It was a regular checkup at the cardiac unit at the main hospital on this Caribbean island where I was living. I had stripped to my underpants and put on a white gown in preparation for some sort of test where they stuck electrodes to my chest and a machine sent little charges through me. I don't know what, exactly. That's the hospital's job. In this case the job of a male nurse. He was average height, black skinned and overweight, with his head shaven. A standard young man in that community. And he was wearing a white uniform of a sort of smock and thin, shapeless trousers. At least they were supposed to be shapeless. With him being overweight, the undulations of his body were visible as white hills and valleys. As I lay obediently on my back, he attached electrodes and leaned over me to reach. Then it happened: I felt the bulge of his cock and balls against my arm. I didn't know if this was accidental - it probably was, but then again he was a professional and should have been able to control what he touched and with which part of himself.
I lay there electrified, hoping he would do it again. He stood close to me and looked at the screen. His package was an inch away from me. If I moved to get comfortable, let's say, I could create contact. Nothing overt, nothing to alarm him if he wasn't that way inclined. I was a respectable member of the community and didn't want to jeopardise that. But at that moment what I wanted most in the world was to feel his cock and balls against me.
I lifted myself and moved up a little, then settled back down and as I did, I felt the soft, cool bulk of his salami and plums against my upper arm. He didn't flinch. Nor did I. We were fixed together by gravity, physiology or whatever, and it was the most exciting contact I had ever had outside a bedroom.
I watched the door in case one of his colleagues came in, and at the same time I moved my shoulder a little, so it rubbed against his bulge. Again, he didn't flinch and I imagined he might have even made a movement himself to acknowledge my own and convey that it had been well received.
Suddenly my mind was racing, as was my heart, which wouldn't look good on the machine. A crazy thought flew into my mind. I could quickly pull his trousers down and kiss his bits and suck him. but then the door did open and the specialist entered. But she only picked up a file and left again. The nurse and I had parted an inch or two, but as the door closed we both resumed our positions, my arm against his penis and testicles.
The test was soon over and I was sitting in front of the cardiologist as she looked at the results and chatted in her friendly way. The nurse came in and walked behind her, bent over to reach something and in doing so revealed the contours of his buttocks and the outline of his underpants.
As I left, he was standing talking to the receptionist and I calmly put a "creative writing" business card on the desk in front of him. He nodded casually and said thank you.
It was only three hours before I got his message, but it seemed much longer. I was afraid I had misunderstood his reactions during the appointment, afraid that even if I had been correct, he would change has mind, afraid the receptionist would interrogate him about why I had given him my card. But in addition to these fears, I was afraid I wasn't going to get the opportunity to get together with him. There was something about him that charmed me, reduced me to jelly. I was accustomed to feeling acute lust for a man, but had never wanted to just cuddle up with one.
'Carl,' the message said. 'From the hospital. You want to meet?'
'I do,' I replied. 'My house tonight?' I gave him the address and waited impatiently or 8 o'clock. He arrived on time, wearing track suit bottoms and a t-shirt.
As soon as he walked in we were in a clinch, my hands roaming his body, feeling the soft warm bulk and coming to rest on his bulge, which was hardening nicely. We didn't talk much, didn't explain or clarify. The fact that we couldn't keep our hands off each other did all the talking. Eventually he pulled back.
"Something I should tell you," he said. "I have never been with a guy."
This surprised me, to the extent that I gave a little cough.
"Well, you could have fooled me," I said quietly. "So why did you message me?"
"Cos I feel something when I'm around you," he said. "Hard to explain. When you touched me with your arm, it was an accident I know, but it made me want to touch you back." So he hadn't done it deliberately, or at least he wanted me to think that.