Good Guys Don't Date Bad Boys – Ch. 4
By Laura S. Fox
Copyright © 2021 Laura S. Fox
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Gay Erotica
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Chapter Four – Jonathan
Hamilton Is (Not) An Easy Lay
"I'm so freaking
excited." Ray bounced up and down as they joined the other students pouring
like a stream toward the same destination. "Man, you look amazing," he
commended Jonathan.
After some deliberation
and many of Ray's exclamations regarding his wardrobe, Jonathan had settled for
a burgundy shirt and charcoal grey pants. While Ray had asked him at least a
thousand times if he didn't think that was too formal for a college party, he
had acquiesced to leaving a couple of buttons open in front and rolling up his
sleeves up to his elbows, and that had finally agreed with his roommate's
insistence that he should let go a little.
It was true that he did
look a bit out of place among the other young men and women who seemed to have
opted mostly for jeans and short skirts, but Jonathan had no intention to
pretend he was someone else. Not this year, and not ever again.
"So many pretty girls,"
Ray said and swooned exaggeratedly. Then he grabbed Jonathan by the arm and
leaned against him. "Should we do that guessing game?"
"I hate to break it to
you, buddy, but everyone is well aware now that I'm gay," Jonathan said in an
apologetic voice.
"It wasn't me who said
it," Ray replied.
"I know. And don't you
worry. I've never had the intention of keeping it a secret. This way, I can
openly pursue someone without leaving room for interpretations."
"We could still ask them
if they think I'm gay or not, but I don't think it will have the same impact,"
Ray said mournfully.
"I'm afraid I'm not as
good a wingman as you imagined I would be," Jonathan offered.
"I heard Connor is going
to be here," Ray said in a conspiratorial voice.
Everyone appeared to be
there, so that wasn't news, but he didn't want to deter Ray from his desire to
help him. The problem was that he hadn't thought of Connor almost at all,
although he had wished to do so with every cell in his body. Unfortunately for
him, his body kept remembering quite often of another student attending Sunny Hill,
who was everything Connor wasn't.
Straight.
Unavailable.
And hot.
Jonathan hated himself to
the extreme for being so superficial. He needed to grab the reins and do the
right thing. Even if he didn't care for Connor, he would at least talk to him
if he were there at the party. Anything was better than having wide-eyed – and
closed-eyed – dreams about Maddox and his perfect body. The guy was muscular
but not in a heavy way like his friend Dex, and the
way he moved was enough proof that he knew how to use his body, and by that,
yes, Jonathan meant using it inside the bedroom, between the sheets, with
someone under or on top of him.
"That's good to know," he
told Ray. "I'll try talking to him, see if we could start again, this time on
the right foot."
"Wait, do you mean you
got into a fight with Connor, too?"
Jonathan hadn't had the
heart to tell his roommate that Connor had proven quite unsociable toward him
before the peace was declared between him and Maddox. "No, nothing of the kind,
but we had a very short conversation which didn't give us the chance to know
each other."
"Well, once we're in
there, if you see him, you don't have to mind me. Go talk to him. I'll be fine
on my own."
Jonathan didn't feel
enthusiastic in the least about the prospect, but he needed to deal with his
absurd fascination with the ultimate catch on campus. Maddox was out of reach,
and since Jonathan wasn't female, he had absolutely no chances with the guy.
***
Besides being an ass man,
Maddox had never been particularly pretentious about the girls he kept hooking
up with. Relationships and dating, he had done too little of that to matter.
Therefore, his constant, no matter how polite, refusal to strike conversations
with people of the opposite sex, conversations that could lead to some heated
action in one of the rooms upstairs, was starting to make him grow weary. The
girls who knew him not to be so fickle were getting bored quickly with him and
moving on to other guys, which didn't bother him at all.
Before the party died
down, he needed to decide on one of the many pretty girls who stole glances at
him in the hope that they would be noticed, or else, he had moved his ass to
this party for nothing.
The whole point was to
get laid with someone who didn't care about strings attached and all that.
Someone easy and fun who could make him forget about a particular pair of amber
eyes. Yeah, he had ended up so low that it was enough to think of the guy's
eyes, and he was getting a boner.
He was leaning against
the wall, sipping from his rum and coke, while examining everyone who came
inside. His friends were already mingling, and after teasing him a little about
waiting for his chosen one, they had left him to his musings. While Kane was
there to hang out with his lacrosse buddies, most of all, Dex
and Rusty had already found some girls to have fun with, and they were nowhere
in sight.
