It all started with a thought. One thought. Three weeks ago. When my girlfriend, who, let's face it, was never very good at blow jobs, was actually giving me one. It started with me looking down at her and thinking, 'you know, I bet someone with a dick would probably know how to totally rock at this'.
WHA-HA-AT?
That's how it started.
The thought that maybe, a man, someone who had a cock, might understand his way around a cock. One thought, and then the rest of the thought. There's nothing I love more than a good blow job. And the rest, rest, of the thought. With your eyes closed a mouth feels like a mouth, right?
All of which led to a sickening obsession that I just needed to know, needed to find out, needed to understand, which led to the total formation of the thought, could a guy blow me better than a chick?
And the sick thing, the unfortunate thing, the hot thing, was, even though I was totally straight, I knew I wasn't going to let go of this thought until I found out.
Aaaaannnnd, it led to the obsession. Yeah. Led to the absolute obsession; the one that had been on my mind, for every single minute, every second, every friggin' millisecond.
It turned in to... the thought. From a random thought, to the thought, to THE THOUGHT. From a random wisp of a dandelion puff blowing on the wind to a fucking monsoon pounding on my brain.
Tsunami, tornado, and blender on shredder-pulverize-setting my brain - twenty-four seven, for the last three weeks.
You know, the thought. Like I could maybe, actually find out the answer to this question. Because... my best friend is gay.
Michael is gay.
We've never talked about it. We never needed to. Just like we never talked about my being straight. I met Michael the first day in college and we've been best friends ever since. Twenty years later we're still best friends.
He's not a flaming kind of gay. He's not a feminine kind of gay. He's not an 'I'm over compensating by being hugely macho kind of gay'. He's 'I'm just a normal kind of guy' kind of gay. I've always known he was gay. He's always known I was straight. End of story.
As soon as I had THE THOUGHT I broke up with my girlfriend.
I didn't think I would actually act on THE THOUGHT at first. But then, after a few days I knew I would. And it was obvious who I would act on it with.
The more time that went on, the more...ah...aggressive I got about it. Like I wanted to force him. Make him. Throw him against a wall and... well you get the picture.
Of course he has no idea.
Hardly fair, is it.
But that doesn't change my thinking, either.
So finally, yesterday, I called him.
And when he asked me what was wrong, I simply said I really needed him to come down to see me.
That brings us to today. He lives about an hour and a half north of me. In a few minutes, he'll be here.
I took a long shower. Shaved my perpetual five o'clock shadow. Put on my best black T-shirt and favorite faded jeans and combat boots. I thought about cologne and nixed that idea as stupid. Paced and nixed that as stupid. I thought about doing some push-ups to relieve tension. I also nixed that idea as stupid.
Michael and I had been friends for twenty years. He was a physician's assistant for God's sake. It wasn't like he was going to freak out over biology. He might freak out over it coming from me though.
There it was; the knock on my door.
Shit.
I opened the door and we did the man hug shoulder bump thing and the back pat.
"Brad, hey," he said with a big smile. Then he got a look at my face and his tone changed. "What's wrong?"
I gestured with my head for him to come in. "Time for some brewskies, for sure, my man," I said.
"Okaaay," Michael said.
"Eh, fuck that, let's have some gin and tonics, heavy on the gin," I said.
"You're massively wound up Brad," Michael said. "That's not like you. What's up?"
I poured us our drinks. I downed mine. "Knock yours back," I said.
He did.
My expression must have been grim.
"You're worrying me Brad."
I took our glasses and set them down.
"Okay, you trust me man, right?" I said.
"Ah, yeah," Michael said.
"Okay, brace yourself," I said.
He could tell I meant physically so he got into a fighting stance.
Now Michael's no light weight. Like most gay guys he spends a lot of time in the gym. He's in great shape, but he's all lean muscle. I outweigh him by at least 25 - 30 pounds. I don't go to the gym, ever. I'm in construction. I spend my days heavy lifting and my nights cage fighting.
I grabbed him by the shoulder spun him around and threw him up against the wall. His arms splayed up and out and his face mashed sideways into the wall.
"What the fuck?" Michael said. I could tell he was wondering if I was pissed at him for something he might have done.
I pressed into him; pinned him there with my body, fitting every curve of my body into his. The energy instantly changed, electricity arcing up between us in a huge scorching blast.
"Listen to me," I whispered into his ear. "Because I'm only going to say this once," I said.
"Holy fuck, Brad," Michael said. "What the hell are you doing?"
"LISTEN to me," I growled.
"What."
"I. Want. A. Blow. Job." I said. "From you."
"WHAT?"
"You heard me," I said and dropped him.
I stepped back. Then I took another step back.
He looked down. Turned around. Dusted off imaginary lint from his shoulders. Adjusted the sleeves of his dress shirt. "You're a fucker, you know that Brad? You could at least give a guy some notice."
"Sorry Dude," I said.
"What the fuck?" Michael said.
"I'm not gay," I said. Although this made no sense to say this at this point.
"No shit," Michael said.
"Listen," I said starting to back track. "I'm sorry if I..."
"Of course I'll do it," he said and smiled.
Oh thank God, I thought.
"If you'll call Lisa," he said.
"What?" I said. "Your friend Lisa?"
"Yeah. I'll give you the blow job of your life, if you'll tell me, number one, why you want one from me, two, why now, three, why the fuck did you spring it on me like that, and four, if you promise to call Lisa right after," he said.
"My brain kind of lost blood after you said you'd give me a blow job," I said.
He laughed. "Do you need me to repeat that?" He asked.