Author's Note -
So, I've realized there's a benefit to writing erotic fiction. All my other...hobbies?...are now valuable uses of my freetime. Google Image searching
ESPN Body Issue
? Research. Related image searches for Colin Kapernick and Carlos Bocanegra? Research. Looking for bootleg copies of
The Joy of Gay Sex
? Research. Reading erotica and yaoi? Research. Watching porn? Research.
Thanks for helping me justify my research habits. ~ Dayne
Chapter 8 - Warming Up
I hurry down the hall to Cory's dorm suite, looking like my usual cute self in a polo-shirt and rolled-up jeans. I knock on his door and he calls that it's open.
When I walk in, he's sitting on the common room sofa with his laptop open on the coffee table. I don't even let him get a word in before I bounce onto the seat next to him and start in with my carefully rehearsed speech.
"So, we need to make leggings a thing. Or not even leggings, like a legging equivalent. By the way, you look hot in glasses. You should wear glasses more. You know there are some basic bitches who wear leggings when they really shouldn't. I could totally pull off leggings. We got manbuns. Manbuns are a thing. Your roomie, Fabio, totally has a manbun. It's cute. Leggings are like the next logical leap. Come on, man, leggings! Leeee-eeee-eeee-eeeeggiiii-iiii-iiii-iiiings." I grip his shoulders and shake him on each added syllable.
"How much coffee did you have?"
"Not enough," I say as I hang off his neck. "Oh, speaking of roommates. I know you said no. Well, your exact words were
Hell fucking no, Cumdumpster.
But I digress. Anyhow, I still think you should let me turn one of your roommates gay. Or at least partially gay. Just have to identify the most likely candidate. Maybe I should turn all of them. That would be fun."
Cory pinches the bridge of his nose and I hear a peal of laughter from the laptop. His entirely too bangable best friend is laughing his ass off in an open Skype window. "Your roommates are there, aren't they?" he asks.
"All of them."
I look up, the gloriously golden Al (he of the manbun) is in the kitchenette with a spoonful of cereal frozen mid-way between his bowl and his mouth. The other two, the very cute Romero and the darkly handsome Gio, are looking out from their respective rooms. I smile charmingly and wave. "Hi, guys."
"Hey, Preston," Keenan says. We've chatted via comments on Facebook, but this is the first time I've heard his voice and it's making me a little wet.
"Hey, Cutestuff."
"So, what are you calling Cory this week?"
"The Dread Pirate Blueballs," I say in my most dramatic and serious voice. Al chokes on a bite of cereal. My little pet names for Cory have become a thing now. Kiley, wonderful box-eating Kiley, even let me add it to the GSA minutes. Seriously. The words
Secretary Preston James Finnegan motions that Member Cory Frederick Card be known as The Dread Pirate Blueballs until otherwise decided
are on the record. It was quickly seconded and granted, despite Cory's objections.
"I have to hear this," Gio comes out and eagerly plops down in one of the armchairs. Cory told me about "Tex" and now that these three are in on my name game, I imagine that he regrets it.
"So, last Friday, we were at this party, see, and Blueballs has been chasing his TA all over the place."
"Professor Collins' TA?" Romero moves from the doorway, grabs one of the chairs from the breakfast bar and sits in it backwards. Hmmm...there's nothing hotter than manspreading.
"Yup."
"Wait, which one? Mike Tran or Indie Norman?"
"The tall one with blue hair."
"Seriously?"
"Yessir. So, our main man here manages to pin him down in Kiley's room."
Cory drops his face into his hands. "Could you not tell them this?"
"And they're
all
over each other."
"I was not all over him."
"Norman?" Romero asks in a disbelieving voice.
"Yep, turns out he has a ten-inch dick."
"That guy?"
"I wasn't exactly able to measure," Cory answers, his forehead resting on his fist like he's the thinker or something. His cheeks are an adorable shade of red. "But, he's hung like a horse."
Romero's face is stuck somewhere between awe and horror.
"So, yeah, Blueballs is facing off with the Asswrecker." The guys get a kick out of that. I think I have a small talent for these names. "But guess who ends up running off with his tail between his legs."
"No shit," says Keenan from the laptop.
"So, Cory struck out with Mr. Freeze." Damn, Gio isn't too bad with nicknames.
"Bitch is colder than Elsa," I confirm. "Poor guy is like
would you like to build a snowman?
and that ice queen is like
nope
!"
"Whatever. He probably had a reason," Cory says, bravely putting up a confident front despite the crushing rejection he suffered. My little trooper. I press his face to my bosom and stroke his hair. "It has nothing to do with me."
"Come on, Anna," I say soothingly. "Let's go bait bears at the gay bar."
Al looks confused. "Do I want to know what that means?"
"No," Cory answers, quickly cutting me off. "No, you don't."
***
I got all of a weekend to be bummed out about Indie. Just two days to feel sorry for myself.
Then I had my hands full with Efrain.
I've been hanging out with him a lot for the past few weeks. He says he likes chilling with me because I'm the only one who can pronounce his first name ("I told those assholes 'It's
Ef-RYE-een
, mother-fucker' but they still don't get it!"). I like his dark humor, and it doesn't hurt that Efrain is nice to look at.
Okay, "nice to look at" is understating it, the man is fucking hot as hell. Like ten times hotter than Indie. He's beautiful from top to bottom, and I'm a sucker for his eyes. He's all dark features and rugged lines, making his gaze - shifting somewhere between light green and gold - that much more striking.
Then, there's his mouth. The gods made that mouth, then wept that it would never touch the cocks of god or mortal. In my weaker moments, the way his mouth curves into that easy wolfish grin of his makes the blood rush to my groin.
And that part has become more of an issue lately. I know I'm just deluding himself, but since the Indie incident it feels like there has been more to the casual joking; more and more it feel like flirting. It wasn't even a gradual change. I guess getting shot down by Indie hit me harder than I let on. In any case, I'm pretty sure that Efrain wouldn't joke with me the same if he knew I like men. Yet whether or not he's aware of what he does to my head, the effect's the same. I can't stop thinking about him, which has led to my rising dilemma.
Efrain had already showered and changed after today's practice, yet lingered to joke around with Teague and Lithgow. This is fine most of the time, but I'm finding it harder to hide the way Efrain affects me, and sometimes the fact that we are in a room full of other guys changing in or out of their practice uniforms makes the effect stronger. His deep voice makes me flush enough; meeting his eyes, or remembering what he looks like under his clothes (sneaking a peek was the worst idea ever), will undo me.
I like Efrain, even in the platonic-not-trying-to-fuck-him sense, and I really ain't trying to fuck him. But, could he have some sense of self-preservation for fuck's sake?