"This isn't something I usually do. I can't believe I'm doing this."
"Same here," I answered as the young man let me lead him off of the trail that wound through the woods of the State Park, and although I had no idea whether my new-found friend was telling me the truth or not, I had been.
I didn't do this sort of thing usually, at least not since I was his age, which I guessed to be 19 or so, since he was going to be a college sophomore come fall. Since I was three times young Taylor's age, we made an unlikely pair, but this wasn't love, just lust.
The lust was mine, and although our paths had crossed a couple of times over the last few days while jogging through the park, today was the first time that we had spoken. The conversation was brief, and while he was briefly taken aback by my rather crude comment that followed our sharing notes about the weather, he barely blinked when he responded.
"I would really like to suck your cock," I had blurted out in a totally uncharacteristic move on my part, a result of standing close to the reed thin runner who had to be a half foot taller than my 5'9" and finding myself drawn to him like a moth to a flame.
The look on his face, along with the fact that he didn't haul off and belt me in the mouth after hearing that, confirmed that my "gaydar" was still working at my advanced age.
"Like, I'm all sweaty man," Taylor had said with his hands on his bony hips.
"I can see that," I had replied while watching beads of sweat cascading off of Taylor's modest spray of golden armpit hair, and assured him that if he gave me the chance I would make him perspire even more.
"But where? I've got a roommate, and he's kinda..."