The rest of the evening passed like some sort of waking nightmare. Neel said nothing to let on that he knew what happened, but I constantly caught him watching me out of the corner of my eye.
Every time he spoke, I could see the hint of a knowing smile just behind his facial expression.
Aside from that, he behaved with perfect normality, cooking a delicious curry for dinner, and chatting amicably about the challenges of his day.
I, however, found myself completely tongue-tied, stuttering with every reply, and struggling to hold up my half of the conversation.
To make matters worse, Neel wore a tight-fitted T shirt, showing every muscular flex whenever he moved, and a pair of loose shorts. The constant wobble of his junk under the thin material proved that he was without underwear.
I constantly found myself watching him as he moved, picturing his package inside his shorts. I was hypnotised.
My mind was constantly distracted. In one moment, I was thinking through the implications of what I'd done, and his knowledge of my behaviour. In the next moment, my mind was taken by the image of his cum arching out of his cock and splashing into the red dust.
I was so horny that I was salivating, and it was all that I could do to stop myself from getting hard right there in front of him.
Through it all, I constantly wondered, what the fuck had come over me? How had I gone from a straight-as-an-arrow tit man to this pile of hormones salivating over my handsome housemate?
Pretty soon it became obvious that Neel was toying with me. He could barely walk 2 steps without dropping something on the floor and bending over, ever so slowly to pick it up again.
At one stage I walked back into the common room from a toilet stop, to find him sitting on the couch with legs splayed, cock poking freely from the leg of his shorts.
"Jesus, man, would you put it away?" I joked, pointing towards the offending member.
"Haha, sorry mate," he said, tucking himself away without any hint of embarrassment. "I seem to have run out of clean underwear, so I've had to go commando."
I turned towards the sink and started the dishes, more to hide my blushing face than anything.
The time did tick by though, and finally my escape was at hand as I headed out to my study site as night drew on. It was with some relief that I walked out to my buggy, loaded my gear onto the back and headed out along the track.
The night was surprisingly clear, although the humidity was oppressive. My mind was working overtime as I travelled the short road to my shelter.
I couldn't understand what was happening. I'd never been attracted to another guy before. Even in my teen years, I'd heard people say that it was normal for guys to be attracted to other guys at some stage, but I always thought that was just an excuse to be gay.
I'd always been strictly attracted to women. The hours I had spent over the years fantasising about women, trying to hook up with them, watching straight porn, must be phenomenal.
And now, with just a month in isolation, I was salivating over some guys hard cock, imagining him spurting cum all over my face, watching his fucking cock waggle in his shorts!
There was no getting away from the fact that I was besotted by him. Every glance made me blush. Every movement made me hard. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw him cum.
What was I going to do?
Before I got too lost in existential panic, there was a pressing need that required attention first. As I pulled up to my shelter, I quickly unloaded the equipment before sitting down on my deck chair, listening to the frogs.
Unbuttoning my shorts, I released my aching hard-on, sliding my pants down to my ankles. I sat back breathing in the night air and closed my eyes, stroking slowly to the image of Neel's hard, ejaculating cock.
*********
The following morning, I once again raced home early, sneaking quietly into my room hoping to pass unnoticed by my sleeping housemate. I lay awake for an hour, waiting in rapt anticipation, hoping for a repeat show even though I knew it was impossible.
Why would he come back out again, knowing what he knew about me?
The first glimpse I had of him was as he walked past my window fully dressed and laden with his work gear, heading out for the day to his research site.
I sighed disappointedly and settled in for a long day without sleep.
Friday evening finally arrived, and I relished the chance to have some drinks and to try and forget my mortifying transgression.
Neel seemed in for a good night as well as we both hit the scotch with abandon. The conversation soon flowed freely, and it was as though nothing had really happened between us.
Before long, we were onto past relationships, and the women that had really screwed us over. I'd never really talked with him about what led to me coming out here, so he was surprised to hear my story of betrayal.
