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Real Slick
by Mister Harman (address withheld)
***
Slick's best friend is having trouble coming out of
the closet and it takes a while before he...
unloads... his secret on Slick. But Slick's not gay,
right? Right? (MM, MF, bi, voy, mast, oral, anal, rom)
***
Chapter 1
Neon signs flickered halfheartedly, dreaming neon
dreams of what it would be like to hang on a building
in Las Vegas. James parked the aging (his mother would
have been quick to point out that it had finished
aging and was now just waiting to die) Camaro outside
of the Café Jé. The place was one of those little
treasures of urban dining that crop up in towns where
the most touristy thing to do is tour the local
brewery and stare at the one interesting building.
Milwaukee offered little in the way of entertainment.
Which, in fact, probably explained the profusion of
bars. James looked around and spotted the familiar
face of his oldest friend. Where James was short and
skinny, his friend was tall, and built like a draft
horse: all strong muscle, well-defined, well-toned,
effortless. Where James was pale, his friend was
almost dark enough to be called olive-skinned. James
had a somewhat large nose that seemed to stand out
from his otherwise understated facial features, but
his friend's nose looked almost comically small on a
face with such powerful features.
James was a blonde, his friend had long black hair.
They shared a few tastes in common—denim jackets and
well-fitting jeans, a mutual love of Cinnabon and all
that sprang forth from Cinnabon, a penchant for
posters from nineteen-sixties sci-fi movies. Beyond
that, all they really shared was their first name.
There were those who suspected that they'd become
friends merely to confuse others.
James—James Larson, the short one, that is—reflected
fondly on how they had become friends. It wasn't
really a story either boy could ever tell. They tried
not to talk about it, even after nine years. Theirs
was the only friendship that had survived Jimmy's
moving to Milwaukee. The bigger boy had broken the
news to his smaller friend on their last day of middle
school. For a while, Larson had been angry. But he got
over it. They were still in the same state, at least,
and even if Fond Du Lac was going to be boring as hell
without James "Slick" Slickowski in it, he'd get by.
"Larson, you old jackass! There you are!" Slick stood
up and extended a hand to his friend, sending a cup of
coffee tumbling to the floor in the process. "Sorry I
missed the party yesterday," he said, ignoring the cup
in favor of apologizing properly. "I know you missed
me there."
James shrugged. "It was just my seventeenth birthday.
You didn't miss sixteen. Don't miss twenty-one and
you're fine."
"Can I send a cardboard cutout if I'm too busy? You'll
be too drunk to notice."
James stuck his tongue out. "Try it, Slick. Just try
it." he grabbed a bunch of napkins from next to the
forks and knives and started sopping up the spilled
coffee. Slick finally took notice of his mishap and
started helping.
"I got you a present, anyways. It's in my bag. It's
not much, but... y'know."
James smiled as they finished sopping up the spilled
coffee and he took a seat. A waitress was headed in
their general direction. "I'm glad you could come
today," James said. "I'm just feeling really... really
depressed lately. You always cheer me up."
Slick gestured as though to say "it's what I do", but
James shook his head. "No, I mean it. I don't know
what I'd do without you, Slick."
"James," Slick said after a moment, "I get the feeling
there's something you aren't telling me." He looked up
at the waitress, who had arrived and was tapping her
foot impatiently. "I'll have another coffee, and uh...
a mocha for him. You have to try the mochas, James,
they're killer."
The waitress wrote down the order and walked off, and
James sighed. "Yeah, Slick, you're right. There's
something I'm not telling you. You uh... you remember
Laura?"
Slick nodded. "Lemme guess. She left you? James, I
told you that girl was no good for you."
"You never met her, Slick. I would've been pretty
surprised if you had, because she... she didn't exist
in the first place." James suddenly regretted not
having a cup of coffee in front of him to sip coolly
at that particular moment. It would have hidden his
deep blush. "I've never actually had a girlfriend, per
se," James added.
"'Per se,'" Slick repeated. "Clarify."
James smirked and gestured lazily in Slick's
direction. "I dub thee Claire. There. I Claireified."
"Not the time for it, Jimmyboy."
James sighed. "I know. It's just that I'm about to
admit stuff, and I don't wanna." He looked up at his
friend, trying to pretend that his heart wasn't going
like a hyperactive jackhammer on crack. That's not an
easy thing to pretend. "I think the problem with the
idea of me having a girlfriend is kind of a manner
of... word choice. Well, choice of a part of a word.
Choice of... oh, dammit, Slick, I'm not good at this.
I don't... I'm not... oh, hell. This was a mistake,
Slick, I'm sorry."
He got up to leave, but Slick grabbed him by the
elbow, and when Slick grabs you by the anything, you
tend to stay right where Slick wants you. "Let go of
me, Slick."
Slick shook his head. "You, my friend, are a hard nut
to crack. But I intend to figure you out someday, and
this is something that I intend to figure out today.
You know I'm not going to laugh at you or disown you
or whatever it is that you're afraid of. Now sit down,
shut up, and start talking. Uh, without the shutting
up. You know what I meant."
James couldn't help grinning. If nothing else, Slick
was consistent. But he shook his head. "I'm sorry,
Slick. I'm just not ready. I thought I was ready to
tell you this, but I'm not. Please let me go."
Stubborn and obstinate though he may be, Slick knew he
didn't have the right to make James stay there. The
waitress arrived with James's mocha three minutes too
late.
...
James opened the car door, slipped inside, and drove
down the block. He turned right on Broadway, found an
empty spot over to the side of the road, pulled into
it, and turned off the car. He was already starting to
breathe in short, sharp breaths. The ragged edges of a
panic attack were brushing over him. He hadn't felt
this bad in... ever, really. Even when Jesse came to
him for that awful conversation, when he knew that it
was over, even then, he'd felt sadness, anger,
reluctance to listen, even a certain fear of what was
coming. But he hadn't panicked. So why should talking
to his best friend set him so on edge?
He pounded on the steering wheel as he realized that
tears were flooding his eyes. "No, dammit!" he cried,
but it was useless. He couldn't stop the tears now
that they were here. He let them come out, burying his
face in the malodorous faux-leather wheel. They came
for a long, long time. When the tears finally stopped,
he drove home with the radio on, losing himself in the
comforting uniformity of modern rap.
James stalked into the house, breezed past his mom,
and ducked into the shelter of his room. His laptop
was sitting open on his desk. A chat window was
bugging him for attention. Slick, reminding him that
if he needed to talk, there was always time to spare.
James didn't want to hear about it. He just sighed and
crawled into his bed, but the screen kept glowing and
glowing and glowing.
He got up and shut the computer, then locked his door
and returned to bed. Now that the panic was gone, he
just felt... empty. Empty and horny. The whole
incident had left him feeling very needy and extremely
unsatisfied. He thought about cruising for porn on the
web, but that window would be there, tormenting him.
He sighed, buried his face in his pillow, and
screamed.
...
James woke up in the dark. He had the vague impression
that he wasn't alone, but being facedown, he couldn't
tell for sure. He looked up. Slick was leaning against
the doorframe, idly twirling what had—probably—once
been a paperclip between thumb and forefinger.
Whatever it had been, it was a lock-pick now. He was
smiling roguishly.
"I figured you out, you know," he said. "What you were
trying to say at the café. I figured it out."
James flushed deep crimson and looked down at his
blue-jean-sheathed legs. He hadn't even taken his
shoes off before he collapsed. He kicked them off now,
and absently stripped away his jacket, tossing it off
the side of the bed. Slick laughed. "You're gay,
James."
He didn't bother denying it. Slick padded across the
thick carpet towards him, quietly closing the door
behind him, and took a seat on the bed, kicking off
his shoes. "You know," Slick said, leaning in
conspiratorially, "there's really nothing wrong with
that. In fact, I think I like you better this way than
as some boring old... straight guy."
James suddenly became very aware of just how nearby
Slick was. He could smell the other boy's sweat. He
couldn't help it. He felt his body responding to the
intimacy, and tried to cover it up, but Slick grabbed
him by the wrists. "Hardly, Jimmyboy. You're keeping
those hands where I can see them." He stripped off his
jacket and draped it over the chair by the desk. One
of his hands brushed lightly across James's forearm.
James fought down an urge to shudder at the touch.
Slick was grinning brightly now, and James was,
whether he wanted to be or not, completely alert as
his friend climbed up onto the bed, no longer content
just to sit on the edge. Now, Slick was kneeling next
to James. A moment later, that changed to straddling
James's waist. Slick knelt, with one knee on either
side of James, his torso straight upright, his eyes
fixed on James's. "Besides," he added, "if you cover
it up, how will I get to feel complimented?"
James opened his mouth to speak, but Slick leaned down
and placed one finger delicately over his friend's
lips. "Don't ruin it," he suggested. As he spoke, he
let his hips fall, and he was, rather abruptly,
sitting the full weight of his body on James's crotch.
