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Chapter 9: E-Days

As April rolled around John was starting to grow tired of the monotony of dorm life and was stressing over school. Ben tried to take him out to dinner in town and to the movies but a big week was coming up for the entire school with a much-needed break: E-Days. John liked the prospect of a day off, but not the idea of what sounded like a non-stop party. If there was one thing that he stuck with from his strict parents, it was the avoidance of heavy drinking and drugs. Connor offered for him to stay over at his house in Colorado Springs for the short break if he and Ben wanted to and John agreed. Ben was somewhat indifferent to getting away, Connor was going to be driving back and forth from home for the duration of the festivities and the couple could just ride back to campus with him if they wanted.

Cole, Connor’s brother, also volunteered to take them mountain biking on Sunday in the Garden of the Gods. As Ben hadn’t met Cole yet he was looking forward to meeting him and making up for what Ben and John missed during Spring Break. From John’s description of Cole, he sounded a lot like John, only much more focused on baseball in high school. Cole had even played on the varsity team when he went to Arizona State graduating last spring, so Ben’s expectations were set high. It sounded like Connor’s family was very excited to host John again too, albeit only for 3 nights. Ben just hoped they got over John being in the closet to them as did Connor. Ben still laughed to himself when he remembered Connor’s family thought Connor and John were a couple at first.

After a jam-packed Friday on campus, Ben, John, Connor, and Cole were relaxing in the finished basement of Connor’s house in Colorado Springs. The Ore-Cart Pull started at 7:30 AM, so the 3 Mines students started their day just after 6 AM. John was somewhat relieved Connor wanted to skip the evening concert, so they all made it back in time for dinner.

“Johnny, how’d you like your first E-Day?” Connor asked. “I know we’re all Freshmen but I kept hearing the MAC outdid themselves this year!

“The cart thing was a bit corny,” John replied. “I did enjoy the field day though, and it was a welcome day off school stuff. I even saw Josh and Sebastian before we left and they looked like they started the party last night.”

“Oh, I was so busy I didn’t even see him!” Connor laughed. “Maybe you are more excited to see the cardboard boat races tomorrow?”

John sighed. “To be honest, I might just skip tomorrow, I could use the sleep-in day. But Benji, don’t let me stop you and Connor from going, you guys can have fun.”

“What! Where’s your Oredigger pride? You don’t even want to see the MAX concert or the Fireworks??” Connor whined and looked at Ben.

John shrugged. “Nope, never heard of him. I’d love to see the fireworks, but honestly, I don’t think I can last a 12-plus hour day just to see them.”

“That’s fine Johnny. If you want to stay here with Connor’s parents I’m not gonna be upset.” Ben sighed.

“I’ll be home!” Cole interrupted. “We can play some Forza while your two are gone. The Rockies are also playing tomorrow too!” Cole slapped John on the leg and John nodded.

“Well, so are the Cubs,” John laughed. “Do I have to fight you over the remote?”

“No,” Cole snickered. “We can watch your game if you want, the Rockies aren’t exactly hot right now.”

Ben grinned, he didn’t realize Cole and John had gotten along so well previously, but maybe John thought of him much like John’s own older brother who played baseball as well as Cole. Cole was the expected older version of Connor, with an athletic build, blue eyes, a blonde mustache and beard, and shorter blonde hair. Ben had seen pictures of Cole in his baseball uniform in both high school and college hanging in the hall upstairs and he found Cole hot in those tight baseball pants he wore. Maybe Ben was a bit jealous too that the age difference between Connor and his brother wasn’t as huge as between him and Nick. Nick and he were pretty close, but after Nick moved out for college when Ben was 8, he felt like an only child.

Before bed, the 4 of them played another card game, but this time it was the more family-friendly Apples to Apples. Around 10:30 John stretched out in a signal that he was tired and wanted to get ready for bed. The brothers took the hint and left Ben and John to themselves in the basement.

John decided to take a shower before bed while Ben ventured back upstairs for a bedtime snack. When he got into the bathroom John decided to leave the door open figuring Ben wouldn’t be long and would want to brush his teeth. It had been a long day and John was glad Ben didn’t seem too upset he was skipping the Saturday festivities. After stripping naked John got into the shower behind the clear glass door. The one thing he hated most about dorms was having to shower with slides on and trying to balance himself wearing them to clean the lower parts of his body without touching the walls. Connor’s parents seemed to be pretty well off and the guest suite was newly renovated and clean so John felt it was a welcome change from his usual routine in shared bathrooms.

