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Chapter 13: The Boys in Black and White Unisuits

After stopping for John’s groceries at Winco, Ben and John arrived back in Lynnwood just before 8 PM. Ben saw Nick’s Civic parked outside the house and thought maybe his dad’s surprise was bigger than he was expecting.

“Nick and Kelly are here for some reason. Is this good or bad news? Is Kelly pregnant already? The wedding isn’t for another two months. Who wants to get married when they are pregnant? I’m gonna be an uncle?” Ben sounded excited as he pulled his car into the driveway and put it in park.

“I doubt it’s that Ben, your mom said the surprise was for ‘us’, so unless your dad is expecting the both of us to get married before this kid is born we can rule that out. I’m sure you’ll make an awesome uncle one day though.” John chuckled and got out of the car.

As Ben opened the front door, his dad and Nick were on the couch drinking beer and Kelly and his mom were in the kitchen.

“Baby Bro Ben!” Nick immediately got up and gave him a hug. Nick might have been a  stockier, older version of Ben save for his much darker brown hair and beard, but they had the same pale blue eyes. “I haven’t seen you in months, hope you had a good trip.” Nick looked at John standing behind Ben. “Wow, when Ben was talking about you John, I honestly didn’t expect to feel so emasculated when we finally met.”

“Niiiiiiiiiiiiiick! How could you say something like that?” Kelly yelled from the kitchen.

“What? Look at him, Kelly! Bet he would have no trouble carrying that… '' Nick stopped himself mid-thought and took another sip of his beer and went to talk to his fiance in the kitchen.

Steven got up and greeted them as well. “Well, Nick almost ruined your guys’ surprise so we should get that over with first before he really does. Let’s all go upstairs to your room and see.”

Kelly got a closer look at Ben as they were going up the stairs and was shocked. “Wow, you’ve put on a fair bit of muscle since Christmas, Ben. I can see why Nick is starting to feel insecure.”

“Now you’re just saying that to punish me, Kelly. Ben’s always going to be my baby brother, no matter what you guys say.” Nick patted him on the shoulder as they got to the top of the stairs.

His dad and mom pushed Ben and John to the entrance of Ben’s room, the bins of his stuff from Colorado were now stacked against the wall and closet, and in the place of Ben’s twin bed was a larger full-size bed with brand new sheets, pillows, and a comforter.

Ben sniffled. “I don’t know what to say, you guys didn’t need to do this for us.”

Steven put his hand on Ben’s shoulder. “Your mom wanted to get you a queen size bed but I thought it wouldn’t fit in here and there wouldn’t be much room to move around. It was about time you got a new bed anyway, even when you were 16 it was getting small. It wasn’t just me, your mom and Kelly got you brand new sheets, Nick took apart the old bed by himself this morning. We had quite a time getting the new mattress up the stairs, I almost had to call Evan.”

Sofia stepped forward. “John, I hope this shows you that you have a second home here and you are welcome at any time.”

Kelly was holding something behind her back. “Ben, Nick and I got these for you too.” She held up two flags neatly folded in clear bags. “You have a Progress Pride flag and the Gay Men’s Flag. You can decide where you want to put them or if you want to put them up in your dorm.”

“Wow, thank you, I wasn’t expecting all this, it’s not even my birthday.” Ben quickly kissed John and they admired the new bed.

“Okay well, dinner’s getting cold, we couldn’t start without you guys.” Steven interrupted, trying to get everyone back downstairs.

John caught Ben before going back down. “Ben, I should get the groceries out of the car before the frozen stuff melts, can you give me the keys?” John took the keys from Ben and exited the room, but Nick pulled Ben back before he could get out the door.

“I found a pair of old soccer shorts and some socks between the wall and your bed. Don’t worry, Mom and Dad never saw them. I tucked them in your dresser.” Nick pulled one of the drawers slightly out as Ben’s face got red and Nick left the room.

After Nick and Kelly had left for the night, Ben and John made their way back upstairs to try out the new bed. John was emptying his bag while Ben was on his phone lying back texting.

“Who are you talking to?” John asked.

“Evan, he’s got rowing practice every morning and afternoon this week except for tomorrow when they’re just going out in the morning. He’s busy with school stuff the rest of the week so he wants to pick us up for his morning practice before 5:30 AM, and he has to be at the shellhouse by 6 AM.” Ben already sounded tired talking about waking up before 5 AM and it was already 9 PM.

“Oh, I didn’t realize they were still in class here, if that’s the case we better get to bed pretty soon, it’s been a long day, we just drove through 3 states, and I think Evan is gonna wear us out tomorrow too.” John left Ben’s room to start brushing his teeth.

