It's not easy being a guard in the prison where your best friend is serving time on a drug rap. He had served three years and was now up for parole. He had a clean prison record and the promise of a job on the outside. It wouldn't pay as much as his old job at the auto plant, but it was a good job, provided by a football fan who remembered Lester Vernon as the star quarterback on our little town's high school team.
Lester was a "pretty boy" and his time in prison had not been pleasant. I was six four and 240 pounds and I had been able to protect him on the football field when Coach asked me to, but I had not been able to protect him from the inevitable fate of pretty boys in prison. He was probably going to get out soon and what happened would be history, unless it left scars too thick to heal. He was meeting with the parole board the next morning.
I stayed late that night and walked through Lester's cellblock. It was after lights out, but there was still enough dim light to see. I looked into his cell and Lester Vernon was bent over, steadying himself by holding the sink with both hands, taking a thick one right up the ass.
His cellmate was a big, heavy-hung, black guy and he'd been fucking Lester for over two years. Lester was grunting and positioning his ass to take it deep. Lester's erection was firm and bouncing up and down as he got fucked. As I watched, Lester groaned and had an orgasm, pumping a big load of white, stringy semen out onto the floor.
I turned and walked away before the black guy finished him off. I didn't want Lester to know that I had seen this humiliating thing happen to him. The guards watched prisoners fuck all the time, if it was consensual, and made jokes about it, but this was different. Lester had been my friend since high school and now I was in love with his wife.
The next afternoon, during a break, I walked out into the prison yard to speak with Lester. His meeting with the parole board had gone well that morning. Their report would probably be favorable.
It was obvious he was worried about what he was going to do when he got out. He began to ask me questions about his wife, Nancy Lee - questions about things that we had never talked about before. He asked for details about me fucking her.
"Tell me what she needs, Joe Bradley," Lester Vernon said. "I need to know. How often do you fuck her?"
He'd never asked me any of this before. Until now, he'd just wanted to be sure that I was "taking care" of her, so she wouldn't run around. Well, tell him the truth, I thought. No reason to lie about it now. He had asked me to fuck her because he knew she would need it and he didn't want her to become known as the town whore.
"I usually fuck her three nights a week," I said.
"How many times each night?" Lester asked.
"Usually twice, and if I stay overnight, once the next morning before I leave. And about once a month I spend the weekend at your place. We just stay naked and fuck the whole weekend. Your wife needs to get fucked a lot Lester."
"Does she come every time you fuck her?"
"Usually. Sometimes she comes twice," I said.
It was painful to tell him the truth. I put myself in his place and imagined how it must feel hearing a graphic description of your wife getting fucked, while you're locked up and helpless. But Lester Vernon wanted to hear about it now because he was worried about having sex with Nancy Lee when he got out. That's why he was asking me these questions.
Lester looked off toward the fence that bounded his world. "That's a lot of fucking," he said softy.
"Yeah," I said. "But it's good pussy Lester Vernon. Spectacular pussy. She's got muscles that grab your dick and hold it like strong hand."
Lester stood there thinking. I could almost see the porn video playing in his head with his wife in the starring role. He looked again at the fence that held him prisoner. "Look Joe Bradley," Lester said. "I've been getting fucked like a woman for three years. I just bend over and take it up the ass. That's the only way I come now. It's the only way I can get it up. I don't even jack off any more. I don't know if I can get it up to fuck her. How the hell am I gonna do it several nights a week?"
"You'll be okay Lester Vernon," I reassured him. "I've heard about a lot of guys who were forced to be punks in prison, but when they got out they could still fuck their women. Trust me. You'll be okay."
He just hung his head and looked at the ground. "I'm scared to death. Does Nancy Lee know that I'm getting fucked in the ass?"
Tell him the truth, I reminded myself. "Yes she does Lester. The prisoners' wives talk a lot in the waiting room on visitor's day. She knows what a "punk" is and what "marriage" is and what "carrying coal" is and she knows you've got a big black cellmate. She knows you had to do it to avoid getting gang raped."
"She thinks I'm a fag, doesn't she?"
"No Lester Vernon she does not think you are a fag."
"Is she afraid I might not be able to be her husband when I get out?" His voice was soft, almost trembling, as he asked.
Nancy Lee had talked about the humiliation and the pain that Lester was suffering in prison, but I had never heard her say she thought he might not be able to fuck her when he got out. I answered honestly.
"She has never said a word about that."
"You're going to have to help us Joe Bradley. You know that we can't do it alone."
I nodded. "I'll help any way I can."
"One more thing," he said.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Is it true that she went out to the parking lot at the Ranch with three guys and she was gonna fuck 'em?"
He had never asked about this before. It had happened over two years ago. I wasn't even sure he knew about it till now. That must have been the incident that caused him to ask me to fuck her.
"Yes it's true," I said.
"And you went out and got her and took her home?"
"Yes I did."
"She was gonna fuck 'em, wadn't she? All three of 'em!"
"Well, Lester Vernon, Nancy Lee was very drunk that night," I said.
"But she was horny and she was gonna fuck 'em, wadn't she? Right out in the open, in the parking lot where anybody who wanted to could watch?"
"Well ... Yeah ... I guess she was," I finally admitted.