This story is based on a real event. All characters are at least 21 years old.
It had been a long day. After staying in the library until it closed at midnight, a friend and I had driven over the county line to a truckstop diner for biscuits and gravy. I was hungry, he wanted to get off campus for a while, and the diner served cheap food. Besides, he was hot. I loved sitting beside him in the front seat, talking to his beautiful profile as he stared at the road ahead.
Unfortunately, he was super-straight, so all the trip did was give me a full stomach, a boner, and a case of blue balls. We didn't get back to campus until about 2:30 a.m., and by the time I climbed the dorm stairs to my room all the other guys who lived on the hall had their doors closed and locked and the long corridor was empty. No more socializing tonight. Ah well - I had to be up in time for an 8 a.m. class anyway.
And that's when the lightbulb in my head turned on. I was lousy at getting up for early classes, and I was so tired now that there was no way I'd get up early the next morning. That meant I wouldn't be able to catch a shower then -- so my only option was to take a quick one right now.
As soon as I got into my room, I sloughed off my clothes. The shoes got tossed in the corner, the shirt and pants were thrown over the back of my one chair, and my white briefs were dumped at the bottom of my closet. Grabbing a towel to wrap around my waist, I headed down to the communal washroom. Located on the right side at the center of the long hallway, it was built to accommodate all 34 of the single rooms in the wing. The brown metal door swung inward to face a dividing wall: toilets, hand basins, and mirrors to the right, more basins and mirrors and the huge communal shower to the left. To my mild surprise, I realized that the shower was already on and running when I got there. Given the hour, I figured I'd have total privacy for once. Who could be around at three in the morning?
I draped my towel over one of the hooks outside the archway leading into the shower room, and stepped inside. Even though a shower was on, it didn't provide any real coverage for the one guy in there. He was using a showerhead near the entry, and all of the steam he was creating was quickly swallowed up by the large room, or was simply floating out of the archway into the larger bathroom. I quickly assessed him out of the side of my eye as I walked past him to claim a spot for myself.
He was blonde. A mop of curly hair, and a slender body. His waist was even smaller than my 29 inches, but his legs looked muscled and strong, and his torso was tight and lithe. Maybe a swimmer? Or a gymnast? Virtually no hair on his body, except of course for the hair on his head. I'd never seen him on campus before, which seemed really odd to me. It wasn't that big a college, and I thought that I knew (at least by sight) virtually everybody there. Who was this guy?
It was especially strange because this was a dorm restricted to seniors and graduate students. How could somebody this cute have been on campus this long without my noticing him before? I couldn't work it out. What was a stranger, a guy who clearly didn't live on this floor, doing in OUR shower? Especially at 3 a.m.? Very weird.
I sat my soap bar and shampoo bottle down, then twisted the "hot" and "cold" knobs for the showerhead I'd chosen (same side of the room as the blond, with only one "empty" nozzle between them) and played with them till I found the temperature I wanted -- hot, but not burning. As I did, I kept doing side-glances at the other guy. He was facing the wall, standing just a little too far away from the running water -- it was hitting his body just below his chest and running down over his crotch and legs. And he wasn't moving. Wasn't using any soap, wasn't turning, wasn't
washing