Gary opened the door held it for Andy and me to walk into the wide hall. As we started walking toward the elevator, the door to the next room opened and a slim, muscular, man with spiky jet-black hair, beard and mustache and full tattoo sleeves and a curved barbell septum piercing stepped out. He looked at us, smiled, winked and said, “Goddamn!” We all laughed and continued toward the elevator. He stopped a couple doors further and knocked on the door as we continued to the elevator. We got inside the elevator and cracked up. I said, “Liberation! In my former existence, I would have been mortified to know he heard us. Right now, I feel like the fucking luckiest man on Earth, and if it isn’t immodest, I don’t give a fuck who knows how much dick I took!” As the elevator was coming to a stop, both kissed me on the cheek at the same time just as the elevator doors were opening. The middle-aged couple standing in front of the doors gasped when they saw Gary and Andy kissing me. As we walked out of the elevator past them, the man snarled, “Perverts” as they walked on the elevator. I turned and held up a finger to Gary and Andy and stepped back over to the elevator and said, “Jealous? And by the way, I think the word you were searching for was ‘faggots.’” The doors closed and I turned back to Gary and Andy and said, “I no longer have any fucks to give about people like that! You should have seen her face. I think she might have peed herself a little.” Standing there in front of the elevator to the parking deck, Andy laughed so loud everyone around stopped and looked our direction. Gary and I just laughed along with Andy as the elevator doors opened and got on. We giggled all the way to the truck, wiping the tears away several times.
Andy opened the door to the front and held it open for me to get in. I gave him a peck on the lips as I passed in front of him and said, “Thank you kind sir!” I sat down and buckled my seatbelt as Andy closed the door and got in the seat behind me. Gary fastened his seatbelt and then started the truck. The powerful rumble of the engine sent vibrations through the seat to my very well fucked hole, and I closed my eyes and smiled, and said, “Oh man, that feels good. Andy, Gary, thank you for last night. I feel freer, more liberated, more at peace with who I am than I have ever felt in my life. I never imagined I would actually find friends who would help me celebrate all the things I want to do, much less help start me on the road to doing every one of them. I don’t want to be overly mushy, or make you think I’m laying claim or anything, but I love you. Both of you.” Gary turned toward me, reached over and took my hand, as Andy wrapped his arms around me from behind. I saw Gary’s eyes tear up as he slowly shook his head and said, “I love you too, Daniel. I’m so glad you’re now part of our lives.” Andy leaned forward and kissed me and said, “I’ve loved you since that first kiss, three fucking years ago, Daniel. I’m so happy you got your ass back here.”
We walked into Shorty’s, a diner that looked like it had been lifted right out of the mid 1960’s, with the exception that the servers wore navy blue shorts, red polos, black suspenders and baseball caps turned backward. And all of them had numerous visible tattoos. One of the servers, a woman with silver earrings all the way up one ear, two eyebrow rings and the sides of her head shaved, her cap turned backward and electric green hair showed inside her cap’s adjustment hole, called out a welcome and said “Sit anywhere!” I looked around as we headed toward a booth and saw some sandwiches, but mostly burgers and hot dogs, with fries, onion rings or chips. I did see one table with a man, a woman and a boy who looked to be about 10, and who was dipping a beautiful grilled cheese in his tomato soup. We sat and were greeted and given menus by a short muscular bear who couldn’t have been more than 5’4”, with a beautiful full, but well-trimmed beard, thick beautiful mustache and thick hair on his arms, poking out of the collar of his shirt and down his legs. He said, “Hey guys!” looking back and forth between Andy and Gary. “What are you guys up to, today?” as he put wrapped utensils and menus down in front of us. Andy said, “This is our friend Daniel. He’s new in town, and we’re introducing him to the city and showing him the best places to eat.” He extended his hand and said, “Nice to meet you! I’m Marty. If you’ve got these two taking care of you, you’re in good hands!” He looked at Gary and asked, “Have you taken him to Gino’s yet?” I laughed and said, “First place they took me! I’m finally hungry again, after eating all that!” We all laughed, and Marty asked what we’d like to drink. Having had no caffeine yet, I ordered coffee, as did Andy. Gary ordered water. I started looking at the menu and asked, “Any recommendations for a first-time hungry bottom?” As I saw Gary’s and Andy’s faces, I realized what I’d said and cracked up. “Let me rephrase that. Any recommendations for a hungry bottom, his first time eating here?” Gary was chuckling hard with his hand over his mouth, trying not to make too much of a scene. “Oh my god, you are so funny!” he said, just as Marty returned. He set Gary’s water down and set a big empty coffee mug down in front of me and then Andy. He poured coffee from a full coffee pot and set a bowl of half-and-half tubs down. He asked if we knew what we wanted or if we needed more time. Andy