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Chapter 1: Letting Loose in London, Part 1
“Welcome to London,” the flight attendant said. “The local time is 7:20am and the temperature is 6 degrees Celsius or 42 degrees Fahrenheit.”
I had just touched down in London for the first week of my semester abroad. I was actually going to be spending the majority of the semester in Germany, half in Berlin and half in Frankfurt, but the program began a week before coursework to give us some time in London and Paris.
Once the plane finally arrived at the gate and people began grabbing their things and deboard, Jacob and I grabbed our bags and began the long walk to customs.
“Oh man, I can’t believe we’re finally here,” Jacob said with excitement as we walked up the jet bridge.
The jet bridge felt longer than it should have, probably because my legs were stiff from nine hours crammed in economy. Jacob walked ahead of me like an excited puppy, his backpack slung over one shoulder, dark hair still somehow perfect after the red-eye. I caught up, wheeling my suitcase behind me.
“Dude, we made it,” I said as I caught up to him.
“I know,” Jacob said as he turned around, looking at me through his glasses. “I never thought I would get to spend an entire semester in Europe. I don’t know what to even think right now.”
Jacob was one of my best friends. We had been roommates freshman year and remained roommates now during spring semester of our junior year. We were both gay, but both tops, so we didn’t hook up. Of course, we hooked up during our freshman year as we both realized each other was gay, but that’s as far as it ever went. We were better off as friends. Though, we never minded trading jabs and stories.
Since we were both nervous about bottoming at the time, which at this point we had not fully evolved into the tops we were now as we were still figuring things out, our two hookups only consisted of oral. Jacob was a bit shorter than me, probably seven inches, but still had some good girth to it. I was just slightly bigger, but no doubt he could please any bottom he wanted.
We had the perfect mix of making sexual jokes and swapping hot stories without one of us trying to hook up with the other. I couldn’t imagine spending a semester in Europe with anyone else.
“Well, how about you stop looking around so damn much and walk towards customs,” I told him.
Jacob adjusted his glasses with a middle finger, smirking.
“Just because you’re the jacked one doesn’t mean I have to put up with you shit,” he said to me.
I wouldn’t consider myself a jock or gym rat, but I was significantly more athletic than Jacob. I always was. I played soccer and tennis in high school before coming to college and do weight lift a little, whereas he was the debate club type. He definitely was attractive, the hot nerdy type with a ton of confidence about him. He mostly ever did cardio and he ate relatively healthy, so he had a nice toned body. He absolutely cared about his hygiene too, so he was always clean cut, put together, and wore glasses but only if they complemented his outfit.
We hit the main corridor and melted into the shuffle toward immigration. The air was filled with excitement and new energy.
“Gonna be Taylor Swift and get you a London boy?” he asked with his signature cheeky grin.
“You know I will,” I said back to him. “Only reason I wanted to do this semester abroad.” I was only half joking.
Jacob nudged me with a bony elbow.
“Paris, though. All those fashionable French boys with cheekbones and longer hair to pull.”
“Hell yeah,” I said. “Nothing hotter than a guy moaning in a French accent,” I joked.
“You’re ridiculous,” he said, rolling his eyes,
“You love it. You’re already calculating how many scholarly twinks you can notch on your bedpost during this semester.”
“Quality over quantity, Will. I’m refined now,” he told me.
“Refined my ass. You’re the guy who once hooked up with a physics TA in the library stacks.” He just gave me a look that suggested that was nothing worse than anything I had ever done.
We approached customs with our passports ready. The fluorescent lights overhead coupled with the mostly British accents surrounding us made everything feel a little surreal. We had planned this abroad program months ago, and it was finally here.
The line shuffled as we neared the booths. We both got called in two separate directions, answered questions about why we were visiting and for how long, and then met each other on the other side to head to the train station. Though nothing Jacob ever said at this point should really surprise me all that much, he did say something that almost made me stop in my tracks.
“Bet we end up fucking the same guy eventually,” Jacob said casually. My neck jerked to look at him, my eyes wide.
“Different nights, though,” he quickly said.
“Kind of hot, but also very weird,” I said back to him chuckling. “But imagine that debrief after.”
“Oh I imagine we’d have notes to compare. Quality of head, how good we think he takes cock, what position we finish inside of him.”
My cock began to harden in my jeans. We had, after all, just spent nine hours on a plane, and it had been several hours before that since I had jacked off.
“We’re taking the train, right?” he turned and asked me?
“Yes, but we don’t ride the train here. We ride the tube.”
Jacob busted out laughing.
“Oh my god, Will,” he said, still laughing. “Neither of us ride any ‘tube.’ I know that wasn’t intentional, but that was damn funny.”
We navigated to the proper train line to get to our hotel. The platform hummed, rush hour was picking up. The train pulled in and we wedged inside, me bracing my forearm against the pole, Jacob beside me with his suitcase between his legs.
I glanced sideways. Jacob had his phone out already, thumb flicking across the screen. Grindr, already.
He angled it slightly, but I could still see. Profiles were stacking up, gym selfies, rooftop parties, the usual. He tapped, scrolled, lips curving into that private, wicked smile he got when he found something promising.
I rolled my eyes and smiled. Sometimes Jacob was a little too eager. We were still miles away from our hotel, so he wouldn’t be venturing back out this far just for some hole.
Maybe it was because he sometimes felt less confident than I did at finding someone. He was less muscular than me, sure, but he was confident and handsome. And he was smart. He was always better at school than I was, and I didn’t consider myself a slouch by any means.
“You couldn’t at least wait until we got to the hotel?” I leaned over and whispered in his ear.
“Shut up, Will,” he said, smiling and jabbing me in my side. “It’s just a little window shopping and checking out the landscape.”
Believe it or not, Jacob and I were capable of having normal conversations not about sex with each other. However, the excitement of being in Europe, for an entire semester, after talking about it for months, seemed to dominate.
We were in Europe and had so much to look forward to that you coulnd’t help but get excited. We were going to get to experience so much, amazing museums, monuments and landmarks, culture, restaurants, nightlife.
I knew we were both about to have a lot fun, in more ways than one.
End of Chapter 1 Part 1