Hey everybody. Yeah, it has been a while, I know. Been going through a few changes. Haven't been writing as much. I'm slowly working my way back to it. I've had a lot of emails about continuing this story. So, here it goes. There isn't as much sex in this one as there will be in the ones to follow. So, I apologize in advance for those who want to go straight to the sex.
As always, there is a lot of truth to this story and there is embellished truth. It's up to you to decide what's what.
And it'd be good to read "Fucking Away a Friendship" if you haven't or you might not get a couple of things in this story.
Until next time...peace. FL
Fucking Away a Friendship - Disclosure
Drew and I finally had the talk.
I mean, we'd been talking with each other for the past month, carrying on as if nothing was eating at our conscious. We always seemed to avoid that conversation. It was as if neither of us wanted to upset the other nor do anything to make the other uncomfortable. Our vibe was cool. And we're guys. Guys are like that, sometimes to a fault.
So one day Drew, Malia and I were running up to Coit Tower. On a clear San Francisco day, Coit tower offers one of the best views of the City. At night, it's a popular make out spot I've seen it all up there β sex, drugs, marriage proposals, fights and fights involving sex drugs and wedding proposals.
Our run started in Sausalito. We spanned the Golden Gate Bridge, coming down on Lombard Street. We stayed on Lombard the whole way β even ran on curves east of Hyde Street. Up and down we went until the final climb up Telegraph Hill to the circular parking lot.
Save for a couple of, "glass there! dog shit! pot hole!" yells it was mostly a silent run. We ran to the cement wall farthest from the tower and looked through the trees at the bay.
"OK, screw this," Malia said, breaking bit of silence. "You two need to talk! I'm tired of walking around on egg shells! I'm tired of not knowing what to say and when not to say it. This is driving me crazy. We need to deal with this, and we can't start dealing until you fuckers talk to each other about it! Mark, what's that stuff you always say, 'The ducking of communication rarely leads to resolution.' Well, both of you stop your damned ducking and talk! Drew. Drew! DREW! Don't you even think about coming home until you guys have talked."
Malia turned, ran across the parking lot and started down the hill. Drew and I stood the awkward stance, looking around, almost avoiding making eye contact.
"I got some more Giants tickets," he said. "You wanna go?"
Just like that.
Guys will be guys. Ask them to talk about solenoids and they won't have a damn clue what they are, yet they'll talk about them for two hours. Ask them to talk emotion, and they're like retracting turtles. They ease back in that shell, eyes on a swivel, trying to see if anybody notices their sprint to noncommittal.
Twenty minutes later we're at Pac Bell watching baseball.
Guys.
Middle of the fourth inning, Giants down 3-2 to the San Diego Padres, and Drew gets started.
"Dude, I'm sorry," he said. "I thought it would be different."
"Look man...," I started before he cut me off and proceeded to tell me 20 years worth of a history that I didn't know we had.
I never knew a one-sided conversation could be so strange, that it could evoke feelings of utter dismay. I wasn't angry. Wasn't happy either. It was disbelief wrapped in misunderstanding.
But it was Drew's story - rather stories. And from the middle of a major league baseball game and into the night at this little blues bar called Lou's, I listened.
Drew started his tale going back to our eighth grade formal dance. I'm sure you're looking at this screen and shaking your head now. Eighth grade? What the hell?
Imagine what I was doing. Anyway, Drew said that was the first time he noticed something different about his feelings toward me.
He put it out there, that it wasn't a gay thing, even though he said that he wondered for a bit if they were gay feelings. But they weren't, he didn't understand them at the time. All he knew is that there was something about the way girls reacted to me that he liked.
"You remember that 8th grade dance don't you?" he said. "Remember April, right? April ... what's her name? April? Short, big ol' titties on her? Madonna freak?"
"Yeah D, I remember April," I told him, shaking my head. "Why don't you remember her? April Marlowe. Ap-ril Maarrr-lowe. You took her to the damn thing."
"Oh. Yeah. Ok. Anyway, you danced with her the whole time. And I mean the whole damn time."
"Dude, I can't believe we're sitting here arguing about shit that happened in eighth fuckin' grade! Plus, Susan got the flu and couldn't go. And all your ass did was stand against the wall watching like a damn goof. April wanted to dance. So did I."
