This is a real account of events which recently happened to me and rocked my world to the core.
I am still picking up the pieces after the eventful night and the uneventful aftermath.
Pseudonyms used to protect privacy.
All characters above the age of 18 years.
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08 June 2019
With my heart and soul lost in his passionate kisses & sensuous touches and our naked bodies intertwined with each other, PP, my best friend for the past many years, suddenly stops and locks his gaze on me that sends shivers through my body.
He asks, "Is this really you AJ?"
Full of self doubt and pity, my self loathing mind spins into a whirlwind of thoughts thinking that maybe he is regretting this moment and doesn't want to be with me.
But determined to please him, I simply revert saying, "I can be whoever you want me to be."
With genuine concern, care, and if I may dare say, love in his voice, he immediately tightens his grip on me and says, "NO!! I want you!! I want only my AJ!! I can't believe I am with you."
If I was hooked on him before, I am completely drowned in him hearing this now.
I lean in and give myself to him completely, kissing him with such ferocity and passion, that I never knew existed in me, pouring my soul in his and losing myself in those beautiful eyes.
Little did I know that in the coming few days after this blissful magical night, once the excuse of alcohol wears off off him and the gravity of our act hits us both like a tsunami, I will have nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
I will just have to figure out a way to not drown in the quicksand of emotions, pride & ego and fight with every fiber of my being to salvage the friendship I have grown so fond of.
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Upto May 2013
Hi! I am AJ. An average looking 26 year old guy working in one of the financial capital of the world.
Since childhood, I have been constantly reminded of my petite body structure and my short tiny frame by friends, foes and strangers alike.
Out of concern, spite or malice, their looks, taunts and statements have never let me forget that I need to be bigger, stronger and taller. Somehow, these physical attributes were the sole defining criteria of how good a man I can be.
Accepting God's will for me to be a small petite boy, I determined and willed myself to not conform to this shallow definition and prove my true worth to the world.
I chose to train my mind instead of my body and willed myself to excel in my studies.
With the love and support of my mother and my elder brother (I had lost my father at the young age 2), I excelled in academics, got accepted in the best college in Asia and went on to take up a job in a prominent MNC.
The same fire to prove my worth re-ignited in me when my seniors & colleagues tried to dismiss me with no second glance given my physical appearance.
Slowly and steadily, I started changing perceptions with my dedication and conduct and soon emerged as a key asset to the team.
With all this, I had little time or inclination to indulge in any relationship.
Don't get me wrong! I am a person who wears his heart on his sleeves and I have shaped up to be quite a compassionate loving soul for I know how it felt to be degraded and looked down upon.
However, given that I also turned out to be more bones than skin at a small height of 5'5" only, I had somehow convinced myself that I could never hold anyone's interest long enough for them to become romantically or sexually involved with me.
Despite my best efforts, the scars of the comments and taunts on my appearance never helped me gather the courage to ask anyone out.
Except for some experimentation with one of my guy friends in school, I never had any sexual experience.
And that experimentation was also easily written off in my mind as something inconsequential done in teenage curiosity.
After that experience though, I had an inkling that I maybe liked guys but growing up I had felt immensely attractive to girls as well.
Unaware of the concept of bisexual tendencies, I always thought sexual preferences to be in absolute.
Scared of the ramifications of exploring my gay side, I conformed to the societal belief that I am straight.
This theory was tested many years later in my new job role, for this was where I met him - my friend, my brother in arm, my love - PP, short for Pedro Park, a man who changed me in a way even I did not see coming.
May 2013
To grow professionally, I had pursued an MBA and landed up a high power job in the Chairman Office of a billion dollar company in 2013.
The job became my instant claim to fame. People started seeing me in a different light and I was forced to stand in the spotlight (something which I was very uncomfortable with and actually very bad at).
Determined to earn respect and not demand it, I started working alongside others, prompting them to pay attention to the person behind the powerful designation.
Soon, I gained recognition across various cliques of the company and faced a problem I had never encountered before. Employees started seeking me out and tried to befriend me.
While I have found my share of true friendships over the years, never had I or they tried to sought it. It had just happened cause the universe had willed it so.
So when people started trying to befriend me, I behaved as any novice would - I ended up taking everyone on face value and was eager to trust others.
And very soon, the wolves came in.
One particular guy, GG, a 30 years old skillful bastard who had navigated his way through corporate world sucking cocks (maybe not only figuratively but literally as well), started paying attention to me.
He felt proud in being the eye candy whom girls used to dote on and guys used to envy. Few weeks into my job, GG started seeking me out. I had never have such an alpha pay any attention to me, so I obviously started to relish it.
Soon he got too close to me and that's when he started giving these weird signals to me to get me hooked on him such as,:
- Entering my physical space ever too often;
- Letting his hands linger on my shoulders a little longer than appropriate;
- Accidentally showing me his naked torso pics on his phone flaunting his defined torso and abs on the pretext of showing something else;
- Dragging me to night parties, intoxicating me, putting his arms around me every now and then suggestively;
- Getting me to open up about my secrets, about who all I was crushing on in office.
Man was he a player!!