Making Deals Ch. 01

Jordy Mills stared at the diamond in the display case and fancied he could see his reflection in the facets there.

The ring would sit in style on Mandy's finger if she said yes. It was by far the most elegant stone anywhere near his price range. That was the problem though. It was not close enough really. It was about two hundred bucks more than he had in his pocket, the savings of nearly a year. Now that his employer was struggling to keep clients in the current economy, he was cut back to shorter hours and the job market in town had dried up. He still had to make car, rent and utility payments and pay for food like everyone else and everything was going up. Making up those two hundred bucks would call for sacrifices.

"Hi there! I'm Del. See something you like?"

It was the salesperson on the other side of the counter. Del was lean and tall, a couple of inches taller than Jordy and he was black. His hair was very short. His eyes were bright and expressive. His voice was smooth and deep. He wore a tie and a nicely cut two-piece suit.

"I'm Jordy. Yes, I've found exactly what I want." Jordy pointed at the ring he'd chosen.

"Good choice! She'll love it! It is for a woman, I take it? Never safe to assume these days."

Jordy nodded. "I wondered if maybe we could do something with the price."

"Oh, the sales just ended."

"Damn."

"What's your budget? Maybe we can find something that suits it better?"

"I really have my heart set on this one."

"Hmm. Well, two hundred dollars would be a significant discount. My boss would never go for it."

Jordy was crestfallen. Mandy deserved that ring.

Del sounded sympathetic. "What do you do, Jordy?"

"I'm a factory worker now, but I have a groundskeeping and maintenance background."

"Hmm. That's interesting. I'll make you a deal. You come and do some work for me at my place tonight and I'll pay the two hundred dollars difference on the ring. You could walk out with the rock tomorrow morning."

Jordy was more than interested. He was never afraid of work and Mandy wasn't off shift until ten p. m. and wouldn't be home until ten-thirty, so he wouldn't need to explain his absence at home. He didn't want her guessing he'd bought a ring until he sprung the surprise on her.

"That'd be great, Del! When can I start?"

"Do you have time tonight? The store closes in ten minutes and you could follow me straight over. You have a car, right?"

Jordy confirmed.

"Perfect. A few hours should see you through the work I want done."

"That's incredible! So, do you want me to put my money down now to hold the ring?"

"Exactly. Then I'll pay you for the work and you come back tomorrow, drop the two-hundred, and I give you the ring."

"Oh, you're a life-saver, Del!"

"Well, wait until you see the work before you say that."

Del accepted Jordy's cash and gave him a deposit receipt. He reassured Jordy by removing the cherished ring from the display cabinet and putting it in a case behind the counter.

Jordy waited in his car the last few minutes while Del closed up the shop. The jewellery salesman came out of the store and locked up. He was parked on the street near the store and he waved at Jordy to make sure he saw him. Jordy waved back with a smile.

They drove to a quiet side street and a large house with curb appeal and an impeccable lawn. There was a white picket fence and a rose garden.

When they parked up and got out of their vehicles, Del explained the house used to be his father's but it was left to him recently. Jordy expressed condolences and complimented the house. He had assumed he was coming over to trim hedges, rake or mow a lawn, but this place looked great. For the first time, he wondered what sort of work Del had for him.

"Come on in," Del said.

Jordy nodded and followed the salesman into his house.

It was a manly house, with an earth tone painting scheme and leather furniture. A sixty-inch television was mounted above the mantle of the fireplace.

Del said he liked a beer after work and offered Jordy one too. Jordy had been penny-pinching so long, he hadn't even seen a beer in months. He'd normally have saved the drink for after the job, but he couldn't resist.

"You're probably wondering what I want you to do for me," Del said. "I didn't really set any expectations, but you may have inferred that I wanted some yard work done. I don't."

"Oh. Well, I'm a bit of a handyman. Good with tools. Maybe you need something like that done?"

"No. Well, there's some tools involved, but not the way you're thinking."

Jordy wasn't thick. It dawned on him instantly. He wasn't gay, hadn't thought of Del or other men that way generally, but Del's statement was leading.

"You... you want me to suck your cock, don't you?"

