A Taste of America in London
Chapter 15
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Apologies for the delay in getting chapter 15 submitted. There's been quite a bit going on at home and it's been difficult finding time to write. Hopefully I won't keep you waiting as long for future chapters. Apologies and thanks again for keeping reading.
Two weeks ago I'd had the most amazing experience with my new boyfriend. Two weeks ago, I'd been intimate with the first person ever, in my life. And it was amazing! I've had difficulty of thinking of anything or anyone else since then. I keep getting hard as a fucking rock in the most inappropriate of moments, such as in school, whilst at dinner with my folks and pretty much everywhere else. This wasn't just a hard on though. This was the kind of hard on that leaks a bitch full of precum. I was drenching underwear shortly after putting it on and I kept having to make excuses to go to my bedroom, or if I was at school, the bathroom, just so that I could choke one out.
Cody and I text each other constantly. The amount of times I have had warnings from teachers for fiddling with my phone in the middle of classes has been absurd; the only reason I have been getting away with it is because until now I've been a little angel. Cody is amazing. The texts we send each other aren't mushy, they're not overtly sexual (although we do occasionally recall the events of two weeks ago in his bedroom). We hung around at school (discreetly) and after school when we could, often joined by Sim. Last weekend however, as much as I had wanted to spend time with Cody, Sim had asked me to go with him to visit his grandparents in Hull. I know this sounds lame, but it's become a bit of a tradition for me to go with him when he goes up there as his grandparents give us an extreme amount of freedom and are pretty liberal with the alcohol. We would go and have some bottles and hang around the centre of town. Sim had asked if I wanted to invite Cody as well, but I could tell by the way that he asked that he wanted it to just be the two of us. Cody understood and whilst it wasn't easy sneaking off to have a wank every time I got hard, Cody and I got to chat a lot over the weekend.
This had been the last week of school before half term. Cody had been pretty excited all week because today (Friday) his best mates from back home in the US were due to come and stay for the holiday. Layla and Zach were twins who had lived next door to Cody and he told me a lot about them, but all I really remembered him saying was that they were all pretty tight. I kind of have the impression that at one point or another Layla may have had a bit of a crush on Cody, although I've no idea if anything ever happened - with what I know Cody is into, I suspect not.
The last day of terms at our school was pretty good. They always let us leave at midday and today was no different. None of the teachers in the morning classes had even attempted to teach us anything. They knew that we were already on the wind down from an intense term and so we were given carte blanche to fool around. I'd made the most of the time by texting Cody. He'd not had to come in to school at all today, instead he was going to pick up Layla and Zach and long with their parents, with his mum. Just before midday as I was waiting for Mr. Brunswick to finally release us for the holiday, I got a text from Cody saying that he was waiting in arrivals and asking if I and Sim wanted to go out with him and the twins. I was excited to meet them, but I was even more excited about seeing Cody again. I replied yes and then with relief, Mr Brunswick freed us from school for a week.
I couldn't have got out of the classroom faster if I had tried. I went straight over to Sim's form room and he was walking out as I got there. I told him that we had been invited out with Cody and his friends for the evening and after a couple of seconds thought he said he was up for that.
I looked at him with a grin,
"Good, I already said you were up for it."
He looked at me and rolled his eyes. We carried on walking towards the door, heading for the front gate.
"So what are his plans for us this evening?"
"I'm not sure, he didn't say. I know he has a couple of friends over from the US for the week. I think he wants us to hang out with them."
Sim looked bored,
"Oh great, I get to spend the week with you, lover boy and a couple of American guys."
"One of those American guys is a girl."
This sparked his interest and he turned to me,
"Really?".
He cheered up,
"Well, I guess we should make her feel as welcome as possible."
"Her?" I asked
"Okay them."
I decided to ignore it and we carried on home. We walked the whole way. As we got to my house, we let ourselves in and went into the kitchen. Sim went straight to the fridge, passed me a can of coke and set about making himself a sandwich.
"You want one?" he asked, indicating the bread,
"Yeah sure. Cheese and ham for me please."
"Coming up."
"Cool. I'm gonna go and have a quick shower and shit. Will you be alright?"
"To much detail dude. Sure! I'm gonna watch some TV in the living room."
