His breathing was paced, rhythmically
following the movement of his body and his partner’s body too. John had always
wanted this; he had had a crush for Dean since the first week of class. But it
was only now, during the first break of spring that they had come into real
contact with each other and everything had unfolded in a matter of days. Dean
watched John in the dark and John felt Dean’s face, as they both exhaled and
inhaled in almost the same way.
They shared a kiss and continued, John having
his hands on Dean’s chest, moving slowly. Dean grabbed John’s face with one of
his hands and he realized he could cover almost the young man’s entire face
with it. He didn’t try to do it because it would have been distracting, but he
realized he had never been with a man he could do that too. John was, after
all, one of his students in college. He had never really paid much attention to
him until an incident occurred in recent days.
John had been caught cheating on a test and
Dean, who had gone through that before, told him he wouldn’t get the
administrative offices know about the mishap if he repeated the test another
day. John, of course, agreed. The day of the repeat test, Dean was prepared to
wait for John to finish but summer had started and he noticed how nice John
looked in shorts and in a tank top. He began a conversation with him right when
the test happened and the next thing he knew, they were having some coffee not
far from college.
Suddenly, Dean moved a little and John made a
grimace out of pain. Dean asked if that had hurt but John shook his head and
launched himself at him, kissing Dean passionately as if they were about to be
separated. Dean kissed the student but decided to change places. He wanted to
be on top now. John understood at once and positioned himself like John wanted
to. They continued like that, John grabbing Dean’s hands strongly and Dean
kissing his neck as they had sex.
It was not the first time for Dean, being with
a student that is. He knew it was a mistake and that it was dangerous but,
somehow, he had also being lured into it by that other guy. He had been a year
older than John and had been a really bad student for almost all year and he
practically offered himself to Dean in order to pass the class. It wasn’t
ethical but he wasn’t able to resist.
The first time they did it was right in his
office, just five minutes away from any person with the power to expel the kid
or send Dean to jail. But they did exactly that for several other times, until
there wasn’t any need for it to continue. The kid moved on with better grades
and Dean just stayed there.
He had being in a relationship with other men
his age too. But he could never really work it out with them. They always
wanted so much more: someone with a better body, someone that felt younger,
someone that could go with them to crazy adventures every once in a while. And
although Dean played with risky things, he really didn’t like to go hiking or
diving with sharks or anything like that. He was over forty but he hadn’t been
through his mid-life crisis. He just wanted to share a moment with someone and
just lived through that. He wasn’t interested in anything more.
That’s why John was so perfect. He would come
in his shorts and Converse shoes almost every weekend, to his house, and they
would have sex for several hours. He had lost the ability to know if that was
right or wrong. He always reminded himself of John’s age: 21. That wasn’t
illegal and they couldn’t do anything with that argument. It’s not like he was
a high school teacher. But, nevertheless, he knew he could have problems.
John finished first but gave Dean some time to
finish too. They kissed afterwards and rested for some minutes, before John put
on his clothes and announced he had to leave because he had to go help his
mother with some arrangement for a barbecue party they were going to have for
the whole family. Dean thought that was very sweet but he didn’t say anything.
He just gave John one last kiss at the door.
As he showered, moments later, he realized
that when John left, he had wanted to go after him or asked him to stay. It was
the first time he felt that. He had never had that issue with the other boy. He
had been such a business transaction, that even the sex was not even exciting
or interesting. It had been just something to do, and that was it. No pleasure
or interest in anything from any side.
Dean massaged his skin with liquid body gel,
John closed his eyes and decided to remember John’s body, centimeter by
centimeter. He knew his legs perfectly, his buttocks, his back and his chest.
He loved his lips and his hair, cut in the way many young kid cut their hair,
shorter in the sides and longer in the middle. He liked that and had even
thought about getting that in the barbershop but he realized he would look
weird in class.
After all, college began again in only a week
and he had to go back to been, or at least pretending to be, a very old man.
Every single student thought that just because he had some grey hairs and was
over forty, he was automatically an old man. But he didn’t felt like one. Yet,
no one wanted one of those teachers that looks older and behaves like a
youngster. That’s simply wrong.
He opened his eyes again; once he was done
thinking about John and about every other sexual experience he had lived in
recent years. They weren’t that many although he had tried several new things
to bring some spice to his life. Dean had tried saunas and discos and sex
clubs, all very fun but definitely not for him. In every single one of those
places, he had felt he was an invisible person waiting for something impossible
to happen. It was pathetic how, when younger men came in any of those places,
every guy looked like a hungry tiger. It was pathetic.
After opening the windows and pulling up the
shades, Dean walked around his house naked, looking for his cellphone. The
apartment was not very big, so he got really annoyed when something was
missing. He finally saw it on the kitchen counter and remembered that the day
had begun with him offering some dark chocolate to John. It had been something
very cheesy to do, but he really thought the kid would enjoy it.
Back in his bedroom, he checked his phone and
thought about what was always in his mind: did John really liked him or was it
just because he was his teacher or because he needed better grades or maybe
even just because he was an older available guy? He always asked himself that
and the answers that he came up with were always torture. It didn’t make any
sense to be thinking about that. It was something that happened and that was
it.
Then, he heard a knock on the door. He put on
some boxers to go an answer. As he went to open, he realized they had not been
buzzed in. Behind the door were a man and a woman. The woman presented her
badge: she was with the police. She told Dean he had to come with them to the
police station. Dean tried to ask what it was all about but the woman insisted
on him getting dressed and joining them fast.
He did so and some minutes later he was been
interrogated in a small room. Everything got to his brain in waved the size of
a tsunami: apparently, John’s parents had hired a private detective to follow
their son, as they realized he was never home. They were apparently a paranoid couple.
The detective had taken several pictures of them going up to John’s apartment
and they were even infrared pictures and audios.
Dean reminded them that John was twenty-one.
The two officers looked at each other and told him that wasn’t true. They had
John’s birth certificate and it confirmed he was actually seventeen. He had
finished high school with honors with a very young age and decided to enter
college right away. After all, it was his first year.
Dean realized John himself had lied to him.
But why? What would he get from that? Was it because he was afraid? The police
formally arrested John and, soon, he had no job to go back too. A horrible
chapter of his life had just begun and all because of a seemingly innocent lie.