Christ, gimme strength. Yetanothergay for pay. “But you think you have what it takes to be a gay porn actor?” He folded his arms across his chest.
There was that chin jutting out again.
“Sticking my dick in a guy’s ass can’t be that much different from sticking it in my girlfriend’s, right?” Chad grinned. “Think I’ll do just fine.”
That cocky expression on his face made Mike want to smack it.
“Okay, Chad, you can come with me now.” Paul appeared behind them, slightly out of breath. He gave Mike a grateful smile. “Thanks, Scott. I’ll take it from here.”
Mike waited until Chad was out of sight and then shook his head once more. “Christ Almighty.” He watched the departing Chad, taking in the lean, slim body.Withyourslight looks, boy, it’s not yourdickthat’s gonna be seeing much use.He went back into the small admin room to find Dino Spears already there, filling in his forms. Mike gave him a warm smile. He and Dino went way back, from when Mike had first started out.
“Hey, you got here, then.”
Dino snorted. “Still the early bird, I see. How you doing, Scott?” He got up and gave Mike a brief but firm hug, those thick arms enveloping him. “I heard about you and Dirk breaking up. Sorry. I always thought you two would go the distance.”
Mike’s chest tightened at the mention of his ex. He’d had the same thoughts too. Unfortunately, Dirk hadn’t. “Let’s not go there, okay?” He was in no mood to discuss his breakup. It might have been over a year since Dirk had declared he couldn’t takebeing the partner of a porn star anymore, but the hurt was still there. Three years they’d been together….
“Who was that with Paul?” Dino cocked his head toward the door.
Mike scowled. “Thatwas Chad, an aspiring porn star.”
“Is it too much to hope that he’s gay?” When Mike let out a derisory chuckle, Dino’s face fell. “Oh hell, another straight boy.” Then he smirked. “Hey, you might end up with him as a scene partner if he gets the job.”
“Christ, I hope not.” Mike got really frustrated every time he had to work with one of the gay-for-pay guys. There were some really sweet guys, very professional, but when it came down to it, filming with them was a nightmare. They could only film for about two minutes before they had to stop and watch titty porn for five minutes to regain their hard-on. And meanwhile therehewas, his dick getting limper by the second. “Besides, he’s not my type.”
Dino opened his eyes wide in mock surprise, hand pressed over his heart. “You have a type? And here I was thinking if it had a pulse and a hole, you were in there.” He snickered.
“Bitch. And yes, I do have a type, so fuck off.” For a moment there flashed across his mind the young guy who’d appeared at the bar on Saturday night. Tall, maybe six feet, possibly more, muscles, burly—just how Mike liked them. The face was pretty too. Too bad he wasn’t cooked enough yet. That blush was a dead giveaway, not that Mike couldn’t spot a newbie after all this time. But in comparison with Chad? Yeah, give him a shy, fresh-faced gay guy over a cocky know-it-all straight guy every time.
Mike sighed and gestured toward the door. “You know what really galls the hell outta me? That little shit could end up being the next America’s gay-boy-next-door darling. And what’d you wanna bet are the chances that he’s a homophobic little prick on set, completely unprofessional, but who gets away with it’cause he makes the company a fortune?” He frowned. “Yeah, Chad there will be laughing all the way to the bank, with ourfagdollars in his pockets.” He crooked his fingers into quotation marks.
Dino stared at him. “Whoa… cynical much?”
Mike snorted. “Why, d’you think I’m bitching too much about his skinny furless ass?”
“How d’youknow it’s furless?” Dino was trying not to laugh.
“Oh,please.Gimme some credit. I’d bet my next paycheck that he’s a bare little twink.” He sighed. “One who’ll be paid more than we are, that’s for sure.”
Dino patted Mike’s arm. “You don’t even know if they’ll give him a job yet. How ’bout you and me concentrate on doing a fucking hot scene, and show Mr. Wannabe there how it’s done?” He sat down.
Mike grinned. “Nowyou’re talkin’.” He sat down next to Dino and pulled out the scene notes from his clipboard. Dino did the same, scanning the sheet.
“Okay, so we’re doing a guy comforting his best friend.” He grinned. “Ooh, I’m the straight best friend, and I’m having doubts about marrying my girlfriend.” The grin widened. “And I’m bottoming. Wow, what a surprise.”
Mike laughed. “Yeah, right. You know you love it.” Dino rarely topped, but that was how he liked it.
Dino gave a mock grimace. “Well, I’d better get the ol’ butt plug if I’m gonna take your humongous dick up my ass”—he waggled his eyebrows—“unless it’s shrunk with age, old man.”
“Oh hush.” Mike studied his notes. “How you wanna do this? I’m thinking start out on the couch, then move it to the bedroom. We could use the apartment set.”
“Sure.” Dino put down his notes. “So maybe a couple minutes of conversation, heart to heart, that sort of thing. I get up toleave and you stop me, y’know, with something ’bout how you’re worried and you care about me, yeah?”
Mike nodded. He loved working with professionals, guys who gave 100 percent and who cared about their work. “Yeah, and then we should have a moment to build tension, right? Staring at each other, me hesitant, you bewildered…. And then we kiss. Make it like a dam bursting, yeah? Lots of emotion, touching.” He’d been long enough at this game to know what he was doing. That didn’t mean he wasn’t gonna discuss it first with Tony and Seb. “Let’s see if the guys are around.”
They got up and wandered onto the apartment set, where the cameras were already being set up. Seb greeted them with a cheerful smile, and Tony beamed. “Yay! I get to spend my morning with seasoned performers. Always prefer working with guys who know what they’re doing.”
Mike bit back his grimace.Seasoned performerssounded like another way of saying old and past their prime. Not that he could blame Tony. Many of ManFactory’s most popular models were in their early twenties or barely legal. Sometimes it seemed that experienced guys like him and Dino were only offered scenes to make sure the whole demographic got covered.
