I spent the next several minutes catching my breath. I turned the water to cold and let the shame and embarrassment wash off me.
The whole thing felt just as weird as I dried off. I decided to walk out of the bathroom with the towel, still damp.
"Cornbread's almost done!" Zach called from the kitchen. He was bending over the oven, showing me the hair on his ass. That and the cat-patterned oven mitts made for an interesting sight.
"Cool," I said.
"You alright?" He looked up at me.
"Yeah. That was... That was just... Strange, is all. Obviously never had someone offer to shave my fucking balls before, ha."
"Ha, well... I'm sorry if that was too weird for you. I just thought I'd help. You can always tell me 'no,' you know."
"I... I will. If I need to, that is," I said, after considering it.
"Good," he smiled. "Boundaries are important." He smirked and went to poke the cornbread, showing me his cheeks again.
When I came back from putting my towel away, he was sitting on the kitchen counter next to the cornbread and butter.
"Here, tear off a piece," he said. He was a master of making weird sights; his dick rested gently on the counter while he spread butter on his slice.
"Thanks," I said, trying not to stare at his dick now that it was much closer to eye-level. "Holy shit," I said as I took a bite. "This is amazing."
"Thanks!"
The chili was just as amazing. We ate sitting on the counter, him cleaning it afterwards of course.
We settled to the living room where we discussed what video game to play. Milo curled up on the chair while Zach offered to show me Hades and explained what a roguelike is.
"Hades is different though, it's... how do I put this? It's actually amazing, unlike most in the genre, haha," He added.
I was only half-listening, as he had decided to sit right next to me on the couch, our sides touching. We were even more touchy last week, but the close contact was still electrifying.
He leaned his back up against me and the back of the couch and handed me the controller. "Here," he said. "Give it a spin."
"Are you going to teach me the controls?" I asked.
"Nah."
"Asshole."
He just smirked and leaned his back on me, stretching himself out of the rest of the couch. I was already hard again, but it didn't last long as the game began to demand my attention.
Zach commented on my prowess in the game several times. With each clearing of a chamber he'd say "Nice one!" or "Now you're really getting it!" In truth the game did feel pretty instinctual.
My health was waning as I faced the first big boss and I subsequently died.
"Wow, I'm impressed you got to Megera on your first run!" He said.
"I guess that's good?" I asked.
"Yeah! It took me ages to get past the damn Infernal Bombers when I started playing. When I got to Meg I was really pleased with myself. Of course now though she's in my harem."
"She's what?"
"Um, spoilers I guess, haha, but you can court Megera in the game. Along with the god of death himself," He explained.
"Oh, that's kinda cool—Wait a minute, I thought you said I was the son of the god of death? Didn't you say the player, um, Zagreus, he's Hades' kid?"
"Hades is the god of the underworld; Thanatos is the actual god of death and ushers souls to the afterlife."
"Oh," I said. "Guess I need to brush up on my Greek mythology."
"Which is why this game is so cool! Almost all of it is true to myth, but of course it has its own twists. Man, I was obsessed with this game over the past year."
"Sweet, why don't you show me how it's done then?" I tossed him the controller with a smirk.
"Well..." He conceded. "If you insist." Poseidon was the first god to offer him a boon. "Nice! I was hoping to do a dash-build with the spear." He cleared about six rooms in under a minute.
"Damn, you are good!" I said. He just smirked over at me between killing enemies.
He offered various tips and tricks as he played, explaining why he was making the decisions he was. He was well past Megera and onto the next section of the game when Thanatos showed up.
"Ah, my boy!" Zach exclaimed. "I fucking love Than. Listen to his voice, he's got this great goth, too-cool-for-school aesthetic. I'd fuck him."
"And you said you could court either him or Megera?"
"Oh, no! Absolutely not," Zach feigned offense. "Than or Meg? No no no, Than
and
Meg."
"Oh shit, so you can be like, what's that called, um... polyamorous?"
"Mmmyep! It's pretty great. This game is just exuding with representation, it's fantastic."
"With a bi, polyamorous relationship I'd say so," I agreed.
"That's just the start. Dusa's asexual, Artemis is likely a lesbian on the spectrum, Chaos uses they/them, and fucking Achilles and Patroclus are depicted correctly! None of this 'He was just my cousin' bullshit. And—the big thing for me—it's all normal! No one in the story gives a shit or does anything other than accept the other characters for who they are."
"Damn, that sounds... Really affirming. And in a mainstream game too," I said after a moment.
He continued kicking ass until he beat a bone hydra, which I took to be the boss of the second area. He only lost five health points overall.
"Alright, I'm not showing you anything past Lernie," he said and immediately exited out of the run.
"You're on a roll though!"
"Yeah, but if I keep going they'll be story spoilers. Here, you can go talk to people in the House of Hades."
Hypno immediately greeted my character and commented on my interaction with his brother, Thanatos.
"So you have a thing for Hypno too, then?" I asked.
"Fuck no, Hypno is a little bitch. I'm just after Death's dick."
"Haha, fair enough then!" I laughed.
Next I interacted with Mother Nyx about Thanatos, her son.
"Wait a minute, Nyx is my mother too?"
"Well, spoilers, but she raised you, yes," He replied.
"But she's also Than's mother?"
"Yeah, Thanatos is definitely hers, along with Hypno and Charon."
"So that would make him... My..." I trailed off. Zach appraised me, letting the pause linger.
"Step-brother, of sorts," He said after an uncomfortable silence. He didn't take his eyes off me. Mine darted to his cock without permission.
