Worth The Trip?

Don't shit in your own yard. Nothing can be simpler than that.

I have heeded that advice and have been spared of ugly consequences so far. So far.True, I learnt about sex through the household help, but I've never initiated it with any of them. Except maybe the driver, but I was young then it hardly counts.

My slate has remained clean until lately when frequent trips from Binondo to Bulacan have delivered me to the hands of the new family driver. It has just been manual play and I will not take it any further - provided these frequent trips stop.

Our conversations have always been mundane, progressing quickly from "Good morning." to "How did you learn to drive?" to "Do you work out? Where? With whom?" when I realised that travelling on the NLEX can be quite arduous in silence. He didn't throw back any of those tacky double entendres - hmm, a decent boy! He must be rewarded! - which endeared him all the more to me. He was polite, knew his place, and scrumptious.

Conversations on those trips became easier and we developed confidence to open up. Something I would never suggest my friends to try.

"Why don't you have a girlfriend yet?" I asked him once.

"I don't know, sir." He smiled timidly. "How about you, sir?"

"Well, I lik to play around, that's why!" I was being cheeky but I knew someone must have told him about Han. Helps like to tell on. I would be very surprised if he didn't know.

"I'm also like you, sir."

I let that one marinate. Like me gay or like me playeur? I wondered. I glanced at the rearview mirror and saw him smiling. Oh, you cheeky fellow....

"I also like to play around." His response came before I could ask.

"Oh, well. You won't have problems finding playmates then."

"Why is that, sir?"

"Well, you're young and handsome. Girls should be throwing themselves at you."

That was all we needed to start getting sexual. When I alighted at the farm, he whispered to me, "Sir, maybe I can sleep over if we're going back to Greenhills tomorrow. We can start out early."

Who am I to decline such earnest offer?