Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:24:57 -0800 (PST)
From: D D <acne_23@yahoo.com>
Subject: The Player 5

I don't know if you guys like to read gay fictions (real fictions which
were published nation-wide), but I love them and I have read quite a
lot. My favorites are:

1) "The God in Flight" by Laura Argini.
2) "The Front Runner" by Patricia Nell Warren.
3) "The Dreyfus Affair" by Peter Lefcourt.
4) "Closet Case" by Robert Rodi.

They are in order of my favorites. Check them out and tell me what you think.

For those stories on Nifty, I like:

1) Turnabout (High school). The characters were too mature as high school
kids. But the story lines were excellent.

2) Chris and Nigel (High school). Well written at the beginning, but then
it was just drifting off without a clear direction in the last few
chapters.

3) I wanna be with you (College). Very funny piece of writing. Well composed.

Now back to "The Player":

From last time:

	In spite of his fear, Jack loved the kiss, it was soft, not very
sensuous, but sweet and excitable. He wanted to do it again.
	The temptation was built up inside Jack's trembling body. He
lowered his face, one more inch and their lips would touch. The distance
was getting closer. Too dangerously close. Jack closed his eyes and let his
desire taking over him.
	Their lips touched, again. Jack was lingering his lips on the
soccer player's lips one second too long. He got the tingling response from
the other person's lips.
	The sleeping beauty was awake.


