With gratitude for your patience, here's the next chapter.
Chapter 15
We spent the rest of the night in the pool and hot tub. Mikey modeling and trying out his new swimsuit with some surprisingly fast laps. You’d think with all that lean mass he’d be too heavy to swim fast, but with a strong kick off and his powerful limbs, he moves through the water like a knife.
After he shows off a bit and gets in a good workout, we cuddle up in the hottub. It might be the heat from the water, but everytime he kisses me my head swims. I’m lost in the moment, feeling his hands run rampant across my body when he gasps and stops.
“What’s wrong? What’s happening?” I say, ducking into his arms in case security is finally here to arrest us.
“What time is it?” Mikey asks urgently, head craning looking for a clock on the wall. I spot it over his shoulder.
“Yeesh, after 10. We’ve been here for hours.” I reply, relieved we aren’t busted.
“Shit. Too late now.” Mikey says, shaking his head. “I had this entire evening planned for our first date! We were going to walk along the river and then go to this Mugler exhibit downtown, a collection of runway looks from some year to some other year!” he laments, clearly excited, if a bit fuzzy on details. “I ran it by Jack and his jaw dropped so I figured it was something you’d love.”
He’s right. Mugler is major. “When does the exhibit end?”
“I think it runs through Thanksgiving, so we’ve got some time.” Mikey says, bringing me in for a kiss. “Just to be clear, you do want to go on more dates, right? Are we considering this one a success?”
“Yep! Gorging ourselves on Vietnamese food followed by a rousing round of trespassing and the misuse of a therapy pool? Best first date ever.” I reply matter of factly.
“I don’t know about misuse, that felt pretty therapeutic to me.” Mikey growls into my neck and pulls me close against his ample pecs and cobblestone abs.
It basically takes no effort for him to lift me normally, in the water it feels like I’m weightless. His massive hands wrap around my waist and cup my ass and my body surges through the water in whatever direction his whims lead.
“Speaking of Thanksgiving,” I mutter into his collarbone post kiss, “Are you going home for the fall break? See your mom?”
Mikey gets quiet, looks down into the swirling water and shakes his head.
“I don’t think it’s in the cards. Honestly, we never really celebrated that one after dad died. I don’t think it even dawned on her that I might come home next month. She’s going on a cruise with my aunt.”
Mikey never talks about his dad, and most of the time when he brings up his mom it leaves him quiet, staring off at nothing. I try not to bring either of them up in general. I guess I don’t talk about my mom much, either.
“Well, that’s great news! More Mikey-time for the rest of us.” I say eventually, kissing him again before I climb out of the hot-tub and run across the tile floor. I jump wildly, arms flailing, into the deep end of the pool.
“Now get in here and fuck me stupid again!” I yell as I surface, shaking my head to clear the water from my eyes. Only to open them and see Mikey flying at me full speed. A massive grin plastered on his face.
…
About a week and half after our first date, Mikey and I are having lunch with Jack and Claire on the quad. Last week, I spotted Claire along the foot path that leads to the library and invited her to join us for lunch. Claire immediately complimented the quality of Jack’s knock off Fendi monster tote, and now they have their own text chain. Our foursome lunches have been a pretty regular thing since that day. We’ll grab food at the student union (or more often, the shawarma cart) and lounge on the grass to enjoy the last of the serotinal warmth. Apparently that’s the season we’re in, as Claire tells us.
“...Yeah, it’s the adjective form. Autumnal is obvious enough, hibernal like bears in winter, pre-vernal is when there's both frost and thaw, vernal is spring, estival is summer, and then we have right now, serotinal.” Claire muses, leaning back to catch the waning sunlight on her face. She has a tendency to orate facts in a way that always makes me feel profoundly under-read, and also delightfully collegiate. Like, this is why I’m here, to listen to brilliant people talk about the things that fascinate them.
“Anyway, soon it’ll be too cold and we’ll need a new lunch spot.” She finishes.
