I had finished a week long ticket out of the Employment Office's day labor office, which was five consecutive ten hour days of construction clean-up at ten dollars an hour. The three hundred fifty dollars I was paid at the end of the week would pay off the remainder of my rent for the month with plenty of money left over. For the first time in weeks, I was flush and not in danger of losing my little room on the second floor.
After getting paid up at the front desk, I decided to hit one of the local gay bars for a couple of beers, then headed over to the Greyhound Bus Depot to see what was going down in the bathroom. It was quick, anonymous sex with guys passing through that I usually ran into there. I was hungry for sex, any kind of sex, as long as it didn't mean having it with someone who wanted something more. I didn't like explaining my deadbeat life to others, which is what would end up happening if I went home with someone from the bar.
I was standing around, waiting my turn at the urinals when he entered. He was wearing a pale pink polo over a pair of khaki pants. His raven black hair was still impeccably styled, his brown loafers looking as if he had just purchased them. I remembered the way it felt to have his luscious lips wrapped around my cock and instantly chubbed up.
He stood in line and I noticed a number of guys giving him the eye. He was beautiful, to be sure, and young to boot. I wouldn't have any luck hooking up with anyone as long this hot, young Latino was in play, so I deserted my place in line and left. About two blocks away, I stopped at a bus stop and lit up a joint. If I couldn't get laid, I could get high. Life was all about options.
I waved the bus on as it approached, hiding my joint behind me. As it passed, I took another hit and relaxed, knowing it was the last bus in the night line-up.
That's when I saw him, running in my direction. There were a couple of guys chasing him, and they didn't look like they wanted to get their dicks sucked. Without thinking, I dropped my joint and rushed to his defense.
Growing up in the Bible Belt, surrounded by rednecks and Bible thumpers, learning how to fight was a matter of necessity. Besides, I out-weighed them both by a good fifty pounds, all of it hard earned muscle. I may not have the body of a body builder, but I was strong as an ox and didn't take shit from no man.
I passed him, focused on the first guy, who didn't slow his step as I approached. I balled up my fist and hit him head on in a near run, sending him to the ground in a heap of human flesh. I continued on to meet with his friend, who stopped running and was looking around. I couldn't tell if he was looking for a makeshift weapon or an escape route. I didn't slow my pace.
"Get the fuck away!" I demanded as I approached him. There was nothing I hated more than a fag basher. "And take your buddy with you. There won't be any violence here tonight unless it's me kicking your skinny worthless ass."
The guy looked scared, thankfully, and started backing up. A sly smile stretched across his face, betraying what was happening behind me. I turned and met his friend face to face, striking him quickly in the jaw, once again knocking him to the ground. I ducked in time to miss the second guy's lame attack from behind and punched him in the gut, doubling him over and sending him to his knees.
"Look guys, you're not going to win this fight," I reasoned with them, "I fight dirty. I will bite, pull hair, do whatever it takes to win. If you fight me, you had better be wearing a cup, otherwise, I'll leave you infertile and bleeding in the streets." To drive home my point, I kicked the first guy in the nuts with my steel toed boots. He screamed and clutched his crotch. I returned my attention to the second guy, who raised his hands in surrender.
"Okay, dude, we'll go." He practically screamed.
I watched him get to his feet and scramble over to his buddy, gently helping him up. Both of them scurried away into the direction from which they came. When they disappeared from sight, I turned and looked at the boy. He was standing on the corner watching what was going down. He looked both shocked and beautiful at the same time.
I approached him, looking to retrieve my joint, if I could find it.
"Thank you," he said to me as I walked past him. I ignored him, focused on finding my joint. "I don't know what would have happened if they had caught up with me."
"You need to be more careful of who you try to hook up with." I told him, finding my half smoked joint and lighting it up again.
"That's just it, though. I wasn't hitting on them. They just started following me as I left the bus station. When I realized what was happening, I started running."
I looked at him. He was visibly trembling from the event, so I offered him a hit off the joint. He waved it away.
"Are you sure?" I asked, "You look like you could use it."
He changed his mind and gingerly took the joint from me. I watched him take a hit. He took another hit and handed it back to me.
"Maybe they saw you hooking up with another guy."
"I didn't hook up with any guy," he informed me hotly, "The guy I had my eyes on left before I had a chance."
It occurred to me that he could have been talking about me. Maybe he recognized me from when he sucked me off a week prior. I smiled to myself and took another hit, offering him what was left of the joint. He took it and finished it off.