"Krit, you go on up to the King's Room and give the man up there a massage and a blow job, if he wants it, until Louie comes. He's come for Louie, but Louie's not here yet. The man's one of our best patrons, so treat him right, you hear?--but not too right, mind you."
I did understand that. At eighteen and new to Madam Cherie's, I was just in training. I hadn't gone the limit with a patron yet, and Madam Cherie didn't want me to yet.
"Saving you for Mardi Gras, honey," Madam C had said. "We'll dress you up to be irresistible in swan and peacock feathers, a tiny Speedo, your nice little body all oiled up, and sequins all over, and put you on the balcony, letting passing patrons know your male cherry is up for auction the last day of Mardi Gras. Nothing 'til then. This patron, though, he's got money and he comes regularly. It's a good idea to give him a teaser on what he could have from you if he bids."
I was ready. I knew what getting a job at Madam Cherie's meant. You had to be really something to work here. I'd been practicing with a dildo. I was ready, not that I had a good idea what it was going to be like.
Madam Cherie had caught me when I passed with fresh towels in the entrance hallway where the brothel manager stationed most of the time. Massages and a few blow jobs: that's the most I'd done at Madam Cherie's on Bienville Street in the French Quarter. I was being trained up to full servicing. I was only eighteen and was a five-foot nothing Thai to boot. I wasn't the usual whore-boy for New Orleans. Madam Cherie wanted to develop me specially.
Madam C slapped me up the back of the head to get me going and I mounted the stairs to go to the King's Room. It was called that because it honored Mardi Gras--the king of Mardi Gras. Madam Cherie's got the festival monarch's costume one year, which had been hung on the wall in there. His fancy boots sat by a chair, his crown rested on the dresser, and his scepter, topped by a cupped rubber hand, took up a place of honor on top of the mantelpiece.
When I came into the room, the man was standing out on the balcony overlooking Bienville Street, leaning over the fancy wrought iron railing, and getting himself a smoke. When he saw me at the bedroom door, holding a towel and a bottle of warm and scented oil, he flipped the cigarette over the balcony and came back through the French doors. He already was stripped down to the waist, and he was one magnificently muscled black man. His muscles had muscles all their own. He looked to be pushing forty, but not hard. But he had one hard body, I'll tell you that. Mean and virile looking he was.
I remembered thinking that I wouldn't mind it if he was the one to have my ass the first time. That thought turned out to be prophetic.
"You ain't Louie," he said to me.
"No, Sir, I ain't. Louie's coming, but, sorry, Louie ain't here yet. I don't think he knew he was wanted today. I can give you massage, relax you for Louie, if you like. That's as much as I supposed to do."
"Why is that the most?" he asked. "Because you're someone special? You certainly a piece that's different."
"No, sir. I'm just not one of the boys yet?"
"Because you haven't been ridden yet?"
"Thas' right," I answered. I was holding a couple of sets of towels as if I'd just happened to be supplying the rooms. I'd leave it up to him on whether he'd take anyone but Louie to give him a little bit of attention until Louie could get here. Madam C had said the man didn't have an appointment, so he could not expect Louie being here for him.
"How old are you, boy?" the man asked, his voice gruff. "You old enough to be in this house?"
"I'm eighteen," I answered. "From Thailand. We're built small there. I can give you a good massage if you like--a special Thai massage." He'd been right to wonder if I was old enough to be working in a male brothel or anywhere else. We Thai age late and a lot of us, including me, are small. But I was old enough. Just. I was here and I worked here. I knew what the other young men who worked here did for their pay. I gave good massages and blow jobs when the massages went there, but not more--not more so far. But I was working my way in to full service in this business. I think I'd be able to hold my own after that Mardi Gras auction. That was when I'd get added to the stable here.
"Sweet. A miniature man. Nice body. Slim hips. Splitting the difference will be fun. Yes, I'd like a special Thai massage. There on the bed? Stripped down?"
I didn't know what some of what he said meant, but I was here to mark time for him and keep him from yelling up the house until Louie could get here. "Yes, sir, there on the bed, if you please. Down to your shorts and on your belly, please."
The bed was a four poster, serving both as a bed and as a many-configuration X-frame. This was a male brothel.
"Come here," he growled, still standing by the door to the balcony, and, dropping the bottle of oil and towel on the bed, I went over to him. The patron is king in this house.
He was unbuckling and unzipping his trousers, and was stepping out of them. What they revealed went with the rest of him--big, muscular, and ready to go. When I reached him, he pressed down on my shoulders, making me kneel in front of him. He ran his hands into my hair and pressed my face to his crotch. He was going hard down there, and he was huge.
"You do more than give a massage, boy?" he asked, a husky tone moving into his voice.
"A bit more, Sir," I answered. "Not the whole thing, though. Not that yet. I'm in training. I'm just eighteen."
"I can train you," he said. "And I don't care if you're eighteen. In fact, I like that. Give me that 'bit more'. You'll give me a blow job, won't you?"
"Yas, Sir. I can do that."