James had the distinct impression of being struck by
lightning. He whimpered slightly against Slick's
finger on his lips, and Slick merely grinned and sat
back up, stripping his own shirt off and tossing it
away. He was built beautifully, and well-tanned.
"You know what's coming by now, don't you, Jimmyboy? I
bet you never thought I had it in me." Slick slid down
James's legs and his hands slid down James's chest and
stomach, and finally came to rest on James's zipper.
He pulled it down, opened up the front of James's
jeans, pulled them down. "I bet you never thought I
had this in me, either," he said, pulling down James's
underwear. James felt hands softly grasping his
erection. He let out a tiny gasp, and then he felt
Slick's mouth enveloping his cock, and a rush of
pleasure surged through his body...
...
James groaned and his eyes flew open as his orgasm
washed over him. For a moment, he had no idea where he
was, why he was facedown, and why he was no longer
getting a blowjob. Only the last question really held
any import at the moment, but then he realized that he
was wearing his jacket and his shoes. Which meant that
he hadn't woken up in the middle of the night and
taken them off. He felt the wetness of his own semen
on his stomach. The words "wet dream" drifted through
his mind and he squeezed his eyes shut and groaned
again, this time not in pleasure.
"How in the hell am I gonna tell him?" he asked
himself.
Chapter 2
Slick found himself confused by James's insistence on
mysteriousness. Generally, they'd been very open with
each other over the years. He went home irritable. It
was his general default reaction to not knowing
things.
Two days later, he was still irritable. James hadn't
responded to his gentle probing, and Slick was unhappy
about it. If he had a girlfriend, it wouldn't have
been so bad, but June always seemed to be the worst
month for that. The last time he got laid in the
summertime was the only time in his life that he'd
gotten laid in the summertime. So not only was he
irritable because of James, he was irritable because
he hadn't had a good screw in months.
Needless to say, this sort of bullshit could only go
on for so long. Slick hopped into the car and drove
out to James's house after the fifth unanswered call
to his friend's cell phone. Slick pulled into the
driveway and slammed the car door as he stepped out
onto the gravel. His shoes crunched softly across the
driveway, and he knocked on the front door. James's
mother answered it, clad in an apron and smiling
sweetly. She smelled vaguely of cookies.
"Oh, James," she said cheerily. "Jimmy is in his room.
I didn't know you were coming over."
"Neither did he," Slick replied, and Mrs. Larson
smiled.
"He'll be delighted to see you, then."
Slick nodded and headed for James's room. James was
clearly at the computer; it was quiet inside, save for
the occasional squeak of the chair that sat in front
of James's desk. Slick opened up the door.
James was seated in front of the computer. He was nude
from the waist down, with his hand in his crotch,
still in the middle of a stroke. As the door swung
wide, he turned and his eyes went wide just as he went
over the edge into orgasm.
Cum shot out of him, splattering onto his shirt with
the first spurt, splashing up onto the computer desk
with the second, and dribbling over his clenched
fingers in the third and fourth. Slick saw Mrs. Larson
moving in the kitchen down the hallway, and decided
that he should probably close the door. Besides, James
clearly had porn. Slick shut the door and leaned over
to get a better look at the screen. From the door, he
could see only a vague impression of bare skin and
thrusting.
As he got a better look, he was surprised, to say the
least. Two very naked young men were tangled together,
one penetrating the other, on the screen. James had
earbuds plugged into the computer. Only one was in his
ear, and from the one dangling free emerged the sounds
of grunts and groans of pleasure. A particularly loud
groan accompanied the sight of a copious ejaculation
from the man being penetrated. His partner came a
moment later, pulling out in the process, spraying
semen all over his ass.
James stared at Slick, panic in his eyes. "Oh, Lord,
Slick... I... I didn't mean for you to... oh God..."
Slick shook his head. This was unreal. Then again, it
answered a few questions. "This is what you were
trying to tell me the other day, isn't it, Jimmy?"
James turned the most spectacular shade of red that
Slick had seen in a week and stared down at his feet,
pointedly ignoring his slowly withering erection.
"Not... not exactly. Or... not all of it. It's not
just that I'm... gay. It's that... that... uh..."
Slick sat down on the bed and kicked a pair of pants
in James's general direction. "Take your time. But
tell me."
James glanced back at the computer. The two men on the
screen were frozen in a post-coital embrace. James
slipped his left leg into the pants and sighed loudly.
"I'm... Slick... I think I'm in love with you."
He heard Slick get off the bed behind him, heard
footsteps padding across the carpet to the door, heard
the mechanism click in the door. James squeezed his
eyes shut and listened to the pounding of the blood
vessels in his ears.
"In love, James?"
James looked up. Slick's hand wasn't on the doorknob.
It was on the lock.
"I asked you a question, James. You're in love with
me?"
James tried to recover what little dignity was left to
him. There was depressingly little of it. His pants
slid back down his leg. He kicked them away. "I'm
sorry, Slick. I shouldn't have said anything." He
turned the chair around. "You should probably leave."
"I'm not doing that, James." More footsteps on the
carpet, and James felt Slick's hand on his shoulder.
The hand moved, and there was some shuffling sound,
and James saw Slick's jacket land unceremoniously on
the bed. "Tell me about it, James."
James shook his head. His flush deepened. He looked as
though he would soon have blood nowhere but in his
face. But he complied. "I dreamed about you the other
night. It wasn't the first time. I... I dream about
you a lot. I dream that we're making love, I dream
that you're just... just holding me. I catch myself
thinking about you all the time. I know you don't want
me. I know it, and it's stupid..." now tears were
running down his cheeks, and he sniffled. "But I can't
help it," he finished lamely.
Slick sighed reached out to take James's hand. It was
still pretty slimey. Slick ignored it. It wasn't a
state his own hands had never achieved. He pulled
James over to the bed, the smaller boy's body
convulsing with his sobs. He hugged him tight,
whispering comforting words that meant nothing.
Nothing he could say would fix this. He felt a brief,
irrational, and unfulfillable desire to rail against
fate for making him do this to his friend simply by
making him straight.
"James. James, I wish... I wish I knew what to say to
you. I really do. Is there anything I can do?"
James shook his head, drying his tears as well as he
could, fighting back the sobbing. "No, I'm sorry... I
shouldn't have... I just didn't... oh... oh hell."
Slick was never sure afterwards exactly why he did it.
He had intended it to be a sort of a farewell gesture,
a parting gift, or at least something along those
lines. But beyond that, it was just an instinctive
response to James's body crushed against his own,
wracked with sobs and cold with sweat born of equal
parts fear and humiliation. He kissed James gently on
the lips, and the other boy responded to the gesture
with surprise, and then quiet resignation. Slick
pulled back from the kiss and let his hand drift up to
brush a tear from James's cheek. "It's gonna be all
right, James. Really, it is."
James swallowed hard, nodded. He opened his mouth to
speak, but no words came out. He closed his mouth
again, sagging against Slick's body and casting his
eyes back downwards. Slick's hand glided down James's
face to lift him up by the chin. "You're going to be
all right, James."
James managed a feeble smile this time, and he looked
so hopeful, and so sweetly innocent that before Slick
really had time to analyze his own actions, he had
plunged into another kiss, longer, more tender. He
felt James's hand drifting up his back, and damned if
he didn't like it. James's tongue flicked across
Slick's lips, and Slick let it into his mouth, trying
to hook his tongue on James's.
James's hands slid down Slick's sides, roaming around
his hips. Slick felt his body stirring, responding to
James's exploration. He pushed James back onto the
bed, straddling him, unwittingly echoing James's
dream. He kicked his shoes off, and they clumped to
the floor one at a time. Slick kissed James more
deeply, more intensely, and pushed the boy down onto
the pillow and the blankets, and Slick's own denim
jacket, forgotten by now.
Slick's hands wormed their way under James's shirt and
pulled it off, tossing it aside. He was silent,
stopping his kisses only to let James pull his own
shirt off and toss it away. James's hands wandered
down Slick's torso and unbuttoned his jeans, pulled
down his zipper. Slick wriggled his way out of his
pants, leaving him in only his boxers and a pair of
white athletic socks.
His hard penis had slipped out of the fly, about an
inch of engorged flesh visible and tantalizing in
front of James's eyes. James reached out and gripped
Slick's glans with his left hand while his right
pulled the back of Slick's boxers down. Slick gasped
sharply.
"Slick..."
"Shut up, James."
Slick pulled James's hand away from his member and
pushed his boxers down, ignoring his socks. He ground
his erection against James's, letting their tongues
tangle again in the wordless, meaningless language of
lovers.
James reached between them, grabbed both of their
cocks in one hand, and began masturbating them
together. Slick let out a long, low groan that turned
into a growl as he started thrusting into James's
hand, and the motion of his manhood against James's
own set off a cascade of sensation in both of them.
They began thrusting in unison, savoring the feeling
of each other's bodies as they made love.
