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Chapter 7: Intramurals
Christmas break went by pretty fast for both Ben and John at home in their respective states. Ben’s parents had agreed to have John over at their home in Washington just after the boys finished their first year at school. Ben had their whole time together planned already and reserved a campsite east of Boise for that weekend of the concert. Ben and John had gone Skiing up at Loveland just like Allan’s sister had promised and Connor had even joined them, which made for a cramped ride for the three of them in the back of her RAV4 with all their gear.
The couple was a month into their ‘Spring’ Semester of Freshman Year at Mines and John had signed up for Intramural Basketball. Ben was quite happy with this, as he finally got to see his boyfriend in his form on the court in person. Even if John wasn’t a Varsity athlete at Mines, he still put everything on the court in the Rec as he did in high school. There was also the added bonus that John didn’t have a uniform aside from his mesh reversible gray and navy jersey, meaning he could pair whatever basketball shorts he wanted to the games. The navy UA shorts were the logical choice but John also wore the royal ones on the court, much to Ben’s delight.
Ben would watch from the sidelines when he could, trying to capture every moment John touched the ball on video with his phone and send them to him during and after the game. Ben also had brought his camera to a few games and taken a couple of professional-looking shots of John in his trying of some sports photography.
It certainly didn’t feel like ‘Spring’ however on the Mines campus, a snowstorm was set to cover the Denver Metro Area with a couple of inches of snow on this very special night for all couples: Valentine’s Day. Luckily the two didn’t have big plans tonight. Despite Ben being the more romantic of the pair, John said he would plan something for the two because Connor was going on a “girl’s night out” with Emma to see the 25th Anniversary release of Titanic. At least for Ben, he didn’t have to bring up the subject of needing the room with Allan, who was still single and not making much progress in that regard, ‘zero rizz’ as John put it.
Ben got up to his alarm at his now usual time of 7:30 AM. While having a similar class schedule as last semester, ever since John and him became a hot item they tried to at least have breakfast together. John’s metabolism meant he always had to eat first thing in the morning, so he couldn’t wait like Ben after his first class.
Putting his bare feet on the cold dorm floor, Ben stretched his arms out and looked at Allan still asleep. Allan would usually get up 20 minutes after him so Ben tried to get ready without disturbing him. Ben looked himself in the mirror by his dresser, he was only clad in his royal blue vintage Nike ‘America’ nylon soccer shorts and no shirt. With the liner they made a convenient one-piece sleeping solution, he could wear them before bed to the bathroom and not get noticed for freeballing in them, as well as leaving his favorite nylon UA shorts for fun with John. He had wanted to wear his similar nylon adidas ‘Argentina’ ones last night instead, but for some reason, they were nowhere to be found. Maybe he forgot John borrowed them, but that would have been odd because they would have been pretty tight on him.
Needing to get ready now Ben loosened the drawstrings and slipped the vintage nylon shorts and liner off his twink body. His morning wood throbbed for longer than usual, perhaps it was aware it was that special day, and he was finally lucky enough to have someone who was his Valentine, and so much more. Ben threw the Nike soccer shorts into his hamper and fished out a pair of Andrew Christian briefs he bought over Christmas from his dresser. They were navy blue with neon yellow lettering, what better occasion to wear such a brand than today he thought to himself. After putting them on he noticed his erection still wasn’t going down. Last weekend was one of those weekends when neither Connor nor Allan went home since the next was a long weekend, so Ben and John’s private time for the week was all going to be channeled into tonight.
Ben finally felt his erection going down as he was putting on his blue Colorado flag t-shirt and his plain navy blue hoodie over it that simply read “MINES”. He completed his outfit for the day with a pair of relaxed-fit AE jeans and plain white Nike socks. Taking a bit more time to do his hair given the occasion, he looked at his Apple watch as he was putting it on and realized he was getting late. Ben quickly packed his bag for the day including his MacBook as Allan was just rising out of bed wearing some pale blue striped pajamas that looked like they belonged to his grandpa.