Heads began turning, and
people started whispering, so Maddox craned his neck to see what the commotion
was all about. He bit back a curse when he saw who the new star was, making an
entrance right now. Jonathan looked perfect, in a shirt the color of dark wine
or something like that, which he wore casually, letting slightly sinewy
forearms and a bit of chest show. Someone was hanging from his arm, and Jonathan
was leaning toward that person, laughing in a carefree manner, his eyes all
twinkling.
Maddox made an extra
effort to see who that was. His eyebrows shot up when he noticed that boy who
was always with Jonathan around the campus. What was his name? Ah, Ray...
something. He had quickly learned that the boy was Jonathan's roommate, but as
much as Maddox kept racking his brain, he couldn't recall if there had been any
mentions of him being gay or not. Were they together? Jonathan certainly seemed
to be enjoying himself. Now that was a letdown.
Well, why the hell was a
letdown? For all he knew, Jonathan could have a boyfriend or more. Or he could
play the field, seeing how that day, he had unsuccessfully tried to get with
Connor, who was also openly gay.
The thing was, he knew
nothing about the guy. During their project get-together, they had only talked
about what they would do for it, and nothing personal. Jonathan's private life
seemed to have tighter security than Fort Knox, and the most experienced gossipers
on campus had so far come up with nothing, no matter how all perked up his ears
had been to catch the slightest whiff of information on the topic.
But a guy like that had
to get his rocks off somehow, right? That tall, lean and muscular body had to
know all the ropes of horizontal cha-cha, and now that he looked at him more,
Maddox was pretty sure he would be great as a top, too. Still, he kept to his
guess that Jonathan was at least versatile because there was no way gay dudes
getting it on with him could ignore that fantastic view from behind.
Maddox examined
Jonathan's companion with a critical eye as Ray went to get some cups for the
both of them. Was that what made the new star on campus tick? Well, if he
stared long enough, maybe, just maybe, Ray what-was-his-last-name had a
somewhat twinkish charm. Nah, Maddox shook his head.
He was just too plain; no charm whatsoever.
But Jonathan's face lit
up again when Ray handed him a cup, and their heads moved closer as they talked
like there was no one else in the world. Maddox pursed his lips and turned on
his heels. There was no point in watching Jonathan Hamilton's love life being
played out in front of him while he sat there thinking of masturbating to him
for the umpteenth time since they met. On his way towards the main room, he
casually linked arms with a cute blonde girl who beamed at him in an instant.
See? Things could be simple, he
told himself. Only if you want them to be.
***
Except for Ray, Jonathan
didn't know anyone too well to do any actual hanging out, although many people
stopped by their side to greet them and exchange a few words. He hadn't
realized he was unconsciously looking for a certain someone until he noticed
his retreating back, as well as his right arm wrapped around a back on which
lovely blond curls bounced. So, Maddox was present, and he was already having
fun.
Jonathan stared into his
cup for a moment. He could always leave the drink somewhere and pretend he had
drunk it, but being part of college life meant that he needed to adapt, as
horrendous as the taste of that beverage was. With newfound courage, he took
another sip and decided that maybe he could just find a good moment to throw
away the dubious liquid as discreetly as possible.
"Hey, Jonathan," someone
called for him.
To be completely honest,
he was surprised to see Connor making his way through the throng of people to
get to him. Ray squeezed his shoulder quickly. "I'm off to make friends with
some other nerds like me. Have fun, JJ."
Jonathan wished Ray would
have stuck around some more, but soon he was face to face with Connor, so he
smiled politely. "Hey, Connor," he replied.
"Having fun?" the guy
asked him with a sly smile and pointed at his cup.
"Trying," Jonathan
offered.
"What?" Connor cupped his
ear, a sign that he could barely hear him over the loud music.
"I said --" He decided to
forget about trying to have a conversation in all that noise. Not only was the
music the problem, but all the cheering and hooting everyone was engaged in.
Connor smiled and wrapped
an arm around his shoulders. "Let's step outside," he shouted in his ear and
dragged him away.
***
After almost one hour of
listening to Connor, Jonathan had had it up to his ears and beyond with the
guy. At first, he had been polite and tried to follow his reasoning, but when
he attempted to offer a different point of view, Connor just cut his words
short and insisted on being right.
That made Jonathan regret
not drinking more when he had still had a chance. Maybe then enduring through
Connor's lecturing would have been a little more fun. However, his reserve of
politeness was starting to wear thin. The worst thing was that Connor didn't
even say anything interesting. He was a walking encyclopedia of random facts
and numbers, but he offered absolutely no new insight or what they meant. Even
worse, he sounded like the mouthpiece for opinions everyone who watched the
news already knew and quite repetitive after a while.
