I have a fantasy about my best friend.
We've been close since high school, bros doing bro stuff together, and as the years have gone on and we've gotten older our bro stuff has gotten older too. But we've always maintained the core of our relationship, the bro-dude template that defines everything about who we are. He's the alpha, the bigger, stronger one, the guy who's done more and seen more, and the confident player who has had sex with more women than he can count (eyeroll); and I'm the beta, the skinnier weaker one, the guy who's done little because he worries too much about stuff he can't control, the meek one that can count on two hands the number of women he's slept with because landing every one was a tactical, overthought, hand-wringing conquest.
He's always been bold, outgoing and in-charge -- the top. And I've always been agreeable, influenceable and willing to follow -- clearly, the bottom.
In my fantasy I travel to spend the weekend with him, and it's been years since we last saw each other face to face. I crash at his place, and we easily fall back into our friendship. We hang out, smoke pot, play video games, and chill the day away the way we've always done. We hit the frisbee golf course. We eat fast food in his living room and talk about playing some tabletop games later.
Throughout it all our activities are peppered with the back-and-forth verbal banter and chiding of our broship. We talk about the things we enjoy, our past together and how we got to where we are -- but never without the subtle ribbing and sometimes overt insults that only friends can share.
And like we have never been apart, we easily fall back into the silly and stupidly homophobic game we have always played with one another: gay chicken. The game almost exclusively involves my friend -- Top -- making a graphic sexual overture toward me, so graphic that ideally it will elicit a reaction of disgust from me. Then Top will laugh uproariously and, more than likely, call me gay.
My secret weapon in this long-running game, however, is that I have always been comfortable with homosexuality, and even as a teen when I considered myself straight I harbored frequent gay fantasies. Top's overtures, while graphic, can never affect me the same way such an overture might affect him: a proud, strong man's man that does very little to hide his own homophobia. Although he makes these crude references to creep me out and make himself laugh, he is very, very straight. He will very seriously correct anyone who implies otherwise -- with his fists, if necessary.
It has always been a strange dichotomy, these lurid gay overtures -- but just kidding! -- combined with this sense of frail masculinity and macho, no-homo bravado. A suspicious dichotomy, at that.
So when he fires a volley -- a lurid description of me sucking his dick and him cumming in my hair -- I answer back in cold deadpan. Cum in my hair would be pretty degrading, but I'd rather have it in my mouth.
Then comes the laugh, the belt of over-the-top guffaws, and the surrender. I win this one, unsurprisingly.
My secret weapon is that I don't lie. If he came on me, I
would
want it in my mouth. I'd want to taste it.
That night we drink. I don't generally drink socially, although Top does. I prefer to smoke, but there are times where I would prefer a good drunk. Namely, when I'm getting ready to fuck. And so tonight, when he asks if I want to get some alcohol and get drunk, I say yes.
I'm nervous. Even in my fantasy I am jittery and anxious. Because I know what I want to happen tonight, and I'm pretty sure it's going to happen. These homosexual-explicit games he's been playing with me all these years aren't just Mad Lib, throwaway punchlines to him. They can't be. They're too specific, too detailed, and they've lasted for too long to be just idle banter. Those comments, I'm sure of it, are a secret side of him slipping out, or maybe a choice by his conscious mind to share his deep secret with me.
That's what it has always been. A way of expressing his secret desire, and then back-pedaling from it with laughter, safely avoiding the perceived shame of admitting that he harbors a lust he has been programmed to hate. It's not a line he's casting in the water to see what bites -- because he backs away regardless of how seriously I respond, allowing both of us the "only joking" out from the conversation.
But that's my secret weapon. I never back away from it. I've always played the ambiguous card, the "I might actually be telling you the truth" attitude. With a coy grin, I do it every time.
And tonight the game is going to lead us somewhere. Tonight
it
is going to happen. Liquor is going to break down the barrier, and the porn that we watch together -- which he suggests, as if on cue -- is just going to oil the wheels of the battering ram.
As the shots flow more quickly, the porn we watch begins to shift as well. At first he simply queues through his favorites, showing off girls he finds particularly attractive -- most of which, unsurprisingly, are of the blonde bimbo variety -- and scrubbing through highlights of each video. As we start getting tipsy and talkative, he finds himself distracted and leaves the videos playing. When conversation lulls he turns back to the tv and grows quiet for a bit, his focus on the scene playing out in front of him. Sometimes I say something to break the silence, and sometimes he suddenly realizes he's being quiet and starts talking nervously.
The tension building in the room is building in my chest as well. I'm practically shivering with nervous anticipation.
More shots. He gives control over the porn to me, and I switch to my queue of favorites. I'm not picking scenes featuring my hottest babes, though. The videos I start playing are selections I'm curating with quivering hope for what will happen to me tonight. They are scenes where men aren't just fucking women; they are owning them. Sometimes there is just one man, but those scenes quickly bore me and I click on, looking for the videos I've favorited where groups of men take fervent turns passing around one woman, filling every orifice in grunting, almost angry passion.
Top is watching the screen, one hand absently moving against his lap. After a long silence -- one interrupted only by the groans and screams of the woman on screen, who seems to both hate the men around her and desperately want them inside her -- he finally asks an idle question. It is one I didn't expect, and it catches me off guard.
"You ever think about being her?"
He doesn't look at me when he asks, his gaze locked on the screen ahead. I don't know how to answer. Not because I genuinely don't
know
the answer, but because the question is so pointed and specific and
on-target