6. Zachary
CHAPTER 6
ZACHARY
Wow. He said it. He said it for me.
“Am I off base?” Teo asked.
I leaned up on my elbow to see Teo in the dark. I could make out his head, leaning against my bed, and his broad shoulders, the shadow of his collarbone accentuating the muscles I knew were there.
“You can say it, Zach. I’m not going anywhere. Best friends for life.”
I don’t know why I was still hesitating. Well, I did. Teo didn’t know I was in love with him, and if he ever found out, that would definitely change our friendship.
“I love you, Zach. Pleeease, give me your trust.”
Fuck, he was begging.
“You’re right, Teo. I’m-” I swear the silence was almost deafening. “I’m gay,” I relented.
“Thank you for telling me. I’m so proud of you, Zach. I’m guessing I’m your first?”
I nodded, out of habit, then remembered he couldn’t see me. “No.” I cleared my throat, because that was an octave higher than intended. “No, you’re not the first person I’ve told. I mean, the guys I’ve been with knew.”
“Guys? How many are there?”
What does that matter? “I don’t know. Sixty or seventy?”
“Seventy?!”
I saw the silhouette of his body leap up and turn around. His muscular frame leaned over my bed.
“Are you naked, Teo?”
“Forget that. You’ve been with seventy guys?”
“Jesus Christ, calm down! I have not been with seventy guys. Where would I have found the time? I would’ve dehydrated myself. My real number is more like two.”
“Thank God.”
“ Ask him again. ”
There was that voice again.
“Are you naked?”
“Yeah. I didn’t think you’d notice.”
“You didn’t think your gay best friend would notice your naked jock body?”
I saw him shrug. “It’s dark in here.”
“Not dark enough.”
“Apparently,” Teo agreed, as he placed his hands on his hips. “I hope you enjoy it, Zachary.”
If the bastard only knew how much. “So what? You sleep naked now?”
“Yup.”
“I feel like I don’t even know you,” I teased.
“Me? You’re the one that’s suddenly gay!”
“You said you weren’t surprised.”
“I wasn’t. I’ve probably known longer than you.” Teo crossed his arms, but hadn’t moved or turned around.
“Is that, like, a challenge?”
“Maybe. ”
“Fine,” I said. “On the count of three, let’s say what grade we were in when I was suddenly gay. One…two…three! Sixth.”
“Fourth.”
“Fourth?!”
“You remember Kevin Williams?” Teo asked.
Oh sweet Jesus.
“I’ll take your silence as a yes. You wouldn’t shut up about his hair. You wanted yours exactly like his. You said it was flowy. And then, when the story came out that Kurt saw up the leg of Kevin’s shorts when he was sitting on a desk and saw it , you pouted for a week that you weren't there.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. “I forgot about that.”
“Well, I never have. I was jealous of Kevin for the longest time. I was your best friend and you spent all your time with me, but you were so focused on this guy that never even said hi to you.”
“ I told you he likes you. ”
I ignored the voice. I wasn’t going to get my hopes up.
“Is that why you tried so hard in middle school track? You wanted to beat Kevin so I would what? Like you more?” I asked.
“Something like that, I guess. So what do I get for winning? I told you I knew before you and I was right.”
“What? You want a certificate?”
“I was just teasing. I don’t need anything,” Teo replied. “I’m just happy you told me. Thank you for opening up to me. For trusting me. You can always talk to me about anything, this stuff included.”
I didn’t want to ask what he meant by this stuff. I heard his groan and watched in the dark as he reached up to stretch. It was too dark for details but just the outline of his waist, imagining what was there, was enough for me to get hard. I almost felt guilty, but he was naked. Hard not to react to that.
I held my breath as he leaned down to kiss…my forehead. “Our friendship means the world to me. Get some sleep. ”
The words were ready to escape. I love you, Mateo Decker. I’ve loved you longer than I can remember.
But my supply of courage had been used up.
He was so cool with me being gay, so comfortable around me, even after he thought I foot-jacked him at the restaurant.
I needed to enjoy this side of Teo for a bit.
“ You should’ve told Teo the truth. ”
I stopped reading. It was the voice again. The voice I had been hearing for weeks now, though it had been a few days since the last conversation . It was easier to ignore when more was going on, but I was alone, reading for fun in my favorite place. The tower’s windows were all open, letting a nice warm breeze in, likely the last warmth of the fall.
I could just hear the sounds of some sort of athletic competition on the grass below. Glancing down, I saw Aiden, Jayden, Liam, Teo and the other big jocks of the house, standing around in various states of shirtlessness. It looked like touch football.
I watched until I thought Teo saw me, then I relaxed into the pile of pillows I had gathered and went back to my book. I was just getting to the good part – all the tension had built up to their first fuck. Sebastian finally admitted he wanted to try sex with his best friend, Maverick. The names were a bit ridiculous, but I didn’t care. Sebastian was a football jock with a beautiful bubble butt and Mav was finally going to live his deepest fantasy by plowing in between those perfect cheeks.
“ Kind of like you and Mateo .”