"I would love to stay and
chat some more," he took advantage of a small break in Connor's tirade, "but
I'm a stickler for schedules, and I'm past my bedtime."
That appeared to take
Connor a bit by surprise. He made a disappointed face. "Are you sure you cannot
make an exception? We barely scratched the surface. It's Saturday, after all."
"Yes, but I tend to turn
into a witch if I don't get my beauty sleep," Jonathan joked.
"Hmm." Connor didn't
appear in the least amused. "All right."
Finally, it was over,
Jonathan thought and closed his eyes for a second, which was, as it seemed, a
mistake, as the next moment he felt the guy's facial hair scratching his lips
in a weird attempt to kiss him. Jonathan pulled back before Connor managed to
launch his tongue action, which he seemed to have at the ready.
"Have fun," he said and
moved away steadily enough so that it didn't look like he hated that
completely.
"Sure. See you around,
Jonathan," Connor said. "I'd love to get to know you more."
And turn me into a drone that activates at the
sound of your voice, I bet.
Was he mean for no
reason? But no, the guy was pretty obnoxious, and it didn't matter whether he
was gay or not, out and proud, and all that. Jonathan couldn't stand a
narcissistic ass, and he liked to believe that he could tell one was that after
wasting an hour of his time listening to platitudes.
"Yeah, sure. Bye," he
waved and hurried down the street.
He wiped his mouth as
soon as he was far enough. Definitely, Connor was using something for his
beard, and now Jonathan was pretty sure he needed to get to his room as fast as
possible and wash his mouth for at least five minutes.
***
Maddox was fuming on the
inside. Not only had Jonathan let his boyfriend abandon him and mingle with
others, but now he was letting that monkey paw him like he was a banana tree in
need of saving? What kind of guy did stuff like that? He had thought he noticed
something that denounced absolute boredom in how Jonathan leaned against a
tree, his arms crossed, while Connor must have been droning about his
tree-hugging ad nauseam. For a moment there, while observing the duo from a
distance, he had thought of walking over and rescue Jonathan, but when Connor
had moved in for a kiss, Maddox had turned on his heels and walked back to the
party.
So, Jonathan Hamilton was
an easy lay. And Maddox surely had better things to do than sit there and watch
him get fucked against a tree or something kinky like that. He grabbed the girl
he had spent the last hour with by the hand, and she followed him happily
upstairs.
***
"Don't worry." She patted
his chest and forced a sympathetic smile. "I heard it can happen to everyone."
No, that was absolutely
terrifying. Maddox stared at the ceiling, searching for answers. So the girl
had been all over him, and he had felt the familiar tingle in the lower part of
his body, but as soon as he closed his eyes, all he saw behind his closed
eyelids was Jonathan, his stupid smile, his weird broad chest, his deformed
long legs, and big fucking ass!
And, being the good guy
that he wanted to think he was, he had tried to push that away so that he could
focus on the girl, her soft, smooth cheeks, her nice rack, and all her other
assets.
And then, it had
happened. His dick had died on him, not even caring to say a proper goodbye.
"Stress could be a
problem," she added, as clearly she was a nice person and trying to help. "Has
anything happened to you lately? Something, I don't know, to make you sad?"
"My dog died," he
mumbled.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," she
caressed his chest gently. "How old was he?"
"She," Maddox said with a
heartfelt sigh. "We've had her for twelve years."
Good thing he had a good
imagination. For the next ten minutes, the girl listened to him patiently while
he dished out everything on a dog he'd never had.
***
The girl had assured him
that her lips were sealed in regards to his little problem, so now he was back
to the party but not in the mood to stick around too long. His eyes fell on
Connor, who was with his usual cohort of disciples, talking animatedly and
waving his hands. He had been away for how long? Twenty minutes at best? Was
Connor done fucking Jonathan against the tree so quickly? He must have skipped
foreplay.
He made his way toward
the guy. "Hey, Connor," he called out. "Where is Jonathan?"
Connor waved. "He left
about twenty minutes ago. Something about needing his beauty sleep."
Maddox could feel his
cheeks hurting as his mouth stretched into an impossibly large grin.
Jonathan Hamilton was not
an easy lay.
That made him so happy he
could get a boner. No, he wasn't just saying. He could feel his best friend
returning from his trip to the land of the dead. Woot-woot, he was back in
business, baby!
"Would you like to join
us in a little debate?" Connor asked.
Maddox slapped the guy so
hard on the back that Connor almost lost his balance. "Another time, man. I
need to go shake hands with a friend I haven't seen in a while."
