Hi guys. Been a busy week. Wish I could just write this for a living.
Part XXXI
As Jay, Justin, Jeremy, Barry and I rode down the elevator for a day at the ballpark, I wanted to stop it midway, throw all but Jay off, and have a heart-to-heart with my mutual masturbation friend who clearly was more than a mutual masturbation friend.
It wasn't to be, but once we hit the streets of Chicago my thoughts weren't centered so much on getting into the 18-year-old shortstop's head or even his pants. It was a Saturday morning in September, and Chicago was on fire. My glimpse of Chicago was much different than I had expected. The sidewalks had more poodles than cracks, trendy stores blended right in with the apartment buildings and condos, and we looked underdressed in our jerseys and baseball caps.
We spent an hour or so on what I was told was Chicago's Gold Coast, where nine years later a disturbing crime occurred. It was 1997, and a young man named Andrew Cunanan -- who, like me, was struggling with life in general and how to express sexuality in particular -- went on a killing spree that reached from Minneapolis to rural to Minnesota to Chicago, where a married 72-year-old real estate developer was among Cunanan's sexual customers and victims. The prostitute went on to murder another man in New Jersey before committing one of the most high-profile slayings of the 1990s: that of fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami. Eight days later, Cunanan was dead. And let's just say the circumstances got me thinking.
But this was 1988, I was just 19, gay prostitutes were the furthest thing from my mind, and the Gold Coast was all a-glitter. It was just after 11 when Barry ushered Jay, Justin, Jeremy, and me into Chicago's underground and handed each of us an El token. "El," I learned, stood for elevated, as in Elevated train, and when I exhibited my confusion about catching an Elevated train underground, Justin said to "just wait."
Seconds later a string of silver cars groaned to a stop and I got on a subway for the very first time. I could not stop scanning the mix of people. There were plenty of whites and more blacks than I had ever seen, but what really stuck me were those who were neither, who were in between.
One such guy with milk chocolate skin was right in front of me. He was about my age, and smelled like shower and hair gel, and seemed to want his hair to be straight. But it did not want to be straight. His nose was broad but his face chiseled, sort of like Jay's actually, with a tight jaw that culminated in just the right place at his neck. The guy seemed to have more white in him than black, but he dressed like I had seen black guys dress on TV. The only thing clear to me was that the young man was FINE! Gorgeous, really. I remember him to this day, and looking back on it, there was no question that he had taken the best aspects of his white parent and his black parent.
The streetwise young man saw me stare with wonder at his crotch, so I switched to his eyes but I still could not avert my gaze. They were green! Green eyes on a black guy! I felt my male juices stir as the streetwise Chicago teen dismissed me as yet another ignorant tourist.
It was as the subway became the El when the light came on and I started really feeling the pain of trying to conform to the American tendency of putting everything in one of two buckets. On or off. Black or white. A or B. Democrat or Republican. Christian or doomed. With us or against us.
Gay or straight.
* * *
Barry's plan was for us to get lunch at a table for five near Wrigley, but the restaurants were jammed so we had to settle for hot dogs, chips, and -- honest to God -- popsicles from food carts outside the stadium. As I watched Justin's brown eyes get wide with every suck on his rainbow-colored frozen treat, I had what remains to this day as the weirdest, most vivid, maybe most disturbing deja vu moments of life.
Once inside Wrigley we had great seats, about 20 rows up midway between home plate and third base. The fabled stadium was even better than I had even imagined. The food, the breeze, the ivy, the knowledgeable fans. The only dark spot was when one of those fans threw a beer on Justin's White Sox jersey. But the gay twin brushed it off with not a bit of swish, told the prick to screw himself, invited him to "come watch a game on the South Side where real men go, you asshole." It was an outward toughness and aggressiveness that would, quite literally, save the gay man's life when challenged by gay bashers years later.
After the game, we took the El to Chinatown on Justin's suggestion and ended up at a round table for five with one of those turntable things in the middle. Jeremy ate by far the most, and by the time we got back to the hotel he claimed still to be hungry.
Not until then did I remember Barry had gotten us a second room. But my heart sank as Barry checked at the front as I heard the clerk say there had been "a mixup" and all the bonus rooms were full. But when the assistant manager overheard what was going on and recognized Barry as a regular, the smooth-talking dad ended up with a key to a room on the very top floor.
"Here guys." Barry tossed the key to Justin. "You, Jay, and Stu take it. Housekeeping says they'll bring up a rollaway bed. Then it can sleep three. So stop by the room, pick up your stuff, and we'll meet you in the pool while they do their thing."
Sleep three? Must be a broom closet, I thought to myself. With my luck, the twins will take the double bed and I'll be left all alone. But at least they had swimming suits to put on, so if the surroundings were tight, at least I'd get a close look at their privates ...