My hard cock liked the sound of that, but still… “Is this a joke? What is this, Punk’d?” I finally gave in and asked the air? The universe? I flipped over pillow after pillow looking for a microphone, but found nothing. Not that the voice was familiar, but someone had to be fucking with me .
“ You’re not gonna find me like that. ”
“Well, then, how the fuck am I going to find you?”
“ Just relax. ”
Well, that was easier said than done with a noncorporeal voice likely haunting me, but I gave it a try. Smooshing the pillows back into place, I found my bookmark–a photo of me and Teo this past summer at the beach–and started reading again.
Sebastian pushed his waistband down and as soon as it cleared his hips, the shorts fell to the floor. His dick was hard, but that’s not what he wanted to show me. He slowly turned, grabbing a cheek with each hand and pulled, spreading them apart.
“It’s about time you fucked me, Mav. Get that monster over here and pound me.”
It wasn’t exactly literature, but it kept me entertained.
“ That’s it. ”
“First things first.”
Maverick grabbed Sebastian’s hair and shoved his face downward.
“Open up, stud. Get my dick nice and wet.”
“ Not much more room in here. ”
The button on my jeans popped open and before I could get back to the scene, I watched my zipper unzip itself.
“What the fuck?”
My surprise was interrupted by an intense wave of pleasure as something grabbed my cock through the fabric of my jockstrap and squeezed gently.
“I don’t even know your name.” Like that was really what I should be concerned about.
“ It’s Jake. ”
I forced a laugh. “Like Jake from State Farm.”
“ Just Jake. ”
I should’ve been more concerned. I would’ve liked to ask more questions. And I could’ve got the fuck out of there. But I didn’t.
Instead I was fascinated. Watching an invisible hand pull my hard cock out from behind the jockstrap pouch was otherworldly. It was careful enough to free my balls too, letting them settle against the coolness of my open jean zipper. It was like my cock had come alive. The head of my cock kept reappearing every time the foreskin was pulled back, my balls bouncing in time with the invisible strokes.
With the mixture of the football noises below and Jake telling me how hot my cock was, I had never been more turned on in my life. I shivered as an invisible fingertip swirled its way under my foreskin and slicked the shaft with the precum it had gathered.
“Oh, fuck.”
It was like using the clear Fleshjack. I could see the veins in my cock practically pulsing with each stroke. The slippery head of my cock was a perfectly dark pink now, my balls tight under the shaft. This spirit – that was my best guess for now – knew his way around a cock.
I heard the metal stairs creak before Teo called my name.
With no time to stuff my cock back into my pants, I just grabbed a pillow. But the stroking wasn’t stopping.
Fuck!
“Hey, you watching us from up here?” Teo’s head popped into view.
Please don’t come any further.
I could barely keep myself from humping the pillow. I had crushed the head of my cock against the fabric, but that sensation combined with Jake’s strokes was the perfect edger.
“Just reading.”
“Must be a good book if you’ve got something that needs a pillow to cover it.”
“Uh, y-yeah, it’s g-good.”
“I get it. We all have needs.” He winked at me. “When you’ve shot your load, let’s grab some dinner. I’m hungry.”
I would’ve thought more about how casual Teo was just now about me rubbing one out in our tower, but Jake had other plans.
“ You heard him, stud. Lemme see that nut nectar. ”
The renewed force with which Jake – I’m just gonna fucking say it, the ghost – was jacking me off was mind-bending. It seemed like almost getting caught had thrown pre-cum production into overdrive because I could hear every invisible stroke. Over and over, the foreskin covered my slit then slid its way down and around my cock head. I was fucking the air at this point. My moans were that of a slut in heat and I didn’t care. This was going to be the wildest orgasm I’d ever had.
“Cumming!”
I watched in utter fascination as my cock erupted straight into the air. I convulsed with each additional stroke, but Jake milked me for all I had, and by the end, my jeans and my stomach were coated in jizz.
“ Good boy, Zach. See you next time. ”
“Wait a sec. Why are you doing this?”
But no one answered. It appeared I was alone again.
I would’ve convinced myself that I had imagined the whole thing except for one small fact: my nut nectar – as Jake called it – was all over me, a prominent and sticky reminder that it was, in fact, real.
I buttoned up my jeans and used my shirt as a towel to wipe up the more significant patches before heading down the stairs. Careful not to drip on anything, I -
“Jesus! You scared me. I didn’t know you were still here.”
Teo was sprawled on the couch, watching TV. He glanced my way.
“It’s my room too, Zach.”
“Right, sorry.” I made a start for the bathroom.
“No worries, man. I might just have to borrow that book you were reading. It sounded like a porno up there.”
“Sorry.”
“Stop apologizing, Zach. Every dude jacks off. And I can’t really complain because it certainly wasn’t ESPN giving me half a chub.”
I did not imagine Teo grabbing his bulge through his shorts.
Is this what it was going to be like now?
He knew I was gay and he was going out of his way to make me super comfortable. That was it. Yeah, that made sense. It was normal for a guy to grab his junk after hearing you jack off.