Araxos By The Sea/My Remote Assignment Part VI
I don't know how it happened, but when the group started rotating to their next assignments it turned out that Jack and I both were off duty so we could go to Athens and see them off. Our group pretty much took the entire third floor of the Krioli Hotel which was located on the strip along the beaches in Glyfada. Several of the guys on the remote were a bit jealous of me because I was going to be staying in this paradise with my transfer to Athens in only a few more weeks, but they were kind about it. I still felt a bit guilty about it, but anxiously looking forward to the new assignment as it meant that I would be leaving Security and getting strictly into Law Enforcement.
We were quite a group of GIs their last night in the country. We went to the really nice Athenia NCO Club where three years later I spent my last night in the country and viewed a floor show by "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis.
After leaving the NCO Club we broke up into smaller groups and headed for the bars on the strip. They were all walking distance from the Hotel so we didn't have to worry about driving. Dennis was in a different group of guys than I was, and after the second bar, I left my group and headed back to the hotel. I had been feeling a bit sad about them leaving and a bit more anxious than I thought I would be about Dennis leaving. I began to regret that I had not gone to him and talked with him about how I was feeling over what we had done that night, but I guess I was afraid, and not confronting him would just keep me from facing my own demons that I didn't understand.
I walked up the three flights of stairs to the floor where the room was located that I would be sharing with three other GIs. When I got to the top of the stairs I could see that the room Dennis was staying in had the door open. Dennis was sitting down in a chair by himself smoking a cigarette and with a drink.
I gently knocked on the door and asked him if I could come in. He hadn't noticed me until then. He said "Come in, of course."
I don't remember if I closed the door or if he got up and closed it. He told me that he just didn't feel like doing the bar scene with everyone so he came back after the second bar like I had done. The others wouldn't be around for a while.
I think I told him that I didn't know what I was going to do without him and that I hated to see him go. Maybe I didn't say anything at all. It was a long time ago. I do remember that we not only repeated that night in his trailer, but I was able to perform oral sex on another man for the first time.
It felt so good to be naked with him again and to explore each others' bodies without interruption or fear. It was the second time I had experienced sex with a man and this time I didn't feel anxious or guilty afterwards. It felt really good. I had forgotten what Sam had said to me with his question, but I know it felt good and I liked it. I regretted that I had wasted so much time between April and July fretting about it all and not doing something about having repeats of it. It's probably best we didn't though because we probably would have gotten careless about it and ended up getting caught. It would have been devastating for both of us had that happened.
The next day was extremely difficult saying good bye to everyone and watching that plane lift off the runway. I have never been the same.
(THE END OF PART VI)
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