They're too valuable to charcoal. Shipyards're using a lot these days."Matt pulled off his new gloves, carefully. Bloody blisters had grown and torn o...en on both of his hands. The pads at the base of his fingers were a row of sores; his hard-won calluses had disintergrated, and the heels of both bands oozed watery blood from pulpy tissue. MacCorm looked at them and made a tisking noise. "You was on ship for some time, wasn't you?" he said, shaking his head and rubbing his stubbled face.Matt. I approached with two HUGE glasses of wine to calm our nerves. "So.. why did you invite me here?" he ventured at lastI grinned to myself, trying to hide it behind the glass."I wanted.... I want you to ... make love to me, if you'd like to!" I explained, gently and clinked our glasses.He was taken aback"I was HOPING beyond hope it was that" he said "....But I did think you were probably wanting to... help me with my homework .. or something"We both laughed heartily and drank our drinks.I went. She was a single mom with a 13 yo daughter. Julie and I went way back and we had our first sex together when we were 14. Back then we had a gang and it was a rule any girl had to fuck or suck any boy who wanted it. There were 8 in the gang and we all shared sex with one another and a few of the boys even did boy boy ses like sucking each other off or bum fucking.Julie had a girlfriend Loretta too and they often put on shows for the boys of 2 girls having sex. Julie and I some how got along. He longed for any intimacy with her, even the closenessof watching her polish her nails.But that attraction wasn't what Steffi must have felt, he thought. Billywanted so much to be her boyfriend. But it appears she thought of himmore as a girlfriend -- a BFF. He had no chance with her, he despaired. He couldn't take that thought. Billy sat and ate his meal in virtualsilence from there on out.On the way out, Steffi gave hugs to everyone. She hugged Billy extralong. In his ear she.