“The student union has a few good spots with tables, but they can be competitive.” Mikey says between bites of chicken and rice. There’s yogurt on his chin and I’m resisting licking it off. I picture us sitting in the student union but immediately remember that it’s where Brett usually hangs out.
“Uh, we can do better. Plus the food is flavorless.” I say quickly. “There’s The Works? It’s not far from the Library.” I offer up.
“Yeah, no good. The Works gets really cold in the winter. Plus it’s so far from Mikey’s classes, it hardly seems fair.” Jack chimes in, munching an apple. He’s sitting with his long legs crossed, flipping idly through a copy of Vogue and showing us occasional designs and ads. “The best thing about the quad is that it’s central to all of us.”
The debate continues but I find my attention wandering to Mikey. I love watching him eat. Like Jack, he’s sitting with his legs crossed, but their similar positions only make the proportional differences between them more apparent.
Jack’s long legs are light and lean, and with ankles crossed his knees float upward like blades of grass. His back is straight and supported. He’s languid, yet poised. Watching him it always feels like he could spring up at any moment, long muscles coiled tight around a lightweight frame. Even his bulge, which I’m now noticing, is a subtly suggestive slope along one thigh. Mikey, in stark contrast, is like a carefully stacked pile of boulders. Like the waymarkers people build along hiking trails and beaches. Each leg is resting heavily in the grass, his knees spread wide and low. His back curves forward over his takeout boat of grilled chicken and yogurt sauce, but not hunched, he’s fully supported. When he sits up (or even better, leans back) he spreads his arms out to support his mass.
Occasionally he extends an arm or leg fully, and I always marvel at his reach. He’ll start with a stretch, arms together making his pecs pop, and push them uuuuuuuup with a moan. Then he rotates his delts and drops his arms back, catching himself and stretching his spine backward out of his hunkered-down position over his food. He also seems like he’s always ready to jump up and jog off, but it’s sheer power. Sometimes when he actually does jump up and run off, I expect the earth underneath him to show dents and divots in the shapes of his massive feet and glorious ass.
This particular stretch, like most of Mikey’s stretches, ends up with him wrapping an arm around me to pull me close against his body for a quick kiss. I’m getting more comfortable with PDA. It helps that Claire is here to keep Jack entertained when we get handsy. If we get too cuddly Claire and Jack just laugh and roll their eyes, and start gossiping or planning fun future shit. Like right now.
“I can’t believe it’s already Halloween next weekend. Are you going to the party at Psi Nu?” Claire asks Jack.
“Yeah, it looks like it’s the shindig to be at. Their parties are usually good. Wild parts mixed with chill parts. And the brothers aren’t bad. I hooked up with one of them last year, they’ve got a few gay guys in the mix.” Jack replies. I can’t picture Jack with a fraternity bro, but I gather frats aren’t like they are in movies. At least I hope they aren’t.
“What are you wearing?” Claire asks excitedly.
Jack perks up at this (always a good question for Jack. Or me for that matter.)
“I’m going as Sailor Mercury from Sailor Moon.”
“Cute! I haven’t seen that show since I was in middle school. She’s the smart one, right?” Claire asks.
“Yeah, Ami. She’s my favorite.”
“That’s perfect,” Mikey gasps, being an Anime fan himself. “You look great in blue. Are you wearing the goggles?”
“Mmhmm! They arrive tomorrow.” He nods. It’s fun to see Jack feeling giddy. “How about you, Claire? What’s your costume going to be?”
“Poison Ivy from Batman & Robin. The Uma Thurman one. With the eyebrows.” Claire replies, wiggling her brows at Jack.
“Fucking iconic camp. Two enthusiastic gay thumbs up.” Jack laughs, then turns to Mikey and me, “Are you two coming to the party? Debuting your disgustingly adorable couple vibes for the State U social scene?”
“You should. It’ll be fun. Plus, safety in numbers and all that.” Claire reasons, seeing me cringe, “Think of it as a public service announcement: The campus must be informed that Mikey is off the market, and this is the perfect opportunity to rub all their faces in how hot you are together.”
“What do you think?” Mikey asks me with questioning (dare I say hopeful) eyes. “Your first college rager with your cool new friends?”
