I've changed the blurb several times but this is the one I went with:
What if sexuality wasn’t a definable thing, and labels
merely got in the way?
Nick Jones couldn’t remember a time when he wasn’t popular,
when he wasn’t the best looking guy in the room, nor could he recall ever
having to coax a woman into bed with him. And recently, Nick even added guys to
the list of “been there, done that” when kissing Corey on a dare led to much more and on several occasions. His
reputation to “screw anything” was well known, and he didn’t care. Constant sex
had never been a problem. So why was the attention of someone new throwing his
life out of whack?
RC was a mystery from the moment they met. A frequent
customer of the restaurant where Nick worked, getting to know RC was
interesting, yet incremental due to the fact that he wasn’t in the “in crowd.” RC
was overweight, always sweaty, and lived up to the nickname “scruffy dude”.
Still, Nick could not let go of his deep longing for friendship, even if that
friendship was with a loser—and a gay
loser at that.
What do you think?
I had a awesome beta reader for this one who suggested a few things to alter for a better read. But for the most part, I think this retained most of my intent and flavor. As with all things "Wade Kelly" this story has some angst, some comedy, some pain, some sweet romance, and some hot man love (hee hee)
I'm thinking that I should coin the phrase "A Wade Kelly Special". Thoughts on that? LOL. I am not the only author who writes angst by any means. But what does that phrase mean to YOU? A combination of things? Real characters, raw pain, and unconditional love? Does the Wade Kelly Special tell you to prepare for tears as well as laughter? Tell me what my books do for you? I do admit I like to combine elements. My stories aren't always a straight forward fluffy experience. (Although some may say JOCK is.) IDK. I write what I feel.
Anyway… I got homework to do. ~Wade
At 118, 294 words this is the longest book I have so far. Cross your fingers and toes for me.
I've posted this before, but I'm posting again to remind you. Don't want anyone to forget what book MIGHT be coming next.
Prologue
Last Year
It was last year’s party at Mary-Louise’s
house that got me thinking all the wrong thoughts. She threw a kegger on Saint
Patrick’s Day and I guess I should have known better than to tempt fate by
overindulging and letting my eyes wander. I would have been better off numbing
my brain and sticking to what everyone else did and what everyone else thought,
but I’m me so of course I couldn’t
conform. Except fantasizing about Corey Parrish, more precisely his luscious
mouth, was not what everyone else
did! (At least not the people I knew.) The guys I hung around with normally
ignored him, while the girls flocked to his side for advice on outfits or hair.
Whatever. I didn’t care about any of that. But I also shouldn’t have cared—or
wondered—so much about the flavor of his lip-gloss. Damn!
So, like I said, it was last year and I
was multi-tasking: drinking green beer and thinking at the same time. At the
beginning of the night nothing else mattered except the booze and contemplating
which girl might take me home that night. I scanned the packed living room of
Mary-Louise’s house and I couldn’t help but chuckle. It’s always the same. No matter how many “frat” parties I went to,
the girls stood around giggling while the guys got slammed.
“Says the guy who’s out of Budweiser.” I
tipped back my plastic cup and swallowed my last drop of beer as I mumbled
about the irony before meandering through the house to find the keg in the crowded
kitchen.
Mary-Louise was a pastor’s kid determined
to sow some wild oats. She was nice enough to throw parties practically every
weekend, but not nice enough to spread her legs for me—yet. That was fine, I
didn’t care. Someone else would. At least she hadn’t slapped me for trying to
get her into bed with me—four times. I met her at the local community college
when we were freshman. In the following four years, while I took classes on and
off at the same local school, Mary-Louise did two years there, transferred to a
four-year college, and graduated with a bachelor’s in business. By now—were I a
dedicated, forward-thinking student like my friend—I’d have a degree too.
Instead, I had loads of casual acquaintances who liked to throw parties, and
lots of time to get drunk instead of figure out my future.
I just didn’t know what I wanted to do.
