Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:42:44 -0600 From: michaelpete@hushmail.com Subject: Promiscuity and Purpose 10 CHAPTER X RELAPSE It was a Friday evening in mid August when my resistance finally crumbled and I again headed toward Forty-Second Street, this time via Broadway. The first boy who looked to be hustling was a pleasant looking brown skinned eleven or twelve year old standing alone in front of a games parlor. Quickly picking up on my stare, he approached and asked, in a heavy New York accent, if I'd take him inside and pay for some of the machines on which he claimed to be very proficient. Thinking that after a few turns at pinball or Skeeball, he'd be coming home with me, I nodded and followed him inside. It was an entirely new experience in there. Before I could look over the mass of machines, I saw the many boys from perhaps ten to seventeen or more, a few accompanied by men who watched over their shoulders and urged them on. A bored unshaven attendant sold me two dollars worth of tokens which I handed to my boy whose name I hadn't yet learned. He went straight to a claw machine and spent at least a dollar's worth trying to snatch a watch that was much too buried in other goodies. Without a word, not even a look my way, he jumped over to a pinball machine that an older boy had just abandoned. With no idea what a good score was, I had no idea how well he was doing. While he played, I looked around at the eye candy two of whom nodded my way. That's when a man in a dress shirt and suit jacket said quietly into my ear, "He doesn't go, just likes to get us to pay." With that he continued on to a brown haired boy a year or two older than mine who was shooting a rifle at a moving bear figure behind glass. In about fifteen minutes, my little con artist had used up his tokens and was requesting more. He frowned when I refused and returned to his spot outside without looking back. I walked over to my informant and said, "Thanks." He nodded with a smile and turned his attention back to another pubescent boy he was holding by the ribs while the kid swung his hips side to side and punched the flipper buttons, his butt brushing back and forth across his benefactor's pants, probably comforting a hard on. Rather than guess which boys were available for a trip to my bedroom, I went back outside. There was my two dollar game boy standing where I'd first seen him. He acknowledged me with a slight, surreptitious gesture of his hand. No sense letting other marks know he'd left me high and dry. I had to walk halfway down Forty-Second Street before spotting an interesting pair. Both were decent looking if not beautiful, about twelve or so. The slightly larger of the pair stepped forward and asked me for a quarter. As I was handing it over, he continued, "You got a place?" "Whatta you mean?" "Someplace we can go with you. You in a hotel?" Well aware of hustler's penchant for theft, I'd have preferred a hotel over my apartment but doubted one would allow me in with a pair of boys. "How much?" "Three each." Expensive for a guy used to less than a dollar. Both appeared relatively clean, not like they were living on the streets. They didn't have the tell-tale dirty necks and wore intact sneakers. "Okay, it's a few blocks." "How many?" "Ten then over one." "Can't we get a taxi?" "Not if I'm going to have money for you." I thought that was a clever answer. He frowned and returned to his buddy for a powwow. The one at the wall sent his partner back with, "Three fifty, okay?" I chuckled and agreed. They were experienced, knowing to stay about thirty yards behind me then darting behind the iron rail and trotting down the stairs into my place when we arrived. I think the unfinished front rooms frightened them because they stopped short just inside the door. "My apartment's over here in the back." Turning on the light exposing the wall thirty feet ahead seemed to reassure them, even more so when they entered the spacious dining and living area. "Wanna take a warm shower first? I got a new bathroom with a big new shower." "What for?" asked the spokesboy. "Just if you want to, nothing else. Then we can go into my bedroom over there." They looked at each other then declined. "Let's do it now. We gotta get back." I'd heard that line before. This was going to be a pair of naked boys and two blowjobs, both delivered by me. I had to insist they take everything off when they resisted. The quiet one had a very impressive body, nice pectorals and a flat tummy flowing down to a recently growing cock. His slightly enlarged balls hung like paired pendulums to near the end of his peter. His slightly larger friend was a prepube but with a long, thick cock. The names they gave as they stripped were Billy and Tommy, obvious pseudonyms. They got up on my king size bed and lay side by side on their backs, hands behind their heads. I stripped down to my undershirt and boxers and lay head to toe with the bigger boy. The raised arms were a familiar sign that he wasn't going to participate other than providing an orgasm. His erection was up in a pair of seconds. His climax took longer, quite a bit. I began to think he'd already gotten off a couple of times with other clients. However, he did get off and strongly so, his body stiff as an oak plank. His buddy, whose hands dropped down on my head as he approached the end, took a little longer but had a wonderfully full sucking organ and fired a shot of sweet juice into my mouth. Within minutes, they were dressed and ready to go. I handed over seven dollars, a five and two ones, for them to split. "When you want us to come back?" "Better let me find you. I work a lot of crazy hours so I never know when I'm gonna be here." Did they understand I was no longer interested in their services? FYI: Sometime later, I learned that the position the two maintained during our one way sex, arms up with hands behind their heads, was called the `Forty-Second Street stretch' because one ran into it so often with Times Square hustlers. The idea of returning for another boy or two was very tempting. As opposed to the pair I'd just had, more often than not with my regulars and even not so regulars back home, I was able to get myself off, mostly between their legs but occasionally between lips or up inside their backside. So, there I was, hornier than before I'd left but, prudence and self discipline took hold. No sense having a parade of boys in and out of the basement. From six in the AM to after midnight during those warm months, there were always neighbors, singles and in groups, hanging out on the stoops or fire escapes, in wide open windows or just standing around on the sidewalk. Anyhow, you'd think that should have been enough after the longest stretch celibacy I'd experienced since early childhood. Other than the Jamaican who was, rare for his nationality, either a workaholic or just needed to make more money as he claimed, the only way my guys would work Saturdays was being paid time and a half which was impossible to bill. Anthony Yanga, without a family to go home to and not the barfly type like McLeary, was always willing and never mentioned the word `overtime'. I'd come to believe his story about eventually taking himself and his boys back home to Jamaica. Saturday morning and early afternoon, Anthony and I between us took care of five work orders : window repairs (broken as usual from the inside) and a leaky faucet on Forty-Eighth, a broken banister on Ninth Avenue (the Irish kids on that avenue were brutal), a toilet that wouldn't stop running on Fifty-First (I took out the doll stuck in the tank), and a broken lock on my street that needed replacing. As I always did when he worked on Saturdays, I paid James for his time, then, as I hadn't been doing, went down to Forty-Two as the kids called it, entering this time from Eighth Avenue. Taking a boy or boys back to my basement in daylight was a minor concern I planned to deal with somehow if the need arose. For the first time, the market was bare of what I sought. There were some kids in the games parlor, playland in the local jargon, but they were completely absorbed in their battles with spacemen, claws, Skeeballs and running bears. I played a couple of games on a pinball machine and left, again finding the street uninteresting. With nothing else to do, I walked down to the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Eighth Avenue to see, for no special reason, just curiosity, where the various buses went and what they charged. Standing along the