Riding and Regrets (14 page)

“I knew guys and girls like that in Cali,” Noel said. “Kids when I was younger, and then adults. The kids… When I was younger I wasn’t part of the in crowd. I was a fat boy with bad skin and no confidence, but even so, I heard the gossip like everyone else did. Some of the kids would brag about how many people they had sex with, or they’d sell drugs right there in the school. It was crazy. I don’t know if they were hurting or just spoilt brats. Maybe some combination of both or neither. There’s no telling. With the adults, it’s like the more people you screw, the more of a man or woman or sexual god you are. Monogamy is a joke to most of the people I know back home.”

Jody startled as though he’d been goosed. He looked at Noel with big, worry-filled eyes. “Is that home for you? California?”

Noel only took a minute to think it over before answering. “No, I don’t think it is. If I went back, I’d fall in with the same crowd I hung with before. I was drowning in all the selfishness, mine, everyone’s around me. Didn’t have a purpose, a goal. I just lived off some money my parents gave me for graduating from college and tried to look pretty.”

“Were you happy at all?”

Jody sounded so concerned for him.

“Not really, no. I did some stupid things, Jody. Tried different drugs and wanted to fit in. I’m not the deepest thinker in the world, but I’m not as shallow as the people I was around.” Noel didn’t want to talk about himself anymore. He wanted to forget his troubles for a while. “Can we maybe change the subject? I’ve had as much soul-baring as I can handle for the night.”

“Will you stay here tonight?” Jody asked.

Noel wanted to let out a whoop of joy, but he wouldn’t risk waking Prissy. “I’d love to. I didn’t bring anything with me.”

Jody smiled and stood a little straighter. “I got a two-pack deal on toothbrushes the other day, and this place has a washer and dryer. You can use anything of mine you want to.” Jody closed the gap between them. “I want this to feel like home to you. Not California. Not Ashville.” Jody licked his lips. “Not your Aunt Gertie’s, though she’s a great person. Someday, I want you to walk through that door over there, and realise you’re home because it’s where me and Prissy are.”

“What are you saying?” Noel asked, his pulse speeding up. He didn’t want to be presumptuous, but it sounded a lot like Jody was saying that he loved Noel.

Jody placed a hand over Noel’s heart and stared up at him with those beautiful eyes. “I’m saying I care about you more’n I ever cared for anyone except Prissy. I think that’s just gonna grow stronger every day, and I can see a future for us together, here, making this place a home with memories we’d share year after year. Unless you can’t stand the idea of living in a mobile home. I guess it might be a huge step down from what you grew up with.”

“Hey, no,” Noel said, wanting to put a cork on that doubt immediately. “Money’s just a thing. I don’t have much now, and I won’t ask my parents for a dime. I’ll live off what I earn, and I don’t mind that. I have a degree in liberal arts that isn’t doing me any good, and a job I’m kinda liking, much to my surprise. I have the sweetest boyfriend.” He paused to steal a quick kiss. “I’m making new friends, all these sexy cowboys you work with, and there’s Prissy. I won’t lie to you. I’m already head over heels for that little princess. She eases my heart. I think I like what you see.”

Jody pressed up to him, sliding his arms around Noel’s middle. “That’s all good. That’s what I hoped for. You never said if you were staying or what.”

“Staying.” Noel hadn’t known it for sure until he said so. “When I first left California, I thought I was running away, being a coward, you know? Now I think I was actually being mature enough to leave a bad situation.”

“You were hurting. I know what that’s like.” Jody slid his hands in Noel’s back pockets. “We’ve had enough talking tonight. You hungry?”

Noel leered at Jody. “Not for food.”

Jody groaned and rolled his eyes. “That’s kinda lame.”

“I’ll show you lame.” Noel framed Jody’s face with his hands and kissed him with all the hunger and need he felt boiling in his veins.

Jody all but climbed up him, hitching one leg around Noel’s hip and linking his arms around Noel’s neck.

Noel got an arm under Jody’s ass and helped give the eager man a boost up. He leant back against the counter and held Jody tightly to him. He couldn’t get enough of him, couldn’t get enough air or pleasure. Noel wanted everything. Needed it.

Jody’s Wranglers were too tight for Noel to get his hand down the back of them. He nipped Jody’s bottom lip and sucked on his tongue while squeezing one taut little ass cheek.

