in her apartment tonight.” He took another pull off his shortening cigarette. “Fuck it man, it’s just you.” He said. “No one else can see. No need to worry.” With that he pulled his hand away and stretched out again, just enjoying being in the open, this close to the rain, and horny.

There was a small bonding, as if we were two longtime buddies, comfortable as though we had shared this state many times before.

“God this is nice,” he said, “almost perfect”. He looked out into the yard a while longer and my eyes drifted out there as well. Another flash of lightning and a very loud boom, startling both of us.

“That woke me up,” I said. “I was just about to call it a night.”

“No, man,” he said, “Stay out a little while longer.” He was looking straight at me. “I’m enjoying the company. Don’t really want to be alone just yet.”

I nodded toward his crotch, now at full mast, “That’s not what it looks like.”

He looked and laughed. “Ah, he’s a little hungry, but he won’t starve to death.” He wrapped his hand around it. “We’re buddies; if I really wanted to I’d just go ahead and beat off, nothing wrong with that. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve done it out here.” With that he cradled the back of his head with his hands again and just stretched out, naked but for damp boxers, huge throbbing erection, his calves almost touching mine.

I dared not look at my own lap, afraid my gathered robe would unpack what I was hiding, a similar state, enticed by what was stretched out beside me. The deer in the headlights came back, but quiet set in.

He suddenly turned to me, and I sensed him looking straight into my eyes. “Oh man, I never thought. Is this making you uncomfortable?”

I lied, “No, not at all.”

“I can be such an idiot sometimes,” he apologized. “I just figure a boner is a boner, and forget that some people aren’t as comfortable with it as I am.”

“It’s okay dude,” I said mainly to get the sound of him slapping it against his girlfriend’s cheek out of my head. Then once I again, I let a little more spill than I felt I should have. “It’s a little intimidating, but only because it’s so damned big.”

He laughed, grabbing it and half hiding it. “I’ve seen bigger. You ain’t packin' no gherkin neither.” He pointed and got a little playful, reaching over and snatching my robe off my lap, exposing my own straining hard on. “See man, you’ve got