wall, in a long, broad hallway lined with stores, were three elevens or so who recognized my stare and walked along with me. "Where you going?" asked a brown haired cutie with his hand on my arm. "Just looking around." "Want one a us to go with you?" "How much?" Was I being too bold? Nope. "Two." I looked over the three. One was downright homely and skinny as a rail to boot, another, a freckle faced red-head who, from experience, would probably have rough skin. Their speaker, a cute almost blond with what appeared to be a decent full body, seemed affectionate, or an experienced con artist. So, I chose him. You see how callous I'd become? Freddy, as he called himself, told his buddies he'd be back in an hour and meet them where we were at the time. It was also a message to me. We walked together up Ninth Avenue until just before my block when I explained, "Wait a few minutes then go where you see me enter, understand?" "Shuah. "Sure in New Yorkese though it turned out he was from Harrison, New Jersey which I gradually learned was a virtual fountain of pretty, young white boy hustlers. He began shedding his clothes the moment I closed the apartment entry door. By the time he got to the bedroom door, he was delightfully naked. "Wanna take a shower first?" "Lemme see." He saw and liked. I asked, "Mind if I shower with you? Been working all day." He shrugged his shoulders and threw his head back into the warm cascade. His ample backside held my attention until he looked my way with a satisfied expression. He knew what he had and was proud of it. I washed his back then the rest of him. He washed my back. Dried off and on top of the bed, he assumed the position, flat on his back, arms up, hands behind the head. I assumed mine head to toe and rolled him onto his side. "This is more," he said like a store clerk. "How much?" "Dollar." I wasn't sure whether this was to be masturbation or a BJ. I took his stiff three inches into my mouth. He took my six into his. Somewhat athletically, he managed to coordinate rhythmic hip thrusts into my mouth with his oral ministrations. I willed my juices to wait. This was certainly not Freddy's first time, more like his umptieth. He was great, pulling his cheeks in tight as he moved his head back and sucking hard as he went down. It didn't seem likely many female whores could do better. There were no protestations about my hands gripping his plump cheeks. For a while, he maintained a slow, gentle rhythm but then gradually sped up, his upper leg lifting and falling in time. Without stopping the rest of him, he took his mouth off me and requested, "Tell me before." `Before' was seconds away. I yanked myself out of his mouth and cupped my hand around the head of my cock. He fell back and thrust harder into my mouth, cumming himself moments later. Very professional. "It's getting' on your bed," he informed. I struggled into a sitting position to catch the rest of my sperm. Freddy got up beside me and watched. "You got a lot, don'tcha?" Maybe us southern folks were more potent than most of his northern customers. We showered again. This time he washed my cock for me. He left with his three dollars and no orgasm to make it difficult for his next client.. I took a nap. At seven, after eating a sandwich for dinner, it was back to the Square, this time the games parlor in hopes of making contact with the man who'd warned me about the games hustler. I planned to take him out to dinner and plumb for hints about how to best operate there in midtown Manhattan as well as see if there were other places of interest. The games hustler was there but the man wasn't. After four embarrassing pinball games kid observers laughed at, I went back out concerned I'd ruined my gaming credentials in front of now lost sexual adventures, and walked past a lone cutie eyeing me seductively, then into a movie that looked interesting, almost immediately repenting and returning to the street. The cutie, a buck more expensive than Freddy, was interested and came back with me. Nude in the light of my bedroom, I could see why he commanded a higher price. He was a doll with more than just a cute face topped with nearly blond hair. He possessed a firm, full body and a growing scrotum. I'd guessed eleven, reality was more like thirteen. Unfortunately, that's all one got from this professional: great eye candy. Stretched out, he seemed completely oblivious to the sex act, not becoming more than slightly rigid when he came. I took him back to Forty-Two for another shot at finding the man I sought. Again, he wasn't there but, a pair of dark skinned Hispanic boys joined me at the pinball machine I was struggling with. After some small talk about how to improve my gaming skills, the older of the two asked, "Wanna us to go to your hotel?" My speech had given me away as a foreigner. As before, they followed instructions and scooted down the steps and into the open basement door minutes after me. "I'm Estiven and he's Manuel. He don't speak much English, the elder explained, "but he does everything." That sounded interesting, especially as they disrobed. Manuel had a long smooth body with a hefty, premature cock and a nice ass. The moment we were on top of the bed, he embraced me and gave a mouth scouring French kiss. Estiven, his body tight against mine from behind said quietly, "See, I told you. He sucks good. Wanna fuck him?" I was much too involved with oral lovemaking to answer right away. Estiven, probably horny watching Manuel and me, cuddled up tighter and pushed four inches of dry cock between my ass cheeks, pulling them apart with one hand, and poking at my hole. Manuel took hold of my hard on and massaged it, then my balls and back. I returned the favor. His cock was thick for its apparent stage of development. I felt his balls to confirm their prepubescent size. He took his mouth off mine and said something in Spanish. Estiven translated, "He wants to know if you want him to blow you now." Before I could answer, Manuel pushed me back, forcing Estiven to back off, and slid down between my legs, right off placing my cock where my tongue had been seconds before. He wasn't as skilled as Freddy but made up for it with fervor, sucking hard and moving his head all over. Estiven sufficed with humping my leg like a Terrier. I tried to pull Manuel around for a sixty-nine but he put his hand up to wait. "Estiven explained, "He wants you to blow him after you fuck him. You got some Vaseline or something?" Not ready to stop what was being done so well, I held up my hand to wait. Estiven asked, "Okay if I fuck you when you fuck him?" I patted him on the head. He continued dry fucking my leg. Manuel sucked on, stopping every few minutes, probably to avoid a not yet desired orgasm. Estiven asked again where I kept my `grease'. "In the table, open the drawer." He rolled over and found it, opened it and crawled down to the bottom of the bed where he squeezed some between Manuel's small but well formed cheeks. That seemed to be the signal. Manuel gave my cock a last long slow suck then slid over and up until he was beside me. I was ready to climb on top but he wanted some pre-fuck affection so we frenched for a few moments. Estiven dripped some KY on my cock and spread it around with his hand which he wiped on my sheet afterwards. I didn't see him do it, just found the oily hand and finger marks after they'd left. Manuel pulled on my ass, indicating, I was sure, that it was time to mount up. Estiven, on his knees and bent down nearly to bed level, pulled one of Manuel's cheeks open then reached in with his other hand and guided my cock to its target. There was none of the often heard, `wait, wait' as I slipped inside. He pushed his ass back into me with Estiven tugging the one cheek out to allow total entry. That hot, slick rectum warmed me right up to my chest hairs. Manuel reached back and pulled my ass into him, released then tapped it as though to let me know I should get trotting. After my first thrust, Estiven straddled me, pulled open my cheeks, lowered himself and poked right inside. If you don't know, getting fucked, even with Estiven's relatively small tool, while fucking is about as good as it gets. Estiven thrust when I did, shooting sparks out of my prostate right into my gut. Manuel, head pressed into the pillow and eyes closed, rode my ass with both hands. Estiven grabbed hold of my shoulders but stayed up, probably his optimum position for the hard thrusts he made into me. This wasn't going to take long. A quickie wasn't Manuel's goal. He