When he rinsed out his hair John immediately grabbed his body wash and lathered it over his pubic hair and crotch. The shower also featured jet sprays and John was especially enjoying this, aiming them right at his cock as it was starting to rise. John grabbed the base of his dick as it became erect, then gave it a couple of slow strokes. Ben and he had jerked each other off with their shorts pulled down and cleaned up with tissues last night after they drove in with Connor from campus but they had done nothing today. John was thinking back to last night and was hoping Ben wanted to do more this weekend now that they had the privacy of their own room and a queen-sized bed. Caught in the moment John didn’t realize how long he had been in the shower already and didn’t hear Connor coming back down the stairs with a fresh pair of towels for the guest bathroom. John caught a glimpse of Connor in the mirror and screamed when he realized it wasn’t Ben.

“Yeesh, John, not like I haven’t seen you naked before, I am your roommate remember?” Connor laughed and turned back around.

“Why did you come back down here?” John demanded, his voice echoing off the shower walls as he was covering up his now soft cock with his hands behind the clear shower glass.

“I figured you two needed some fresh towels, I dunno, lock the door next time? Sorry.” Connor shrugged and closed the door behind him while John hurriedly tried to finish his shower.

Upstairs, Ben had a glass of warm chocolate milk and again was looking at the family pictures in the hall and of Cole in his baseball uniform. He nodded at Connor as he passed him by from the basement and watched Connor go back into his room. Ben could only assume the next door was Cole’s room and he was looking for an excuse to bother him.

Ben knocked on the door he presumed was Cole’s and smiled when Cole answered immediately. Cole was already changed for bed, sporting a white Arizona Wildcats t-shirt and mesh black Nike basketball shorts with no socks.

“Hey! What’s up, were you looking for Connor? He is next door.” Cole pointed.

“Uhh, not really.” Ben thought, trying to come up with something. “But I was wondering if you had some pajama pants I could borrow, I only brought shorts. John said Connor has a weird thing about other people wearing his clothes.”

“Oh, I never heard that, but sure come on in and get whatever you need.” Cole opened the door wide for Ben and Ben took in Cole’s room as he would usually do when trying to get a peek into another guy’s closet.

Baseball was very much Cole’s life, he had a number of bobbleheads on the top shelf of his desk, some signed cards and baseballs on his dresser, a cap collection hanging off a rack on his closet door, and a bunch of his Arizona Wildcats jerseys pinned on the wall. Ben followed Cole to the dresser and Ben ran his fingers on the acrylic case of signed baseball on top.

“Troy Tolowitzki,” Cole chuckled. “He played for the Rockies when they made it to the World Series. Did you play baseball like John too?”

“Uh no, just tennis.” Ben grinned. “Do you think I can also borrow some shorts to sleep in? I only brought one pair too and they only seem to last two nights.”

“Help yourself, shorts are the 2nd drawer from the top, and the pajama pants are on the bottom.” Cole sat down at his bed and flipped through his phone.

Ben was giddy with excitement now, he felt himself pulsating in his Nike boxer briefs that he was wearing under his cargo pants. Opening the second drawer as instructed Ben laid eyes on Cole’s sports shorts collection. There was nothing as silky and smooth as Ben’s favorites, but Ben picked out a pair of microfiber royal blue Under Armour shorts with a gray vertical stripe on each side.

Something on the other side of the drawer caught Ben’s interest. Among the Nike and UA compression shorts that were not unlike the ones John and Ben had, was a pair of plain black Shock Doctor compression shorts with a cup holder. John hadn’t brought such protective wear to college and Ben had never encountered such a brand before. Ben laid the Shock Doctor shorts on the top of the drawer but noticed the cup wasn’t in the pouch. While he was disappointed the cup was missing, Ben still had to have the Shock Doctor shorts to himself and he hid them balled up in the Under Armour shorts as he picked them up and closed the drawer. Opening the bottom drawer Ben chose a pair of green and blue plaid pajama pants that he likely was just going to return to Cole unworn.

