This is just a story from my past remembered as well as I can because it's so kind of funny and awful at the same time.
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This happened just after I graduated, when I was engaged and trying to find the balls to get my way out of the relationship -- my fiancรฉe, let's call her Janet, had recently made it clear she wanted children (three of them!) straight away. I'd told her I didn't feel I was in any way ready for parenthood, and wouldn't be for years, while she on her part had made it clear that the children issue wasn't negotiable.
I really liked her, I mean I thought at one time that I was in love with her, but I just wasn't prepared to start fathering children, and our whole discussion and eventually the conflict about it that developed, made me realize that we weren't very well suited to each other.
So I was trying to find the courage to just end it and walk away, and unfortunately I was having problems with facing this, and double-unfortunately, my one confidante about how I felt at the time was one of Janet's friends, this rather voluptuous brunette who we'll call Valerie, who I'd began to find I was very attracted to. Talk about having an escape strategy...
So as I was living in a different City to my fiancรฉe, Valerie and I hung out while we discussed plans for ending my engagement. The best idea was really that I'd just talk to my fiancรฉe and tell her that I wanted to end things, but I'd tried that once, and she refused to accept what I was saying and ended up crying hysterically, making me feel like a total bastard.
Valerie and I'd gone out for drinks a few times, and I was beginning to get the idea that her intention was more than just advice. She'd dress up really sexily when we were meeting up, and get very affectionate after a few Martini's.
At the end of most of those evenings, I'd drive or walk Valerie home, and at her door she would start hugging me and telling me it'd be all right and it was kind of hard to prize her off and refuse her invitations to come inside.
Anyway, so one day she invited me to a party at her friend Jilly's who lived a few houses away from her. Jilly was a rather beautiful slim brunette and a big flirt and always seemed to be transitioning new boyfriends in while juggling the old ones around. While she was amazingly beautiful she was also shallow, a bully, and sometimes a bit mean.
It was a wild party with a 'Vamp' theme, and most of the women had on fetish or overtly sexy outfits. I was actually surprised that Valerie was dressed pretty normally, but she did look good. There were floor cushions everywhere, and all the light bulbs had been removed except for a couple of dim blue bulbs in the hallways. Most of the light came from a bunch of candles in each room, and in the semi-darkness there was a lot of hooking up; many couples snuck off to the bedrooms for sex and then came back to the party part-dressed. If it wasn't for the emotional rock tied round my neck, I'd have been right in there having a blast.
I had a few drinks and tried to relax, but really I was still thinking about the fiancรฉe situation, and couldn't shake my gloomy mood. Valerie stood with me in the kitchen for a bit and was being very friendly and trying to make me forget about my problem. She introduced me to several people, although I noticed that the only woman amongst them was Mary, her flat-mate.
She kept so close by my side all the time, that probably most people assumed that we were a couple. After a while we danced with a bunch of other friends of hers, and I managed to relax for a bit, but then suddenly everything came to a stop when the music system was kicked over and broken by two men who were rolling on the floor pounding on each other.
There was a lot of shouting and fights going on all over the house. It turned out that one of Jilly's current boyfriends had caught her in a bedroom with one of her prospective boyfriends, and various other male friends of both men were joining in battle. Jilly ran through the party in nothing more than a sheer bra and stockings held up by a garter belt -- I did happen to note that she was a total wet dream, a perfect figure to go with her stunning face -- and locked herself in her own bedroom. There was the sound of her moving furniture in front of the door.