I sat in the corner of a coffee shop Saturday morning, watching the local news on my tablet, earbud in my ear, when a man walked up to me. He wore a bright smile and a beige pea coat with silver buttons, skinny jeans and ankle height navy blue suede boots with a grey, 3 inch wooden heel. His hair was shaved on one side and flipped over against his shoulder on the other.
If you told me, when I was a straight male 6 months ago that I'd find this twink both pretty and desirable, I would have laughed.
"It sucks to find a handsome one like you and see that you're taken." He said with a flamboyant lilt to his voice. Not too much, but noticeable. He jerked his chin towards me, eyes on the leather strap hanging around my neck with a small padlock through the d-rings on each end of it.
"Something like that." I said, pulling the earbuds from my ears. I wound the cord around my hand and folded it on top of my tablet. "But I don't mind a chat."
The stranger took a seat across from me and he crossed his legs. I looked into those baby blue eyes, catlike with the perfect wing eyeliner.
6 months ago, I would have laughed at him and called him a faggot. It always made me feel so guilty about being friendly now, knowing how I would have treated him, had my life not taken the turn it did.
We probably never even would have said hello, or noticed each other either.
"Care to elaborate?" He asked, to which I followed up with a confused, "Sorry?"
"What do you mean, 'something like that'." He repeated. Oh. He wanted a story.
I shrugged. "I am a houseboy." I was shown off so often that the word was a fact of life, and he had no shame left to hide it away with. Besides, there were worse things to be called.
"You're far from looking like the usual submissive twink." He said with a laugh.
"And you look like the exact definition of a submissive twink." I smirked. "I play soccer. So I'm athletic."
"Soccer! Fun fun."
"You hate sports." It wasn't a question, but a frank observation.
"No, no... Hate is a strong word. Let's just say I'm willing to watch the boys and I can get halfway through any game and not even know what ball they're tossing back and forth."
I laughed at that, and crossed my arms across my chest absentmindedly. My coffee time companion must have enjoyed the way it emphasized my chest and arms because when his eyes moved down, he made a satisfied kind of "mm" sound.
"I have a small feeling that going from jock to houseboy wasn't on your bucket list."
"Your gaydar seemed to light up when you saw me, what makes you say that?"
"Sweetie, gaydar isn't a thing." he shook his head. "For all I know, you could have been some poor cuck with a wife getting in someone else's pants and letting you lick her load."
"Fair enough, fair enough." I said, almost too dismissively.
"Whoredar, however, I'll claim that's a thing. Wait, you're not really a cuck are you?"
I turned red and stared over his shoulder through the narrow windows at the front of the shop. "Isn't that when you can't have sex and your partner has as much as they want?" I asked. Half a year into this lifestyle, I was still learning about some of the kinkier stuff. And I didn't want to admit to this guy how inexperienced I was, despite how loose my ass was from servicing the house.
"That's right." he narrowed his eyes. "See? This conversation would be a lot less entertaining if this whole thing had been on your bucket list for 15 year old you creaming into a sock."
"I... ah...." I sighed, throwing my hands up. "Fine! Yeah, you're right. I was kind of given no choice in this." I rubbed the back of my neck, slightly embarrassed by his pointed questions.
"No choice?" his eyes furrowed. He looked like he was ready to kick someones ass. I couldn't imagine a man of his size would do much damage against anyone in the house, especially in those boots. He didn't even know me, I actually felt honored.
"Oh! No, no, nothing like that. Its just, I um..." I looked up into his baby blue eyes, lost for a moment. I was opening up to him pretty fast, considering how guarded I've always been in my life. "I had to trade, well, services... for some help in school."
"Oh! oh... Oh! So the epitome of jock stereotype does exist." he jabbed, laughing goodheartedly.
I chuckled with him. "Yeah, yeah. Well... I uh... I can't read." I swallowed. "So... there's that."
"What! No! Scandal! How did you even get through highschool?"
"I fucked half my teachers." I said, rubbing the stubble on my chin. "And I fucked the Valedictorian. And then I found out the Dean was sleeping with one of the female students and blackmailed him to get through my state tests. Plus a few other unworthy moments." I shrugged. "Then I got a full ride scholarship to the University, and I realized that high school is nothing like the real world."
"Why did you never learn?"