Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:47:50 -0500
From: deskgnomes@hotmail.com
Subject: Nowhere/Chapter 2

OK Standard warning.  If you ain't 18 years old or if it's
illegal to read material that involves two men involved with
each other you shouldn't continue.  But on a side note why
are you at Nifty in the first place.  Also if you looking
for a quick jerk off story you might want to grab a
different story.  OOK and on with the story

                           Nowhere
                          Chapter 2

     "You do realize sweetie that you standards for men are
unrealistic?" Rachel asked.  We were doing our girl talk
thing.  You know what I'm talking about.  PJ's, Ice Cream,
and a chick flick.  Girl talk.  Don't give me that look you
know exactly what I'm talking about.
     "You're absolutely right.  I expect WAAAY too much.  I
mean intelligence, personality, kindness, and they have to
be attractive.  Mein Gott what was I thinking?" I asked in
mock horror.
     "You know exactly what I mean jerk off" Rachel grinned.
She cracks me up.  If I grew up in a small town, she grew up
in a small village.  For example she graduated with 15
people.  She's one of the few people that I think actually
is able to read people.  She's so quite, that she's able to
blend in with the background and observe everything.  Mind
you the only thing that dampers this is if there is a
straight guy within a 50 yard radius.  You see Rach's is in
the super model department for looks.  She's got enough guys
wrapped around her finger that she could start a small-scale
war.  Thing is she doesn't know it, or if she does she
pretends she doesn't.
     "What about that guy in your Geology class.  You know
the one who you're not sure whose team he's playing for?
Tyler maybe?" she grinned.  She knew I was crushing on this
guy in my Geo class bad.  We've been over this before but
she wanted to bring it to the table, so I decided to help
her explore it.
     "Taylor.  And you know why I don't ask him out.  He has
a girlfriend." I replied shaking my head.
     "Well you remember Sean right?  Yeah I was hanging out
at the swimmer's house and I found out some interesting
information that I'm sure my favorite little homo would love
to here." Rachel said.
     "OK spill it."
     "Well apparently our Mr. Taylor used to be a swimmer.
Did you know that?" she asked.  She was torturing me on
purpose.  This had to be good.
     "No I didn't know that.  Are you serious hmm how
interesting I'll file that under more useless information
that will help out in the spank bank." I grinned.
     "Now now no need to be bitchy.  It seems that Taylor
had quite a wandering eye in the locker room and many a
teammate placed him under homo-suspicion. Your in luck."
Rachel said triumphantly.
     "Oooh so a bunch of guys think he's gay too.  How
WONDERFUL" I replied more sarcastically than I intended to.
The damage however was done and Rachel was looking a little
hurt.  "Sorry Rach, but you know how worked up I get.
Sometimes I need to think about stuff before I say it.  I do
appreciate the info but it doesn't get me much further than
I already am.  I just need to ask him but I HATE it.  It's
one of those no win/ BIG loss situations.  If I ask him he
may not like me or if he's straight I lose a potential
friend."  I mumbled more frustrated than remorseful.
     She nodded understanding that I was sorry, and it was
time for a change of subject.
     "I understand and you're forgiven.  After all It is the
28th day." she didn't get to finish due to the pillow being
thrown at her.
     Later the same week I found out that there really was a
god and he happens to be a gay man.  Turns out that we were
going on a field trip for our geology class or we could
write a paper.  All weekend.  Sleeping in tents.  Yeah there
was definitely going to be an opportunity to find out more
about Taylor.
     The first night of the trip was probably one of the
best nights I've ever had.  Everyone got shit-face drunk,
including our professor, and traded stories - basically had
a great time.    During the evening sleeping arrangements
came up.  Before I was able to offer Taylor a place to
sleep, he had offered Rob a place to sleep in his tent.
Damn it.  Well anyways I ended up crashing with Terry, a
great drinking buddy.  During the evening Taylor and I
talked some and I learned that he worked for a camping store
and he volunteered at a homeless shelter.  He never once
mentioned a girlfriend to me until Kevin, our professor,
mentioned her joining us for the second night.  Taylor
blushed and changed the subject.  I sighed and just kicked
back and enjoyed his company chalking up a potential
relationship, to me projecting tendencies on him.  By the
time everyone was ready to go to bed nobody was capable of
walking.  Kevin and the class decided that we wouldn't be
doing all that much teaching/learning other than the
exploring caves the next day, due to hangovers / school work
interrupts our party time.
     Two things sucked about this trip.  Firstly, we got
drenched on the first night.  Terry borrowed some of my
clothes the next day because I had two pair of dry clothes
and he had none.  He looked like a little kid dressing up in
his dad's clothes considering I'm 6'2" with a 32" waist and
he's like 5'10" with a 28" waist.  He looked like a dork the
next day, but he was happy to have dry clothes.  As I was
packing my equipment back into the van (no euphemism for sex
here), Rob came over and began to pack stuff into the van
too.
     "So how did you sleep last night?" I asked.  I got a
weird look and he went back to packing up stuff.  "Really
that good huh?"  I chuckled.  I assumed he had a hang over.
     "Yeah.  I didn't get a lot of sleep last night" Rob
said and continued "I slept with Taylor last night."  I
think my jaw must have hit the ground.  Rob started
laughing.
     "No No not like that.  I mean it wasn't like that offer
wasn't on the table but I'm not into that.  Now throw into