"Yes. And I want to suck yours. And maybe more." Del waited a moment before adding to that. "If you're into it. Ever tried it?"

"No."

A long silence hung between them.

"You're still here," Del said. "I kind of thought you might get up and leave, or try to knock my block off."

"I'm thinking about it."

He was. Del was handsome, but could Jordy see himself touching and sucking another man's dick? Oddly enough, the vision was appearing in his mind and it wasn't a turn-off.

"Look, man," Del said. "I appreciate it. You haven't lost it on me. The deal still stands. I can find work around the house for you to do that I can't do. I'd still pay the two hundred bucks for the owing on the ring."

"Have you ever done anything like this before?" Jordy asked.

Del shook his head and took a sip of his beer. "Never saw anybody I wanted to take home as much as you."

Jordy was not a bigot. He believed same-sex rights were civil rights. He didn't have negative pre-conceptions of gay men and Del wasn't changing that. Despite his subterfuge in bringing him here, he'd been open about his desires since they arrived and didn't try to blackmail or force him in anyway. He made a deal and he was standing by it. He was even flexible about it.

On the other hand, Del was opening a course to him that would be adulterous. He'd never cheated on Mandy ever. Was it different with a man? Maybe. What about the ring? In a way, he would be doing it for her.

And there was one more consideration. He had a stiffy in his pants. How could he explain that away?

"Now, I just want to be clear," Jordy said. "If I do anything with you, it doesn't mean I'm gay. I would still only be doing this to get the ring for Mandy."

"Mandy's a lucky woman."

"I'm a lucky guy and she's worth it."

"You make it sound like it would be terrible to do this."

"Well, I'm straight. Won't it be?"

"We can do as much or as little as you want."

"Where?"

"I have a bedroom down the hall."

Jordy steeled himself. He had butterflies.

"Okay, I'll try. If I can't do it, we'll have to think of something else."

"More than fair," Del said.

It felt strange to Jordy when the handsome black man took him by the hand and led him to the bedroom. The room was simply furnished. A desk, a couple of lamps, night-tables, chests of drawers, a mirror. There was a king-size bed, fully made.

"The sheets are clean, man," Del said, hanging his suit jacket in the closet. "Make yourself comfortable while I take a shower. If you're still here when I come out, we'll try things on."

"Okay."

"Unless..." Del removed his tie and tossed it on the nearest chest of drawers.

"Yes?"

"Unless you want to join me in the shower?"

Jordy felt the blood rush simultaneously to face and boner. He hadn't seen another man naked in the shower since high school. He remembered the faint arousal he had felt at the sight of other nude men in those days. That attraction seemed to be amplified when he thought of Del naked.

Besides, Jordy had worked today. He wasn't feeling fresh as a daisy himself. If he'd gone home after the jewellery store, he would have been in the shower by now. And somehow the thought that he might repel this new admirer with his body odour was unacceptable. It would be like he didn't respect his obligations to the deal.

He cleared his throat.

"A shower sounds good."

Del smiled. It was a good smile.

Once in the en suite bathroom, Del started the shower. "It takes a minute to warm up."

Jordy reached for the top button of his shirt, but Del stopped him.

"I like to strip down in front of my lover when he's still dressed. I don't know why, but it turns me on."

Jordy nodded and Del took the lead. He slowly unbuttoned his shirt and dropped it on the floor. He undid his belt and slid the band of leather through the loops, setting it down gently so the buckle didn't chip a floor tile. He unbuttoned and unzipped his pants and let them fall. He was left in socks and underwear. He quickly removed his socks and Jordy was amused because he always felt silly being reduced to nakedness except for his socks; maybe Del was the same. Del was left standing in his white boxers. Jordy was surprised that he was impatient to see what Del had beneath the underwear, and Del didn't keep him waiting long. He took the waistband by both hands and slowly pulled the boxers down.

Jordy took a deep breath. Del's eight-inch erection was the most impressive cock he'd ever seen outside of porn. His balls were shaved and his pubic hair was trim and neat.

"Do you want me to undress now?" Jordy asked.

"No. I want to undress you. May I?"

"Yes."

"To tell the truth, I've been undressing you since I saw you at the jewellery store."

