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Chapter 4: The Rec

It was Monday morning and Ben rolled over as his phone buzzed. The compression shorts he slept in felt unusually tight on his morning wood. He had never slept in compression shorts before so it was a new experience.  Ben rubbed his eyes and got out of bed, it was still dark out but he knew John was probably going to be waiting for him already. Looking in the mirror again he pinched himself wearing John’s shirt. He still liked how he looked in it and it confirmed the weekend wasn’t just some wonderful dream. After a quick brush of his bedhead hair, he stuffed his keys and phone into the pockets of John’s shorts, put on his shoes, popped a Tic-Tac in his mouth, and was out the door.

Hardly anyone else was up, the cafeteria wasn’t even open yet and the only sound was the odd delivery truck backing up in the distance as Ben took the less than 5-minute walk to the Rec. John had beaten him there as Ben expected, he was still wearing the navy blue Under Armour shorts, plain white Nike socks, and a navy blue Under Armour t-shirt with their school’s name “MINES'' across the chest and “Orediggers'' in slightly smaller text. Ben thought John looked even more attractive than before, he had never seen John coordinate so much in their school colors, and it almost looked like the big college varsity basketball player was about to head out onto the court with the star high school kid to show him some new tricks, both in their respective team uniforms. Maybe this was John’s whole intention this morning.

“Hey babe, on time and in uniform like I asked.” John greeted him and put his arm around Ben as they walked up the stairs to the building, just as a lone Rec staff member, an Indo-American girl who looked like a Junior or Senior, was unlocking the front door to let them in and sit back behind the front desk. John gave her his student ID and told her he needed a Day Pass for Ben.

“Student ID” she requested. Ben fished out his ID that was attached to his keys.

“$6, card or cheque?” Ben grinned as he left his wallet back in the room. “Uh, do you do ApplePay?”

John pulled out his wallet “Just run it on my card, don’t worry about it Ben.” She gave John a receipt and handed Ben his student card back with a small sticker on the back ‘Mines Rec Sports - Day Pass’ and the date and got back to sipping her coffee.

“Thanks,” Ben said as he followed John toward the FitLab.

“Just so you know I’ve never spotted weights before.” he told John.

“Oh, I kinda expected that.” John felt Ben’s feeble-looking arm through his old high school basketball warm-up shirt. “I was planning to teach you.” John looked back to make sure he was out of earshot of the desk. “Even though you look perfect right now in my old uniform, a little workout won’t hurt.”

As they made it to the FitLab it wasn’t how Ben imagined it. He had only seen the Varsity Gym during the campus tour which felt like it was tucked away in a basement with multiple, long rows of machines and benches. His tour of the rec mainly went into the pool and climbing wall and didn’t come up here. This room was a lot more open and not what he expected, if John and him wanted privacy, it wasn’t going to be here.

“We’ll do the barbell bench press, lie down there and I’ll show you how to spot me on it” John instructed. Ben did as he was told and as he lay down the legs of the black shorts lifted up showing the black swoosh logo of his white Nike Pro compression shorts. John ran his finger along the bottom cuff of the underwear and pulled the basketball shorts back over them when he was finished.

“Man, I never thought I’d be turned on as much as I am now seeing my gear on someone else.” John lifted up the Mines shirt to show Ben he had on UA boxer briefs, they were navy blue with a black waistband. Ben’s cock was pulsating in his own compression shorts as John walked around above him to the top of the bench. “So your foot position, one foot needs to be off to the side and the other one down in close where your leg is almost right by the ear”. As John demonstrated this he brushed his soft nylon shorts across Ben’s right ear on purpose. “Well obviously not that close, but now grab the bar above you but don’t lift it yet.”

Ben gripped the bar and John continued. “As the spotter, your job isn’t to lift the entire thing if I can’t put it back on the rack, it’s just to help me put it back if I can’t. Now usually you keep one hand above the bar and another to grab from below, you’re moving with me but not actually touching the bar, if you have to lift anything remember to do it with your legs and upper body and not your back, sound simple enough?” Ben nodded. “Ok let's trade places.” John directed.

Pulling up John’s loose shorts, Ben got up and took the position where John was. He did as John instructed, keeping up with him for several reps until John was able to rack the bar himself and take a breather.

