Andrew and Adam and I had been friends forever.
We were an odd group, in that they were much more like each other than either of them were like me. Both of them were tall, blond, athletic and strapping, whereas I was average height, slender and dark-haired. Andrew was the star of every football team he belonged to, and Adam was a great swimmer, but I was bookish and my favourite exercise consisted of long walks.
But we hit it off, and I was able to make them laugh, which counted for a lot. We climbed trees together, we went to school together, we liked the same shows, we liked a lot of the same music, and when we got interested in girls, we had that in common too.
It was then, in our later teens, that I began to realise one way in which I wasn't like them.
Andrew and Adam were seriously interested in girls. And only girls. I was too, but the summer after we all turned 18, I soon began to realise that I also liked guys.
Funnily enough, I didn't particularly fancy Andrew or Adam. I regarded them as a bit out of my league, but also we'd known each other so long that it would have been weird. I knew that they were both objectively good-looking but the idea of imagining myself with either of them seemed unthinkable. Especially as they both had a crush on a girl in school named Lucy, a gorgeous brunette from a well-off family who had a superb figure and long tumbling curls.
Still, although I was embarrassed about coming out, I dropped a hint here and made a joke there, and then finally, one day, as we were hanging out at Adam's house one Saturday, kind of boredly watching some porn on his phone, I made some joke about mixing it up a bit, and Adam turned to me and said 'Seriously, man, are you bi?'
I looked at him for a long moment, feeling nervous, and he didn't look annoyed or anything, so I said shyly 'I think I am, yeah.'
I looked at them both. Adam thought about it for a moment, then looked at Andrew and shrugged.
'Cool,' he said. 'I was just wondering.'
'You're okay with it?'
'Why wouldn't I be?'
I looked at Andrew. He was looking at me, a bit more intently.
'You could have told us,' he said.
'Sorry,' I said.
'We could have been practising kissing,' he said, without cracking a smile. Andrew had a very deadpan sense of humour.
I hesitated, and then he smiled, and I laughed with relief.
'But you guys aren't,' I said, and I meant it as a question.
'Not as far as I know,' said Adam casually. 'But maybe in an emergency.'
We had a good laugh about that, then dropped the subject and went back to watching porn.
But after that, the summer began to take a different turn.
It took a while for my new status to sink in. But I was now The Bi One, and Andrew and Adam seemed intrigued to know what it meant for me.
Had I kissed a guy? (Not yet.) Did I have fantasies about guys? (Yes.) Would I have sex with a guy? (Yes.) Which way? (I don't think I'm fussy.) Did I think I was trans? (No, I'm definitely a guy.) Do I really like girls or was I pretending? (I really like girls as well.)
Then they persuaded me to paint my nails, using nail varnish that Adam nicked from his younger sister. I wasn't very good at it. I declined to try putting on any borrowed makeup, though.
Adam tried to persuade me to wear some lingerie he'd filched from a store. I declined to do that, too. They both seemed to have a rather skewed idea of what it meant to be bi. Then again, I was far from sure myself; I knew I liked girls and guys but I'd never so much as kissed either.
Then one day, Andrew proposed that we had one of those kissing practice sessions.
I said yes. I figured it would get them out of the way, and we could go back to being regular guy friends.
We all cleaned our teeth, then we sat on the bed and Adam looked at me, smiled, stroked my face, then leaned in and kissed me on the lips.
It didn't feel like much; just kissing anyone you didn't fancy.
When it was Andrew's turn, however, he licked his lips, grabbed my shoulders, planted his mouth on mine and pushed his tongue inside. I made a little gasp of shock.
He was so forceful and masculine that I actually felt myself responding and I closed my eyes and leaned into it and made a small sigh. Andrew continued to kiss me and he really explored the inside of my mouth. I felt myself melting, becoming more feminine by the second. When he finally let go, I was breathless and flushed and a little dizzy.
Adam tried that, too, encouraged by Andrew. Neither of them kissed each other, just me.
Looking back, I should have noticed that.
