Chapter Thirty-Two
“We don't need to go anywhere to shoot some good pictures. There are plenty of photo ops right here.”
“Ok, let's go.” Jody stood up and tossed his towel back onto the chair.
“Uh … I want to shoot you in clothes first. We should probably work up to that stuff. I don't really have much experience with nudes.”
“Pictures you mean, right? I bet you got lots of experience with nude men.” Jody said this with a playful smile, but what was his point? “Frank,” he called into the barn. “Where are my clothes?”
“In the dryer,” came a distant reply.
“They got filthy unloading lumber,” Jody offered in explanation.
“He needs something to pose in. How would it be if he borrows some of yours?”
Jody was already heading for Frank's bedroom when Frank's approval came. “Well, come on,” he said to me. “You've got to pick out my costume.”
Standing in the bedroom, he looked around at my photography and said, “Awesome. I can hardly see a hint of skin and still Frank looks so sexy in these pictures.”
“Thanks, I took those of Frank one day when we were goofing around.”
“I bet you fucked his brains out when you were done.”
I left that comment alone and picked out some red underwear, a pair of khaki cargo shorts I knew Frank didn't like, and a plain white t-shirt. “Here; put these on. Meet you outside.”
“I feel real sexy in these red drawers of Frank's,” Jody came out and did a slow turn for my inspection. The shorts and t-shirt were tighter than they were on Frank, but they showed off Jody's body nicely and complimented his dark hair.
I focused the camera on him and liked what I saw. “Stand in the sunshine. I want to see shadows.”
“Yassuh, boss.” Jody played the minstrel show caricature and shuffled across the porch to a shaft of bright sunlight. He turned to me and held his hands out. “Ok?”
His hair was dark but contained flashes of color in the sun; sometimes I could see a hint of red, sometimes just a natural sheen. His eyelashes were so thick and long they cast shadows on his cheeks. The bones of his face shattered the reflected light into a bold chiaroscuro.
“You want to take the shirt off?” I proposed and he complied. He had a lot of chest hair that almost hid his nipples. “Turn around, ok?” Thank God there was no hair on his back, since his back begged to be photographed. “Ok, I have some ideas. Let's go for a walk.”
“Those are really good pictures in Frank's room. He should hang them where everybody can see them,” Jody said as we walked toward a thicket of wild berry bushes.
“He thinks they are too personal for public exhibition.”
“Yeah, he's pretty conservative about how he looks. Everything he wears is two sizes too big.”
We paused under a tree and I got some bright but indirectly lighted shots. “Bare feet, I think,” I proposed and Jody kicked off his shoes. “Yeah, that's it, primitive man,” I joked to get him to smile. He playfully pulled his shirt up some to show off his tight abs. I came in closer for a head shot and found I was holding my breath as I contemplated his lips. “Ok, enough of that,” I said and we mover on.
“When do we get to the naked part?” Jody joked.
“How about you take just your shirt off and stand close to those bushes?”
“They're full of prickers!” he complained.
“You want pricks, I want prickers. Just stand close enough that I can see the thorns against your skin. We're going for a Saint Sebastian look here. Pierced vulnerability.”
“OWWW! You should get Frank Pierce to fuck me. There's your Pierce-pierced vulnerability.” Jody stood against the bushes so that a branch hung over one shoulder threateningly, it's thorns just pressing against his skin.
Instantly I wondered if Frank had ever fucked him. Maybe, I thought. Probably, I decided. For sure, was my final choice. Jody's casual tone convinced me. “Less talking … You're breaking my concentration.” I didn't want to hear any more about Frank from Jody “Maybe unbutton the shorts … let them hang partly open. No, don't unzip; just open the button.” Maybe I had given my thoughts away.
“Frank loves you, Refo,” Jody said and again I refrained from comment. This wasn't the time for any soul-baring. I knew I would have trouble enough with the dick-baring.
“Ok, open the zipper about half way … just enough to see the color of your underwear ...” I noticed a thorn had drawn a drop or two of Jody's blood in the hollow of his clavicle; the red underwear would give the picture a counterpoint. “Ok, close your eyes and open them wide when I count to three. One … Two … Three … Good.”
We walked toward a larger grove of trees in silence for a while. “Wait a sec,” I said finally and wiped the bit of blood off his collar bone. “You got pierced a little.”
“A lot would have been ok,” he answered and we resumed walking. We found a good place under the trees. They were mostly maples with an occasional fir.
“Lean back onto the tree and open your shorts like you're going to take them off. I just want a hint of bulge showing. Ok, hold that for a profile … Now stand away from the tree and let me see a little ass. Like half a cheek, as you pull the shorts down. Uh, no, too much … Just let the shorts tug down the underwear, don't you try to do it … Right … Better … Again. Ok, now you can get nude now. I want a side profile ... No dick showing … Yeah … Wait, I said no dick.”
“I can't help it,” Jody said. “I'm hard.” He wasn't trying to show off, he was surprised by his condition. He gave me a look of honest embarrassment; and it was surprisingly endearing. I felt better about Jody and his reaction to what might have been his first unpremeditated act of the day. I hoped the camera had captured his look. It was my first peak at the real Jody.
“Ok, we can wait a bit ...” I turned away and pretended to adjust the camera. I walked a few steps away and aimed the camera at some distant trees.
“It's not going down,” Jody commented.
I still focused on the distance and said, “Ok, then. What kind of nudes did you want? Did you want pictures of your erection?”
“I … uh … Really?”
“You know … you could jack off if you wanted. Just pretend, of course. You wouldn't have to go all the way … It depends on what kind of pictures you wanted ...”
