Desire:
Rated M
Warning sexual reference.
Characters from Annie Proulx and BBM film
Ennis was more and more happy in the company of his new found friend. Thought he knew what kind of a boy Jack might be.
Once he started to talk about Alma and the wedding, and the ranch he hoped to have, but Jack himself continued talking as though he hadn't heard what he'd said, hadn't wanted to hear and Ennis had heard the sigh in his voice and seen the pretty down -turned mouth.
To test a theory Ennis talked of the coyote with balls the size of apples as he started to strip. Jack became flustered and, opening a can, spilled the beans in more ways than one. As Ennis squatted naked apart from his hat in order to wash, Jack who could usually talk the hind leg off a mule remained silent peeling spuds, resolutely turned half away and rigid.
The next day Jack took off and when Ennis went to look for him found him bathing in the creek. Ennis was screened by trees, his breath taken away. Jack was completely naked lathering his body with the cheap soap they'd been supplied with. He was turned towards Ennis but soaping his thighs his head was lowered. Next he soaped his balls and cock and Ennis groaned, thinking he'd never seen anything as lovely – the smooth taught skin, the dark silky hair, the beautiful limbs, and the water lapping all around him. As Ennis watched he next lathered the hair on his head then used the old enamel jug to rinse it, putting his head back exposing his beautiful white neck.
Ennis aroused backed away – a man could be killed for the thoughts he was having, allowing himself to have – he knew, because once he'd seen a man killed for loving another man, his body tossed away into a ditch like so much garbage, long ago when he was a child.