* * *
Opening the door of the bonus room was one of the most shocking experiences of my life. It was a suite -- a freaking
honeymoon suite, with a king-size bed, lush robes, box of chocolates and all. The next morning we'd learn of the pain that was our gain, of a groom who had been left at the altar by his cheating bride. But on that night, the chilled champagne and whirlpool were ours.
I, unlike the twins, had forgotten my suit, but I was wearing shorts and boxers so figured they'd do. But because I had gotten hung up looking at the prices in the the room-service menu, I almost missed what I had been waiting to see: Justin undressed. By the time I realized what was going on, Jay's identical twin was bare from the waist up and on the way to pushing down his black trousers. Jay was right: their chests were pretty much the same, though Justin's was not as tanned or quite as buff.
I had no undressing to do, and my developing sense of gaydar told me that Justin would not mind, so I watched the brown-eyed teen slip out of his pants and linger in a way that Justin's gaydar told him was torture for me.
Justin flashed me a dimpled grin and raised his eyebrows twice. His brown eyes looked just like Jay's, minus the sexual confusion. Justin looked confident, sexy, teasing. He knew what I wanted, and he knew how to play with me.
What a fucker.
Over the previous few weeks, I had seen Jay's lovely penis many times -- in the dorm shower, Dr. Fitzgerald's office, and even my dorm room. But it had been less than 24 hours since I had first touched, and remarkably, made it come. My groin was on fire as I yearned to see Justin's too, to confirm what Jay had told me: that he and his identical twin were pretty much identical in the penis and testicles department.
Justin fished down his boxers perhaps two inches, brought the undies back up, and did it again and again and again. Finally, very slowly, he lowered his boxers to the very top of his dick and I held my breath waiting to see something marvelously familiar and quite honestly delicious. My eyes were fixated on the tube of Justin's soft penis as he revealed first one inch, then another, then another, then --
"What ... the ... fuck ... is ... THAT!?"
Jay had been watching too. I turned and hoped to see him in a state of nakedness whereby I could do a quick compare and contrast of the identical twins' plumbing, but ...
"Or, Justin, I should say, what ... the ... fuck .. ISN'T .. that?"
I had been focusing on Justin's dick, so it hadn't quite hit me. But when I spun my head back around I saw it right away. Justin had no public hair. None whatsoever. The brainy teen's penis might've been just a touch smaller than Jay's, but with no hair down there, it looked floppy, big, and ready to meet my mouth. As for Justin's balls, they looked delicious in their hairless state and swayed just like his brother's. And yes, the left one was larger than the right.
"Some of us try to stay nice and tidy, bro'. Unlike you, you slob."
"Fuck you."
What happened next has been jackoff material for me for more than 20 years. Justin, with neither clothes nor public hair, charged his twin brother, knocked him to the honeymoon suite's floor, and straddled the bare chested baseball player's torso. I watched Jay's lightly haired legs squirm as Justin's genitalia drooped and swayed. I moved to the side just in time to see the head of Justin's naked penis barely touch the top of the shortstop's abdomen, which heaved with each of Jay's annoyed breaths.
When Justin crawled on his knees toward his twin brother's head, I could not believe my eyes. Justin's erection, unlike Jay's, seemed to get longer before it got firmer. A LOT longer. It swayed back and forth just an inch or two from Jay's chin. I think I came a little when I realized that Jay was not pinned to the carpeting at all. Justin's legs were spread very wide and were on the floor just below Jay's shoulders. The muscular shortstop could've launched his twin to the other side of the room if he had wanted to.
"You want it Jay-Jay I know you do."
"Fuck you fag."
"Why don't you get it over with and see what a real one tastes like, instead of microwaving polish sausages and bringing them to your room."
"Who told you about that?"
"Jeremy. He caught you, he said. But why you left the door open, I have no idea."
"That was three fucking years ago. You and I were just fifteen, and he wasn't supposed to be home, and he's a little twerp, the shithead. I'm going to kill him. He wasn't supposed to --"
"Well, you got me earlier by letting Stu here know about me and the leaning-against-the-clothes-dryer bit."
"Yes, but I --"
"So it's only fair that Stu here learns a little bit about both of us, Mr. Shortstop Who Thinks He's So Straight."
"Fuck you."
"You're a switch hitter, and you know it."
"I bat right."
Justin glanced at me to see if I got it. I did, but apparently Jay hadn't.
