Truth or Dare
Truth or Dare
Ben stared longingly into the bathroom mirror desperately trying to well up the courage to tell Serj how he felt. He knew he had to before Serj moved to Boston; he knew it in his heart, but his mouth wouldn't obey. It all came down to how Serj felt about him and Ben's head was telling him it could result in two ways: It was either tell him and have a lover leave for Boston or tell him and have an ex-friend leave, and he couldn't think of which one would be worse. At least if the lover left he would still talk to him; but if he never said anything he felt almost as if Serj didn't really know him. He knew that when he walked back out into the living room he would have to say something but he couldn't think of how to say it.
_ Come on Ben, you can do it just walk up to him and say what you feel without looking like a complete idiot._
Ben let out a heavy sigh and stared at his lanky form in the mirror. He mentally prepared himself and started brainstorming for things to say. Finally deciding on a "bring it up in a different context" method, he turned around, walked out of the door and into the living room where Serj was sitting on the couch waiting patiently for him to come back. He took one look at the otter and had to fight the urge to tackle him right there and kiss the muzzle right off his perfect face.
Ben saw Serj's long sleek otter body and in his head he could feel Serj underneath him; the thought of Serj's firm muscles sliding beneath his fingers as Ben ran his paws through Serj's short fur made him shiver in excitement. He could see Serj's deep brown eyes looking into his lovingly as they both leaned in for a kiss, and as they did he could feel his fingers running through Serj's dark brown head fur.
"Um, Ben? Are you alright?" asked Serj wondering why his friend had walked into the room and almost immediately stared off into space in his immediate direction. Ben embarrassingly snapped back into reality and blushed a deep red that was almost visible through his fur. He looked away from Serj even though he actually wanted to keep his eyes fixed on the sleek, sexy otter boy. In fact, he wanted more than just his eyes on him...
"Um, heh, y-yeah I'm fine." he stammered chuckling nervously and sitting down next to Serj on the couch.
"Are you sure? You kinda look like you have something to say me. Either that or you're constipated."
Ben chuckled for a moment and then sighed heavily and spoke. The knots suddenly forming in his stomach almost made him double up in pain.
"U-um... well, yeah. There is something that I wanted to ask you."
"Well, what is it?" Serj said, pressing on.
"I... um... It's... uh... Serj...?"
"Yes?"
"W-what, uh... movie do you wanna watch?" Ben said with a nervous half-smile. On the outside Ben seemed at least half way sincere but on the inside he was ripping himself a new asshole for not telling Serj how he felt yet again.
"Oh... uh, I don't care you pick." said Serj looking away, his ears flattening down on his head. He could tell that his best friend wasn't being honest with him and that tore him in two. They had been friends for so long, didn't Ben know that he could trust him with anything by now? Serj didn't really blame Ben for trying to separate the two of them, however. He was moving in two days and he'd had friends move far away before; he knew how painful it could be. So in a sad way he understood why Ben seemed to be distancing himself from him; there would be less to break off.
Ben stood up and walked over to the bookcase full of DVDs. He pretended to look at them as he fought a war with himself in his head.
Why couldn't I just be man and tell him? He's going to move to Boston in two days_, this is the only chance I get._ A light sweat broke out on his forehead under his fur and his eyes closed as he thought hard about how to tell him. Obviously his first plan had been a real success. He needed to come up with a way to get him to get the picture in a subtle way. His eyes snapped open as an idea popped into his head and a plan was formulated in his mind in seconds. However childish it might be, he knew it would work.
"Hey Serj," said Ben turning around with a newly formed smile on his muzzle, "On second thought, you wanna hang out on the trampoline tonight?" Serj turned his head back toward Ben and his ears slowly stood back up. Ben assumed that was a good sign.
"Yeah, sure. That sounds fun."
* * * *
The air outside was perfect. It had been a hot day that day, almost one hundred and ten, and, with a heavy overcast of clouds in the darkness, it left the air still in the seventies. Serj and Ben laid on the trampoline each with their own pillow and blanket. Bags of chips of at least five different flavors and super-caffine induced energy drinks and sodas--out of all of them, some full but most still empty--were strewn about in between them. They planned to stay up all night.
They slowly finished laughing at a story that Serj had told Ben.