“I don’t know. A fraternity party on Halloween seems like a baptism by fire. Can’t we just do the Trick-or-Drink thing in the dorms? Or the party in the student union?” I bargain.
“Trick-or-Drink got shut down early this year. And the parties at the SU are dead. No booze, overhead lighting, chips without dip. Unfit for hot people.” Jack muses, putting on a pair of sunglasses and lying backward on the grass.
“You can only avoid the rest of the student body for so long, Adam.” Claire tells me, dropping the sing-song tone and meeting my eye, “Anyway, people want to know who the adorable and impeccably dressed new twink on campus is. It’s cruel to deprive them of your wit and color sense. With great power, and all that.”
I turn to Mikey and he’s smiling so gently at me, “I’ll do whatever you want to do.” he assures me, “But honestly, it kinda sounds like fun. I want to show you off.”
“Fuck it. Why not?” I sigh, conceding. Shit, “What are we going to wear?”
“Oh, I’m sure you’ll whip something up that makes all the normies look like the party-city discount-rack nightmares they are.” Jack winks.
“Wait, is this happening?” Mikey beams. “Awesome. Ok. I think I might have a couple’s costume idea that you’re going to LOVE.”
…
It’s Saturday night and we’re getting ready to go into the belly of the beast: a college fraternity on Halloween night. In a rare instance, I’m dressed down to a ratty white t-shirt and a pair of old jeans that fit tight even on my slight frame. Or maybe I’m filling out a little. Either way, I’m appropriately dressed for what we have in mind. I’ve mixed three shades of body paint, a greenish gray, a lighter green, and a muddy, darker green-gray. Brushes and painting sponges are prepped, and I’ve spread a large plastic drop cloth over the old sofa and the floor in front of it.
“Hey big guy, you ready for this?” I call over toward Mikey’s room.
“Oh yeah,” he replies from the door frame, “Born ready.” He smirks at me as he walks to the center of the tarp. He’s shirtless, and got a great pump going in his workout before we started prepping. His lower half is tantalizingly wrapped in snug fitting black pants, and a pair of sturdy boots with thick black soles brings his height to just-beyond ceiling-scraping. Even with the dark material his hefty endowment is prominently visible. I give him a slow, appreciative look up and down.
“How about you, Doctor? You ready to make your monster?” He says, grinning from ear to ear.
“Ready as I’ll ever be.” I sigh, and take the middle green and a big sponge and start dabbing paint onto Mikey’s abs. I stand back and take a look after blending the first spot and it’s actually going on pretty well! With a bit more confidence I start to apply the rest of the base coat across his torso. I admit, I’ve never painted a muscle god green before, and I was anxious it wouldn’t work. With that anxiety evaporating I’m able to get lost in Mikey’s body. His abs are so beautifully defined, a rolling road of cobblestones that rise up to carve crevices between each row. I dab deep into his adonis belt, watching the vein that snakes down and vanishes into the waistline of his pants pulse lightly under my touch. I follow his transverse abdominals around the sides of his belly, and then work my way up his front to the bottom of his heavy pecs. He breathes in sharply, and squirms a bit, making me smile. He’s ticklish around his mid ribcage, and I love to see him twitch when I caress there.
“Fuck. This is, um, hotter than I pictured.” He mumbles, and reaches down to adjust his growing shaft in the tight pants.
“Really?” I ask, bemused, “This is exactly how I pictured it.” I say, dragging the paint sponge across his nipple, watching it perk up in response. I slip behind him and paint his back from waist to just under his shoulder blades, being sure to follow the graceful curve of his spine.
“Alright, big guy, sit for me.” I say, scanning the room for an easy chair.
“I got ya.” Mikey says, and then kneels in front of me. With our height difference that puts his eye line at about my chin, and he looks up to meet my gaze. I’m suddenly stuck with how handsome he is. His eyes are hazel, an outer ring of green and inner circle of brown with gold flecks that sparkle and there’s this smile on his face that just makes me want to–
I drop the paint sponge, take his face in my hands and kiss him. His lips are warm and soft and I feel his hands wrap around my waist and pull me in. I guess I caught him a bit by surprise, because when I break the kiss he gasps.