He walked away without
giving the other the option to interject anything else in their short yet
meaningful conversation.
***
"Why is everyone offering
you their condolences?" Kane questioned as they walked to their Monday classes
after another student stopped by their group and gave Maddox a long and
sympathetic hug. "Who died in your family? But, more importantly, why are we,
your best friends, the lasts to find out?"
"His dog died," Rusty
said with a long sigh. "Look, it says right here." He took out his phone and
showed Kane the latest headline on that digital rag pretending to present life
on campus as it was. Maddox seriously doubted there was one grain of truth in
the bunch of bullocks presented as the so-called truth in there.
"Rusty, Maddox doesn't
have a dog," Kane said slowly.
"Not anymore, he doesn't,
but he did," Rusty protested. "It says right here," he repeated.
So, the girl had only
kept her mouth shut partially. Well, it could be worse, Maddox concluded. The
title could have been `BMOC can't get it up because his dog died', so he needed
to be thankful for at least having the girl's sympathy regarding his little
problem. And this time, a grain of truth would have been in it.
"It's just a
misunderstanding, guys," Maddox said quickly.
"Misunderstanding, huh?" Dex observed him from the corner of one eye. "It's
incredible, however, how many details about your imaginary dog Xpress had
managed to create. It sounds like something you'd say about a dog you've never
had."
"I have no idea why they
say anything that's in there."
Kane wasn't buying it,
either, by how he stared at him like a disappointed grandma learning that her
grandson was lying about his bad grades. "Why are you letting everyone believe
it?"
"I can't just tell people
the truth. They would feel hurt," Maddox replied.
All right, so it wasn't
like he often lied, so it had to be a curse that the one time he did, it had
blown so out of proportion.
"So, just to be clear,
you don't have a dog?" Rusty asked.
"No, I don't," Maddox
replied. "But can you guys keep it between us?"
"Anything for my bro,"
Rusty promptly said.
"We'll cover your ass," Dex added.
"Sure thing. But boy, I
want to know what this is all about. This crush of yours is the worst I've ever
seen," Kane commented.
"There's no crush,"
Maddox protested. "You guys keep imagining things."
"Not worse than imagining
fake pets, though," Kane retorted.
So... his buddies were on
to him, and he was getting entangled in a bunch of lies. Things were looking
pretty bad, and he wasn't sure he could keep everything a secret from them. Not
for long, at least.
But what could he tell
them when he didn't even know what was happening to him? He had the biggest
boner ever for a dude. It didn't matter that the guy looked like he had been
sent to Sunny Hill to torture him specifically, given his good looks, sexy ass,
and prickly personality.
What mattered was that
Maddox was in it deep and had no idea how to solve it, whatever this thing was.
***
Ray sniffled and wiped
his tears with the back of his hand. Jonathan stared at him, baffled for a
couple of seconds. They were barely back from classes, and he had returned home
to find Ray like that.
"What's going on?" he
asked, trying hard to ignore the lump in his throat.
Ray sniffled some more,
and Jonathan barely had time to open his arms wide to welcome a very distraught
roommate to his chest. "...mm, died."
"What? Who died?" In the
split of a second, his thoughts turned to his family back home. He hadn't
spoken to them in four long months.
"Maddox's dog," Ray
barely managed and began crying again.
Jonathan breathed out.
"All right, that's quite sad," he said cautiously as he patted Ray's head. "But
why are you crying so much?"
Ray pointed at his phone,
abandoned on the table. "Xpress says that Maddox had her since they were both
babies, and that when he was five, she saved him from drowning. And then, when
he was seven, she saved him from a house on fire. And then, when he was ten,
she stood up all night, every night, while he had the flu, and everyone he
thought he was going to die!"
Jonathan bit his lips
hard to stifle a laugh. There was no way all that could be true. It had to be a
miracle that Maddox was still alive. The guy needed another dog pronto just to
make sure he didn't stumble over his own feet and fell to his death. He loved
Ray, but the amazingly gullible nature of his roommate was something else.
"Um," he cleared his
throat, "but she lived a long and happy life. Twenty years is quite impressive
for a dog."
"She died at twelve," Ray
replied and started crying again as if he just now realized how tragic it was
for a dog to die after twelve years of life when she was supposed to have lived
twenty.
All right, so he was
calling bullshit on that little piece in Xpress. That publication needed to be
eradicated like the virus that it was. It was infecting totally sane persons,
like Ray. Now, he would allow his roommate some space, but later, he would
explain to him some basic math. It would be painful, but it was worth it.
TBC
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