I went upstairs and into my bedroom. A shower was only partly the reason I had come up. Whilst Sim had been bent over with his head in the fridge, my eyes had been stuck steadfastedly on his tight little behind. My dick had gone rock hard again and I needed to unload a little bit.
I threw my school bag on the bed, and stripped down to my boxers. I grabbed my dick through my boxers and feeling that they were sodden with precum, dropped them from my waist and kicked them into the washing basket. I stood there and rubbing one hand over my stomach and another gently pulling on my cock, I threw my head back and imagined it was Cody's hands on me - or maybe Sim's. Coming back to myself, I decided that I would jerk it in the shower. I grabbed my phone off of the bed and text Cody,
"We just got back to mine. What time are we heading out tonight? Where are we going? How are your friends?"
I put the phone back on my bed and made my way, led by my hard and wet dick into my bathroom, locking my bedroom door on the way in. I got into the shower and having turned it on, set to washing and wanking - and what a wank it was, as plenty of seed was not only shot over my own stomach, but then very unceremoniously washed down the drain.
I walked out of the bathroom in just my towel, still dropping - I walked over to my bed and picked up my phone to see if Cody had replied yet... He had.
"Hey sexy. Twins are good - it's amazing to see them. They can't wait to meet you. Thought we could hit the town, grab some dinner and chat. How about we pick you up about 4 pm? I miss you."
He'd then sent through a picture of him gurning down the phone, poking his tongue down at me. Fuck it! I was hard again. Just the thought of what his mouth tasted like and how his tongue felt when he put it in my mouth made my dick was poke out the opening of my towel. I checked the time on my phone - it was 1. Taking my phone with me, I dropped my towel and opening up the picture Cody had just sent me, let my cock lead me back into the bathroom. Time for more self-abuse.
Ten minutes later, I was lighter in the balls, dried and dressed. I walked downstairs and grabbing my sandwich from the kitchen, along with another soda, walked into the living room and plonked down next to Sim as he watched the XMen cartoon. Thank god for The Cartoon Network. As I sat down Sim grabbed my hand and pulled it to his face and sniffed. Then proceeded to throw my hand away from him.
"Yuck. I thought you were taking a long time up there. Your hand smells like dick."
I waved my hand back into his face,
"Wanna lick it to be sure?".
He laughed. I had challenged him. He grabbed my hand and pulled it down towards his crotch and squished it between his trouser covered dick and his hand.
"Why don't you just tug me off?" he said with a grin.
Time to up my game. I gripped his dick and looked at him innocently,
"Well, if you insist." He laughed and quickly pulled my hand away.
"Woah, Sausage. Enough of your groping. I've not had sex in like a fortnight, these balls are ready to burst."
Taking a bite of my sandwich, I found it difficult not to burst out laughing,
"Dude, you jerk off every 10 minutes- almost as much as me. The only way your balls are gonna burst is if they get put into a vice."
"Good point. " He looked at his watch, " I better go take care of business. I'm using your shower."
He jumped up and headed to the stairs. I shouted after him,
"Just make sure to wash your business away afterwards."
He laughed and walked off. Once I was sure he had gone, I picked up the TV controller and changed the channel, putting on 'Saved by the Bell'. Yeah it was for girls, but it was also my guilty little secret.
I picked up my phone and making sure to have the TV showing in the background to show him just how much of a geek I was, I took a selfie of me gurning, then I sent it to Cody.
A couple of seconds later, he responded with a one word message,
"Yum!"
Just as the episode I was watching was ending, the front door opened and Carlotta walked in. She saw me and rolled her eyes.
"Jesus. Really? Saved by the Bell! How old are you six?"
I leant over the back of the sofa and looked at her with one eyebrow raised,
"Coming from you who has it recording on series link?"
She shrugged, and walking over to the other sofa, said,
"Good point. What have you got planned for tonight then fairy boy? Going out with your 'boyfriend'?
"Actually, yeah. Sim and I are meeting up with him and a couple of his friends from home."
"What no one for Sim to screw?"
"Well one of the guys from the US is a girl, so you never know."
"Seriously, Sim is like a walking cock muscle. Hot though!."
She stood up and went to head upstairs.
"I'm getting changed and then heading over to Eveline's to stay over. I might warn this girl from the US about Sim and his reputation."