I could feel the alcohol loosening my tongue as I described finding her riding her trainer in our own bed.
"The worst part of all," I said, trying to ignore the thickness of my tongue, "was that as I came to the door, I saw what was happening before they saw me. I watched them for a minute or two, and to be honest, it was fucking hot. If the circumstances were different, I would have happily rubbed one out right there in the doorway.
"That's so fucked up, right? Imagine getting turned on by the biggest betrayal of your life!"
"Nah, I totally get it, man." Neel reassured me, patting my shoulder ruefully. "The body just has a mind of its own, right? We're really just slaves to some pretty primitive biology."
I glanced at him quickly to gauge his expression, but he simply took a swig of his drink and moved on to his own story.
"My story's not much better, I guess." Neel began, settling in for the tale. "I'd been dating this girl for around 3 months. She was a bit on the kinky side, liked to fuck in places we might get caught, that sort of thing. Even came to my lab one time wearing just high boots and a trench coat and let me fuck her in the supply closet.
"It was fucking hot, really. She was insatiable."
He was staring off into the distance as he spoke. A slight rounding of the consonants indicated the effects of the alcohol coursing through his system.
"Wasn't long before she suggested we do some sex tapes. Had all the standard chats about privacy and deleting them after, etc. etc. But you can see where this is going."
He glanced at me sideways, almost looking bashful as he continued.
"She was pretty good at setting up the camera angles. Obviously had done it before. Actually made me look pretty good overall, although her face never seemed to make it on camera.
"Then, one day we had a big fight. You know that kind of relationship-breaking, massive build-up, screaming match kind of fight. Turned out she had another boyfriend who liked to watch her fuck other dudes. She'd only been fucking me to please him. Been sending all the videos for him to watch. Even had him watch live a couple of times.
"We broke up there and then, of course. It was only a couple of months later that I found out he'd been posting all the videos to an Only Fans page. Found out from one of my work colleagues, mind you. He looked like he wanted to crawl into a hole as he told me.
"Spent a few months getting the videos taken down, but once they're out there, you know, they're never really gone. Always wonder who's seen them. Every time someone does a double take on the street walking past I'm pretty sure I know why."
He paused for a moment, sitting forward on the couch, looking into his empty glass. He turned and looked directly at me.
"It's sort of like you, though. I hated that lack of control, but again, the thought of other people getting off on me fucking someone, well...it kind of heats me up, you know?"
He stood up abruptly from the couch, adjusting himself as he did, hiding the obvious tenting in the front of his shorts.
"Time for another drink, I think, and a change of topic." He laughed. "This shit's getting a bit weird."
I said nothing as he walked over to the fridge, my foggy brain desperately trying not to picture him naked and fucking some chick. For once I was glad of the lack of internet, because there was no way I'd be able to stop myself searching for the videos.
He called back to me while pouring us both another scotch.
"So, how's the insect count going? Finding out anything exciting?"
Grateful for the distraction from the scene going on inside my mind, I leapt on the new topic.
"It's good and bad, really." I replied. "Good in that I'm finding out new things that I don't think have been demonstrated before, but bad because the new things aren't really good news."
"I guess not." He replied, returning to the couch. "Not much good news in biology these days, is there?"
"Yeah, it turns out that even here, about as far remote from human settlement as you can reasonably get in the country, we're still fucking up the insect population."
This felt much more natural, just discussing my work with someone who knew what I was talking about. He was interested in my findings and my opinions and was able to shed some light on some difficult problems I'd come across.
The evening passed by quickly, and the scotch vanished with equal speed.
By the time I got up to drag myself to bed, I stumbled and nearly fell back into his lap on the couch.
"Fuck me." I said, definitely slurring now. "Someone's tilted this floor on us. S'all uneven."
He laughed at me, slapping my arse as I walked away.
"Make sure you end up in the right room, ya filthy fucker!" he laughed after me as I stumbled down the hallway.