Life after high school pretty much
sucked. I wasn’t expecting that. I was popular back then, and I guess I still
am, but life’s more difficult now. I’ve got bills to pay, and I don’t know what
career path to choose. Luckily, I still live with my folks and they don’t ask
for rent. They made a deal with me, that as long as I paid my car insurance and
maintained a three point four GPA (when I am actually taking classes that is,)
I’m free to stay at home. But how many years will they tolerate a slacker son? I don’t know. And really, the list of “I
don’t knows” is longer than the list of shit I was sure of. It’s depressing if
I think about it.
So I don’t think—I drink!
I filled my cup with beer and watched the
crowd chant as one guy stuck his head under the keg nozzle and another guy
opened it full blast. “Idiots,” I mused. Not that I was all that different, I
realized I was an idiot.
“Hey, Nick.”
I turned toward that oh-so-familiar voice
behind me. “Hey Dawn,” I said with a slight lift of my chin. “What’s up?”
Dawn, my ex-girlfriend, grinned and
looked at her perky little friend before answering. Her long brown curls
bounced around her face and reminded me of the time I watched her go down on
me, and all I could see was that lovely hair spread like a blanket over my pelvis.
That was sexy as hell. “Well,” Dawn
said, “Chrissy and I were wondering if you’d take on a little dare of ours?”
I leaned on the doorframe next to me. I
was curious enough to listen because they were a precocious pair. I took a swig
of my newly filled cup and asked, “Oh yeah? What kind of dare?” Not that it
mattered. If I did them a favor, maybe they’d be willing to do me a little
favor later—possibly together, naked, and with whipped cream. Besides, I liked
a challenge every now and again; it kept life interesting.
They giggled and—yes—I rolled my eyes. Girls.
I surmised it was Chissy’s turn to talk
for the two of them because she smiled my way and got a devilish look in her
eyes. “You see Nick, Dawn and I dared Corey Parrish to kiss a straight guy. He
said he would if we could find someone up to the task who was sober enough to
remember it happened, yet cute enough not to be desperate.” Chrissy blushed deeply
and ducked her face against Dawn’s shoulder. She acted embarrassed, but I
didn’t buy it for a second. She was a hussy if ever I knew one. She held Dawn’s
hand and nibbled her bare shoulder playfully, but I knew for a fact they both
liked dick.
Corey? My stomach quivered. I was just thinking about Corey.
Corey Parrish was hot as fucking fuck,
and the thought of his mouth did things to me I was trying to not dwell on.
Something in the way he talked made me picture kissing him and biting his lower
lip until it bled. Shit. To make
matters worse, Corey was openly gay. Did I really need to get mixed up in Dawn’s
and Chrissy’s little dare with a gay guy?
I sipped my beer and casually tucked my
fingers into the front pocket of my jeans. If I remained calm, they’d never
know I was about to puke. (From nervousness, not excessive drinking.) “What’s
in this for Corey? Don’t you think it’s a cruel joke allowing him to kiss me and get nothing in return?”
“He wants my brother’s cell number. I
said I’d give it to him if he did something for me,” Dawn replied, simply
enough.
Blackmail? Yeah, that was Dawn’s MO. Still, I
played dumb. “How is my kissing Corey something for you?” I swallowed another
sip of my beer.
Dawn smiled wickedly. “I think it’s hot.”
“Hot?” I lifted one eyebrow.
Chrissy agreed, “Oh yeah! Two guys
kissing is so hot.”
Two
guys kissing is hot? Fuck yeah!
I totally agreed. Only last week I was browsing online, clicking different
shared-links on Facebook, when before I knew it I was pulling one off over a
picture of two guys kissing—extending their tongues into each other’s mouths.
It was a black and white photograph; one guy had facial hair and the other
didn’t. As I stared at it, I began fantasizing about Corey right there in my
bedroom. That was a first for me—thinking about another guy like that. I wanted
to kiss Corey from the first time I saw him at Mary-Louise’s New Year’s Eve
party, but jerking off over it hadn’t happen until last week. It shocked the
shit out of me mostly because, as I said before, Corey’s gay. I’m not. I date
girls all the time. I have sex with girls all the time. Just because I was attracted
to Corey didn’t make me gay. Bisexual
maybe, but certainly not gay.
