A Soft Bed and a Kind Hand
Oscar got himself a bath in the room down the hall, and Miss June had one of the girls give me a sponge bath because she said ’twouldn’t be a good idea to submerge my wound in water right now, and she’d cleaned my middle with soap and water before she’d bandaged me up.
I was filthy from the travel, and the girl she sent in was awful sweet and pretty in a plump way.My cock didn’t behave very well.
“I’m sorry.I can’t help that,” I said, my face on fire as she cleaned me with a warm cloth.
She gazed at me out of deep brown eyes.“Oh, that’s all right.I’m plenty used to men’s privates, Mr.Downing.”
I nodded.“Sure.Of course.”
She giggled, and ’twas a lovely, musical sound.“You want me to get you off?Wouldn’t take but a moment.”
I coughed with embarrassment and said ‘no thanks’.She was a lovely girl, with skin that was almost black, bright white teeth and dark hair that fell in curls to her shoulders.
“All right.Suit yourself.”
She finished cleaning me, then brought out a small bottle of something.
“Miss June asked me to dab some of this on your bites.’Twill help with the itching.”
The mosquito bites were the least of my plagues, but I supposed anything to help me get a good night’s sleep would be welcome.
“Thank you kindly.”
When she’d finished, she helped me get into a clean cotton shirt to sleep in.“It’s one of Gus’s, so it’s big on you, e’en though you got some bulk.Kinda like a nightshirt.”
“Thank you so much.I feel much better bein’ clean.”
’Twas true.It hadn’t been a priority, and I was so tired I only wanted to rest, but it did make a difference.
“You’re welcome, Jimmy.Miss June’s told us all about you and Oscar, and I think its sweet of the both of you to come and help look for Cal.”
“Well, we got to know Cal when we were here before.I hate to think of her bein’ treated badly or bein’ prevented from coming to see her friends here.”
“I like Cal very much, too.My name’s Sally, by the way.And if you need anythin’,” she glanced at my crotch.“Anythin’ at all, you ask for me.All right?”
“Yes, Miss, I will.”I weren’t gonna ask for that, though.I could guarantee it.
My cock was still at a stand, e’en after everything I’d been through on this trying day.I lifted the blankets to frown at it right stern and told it to behave until Oscar came back, and maybe he could do something about it.I hoped he could, because I missed his touch, his dirty words and his laugh.And now that I’d fought some much-needed sleep for so long and was feeling better, my body buzzed with energy and my brain spun, worrying about Cal and now about Oscar going out with Trick to try to find him.I reckoned I might need something to settle me down.
When Oscar came back, he was wearing a shirt like mine.I hoped Gus still had some of his own left to wear.
“You look sweet in that,” I told him, a blush returning to my cheeks as I watched him walk into the room.“Reminds me of that first night at the hotel in Dawson City, when I gave you my shirt that was way too big on you.Remember?”
Oscar smiled.“I remember that.”
His skin had a fresh rosy tint from the hot water and his hair was damp and starting to dry, looking fluffy from the toweling, with strands going every which way.It had grown long again after the trim Irene had given him.I wasn’t sure if I preferred it this way, or short, like it had been.His lovely eyes stood out more when ’twas real short like last time, but now soft waves of it fell o’er his ears and around his neck, and he seemed like a delicate, fairy-like creature.I reckoned I liked that a lot.
“You were so kind to me.And I didn’t deserve any of it.I was nasty to you.”
I grinned, remembering Oscar snapping at me like a wounded animal when I’d first offered a friendly hand.
“You were starvin’, and you’d been mistreated.I don’t blame you a’tall, and I didn’t then,” I said.“And you did deserve it.You deserve all the kindness in the world, Oscar Yates, and I aim to give it to you.”
Oscar blushed and came o’er to sit beside me.“Look,” he said, showing me his bare face.“I shaved an’ everythin’.”
I reached up and ran my thumb along his smooth chin.
