Lust, Like Thirst: 1 La Guitarra
These 3 stories are about sexuality and our desires for it. They explore bisexuality, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. They are not about judgments of sexual preference, but about our seeming insatiable desires regarding sex. If you have certain hangups, fine. These stories are not for masturbation. I would greatly appreciate your comments and votes. ]
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I am sitting in a Starbuck's, trying to drink coffee from the cup shaking in my hands. I don't remember being this nervous about anything.
[author, why am i such a dolt at the beginning of every story you put me in? can't i for once, just once, be a strong character from the get-go?
development, michael. it's called character development. you're a main character and main characters always must change in a story. sometimes they get better. sometimes not. maybe you are starting strong and you'll became more of a dolt! we'll see.]
I had met Roberto online in a "bi-4-bi" chatroom. He was easy to talk to, had a great sense of humor. We enjoyed many of the same interests. We're both in our early 50s. He's married; I'm divorced, maybe looking. But mostly, we weren't online to discuss cooking or Spanish music or life in the suburbs. We both really wanted to suck cock. We each had dreamed off and on about it much of our lives, fantasized about it, swapped pictures of men sucking men nine ways to Sunday
We exchanged photos of each other. He wasn't the "hot shit" looker of my dreams, but he wasn't bad. 5'11", 180 pounds. In decent shape for our age. I'm sure I wasn't the spicy chorizo he had imagined in his fantasies either! I'm an inch shorter and 15 pounds lighter. I am "muy blanco," not a Latin lover he might prefer! I lift weights but am not a bodybuilder. Just enough for some tone. Most people who don't know me think I'm in my mid-40s. Neither of us had wanted a "pick-up and suck" experience.
That must be him, I think. He said he'd wear a black leather jacket and jeans. Yeah, he looks like his picture, better looking in person. I look at his ass. A lot better looking in person. That'll be a nice ass to hold onto, I think. I told him to look for a guy in black jeans and black western boots with chains. Long brownish-blond hair. Still got a little hippie in me! Got gassed by Daley's pigs in Grant Park in 1968.
As he waits for his order, he looks around the cafe. I don't know whether to wave or let him find me. I look at him, willing him to see me. He does, and nods his head in recognition. Shit! I can hardly breathe! Was I ever this nervous with a woman? Maybe. I watch as he approaches my table. He is not wearing underwear, his cock tucked down the left side of his levis.
"Hello, Michael," he says quietly with a smile, sitting down.
"Buenos Dios, Roberto!" I clumsily say, trying to rolls my R's. Nothing in our chats indicated he spoke Spanish regularly, though he has mentioned visiting relatives in Puerta Vallarta and eating pollo de mole at Las Cazuelas. He looked of mixed blood in his photo.
"Nice boots, Michael!" he says. "Muy caliente!" I'm sure I blush. He laughs. I lift my cup and my hand shakes so much half the coffee spills on my lap. He laughs again.
"If we were at my house, I'd lick you clean!" I feel a tingle in my crotch.
[he's a nice guy. he's trying to make you relax, michael. let the story unfold.
jesus, author, i'm 54 years old, never been sexual with a man, and you tell me to relax! you fucking try it!
i did. relax.]
We make small talk. No, the Cubs will not win a fucking thing, again. Yes, it's been a sweltering summer-and my lawn crunches beneath my feet. His brown eyes sparkle. He tries to be light and I am sodden. If this is an interview, I am not going to get the job. I answer his questions in monosyllables. I look away from him. I am lukewarm and flat, a bottle of cerveza in the sun.
"Can we walk, Roberto? I need to walk these nerves off." He understands. We take our coffee outside.
"Roberto, I'm sorry. I'm a much nicer person than I am showing you now," I say as we walk.
"I know you are, Michael. From our chats. I am quaking too, inside. Look, I think we know what we want to about each other. We're already friends, sort of. We both like to cook. We like blues and flamenco guitar. I still like soccer much more than you. I will change your mind! Now, we've met. Why don't we just suck each other like we say we want to?"
I stop and look at him. So nice and simple. No courting. No notes or flowers or conversations filled with innuendo. No parry and thrust. I smile.
"I cannot wait! Really!" I say. I mean it. "Nice ass, Roberto. Very nice ass!" I think he also blushes, but he is darkened from the summer sun.
"Wear those boots, Gringo. You're really sexy in them!" I never thought a man saying that would get me excited, but we part and I am half hard. A good sign.
His wife knows he thinks he is bi. She understands, he said, knows something about lust herself. So far it is all just talk, hypothetical; he does not know how she will react when his desires become reality. Fuck, he says, neither does he. They have been married only a year. Her ex-husband, Bret, taught business at the University of Wisconsin. He was bisexual as well. She has told Roberto she would rather have him use their house than go to some motel or the back of a van. She is a wonderful woman, he has told me, a spiritual, sensual, beautiful woman. His bi desires do not relfect on his feelings toward her. They have a good sex life. He and I just crave cock.