I was sitting in the laundry room when a youth black teenaged boy entered carrying a heavy laundry basket and proceeded to stuff the clothes into one of the washing machines. I gave him a polite little nod, which returned. I recognized him from casual passes in the halls. He lived with a woman I assumed to be his grandmother and had the distinction of being a religious nut. I had heard her preaching to some unfortunate who happened to find themselves cornered. I made a conscious effort to avoid her but one afternoon I found myself trapped on the elevator and the focus of her bible thumping. I learned never to feed that fire and merely smiled and nodded politely as if her words were actually making an impact. The idea of disclosing my atheistic ideology was never an option and would serve only to spur a deeper level of preaching to save my "godless soul". Her grandson looked positively embarrassed and offered quick sympathetic glimpses. As my floor arrived I was handed a pamphlet to continue on my road for eternal salvation which politely accepted but promptly tossed into the trash upon entering my apartment. From that moment I'd assume take the stairs than be subjected to that religious pummeling again.
The young man took a seat on top of one of the broken washing machines. I was absorbed in my book, an annual rereading of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra but I quick glimpse up and I noticed that the young man's cock was partially hanging out of his cut off shorts. He seemed to open his legs a bit wider so that at least half his cock was exposed. This was no accident nor was he unconscious of his action.
"Haven't I seen you at Abbot's Park?" he asked.
Abbot's Park was a local gay cruising location where men wandered the thickly wooded area as if it were a Garden of Eden. On restless nights I have wandered down there for a quick hook up but cannot recall ever seeing him amongst the horny wanderers.
"My name is Ty," he said.
"I'm James," I said.
"I have seen you at the park. You were getting sucked off by an Asian guy," said Ty.
The encounter returned in a sudden flash. Hiro was a Japanese student from a nearby college. We met a few times after this initial encounter but it never went beyond oral sex. He claimed to find anal sex more hurtful than pleasurable. We saw less and less of one another as he attributed it to his accumulating school work. I accepted the excuse. I told Ty all of this.