Chapter 5: Secret


					  1
	Jack pulled himself out from Dan's lips; he tried to get up and run
away. Two strong hands held his head back. Their lips touched again. Now,
the kiss was rolling in full motion, fiercely, hungrily and
passionately. The feverish kiss went on for two minutes before Jack pulled
himself out reluctantly. He needed to breathe.
	"Wow." It was all Jack could say.
	"Wow," said the other.
	Then, Jack's mind was snapped back into reality; he and Dan were
kissing each other. What were they thinking?
	"Dan...what...?" Jack mumbled.
	"Shut up. Come here and kiss me some more." Dan winked his eyes
seductively.
	Jack opened his eyes in bewilderment. What has got into Dan? Why
was he acting weird all of sudden?
	Dan got himself up and pulled Jack into him. He kissed the football
player for all he was worth. The soccer player whispered between kisses:
 	"It's okay Jack. You want it. I want it. We're right for each
other."
	"But Dan...you're straight, aren't you?"
	"Not anymore. I've wanted you for so long. I want...you...so bad."
Dan said, breathing heavily between their kisses.
	"But what about Jenny?" Jack got his sense back.
	"What about her?" Dan was confused. He didn't even remember his
girlfriend at this moment.
	"She's your girlfriend." Jack looked at Dan, painfully
acknowledging the fact.
	"Yeah, but I'm gay...I mean...I like Jenny, but...I like you too."
Dan said and looked down at his hands.
	"You have to tell Jenny you're gay Dan. It's for both of your
shakes." Jack looked at Dan intently.
	"I don't know, Jack. I don't know." Dan covered his face with both
hands and shook his head profusely.
	Sensing the uneasiness in Dan's voice, Jack dropped the subject. He
looked at Dan firmly, "Dan, how much do you like me?"
	"A lot. You're all I've dreamt of for the last two weeks." Dan
confessed.
	"I like you too. But, I don't want to be with you just for the
sex. I...I want to have a boyfriend." Jacks muttered.
	"A boyfriend?" Dan asked in an equally soft voice.
	"Dan, do you want to go out with me?" Jack looked at the confused
guy expectantly.
	"Um...yeah." Dan said sweetly, then adding: "What do boyfriends do
with each other?"
	"They do this," Jack pulled the soccer player down to the carpet,
on top of him. His arms were circling around Dan's body. His legs were
entangled with his boyfriend's legs. Their lips were glued together. The
frankness and strength of that kiss was devastating. Jack opened Dan's lips
with his own, licking them slowly. His eyes shut, he moved his lips gently
back and forth between Dan's, then he slipped his tongue into the soccer
player's mouth. They took turns gently sucking each other's fleshes,
probing, tasting, and enjoying each other's warm breath.
	Dan untangled their embrace and started pulling Jack's cutoff
T-shirt over his head. He got up to his knee to look at the half-naked
figure down there.
	Jack's body was big, yet toned and very defined.
	The football player's muscular chest was covered with light blonde
hairs, just like Dan fantasized about. The sizes of his pectoral muscles
were exceptionably big; they were round, firm, and pointed out proudly
under Dan's trembling touch. The pink nipples, which were in nickel size,
stood up erectly after his first touch. Below the chest was a flat stomach,
not shaping in a six pack, but rather a defined eight pack. The sweaty
hairs ran along from his chest to his navel, and down below to his groin.
	Dan lowered his face to the beautiful body below him. He continued
his tongue job, breathing heavily with desire. Starting at the lips, he
then moved down to the chin, biting it and going down under. His tongue ran
lightly along the veins on Jack's muscular neck in a teasing and playful
act. Leaving the big guy gasping in anticipation, the devilish tongue
traveled down to the beautiful chest, it circled around the pink nipples,
lightly, then fiercely touched. Not stopping on one place too long, the
sweaty tongue moved down to the navel; it went deep inside the hole,
jumping around the base and going back to the top in circular
motions. Still not satisfying with its discovery, the playful tongue
continued to go down, lower. Before reaching the groin, the target of its
desire, it was stopped by two strong hands.
	The owner of the playful tongue was pushed back, lying flat on the
carpet.
	"What's wrong Jack?" Dan looked at the football player in shock.
	"Dan, I...I can't do it all the way. I'm not ready for it... I'm
sorry." A very red face talked to him.
	"What? That's it? But I wanted you for so long. I...I needed you
Jack."
	"Dan, I don't want to rush things. Let's take it slow, okay? I
think, for now, kisses and making out are enough. I want our first time
together will be special, not like this. Beside, I'm scared..." Jack hid
his red face in the palms of his hands.
	"Huh?" Dan was confused.
	"Don't laugh, okay? I...I've never had sex before, with man or
woman. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I can even do it right."
Jack explained in a very soft voice; he wanted to cry.
	Dan hugged him and whispered into his shoulder: "Oh Jack, I'm so
sorry. I understand what you're saying. Let's forget it, okay?"
	Then, the soccer player asked innocently: "What do you want to do
now? Beside making love, of course."
	"Hahaha...very funny, Mr. Nguyen." Jack made a face.
	Dan Nguyen leaned over and kissed Jack lightly on the lips. "You're
so easy to be played with." He planted more soft kisses on Jack's
eyes. "You know Jack, when you're doing your childlike face, you're so
cute."
	Jack smiled, "So, I'm just a kid to you, aren't I?" He grabbed
Dan's shoulder and kissed him back, squarely on the mouth.
	"Yeah." Dan closed his eyes, enjoying the sweet kiss. He opened his
eyes seconds later and saw Jack staring at him.
	"What?" Dan was worried. "Do I have something funny on my face?"
	"Nah, I'm just looking at your cute face. You're beautiful,
baby. You look like a girl, so beautiful, so delicate." Jack said and
gently swept his hands across the other guy's face.
	"Am I?" Dan pouted.
	"Yeah."
	"Fine. If I'm a girl, then what's this?" Dan grabbed his hidden
package, circling it around.
	"I don't know, I haven't seen it in my own eyes. What is it?" Jack
laughed uncontrollably.
	"Wanna see it? If I take it out, you have to kiss it. Oh, I forget,
you're not allowed to play intimacy with me, Jacko." Dan shot back
playfully.
	"That's hurt. Never mind then." Jack pretended to look hurtful.
  	Dan took Jack into his arms, pushed him down on the carpet and
rolled on top of him. Their bodies intertwined, arms wrapped around arms,
legs slid against legs. Their hardening cocks rubbed against each other
with an unimaginably frictional force.
	The football player pushed his boyfriend out, breathing heavily,
"Dan..."
	"Oh sorry. No more rubbing." Dan lied down, side by side with Jack;
his arm wrapped around the big guy's waist. He whispered against the other
guy's shoulder:
	"Jack, I can't tell Jenny I'm gay, but I'll break up with her,
soon.".
	"Okay Dan. I understand."
	And they were drifting off to sleep.