"Oh, man, that chick was insane!" said Ben chuckling and stuffing his paw into a salt and vinegar flavored bag of chips.
"I know man and she had such a huge crush on me." They both chuckled at that and sighed. Ben reached over to get another soda and felt Serj's hand bump into his own. He quickly mumbled a 'sorry' and blushed under his fur again grabbing the soda and quickly retreating, making sure to cover the bump under his pants with a blanket. He couldn't believe he was getting a hard on just from being around Serj. But Ben couldn't be blamed, Serj really was the most attractive otter in the entire school. Looking over at his best friend he was surprised to see that Serj's only reaction was a smile to himself in the other direction.
There was a silence as Ben chugged his soda and Serj ate some chips out of the nearest bag. After a time Serj was the one to speak up.
"So, uh, what do you want to do now?" he said quietly as not to wake the neighbors (which didn't do much good since they both had howled with laughter not long before). Sure he was having fun talking and eating till his stomach ached but from the show inside Ben obviously had some kind of anterior motive to get him out here.
Ben was suddenly filled with anticipation as he felt his chance reveal itself. It was finally time to start executing what he felt was a master plan.
"Well we are outside, right? So we've got plenty of opportunities to cause some kind of trouble, how about we play truth or dare to see who has to cause it?"
"Heh, sounds fun. I always win at this. You'll never be able to out dare me."
"Yeah right, we'll see. If you're so confident, you go first."
"Alright Ben, truth or dare?"
"Truth." he said without hesitation.
"When was you're first kiss?"
Ben answered without fault and then asked Serj a truth question; this continued for at least ten rounds, each question more personal than the next, before Serj said it:
"Dare."
On the inside Ben was ecstatic; he knew exactly what to have him do. He put his paw under his chin and pretended to ponder; like he hadn't been thinking about it all night.
"I dare you... to take a naked lap around my house!" he said with an evil looking smirk. He put on the devilish smile to make it seem like his intentions were completely comical and not just to see Serj naked--which, truth be told, was exactly the reason. He felt a little bad about putting Serj in this situation but he couldn't help it. Ben had wanted to see Serj in his entirety ever since he snuck a glimpse of him in the school shower.
Serj looked wide eyed at Ben; he wasn't even going try and start out easy like he did with the truth questions. Serj then looked over to Ben's house and sighed debating whether he wanted to take the two truth questions that could substitute the dare instead. He could tell that the questions were starting to get really personal and while he trusted his friend with his secrets he was also very shy when it came to his body. Hell, he only showered after gym when the rest of the kids had finished even though it meant he missed the bus on a fairly regular basis. He had only once showered with another person after gym and that had been Ben, but it was simply to try and get over his shyness--plus he really had had no other choice. Which brought his thoughts back to the dare. He looked at Ben and sighed heavily.
"Fine." he said making his way towards the edge of the trampoline.
Ben let a surprised look spread across his face. He hadn't ever imagined that Serj would agree to it so easily. He had thought that there would have been, at the very least, some kind of series of harsh words shouted his way but as Serj climbed on his hands and knees across the trampoline--which incidentally was a turn on in itself--he found himself almost giddy with excitement.
Hopping off the side Serj began to undress. First he took off his shirt and hung it over the edge of the tramp; he could hear Ben stifling his laughs with his paw and frowned at the ground. Serj's were ears pinned down to his head in annoyance. He unbuttoned his pants and started to pull them down with his boxer briefs. He got to where his caramel body fur turned into his darker brown pubic fur and hesitated.
"Come on, it's either this or I drill you with two extremely personal questions. I won't tell you everything but I will tell you that one of them certainly has to deal with reveling the certain length of a certain part of your body!" Ben said in a sing-songy tone that only added to Serj's annoyance.
Serj heard Ben chuckling behind him; he was clearly enjoying this. Ben, in fact, was enjoying it; he was just enjoying it for different reasons than Serj assumed. He pulled his pants down past his sheath exposing it to the cooler night air and it made his fur stand up on the back of his neck. He slipped his pants off and kicked off his shoes to the side. Serj couldn't believe he was doing this, he was completely naked and exposed to the world... outside!
Serj looked down at his body and looked back at Ben's. He had always compared his sleek otter body to Ben's slightly more muscular Labrador body. Serj had muscles of course but there was something about the way that Ben's short, golden fur rippled effortlessly across his tight muscle tone that he was jealous of. Ben's fur wasn't the only thing Serj was jealous of, however.