With his mission accomplished Ben closed the drawer and walked over to one of the red Nike Arizona Wildcats Jerseys hanging on the wall and felt the material with his free hand. It was nothing like the soccer jerseys or even moisture-wicking shirts Ben wore, but there was a certain mystique to it since Cole had played on a Division I team compared to the Division II athletes Ben ran into at Mines.

“So you really did play for Arizona?” Ben asked. “That’s awesome!”

Cole nodded. “Yeah that was my Jersey in Senior year, but we made it to the College World Series the year before in 2021. John said he played baseball too, but his basketball team was much better. Did you get what you needed?”

Ben nodded. “Yup, I’ll get this back to you on Sunday before you drive us back to Golden. Thanks for this, have a great night!” Ben held the clothes close to his body, making sure not to reveal he had taken the Shock Doctor shorts as he walked past Cole and out the door.

“G’night!” Cole shouted as Ben closed the door.

Running down the basement stairs, Ben made a dash for the bathroom as he got to the bottom. It looked like John was already in bed but Ben didn’t say anything to him as he locked the bathroom door and quickly took off his pants and underwear.

Already rock hard, Ben slipped the Shock Doctor shorts onto his slender body. Looking in the mirror Ben admired himself in Cole’s underwear that were too big for him. He thought back to the pictures of Cole upstairs and him likely having these same shorts under his uniform had Ben rubbing the fly of the material against the head of his cock. Ben picked up Cole's blue shorts that he had let fall on the bathroom floor and put them on, then took off his shirt. He was now clad only in Cole’s clothes and imagined Cole back in Arizona wearing exactly what he was wearing.

Ben couldn’t contain himself, he pulled down the shorts and underwear and let his uncut cock loose over the waistband of the shorts and continued to jerk off outside them. He felt guilty as the thrill of wearing John’s clothes was now replaced by the thrill of John potentially catching Ben getting aroused wearing someone else’s clothes just like when they were wearing Sebastian’s clothes last month. He couldn’t stop jacking off though, and Ben tried to think about John in his own Bobcat’s UA baseball uniform with the tight gray pants instead of Cole. Leaning against the bathroom wall wasn’t the ideal place for him to masturbate, however, he was now getting so close he could feel it. He looked down at his dick out of Cole’s shorts, with his hand grasped tightly around his foreskin, all ready to blow as he stroked faster and faster.

Finally on his tippy toes, Ben grunted, his hips spasmed, shooting ropes of cum from his cock onto the bathroom rugs and floor as he moaned “Unhh Johnnnnny!” softly under his breath.

Ben fell back to earth, he was impressed with himself as that was the first time in a while he masturbated himself without a pair of shorts on his dick. He pulled up the shorts and used a hand towel to wipe his cum off the floor and out the rug as best he could. Now the guilt hit him even harder as he washed his face and hands. He loved everything about John, but Ben couldn't control himself when the opportunity to get a tour of someone else’s room and drawers arose. At least it was John on his mind when he finished the deed and not Cole.

Ben thought he had better come clean about it to John as he brushed his teeth, John was probably wondering why he took so long upstairs and in the bathroom. He went into the guest bedroom next door to find John engrossed in bed with some muscle-building videos on Instagram.

John looked up from his phone to see Ben shirtless and in Cole’s shorts. “Hey babe, those are new, where ya been?”

Ben got in bed with John and John put away his phone on the dresser to charge. “They’re Cole’s shorts, I’m sorry hun.” Ben sniffed.

“Why are you wearing Cole’s shorts and what’s there to be so sorry about?” John asked as he glanced his now free hands across his own black and yellow UA shorts still regretting he didn’t finish getting rid of his boner in the shower and hoping Ben was there to help him with it now.

“I kinda went up to his room and asked if I could borrow a bunch of stuff, just to get a peak at his sportswear. It’s just something I do, I can’t help it. It's just super erotic to me seeing it all, knowing a hot jock wears it. Also when we were at Sebastian’s I couldn’t stop myself from doing the same thing. I love you Johnny, I hope you can forgive me. Nothing actually happened between us though, I just get so excited wearing stuff even when it wasn’t yours. It started back whenever I was over at Evan’s house growing up, and I was even looking through Allan’s closet that first week at school, but he had nothing interesting.” Ben sighed.