I laughed,
"Yeah, you should. Haha."
As she was walking up the stairs, I shouted after her,
"I think I left the shower on in my bathroom, can you go and turn it off?"
"Sure..." she called down the stairs.
I put the TV on mute and bent my ear towards the stairs. About 8 seconds later, I heard Carlotta scream and Sim curse very loudly. This was followed by the sound of Carlotta coming running down the stairs, into the living room and punching me on the arm. Shit, she had given me a dead arm.
"Seriously, Craig. He was playing with himself in your shower. Is he obsessed with his cock?"
I couldn't help but laugh,
"I thought you said he was hot."
She smiled and as she headed back for the stairs,
"I wasn't complaining about what I saw. Quite a cute little ass Sim has. And that dick, is something else - but I'm sure you've already noticed."
I suddenly had the sickening though in my head of Carlotta and Sim together. I think I'm gonna vomit. Wasn't Carlotta a virgin? How would she even know how Sim's dick compared to somebody else's. This would definitely be something I had to check out with her. I was going to have to have the older brother conversation with her.
I finished my sandwich and about 20 minutes later Sim came down stairs.
"Carlotta told me what you did you little shit." He said. "I think she was surprised to see what a real man looks like."
He winked at me, and adjusted his package as he jumped over the back of the sofa next to me.
"I told her she should go up so she could find something to laugh at."
"You trying to get me and your sister together?"
"Touch her and die."
He gave me a bear hug and ruffled my hair.
"Don't worry. I'll take care of her."
He was joking - at least I hoped he was.
4 o clock came around pretty quickly. Carlotta had come back down stairs and very shyly run out as soon as she saw Sim smirking at her.
A text came through from Cody,
"Hey cutey. Leaving now, see you in 5 mins."
"Come on Sim. They're on their way." I said as I ran up stairs, threw on some shoes and then left a note for parents telling them that I was out for the evening.
As I was signing off on the letter there was a honk of a car horn outside and sim shouted out,
"Sausage. They're here..."
"Okay, I'm coming."
"And the girl is fucking hot!"
"Hands to yourself Sim."
We walked out of the house, and as we approached the car, Cody, Layla and Zach had climbed out the car. Layla and Zach looked to be nervously talking to each other, whilst Cody was leaning back against the car with a wicked grin, eyes straight at me.
Cody introduced all of us to each other. Layla gave both Sim and I a quick hug and kiss on the cheek and Zach gave us a very manly hand shake.
Zach was quite short, about 5 ft 9, with a very firm muscly build, short cropped brown hair and very pretty features. He was wearing light blue jeans, brown shoes and a blue shirt.
Layla had similar (probably because they were twins) pretty features. She had an athletic, not overly muscly build, with long, pretty blonde hair. She was wearing leggings with a strappy pink top.
Both Zach and Layla had incredibly piercing brown eyes. It was difficult to turn away from them, not because I had any romantic interest in either of them, after all I had Cody, but their eyes were very, very deep. I quickly saw that Sim was completely focused on Layla, paying very little attention to Zach, Cody or I.
We all got in the car. Cody offered me the front passenger seat and Zach and Sim got in the back with Layla sandwiched in the middle of them.
"So what's the plan then?" I asked as Cody started the car.
"I thought we'd head into the city. Grab some dinner around Leicester Square and then show Layla and Zach the sites of London."
Sim started laughing,
"And you you mean. You've been here how long now? And you still haven't seen anything." He said to Cody.
Cody smirked and we pulled away.
As we drove into the city centre, Sim kept Layla occupied in conversation. I could see he had his lady killer smile and conversation going. Zach was leaning over to talk to me and Cody. We talked about their flight and how they were finding London. Zach seemed really chatty, but it was clear that he thought carefully about everything he said. He was a thinker and he seemed very rapt by everything I said. He seemed to be paying me a lot of focus.
When we got into the city, Layla and Zach were staring avidly out of the windows at the sites, and I noticed Sim smiling to himself whilst he texted away on his mobile. We parked up in an underground car park by Trafalgar Square and as we got out of the car Cody reached over, discreetly, and squeezed my hand. I looked over to him and he smiled and just mouthed,
"I haven't told them yet."
