Renny, life after college - 1979
Ronald woke up every morning grateful that he had taken the direction in his life he had chosen, not the one his family had wished for him. He had a best friend in Trevor and even though he never admitted it, he liked having Trevor's girlfriend around...even with their no-holds-barred sexual exploits. Beyond them he had an outside circle of friends, all athletes, who constantly pushed him into the center of campus activities. Like most college students he lived on overdrive; studying, partying and for the most part living his life burning the candle on both ends.
He didn't even mind that his sex life was quiet, bordering on monk-like, throughout his junior year having taken a dramatic pause after Drax. It wasn't that he was wounded by their one-night stand - it was that he never thought anyone could ever come close to making him feel the things Drax did. He still sucked the occasional cock, that would never change, but he never felt the urge to take it any further.
He started his senior year both excited and apprehensive, a state that most of the student population felt. Everyone was happy to be finishing school but scared at the prospect of what was yet to come. Luckily, a distraction came his way a month after classes started in the form of a new sophomore athlete that came to Ronald for a full body shave. The nineteen year old gymnast was one of those compact little pretty boys, with perfectly white teeth, a dazzling smile and the double jointed ability to get into positions normal people couldn't. Unlike Ronald who didn't conceal, but didn't wear his sexual preference out in public, Robbie was openly gay not caring what people thought or said about him.
Robbie was good looking enough with his clothes on but when he uninhibitedly shed his clothes Ronald's cock got hard with lust for the first time in close to a year. The muscular toned man might have been compact but his hard body, perfectly round ass and thick cock had Ronald drooling. Ronald took his time spreading a thick coat of shaving cream around his cock and across his balls. Normally Ronald was chatty-Cathy when he was shaving someone but today he remained quiet on his knees, his hands roaming freely over Robbie's private parts and his eyes locked on the thick cock in front of him that was seeping a thick bead of precum. More than anything he wanted to hear Robbie utter the words for him to suck it. Instead Robbie stood quiet and reserved, observing Ronald's every movement.
The instant Ronald took the barber's straight edged razor and dragged it lightly over his skin, Robbie sucked in a deep breath, squeezed his eyes shut and gasped a pleasure filled hushed '
oh fuck'.
Robbie's hand immediately went to his cock but before he could even step away he had shot a thick load of cum across Ronald's face. A shocked Ronald looked up at Robbie and smiled, cum splattered across his cheek, nose and lips. Taking the obvious accident in stride Ronald in a sarcastic,
'you-need-to-clean-this-mess-up'
tone demanded that Robbie clean up the mess he made. The eager gymnast obeyed without hesitation.
Within minutes they were rolling around on the floor licking and kissing each other with Robbie repeatedly begging him to fuck him. Ronald didn't bother to tell him he had never done that before, he simply donned a condom and let nature take its course. Ronald quickly learned he enjoyed giving as much as receiving. It didn't even matter to him that the two of them had nothing in common except the great sex they shared. For months the two insatiable men fucked and sucked morning noon and night in every nook and cranny of the college campus.
It wasn't until early May, two weeks before graduation, that Ronald realized their time together was about to expire. Ronald was only slightly surprised the only regret he felt about leaving Robbie was that he was going to miss having sex on a regular basis. He knew that Robbie wouldn't give Ronald's lack of presence a second thought, he would simply move on to another lover. Robbie was a man that loved to have a cock in his ass and if Ronald was no longer available to him there were plenty of men waiting for a chance to have a go at the double jointed gymnast.
Ronald and Trevor lived frugally during their last two years of college practically hoarding the money they made from their lucrative side business. Between them they amassed a sizeable nest egg to start their life after college.
Ronald spent the summer after graduation in Syracuse debating whether he wanted to continue his education and get his masters in social work. When he couldn't come up with a plausible reason to do it he finally came to the conclusion that he would never be totally happy doing that type of work.
His real passion in life had become his love of barbering, pampering and caring for men. The only problem was that he didn't want to be like every other barber, working in a shop adorned by the typical red, white and blue barber pole outside. He wanted to offer men a more personalized service, more than just a haircut or shave. He wanted them to have an experience, like being pampered at a spa.
Three months after graduation Trevor took the majority of his windfall and bought a house in suburban Connecticut and three months after that, with Ronald at his side as his best man, he married his girlfriend who was pregnant with their first child. Leaving Syracuse behind Ronald moved into the basement of Trevor's house. He spent weeks cloistered there, designing the perfect vision of his shop, making lists of tools and supplies he would need and last but not least designing a perfect barber chair to accommodate every service he would provide the men. The only time he left the basement was to attend cosmetology school classes on proper skin care and to learn the newest techniques of hair removal, becoming an expert at waxing and mastering the use of depilatories.
Six months later he made his way to Manhattan where he rented a basement mixed used space in a brownstone off Fifth Avenue. The thousand square foot space was everything he had envisioned and over the next three months he transformed it in the shop of his dreams.
He divided the shell of the space into two distinct areas. In the main room where he would barber he painted three of the four walls a light mushroom color. The ideal color was relaxing without it being too dark due to the lack of windows in the space also ideal for affording his clientele total privacy. He mirrored the entire fourth wall which not only let the client watch what he was doing but made the space appear larger. He opted not to have any artwork on the walls wanting nothing to distract from the relaxing experience. The lighting was subtle, casting enough light to let Ronald to do his job efficiently but not too much allowing the client to be comfortable
In the center of the space, enclosed on two sides by custom made cabinetry that held a sink, the tools of his trade and his supplies he installed his specially designed barber chair. Ronald took the best attributes of a high end barbering chair, comfortable with solid back support and hydraulics to raise and lower the chair as he desired. To that he added the best features of a examining table giving the chair the ability to recline to a flat surface and from underneath leg stirrups that electrically rose from the side. This allowed Ronald to give his clients full body shaves without them having to stand. It cost him over five thousand dollars to have the chair custom made but he would have spent twice that amount to get the design he craved. The elaborate masculine looking chair dominated the room.
The
'back room',
where Renny lived, was through the bathroom. Like the front room, he designed the space to get the optimum amount of use out of it. The luxurious bathroom that both he and prospective clients used took up almost half the space. The room was everything Ronald had ever dreamed of, complete with an oversized jetted tub big enough to accommodate two people and a large multi-head steam shower. Through a second door at the back of the bathroom was Ronald's efficiency apartment, that had a small kitchen, living area and sleeping alcove.
