Author's Note: This is a pretty quick and silly story. Just something I felt like trying out. All characters over eighteen.
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We were having a party again. College boys with their own apartment, I guess it had to happen. It wasn't really my thing, but at least it wasn't that bad. Too many people in too small a space, and too much noise, but not at a totally uncontrolled level.
I nursed a beer and hung out for a bit, trying to be more of an extrovert than I really was. Mostly I was just glad when Vic found me again. I'd lost track of him, and he tended to be my security blanket in crowded situations.
Vic was almost a head taller than me and notably broader, so just physically he was a comforting presence for me in a crowd. I had always been a bit too small for my own liking, not that it was a big deal.
More importantly, Vic just had a way about him, the way he talked and moved with me that made me feel safe. Like when he pattered up next to me and casually put a hand on my back, letting me know he was there.
"Hey Link," he said.
"Hey Vic," I replied, already feeling better about everything with him next to me. Not that I was freaking out or anything like that, but everything was that much smoother now. "Lost track of you there."
"Yeah, sorry," Vic said. "Trying to flirt with cute girls and stuff. You know how it is."
I nodded. "Of course, bro. Gotta flirt with cute girls."
Vic's hand slipped around my side so he could tug me a little closer and kiss the side of my forehead. "Exactly. So hey, speaking of which, I might need a little help with something, if you're up for it."
I nodded even harder. "Of course! Anytime bro, you know that."
"Thanks bro," Vic said. He tilted my head for a quick kiss, then took my hand. "No homo," he added.
Jessie, a part of the current loose conversation and girlfriend of our roommate James, frowned for a second. "Hang on, are you two together? I didn't know that. Why were you just saying you were off flirting then?"
James looked askance at her. "Babe, they aren't together."
"He... he just kissed him though," Jessie said. "And they're holding hands."
"Oh that," James said. "Well Vic said no homo, so it's all good."
"Yeah," Derek, our other roommate, added, slurring in a slightly drunken fashion. "Just two best bros, straight and manly as they come. Does she not know about no homo?"
Jessie rolled her eyes. "Are you all serious right now? It's ok to be gay, you know. And saying no homo doesn't--"
She got interrupted by both James and Derek jumping in to explain the nuance of how big, strong, manly men sometimes did things that could be considered gay, but it was ok as long as their balls didn't touch, and crucially if they said no homo afterward. Scientifically proven.
Vic laughed and dragged me along behind him to his room.
"Who do you think's gonna win that argument?" I asked as Vic closed the door behind us.
"No idea," Vic said. "I think in general Jessie's probably right. But she just doesn't get all the nuance. Like of our situation in particular."
"Right, of course," I said. "Bros helping bros isn't gay or anything."
"Exactly." Vic dropped his pants.
I quickly fell to my knees so I could pull his boxers down and let his part-erection spring free right in my face. I kind of loved that first bounce of his partly-hard cock getting pulled out.
"Although I do kind of get why someone might enjoy being gay sometimes," Vic added in a softer, huskier tone while looking down at me. "If they have a cute boy in front of them, down on his knees like that. Not in our case, I mean. We're just taking care of business like straight bros do."
I blushed and wrapped my fingers around Vic's cock, feeling it pulse even further to life in my hand. Sometimes the way he spoke about me made me feel all nice and tingly inside. Part of why he was my best friend was how nice it felt to be appreciated even though I really wasn't overly big and strong and tough. I didn't want to be cute for most people. But for Vic....
"Helping bros out is practically as straight as it gets," I said right before sliding my lips over the tip of Vic's cock.
He groaned in that sexy voice of his. "Damn right it is. Fuck, you've always got the best mouth, Link. No homo."
I blushed deeper and started sucking him for real. I was pretty good at taking his cock these days, with all the practice I got. Vic needed a hand with his dick an awful lot. Always getting hard over pretty girls and all. Poor guy never got any dates out of it though. I couldn't understand it personally. I'd date him so hard if I was a girl.
Vic's hands patted my head and stroked my hair. He never tried to control how I sucked him, even though I wouldn't have minded if he wanted to face-fuck me a little. He just always seemed happy that I'd help him out, and seemed quite pleased generally with my level of service. It was almost too bad these skills I was developing with him weren't really transferable to anything or anyone else in my life.
I sucked him a bit sloppily, the way I knew he liked. I took his whole cock deep in my mouth, down my throat, even looking up at him sometimes with my mouth full. I knew all the little touches he liked and how to make him cum so good. The least I could do for my best bro.
"Ah, so good," Vic moaned.
I tingled and kept sucking him. I could feel the way he was twitching and leaking precum into my mouth. He was going to cum soon, and even though I kind of wanted to delay it, just a little, I decided to stick with nice, hard, efficient cummies.
My mouth flooded with hot cum, rewarding my efforts. I drank it down, not spilling any embarrassing drop, and made sure to clean up Vic's cock after with my tongue.
I sat back on my heels and gazed up at him. "No homo."
Vic nodded and pulled his pants back up. "Thanks bro. You're always the best." He lifted me back to my feet and kissed me softly. "No homo."
We padded back out to the party together, my hand firmly in Vic's. I was still a shy, blushy little thing in the aftermath, and even clingier than usual. Helping Vic out often did that to me. I didn't want to let go of him after.
He understood, and after grabbing us each a fresh beer he let me curl up in his lap on the couch. He held me against him with a hand on my side, under my shirt, just making sure I was ok.
I kind of drowned out everything else around us, just focused on Vic's warmth and the feel of him against me, the soft pound of his heartbeat in his chest, and the way he started to get hard all over again when I wiggled just right in his lap. Just bro things, essentially.
Jessie sat down on the couch too, right in my eyeline where I was sitting sideways. Vic was talking and laughing with another group, so Jessie and I just watched each other.
"You're really not together?" she asked.
"Ha, no. Just best bros," I said.
"Even with all the cuddling?" Jessie prodded.
I considered the question. "You think this is cuddling?"
"You're firmly in his lap, and his hand's up your shirt."
"Oh," I said. "That. That's only because I get shy and cold."
"You're cold?"
"And shy."
Jessie waved her hand around. "Shy I get. Cold? There are so many people in here you can't possibly be cold. Even I'm too warm, and that's rare."
"Well... his hand's warm, and it feels nice," I said.