It started in the half state of waking up, with sleep still clinging on and consciousness not yet fully set in.
I was lying next to Simon in his bed - him facing the wall, me on my back against him. The fact that he had only a single bed meant our bodies would never be far apart. We'd gone to sleep like this after a late night of watching movies in his room; his younger brother had had friends over too, and had co-opted all the spare mattresses. Sharing a bed wasn't too big a deal to us. We'd been close friends for two or three years and being at a boys-only school had bred into us a hetero-masculine comfort with physical contact. Not that either of us at nineteen would be described as overly masculine.
There was light outside already, but the house was still quiet. I rolled over onto my side to check if he was awake. His hair was tousled on his pillow, and his breathing was quiet, but heavy. It was comfortable lying next to him, our bodies close but not quite touching, feeling his warmth.
I closed my eyes again, not sure if I'd go back to sleep or just enjoy lying in the quiet for a time. My foot was near to his and I unconsciously began rubbing it against it, tracing its shape with my toe. It took a moment before I realized what I was doing and afterwards I stopped immediately. He seemed none the wiser. Then I felt him move.
His foot inched closer to mine, closing the gap I left between us, seeking mine out. This time it was his turn to rub his sole over the top of my foot - moving ever so slightly.. I reciprocated his touch and nuzzled my chest against his back, but careful to keep my pelvis from pressing up against him - already I could feel a stiffening that I didn't want known.
It was this stiffening that was - together with the warmth of his body, the soft caresses of his foot, the familiar, comfortable smell of his hair so close to me - beginning to take over me. I lifted my arm and draped it over him. Still he was quiet.
We lay like this for some time. On the other side of the house I could hear someone rummaging in the kitchen. Perhaps if it were a different morning, perhaps if I were on his pullout bed where I usually slept, I'd have gotten up and had breakfast. Or switched on the computer and played games until he woke up like we usually did. But this morning I was lying against him, my dick was hard and I had an overwhelming itch I wanted to scratch.