Simply Red

Max’s Perspective

It had been the most amazing year of my life, hands down. I graduated from college, landed my first job, married the man of my dreams, and started an amazing life together that I could never had imagined out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, we had a bump or two in the road, but the good outweighed the bad by so much!

Seth called a couple of days after his visit at Thanksgiving and said his Brothers (sans Brian who was in Tuscan with his girlfriend’s family, and Eli who wasn’t up for being the only straight guy on the trip), their friends from Phoenix, and Scotty’s friends Alec and Chip were all heading to Vegas for New Year’s Eve. Mom and Pop Nicholls were visiting Phoenix to spend time with their grandkids and talked Kev, Randy, Brad, and Scotty into taking some time to themselves while they watched the kids. Kevin and Randy used to go to Vegas every New Year’s Eve with their friends, and I had heard some unbelievable stories. The two of them had connections in the hospitality industry and were able to secure a block of rooms at a great hotel for dirt cheap, so Seth decided to invite all the guys from the Duplex to go. We all got on a Zoom call and decided to go for it, everyone had had such a great time at our wedding and were excited to get together again. Seth also called Darius and invited him and Tommy, they were so close to saying yes, but Tommy chickened out. He was so damn shy and not comfortable with such a big group. I tried to talk him into it because there was absolutely no reason to fear this group, they were welcoming and fun as hell! I knew he'd regret it… unfortunately, I failed to talk him into it.

We were on the plane heading to Vegas the day before New Year’s Eve, Brody passed out as soon as we sat down. I watched him sleep as I texted with Gina through the plane’s internet… damn he looked so adorable. Gina and Dylan were staying at our house babysitting the animals… I was nervous about being away and happy they were staying with our babies. It was just three days, but still, we had never been away from them before. There were no direct flights from Wilmington, most of them had two stops so we ended up flying out of Raleigh. We got lucky with a direct flight for a decent price, the catch was that it left at 7:15AM. We spent the night before the flight in Raleigh so we didn’t have to get up in the middle of the night to drive two hours to the airport. Gina was looking forward to staying at the house while we were gone, she loved the animals. But apparently, she didn’t sleep too great her first night there with both Zoey and Roscoe in the bed with her and Dylan. Oh well, they’d adjust. I was doing my best to just forget about it and have a good time, knowing everything was in good hands. I was excited as hell to see all the guys.

 The plane landed before 10AM Vegas time waking Brody as we touched ground. He smiled at me and I leaned down and kissed his forehead “Good morning, we’re here” I said excitedly as he yawned and sat upright. This was our first trip together as a married couple… we’d been married for a little over two months but we were treating this like our honeymoon. Well, a honeymoon with just us and about twenty other gay guys. I had no idea who else, if anybody, was in town. Some of the guys from Phoenix were driving and some were flying, they’d be coming in throughout the day. The guys from the duplex were all landing early afternoon, and check in time wasn’t until 3:00, so we had some time to ourselves. We jumped into a cab and went to our hotel hoping to get an early check-in… no such luck, but they let us store our bags with the Valet and promised to call as soon as a room was ready. Seth told us that Kev and Randy had arranged for us all to be on the same floor, and they were staying in a suite on the floor above us with Scotty and Randy; that would be party central. Like I said, they used to do this every year before they had kids and had it down to an artform.

 There was a coffee shop in the hotel, we got a table, ordered a cup of coffee, and tried to figure out a plan of attack. There was so much to do and see and neither of us had ever been to Vegas before and we wanted to just walk the strip and take it all in. We had picked up a couple of brochures from the lobby and were checking out shows, tours, and attractions when a hand touched my shoulder. “Max?” Asked a familiar voice. I turned around to see Matty, Scotty’s boss. I had worked for him when I was part of the Pride Crew for a few summers (along with several of our friends), going to different Pride events promoting The Resort.

 “MATTY!” I screamed with excitement; I hadn’t seen him in a couple of years. “What are you doing here?” I asked.

 “Same as you, spending New Year’s Eve with the Nicholls’ boys.” He said as we hugged hello “This must be your husband.” He added looking at Brody. “Scotty told me you got married.” Brody stood and shook his hands as I made the introductions. As we were talking, a hotter than fuck daddy-type walked up behind him. “Oh, this is Tate” is all Matty said… he didn’t call him his boyfriend, friend, or anything else. Matty was bisexual and always had a companion, but rarely was seeing anyone seriously. He was a cute, successful guy, and just a lot of fun to be around. The only reason I could see for him not having a serious partner was that he didn’t want one. Monogamy isn’t for everyone I guess.

