“Craig,” I heard a guy call my name in the locker room at the gym.
I turned to see Mr. Dawson, my parent’s neighbor who has become good friends with my Dad. Mr. Dawson and Dad spend a lot of time hanging out these days, at least according to my Mom. She always used an annoyed tone when talking about Mr. Dawson — she felt my Dad had been flirting with Mrs. Dawson a little too much at the neighborhood Christmas party a few years ago and seemed to take it out on Mr. Dawson and not his wife or my Dad.
“Hey, Mr. Dawson,” I smiled after stopping in my tracks as he gave me his signature thumbs up. “You look great,” I said looking his body over before giving him a hug.
“Thanks, Craig,” he said with his standard happy smile. “Sorry, I’m a little sweaty.”
I took the opportunity to look his chest over again and smiled back. He was so much hotter now that he’d been working out regularly.
“No worries, I’m used to sweaty guys,” I responded.
“Yeah, your Dad said your final baseball season at the university was the best of all your years playing,” Mr. Dawson gushed. “I’m glad you had such a strong finish.”
“I always finish strong,” I winked at him causing him to look confused. “It’s kind of weird that baseball is over now.”
“I bet,” he replied. “What are your plans now?”
“Dad didn’t tell you?” I asked without waiting for a reply, “I’m going to be working for him and learning the ropes.”
“No, I hadn’t heard, but that’s amazing,” Mr. Dawson gave me another thumbs up. “So what are you going to be doing?”
It wasn’t lost on me that his face expressed an unknowing look of worry before fixing itself to his usual smile.
“Uh, well, I’ll probably be cleaning some pools to get started and familiarize myself to all of that again. I haven’t worked with Dad since high school since baseball kept me busy.”
Dad owns the largest pool company in the city — they build the pools and also have another side company that maintains them, so Dad had talked about me learning the business and taking it over one day. I wasn’t particularly in love with the pool business, but it’s provided our family with an affluent lifestyle and I had no ambitions of my own.
”That’s great!” Mr. Dawson said, “hopefully you start by being my pool guy.”
Mr. Dawson and I made eye contact for a little too long before we both seemed to blush a bit.
“That would be awesome,” I replied, “Dad says you’re working from home these days while Mrs. Dawson travels for her business?” I asked.
“Yeah, she’s pretty much always gone, but now that I’ve sold my business I’m just doing some consulting to stay busy,” he said running his hand threw his thinning hair while I looked at his sweaty pit, so anyway, it would be great to have you working on my pool like the old days.”
“You still doing your laps?” I asked.
“I am,” he said patting his stomach. “Trying to keep off the old man weight.”
“Looks like it’s working,” I said giving his stomach a light pat.
Mr. Dawson seemed surprised that I’d given his stomach a pat but quickly responded by giving my stomach a pat.
“I wish I could get back to the days of looking like you,” he said openly giving my body another look.
“Thanks, but you’re looking really good, Mr. Dawson,” I complimented him and looked at his body again.
“Trying to keep up with your Dad, I guess,” he said with an odd expression.
“Yeah, Dad says you’ve joined his guys trip now,” I said.
Mr. Dawson again looked uncomfortable and nodded and said he had.
“He said I can join this year,” I told him.
Mr. Dawson shot a serious look at me before realizing it. He put a smile back on his face and again nodded.
“That’ll be fun,” he said unconvincingly.
“I’ll finally get to see what really happens on those trips,” I joked.
Mr. Dawson looked downright scared now before he looked at his watch.
“Listen, I’d better head home,” he replied. “It was really great seeing you.”
Mr. Dawson shook my hand this time before turning to his locker and putting everything he’d laid out for his shower into his bag. I was confused, but I told him goodbye and went to hit the showers myself.
Dad was making himself a drink in his “uniform” of a polo shirt with his company logo and a pair of well-fitting khaki shorts. Mom was on a trip with my aunt for the next few weeks, so I figured I’d tell Dad about running into Mr. Dawson.
“Hmm, well, he’s a pretty shy guy, so who knows,” Dad said before asking me if I wanted a drink.
He handed me my glass and we both stood in the kitchen looking at each other and sipping our drinks for a minute.
“Guess I should let you in on a little secret now that you’re a college graduate and will be around me a lot,” Dad said as I crossed my arms and raised an exaggerated eye brow at him.
“So … um, well I told you Mr. Dawson has joined our little guys trips now,” Dad said.
“Yeah,” I replied waiting.
“And now you’ll be joining … ” Dad added.
