Mr. William Bryant was one of the more successful businessmen in the city. He had a house that was worth at least a half million, a beautiful wife and two cute daughters.
The reason I know this was that I went with one of his daughters for quite a while, and from that relationship came another relationship that I never saw coming.
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Chapter 1: My girlfriend.
Sarah Bryant was a cute brunette who was the Salutatorian of our high school class back in 1973. She was also my girlfriend for most of our entire senior year and beyond. People said we were a natural pair, because I happened to be the Valedictorian of that same class.
I don't know if many people knew that we were both harboring rather deep secrets about ourselves, but the fact was that we were not your average couple by any stretch of the imagination.
Sarah knew what she was. She was a lesbian. I didn't know what I was, but I was beginning to suspect where my true feelings were.
I liked Sarah, and enjoyed it when we messed around, but there was something missing in it for me. Sarah liked me as well, and didn't mind fooling around with me a little too, but for her our relationship was platonic and more of a front than anything else.
"Even more gross than I thought it would be," Sarah said after the one and only time she ever went down on me. "It tastes disgusting."
That, and the few times when she got me off by hand, were the sum total of my sexual experience with her. I went down on her several times as well, and I didn't mind it at all. Neither did Sarah.
"Your hair is a lot like Sharon Domino's, so I pretend that she's down there instead of you," was Sarah's explanation of her enjoyment.
So I was her beard, which made it easier for her around her family. The cover of a boyfriend removed any suspicions of her sexuality and left her free to enjoy the company of her "girlfriends" from time to time.
I didn't mind, because I was living a bit of a lie myself. It had started when I stayed over at the house of a friend of mine, and we had gotten into his old man's liquor cabinet. I wasn't drunk, and I don't think that Tom was either, and the alcohol was probably used as an excuse for what went on that night.
We lamented about not "getting any" from our respective girlfriends, and before long we had our pajama bottoms off and were stroking our cocks while looking at a Playboy magazine. Tom suggested that it might be more interesting if we jerked each other off instead.
He was right, of course, and after that night we spent many evenings together, lamenting the chastity of our women. We dispensed with the alcohol after that first night, and concentrated on each other. It was a small step from using our hands to using our mouths on each other, and we continued in that manner until Tom left for college.
We maintained to each other that this didn't mean we were homosexual, and what we were doing was merely the result of boredom and lack of sex from the women in our lives, but I knew different. I loved Sarah's mind and her company, but I much preferred what Tom and I did together.
So that was what led up to the day when Sarah's father came up to me in the mail-room of his company. He had given me a job for the summer before college started, which was one of the perks of going with Sarah, and when I saw him come up to me, it was a bit of a shock, because the top executives of the company rarely ventured down into the bowels of the building.
"Say, Jimmy!" Mr. Bryant said cheerfully. "Sarah tells me that you play tennis. Something about being on the school team?"
"I'm not real good," I said sheepishly, which wasn't false modesty but a statement of fact.
"I've been itching to play but my usual partner is sick. How would you feel about playing some?"
"Sure," I said eagerly, always willing to get further on the good side of Mr. Bryant. "When?"
"How about right now?" he suggested, and when I mentioned that I had to work the rest of the day, he laughed and slapped me on the shoulder.
"Work day's over," Mr. Bryant declared, putting his arm around my shoulder and escorting me out the door, and before I knew it, we were tooling out of the parking lot in his Lincoln Continental.
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Chapter 2: Tennis anyone?
After stopping at my house so that I could grab my racquet and clothes, we went to the country club that the Bryant's belonged to. Suffice to say, my family did not belong to any organization like this, so I was in foreign territory from the start.
The locker room wasn't anything like my school's had been either, being much more plush and roomy. I undressed in the cubicle next to Mr. Bryant, trying to keep myself as hidden as possible while doing so, because I was exceptionally modest at that time, with good reason.
Mr. Bryant, on the other hand, seemed to share none of that trait, and I made a conscious effort to avert my eyes from him while he changed.
Mr. Bryant was probably in his mid 40's, but was in great shape. He resembled one of the stars of that TV show, The Man from Uncle. Not Napoleon Solo, but the other guy. Robert Vaughn. He was about my height, 5'9" or so, but Mr. Bryant was solidly built, especially compared to me.
The tennis went well. Although Mr. Bryant was physically much stronger than I was, he had a few weaknesses in his game that I was able to exploit, and by the middle of the first set, I was reasonably sure that I could beat him. The question was whether that was a good idea or not.
In the end, I figured that if he thought I was letting him win, he might get a lot madder than he would if he just lost, so I kept the match close enough to make it interesting, before pulling out both sets, 6-4, 6-4.
"My backhand stinks!" Mr. Bryant declared after his final shot sailed harmlessly over my head and we met at the net.
"I was lucky," I said as we shook hands at the net.
"Bullshit, but thanks for being kind," he laughed while we gathered up our things on the side of the court.
As Mr. Bryant picked up his racquet's cover, I looked at his legs, which were incredibly hairy. The hair was thick and jet black and covered them like a pelt, which also contrasted with my pale and virtually hairless legs.
As we walked back into the locker room, it struck me that we were probably going to take a shower, because it was a warm day and we were both dripping with perspiration. There was no way of getting out of it that I could think of, except for maybe not having a towel.
Nothing against showers, mind you. I never minded taking showers back in gym class, where I would run to a corner and hide myself as much as possible while peeking around at the other guys. That was what most of us did, while the well-endowed guys would walk around brazenly showing off their stuff.