I squeezed his hand back and then we got out of the car.
Layla and Cody linked arms and I walked alongside Zach, whilst Sim followed behind still busy texting on his phone.
"So, Cody tells me that the two of you have become pretty good friends since he arrived?" Zach asked. He looked directly into my eyes as we talked and he didn't seem overly friendly, almost like he was judging me. I felt a bit defensive.
"Well, we're just getting to know each other still."
"He's a really good guy. It will take a little longer to get to know him as well as, say Layla and I do."
Hmmmm. I didn't want to get into a pissing contest here.
"Well, hopefully one day I'll know him just as well."
"We'll see."
With that Zach walked ahead and joined Cody and Layla. I was just thinking what the fuck was that anyway. It seemed he didn't like me.
I waited for Sim to catch up.
"Who are you texting?"
He suddenly locked his phone and dropped it in his pocket. He still had the cheesy grin on his face.
"Nobody..."
"Really? You're smiling like you've just lost your virginity... again."
Sim started laughing and wrapped his arm around my shoulder.
"Nothing for you to concern yourself with, Sausage. It's man business."
I rolled my eyes and we carried on following the others.
We stopped for about twenty minutes in Trafalgar square whilst Layla, Zach and Cody ran around and had photos taken of them in front of Nelsons Column: climbing and sitting astride the lions, posing in front of the fountains and the obligatory group shots.
Cody passed his phone to Zach and asked if he would take a picture of me and him in front of the fountains. Zach frowned, but agreed. Cody and I sat on the side of the fountain and Cody put his arm around my shoulders, pulling me closer to him. I wrapped my arm around his back and did the same.
The phone was passed back to Cody and Zach pulled him away to carry on walking. Leaving me with Layla.
"He's really missed Cody you know." She said.
I looked towards her,
"I don't think he likes me all that much."
She smiled and linked arms with me and started walking after the two boys.
"Cody's his only real friend. Well outside of his church pals. He thinks Cody's becoming better friends with you than he is him. "
"But what can I do about that?"
"I really wouldn't worry too much about it. We're only here for a week, and then I guess when it's time for Cody to come home, things will probably go back to normal right?"
I didn't even want to think about what would happen when Cody had to go back home. If anything I don't think it had even crossed my mind that that would happen. I didn't want to lose him, I'd only just met him.
"I promise you I'm not threat to your brother. We have a different kind of friendship."
This made her look at me questioningly, but I turned around to check that Sim was still following. He was - back on his phone. What was he up to?
We walked up through Wardour Street and into the back streets of Soho to find Bodeans where I had decided we should go for lunch. With their pulled pork, burnt ends and American fare, I thought it would make the twins, and Cody, feel more at home. That, plus I loved it there.
When we got there we sat up on one of the bench tables. There was Layla, Sim, and I on one side and Zach and Cody on the other. Sim had put his phone away whilst we were sat and he, Layla and I were talking amongst ourselves learning about each other. Zach and Cody were laughing and talking between themselves. I wanted to try and be part of their conversation, however whenever I attempted to join it, I got a scowl from Zach and he would revert the conversation to talk about something that had happened when they were younger back home - in effect ruling me out of the conversation. I was getting more and more pissed off every time it happened and Cody could see that it was bothering me. He tried to give me a reassuring look and I felt his foot rub against my leg to try and show he was on my side. His touch seemed to calm me a little.
Despite the pained conversation and pairings, the food was good and after we'd eaten we decided to move on.
"I thought we could show you Piccadilly Circus?" I asked the American's.
"I'm happy to see everything" Layla said, almost giddylike.
"Actually, I'd rather see Leicester Square." Zach said almost authoritatively and started walking off.
I gritted my teeth and Cody gave me an apologetic smile.
"Well, in that case you're going the wrong way." Sim called after Zach and we turned and walked the correct way, back down Wardour Street. By the time we had reached the Swiss Centre Layla and I were together again, Sim was back fiddling with his phone and Zach had commandeered Cody again. It felt like I hadn't said more than ten words to my boyfriend that evening - I was getting quite annoyed.
Pictures were taken of what felt like every square metre of Leicester Square. The lights, the crowds, the cinema's and the square were beautiful at night and as much as I would have liked to be sharing it with just Cody, it was amazing to see people's reactions when they saw it for the first time.