At school in the showers after gym class, Serj couldn't have helped but notice how endowed Ben was; It was at least nine inches. Serj's was at least two inches shorter than Ben's and he was really embarrassed by it; so much so that he would do almost anything to not let Ben see him. That was one of the reasons that he was so pissed at Ben for daring him to do this. He thanked God that he was behind the edge of the trampoline so that Ben couldn't see.
"You're forgetting about the lap." Ben said as he smirked. Serj cursed him under his breath and turned his back to him taking a deep breath before taking off into a naked jog around his friend's house.
Ben gasped under his breath as he got an eyeful of the otter's perfect ass. Serj's thick tail covered up most of the show but as he jogged and his tail bounced from side to side Ben got to see more and more. His eyes were stuck on Serj's butt until he finally rounded the first corner and disappeared.
Serj felt the soft grass underneath his foot pads and he actually found himself loving the feeling. He couldn't believe it himself, but he was actually enjoying jogging naked through the night air even thought he was a bit worried about the light from the street lamp. He loved being naked--he was naked all the time when he was alone in his room--he just didn't like anyone witnessing the act. However, as he rounded the second corner it occurred to him what direction he would be facing as he jogged back to the trampoline. Of all people in this world he didn't want his best friend to see him from the front while completely naked. Would Ben judge him or make fun of him for being a shorter than he was, or would he just not care at all? Surprisingly, for reasons that he didn't fully understand, Serj found himself worrying mostly not about the fact that Ben would see him naked, but that Ben wouldn't approve. Nevertheless, he mentally prepared himself for whatever was about to come. Thick or thin there wasn't much he could do at this point, might as well just grin and bear it.
Ben's ears perked up as he heard his friends footsteps getting closer. As Serj jogged around the corner he was sent into a state of awe at the sight of Serj's sheath. On the out side he was still keeping up the act that he was just playing a game but on the inside, however, he was ecstatic to finally be seeing Serj's perfect cock. It took all the mental power that he could muster to keep himself from pouncing his best friend and pleasuring him right there.
Ben simply drank up the sight of his best friend running naked towards him. He saw Serj's balls gently bouncing with each stride pulling on his sheath and slightly arousing him. Ben had to consciously keep himself from drooling at the sight of the pink spot at the tip of Serj's sheath as the otter covered the final stretch and made his way back.
As Serj got back to the trampoline he quickly got redressed and climbed back on. Ben had been chuckling the entire time to make it seem that he was just playing around and not just getting horny, which, in all reality, was exactly what was happening.
"Alright my turn." said Ben through hiccups of laughter.
"Truth or dare." said Serj almost bitterly. He had a mad expression on his face and his arms were crossed but Ben could tell he wasn't really mad, besides he knew just the thing to cheer him up.
"I guess it's only fair... dare."
"I dare you to take truth on every turn!" Serj said with an evil smirk.
"Well now you can't make me jog around the street naked or something. Wow, what a waste of a dare." Ben said flinching when Serj punched his arm playfully.
"Alright, Jesus, no reason to get violent. Truth or dare?" said Ben with a smile.
"Truth,'' said Serj almost hesitantly, ''I don't think I can handle another one of your dares."
"Alright here's a tough one. Have you ever had feelings for another guy?" Ben asked, finally revealing the question that he'd wanted to ask all night. Serj snapped his head toward Ben and he stared at him with wide eyes.
"Dude, what the hell man?" Serj snapped at Ben.
"Dude, come on, we're best friends even if you do say yes nothing will change that. I'm just curious that's all."
''Still.''
"Like I said I'm just curious. You haven't liked another guy have you?"
Serj thought about it hard. Now that he thought back on it he did catch himself watching Ben's butt as they walked down the hall together; in fact, sometimes it mesmerized him to the point where he would walk into other students. What about the one after-gym shower that Ben had let him come in on? He remembered having to hide himself from his friend as the sight of Ben's naked and wet body made him aroused. Serj had shrugged it off before but now it was staring him right in the face. He had a crush on his best friend. He started to get nervous at the thought as his mind turned to his next. What would happen if he told him yes? He didn't know. What would happen if he lied and said no? He didn't know that either. All he knew was that this was a turning point in their friendship and with him moving so far away if he ever decided to tell Ben the truth after tonight he wouldn't be able to do it.