Del's eyes were locked with Jordy's as he stepped forward. The naked man put his hands on Jordy's collar, unbuttoning the short-sleeve work shirt from the top. When he reached the bottom, he pulled the shirt tails out of Jordy's waistband and slipped the garment off his shoulders, adding it to the pile of clothes forming on the floor. Del let his hands linger on Jordy's hairy chest and abdomen before reaching down to unbuckle the man's belt. There was another rasp of leather against fabric as the belt cleared its loops. Without breaking eye contact, Del slowly went to his knees before Jordy. He stripped one sock after the other off Jordy's feet to Jordy's appreciation. Then Del ran his hands up the front of Jordy's trousers, only eventually reaching the waist. He unbuttoned the pants and pulled down the zipper before showing his first sign of impatience: he positively yanked Jordy's pants down around his ankles. Jordy obligingly raised one foot and then the other so that Del could free him of the pants. That left him in his briefs.

"You're sure you're okay with this?" Del asked.

Jordy tingled with excitement. "Yes."

Hooking his thumbs into the waistband of Jordy's briefs, Del pulled them down slowly, revealing first his pubic hair and then his cock. It sprung up almost into Del's face. He smiled up at Jordy.

"Seems pretty eager to me."

"Uh-huh," Jordy replied. He had no idea what to say.

Fortunately for him, Del wasn't interested in making conversation at that moment. He reached around Jordy and put his hands on his buttocks, squeezing them gently. He leaned in and opened his mouth, absorbing Jordy's seven inches at a single stroke. It choked him a little.

"That's what I get for showing off," Del said. He pulled Jordy toward him by the root of his dick and enveloped the head in his mouth, swirling his tongue around it in concentric circles.

Jordy moaned.

"Fuck, man, that's good."

Del grinned up at him. "Do you mean to say Mandy doesn't suck your cock?"

"Sure she does," Jordy said, rising to his girlfriend's defence. "But not like you do."

He was embarrassed to make this admission and uncomfortable to even be talking about Mandy when he was cheating on her with another man. He quickly submerged that thought. After all, he was only doing this for her, to get her the ring she deserves. He asked himself if she would agree with that, but before he could make another excuse of an answer to himself, Del started jacking his cock in tandem with his oral work.

"Fuck, Del. If you keep that up for much longer, this will all be over before it starts."

"Relax. This is just a tension reliever. There's more to come." Del got up and faced Jordy and Jordy wondered if the jeweller might kiss him and he wondered if he would mind. "The shower ought to be warm by now. Let's get in there."

Del set out towels for when they emerged from the shower. Then he pulled the curtain aside and let Jordy into the shower, following an instant later.

The spray was warm and refreshing. The two men faced each other and Del closed the distance between them until their erections touched. He leaned forward, taking Jordy's face in his hands and kissing him full on the mouth. He backed up a little to see Jordy's reaction and found encouragement there. He kissed him again, letting his hands slip to Jordy's shoulders. After a few seconds, Jordy's lips parted to admit Del's probing tongue. Soon, Jordy's tongue darted back into Del's mouth. So they continued for a few minutes until Jordy felt a strong compulsion to do more in return. He raised his right hand to Del's long arching erection and grabbed it by the glans. He began running his thumb around it, mimicking the circles Del had wrought on Jordy's own cock with his tongue moments before.

Del broke their kiss to comment. "Hey, that's nice, man."

Jordy looked the salesman in the eye and told him he wanted to blow him.

"No holds barred here, my friend."

Jordy awkwardly went to his knees in front of Del, only to find that his face took the full spray of the shower in that position. He turned Del in front of him to block the water. Now he was cold, but he knew how to warm himself up. He was amazed at his own lack of hesitation as he engulfed the cock head with his open mouth. When it was in, he observed that it was spongy and hard at the same time. He explored it with his tongue, which he ran up the slit in the centre, repeating the action several times. Shortly, he was ready to move on, once again recalling Del's circular tongue action on his own dick earlier. He resolved to try something different. When he licked Mandy's clit, he tongued out the alphabet over her sensitive flesh. How would that feel to Del's cock?

He got to 'G' before Del gave out a groan. "That's the shit, man."

