" Stop calling me "Goat Head" he says...
I look at him like he is crazy... and he laughs... "Go ahead?"
Ahh, I nod, I get it...
You see, we play pool every evening... and when I am done and it is his turn I say " Go ahead "
He is " DAN ", My former room-mate, from before I went to Fort Hunter Liggett...
I'm back at Fort Ord now, getting back into my former life. I moved in with a guy who has a 4 bedroom house, it's on base housing "supposedly" for his wife and kids, but they aren't anywhere around.
So he is renting out the other three bedrooms to friends... I have one room, a very young couple have another room, and the last is taken by a WAC (do they still call them that?)
We are a "party" house, but we don't stay up real late or have loud parties, we are just a mellow group that likes to drink and get a bit high, barbeques on the weekends.. that sort of stuff..
The young couple have sex a lot (the guy walks around in his underwear - I don't complain) and she cooks for everyone when they aren't having sex (we pay for the groceries)
Doug, the guy who is renting me a room in this house and the WAC (can't remember their names, but I'll call them Doug & Marge for this story) mainly sit around drinking, relaxing & smoking.
Dan and I just did our thing, we'd go to movies, go to the barracks (where Dan now lived) and play pool, bullshit, go out to my house... sit around...
I've always had a guy that I hung around with, you do that in the Army, you have a pal, a buddy. Dan and I were Buds, We used to live together in Pacific Grove, at a place called the Seventeen Mile Drive Village, The entrance to this place was the FAT CAT CAFE.
Seventeen Mile Drive Village was a "motel" a place where you could drive to the coast, rent this cottage, park your car in a garage, and stay for a week, cooking in your own little kitchen. Some years back they converted all the garages (all they did was take out the garage doors and then put in a wall) into bedrooms, and started renting out to the poor folks, military families, etc.
I had set up the "garage" as my bedroom, with stereo, couple of chairs and a water bed, Dan slept on the living room couch, after we were done watching TV for the night, we shared the 1 bathroom and kitchen
We were in the same platoon, but were in separate squads, so we didn't have any conflict that way.
We both had cars, but we'd commute together almost everyday... Every morning I used to get up real early and go for a walk on the beach, it was cool and very quiet. We lived there together about a year, before I got assigned to temp duty at Fort Hunter Liggett.
After I went to Fort Hunter Liggett, Dan had to move back to base, I was told it was because he got depressed, and starting not showing up to work on time.
We never did talk about it when I got back, but we started hanging out together once I got back.
We went right back to our life, except once in a while I went to the city, Dan never asked to come along or what I did while I was there.
Anyway, one weekend we were having one of our regular parties at the house (with extra guests as well), Dan was over, no one in the house had duty that weekend, and we were all relaxing, drinking etc...
Dan was house sitting for some friends that weekend, and he asked me to come over and spend that night so he isn't all alone.
I had already spent one night, but their house was cold, so I decide to grab the comforter off my water bed and I put it in his car, we decided to just use his car, because we are going to come back to my house the next day.
We go back in the house and continue to party... For some reason, the other folks get into some tiff, and all of a sudden there is all this whispering in corners, and people talking in bedrooms.
Tension gets thick, and Dan decides to find out what happened...
He comes back and says - " Everything is cool " " Marge thought someone called her a bitch, but I got it all straightened out "
I nod, and say " cool " After eating, Dan says " let's head out "
So we get in the car, and head out...
So we are sitting there, driving over to SSgt Moody's house (sometimes those names just pop back into your head) and Dan turns to me and says...
"The funniest thing just happened, " Marge said to me that " If you and Jack are getting it on, we think it's cool " " we ain't got no problem with it "" Why do you think she said that? " he says... " Beats me, maybe because they don't see us go " hunting pussy" like the other guys " I reply (my heart beating like crazy)
So we get in the house, and we sit around drinking some more beer...
Dan says to me... " I'll flip you for your comforter "
" No way man " You're crazy, its' cold in this house, I'm not giving my blanket up " after a bit of back and forth we agree to share it...
I get up to go pee, and on my way back Dan decides to sneak up on me and spray me with a can of
whipped cream that he found in the refrigerator, so I chase him around the house, trying to get even.
after we both run out of breath, we decide it's time to hit the sack.
So we head off to the bedroom, where we have a dilemma, we both normally sleep in the nude, but we are going to be sleeping in the same bed, so what are we going to do?
Finally we decide to sleep in our underwear...
So we are both lying there, not touching, both awake as hell, but quiet, pretending there is no tension, pretending that we are just sleeping together.
a minute goes by, and then another minute...
Finally Dan says, " well if something is going to happen... lets get started..."
So I put my hand on his butt, his white cotton brief covered butt, I just caressed his butt for a minute...
and then we fumble towards each other... not knowing what to do... We don't kiss, but we nuzzle each other's neck... we pull off our underwear and grasp each other's manhood, stroking and fondling... wanting more... but not knowing what is the limit, what might be considered "over the line" - that line between drunk - and being a fag...
Are we fags or two drunk buddies just caught up in the moment (well, I know I'm a fag) What do we do, that we might be able to ignore in the morning?
We wrap our legs around each other, first he straddles me, rubbing my manhood between the furry cheeks of his ass.... then we switch, and I rub his dick between the cheeks of my ass...
How a far can I go, what can we get away with?
We finally move to shower, needing something to lubricate us, but we are naive and full of innocence, not knowing what we really want or need, so we take turns in the shower...
Soaping ourselves up and then rubbing ourselves between the cheeks of the other...
Finally, the moment has passed, we are frustrated, but needing to rest.... we return to the bed, neither one satisfied, neither one... wanting it to end, but the moment has passed...
See, I was still naive.. I didn't know how to get his dick all sloppy wet with my spit, and then slowly lower myself on it, I didn't know how to spit on my own cock, and slide it between the cheeks of his furry ass...
I had never sunk my tongue into that hidden valley of pleasure and joy, I didn't know how to excite him until he begged for it.
So we turned over and slept, and in the morning...
When he said...
" Boy, was I drunk last night, can't remember a thing "
I died a little inside, my heart broken, but maybe relieved too...
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After a while, we made the bed, and got back in the car, and went back to my house, not talking, quiet...
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After a beer, Dan went back to the barracks...
We didn't talk for about two weeks...
except for small talk, we stopped hanging out together...
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Our friends thought we had a fight - we hadn't - maybe... we just found out we didn't know how to love to each other... maybe we were afraid.
Even today, I wonder if he is gay - was it a one time thing - or was he like me...
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After a few months, we started hanging out together again, but it wasn't like it had been before...
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Then, I got orders transferring me to Germany
but that's another story