When I was in my early twenties, I had to relocate to a larger city for work. Because I wasn’t established and didn’t command an impressive salary, I quickly realized that I probably couldn’t afford to pay for my own place.
I didn’t know anyone else living in the area, so I searched through all types of ads trying to find someone who was seeking a roommate. There wasn’t much time to waste, so I soon met with several different people, both men and women.
Most of the apartments weren’t very nice. Some, in particular, were dirty and disgusting. I was running out of options when I finally met Mac, or Maclin if you prefer. He was a year younger than me, and we seemed to have much in common. During our interview, he mentioned that he enjoyed working out and playing PlayStation games. It seemed like a perfect fit.
It didn’t take long until we had become nearly inseparable, except for the time that we were at work, of course. I joined the same gym as Mac and we usually met there after work. Mac was about 5’9” and one hundred and eighty pounds, while I was about two inches taller and forty pounds heavier.
Mac was incredibly lean, fit, and athletic. He would start his workout with a long session of cardio, before joining me for some weight training. Since I was averse to cardio, it was all weight training for me. I was much more muscular and powerful than Mac, but certainly didn’t have the muscle definition or endurance that he did.
After our workout, we would usually pick up dinner somewhere casual. Neither of us was much of a cook, so we relied on a lot of “fast casual” restaurants for many meals. Despite being a couple of gym rats, we didn’t really eat healthy. Neither of us shied away from fried foods, and our diets were pretty “meat-centric.”
On the weekends, we had a couple of local hangouts that we would frequent. As a couple of fit, muscular, young guys, we did alright with the ladies. We had developed a system in case one of us took a girl back to the apartment, so that we weren’t interrupted.
Our relationship had been going as well as I could have hoped. Things would change dramatically one day while we were playing video games. The new next-gen gaming system had dropped and we were still living in the past. As funny as it sounds, we each had a gaming setup in our own bedroom. That allowed us to play with a full screen, and the other person couldn’t cheat by watching our side of a split screen or trying to see which buttons you press. Although we could have used headsets to communicate, we usually just shouted at each other. You didn’t have to yell too loud to hear one another through the thin walls.
We bantered back and forth about how we needed to get a new gaming system. Unfortunately, by the time that one purchased the system, a couple of games, and an extra controller, it would have cost roughly eight hundred dollars. There was no way that we were going to pull that kind of money together anytime soon.
“Jay, I know how we can get enough money,” Mac volunteered.
“What? How?” I asked.
“All we have to do is put on a cam show together.”
“Yeah, whatever,” I laughed. “Pfft!”
“I’m serious, dude. One big show with the two of us and we should definitely have enough money.”
“What? With a bunch of dudes watching us? I’ll pass on that.”
“I have done it before when I couldn’t make the rent and I made four hundred bucks! With two of us, we should be able to double that amount easily!”
Mac sounded really confident that it would work. While I was thinking it over, he continued to try to sell me on the idea.
“Don’t worry about who is watching, man. There will probably be more guys than girls, but they are the ones who will pay to see what they want. You will be glad that there are guys watching when you hear the cash register ringing.”
I still wasn’t sure about it, but Mac wasn’t taking no for an answer. Before I knew what was happening, he had made me commit to doing the show on the following Saturday night. Mac spent some time during the week, adding me to his account and getting my information verified. He also did some preliminary work getting the camera set up in his bedroom and figuring out how to best interact with the viewers.
It seemed a little bit weird doing a show with Mac. We were two single guys living together, so there wasn’t a lot of modesty inside of the apartment. Since we shared almost all of our living space, including the bathroom, and the fact that we literally showered together at the gym on most days, we had each seen one another naked hundreds of times. We had also seen each other's erect penis on more than one occasion, but the thought of sitting next to Mac and jacking off just didn’t feel right to me.
We didn’t talk about it much until the day of the show. I elected to hit the gym and pick up some takeout food on the way back home while Mac finished setting things up.
When I returned home, I had a bounty of barbecued meats. We gorged ourselves on smoked turkey, chicken halves, and some beef brisket from one of our favorite restaurants. During our meal, Mac mentioned that we should wear our workout gear to start the show. He wanted to emphasize the fact that we were “workout warriors” and even though that wasn’t a rarity for cam-shows, it was far less common than the boyish types. We decided that lots of flexing and focusing on our physiques was the best way to capture the interest of the viewers.
We each showered and did some light lifting with our dumbbells, just to get our biceps a bit swollen. Dressed in similar muscle tees, and workout shorts with compression shorts underneath, we settled into Mac’s room and started the stream.
I don’t think that I could properly emphasize how frustrating it was sitting there with practically nobody watching. If I had to go through with this ridiculous exercise, I wanted to get it over as soon as possible. We watched as one person after another clicked on our stream and promptly disappeared. Occasionally one would follow us before leaving, but none of them seemed to stay very long.
To be fair, I really can’t blame them for leaving. There was really no reason to watch us because nothing exciting was happening. It was just two fully-clothed guys sitting on a bed staring at the camera.
We were already an hour into this absurd scheme and still little headway had been gained. There were a handful of people hanging around, but we still hadn’t made a single cent. I was already on roughly my tenth time telling Mac that we should forget about it.
We had to do something different to get the viewer's attention. Mac suggested that we take turns removing our shirts and putting them back on. That action would create some movement and hopefully garner some interest from anyone who was taking a passing glance. He also set up a few random tip incentives. They were the usual things like "personal message," "smile," as well as "flex biceps" and "flex abs" for each of us individually. Mac set up a goal, as well. It was a small one, only fifty tokens, but it was fifty more than we had already collected. It read, “Jay removes his workout shorts.”
