The metal door was a faded mustard yellow, and the dents at the bottom of the door looked like the result of somebody kicking it. There was probably a story behind every dent but my mind was elsewhere. The man I was with was putting the key in the door, and as it opened the number 6 on the door swayed with the movement.
Inside the room was dark except for the light that leaked through the curtains and onto the rug, but when the man I was with clicked the light on upon entering, I wished it was still dark because the motel room was even more creepy looking in the light. Like the rest of the place it looked like 1980, run-down and dreary, with worn-out pastel furniture.
I wasn't even thought of in 1980. My folks were probably in high school then, and maybe the man I was with was too because I figured him for being around 50. He was wearing a wedding ring and was totally bald, although I couldn't tell whether that was by choice or chance. What was his name? He had told me in the car but I had forgotten. Barry?
"In or out?"
"Huh?" I mumbled, so lost in the ozone that I wasn't paying attention to what Barry was saying.
He was waiting inside with the open door at his side, and although he was trying to be pleasant I sensed that might change if he thought I was screwing around me him.
"I asked you whether you were coming inside or not?" Barry asked, and after standing at the threshold for a few more seconds I finally stepped inside.
"Make yourself comfortable," Barry said with a wave of his hand, and as he walked toward what had to be the bathroom he told me he would be right out.
Comfortable? What did that mean? I was terrified. What had seemed like an interesting idea back in the car was now something different all together, and I was wishing that instead of letting this Barry put his hand on my thigh I had simply said "No thanks".
I hadn't though, and I hadn't resisted when he reached over and put my hand on his lap either. In the VW bug we were in, these were intimate surroundings to begin with, and it doesn't get much more intimate than two guys squeezing each other through their clothing.
That was when Barry had asked me whether I wanted to go to a motel with him. Maybe he gave a lot of kids rides and popped that question. I had no idea. He did ask me how old I was though, and even quizzed me on my date of birth. Maybe that was because he had a bit of a problem locating what he was looking for in my pants, but I was 18 alright even though I didn't look it.
On the other side of the bathroom door the toilet flushed, and it was so loud that you would have thought the door was open instead of closed. The sink ran for a moment and then was shut off, and after a bit of shuffling sounds from the bathroom the door open and Barry emerged.
"You okay?" Barry asked, probably because I hadn't made myself comfortable like he had suggested but was still standing right where I had been, rooted to the dingy green rug by the door.
Barry, on the other hand, had experienced no trouble in getting comfortable. He wasn't naked because he had his socks on, but all of the rest of his clothes were off. He had a lot more confidence in himself that I did, but then again I could see the reason for him not being shy like me.
"Sorry," I mumbled, while trying my best to not to look at what he had me grope in the car, trying and failing. "Kinda scared."
"I can tell," Barry said as he slowly walked toward me, almost as if he was afraid that if he made any sudden moves I might turn around and run right out - or through - the door. "I'm not going to hurt you. I thought you wanted to have fun?"
"I did - I mean I do," I mumbled while watching Barry's penis sway slowly as his weight shifted from side to side, the vein-riddled uncut organ reminding me in both size and appearance that I wasn't in my friend Tom's garage now but was out of my league.
"Then just relax," Barry was saying as he came up in front of me. "We'll have fun. Don't you like what you see?"
"Uh - sure," I replied, and while the man was in good shape - hell for a guy who would have been my dad's age if he was still alive Barry was in way better shape than most - his looks weren't the problem.
"I know I sure like you, Jimmy," Barry was telling me as his hands went up to me shoulders and gave him a squeeze before sliding down. "You're a sweet looking guy."
Sweet? I was a scrawny guy whose dirty blonde hair needed a cut and whose 5'9" frame could use about 15 pounds, preferably at least some of it muscle. That left me about 40 pounds and almost half a foot shorter than my new friend, leaving me way less of a man than Barry in every way imaginable. Sweet?
He had my t-shirt pulled out from under my shorts and now he was lifting it up and expecting me to raise my arms to allow him to get it off. I did manage that, and after Barry tossed it over onto the tacky orange chair his hands went onto my chest.
"Nice," Barry sighed as he massaged my chest, which was as smooth as his was hairy, and as he rolled my little nipples between his fingers I looked enviously at the cloud of salt and pepper hair that covered my new friend's chest. "No tattoos? Good for you. You're perfect as you are."
Perfect? My knees were knocking and when I felt my belt getting undone it wasn't my friend Tom doing the honors, it was a man about three times my age.
Barry had gone to his knees on the godawful rug in an effort to free my balky belt, and his bald head was shiny when I looked down. The damn belt didn't stay closed like I had almost hoped, and my jeans didn't stay up either but slid down to my ankles.
I reached down to grab Barry's muscular shoulders to steady myself as he took off my sneakers, and then he worked my jeans down off me like I was his kid or something that he was getting ready for bed.
Barry's hands slid up my calves, the blond almost invisible hairs fluttering through his fingers as he went upwards to what he was eye-level with. Did I have clean underwear on? They were when the day started.
"Mmmm..." Barry moaned and I jumped when I felt his hand on my underwear, rubbing the bulge in my tight white briefs that I had been straining to make more prominent since my jeans had come down.
Barry rubbed and rubbed and rubbed, while I stared at the picture of a covered bridge that was over the bed and tried to do what Barry kept telling me to do. Relax.