stopped me from pulling out at one point, waited while Estiven continued banging into me, then released my buns and gave a gentle nudge from below my hip. The fire in my balls had subsided. I pushed in deeper each time, rocking back and forth a few times then pulled out to the tip and shoved myself back into Manuel's warm depths. There were two more pauses though not for Estiven who was slamming into me harder and harder. During the second, I felt drops of sweat hitting the back of my neck. After the last break, Manuel urged me with his hands to push in harder, faster. I happily complied. In less than a minute, my insides seemed to swell. I rammed in and fired, briefly worried that one of the other possibly myriad of men had left more than his sperm in there, maybe some kind of malicious microbe. The concern evaporated in the wave of pleasure that swept through me as I pumped liquid and Estiven pumped cock as fast as he could, culminating shortly in the thumping of his orgasm. That was what sex is supposed to be about. Manuel pushed me off and turned over, taking my head into his hands and pushing it toward his middle. I was still dripping cum as I took him in. It only took about half a dozen downs and backs for him to sit up and grab my head, holding it firmly to his groin while his fat cock pulsated inside my mouth. We showered. While I soaped him up, Estiven asked if he could eat something. Dry but still naked, both finished off a box of Wheat Chex. "Okay if we sleep here tonight?" "You got permission?" "My mother thinks we are at this other kid's house. We do this all the time. She don't care." "What if she called your friend's house?" "His phone got disconnected last year." Still without dressing, they watched some Spanish language TV. Meanwhile I, hardly the nudist like Ned, clad in boxers and a tee shirt, washed dishes, gave the kitchen a thorough cleaning, and thought about the washer and drier I needed to buy. Mrs. Nogales, who'd been my laundress since the office building, probably wouldn't be happy at the loss of business but... Later, as we lay in bed, I found out the boys were Puerto Rican and lived in a project by One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Street on the Manhattan side of the East River, across from the Bronx. Estiven was thirteen and in fourth grade after having failed first and third. Manuel wasn't studying but had made it through third in Puerto Rico before coming to the mainland a few months before. "Did he do this, you know, with men, in Puerto Rico?" "Sure. A coupla uncles was fucking him since he was little and some other guy and a couple a kids, teenagers. He's a fag like you. You like it when I fucked you?" "Unh huh. You were good. Hard work, huh?" "Yeah. Sometimes when I get blowed I can't cum so I always ask if I can fuck the guy." "How long you been doing this?" "Couple years. I got some friends, cousins come down here and they showed me. You wanna meet `em? They don't get fucked, well, except Tommy. He does it sometimes but you pay a lot unless you buy him stuff. I'm big but my ass is too little. How old were you when you got fucked the first time?" "Wasn't that long ago," I lied to avoid seeming too faggy. Shortly after falling asleep, I was awakened by movement. Estiven was planking Manuel. As with me, it took a while, the smacking sound raising my horns again. I switched around to a sixty-nine with Manuel. He took me in immediately but put his hand on the back of my head preventing more than a minimum of movement. This time, rather than let go every once in a while to prolong my passion so I could stick him too, he worked me slowly but with a goal of orgasm. It didn't take long. He grabbed my ass, keeping me inside his mouth as he swallowed fast. Estiven took another few minutes before he rammed in for the last time. That's when Manuel released my head. His climax came on the third suck, thump, thump, thump. Estiven went for another shower. Manuel remained in bed, to sleep. He did give me a quick kiss but then rolled away and was in dreamland well before Estiven got back, his jet black hair still wet. During breakfast, Estiven again offered access to his cousins. We made a date for the following Saturday evening. Sunday, not really sexually drained but wary of bringing more boys back to the block, I worked on the apartment and took a nap. In the evening, I made multiple calls home to assure everybody, even Tim, that I was okay. There was no news on any front. Patty wanted to come see my new digs but wasn't sure when. She was taking summer courses that would jack up her teacher's pay in the fall. That week, the agent came through with seven more chimneys that had to be rebuilt at three hundred dollars a pop but including materials. I hired a local teen, not one of the younger beat off trio, to carry bricks, sand and cement to the roofs while I did the work. Four were across the same connected row of tenements. The job was done in two days while my gang made additional money for me. By Friday evening, I could look back on the most lucrative week of my life. There was an increasing determination to stay in New York rather than return home. With money and boys galore, why leave? Granted, swimming holes were hours away up in the mountains but there had to be swimming pools. Anyway, there was plenty of available entertainment for my young friends from dozens of nearby movie theaters to Central Park and its lake with boats for rent, and, of course, Coney Island which I had yet to visit. Instead of going out seeking boys Friday night, I spent the evening making a written chart of the plusses and minuses of both cities. Naturally, family and friends were very important but they were within an easy three hour drive or train ride. However, I still had no BL friends in this huge city with whom I could hold a relaxed, open conversation. That, however, would probably change over time. I'd meet someone, possibly through the boys I took out, maybe Phil's friend he'd so far been unable to contact, or so he said. Access to boys was probably about the same in both cities though none of the New York hustlers I'd met, other than Manuel and that was passion rather than real friendship, had been anything other than pure business. The affection was temporary, part of the job. Additional meetings were because I was a paying customer not out of any actual desire for friendship though, that too well could change over time. Expecting more would be unrealistic on a first or second meeting. Nonetheless, it was basically whores and johns, just what the drive in me drove me to do, not what Walter McNally said I was supposed to be doing. In neither city did I feel any danger in prudently picking up boys. So far, no one had made any comments about boys going into my basement apartment. That may not have been a valid observation since, with rare exceptions, few people spoke to me in part because quite a few didn't speak English and I, though I was picking up a word here and there, couldn't converse in Spanish. The big plus for New York obviously was the money. Were I to sell a half dozen houses a year back home, and that was an unrealistic goal, I still wouldn't make nearly as much as where I was. Apart from that, I was finally living in a place, my increasingly comfortable basement apartment, that I could arrange the way I wanted and live in for a long time. Plus, it didn't need expensive air conditioning to be comfortable during hot, humid New York summers. It was shortly going to be necessary to install radiators and pipe them into the boiler off to one side of my apartment but that, economically, was duck soup. In the end, New York won out handily as my new home except that I did see a greater possibility of finding a special long term boy back home though, after the disaster with poor Jamie, I wasn't sure deep down if that was what I really wanted. What continued to press the thought on me was the guilt, caused by Sgt. McNally's disturbing remark, that saving a single child was my duty, what I was supposed to be doing. With my business doing so well and three relatively reliable employees, I could gradually slow down myself, working less than my current ten to twelve hour days and get back to reading and maybe even take some of the courses Walter McNally suggested. New York had a number of excellent universities but, with an eye to making even more money and getting away from paying kickbacks, I looked into getting plumbers and electricians licenses, quickly learning that one had to work