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Corbusier ~ chapter nine
by Biscuit
Christmas is my birthday. For me, as a kid, the day had all the dazzling brilliance of twin suns appearing in the sky. I felt exalted, not cheated, like a lot of people expect I would have.
What I didn't like about it, which I never admitted, was always being the last kid in my class to reach the magic moment of turning a year older; like I was forever condemned to losing a race.
That first winter with Colin it was more painful than ever. It seemed like I was trying to move time with my bare hands, like the frozen spokes of a giant clock. All just to get to the age I'd lied and said I was.
He was living at Joe's by then, sharing an apartment that was fascinating to me. So different from our house, or the houses of people I knew; old and rich with detailed woodwork. The kind of stuff that my father detested. It was the bottom floor of a brownstone with a funky yard in the back, outside Joe's bedroom. The kitchen was in the middle, and the whole rest of the place was a big long living space. Colin's bed was Joe's futon couch and she'd moved a chest of drawers in there for him.
It must have been close to three in the morning, my birthday, when Colin woke up me in that bed. I'd fallen asleep with my hand around my own hard dick, sleeping in spite of my best intentions to stay awake until he got home. I slid into waking with a rush of pleasure, his hand stroking over my thighs and my very hard cock through the covers. He was naked, sitting on the edge of the bed, backlit by the tiny colored lights on Joe's christmas tree.
"Happy birthday," he whispered.
"You're here!" I whispered back, trying to be just as quiet, pushing the covers away.
It was the first time we were touching since we'd gone for that ride in Joe's jeep. The first time I was kissing him as a fifteen year old, for real.
Joe had invited us to spend the holiday with her, she and my mom had long since gone to bed. Colin's shift at Tonio's, the bar/restaurant where Joe had gotten him a job, didn't end until two in the morning. I think that's why Joe wanted us there, so he wouldn't be left out, and I wouldn't be out of my mind.
I'd gotten a look at him earlier that night. A torturous but wonderful look at him at Tonio's.
Joe knew I was ready to shoot out of my skin from wanting to see Colin, which wasn't due to happen until somewhere in the middle of the night. After the dinner she'd cooked us, that I couldn't do justice to with my nerves kicked into high gear, she took us out walking and steered us toward Tonio's without telling me. I was like a juiced up satellite, rocketing around them, rushing ahead to look in shop windows so I could point stuff out by the time they caught up to me. Tonio's just appeared in front of me. I read the name, spelled out in gold letters painted on the dark window.
"Ready to check it out?" Joe asked me.
"Oh God, I think I see him!" I got a wicked flush of nerves. The bar was near the front, and I could just make him out.
"We're not staying long," she warned me. "And don't expect him to lean over that bar and give you a big kiss."
I groaned. I didn't want to be teased like I was a dumb kid. I wanted to be a grown up walking into that bar. I tried to put a grown up look on my face as I went through the door. Inside, it looked like it belonged on the set of a Godfather movie except for the actors. Joe and my mom were among the small sprinkling of women in a cast of gay men. It hit me harder than the dance at the church. Maybe because it was grown men, not like a visit to some boys' school event. I felt a visceral joy, like I was seeing a wonderful world I could become part of.
Oh God. Colin. He was so fucking sexy in his bar tending clothes; tight pants, and crisp white shirt, the sleeves were pushed up his forearms. He and all the waiters had little bow ties dangling askew over the unbuttoned tops of their shirts, like they were about to strip down any second.
Colin was so cool behind that bar, so smooth as he mixed drinks and pulled drafts. When he glanced at me, letting me know he'd seen me, his lips curled in his cutest smile and I nearly floated on to the barstool.
I wished so bad I was old enough to drink, to be like the guys at the other end of the bar. A group of young men; handsome, well dressed, laughing and enjoying themselves, giving Colin their order. From the back he looked good enough to eat and my blood was pumping in a hot surge between my legs. I couldn't tear my eyes off his ass and his long legs in those skinny black pants.
I was feeling my heart somewhere in my throat and my dick was trying to escape from the front of my honest to God vintage hip huggers; my birthday present from Megan. She'd made me open my gift that afternoon before we left and I'd had to put them on immediately. I adored them.
I blushed when Joe caught me wrestling with myself. Even though I was blushing my look said, say a word and you die, as I shoved my dick into submission.
I could have watched Colin work all night and never tired of it. The only bad part, and it's something I didn't think of until it was happening, was seeing all those guys flirt with him. I should have known. After the way Joe had talked about how his pretty face was going to make him rich. But I wasn't ready for it.
The customers, the waiters, it seemed to me like every guy in that place was hot for him. Like a twist in my gut to see how they looked him over; how they teased him. He acted real cool, aloof, but the few times he smiled at someone it wrenched my heart.
"Breathe," Joe said to me when a very cute guy sitting near us scribbled his phone number on his napkin and slid it with a twenty dollar tip to Colin before leaving the bar. Oh God.
True to her word, Joe make me drink up my coke without dawdling, to leave much too soon. When Colin saw us getting ready to go he came over to say good bye. I can't say how bad I wanted for him to lean over the bar and kiss me. The way he looked at me, his blue-eyed gaze moving over my mouth, up to my eyes, I almost thought he might. But he wiped his hands on a bar towel and plucked up a cherry from the garnish tray.
"Here you go, almost birthday boy," he said, holding it right up to my mouth. Oh God, it was almost as good as a kiss to have him pop that thing between my lips.
