After arriving in the town where I opened my gift shop, I was somewhat naïve. My life had always been arranged by my older lover named Pierre.
Alas, I was considered a geriatric at the age of twenty-six and after having been dumped for a nineteen-year-old, I essentially had to recreate my new life.
Upon my arrival in my new surroundings in a small town, I had made a firm commitment never to lie about my sexual orientation. After work most days, I usually popped into the pub diagonally across the road from my business, which also happened to be my apartment block. My business was on the ground floor and my apartment, upstairs on the first floor of the complex.
In my new milieu, I made it clear to one and all that I was gay. Firstly, I just couldn’t be bothered with the unwanted attention of the female patrons, and secondly, as they say in the classics; it pays to advertise. The news of my sexual orientation spread like wildfire and I finally got used the whispers, stares, and gesturing heads in the pub. There were a few male individuals who took an enormous strain with me and they would always avoid me. I was, nevertheless, continually amused by females, seeking fashion and decorating tips from me.
As time passed, I became completely immune to these inconsequential reactions. In the words of the famous playwright, Edward Albee, ‘the small wars and major anxieties’ passed me by.
Early on during a visit to the pub, I saw Bull. From our first encounter, I thought that he must have been a very good-looking young man. Don’t get me wrong, even as a man in his late forties he was still a hot man. Bull was a big and hefty daddy with an affable nature. Somehow, however, he always seemed to arrive as I was departing.
As I would later learn, on Tuesday and Friday evenings, when he frequented the bar, his wife was otherwise engaged. From six till ten p.m. on both evenings, she was either involved in a ceramic’s class or attending a ladies book club.
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The night after my initial encounter with Jarrod, my first lover in the town as chronicled in a former story entitled ‘Salad Dressing’, Bull was seated next to me at the pub. As I was about to leave, Bull absolutely insisted that I stay for one more drink. Comprehensively interacting with him for the first time, he questioned me about my ‘infamous’ sexuality. I ducked and dived not really wanting to enter in a full-on discussion, but he wouldn’t relent.
When I eventually left an hour or so later, as I was about to enter my apartment block I heard Bull calling after me from the other side of the road. Upon crossing the road, he asked if he could join me for a drink in my apartment. Somewhat apprehensive, I invited him in.
After entering my apartment, he glanced around hastily, before focussing on me and declaring, “I want to fuck you.”
I was completely dumbfounded by his directness.
Then, before I could even utter a word, he gripped my arm and pushed me toward the bedroom. Bull then clumsily began removing my clothing before removing his own. He moved with incredible haste and before I knew what had hit me, Bull had thrown me on the bed.
Next, pouncing on me, Bull’s weight winded me. As I gasped as his mouth swamped my lips frantically as he commenced kissing me. His tongue felt like a powerful agitator as it explored my mouth. Stunned as I was, I nevertheless was unbelievably excited by his forcefulness.
Because of his urgency, I hadn’t really got a very good look at him naked but knew that his hefty body was hairy and that his knob was rather thick. Bull’s frenzied manner was that of a sexually frustrated person, and as I would come to know, this was resultant of constant spurning by his wife sexually indifferent wife.