“I love you too Benji.” John rolled over and rubbed Ben’s shoulder. “It’s not that weird, we always knew you had a sportswear fetish and it wasn’t always my own that was going to get you off. Why else did I think you would like that Rec indoor soccer jersey I gave you?

“Really, you mean it? You aren’t weirded out?” Ben grinned.

“I mean it. Seeing you in my clothes turns me on, but I’m not jealous or anything seeing you in Cole’s shorts either.” John slipped his hands into the shorts Ben was wearing and felt the Shock Doctor compression shorts under them. He wondered why Ben wasn’t getting instantly hard again but didn’t ask.

“Thanks.” Ben moaned as John felt him, but Ben was already spent for the night. John took his hand back when he gathered Ben wasn’t in the mood for anything tonight and they fell asleep right next to each other.

On Saturday morning John woke up alone, it was past 9 AM and Ben had already left with Connor for the day back in Golden. John’s morning wood felt exceptionally horny against the nylon fabric of his black and yellow UA shorts and he started humping the bed through them. John grunted as he got close, but he stopped short of blowing his load because he wanted to save the only pair of shorts he packed for the weekend for fun with Ben. After fiddling around through the fabric again he figured he should get ready and he slipped a pair of gray UA track pants over the shorts and changed into a new plain black UA t-shirt.

“Morning!” John greeted Cole in the kitchen when he went upstairs. Cole had almost finished his toast which was smothered with a thicker layer of peanut butter than even John put on his. “Are you usually out of bed this early on a Saturday with nothing to do?”

“Yeah,” Cole took a sip of his morning coffee. “I’m not one to sleep in on any day of the week, I was cleaning my room a bit before breakfast because I felt a bit embarrassed of the mess when Ben knocked on my door last night and needed something.” Cole got up and went to pour John a fresh cup of orange juice from the fridge and get him some milk.

“Thanks.” John nodded as he poured the milk into a bowl of Lucky Charms. “I’m not sure what happened with Benji, he’s usually the boy scout and is always prepared, if anything I thought he would overpack for this weekend.

“Oh, that’s fine. I’m happy to help.” Cole went to put away his dishes. “Speaking of clothes, I was looking for my gear for my beer league softball season that starts soon and I couldn’t find my cup holder this morning, all I could find was my cup! Do you want to come out with me for lunch today and look at Dick’s?” Cole asked.

John gulped down his cereal and raised his eyebrows. “Dick’s?” He said with a confused look on his face.

“Dick’s Sporting Goods!” Cole laughed and threw a dish towel toward John. “What were you thinking of? If you come with me we can go to In-N-Out for lunch, my treat ok?

“Oh, sure! Just tell me when you’re ready to go.” John chuckled, he at first thought Cole had something perverted in mind and wasn’t sure what his intention was.

“We’ll leave in an hour or so. Should have plenty of time to eat and come home to game before your Cubs play.” Cole patted John on the shoulder and picked up the towel on the floor.

John’s phone chimed with some pictures from Ben at the Cardboard Boat Races on Clear Creek behind the Mines Campus. Everyone looked to be freezing cold and wet, Ben even sent the 🥶 emoji to express that he was shivering in the cold despite being dry up on the riverbank. Feeling pretty comfortable inside the warmth of Connor’s house, John wasn’t beyond giving Ben a tease and he reacted with a “haha” and typed looks like fun! then put away his dishes before going back downstairs.

Cole knocked on the wall before the open door to the guest bedroom about an hour later. “Ready John? I kept looking and I still can’t find em.” Cole groaned.

“Yup, I’m here!” John came out of the bedroom still wearing the sweatpants, but he had put on a gray Mines hoodie over his shirt and paired them with some royal blue Nike elite socks.

At Dick’s John wandered off into the UA section to see if they still carried Ben and his favorite pairs of shorts. John couldn’t find anything that was similar to their nylon
Under Armour “Pressure Shorts” or even the shiny pair Ben found in the thrift store last month. Most of the shorts now were the polyester microfiber type like the ones he borrowed from Sebastian that night in Denver. Now feeling somewhat glad he got Ben’s favorite shorts in all the colors available last year as well as some extra pairs for Ben, he found Cole looking at some white Shock Doctor cup holders.