After wandering around the square for about half an hour we decided to head in to Haagen Daaz for ice cream. As the afternoon had gone on Zach had become more and more dismissive of me. Cody ordered 5 scoops of ice cream whilst Sim, Layla, Zach and I had gone for just two scoops. I was still feeling pretty full from dinner and so actually only managed one of my scoops. Cody had quickly finished his and pointed his spoon at my bowl. I smiled and pushed my bowl towards him,
"Dude, how can you keep eating this much?" I asked him.
Cody laughed,
"As I said, I'm a growing boy."
I nodded and winked at him. Cody burst out laughing.
"Are we missing a joke here?" Zach asked.
"Oh it's nothing. Craig is just impressed with how much I eat." Cody explained.
"It's like his stomach is a bottomless pit." I said.
I thought of what Layla had said earlier. Maybe Zach did just feel threatened by me. I decided to try and make an effort.
"So, Cody's told me a lot about you Zach. What kind of things did the two of you get up to back home?"
I think Cody saw what I was trying to do and made an appreciative face.
"We did a lot. We'd go skiing, hang out. We were pretty inseparable." Zach replied.
"Sounds great. Cody was telling me that you're quite heavily involved with your church as well. I saw the Bible that you gave him when he left the US."
Zach gave Cody a look like he'd had his confidence broken.
"I'm very involved with my church. I didn't realize that Cody was telling you that much about me, nor sharing my private life with a stranger."
Cody interrupted,
"Well he's not exactly a stranger, Zach. I was just telling him about you and Layla."
Now Zach seemed pissed,
"That's great, but I have no idea who you are." He sneered at me. "Cody's not mentioned you at all until we arrived here. And since we arrived it's like the two of you have become the best of friends."
"Don't be silly. He's mentioned Craig plenty of times in the last couple of weeks." Layla remarked.
Cody put his spoon down and turned towards Zach.
"Craig and I are good friends. Would you rather I didn't make friends whilst I'm here?" he asked.
"As long as you don't forget who your real friends are." Zach said.
"Well you're not really acting like any kind of friend at the moment Zach. Stop acting like a little bitch."
I was fed up of Zach and I was fed up of this conversation. As soon as Cody had finished the extra scoop, I paid the bill and said that we should be making a move.
"I thought we were going to see a film?" Zach asked.
"Yeah, I thought whilst we were here we could catch a movie." Cody said.
"I'm pretty tired from school. I don't wanna be a downer on you though. Why don't you four head to the pictures? I'll catch a train from Charing Cross. It'll only take 20 minutes." I said.
I couldn't think of anything worse than having to put up with any more of Zach tonight.
"Don't be silly. We can head home. Come on." Cody said, reassuringly.
Zach rolled his eyes and looked really put out.
"No, seriously. The twins have come a long way. They want to see everything that they can. Take them to the film." I said.
"Yeah come on Cody. If he wants to go home, let him go. You can catch up with him over the weekend." Zach said.
"Shut Up! Zach." Layla said, dragging Zach away.
Cody looked straight at me and didn't know what to do.
"We can go. We came together and I wanted to spend time with you." He said.
"Zach's not gonna allow that tonight, Cody. Listen... you go have fun and we can catch up tomorrow. Our parents are out in the evening, right? So we can all do something then?"
He didn't know what to do and he looked a bit upset. I put my hand on his arm.
"Seriously, you should stay out with Zach, Layla and Sim tonight. They've come a long way and you've not seen them in a long time. We can catch up tomorrow." I said.
"I feel so angry that Zach's being a little bitch. He's not usually like this."
"Maybe he's tired too. It's been a long day after a long flight."
"I'm sorry, I didn't think it would be like this."
"I don't blame you. I don't blame him either. You have a good evening and text me when you get home okay?"
Cody turned around slightly and seeing that Zach and Layla were facing the other way, he quickly pushed me into a closed shop doorway, out of their sight should they turn around.
He put a hand on both my arms and pushed his head towards mine and locked his lips to mine. I almost melted. It felt so amazing to have his warm mouth against mine again. His smell came flooding back to me and my dick hardened. Once again he tasted of ice cream - delicious.
"I'm really sorry" he said, "You're not angry with me are you?"