"God, James," Slick whispered, rushing to force the
words out between deep gasps for air. He shuddered,
pre-cum flowing from his penis. James's penis felt
warm and damp against him, and he thrust faster,
provoking a low groan from James that swelled into a
louder gasp and a muffled cry of ecstasy. James's
penis throbbed against Slick's, pumping cum out onto
his chest, and the sensation was just enough to push
Slick over the edge.
Slick kissed James with nigh-brutal passion as his own
cum rushed out to join his lover's. He sagged against
James and groaned in pleasure.
Chapter 3
Slick stirred after a few moments, looking down into
James's eyes. He opened his mouth to speak, but no
words came.
"Slick, that was... oh God, Slick. That was
incredible."
Slick stared down at James, looked over his body, as
though he wasn't quite convinced that they were both
covered in their mingled semen. "James," he said after
a few moments' contemplation, "that was... I shouldn't
have done that. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done
that."
James laughed. It sounded forced. "As far as I'm
concerned, Slick, you have nothing to apologize for.
That was the best it's felt for me in a long, long
time."
Slick glanced over at the computer screen. It had gone
to screensaver. A starfield, zipping past at warp
speed, concealed the two lovers that Slick knew were
still frozen together on the screen.
"No, James, I can't..." now the tears came to Slick's
face instead of James's. "I'm not gay, James. I'm not.
I'm not gay." each time he repeated his insistence, he
seemed to grow less convinced. Slick slid away, off
the bed. James sat up. "James, please... just... I
need a towel." Slick's head fell to rest on his
upturned palms as he sat heavily on James's chair. He
drew in a long breath, and it came out in a ragged,
extended half-sob.
James's smile fell and he slid off the bed himself. He
grabbed a towel that was hanging on his closet's
doorknob and tossed it to Slick. Slick began to wipe
the semen from his abdomen, paying the task far more
attention than it required. His arm bumped the desk,
and James's little wireless mouse fell to the floor.
The battery compartment popped open when it impacted,
but the second the mouse moved, the screensaver
blinked away, and there were the two lovers. Slick
flinched at the sight and turned away, scrubbing
harder at his stomach. By the time he was done
cleaning up, the laptop had gone to screensaver again.
He tossed the towel to James.
"Get cleaned up," he said. "and put some pants on."
James nodded mutely. Slick's voice was quiet, tinted
with an anger that James had never heard before. "Do
you have any soda in the fridge?"
James nodded. "Yeah, we have Coke."
"Good," Slick said. He grabbed his pants from the
floor and stared blankly at them. James tossed him his
boxers. Slick, in turn, tossed James an angry look. It
seemed that acknowledging what they had just done was
forbidden. Slick pulled his boxers on, pulled his
pants on, found his shirt and put that on. "Do you
want a soda while I'm in there?"
James nodded. "Yeah. Thanks."
Slick slipped out the door and padded down the
hallway, only half-aware of where he was going. He
found Mrs. Larson in the kitchen, pulling dishes out
of the dishwasher and stacking them in the cupboard.
"Hello James," she said. "Will you be staying
overnight tonight?"
Slick tried not to let how horrifying the question was
show on his face. Judging from the frown that appeared
on Mrs. Larson's face, he was pretty sure he'd failed.
"I don't think so, ma'am," Slick mumbled. "I have
plans at home tomorrow."
She nodded, and turned slowly back to her dishes.
Slick opened the refrigerator and pulled out a pair of
Cokes, but before he could turn to leave, Mrs. Larson
spoke up again, more softly this time. "Are you all
right, dear? You look... well, you look a little pale.
Are you feeling okay?"
Slick considered for a moment. The answer, of course,
was no, but whether or not letting her know that was
the right decision was up for debate, to say the
least. Letting her know why was simply unthinkable.
"Yeah," he lied. "I'm fine. Just... I could probably
go for a sandwich, I guess. Or something. Maybe James
and I will make a pizza. I don't know." He glanced
over at the oven, feeling Mrs. Larson's eyes drilling
holes in his head.
He didn't move for a few, uncomfortable seconds.
Finally, he ripped his eyes away from the oven and
fled as calmly as he could to the hallway. He slipped
into James's room. James was sitting at the foot of
the bed, wearing a pair of blue jeans and precious
little else. Slick pointedly ignored James's bare
chest. Any other day, he probably would have noted,
maybe even commented on it.
James had been working out, Slick was fairly sure of
it. Now, any thought about the fact that James even
had a body to be seen brought blood rushing to Slick's
face. Whether it was rage or mortification was
anybody's guess, Slick included. He guessed it might
be equally divided between the two. He handed James
one Coke and put the other on the desk. He didn't open
it.
"Was there anything you wanted to do?" James asked
quietly.
Slick stared at him. He felt the muscles in his back
knotting up, screaming for him to do something,
anything. Finally, he leapt to his feet and felt a
strangled cry of anger break out of his mouth. His
hand was cocked back, ready to deliver a powerful
blow. The fact that James flinched was probably all
that saved him from losing teeth. Slick stopped and
stared down at James. He shook his head. "No. I'm
sorry, no. No."
Slick turned and walked out the door, back out through
the kitchen. Mrs. Larson looked up as he passed.
"James?"
"I think you were right after all," he said. "I'm
feeling kinda sick." He hurried out the front door and
across the driveway to his car. He opened it up,
stepped inside, and reached into his pocket for the
keys. They weren't there. He thought for a moment,
wondering where they were, then groaned as he realized
that they were in the pocket of his jacket. Something
tapped at the passenger side window. Slick looked up.
James was holding his coat up in front of the window.
There were tears in his eyes again. Slick moved to
open the door, to let James into the car, maybe even
talk to him, but James stood up straight, dropped the
jacket on the roof, turned on his heel, and walked
back to the house. Slick squeezed his eyes shut and
fought down an urge to ram his fist into the horn.
He stepped out of the car and dragged his coat across
the roof and into the car. He pulled out his keys,
turned on the car, drew in a deep, shuddering breath,
and pulled out of the driveway.
Whether or not he would ever come back, he didn't
know. He didn't even know if he wanted to.
...
James watched Slick pull out of the driveway from the
window in the living room. Slick's tires kicked up a
spray of gravel, he accelerated so fast out of the
driveway. James shuddered and turned away from the
window. When Slick had almost hit him, he'd almost
felt he deserved it. What he couldn't piece together
was why.
There shouldn't be any reason for Slick to be angry at
him. James, after all, hadn't done anything to provoke
Slick's advances. Hell, he'd suggested that Slick
should go. Slick must have intended what happened, on
some level. The moment James had made his confession,
Slick had locked the door. You don't lock a door if
you don't want to keep what happens behind it a
secret.
James pounded a clenched fist into his leg. This was
wrong. It shouldn't have happened this way.
...
When Slick arrived at home, he was still trembling a
little bit. He went to his room and closed the door
behind him. His father looked up as he passed and said
something, but Slick didn't bother to stop and listen.
It couldn't matter all that much, anyways. His father
was sitting on the couch, watching football, after
all. Recorded football, no less.
Slick sat on the end of his bed, giving in to the
tremors that were trying to shake him apart. He lay
back after a while, and stared at the ceiling. Slowly,
the shaking stopped, and Slick gradually fell into
sleep. Either he didn't dream at all, or he couldn't
remember it.
All he did remember was waking up in the morning,
feeling dirty and greasy and slimy. He left his room
and grabbed a towel, then went back into his room and
went through his dresser, pulling out a set of
clothes. If it didn't quite match, he didn't notice.
He was only just stopping shy of choosing his clothes
deliberately for mismatch. If someone noticed that he
seemed too well-coordinated today, he reasoned, he
might not be able to handle it.
A well-coordinated outfit on a boy his age, after all,
was as clear a signal as wearing jeans cut for a girl,
or a belt that was anything but black or brown. Slick
tried to pretend that he didn't feel like he was
wearing a neon sign announcing that he'd fucked his
best friend the day before. He entered the bathroom,
simultaneously furtive and almost painfully
nonchalant. He locked the door. He always locked the
door, or else his little sister was nearly guaranteed
to pop in while he was in the shower and pull some
annoying little stunt or another.
Once, when he was eleven and she was seven, she had
had a disposable camera and decided that it would be
funny to sneak in and snap a picture of Slick in the
shower. He'd barely prevented her from showing the
picture around school. She wasn't that bad anymore,
but she was liable to burst in and start washing her
face with all the hot water she could pull out of the
sink, or if she felt particularly mean-spirited,
simply flush the toilet and leave—or worse yet, sit
against the door with an issue of Cosmopolitan,
waiting for the water to get so cold that he begged
her to leave so he could get out.
Slick turned on the water and, without a moment's
hesitation, cranked the heat as far as it would go. He
stripped down and stepped into the shower. The water
hurt when it hit his skin, but he clenched his jaw and
plunged in again, closing the little stall's door
behind him. He pulled out the shampoo and soaped up
his hair, rinsed it out, and washed it again. He
pulled the washcloth down from where it was slung over
the door and poured soap into it until he felt the
soap soaking through to his hand.
