An middle-aged man looks back on times shared with his best friend's family back when he was younger...
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The glow of the fire kept getting dimmer through the wall of the tent I was sleeping in, and the sounds of the nocturnal creatures now were louder than the crackling and popping of the last few embers in the fireplace outside.
The sounds that I wanted to hear had yet to come, and just the thought of that made my heart race as I lay naked, with only a thin sheet over me. Now that I'm in my twenties, the sounds of the forest no longer frighten me, nor does anything else out there. I don't usually sleep naked, but experience has shown that it was much easier this way.
In the beginning, back when I was 18 and unsure of myself, it wasn't like this, and I recall how naive and scared I had been that first time. I was as unprepared for what was about to happen as a guy could be, and while I had wished for the visit to my tent that first time, I had hoped back then it would be Eric and never expected it would be Mr. Kennedy, the father of my best friend.
Although I wasn't a member of the Kennedy family, to the world it probably seemed that I was, because I spent most of my time at their house after my Mom died when I in my teens. My old man kinda gave up after that and just went through the motions, so I enjoyed myself a lot more at my friend Eric's house than at my own.
I kinda wished that Mr. Kennedy was my father, because he was always fun to be around and always very friendly to me, so I liked being around him. When they started inviting me to their annual camping trip to the Adirondacks for Labor Day weekend a few years back, I jumped at the chance, even buying a small tent to use so I didn't crowd them in their family-sized tent.
Now, four years later, Eric and I were still good friends but young men nearly done with college, and despite my life-long crush on my best friend, he had never paid a night-time visit to my tent in all these Labor day weekends. Part of me wishes that he would have, but I think I like it better this way.
The anticipation is excruciating in a way, but it makes what is going to happen even better. One time it happened so late that I was afraid Mr. Kennedy had fallen asleep or something, but he has to make sure Mrs. Kennedy and Eric are out before he visits. I can picture him in his tent, just as anxious and excited as I am, waiting for their breathing to indicate they are out cold.
And there it is - the faint sound of their tent zipper opening, and then a few seconds later comes the sound again as it closes. I hear the footsteps of Mr. Kennedy as he makes his way to the outhouse over by the far campsite. It's a trip I had made a little earlier, the result of all of us having a few beers by the fire, and in my mind I can see him taking his cock out of his boxers and letting the pee fly into the pit toilet.
Now the door of the outhouse creaks open, and now the leaves are crackling and twigs are crunching because the footsteps are coming in the right direction, towards my tent, and as the zipper of my tent comes down, I pretend I'm sleeping.
I wasn't pretending the first time. I had been asleep, so I didn't hear the tent zippers opening and closing or the footsteps approaching. I was unaware of anything until I felt the hairy body against mine under the sheet back then.
"Jay?"
As has been my custom recently, I let out a fake snore that doesn't fool Mr. Kennedy, but gets us both giggling as he closes the tent up behind him and steps out of his boxer shorts while I toss the sheet off me. My lantern is on the lowest possible setting, providing just enough illumination for us to make each other out as Mr. Kennedy joins me on the sleeping mat.
"Something looks good enough to eat," Mr. Kennedy says as he cuddles up next to me, and for the next several minutes he does just that.
After we kiss as we always do, Mr. Kennedy proceeds to make love to my body like no other man has ever done. This scene has evolved over time as well, because early on it was almost over before I knew it, but now, secure in the knowledge that I want this to happen, Mr. Kennedy takes his time.