"Okay, Romeo," Joe said, "we're out of here." I think it was only her calling him that, that made Colin realize what a blatant thing he'd just done. He gave her a look, but he smiled at me. That cherry was as sweet as could be in my mouth, and I felt like sticking my tongue out to show it off to every guy I knew had been watching him put it in there.
The only bad part of that day was the phone call from my father. It had come in the midst of my mom's frantic packing of overnight bags and piles of gifts. I'd answered the phone when it rang.
"Corbusier," my father had said, drawing out the syllables of my full name. The sound made my throat feel thick and my mouth turn to clay.
"Dad," I said. It came out of me like it weighed a ton. He didn't seem to notice but my mom did. It stopped her dead and she sat down on the couch, watching me with anxious eyes.
"I'm calling from Paris," he said, embarking on a well oiled monologue. "It's not your birthday yet, but the phones lines are bound to be crazy tomorrow . I sent you a gift," he said, "but I don't have much faith in overseas shipping. It probably won't arrive in time."
I mumbled something, I don't know what. He breezed on to the subject of his latest project, chat about people whose names I didn't recognize and then started in on the weather in Paris, like it had anything to do with anything. He said he hoped I had a nice celebration planned and to give his regards to my mother.
"Okay," I said, and it was over.
I wished I'd had the nerve to say, oh yes, dad, a grand celebration planned, I'm hoping to fuck my boyfriend while mom's in bed with her girlfriend, Joe.
But really, all I wanted was to get off the phone.
It's hard for anyone but my mom or Colin, who know her, to understand that in the space of a month, Joe was more of a dad to me than he'd ever been. The space of a day, to be honest.
Looked at one way you could say that he deserted us. I look at it differently now. I think he got out of our way in the nick of time. My mom and I were like ticking bombs ready to blow; so desperately in need of the things he only pretended to give us.
By the time I hung up the phone my weight had doubled and I sank down next to my mother on the couch. We wrapped up in each other's arms.
The doorbell saved us. It was Megan. With her hair cut short and a bag of presents in her arms.
"Happy everything," she said. God, it was good. She and I were slowly finding our way back to each other. At least when her boyfriends weren't around. Her short hair, when she pulled off her cap to show it to me, was astonishing, beautiful. More than anything else, that showed me how close she still felt to me.
My mom was up off the couch, wiping her eyes and the two of them hugged. Megan stayed for coffee and made me open up my presents, shrugging off the fact that I had nothing for her.
How often had Megan erased hurt from me? Though she didn't stay long it was enough to blunt the hurt of my dad's phone call. Then Joe arrived and it didn't matter anymore that my father had called me for the first time since he'd left, only to talk to me as if nothing had happened.
"Colin's doing good," Joe told us on the drive downtown. "It's been four days and they're crazy about him. I don't know how crazy he is about them, yet, but he's doing all right."
Like the nose of a setter my dick lifted at the mention of him.
"What do you mean?" my mom asked. I saw Joe's eyes flick up to look at me in the rearview mirror.
"You keep your mouth shut about any of this to him, got it?"
"I won't say anything," I said, as if insulted by her thinking I wouldn't keep my mouth shut.
"Let's just say Colin's used to a slinging beers at a bunch of old farts, not dealing with a bar full of guys checking him out. It bugs him. The first night he was full of shit when he got home, talking about faggots." Joe chuckled, but I didn't, thinking about him at that dance and how he'd looked around like he was in war zone.
"I asked him what the fuck he thinks he is," Joe said, "and he looked at me like I was nuts. Yeah, you, I told him. You're a faggot and you'd better get used to it."
"I don't get it," my mom said, frowning. "He knows he's gay."
I'd already seen how he was so I wasn't so puzzled.
"Yeah, but you're a fag if other people know it," Joe said. "On the other hand, he's starting to see which side his bread's buttered on. He keeps his mouth shut at work and rakes in the tips and phone numbers. The little fuck came home with four hundred bucks last night and I said, I guess those faggots are looking pretty good to you right about now."
"Four hundred bucks!" I shot forward to press up between the seats.
"Your lips are sealed," Joe said. "He's been giving me half his tips. I could get used to being his pimp. I send him out looking pretty and he comes back loaded with cash."
My mom smiled then but nudged at me to sit back in my seat.
"At least he's paying his way," she said. Her big fear, among many, was that Colin would take advantage of Joe. That somehow, in a roundabout way, she herself was putting a burden on Joe. As if it wasn't exactly what Joe wanted. From the start Joe's arms had been wide open to us and everything thing she did said, jump in, I'll take care of you.
Down to the condoms and lube she'd put in the drawer by Colin's bed. "My fuck table," he said, pointing to the towel she'd left folded discreetly on its lower shelf and the little plastic lined trash under it, suitable for tossing a used condom into. He shook his head, as if she was insane, but snagged the towel with a grin and handed it to me. "Put that under your butt, princess." Then he helped himself to one of the condoms from the drawer.
"Every guy in that bar was dying to fuck you," he said, like a sweet nothing in my ear when he stroked his cock into me. I didn't believe him for a second but the lust in his voice sent a wave of hot joy through me, jerking my knees higher to feel him deeper inside me. He trapped my climbing legs with his hands, folding me almost double.
For the first time I fucked him with a crowd of unseen strangers around us; the awareness that Colin wasn't my secret, private passion anymore. Like a light shining on him, the desire of all those men. It made me feel a sharp pride in having him for my lover but scared me, too. Like he didn't belong to just me anymore. It made me cling tighter, urging him to fuck me harder.