"I couldn't be angry with you. I suspect that Zach's just worried he's losing you to me."
"Well he is, but not the way he thinks." He started laughing.
"Be nice to him. He obviously thinks a lot of you."
He leaned in and kissed me again.
"You're amazing you know that? He's been nothing but shitty with you."
"See. I'm quite the catch!" I said with a smirk which made Cody laugh too.
He checked that the coast was clear and we walked out of the doorway.
"Zach, Layla, it was lovely meeting you today. Sorry about not being up for the cinema, but it's been a long day at school, and I'm pretty tired."
"No worries. Come on guys." Zach said.
Layla rolled her eyes and walked towards me. She gave me a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Do you wear the same aftershave as Cody? You smell the same.... Anyway, don't worry about Zach, he'll be fine in a day or so."
"Lets hope so I said."
"I'm gonna head home with Craig aswell. Hope you guys don't mind?" Sim said.
"Cool. Catch you tomorrow Sim" said Cody.
Sim and I watched the three of them walk off towards the empire cinema and once we'd lost sight of them, we turned around and started walking towards the train terminus.
"Wow. He's got quite an attitude doesn't he?" Sim said,
"He's an arrogant little shit." I replied.
"Oh well. You only have to put up with him for a week."
"Yeah. Not sure how I'm gonna get through it. Hopefully Cody and me I will be able to get some time together. All our folks are going out together tomorrow evening. Are you gonna come out with us again?"
Sim suddenly looked a bit guilty,
"Not tomorrow. Errrrr. I have a date."
I looked at him,
"I thought you and Emily had split up?"
"Yeah. It's not with Emily."
"Well who is it? Is that who you've been texting all evening?"
"Well yeah. "
"So..."
"So what?"
"Don't be insolent. Who is the lucky lady?"
"I don't think you know her. Just a girl."
I just shrugged. Another notch for his bedpost sometime soon I guess.
"I thought you were flirting with Layla?"
He laughed,
"I was, but then she told me she had a boyfriend and I decided I couldn't be bothered. She's quite cool though."
"Yeah she certainly seems like the nicer twin."
We got to Charing Cross in time to catch a train that left a couple of minutes later and about 15 minutes later the train pulled into Greenwich station. From there, it was about a 15 minute walk to our street. As we walked I text Cody,
"Hey lover. Just to let you know. We're almost home."
Sim was busy texting again.
My phone beeped,
"Good x. I'm really sorry about tonight, especially with Zach. Hopefully he'll chill out a little. Miss you. X"
I felt giddy.
"I'm sure he will. Tomorrow's another day. Night x"
As we walked into my house we joined Carlotta who was sitting in front of the TV in the living room and we could hear the tv in my parents bedroom, they'd obviously called a night of it.
Sim put his phone away and he and I joined Carlotta on the sofa. She was halfway through watching some film on BBC. I yawned and went to stand up.
"I think I'm gonna head up to bed. I really am tired. Are you staying tonight Sim?"
Sim looked over at Carlotta and then back to me, then replied,
"Erm. Nah. I'm gonna watch the rest of this and then head home."
I flopped back in the other sofa.
"Is there much longer left?"
"Don't be silly, Sausage. Go on up. I'll watch the rest with Carlotta and then head off. You don't mind do you Carlotta?"
She turned bright red, turned towards us and meekly affirmed this was okay.
I left them to watch the film. I went upstairs and shucked my clothes into the washing basket and got into bed. I closed my eyes and thought about the kiss in the shop doorway. Then I started thinking about the rubbing and the closeness in his bedroom the other day. I grabbed my phone from my bedside table and opened up the picture that Cody had sent me earlier of his selfie. That combined with the bedroom fun quickly had my cock swollen. I flipped back the duvet and started to rub my dick with one hand whilst holding my phone with the other. A few minutes later, with my breath ragged, my balls up tight and my head feeling light, I shot a heavy load all over my stomach and help my cock until it softened and went limp. I then jumped up and being careful not to drip cock sauce over the carpet or bedsheet hopped into the bathroom and wiped off my stomach.
I got back into bed, grabbed my phone and text Cody,
"I'm missing you too. X"
A few minutes later he returned the kiss; however, by then I was fast asleep.