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The Code
I could see the City of London all around me from the coffee shop window as I wiped the chrome spout. 7.30pm. I sat down. Tired. It had been a long, draining shift as usual. I’d taken the job to help fund me while at University and if I was going to work in any coffee shop then this was a seriously cool coffee shop - ‘Juliet’ named after the founder’s grandmother. To describe it as ‘Artisan’ wouldn’t do it justice. This was coffee as a lifestyle. A myriad of speciality coffees, an unrushed wholesome service, and currently the darling of hipster #coffeeporn Instagram with city workers queuing around the side of the building every morning and lunchtime.
Juliet Coffee is bang in the centre of the City. The square mile. A rabbit warren of ancient streets and gleaming office towers, a shrine to the money that this city feeds on.
I pulled off my apron and sat down with the coffee I’d made for myself, on the house of course. A kick of caffeine before I headed to the gym. My phone buzzed. For the first time in the day I had time to look at it, scrolling through all the notifications I’d missed.
“Hey, how are you?” was the most recent one, which I was beginning to realise was the cliched Grindr welcome. A blank profile. No details. I had only started using the app properly since I moved to London and didn’t take it seriously but the sheer amount of men on there was like a sweetshop here compared to the slim pickings in my northern town.
So I replied with the required cliché ‘Good mate, you?”. I sipped the coffee as the conversation continued, yes we were both horny, no neither of us could host. “Wish there was somewhere we could go” I said flippantly. The coffee had perked me up and I could feel my daily horniness starting to arrive. I was 19. Only the workload of this job kept it at bay. The gym, the bored days in lectures…everything else brought that horniness to the fore.
“Wish there was somewhere we could go” I’d said it so mindlessly, so unexpectant.
“There is” he replied.
I still wasn’t expecting the conversation to go anywhere. It was 7.40. My shift was well over, and the gym was calling. I’d have my coffee to go. I grabbed my bag and shouted goodbye to Josh, the shop owner and founder. “Bye Mate” came the thick Aussie reply amidst a clattering of cups from the back kitchen. My phone buzzed another message from the empty profile. “There’s a building in an office block I know that is totally unused. I have the code to the building”.
I laughed, as I went out into the still warm June evening. I replied quickly:
“I’d honestly feel uncomfortable doing that mate, don’t know why, just would. Enjoy your night”. My mind was on the gym now. Needed that stress release.
Another buzz. “Ok mate. I’ll send you the code for £5.”
Intrigued,and playing along, I replied “ Haha alright mate”.
A few minutes passed. I was walking through the busy streets, workers heading home, city boys drinking outside bars as I pushed past the available space on the street, passing the steady flow of strangers heading into Moorgate Station.
“Haha, kidding mate. You can have it. It’s yours. #5874.
157 Bank Lane. Once in head up to the 7th floor. It’s a space that NEVER gets used. There’s a huge shower at the back of the space too. Enjoy it mate!”
It was an unusual message and I don’t quite know why but it had suddenly made me insanely horny. Just the idea of it. The excitement of the scenario. Even without the promise of meeting anyone.
Last year, when I’d stayed over with a friend from college her Gran had called her to ask her to fetch some groceries. I stayed, playing the video game we were playing. As I heard her leave my thoughts turned suddenly to the fact that her brother’s bedroom was next door. Two years older than me and football team captain. Knowing his room was so close my cock started to thicken and move. Those first stirrings every man recognises.. Anticipating excitement. I stood up and walked into his room. I stood not doing anything. Just being there amongst his things was insanely exciting to me. Being where I shouldn’t.
That is exactly how I felt right now. With these two pieces of information. An address, a code and the anonymity of the city around me. Hundreds of streets and buildings in this one section of the city. Maybe a section of a building could go unused and unnoticed in the sprawl of the metropolis?
I reached the traffic lights at the crossroads with London Wall. My gym was opposite slightly to the left. I could feel that I’d thickened to a heavy semi, starting to push against my briefs and black work trousers.
The traffic light red changed to green and I crossed the road, And walked straight ahead, passing the turnoff to the gym and deeper into the city, towards the Bank of England. I took out my phone, opened Google Maps and searched for 157 Bank Lane.