				            2
	At 7:00 AM Friday morning, Jack knocked on Dan's dorm room three
times before the soccer player came out, wearing nothing but a small boxer
shorts.
	"Jack, what are you doing here?"
	"Hello to you too, sunshine." Jack looked at Dan and swallowed
hard. The soccer player looked so sexy in his underwear. His naked upper
body was more muscular than Jack's thought; his smooth chest and flat
stomach were glistening under the sunlight. He was stunning.
	"Keep your eyes straight and close your mouth,
Mr. Kirkpatrick. It's not polite to salivate in front of a near naked man."
Dan poked Jack in the head, joking playfully.
	"Umm...sorry. You're so beautiful without your clothes...I
mean...You're always beautiful, but without clothes, you're stunning." Jack
mumbled, still looking hungrily at Dan.
	"Your lost, man. Who said we can't have sex until he's ready?" Dan
played the "no sex before it felt right" card again. He whispered the dirty
words in his boyfriend's ears: "You know, you can see more of me than just
these pecs. I have a..."
	Jack's face went deep red instantly.
	"Ha...just playing with ya. Ok, sit here and wait for me. I'll take
a quick shower and we can go to classes together." Dan got up to get his
necessities for the shower.
	While waiting for Dan to take his shower, Jack paced across the
room, thinking about last night's event. He was usually shy, and it was a
surprise that he made the first move in their last night encounter.
	"Wow, maybe I've changed. Maybe love made me a stronger man."
	Jack talked to himself and buried his head into deep thought
again. Did he love Dan or was it just a sexual attraction toward the guy?
If it was just a sexual attraction, why couldn't he make love to him? Jack
liked to touch Dan, he wanted to kiss and caress him all the time, but
making love was a big decision to him. He couldn't do that. He was not
ready to do things that he's never experienced before. As virginal as he
was, Jack's had many fantasizes about making love with men, but when
actually facing it, he was drawing himself back.
	"Maybe I had a problem with intimacy," thought Jack.
	At that time, Dan walked into the room, with a towel wrapped around
his small waist.
	"Jack, how could you come up here without being carded at the front
desk down there?" Dan dried his hair and asked casually.
	Jack explained: "That security guy in the front desk is a friend
from my football team. This is the first time I see him here. When I told
him I want to come up to my friend's room, he let me go without
questioning."
	"Oh, that's it." Dan breathed out. In the shower, he had thought
about his wet dream last week and things happened this morning, they were
almost the same. The only difference was that they didn't make passionate
love on his bed. Dan never believed that dream and reality could meet
coincidentally, but now, it was partly true.
	Jack came to the soccer player, wrapped his arms around his waist
and kissed him heartily. "I love you."
	Dan kissed him back, then pulled himself out, looking at Jack in
surprise: "What's that all about?"
	"Oh, nothing. I just want to say that I love you. I never told
anyone these words before, and you're my first." Jack put his head onto
Dan's shoulder and sighed happily.
	"Jack, I...I don't know if I'm in love with you yet. I mean...I
like you a lot, but I'm not sure I can love you so soon." Dan held Jack in
his arms.
	"It's okay, Dan. I don't expect you to love me right away, it takes
time."
	"Oh Jack, you're making me all horny again. Look." Dan pushed his
boyfriend out and showed him the bulging package under his towel. The
package was growing to an impressive shape.
	Jack looked away from the beautiful sight, shaking all over. He
said, not looking up, "Go change, Dan. You're late for classes."
	Dan raised his eyebrows in surprise, then remembering the fear Jack
had, he quietly walked to his closet to get dress.
	The phone rang.
	"Jack, could you pick up the phone for me? I'm not decent yet." Dan
yelled out from inside the closet.
	"Hello?" Jack picked up the receiver.
	"Hello? Dan?"
	"Umm...Dan's getting dress. Wait a second, I'll call him." Jack put
the phone down, tended to call out for him, but the guy's voice made him
stop.
	"Jack? It's okay. Just tell Dan I'm waiting for him down here at
the service desk. Oh, I'm Bill, by the way." There was a giggle on the
line.
	"Ok Bill. We'll come down there in a second." Jack said and hung
up. He was surprised that Bill came here to walk with Dan to classes. Since
Monday of this week, Jack came here every day, and he never saw Bill. Now,
he was worried, he wondered what Bill would say if he'd know their secret.