"Yes... I have... and they've all been about you." he said with his ears pinned down on his head, he didn't look up again until Ben spoke. Tears welled up in his eyes as he visualized Ben's disgusted face looking at him like he was a freak. Serj didn't know if he'd be able to handle ending their friendship like this. That's why he looked up in amazement and shock at Ben's next words.
''Dude, it's ok. Like I said, we're best friends and nothing will ever change that." he said putting his paw on Serj's shoulder. The otter smiled at his friend and silently thanked him. Serj held immeasurable relief to hear those words and he put his head down as his eyes started to tear up again but this time from happiness instead of worry.
"To tell you the truth," Ben continued as he scooted closer to his friend, "I've been having some of the same feelings." As he said this Serj's head shot up once again and their eyes met. Ben took his opportunity as soon as he felt it was right. He moved his head forward towards Serj's and kissed him tenderly on the lips. Serj was taken aback by the sudden gesture but as he realized what exactly was happening he relaxed and let Ben's kiss push him onto his back. He didn't know what to think with his best friend on top of him, pressing his lips to his. He had only thought about it moments before and now it was suddenly happening; the shock left Serj speechless. Ben broke the kiss and whispered into Serj's ear.
"I know it's kind of sudden so I'll give you three chances to come out of the current state of shock you're in and say something. That was one..." he said pressing his lips back on Serj's and kissing passionately. Ben relished in the sheer pleasure coming from the kiss; he knew he was going to like it but he could have never imagined how good the real thing was. Finally gathering his thoughts, he momentarily broke the kiss yet again.
"Two..." he said, this time just above Serj's lips not wanting to take his muzzle that far from Serj's. Locking their lips again Ben turned his head to the side deepening their kiss. Ben explored everywhere in the otter's muzzle with his rough dog tongue and murred at the feeling of Serj's tongue pressing back.
Suddenly and without warning, he could feel every one of Serj's muscles tense at once and Ben was flipped onto his back. He yelped in surprise and with a shocked look on his face he looked above him. Serj was there looking down at him with an expression that Ben couldn't quite read but it didn't look good. He thought maybe he was angry or maybe he was just thinking, he couldn't really tell.
Oh God what have I done? Now not only have I ruined my friendship with the best person I've ever met, I've also ruined my only chances to be with him. Damn it! How could I do this to him?
Serj's oddly expressioned face loomed over him for what seemed like forever. Then Ben could have sworn he saw a small smile start to form at the corner of Serj's muzzle before he leaned down and kissed Ben with the most passion he had ever felt. Ben could feel Serj's weight on him as the sleek and sexy otter laid his body down on top of him. Ben felt Serj's muscles under his fingers as he ran his paws through his short hair. It was just like he had imagined if not better. The only exception was that Serj was on top of him and not vise versa.
Serj turned his head to the side letting them deepen their kiss once again. Ben ran his paws up and down Serj's back under his shirt and through Serj's short body fur. It wasn't anything like Ben had imagined; it was a million times better, a billion times more passionate, and an infinite amount more unbelievable. He was afraid that Serj and him would have never shared this, but now his fears had been quenched and the fire that burned in his heart for his best friend now flared up and melted away the world around them like wax. He decided in that moment that it would be better to have a lover leave than someone who didn't know him for who he was. The only thing going through both of their minds at that moment was the thought of them in each others arms just enjoying one another and nothing else.
After a time Serj took his lips off of Ben's. They looked deep into each others eyes communicating some kind of new-found love that the rest of the world couldn't hear. Ben looked lovingly into Serj's giant chocolate eyes and his fantasy was complete. They both had huge grins on their muzzles and they just llaid there a moment until finally Serj spoke the word that Ben had never wanted to hear more. The last number in the count down that Ben had given to Serj that was now being given to him.
"Three."
I wrote this a while ago when I was still pretty young. I think I was only sixteen at the time. Basically I was writing within my own age group with this one. In fact I think an old crush on a guy inspired me to write it. In the interest of preserving my young work and showing how my writing style has changed as well as my knowledge of the English language from then until now, I've left whatever spelling or grammatical errors, though few, intact.
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