for a licensed individual for varying periods of time in a process that would take years. I was stuck in my current situation for the duration. University courses covered everything one could imagine but I'd need my high school graduation records to enroll which would mean giving an address which a sharp investigator might use to find me. Not that I didn't trust them which, of course, I did, not even family members or Ned had a phone number for me. I called them. Working off the books as I did also blocked off another avenue for discovery. But, in a few months, the need for secrecy would be gone. So, I took what seemed a minimal risk and, Saturday morning, got a temporary library card. I'd always loved reading which I hadn't done since leaving home. I carried three books back to my apartment, a novel and two European history books. That too had an adverse effect. By noon, sitting alone with a book in my lap, my mind turned again to my need for a special boy, one I could read to, who'd possibly be reading beside me. That led to a walk down to Times Square even though my date was hours away at six. There were boys in abundance, many older but with several preadolescents mixed in, including Estiven, with a tallish fourteen or fifteen year old friend. He nervously apologized for not showing up as promised until I reminded him our date wasn't until six. He appeared puzzled for a moment but recovered with, "Me and Larry can go with you now and my cousins later." I turned that down pleasantly but assured him I'd keep our date. He said something in Spanish to his buddy who didn't seem bothered by it. Estiven promised that he'd bring Manuel and one of his cousins at six o'clock right where we were. It was clear that, had we not met, Estiven wouldn't have shown up. Continuing on, I saw a pair from behind, speaking to a man in a sports shirt who shrugged his shoulders and walked off. The two backed against a wall joking with one another about something, perhaps their lost customer. Closer, both were white, one plain but the other nice with longish light brown hair. When they saw me looking, both pushed off the wall and waited as I neared then walked on either side. The pretty one, not wasting any time, asked, "You wanna go?" "Where?" "Where you go. I know a hotel." I felt the bills in my pocket to see if that might be a better choice than taking them back to my place. "How much?" "Hotel's fifteen, something like that. Five for us, two fifty each. Okay?" "Where?" "Back there." He pointed toward Eighth Avenue, "'bout four blocks. Wanna? Justin sucks." In other words, he might not look so great but he provides good service. "And you?" "Unh uh, just him. You can suck me if you want." The hotel was a dive six blocks away, south on Tenth Avenue. The boys scooted in behind me as I paid, straight to the elevator. The desk clerk acted as though he hadn't noticed. The fifteen dollars was just for three hours. The water in the shower the three of us squeezed into was only lukewarm. Neither had a particularly great body though Justin had a fine pair of buns and a decent sized dong. I washed them, then, by default, myself as they dried. "Stay in here," I ordered as they headed out for the bedroom. I'd left my pants on the bed. Jake, the long hair, poked Justin in the ribs. Both smiled. They'd been found out. Justin, who spoke with an accent from somewhere other than New York, possibly farther south, wanted to get right to the main event. "One at a time," I said grinning. He played with my cock, probably getting me hot enough that the blow job would be quick. Jake liked being blown. He could hardly keep still. His legs opened and closed repeatedly. His hands cautiously held and released my head. When he was about to cum, he began thrusting violently. The actual orgasm wasn't all that strong. The room hadn't any forced ventilation. Jake was covered with sweat. Even his belly was damp. He'd enjoyed it possibly more than me. Justin's fellating was average but effective though he insisted I pull out of his mouth before getting off. I tugged him around to get at his still flaccid organ. It hardened quickly in my mouth. Within seconds, he was pumping forcefully, his full buns flexing with each thrust. I willed myself to hold off climax in an attempt to get him to fruition first. Suddenly, he rolled us over until he was on top slamming into my face. He wrapped his arms around my rear and bounced his head up and down on me. I had to let go of his ass and use my hands to lessen the impact of his mouth fucking. He was a strong boy. A few minutes later, I could no longer hold back my orgasm. When I tried to lift his head off my cock, I found his arms were trapped under me. I quickly lifted my middle but he didn't let go. I gushed into his mouth just as he too came. He coughed, spitting sperm into my hairs, as he climaxed long and hard, the heavy pulsing going on for at least a minute. Even though I'd kept my butt in the air to release his arms, his mouth stayed on my cock until his feeling subsided. When he did get off me, he dripped cum on my middle then spit softly into his hand a couple of times without a comment while his buddy laughed. In the shower, with my pants on the toilet, I washed him off again then gave him a hug which he, unexpectedly, returned. The whole thing including showers barely took thirty minutes. There'd hardly been any conversation so I learned little about them, just that they were on `Forty-Two' several times a week. I let them leave ahead of me then, sated, walked in the direction of home thinking about Justin's hug. Was this homely boy worth pursuing? Affection was in fact more important to me than looks. Jamie hadn't been anything special with those twig limbs and protruding ribs but I'd fallen in love with him. I looked forward to meeting Justin again and learning more about him. Perhaps we could eat together at an inexpensive area restaurant. Another thought was the use of that hotel rather than my apartment. Fifteen dollars was well within my means. My date with Estiven and friends wasn't until six, so rather than return home for the salad lunch I'd planned, I turned toward Broadway and tried the food at a cheap Forty-Second Street steak house on the far side of the Square from boy land. The food was surprisingly good for the price, a tasty half pound steak, an excellent baked potato with sour cream, a simple salad and a chocolate pudding desert I ate with the garlic bread, a different combination, but tasty. Don't knock it until you've tried it. On an impulse, I went back to the games parlor in hopes of finding the informative man. There were three men inside with boys, and another looking at the merchandise, none the individual sought. I was hustled by two different boys to both of whom I gave fifty cents, half of what they requested. The one was quite cute but for another day. Then, halfway up Forty Second Street toward Eighth Avenue, I was confronted by two light haired kids I'd seen there before, this time towing along what appeared to be a seven or eight year old. It was too much to pass by. I slowed and looked. The eldest, probably thirteen and entering puberty, nodded at me to keep walking. They'd follow. A little farther down the street, I looked back and saw them strolling well behind me. When I waited at the corner, the same boy raised his chin for me to cross over the avenue and keep going. We ended up going all the way to Tenth Avenue. They were sure a lot more cautious than any of the others I'd met. Was the Square finally under surveillance? In a heavy Brooklyn accent, the boy advised me that Willy, the little one, would "suck you off for three. You wanna do us, that's more. You gotta place?" The three of them weren't filthy but apparently hadn't bathed recently. Willy, probably a small nine year old rather than younger, had dirt behind his ears. It seemed like a good time to use the hotel a few blocks down. As we approached it, I instructed them to do the same as the previous pair and hustle on past me to the elevator while I paid the clerk. It went exactly as earlier with the clerk not even looking at the kids as they scurried on by. What was somewhat disconcerting was the older man and the young prostitute who got off the elevator we were about to board. "Naughty, naughty," muttered the young lady with mock disparagement. She couldn't have been a day over sixteen. Since I'd already showered and the four of us wouldn't have fit anyway, I suggested they take a bath. Only Frankie, the eldest, was wearing socks