Ben followed him out. “Yeah, I forgot he has a different academic calendar than us. Anyway, he wants to still take you out on a double scull for a short time after practice, then he has class at 10:00, we can find something to eat while he’s busy and look around campus, and meet him at the IMA after his class.

John spat out what he had in his mouth. “What about you, you’re not going out on the water?”

“I’ve already done some rowing with Evan before, I wasn’t on his club crew but I know my way around. He said we can sleep in his car if we get bored waiting for him while he is out on the water. Oh and you can’t wear loose shorts, you can borrow some compression shorts from me if you didn’t bring yours. Anyway, I’ll tell my parents we’re leaving that early.” Ben picked up his toothbrush and started to brush his teeth as well.

“I never figured you for a rower as well Benji, or was that just to see Evan in his spandex?” John gargled while Ben chucked with his toothbrush still in his mouth. They both quickly got changed into their royal blue UA shorts and had no issue falling asleep together in the new bed after their long day.

The Alexa Echo on Ben’s nightstand woke John up at 5 AM, he still had trouble processing how early it was, and he rubbed his eyes to focus on the flashing blue lights behind Ben’s head. The chime was starting to give him a headache and John shouted “Oh my God, Google or whatever, Alexa stoppp.”

Ben rolled over beside him. “I guess we better get up, we can nap in the car if you’re still really tired.” Ben yawned with his eyes still closed, turned on the lamp beside his bed, and started to get ready. “Now you know how I felt that first Monday morning at the gym, I don’t know how Evan does this every morning.”

“Yeah, I thought this was supposed to be a vacation, I’ve never got up this early even for the gym back home. You said Evan wanted me to wear something tight?” John had already slipped the royal blue shorts off and was looking through Ben’s dresser with just a t-shirt on.

Trying to avoid getting turned on by John’s cute naked ass when they had no time to spare, Ben dug through one of bins he had yet to unpack from Colorado and pulled out a pair of long navy blue Under Armour compression shorts in large. “Sorry, they were still in here.” He gave the compression shorts to John and disappeared into the bathroom.

John put the compression shorts on, they were a bit tighter than the boxer briefs he wore every day and the tip of his hard circumcised dick made a nice outline in the spandex. He tried not to admire himself in them for too long and pulled the royal blue shorts back on over them and changed into a crimson red Champion Mines t-shirt similar to his gray one. John imagined it was probably going to be chilly in the morning by the water so he put on his black Bobcats track pants over the shorts.

Ben came back into his room and looked a bit disappointed he had missed John changing into the spandex, but figured he would have plenty of eye candy to look at today between John, Evan, and the rest of Evan’s crew. Since he wasn’t going out on the water he only needed regular underwear, so he pulled off the royal blue shorts, put on a pair of Andrew Christan boxer briefs, and changed into a loose royal blue Nike Dri-Fit t-shirt. He put the shorts he had just worn into an adidas shoulder gym bag, grabbed a pair of dark brown cargo pants from his closet, dug out a pair of white adidas crew socks, and sat on his new bed to put them all on.

John had already finished in the washroom and went downstairs while Ben was still getting ready and had prepared himself a cup of coffee with a Kureig. “Oh good, you can put these in your bag.” John handed Ben a box of Kellogs’ Nutrigrain bars he had bought at Winco the night before when Ben reached the bottom of the stairs.

“You ready? We should probably wait outside, Evan’s probably gonna be in a hurry.” Ben put the box of bars in his bag and closed it.

“Yup, let’s go, I think I'm fully awake now, I didn’t know there was a difference between Seattle’s Best Coffee and Starbucks. John walked back into the kitchen to put his mug in the sink and kissed Ben on the lips.

“Eughhh, coffee breath!” Ben gagged as he opened the front door.

“Sorry babe, I should have thought about that first, I didn’t know you found me that repulsive first thing in the morning.” John joked.

“Quite the opposite, if we had the time, I would have done something naughty with your naked ass after you slipped off those shorts.” Ben locked the front door behind them and both of them walked to the curb to wait for Evan as the sun rose.

“What’s that you say? You didn’t get enough from topping Micah this weekend? Do you think Evan is gonna bottom for us too, should I ask?” John laughed.

Ben playfully slapped John on the ass that he had stopped himself from touching upstairs in his room earlier.

“Hey! Benji!” John scowled as Ben nimbly slipped between his car and his dad’s truck running back toward his house. John gave chase and caught up with Ben grabbing the gym bag around his shoulder and they fell onto the front lawn wet with morning dew together. Ben laid back with his arms above him helplessly, as John climbed atop him and started kissing Ben on the neck and chin.