He scrubbed his entire body, head to toe. He had to
resist the temptation to scrub out the inside of his
mouth. By the time he was finished, he felt like he'd
been scrubbed raw, and he was red not only from the
heat of the water, but from the vigor of his own
scrubbing. Slick leaned back against one of the walls
of his tiny, rainy world.
Clean. He felt clean, at last. He sank to the floor,
crouching in the fiercely hot stream. More than clean,
he felt like he could believe his assertion of the
previous day again. He was straight. He had had sex
with girls. Plenty of girls.
He recalled Melinda Becket, his first. She'd been hot,
and she'd wanted him bad. As he thought of the
sensation of driving himself into her pussy, his
member swelled. He reached down to stroke it, shifting
to sit cross-legged on the floor. He grabbed the body
wash from where he'd left it on the floor and dribbled
some into his palm, reflecting on his vivid memories
of Melinda. How tight and warm she'd been, how she'd
pushed him down on his back and impaled herself on
him.
Slick's hand closed over his cock and squished the
body wash around. He pumped it up and down his shaft,
closing his eyes and drifting into memory. He was
thirteen again, in his head, lying back in Scott
Hertsen's bedroom, or perhaps Scott's parent's room.
Melinda was sitting on top of him, straddling his
waist and slowly lowering her inviting pussy down onto
his meat.
As he entered a girl for the first time, his hand sped
up on his cock. She lowered herself down on him,
taking his shaft deep into the recesses of her vagina.
He thrust gently into her, unable to gain much
leverage lying on his back. Her hands wandered over
his chest as she started bouncing up and down on him.
Slick's cock throbbed in his hand. He noticed that his
other hand was stroking his chest. He thrust into his
hand and cast his mind back to the bedroom.
Melinda bobbed slowly up and down on his cock, letting
out a sigh that swelled into a moan as she milked his
body for pleasure as well as semen. He thrust up into
her, and she gasped. He thrust again, and was rewarded
with another gasp, and another, and then, suddenly,
she cried out and her pussy clamped down on him, her
orgasm rippling along his member until he let out a
cry to echo hers and thrust deep into her.
His hand sped up and a wave of pleasure washed across
Slick's pelvis as he thought about the first time he'd
had sex. But he had never taken very long back then.
He thought about another time, when he'd been more
experienced, and forced himself to slow down his hand.
Lucy lay back on the bed, waiting for him, inviting
him in with her legs spread wide. He crawled between
her legs and lowered his cock down to her labia. He
grabbed it and ran it over her clit. She sucked in a
sharp breath and told him to stop teasing her. He was
only too happy to acquiesce, and pushed into her cunt,
thrusting as deep as he could with one fast stroke.
She groaned underneath him as his hand sped up on his
tingling cock, and he thrust mercilessly into her.
Lucy's breathing sped up, and Slick thrust hard, fast,
breathing hard. Her legs wrapped around his waist and
he pulled her into a sitting position, still thrusting
deep into her. Her first orgasm struck as he pushed as
deep as he could, rippling rhythmic contractions down
his member, and setting him grunting in pleasure and
thrusting faster.
Slick's hand pumped faster at his cock, and he thrust
hard into it as he concentrated on how it had felt to
thrust, almost exactly from the same position as he
was in now, into Lucy's eager vagina. She gasped and
rolled her hips on his thrusting manhood, pressing her
lips to his. He pushed into the kiss, thrusting faster
and faster and faster, setting off a second orgasm
that gripped his penis and sent him into his own
orgasm. He groaned as he pumped his spunk up into her
vagina, down across James's stomach, in a powerful,
incredible jet that leapt from his hand and splattered
against the wall of the stall.
A second jet joined it, hitting lower on the wall, and
a third rushed out just to his feet. The fourth spurt
oozed down his fingers and left him shuddering and
cursing as the image of James's chest collecting blast
after blast of his semen lingered in his head. He
remembered looking up into James's face as James
finished his own orgasm, groaning beneath him, his
cock still throbbing against Slick's.
Slick thought about the feeling of power he'd had,
controlling, touching off James's orgasm. He had held
James in his fingers, molding his actions. Slick's
penis refused to go down. Slowly, his hand sped up
again, and flashes of his experience with James roamed
through his mind. James thrust up against him, his
cock sliding against Slick's. Slick bore down hard on
James's pelvis, grinding hard into his friend.
James's penis throbbed with his orgasm. James's penis
slowly grew hard against Slick's body as Slick pushed
him down onto the bed. Slick's hand sped up. He gasped
as James fondled his glans before his boxers were even
off. James's penis pumped out semen onto his chest,
spraying and convulsing. Slick thrust in long strokes,
massaging as much pleasure as he could out of James.
James's feet wandered along Slick's calves as they
both thrust against each other...
Slick bit off the ragged end of a shout as his cock
jerked and jumped in his hand, letting loose another
powerful jet of cum that landed on the floor just
beyond his feet, coated his heels, covered his hand.
He shuddered and let the slowly cooling water sheet
down his back.
Chapter 4
When Slick left the bathroom, his sister was outside
the door, glaring at it. "Oh," she said. "Are you
finally done jerking off? Is it safe to go in now?"
She waited only long enough to confirm that he was
blushing bright red before she brushed past him into
the bathroom and slammed the door shut and locked it
behind her. Slick rushed to his room and tossed
himself onto his bed. What could it mean? At the
penultimate moment, his fantasy had shifted
irresistibly to James. That would have been bad
enough, but thinking about it, he'd masturbated to
orgasm a second time, not even bothering to steer his
thoughts towards girls.
"I just need a girl, that's all," Slick mused to the
ceiling. "Just need to get my rocks off the right
way." He thought about the various phone numbers that
he kept in his drawer for just such an emergency.
Well, okay, maybe not this exact emergency, but the
need for a good screw, in any case. He could call
Melinda, if he wanted to. She still enjoyed getting
together with him once in a while. But she did that
thing where she pinched his ass. He didn't feel like
getting his ass assaulted today. Too near to the cause
of his worry for his mind.
He could call any one of the girls whose numbers he
had—there were at least a half-dozen of them—but maybe
that was the problem. Maybe he needed to go out and
get a girl. Slick stood up, found his shoes, and was
halfway to the door when he spotted himself in the
mirror. Flannel shirt, blue slacks. The first word
that popped into his head was not "fuckable". It was
more like "mentally impaired". He sighed and went back
to his room. He got rid of the flannel, stripped out
of the slacks, and thought for a moment.
"Jesus, James! Close the door if you're gonna be
hangin' your ass out all over the place!" His sister
slammed his door shut. Apparently, he thought wryly,
the bathroom was free again.
"Screw you too, Katie!" he shouted after her. She
didn't reply. Slick shrugged and pulled out a pair of
cargo shorts and a t-shirt with a band logo on it. The
band hadn't been on tour in at least a decade. He put
on his clothes, grabbed his jacket from where it sat
on his bed, and glanced out the window. It didn't look
too hot out there. He'd be perfectly fine wearing the
jacket, which was good, because the jacket made him
look good. He headed out the door and elected to walk
instead of driving. That much more time to think,
after all.
The baristas at the nearest Starbucks were, for the
most part, pretty cute. But they weren't fantastically
hot or anything like that, and Slick felt like getting
his mind blown today. After all, the mind and the body
must live together. So he went further into the city,
and finally settled on going down to the lakefront. It
was Saturday, the Calatrava should be open if he
wanted to cool off—and blow a few bucks—the beach
would be full if he wanted to try the bikini circuit.
He might manage both.
Slick hopped a bus for the ten blocks down to the art
museum and headed for the weirdest building in town.
The tourists were out in full force today, he mused.
All seven of them. The no-money beach lovers would be
down by the lake already. He headed for the sand.
There was always one idiot ruining the lake on a day
like this by trying to pretend it could be surfed on.
Today, the patented Milwaukee Idiot was wearing a
wetsuit and wielding a white surfboard. He was
familiar. Probably the same idiot that tried to surf
when the weather turned stormy. He looked rather
disappointed today. Passing cargo ships made his head
pop up until he realized that they probably wouldn't
be creating a decent enough wave to knock over a
toddler, let alone surf on. Slick ignored him and
walked on.
A gaggle of girls—the kind of bleach-blonde wannabe-
clones that populated high schools and might be more
properly called a flock—gave him an intense and
evaluating look as he passed. The whole time, they
never broke off their chatter. None of them were worth
the effort it would take to get them alone.
Slick had already chosen his first target, anyways. A
little ways down the beach, two guys absorbed in a
contest of who-can-throw-the-biggest-thing-into-the-
lake were completely oblivious to the fact that they
were being watched, intently, by a leggy brunette who
wasn't wearing her bikini so much as trying
desperately to convince people that she had
accidentally put it on when she left for the beach.
Slick walked up to her.
"Ten bucks says the tall one brains his buddy with the
next stick," he offered. "Not on purpose, of course.
But he'll still laugh about it."