but that didn't prevent his feet from stinking as bad as the others. I opened the window while looking over my shoulder at the bodies being uncovered. Frankie was definitely growing. There was a tuft of hair over what probably would grow to better than four inches when erect. The middle boy, shy about allowing me to see up front, was chastised by Frankie and told to turn around when he saw me looking. Nothing spectacular there. The youngest didn't seem to care what I saw, even ignored me as he dropped his clothes where he'd removed them and casually walked into the bathroom. The all too brief turn my way barely displayed anything. None were particularly endowed in the back. While asking about each, I washed everyone's back and Willy's ears and neck. They were from Brooklyn, all in school though the two older behind by two grades. Sean, the middle boy was twelve and made it clear, "I can wash my ass," as my hand went to his lower back. Willy, who claimed to be ten, raised his arms and turned around when I finished his back. So, I scrubbed the rest of him, neck to two inch erection, finally stooping to wash the legs he raised individually. When that was done, he turned around again, arms out, so I scoured out his rear end, my finger caressing rather than scrubbing his anus. Sean frowned. Frankie had his eyes closed as he washed his long, well over the eyes, hair. The little one had a crew cut. On top of the bed while I was undressing, Frankie humped a giggling Willy from behind while Sean sat arms and legs crossed watching them with his pasted on frown. I decided to do Frankie first in hopes of injecting a little passion into sour puss. The thirteen year old wanted to go last. Willy, lying on his tummy, chin in hand said, "Do Sean first. He likes it." It sounded more like a taunt than a statement of fact. Nonetheless, without a word, which was not unusual since he'd only said a few since I'd met the group, Sean slid down and did the Forty-Second Street stretch. It took a while to get his two and a half inches erect. An attempt to finger his perineum and balls was greeted with slammed shut legs and my hand being pushed away. Obviously, Sean did not like it so, after a few ups and downs, I stopped and said, "That was powerful! The girls are really gonna like you." Surprised, Sean at first looked puzzled then nodded agreement, even gave me a half a smile of appreciation. I hoped to speak to him apart and counsel that he let the others go alone next time. The problem was that among the three fairly ordinary faces, his was the best. I suspected that was why Frankie dragged him along. Frankie said, "Willy's next," then ordered the little one, "Blow him." It's far from certain that Willy liked doing what he did but he was energetic about it. Lying belly down between my legs, one arm under himself, the other hand gripping the base of my cock, he immediately began moving his mouth rapidly up and down the top half, all his little mouth could swallow. His head wobbled all over, sucking hard on the tip each time he got there, his teeth occasionally scraping me. As he worked, Frankie whispered in my ear, "Let me fuck you." I'd wanted to savor the sweet young liquid kids at his stage of growth spurted but decided to be amenable. I rolled Willy and myself onto our sides. Using spit as a lubricant, Frankie plunged in, fucking nearly as rapidly as Willy was sucking. The effect was very predictable. Within minutes, even with the irritation of sharp teeth, I shot my load into Willy's little mouth. It didn't seem to bother him at all. He kept on going until I grabbed his head and held it in place halfway down. The moment I let him up, he flipped around, mouth empty, with, "Now do me." His dick was as stiff as Sean's wasn't. At probably less than two inches, not much blood was required to raise it up, hard as a railroad spike. He banged into my mouth as fast as he'd fellated me. Frankie, apparently not liking our current positions, urged Willy to "Hurry up." The encouragement wasn't necessary. Willy fired off in less than a minute then asked that I do him again. Frankie insisted with words, "Get flat, Get flat." and his hands that I lay on my stomach. Willy squeezed under my face. Frankie fucked hard and fast, beating Willy to orgasm, but not by much. While Frankie and Willy went back for a second shower, I spoke to Sean. "Sean, if you don't like this, just tell `em you got a stomach ache or just stay home." "Frankie's my brother. I can't. He makes me." That was sad. "And Willy?" "He's my cousin but he likes it. I don' know why I gotta go too." I grilled him gently on why he was behind in school ("I don' like school."), how things were in the house ("Okay except mom's always mad about something."), what his father did for work ("Ain't got one, just a uncle gives us money sometimes."). "How come you don't like school?" "I don' unnerstand an' they get mad all the time." He sounded more like an unhappy nine year old than a boy on the cusp of puberty. "When's your birthday?" "You gonna buy me somethin'?" "No, I'm just curious when it is." He thought for a moment then said, "Next year I think." That blew the twelve year old claim. He was probably a year or so younger. Was this a boy I could be involved long term with? He seemed lonely, in need of someone to guide him. I asked, "How much is seven plus six?" More thinking then, "Eleven?" "Three plus seven?" Fidgiting. "How come you're askin' that? You a teacher?" "No, just curious. Three plus seven." "Six." So there it was. My little friend wasn't going to be a rocket scientist, possibly didn't go to school at all. I paid for services rendered, got another hug from Willy and a curious look from Sean, agreed to keep an eye out for them on the Square, and sent them on their way ahead of me. Once again, the desk clerk, at the time engrossed with a tabloid laid across the counter, ignored me as I left. Estiven was half an hour late but what he brought with him made up for it. No Manuel but two very good looking kids, one actually beautiful. He didn't apologize for his tardiness, just asked if he should walk up to my house with me or let me go first so the door would be open. I asked about Manuel. "He got a date with this other guy gonna take him somewhere. Anyway, I got Tommy and Martin and they're good too." After another long look, I went ahead of them. For some reason, Walter McNally's words came back to me. They were the hidden motivation behind my desire for a single special boy but as I walked with three boys behind, five bedded before that afternoon and another pair the night before, ten boys in twenty-four hours, that persistent cloud of guilt again seeped into my brain. I was in no way being of any help to the bevy of callboys I was bedding though there probably were some who could surely benefit from it. Sean that afternoon was being used by his brother, forcing him into sexual acts he disliked. Would that affect him when he grew up as many claimed. Plus, he was two grades behind or worse, partly because he wasn't very bright but also due to a complete lack of adult concern and help. Apart from troubled hustlers, there was Juan Carlos, a boy likely to grow up as a dangerous criminal. His mother had lost control of him at the early age of nine. And he seemed to be at least above average intellectually. There'd probably not be any sex with a Sean or Juan Carlos but was I permitted to let that get in the way of being the difference in their futures? Why not someone like Justin who really enjoyed sex? Rationalizations crept in to partially disperse the dark clouds. By going with many, I was seeking the boy for whom I could be the most help, create the greatest change in his future as well as those he'd affect throughout his life. I cursed my weakness for sex with boys, for the constant drive to seek new partners, new experiences, new bodies, numbers. Why couldn't I have been born into a more morally strict culture than the one back home? Was I hopelessly unable to change? There was no doubt that Ned was addicted to numbers, the pursuit of more and more different boys. What if the political climate changed back there or across the country? Could he stop or slow down if needed? Could I? Moral concerns evaporated when the three boys, two new and pretty, none displaying the slightest timidity, came through my door. Clothes flew as Estiven led them to my huge shower. The one named Tommy, whom I guessed to be about eleven or twelve, had a gorgeous butt to match his attractive face. The star, though, was