“Think I might go with white this time, what do you think? It comes with another cup, so I guess I’ll have two.” Cole pondered.

“I never used these ones for baseball.” John shrugged. “I had an Under Armour Cup but didn’t wear it every game because I played Right Field.”

Cole scoffed. “Well, Third Base is totally different! You really seem to be big into Under Armour, did they have your school’s contract too?

“Yup!” John replied and felt another pair of the hanging Shock Doctor shorts in his hand. The material was similar to the UA Compression Shorts he wore for sports and he felt himself getting a boner again. John didn’t think he was attracted to an older, more masculine guy than himself such as Cole, so maybe he was just getting aroused on Ben’s behalf being at Dick’s Sporting Goods with all this talk about sportswear and protective cups.

“White it is then!” Cole picked up the XL compression shorts from the rack and walked toward the cashier. “Are you getting anything?” he asked.

“Nah, Ben and I have all the sportswear we need for now, I still rock that Cubs sweatshirt you got me though!” John chuckled, finally feeling his woody go down.

After they were finished at Dick’s John and Cole drove in the Jeep to In-N-Out Burger before going back home. They got their orders and the two sat down in a booth together.

Cole took a sip of his Coke before starting on his burger. “You know it’s been fun having you over for a bit, you’re almost like the younger brother I never had. Connor was never really into sports, Mom knew he was much more talented in music and theater. I think he lasted 2 weeks in Little League!”

“Really, Connor played baseball too?” John laughed.

“Briefly,” Cole smirked. “Don’t get me wrong, I love him to bits and I was in those things when I was younger too, but I sort of missed playing ball and stuff in the backyard like I did with our older brother David. Has anything changed since you came out to Connor? I haven’t seen you since Thanksgiving.”

John started on his fries dipping one in ketchup. “Well, I don’t know if he told you but he was very hurt after I told him I had been keeping my relationship with Ben secret from him and things were very awkward for nearly a week. Eventually, the three of us had a long talk and Connor forgave us both. Ben and I didn’t hide it from anyone at school after that and Connor became one of our biggest cheerleaders. He knows I’m Bi, but he’s never come on to me sexually, just like he never did when I had a girlfriend and Connor thought I was straight.”

Cole took a bite out of his Double-Double and put it back down. “Connor did mention it to me only after Thanksgiving when we talked, but I’m glad you guys could work it out on your own. Mom and Elise kept talking about you for weeks and how the first boy Connor ever brought home turned out to be straight. All I could do was shake my head and wonder why he never told them, but everyone knows now I guess!”

“Except my own parents.” John lowered his head.

“Oh, do you want them to know?” Cole grinned.

“Maybe I don’t anymore,” John took a deep breath. “I grew up in a very conservative family, and I know exactly how it’s going to go when they find out.”

“Well, I hope one day you can tell them, you might be surprised.” Cole started on his fries. “Connor told you about when he came out at 16 right? Though it was plainly obvious for the most part, not much changed here at home when I got back from Arizona.

“He did, your family sounds religious like mine from what Connor has said, but your mom is nothing like my mom.” John started on his burger and looked at his phone to see how Ben was doing at Mines. The boat races had finished and Ben sent him a picture of the big inflatable bouncy castles and slides that had taken over the fields for the carnival.

When they were finished lunch John opened up a lot more to Cole about Ben on the drive back to the house. Cole seemed genuinely interested in their relationship and was also a great ally. Back in Arizona, he had also met his now ex-girlfriend in college, but when Cole moved back to Colorado Springs after graduation to work for his dad that long-term relationship ended. John seemed a bit disappointed with this, but in all likelihood, he didn’t see himself moving back to Wisconsin after college.

After they got back to the house John changed out of his hoodie and sweatpants to be comfortable again. He didn’t think Cole would notice he was freeballing in his black UA shorts and he sat down on the couch in the basement and turned on the TV to wait for him.

Cole came down the stairs and he had changed into red plaid pajama bottoms to get comfortable like John. “Ready for some Forza?” He smiled as he handed John one of the Xbox controllers and turned the console on.

“Just go easy on me and show me what to do.” John said as he took the controller. “I’m not that much of a gamer, Benji and his roommate tried to get me into Minecraft once and I think I set the server record for most deaths in a 24 hour period.”

