My Straight Best Friend Uses My Throat To Get Over His Ex - CHAPTER 1
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The rain was a soft, persistent percussion against the windowpane that day, a gray, dreary Seattle afternoon that felt like a damp blanket smothering the city. In my small, cluttered Capitol Hill apartment, the world had been reduced to the warm glow of a salt lamp, the faint herbal scent of my chamomile tea going cold, and the heavy, tangible silence between me and the man sitting in my worn leather armchair.
Victor was a statue carved from grief.
He’d been there for two hours, mostly quiet. It had only been a week since Elise walked out, taking her curated gallery of succulents and her half of the rent with her, leaving behind a phantom limb of a relationship and my best friend who looked utterly lost. His usual vibrant energy—the force that could command a room, that made me feel perpetually like a satellite in a stable, warm orbit—was gone. In its place was this hollowed-out shell.
I’d watched his hands. They were usually in motion, sketching ideas in the air, gripping a beer bottle, clapping my shoulder. That day, they just lay limp on the arms of the chair, looking too big and somehow helpless.
“She said I was emotionally constipated,” he finally said, his voice a gravelly rumble that seemed to startle even him. He didn’t look at me. I was curled on the sofa, knees to my chest, a human question mark. “Said trying to get me to talk about anything deeper than the Mariners’ offseason moves was like… like trying to mine granite with a plastic spoon.”
The ache in my chest was a familiar tenant. I’d been in love with Victor for three years, two months, and about seventeen days. It wasn’t a dramatic, sweeping thing. It was quiet and hopeless, a secret I kept in the marrow of my bones.
I knew the topography of him. The way his left eyebrow quirked higher than the right when he was skeptical. The specific scent of his detergent mixed with clean sweat. The sound of his laugh, which had been absent for seven days. Knowing the depth of his pain that intimately was its own special torture.
“Vivid metaphor,” I said softly, keeping my voice neutral, a safe harbor. “Harsh, though.”
“It’s fucking true.” The anger flashed in his eyes, bright and hot, before it drowned again. He ran a hand through his dark hair, making it stand up in desperate spikes. “I don’t know how to do it, J. The talking. The… feeling. It just sits in here.” He thumped a fist against his sternum, a dull, solid sound. “A big, hard, useless rock.”
I uncurled slightly, settling cross-legged. “You don’t have to talk. We can just… be.”
“That’s the problem!” He exploded up from the chair, a sudden volcano of restless motion. He paced the narrow path between my coffee table and the bookshelf, a predator in a cage. “Being isn’t enough. I need to… I need to not be in my own head for five fucking minutes. I need to feel something that isn’t this… this cold emptiness.” He stopped, his back to me, shoulders rigid. His head dipped. “I keep thinking… if I could just distract the body, the mind would follow. You know?”
A prickle, dangerous and electric, sparked at the base of my spine. I knew what I was supposed to do. Offer the straight-guy salves. Let’s go hit the heavy bag at the gym. Let’s go for a punishing run in the rain. But the air in the room had changed. It had thickened, charged with his raw, unprocessed need. It smelled like bourbon and damp wool and despair.
“What kind of distraction?” I asked. My voice was barely a whisper.
He turned slowly. The dim light from the lamp carved shadows under his cheekbones, made his blue eyes look almost black. He wasn’t looking at his best friend anymore. He was looking at something else. A possibility. A tool. He was assessing me.
“Something real,” he murmured, more to himself than to me. His gaze was terrifying in its focus. “Something that doesn’t require thinking. Something that… obliterates.”
He took one step toward the couch. Then another. The space between us, usually filled with easy camaraderie, hummed with a terrifying potential. My heart was a frantic bird against my ribs. I couldn’t move. I could only watch as Victor, a monument of straight, broken masculinity, closed the distance and sank to his knees on the rug in front of me.
My world narrowed. The rain faded. The room disappeared. There was only the sight of Victor on his knees, the faint scent of his cologne, and the devastating confusion in his eyes, now mixed with a frightening resolve.
“J,” he said. The single syllable was rough, torn from somewhere deep and damaged. “I’m so fucking empty.”
My breath hitched. “Victor…”
“I trust you,” he interrupted, his gaze locking onto mine. It wasn’t tender. It was a statement of desperate, utilitarian fact. “You’re the only thing in my life right now that doesn’t feel like it’s made of glass. I need… I need to not feel broken for a second. Can you…?” He trailed off, but his eyes finished the sentence. They dropped to my mouth, then back up. The question hung in the air, so explicit it was deafening. Can you let me use you to forget?