"Too late," the Brunette replied. "Only it was the
short one. About five minutes ago." She waggled her
thumb in a generally southern direction. "They were
down that way when it happened. The tall one wound up
in the drink."
"So I'd guess you're watching the short one so
carefully, then. He probably smells a lot better."
"What," she said, "you staking your claim or
something?"
Slick fought a losing battle against a rather
insistent need to blush and stammered, "N... no. I
was... I was just making conversation."
"Oh, relax," the Brunette said. "I'm teasing you.
Siddown, relax. My name's Jessica, but you can call me
Jess."
She stuck out her right hand and Slick shook it.
"Slick. Well, James Slickowski, if you wanna get all
technical about it, but I don't."
Jess chuckled. "Ooh, last name, getting' all fancy on
me. Next thing you know we'll be adding titles."
"Call me Doctor S, please," Slick laughed. He looked
around. Now or never. "You know, really, I mostly just
came over here to ask if I could buy you a soda or
something. I mean, pretty girl like you, I'd have to
be crazy or gay not to want to be seen with you."
Jess gave him a grin that looked a little bit
predatory. "I'd be delighted, Slick. Or should I call
you Doc?" She rose to her feet, shaking her head so
that her hair bounced cheerily across her breasts.
Slick had the feeling that if she did that too often,
her hair might brush away her bikini top. "And I'm
thirsty," she added, "so there's that to consider. You
just have good timing, Doc."
Slick shrugged. "I don't know about that. I think
maybe I'm just attractive."
Jess laughed. "That too," she said.
He led her to the nearest restaraunt-type
establishment, a burger stand that seemed to only have
tables on the outside.
Jess took a seat at one of the tables and glanced over
the menu. "Get me a Pepsi," she said.
Slick spent the next five minutes in line. There was a
time when a guy could walk up to a girl and just say,
"hey, you wanna go fuck?" but Slick didn't feel like
waiting for the next drunken party, so he had to play
the ridiculous little game.
The guy behind the counter looked very bored with his
job. Considering that the last few people to come
through had been girls whose main reason for existence
seemed to be breast support, Slick began formulating a
theory that the guy was actually a recent addition to
the ranks of the undead. That or lakefront fast-food
work was even more soul-sucking than its inland
counterpart. The two were probably about equally
likely.
Slick ordered two Pepsis. He wasn't really all that
thirsty, but what the hell. He had to have something
to do while he pretended to pretend not to stare at
Jess's chest. The food-zombie handed over the drinks,
grunted something that was either a deeply
unenthusiastic version of have-a-nice-day or else a
quiet curse upon Slick and all his family, and turned
his head to the next person. Slick sat down at the
table and handed Jess her soda. She smiled at him and
started sipping away.
"So," she said. "Are you a local boy?"
Slick nodded. "Why, are you not from around here? You
don't have an accent."
Jess laughed. "Oh, no, I just like to know where
people come from. It's my thing."
As she spoke, her foot tapped his, and then started to
run up his shin. He took a calm sip of his soda and
listened to her talk. She was going on about how her
friends were from all over, really, if you just asked
them about it, but her mile-a-minute rambling was by
far less interesting than the way her foot was moving
up his leg. She stopped in the middle of a sentence to
take a long pull at her straw and smack her lips in a
very moist way, then launched back into her inane
speech.
Slick was only barely keeping up the appearance that
he cared. As she spoke, Jess's breasts shifted in her
bikini top, and if she made an enthusiastic point and
jumped up a bit, they bounced. Between her foot still
making its slow way up his leg and the absolute
fascination of her breasts, Slick quickly forgot he
even had a drink.
Her legs were incredibly long, Slick thought as her
toes toyed with the hem of his shorts. Ideas about
those legs wandered through his head, and he felt
himself growing very, very hard inside his shorts.
Jess let out a voluble "aaah" as she drained her soda.
"Anyways," she said, "do you wanna get out of here and
go do something a little more fun?"
A little scoreboard in the back of Slick's head
chalked up another point for him. He nodded. "Yeah,
that would be great." He had to force the irony into
his voice as he said, "your place or mine?"
Jess laughed. "My place is in Madison, Slick. Is your
place really available?"
Well, that was direct. He shook his head. Jess
frowned, and then seemed to have an idea. She grabbed
him by the hand and led him, boner and all, away from
the table. "We'll just find a nice quiet place that's
private and we'll go there," she said. "Nobody will
know."
Slick harbored his own, private doubts, but this
wasn't a level of craziness he'd never achieved
before, and it was basically guaranteed sex, so he
followed mutely along behind her. Jess stopped in her
tracks. "Hey," she said, "are you a quiet fuck?"
One of Slick's eyebrows made an involuntary attempt at
the summit. "Well, I'm usually pretty quiet, but I've
been known to make some girls get really loud."
"Oh, play nice," Jess teased. "Come on, I know where
we can go." She led him towards the burger stand. The
fact that this was insaner than most insane anonymous
hookups occurred to Slick, but he didn't question it.
One of the doors on the burger stand was hanging open,
and Jess ducked into it and pulled it shut behind her.
Darkness.
Slick felt hard floor beneath his feet. He looked
down. A trickle of light from outside revealed a
concrete floor, and blank walls that were, for some
unsearchable reason, wallpapered, surrounded him.
There was another door that seemed to lead into the
stand proper, and a door that led into what might be
an office-slash-locker-room. Jess pulled him into the
office-slash-locker-room. A single wooden bench hung
from one wall, and in front of a computer—the screen
was dark—there was, instead of an office chair, a
recliner.
The boss was either a comfort hound or couldn't afford
a proper office chair. Judging from the sorry state of
the recliner, the latter seemed likely. At least,
Slick thought as Jess pushed him into the recliner, it
was clean. Of course, it was so dark in here that that
was only a guess, and when she stood and closed the
door, it got even darker. There was a soft thump and a
curse as she barked her shin on the bench, and then
she was sitting on his lap.
"Well," she said. "Someone's excited. Does being all
alone in the dark with me get you turned on? Or maybe
it's the danger. We could get caught any second."
Slick grinned and reached out to touch her. His
fingers brushed against her stomach and he felt her
leaning forward. She kissed him, and his hands slid
around behind her and found that her bikini top was
already unhooked. He had to wonder when she'd had time
to do that. He'd ask later, he decided, and he peeled
away the meager containment. Her breasts must not have
been all that restricted by the swimsuit; they barely
changed their position against him.
Jess shifted in the darkness and he felt her taking
off her bikini bottom, heard it drop to the floor.
"Your turn," she said.
Quietly, Slick whispered back, "There's something I
want to do first." He reached out and grabbed her by
the waist, pulling her close and eliciting a shocked
giggle. His hands felt down her sides, around her
legs, in between her thighs, and found her aroused and
sensitive. He ran his fingers over her groin, rubbed
her clit, and smirked as she let out a long, breathy,
whispering whimper.
"Oh, you're good at that," she said.
"I've had some practice," he replied, and he pushed
her off of him and stood to take off his clothes.
Because they were in such a vulnerable place, and
might have to leave in a hurry, he debated for a
moment over whether to take his shoes off. He decided
not to. He could slip his shorts over them, and he did
just that, kissing down Jess's body by feel alone as
he crouched. He got to her pussy and immediately dove
in to run his tongue around, exploring her anatomy
with practiced eagerness. She was soon breathing very,
very hard, and she kept going that way until he had
his shorts off.
He changed his mind about the shoes, too, and pulled
them off of his feet, then slowly stood up, running
his tongue up her body and putting his hands on her
hips. He turned her around and pushed her into the
chair. He could just see her, silhouetted against the
very small amount of light from the computer's
keyboard. Someone had left caps lock on.
Slick dropped his boxer shorts and stepped out of
them, approaching her eagerly, already nearly
tremoring in anticipation. He leaned against the
chair, and suddenly her legs wrapped around his waist,
forcing him in close to her. So close, in fact, that
his penis slipped into her and he found himself
enfolded in her insides. She was warm, wet, and tight.
And her legs were working, her heels digging into his
ass and prompting him to thrust.
He was only too happy to comply, pushing into her
energetically. She gasped softly under him, and he
thrust faster, letting out a low grunt. She was
sweating hard and gripping his ass with her heels, and
he pushed himself deeper and faster. Jess's back
arched and her breasts rubbed against Slick's chest as
he pounded into her.
"Oh, God," she moaned quietly, and he pushed harder
into her, letting his hips roll in long, deep strokes
that pushed his cock deep into her. She moaned again,
louder, and he clamped his hand over her mouth even as
her volume increased again, and then her vagina was
convulsing as every muscle below her waist twitched
and contracted, slamming tighter and then looser on
his penis, leaving him gasping on the edge of an
orgasm himself.
She began to thrust her hips up and down in time with
him, pulling up as he thrust in, pushing down as he
pulled back to plunge deeper again. His breath came in
ragged pants as he sped up, desperately putting more
friction on his member, pouring more speed into his
hips. Slick's hands wandered over her chest, playing
with her breasts, slowly teasing towards her nipples.
