I was hungry but I didn't know what for. My wife had left that morning with our baby to visit her mother for the weekend. I'd spent most of the morning laying around, feeling guilty for not going with her. We'd fought about it. I texted her, she didn't text back. I played some video games. I went outside, it was a hot summer day. I looked over the wall that enclosed my yard and saw someone a few yards down, puttering around, a neighbor I didn't know.
Here was I was, twenty-seven years old, in the house we'd just bought six months ago and I felt like a bored teenager. I wished I had some pot, which was weird – I'd smoked only a couple times in college, never since then, I wanted something, anything. I wanted to be a little bad.
So I ordered a pizza. It was something my wife wouldn't abide by. She had a moratorium on all junk food in the house. I got anchovies, pepperoni, and olives, and they said it'd be there in forty-five minutes.
I thought about watching TV. I thought about taking my TV into the back yard and smashing it with a sledgehammer. I got a beer out of the fridge and sucked it down in ten minutes. Then I had another.
I was on my third beer when I got the idea to put some music on – the White Stripes, which was exactly right. I was walking down the hall when I caught a look at myself in the mirror. It made me stop and set down my beer. I was wearing a pair of athletic shorts and a t-shirt with the sleeves cut off. I lifted up the shirt.
I'm hot, was what I was thinking. In fact I sort of looked hotter than I ever have. My black hair was still thick, my jaw strong. My body had thickened but even that looked good, my abs nice and defined with a brush of dark hair over them, hair that became denser as it led into the waistband of my shorts.
I realized I was getting turned on just from looking at myself. It brought back memories of being a horny teenager when all I'd have to do was think about my dick before it would start to get hard. I felt like I hadn't noticed myself in years. When I jacked off, I'd do it before Angela came to bed or in the shower, quick and fast, my eyes closed – a duty to be done. Our sex life was normal, but that was done in the dark, too, and truthfully things had slacked off considerably since Maggie was born.
I ran my hand up my hairy, muscled chest, then back down my stomach and let my fingers dip into my waistband. I wanted to see all of me, because I was pretty sure my cock still looked as good as it had when I was younger, and I was starting to pull down the waistband when the doorbell rang.
Fuck. I had a full boner and now I had to go answer the door. I took some deep breaths and tried to will my cock to soften. It didn't go down much so I tucked it under the waistband and hoped for the best.
What would be the harm in showing off a little, anyway? I thought. I opened the door and there he stood. The pizza guy.
"Hey," he said, nodding his head at me. I'd ordered a large but because the minimum for delivery was fifteen bucks I got a two-liter as well, so both of his hands were full. He was young – twenty-one, if that – with sandy blond hair that curled out from under his baseball cap. He had blond stubble on his square chin and little black spacers in his earlobes. He was in his prime, I suppose, while I was past mine, but you could tell he was wasting it a little, reveling a little too hard in his youth, probably getting fucked up most nights on cheap canned beer and dirt weed. Still, his body was fit and toned under his flour-caked red t-shirt and sort-of-black, kitchen-filthy pants, his posture easy and available.
"It's fifteen fifty," he said. My cock was still tucked back under my waistband but it had softened. I casually let it drop and he didn't seem to notice. I reached for my pocket before I realized I didn't have one.
"Shoot – it's inside." When he shifted on his feet the unglued sole of his ratty black Converse fell open like a mouth. "Hold on a moment?"
"Actually," he said, leaning just slightly in as if to look past me and into the house. "Can I use your bathroom?"
"Sure. Absolutely," I said, opening the door wide and stepping aside. "There's one right down the hall."
"Thanks, man," he said, and stepped past me. He stood there for a moment, awkwardly holding the pizza and soda until I took it from him. I pointed the way and he headed down the hall and into the bathroom. He swung the door behind him but it didn't shut – I was used to this. It bounced back and stayed half-open. The pizza guy didn't try to close it, which seemed strange.
I stood there for a moment as the sound of piss burbling into the toilet came to me, heavy and low. I couldn't remember where my wallet was. Why was I getting so distracted? It was my horniness, I realized. It had just crept up on me. There was something about this young guy, something that registered on a deep part of my brain that I wasn't used to hearing from. Something sexy...
I was just standing there with the food in my hands. I remembered that my wallet was on the kitchen counter. I headed down the hall, the sound of the pizza guy's piss getting a little less robust – he was finishing up. I intended to go quickly past him, to keep my gaze forward, to keep it normal.
When I got to the open door, though, I couldn't stop myself. I glanced inside. I intended it to be just that – glance once then look away – but what I saw so surprised me that I stopped in my tracks.
He was turned away from me but I could just see the front of him, and he was shaking off his cock into the toilet. His cock was huge. It hung low and was beer-can thick. It was sort of impossible to ignore.
He had a hand on the waistband of his underwear, the other hand holding up his jeans, and he was just tucking it inside his underwear when he looked up and our eyes met. It was just a moment, a glance, but my anxiety caught in my throat. I quickly looked away and walked on. The look on his face was inscrutable at that moment – not a rebuke, but not an invitation, either. It was too quick to process.
I set down the pizza and soda and got the money out of my wallet. I was counting it out when he walked into the kitchen. I stole another glance at his crotch, I think – I wanted to know here he was keeping that thing, how it fit in there. He did have a sizeable bulge, it even looked a little swollen, like the root of it was getting larger and making a dome-like tent in his zipper area. I handed him a twenty and a single. "Here you go," I said.
He took the money without a word and tucked it into the front right pocket of his pants. Then he looked at me, a level, serious look that made my heart quicken. He moved his eyes to my still-open wallet.