Closing his eyes, Ben pretended to struggle with John atop him. John wanted to slap him on the ass in revenge, but Ben was under him and on his back so John did the next best thing, he slipped his right hand into Ben’s loose pants under his boxer briefs and cupped his balls. Ben was now breathing deeply as John grasped his hand around Ben’s stiffening cock and foreskin. John looked back to the empty street to make sure they weren’t being watched and pulled his hand back out of Ben’s pants. Smelling the aroma of Ben’s sweaty morning uncut cock on his fingers John put the same hand over Ben’s nose and Ben squirmed again beneath him kicking his feet.

Evan pulled up and watched the pair tumble on the grass getting their clothes wet before they had even made it to the lake. He rolled down the window again. “Yo! Are you guys coming or am I gonna just sit here like an idiot watching you guys make out on the lawn?” Evan shouted.

John got off of Ben and started brushing off the beads of water on his track pants before helping Ben up. Ben’s pants were a bit damper and John hoped Evan didn’t notice or didn’t care about his seats as Ben walked in front of him to the Lexus with a huge round wet spot on the seat of his cargo pants that he probably didn’t even feel yet.

Ben got in the backseat and John took the front passenger seat like they had done last week. “Sorry if we’re making you late Evan, sometimes Ben is even more of a child than my nephews.” John exhaled deeply as he closed his door.

“Oh, no that's fine, we’re just on time. I bet you hear it all the time, but you guys make a cute couple.” Evan chuckled as he made his way out of Ben’s subdivision.

“John, are you sure you didn’t play football too? That was quite the tackle.” Ben asked from the back rubbing his shoulders.

“That? It was nothing, I hope I didn’t hurt you.” John looked back at Ben.

“No, but your breakfast bars might have gotten a little crushed, do you want one now?” Ben started to pull the squashed box out of the bag.

“Nah, save it for when we get there, I think my body has adjusted to your time out here or at least Mountain Time again, so I’m not that hungry yet.” John rolled up his window as they were already getting on the interstate.

“Well, don’t make me ask, how was the uh, Toby Keith concert and your trip guys? Evan pleaded.

John caught himself staring at Evan’s muscular arms as they looked a lot more impressive than his. This morning Evan was wearing a heather gray t-shirt with “2026” in purple lettering (for his grad year John assumed) and black adidas sweatpants with a big purple “W” on the thigh. “Luke Combs you mean? Toby Keith is an old dude. The concert was great! I had the time of my life and Ben enjoyed himself too I think, more than he would admit.”

“Johnny, I will admit it, it was awesome, I didn’t get to thank you properly yet for convincing me to go because we had Micah with us.” Ben was starting to feel the dampness of his pants soak through to his underwear and tried to adjust himself without either of them noticing.

“Wait, who is Micah? Evan asked.

“Oh um, we kinda caught the attention of some locals. Micah’s sister was making some snide comments and he told her off, but she was his ride home so we took him back to our tent after the concert and it got a bit steamy…. Don’t worry, we had condoms.” Ben grinned at Evan in the mirror.

“Wow, so you got fucked by some country boy?” Evan laughed.

“Actually, it was the other way around, and Micah just lives in a normal house in Boise, he invited us over, right John?” Ben remembered he meant to ask Micah how things went yesterday with his parents after they left, but figured it would have to wait until Evan was gone.

“I always thought you were a bottom Ben, sorry.” Evan shrugged.

John interjected. “No you were right Evan, but we might change it up on occasion, but not as often as we swap basketball shorts and other clothes.

Evan felt himself getting hard in his black adidas spandex unisuit, but he was glad the loose track pants hid his erection for now. He remembered growing up with Ben and how sometimes his Under Armour compression shorts would go missing after Ben came over and would somehow reappear in his laundry a couple of weeks later. Ben also borrowed a few pairs of basketball shorts over the years to sleep in when he stayed the night, but Evan had never brought it up when Ben failed to bring them back. Now it was starting to make sense when John mentioned swapping clothes.

“Well Evan, now that you know about us, what about you?” John asked.

“Oh, did you even need to ask?” Evan laughed. “I can pull both girls and guys, I’m definitely a top.”

Evan took their exit after the bridge and John got his first close look at the campus.

“UW Medical Center on the left, Husky Stadium on the right, you guys at least have a football team at Mines too, right?”

“Yeah, but just Division II.” Ben replied.

“IMA building and the gym here, it’s just behind the shellhouse.” Evan took the next turn after the IMA fields and parked in the lot next to the shellhouse. “It’s a hike up to the main part of the campus, do you guys just wanna stay in here and wait for me or hike up there without me?” Evan pulled out his black adidas ‘W’ backpack from beside Ben.