Suddenly, my mouth was answering, “So,
all I gotta do is kiss him?” Shit, I’d
just agreed to it! That’ll teach me to daydream in the middle of a
conversation.
Dawn’s eyes went wide. “You’ll do it?” she
exclaimed with delight.
Suddenly, I had to talk myself down off a
ledge. Calm down, Nick, it’s only a kiss.
“Yeah, it’s just a kiss, right? No big.” I tried passing off nervous
exhilaration as nonchalance.
“Seriously? You are so cool, Nick!”
Chrissy squealed. “I knew you wouldn’t care. You’re so open-minded.”
And
apparently they bought it.
If only I could remain this calm as I kissed him.
I grinned. “Yeah, anything to make the
two of you happy and horny.” I licked my lips and lifted my eyebrows twice.
They didn’t need to know I was into it because Corey was their pawn, not me.
I followed them into the other room to
where Corey lounged on the couch chitchatting with some girl I didn’t know.
Corey talked to every girl, and although I tended to be overly verbose myself,
I wasn’t surprised there were a few ladies I hadn’t seen before. Mary-Louise invited
everyone to her parties and I was in no way jealous of Corey’s congeniality or
charm. I had plenty of my own.
He was wearing a tight green T-shirt with
a v-neck, which allowed his chest hair to curl over the edge of the fabric. The
word “alluring” came to mind like one of those dialogue tags in a cartoon and I
questioned my agreement to do this. I’d have to be extra careful kissing him,
because if I started fingering the hairs on his chest like I was itching to do,
then these girls might start rumors. I didn’t need “gay” rumors squelching my
frequent, no-strings-attached sex life. No way, José!
“So Corey, we found someone,” Chrissy
announced proudly, bouncing on the balls of her feet. Chrissy tended to have
more energy than a seven-year-old after a two-pound bag of skittles. She always
bounced.
Corey looked up and smiled. Fuck me. I felt a quiver in my stomach.
“Wow,” he replied. “I’ll say you did!” He licked his top teeth with the tip of
his tongue and batted his eyes—showing off his green-glitter eye make-up—which
did not ease my apprehension over kissing him. He was fucking adorable and my
body knew it. Corey asked flirtatiously, “I recognize you. Nick, right? I saw
you at the New Year’s Eve party making out with Laney. Why do you want to kiss
me?”
Knowing he noticed me back on New Year’s
did not help my trepidation. Plus—want?
He thinks I want to kiss him? “I
thought it was a game,” I interjected, making sure I kept my voice low and
casual. “They want to play with you, and you want Andrew’s number.”
Corey’s pleased expression disappeared,
but I wasn’t going to change my orientation to coax it back. “True,” he
relented. “Okay, it’s a game, but you’re conceding to it. Why? What do you
get?”
Now was the test. Could I portray arrogance
and not over do it to the point of absurdity? I hoped so; I surely had
experience. I slid my palm over the T-shirt clinging to my muscular chest (oh
yeah, I was cut,) and replied, “I get to kiss a hot guy and add another name to
the list of those who want me.”
“God knows I want you,” Chrissy said from the side. Perfect timing.
I tilted my head in her direction and
grinned. “Thanks babe.” I winked for emphasis. “You’ll get your turn.”
“Oh, someone is sure of himself.” Corey
shooed the girl next to him away and patted the cushion. “Come here, honey. Let
me see what you got.”
“Here, hold this.” I handed my beer to
Dawn and sat next to Corey. The prospect of kissing this guy shot sparks of
tingling desire throughout my body, but I had to play it cool. No way was I
getting hard and giving the girls the wrong impression. This was a game. I’m
not gay.
I questioned Chrissy with a look. “Am I
kissing him or is he kissing me?”
Before she could answer, I felt Corey
take a hold of my chin and turn my head to face him. He planted his lips firmly
on mine and lingered before pulling back with a sigh. “Nice. You willing to
take it further?” Corey asked, teasing my lips with a swift flick of his
tongue. His pale blue eyes were intense.