the mix that we both apparently have girlfriends.  Yeah
anyways don't tell anyone I don't want to weird anyone out
but you know I had to tell someone.."  He looked a little
worried.  I think part of it had to do with my growing grin.
     "No worries Rob.  Won't say a word." I replied and went
on my merry way.
     A few minutes later we were on our way to a cave that
we were suppose to explore.  For those of you who aren't
familiar with rules of exploring a cave, you always have a
partner or two.  Therefore Taylor was my partner, since we
both were game for crawling around in really small crevices.
So we went off and I was all excited.  I kept trying to
think of smooth things to say to him but basically just kept
babbling.  Funny thing was he didn't seem to mind.  Rather
he kept up the babbling from his side and was excited as I
was.  The difference, however, was due to us being in a
cave.  See Taylor is a cute geology dork.  Hey now, he's
still hot with his green eyes, blonde hair and butt you
could bounce quarters off of.
     So here I was happy as a pig in shit.  I'm in a cave
with my dream guy, talking up a storm and it's dark enough
to where he can't see my eyes wandering.  We eventually
reached a point in the cave where we had to crawl on our
backs to maneuver through.  Well I ended up having to roll
over and go feet first due to a drop off and was nose to
nose with Taylor.  We just sat there looking into each
other's eyes for close to two minutes before I made it down.
I know I was blushing when he came down.
     "Hey Scott.  I gotta ask you something OK?" he started
out.  Oh go here it comes.  He's really straight and he
thinks I'm hitting on him.  Shit Shit.
     "Did you know that your eyes glow down here?" He smiled
as he asked.
     "Really I had no idea.  Thank you so much for telling
me I have to remember that." I replied with a hint of
sarcasm in my voice.  We continued walking around the cave
for a while looking at various features including a cave-in
we had crawled through.  On the way out, Taylor said, "You
know you don't have to be so defensive all the time.  Not
everyone will hurt you." Just like that he had me figured
out.  Why was that?  He's known me like 3 months and I had
yet to figure that out myself.  While I was pondering this
new revelation Taylor said "Not that I mind the biting
sarcasm, and interesting situations you generate."
     "Huh what are you talking about Taylor." I asked
genuinely intrigued as to what he had heard about me.
     "Umm how do I put this?  Brandon's roommate and I are
friends.  Yes that would be the most PC way to put that.
And for what it's worth that has to be the coolest thing
ever.  That asshole had it coming for a while.  Joel, his
roommate, wants to hug you by the way.  He says that he's
never seen him so humble in his entire life." Taylor was
grinning.
     Before I could reply Justine walked up and asked "So
how are the love birds doing?"
     "Oh were doing great.  Saw a bunch of really great
scenery but didn't get around the cave that much.  But there
was this one really cool feature that was glowing." Taylor
was grinning as I blushed.  Justine just laughed and we all
walked back to the entrance.  OK so now I know that he knew
about me and was ok with me being gay but he still had a
girlfriend.
     "Hey Taylor, Is your girlfriend coming to the site
tonight?" I asked as if I had no idea.  I got a very
interesting answer.  He looked at me with a kind of pained
look and replied, "I'm not sure.  She sounded sick when I
talked to her today I'm not sure if she'll be up to camping
why?" he asked.
     "Well My tent is dripping wet and I was wondering if I
could crash with you considering Rob is gonna crash with
Jerry tonight."
     "Yeah sure that's cool.  If Brenda bails definitely."
     OK I shouldn't be as excited as I am but you know how
it goes.  This is the part of the story where I should be
confessing my love for Taylor and he'll reply that he loves
me and we make sweet passionate love.  PUKE.  Yeah now I
bring myself to reality.  I'm taking second string to his
girlfriend.  OK well maybe he'll be a good friend.
     As we pull into the site there's a car in our site and
Taylor smiles and dashes over.  Damn it, he's even happy
with her.  I hope she's ugly.  Taylor comes out of the car
and walks over to Kevin and says something.
     "Hey Scott, I'm gonna crash over at Brenda's tonight.
But feel free to use the tent" he said halfhearted.  "I want
to stay but she doesn't feel good and I haven't seen her in
a while so I'll catch up with you in the morning."
     "Yeah cool talk to you tomorrow morning"
     So I'm standing there as Taylor drives off putting on
my happy face and looking for my fifth of Absolute.  Yeah it
was one of those nights.  Everyone got smashed again and I
found out that Cammy likes me.  I finally told her as
politely as I could, considering I had _ of a fifth of
vodka, to back off.  I like her as a friend and all, but
come on.  Grabbing a guy's dick after he asked you to get
off of his lap is a bit extreme.  Anyways I ended up
sleeping in the van instead of Taylor's tent.  Terry ended
up joining me.  I must have had perma-smile all day because
as soon as Terry got in the van he asked "What happened
you've been off this evening ever since." he got this look
on his face and started getting ready for bed.
     "Scott you've got it bad don't you?" Terry asked.
     "Yeah I do." I was wondering what I was going to do as
I felt Terry snuggle up next to me.
     "Don't get the wrong idea but sometimes it helps to
know someone cares about you when your this down and to tell
you everything will be ok." with that he pecked my forehead
and rolled over and spooned against me.  Terry wasn't gay
but he knew what I needed was Taylor, but he was willing to
play a cheat substitute.  Well if the offer was there.  So I
slung my arm over Terry and drifted off the sleep.

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