Hey so this is an idea I had and quickly threw into a story. Not beta'd so sorry for any missing words or wrong tenses or stuff. This chapter is just the set up, actual smut coming later (although I have some graphic bits that might warrant an M rating anyway). Oh and I realize some of the stuff Benny says about homosexuality is potentially offensive-sorry! I'm trying to convey his naivety. Please read and review!
"If you don't get up here soon, I'm looking at your browser history!" Benny calls out the open door of Ethan's bedroom. It's a joke threat, but as soon Benny says it he finds himself curious.
Ethan is cleaning up the disastrous aftermath of his cooking experiment. Who knew why he had suddenly taken up cooking, but Ethan had decided he wanted to try making something fancy with his mom's recently purchased pressure-cooker.
A pressure cooker, as Ethan had explained earlier, was a pot that built up steam pressure which both lowered the necessary cooking temperature and shortened cooking time. To keep from literally exploding, pressure cookers have a safety release valve with a weighted cover that flies off if the thing becomes over pressurized.
What Ethan didn't realize was that after you were finished cooking, the pressure cooker took forever to depressurize before you could open it. So after twenty minutes of waiting, Ethan became impatient and just pulled the weighted cover off.
At first it seemed like a good idea-it was just spitting out a lot of avoidable steam. Then began the geyser of boiling hot broth, forcing the boys into retreat to watch helplessly as dinner rained down on every surface of the kitchen: the walls, ceiling, counters, floor, and even a drawer that had been left open. When the cookware finally gave up its reign of terror, the pot roast was unaffected and delicious. Still Benny refused to help clean. So rarely was something not his fault.
"This would go faster if you helped!" Ethan calls back.
"Not on your life," Benny answers.
Instead, Benny scrolls down the list of sites in Ethan's browsing history, not really interested in the more respectable sites. God dammit why does it have to list every image he looked at on Imgur. Eventually Benny finds what he's looking for: porn. Not that Benny was going to unzip his pants in his best friend's bedroom, but he might email himself some links if any of Ethan's choices looked good.
"Coming up anytime soon?" Benny yells to be sure the coast is clear.
"No!" Ethan yells back, clearly exasperated. "I have to wash everything in this drawer! And the drawer!"
"Can you guys not yell across the entire house?" Jane hollers from down the hall.
It was just the three of them this Friday. After Sarah went off to college, the Morgans decided that their children no longer required a babysitter. Or they just didn't want to find a new one. Either way Jane spent Fridays alternatively complaining that the boys were irritating her, or begging to join them on their adventures. Tonight Jane wanted nothing to do with her brother or Benny.
"Sorry." Benny yells back at her closing Ethan's door.
Just to be safe, he turns the sound off on Ethan's desktop before clicking on the first Redtube link. It's a thumbnail gallery of available videos-not the videos Ethan has actually watched. A lot of dicks though. Porn included a lot of penis, unless you only watched lesbian porn, and Benny was used to that. Still they usually showed girls in the thumbnails.
Benny opens the next link, which is just the next page of the gallery, and this time it registers that he's looking at gay porn. Ethan watches gay porn. Holy Fuck. Benny quickly scans over the URLs of all the Redtube gallery pages, and yes they all include the word 'gay.' So Ethan is gay-gay not just bi? Benny bites his thumb thoughtfully. He kinda thought Ethan would've told him something like that.
Benny closes the Redtube gallery pages-Ethan's computer screen faces the door meaning he'll have almost no warning when Ethan walks in. It'll be better to have as few incriminating pages open as possible.
Undeterred by the graphic imagery, how can an entire arm fit up a guy's ass?, Benny continues his investigation of Ethan's porn habit. Perservely finding out Ethan's gay only makes Benny more curious about his friend's sexuality. Does he want to be the guy or to uh take it? That's how gay sex works, right? Is Ethan into any weird kinky stuff?
Benny looks at the titles of the videos Ethan opened. He has no way of knowing if Ethan actually watched the video once he opened it, but he can glean some information from the titles that interested Ethan.
'Classmates doing IT in the locker room.' Seemed like a mostly vanilla fantasy, could even be a hetero porn title-there was the chance of getting caught though.
'It's Love to Me.' Oh man what a sap.
