It was after 10.30pm but the hotel was a five-star establishment, so their restaurant was still open and quite busy. Kate looked so ravishing in a simple black sheath dress and with her golden hair piled high - and somewhat older and more sophisticated than her eighteen years - that the waiters were elbowing each other out of the way for the privilege of serving at our table. We eventually got it down to two winners, Jeffrey and Nigel, both of who fussed and preened for her and took very little notice of me. Kate lapped up all the attention, which was her due, and I let her order for the both of us, the wine as well. While we were waiting for our wine to be served I looked around the room and, even though many of the women were very attractive, and obviously very expensively dressed, I was with the drop-down-dead most beautiful woman there. I felt really good about that. Mind you, after the glorious lovemaking with Kate she could have looked like a horse and I would still be besotted with her.
We sat quietly, holding hands across the table. She had a secretive little smile on her lips. âWhat are you dreaming up now you gorgeous trollop?â
âI was thinking about the taxi driver â he was so sweet. He hit on me for a date on the way here. He also said that you looked very young to be my father.â
I recalled that the driver was a very handsome Greek or Yugoslavian guy in his early twenties. âWhat did you tell him?â
âI said that you are really fifty-five and itâs the booze and drugs that keep you looking as young as you do. But Mom and I are trying to wean you off them.â
âYou didnât!â
âI did, and heâs been hanging around the hotel all day - just waiting for me to come out so that he can take me somewhere! I couldnât really tell him you are my lover or he might have crashed the taxi.â
âYouâre not ashamed of my age are you?â
âWeeell, perhaps you should be with a older, more beautiful woman like that one over there.â She indicated an extremely chic, dark haired woman in her late twenties, sitting at a nearby table with a man in a business suit who looked considerably older than her.
I leaned across the table and whispered to Kate, âComparing the two of you is like putting an IBM 486 up against the latest zillion megahertz Intel Pentium. You leave her for dead. Besides, sheâs a whore!â
âYou mean a real live âlady of the nightâ?â
âYep.â
âHow do you know?â
âLook at the difference in their ages.â
âBut the gapâs no wider than the difference in ours. Do all the other people here think Iâm a whore too?â
âOf course not! The other thing to look for is their behaviour. If you watch them closely, they donât know each other at all. In fact, sheâs doing âher jobâ and entertaining him. Now when people look at us they can see that we are âtogetherâ. Okay, so I might be your well-drugs-and-booze-preserved daddy â Iâm gonna have trouble forgiving you for that one - but at least they can see that we know each other very well. If they knew how âvery wellâ itâd blow their socks off!â
She squeezed my hand; âIâm still having trouble believing it myself!â
Just then the wine waiter disturbed our conversation. Kate did the tasting and the approval and I one hundred percent agreed with her choice of a nice crisp New Zealand Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc. âIâve chosen a super Barossa Valley Shiraz for the main course,â she advised me gravely. âWe donât have to drink all of either of them â we can take the leftovers back to our room or even have them saved for us for tomorrow night.â
âOr we could give them to your favourite waiter to drown his sorrows at not impressing you enough.â
âOr that poor taxi driver for hanging around all day without any luck!â she laughed.
Just then our first course arrived, a dozen Sydney Rock oysters in the shell for me â to build up my âstrengthâ no doubt â and plain steamed Moreton Bay Bugs with cut lime wedges on the side for her. Like lovers the world over we fed each other titbits from our plates and toasted each other with our eyes. If people these people canât figure out our relationship now, I thought, they have to be as thick asâŠ
The first course done with, I resumed our deep conversation: âTell me,â I asked, âFor a âmere teenagerâ â joke, joke, joke â your vocabulary is very âadultâ. What I mean by that is that you donât intersperse your conversation with the argot you teenagers often use to keep us Crusties on the outside. PlusâŠâ I leaned towards her and whispered, âIâd like to know how an âinnocent virginâ like you knows so many sophisticated sexual techniques - I thought I would be teaching you, but itâs the other way round!â
âTwo questions at once, Gregory! But the answer to the first one is easy⊠Mom and Daddy have always treated Kevin and I as adults and talk to us on that level. Sometimes, I can hardly understand the kids at school either. But I donât feel itâs necessary to descend to their level when Iâve been brought up to respect the English language.
âNumber two is a bit more difficult, because I am giving away family secrets. My DaddyâŠâ Kate reached across the table and tapped the back of my hand with her forefinger to emphasise the point. âMy Daddy is secretly a dirty old man who has no idea how to delete the Temporary Internet files from his Windows folder or his Explorer history files to cover his tracks. When heâs not around, I sometimes go into his PC and take a look at what heâs been up to. Some of the stuff is absolutely gross⊠girls with dogs and horses and men with two-foot-long dicks! People pissing on each other and other weird stuff - what some women are prepared to stick in their vaginas to earn a few bucks is staggering. Nice looking women too. Iâve never found anything with young children, thank goodness, but some of the site GIF codes look like heâs tried to find it. And some of the stories! The people who write them must be âoff the planet". But, some of the pictures are really beautiful and the video clips are very instructive. How do you think I learned what to do when I went down on you for the very first time?
âIn Daddyâs defence, apart from the animals, everything is hetero â no homosexual stuff, except for girls doing it to each other I suppose. But thatâs normal fare for male porn isnât it? âDirty Girls Doing It to Each Otherâ seems to be a popular theme. You guys are a bunch of hypocrites arenât youâŠhow it is that ânormalâ men can get so turned on by a picture of one girl kissing another oneâs pussy, yet they are so revolted by a picture of one guy sucking another oneâs dick?â
I conceded that Kate had a point, then put up a possible set of reasons: âWell, to most straight males, the guy-on-guy scene is an attack on their manhood and, for a lot of them, reminders of past âindiscretionsâ. You know, like an experiment as a kid with another boy or fantasies about a âbeautifulâ boy they have seen. They put up a defence mechanism that clouds two issues: one that homosexual tendencies lurk somewhere in each and every one of us and, two, some of those gay photographs are artistically very well done.â
âSo youâve seen pictures like that?â
âOf course! I donât go looking for them, but I cruise The Web and I come across them from time to time.â
âHave you ever had any âindiscretionsâ or âfantasiesâ?â
âWell, I remember when I was about ten, my mate David, who was about eighteen months older than me, showed me what happened when he masturbated. I recall being amazed at the little spurt of stuff that came out of the end of his dick and the funny look he got on his face. I got my cock out and tried to copy him, but without successâŠI was still too young. Thatâs about all.â
âAnd what about homosexual fantasies?â
I felt myself blushing a little, âOh, yeah, I suppose⊠about three years ago I was working on clearing a blocked drain at the side of the house when this kid suddenly appeared, standing in front of me. He was selling raffle tickets for the Boy Scouts. He was very slim and had these most incredibly beautiful violet eyes and clear skin, and long soft eyelashes that most women would kill for. I remember thinking at the time that if I was âthat way inclinedâ Iâd quickly be getting him into the house and taking his pants down.â
âBut it was only a passing thought?â
âJust so, but that night I had a very erotic dream about doing just that!â