any. Not to mention, he goes mad without enough sleep. And the tiny issue that I don't want children. Our sisters do. His has two kids already and is working on a third, so that'll keep our genes going.
"You
don't
wanna, do you? Cos I really don't," I tell him.
"Oh, no! Jesus!"
Phew. "Thank fuck."
"Much happier with us being the Bad Uncles to Will's kids. And Stu's and Laura's, once they're old enough. Ought to get my niece and nephew over again, too. They loved you." He sighs. "My sister may be married to the most boring man in the universe, but you have to hand it to him, he does what's needed, he's there when it counts, he pulls his weight and all that."
"So, no sleepless nights for us, then?"
Adrian gives that sleazy grin that's sexy as hell. "Not for that reason, no. Fancy keeping me company for an early night?"
Early to bed, late to sleep. We try to do that on Wednesdays. Helps get through the week. "In a bit. So," I have to know, suddenly. "What did you and Diane do on Valentine's Days?"