Chapter 47
I moved back into a one bedroom apartment in the same building in which I had lived from the previous school year. That seemed like ages ago after the wild summer I had just experienced. I pulled some stuff out of storage and after a week I was back to normal again. Boring John Richmond, the quiet guy in the back with all the answers. But maybe not so boring after such an international summer of sex and fun. But back at school, I was reminded of the lingering question from the summer, solo, solitario? Alone, lonely? I wasn’t alone per se, and in fact as I walked around campus, I was surrounded by people. I saw friends from classes, and we were catching up about the summer. I was back in a groove of walking to classes and getting lunch in a cafeteria. But perhaps a little lonely though. I was many miles away from pollo ala brasa. I was many miles away from my summer life. And I was also many miles away from DC, and a cute little regulator named Eddie, that was still very much on my mind.
On the first day of classes I showed up at Mr. Jacob’s office in the afternoon and he was on the phone, but motioned me in. I sat in his student chair, a wing back designed to put them at ease before he grilled them on what they hadn’t yet read but should have. I enjoyed the comfort of the tweed fabric, the feel of a Victorian parlor, and the class of it all. I wanted an office like this. I wanted a house that felt like this. Classy, and comfortable. He was winding up his call. I drifted back to the office with the books and the smell of his coffee on his desk. My stomach growled as I hadn’t yet had lunch. He turned to me after placing the receiver and said, “welcome back there, Mr. Richmond.” I smiled and said, “thank you sir.” He smiled and said, “Are you ready for a fun semester?” I nodded, “yes sir, I am. So, how do we begin the international tax work?” He chuckled, “anxious to get back into the thick of things so soon, I see?” I grinned, “yeah, I am raring to go.” He said, “there’s a bit of admin we need to do, but for now, I’ll let you know that the grant has to do with developing a model law for multinational tax investigations. Given your recent experiences, I think you may have some really deep insight.” I nodded, and shrugged my shoulders.
He continued, “The condition that the government gave on this, however, is that we would have oversight, and with that an embedded overseer. I’m not happy about it, but I think it will help highlight our tax program in the school rankings.” I nodded. “The Fed will be here next week so you and I can get settled in, and the real work will begin on Wednesday next week,” he concluded. I said, “Ok, that’s fine. I have met a few of the DC regulators, they seemed reasonable.” He looked at me and said, “they all do. Be careful.” I thought about Jason’s warning, and then Eddie’s smile. “But, we are in an academic context,” I argued. He said, “I respect the government, as a lawyer, but I don’t trust them.” I nodded, there was so much yet to learn. “Anyway, I should let you get back to your studies. Let’s meet Friday at 3, and we’ll go over the plans before he arrives.” I nodded and stood up. “Thank you again sir, for the opportunity.” He chuckled, “you might not be thanking me later, so I’ll take that for now.” I turned and left the office.
I went over to the library and opened my laptop. There was an email reply from Edward Smith. “Hey, John, great to hear from you. I hope you are settling into school again. Things have been hectic in Washington. I hope you can get back here soon. I will let you know if I have a chance to get away. Best, Eddie.” It was sweet, but noncommittal. I was back in my world, a world or two away from his. But, Eddie did reply. More than I had gotten from other “real lawyers” I had tried to contact earlier, when I was looking for a summer job. I think he was playing by the “rules.” I realized he would always be a little bit beholden to his job. I was certainly in that same position with mine, even though it was only a summer internship. I was warmed but also a little bit sad. What really surprised me was the email that followed, the one from Jason. It was from his gmail account, and I guess he didn’t want the firm to know that he had reached out to me.
He said that, “I had found your email address in some of your paperwork as I was finalizing your last check. I thought I would send you a goodbye note. I am glad you came to work for us, and I am also glad you found a way to leave. Alvaro got demoted from Senior Partner, after being detained by the Japanese authorities. He left and moved to England where he and Barty could run amok together. I think that they were always destined for that type of roguish life. I am up for the Senior Partner role, but I did think about what you said, about needing to make room in my life for someone else, so I told James that I would need a few months to consider it further. I am acting right now, and Todd is acting in my stead. I do miss you now, more than ever. You were able to deftly jump in and manage that multinational matter. I do apologize for leaving you to fend for yourself with Alvaro and Barty, without Todd and myself to intercede. I wish you well, John Richmond, you certainly made a mark on this place while you were here, and certainly with me in particular. If you ever need a recommendation, or even just want to chat, here's my cell. Feel free to call anytime. Jason.” His phone number followed.
