Dark Paradise

This story was actually supposed to start next week, but it's my 30th birthday tomorrow, so I'm making an educated assumption that I'll be sober for all of about 12 minutes from now until Monday morning.

Because of that, I hope you'll all forgive me for possibly taking tomorrow off 🙈 If I'm not severely hungover, I'll post, but who knows what will happen!

Anyway, here's the first of a little mini-series that I think you might enjoy! 

All characters are consenting adults (18+) 

Spending ten days with my family wasn’t the most exciting thing I could think of doing with the last few weeks of my summer holidays, but I’d recently turned eighteen so the days of free vacations were quickly drawing to a close. I decided that it was best to make the most of my parents’ generosity, and what was the point in turning down a luxury vacation a few weeks before starting college?

We weren’t rich, by any means. Dad had a good job and had been promoted the previous year, and Mom had closed a pretty big business deal, but the fancy trip was most certainly a rare treat. I could tell that both of them were excited, as was my little brother, and that excitement was almost irritating as we drove to the airport.

“Do you have your passport, Josh?” Mom asked, searching through her handbag. “I have Ben’s, I have your father’s and I have mine, where is yours”.

I rolled my eyes. “I have it” I sighed, because I’d told her that three times already.

“Sun block!” She almost screamed, “wait, wait, I have that, too”.

Ben looked at me and swirled his finger at the side of his head before bursting out into a fit of giggles when I did the same. Of all the people in the car, I was quite happy to spend some quality time with him.

By the time we reached the airport, we were already at least an hour early. Despite that, Mom was barking orders like a drill sergeant, and we all fell in line and marched behind her.

“Hey, Josh” Dad said, walking beside me. I looked up at him and could see that he was looking rather uncomfortable.

“Are you alright?” I asked, and he nodded before leaning toward me.

“I know you’re at that age” he whispered, “so if you need… You know protection, you just let me know and I’ll help you out”.

“Jesus, Dad” I wretched, “I think I’m good”.

He nodded, but the awkwardness refused to stop.

“Of course, of course” he said, “I’m just saying, some of the women might see a handsome young man like yourself and–”

“I’ve got it, Dad” I growled, because now my face was burning.

“Oh, and one more thing” he said, before slowing down again, “I know that you teens think that you only need condoms for penetrative sex, but trust me, son, oral sex is just as–”

“Dad!”

“Right, right, you know that!” He replied, and squeezed my shoulder before falling back in line. I felt my stomach squirm, but tried to rid my mind of the mental image and we continued through security and onto the plane without a hitch.

“She’s your girlfriend” Ben chirped, and pointed toward a rather bulbous woman who was on the wrong side of eighty.

“She’s your girlfriend” I grinned, and pointed at an even older woman who heard us, turned around and revealed herself to be a man. Ben screeched with laughter, and fell asleep shortly after, and it was hours later when we finally arrived.

“Holy shit it’s warm” I said, as we stepped off the plane and into the blistering heat.

“Watch your language” Mom hissed, and that wouldn’t have been too bad if it wasn’t for the muscular man who chuckled to himself as he walked by.

“Do as your mom tells you” he smirked, and although my first reaction was to snap back, the sheer size of the man made me rethink. He was at least six foot three and bulging inside the tight beater he had on. His arms looked like tree trunks, and when he lowered his sunglasses to reveal a pair of dazzling brown eyes, he had the nerve to wink at me. “That’a boy” he laughed, and I gritted my teeth as he walked on ahead.

“He’d beat you up” Ben cackled.

“And I’d beat you up” I replied, taking a hit to my confidence.

The hotel was even nicer than it was in the pictures. There were three pools, a sauna, jacuzzi and endless activities. Ben and I shared one room, and Mom and Dad shared another, so it was going to be incredibly difficult to find any free time during the stay. The fact that the hotel was so nice, however, made up for it.

“I want to go to the pool” Ben said, tugging at Dad’s arm as he tried to unpack.

“Later” he replied, and I could tell that the journey had been exhausting.

“Josh, why don’t you take your brother to the pool?” Mom said, falling onto the bed, “your dad and I will be down later for dinner”.

“I’m not babysitting him” I smirked, and Ben punched me in the leg.

“I’m not a baby” he snarled.

The first pool we arrived to was packed with people. The second one was too deep for Ben to play in, and so we continued toward the very back of the hotel and found a perfectly quiet area that suited everyone.

“Don’t drown” I yawned, and helped him into his armbands before laying back on a sun lounger and enjoying the warmth.

It had been a long time since we’d been on vacation, and I was becoming increasingly excited about the next ten days now that we were actually here. I looked around as Ben splashed in the pool, and smiled to myself. I could have really gotten used to the high life.

The longer I lay there, the more I felt my eyes closing, and with the intense heat blazing down on me, I fell into a sleep that was destroyed seconds later when a tsunami of cold water cascaded down on top of me.

I howled air into my lungs and bolted up from the sun lounger. It took me a moment to work out what had happened, but Ben was cracking up with laughter in the pool, and when I swung around to find the cause, I froze.