Every nerve in my body was on fire. This was the precipice. This was the secret fantasy I’d never dared articulate, now being offered to me wrapped in the barbed wire of his heartbreak. It was wrong. It was a transaction built on grief. It was the most dangerous thing we could ever do.
And I wanted it. God, I wanted it. The wanting was a physical ache, a hollow need that perfectly mirrored his own.
I didn’t speak. I couldn’t. I just gave the faintest nod. My eyes were wide, my lips parted.
His expression didn’t soften with relief; it hardened with a fierce, focused intensity. The thinking was over. This was the oblivion he sought. He reached out, his hands—so big, calloused from weightlifting and construction work—cupping my face. The touch wasn’t gentle. It was possessive, anchoring. He leaned in, and for a heart-stopping moment, I thought he was going to kiss me. But he stopped, his breath hot against my lips.
Then, with a low, guttural sound that was pure need, he guided my head down.
The first touch of my lips to the rough denim of his jeans was surreal. I could feel the heat and the hard, thick outline of him beneath. A shudder ripped through him—a full-body convulsion that was part shock, part profound relief. His fingers tangled in my hair, not guiding yet, just holding on as if I were a lifeline.
“Fuhhhck,” he breathed, the word a prayer and a curse.
Emboldened, driven by years of pent-up longing, I nuzzled against him. I could taste the faint salt of sweat through the fabric, smell the unmistakable, musky scent of him. It was intoxicating. I looked up. His jaw was clenched, a muscle ticking. He gave another slight, desperate nod.
My fingers trembled as I worked the button of his jeans, then the zipper. The sound was obscenely loud. I pushed the fabric aside.
He was thick and heavy, already fully hard, flushed and urgent. My mouth watered. This was no fantasy. This was real.
I didn’t hesitate. I leaned in and took the head into my mouth.
His gasp was a sharp, punched-out thing. “Oh, god…” His hips jerked involuntarily, a shallow thrust that pushed him deeper past my lips.
The taste was bitter, clean, and uniquely Victor. I relaxed my jaw, let my tongue swirl around the crown. I hollowed my cheeks and took more, sinking down until my nose brushed the coarse hair at his base. A low, continuous moan vibrated in his chest. “Fuhhhhck, Jaime…”
The sound of my name, uttered in that shattered, pleasure-raw tone, ignited something feral in me. I began to move, a slow, deep rhythm. My hand cradled his balls, rolling them gently. My other steadied myself on his thigh.
He was coming undone above me. His grip in my hair tightened from a hold to a demand. His hips began to meet my movements, building urgency. The quiet space was gone, obliterated by the wet, slick sounds of my mouth, by his ragged, escalating breaths.
“Just like that… shit, just like that…” he chanted, head thrown back. “Don’t think… can’t think… yes…”
I could see it happening. The grief was being burned away in the furnace of sensation. He was using my throat as a tool to scour his soul clean. And the intimacy of it made my own arousal a painful, throbbing knot.
His movements became frantic. “I’m gonna… Jaime, I’m—ah! AH!”
The warning was a hoarse cry. I didn’t pull away. I pressed closer, and took him deep, my throat working. I wanted it. I needed this proof.
With a final, broken shout—half-sob, half-triumph—he came. It was a hot, pulsing flood. I swallowed convulsively, taking every drop as he shuddered and bucked through it, his body bowing with the force.
For a long moment, there was only the rain and his heaving gasps. He went limp, his grip loosening to a tremble. I gently released him, and sat back on my heels. My own body was screaming, but it didn’t matter.
His eyes were closed. A single tear had tracked through his stubble. He looked spent, wrecked, but the hollow emptiness was, for now, filled.
He opened his eyes. They were clearer now. He looked at me, really looked, seeing my swollen lips, my flushed cheeks, the devotion in my gaze. A storm of emotions passed over his face—gratitude, shame, awe, and a dawning horror at the line we’d vaporized.
He didn’t speak. He just reached out, his hand unsteady, and brushed a thumb over my damp bottom lip.
The touch was electric, a live wire connecting the ruin of him to the ruin of me. And in that silent, suspended moment, I understood. This wasn't an ending. It wasn't a secret indulged or a fantasy fulfilled. It was a door swinging open on a dark, uncharted room, and we had both just stepped across the threshold. There was no going back to what we were before. The before had ended the second his fingers had tightened in my hair.
Whatever came next, it had only just begun.