Ben used this time to admire John’s developing muscular arms still gripping the bar. John had obviously kept in shape since high school despite not being in any sports at college. Without saying anything, Ben placed his hands on John’s sweaty knuckles and traced his fingers along John’s spectacular arms down to his sleeves.

On one knee now, Ben kissed John on the forehead. “Am I doing good?” Ben asked him. “You’re making me so horny decked out in our school gear, you look like you’re dressed for Spirit Week back in high school.”

John let go of the bar and adjusted his own package through his shorts. “Yeah, you make a perfect spotter and more. Just don’t lose concentration on your job. Are you ready again?”

Ben got back up and placed his feet and hands where he was taught “All good.” Ben responded.

John took a deep breath and started his reps again, but on his 5th he started to struggle as his left arm was starting to feel tired. “Ben!” he exclaimed. Ben helped to take hold of the bar, straightened it out, and used the strength in his legs to help lift it back into place onto the rack.

“Phew!” John wiped the sweat on his forehead with his palm and onto his shirt. “Enough of that, let’s do some cardio so we can talk.”

A few other people had started to come up into the FitLab with them so they were no longer alone but the treadmills were still empty. John set up Ben’s machine for him and they started with a slow jog.

“So, guess who showed up at my door last night, after you left?” John said with a big grin.

“Huh, who? Should I be jealous?” Ben asked.

“Roy, and Roy never comes up to my room, because he can’t stand Connor. He told me he got back to 3 emails from people he’s never heard of with job titles longer than a paragraph demanding he show up to a meeting on Tuesday. He’s facing academic suspension unless he writes a 3-page formal apology to Mrs. Grant and the entire school as well as take this diversity training course.”

“Wow, they’re really putting the hammer down on him hard.” Ben smirked.

“Yup,” John nodded. “Mrs. Grant told him on the way back home that she took it very personally since she’s a Lesbian. But Roy told me the real reason behind all his resentment last night too, he was sexually abused by an uncle when he was 6”.

Ben remembered the feeling of pity he felt as he looked on at Roy in the hallway back at the motel. “Wow, safe to say I’m not at all jealous of that visit.”

“Tell me about it. Now if you thought that would be an awkward situation, try adding Connor and Emma coming back just as Roy was starting to bawl his eyes out leaning against my bed saying he was sorry, this just after I asked Connor to leave when I brought you up.” John laughed.

“Oh crap, what happened then? Ben was just then starting to lose his breath.

“Emma hightailed it out of there, I almost wanted to join her but I couldn't leave Roy there with Connor. So I dragged Roy up just like he did for me Friday night after Allison broke up with me and began to take him down to the front door. Roy had started apologizing to Connor as well for being such a dick, and downstairs Roy told me he totally understood if I wanted nothing to do with him after what happened this weekend. I told Roy now was as good a time as any to start with those apology letters.” John paused and pushed the button on Ben's machine to take it down a tiny notch.

“So I get back to the room alone with Connor, for all he knows Allison and I are still together right? Connor goes ‘Wow, never thought you’d have more boys up here in one night than me! Anything you want to tell me?’ I bit my tongue and told Connor to lower his expectations, that you were just there to talk about some girlfriend issues. ‘Okay then Dr. Phil.’ was all Connor could say, but I told him what Roy did this weekend at the motel, he was probably going to hear all about it by tomorrow anyway.” John turned down his own machine to match Ben’s.

Ben started to feel it in his legs and he jumped onto the sides of the machine with it still running, he felt his thighs with both hands through the nylon of John’s shorts he was wearing, but the bulkiness of his phone and keys in the pockets somewhat ruined it. He patted his stomach which was starting to growl and scratched at his ass because the now sweaty compression shorts were riding into his crack.

John jumped to the side of his machine closest to Ben, reached over and pulled Ben’s emergency stop. Ben slowly caught his breath as he leaned with his head down against the machine looking at John's perfectly formed legs on the next machine. Giving Ben a tease, John lifted the bottom of his navy blue shorts on one side showing off the matching boxer briefs tightly gripping his growing muscular thighs.

