A series of stories about the pleasures of youth and the fun had during those glory yearsβ¦.
Story One β Elegantly Wasted
Toby had been one of the first guys I met when my family moved to Colorado. We had both gone out for and joined the football team my first year of school. He'd been just like one of the other guys.
I think it's safe to say that I liked him immediately. And our friendship had started from the first day of football practice.
But now Toby was different.
It had started with little things.
But even though Toby had become one of those guys who is mostly a loner, and who quickly gets pushed to the social fringes because of his eccentricities, we remained close friends throughout school, much to the surprise of everyone else.
The guys called him a stoner.
He stood out from the day to day surroundings of the backcountry. A person who looked like he would be a better fit in New York or Los Angeles. He dyed his blond hair blue.
Then there were the other whispers. You see the hair was only part of it. Toby didn't act like his fellow teammates. He smoked cigarettes like a chimneystack. He skipped out on classes to smoke pot. His regular friends weren't the other jocks on the team. He ran with the leather jacket wearing, dangerous looking crowd most people would ordinarily call bad elements. The girls he was seen with frequently were the kind that most people in polite society would call trash, along with the staple Goth chicks in leather.
The guys called him a fag.
But never to his face. Toby did not overtly act gay. Not that he acted like a straight jock either. He had his own signature style. He was a great football player, and that would have saved his rep with most of the guys anyway. But, frankly, some of the guys were nervous around him, because of the whispers. Even though everyone had seen him macking on girls at the football parties he did go to. Most girls I knew found him alluring. He was certainly handsome. And he was rugged and built from hours spent in the gym.
Toby was a heartbreaker.
It was like he lived some kind of weird, schizophrenic double lifestyle. Sometimes I wished that I had the courage to act so carefree. In reality, I knew that Toby and I might be friends, but I was far too constrained by my own social circle to live with such outward abandon.
I lived the life of the typical jock.
The Proposition
All this was running through my mind as I watched Toby walk up the other side of the street with a Latino girl on his arm. She was a rough looking character, and she was snapping her bubble gum and wearing his leather jacket. Toby rarely wore the letterman's jacket he got because of his position on the varsity squad. His outfit today consisted of a ripped up sleeveless shirt and leather pants. It never surprised me the kind of shit I would see him dressed in. As it had no sleeves, I noticed that he'd gotten a new tattoo of a dragon curled around his left bicep.
It looked pretty cool.
I was coming out of a store with some supplies that I'd picked up when Toby noticed me looking in his direction. He gave me a friendly little wave, and patted his girl on the ass, sending her into coffee shop with an open mouthed French kiss in front of God and everybody. Once he'd sent her inside he jogged over to where I was standing by my bike.
"Marc, my man," he asked, all shit-eating grin, "How's it goin?"
"Not too bad," I said, giving his proffered hand a manly shake, "Who's the girl?"
"Just some bitch I met," he said, dismissively, "She puts out, man, that's all I care about."
"Yeah, well," I said grinning at him, "What more do you want?"
"That's just my point," he said, guardedly, "I need to ask a favor, dude, and I knew you were the man to talk to."
"Oh?" I inquired, "What can I do for you?"
"I met this girl over in Fort Collins."
He paused then. It seemed like he wanted to say more, but he looked oddly shy for a second, and then looked away up the street.
"Tell me more, man," I said, encouragingly, "Don't leave me in suspense."
"Well," he said, slowly collecting his wits, "She's looking for a guy for her friend."
"Dude," I asked him, "Are we talking doubles here? As in date?"
"Something like that," he said nodding, and then leaning towards me conspiratorially he put his hand on my shoulder and said, "These bitches only come in pairs. Can't have one without the other and all that bullshit. Man, they want to try a foursome and I thought maybe you'd be the man to help us out."
"At the same time?" I asked lasciviously, "Don't worry, man. I've got your back. That's awesome."
He looked, well, a little relieved, like a guy who's nervous about something, but still figured he knew what the outcome would be.
"Christ, bro," I said, "I'm always up for that kind of shit."
"Well you and I've been friends for a while," he said, hitting me on the arm, "But not everyone's into that kind of shit. I figured you'd be the man."
"Yeah, I'm all over that," I said enthusiastically, "Happy to help a brutha out. What're we talking about?"
"Oh, they're hot man, they'reβ¦."
Toby started to give me the details, but a shout from his little Latin mama across the street brought him back to reality.
"Duty calls," he said shrugging, "Look. I'll call you in a couple days. Tell you all about it. So keep Friday night open man, okay?"
I nodded and with that he was off and back to the side of his woman. But, good as his word, he did call me up later and told me he'd gotten all the details taken care of. My date was to be a surprise, but he stressed that I wouldn't be disappointed. I was also to pick up a box of condoms for us for the evening. We agreed that we'd all meet up with the girls at one of the bars in Fort Collins that Friday night. Simple as pie.
The Bar
The air in room was thick and smoky.
I took a drag off my cigarette and then casually ashed it into the tacky green plastic ashtray that sat on the bar. I took a swig from my Corona at the same time.
I glanced around at the other bar patrons. Most of them were huddled around in small groups shooting the shit or trying to pick up women. There were also plenty of folks out on the dance floor, stomping around or slow dancing as the tempo of the music changed from time to time. It was country music mostly. The kind of stuff that I rarely ever listened to unless I was in a place like this.
We were all dressed pretty much the same, it being a sweltering night. I had on one of those muscle tank top shirts. I knew it showed off my upper body to its best advantage and called attention to my painted on jeans. Capping off my ensemble, such as it was, was my favorite black Stetson hat. Never got laid without it. Or at least I didn't used to back then.
The rest of the patrons were dressed much the same as myself, more or less. The women sought either to show off or to keep as cool as they possibly could. The men had much the same motives. The only one who'd shown up dressed any differently was Toby. He was dressed pretty much the same as everyone else, but he'd left off the hat and decided to go leather jacket cool instead.
My date was saying something to Toby, and that drew my attention back to the matter at hand.
Toby had been right, not that I'd ever doubted him for a moment. My date was a hot number. I love hot women. Especially when they have nice big tits hanging down in front of them like Marissa's did that night. Marissa was blonde. Very blonde, if you take my meaning. With all the baggage that phrase implies. So was her friend Viviane, Toby's date. But she was smoking fine. All tight curves. Luscious round ass and legs that never stopped.