“Okay, we’ll take it slow if you want to drive like a grandma on the way to church, I have the Honda Odyssey unlocked if that is more your speed.” Cole laughed.

John rolled his eyes and looked annoyed. “No, I’m fine with whatever starter car this is, but quick, tell me what to do!”

Cole tilted his controller toward John. “Right Trigger to go, Left to stop. Just like driving your own car right?”

John nodded and quickly got the hang of the game on their first race. After an hour of gaming, John got up off the couch to stretch between races, but he didn’t notice he was tenting again into the black Under Armour shorts. Cole looked up and chucked. “You ok John? The sound of my Lambo turned you on or something?”

Looking down, John's face lit up red with embarrassment. “Uh no, I didn’t get a chance to get off at all yesterday cause Ben was pretty tired, and these nylon shorts make us a bit horny.” John sat back down with a huge grin on his face.

“Don’t let me stop you, a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do.” Cole leaned back on the couch. “My second-year roommate and I would jerk off together in our own beds before I met Zoey. Didn’t mean there was anything between us, just two buds enjoying themselves doing something all guys need to do. Sometimes it was a race!”

“He was straight too?” John asked as he felt his bulbous tip through the black shorts and the tiniest bit of precum oozed through the material.

“Blake?” Cole responded. “Oh yeah, he was a swimmer, he had no problems showing off that body. We can do it now too together if you’re comfortable with that.” Cole tossed away his controller and moved onto the same part of the sectional sofa as John.

John nodded and closed his eyes as he slowly stroked his cock through the soft nylon material of his UA shorts just like Ben would touch him wearing them. He then opened his eyes back up and looked over at Cole who had taken off his socks and pajama pants and was now only wearing a gray Air Force Academy t-shirt with wild-looking Ethika long boxer briefs covered in yellow-faced emojis. Ben would be jealous of John right now, seeing Cole’s powerful, athletic body half-naked.

“Where’d you get those?” John laughed still working at his cock through his shorts.

“What, you don’t like my Ethikas?” Cole frowned. “I thought they are all the rage these days.”

“They look hot on you, just a bit of a silly design. Don’t they make plain ones?” John leaned back and pulled up his Mines shirt fully expecting a big mess coming up soon.

“I have plain red ones if you want me to change them, or do you want to borrow them too like Benji? Cole laughed and slipped his thick 7-inch circumcised cock over the waistband of his underwear.

John was impressed, he knew Connor had big feet and that usually meant other big things, but he would always look away when there was a chance to see Connor naked. Seeing how huge Cole was confirmed John’s theory but he tried his best not to compare Cole’s dick to Ben’s and he closed his eyes again just like he would look away when Connor had to be naked in their dorm.

Wanting to get a better grip on his dick John looked back down and slipped his dick over top of the waistband of his shorts. He could hear Cole slapping away at his own bare cock and breathing heavily to himself, perhaps trying to catch up to John to make it a race like they were playing Forza again.

Moaning and gasping to himself too now John was furiously jacking his cock out of the shorts. He pulled the shorts down even lower with his other hand and thought back to Ben whacking him off just like this Thursday night in the bed. Now ready to burst John couldn’t hold back, his hips lifted off the couch and he moaned “Bennnji” as he fired wad after wad onto his bare chest, shorts, and all over his hand.

John looked at his hand covered in spunk and wiped it on his shorts before tucking himself back in them. He had wanted to save the shorts for Ben or at least sleep in them again for their final night here but it looked like he would have to wear the pair of Cole’s shorts Ben had tonight since John’s black shorts were messed up now.

Cole wasn’t too far behind and John felt less guilty observing him now that John was spent. Watching Cole stroke his massive cock captivated him and John could see Cole was close now as he used his free hand to pull up his shirt just like he did. “Mmmmmmph!” Cole groaned as he bucked up and shot steady ropes of milky white cum all over his chest then slowly caught his breath.

Kicking the box of tissues on the coffee table towards himself with his foot, Cole grabbed some from the top. Trying his best not to get the couch wet, he wiped his chest clean then tossed the box toward John to wipe himself off.

“Thanks, bud.” John nodded his head and took a tissue to clean off his chest and hand. “Guess I beat you in that race.” He smiled.