Jody humped on him, wanton and honest about it. His openness fed Noel’s desire. Noel spun them around and plonked Jody on the counter. He pushed Jody’s chin up and went right for his favourite spot, sucking on Jody’s Adam’s apple. At the same time, he unsnapped Jody’s shirt so he could get to the gloriously freckled skin beneath.

Jody moaned and buried his hands in Noel’s hair. “Aw, God, don’t stop.”

As if he could. Noel shoved Jody’s shirt open and moved down to suck marks up along his collarbone. Two purple spots on either side and Jody was writhing for him.

Noel found his tiny nipples and licked one while pinching the other.

“Shit, shit,” Jody muttered. “Aw, I’m gonna come.”

He likely would. Noel had found that Jody hadn’t lied the first night Noel had fucked him. Jody could get erect again quickly. It was amazing the difference six years made. Noel took a bit longer to recover. He loved having a partner with a quick refractory period. Gave him time to love on Jody while not being driven mad by his own burgeoning climax.

Noel lapped and tugged on Jody’s nipples until Jody was panting and restless. He made his way over the leanly muscled belly to the waistband of Jody’s jeans. There he hesitated. “We should take this in the bedroom.”

Jody made an inarticulate sound that Noel took for a yes. Since he was already kind of bent over and in the position for it, he looped an arm around Jody’s middle and with a tug, had him in a fireman’s carry.

“Hey,” Jody squealed.

Noel patted his butt gently. “Quicker this way.”

Plus, he liked the way Jody felt, his weight and the solid form. “Bedroom’s past Prissy’s, right?”

“Yeah. I don’t wanna use the one on this end. Too far away.”

Noel kept one hand on Jody’s ass while he got them to Jody’s bedroom. Like the rest of the house except for Prissy’s bedroom, the room was bare of any decorations. Jody’s bed and dresser were in there. The green and tan walls were pretty, but Jody deserved a home that looked lived in. Noel would see to it that he got it someday.

Jody pushed the door shut and Noel bent to put him down. “Whoever gets naked first bottoms.”

Jody’s eyes bugged slightly. “I— You know I haven’t topped. Ever.”

“Yup.” Noel took advantage of Jody’s shock to remove his shoes and shirt. “I sure enough do, and think it’s time, if you’re interested.” He started on his pants.

“If I’m—” Jody caught on to the fact that he was falling behind with the getting naked part. “Hey!”

He wasn’t quick enough to catch up to Noel, not when it took him a minute or so to get his boots off. “You should get one of those wooden boot removers. You slip your heel into the U-shaped part and tug your boots off.”

“My dad had one,” Jody said, grunting as he got the second boot off. “He hit me with it once for walking outta the bathroom in just a towel. I hate those things.”

“I’ll help you next time, then.” Noel crawled onto the bed and wiggled his ass at Jody. “You can push off my butt like I’ve seen cowboys do in the movies. I’ll have one leg of yours between mine, faced away from you and mmm, just think of the possibilities.”

“I’m thinking of several now.” Jody shoved down his jeans and underwear, but his attention was on Noel.

Noel parted his legs and arched his back. He peered at Jody from beneath his arm. “Like the view?”

Jody nodded. “How are you so comfortable? I still blush like a virgin every time you look at my ass.”

“At your ass
hole
, you mean,” Noel corrected, and just like that, Jody’s skin began pinking up.

“It’s my asshole, man,” Jody muttered. “It’s not something I’d let just anyone touch.”

Noel flopped over onto his back. His erect cock bobbed and slapped his belly. “I hope you mean no one except me. Well, and you.”

“That’s a given. Figured we were on the same page with being exclusive.” Jody growled it out more than spoke the words clearly as he tilted his chin down and gave Noel a stern look. “We
are,
aren’t we?”

Noel couldn’t keep from grinning. “Heck, yeah we are.”

Jody stopped beside the bed and palmed his cock. “Then you think maybe we could get tested? If we’re as serious as I think we are?”

Noel’s chest constricted. Fear flitted through him but was quickly washed away by the rising tide of lust. “We are. That serious, I mean, and yeah. We so can.”

“Good.” Jody took the lube and a strip of rubbers out of his nightstand. “I’d like to know what it feels like to have you come in me without a rubber holding you back.”

Noel groaned and spread his legs open. “You’re killing me, Jo. I’m already so horny I’m about to bust a nut just from looking at you. Come up here and fuck me already.”

Jody chuckled and tossed the supplies on the bed. “I think you’ve taught me how to do the prep.”

