My name is Craig and I have been on here before. I am now twenty years old and working as a Junior Purser on a Cruise Ship in the Mediterranean. Originally I came from Stornoway in Scotland but had to finish my studies at Universities in Ayr and Glasgow to gain qualifications in business and maritime; this is my story.
Initially I lived in Halls of Residence in Ayr but they had a major flooding following a water pipe bursting in the roof. We were all decanted to various local B&B's until repairs to our Halls were carried out; but never were.
I tried to find somewhere to live, that I could afford; they were all too expensive. Although I did have a part time job in a local Morrison's store stacking shelves at night it still wasn't enough. I also met Jason, Paul and Adam there they were late night shelf stackers too, we became good friends as we all played badminton together.
One night on my way back from Glasgow University I went to the 'Underground' venue to check it out, some girl students had recommended it to me. This was where I met Malcolm, we both lived in Ayr and travelled back together that very cold wet and windy night. When we were passing Malcom's luxury apartment near the sea front he invited me in to dry off and have something warm to drink.
I didn't know at the time but the 'Underground' was a gay venue, the girls had tricked me into going. Malcolm was gay but we seemed to get on very well with each other; I liked him. He asked me if I was gay or ever thought that I was gay. I had thought that I may be gay, nothing specific just a lot of little things, not that I had ever had any gay sex or any sex for that.
As we had arrived back very wet at Malcolm's I had taken my wet clothes off to dry and put on one of Malcolm's dressing gowns. Malcolm was dressed in a similar way as we sat there together talking about wither I was gay or not. I got very aroused by the discussion we were having, I think it was then that I decided to see if I was gay.
My first introduction to gay sex was a disaster, all my fault, but I did stay the night with him, also the thought of going back to my B&B spurred me on to stay the night. We didn't actually have sex that night as I said I made a complete mess of things, but I did enjoy sharing with him.
The next morning I met two of his friends Tim and Mike when I inadvertently walked into the line of vision of a Skype call he was having with them. I was only wearing bikini type underwear at the time, I was very embarrassed about it but they were very supportive which made me feel comfortable with them. Not like the last time something similar happened to me, when one of my sister's friends took a photograph of me similarly dressed on a skype call that I had inadvertently walked into its line of vision and posted it around the island; I was very embarrassed about it. Islands are small places where everyone knows everyone.
They invited Malcom and me round to their apartment for drinks and a Chinese meal that night, it was a toga themed night where we all dressed up as Romans. That was one of the best parties I was ever at, no sex or anything like that just free flowing talk and fun. I think it was then that I was adopted as a project by them.
That night I went back to Malcom's apartment and we did have sex together, because I knew I wanted to, this time it wasn't a complete disaster but very nice; I enjoyed it. My accommodation problem was resolved a few weeks later when I moved in with Malcolm. For all intents and purposes Malcom became my sugar daddy, Tim and Mike sort of became my surrogate sugar daddies, although I never had sex with either of them, only Malcolm. They took me on holidays with them too.
My friend Jason was a bit unsure of my relationship with Malcolm but was openly very supportive of me, particularly when anyone made derogatory comments about me being gay and living with a sugar daddy. As he often got tarnished by the same brush.
Paul and Adam my other badminton friends were very much more aggressive in my and Jason's defence, they were both very big guys and could be intimidating when they wanted to be. They often all came round to Malcolm's and Mike and Tim's place for parties and meals, no sex or anything like that just banter about sex.
When I went round to Jason's place to help him with his college accountancy studies, which he was struggling with. His parents although wary of me being their son's friend, never said anything and always made me feel at home.
Although I had strong feelings for Jason, as I think he had for me, we never took it any further than friendship. He was still unsure of his preferences in life I think. We often posed for Tim on some of his photoshoots, which he paid us for. We posed and modelled swimwear and underwear for him, every time he had one of his pictures published or sold we got an additional commission too.
One of the times when we were down on the beach, it was one of those very hot lazy sunny days. After a swimwear shoot we posed in the nude for a naturist magazine, as it was a naturist beach it was ok to do this. In one of the poses I was to hold Jason intimately, we were embracing each other seductively, when I had a sudden arousal which triggered one off by Jason. We stood there as Tim took numerous shots of us, not wanting to move in case he saw what had just happened. If he did he never said anything.
I think Jason was at a loss as to what he felt or should do about it, I didn't peruse it, although I wanted to. After that we posed together on a number of occasions in Tim's flat and studio, for what can be best described as erotic photographs. Tim managed to sell quite a few of our photographs to magazines; particularly to a well-known Dutch magazines.
I came across one of these magazines, with our picture in it, on a port visit to Amsterdam and a passenger once asked if that was it me in the photograph. I said 'I wish' although they were very good, they were just erotic, not full frontal or anything like that, I didn't get embarrassed by them.
I passed all my exams with honours and graduated from the business Studies University and the Maritime University which I had to wear my Naval Cadet Uniform for; I was told that I looked stunning in it. My parents and my friends came to my Maritime graduation, including Jason and his parents, Malcolm, Tim and Mike. Tim was our official photographer for the day.
About two weeks later I received my first posting, I was to join my first Cruise Ship as a Cadet Junior Purser in Palma in ten days' time; my dream job. Before joining my ship, as I would be away for at least six months, I wanted to go and see my parents. Jason came with me as he never been to the Isle of Lewis on the west coast of Scotland before.