Distant Swimmer

Shy and scholarly, long-distance swimmer Ryan Zwick thinks he’s the only gay member of the college swim team. He keeps his head down in the showers, and his head in the books the rest of the time. But when a sporty new transfer student joins the team, Ryan feels a surge of hope. Sexually inexperienced and looking for love, fellow swimmer Blake Gossens is everything Ryan wants in a boyfriend. But what is Blake’s game, exactly? And just how straight is he? Blake seems to be more interested in Ryan’s best friend, Marissa, leaving Ryan to go back to secretly checking out his teammates in the pool. But Ryan keeps getting mysterious messages in his dating app from a stranger who seems to know a lot about him. Could this messenger be Blake? Or someone else? When bad weather hits unexpectedly, Ryan is forced to confront his real feelings toward Blake, while opening up to the stranger by his side, eventually giving in to his wildest fantasies -- and his heart.

Jacob Cheyenne · LGBT+

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50 Chs

Chapter 42

“It’s all right,” said Erik. “I like a bit of a mess. Now I get to see the real Ryan Zwick.” Ryan watched Erik’s green-blue eyes scanning the room, taking in all the personal information it beheld—the concert posters, the old photos of his Jersey cows back home, a few swimming medals, and his Pearson Scholar scarf, thrown over the back of his desk chair.

“And? Do you like what you see?” asked Ryan, hopeful.

“Yes,” said Erik. “I always thought you were a beautiful person, but now I get to understand all the different pieces of you.” Erik leaned over and untied his shoes, kicking them off at the doorway, before moving over to Ryan’s bed. Ryan felt his heart leap once more—a giddy kind of wonderfulness that filled his whole body. Is this what love feels like?He wondered—he wanted nothing more than Erik—nothing more than to make Erik happy.

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