Chapter Twenty-Three - On the Road Again
Revolution Park also known as the Monroe Motor Speedway was in Monroe, Louisiana, previously the home of the world's the first Coca-Cola bottler and Delta Airlines. Both have subsequently left for greener pastures as have a some of the residents. At least that's what I got off the web. It was a thousand miles away, a whole day's driving, which made North Carolina look like heaven only much closer.
The track in Monroe was fairly new in the NASCAR world, becoming a sanctioned speedway only a few years ago. Slick's plan was to hide out, more or less, driving almost incognito, while he re-honed his driving skills and got used to the new cars. A track where few would know him was exactly what he wanted; or maybe it was what Howard wanted. I wasn't sure Slick was that slick at figuring things out.
I spent the rest of the afternoon doing laundry and sorting what I'd need for loading the truck in the morning. I had bought some new tools and was eager to try them, which I couldn't do at White Post because the tools were metric and the old cars weren't. There's something beautiful about tool sets laid out in their chests; the graduated arrays of wrenches and screw drivers looked as handsome as the columns on the buildings in Washington. I got wrapped up in admiring them and didn't hear the door.
“Can I come in?”
“Sure,” I said, hoping for an easier conversation than the last time.
“Isn't it you birthday pretty soon?” He had something hidden in Gay Pride stripped paper.
“B. J., thanks.” I accepted the gift. “My birthday's next week. Should I unwrap it?”
“If you want to try something new to drink, you should.” He smiled as I unveiled the label-less bottle from the paper covering it.
“Nice paper,” I complimented him and waited for an explanation.
“Remember Thug Turnbull? He and his friend are making artisanal whiskey over near Little Washington.”
Thug Turnbull was a massive lineman who played with B. J. on the high school football team. I didn't know him at all and figured he didn't know me. He was all sports all the time and if you weren't a teammate, he had no time for you. It was more than a little interesting he was making whiskey since I would have guessed he didn't know a half-pint from a hogshead. While I tried to recall if I had ever even said hello to Thug, I wondered why B. J. was looking at me expectantly.
“His friend? Aren't you gonna ask? His FRIEND?” B. J. stressed the word. “They're lovers, Racer. Gay lovers! Look at the paper! They make no never mind about it. While I was at the still, Thug made a joke and Mark, his friend, kissed him, right in front of me! On the lips! They're seeing if they can make some money on the shine and then they're getting MARRIED! Thug and Mark, who is a real decent sort by the way, and Thug is nuts about him.” B. J. was as thrilled with the news as Thug and Mark must have been telling him. “It's their version of vodka,” he added pointing at the bottle and then he gave me a funny look. “You're taller,” he said.
He came up and stood close to me. “Yes, taller ...”
“In two months?” I asked.
“Since I've know you, what? Eight months? ... I used to have to lean down to kiss you and now … I could just tilt your head a little ...” He put a crooked finger under my chin and tilted my head. We still weren't the same height, but we were closer than before. He kissed me very gently and stood back. “A couple of inches taller,” he said with conviction. Then he kissed me again. “Same great kiss, though. Nothing changed there.”
I watched him take his coat off. His appearance seemed to call for a comment in turn. “You look different, too.” A dumb comment, I guess, but I couldn't put my finger on the change in him.
“I've lost some weight and found a better barber. The tv station has a style adviser who warned me about keepin' myself at football weight. 'If you ain't playing,' he said, 'shed the pounds or you'll look fifty by the time you're thirty.' So I quit eating lunch and it was easy.”
“You look … more ...”
“Polished? Adult?” he suggested and I nodded. “That's the look I'm goin' for. You should see me in a suit!” He laughed at himself and then looked at me. “Racer ...” He dropped the banter and hugged me hard, almost knocking the wind out of me. He awkwardly kissed my cheek and then found my lips. He pulled back and said something I couldn't quite understand that included the words “miss you” and then he kissed me again. He broke away and quickly began taking his clothes off.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“I want you to see how much weight I've lost.” He stopped stripping leaving his briefs on and anybody with eyes would say he looked amazing. He stood and held his arms out a little from his sides. “See?”
“B. J. ...” It was my turn to grab him. His hands hadn't changed; their touch excited me. His kisses were that same. The hungry way he looked at me was the same. Still something was different. Wordlessly we got reacquainted and then he frowned.