“Morning! Happy Valentine's Day!” Ben greeted him as he collected his phone and keys from his desk. “I’m out the entire day and with Johnny tonight, but call me if you need me.”
Allan shook his head and rubbed his eyes. “Ok, whatever.” he muttered as Ben put on his Marmot jacket and went out the door. Allan was less of a morning person than Ben, so Ben didn’t take his flippant attitude when he awoke too seriously.
As Ben reached the Market John was waiting at the front entrance in the cold. “You’re almost late!” John grinned looking at his phone. Today John had on dark gray cargo pants with his white Chicago Cubs sweatshirt, covered by a Nike black and white windbreaker.
“I’m sorry hun, ‘lil Benji didn’t want to go back down this morning, he must be really excited for tonight.” Ben smiled, hoping John would drop some hints as to what he planned. He was half expecting John to be standing at the door with a heart-shaped box of chocolates and roses from Safeway, as he was a bit predictable like that.
John laughed, Ben was hardly “little” but he loved it when his boyfriend pretended to talk and act below his maturity level like this. He held the door open for Ben and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek when they were inside. At this point, it was well known to people they knew at Mines they were together, but John was careful not to post anything about it online and he made sure Ben did the same. Even Roy had accepted it as fate in the odd time he saw them together on campus. But no one back home knew, given John was three states away from Wisconsin.
After sitting down with their breakfast Ben was still waiting for hits about what the day might entail, but John was remaining tight-lipped. “Happy Valentine's Day, babe.” John smiled as he pushed a pink strawberry yogurt with a spoon toward Ben and dug into his own breakfast bowl.
“Happy Valentine's Day to you too hun, Connor is still out tonight right?” Ben hesitantly chuckled after taking a bite out of his breakfast taco.
“Oh, of course, we’re staying in tonight, hopefully, that snow doesn’t come too hard that he’s stuck here.” John grinned, finally he started being of some use to Ben and dropped that first hint. “I have my intramural game at 5 then I’m all yours, or vice versa, are you gonna come watch?”
“I’ll be there!” Ben replied enthusiastically and downed his apple juice. “I just have my one Comp Sci lab in the afternoon, then I promised Joshua I would help him with some Valentine's Day oSTEM stuff at the Student Center.
John chuckled. “How’d he rope you into standing behind a table with him handing out condoms? I’ll steer clear, so I don’t embarrass you.”
“He might have bribed me with some bubble tea,” Ben smiled, finishing the last of the yogurt. “Are you ready to go to Physics?”
“Yup!” John took the last sip of his coffee and got up. The pair was luckier this semester, they were in Physics class together as well as the associated lab hours and Engineering Design. They walked together to the lecture hall and took seats at the side next to each other. Everyone at Mines they met had been pretty accepting (aside from the one incident with Roy) so no one batted an eye when they held hands or giggled together in class, it was Valentine's Day after all too.
Physics lab work was tomorrow so Ben and John went their separate ways after class with Ben going to his Computer Science class and lunch. John had succeeded in keeping the rest of his plans secret, he got a notification from UberEats to update his payment info but he hid and completed it before Ben noticed. It was cringing Apple had his card info saved, but he didn’t even need to take the card out.
After lunch and his lab, Ben found Josh in the Student Center with a folding table and a bunch of small boxes. Josh was wearing an oversized green chenille knit sweater, with ripped jeans, and white and red Vans.
“I’m here!” Ben shouted, walked quickly toward Josh, grabbed one end of the table, helped him unfold it, and pulled out the legs. They flipped the table up together and Ben went to grab two chairs that were against the wall as Josh set up the rest of the table with rainbow-decorated paraphernalia like pens, temporary tattoos, embarrassing condoms, and a stand-up poster about oSTEM. Josh had also brought a tray of pink mini cupcakes for the special day, and he put them on the table at the back as Ben unfolded the chairs.
“Big plans tonight?” Josh asked with a subtle smile when they sat down.
“We’ll see, Johnny has been elusive about that all day.” Ben replied.
