Herbie was as cute as hell. He was small compared to all his fellow students and from the time he started high school, a boys' boarding school to be exact, he was seen as a mascot of sorts. The boys could not keep their hands off him and he was constantly being playfully hugged.
It was never in a salacious manner, but more like an older brother ‘teasing’ a much younger sibling whom the entire family just adored. His big brown eyes and cherubic face simply induced smiles on the faces of everyone that encountered him. Herbie loved the attention and didn’t mind being ‘manhandled.’
From his first year in high school, he was always allotted a female role in all the inter-house plays that took place on an annual basis. The boys just loved participating in these twenty-minute plays, and the competition was fierce. No teachers or staff members were allowed to get involved in this tradition, and it was purely a one-night competition totally arranged by the boys at the school.
Apart from that, because of the very dynamic English mistress at the school named Mrs. Adler, the school also had an annual theatrical production. The annual play or musical was always ardently supported by the local community, and naturally, all the parents of boys attending the school. The reason that these productions were very popular was because of Mrs. Adler’s reputation. She had the ability to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse. This ‘major’ production was staged over five nights and also included a Saturday matinee.
From the very first year that Mrs. Adler encountered Herbie, she knew that a star had been born. He was regarded as the Daniel, or maybe that should be Daniela, Day-Lewis of the school. Ms. Adler’s greatest challenge yearly was assigning him the appropriate role, because he was simply light years ahead of all the other boys as an actor and always carried the show.
This point was comprehensively demonstrated when she staged; ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat,’ during Herbie’s final year at school. Mrs. Adler rued the fact that she didn’t have three Herbie’s. He would also have been perfect as Potiphar or The Pharaoh, but unsurprisingly, Herbie, of course, was chosen to play the leading role as the narrator, finally acting in his first ‘male’ role.
At the start of Herbie’s final school year, shortly before he turned seventeen-years-old, Jean-Luc De Villiers became a housemaster at the school. He was attending a nearby university, studying theology. Jean-Luc’s father was a minister in a staunch United Churches of Christ community that wholeheartedly embraced the teachings of John Calvin.
Jean-Luc was obviously a believer, but he had a deep-seated secret that no one else knew about. He was attracted to men. JL, as he was generally referred to, had not attended a boy’s boarding school and therefore, had never previously been exposed to the delight of being in the abundant presence of beautiful late-teenage male nudity. In as much as the masters had their own private bathroom in the building, showering with all the final year boys in the general open-plan ablution area proved to be daily delectation for him.
For the boys in the house, the presence of JL in the showers was as intriguing as it was for JL. JL was a fairly handsome man, but he had one feature that made him stand out like a sore thumb. JL was unbelievably hairy. His entire body was covered with dark black hair. Added to this, he had also decided to grow a beard and allow the head on his head to get rather long.
Being a theology student, this gave him an almost biblical appearance. For all the boys, however, it was a source of great amusement and frequent jokes about him being the missing link were made. These jibes, of course, were only made when he was out of earshot.
Jean-Luc fell under Herbie’s spell from very early on. Of all the talent he observed around him, nobody came close to Herbie. Intuitively, JL also believed that Herbie was gay. What further impressed JL was that for such a small guy, Herbie was rather well-endowed. JL had always wondered what it would be like to be anally penetrated. In addition, the thought of Herbie’s beautiful mouth around his cock made JL crazy with lust. JL wanted to have sex in a versatile fashion and the term, ‘flip-flopping,’ had always intrigued him.
Being religious, however, JL had an old fashioned notion that abstinence from masturbation was a cross that one should try to habitually bear. In truth, JL only ever lasted four days before succumbing and manually relieving his pent-up sexual frustration. Naturally, Herbie was the illusion that always fuelled these sessions.
The advent of the annual theatrical production was heaven sent for JL. He loved any form of woodworking, which was a favourite hobby of his. He, therefore, generously agreed to help with the sets that Mrs. Adler required for the show. Given his religious background, however, he informed Mrs. Adler that he did not want any accreditation on the playbill for the production. Given the nature of the show, most people from his background would regard ‘Joseph’ as blasphemy of sorts.
In the two weeks before the first night of the production, rehearsals and stage building were in full swing. As the rehearsal for the evening ended at ten-thirty with a fortnight to go, JL still had a lot of work to do. As everybody except JL was about to depart, he looked at Herbie and asked, “Could you stay a short while longer, I just want to check out some staging logistics with you?”
This seemed like a strange request to Herbie because after all, that would be the kind of thing that Mrs. Adler and JL would normally discuss.
It soon became clear once everyone had gone and JL and Herbie were alone, that JL was grasping at straws. Breaking the mild tension that now existed, Herbie decided to throw JL a lifeline.
“May I help you out with some painting Mr. De Villiers?” Herbie then asked.
“Yeah… sure,” JL replied with a look of relief on his face. “By the way, when we’re alone like this, please call me JL,” Jean-Luc concluded.
After Herbie got stuck into his task, JL frequently stood close to Herbie to check on his progress and as he did so, the space between them kept narrowing. Finally, with JL and Herbie’s bodies touching, JL’s hand rested on Herbie’s shoulder. The excitement in JL’s breathing soon began to electrify a surge of horniness in Herbie. Herbie was completely blown-away by JL’s forwardness and wondered in something more sexually stimulating was on the horizon for him. He also pondered if he was simply misreading JL’s ‘friendliness.’
Herbie had never thought about JL sexually. After all, not only was JL a housemaster but more importantly, JL was also a student of theology. Truthfully, Herbie had admired JL in the showers and JL’s hairiness had never perturbed Herbie at all.
Herbie had never had a comprehensive sexual encounter before, and circle jerks were about as exciting as things had ever gotten in the past months. Recently, there had been one occasion when another boy had actually touched Herbie’s cock one evening when they found themselves alone, but that hadn’t developed any further. Much as Herbie had hoped for a repeat performance, it was clear from the following day that the boy had a huge dose of homo-remorse.
Herbie’s reverie was soon obliterated when JL suggested that they should call it a night.
‘Oh fuck,’ Herbie sadly pondered, ‘Nothing is going to happen, yet again.’
En-route back to the house, however, JL said, “I need a shower… are you going to join me?”
“Yeah, that’s a great idea,” Herbie enthusiastically replied.
When Herbie entered the ablution area, JL was already showering. Herbie was intrigued by the combination of the white foam on the dark hair of JL’s body. It almost looked as if JL’s body was covered in a dark grey blanket.