“We’ll take a look around, but you can leave the keys with us.” Ben got out of the SUV while Evan went back around to Ben’s door, handed the keys off to Ben and they all walked toward the open doors of the boat storage bay of the shellhouse.

Ben and John waited by the dock as Evan disappeared into the locker room. John was impressed by all the rowers around him, if he thought Evan was the pinnacle form of the freshman crew, some of the rowers who looked like they were juniors or seniors were definitely at the top of their game. Ben had his eye on another freshman, he was sure he spotted who Evan had described as Easton when they were at the restaurant last week. He was about the same height as Ben, built almost like John, bowl cut blonde hair, and your average boy next door looks. The one thing that stood out about him was the tight round butt perfectly accentuated by the black bottom of the unisuit he was wearing.

Their rowing coach was just starting their warmup as Evan came back and his crew took a couple of laps around the building. After the 5th lap, his coach stopped Evan and asked “Evan, do you have some guests with you?”

“Uh yeah, Jake, Ben is a really good friend of mine, I’ve known him since kindergarten, but he’s going to school in Colorado right now, and this is his boyfriend, John.” Evan waved them both over. The kid who Ben assumed was Easton gulped when he overheard the word ‘boyfriend’.

Evan introduced Ben and John to his coach. “Ben’s been rowing with me before, and John just wanted to experience rowing a bit before he goes back home to Wisconsin.”

Jake looked them both over. “Well, the building doesn’t open to the public until 9:00.”

“Oh, I know that, l was hoping they could just wait out here while we’re on the water, if not they can wait in my car. I was also going to ask if I can take John out in a double for a short time after practice.” Evan hoped Jake would at least let them wait inside.

Jake grinned. “Must be keeners if they came out here with you this early. We can do better, how about they come on the boat with me, give them a look at Seattle they probably wouldn’t see otherwise.” John looked like he was about to say something but held it back as he could tell Ben was excited at the offer.

“That sounds fun, but I probably should have dressed in more than a t-shirt.” Ben replied a bit worried.

“No big deal, we have extra jackets in my office you can wear, Will can get them when we’re ready to go out.” Jake motioned for the rowers to continue their warm-up and Ben and John got out of the way.

When Evan’s crew was preparing to go out on the water, carrying out their boat and gear Ben finally got a chance to ask Evan what he was wondering. “Is that Easton?”

“Oh yep, that’s him.” Evan pointed.

Easton started to walk over to them when he thought he heard his name. Ben could distinctly make out the outline of Easton’s hard uncut cock through the thin material of the dark spandex.

“What do you need, threetard?” Evan asked as Easton approached.

“Oh nothing, I thought I heard my name.” Easton shrugged.

“I didn’t say anything, and why are you still in your shoes?” Evan looked at Easton with disdain and Easton left to take off his shoes in the locker room.

One of the assistant coaches handed Ben a black windbreaker with a purple W on it and Ben started to put it on, John was given a gray zip-up fleece with the same school logo.

Everyone was ready on the eight except the empty third seat. Jake had noticed this and yelled “Where’s Easton!” as he walked with Ben and John toward the motorboats the coaches used to follow the crew. “We’re taking the second one, sit in the back and I’ll find that kid….” Jake told Ben and John.

Ben and John piled into the 2nd to last motorboat on the dock while Evan waved at them from his position at the stern.

“Evan is at the very back, is that good or bad?” John asked.

“Actually it’s very good,” Ben answered. “They call it stroke seat, he sets the rhythm and strokes per minute of the boat, and everyone sitting behind him has to follow his lead.”

“You really know a lot about rowing, how come you didn’t come here with Evan?”

“Rowing was always Evan’s top thing, scouts was mine even over tennis.” Ben handed John one of the breakfast bars from his bag and ate a second as they waited.

Jake came back out of the shellhouse almost pushing Easton onto the docks, Jake’s assistant handed him a bullhorn and followed Jake into the motorboat with Ben and John as Easton hurriedly strapped himself in his seat.

“So Evan said you rowed with him, were you on his crew?” Jake asked Ben as Will, his assistant coach, piloted the boat away from the dock and waited for the crew in the eight to row out.

“No, but I went rowing with him almost every other week.” Ben gulped the last of his breakfast bar down and stuffed the wrapper in his pockets.

“Oh, you’d probably know your way around this place better than some of these walk-ons. Anyhow, Evan is one of the more experienced freshmen I’ve coached, he’s a natural in stroke, and as Freshman team captain.” Jake shouted at the coxswain over his bullhorn as the pair of boats made their way into the Montlake Cut and under the first bridge of their route.