"C'mon now, can't you see that's what I'm getting to. I danced, what, two, maybe three songs. But it didn't matter. I had a better time watching you dance with April. Actually, it was watching April with you. Man, you were about as oblivious then as you are now. I don't know what kind of sexual shit April did or didn't do in eighth grade, but damn. I remember the look on her face as clear as if she were sitting right here. She was fuckin' floatin'. At first she just kind of watched you dance. I think she was amazed that you could dance as well as you do. You were in your own little world, like you are most of the time you dance. There was something about you that had her mesmerized. She smiled much of the time. When she wasn't smiling she had this odd look on her face that I didn't understand until a few years later β it was that look women give when their thinking lustful shit. And she was giving it then. I remember you spun around once and bumped into one of her boobs. You froze for an instant and apologized to her. And what did she do?
"Shit, I don't even remember," I lied. I did remember. She smiled and told me it was all right. No harm. That she was a tough girl. Then she laughed.
"I'll tell you what she fuckin' did," Drew said. "She smiled at you. Her eyes were wide and sparkling, her cheeks were pinchably puffy from the smile. Her right hand went up to cover her boob. She massaged it four times and then told you, still smiling mind you, still smiling, 'Maxwell, that's all right. It was really no harm. I'm a tough little girl. I can take it.' And you were almost satisfied with that. I say "almost" because you took a step back so you wouldn't touch her again. But, fuck, dude, every time you turned around or you spun around, April inched closer to you. She wanted you to "accidentally" bump into her again. We were in fuckin' eighth grade. I know she didn't know exactly what she was feeling, but she liked whatever it was, and she wanted more of it. And there I was standing behind the punch bowl table because I'd gotten a hard on watching April just melt into you. Dude if you were fucking then, you could've had April Fucking Marlowe right then. You could've fucked April Marlowe! After your mom dropped me off, I went straight to my bedroom and beat off with the look of April Marlowe's face on my mind. And you were the one who caused that look."
We talked more. Drew described similar school dances or high school parties. Much of it was like the eighth-grade dance episode. Then he started talking about college stuff.
By college we were both fucking. Correction: We were fucking a lot! Our freshman and sophomore years were spent in the horizontal position. Being a football player for our school, pussy was easy to come by (no pun intended). It seemed like every other girl wanted to be with a football player. And if they couldn't get with the player, his friend would do.
I wasn't a nationally known player, but I wasn't a slouch either. I was a second team all conference player, late round draftee who had a cup of tea in the league. People around campus definitely knew who I was. That knowledge had Drew and me going crazy with the girls. It's a wonder we didn't get diseases.
"Rachel Jones," Drew said, laughing.
I laughed along with him. Rachel was a total freak, would do just about anything, anywhere. And she let you know it, too.
"If I'm into you, you're into me," we both said, just cracking up.
That was Rachel's thing. She claimed she didn't sleep around with a lot of different guys. But the guys she did fuck, she fucked a lot.
Whatever.
Neither of us believed her, but she was just so damn fun to be around, even when Drew wasn't fucking her.
I never fucked Rachel. Don't get me wrong, I would have. But even back then, I had these weird morals or standards or whatever you want to call them. Rachel told me she wanted to fuck me, specifically because I was a football player.
I couldn't get with that. Even then I wanted, at least the illusion that the girls were into me, not my stature at the school. I wasn't stupid. I wasn't naΓ―ve about it. I knew that several of the girls I fucked did it because I was a ball player. But they didn't have to open their mouths about that. The fucking β at least in my mind - was about me and her not about her and her need for a football player. But Drew had no problem with why the girls wanted to fuck. He was just happy they wanted to fuck.
After Rachel and I had our little spat. She went to Drew and started asking a thousand questions about me. Drew later told me that Rachel was both shocked and awed that I wouldn't have sex with her for what she thought was a stupid reason β shocked because no guy had ever turned her down, yet awed because she thought there was something intriguing about that.
Drew told me one day what Rachel was scheming to try and make me jealous by screwing Drew and letting me know about it. We both laughed, but I could tell Drew had something for her. I just didn't know exactly what it was.