**This is my first attempt at starting a series. I've got some ideas for how I see this story progressing as long as there is interest in Derek and Tristans story so please, any feedback is welcome! -KS8**
It was the first day of spring break and I was getting ready to go to a party. Most of my friend group decided to stay on campus, as we couldn't afford to travel anywhere for vacation nor did we want to go back home under the watchful eyes of our parents. Being college freshman, we had been greatly enjoying the newfound freedom this year. One of our upperclassmen friends with an off-campus house was throwing a party with his roommates and I have to admit, I was excited. I knew Derek would be there.
Derek is the brother of my best friend at school, Victoria or Tori as we called her. Derek went to university too and was a junior. And he is gorgeous. 6 ft 2, 200 pounds of lean muscle, his body is like that of an underwear model. Which was unsurprising considering he did model underwear part time for extra money whenever he could get a job doing so. He has brown eyes like a puppy dog and short sandy blonde hair that looks like it belongs in 2001. It works for him though. His straight teeth are white but not obnoxiously white and he has the cutest little button nose you'd ever see. And his cheeks had dimples, which I'm a sucker for. He was majorly popular with all the sorority girls, which greatly annoyed Tori. And me too if I'm being completely honest.
I'm far from the preppy valley girls that fawned all over him. For one, I was a boy. 5'6 130 pounds with green eyes and brown hair, I am decently attractive even if I was a small guy and looked a little plain. I'd only recently come out of the closet to my closest friends to the surprise of, well, all of them. I pass extremely well, mostly because of my deep masculine voice and the fact I really do have the personality and interests of what society considers heteronormative.
I'd liked Derek ever since I first met him, when tori introduced us the second week of the fall semester. He was a super nice, easy going guy from the jump that seemed oblivious to the fact he was drop dead gorgeous. He was just so aloof but he was confident.
"Tristan, this is Derek my douche brother I was telling you about!" Tori had said when introducing us.
"Hey Tristan, I'm Derek. Tori's totally awesome older brother that got all the good genes", he reintroduced himself.
I giggled at him and he gave me a little sheepish smile as if pleased with himself that he'd made me laugh.
Derek was always super friendly with me, almost too friendly. He was a touchy-feely kind of guy with everyone, so even though I didn't read into it when he'd put his hand on the small of my back whenever he'd pass by or throw an arm around me whenever he came up from behind on a conversation I was having, I always got flustered. I couldn't help it, he just had that affect on me and I was sure it was obvious to tori and the friends that knew I was gay. I even felt guilty sometimes, wondering if I should tell him I was because most guys aren't comfortable with that kind of thing.
Even still, I'd begun to notice he was a little more attentive to me in the last couple months. He was always friendly, like I said but he didn't make a point to talk to me or wave every time he saw me at a party or around campus. Yet here lately, I could expect him to come right up to me anytime we saw each other.
When I showed up to the party, Derek was with a couple of his buddies surrounded by the usual girls all flirting with him as if competing on an episode of the bachelor. As soon as he saw me come in, he just abruptly walked away from them, one girl in mid-conversation with him. When he got to me, he was all smiles.
"Hey Tris, how was your first day of spring break?" He asked earnestly. Yeah, he calls me Tris and I have to admit, every time he did my stomach would do somersaults. That wasn't so unusual, he had nicknames for his best friends and he's the one who gave Tori hers.
"It was okay, I just slept all day to be honest! I've been looking forward to this party ever since I got up" I answered him.
"Yeah dude, you even dressed up for it!" He said ironically, given that he only had a white undershirt on and khaki shorts. Only Derek could pull off that look at a party full of frat bros in polos.
I rolled my eyes but smiled. "Not all of us are lucky enough to be able to dress like 14 year olds and still get lucky Derek." I said.
"Ah, It's part of the charm" Derek said, shrugging his shoulders and smiling.
And so the party went on, Tori and our friends Ana and John showed up about 30 minutes later. Normally, Derek would have said his hellos and then went back to whatever bimbo was trying to get with him that night or his friends. But I noticed tonight, he was hanging out with us. In fact, he was practically swatting girls away like they were annoying bugs that night.
We all got pretty wasted and eventually, tori went off with this guy she'd been talking to all semester. John and Ana disappeared not long after, no doubt to go have sex. They thought they were sneaky but really, it was the worst kept secret amongst our friends. That left me and Derek there with his buddies. His friends were kind of jerks and loved to fuck with the freshman, especially the small ones like me. I took it in good humor though and had a good time. Finally, pretty drunk, I decided it was time to go when his friends went to get more drinks. I didn't want to risk blacking out and having to find my way back to my dorm.
"Well, I guess I'm gonna head back to the dorm and crash man. If I drink much more, I'm gonna end up sleeping in the bushes somewhere" I joked to Derek.
"Why don't you just come back to my place tonight? Its just a few doors down from here man, we'll go back and have a couple drinks, maybe watch something and pass out!"
I hesitated. If I was sober, I'd definitely have turned the offer down on account of not wanting to risk making things awkward with my best friend by somehow making a mistake that cued her brother in on how I felt about him.
"Okay man, that sounds good to me! I guess are you ready then?" I wasn't wasted but I was drunk enough to be stupid tonight.
"Yeah, let's head out" Derek responded.
And so without telling anybody, we just left the party and started walking up the street. We were laughing about Tori and whether or not she'd finally put out for the first time. She was a dedicated virgin and it was well known.
Then Derek looked at me and asked "How about you, are you a virgin?"
I blushed; I was. It's not that I was embarrassed, I just wasn't expecting the question.
"Don't laugh...but yeah, I am." I responded. Being from a small town in North Carolina, finding another gay guy was hard to do seeing as I was picky and, well, the Bible belt and all. I did experiment with a friend though and blew him a few times before he decided it was too gay. But that's the only thing I'd ever done.
"Really? That's kind of surprising...what's the furthest you've ever gone with someone?" He asked.
"Uh..." I noticed he said someone and not a girl. "Well..." I hesitated, unsure if I wanted to tell him the truth.
"I know you're gay Tris, you can tell me." He said with a knowing smile.
I was kind of stung. Not because he knew but because I thought Tori had told my business to him. I guess he could tell because before I could answer, he added "Nobody's told me anything, it's just kind of obvious to me. I'm sure nobody else can tell though."
"Oh...well then..." I paused. "I gave a high school friend a blowjob."
"Interesting..."