Ben loved when other guys did this, even nonchalantly, it was part of his attraction to the basketball players in high school, seeing their white and black compression shorts under their uniforms. His heart was throbbing, not just from the exercise, but from John giving this show all for him.

“It’s only 6:35, 15 more minutes and we can head out, this place becomes a zoo at 7.” John suggested.

Invigorated, Ben started the machine up again. “So you know I saw Roy last night too.” Ben commented.

“Wait, what? Did he say anything to you?” John sounded concerned.

“No, he walked into the washroom while I was brushing my teeth, and I happened to be wearing all your stuff already because I was about to go to bed. I don’t think he recognized me though,” Ben said with a sigh of relief. “I ran back to my room when I saw him.”

“Ohhhh kinky!” John laughed. “See, it’s much more exciting picking out clothes for your bros than a girl. I don’t understand what Connor gets from going over a bunch of girly tops from Forever 21 or H&M. The only time he ever took any interest in something I wore was when I had on these short Nike gray running shorts with a liner. His face went flush white when I walked in wearing them, I hid them in the back of my drawer after that.”

“So he’s really never tried to hit on you?” Ben asked.

“Connor?” John shook his head. “No way. He pretty much kept his hands to himself when I told him I had a girlfriend on the first day, he’s been a good friend though and we don’t fight at all. You two would probably get along just fine too.”

“He seemed like a cool guy.” Ben replied. “I also ran into Josh on the way back from your room”.  

“Oh him, he seems very clingy.” John scratched his nose.

“Yeah, I thought that too,” Ben shrugged. “Turns out all he wanted to do was thank us both for standing up to Roy for him and I guess McDonald’s didn’t feel like the right place.”

“You don’t have to tell me, but has anything happened between you two?” John asked anxiously. “If you don’t want to say I totally get it.”

Ben looked around, there was still only a scattering of people up in the room with them and no one within hearing range of them. “Just that Friday night, he gave me a BJ and I gave him a quick handjob.” Ben confirmed. “He’s the one who sleeps around though, the only time I’ve done anything at school was this weekend with you and him, and you were the first ever to…..”

John breathed a huge sigh of relief. “Thank you for being open and honest with me, it just hung in my head ever since you came up to me and the way he was looking at you all that day. I owe you the same too, I haven’t had anything since I left Allison in Wisconsin. I just figured she would be waiting for me when I went back for Christmas.”

The sun was starting to rise over the mountains in the distance and the tiniest bit of daylight started to peek through the full-length glass windows of the room, Ben thought now would be his best chance to ask John over.

“When are you done for the day? Do you want to come over this afternoon and go over the field report thing? My roommate is out till late.” Ben asked without hesitation.

John figured this wasn’t about a study session, even though he wouldn’t mind if Ben worked on the report with him. “Well, I usually work out after class, but since we got up early for it, I’m free at 3:30.” He replied.

“Awesome. Allan should be out of my room by 4:00, can we get something to eat now?” Ben patted his growling stomach through the basketball shirt.

“Heck yeah, something better than hotel oatmeal!” John said in agreement.

John was right that the Fitlab started to become a zoo around 7 AM. Someone was ready to take over one of their machines as they were getting ready to leave.

“Well, do you think you want to join me for my next workout? You seem like you had a lot of fun. Next time doesn’t have to be so early though.” John asked as they walked back out of the Rec to the dining hall in the next building.

“Yup of course, though I think I might wear my own shorts next time, because I had to keep pulling these shorts up. Yours are fine for hanging around and sleeping in but not the gym I think.” Ben snickered.

“Hah, I guess I better give those back to you so you can throw them in the wash. They fit me just fine, though they do show off my legs a bit more, Connor might give me that look again if he sees me in them.” John chuckled and held the door open to the Market for Ben.

Both of them loaded up on the sausages, eggs, and potatoes and took a seat at a two-person table by the window. Midway through their meal, Allan happened across them on the way in.

“Oh hey Ben, I wondered what happened to you this morning, you were gone and didn’t even take your bag, guess you went to the gym?” Allan said looking Ben over.

“Oh hi Allan, John invited me to the Rec to work out first thing in the morning, do you know John?” Ben asked Allan, as he tried to finish the last of his potatoes.