“Oh, I thought you two were still going perfect?” Josh was surprised.
“No, I didn’t mean it in a negative way, I know he’s got something planned but he’s not telling me about it other than Connor is gone for the night.” Ben sighed.
Josh nodded and pulled out his phone instantly going to Tinder. “I’m seeing Sebastian tonight, he’s picking me up and driving me back to UC, do you want to meet him?”
“You do you bud, I have to see John at his game.” Ben shrugged. Josh had only told him about Sebastian at UC Denver two weeks ago and he didn’t know much about him other than he was a second-year arts student. At least by now Josh had settled down and kept it to one guy at a time, otherwise Ben would have jokingly told him to take all the condoms no one was grabbing today.
Connor came around to check on them after about an hour as he was one of the student leaders. “Hey besties! Everything okay here?” He smiled as he grabbed the second cupcake for the day and looked at Ben. “John didn’t want to do a double date tonight, I guess Titanic isn’t his thing. He was asking me about my playlist yesterday, no idea what that was about, he’s usually a country boy isn’t he?”
Ben nodded. “You would know more than me but yeah, I’m taking him to see Luke Combs in May.”
“Well, I’ll leave you guys be, just drop everything back at the front office by 4:30.” Connor organized the pens they were giving out on the table and left. Connor had grown to be one of their most supportive friends in their relationship despite being initially shut out of it. Ben, however, had missed the subtle hint about tonight that John had tried to drop him via Connor.
Their second hour was less boring and as Ben was helping Josh pack up he snuck one of the cupcakes out which were now half gone. They set the table and chairs back against the wall and carried the half-empty boxes and posters back to the student council office.
“Have fun downtown!” Ben said as he was seeing Josh off. Josh nodded, gave him a polite wave, and took out his phone to see when Sebastian was getting there.
Ben walked past Josh and out of the Student Center to the Rec in the next building. There was no sign of John yet, so he went up the stairs to the small balcony that rang the gym where the Rec teams played their intramural games. There were a couple of guys doing some 2 on 2 and one of them was shirtless wearing only black and white Nike Elite shorts and black Nike Elite socks. Ben leaned over the railing, watching the shirtless player. He was red-headed with pasty white skin, Ben could distinctly see he was wearing Hanes underwear, but he couldn’t tell if they were briefs or boxers because the shorts were long.
Finally, John and his team walked in, it looked like they would be playing the redhead’s team as the guy in the Nike Elite shorts went to his bag and put his jersey on with the navy side out. John was playing on the gray side and was now wearing the intramurals jersey with his Under Armour Mines Shirt under it (the UA logo on the top of his chest visible), the royal blue UA shorts, and navy blue Elite socks. Ben was pretty sure John chose his outfit today just for him. He had worn the royal blue shorts to every winning game, and Ben had told him they might just be his lucky charm now, just like when John and his high school team won the games they wore their cum-stained shorts in. John noticed Ben on the platform and nodded when Ben took out his phone to record him. His team was called the SuperSonics, a name John suggested in honor of Ben and Seattle and it won out.
When the game started Ben found himself on the navy’s end of the court much more often than not, they were playing a constant game of defense with John as one of the major aggressors. Ben was able to get some good video of John, especially since John played shooting guard on the perimeter of the court. In one instance Ben zoomed in on John even when he didn’t have the ball. John had his hands on his hips and had lifted up his jersey and shirt exposing part of his chest and the waistband of his black Nike Pro Combat compression shorts. John looked back up at Ben and saw he had his phone out on him even when he didn’t have the ball. He laughed to himself, shook his head, and pointed his finger at Ben. Ben now had a raging hardon in his jeans that he didn’t notice pressed up against the glass panel of the railing.
Midway through the game, John decided to lose the t-shirt he had under his jersey like the redhead Elites player. Ben took the opportunity to record this as well, but John didn’t notice this time.
As the clock wound down the SuperSonics were up by almost 30, guaranteed to move them up to second place in the league. John shook hands with the redhead Elite shorts player as the buzzer went off and Ben raced down the stairs in the lobby of the Rec to meet John in the locker room.