 Tate shook my hand and said “’ello” with a beautiful, melodious English accent. “So, you lads are here for the big New Year’s Eve knees-up as well?” He asked. I couldn’t help but smile at his beautiful accent and the phrase “knees-up.”

 “Hail yes!” Brody responded without hesitation, his Southern drawl in total opposition to Tate’s English accent. Matty and Tate both grinned at my adorable husband. The two of them sat down with us and Matty gave us several suggestions of what to do, Matty was a regular visitor to Vegas for his job, and Tate was a Vegas virgin like us. He volunteered to be our guide and we were happy as hell to be with someone who knew their way around. We left the coffee shop with our to-go cups and started to walk The Strip. Oh my god I had never felt like more of a tourist in my life! Me, Brody, and Tate had our Camaras out and were snapping pics left and right. We watched the Fountain of Bellagio show, The Volcano at The Mirage, The Fall of Atlantis at Caesar’s Forums Shops… and a bunch of other free attractions I never knew existed. Matty was an amazing guide, and Tate was as fun as he was. Brody sparked to the couple instantly and came out of his shell; the four of us had a great time together. The hotel called about an hour later to let us know we could get in our room, but we just kept exploring.

 By the time we got back to the hotel it was 3:00. The check-in line at the front desk was long… and to our surprise filled with people we knew. “MAX!!!!” Seth yelled from the front of the line making everyone else turn around to look. There in front of us were Seth, Zach, Cam, Elliot, Eric, and Hunter, all our friends from the duplex and their partners. The check-in line turned into an amazing reunion as our loud, ecstatic voices echoed through the elaborate lobby putting the spotlight on our group as everyone turned to see what all the commotion was about. We all had just seen each other at the wedding a couple of months ago, hell Seth and Zach were at our place for Thanksgiving dinner barely a month ago but it seemed like we had been apart for years. Goddammit I missed had all those guys so much. Two by two we stepped up the desk and checked in. Our room was adjoining with Seth and Zach, and Eric and Hunter were across the hall adjoining with Cam and Elliot. We all crammed into the elevator (Including Matty and Tate) laughing, joking, and catching up. I’m sure we were disturbing every floor as we passed, moving up and closer to our rooms. We exited the elevator and walked down the corridor to find our rooms, we took a turn and Seth went Crazy “OH MY GOD!” he yelled as he ran to greet a couple of guys coming out of their room… a fellow redhead I might add. “Hey guys…” Seth said turning to our group. “This is Alex and Adam friends of Kev’s from back home!” I kind of recognized them, but not really. I think I may have met them on one of our trips to Phoenix during Spring Break, or for my job at The Resort. But frankly, I would’ve remembered Alex the hot ginger (I saw Brody check him out… he had a type lol), and Adam was a former Marine with a solid, muscular body (I saw him check me out… apparently, he had a type too). They were both hot as hell! Matty and Tate hugged the guys, apparently, they lived next door to Matty. As our loud voices filled the hallway two more room doors opened and more hot guys came out to great us. I recognized them all as neighbors of Kev and Randy whom I had met on one or more of my trips to Phoenix. These were the guys that Seth always referred to as “The Village.” They all rallied around Seth and his brothers When Scotty and Brad took them in and Seth considered them all his family. They were all thrilled to see Seth and Cam but welcomed the rest of us like long lost friends too, even though they barely knew us. All these hot, extremely friendly guys together in one place! It was undoubtedly going to be a great weekend.

 Brody put his keycard in the slot to open our room door and we walked in. “Day-um” he said as he inspected our room, it was beautiful. He walked over to the huge window to check out the view of the strip, then jumped onto the king-size bed and leaned against the headboard with his hands behind his bed. We were both a little tired from walking the strip with Matty and Tate and wanted to nap. I jumped on the huge bed next to him and gave him a kiss. “This is our first vacation together” Brody said with a twinkle in his eyes.