“Yeah, I was just telling my boyfriend that.” Ben looked at John who remained silent, puffing his cheeks and gripping the bars on the sides of the boat. John patted his stomach and groaned. “You ok Johnny? Are you hungry or something?” Ben offered him a second bar from the box but John nodded no.

John slowly adjusted to the movement of the boat and was starting to admire the ease and speed at which Evan’s boat glided over the water. As they passed under the Aurora Bridge he sucked his stomach in and asked. “How far are we going?”

“We turn around as soon as we see Fred Meyer. Do you want a bottle of water or something?” Jake asked.

“No, I’m good. I should have told you guys before that I sometimes get seasick. We didn’t eat breakfast yet so I’d probably only lose that coffee and bar.” John was starting to feel mildly better and hoped Ben didn’t tell Evan what happened to him.

“That was Freemont St. and the last bridge before the Ballard Bridge. About 10 minutes and you’ll spot the store. Are you going to be ok when Evan takes you out on a double?” Jake put down his bullhorn. “Let’s trade seats so you’re facing forward and here’s some gum to chew, it might help.” Jake patted Ben on the shoulder. “Don’t worry it’s perfectly normal, my wife is just like him so I know how it feels.”

“I think I’ll be good in the double, I’m able to canoe ok when I go camping.” John popped out some gum and started to chew. A couple of minutes later he spotted the red Fred Meyer sign on a building on the north bank and was relieved they were going to turn back to UW.

As soon as the boat reached the dock back on campus John stepped out and Ben joined him to hold his hand to watch Evan and his crew come back in.

“Nice run out there this morning boys,” Jake shouted over John’s head with the megaphone but then put it down realizing the other boat was close enough. ”Remember five more sleeps till Oregon.” He turned to Ben. “Nice to meet you Ben and uh John..right? Evan is welcome to bring you guys over to the shellhouse anytime, just tell him to not take John too far out.”

Ben and John walked over to Evan as he got out of the boat and slipped on his slides.

“Give me 10 minutes to take a breather, John you should get dressed though. Coach is a pretty nice guy isn’t he?” Evan started to make his way back inside as Ben and John took the jackets off and gave them back to the assistant coach.

“Yeah, I think he was impressed I rowed with you as well.” Ben watched Evan head back into the locker room while John slipped off his track pants and shorts and handed them to Ben to put in his bag.

After Evan returned, he called out to John from behind one of the boat racks and John went inside to help Evan carry out a double scull. “Wow, this thing is lighter than I expected.” John commented.

“Only the best at UDub, just don’t drop it. It's probably worth as much as your out-of-state tuition at Mines.” Evan joked. John stepped onto the dock very carefully after he heard that and Ben followed them with the oars.

“So have you ever used the rowing machine at the gym?” Evan hoped he wasn’t starting from scratch.

“Yeah, a couple of times at school, it’s pretty intense I admit.” John took his oars from Ben and slipped off his shoes and socks for Ben to take care of while he was on the water.

“Okay good, just remember it’s all in the legs, when you put these oars in the gates make sure they’re locked tight, otherwise you might have to swim to get them back, and yeah.. expensive too.” Evan couldn’t help but notice as John climbed in the boat, the navy blue Under Armour compression shorts John was wearing looked almost identical to the pair he lost last year, about the same time as the last trip Ben went rowing with him. Evan’s mind was set now, out on the water he had thought up a plan to confront Ben about all his missing gear and was going to put it into play. He didn’t care that Ben took them, Evan probably would have gladly given Ben anything he wanted out of his wardrobe, it was the fact that Ben didn’t ask.

Ben waved as they left the dock, Evan was a patient instructor just like Ben and John seemed to be over his seasickness. John quickly got the hang of the motions in the boat and the pair rowed into Union Bay and lingered at the mouth of the inlet before turning back toward Ben on the dock.

“Wow, that was exhausting, and we weren’t going at full steam I guess.” John smiled at Ben as he unstrapped himself and got out.

“Too bad you guys don’t have rowing at Mines huh? Let’s put this stuff back and I’ll meet you at the front door and we’ll walk up my class together.” Evan started to unscrew the oars and Ben gave John his shoes.

John put the blue shorts back on after they were finished cleaning up and left Ben to carry his pants in the bag. They waited for Evan at the front door of the shellhouse, but it seemed like Easton was waiting in the lobby too for someone. Much like Evan he was dressed in his Huskies gear, a purple hoodie just like Evan had, and the same black sweatpants.