“Benji!” John shouted as he ran into his arms in the middle of the locker room.
“You were awesome hun, I think that was a 30-point game for you right?” Ben asked.
“Almost.” John nodded, and he let Ben go and wiped the sweat from his face with a towel. “Ready to go home?” Connor is already in Lakewood.
“I’ve been waiting for this all day.” Ben smiled.
John said goodbye to his teammates who spared him from grief over not wanting to hang out after the game and collected his stuff. He put back on the black Nike windbreaker over his jersey and walked back to Elm Hall with Ben.
John led Ben into his dorm room and flipped on the lights. Ben was expecting something: candles, gifts, chocolates, but there was nothing. He tried to hide the disappointed look on his face and put his backpack on John’s chair. John took off his jacket, moved past Ben toward Connor’s desk, picked up Connor’s Bluetooth speaker, and took out his phone.
The guitar chords of the neotraditional country hit ‘Your Man’ by Josh Turner filled the room as Ben turned toward John.
🎶Baby lock the door and turn the lights down low🎶
John mouthed the lyrics and pointed at the door.
🎶Put some music on that's soft and slow🎶
John continued to mouth the lyrics and pointed at the speaker with his other hand.
“Oh my God, Johnny, that is really cringe,” Ben laughed “You can stop that now.”
John shook his head.
🎶Baby we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand🎶
Ben tried to grab at the speaker but John held it in his hand above his head. Ben was now pushed up against John trying to grab at it as John started actually singing the chorus. They were having too much fun laughing at each other Ben forgot he could have just grabbed the phone and stopped it as well.
🎶I've been thinking about this all day long
Never felt a feeling quite this strong
I can't believe how much it turns me on
Just to be your man🎶
John was a better dancer than he was a singer so Ben put his arms around him and they started to move to the music, “Okay I get the message, I love you babe.” Ben wiped a tear from his eye and sniffled.
John held out his phone from behind Ben and pushed the next button.
The immediately recognizable wah riffs of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it on’ echoed off the walls of the room as Ben shook his head and pleaded “No Johnny, not this song please!” John nodded in agreement and pushed next again.
Next up was something that was on Ben’s playlist at least. The smooth and sultry R&B ballad Snooze by SZA started, and the couple slowly started dancing again.
Ben rested his head on John’s bare shoulders and felt his body through the thin mesh jersey, he couldn’t ask John for anything more for Valentine’s Day than this perfect moment with him.
🎶I can't lose when I'm with you
How can I snooze and miss the moment?
You just too important
Nobody do body like you do
I can't lose when I'm with you
I can't just snooze and miss the moment
You just too important
Nobody do body like you do, you do🎶
A ‘ding’ interrupted the song and John looked at his phone. “Food’s here,” he smiled and let go of Ben. “Maybe I should have set it for a little later, but you know me.” John rubbed his stomach through his jersey. “I’ll be back in a sec.”
Ben reluctantly let him leave and took a deep breath. That was the most romantic thing John had ever done for him, and he didn’t know how he could ever top that, even if it did start in the most sappy way possible. He hated himself for ever doubting his boyfriend, and could only guess what else he had planned after dinner.
John returned with a bag from P.F. Chang’s and a bottle of lemonade from the vending machine for Ben. He put the bag on his desk and went into his closet for another bag from Target with some plates and utensils. “Dinner for two!” he exclaimed and took Connor’s chair to sit with Ben at his desk.
Ben took his bag off the chair and looked inside the bag. “Oh! Lettuce wraps!”
John laughed “You don’t have to pretend to like it, I hope I got your drink right though.”
“No, this is perfect babe, and yes you did!” Ben sat down with John, gave John a kiss and they dug into their dinner of lettuce wraps, hot and sour soup, lo mein, and Mongolian beef. The beef was almost too spicy for John so he left most of it for Ben.
Ben took the last sip of lemonade as John finished his lo mein, he could gather what was next but little did Ben know John had one more thing up his sleeve to make tonight a little more special for him.
