It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this, you know there's nothing
Roxy Music ---- More Than This
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Anders and I had taken to studying together, late, at Sennwick Library, in the two hours or so before closing. It was quiet then, with few other students, just us, some exhausted TA's, proletarian scholars, and driven careerists.
I took a big table in my fave study spot, and settled in with my Political Geography text, a class that was more enjoyable than I had anticipated. Anders sauntered in, took the other chair, and put his backpack down quietly, in a mock display of not disturbing me. With a boyish grin, he slowly slid a Cool Mint Chocolate Cliff Bar towards me, knowing I liked just that flavor. I was again awestruck to find myself so thoroughly adored by this splendid and sweet natured young man, his tangled strawberry blond mane still damp from the locker room showers following wrestling practice.
He was wearing a navy blue quarter zip fleece I had given him, big, but still enhancing his thickly muscled chest, back, and wide shoulders. The zip all the way down, giving me a glimpse of his untrimmed rug of blondish chest hair. Fuck around he was hot.
We had only gotten closer since our recent road trip to the Delaware shore. The easy going silences more comfortable, the intuitive pleasing of each other more subtle and knowing, the glances freighted with meaning. It was all so great.
He fished out the dog-eared paperback copy of "Moby Dick" he was wading thru for a lit class, and we settled in, two undergrads studying late in the quiet library. Grif texted me:
GRIF: Come to my Satyr playpen! 8p Sat night, Caleb will join us for some adult play, as directed
Anders requested this on our trip; that the four of us get together for a boy romp at Grif's off campus digs. I got with Grif, and he made it happen with Caleb. I slid my phone over to Anders so he could read it.
"Whoa. OK. Yeah!" I got his lusty rapscallion butt pirate grin, a bit of bad boy under the wholesome mid-western varsity jock exterior.
"You wanna do this? For real? I have not responded to Griffin yet." I asked.
"Hell yeah. Let's go for it."
"OK then. I'll tell Grif we are onboard," and started texting.
ME: with Anders now, we are all the way in, what can we bring?
GRIF: two XL pies from Little River Pizza, four sixers Rolling Rock in bottles, cold, please
ME: ok, cool, we will be there, L&K
GRIF: awesome! GN!
Just like Grif to invite us over and ask me to bring pizzas and beer. He was always super generous with his weed, and an eager host, so it was still somewhat endearing. I showed this exchange to Anders, and he nodded eagerly. "I will cover the Rock; you get the pizzas."
"Cool. We can fish the GTI out of student parking and get all that before heading to Grif's place on Saturday." I said.
"Thanks Trav. For being so cool about this." Wide green eyes, brows up.
"Not a problem. I get to be with the three hottest dudes on campus, smoke some weed, eat pizza. Caleb will like you." I gave him my own butt pirate grin, and a complicit wink.
I looked around, making sure we could not be heard, and leaned closer. "Caleb's agenda is fairly narrow, He'll come in, drop trou, kick back on the sofa, and let the three of us worship him orally. He'll cum in the mouth of his choice, wipe off his dick, pull his jeans up and leave. The three of us can tear into each other every which way at that point. I'm not trying to put you off, just managing expectations."
Anders grinned, "Yeah, he's townie trade, I get it. It's all good. Thanks for looking out for me, Trav. You always do." I touched the tangled forest of blond fur on his thick forearm lightly with my fingertips, and we resumed our studies in comfortable silence right up to the closing of the library for the night.
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Saturday evening rolled around, and Anders and I were shopping in the Beer Barn out by the Interstate. I pushed the cart, Anders fished the Rolling Rock from the cold case. The Barn swarmed with students, including some of Ander's cool wrestling bros picking up a keg. We were just two more college boys buying suds for our Saturday night.
Next stop was Little River Pizza, also a Saturday night bedlam of students and townies. Dusty old pickups parked next to a privileged heard of student BMWs, Audis and Jeeps that had never carried even a spec of off road mud. I loaded our our pies into the covered hatch of the VW, in the futile hope that my still newish GTI would not reek of pepperoni and grease. Perchance to dream.
At Griffin's place I loaded all four sixers of Rock into Anders' arms, he reared back slightly to balance them, splendid biceps at work. The easy competence and grace of his masculine physicality sent me into a flush of the most abject hero worship. Dude could carry shit. No wonder his teammates called him 'Thor'.
Grif flung open his front door on the first ring. "Whoa. Hot college bros with beer and pizza! Get in here; I am fucking starving." His longish dark hair had been trimmed, still shaggy, and he was clean shaven for the first time in like, ever. He wore a deep pink polo with a 'Country Club of Mobile' logo. The clean up and the polo oddly enhanced his Bama bad boy aura, hellfire on a dimmer switch in eyes the color of Coca-Cola, a vibe of wicked adventure about him.
He greeted Anders with their jockish shoulder hug and fist bump routine. "Trav! Little spoon! Get in here!" He enveloped all of me, big hands on my ass. I huffed his magic Grif scent; weed, locker room shower soap, a hint of Jack Daniels. I got wood, in anticipation of our pending carnal interface.
"Hey, Grif, you look great! Thanks for hosting!" I said.
"Thanks for bringing Anders, and your own serene blond hotness." He mock bowed, always the clown.
The flat was freakishly clean and tidy, given that it was usualy a louche shit storm of weed fueled partying and lusty hook ups. His latest conquest was a godlike Latino varsity LAX player named Jose. Cairns of books on the table desk; an inexplicable mix of texts and literature. He was always on the Dean's List and majoring in economics, his easy academic prowess seemingly at odds with the white trash party boy image he cultivated with his somewhat dimmer bros on the varsity baseball team.
It was a warmish night, the glass sliders full open to the patio, with two lit Tiki torches, and four new plastic Adirondak chairs arranged in a tight circle, clearly to facilitate the outdoor smoking of weed. "You like the patio, Trav?" Grif shouted from the kitchen.
"Very much. Great night for us to enjoy it." I shouted back. I watched Grif and Anders in the tight galley kitchen, Anders putting the Rock in the fridge, Grif wolfing down two slices of pizza over the sink. They shared a history from before my tenure, and they were hot together.
"Sorry boys, I had to eat something. Busy day," Grif said. Caleb arrived, a little late, a little drunk. Anders stepped up and introduced himself to Caleb.
"Hi. Hugh Anders. Everyone calls me 'Anders'." handshake only.
"Caleb. Good to meet you. I've seen you around campus; I work on the grounds crew." Caleb said, looking Anders up and down. Cool, cool, be so cool, let the night implode; I pushed down an acid green twinge of jealousy.