replied, “Give us a little more time. Daniel was just asking for our expert opinions.” “You got it,” Marty said as he moved on to another table. Gary said, “They serve breakfast all day if you want breakfast food, If you want a sandwich, burger or hot dog, they have the best onion rings you’ve ever tasted, if you like onion rings. But their fries are also amazing. I usually get both.” I noticed a meatloaf sandwich on the menu and asked, “Either of you ever had the meatloaf sandwich?” Andy groaned and said, “Oh god, it’s so good it’ll make you moan!” I laughed and said, “Okay, I can see I’m going to have to come here enough to try everything. I don’t see anything that doesn’t look fantastic! This visit, it’s going to have to be a meatloaf sandwich with half fries, half onion rings. The menu doesn’t say – what kind of bread do they use?” Andy replied, “You can get Texas toast, rye, a pretzel hamburger roll or a croissant. Just a word of warning, though: If you get the croissant, which is amazing, it will get soggy and probably fall apart before you’re done. It’s not the best bread for the meatloaf. Pretty much anything else, especially their chicken salad.” Marty returned and took our orders: cheeseburgers for both Gary and Andy, meatloaf sandwich on a pretzel roll, and an order each of fries and onion rings for us to share. After Marty left to go put in our order, Andy said, “Marty is such a sweetheart! You need to get to know him.” Gary smiled and said, “Yeah, you definitely need to get to know him!” and wiggled his eyebrows at me. I smiled and said, “Okay, out with it.” Andy smiled and said, “He may not be very tall, but that’s the only thing short about him, and that fucker knows how to use what he’s got! He’s a powerhouse in the bedroom! He’s part of our close inner circle.” Gary reached across and laid his hand on mine and said, “We’ll introduce you to our close inner circle. It’s eight men, well now nine, because you’re definitely way in our inner circle. We get together at least once a month at one of our homes to play. Sometimes everyone’s there, sometimes it’s just a few, just depending on schedules. We and they can help you realize any fantasies you want.” Andy leaned across and quietly said, “Yeah, we refer to ourselves as the BDDBC.” I looked at him with a questioning look, trying to think out the initials. Gary smiled, winked and said, “Big Dick Daddy Bear Club.” I smiled broadly and said, “Oh god, you guys are going to be so good for me.” In unison they said, “Oh yeeeeeah!”
It was now mid-afternoon, and I wanted a drink, so I suggested we go to the bar. Andy said, “How about we go to our house instead. That way if we want to have more than a couple, we don’t have to worry about driving. We can hang out on the patio, maybe sit in the hot tub.” Gary added, “We’ve got stuff we can fix whenever we get hungry…you know…for food.” My eyes brightened and I smiled and said, “Hot tub, huh? I’m in!” They laughed and Gary said, “Lets go!” As we got in the truck, Andy said, “I can’t wait to get a drink or three in you, get you in the hot tub and then start finding out all your fantasies!!” I smiled, leaned forward and put my hand on his shoulder and said, “For the first time in my life, I feel like I can talk about my fantasies and not be looked at like a pathetic dreamer. Seems like you guys get what I like, will understand that I’m inexperienced with some things, but very willing and eager to try any of them. I’ve spent so much of my life being who family, friends, my ex all wanted or expected me to be. I’ve never given myself permission to fly my freak flag, or even give myself permission to figure out what hoists my freak flag until I decided to take control of my life when I broke up with my ex. Now I’m starting to enjoy thoughts of all the things that have intrigued me for years and I’ve decided I’m going after them.” Gary said, “It pisses me off that so many people go through life being deprived of so many things that would give them, AND OTHERS pleasure because of ridiculous puritanically based, Victorian era enhanced prohibitions against anything that might smack of passion. FUCK THAT! Every person, man, woman, straight, gay, young or old deserves to experience those things that give them pleasure and make them feel alive. Make them feel natural. Make them feel happy, for fuck’s sake. And I, for one, will be delighted to help you hoist any fucking freak flag you want hoisted, anywhere you want to hoist it!” Andy and I laughed and Andy said, “You know, I’d like to think that your first visit to the bar, our first meeting, might have planted the idea in your mind that this is a safe place and we’re safe men to explore anything you want.” I smiled, unbuckled my seat belt long enough to lean forward and kiss Andy on the cheek and then turn and do likewise to Gary. As I buckled myself back in, I said, “I think you’re right, Andy. After that first time here, it was weeks before this place wasn’t in my mind every waking minute, and even since then, there’s never been a week that’s gone by that I haven’t thought about this place and you two. I hoped you two were still here. I was ready to spend a few evenings here and then decide where to go next if you two weren’t still here. Sure am glad you are!” Andy sighed and said, “Daniel, I hope you know how happy I am that you came back here.” Gary turned his head to look over his shoulder at me and mouthed a smooch at me.