Martin, about ten, with unblemished, smooth brown flesh and a BL's dream body, at least mine: a great full torso with strong legs, bulbous buns, a nice cock and a beautiful face with active, sparkling eyes that augured intelligence. Uninvited, I joined them. Tommy, smiling broadly, welcomed me with soapy hands that began washing me at the neck. I was in the hands of true professionals. Estiven had said they were as good as Manuel who did everything but rim and loved it. But where Manuel was probably gay, these two acted like normal hetero boys, well, other than Tommy lathering up my dick and balls. But, not knowing what a boy might do on top of the mattress was always one of the seductive mysteries with new ones. The mist of uncertainty was somewhat parted when Estiven whispered into my ear as we dried that Tommy didn't mind getting screwed. Actually, he said fuck. I'm trying to be delicate. What I looked forward to was embracing and caressing Martin's sumptuous body. On the other hand, fondling the great ass on Tommy, better still pushing my cock between those mountainous cheeks and inside, was just as enticing. I knew from before what Estiven wanted, the same as Sean's abusive brother, my ass. Martin, however, just lay on his back and played with himself. I slid in beside him and took over. His skin was as silky smooth as it appeared. The penis I took hold of was promptly hard as mahogany and the same color. He slowly pushed his hips up as I ran a finger under his balls right down between his legs on each downward stroke. I put an arm under his neck and gently pulled his far shoulder toward me. There was no resistance. He allowed chest to chest contact keeping his middle twisted back so the masturbation could continue. I kissed his cheek. He turned his face into my neck. This was as close as I was going to get. After my second peck, he pushed my head downward. Rather than go right for the gold, I experimented. Lots of boys are very erotically excited by tender sucking on their neck. Though he kept his chin down at first, his head went straight back the second time I ran my tongue across his immature Adam's apple, around and up to the bottom of his jaw. It raised my cock to full staff. After thoroughly licking and sucking his throat side to side, jaw to chest bone, I nudged his right arm up, then went into another frequently exciting area, his armpit, and sucked and licked there. As with his neck, he raised his arm higher, eventually pressing my head inward for greater contact. From there, I moved across his chest, sucking tits as I passed them, to the other side. I didn't have to touch it for him to raise his left arm. Finally leaving saliva tracks chin to belly, I licked my way down to his groin where, rather than touch his waiting stone hard cock, I went down between his legs, licking the inside of his thighs, along his perineum then sucked in his little boy balls in their wonderfully loose sack. But, passion overrode the feelings I was providing. He tugged my head up to his cock. Sucking slowly to avoid a premature end to my erotic journey with this sweet boy, I slipped his dick under my tongue and took in his balls, revolving my head to spread the joy around. He put his hands lightly on my hair and followed it around while indicating he wanted up and down. As I sucked, I pushed my cock into his side and pumped away without any attempt on his part to stop me. Happily, that took more time than I anticipated. When the end neared, he was pumping hard up into my mouth. Who says ten year olds can't enjoy sex? His climax was strong and prolonged. When I turned around and gave him a hug, he returned it. That's when I saw Estiven on top of Tommy slowly pumping in and out though I wasn't sure if he was actually inside him or just between his legs. Estiven caught my concern and raised up showing that he'd only been going the intercrural route. I was still going to be penetrated while I was doing the same to Tommy, hopefully. Seeing me free, Tommy crawled over Martin right up on top of my chest, immediately planting an open mouthed, tongue extended kiss while reaching for my erection and fondling it. A few minutes later while sucking on my tongue, almost pulling it out of its anchorage, he pushed my dong up between his legs and clamped it in, humping his dick into my gut, giving mine a thigh massage at the same time. Had it been wet and slippery back there, I'd have shot all over him. From there I turned us around in hopes of a sixty-nine. His cock was delicious but mine was only massaged until Estiven tugged Tommy's head up and over me. I felt a little guilty but the blow job was far too good to stop him. It was so good, I worried I wouldn't get a chance to explore his innards. I breathed hard between lip dips and stayed as relaxed as possible. It worked. Tommy patted me on the temple and pointed at his backside. I gave his cock a farewell tongue and lip massage then sat up and went into the side table for the KY. Tommy rolled over and poked his ass up in the air. I lay in a layer of sexual lubricant. Up on my knees, I pulled him to the required level and put my saliva covered organ at his anus. Ease of entry pointed to repeated use of that orifice. He moved his hips side to side, sloshing my cock around inside his rectum and likely his little prostate. Reaching under I found his penis still as bloated as it had been inside my mouth. Slow fucking along with his gyrations sent wonderful sensations throughout my middle but that wasn't going to last very long. Estiven whispered into my ear again. "Lay down so I can do it too." Straddling me this time, staying up on his extended arms, Estiven went straight to my hole and shoved inside, immediately thrusting fast and hard. He too had made use of the KY. With that going on behind, it took little effort on my part to keep myself on the edge of the extreme high of orgasm. Martin, probably turned on by the visual eroticism walked on his knees over Tommy's head and pushed his hard on at my face. It was slightly uncomfortable bending my neck at a forty-five degree angle but, fortunately, Martin did all the work, thrusting into my mouth with those beautiful hips of his. I reached back with one hand and cupped a flexing bun. I came first, soaking Tommy's inside with my gushing emissions. Martin, confirming the ability of the young to climax time after time, came next, hugging my head to his groin while he had that long orgasm of his. Estiven took a while longer making me suspect he had been inside Tommy earlier but he too eventually throbbed inside me. Since there'd been no time to talk before the action began, I invited them to have something to eat. There were four different kinds of cereal, eggs, ham, cheese, bread, various fruits and salad type veggies. Tommy wanted eggs and added cheese to make an omelet which Estiven decided he liked as well, so convinced Tommy to make another which he did with some skill. They looked so good, I asked him to make me one too. He liked that and added an extra egg since I was bigger. Martin preferred Cheerios. Interrogations were easy. The three lived together with Martin's mother and sister in a project up on One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Street in upper Manhattan. Estiven's mother had run off with another man leaving him and his two little brothers outside the door of Martin's mother's apartment. He had no idea who his or his little brother's fathers had been, just, since his little brothers looked nothing like him, that there had been more than one. After a drug arrest, Tommy's mother had jumped bail and gone back to Puerto Rico. Her husband, not wanting to care for her brood of four alone, took off the same day leaving Martin's mother with an additional boy, two younger girls and their baby brother. An uncle stayed with them occasionally, contributing money while he was there. Tommy's eighteen year old half brother lived with them and, along with Martin's mother, who worked in a nearby store, brought in just enough income to eat. Estiven admitted he really wasn't going to school because Teresa Santos, Martin's mother, with three children by another absentee father who paid no child support, just couldn't afford it and, after all, he wasn't hers. More important, there were twelve mouths to feed. Tommy Porres, eleven, was in fourth grade after failing first, mostly for erratic attendance. Martin, ten, was in fourth also but in a different class. He claimed very high grades while Tommy said only that he was passing. Estiven