The summer after my first year at college I worked at a gym in a ritzy hotel in New York. I had the evening shift behind the desk, checking guests in and then closing the gym at midnight. After a few weeks I came to know some of the regulars. Daniel was one of them. He arrived at the gym late on Thursday night and was usually the last guest to leave before I closed up. On a couple of occasions we had chatted as he finished working out. He told me he lived in Miami and came to the city one day each week to meet with his New York clients.
I was chatting to him one Thursday night as he ran on the treadmill.
"How about coming up to my room for a drink after you've closed up?" he asked.
He wasn't the first guy to ask me up to his room. It happened quite often and I had a pat answer. "Thanks, but no," I said, "I have to be up early tomorrow."
He smiled at me. "You probably get asked that a lot," he said.
I smiled too. "Yes," I said.
"And most times what they really mean is sex, not a drink."
"I guess," I said.
"I should have been more honest," he said. "What if I asked you to come up to my room for sex? Would your answer be the same?"
I laughed. "Yes," I said, "but I appreciate your honesty." He laughed too.
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Next Thursday Daniel smiled at me as I checked him in. He asked me how my week had been; I asked him about his. Later, I stood talking to him when he was running on the treadmill.
"How about that drink?" he asked.
I laughed. "Got to get up early again."
"Pity," said. "I think we could have fun together."
"But I'm not gay," I said.
"Nor am I," he said. "But maybe we should make an exception for each other."
I was a little confused. "You're not gay?"
"No," said. "I love women. I mean, I've had sex with guys on a few occasions, but I don't think of myself as gay."
"What then? Bisexual?"
"Discerning. I like to have sex with pleasant attractive people. Like you."
"Flattery will get you nowhere," I said.
"It was worth a shot," he said, laughing again. "You don't mind if I keep asking, do you?"
"No," I said, "as long as you don't mind if I keep saying I've got to get up early."
"We've got a deal," he said.
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Next morning I managed to get a Skype connection with my girlfriend. The trouble is, Sharon isn't much of a girlfriend at the moment because she's spending the summer studying in Spain and Spain has a serious problem with internet connectivity. But today we got through and spent an hour or so chatting about what we were up to.
"So how's the gym going?" she asked. "Still getting hit on by creepy old guys?"
"Yep, still the same," I said. "But they're not all creepy. There's one guy who is trying to get me to come up to his room who is good-looking and seems nice."
"So what happened?"
"Each time he comes to the gym he asks me to come up to his room to have sex with him."
"So have you?"
"No! Of course not!" I exclaimed.
"Why not?" she asked. "If he's good-looking and nice . . ."
"Well, maybe the little fact that I'm not gay has something to do with it," I said.
"Having sex with him wouldn't make you gay, would it?" she asked. "Unless it was really really good and made you stop liking girls."
"And there's also the further fact that I'm going out with you," I said. "I'm not going to cheat on you."
"But it wouldn't be cheating if I said you could, would it?" she said. "And I give you permission to have sex with Mr. Good-Looking Nice Guy."
"His name is Daniel," I said, and immediately regretted it.
"So you're on first name terms," she said. "It's almost as though you're lovers already!"
"Stop teasing me!" I pleaded.
"Ok, ok!" she said. "Don't be so sensitive."
"I'm not being sensitive!" I said.
"Yes, you are," she said, "but I'll stop teasing you. And I would love to see you with another guy."
"What! Why?" was all I could say.
"Why does anything turn anyone on? But as you've been telling me about Daniel hitting on you, I've been getting very horny thinking about you and him together. So if you do it, make a video!"
I was silent.
"Dave?" she asked. "Are you still there?"
"Yes," I said.
"Did I shock you?" she asked.
"Maybe. A little," I said.
"You are so cute," she said. "And so shockable. You're adorable."
To my relief she then changed the subject. She told me she was going to the beach with some friends at the weekend, and how her roommate had persuaded her to buy a new bikini, and that she would send me some pictures, and how she missed me. Then she had to go to class and we hung up.
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Next Thursday evening I walked over to the treadmill where Daniel was running.
"So," he said, smiling at me.
"Go ahead," I said, "ask me."
"Would you like to come up to my room to have sex with me?"
"No," I said.
"Just no?" he asked. "Not, 'No, I have to get up early tomorrow'? I don't even get that excuse now?"
"No. I don't have to get up early tomorrow. And I would like to come up to your room. But for a drink, not sex."
"Really?" he asked. "That's great! Well, not as great as sex. But maybe when you get there you'll change your mind?"
"No," I said. "A drink. No sex."
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I closed up the gym and took the hotel elevator to the seventh floor. I knocked on Daniel's door and he answered wearing one of the white fluffy dressing gowns that the hotel provides for its guests.
He poured me some white wine, and I sat on the armchair across from the bed where he was reclining.
"So welcome to my lair, young man," he said. "Tell me why you changed your mind and came up for a drink."
"Well, I didn't see why I shouldn't come for a drink. You're a nice guy and I didn't see why I shouldn't. I thought I was being a bit stupid saying no."
"No, not stupid," he said. "But I'm glad you changed your mind."
And then I started telling him about my conversation with Sharon. Not the details of course, but just how she made me think I was being a bit boring and silly in saying no, and that she said that he sounded like a nice guy and why wouldn't I want to have a drink with him.
"She sounds like a very clever girl," he said. "How long have you been going out?"
I told him about Sharon and how we had met and how much fun she was.
"She sounds great," he said, and he told me about his wife and how he was crazy about her. And so I asked him whether he had told her about his thing for guys.
"Of course," he said. "She loves hearing about it. It turns her on."
"That's what Sharon said!" I exclaimed, then regretted it.
"What did she say?" Daniel asked.
"Well, nothing really. Just that she would get turned on by seeing me with a guy."
"So you discussed being with another guy? Anybody in particular?" he asked.
"No, no," I stammered, "we were just talking in the abstract."
He laughed again. "Sorry," he said. "I didn't mean to embarrass you."
"That's ok," I said, then made a big show of looking at my watch. "I better go," I said, and stood up.
Daniel got up from the bed and walked to the door. As he held the door open for me, the bulge in his dressing gown revealed that his cock was hard.
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"So how big was it?" Sharon asked a few days later when I managed to reach her when she got back from the beach.
"I don't know. I didn't see it," I said.
"Was it a big bulge, a small bulge?"
"It seemed fairly big, but I don't know."
"Details. In the future, get the details!" she said.
"There won't be any more details. Not about his cock, anyway," I said.
"Boring," she replied. "So tell me about Daniel. Is he nice?"
"Yes, he's nice."
"Describe him. What does he look like?"
"Why do you need to know?" I said. "He's just someone I had a drink with."
"David, stop being so dense! I want to know. Isn't that enough?"
So I told her. He's in his early forties; slim; his hair starting to show some grey; clean shaven; a handsome face; he has a nice laugh.
"Does he have a nice body?" she asked.
"I haven't seen it!" I said.
"Well maybe next time you have a drink you'll get a better idea," she said.
I changed the subject. "Talking of nice bodies, when am I going to get the pics of you in your new bikini?"
"Ah," she said. "I was waiting 'til we spoke so I could hear your reaction in real time. I'm sending them right now. Tell me when you get them."
They were amazing. The top of the bikini barely covered her nipples, and the panties were cut high on her hips.
"Beautiful," I said.
"You like then?" she asked.
"Very very exciting," I said, my cock hardening as I looked at her body.
"It's as small as you can get away with on the beaches around here. I got lots of attention."