I hadn't made up my mind whether I wanted to fuck or be fucked that night, so I lost out altogether—or so it seemed at the time. There hadn't been much pickings in Bill's, a hole-in-the wall gay pick-up bar tucked away in an alley off Maunganui Road in the Mount Maunganui district leading up from the cruise ship wharf to Mount Maunganui.
When I'd first stumbled on Tauranga, a resort town on the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand's North Island, I'd thought that New Zealanders sort of went into a deep, nonimaginative grove on giving out their place names. But quite quickly I learned that it didn't mean much that they were so repetitive; I didn't have a prayer of being able to pronounce the names correctly anyway.
I had arrived here a month earlier while nearly two-thirds around on my "great postcollege adventure" of circumnavigating the world, with most of the expense being covered by stopping in one place and doing odd jobs until I'd earned enough to move on. I'd had some of the oddest of jobs, and I was half thinking of writing a book about that when I got back to the States. Here in Tauranga I'd started off work right here at Bill's as a bartender and had saved lodging money by sleeping in the back room with Bill—but Bill snored something fierce after sex—which he wanted to have often—so I'd moved into a room of my own after a couple of weeks and had also landed a bit better-paying job.
I was good with computers—certainly a lot better than most anyone in this remote corner of the world—so I was hired on to a firm called Need-A-Nerd, which outfitted me with a small bubble of a car in a sick luminescent green color with advertising all over it and sent me around the town, such as it was, helping people set up and troubleshoot their computers in their own places of business or homes.
That evening I was using my new job to maybe wriggle into the bed of one of the blokes in the bar who looked like he'd pay well for a fuck. He was past fifty, I was sure, but he dressed elegantly and was in good shape—and I didn't think he'd have come into a bar like Bill's unless he was on the make. Guys like him had actually been the most lucrative of my "odd jobs" wherever I'd gone on my world travels. They had money, were lonely, and wanted someone to hold them close and fuck them for a one-night stand or a weekend at the most. I figured if I included that part of the "jobs" in my book, I'd have a bestseller.
This guy and Bill had been talking about computers and how difficult they were to figure out when I'd come into the bar, so I sat down and started jawing with them. I flipped out my card and gave it to the man on the off chance that the guy would take the bait and invite me to his house—which I found out was on the Marine Parade, overlooking Main Beach, which was the high-priced section of town—to look at his computer and maybe into his baby blues as I fucked him for a nice piece of change.
But all of the time I was talking to him, I was eyeing—and being eyed by—a hunky muscle guy who was sitting at the end of the bar. He was about my age and was an obvious top; decked out in flip flops; baggy gym shorts, inside which I could see a pair of humongous gonads when he lifted his leg; and an athletic T-shirt that strained across his chest even though I figured it was at least a 2XX. The top/bottom bit didn't phase me. I could go either way. For money, I'd top; but for fun, I was just as happy to bottom. And that was my quandary. Did I want to fuck and make a bit of extra money tonight or did I want to have fun. The more mature guy talking with Bill and me at the bar, or that dangerous looking muscle guy at the end of the bar who was nursing his drink and giving me "the look."
Bill's itch interceded, however.
"Hey, Dan," he said. "Got an itch. You feel like doin' some paying up of your bar tab?"
Bill was standing away from the bar, leaning up against the counter behind the bar, and he was rubbing his crotch with one of his hands. I knew what kind of itch he was talking about—as well as what sort of "paying up" he had in mind. And my bar tab was pretty hefty, so I said, "Sure, why not?"
"Hold down the bar for a few," Bill tossed over his shoulder to Tony, his new bartender—and, as far as I knew, the guy who now had to put up with Bill's snoring. I went around the bar, and Bill, a big mitt on my rump, guided me into his back room, which functioned as his living and sleeping quarters as well as the liquor storage locker.
I went down on my knees in the center of the room and unbuckled and unzipped him. Then I let him guide my head with his hands palming my ears as I opened my mouth for him to face fuck. When he was fully engorged, I bent over a stack of beer create as he snapped a condom on and lubed my ass and then slow fucked me.
Bill took his jolly time getting his rocks off, and when we returned to the bar, both of my prospects for the evening—the guy at the bar I was cultivating for someone I could earn some money off fucking and the muscle hunk at the other end of the bar who I might have enjoyed bottoming for—were gone. There being little other action that evening, I figured they'd left together.
I left some afterward, no one else having showed up that I was interested in and being somewhat satisfied that I'd at least worked off some of my bar tab and hadn't had to lay around listening to Bill snore.
The next day, when I arrived at the office, Bruce, the office manager, was all in a dander.
"You're fifteen minutes late," he said and looked menacingly at me like I'd been fiddling with the company safe or something. Bruce was quite a mountain of a guy—at least half Maori, I think—and I didn't want to cross him. But it had seemed to be a pretty laid-back operation here, so I had no idea I might be in trouble.
"Well, not too many people are in the mood to fight with their computer and call us at nine in the morning, I would think. Or at least that's the pattern I've seen working here," I responded. I'd had to sleep alone last night—and for some reason that had helped make me late. I'm used to blokes who want me up and out of their house at the crack of dawn with at least the temporary hope that the neighborhood didn't know I'd had my cock working in the ass channel of one of their upstanding nearby residents all night.
"Well, there've been two calls already this morning—asking for you specifically and sayin' they needed your help urgently." Bruce said it as if I'd had a way of knowing about the calls.