THE MALES' HOUSE | CHAPTER 4 - THE FIRST SEPARATION |
Fiore is now nineteen, so he has to leave for his army service period. The two boys are sad about the inevitable separation. And even more so because, when Fiore finally returns, it will be Daniele's turn to leave. They promise to each other to write often. Daniele invents a secret code, to prevent others understanding just what it is that they are writing to each other. Then the last day, they passionately make love. Daniele, afterwards, while they are caressing each other, whispers: "Fiore, I am madly in love with you!" Fiore hesitates -- it is the first time that the word has been said. He thinks about how the movies and TV programs are filled with love stories. They are two men... but what is the difference? His lover is right! So he replies, full of tenderness: "I am deeply in love with you too, Daniele." His lover silently cries and pulls himself tightly against Fiore: "I'll miss you terribly!" "I will also miss you too much!" They kiss, their hearts filled with this new, sweet awareness -- yes, they are in love with each other. After all, didn't they already say they were lovers? Fiore starts his life in the barracks. He has no difficulty in adapting to it. He regularly writes to Daniele, each Sunday, telling him about his life in the barracks, and includes here and there their secret signs, telling him "I love you, I miss you, I think of you..." but also including sentences like those that they jokingly exchanged in their intimate moments, like "How is your big willy today? Does the bee miss the blossom? Do you ever go to the shelter to play with your willy?" When the Recruits Basic Training period is over, Fiore is moved to his new barracks, in the city. Here, one afternoon when he leaves his barracks, being allowed a short leave, a young man approaches him. "Are you a soldier?" "Yes." "In what barracks?" "That one." Fiore points it out to him. "Do you have a girlfriend?" "No no." "Not even at home?" "No no." "Are you perhaps waiting for someone, now?" "No." "May I offer you a drink?" "Why should you? We don't know each other." "Normally soldiers are always hard up... so I thought that it wouldn't hurt to offer you something... We could spend some time together, become acquainted..." "Ah, then, OK." Fiore says, thinking that after all the guy seems likable enough. "How come a handsome guy like you doesn't have a girlfriend?" Giampaolo, the young man, asks him while they are sipping a beer in a pub. "I'm really not interested in girls." Fiore frankly answers. The eyes of Giampaolo have a sparkle of interest: "Ah... it's the same for me. I feel better around men, you know?" he says. "Yes." Fiore simply answers. They change the subject, then they say good bye, but not before Giampaolo arranges to meet him again. Fiore thinks that he is likable enough, and that it is not at all bad having a friend with whom he can spend his free time. Moreover, Giampaolo always offers him something, and this isn't bad either. They meet two, and then three times. They are becoming friends. Giampaolo is single, thirty years old and works in a travel agency. One day he invites Fiore to his place for lunch... Fiore goes, innocently. The food is good, they enjoy the meal. Afterwards Giampaolo says: "If you want to lie down for a while..." "No thanks. I'm not tired." Fiore naively answers. "I am, so I'll go lie down for a while." "Then, I can leave." "No, you don't have to, I'm not going to sleep. I just want to relax. Come with me, so we can chat." the young man suggests. They go into the bedroom. Giampaolo pulls off his shoes and lies down on the bed. He motions for Fiore to sit on the edge of the bed, near him. He loosens his belt and opens two buttons of his fly: "I ate too much. This feels better..." he explains. They chat about this and that. Giampaolo rests his hand on Fiore's thigh: "I like you, Fiore." he softly says. "I like you too." the boy again naively answers. "I feel good with you." the other insists. Fiore notices that the hand on his thigh squeezes slightly. A friendly gesture, he thinks. Then he sees Giampaolo take his other hand to his half open fly, slip it inside and caress himself. Giampaolo smiles and says: "It became hard... does that ever happen to you?" "And how!" Fiore smiles. "And... what do you do in that case?" "Well... at night, in bed, I beat it." Now Giampaolo's hand slips further up on Fiore's thigh. The boy starts to feel a little bit uncomfortable, but also aroused. The man says: "I need a good jerking off... will it bother you if I do?" and without waiting for an answer, he pulls it out -- it is hard. Fiore looks at it with fascination, his own hardens, then he feels the man's hand on his fly, fingering it. "Go on, pull yours out too. It is even better together than alone..." Giampaolo says while he lowers Fiore's fly zipper, now swollen. Fiore lets him do it. But then, he feels too excited, so he pulls away the man's hand. Giampaolo is now hesitant, preparing himself for the worst. But instead Fiore stands up, releases his belt, and lowers his trousers. Giampaolo smiles and relaxes. Fiore pulls them off, then takes the man's trousers and pulls them off also. Giampaolo arcs his body to facilitate him. Shortly they are both naked. Fiore lays on top of the man and embraces him, they embrace each other, kiss, and their members grind against each other. Giampaolo offers himself to the young soldier: "Come on, fuck me!" he murmurs, hoarse with desire. Fiore smiles, wedges himself between the man's legs, lifting them: "Do you have any Vaseline?" he asks. "I don't need it... god, aren't you gorgeous... screw me, come on!" he urges him. Fiore