'Young Guy Blindfolded Sex.' Blindfolds are definitely kinky.
'Slave Boot Camp/Training' Annnd that takes the cake. Benny isn't sure what that entails and he isn't sure he wants to know.
Benny hits 'older' on the history page. There are more Redtube pages, but Ethan had also opened Facebook. Benny knows what that means-jerking it off to a hot girl-guy's swimsuit pictures.
'facebook . com' Just navigating to the page.
' facebook benny-weir ?fref=ts' Uh...
' facebook benny-weir/photos' Oh.
Benny sat staring at the 'Photos of Benny' page. His best friend got off to pictures of him. What... What did he do with this information? Like should he feel violated? Benny had certainly never caught Ethan perving on him. But... Now that Benny thought about it there were several times when Ethan caved after relatively little effort on Benny's part.
Yesterday Benny had pretended to wilt from hunger (hanging onto Ethan's arm for support) and had been immediately rewarded with half of Ethan's cookie. Last weekend Ethan had agreed to Benny's movie choice after merely showing him the awesome movie poster (well having first grabbed his hand to drag him over to said poster). If Benny could harness this power, there's no telling what he could get Ethan to do. Maybe he could finally get him to put a chipmunk filter on the school PA system!
And even if it was only Ethan, someone thought he was hot.
Benny clicks open the actual pictures of himself that Ethan had viewed during his porn session. Surprisingly Benny was fully clothed in all of them. And they were kinda shitty pictures to be honest. Like this blurry picture of Benny at school. He's looking just past the camera with arm reaching past wherever the camera was. He looks like a tool with his stupid smug smile. When was that even taken?
Benny thinks he hears something bang in the hall. Paranoid, he closes all of the Redtube porn tabs. If Ethan barges in now, Benny should be able to close the tab with Ethan's browser history without switching to it. Then all Ethan would see is Benny looking at photos of himself on Facebook. Coincendently all ones Ethan had looked at while masterbating. Totally innocent.
Okay so what did Ethan think was hot in these pictures? This one Benny was reaching to get his kite out of the tree, exposing his stomach. Showing some skin, okay that makes sense. What else? God he was making that shit-eating grin in all these pictures. And in this one he was biting his lip. Wait maybe that was it. Big idiotic smiles and lip-biting. Those were tools he could work with. And losing his shirt somehow if he needed to pull out the big guns.
Benny hears foot steps on the staircase and quickly closes all incriminating tabs. Not a moment too soon.
"Having fun not cleaning?" Ethan asks bitterly as he walks into his bedroom.
"You have no idea," Benny says cryptically. "Now let the real fun begin: Magic Ninja Knights II or Zombie Racecars Mashup?" He asks swiveling the computer chair around.
"Magic Ninja Knights," Ethan answers pulling a second chair next to Benny. Benny starts up the game, handing Ethan one of the game controllers already plugged into his computer tower. He accepts the controller smiling his gratitude. Okay Ethan is cute.
Knowing that Ethan would say yes if Benny asked him out, Benny wonders if he wants that. His lips would be just as soft as a girl's, right? And they basically spend all their time together, even doing 'date' things like eating out and seeing movies alone together.
While their save file is loading, Benny leans over and smells Ethan's hair. Ethan, eyes on the screen, starts at the unexpected contact and tries to pull back and face Benny. "What are you doing?" Ethan asks as Benny uses a hand to hold Ethan in place while he continues smelling him.
"You smell delicious," Benny answers trying to add a flirty note to his voice.
"Y-yeah?" Ethan asks. He's stilled under Benny, hands fiddling with the controller.
"Mmm just like pot roast," Benny explains, taking one last sniff before releasing Ethan. He does vaguely smell like pot roast, but mostly it was an excuse to press his face into Ethan's hair.
"Oh, must've gotten broth in my hair when the pressure cooker was exploding." Ethan runs a free hand through his hair self-consciously and rubs the fingers together checking for stickiness.
His ears are vibrant red and he smiles nervously when Benny catches his gaze. A warm fizziness pools in Benny's gut seeing Ethan react and knowing why. He's special to Ethan.
Oh, better thought. Rather than ask Ethan out, step up his flirting game until Ethan asks him out. Bonus watching Ethan squirm is adorable and hilarious. It's times like these when Benny's genius really shows.