"Suck on them," she demanded urgently, and he clamped
his mouth down on one nipple, flicking his tongue over
it and over it, again and again. Even as he worked at
her nipple, she came again, biting her lip and
throwing her whole body into the orgasm that rocked
through her. Slick couldn't take any more. He came
too, pumping furiously into her and then, only slowly
and reluctantly, pulling out.
Jess was breathing hard, and when she kissed him
again, her breath even made it through into the kiss.
"Thanks, tiger," she said. "I needed that."
He gave her a goofy grin that she couldn't see
anyways. "You're welcome. Any time at all. Seriously.
If you want..."
"I'd tell you not to get cocky, but, well... too late,
I think," she said. "You were moving like a demon,"
she added, handing him up his boxer shorts. "The last
guy I had given me a fucking that thorough was having
a fight with his girlfriend at the time. Who are you
fighting with, and may I recommend that you stay angry
at her?"
The memory of James's face, flinching as Slick moved
to strike him, popped, very unwelcome, into Slick's
head. "I'm not fighting with anybody," he lied. "Maybe
I'm just a really great lay."
Jess shrugged. "Maybe so," she said. She finished
refastening her bikini top and kicked one of Slick's
shoes over to him, then she left Slick alone to pull
his clothes back on in the darkness. He couldn't find
his shorts.
This was ridiculous. Alone, in a burger stand's
pathetic excuse for a back office, and unable to find
his shorts. Slick swore under his breath.
"Here," a voice said, and the light turned on. Slick
froze. His eyes drifted up to the door. The food-
zombie was leaning against the doorjamb, a smug,
knowing smile on his face. "Hook, line, and sinker, eh
kid?"
Slick stared. This guy couldn't be serious. For one,
he's just called Slick "kid", and that simply wasn't
right. Slick had at least two years on him. But what
was all this business about "hook, line and sinker"?
"What are you talking about?" Slick asked as he
reached for his shorts. The food-zombie chuckled.
"Nothing that'll be a big problem for you," he said.
"Jess just has certain needs. I let her use the stand
to fill them as long as she can prove she's clean
beforehand. Usually when I start my shift. She's not a
cuddler."
"I hate to call another guy an idiot," Slick said
after a moment's thought, "but if you're seeing her at
the beginning of your shift any time she wants to have
a random fuck, why don't you just, like, arrive early
and give it to her yourself?"
Zombieboy grinned a lopsided little grin. "Two
reasons," he said, stepping into the room. He walked
with a swagger. "One, she would never want something
that regular. And two..." his hand reached out and
flicked the zipper on the shorts hanging almost-
forgotten from Slick's hands, "I'm a lot more
interested in what the pussycat drags in the door. A
lot of guys are pretty willing to do a lot of things
for somebody who just made a good screw possible for
them. What do you say to that?"
Slick felt a hint of a stirring in his boxers at the
suggestion, so he decked the creep and pulled his
shorts on while the food-zombie was still lying
insensate on the floor. He stuffed his feet back into
his shoes as the guy sat up. "I'm gonna go with
'that's the shittiest chair I ever sat in, and if you
lay one finger on me you'll have two more black eyes
and two fewer balls than you started out with,'" Slick
said. He walked out the door.
Jess was standing just outside the burger stand,
looking down at her watch. "Well," she said, "either
that was the quickest blowjob in history, or you—"
"The only reason you're still standing up right now,"
Slick growled, leaning in close to her, "is that I
make it a policy not to hit girls unless they ask me
to do it during sex. You're coming dangerously close
to meeting the qualifications, bitch. Get away from
me."
Jess turned and ran. Slick stalked home. He spent the
whole bus ride hiding a boner.
Chapter 5
Slick woke up the next day feeling irritable and
confused. It might have had something to do with the
dream he'd had the night before—James about to fall
into a sea of magma, and Slick rescuing him. There'd
been hugging—or it might just be that he was awakened
by Katie throwing something warm and soft into his
bed. He looked down at the object that was now on his
legs and nearly had a heart attack.
"Dad bought a rat," Katie announced calmly.
"Dear God, why!?"
She shrugged. "I'm guessing he was drunk. That's
usually why he does stupid stuff. Anyways, he said we
should make the best of it, because he's not getting
rid of it. Do you think an omelet would be the best,
or should I get a deli slicer?"
Slick stared at her. He could never quite be sure if
she was joking. It was scary as hell, really. He fully
expected her to slit his throat some night. "No, you
little sociopath, stick the... thing... in a cage. I'd
suggest you feed it, but you're not the nurturing
type."
"I'm not dealing with it," Katie said. "I'm 'not the
nurturing type,' but you are. It's your job now. And
if I find it in my room, God help me, I will nail it
to your door and let it hang by its tail until—"
Slick picked up the rat and glared at his sister. "Go
away, Katie," he snapped. He held the rather confused
varmint up to his face, eyes level with it. Its nose
twitched. "Real cute. I suppose you're looking forward
to having me provide all your needs, then."
The rat pooped on him. Slick thought over his
situation for a moment and rolled off his bed. He
found a laundry basket, upended it, and put the rat
down on the floor underneath it. Plastic had about as
much chance of holding a rat permanently as it did of
writing a hit musical, but at least it would make an
acceptable temporary cage. But then, he had no idea
where to get a permanent one, and he knew better than
to pawn off an involuntary pet on his sister. The
tarantula incident would haunt him forever.
His first instinct was to call James. But then he
realized that that would be a bad idea. That his logic
ended rather pathetically with the idea that it was a
bad idea because it was a bad idea either didn't occur
to him or stoutly refused to bother him. He thought
about who else to call. Who could he even give a rat
to? Rather bitterly, he concluded that if someone
didn't give a rat's ass, it was likely due to the fact
that nobody wanted a rat's ass—or the rest of the rat,
for that matter.
Failing miserably to think of a way to rid himself of
the rat, and flatly refusing to accept the idea of
caring for it himself, Slick deduced that the best
course of action would be to take it into the city and
either "lose" it or sell it, or maybe give it away. It
would be happier in the wild, anyways.
He searched around for fresh clothes and got dressed.
With a sigh, Slick reached under the basket,
retrieving his rat.
"You suck," he informed it, and with that, he started
heading for the door. He wasn't quite sure what he was
going to do, but the opportunities for a boy and his
rat to be separated in a city were bound to be
endless. Right?
Slick made his escape into the streets and groaned.
Wisconsin seemed to have suddenly realized that it was
summer. It was at least eighty degrees, which would
have been fine if it weren't also so humid that he was
effectively sweating in reverse, absorbing water
rather than losing it. The rat gave him an accusing
look, as though to say "You did this to us both, you
know. We could go back inside."
Slick glared at it. "You just keep your eyeballs to
yourself and don't crap on me again."
He didn't notice it at first, but he was wandering
down to the lakefront again. Whether it was because of
the instinctive knowledge, ground into him by
countless weathermen, that it was cooler near the
lake, or the vague idea that a rat might thrive if
released near the shore, or the thought that all the
crazy people would be in the lake cooling off today
and might be willing to take in a rat, he didn't
really care. He just wanted to get rid of the damn
thing. He turned north at the Calatrava, and headed
for the beach again. Sure enough, it was packed.
Old men in far too little bathing suit mingled with
doting mothers and their uncounted giggling spawn.
Beach umbrellas were planted like flags marking the
locations of oases of either pleasant, boozy calm or
quiet, desperate pretense of sophistication.
Frat boys were plentiful. Slick tried to be very
visible as he walked down the beach, and he tried to
make the rat even more visible, but he had no luck in
that regard. Nobody asked him, and he knew better than
to walk up to people at random and ask if they wanted
his rat. That was a great way to get arrested.
Eventually, he found himself staring over at the
burger stand he had visited the day before. The
temptation to throw the rat in the building and have
it done with was quelled only by the fact that the
building was surrounded by people. There would be
witnesses. And he was thirsty. He wanted a lemonade or
something.
Slick looked around for some other place to get
something to drink. His options were few, and, more
importantly, far between. He went to the burger stand
and stood in line. The person behind him—a large man
in a non-large speedo—kept his distance from the crazy
rat-boy. At least there were some advantages to having
vermin stuck to his shoulder. Slick just hoped that he
wouldn't end up facing the food-zombie. The line
advanced.
"Well, hello there."
Slick groaned. "Live in hope, die in despair," he
mumbled. "Give me a lemonade and say nothing," he
said. He tried not to look up, but he couldn't stop
himself. The little weirdo had plastered a smug grin
across his face.
"What's with the rat?"
Slick glared at him. "My dad drinks a lot." his cheeks
were slowly heating up. This was just about the height
of humiliation. But at least the creep didn't have an
answer for that. He turned and gave Slick his
lemonade. Slick very nearly snuck to a table and sat
down, nursing his drink. He was about halfway through
it when somebody sat down across from him at the
table.