“Sorry. Got lost in your eyes for a second.” I say, reaching down to grab my sponge off the tarp.
“You never have to apologize for kissing me.” He says, maybe a little love loopy still. I see the paint marks left on his face from my hands and feel my face go hot.
“Ok. Let’s finish this paint job before I tear those pants off you and we miss the party.” I say, smirking down at my gentle giant. Yeesh. He’s rubbing off on me.
From this angle I can easily paint the tops of his pecs, and I relish every moment. I gently dab paint into his deep clavicles, up and out to his monster shoulders (fucking boulders of muscle, remarkably firm at rest). I walk and paint my way around him, finishing his back. I start his arms next, getting the sponge into the lines of definition where his delts meet his triceps and biceps, marveling at their size as I dab dab dab. I feel my cock inflating and pushing hard against my tight jeans. I feel Mikey’s breath on my throat, and realize his breathing is ramping as I paint.
“Ok,” I say, noticing it came out huskier and hornier than I intended. “Stand for me again, and I’ll do the rest of your arms.”
Mikey gets one foot underneath his center mass and locks eyes with me. That fucking smirk again. I feel my cock throb steadily in my jeans as he rises up to his full height, inches from my face. He holds eye contact the entire time, moving through meeting my gaze to towering above me, looking at me down through the deep crevice between his pecs. I swallow, reflexively.
“Arms up,” I croak out, then more confidently, “Arms up, please.”
He complies, and I get more paint on my sponge. With his arms up he’s even more imposing, and I feel remarkably small. I paint his pits, starting on the left, then pause for a moment at the right. I can’t fucking help it, I get my face in his armpit and breath in his heady, post-workout musk. I’m close enough to feel his soft hair tickle my nose. He showered between getting a pump and now, and he smells like a combination of clean skin, man sweat, and sandalwood soap. I grip my own cock through my jeans and moan into him.
“Fuck, Adam, you’re so fucking hot.” He babbles at me, clearly fighting to control himself.
“Right back at you.” I say, shaking my head to clear the sex fog.
I finish his pits, and move to his arms. Fuck, his glorious, massive arms. He flexes for me, letting me hang off his arm for a moment as I paint the rolling peaks of muscle, the deep definition, and trace his thick veins snaking across the pulsing muscle. I paint his hands, loving how long and thick his fingers are. Watching the calloused palms soak up the paint.
“Ok, down, big guy.” I say, prepping the smaller sponges with the base color.
“Sorry, can’t help it.” Mikey says, adjusting his obvious growing shaft where it’s pushed out along his hip.
“Fuck.” I say, reaching down and giving it an appreciative squeeze. I was so lost in his torso that I hadn’t noticed. Very unlike me. “Um, I actually meant I need you back on your knees.” I chuckle, still groping.
“Fuck me. Yes, Sir.” Mikey says through a devious smile, clenching his ass and pumping blood to his growing beast. He slowly drops back down to his knees and I feel a growl escape my own throat. His eyes grow wide at that. (Heh. Surprised myself, too.)
I take his face in my left hand, gently, seeing his hazel eyes light up at my touch. I kiss him again, this time taking my time. I tease his lips with my own before locking us together in a passionate one. I break away and start nonchalantly painting his face. Moving his chin up or down, dabbing the sponge along his strong jaw and chin, working paint into his perpetual 5 o’clock shadow.
“Ok! That’s the base layer. Now we just need highlights, shadows, and the stitch painting.” I say, feeling accomplished, despite the numerous dick-stractions. “All we have to do is keep our hands off each other for another hour while I finish.”
“... We’re fucked.” Mikey laughs. “What was I thinking when I came up with this?”
“Well we both know which head this idea came from.” I say, reaching down to cup his epic mound in those tight jeans. The feel of it sends a shudder through me that reverberates through him starting at his junk. He moans lightly.
Yup. We’re fucked.