I wasn’t upset, but I clearly noticed that Mac had volunteered me to go first. The fifty tokens only converted to about two and a half dollars, so it certainly wasn’t life-changing money but we had to start somewhere.
Shockingly, I started to hear the ring of donations. Several of them were quite small, but then one spectator picked up the slack and donated just enough to fill the first goal. I took it slow and spun around a few times with my thumbs tucked inside of my waistband, sometimes pulling it down slightly. After peeling off my shorts and exposing my compression shorts underneath, we got a mixed reaction. Some seemed to think that they were going to get to see full nude right away, others enjoyed it for what it was.
Mac changed the goal to indicate that he would do the same thing for the same amount. It was another cheap and easily attained goal that we reached pretty quickly. It felt like we had gained a little momentum, emphasis on the word “little.”
After Mac’s brief moment of public display, he went to work on the laptop, once again. He added some more explicit things to the tip list that were related to either one of us touching ourselves over or underneath our shorts. The next goal went up to two hundred and fifty tokens and it read, “Jay shows the outline of his erection.”
Once again, I was chosen to go first, but the rest of it was going as according to plan. We had chosen to wear compression shorts so that we could do lots of different things underneath them while we waited for the number of viewers to climb. Both of us had chosen a pair that had a mid-rise waist so that we had plenty of room to play around inside of them without the risk of giving anything away for free.
While we waited for donations, Mac and I took turns getting dressed only to strip back down to our shorts on camera. It probably took a half hour to collect enough tokens to achieve the goal. As I touched myself both over and underneath my shorts, Mac was changing the goal to reflect that he would do the same.
There was certainly not a “packed house” watching us, but we were holding steady at about fifty viewers. That didn’t seem bad for a show where nothing was on display, so far. I could tell that some of the audience was getting a bit antsy. A few were complaining, which wasn’t surprising, while a very select few were starting to open up their wallets.
Mac reached his goal in half of the time that I did. Once he had put on a show for the onlookers, the goal was changed to, “Jay loses his shorts.” The price was quickly rising, though, as it was going to take one thousand tokens to allow them to finally see something. That equated to fifty dollars in real money. I thought to myself that the guys at the gym locker room got to see it for free every day.
I did my best to entertain the audience while I waited for the donations to accumulate. Mac was busy on the laptop for the majority of the time, so I was left to follow his instructions and do most of the heavy lifting. For the most part, I couldn’t see the text well enough to interact directly. Mac had positioned his tablet beside the camera so that I could tell if I was in the appropriate position, but the text was small enough that I had to crowd the camera to read it.
A couple of significant tips, including one to see a closeup of my bulge, helped add up to the goal quickly. Before I knew it, I had to strip completely naked. It didn’t sound like a big deal until I had to actually do it. At that moment, however, I could feel my heart hammering and was struggling to keep my breath.
I drew the process out for a while before finally removing my shorts. Mac coached me to try to keep it plump, but not erect. That wasn’t always the easiest line to walk, but since I was more nervous than aroused, I suspected that flaccidity was more likely than a full erection.
To my surprise, the reaction was largely positive. At just under seven inches long, I never felt like my cock was impressive by any standard. It was slightly thick, though, and that was what seemed to resonate with the audience. Most of the comments were in reference to my “fat cock.”
The cash register sound effect kept chiming away, although I didn’t know if it was for one token or one hundred, most of the time. Then Mac called out, “Somebody paid two hundred tokens to see your hard cock!”
To be completely honest, I wasn’t even sure if I could find the inspiration to get it there. As I stroked away, Mac tried to inspire me with the most positive comments that I got. It took a couple of minutes, but I finally got my cock completely rigid. I moved in and got a few close-up shots of it for whoever had made the donation.
By the time I had fulfilled my obligation, we had already collected enough tokens for Mac to undress. He initiated the next goal, “Jay and Mac jack off together,” for three thousand tokens before starting his performance. Fortunately, that gave me a bit of a break so that I could see what was going on in the chatroom. It immediately became apparent that the audience had decided three things about Mac and myself: I had a big dick, Mac had a hot ass, and that I was the top and he was the bottom.
I really didn’t know how to feel about that diagnosis of the two of us. I guess I was relieved that I was labeled the top and not the bottom, but it was all feeling a bit too “gay” for my comfort. As I turned around to see what Mac was doing, there was clearly something different about him. At that time, I had seen Mac naked multiple times a day for months. It was the first time that I had seen him with a smoothly-shaven ass. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but that was clearly part of why the viewers were choosing the roles for us that they had.
One patron paid to see a closeup of Mac’s bare ass, while another paid to see his hard cock. Many others were calling for interactions between us that weren’t on the menu, but the tokens kept slowly accumulating. I watched as the viewer count had climbed to around one hundred and fifty. The two of us switched back and forth, depending on the tip requests. Many were simple little fetish things, such as "show feet," "show armpits," or even, "stick out tongue."
We did our best to keep at least one of us on display at all times. It took over a half hour to meet that lofty goal, which was one hundred and fifty dollars for us, but we eventually got there. Mac was working the keyboard feverishly while I waited for him on the edge of the bed. Eventually, he settled in next to me and we masturbated side by side. I can’t say that I haven’t ever done that before, but it has been quite some time.
Mac must have updated the tip options because he started calling out things that weren’t on the list just moments before. There were donations to do things such as "Mac kisses Jay’s bicep," "Jay caresses Mac’s abs," and "two men kiss."