I closed my laptop. It was a nice end to a chaotic summer. I was back to being a boring law student. In t-shirts and shorts, and not standing out for my youthful exuberance, or the massive cock between my legs. I was just just another guy in the class, bookbag and glasses, and lots of potential. I slid my computer into the sleeve of my bag, and zipped it up. I left the library, it’s quiet comfort, and I returned to the midday sun. I ran into friends, and we talked about the summer. You know, it’s a job, but I did go to London, and Tokyo. They were impressed, I was still an international traveler. I returned to my apartment after the first day and made some spaghetti. From a jar. Yes, I was back to being a student, no more pollo ala brasa numero dos to go for me. At least not every night. I turned on the TV and found a soccer game in Spanish playing for some reason. I left it on for old time’s sake.
I missed my latin familia, especially the padre with the curved cock. My own cock started to crow, and thicken as I thought about the last blowjob I gave him, in the doorway of the summer apartment. I could still taste his funk. I was getting harder as I thought about it. I decided to launch Grindr, just to see who was on. When the windows emerged, I had a message from Gary, the penguin aficionado, and he was checking to see if I was up and around. It was from several days ago, and I didn’t bother responding. He would figure it out soon enough when he saw that I was nearly 300 miles away.
The phone rang about that time, and I picked up. It was my Mom. “Hello, dear. How are you doing?” I replied, “I’m doing fine, just getting back into the swing of things at school.” She replied, “that’s nice. By the way, the ladies at Church were just gushing about the pearls you got me in Japan. They were so impressed. I was definitely mother of the year.” I smiled. “Well, you are to me,” I said. She laughed. “That’s too kind, but I do appreciate the thought. How are things now that you are back in the grind of studying?”
I nodded and said, “they are fine, just a lot of getting ready at this point. Classes have started, but the real work will come later as the semester progresses.” She was uh hmmming along and said, “Well, don’t forget to take time to smell the roses.” I thought about the assholes I had licked while I was at the summer job- the steam room ones, the guys in London and Tokyo, and even Mark. It was a veritable bouquet of ass blossoms. I sighed and said, “yes, I’m trying to keep that in mind. It’s been a busy summer, and now I’m back into the crucible of law school.” She chuckled, “it will all be worth it I am sure.”
I nodded. “I think so, I’m looking forward to this tax seminar I’m doing with Mr. Jacobs.” My mom finished with, “that sounds nice.” She didn’t really understand what that meant, and I was fine with that. “Well, let me let you go,” I said. “Yes, dear,” she said, “well, I love you. Study hard.” I returned with, “I love you too, and I will. Good bye.” She said goodbye and hung up the phone. I got a call from a classmate from last year who was going out for a drink on a Thursday night. I declined, deciding to finish my spaghetti and watch the rest of the soccer match. I felt like I owed it to my casa away from my casa.
The reality was that I didn’t feel like being a kid in law school anymore. I had grown up over the summer and the antics of the school life I had been a part of before seemed so juvenile now. I wanted to be a real adult, go on real dates, and have a real boyfriend. I then had a real pang about what I had missed out on with Eddie, not having a chance to really go out. And the reality was maybe it was just a passing fling for him, ships that passed in the night. I thought about Jason, about whether I should have fucked him that last night after the party. He needed it badly. But I was afraid that it would be too weird. I couldn’t explain it, but I think he just needed a hug, and after the fuck with George, where I was literally fucking him in exchange for my freedom, I think that I didn’t need another sexual entanglement with anyone at that fucking firm, nice cock or ass or not.
I finished my dinner and turned off the match. I felt like the whole world was turned upside down in the previous three months. I was here last May perfectly chaste, a monk in the books, learning the law and being a good boy. Then the summer hit and I was such a whore, cocks out every day, sucking and fucking. I was feeling oats, and sowing seeds, and notching bedposts. I wondered how Sean and Mark were doing. Their introduction was one of my better moves. That and the three-way we had after the one dinner party I hosted.
I thought about the glory hole in the basement of the firm. My reprieve from the stress of a job so chaotic, and the strange mix of blue collar workmen, sweaty, jeans, hair, and funk, and the white collar world of wool slacks, ties, and cocks that tasted of Ivory soap. The gym steam room and the number of occasions where I left it disheveled. I was quietly proud of that pseudo-vandalism. I certainly had my fun there. But I didn’t know most of those guys' names. Well, except for Ron, and Alvaro, and of course George. George was a two time competitor at the least.
Would I ever be happy back on the farm after I had seen Paree? I didn’t know. I was having more of a crisis than I wanted to admit. I needed to get out and shake off the whole shift of life from the past few days. I put on sweats and decided to take a run before bed. It was dark, but there were lights in the subdivision where I lived. I put on shoes and locked the door. I was down the street before I knew it and heading toward campus. I started to sweat as I headed up a hill toward the library. I never really explored the “scene” here, whether there was a glory hole set up, or some foot tapping under the wall stall action in the bathroom. I was too busy making outlines and cramming for finals. I think that there was a time and place for fun, and for studying, and maybe I could find more of a balance between the two and not the extremes.