Just as our singular peck turned into a more passionate kiss and I started to unbuckle his pants, there was a knock on the adjoining door and Seth yelled from the other side “open up you guys. We got booze!” I reluctantly left my husband to buckle his pants up again and went to open the door, Seth and Zach pushed their way through. Seth had a couple of two-liter bottles of 7-Up and Zach had a bottle of Seagram’s 7. “We stopped at the liquor store before we checked in” Seth said with a smile. He started to pour drinks when there was a knock on the hallway door. Zach opened it and let Cam, Elliot, Eric, and Hunter in. The party was starting in our room. So much for our “nap”; Ugh. The guys all hung out and we drank and caught up with each other. They all headed back to their own rooms a little after 5:00 and we decided to meet at 7:00 for dinner. That left me and Brody almost two hours alone.

I swear as soon as the guy’s left our room, Brody tore his clothes off and jumped back on the bed wearing nothing but a shit eating grin, patted the bed next to him and said, “It’s nap time, y’all.”

I laughed as I shed my clothes, grabbed my plumping manhood and shook it. “But he’s just waking up” I said laughing as I moved onto the bed and got on my knees next to his head. Without hesitation he grabbed my mostly soft cock and took it into his warm mouth. Damn, it felt amazing! I went from soft, to growing, to full mast within a minute or so. I stayed there on my knees as Brody moved onto all fours with his ass in the air and sucked my cock. He occasionally took me out of his mouth and licked me from balls to tip, then engulfed me again, taking my all the way to the root, and deep down his throat until I felt his throat muscles massaging my swollen head. I reached over his arched body and tapped on his sweet, shaved hole. Before we left the farm, he trimmed his pubic hair and shaved his balls and ass crack… I loved it! His hole was so clean, pink and inviting that I couldn’t help but tease it with my finger. I was on the verge of cumming when he took me a little too deep and gagged himself on my hard cock. When he came up for air I said, “turn around, I wanna eat that hole.” 

Without hesitation he flipped around, laid the side of his head down on the bed and pushed his perfect bubble butt in the air offering it to me. I put my hand on his cheeks and parted them, exposing his amazing, tight, pink hole. Fuck, I couldn’t resist it and I dove in tongue-first. I licked around the rim at first loving the taste and texture of my man. After a couple of minutes, I pushed my warm, moist tongue deep into him, inhaling as I did… damn I loved the way he smelled. The remnants of soap from his morning shower combined with the musk of his well-earned sweat from several hours of walking the Vegas strip drove me through the fucking roof. I pulled his ass cheeks even further apart and pushed my face deeper into his crevice. Brody wriggled his ass in my face as he pushed his ass back and groaned into the mattress. I gave his supple ass a big smack, I couldn’t help myself. The sound of the skin-on-skin slap echoed through the luxurious hotel room as Brody let out a guttural grunt in response. He was loving the undivided attention of my tongue.

After several minutes of me rimming and eating him out, his lust took control. He jumped up, pushed me onto my back with my knees against my chest, then he moved between my legs and started licking my hole. It felt freaking perfect! So soft, wet, and warm. My hand found his head and got lost in his soft, auburn curls as I pushed his face into my ass and thrust my ass upward trying to get his tongue deep inside me. I was whimpering like Zoey begging to go out. Brody was on his knees with his head in my crack and his hands pushing my knees into me as he lapped my hole, probing his tongue in and out driving me to ecstasy.  “Fuck me!” I begged in a deep lusty voice. He pulled his face out of my saliva-lubed ass, moved his hands from the backs of my knees to my lower back, then lifted me a bit and pushed my ass up higher. Once he had me where he wanted me, he stood, bent his knees and mounted me. FUCK! His cock was so hard and it bent back as he fucked me from above. He was looking to the sky, lost in his own world as he fucked me hard. I was jacking myself off and moaning uncontrollably as he pummeled me and Brody was grunting like a wild fucking animal. Sweat was dripping off him and onto my sweaty body as I shot my load with a series of loud grunts, shaking as I sprayed my seed… well, everywhere. It was so damn powerful and satisfying as it pulsed through me.  I was shuddering and begging for more as Brody continued to fuck me hard. Without a word he filled my cavern with his hot seed and continued to pump in and out a few more times before he just collapsed on top of me.