When they were done John went to put away their leftovers and throw away their garbage while Ben made himself comfortable on John’s bed. Ben decided to take off his hoodie so John could do whatever he wanted when he got back. Looking at his phone he saw Josh was already with Sebastian from a Snap he sent. Admittedly, Ben found Sebastian hot, he had mid-length flowing golden blonde hair, cobalt blue eyes, and a round face like John with full cheeks. Ben sent Josh a selfie back, with the obvious indication he was on John’s bed, the Chicago Bears flag in the background.
John returned before Ben could send another, so Ben put down his phone on the bed. “Come up here, I have one last thing for you!” John beckoned.
Ben joined him at John’s dresser without another word. John took out an adidas soccer jersey from his 2nd drawer and held it up. It was navy blue with white stripes on the shoulders and an M for Mines on the chest.
“I found it in the locker room after my first game.” John beamed. “Someone must have left it after their indoor soccer game.”
Ben took the jersey and held it to his face. “Ohh, uhhh I already washed it.” John added.
“Err, I’m not smelling it, I’m just so happy!” Ben used the jersey to wipe the tears of joy from his eyes. “I guess you want me to wear it now?”
“Of course! It is a medium so it fits you more than me! It’s yours!” John helped Ben take his t-shirt off and it landed on the floor. He stared at Ben’s smooth hairless chest for a moment then dug into his drawer again.
John pulled out the vintage royal blue nylon adidas soccer shorts and handed them to Ben.
“That’s where those went!” Ben laughed. “I never thought you would take them because they’d be really small on you!”
“Oh, I took them last time I came over to make sure we’d have them here for this. Can’t be a real soccer boy without some soccer shorts right?” John grinned. Ben put the shorts on the dresser and took off his socks. He put on the new adidas jersey and undid his belt to take off his jeans.
John decided to join in to help him again and unbuttoned Ben’s fly. Ben let the loose jeans fall off him and stepped out of them. “These are new!” John ran his hands along the waistband of Ben’s new Andrew Christians. He stopped in the middle and slipped his hand inside, wrapping his hands around an already hard ‘lil Benji pulling back his foreskin while still inside the briefs. John moved up and down lightly on Ben’s shaft with his fingers. “You know everyone could see your bulge in these when you were standing behind the glass.” John chucked. “Even Jason, that red-headed dude made a comment to me about it right after the game.”
Ben didn’t know what to say, except to give John a deep kiss. Their relationship had made it out around campus to people Ben didn’t even know, and John didn’t seem to have a problem with it. John let his tongue slip out of Ben’s mouth and worked its way downward along Ben’s clean-shaven chin and neck, John tugged at the collar of the jersey slipping his tongue in as far downward along Ben’s chest as it would allow him and let the collar finally go.
Skipping to Ben’s waist, John hooked his fingers into the briefs and slowly pulled them down Ben’s skinny legs making ‘lil Benji pop out at full attention. Ben stepped out of the briefs and John pushed the other clothes out of the way on the floor before reaching behind Ben grabbing the blue adidas shorts and placing them at Ben’s bare feet. After Ben stepped into them John pulled them up to his hips with the liner doing little to contain Ben’s pulsating dick. John grabbed it and caressed him through the paper-thin liner and the nylon, until he found the edge of the cotton liner and pulled Ben’s cock free from it, making his sensitive tip rub against the soft nylon of the shorts. Ben moaned “Ughhhhhh.” as John did this. John then wrapped his fingers around Ben through the slippery fabric of the soccer shorts and slowly jerked him off.
Looking down at his basketball stud Ben hooked his fingers into the mesh jersey and tried to pull John back up. John got back on his feet and Ben seductively pushed him toward the bed, his fingers still wrapped around the neck of John’s basketball jersey. When they reached the bed Ben slid his phone out of the way and started kissing John again. They got onto the bed together and Ben opened his legs, his cock visible in the leg holes of the soccer shorts as he laid back. John grabbed at ‘lil Benji again and started feeling him again in the nylon, but this time John undid the knot in the drawstrings of Ben’s shorts and pulled the shorts and liner down below his hips.