"I mean, Jay-Jay, look. Having girls jack you off in their parents' car does sound sort of hot. And muscle magazines are one thing. Fine. Get your rocks off lookin' at studs even while you're trying to get past third base with the ladies. Sounds hot. But heating up polish sausages and then looking at muscle magazines at the same time? And arranging it so your 11-year-old brother catches you with a microwaved sausage in your mouth? Now that, Jay-Jay, is kinky!"
It was on the sixth time that I saw Justin's floppy penis brush against Jay's chin that I know a large glob of precum stained my shorts. But by then Jay had decided that he had to decide that he had had enough. The shortstop grabbed his brother by the bare balls, squeezed hard, and launched the naked twin from his torso. I wanted to caress both Jay and those bare balls, to make sure all were OK.
Justin chuckled as he put his arms around his knees and let his droopy penis and testicles brush against the honeymoon suit's carpeting. I was ready to come, no doubt about it.
"Was it good for you, Jay?"
"Shut the fuck up."
"Jay-Jay, you gotta loosen up, man. Go with the flooow."
"I don't smoke weed like you, you fruit."
"Maybe you should."
Jay made a charge toward his twin brother but backed off when there was a knock at the door. Justin got into his swimming trunks as quickly as he had gotten out of his shirt, but Jay froze as a nice Mexican lady wheeled in a rollaway and seemed to be praying in Spanish upon seeing three late teen guys -- one complete dressed, one in a swimming suit, and one just in boxer sorts -- in the honeymoon suite.
As the lady began unfolding the bed, Jay grabbed his suit, headed for the bathroom, and locked the door. We were out of there within two minutes, and three minutes later we were in a pool area that we had to ourselves. Jeremy was wondering what had taken us so long and asked why Jay's chest was all red. Barry told him to be quiet and get in the pool.
I, meanwhile, headed for the sauna. Thankfully Jay followed me in, but we had about 10 seconds of privacy before Jeremy joined us. About all I could do was talk baseball and realize Jay's suit was tighter than Justin's and that his soft penis still tended to hang to the left. After what seemed like 14 minutes, the 14-year-old realized how boring we were and headed to horse around with his other older brother in the pool.
Finally, there we were, alone, side by side, naked from the waist up. I bit my lower lip as I fixated on the beads of sweat running from Jay's temples and also from his toned abs onto his swimming suit's waistband. It had been a day of baseball, but there also had been an undercurrent of unexplored sexual tension, which for me had become something other than an undercurrent upon seeing Jay not really try to resist his naked brother's assaults in the suite.
We had to talk about this. At least I did. Jay and I had jacked each other off, with Jay's dad and little brother in the hotel room for crying out loud. In the grand scheme of my sexual life, the mutual masturbation could be seen as "just a couple handjobs," but at the time, it was a big, big deal for me. And also extremely hot. I needed to know whether the sexual contact was a beginning, or an ending.
"Quite a day, eh Jay?"
"I'll say. Isn't Chicago great?"
"Yeah."
Jay was silent and looked ahead straight, waiting for me to take the lead. I spoke next, very softly.
"Last night was great, Jay."
Jay unstraightened his gaze and looked me right in the eyes. They were shifting back and forth again, in that way they shifted when he was trying to figure out both me and himself.
"Stu, I --"
"It's OK."
"Stu, let me finish. I also, um, liked it."
Relief enveloped my body, but seconds later I felt a different sort of tension upon learning how complex and mysterious the 18-year-old jock seemed to be.
"Jay, I wouldn't say no to doing it or something like it again. How 'bout you, bud?"
"I guess not."
"You guess not?"
"I've been thinking about it all day, off and on."
"Me too."
"And trying to figure it out. I mean, Stu, look. I love girls. You too, right? I mean, you saw that chick at the stadium first. She was frigging hot."
"Yeah. I do. And she was hot."
"They turn me on. Lots of them do, Stu. Shit, just the thought of screwing that one we saw makes me hard right now, right here."
I looked down and saw Jay wasn't lying. In a flash, I started to get hard at the thought of Jay's seven-inch erection sliding in and out of that hot babe at the stadium.
"Me too. But Jay, I've let you know where I'm at. At least I think I have. And it seems to change day to day. I like girls, but I really like guys too. Today I really like them." I paused, but I had to say it. I HAD to. "I really like you. Specifically."
Upon finally getting oral confirmation of what I knew Jay knew, the ballplayer diverted his gaze from my eyes to his forearms as he squeezed perspiration onto his thighs. Making eye contact with me was not going to be an option as Jay struggled to explain himself in light of my confession.
"See, Stu, ahem. I like guys. Sort of. Sometimes. And you, I like you, in that way, it's true. You're the only one who knows it, who knows this about me."
"You might be surprised."
"What do you mean?"
"Never mind."
"See, it's in a different way for me, I think."
"How so?"