But after we'd practised kissing, we became more at ease with each other.
We took to lying around in t-shirts and boxers, reading and looking at porn and not doing much else.
I was lying next to Andrew on his bed, reading a book, and he was watching two lesbians having anal, or whatever, and I noticed that inside his trunks he had an enormous erection.
I didn't say anything. But then, he reached down and took my left hand and placed it on his cock.
I glanced at his face, startled. He wasn't looking at me, but I knew what he wanted me to do.
I massaged his cock and he squirmed a little and made a satisfied gasp. I glanced at Adam; he was watching, curious.
Boldly, I reached inside Andrew's shorts and took his cock in my hand and pulled it out.
I began to jerk him off. It didn't take long. He even closed his eyes, not watching the porn anymore, just enjoying having me masturbate him, and after only a couple of minutes, he came, gasping, and lay there.
I wiped my sticky hand on his leg. He made a brief chuckle and then got off the bed to go and clean up. On his way out of the bedroom he pulled his t-shirt off.
That was the line we crossed; when I went from being just their bi friend to being something else.
Soon it became a regular part of our Saturday afternoons, the three of us lazing about in our underwear, me casually jerking them off now and then.
Then one day, when I happened to be lying on my stomach next to Andrew and was stroking his cock, I looked up at him and he was looking down at me, his mouth slightly open, and I knew what he wanted me to do.
I took him in my mouth and started to suck.
I was flying blind; I had never done this before, but I guessed that the idea was to fool Andrew's cock into thinking that it was inside a pussy, so I made sure to use lots of tongue and to keep my teeth away from it. He was getting into it, so I knew it was working.
Adam was the other side of me. He pulled his cock out of his jeans and began to stroke it. I took it and obligingly began to jerk him off. He started to gasp rhythmically.
Now we were gone far beyond mere fooling around. I was enjoying arousing my friends. I didn't want to go any further unless they invited me to, and I certainly didn't think they particularly wanted me--this was just us guys being guys, me being the one who conveniently didn't mind a bit of jerking and sucking.
Adam's jeans were very ragged and full of holes. He was breathing fast as I jerked him off, then he spoke.
'Hey,' he said rather breathlessly, 'what was that thing you were talking about, that the Greeks did? When they had sex but didn't?'
I took my mouth off Andrew's cock. He made a brief whimper of protest.
'Intercrural sex,' I said. 'You do it between the tops of the thighs.'
'See if you can do it,' he said, grinning, and rolled onto his belly.
Sure enough, there was a hole in the seat of his jeans. I blinked.
'You sure?'
'Go on,' Adam panted.
So I got between his spread legs and pulled out my own cock, and I directed it into the hole in his jeans, and it fit between the tops of his thighs.
'Oh, yeah,' I gasped. It actually felt very sexy. I couldn't believe he was letting me do this. I moved myself up so I was mounted on Adam's tight arse, and it was almost as if I were having sex for real.
I pumped, and Adam made soft moans beneath me, and impulsively I pulled my t-shirt over my head. Now I was in only tight black trunks. Adam was bare-chested and wearing jeans, and Andrew was wearing a t-shirt and jeans too. I was the least clothed of us.
I knew I was neglecting Andrew but I didn't think he'd mind. I kept pumping, feeling the friction of Adam's muscular thighs on my cock, and when I imagined what it would be like to him having this done to him, it made me more aroused.
Andrew moved around on the bed and after a moment I became aware that he'd pulled the seat of my trunks half-down, partly uncovering my arse. I assumed that this was just for his visual stimulation and decided to let it go. I was very close to orgasm and I didn't want to stop.
But then he pulled them down further, and completely exposed my bum, and that made me stop and look at him over my shoulder, pulling them up again.
'Hey,' I said. 'Come on.'
'What,' he said, grinning. 'You come on.'
He grabbed my trunks and yanked them down again at the back. I got off Adam, who rolled onto one side, and pulled them up, looking at them both.
'I think we need to have a few boundaries,' I said nervously.
'Come on,' Adam said, 'don't be so stiff.'