                             3
	Jack and Dan walked down the stairs, hands in hands. When coming to
the first floor, they dropped their hands involuntary. People were around
them.
	"Hi Jack. Hi Dan." Bill greeted them excitedly.
	"What's wrong with Bill? Why is he always in good mood?" Jack
thought to himself and said out loud. "Morning Bill. How your doing?"
	"Good, man. Good. What are you doing in Dan's room so early?" Bill
asked innocently, then putting more punch on his statement, "Hey, don't
tell me you guys slept together last night in that room." He said and made
a smooching sound.
	"What? What the fuck are you talking about, Bill?" Dan's face went
red, half in embarrassment, half in anger.
	"It's a joke, buddy. Hey, take it easy, okay?" Bill wrapped his
arms around Dan's shoulder, squeezing it lightly.
	Dan pushed the high-spirit guy out in an attempt to get away from
the friendly hug. He looked at Jack, who was looking at them curiously, and
whispered, "He's crazy."
	"Dan, why are you so jumpy today?" Bill was surprised when seeing
Dan acting strange.
	Dan realized that he was overreacting. "Sorry Bill."
	"Hey, is today your second tryout day?" Bill concerned. "No wonder
you're a mess. Still worry about it huh?"
	"Oh shit, I forgot. The tryout is on this afternoon. I have to play
well today or I won't be on the final team. Damn, I haven't practiced for a
week." Dan swore repeatedly while hitting him on the head.
	"You'll be fine, Dan. Don't worry too much." Jack calmed him down.
	"I hope so."
	"Ok, bye guys. See you this afternoon after the tryout, okay?" Bill
said and left.
	They were alone now. Jack held Dan's hands and squeezed them
affectionately. "Bye babe. Don't beat yourself up before the game, okay?
I'll see you at lunch."


                            4
	Dan sat on the grass of the soccer field, feeling relaxed. Since
the lunch with his boyfriend, Dan felt much better. He got all the energy
he needed for the tryout. And he's had his heart on the most amazing guy on
the planet. Yes, he realized now that he was in love with the football
player.
	Right after the referee blew his whistle, Dan got back into the
sync. His ability to interact with his teammates was amazing. The striker
has returned to his good self.
	Five minutes into the game, Dan's skillful feet caught the ball
that was passed to him. He kept the ball gluing to his foot, then swirling
and running with it from the midfield to the opposite end. In front of a
dense ground of team A's defenders, Jack kicked the ball past the
goalkeeper, and scored a goal.
	The tryout today was a success for our favorite striker. In two
games, he scored three goals, and made several good passes to his
teammates. His team won in both games, and Dan became the hero of the
tryout.
	After a thirty minutes break for the final decision, Coach Nelson
came back to the field, looking around at his players:
	"Gather around here folks. I have in my hand the list of our final
team. I'll read out the names in order of their positions, goalkeeper
first."
	"Goalkeeper: Math Farmers."
	Dan sat in silence.
	He prayed.
	"First striker: Eric Lopez."
	Dan muttered something like a congratulation to Eric who was
sitting next to him. His heart ran a mile a minute. His eyes closed. He
opened his mouth, praying repeatedly.
	"Last one in the team: Dan Nguyen, striker."
	The soccer player opened his eyes and breathed out slowly. Finally,
he's got what he wanted: he made the final team.


                        5
	Jack was the first person Dan saw when he ran out of the
field. Throwing all caution into the wind, Jack ran toward is boyfriend and
hugged him fiercely. He whispered incomprehensible words into Jack's
shoulders, words that were nonsense, words that were full of happiness.
	"Dan...umm...Dan...Bill and Jenny were behind us. They are looking
at us, babe." Jack whispered into Dan's ears, then pushed the happy guy out
abruptly.
	Dan opened his mouth widely in surprise, when realizing the
situation they were in, his face went red with embarrassment. He looked at
Bill and Jenny:
	"I got in. I made the final team." He shouted out happily and
hugged both of them in his strong arms. Dan looked at Jack, who was behind
Bill and Jenny but in front of him, and smiled broadly. He made a silence
signal toward the football player:
	"I LOVE YOU."
	Jack looked at Dan and wondered what he was doing with his mouth
opening widely and his hands circling around. Looking at the signals one
more time, he understood. His face was glowing with surprise and happiness.
	"I love you too." He signaled back.
	Bill pulled out of Dan's tight embrace. He caught the lovebirds'
hand signals.
	"What are you doing Dan? Jack? You guys have some kind of special
codes or something?" Bill asked innocently.
	"Oh, nothing Bill. It's nothing. I'm just too happy, my hands want
to dance." Dan explained and inhaled sharply.
	"Well, good for you." Bill was happy for him.
	Jenny stood there in silence. She looked at her boyfriend who was
happily dancing around and talking nonstop. She sighed: "I can't believe
I'm right. He's in love."


To be continued...

Well, another chapter, another cliffhanger. I'm getting used to do it the
edgy way.:)

Sorry guys, as I told you before, chapter 5 would be about a Halloween
party, but it was not. I wanted to solve the love between Jack and Dan
first, before doing a confusing Halloween chapter. Chapter 6 will
absolutely be titled "Halloween." Hope you still enjoy the story after 5
long chapters. Email me at acne_23@yahoo.com. Hope to hear from you soon.
David.