“Why is it so fuckin' cold in here?” he asked.
“Bedroom,” was my answer. I sure wasn't gonna tell him to put his clothes back on and I pulled mine off as we walked.
Once we were in the slightly-warmer bedroom and standing on a throw rug, I pulled him back into my arms and kissed him some more. Over his shoulder I could see the image of us in the closet mirror. Covered by the tight light gray briefs, his ass looked perfect. I ran my hands over the swell of his cheeks, squeezing a little. I slipped my fingers into the waistband and slowly, oh ... so … slowly, slipped the briefs down. I gasped out loud at the sight and B. J. figured out what held my attention.
“I'm all yours, Race, any way you want.”
There's always something beautiful about a guy's ass, but especially when he's offering it to you in a simple and honest way. Nothing blatant, no obscene wiggles or postures, just a beautiful man saying he's all yours. It was greedy of me; but that thought didn't come until later. I wanted to fuck him right away. No wait or preliminaries. All I could think was I wanted my cock in B. J.
He accommodated me. It wasn't until I saw the pain that my entry cause that I held back, not going in deep. I was afraid I would hurt him. “B. J. ...are you ok?” I froze in position.
He managed a smile. “Don't let me get out of practice again.” He pulled me closer, forcing my cock deeper. It was just a whisper when he said, “Fuck me.” Soon he relaxed and I noticed his eyes were open every time I looked at him. “I want to see everything you do,” he explained and then, incongruously, closed his eyes as he kissed me.
It was as if he had never left. I touched his cock and he sighed, “Racer ...Baby … I'm ...” He came a ton in my hand. Semen everywhere and he just kept kissing me. “Keep fuckin' me 'til you cum,” he whispered, which didn't take long.
“You never came that much before,” I said. My underwear was soaked from wiping him up.
“You never made me wait that long before,” he answered.
“You haven't …?” I didn't finish the question. I looked at him, lying naked in my bed with that awesome post-fuck look on his face.
“I didn't meet anybody like you.” Saying simple stuff like that, B. J. could melt solid rock and my heart isn't nearly that hard.
“Shower with me,” I invited. “It's the only way to get warm.” He grinned and we steamed up the bathroom together, playing around, touching this, stroking that, kissing.
“Quick, before we get cold again … we'll try some of Thug's fire water,” I proposed. We dressed quickly and sat on the sofa, sipping.
“I don't want to leave, Racer. Ever again.” I thought he was crying but he said it was the whiskey burn.
“What do we do with Jared? I promised he could stay. And I'm leaving in the morning.”
“Leaving! Where?” B. J. looked shattered. I explained. “So maybe you and Jared could be roommates until I get back?”
“That's the worst idea I ever heard. Besides … He may not be coming back. He and my brother are ...”
“Lovers?”
“Fuckin' every night. That's what they're doing and I can hear 'em.”
“So that's why you want to move back here …,” I smirked at him.
“No, no, baby ...” He hugged me. “Well, maybe a little bit … But that doesn't mean I don't … ” I thought he was going to finish with “love you”, but he didn't. Not my B. J. That would have been too easy. After a pause he went whole hog. “Racer, will you marry me?”
“No.” I laughed at the idea. “Let's start with lovin' and fuckin'. Baby steps. Do you love me?”
“You know I do.”
“I don't know much of anything. Start with 'yes, I love you.' ”
“Yes, I love you.”
He looked at me with that look of his, that look that turns me to jelly and makes me hard at the same time. You know he's not lying. He loves me; but is he really ready to deal with all the rest of it? He's not thinking about that part. He's just thinking about …
“Racer, let's go back to bed? OK?”
“You've had enough of Thug's 'shine?”
“No, but I can wait for that. I can't wait for you.” I could feel his breath and then his tongue on my neck, his hand on my cheek, then his lips moving over my face. “I want to see if you can fuck me from the rear and kiss me. I like it when you kiss me and fuck me at the same time.” He kept kissing me. “I hate these clothes. I want to be naked with you.”
“Don't you want to eat dinner?”
“NO! No drinking, no dinner. I want to fuck!”
So maybe I have grown a little. The last time we tried rear entry, I couldn't kiss him. This time I could, and he really liked the way my cock was working inside him. He came real easy; so did I. Eventually, we disentangled.
“B. J., are you crying again?”
“I love you, Racer.” His cheeks were all wet when I kissed them.