“I think so, you’re in my math class right?” Allan looked at John who nodded his head and Allan looked at Ben again.

“Who are the Bobcats?” Allan asked, looking at the logo on the shirt Ben was wearing and Ben’s face went a bit red.

Trying to cover for Ben, John abruptly got up and Allan had to move out of the way “Sorry, need an OJ refill, nice to meet you, Allan right?” John patted Allan on the shoulder and walked back to the drink fountains. Ben couldn’t help but look on as the navy blue shorts hugged John’s round ass.

“So I guess I’ll see you after your S.A.S.E. stuff right?” Ben asked, hoping he dodged that question.

“Yeah, we might even grab dinner too, but I’ll remember the Pepto you wanted, I’ll let you guys finish. See you when I get back tonight.” Allan went to grab his own breakfast and John returned with a fresh cup of OJ.

“You didn’t have to do that.” Ben chuckled. “Allan isn’t exactly a sports freak and we could have just made it up.”

John took a sip of his drink and then sat back down. “I think almost getting caught wearing someone else’s clothes turns you on too, like with Roy last night, and now with Allan. Let’s just hope he doesn’t ask more questions because I’m guessing you didn’t tell him what you’re up to tonight alone.”

“Allan’s fine, we both mind our own business, sometimes he is just genuinely curious about me I guess in an effort to make friends. He’s awkward like that, but I think your observation about me might be true though.” Ben grinned.

“Really then? How about we head back to my dorm for a shower?” John asked as a naughty idea popped into his head.

“I guess I have time before class, I should swing back to my room to get my clothes and a towel then.”

“Nope, let’s play dress up again and see if anyone notices.” John laughed and Ben smiled as both of them got up to put their trays away and walked toward John’s dorm.

John put his arm around Ben’s back. “Can’t believe I’m already bringing you up again, at least Connor has his Outdoor Leadership stuff Monday mornings so he should be gone.” John unlocked the front door and brought Ben upstairs just as he did the night before.

Once they got to John’s room John handed him one of his extra towels. “You can wear Connor’s slides, you probably don’t want to be barefoot in there”. John grabbed his shower bag and held it under his arm with his own towel while Ben slipped off his Elite socks and shoes and looked to Connor's side of the room for his slippers. They were a black Under Armour pair still a bit damp and about 2 sizes too big for Ben. Ben felt an almost perverted sense of arousal as he slipped them on, he was now wearing a combination of his own underwear, John’s shorts and shirt, and Connor’s slippers. John kicked off his own shoes and led Ben to the men’s washroom.

There were a couple of people brushing their teeth, and only one shower stall was occupied on the other side of the wall from the sinks. John pushed Ben into the furthest empty shower stall from the door, peeked behind him to make sure no one was looking, and joined Ben locking the shower stall door behind him. There was just enough room for both of them to undress before going behind the actual shower curtain.

Ben had already started to take off the white basketball shirt as John lifted his navy blue Mines shirt like he did in the gym, taking it off completely now, showing off his developing 6 pack for Ben while standing in front of the stall door. Ben undid the drawstrings of the loose black and yellow Under Armour shorts he was wearing and they dropped to the floor, revealing his burgeoning hard-on standing straight up in his white Nike compression shorts. John took notice of this, reached over, pulled the waistband of Ben’s compression shorts down, and grabbed Ben’s erect cock before going down on his knees and taking him in his mouth.

Leaning up against the hard tile of the wall between the showers Ben pushed gently into John’s mouth, he was glad John was horny enough to give him a blow job this time, or maybe John was trying to keep Ben all to himself after hearing that Josh had blown him too. It was evident John wasn’t as experienced as Josh as Ben was getting a bit too much teeth, but the thrill of getting caught, and the fact the guy of his dreams was now giving him head still wearing one of his favorite pairs of basketball shorts was exciting him to no end.

A toilet flushed on the other side of the wall, and Ben and John both remembered they were still very much in public. John spat out Ben’s cock grudgingly, got back up and took off his shorts and boxer briefs, piling them on top of the clothes Ben had worn. Ben stepped out of his compression shorts and got into the shower turning it on as John used his feet to hold down the toes of his white Nike socks to take them off without bending down.