"OK, if somebody comes in, we stop talkin' about this. But here we go. I'll answer your question with a question, one I think I know the answer of. OK?"
"OK."
"After you were done, last night, how did you feel?"
"In the bathroom, I wanted to --"
"No, in bed. After you came. With me. How did you feel?"
"Great! It was awesome, Jay. It was super. I liked every bit of it."
"But I mean,
how did you feel, what were your feelings like, like toward me? Afterward? After you blew your stuff? Be honest."
I paused and realized this was a turning point not just in my life, and Jay's life, but in our life.
"Jay, look. I felt really, really, REALLY attracted to you. Like we had shared something that just regular friends don't."
Jay looked me right in the eyes, deeper than he ever had. I broke the gaze to make sure he was still hard. He was, and that fact, plus the sight of sweat running down the shortstop's still-tanned pecs, made me pretty much fully erect too.
"See, Stu, after I come, after I came, last night, it's different."
"How?"
"Don't take this wrong, but I couldn't wait to get out of bed and clean up. Get away from the situation."
"So you weren't attracted to me, afterward?"
"I wouldn't say that, exactly. I was happy I had made you feel good, because you're my friend, and that's what friends do, right? But it's weird. And it's not just you."
"What do you mean."
"When I, you know, jack off?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, I've never told anybody this, or admitted it. But I do think about guys sometimes. A lot of the time, actually. Guys on the team. Now, guys on the dorm floor. In high school, even a band nerd or two. Even a student teacher we had a couple years ago, even though he was older. But at the end, when I'm ready to come?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm usually thinking about girls. Not always, but usually. Sometimes my girlfriend, sometimes a cousin, to be perfectly honest. It's like, guys help me get hard, but when it comes time to blow my stuff, it's a girl I want to blow it into. And if I'm thinking about a girl, at that exact time, it seems to shoot farther, it's more intense."
"Wow. That is different."
"When I come while thinking about a guy, it doesn't shoot as far. Not usually, anyway, unless it's been a few days. And I feel sort of, like, I don't know, wrong. Like it's not meant to be, not what God intended. Guilty, I guess."
"Huh."
"Let's just say that last night, if I had come first, I don't think I would have put my head under the covers to watch you come, like I did. And I'll be honest with you, because I still had to blast my stuff, it was cool."
"That was hot, with you down there, your head on my chest. That really turned me on, Jay."
"It's hot, Stu. Literally. I couldn't believe how warm it was, when it hit my face. I always wondered what a girl might feel if I came on her like that. Now I know, I guess."
"Sorry about that. But take girls out of the picture. Did you like it, just experiencing it, having me do it, having me shoot stuff all over your face?"
"Yes Stu, at the time, because I hadn't come yet." Jay smiled like I had never seen him smile before. "And you came in my mouth, Stu."
"I thought so. Sorry."
"No, it was good, at the time. I've been tasting it, or trying to remember what you tasted like, all day. Sorry, that's gross."
"No it's not. It's hot."
A familiar seven-inch lump appeared along Jay's left thigh as I started to massage myself through my shorts. Just then, Justin joined us in the sauna, eyes on our crotches, gaydar on full tilt.
"Ah, boys, getting to know each other, I see."
"Fuck you, dork."
"Isn't he awful, Stu? I've put up with this for all these years. And isn't he in denial? Jay-Jay, you sure say the word fuck a lot for a guy who hasn't fucked anybody."
"Shut the fuck up."
"See?
"I have too!"
"That chick who sucked you off in the car? You didn't fuck her, and you know it."
"Well, we almost did."
"Sort of hard to fuck her when you blast your jizz into her mouth without warning, and then break up with her. That's just bad form, man."
"Well, that was sex. Who've you screwed, gay boy?"
"Wouldn't you like to know."
"Tell me."
"In your dreams, bro'. Somebody you know. I'll just say that."
"Who?"
"Never mind." Justin's eyes went back to my lumpy crotch, and his advice continued. "Look, Iowa boys, why don't you two just get it on and get it over with." I felt the blood rush to my head as Justin continued. "I'll take the rollaway."
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh good lord. The two of you are utterly amazing, especially you, Jay-Jay. Stop thinking so hard, bro', stop thinking about what people think. You are who you are, man. Let it hang! I'll just sit back and watch cable while you two enjoy the honeymoon suite."
"Fuck you."
"No, fuck Stu, Jay. Or
do something, for crying out loud."
"How do you know we haven't?"
After making that comment, the twins' eyes were on me, and the sauna fell silent. So without a word, I wiped sweat from my arms, wadded up a towel and held it in a strategic position, and led the two brown-eyed 18-year-old identical twins toward a night that I will never forget as long as I live.