My name is Heather Winston. Tonight, I'm making my lover Tyrone Wood's dreams come true. He's a six-foot-tall, good-looking, dark-skinned young black man with a very peculiar special interest. Which is basically a nice way of saying that he's got a weird fetish. See for yourselves, folks. He's really into racially themed domination and submission. When he first approached me with the idea, I must say that I was taken aback. I looked at him as if he were a Martian. Tyrone wanted to play a game of master and servant, in the historical context. I didn't know what to say to that.
The first thought that flashed through my head was, he must be joking. Second of all, why was he asking me? I mean, I'm all for experimenting but I'm not a sadist. And what he was asking me to do sounded borderline racially insensitive if not downright racist. Tyrone and I had been going out for about two years. He attends Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and majors in civil engineering. I go to Pine Manor College and I am a business major. We're from different worlds, yet we're passionately in love. He's a long-haired young black man from the city of Brockton. He's six-foot-three, and works out all the time. He loves animals and once had a pet snake which he released into the wild over the summer.
I'm a short-haired, emerald-eyed blonde from the town of Wellesley. He's an Aquarius, and loves the Boston Celtics and Rex Sox. He listens to Hip Hop and R & B. I am a Scorpio. I love the New England Patriots, and I really don't much care for professional Baseball or professional Basketball. I prefer Notre Dame and Ohio State to Boston College in NCAA Football. I don't like BC because they turned me down when I applied. I hope they get their asses kicked this year and I don't care who knows it. Tyrone doesn't understand my animosity toward his school's athletic teams. He just doesn't get it. I listen to Punk Rock and Heavy Metal. And I used to be a Goth back in high school. I'm five-foot-nine, haven't been to the gym since the first time the Red Sox won the World Series in the twenty-first century and I'm scared of rats though I absolutely love squirrels. He is a morning person and loves to run in the early morning. I'm a couch potato and the patron saint of slackers. For me to run, there has to be a fire or someone's chasing me. End of story.
Our respective families aren't too crazy about us dating. And they're even less thrilled about the fact that we are living together. Tyrone's mother, college professor Tina Wood wasn't thrilled about her youngest son dating a white woman. As for my parents, tax attorneys Hilda and Matthew Winston, while they were thrilled that for once I was dating a handsome young man instead of a butch woman, they weren't crazy about the fact that the man I loved was black. Yeah, everybody's got issues with our union but we could care less.
We live in an apartment together. And so far we've been alright. Our love life is wondrous, and passionate. Tyrone really opened up to me. He's only been with one other woman before we met. Some black chick from his church choir who dumped him for the neighborhood thug shortly after they started dating. That experience left him heartbroken. And he had a few discreet sexual encounters with other young men as well. My man is bisexual. And you know what? The fact that he goes both ways doesn't bother me in the least. I think deep down most human beings living on this wretched little planet are bisexual. I've known lesbians who've felt the need to hook up with a man once just to see what it was like, and enjoyed it. I've also known more than a few gay men who've slept with a female friend or two out of curiosity. And don't even get me started on the number of straight men and straight women who've fucked at least one member of the same sex though they'll go to their graves denying it.
Tyrone's bisexuality doesn't bother me. In fact, I've brought home some gay and bisexual DVDs to watch together. Just a little something to spice up our lovemaking and make my man more comfortable in the bedroom. Once, for his birthday, I invited Hayden, a gay male friend of mine, to 'entertain' him while I watched. So you see, I'm not narrow-minded or uptight. Not by any stretch of the imagination. However, what Tyrone was now asking me to do made me more than a little uncomfortable. And where does he get ideas like that anyway? I've never understood why so many men and women are into the BDSM lifestyle. Oh, I'm not hating. I'm just puzzled.