For some reason, the first thing I remember about that day was the coldness of the glass in the passenger side window of the truck 'Uncle' Brad was driving to his mountain cabin. It was June 1994 and a pre-dawn rain had cooled things off. The sky still was overcast and the threat of a storm still lingered.
A few days before, two weeks after high school graduation and a month after my 18th birthday, my Mom had discovered copies of Honcho and Blue Boy under my bed. My grandparents owned several motels and hotels in the region, so I never lacked for a summer job cleaning rooms. That's where I'd found them, great spank bank material for a virgin who didn't know what his sexuality was yet. I longed to suck a cock like one of those in the magazines. I liked girls, too, and had some near misses getting laid, but truth be told I wanked to Honcho more than then Penthouse. I was pretty sure my Mom had told Brad, based on some indistinct words I'd overheard her say over the phone.
Brad was the best friend of my dad and a good friend of my mom's. He was chief operations officer in my grandparents' company. My dad had been chief financial officer when he died in 1991 in a 10-car pile-up. My grades slid. I was depressed for a long time. My mom loved my dad, but I think she bounced back sooner than me, or appeared to, which strained our relationship. That's when I went from dismissing my furtive glances in the school locker room checking out cocks to looking more at older men. I never even fantasized about my dad, but something in me wanted that older male approval. People my age no longer had any attraction for me. AIDS also scared me away from doing anything more than look.
Brad had been around and part of my family's world since I was little. That's how he earned the 'uncle' part of his name with me. Only recently had he become the object of my still partly denied lust. He was like Tom Selleck without the mustache and with more pepper in his hair. He never lacked for girls but had never married. I was NOT looking forward to discussing the magazines and whether I was gay with him. How could he not have a lower opinion of me then with what he probably had learned from my mother?
I audibly sighed with the burden of these thoughts as he nudged my shoulder.
"Hey, cut it out. We're going to have fun and get out of that city heat. We're almost there."
A minute later we passed through the gate of the small cluster of luxury homes. It was funny that Brad called it his cabin. It was more suburban home with rustic finishes.
Brad had tried to fill in for my father, and he'd done a pretty good job. We'd been up here before, hiked, taken nature photos, fished etc. This time, he'd promised me a beer or two. Brad stopped the car in the u-shaped drive and parked it there at the end of the walk to the front door.
Wordlessly, we each grabbed our duffel bags from behind the seats and walked in after Brad punched in the code.
It was stuffy, and he lowered the thermostat setting and got the AC cranked up. Brad then proceeded to do some other similar things to prep the house. I helped him unload groceries, but after I went to my room, unpacked and then ended up lying down on the bed staring at the sentence. I think Brad looked in on me at some point through the open door then went to unpack and unwind in the master bedroom. I drifted off into an afternoon nap.
Brad woke me and again was jostling my shoulder.
"Wakey, wakey, Drew" he smiled. "Hey, I dozed a bit, too, but it's time to get up."
I looked at the clock. It was almost 7:30, and the light was fading.
"Wow, I did not mean to sleep that much."
"Me either, the rain started again and the sound put me to sleep. It's stopped now and should be a good night to stay up late and enjoy the deck. I'm going to grill some steaks."
Brad challenged me to make some salads and bake a couple of big potatoes, and I rose to the challenge. Within an hour we were eating at the kitchen table, which looked out on the woods and deck behind the 'cabin.' We were drinking beers with the meal, which felt terribly grownup to me.
We talked about my going to college, and he reminisced about his own college years.
"You know it's a great time, but it's also tough because you're being asked to make decisions about your future and who you are. Remember nothing is locked in stone though. Don't treat it like they are forever decisions but take them seriously. Enjoy yourself and explore everything, including relationships."
I nodded and said I would.
Brad gave me a knowing smile and finally dropped the other shoe, "Your mom told me you're already exploring, at least in privacy and in your head. She told me about the magazines under your bed."
Despite his earlier words, I still was anticipating some judgment or mild chastisement. Brad didn't deliver it though.
"You know, I guess I'm bisexual, and it started with me in college. I fucked a few guys and let them suck my cock. Bottoming wasn't for me though, and I still love women. An ass is an ass though and a mouth is a mouth, right?"
I nodded again, and Brad burst out laughing.
"Man, if you could see your face right now, then you'd probably laugh, too."
Brad, really? I was stunned and did not see his revelation coming.
Brad said, "Come on, Andy! Speak. What do you think?"
I told him what I was feeling, how I was shocked but glad he wasn't thinking less of me because of the gay porn mags, and then I started asking him questions about his college experiments and what he thought now. For him, it had started with a drunken fuck of a fairly femme guy after a party. Brad had fucked him at the bottom of a dorm stairwell, under the stairs and using some boxes stored there. The guy had fluffed him out of his 'whiskey dick' state first and magically had a tiny bottle of lube with him. Brad said the blowjob had been the best he'd received to that time and the anal was on the same level.
Brad asked me about my sexual experience, and I told him the truth. I was officially a virgin. I had a few makeout sessions with girls that were good that resulted in me fingering them to orgasm and me getting handjobs, some limited oral and things like that. I had no experience with men beyond fantasy.
"Well, when I left college, I thought my experiments were over and I knew who I was. I was going to conform and stick to women, find a wife and do what was expected. Bisexuality wasn't part of my sense of who I was. BUT, I discovered I started to miss it."
I just listened, and then Brad dropped the real bombshell.
"Then, I met your mom and dad and everything changed. We all three became best friends with each other, and they needed me."
Almost nervously, Brad smiled and said, "There's that look of yours again. I know I am dropping all sorts of bombs on you tonight, giving you lots to absorb."
"I don't believe you," I said quietly. His words were neutral but it was the subtext and tone I was rejecting.