“You’re supposed to be looking after your brother, right?” The man from the aeroplane said, and I gawped up at him as he held the empty bucket in his hand. “You can’t fall asleep when you’re looking after a kid” he smirked.

“I wasn’t asleep!” I barked, and he raised his eyebrows.

“Sure looked that way to me”.

“He was asleep!” Ben giggled, and the man beamed at him.

“Well, if your brother falls asleep again, you just let me know” he smiled, and without another word, the man walked toward an outside door that I hadn’t noticed which looked to be hidden at the back wall of the hotel.

“I like him” Ben said, and continued to play as I wiped the water from my face and shook my head.

“What an asshole” I spat.

When Mom and Dad eventually came down for dinner, we headed into the hotel restaurant. It was just as lavish as it had looked in the brochure, and although we didn’t actually understand the menu, the food was incredible.

Ben finally wore himself out and fell asleep on Dad’s shoulder, and after a few glasses of wine, Mom decided that it was time to call it a night. I, on the other hand, was now in a country where I was legally allowed to drink alcohol, so on the pretence of ‘exploring’ the hotel, I stayed back.

“Night son” Dad whispered, messing up my hair as they walked off.

“Night”.

Once they were out of sight, I hurried over to the bar like a kid in a candy store. The bartender looked me up and down and smiled.

“You have ID?” He asked with a strong accent, and as I excitedly pulled out my passport, he chuckled. “I’m joking” he told me, “you’re not in America now!”

I beamed back and picked a cocktail that turned out to be far more revolting than it sounded. As I took my glass of leafy toothpaste back to the table, I found my mind wandering.

Where had that guy gone? From what I could tell, it appeared that there was another hotel on the other side of the wall, but why had he been over here? Why too, did he have such an interest in what I was doing? The more I thought about it, the more I wanted answers, and when I’d finished my ‘Mojito’, I decided to take a look.

The sun had now disappeared and was replaced by an inky sky with millions of stars flickering in the distance. The heat, however, had barely dwindled, so I was glad of the t-shirt and shorts.

I walked by the two pools once more, and found myself alone at the third, and after a moment of hesitation, I held down the handle of the door that the mystery man had entered, and slowly opened it.

I don’t know exactly what I was expecting, but the long path surrounded by neat grass wasn’t it. I closed the door behind me and strolled from the back of the hotel until I reached the next one, and that was where my entire vacation changed.

The wall was short enough that I only had to stand on my tip-toes to peer over it. I could hear the hum of dance music below, and wondered if it was some sort of nightclub rather than a hotel, but when my eyes landed on the scenes before me, my jaw dropped.

Dozens of men walked around with drinks in their hand. Some of them were in groups in the large pool, others sat in the steaming jacuzzi, and plenty of them danced around the bar. That alone, wasn’t particularly alarming. What was alarming, was the fact that every single one of them were naked.

I could see cocks, balls and asses of all shapes, sizes and colours. There were young men, old men, middle aged men. There were muscular men, skinny men, overweight men and more. Some guys wore leather harnesses around their chests, with black leather caps and gloves to match. Others wore collars, cuffs and other random things that I’d never seen before. The entire image looked like something straight out of a wild, gay porno, and although I felt like I should have been repulsed by it, I was completely enthralled.

“Aren’t you a bit young to be looking at that?” The familiar voice was like an electric shock, and completely jolted me from what I was doing. I slipped backwards, right into the arms of the same man who had drenched me with water, and then jumped away from him and gulped.

“I was uh… I was just looking for the restroom” I lied, and knew that my cheeks were now blazing.

“Is that right?” He smiled, clearly knowing that I was bluffing. “So, the big signs in the hotel didn’t give you a clue as to where the restroom was?”

“I… I got lost”.

“Clearly” he said, and slipped a cigarette into his mouth before lighting it. I watched his large, tanned arm as it tensed, and remained silent when he blew out a cloud of smoke. “How old are you?”

“Eighteen”.

“Family holiday?”

I nodded.

“Like what you see over there?”

I shook my head.

“You sure about that?” He asked, and pointed his cigarette at my shorts.

It felt like my guts were about to fall out of my ass when I slowly looked down and saw the worst possible reaction that what I’d just witnessed. My shorts were tented, and although I scrambled to ‘fix’ myself, the damage had been done.

I hurried by the man, but not before he grabbed my arm.

“I’m Niko” he said, flashing me that handsome smile again. “You’re Josh, right?”

I stared at him for a moment. His grip around my arm loosened, but part of me wished that it hadn’t. What the fuck was happening to me?

“Yeah” I managed, and he nodded.

“Well, Josh” he said, taking another drag of his cigarette, “if I see you out here again, I’ll know that you’re more interested than you’re letting on”.

We continued to make eye contact for a few more seconds before my teenage awkwardness got the better of me and I rushed back to my side of the hotel. When the door shut behind me, I felt an overwhelming rush of nervous excitement.

What on earth had I just stumbled across?