 He rolled off me and we both just laid there giggling breathlessly as we gained our composure. After we stopped panting and heaving, we gave each other a quick kiss then jumped in the shower for a quickie clean-up before we basked in the luxurious bed and took an hour nap, cuddling each other as we slept. We woke up to my phone ringing, Seth and the others were waiting for us in the lobby. “Shit, we fell asleep” I said as I answered the phone. We told them to go on without us and text us the address of whatever restaurant they ended up at. We jumped back in the shower, then got dressed. By the time we were ready Seth sent us the name of the restaurant, it was just a few blocks down the strip so we walked to meet them holding hands the whole way. When we arrived at the sushi place, they were all waiting for us and cheered when we entered.

“We already ordered for the table” Seth said. “We’re all just going to share… family style.”  Then Elliot started to list off everything they ordered and asked if we wanted anything else.

“Sounds like you guys got it covered” I said with a smile, then apologized. “Sorry we’re late guys, we fell asleep.” The guys all had shit eating grins. 

“That’s not what Zach said” Cam replied with a smirk. I shot Zach a look that could kill.

 “Oh c’mon” he said with a laugh. “We have adjoining rooms and you guys were grunting like animals.”

“And you’ve always have been a screamer” Seth added matter-of-factly as he pretended to look at the menu some more. The guys were laughing and all taking their jabs at us.

 Then Brody just said, “this is our honeymoon… deal with it.” They laughed a little more, but then started talking about our wedding, and the bachelor party. Then we started talking about our plans to go to Wisconsin for Seth and Zach’s wedding in the summer. The conversation was loud and lively as the waiter brought plate after plate of sushi and put them on the table. Damn, it looked like they ordered one of everything. Dinner was so great! Not just the incredible sushi but being with our friends again. These were my best friends in the world and we just seemed to pick up where we left off.

After dinner we went to a dance club in one of the hotels on the strip. It was very exclusive but Matty had connections and got us on the list. Having Matty, Scotty, Kev, and Randy with us on the trip could open pretty much any door in Vegas… those guys were connected. The music was loud, the lights were flashing, and the drinks were flowing. I was pretty drunk and having a great time. I had a couple of drinks with the guys before our nap, a couple of sake bombers at dinner, and two shots of Jaeger when we walked into the club. I hadn’t drunk like that for a long time and was feeling no pain by the time we hit the dancefloor. We were all dancing like maniacs, me with Brody, Seth with Zach, Cam with Elliot, Eric with Hunter. Brody had his hands around my waist and I had mine on his shoulders as we gazed into each other’s eyes with drunken, love-sick grins on our faces. God, I just loved being with him.

After several dances our group thinned out as we started to spread out a little. Brody was taking a break at a high-top table talking with Seth and Zach as they watched the rest of us dance. Elliot and Hunter were several feet away from us dancing together, and I was shirtless, in the middle of the dancefloor with Eric grinding on me from the front and Cam from behind like old times. I was caught up in my own little world, drunk and not thinking when Eric leaned in for a kiss. I didn’t even think about it, I just went with the flow. His tongue was in my mouth when suddenly I realized what I was doing. I stopped dancing and pushed him away and just stood there between him and Cam with a WTF look on my flushed face. Then I looked over to the table where Seth and Zach were standing, they just stared at me in shock. Brody was gone. SHIT! What the fuck did I do?

 “What the fuck, Eric?” Cam said from behind me.

“I… I… I’m sorry, I’m drunk and just got carried away” Eric slurred unconvincingly.

“Shit” I said as I stumbled over to Seth and Zach. “Where’d Brody go?”

“He left” Zach said, then added “You’re and idiot, Max.” He wasn’t wrong.

There was a bank of elevators in the hall that went down to the hotel lobby. I went out into the hall, hoping Brody was there… he wasn’t. I called the elevator and rode down to the hotel lobby, hoping he was there… He wasn’t. I went out to the street looking up and down the strip hoping to see him… I didn’t. FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! I took my phone out of my pocket and called him, it went straight to voicemail. I texted him. No response. Dammit! I started walking back to the hotel in a panic. I was drunk as hell and stumbling my way down the strip. 

‘What the fuck have I done?’ I thought to myself. I just had the best year of my life and I fucked it all up. I ruined the best thing that ever happened to me, and worst of all… I hurt the man I loved more than anything. FUCK!

 

To be continued…