Helplessly, I nodded and leaned in. All
my nervous energy from before transformed into a surge of adrenaline. I had to
have more of that mouth.
The girls squealed in delight, but I
ignored them as Corey’s hot mouth connected with mine again. Corey curled his
fingers into my neck and pulled me closer. He parted his lips and I slipped my
tongue inside his mouth, taking control of the kiss and causing Corey to moan
into my mouth. This was so fucking good. As our tongues clashed, I felt a deep
need to fuck like I’d never felt before.
This
was way different than kissing girls,
I thought. It was seriously intense, for one thing, and for another, when I
kissed girls, I often felt it in my toes, but I had never felt like my groin
was catching fire. Not that that meant my body would react the same with any guy I kissed, but Corey surely did a
number on my dick.
I turned his body on the sofa and leaned
into him, pushing him against the back of the couch. I heard him whimper and
felt him move his hand down my neck and onto my chest. His warm palm rested
over my pectoral muscle and it made me want to flex for him, but I didn’t. As
soon as I thought about it, he pinched my nipple and those tingles I felt all
over my skin intensified. My body was humming in ways I hadn’t expected, and my
mind conjured up thoughts of doing things
I didn’t expect. Instinctively, I moved my leg over Corey’s knee and angled my
hips a smidgeon. Oh God, I need friction.
I gripped his shoulder with one hand as I held the side of his neck with the
other, but man-oh-man did I want to touch myself, or rub myself against his leg
a little. Anything.
Corey felt unbelievably good against me.
As if it was the most natural thing in
the world to do, I slid my fingers into the short hair behind Corey’s ear and
that was when I heard someone comment, “Jeez, you were right. Nick’ll fuck
anything.” The sound of an unfamiliar female voice behind me uttering such a
toxic comment squelched my unexpected hunger, but I controlled my resentment.
It was far better to ignore the comment and pretend it didn’t happen, than to
cause a scene and draw unwanted attention to the fact that I was hard as hell
and seconds from dry-humping Corey’s leg. If I was cool about it, maybe Corey
and I could slip off somewhere.
I slowed my pace, kissing him gently, and
pulled back as if nothing were amiss. The heady look in Corey’s eyes stroked my
ego, so I winked at him before facing the gathering throng of horny women.
Three eager girls sat side-by-side on the
coffee table in front of the couch—Dawn, Chrissy, and a red haired girl I
didn’t know—while another few stood behind them. It seemed as though a lot of
girls liked watching two guys kiss. Hmm. “Well?
Hot enough for you?” I asked, knowing exactly what they’d say.
“Oh yeah,” Dawn moaned, placing her hand
on Chrissy’s thigh, caressing her skin and running her fingers up the inside of
Chrissy’s leg.
Chrissy cooed quietly, and spread her
legs. “Yes… hot.” She swallowed hard and closed her eyes. Her reaction kind of
made me think of reaching up her dress, but Dawn beat me to it. I watched
Dawn’s hand disappear under the fabric as she kissed her friend—her girl friend—and feel her up.
Hypocrite, I sneered. It was okay to judge me and say
I’d “fuck anything,” but Dawn was doing the exact same thing. I knew personally
just how she liked to fuck, and how often, because she was my first. (Way back
in high school.)
My attention was drawn back to Corey when
I heard him sigh. (He was still recovering from my kiss.) I shook my head and
scoffed, “Women! I’m outta here.”
I had to leave. Watching the two of them
kiss after I’d just made-out with Corey made my need to come stronger than
ever. I dashed upstairs to find the bathroom. No sooner did I lock the door and
unzip my jeans, then I heard a quiet knock. “Shit!” I hissed. “It’s occupied,”
I called to the person on the other side.
“Nick?” Corey whispered.
I opened the door a few inches. “Corey,
now’s not the time to—”
Corey interrupted me by pushing his way
inside the bathroom. He closed the door behind him and said, “I’m sorry, but I
wanted to catch you before you finished.”
