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I don’t
generally like to reveal too much, but it’s possible that the following story
is based upon something that happened in my youth. Not claimin’ it… just sayin’.
*****
JIMMY
Jimmy Halverson. The
best-looking boy in town. Smart. Popular. Good athlete… with the body to go
with it. And my wet dream.
Yeah, right. Scrawny me,
built like a matchstick—a burnt one, at that—and introverted to the nth degree.
But a guy can always dream, can’t he?
Jimmy led a pack of about
a half-dozen of us who hung around together in our free time. Everyone worked
after school, me at the picture show and Jimmy at his dad’s car dealership, and
the others at wherever. Still, we had lots of free time, although Jimmy dating
just about every girl in high school cut into his time with us. Word around
town was that he “got” a lot of them, and he soon had the rep as the biggest
cocksman around… and they weren’t just talking about the number of girls he was
supposed to have seduced, either. They said he had the biggest “thing” in
school, although I don’t know how anyone knew that. Maybe in the football
team’s locker room, but in school? Anyway, he was a confirmed man, a
raging heterosexual guy on the hunt. Me? I didn’t really know. I hadn’t “got”
anybody.
All this raises the
question of sexual orientation, and so far as I knew, everybody was oriented
the way they were supposed to be in this little bible-belt town. Well, there
was one possible exception. This guy named Brownie, who was a couple of years
ahead of us was supposed to be the town queer. I wouldn’t know, but word went
around that Jimmy said the guy gave him a blow job. Jimmy never said that to me
or in my hearing, but the anonymous “they” told it around. And it’s true that
Brownie left town right after graduating, although that could have been to go
to college. Who knows?
One summer day, Jimmy
about knocked me out of my socks. He invited me to spend the night and go quail
hunting with him. When I found out I was the only one of the gang he’d invited,
I was flattered. We’d spend some good buddy time together without the rest of
the gang around.
The Halversons lived
right outside of town in a big rock house situated on a couple of hundred
acres. Prime hunting terrain. Now I didn’t hunt much, didn’t like it, and
abhorred the thought of killing a living thing. But I sure couldn’t let Jimmy
know that. Around here, hunting and fishing were manly pursuits. You had
to be peculiar not to like them. Okay, so I was peculiar.
Jimmy's parents made me
welcome at the evening meal, and Jimmy and I played chess and rummy afterward
until it was time to go to bed. My heart fluttered when I found I was sharing
his bed that night. And wow! He slept in his shorts just like I did. Man-o-man,
he had a hunky body. I’d never have broad shoulders and flaring ribs and a
narrow waist like that.
Once in bed, we talked
about the hunt planned for tomorrow. He was lending me his twenty-gauge shotgun
and planned to tote his father’s sixteen-gauge. Anything bigger, he said, would
tear up the bird too much.
After we stopped talking and things got quiet, he sort of snuggled up to me, making me think all sorts of weird things. I kept waiting—hoping—for him to reach out and
touch me, but he didn’t. It took a long time to get to sleep that night, but I
finally managed it.
The next morning, we ate
breakfast and then took off across a big pasture toward some trees. We flushed
a couple of coveys, but I didn’t hit a single quail. Come to think of it,
neither did Jimmy. The only exciting thing about the hunt was that I stepped on
a snake hidden in the grass. I jumped away and wasn’t bitten, but when Jimmy
declared it was a water moccasin, I got so shaken, he had to shoot the thing.
Although we returned to
the house empty-handed, Jimmy didn’t seem disappointed in our lack of success.
He immediately took off for the barn where we climbed into the hayloft to talk.
It didn’t take long to get down to manly things, like wasn’t this girl sexy or
that girl busty… you know, that kind of talk. Then he surprised me.
“Man, I’m getting horny.”
I gulped.
“How about you?”
“Y-yeah.”
Before I knew what was
happening, Jimmy unzipped, pulled down his britches, and exposed himself. He’
was right. He was horny.
So was I… but I was also
paralyzed. All I could do was watch while he manipulated himself, making little
grunts and moans as he did so. I’m sure he saw my fly was fuller than usual,
but when I failed to join him, he got embarrassed.
Oh, how I wanted to reach
out and put my hands on him. I longed to expose myself and feel his hands on
me. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. Why? I don’t know. Self-preservation, maybe. I
remembered how they’d said Jimmy tattled on Brownie who came to his aid in a
situation like this. Or maybe I was too shocked to find the release button that
would let me take advantage of what he was offering. Or maybe I was just
chicken. Whatever it was, he soon abandoned his efforts and covered himself up.
Fighting intense feelings
of regret, I followed him out of the barn while he chatted like nothing of consequence
had just happened. We tossed horseshoes and played chess until time came for me
to leave.
Jimmy never mentioned the
incident, nor did he treat me any differently than he had before. He was still
the handsome, amiable buddy I’d known before that hunting trip. I kept hoping
for another opportunity, but it never presented itself. But I did learn one
thing on that overnight. At least one of the rumors about Jimmy Halverson was
true.
His “thing” was huge.
*****
Ah,
bittersweet memories… or imaginings, as the case may be. Perhaps this reminded
you of something from your own youth. I hope so.
Sorry, but I have to make a pathetic
plug for my own work. Amazon permits you to read a short passage of my novels, Cut Hand and Johnny Two-Guns. I also believe the STARbooks-published River Otter, Echoes of the Flute, and Medicine Hair are still up. I sure would
like to get the final book in the Cut Hand Series, Wastelakapi… Beloved, published, but it’ll take some help from
readers to get Dreamspinner interested.
My contact
information is provided below in case anyone wants to drop me a line:
Website and blog: markwildyr.com
Email: markwildyr@aol.com
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And now my mantra: Keep
on reading. Keep on writing. You have something to say, so say it!
Until next time.
Mark
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