A Tour in Italy
By Simon Peter
"And this is the Prostitution Quarter," our guide to the ruins of Pompeii near Naples, Patricio, said, glancing at me.
Since the beginning of the tour around six hours earlier, I had been overjoyed with our guide. Patricio was a tall, slim, dark-skinned Italian in his mid-twenties. What more could I say to describe him? That he had a light beard? A pair of killer lips? A Grecian nose and wide-set eyes of indeterminate dark color? Frizzy hair? In a word, Patricio was my dream of a guy. I had immediately known that the day was going to be heavenly, listening to Patricio's Italian accent, watching him explain stuff on the bus, around Naples and now in Pompeii, gazing at his bubble butt in tight low-hung jeans as he walked ahead of us, fantasizing.
I had to admit that I hadn't had sex during the four previous days in Rome. I had been taken by the culture, the statues, the piazzas, the stores, the museums. Two days before today's trip, I had taken a train to Florence and visited a museum where I gawked at Michelangelo's David. I must have spent more than half an hour gazing at the beauty of the maleness sculpted in marble. Today, David's naked physique superimposed itself on our guide, Patricio.
Patricio pointed at some frescos on top of doors leading to what was supposed to be rooms for prostituting. The frescos depicted various fuck scenes.
Patricio pointed at one of the frescos, glanced at me, and said: "Even then-uh, boys slept with each other."
True enough, the fresco showed two men fucking. Patricio called them boys-uh. I just loved his accent. I took a photo of the fresco.
Since the beginning of the tour, I had been fantasizing about Patricio. I maintained a semi-erection throughout. But I realized that my fantasies would remain just that: fantasies.
That was why I was taken aback when at the end of the Pompeii tour, when I was standing near our bus next to Patricio, both smoking, waiting for the other members of the group to arrive, Patricio said to me in a low voice: "So you liked-uh the frescos, Simon?"
First, he called me by my first name although he had a list of all our full names. Second, he remembered my name. Third, there was this very slight smile on his face when he asked me. Fourth, he lowered his voice so no one could hear him but me. All of this could be my fantasies fucking with my brain but, well, it could be something else, couldn't it?
"Oh, yes," I answered in a similar low voice.
Patricio laughed. "I saw-a-you taking the pictures."
I might have flushed red at this. But Patricio continued, still in a low voice: "Can I see?"
Without a word, numb, I handed him my cell phone. He fumbled with it and found the gallery, located the picture. I didn't dare look at his face. My heart raced. I had only shot the fresco of the men, the one I have attached above.
Patricio handed me back the phone without saying anything as the other members of the group reached the coach and started to board. I followed, not knowing what Patricio thought about the picture I had taken.
I sat three rows behind and watched the back of Patricio's head, his neck, his shoulders. I tried reading the book I had brought with me, a crime novel by P. D. James, but I couldn't concentrate. I kept glancing at Patricio, sitting in the front, and I kept fantasizing. Like me slipping on a stone in the ruins of Pompeii and Patricio picking me up and holding me asking if I was hurt. Or like me brushing by his front as I climbed off the bus. Or me walking into the men's room in the rest area on the road back to Rome and finding Patricio at a urinal with a hard-on, waiting for my mouth. The erection I had throughout the three-hour trip hurt like hell. I didn't dare touch myself for fear of exploding in my jeans.
I kept thinking: why had Patricio asked me about the fresco. Why had he glanced at me when he was explaining the image of the two men fucking? Why hadn't he said anything when he saw the photo I shot?
When we got to Rome and I was delirious with lust for this unattainable stud, we disembarked from the coach. I didn't know what to do. Going back to the hotel and masturbating to the image of Patricio did not feel such an enticing option. But there was nothing I could do. I hitched my backpack and got ready to start my solitary trek back to my hotel when Patricio came out of the agency office and called after me.
"Hey, Simon."
I froze. What would Patricio want from me? I knew what I wanted from him: his lips, his naked body, his hard cock, his firm ass.
"Do you feel-a-like going on another tour-uh?" he asked as he approached me.