"You know, I think we got off on the wrong foot," the
food-zombie said. His ability to maintain a
conversational tone when talking to a guy with a rat
on his shoulder who had recently applied a left hook
to his jaw was admirable. He stuck out a hand. "My
name is Eric."
Slick nodded. "Uh huh, Eric. You just wait right here
for a second. I gotta go grab something." he got up
and looked at the counter. It was being manned by a
very burly woman. Slick shuddered. Women should not be
capable of burliness. He walked up to the counter
anyways, grabbed one of the plastic forks from the
slightly-dingy holder they were sitting in, and
returned to the table.
Before Eric could question what he was doing, Slick
swung the fork down into Eric's right hand. The boy
screamed and clutched at his hand, which, Slick was
pleased to note, had a fork sticking out of it now.
"You'll probably want to sterilize that," Slick said.
"Odds are you're right-handed, which means that's
probably your masturbating hand, and you clearly need
that, perverted little fuck that you are."
Eric clenched his jaw and glared at Slick. "You're not
getting rid of me that easy. You're interesting, and I
intend to learn more about you." By now, his hand was
bleeding, and blood was seeping through the other
hand, which he had clamped over it. He seemed to be
doing a very good job of ignoring it. "So," he said
again, "what's with the rat?"
"I already told you," Slick replied. "My dad drinks. A
lot." He took another pull at his lemonade.
"That does not explain the rat," Eric said.
"He bought the rat last night while he was out
drinking. I'm trying to get rid of it."
"The lake is a little further east," Eric said,
gesturing lakeward with his head.
"Are you really gonna sit there with your hand
bleeding, talking to me about a stupid rat?" Slick
said as blood began to trickle slowly away from Eric's
hand on the table.
Eric shrugged. "It's not that serious. I'll be fine."
"You are fantastically stupid, aren't you? Show me
your hand, pervert."
Eric shook his head. "No, I told you, I'll be fine."
Slick grabbed Eric's hand and pulled it forcibly
across the table. Eric tried to pull it back, and
Slick was jerked toward the table. The rat squeaked
irritably and Eric stopped resisting. Slick stared at
the wound. It was oozing, not spurting, so that was
something. But it was also fairly deep. "You got first
aid stuff in that crapshack you call a burger joint?"
Eric didn't object to the label Slick applied. He just
staunchly refused to look at his hand and nodded.
"Yeah, we do. It's... uh... you've been in the room
that it's in, actually."
"You got some kinda problem with blood?" Slick asked.
Eric nodded. "Yeah, a little bit."
Slick shrugged and went around to the back door that
he'd gone in the day before. It was standing open.
Eric walked up behind him and reached his uninjured
hand into the hallway. He turned on a light switch.
"Hey!" The burly woman called. "Who's back there!"
"It's just me, Martha," Eric called back. "I uh... I
managed to take a pretty hard fall on my way to the
bus stop, and I need the first aid kit. I got somebody
in here helping me out." He led Slick into the office,
opened one of the lockers on the wall opposite the
bench, and pulled out the first-aid kit, all with his
left hand. He was holding his right hand well out of
sight.
Slick grabbed the little weirdo's hand and rather
unceremoniously pulled it over towards him. He pulled
out some antiseptic. He debated his options. He could
spring the antiseptic's sting on Eric by surprise.
That would be startling, but at least he wouldn't be
in agony over anticipation.
"Okay," Slick said, "This is gonna sting. You ready?"
Eric nodded and grunted an affirmative. His hand
tensed up in Slick's, and Slick grinned. "You know, we
should rinse that off first."
Between rinsing the wounded hand, and cleaning it with
gauze, and leading Eric around by the hand that he was
steadfastly refusing to look at, all while making sure
that the antiseptic was clearly ready for use at all
times, Slick managed to tease a good five minutes of
entertainment out of watching Eric squirm. Finally, he
settled Eric's hand over the little sink in the little
bathroom in the little burger shop.
"Okay," he said for the third time. "This time, for
real. Ready?" Another nod. Eric cringed. "Here it
comes," Slick said, and then, only after about a
second of waiting, to let the tension build up, he
poured the antiseptic into the wound. Slowly.
Eric yelled in a delightfully un-masculine manner,
startling the rat. Slick distinctly heard Martha
laughing outside. "Pussy!" she shouted in Eric's
general direction.
Slick let Eric suffer for a little longer than was
strictly necessary, finished cleaning the wound, and
bandaged it.
"There," Slick said. "You're fine." He started to walk
out of the room, but Eric caught him by the hand.
"You enjoyed that," he said. When Slick raised an
eyebrow and started to reply, Eric shook his head.
"You enjoyed it. You thought it was just... tons of
fun to make me squirm."
Slick grinned wickedly. "Yeah," he said, stepping
closer. He had at least five inches on the burgerboy,
and he was using it. "Yeah, I did. I liked making you
scream, too, so don't think I won't do it again. Most
people usually get the message if I stick a fork in
'em. Usually means you're done. But hey, if you're
gonna stick around and let me jam pointy shit into
you, I'll gladly go ahead and do it. It's easier than
a voodoo doll." Now he was grinning down menacingly at
Eric, and Eric was looking up at him with something
halfway between gratitude and fear in his eyes.
"Well, you took good care of it," he said. He raised
his bandaged hand up in front of his face. The rat
jumped off of Slick's shoulder onto Eric's arm, and it
suddenly occurred to Slick just how close he was
standing to Eric.
Slick also came to the more uncomfortable realization
that he had an erection. The rat ran up to Eric's
shoulder and the silence grew more uncomfortable as it
stretched out longer. Slick thought that he should
really step away, but he couldn't seem to move his
feet. Eric surprised him by moving first. He strode
out of the bathroom and stuck his head out into the
serving area. Martha came in the door and talked
quietly to him for a few minutes. Slick didn't come
out of the bathroom. Eric came back in after Martha
left. He was sans rat.
"Martha is a really creepy lady," Eric explained.
She returned a few minutes later, and Eric led Slick
out of the burger stand. They stood behind the little
building for a few moments, and then Eric said, "Well,
I guess you got rid of your rat, then."
Slick nodded. "Yeah. Well, actually, you got rid of
it, but... I helped?" Eric nodded, and Slick added, as
an afterthought, "I still don't like you, you know."
"I'm fine with that," Eric said. He reached up to lay
a finger in the center of Slick's chest. "I got to get
those strong arms of yours holding my hands," he said.
If he had any more to say, Slick didn't hear it. His
hand snapped up and grabbed Eric's wrist. Eric winced.
"I don't need you touching me," Slick said. He twisted
his hand, forcing Eric to stumble closer to him. He
was perfectly aware of his erection now, and he
figured that drawing a little bit of quasi-sadistic
pleasure from tormenting the food-zombie would be a
tiny vengeance, all things considered.
Eric met Slick's eyes evenly. "Did... did you, uh,
want something?"
Slick stared at him. He let the silence get longer,
longer, and finally, Eric filled it up the only way
that popped into his head. He kissed Slick as softly
as he possibly could. Slick was startled at first, but
his erection, which had been standing at half-mast or
so, suddenly took on new ambitions.
Eric noticed. "Do you want to go to my car?" he
suggested quietly. Slick didn't respond, but when Eric
started moving towards the nearest parking lot, he
followed.
Throughout the short car ride to a dilapidated
townhouse that was trying hard to look like it wasn't
hurting anybody, Slick leaned back in the passenger
seat and thought of baseball. It didn't help. Eric led
him into the unit on the north end of the townhouse
and up to his bedroom. The bed was large, with a
wooden frame that had been painted black. The whole
room smelled too clean to belong to this kind of a
person.
Eric started walking towards the bed, but Slick
grabbed him by the back of his collar and turned him
around, pulling him close. He was almost snarling.
"Strip," he commanded.
Eric stripped dutifully, starting at the shoes and
working his way up. Socks came off, and were left in
the shoes, and then his pants. He was wearing white
briefs. They had absorbed enough sweat to be damp and
cling to his legs as he pulled them off, then moved on
to his shirt.
He stood nude in front of Slick, and Slick stepped
forward, leaving Eric no choice but to back up,
heading for the bed. Slick stopped just short of
actually forcing Eric to fall. He reached out and
grabbed Eric by the shoulders, then pushed him roughly
to the bed. The frame thudded against the wall.
"Scoot back. I want your head against the headboard,"
Slick snapped.
Eric did as he was told, and Slick got a good view of
him for the first time. He was skinny, without any
seriously developed muscles. His boner was angled ever
so slightly to the left. Slick slipped his shoes off
and climbed up into the bed, straddling Eric. He got
himself up over Eric's chest and snapped, "Pull out my
dick and stroke it."
Eric complied with the eagerness of someone who has
finally gotten to the fun part of a game. He quickly
unfastened Slick's pants and pulled them and the
underwear as far down as they would go. He wrapped his
bandaged right hand around Slick's shaft and started
stroking it. Slick thrust into his hand, pulling his
shirt off and tossing it away. Already, he felt waves
of pleasure rolling over him. He almost didn't want to
do anything but this, but he decided that that
wouldn't quite be fair.