Noel raised his head up. “I don’t need prep. Just go slow and—”

Jody shook one finger from side to side. “Nuh-uh. You get the prep, and I get to do it. You don’t wanna be shortin’ me out of any of this new experience, do ya?”

“Ugh.” Noel dropped his head back and closed his eyes. “Just so you know, if I come, you’ll have to wait a while before you can fuck me. I don’t like having a dick in me once I’ve come.”

“No pressure, though, right?” Jody grumbled.

Noel opened one eye. “Sorry. I don’t hate it. I just like it way better if you come before or with me. No pressure at all.”

Jody rolled his eyes and got on the bed. “I’m gonna make you want to scream for me, but you better not.”

“I won’t.” Noel eyed the monitor. “That green light means it’s working?”

Jody looked at it. “Yeah.” Then he put his attention back on Noel. “I think I want to kiss you.”

“You think?”

Instead of answering, Jody stretched out beside him. Noel rolled onto his side. “You want to take the lead, all the way?” Usually it was Noel in control. Maybe he’d needed it that way at first. Now that he knew Jody, trusted him, the idea of handing over the reins wasn’t nearly as frightening.

“If you’re good with it.”

Noel tingled deep down in his core. “I am.”

Jody nudged him onto his back again, then leaned over and kissed Noel. He used the perfect amount of pressure, pushing his tongue in and flicking it against Noel’s.

Noel didn’t bother trying to keep his eyes open as blood rushed down to his cock. Already erect, that organ throbbed, leaking pre-cum as it did.

Jody framed Noel’s face with callused hands and manoeuvred so that he was on top of him. Noel’s legs were already parted, and the feel of Jody’s rigid dick beside his almost did Noel in. He got two handfuls of Jody’s ass and squeezed. Jody sucked on his tongue and rubbed his shaft on Noel.

Noel dug his heels into the mattress and humped back, his entire groin alight with pleasure that speared up and down his body.

Jody stopped kissing him to instead lick a path down his neck. Noel moaned and ran his hands up Jody’s back. He curled his fingers around his shoulders and encouraged Jody to keep moving along.

“Bossy,” Jody told him. He nipped Noel’s chest.

“Needy,” Noel corrected him, opening his eyes to stare at Jody’s red curls.

“Needy’s good.” Jody went for his nipples, tugging on them while sucking up love marks on Noel’s chest.

“God, Jo, you’re burning me up. I
need
you!” Noel clenched his ass, feeling empty and eager down there.

“You’ll get me.” Jody flicked Noel’s nipples harder, then pinched them.

“Ungh!” Noel bowed his back and clenched his hands on Jody’s shoulders. “Jody!”

Jody huffed out a laugh and sat up. He took a hold of Noel’s wrists. “Keep these on your tits. I want to see you playing with them while I’m sucking your dick.”

Noel couldn’t help it. He whimpered. There was no way he’d last through a blow job. Jody’s technique had quickly reached or exceeded Noel’s talent at giving head.

But Jody ringed the base of Noel’s dick with a strong grip. “We should get some of those things that do this. Cock rings.”

“Anything you want, just suck me,” Noel begged.

Jody didn’t, not at first. Instead he licked Noel’s shaft from bottom to top until it was almost all wet, then he took the glans into his mouth and tongued the slit.

Noel’s eyes rolled back and he scraped his nails over his nipples. Pleasure was riding along his nerve endings, making him short of breath and dizzy.

Jody hummed and took him in farther. At the same time, he rubbed a finger or two over Noel’s hole.

Noel grabbed a pillow and pulled it over his face. He needed something to hold onto. Playing with his tits was going to throw him over the edge, so that had to stop.

Jody slowly sucked Noel’s cock, taking him in a little at a time until Noel’s entire length was in him. The soft, wet heat of Jody’s throat dragged a cry out of Noel. Jody swallowed, then he came back up. He palmed Noel’s balls and got that other grip around Noel’s dick again. He took Noel in faster, shallower, while rolling Noel’s nuts in his palm.

Noel couldn’t be still. He thrust and writhed. His cock leaked copious amounts of pre-cum. Jody soaked his shaft in spit until it was running down Noel’s balls and farther back to tickle along the skin behind them to his asshole.

Then Jody released his cock and pushed at Noel’s hip. “Over.”

Noel somehow found the coordination to get to his knees. Once he did, he lowered his shoulders to the bed and used the pillow to cushion his head.

Jody spread his cheeks apart and licked him from the top of his crack to the bottom of it. He rubbed his chin over Noel’s pucker.