Grabbing at Ben’s now free cock John let his tongue on Benji’s tip, tasting the tiniest bit of precum that was forming at the opening. Ben watched as John’s green eyes went wide as he slowly took Ben into the back of his throat and his head started bobbing up and down.
John had grown accustomed to this now, Ben would usually bottom for him and John would show him appreciation back this way. Ben was always the first one to do the deed though when they did that, just like their first time, Ben gathered John had plans for just a painless night. He doubted John wanted to do it as well after that intense game. Post-game recovery usually consisted of them grabbing dinner at the Market together, then lying back in John’s bed studying or watching videos together with Connor and even Emma still in the room on the other bed.
Focusing back on the hunk that was enveloping his cock Ben pulled back the bottom of the soccer jersey and exposed his chest, then grasped a clump of John’s now messy hair in his hand as he was breathing heavily. John was edging him close to the point of no return but he was wildly moving his head in all directions. Ben wasn’t sure if he had forgotten how to do this, or was just being exaggeratingly passionate, so he cupped John’s head in his hands to keep him on point. This worked and as John focused again he had Ben ready to blow. Thrusting his exposed ass off the bed into John’s mouth Ben moaned and let out a deep “Ohhh fuuuuck” as he fired the seed he had been saving up for a couple of days. John swallowed it all and gulped, he wiped the saliva from his lips with his hand then onto Ben’s soccer jersey as he was pulling it back down, and Ben pulled the shorts back up.
Admiring his twink boyfriend below him, John couldn’t get over how perfect he looked. Ben had put on a little muscle in a couple of months at the gym together, but he still had his lean figure. With the soccer uniform on Ben, he could definitely pass for one of those players. John tied back Ben’s shorts up for him and laid back on his own pillow hoping for Ben to follow him there.
Ben faced the head of the bed with him but went in between John’s muscular legs. He undid the drawstrings of John’s navy UA basketball shorts and slipped them down, John cooperated, curled, and lifted his legs in the air for Ben to pull them completely off. The legs remained in the air for Ben to take both of John’s socks off, tossing them from the bed. John then wrapped his legs around Ben, Ben fell onto him, his hands grasping inside the jersey at John’s spectacular chest. They both started french kissing again, with Ben reaching down inside the Nike Pro Combat Shorts at John’s penis.
John retreated his tongue for a second to say “You can do the same for me tonight, I love this and you Benji.” He opened his legs wide again and Ben shifted again to back below him. Ben pulled down the Nike compression shorts and John’s hard cock and balls popped up above the waistband. John’s balls were still sweaty from the game and the aroma from the whole day was contained in those shorts. This was perfect for Ben as he slipped his tongue gingerly around his boyfriend’s exposed shaft, savoring the salty, sweet mix on his taste buds with the Mongolian beef that he felt still stuck between his teeth.
As Ben took the whole dick in his mouth John tilted his head back and moaned. Ben was the expert at using his tongue and slipped and swirled around John’s cockhead. This was met with John’s full approval putting his hands around Ben’s head and pulling him deeper into Ben’s throat. “Oh God, you’re so perfect.” John whined and felt Ben’s hair in his fingers as his cock was starting to make Ben gag.
Ben increased the steady pace of his head until John too couldn’t hold back. “Buuuuuuuuhenjiiiii” John cried out as his dick rammed into the back of Ben’s mouth one last time and he spasmed and fired his warm jism right down Ben’s throat. Ben savored every drop and let out John’s wet cock back onto his chest wetting the bottom of the gray basketball jersey.
Feeling a bit guilty for the mess, Ben wiped down John’s cock with the bottom of the soccer jersey he was wearing, tucked John back into the underwear, and lay beside him. John was still catching his breath, he looked at Ben curled up beside him and played with his hair again. “Hope you liked your Valentine’s Day present. We better shower before Connor comes back, but we can hop in bed again just like our first night…”