Miranda had been in fifth when his mother left him. I asked them individually a series of math problems. Tommy, surprisingly enough was the best at solving a problem involving a cross country drive and three operations. Martin at least figured out what he'd done. Estiven never understood. Questions about what they did all week brought out significantly diverging interests and goals. Estiven wanted to be a taxi driver and liked to hang around auto shops. Tommy preferred comic books and swimming and just wanted a job someday. The biggest surprise of all was Martin's love of reading but doing so up on the roof of their project or anywhere he could be alone. He wanted to be a teacher. When I asked about sports, only Estiven professed interest, mostly in playing basketball. Possibly because there was a TV to watch, they, actually Estiven, the boss, decided they would spend the night. Tommy argued briefly in Spanish. When I insisted on a translation, Estiven admitted Tommy had a date. Estiven asked if he could use my telephone. He called the date and told him Tommy was sick but maybe he could see him the next day. That got worked out and I was able to get off again. By the time they left Sunday mid morning, I was sure I had my special boy in Martin and saw no problem with the others tagging along, especially Tommy with that great backside of his. Martin and I both loved to read, and, he wanted to be a teacher. It was highly unlikely his mother had the resources to get him through high school. I could provide whatever he needed and the guidance and academic help he might require to go all the way through college. Still, by four in the afternoon, I couldn't resist the draw of Times Square. There I picked up two new boys and took them to the accommodating hotel. Their Forty-Second Street stretches didn't satisfy my lust so I found another single with a nice face who gave me a hand job for an extra dollar After leaving the last boy at Tenth Avenue and Forty-Second Street, you'd think I'd be physically if not emotionally satisfied, but, on reaching Forty-Third Street, I turned right and headed back toward the Square coming out above the games parlor. It was full, including a few men, none the one I'd been hoping to find. The games hustler was there with a mark in a dress shirt and tie. Two of the `stretch' boys I'd had before were there but far too involved with racking up points on a pinball machine to notice my passing. Since no one inside showed any interest in me, I went back out to the street and turned up Forty-Second. One of a pair of gaudily dressed, clearly gay teens pursed his lips at me. Another single teen nodded my way. I smiled at each but didn't slow. What I was seeking was in front of a porn shop, his attention flitting between something inside and up the sidewalk. My approach switched that attention to business. He was cute, white, and no more then eleven, an age one generally encountered with a friend. He gave a great blow job for three dollars from a sixty-nine position but squirmed more than usual, that because he was trying to get hold of my pants on the floor beside the bed, a trick a few of the kids had tried but never successfully. The moment I realized what he was up to, I pulled him on top of me. No sense losing his competent lips due to his incompetent thieving ability. His punishment was a mouthful of unexpected sperm which he promptly spit all over my mid section. "You were supposed to say before!" he exclaimed with cum dripping out of his mouth and nose. "You weren't supposed to try to rob me," I replied with a smile. "I din't steal nothin'." I dragged him to me by the arm. I think he expected me to smack him because he ducked his head and tried to get away until I put my arms around him and said, "Don't worry. I'm not gonna do anything but talk." He folded his arms across his bare belly. "Stealing from customers is bad business. A lot of the men know each other," I guessed. "Word gets out that you're a thief and you're gonna lose more than you might steal. Now, go wash your mouth out." He yanked loose and marched into the bathroom. I heard him gargle several times. I gave him an extra quarter to buy some breath mints. He didn't thank me. When I got back to Forty-Two for one last look inside the games parlor, my little would be thief was standing right where I'd found him. He frowned and looked away as I passed by. The man I sought still wasn't in the games shop. Monday, it was back to work. McLeary didn't show up, forcing me to unclog a toilet and repair a water leak in a wreck of an apartment on Ninth Avenue. As I may have mentioned, Ninth Avenue was principally Irish, my ancestors. They, as a group, were the most destructive of their living quarters, far more than any of the Latinos. The leak was under a kitchen sink. I had to continually brush off cockroaches. My plumber called in that night to tell me he'd taken a `mighty fall' down some stairs. The doctor at the hospital his wife drove him to had told him not to do anything with his injured arm and shoulder that week. Could I loan him some money to pay the medical bill? I did. By Wednesday, I was so agitated by the shit and garbage in clogged or damaged drains that, after a long shower, three times soaping up and scrubbing every inch of my body, I went back to Times Square hoping the boy I expected to get intimate with wasn't going to endure any unpleasant smells. I carried only twenty-five dollars with me, limiting myself to just one use of the hotel room. With school vacations in force, there was no disappointment in availabilities. I chose a pair of white boys, one a blond with a crew cut, and accepted their terms. Suck them: two fifty each. Suck me: additional dollar. Intercrural fucking: fifty cents more. Their specs. After a calm argument about who had sucked their last customer the previous Sunday, the blonde took on the task of sucking my cock from between my legs instead of head to groin as I preferred. That was because his friend wanted to get off again. He straddled my chest, presented his growing organ then fucked my mouth getting off ahead of me, mostly because, with all the violence in my face, it was hard to concentrate below. As also agreed, I shot my load into a wad of toilet paper. After another discussion, they decided I should meet them again Sunday afternoon at three in the Port Authority bus terminal near the ticket sellers. I promised to think about it. "Can you loan us two dollars? You can take it off what you pay us Sunday." "Sorry, only got enough for the subway and bus to get me home." They went out to hustle some more. I headed back to the games parlor. My man was there! "Hi. I didn't get a chance to thank you for keeping me from wasting my time and money on that kid." He gave me a strange look. "What kid? Do I know you?" He had a strong New York accent. "Remember that night I was giving that kid money for the machines and you told me he didn't go out with anybody?" He shook his head and walked quickly around the machines and out the door, probably certain I was a cop. `Good job, asshole' I grumbled to myself. A sweet upturned face broke into my self debasement. "Got a quarter?" One came automatically out of my pocket. "You wan' me to go wif you after I play thith game?" He had a nasty lisp, not the gay kind, the speech impediment type. With insufficient money for the hotel or even the sex, I told him, "Just spent most of what I got." "We can go to yer houth." He wasn't from New York but not from down my way either. It was tempting. Dark had fallen but, still, someone was sure to see him, with his unknown face, go down my stairs and inside. But, would they care? No one had said anything about the others or even seemed to notice. And, he was a nice looking kid, no more than twelve, longish brown hair, appealing eyes and, from what I could see under his red and green striped jersey, had a tough little body. But, but... "Maybe tomorrow or Friday." He leaned into me and said as softly as was possible for me to hear with the racket of all the machine and shouting by winners and losers, "I don't got no playth to thleep tonight. My mom's all pithed off. I go home tonight an' she gonna beat the shit outta me." "Where you live?" "Brooklyn. Let me go wif you. I can do `tuff but ev'rybody's saying they don' wanna. Pleath, I don't wanna thleep in a alley or nothin'. Cop might get me." He won. He spent his quarter on the claw machine, coming up with air. When we got back into the better lighting of my apartment, the dirt around his