"So, are you interested, Mark?"
It was a question that didn't require any exploration on Lachon's part. He was asking me if I'd like to go on a double date with him with two semipro basketball players who were moving to Dayton as their American Basketball Association team, the Ohio Kings, was relocating here from Cleveland and they wanted to check out the social scene in Dayton. Lachon Bradshaw, a star forward with the University of Dayton Flyers NCAA Division 1 basketball team, knew I was gay and would date a gay guy because I'd gone out with--and gone down on--Lachon. He was gay too. Obviously, he was telling me these semipro basketball players were gay and would expect sex on a date. He came right out and said it.
"Sex wouldn't be a problem, would it?" he'd asked me.
"Safe sex?"
"If that's what you wanted."
"No, then, not if I could get it up with the guy."
"Not a problem with these two guys," Lachon said.
Lachon was a senior at the University of Dayton. I was a sophomore, studying business administration and hoping to go into sports management. I wasn't a basketball player--most of them towered over my five-foot-nine, 170-pound frame, and out-bulked me, although I worked out and there wasn't anything not to be proud of muscle wise at my height and weight class. Lachon towered over me too at six-six and some 220 pounds. As well as the basketball team, Lachon and I shared a couple of classes. We also both were actively gay and that had brought us together.
Unfortunately, as far as mating up, we both were submissives. We'd discovered this on our first and only date that included sex, although not as totally sexual as we had anticipated. We tried but our satisfaction didn't get past the mutual hand-jacking stage. Still, that was pleasant enough.
We palled around a lot still, but we didn't try to include sex anymore. Our one and only had been after a big game victory, when I invited Lachon back to my small attic apartment in an old Victorian house among those on Irving Avenue the university had bought for student housing in the South Student Housing area more commonly called "The Ghetto." I had a studio apartment, essentially one large room under sloping ceilings with a kitchen wall and a bath that I didn't have to share because my family could afford it.
We'd gone to my place fully expecting to have all-out anal sex. We hadn't checked each other out first, though. Although I could get him up and releasing with my mouth and he could do the same for me with his hand, neither of us could put in the lust needed to keep it hard to put in the other's ass. After showing our frustration, we saw the humor in that, and although we continued running together, we hunted separately. That is, we hunted separately until now, when Lachon was asking me if I wanted to do a double date with him.
"They're both hunks," he said. "Mohammed Upshaw, a guard, is my date. He's bringing a friend and teammate, Jalen Fell, also a guard. They're coming down from Cleveland for the weekend to check Dayton out. They're both power tops. I made sure to check that out, although this doesn't have to include sex if you're not interested in that." He'd said this in circling the issue until later when he directly asked if I'd lay down for a guy on the first date--specifically for the guy he was trying to set this double date up with.
"I might be interested," I had answered. What I wondered was what my date would think if I tried to tell him I didn't want it to include sex.
"They're both black," he then said, almost apprehensively. But he was black too and that hadn't stopped me from giving him blow and hand jobs. But he had been my first black--and my last, for that matter. I was of Hanoverian stock--meaning of the German variety that had provided a ruling family house for England. All white. But there had been plenty of blacks around me since I'd come to the University of Dayton--mostly big jocks--and, because I spent a lot of time in locker rooms and checked out such things, I'd found that blacks, overall, were a lot better endowed than whites. And, what can I say? Yes, I had a size fetish. I was slim hipped and had a fantasy of a big cock managing to center in on that. A good part of my thrill was in the size I was able to sheath.
"That's fine. It's good," I answered. "And I can't see trying to tell him 'no sex' if he'd come on the date expecting it. I'd manage."
"It's the black scene here they'll want to focus on."
"Fine. Maybe then they'll not want to date a little white boy, like me."
"Oh, no. Jalen's salivating to date you."
"Salivating? How do you know that?"
"I sent him your photo."
"My photo? Me naked?"
"Of course naked."
"So, what you're saying is that Jalen already knows he wants to fuck me on this blind date."
"I don't think it can be called a blind date if he's seen a naked photo of you already, But, yes," Lachon answered, "I sent him one of the ones you sent me when you were trying to make me."
"I sent those when I thought you and I might get it on, Lachon. I didn't send them for you to share with the world."
"I didn't share them with the world, Mark. This is today's dating. Guys want to see what other guys have got."
"So, how do you know they are hung? I suppose they sent you their naked photos too."
"Sure. Of course they did. Here, look. This here's my date, Mohammed Upshaw. And the date you could have, Jalen Fell."