takes his position, the man guides his rod with his hand: "Go on, bugger me, stallion!" Fiore pushes and slips inside to the hilt, completely in a single stroke. Giampaolo moans in ecstasy: "God, what a male! Fuck me, harder... harder..." he pants, pushing his ass against the soldier's groin, rotating it to increase the sensation of the soldier's strong rod. Fiore starts at a gallop. No, he is not making love with him like with Daniele, he is just fucking him -- isn't that what he wanted? Giampaolo gives a start at each thrust, in ecstasy -- these countryside stallions are really skilled, he can recognize them on the spot, and six out of ten are more than happy to give him what he needs. When Fiore gets back to his barracks, he is happy and satisfied -- he really needed a good fuck! Then he thinks of Daniele -- he has to tell him, but how will he react? He can't include it in his next letter... no... he will tell him when he has his next long leave, when he can return to his village. In the following days he returns often to Giampaolo's place, and each time he fucks his new friend with pleasure. The young man doesn't ask for anything else, but nevertheless gives him presents, takes him out to dinner, pays for movie tickets, and gives him a nice leather jacket. Fiore has a long leave. At last he can again see his Daniele. They meet at the station, where his lover is waiting for him with a radiant smile. They are happy to be together again. "Tonight at nine, can I see you at the shelter?" Daniele asks with sparkling eyes. "Yeah, sure!" Fiore answers without hesitation. They meet. After they make love, Fiore faces the issue: "You know... in town I met a guy. His name is Giampaolo, he is thirty years old and he works as a travel agent." "Ah, are you friends?" Daniele asks, quietly. "Yeah... he's kind, likable. At times I go to his place, about once a week. But we meet a lot more often and just go out somewhere. He's always offering to meet for drinks or meals, and gives me presents." "Good." Daniele says, without fully understanding. "And when I go to his place... he wants me to fuck him." "Fuck? Do you mean... you and him..." "Yes, but... there is nothing between us, you know? It's not like you and me. Just so..." Fiore hastens to explain. Daniele keeps silent. Fiore senses that he is not happy. "Are you upset? If you are, I'll put an end to it." "No... if you say that there is nothing..." Daniele says, but not sounding totally convinced. Fiore is now remorseful: "I missed you, and..." "Well, I missed you too. But I waited for you." Daniele says in a reproaching tone. "Dani, you're not happy with what I've done are you?" "Happy? Of course not." "But I love you, I always let you know that, nothing changed between us, believe me." "Yes, I know, but... now, whenever I think of you, maybe you'll be fucking him... and I don't like the thought." "Then I'll stop doing it." "It doesn't matter." "It does too, I don't want you to feel bad. When I go back, I'll won't see him or be tempted by anyone else, I swear!" He sees Daniele cheering up, and he is happy. Daniele has to leave for his army service just one week before Fiore completes his period, so they cannot even meet in passing. Now, Fiore is back home. They continue to write to each other, meet whenever Daniele can get a leave and they make love. This is Daniele's first experience in any town, and he doesn't like it. He just longs to again be with his Fiore. Fiore's parents sit him down for a long talk: "Now you are a man, you've completed your army service, so it's about time that you get a girlfriend and start thinking about marriage." "Yeah, I know." Fiore says just to make them stop with such talk. But he doesn't want to marry. He'd rather live with Daniele. It's just that... how can they? There, in their village, it is not even to be fancied that they could live together. How could they justify it? People would put two and two together, sooner or later, and then they would make their life hell on earth. They could go live in a town... but both of them hate town life, they couldn't stand it. Go to live in another village? All they know how to do is farm work and anyway, even in another village, the same problems would soon arise. All the villages have the same biases. When Daniele comes home for his next leave, he talks to him about it. But his lover is not able to suggest a solution either. He just knows that he doesn't want to marry either, he wants to live with Fiore, but how can they do it? They feel trapped by the situation they're in, and don't know how to get free. Fiore's family doesn't let up, they continue to put pressure on him. Fiore shilly-shallies, he doesn't say "no", but neither does he do anything to find a girl. It is not that he doesn't have the opportunity, the girls hang around him because he is a very handsome boy, but he not only does nothing to encourage them, but behaves in an arrogant off-putting, cold manner. He gets the reputation of being an unsociable bear. Eventually, Daniele ends his army service. The two boys are glad to be able to resume their secret encounters without having to wait weeks and weeks between one and the next. Whenever they are together, when they make love, then yes, they really are happy. But now Daniele's parents start to make the same demands, to apply the same pressures on him. Daniele too is a gorgeous boy, and the village girls hang around him. Daniele disinterest's them with a different technique -- he makes sarcastic remarks, teasing them, and points out, pitilessly, their slightest flaws... so in short time becomes infamous as a nasty and unpleasant boy.
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