Finally, both naked, John joined Ben under the water and started kissing him on the neck pressing him against the back of the shower wall. Ben inhaled the scent of John’s sweaty hair and held both their hard dicks together with his hands. “Do you want me to continue?” John asked quietly.

“Of course, but I want to save my load for you tonight, so take it slow like a popsicle, you’ve never sucked another guy off before right?” Ben whispered.

John nodded and went knees down on the hard tile floor in front of Ben and slipped his cock back in his mouth. His movements were much slower and more deliberate this time and John’s tongue stimulated the vein on the bottom of Ben’s cock making him moan softly. Ben picked up John’s Dove 2 in 1 Shampoo and rubbed it into John’s hair for him as well as his own hair. Not only was Ben going to dress up today in John’s clothes, he was also going to smell like him as well. As John started to move faster with his tongue Ben felt like John was going to send him over the edge again too soon. Ben placed his hands on the sides of John’s shoulders in a signal for him to stand back up.

John slowly pulled back off Ben’s cock this time and looked up at Ben with his green eyes. “Hope I did better this time”. He got back up and rinsed the shampoo out of his hair.

“You were awesome, we just gotta get through the day and then we can have all the fun in the world in the privacy of my room.” Ben grabbed the bar of soap and started to lather John’s chest, then happy trail, and his still semi-erect cock in soapy suds for him.

John took the soap and did the same for Ben, taking care to peel back his foreskin like Ben showed him before.

Ben’s phone started buzzing in the pocket of the shorts on the floor. As much as he wanted this to go on, that was his 8:00 AM alarm. “We better finish up and get dressed,” he told John.

“Of course, getting you dressed is getting to be the second best part of having you over.” John chuckled and gave Ben back the soap to quickly scrub the rest of his body and rinse themselves off. They dried off, wrapped the towels around themselves and John scooped up all the clothes that were mostly his and opened the stall to peek outside. Signaling the coast was clear he led Ben back to his room to get dressed.

This time John grabbed a pale teal blue Under Armour polo shirt that was hanging in the closet and handed it to Ben, pants would be a harder fit, but as John fumbled through the ones hanging in the closet he settled on a pair of dark gray track pants that were surprisingly not Under Armour. “You can pick out your underwear and socks”. John told Ben as John fished out Ben’s phone and keys from the pockets of the black Under Armour shorts and placed them on the dresser for Ben. John then held the crotch of Ben’s worn Nike Pro compression shorts to his nose, inhaling Ben’s scent in them that Ben had worn since last night.

“Still questioning if you’re straight?” Ben grinned at John as he pulled out a pair of black boxer briefs with Nike emblazoned all over the waistband from John’s top drawer. Ben was starting to feel a bit proud of himself that the feeling of attraction between them was mutual since John couldn’t keep his hands off him in the shower.

“Yours smell a bit different from mine, maybe it’s because you’re uncut or because you slept in yours, beats a wet pussy any day of the week.” John sniffled as he folded Ben’s underwear neatly and started getting clothes out for himself starting with a pair of gray striped Under Armour boxers.

Ben pulled the Nike boxer briefs onto his slim twink body, they weren't as tight as the compression shorts he had been wearing but they didn’t slip off him, followed by the UA polo and gray pants. His last pick was socks, and he grabbed a well-worn pair of white and black Nike Elite socks and put them on.

“Well I got 16 minutes to get my bag and get to class, thanks for the horny morning, I really had fun.” Ben sighed and kissed John on the cheek before grabbing his phone and keys.

John was still only clad in boxers, a raging hardon almost about to poke out of the fly, from seeing Ben dressed head to toe in his clothes again. He put his big arms around Ben from behind as they stood together in front of the mirror on the door. “I can’t believe all this is happening so fast, you really are an amazing person and I’ve never really felt this way about anyone before. I’ll be over as soon as I can, and bring you all your own clothes back, except I might keep your Nike Pro shorts for a while if you’re okay with that.”

Ben nodded and wiped away a tear of joy from his eye. He quickly slipped on his shoes and left without another word. Just have to get through two classes and a lab this afternoon, and John and he could be alone together, he thought to himself as he walked back to his own room.