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Fire Island 1977
Hawkins" Hawk" Fuller stood on the beach looking out into the Atlantic Ocean. He was wearing running shorts. Hawk was in great shape for a fifty-year-old man; time had not erased his handsome good looks. Two young men strolled by holding hands. Hawk watched as the couple shared a tender kiss. They are not afraid to show their love he thought; times have changed. Twenty years ago, Hawk had sat with a man on beach. A man he was not able to kiss or hold hands in public for fear of losing his job or ending up in jail. A man he had never stopped loving.
Washington DC 1957
Marcus Gaines was sitting at his desk revising an article he had written for Ebony magazine when he heard a knock at his apartment door. He was not expecting any visitors. Marcus put on a bath robe and walked to the door. He looked through the peephole and was surprised to see his friend Hawkins Fuller standing outside
"Hawk what brings you to this neighborhood?"
"Just needed to talk; are you alone
Hawk and Marcus were both in their early thirties.
"Yes, Frankie is doing a show in New York" Marcus said referring to his boyfriend who was drag performer.
"I should have called first" Hawk noticed Marcus was naked beneath the robe.
"Please come in before I catch a cold."
Hawk walked into the apartment. He was as usual impeccably dressed in a blue business suit.
"You want something to drink"
"A beer is fine " Hawk said
"Make yourself at home."
Hawk sat on the sofa. He noticed piles of books and magazines.
'Here you go" Marcus handed Hawk a beer.
"How come your not home?"
"I had dinner with Skippy" Hawk said using his nickname for Tim Laughlin
"Corporal Laughing is back in Washington?"
"Yes, he wants me to recommend him for a job in the state department."
"How is he doing? "
"Tim is fine. He looks good in uniform "
"I’m sure you were planning to get him of it "
"Well, it did not work out that way" Hawk lit a cigarette.
"A man turned Hawkins Fuller down; this must be a new experience for you”
"Skippy said you warned him about me"
"Hawk you(re the love em and leave em type" Marcus said.
"I never meant to hurt Tim."
"You never do."
"Tim thought you and I were lovers."
Marcus was surprised by this statement.
"I never said that."
Marcus and Hawk had spent their youth in different worlds. Marcus in the segregated south until his family had move up north. Hawk in an upper-class world of tennis clubs and private schools.
"Tim does not understand my situation" Hawk said.
"What does he want from you?"
"For us to live together, to be a couple "
"There are homosexual men who do that now"
"Poets, actors, in Hollywood not in Washington! I worked too hard for my career."
"You sound like your father"
Hawk glared at Marcus.
"Marcus, I told you never to mention that man!"Hawk spit out the words.
"But you are living the life he chose for you."
"That’s not true!"
"You married a woman"
Hawk thought for a moment and realized that Marcus was right.
"My father wanted me to apologize for my sins"
"What sins? You did nothing wrong."
"Of course, not I was teenager in love with another boy" Hawk had never forgotten the afternoon in which his father had walked into his bedroom and found him kissing his first love Kenny.
"Its beautiful thing first love" Marcus thought about a white boy he had a crush on when he was a teenager.
"Until that bastard destroyed it! "
Marcus could see that Hawk was getting emotional as if the conversation had opened a wound which had never healed.
"He beat me; kept saying no son of mine was going to be queer!"
“I’m sorry he did that Hawk”
"Kenny poor sweet Kenny, he died in the war, I loved him I really loved him"
Hawk was on the verge of tears.
"I love Tim more than anyone in the world.”
Hawk could not hold it back anymore and began to cry.
"Come here Hawk"
Marcus put his arms around his friend. He had had never seen Hawk like this. The man was always in control of his emotions but now he seem so vulnerable.
" Marcus I'm sorry "
Marcus stroked Hawks hair. He could feel his white friends back muscles through the fabric of his shirt.
"It's going to be ok baby"
Marcus kissed Hawk on the lips. The two men had been friends since they had met after the war in a veteran's hospital. Hawk and Marcus had bonded over their battle experiences and the sexual desires they had learned to keep secret. They had never been lovers until now .
"Relax baby"Marcus opened his robe revealing a muscular body.
Hawk stroked the black man's furry chest
"Just let it happen" Marcus said as he kisses Hawk again.
Hawk licked the black man(s nipples.
"Feels so good"
Marcus pulled off Hawk's shirt exposing his smooth chest.
"Always wanted this."
Hawk stepped out his pants. He was wearing a pair of white briefs.
"Take that off too!"
Hawk did what Marcus said.
"Nice cock"
Marcus squeezed his white friends( balls.
"Come here!"
Hawk pulled Marcus toward him.
"Need this so bad."
Hawk and Marcus stumbled towards the bedroom: kissing licking tasting their bodies. They could not keep their hands of their erect cocks.
"Stroke it baby."
Hawk and Marcus were jerking each other off, but they both wanted more.
"I need to taste you"Hawk savored the hard eight inch black shaft.
"Oh baby"Marcus moaned.
Hawk licked the head Marcuse(s cock. He imagined what his racist father would think if he could see his son having sex with a black man.
"Hmmm" Marcus reached down and massaged Hawk's ass. His large fingered teasing the white man's hole.
"Marcus ?"
"Yes baby"
"I need your cock in me "Hawk said.
Marcus turned the white man over and rimmed Hawk's ass.
"More please"
Marcus teased Hawk with the head of his hard cock.
"What do you want Fuller?"
"Fuck me Marcus!"
Hawk he felt the Black man's cock penetrating his ass.
"Open up for me baby"
Marcus began to fuck Hawk.
"That feels good"
Hawk was usually the top but he was loving the feeling of getting fucked.
"Breeding you good baby."
"Yes, Marcus yes"
Marcus rammed his cock into Hawk's ass with unrelenting passion.
"Oh God!'
Hawk could feel Marcus's cock thrusting in and out his ass driving him to orgasm.
"Gonna cum Fuller!"
Marcus ejaculated into Hawk's ass.
"Ohhhh"
Hawk turned over and kissed Marcus.
"Your still hard baby"
Marcus wrapped his right hand over Hawk's erect dick.
"Fuck me more "
Hawk pushed himself against Marcus's still hard shaft as the Black man jerked off his cock.
"More please "
Marcus pulled out of Hawk"s ass his cock dripping with cum
"Want your load baby"
Marcus sucked on Hawk's cock
"Take it!"Hawk ejaculated into his friend's mouth.
Marcus swallowed the load savoring the taste.
"Come here baby"
Marcus pulled Hawk to his side and kissed him. Hawk could taste his own cum
"That was good"
The two men laid back on the bed.
"Marcus?"
" Yes Fuller"
"What are you thinking about?"
"We should have done this before.(
"Are we going to tell Frankie and Tim?"
"This is between us"
Hawk closed his eye. He could not help thinking about Tim. Marcus was right he had never been into relationships, but Tim had changed that. Tim Laughlin who drove him crazy in a way no other man had before. Hawk did not want to think about the future, but he knew that in one way, or another Tim was always going to be part of his life.
Fire Island 1977
Hawk stood on the beach looking at the Atlantic Ocean. He had sent Tim Laughlin a post card but there had been no answer. Tim did not want anything to do with him anymore. Hawk had everything he would need to have a fun time on Fire Island, drugs, alcohol, endless sex but it was it all meaningless without Tim.
" I need you more than anything Skippy" " Hawk said to himself.
"Hawk!"
He turned to face the man calling his name. The figure looked familiar.
"Is that you Tim?"Hawk thought as he saw the man's face come into focus and smiled.
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