“Corey, I—”
“Save it,” Corey insisted, holding up a
hand. “There’s a garage out back. Meet me behind it in fifteen minutes and I’ll
take care of your little… problem.” He made his insinuation clear by boldly
palming my erection. “Unless you think allowing me to suck you off is a little too open-minded.”
I couldn’t answer. In fact, if he touched
me a second longer I was going to come in my pants. Having someone else rub my
dick felt so amazing. Sure, girls did it, but rarely without my insistence.
Corey, however, seemed to know what I needed without prompt. All I could do was
close my eyes and groan.
Corey took his hand away and snickered.
“Meet you out back.” And he was gone.
I regrouped and contemplated his proposal.
He said he’d suck me off. Would Corey
want me to reciprocate? I’d never sucked a dick before. Corey was the first
boy I ever kissed. Or ever wanted to kiss. Did it matter? Would people think I
was gay? Did that matter? It was just
sex, right? I wasn’t dating Corey. I wasn’t getting emotional about it. It was
just sex. Two guys getting off. No big deal.
I once heard a saying that
over-analyzation leads to paralyzation. (I don’t even know if those are real
words.) Needless to say, I left the bathroom in a hurry.
Finding Corey behind the garage wasn’t a
problem. I slipped out of the house without too much hassle. I got stopped a
couple times, but by now, most people at the party were drunk and they weren’t
paying attention where others were going and whom they were with. I walked out
the front door and headed around the side of the house after pretending to puke
on the lawn. (That was a classic excuse to leave a party.)
Corey grabbed me as soon as I drew near
and pushed me up against the side of the building. His kiss was urgent and his
hands greedy. He was a little rough and I liked it. It was nice not having to
take charge for once. It felt liberating. Corey kissed me for a minute or two
before he sank to his knees. I felt a warm rush surge through my extremities as
I looked down at him, his eyes glinting in the faint light. Corey unzipped my
jeans and freed my rigid cock. Oh fuck,
that’s hot!
Corey’s tongue made me shiver. Corey’s
hands made me weak. But it was the suction of Corey’s throat that made me
tremble like never before. I rested my hand on Corey’s head and gently
encouraged his bobbing motion. I even felt daring enough to thrust my hips
forward and force myself down Corey’s throat. And Corey didn’t mind! Girls
hated to be forced to take more of me in. Not that I’m a porn-star material,
but I’m not small by any means. Being with a guy was a refreshing change of
pace. Corey sucked wildly and it didn’t take me long to feel close.
“Corey,” I whispered, leaning my head
back on the brick wall. His wet friction was unlike anything I’d ever felt.
“Corey,” I whispered again more urgently. “I’m gonna… come.” I tugged on
Corey’s hair, but he didn’t let up. Seconds later I felt my release empty into
his throat and Corey didn’t pull back. He kept licking and swallowing until I
was finished, and only then did he get off his knees and kiss me.
The taste was strong, salty… different.
Corey tasted like… me, and to my surprise I liked it.
Tentatively, I reached down between us
and touched Corey. I felt the same hardness in his pants that I’d recently had
in mine. I knew what Corey wanted—what he needed, but suddenly there was a
sound of voices close by and I shoved Corey away and did up my zipper before
anyone had a chance to see what was going on.
“Let’s go back inside,” Corey suggested.
I thought about it. “Nah, I think I’m
going home. My parents told me not to be out too late.”
“Okay. Can I give you my number? Maybe we
can hook up sometime?”
“Yeah, sure.”
We exchanged phone numbers and I said
good-bye without another glace.
At home, before I found sleep, I thought
about his kiss and what we did by the garage. Corey was really hot and the
things we’d done tonight felt so fucking good, but what would people
think? Was it worth a good lay to
be labeled “gay”? I didn’t really care about Corey, even if he was hot. It was
about sex. And if it was just sex, then going out with girls and hooking up with girls
was much less complicated.
I grabbed my phone and texted Chrissy: Hey. Go to the movies with me next Friday?
A few minutes later she texted back: Of course!!!
I grinned in the quiet of my room and
placed my phone on the nightstand. Chrissy was hot, and easy. I knew I’d end up
fucking her next Friday night.
Nah,
I’m not gay.
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