A half an hour later our relationship had changed. We were totally relaxed having shared an intimacy. A blob of his cum landed on my arm and another almost got the camera; before he had even stopped cumming, he grabbed my cock. I had my jeans on but he got a good feel. “I wanted to be sure I wasn't the only one enjoying this,” he managed to get out between gasps for air.
“I'm totally hard,” I admitted, as if he couldn't tell from groping me. He started to pull the shorts up but I stopped him. “Now maybe we can get that profile shot.” We took several more and I suspected they would be good pictures. Now MUCH better acquainted, we walked back to the barn.
“I wasn't kidding before. Frank totally loves you and I was prepared to not like you, but now I do even though I'm a little jealous.”
“I'm glad, because you're amazing, Jody. I figured everybody around here was like Frank, you know, kind of reserved, and here you are splashing all over the place, not to mention hot. These pictures are going to be great, if I do say so myself.
“There's something you should know. We had a little thing, Frank and me, when we were kids.”
“I sort of figured you did.”
“I wanted it to be a BIG thing, but Frank was happy with a little thing and I've been way too long getting over it; but what we had was nothing like what you and he have now, so getting over it should be a lot easier now that I know you and like you and know how happy Frank is and stuff, cuz we might could all be friends if you want. Does that make sense?” Jody stopped talking only because he had run out of air.
I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
“Oh, GOD, don't ever do that in town! Frank would disown both of us!” Jody's initial shock eased back down to a pleasant sensation of mischief gotten away with. “Course, if he's not there ...”
Jody's clothes were dry by the time we got back. He put them on and left after a gin and tonic. Frank and I watched the cloud of dust his truck kicked up as he drove away. I squeezed in next to him in a big wooden chair. “This is cozy,” he said, and then, “That was Jody.”
“I like him.”
“He likes you too. I was worried at first that ...”
“Nope. Nothing to worry about.”
“Did you really take nude …?” I interrupted his question with a kiss. “Any thoughts about dinner?” he asked when we came up for air.
“Nope.” I went back to kissing him.
“Not even ...” he tried to ask.
“Nope.” I put my hand inside his shirt and found the nub of a nipple to play with. With a half sob and a half gasp, he pulled me with him to the bedroom.
“Refo, I've been wanting you all day.”
We didn't stop or even hesitate. I felt an unusual aggression and took the lead, stripping us and then licking every part of Frank I could get to. He tried to stuff his cock down my throat, but I kept it at licking, teasing him, tasting little previews of his cum. And then I rimmed him. He moaned my name a couple of times. If he said anything else I didn't hear it. I felt a need for him that was stronger than I ever felt for anyone. I needed to fuck him. Fumbling I got lube all over the place and then slammed it in. I couldn't even slow down until I was fully in his ass. He wasn't as ready as I was, but he let me do anything I wanted. For a while, I just slammed into him needing his response as much as my own. I wasn't close to cumming, but my dick felt bigger than I could remember. I slowed down and let Frank catch up, slow fucking him with as long a stroke as I could manage without popping out.
“Let me turn over,” he groaned. He got on all fours and presented his ass to me.
“Ooooow, yes,” I plugged him and resumed our slow fuck. He sighed; he cooed. I thought I was doing just what he wanted. I hugged him around the chest and kissed his back.
“NO! NNNNGH! UUUUH!” I felt his spurts on my arms. The instant he stopped bucking he disengaged and rolled onto his back. “Put it back in. Keep fuckin' me!” He sighed as he felt the length of my cock slide back into place and then demanded action. “Fuck me,” he pleaded and pulled my mouth to his. I felt his lips, his tongue, his urgency. I pumped faster and then harder and then slower as I felt the pressure build in me. I tried to prolong it. The tension was delicious until I went too far, too hard. I exploded in him, slamming my hips into his, shaking his body. The bed creaked and then cracked but held together. Frank pulled me into him, kissing me, almost eating my face.
It was the best fuck of my life. I lay heaving on the bed when it was over, sucking for the air, half delerious. Frank was saying something, but I couldn't hear him. Eventually he just kissed me while my pulse slowed to normal, my breathing slowed, and my bliss faded.
“What happened?” I asked pointlessly. “That was ...”
“Perfect.” Frank finished my statement. “I've never done that before … cum from being fucked. It was like you forced the cum out of me. I thought my balls were gonna …
I don't know … I can't even explain …”
“Did my body tell you I love you? If it didn't … I love you, Frank. So different from before.”
“Before, when you didn't actually love me.” Frank kept kissing me. It was so unlike him to be clinging to me; I was usually the clingy one, the one who couldn't get enough. “Now you do, I can tell.”
“I did love you before. The best I knew how. I just didn't know how to be good at it, I guess.” I traced his lips with my finger and then kissed them. “Now is so different though ...”
“It's been a trip getting here, Reef, but here we are together. Finally … It's worth it. Right? Totally worth it.” He buried me in kisses and then held me so tight I couldn't breathe. “Perfect,” he sighed. “Nothing could ruin it now?”
Should I bring it up? I hesitated. But things were so perfect, as Frank had said; it was probably the best time. The words were a problem, but they needed to be said. He had to know. He would find out eventually.
“ Frank … what if I marry Sarah Felsen? Just for a little while … for about a year maybe … 'til she has the baby?”
I thought for minute he would kill me. Slowly he got his anger under control, eventually he could talk. “I couldn't have heard you right. None of that makes ANY sense.”
“Yes, it does. Sort of.”
He got out of bed. His fists were clenched. I could see a pulse in his jaw. “No, it doesn't. NOT ONE WORD, REFO.”