Slick rolled away from Eric's hand only long enough to
take his pants off, then he returned to his position
and thought to ask the question that hadn't, until
now, occurred to him. As Eric stroked his penis, Slick
said, "I'm guessing you have lube, right?"
"It's all in my bedside table's drawer over there."
Slick looked over at the bedside table. He had an idea
in mind. "Grab it," he said. "But suck me while you're
doing it."
Eric let go of Slick's member and immediately slid his
mouth over it. Slick grunted in approval as Eric
started leaning to rummage around in the drawer. His
tongue worked up and down Slick's shaft, and Slick
thrust none-too-gently into his mouth, forcing Eric to
deep-throat him. Eric became more enthusiastic in his
sucking, if anything, and it took him a minute or two
to sort out lube from the myriad random crap in his
drawer. By the time it was extracted, Slick was
getting tempted to just finish in Eric's mouth.
Tempted, but not tempted enough. He pulled back and
ordered Eric to put the lube on him. Eric did so, with
a lot of unnecessary stroking and rubbing. Slick
slipped down his body and, without any preamble,
plunged dick-deep into Eric's anus. Eric drew in a
sharp breath, but Slick wasn't in the mood to give him
time to adjust. He immediately began thrusting hard
into Eric, grabbing him by the hips and pushing deep.
Eric's penis bobbed obscenely with the motion in front
of Slick, and then Eric's hand was on it, stroking it
and running his thumb across the head. A shiny coating
of pre-cum glistened on Eric's glans, and he started
thrusting into his hand and clenching his ass on
Slick's cock. Slick thrust faster, grunting and
panting as the pleasure between his legs grew.
Suddenly, Eric shouted and cum blasted out of his
penis. One drop landed on his chin. The sight pushed
Slick over the edge, and he groaned as his prick
twitched in Eric's ass, spraying spurt after spurt of
cum into him.
Eric moaned in concert with him, relishing the
feeling, and gradually they both slowed to a halt.
Slick pulled out of Eric.
Chapter 6
Slick leaned back on the bed and stared down at Eric.
"Holy crap!" he gasped.
Eric, apparently, agreed. He was grinning like an
idiot, despite having been abused and bullied the
whole time. If anything, he looked as though he wanted
more. Slick, however, had no intention of giving it to
him. Because now that he was looking at Eric, lying
blissed out on his back, all he could see was James.
James, sitting in a mud puddle at age eight. He'd been
the victim of bullies, then. Too small to fight back,
too proud to run to teacher for help. Slick hadn't
wanted to be associated with the little dweeb, but
something about James was too good to leave in the
mud.
James, hovering over him on the ice at age thirteen,
making him laugh through the tears. Slick had broken
his leg in a hockey game, and James refused to leave
his best friend's side until the cast was on.
James, lying beneath him on the bed at seventeen, in
the warm aftermath of pleasure and confession.
James, sitting on the edge of his bed five minutes
later, flinching. He had shown his heart to Slick,
made love to him, but something in the boy was too
much to take. Slick had reacted with rage.
"Oh, God," Slick whispered.
Eric raised an eyebrow. "Not as bad as you thought it
would be, huh?"
"I... I'm an idiot," Slick muttered, burying his face
in his hands. "I've been so stupid."
"Okay, now come on," Eric said, "you don't have to be
mean."
"Not you," Slick said irritably. "James. I've been so
unfair. He's my best friend, and I was angry at him
for it."
Eric quirked one eyebrow up. "I take you've had an
epiphany then? Something about a missed opportunity,
I'd wager?"
"Yeah. I have to go talk to him. I'm sorry... I
shouldn't have... I shouldn't be so heartless to you,
but... you're not James."
Eric shook his head. "Hey, that was sex. We're talking
love here. I get it. Do you wanna use my shower?"
Slick nodded. "Yeah. I... I'm gonna go to him as soon
as I can. Right after I get home and into the car."
...
Slick pulled into the gravel driveway, but he stopped
about halfway in. The Camaro was gone. He looked
around in a mild panic. Where could James have gone?
He stepped out of the car and ran to the front door.
He didn't bother knocking. If anybody was home, it
would be open. He turned the knob, pushed, and found
himself inside.
Mrs. Larson, who had previously looked busy in the
kitchen, now looked startled, holding a tray of
cookies in one oven-mitted hand, the other one
perfectly manicured and over her breast in her
surprise. With the apron on, she seemed to have become
lost on her way to a nineteen-fifties kitchenware ad.
"Oh, goodness, James! You startled me. If you're
looking for Jimmy, I'm afraid he's gone out to meet a
friend of his."
"Do you know where?" Slick asked. Mrs. Larson looked
rather confused. "It's important," Slick insisted.
"I think he's gone to the Culvers in town," she said.
Slick thanked her and ran back to the car. It started
irritably, but it started. He drove a bit faster than
was strictly necessary, legal, or sane, but he arrived
at Culvers intact, and sure enough, there was the
Camaro.
Slick jumped down out of the car and started running
for the restaurant. He spotted James inside, talking
to some guy in a cheap leather jacket. He was
laughing. Slick rounded the corner and sprinted into
the burger joint—a lot of his life seemed to center
around burgers lately—immediately fixing his course on
James's table. But he stopped short when he saw James
lean forward and gently kiss his companion.
He nearly fell to his knees. As it was, he sat down at
a nearby booth, no longer trusting himself to stand.
He'd lost James. Lost him as a friend to his own
stupidity, to say nothing of as a lover. He put his
head down on the table. A shadow passed over him and
he heard James's voice, caught up in a low laugh as he
passed. Slick watched James go, retreating hand-in-
hand with his newfound boyfriend.
Two days ago, I hated the idea that I'd had sex with
him, he thought to himself. Now, my heart is breaking
because I'll never kiss him again. This is ridiculous.
The Camaro passed outside the window, and Slick got up
and drove back to Milwaukee. He looked at the road in
front of him when he got to thirtieth street. He could
turn south and go home. He should turn south and go
home. He went straight. Slick pulled up in front of a
dilapidated townhouse that was trying very hard to
look like it wasn't hurting anybody.
He had the feeling that he had gotten exactly what he
deserved. Slick stared out the window at the
townhouse. He turned the car off and slipped the keys
into his pocket. There were tears in his eyes. He
ignored them. Let them stay there, there would only be
more to replace them if he wiped them away.
Slick walked up to the door that he'd entered through
earlier that day. He rang the doorbell. There was a
loud crash inside, and a louder obscenity, and the
door opened up. Eric looked Slick up and down a couple
of times.
"Oh, Slick... I'm so sorry," he said. "I don't know
what to say, Slick."
Slick sniffled loudly. "Don't say anything," he
advised. "Just hold me."
Eric led him into the house, sat him down on the
couch, and gave him a cup of hot tea.
...
The neon signs on Broadway buzzed halfheartedly today.
The one over Café Jé was glowing a little brighter
than usual today, or so it seemed to James. He walked
into the coffeehouse and looked around until he
spotted what he was looking for.
Nestled between the hipsters and the emo-wannabes that
crowded the café at this time of day, Slick was
sipping his coffee and talking animatedly to a
slightly younger boy. His friend had bright red hair—
clearly not natural—and a quick, engaging smile that
suggested secret knowledge. James approached him
cautiously. He couldn't quite bring himself to believe
the message that had been left on his voicemail, but
here it was proving true.
Slick laughed, then leaned over the table and kissed
Eric, grinning. "I should have known you'd tell her
that. Imagine it! Martha, trying to say the word
'orgy', let alone getting an invitation to one! That
was just mean, Eric."
Eric, too, was laughing. "Oh, but it was great! There
was nice fancy lettering, and I'd even embossed it
with a screwdriver. There were these little stylized
dildos in the corners..." he looked up as someone
loomed over their table.
"Slick?"
Slick looked up, and for a moment, it looked as though
he might panic and run away. For another moment, it
seemed he was about to start crying. "I'm sorry,
James," he said at last. "I'm so sorry for what I did
to you."
"Slick, you didn't do anything to me. You cut yourself
off from me so completely, I didn't know what happened
to you. It took your... uh... this guy here... finding
my number and calling me for me to even find you. He
told me. You thought you lost a friend, Slick. I'm
sorry, I should have called you. But you didn't call
me, and I didn't call you, and we just kept... not
calling. I'm your friend, Slick. If you'll have me,
that is."
Slick smiled and pulled a chair that a hipster had
been about to sit down in over to the table. The
hipster gave him an irritated look and slunk off to
suckle on his coffee elsewhere. "Sit down, James. I'd
like you to meet Eric. He's my boyfriend now. I should
thank you. Without you, I never would have met him."
"And if he never met me," Eric added, "he never would
have stabbed me with a fork."
James sat down and settled in to listen to a long
story. We need to get this Eric guy a denim jacket, he
thought.
Finitas, mi amigos.
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