Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:03:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Garrison <wegarrison749@yahoo.com>
Subject: Araxos by the Sea, Part VI

Araxos By The Sea/My Remote Assignment
Part VI

I don't know how it happened, but when the group started rotating to their
next assignments it turned out that Jack and I both were off duty so we
could go to Athens and see them off.  Our group pretty much took the entire
third floor of the Krioli Hotel which was located on the strip along the
beaches in Glyfada.  Several of the guys on the remote were a bit jealous
of me because I was going to be staying in this paradise with my transfer
to Athens in only a few more weeks, but they were kind about it.  I still
felt a bit guilty about it, but anxiously looking forward to the new
assignment as it meant that I would be leaving Security and getting
strictly into Law Enforcement.

We were quite a group of GIs their last night in the country.  We went to
the really nice Athenia NCO Club where three years later I spent my last
night in the country and viewed a floor show by "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry
Lee Lewis.

After leaving the NCO Club we broke up into smaller groups and headed for
the bars on the strip.  They were all walking distance from the Hotel so we
didn't have to worry about driving.  Dennis was in a different group of
guys than I was, and after the second bar, I left my group and headed back
to the hotel.  I had been feeling a bit sad about them leaving and a bit
more anxious than I thought I would be about Dennis leaving.  I began to
regret that I had not gone to him and talked with him about how I was
feeling over what we had done that night, but I guess I was afraid, and not
confronting him would just keep me from facing my own demons that I didn't
understand.

I walked up the three flights of stairs to the floor where the room was
located that I would be sharing with three other GIs.  When I got to the
top of the stairs I could see that the room Dennis was staying in had the
door open.  Dennis was sitting down in a chair by himself smoking a
cigarette and with a drink.

I gently knocked on the door and asked him if I could come in.  He hadn't
noticed me until then.  He said "Come in, of course."

I don't remember if I closed the door or if he got up and closed it.  He
told me that he just didn't feel like doing the bar scene with everyone so
he came back after the second bar like I had done.  The others wouldn't be
around for a while.

I think I told him that I didn't know what I was going to do without him
and that I hated to see him go.  Maybe I didn't say anything at all.  It
was a long time ago.  I do remember that we not only repeated that night in
his trailer, but I was able to perform oral sex on another man for the
first time.

It felt so good to be naked with him again and to explore each others'
bodies without interruption or fear.  It was the second time I had
experienced sex with a man and this time I didn't feel anxious or guilty
afterwards.  It felt really good.  I had forgotten what Sam had said to me
with his question, but I know it felt good and I liked it.  I regretted
that I had wasted so much time between April and July fretting about it all
and not doing something about having repeats of it.  It's probably best we
didn't though because we probably would have gotten careless about it and
ended up getting caught.  It would have been devastating for both of us had
that happened.

The next day was extremely difficult saying good bye to everyone and
watching that plane lift off the runway.  I have never been the same.

(THE END OF PART VI)

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