Chapter 1 Steve, a summer bartender, meets a a new friend
This is an original work, Copyright, 2023, and entirely fictional. Any resemblance to living persons or places is coincidental. All characters portrayed in any remotely sexual activity are over 18. If male on male explicit sexual descriptions are not your thing, please feel free to move on. This is the first of a three chapter story, all of which have been written (and will post on approximately consecutive days). Thanks. BD
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I hesitated before deciding to tell this story as I suspect it is fairly typical--the casual summer sexual romance of two twenty-somethings. But, here goes. My name is Steve Holmgren and currently I am working as a summer waiter and occasional bartender at an upscale restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. I've spent a typical day so far: late morning and early afternoon in the sun among a large number of scantily-suited, body-beautiful college age guys and girls. It's time to clock in at the restaurant for the evening shift which I pulled today.
Rehoboth is a beach town which draws its summer clientele from the Washington and Baltimore metros--and a few from Philadelphia. Historically, it was a place for church bible and revival "camps", but in recent years it has become an upscale weekend and summer hangout for busy urbanites, many associated with the Federal government and those who profit from it. It's a fairly young town, obviously no longer dry, and by no means mono-hetero. Dewey, the town on the beach immediately to the south, has one of the few openly gay (and nearly nude) beaches on the East Coast--at least for a few blocks.
I've just finished my third year at Georgetown where I made the JV rowing and varsity swimming teams. I was originally from Owings Mills, MD and a large family. (I am the youngest of six--yeah, Mom was conservative Roman Catholic, but she would be horrified at what has happened to her church where piety is now defined as ultra-conservative godless politics bordering on theocracy and focused on abortion, contraception, and sexual identity--but that is for another story.) Mom died when I was 14 and Dad sent me--the last still at home--to Phillips. He was a pharma exec and spent long hours in the lab and days away at testing sites and drug conferences. Two years ago, he retired to a planned community near Rehoboth and built a nice home with a large workshop/lab where he continues to tinker, mostly with small medical devices. I spend most nights there although the restaurant association provides inexpensive crash pads in Rehoboth to accommodate the large number of summer employees who can't afford the summer house rents even when they group up. I occasionally use one of those like a motel to avoid the late ten mile drive inland, particularly if I have been drinking and cruising. Most of our family circulates through Dad's house some time during the summer, so the house is almost always full and Dad is pleased to have my room for grandchildren when I stay at the beach.
I'm tall (6-4), blond, with a short crew cut, square jawed, deep blue eyes, full lips. I'm slim with light but defined muscles and since my strokes are butterfly and breast, my pecs, delts and glutes are reasonably developed. There is a clear vee from my shoulders to my narrow waist. Clear skin with a nice deep rosy tan right now. The hair and jaw suggest Marine, but the body tells a different story. I've got big hands and long feet--so it is assumed I have the required equipment in my boxer briefs--which I don't usually wear in the summer. The assumptions are correct. Either from the communal showers or the beach, the regulars know that I'm endowed--cut, long, big-headed and a shower. They originally nicknamed me peach, I thought because of my blond crew cut or my peach fuzz facial hair, but I later learned it was the size and shape of the knob at the tip of my dick. I'm known among my summer friends as gregarious and extroverted, although that is not me--I'm a quiet, nerdy intellect who is generally happy to be alone with a good book. I know that, deep down, I am pretty middle class and conforming--except of course that I am gay.
Summer is a time to decompress from the demanding academic requirements of my combined theoretical physics/theology double major--even with a typical 50 hour per week work schedule--and I'm taking advantage of the anonymity of a summer beach town. I'm getting away with a very different persona during the summer. I'd really like to have a summer romance, but it's already late July and that has not yet materialized.
The Left Bank Rudder (how original!), the bar-restaurant where I work is fairly typical: slightly upscale pseudo-French seafood restaurant at lunch and evenings until about 9:30, when the place shuts down briefly and turns into a club/dance/bar, populated mostly by gays and metro-sexual gay watchers until 2 which is mandatory closing time in this formerly "dry" community! There are three other similar establishments on the same street (two are more hetero) and each offers a couple of days of discrete happy hours, designed to attract the young crowd on outdoor patios--but often nearly deserted as the potential customers are already serving early diners at the restaurants. The real action is late at clubs and it moves along the beach block street on different days.
Given my large family--and the fact that I was shipped off to prep school at 14--I am not a prude. I'm attractive, intelligent, know how to sell the food and booze (and me) and make customers happy. So I typically attract large tips--yeah, both kinds. I hang with a large group of similar guys--and some ladies. Life seems to be an almost constant summer party.
My typical routine includes late morning to the beach--Dewey of course--where Speedos or even a little less are acceptable. (There are large placards in the sand at the northern and southern ends of a roughly three block beach span warning that public nudity violates state and county law and that family-friendly beach attire is required on the other side of the signs. Street side of this beach is mostly parking, so no residents or vacationers are likely to be scandalized. Then a nearly block long "no man's zone" is found to the north and south before families spread their blankets. Dewey's Chamber surely knows who spends, who waits, who tends--in fact who makes this beach what it is--so they tolerate our near nudity, within limits. Some more daring tourists even cruise our beach, treating it like a zoo.)
The beach begins to fill after 10. Many claim to be exercising--walking up and down the beach at the waterline showing off bodies sculpted by hours in the gym. Mostly flirting. My package is well-above average and fills one of my light-colored Speedos nicely--going nearly transparent when I decide to cool off in the Atlantic and advertise. I'm hardly ever alone, but I am a little choosy on who I date. And my tan is coming along very well, thank you. Around three, it's home or the crash pad for a shower and dress for work. My restaurant has a uniform: khaki cargoes shorts (which I wear tight to showcase my offerings) and a navy t-shirt with the restaurant logo, a tricouleur wound tightly around a tiller with a rudder handing below. (Some have described it as a French-wrapped phallus with free hanging balls!) But, no one has to agonize over dressing--which takes about two minutes. Then it's table setting and about five hours of table-waiting--7 days per week. Several times per week, I draw lunch duty and bartending at the later club "re-opening."