Encouraged, Jordy continued to inscribe pleasure with the upper-case and then the lower-case alphabet, numerals and symbols. He was especially playful with the symbols for pi and the ampersand. He felt guilty using his secret technique for Mandy on someone else, but he was excited too.

"Are you sure you've never done this before? You're gifted!"

Jordy flushed with pleasure, and started to lick even harder.

"Hold it, man, hold it," Del said, raising Jordy to his feet and facing him. His eye contact was powerful. "One more second of that tongue-lashing and I'm gonna come, and I don't wanna come yet. I want to take you to my bed and make love to you. If that sounds sissy to you, then you could say I wanna fuck you."

Jordy felt like a stranger to himself. He heard himself saying he wanted Del to take him and be his first. Another kiss blossomed between them, lasting long minutes before the water started to lose its warmth by degrees.

"Oh, I know what that means. We've got about a minute until we're standing in ice water. Here, let me wash you up." Del lathered up some bodywash on a washcloth and scrubbed Jordy down, back and front, and then he let Jordy do the same to him. The freezing spray was upon them and they laughed as they almost fell over each other to escape the cold shower.

Once they were out, Del reached behind the curtain and shut off the water. Then he stood to face his companion, looking him over.

"Well, we proved one thing about cold showers. The balls shrivel in the cold, but the dick can stay hard."

Indeed, they were both still erect.

They toweled each other off with urgency and when they were dry, they locked in a kiss and awkwardly walked to the bed, quickly getting under the covers to get warm. Their kiss continued and their hands roved over each other's bodies, exploring freely. Del let both his hands linger on Jordy's ass, clenching the buttocks in his fists.

"I want you," Del said.

"Take me," Jordy replied breathily.

"Are you sure? You know it can hurt?"

"Will you help me?"

"You know it."

"I want you to do it. Please fuck my ass."

"With pleasure. If it hurts too much, we can stop."

"Okay."

Del disengaged from his entanglement with Jordy and reached into the top drawer of a bedside table and pulled out a small dispenser of lube. He greased his pole before packing lubricant into

Jordy's ass.

"Oh."

"You okay?"

"It's cold."

"That won't last for long. I'll warm you up good."

"I know you will."

Jordy was on his back, looking up at Del with anticipation. Del positioned himself so that his dick hovered over Jordy's asshole. He whispered a warning and then began pressing his organ into Jordy's anus. Jordy was surprised by his own reaction as the head of the cock began to intrude in his sphincter. There was pain, but inch-by-inch, there was a satisfying fullness as well. Something going the other way in his ass was a strange and novel sensation and he found his fear evaporating. He relaxed and that helped Del infiltrate his passage.

"How's that?" Del asked, whispering directly into Jordy's ear.

"It's good. I think I'm going to like it."

"I think we both will. Your virgin ass is tight, man."

Before a minute had passed, Del was half-way in. Jordy's pain was beginning to subside and that fullness increased.

"Give me more."

"Are you sure you can handle it?"

"Now you're just teasing me!"

Del laughed but it only took seconds for the rest of him to sink down Jordy's hole. Del and Jordy let out a simultaneous groan of pleasure.

"Fuck me," Jordy said.

Del began slowly sawing in and out of Jordy's ass. The sensations were startling for Jordy. He tingled inside and the widening of his bowel sent ripples of pleasure through his ass and into his cock. As Del began to gain pace, moving inside him ever faster and deeper, Jordy's need for him increased.

"Oh, yeah," he sighed. "That's amazing."

"You're amazing. I've never been in someone so tight."

The friction inside Jordy generated a kind of heat that spread through him. The energy was purely sexual but unlike the feeling he had putting his cock in someone, even Mandy. Those were great sensations too, but they were entirely centred in his dick. This was different. He felt waves of pleasure emanating from his ass but not just to his prick, but his whole body. He was a sexual being and he was on fire. He'd never felt anything like it. He wondered if it was a little like the experience of sex for a woman or if it was a storm of stimulation unique to him.

"I don't believe this," he said out loud as he felt a familiar working of his inner plumbing.

"What is it?" Del sounded concerned.

"I think--I'm going to come without touching my cock."