neck was apparent. He happily accepted a suggestion to bathe. "You can come in to," he informed as he pulled his jersey over his head. He did have a nice body with tight little pectorals. His cock and ass weren't as interesting. In the shower, half expecting a blow job, I found he only planned to wash me which he did, all over, but not showing any special attention to my more sensitive parts though he did he did use a finger to clean my butt hole. "Can I eat thomething' before we get inta bed?" I made him a sandwich which he devoured casually. As he chewed, I inquired, "Where do you live, really, on the street?" He examined his sandwich before swallowing and replying, "Not all that much. Just thome timeth but I'm gonna go home tomorrow, promith." "You go to school?" "Uh huh, but it's thtill vacation. I'm in third grade." His age? "I'm thirteen, jutht little is all." In bed, the stuff he promised consisted of affectionate kissing and masturbation. When that didn't work, I convinced him to let me lather up his thighs and perineum and screw him between the legs. He insisted on it being done from the front. It was still nice. He was asleep before I could get him off with my lips. Waking him up at 7AM was difficult. Once I'd gotten him to his feet, he walked on the wrong side of the bathroom door and bumped into the wall just like in a Red Skelton skit (How's that for showing my age?). Stiffling my laughter, I guided him into the shower and held onto him while getting the water warm. Bathing woke him up. I felt sorry after breakfast getting him on his way, but there were calls to be made, employees to be directed to jobs and then leave for work myself. An uptown agent had window repairs that needed to be done; not the glass, the whole window. Rather than take the generally preferred subway, I drove the pickup since it was probably going to be necessary to buy lumber if not a whole new window assembly. The lady of the premises had three beautiful sons between about five and ten years old. The eldest, another Martin, wanted to help. When he climbed up on my stepladder, one foot above the other, I noticed he wasn't wearing anything under his shorts. The repair took longer than it should have as I tried to engineer things he could do that would expose his fine cock and balls. Toward the end, I gave him a hug which he returned with greater fervor than expected. I had to keep reminding myself not to be tempted by boys in the apartments of my only customer. I still gave him a dollar. Friday evening I went through four boys in three trips to the short time hotel, none of whom did anything to me, though one named Dudley, twelve, from New Jersey, got kind of crazy as he closed in on climax. I'd be looking for him again. I was going through money like popcorn. Saturday after lunch, a shower and a visit to an Eighth Avenue supermarket to stock up for my all night guests, I bumped into Jake and Justin, the latter, along with very pleasant petting, again providing another great, if erratic, blow job. Temporarily without horns, I went to a movie, El Cid starring Charlton Heston. I imagined what it would be like if the Cid could have the same privileges with young boys. It was five thirty when I got out. Estiven and Tommy were in the games parlor without Martin. "He hadda stay home and watch kids `cause his mother gotta work late but he's gonna come to your house when she gets home." "She's gonna let him go out late and stay away until tomorrow?" "Sure. He's gonna tell `er he's gonna go to William's house and sleep. She don't care `cause she thinks we're there too and she ain't gotta spend no food on us." We stopped at Nathan's for foot long hot dogs, theirs covered with every sauce and relish available. I made do with mustard. Rather than buy drinks there, we went across the street to an orange juice emporium for large cupfuls. All was consumed by the time we got home. Martin showed up at a few minutes after ten. Bedtime was again very fulfilling. Martin allowed a few lips to lips kisses but with a closed mouth. Tommy was more forthcoming with his oral action, both up and down. Fucking him with Estiven pumping away inside me was as good as the first time. Best of all, Martin cuddled up when I put an arm under his head. I was still awake when Estiven got his rocks off a second time inside Tommy who appeared to sleep through it. In the morning, with Martin still in my arms, we lay around the bed talking about their lives, hopes and dreams. Estiven still wanted to be a mechanic but on subway trains. Tommy wasn't sure if he should drive a subway train or be a fireman. "Firemen make good money," he commented with arms behind his head, "This one man lives in Queens is one and he gots a really nice house with a television and a car." Martin had the same goal of becoming a teacher but thought maybe in high school instead of primary grades. "The kids in my school only wanna play around and bother people. Most of `em don't do homework. I do and it's why I get better grades than those schmucks." The last word initiated a debate regarding from whom Martin learned it. "It was that guy down by Fourteenth gots them statues of naked boys," argued Estiven. Tommy was sure it was a `jew' who took them to a hotel on the Eastside "where they gots a swimming pool and everybody's naked." "That's the YMCA, stupid," interjected Estiven. "Nah, remember that guy from Jersey takes us to his friend's house up by the park? He calls everybody a schmuck, even me sometimes." "What do you think it means?" I asked. "Stupid," replied Estiven first. "Unh uh," disagreed Martin. "It means lots a things like doing something stupid or..." "That's what I said," interrupted Estiven. "Unh uh. You said it was somebody was stupid. You do stupid things and you ain't stupid, not all the time." "Like you!" I changed the subject. "You guys ready to go back to school after Labor Day?" It was only a week and a half away. While Estiven was unhappy about it because it would leave him alone most of the day, he did look forward to making a lot of money hustling over the holiday weekend. "I'm gonna buy me a transistor radio." "If I buy the things you need, will you go back to school?" I asked him. He stared at me for a moment. Martin encouraged, "Shit, do it, stupid." Estiven pursed his lips then said, "They ain't gonna let me. I'm only in third grade and I'm gonna be fourteen." That was one or two grades lower then he'd told me a couple of weeks before. "Anyway, if Aunt Teresa finds out a man's buying me stuff, she's gonna know we're hustling." "Can't you say you were working, like odd jobs or something?" I suggested. Martin explained. "There was this man come to the house last year and this other kid knew him and told this other kid he was a fag and he told his mother and she told my mother. She was really pissed. We couldn't go nowhere for a month. She'll know." That was disheartening. I'd hoped to connect with Martin's mother so I could help him in a significant way. "Let me think about that. Maybe I can figure something out." "They still ain't gonna let me back in." While Tommy was resigned to his loss of freedom, Martin looked forward to fifth grade and a teacher he admired. "She gets you all kinds a books about different stuff like science and all. And she likes me." "Why's that?" I inquired. "She says I'm smart and she likes my eyes." He grinned. "I do too, both things, smart and eyes." He cuddled tighter into me. To make some extra cash, Estiven suggested Tommy show me some "other ways he can fuck you". The `other ways' I'd already done with a number of boys back home but it was good anyway. At first, he sat on me, wiggled around then bounced up and down for a while. "Tell me if you're gonna cum. I'll stop so we can do some more." I got the impression he was proud of his anal skills. Unfortunately, he was much too skilled and I said stop way too late. Even sitting still, I unloaded into him. We agreed he'd show me more next time. He must have really satisfied my lust because it was easy to resist the urge to go cruising for the rest of the day. Around six while I was sitting on the stoop of my building in the not so fresh but open air reading a book, Juan Carlos, the boy from the broken sink apartment passed by and nodded at me. I smiled. When he came back, he stopped at the foot of the stairs, leaned against the railing and asked, "How come you yelled at me that day?" "You mean when you bad mouthed your mother in front of everybody?" That produced a frown, silence and a sullen departure.