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The wrap party was at one of those posh downtown "event spaces", the sort of place I would never go. I'm not sure what their concept was, but with leather couches, ornate miniature fountains and mirrors all over the walls it looked like a picture of The Continental Baths.
"What is this, a gay bar?" I jokingly asked my friend Marie.
"No, but I guess you could call it 'queer-friendly'," she said.
"Well, not a surprise in the theatre world," I joked.
"Oh, don't be so stereotypical," she told me. "Anyway, there'll be lots of hot women here. Straight ones, even."
Marie had invited me to come along with her, even though her art scene isn't really my thing. She could network, she had said, and I could enjoy the open bar... and maybe score with some art chicks. It had been a long dry spell, and Marie knew I was on the prowl.
Not long after we walked in, she introduced me to a few people who were standing off to one side. As they launched into shop talk and gossip about people I didn't know, I made my excuses and headed off looking for a drink. I found the bar, and chatted with the bartender, a pretty brunette who was skinny but had really nice tits. She joked as she opened my beer that I was pretty much the only person here not drinking wine, and I smiled at her as I walked away, thinking maybe I'd have to go back and chat with her some more.
And then I wandered around. There wasn't anyone else there I knew, and I'm not the most extroverted type, so after a lap around the room, I was wondering who I was going to talk to. There was a TV off in one corner with the sound off, showing the ball game, so I stood in front of it to watch for a minute.
"They're never gonna do anything this year... no pitching," I heard a voice behind me say.
As I half-turned, a guy stepped beside me. He also looked a little out of place here – thick-bodied and muscled, but working muscles, not gym muscles. Like me, he was drinking a beer.
"They have a bullpen," I said, "but they got to pitch about five innings every game."
We bantered a bit more about the local team before introducing ourselves. It turned out that Larry was a set-builder and carpenter, which was kinda interesting, so I ended up asking him a bunch of questions about how that worked. He seemed willing to talk about it, so we were chatting for a while. I even went to get us more beers, smiling again at the pretty bartender – who smiled back a really sexy smile at me as I tipped her.
We were sitting on a leather couch by the TV now, talking about baseball and, after he picked up on a random reference I made, about
Doctor Who
. Pretty soon we were getting near the end of our beers again when Larry made a joke about the odds of "getting lucky" at an event like this.
I was thinking about the bartender, and I blurted out, "maybe I'll get lucky tonight."
Larry leaned forward to set his beer on the table in front of us, and as he leaned back, his hand brushed against the inside of my knee. "You can get lucky if you want," he said.
Wait
, I wondered to myself.
Is he coming on to me?
"Larry," I said. "Are you coming on to me?"
"Fuck yeah," he said, his hand again touching my leg. "I'm horny as hell and ready to go right now."
I was taken aback, but more amused than offended. "Shit," I said, with a bit of a laugh, "I didn't mean to lead you on or anything. I mean, I don't really swing that way."
Larry looked at me. "What, you're a top?"
"No! I mean I'm, ah... y'know... straight."
Larry looked a little surprised. "Sorry dude, I guess I read you wrong. I thought you were flirting with me when you were asking all those questions about set building. And well... I mean, you know the guys you meet at theatre parties and all that..."
I laughed. "My friend Marie says that's stereotyping." I looked across the room. "Actually, maybe I should go find her... I abandoned her to some producer types."
I stood up and grabbed my near-empty beer. "I'll catchya," I half-muttered as I headed away.
It took me a few minutes to find her on the other side of the room, which was now getting pretty crowded. A younger, more glamorous wave of guests had arrived. Actors and their friends, I guessed. They looked like the sort of people who went to dance clubs and did lines of coke and drank vodka-and-waters to stay skinny. They were all very sexy – and Christ was I getting horny – but they just didn't seem like my type.
I found Marie talking to a couple different men, younger guys in expensive suits. I sidled up and tried to slip into their conversation, but very quickly, Marie was flashing me
get-away
looks. I could tell they had changed topics when I came up, and now it felt sort of tense.
Must be business
, I thought to myself, realizing I had to get out of there.
"I gotta go get another drink," I said, and quickly made my exit. I was several steps away when I half-looked back and saw one of the men putting his arm around Marie.
Oh, maybe it's something other than business
. She'd been in a long dry spell, too.
"Ah, good for her," I muttered to myself as I waited in line at the bar. Through luck – and, admittedly, sort of elbowing my way in front of a guy – I ended up with the pretty brunette bartender serving me again. She gave me a smile of recognition as she opened my beer. An image of those lips wrapped around my cock flashed through my mind.
Well... what the hell!
"So, are you up to anything after you finish here tonight?" I asked as I tipped her again, half wincing at using such an obvious line.
"Yeah, I'm going over to my girlfriend's place," she said, with a smile that was a bit more forced now.
"Oh, well... cheers," I said, crushed and mortified as I made my way away from her.
Fuck! I really need to get laid.
But the stronger that rose up in me, the more alienating the party felt. All the glamorous people looked like they expected me to take their empty glasses from them rather than chat. I was feeling grumpy and out-of-place as I found myself back around the room by the television and couch. I looked over the back of the broad shoulders still sitting there.
He is pretty well put together