Scott was the only footballer who stayed at the end of the game. When I returned from the small shower, just Martin and the nippy winger remained. They lounged on armchairs, talking, with Martin untroubled by his nudity.
"Most of 'em live bloody miles away," Scott explained. "A minibus picks them up and brings them here from the city. I only live out the back. So I walk home from here." His eyes sparkled as he spoke, and he passed me a beer. "We saved you one! What d'ya reckon to Saturday Football?"
"Fuckin' crazy," I muttered, and our eyes met. "But in a good way. I think."
"Coach David's a great manager," Scott added. "But he does like us to wave our dicks about."
Martin hummed. "There are a few girls he's fucking. All of them married. Victoria is just one of them."
"How does he ..."
"He's very alpha," Scott replied. He gulped, glanced at Martin and then looked back at me. "There's a lot of homophobia in football. I ... I did eight years through the youth teams of a Premier League club. They even gave me a youth contract and then they let me go when they found out I had a boyfriend, not a girlfriend."
Martin snorted. "C'mon Scott!"
Scott blushed. "OK, I had three boyfriends and two girlfriends. But I couldn't make a career out of football when I enjoyed fuckin' other boys. Coach David doesn't care. He doesn't give a monkey who I dick, so long as I'm on top. Dominant men make top ballers!"
"So, you have a boyfriend now? Or a girlfriend?" I asked, supping the beer and washing the taste of the coach's cum from my tastebuds.
Scott nodded. "Iain. He's a total bottom." The footballer smiled as he spoke. "He is a part-time swimming teacher in town and he also works in the gay sauna in Manchester."
"Oh," I muttered, unsure of what to say. "So ... he's not ... on the team?"
"Oh, the coach wouldn't mind him in your position, but not in mine. And he's shit at football. Really shit. The only balls he can handle are those swinging between a guy's thighs. He's a bit of a slut. And he writes too. Erotic fiction. Filthy stuff."
"And you live ... in the village?"
He sniggered. "Not that local. Two-mile walk or a bike ride across the fields. I don't have enough money to live in this village!" He giggled and looked at Martin. "Not all of us are multi-millionaires."
Martin blushed. "Perhaps you should get Iain to help with the drinks one day," I suggested. Martin looked at Scott and then me.
"We offered," they both said in unison, before Martin added. "He thinks he will embarrass Scott."
"But ... surely it's just ..."
"Fun?" Martin suggested, and I blushed. "But he is too worried about upsetting Scott. So that's the end of it." The sharp finality to the voice was enough to tell me not to press with the issue.
We had a warm chat before Scott walked out of the summerhouse into the twilight. It took Martin and I twenty minutes to clean the room and then dispose of the rubbish. Our partners were lazing in the hot-tub with cocktails and we joined them, reminiscing on the filthy afternoon. It was weird, but not unenjoyable reliving the disgusting antics, and describing two hours after the last man pounded my butt, it still felt used.
Those Saturdays became a regular part of my diary. Every Friday, I would drive from Bristol and spend the weekend with my partner. I would spent Saturday nights with an exhausted and tender body after the hours of hardcore abuse from the horny players.
Her employer extended her stint in Manchester by another year. I missed my fiancée during the week, and although I received plenty of filthy picture messages across WhatsApp, it was a poor substitute for having her with me. I missed the cuddles, supping her cunt and having her sadistic words tease me.
It was crucial that we made time on Sundays for "us" when I was in Manchester, and we did. I got a lot more vanilla sex than Martin, who enjoyed cunt just once or twice a year. But Clare and I also visited parks and museums, cinemas, bowling alleys, escape games and bars, to ensure that our relationship could survive and flourish long-distance.
During the week, Benji and Darren were regular visitors to the flat, and I enjoyed the submissive feel of being taken. I looked forward to my Saturday afternoons with the football team. I loved losing control as victorious footballers rammed their pricks into my degraded body as I satisfied them for hours at a time.
I had no male lovers as part of Clare's games for the first two years of our relationship, but since doing so, I had a steady stream of cocks to service without her present. Just as Clare had her sexual partners that she enjoyed without me, I now had my own, and the freedom was something that I relished. Until Benji, I had never been sexually satisfied when Clare was not present. Now, the goalposts had moved.
Within a few weeks, these afternoons had been the highlight in my weekly calendar. Clare and I had discussed that I should look for jobs in Manchester, and we should move back to the North-West. I liked my boss, and I liked my employer, but I loved Clare and my new sex life a lot more.
We had to decide. The lease on our rented flat in Bristol was due, and I hesitated about giving my employer my notice to quit. I had decided to move back to Manchester when an opportunity presented itself that I didn't expect. The office block, that housed my employer, caught fire one Wednesday night in mid-October. I received a phone call from my boss and in the small hours of a Thursday morning, I stood outside a smouldering ruin talking to a stressed CEO. He blamed a faulty fire alarm system that had failed to alert before the fire took hold. While our servers were located elsewhere, our desks and workstations were a charred mess.
As only a third of the team could fit in the small satellite office, he offered me the chance to "work from home" permanently. My manager trusted me, and I accepted without hesitation. "I guess that means you don't need to hand your notice in to move back up North," he said drily. "I heard you talking in the kitchen. Men will do anything to chase a bit of skirt."
"Thanks," I muttered, not sure what else I can say.
"Don't let me down," he warned me and turned away at the smoking ruins of his company's head office. The following weekend most of our possessions went into storage and I had one last sex session with Benji as I gave notice on our flat. I moved with just a couple of laptops, a suitcase of clothes and a few luxuries.
The first surprise was that Victoria's and Martin's offer to live with them did not extend to Clare's bedroom. "How can she entertain proper men if you are there?" Victoria asked in the sort of voice that suggested I had asked a stupid question. "You can stay in the summerhouse like Martin does. She will summon you if she has use for you in her bedroom."