"Let it happen, man."

Jordy groaned. "Oh, fuck, Del. Oh, fuck. You're making me come. I can't hold back."

"Don't hold back, Jordy."

Jordy lay back with his head on the pillow and let his eyes roll back in his head as his cock pulsed, blasting his load with force onto his belly and up against Jordy's abdomen. The shudders that passed through him rippled through his ass in waves and compressed his sphincters on the cock moving inside it, making the tight asshole even tighter.

"Jordy, that does it for me! I'm going to come too!"

"Come for me," Jordy said in a shaky voice, still recovering from the force of his orgasm.

Del's back arched as he came too, flooding Jordy's bowels with the heat of his cum. Then the two lay boneless in a heap and embraced, letting the sticky cum glue them together as they rested belly-to-belly in each other's arms.

Jordy woke as he felt Del's soft cock slipping out of him. He noticed the room was dark. He adjusted himself slightly under Del to see the alarm clock beside the bed. Nine o'clock. He still had time to get home before Mandy.

"Del, wake up. I have to get going."

"Stay, man."

"I can't. My girlfriend will be home soon."

Del sighed. "Okay."

The semen that was drying between their bodies itched now and the two came apart more willingly than expected.

"You can't go home like that," Del said.

In the shower, Del blew Jordy, getting him off once more.

"Now, I feel like I owe you one," Jordy told Del.

"You know where I am if you can't shake that need to blow me."

They washed quickly before the water could turn to freezing on them. "Here's hoping Mandy doesn't notice I'm wearing a different bodywash scent."

"Well, I'll bet you don't need to get too close to her tonight. I don't think you can have any cum left in you."

They toweled off and dressed. Del was just going to lounge around his place, so he was wearing plaid boxers and a t-shirt. Jordy was back in his work clothes.

When Jordy was ready to leave, standing at the front door, Del kissed him deeply and Jordy couldn't hold back his own passion.

"Well, now that you know where the place is, don't be a stranger."

Jordy didn't know what to say to that. He had thought of this transaction as a one-and-done. The idea of repeating the experience was tantalizing but forbidden. Even to a man who had just cheated on his girlfriend, there was a sense that doing it again would be less like happenstance and more like an affair.

"Oh, wait! I almost forgot!" Del said. He went back to his bedroom for a minute and came back with two hundred dollars in twenty-dollar bills. "Here's the money for services rendered."

"Thanks." For some reason Jordy hadn't yet established, something felt wrong about taking the money. "I guess I'll see you at the store tomorrow after work."

"See you then."

That was their parting.

When Jordy got home, he changed to lighter wear for around the house like Del had done and waited for Mandy to get home. He felt bad for cheating on her, but good that he had the money to buy her the perfect engagement ring.

He greeted Mandy's arrival with passion, eager to make up for his infidelity and trying to set aside his confusion about having enjoyed gay sex so much. His ass was a little sore, but he found he was still horny and Del inspired some of his sexual momentum as he took his girlfriend to bed, ate her out with his special technique and made her come on the end of his cock, finishing to his own satisfaction as well.

Mandy snored gently beside him, but he was still awake. He was thinking about Del and their little deal that was making it possible for him to buy a ring. He realized what was bothering him. He may have entered the transaction thinking he was going to do yard work or maintenance for Del, but in the end, the "work" he did was sexual favours, and he had taken money for that. Was he really an easy slut for money? Is that what he wanted Del to think he was? Was that what he wanted Del to believe was all that passed between them?

On the one hand, there would be an end to it, but on the other, it just didn't sit right with Jordy.

He determined to address the matter with Del and keep their encounter meaningful instead of sordid. He would tell Del that he would either repay the money like a loan, or he would do the labour around the house he said he had for him. He wouldn't take no for an answer.

Settled on that, he started to drift off to sleep with only one nagging thought.

You're only thinking of going back to his house to have sex with him again, aren't you?

No, he told himself, he was just going to make honest men of both Del and himself and give closure to an exciting episode that must prove the exception and not the rule.

He faded into sleep with a boner in his boxers, perhaps in anticipation of seeing Del tomorrow.

Soon he was sound asleep.