I continued across the quad, and down toward the dorms. I passed by frat pledges in various states of disarray, genuflecting toward their upperclassmen, and my dirty mind turned to fantasies of the asses up getting pummeled by the brothers’ cocks in dark basements of the frat houses. My cock started to grow and bounce furiously in my boxers, as I began to signal to passersby what I was wielding in my sweatpants. I thought about my prison neighbor, Alvin, I often wondered if he was an Al, or maybe some kind of cool moniker like switchblade or assbandit. That cock was such a missed opportunity of mine. Even though he may have ended up back where he didn’t want to be. His story was my cautionary tale. Or to throw caution to the tail? I laughed at my own dirty Dad joke.
I did a loop around the edge of campus and turned back across the tennis courts. The lights were on and there were still late games being played by coeds, all kinds of balls bouncing in the lamplight. I just kept running, getting out the cobwebs from the summer and trying to wear myself out so I could sleep better later that night. I passed the library with the international students afraid of life in America and afraid of disappointing their family back home. I kept on going. I started running down a gulley where the path led over to the student center. There was a candlelight vigil for someone, and a guitar playing and people singing. It was oddly joyful in a time of someone’s grief. I kept on running, like Forrest Gump, and passed by the law school building, with folks already arguing about cases that wouldn’t matter once they graduated.
I do think that part of what I had gotten from the summer was perspective. I used to think that all I wanted was a nice car, a big house, and a powerful job. After seeing remnants of that in my firm job, all I wanted was the happiness of being able to have a life without having to sell too much of my soul to do that. I suppose that was my main thing. To have a life without having to sell too much of my soul. I think that Mr. Jacobs had that, and I think his healthy disrespect of the government was part of that retaining of soul that he had. I don’t know, all lawyers are a bit fucked up. And liked a bit of fucking up as I had also learned.
I continued back down the road and toward my apartment block again. I felt winded and sweaty, and maybe a little better. Not completely resolved but certainly worn out enough for bed. As I approached my door, I reflected on the main thing for me. I didn’t really have a guiding star for my life at the moment. It was more a pulling back, a retreat into the life I knew from a life I didn’t want. Or, at least, didn’t want under those terms. I could fuck all I wanted, but would I end up like George or Alvaro. I could focus on work to the exclusion of everything else and become Jason. Would I be the one pulling my dick out of a guy’s ass and saying, “that is all.” I was trying to figure out how to be me, here at school, after a taste of the afterlife. It’s like the folks that come back from the dead saying that they saw a light.
I got in and took a hot shower. I soaped up my chest and then my hand trailed down to my cock. I hadn’t had to jack off much this summer, there was always someone else around to do it for me. I started to slowly pull at it, and it happily responded. I started to imagine myself in the steam room, the towel unfurled, the calves near my arms, the furtive touches, the connections made, the grand unveiling of the cocks. The various shapes, long and short, fat and thin, rigid and soft, and how they would get more rigid in my mouth, the taste of their sweat and the steam in the room. My hands trailing underneath their balls, and tickling their asshole. The way the guys would adjust to get a better position in front of me, while I worked their shafts. Their cockheads at the back of my mouth, looking for my throat, and their balls swinging under my chin, their hairiness and their fragility.
The thigh muscles of these guys, flexing to lower their cocks into my mouth, and their asscheeks tightening to thrust their cocks further in. The natural flow of energy as they found a rhythm to sliding their cocks into my mouth, over my lips and the shaft hardening as I used my tongue to massage it to and fro. The point where the playful sucking became more urgent, more rhythmic and more determined. The cock became demanding, urging the hips to fuck the mouth with more passion and drive. The pace quickening as the breathing became more hurried and the grunts became more audible. Then the moment of no return, as the cock began to spasm and jerk in my mouth, the warm stickiness of cum filling the back of my mouth, and the pace slowing as the cock softened in my mouth.
I was shaking from the images and the cum I had just shot thinking back over all of the sexcapades I had had, over the past few months. I soaped up my hands and washed off my spent cock, now waning too, after completing its mission. I turned off the shower, and stepped out. I dried off and put on pajamas and headed to bed. I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue my sluttiness back at school, but I also wasn’t sure what I did want. I suppose that was the end result of my run, was that I didn’t know what I wanted my life to be. I crawled into bed, turned out the light, and drifted off to sleep.