“Mhmmm,” I grumbled while taking another sip.
“I guess you’re could say it’s a lot like your spring break trips,” he continued, “we like to let loose and have fun away from our wives and kids.”
I nodded at Dad while getting annoyed at the glacial speed in which he was telling this story.
“Um, and Mr. Dawson came to the last one at the beach — his first time going with us,” Dad replied. “He wasn’t exactly sure about it at first.”
I was getting angry at this point and just wanted to hear the punchline, but I let him get there at his own pace without saying anything.
“So we were all drinking the first night and started relaxing and stuff … ” Dad continued, “and we are really free with each other … and I guess the fact we were all in our underwear and goofing around might’ve been weird for him at first, or whatever …”
“And?” I responded when Dad seemed to stall.
“And sometimes we just kind of, you know, act like jocks and goof off,” he said.
“Does he not like drinking anymore or something?” I asked confused.
“Damn, OK,” Dad struggled to get it out, “so we were all just kind of goofing off and playing grab ass and what not … and Mr. Dawson freaked out a bit.”
Dad looked at me with a face that seems to ask if I knew where this was going. I shot him a look that said continue.
“So Mr. Robert’s kind of told him to relax and go with the flow and stuff … and Mr Robert’s kissed me in front of Mr. Dawson,” Dad said looking at me as he took another sip.
“OK,” I replied as I looked at Dad trying to decipher what he was saying.
“So Mr. Dawson freaked and said he wasn’t a fag and went to pack his stuff,” Dad blurted. “I went to his room to calm him down and talk about it, but he was all worked up and kind of just lost it and … he um … he kissed me.”
“Oh, wow … OK,” I said. “A lot of kissing going on.”
“Yeah, so we just kissed for a minute and the just sort of like … had sex.”
My eyes got big as I looked at my Dad and processed his bombshell. I could tell Dad was freaking in his brain a bit and tried to calm him down.
“I mean, it’s cool,” I said.
Dad looked at me now as if to ask if it was really actually cool with me.
“Dad, I’ve had sex with guys before,” I admitted as he almost spit out his drink. “It’s kind of … not a big deal these days.”
“No?” Dad asked. “You’re not mad?”
I thought for a minute and responded, “No, it’s not a big deal. And it’s kind of hot.”
“Yeah,” I said feeling comfortable that we were being honest. “I’m totally into guys your age, so yeah.”
I could see my Dad in a mix of confusion, intrigue and arousal. I gave his crotch a look and confirmed the arousal part.
“So you’ve done something with a guy my age?” He asked.
“I have,” I replied. “Guys your age are passionate and kind of kinky, you know?” I said with a smirk.
“This is definitely not what I was expecting,” Dad admitted.
“Tell me about it,” I said, “so are you going to tell me how it ended?
“Hmmm,” Dad said taking another sip and looking at me. “Mr. Dawson and I get together sometimes.”
My eyes got big again. I realized this meant Dad was cheating with Mom but also felt like that Mom would drive any man to cheat.
“OK, we get together a lot,” Dad admitted. “Usually at least once a day.”
“Fuck!” I said finishing my drink.
“Son, please don’t be mad, I just …” Dad started to trail off.
“Dad, it’s cool,” I said walking to him and embracing him in a deep hug.
Dad put his face into my neck and let out a relieved sigh. We eventually let go of each other and stood looking each other in the eyes.
“Do you think …” I started to ask but stopped.
“You into Mr. Dawson?” Dad asked giving me a look.
“Ummmm, my interest was piqued in the locker room,” I admitted, “but what if the three of us … you know …”
Dad got a huge smile on his face and pulled me in for another hug, but this time our hard cocks touched as we both felt the other’s boner.
Dad let go and looked down at my bulge and smiled.
“Let me call him and see if we can slowly get him to come around to the idea tonight,” Dad said excitedly pulling his phone from his pocket. “He might be a little freaked after the gym incident.”
I watched as Dad waited for Mr. Dawson to pick up.
“Hey John,” Dad said before Mr Dawson apparently started telling him all about the locker room.
Dad looked at me and shook his head as Mr. Dawson recounted the story.
“John,” Dad said sternly shutting him up, “Craig knows.”
There was more listening by Dad before he interjected, “he’s into guys our age. He’s fine with it.”
I waited and tried to read Dad’s face.
“OK, we’ll see you in a few,” Dad said hanging up the phone and giving me a smile.
“Do you want another drink?” He asked with a devious smirk on his face.