Donald is my half brother. He was conceived in our mutual Dad's first marriage. Donald's dad divorced Donald's mum and remarried. Two 2 years later I popped my head into the world.
Donald and I always got along, even though he is 6 years older than me and he is a Catholic and I am an atheist.
LAURA & DONALD MEET
I was there when Donald met Laura. It was at a University debating contest. Our old university was taking on the world famous Oxford University debating club. It was a social event with champers and a finger buffet afterwards.
I was surprised that Laura fancied my half-brother. Laura was there because she loved the science of Rhetorics. Donald was there as one of the judges. I was there hoping to bag a woman to shag. I also liked seeing the women dressed to the nines, showing lots of cleavage.
Laura was then 25 and had graduated from Harvard. She was in a different religion, she was the first Buddhist I had ever met. She was in a different league financially. Her family owns a fifth of the world's shipping. She is of Asian descent, petite and (to Donald) incredibly beautiful.
I thought that she was just looking for a piece of rough. You know like the lady who met Jarvis Cocker and inspired the mega hit "Common People". If Laura fancied me I'd have banged her and then boasted that I'd fucked an Asian woman.
Mind you I would prefer to bed a black woman to an Asian woman. Going with a black woman is still my dream.
But I was wrong. It was true love. Because Donald is a committed Catholic he has a whole different outlook on life. He strongly disapproves of me bedding any chick that I can. For him, sex is a subset of love. For me, sex is a recreational sport, with only self-created rules.
Unlike Jarvis Cocker with the girl he met at St Martin's College (or me), Donald refused to have sex with Laura unless and until they got married.
Donald started to learn about Laura's Buddhist beliefs as they became inseparable (except at bedtime). He even got me, a total atheist, to learn about Buddhism because "you will meet her Buddhist folks when you are my best man."
So only 3 months after meeting Laura, Donald was already planning their marriage.
I asked "Will it be a Buddhist wedding?"
He said "Buddhists don't see marriage like I do. It isn't a set of promises made before God. There is no Buddhist marriage ceremony and Buddhists don't even have to believe in God. Indeed Buddhists don't reject polygamy, though it is frowned upon."
I said 'Its mind blowing to anyone raised in the Judeo-Christian tradition."
Donald said "Yes, it is difficult to get your head around. But Laura wants only me. She respects my belief and so she has agreed that we will get married in the Catholic manner. To make things easy for her extended family we will get married in the Catholic cathedral in Singapore."
I said "I might get a chance to fuck a Buddhist."
Donald said "You are incorrigible."
DONALD MEETS LAURA'S FAMILY
Donald took Laura to see his parents, separately because they were still not on speaking terms. They both liked Laura.
When Laura took Donald over to Singapore, things didn't go so well. Laura's folks were polite but there was tension which made both Laura and Donald uncomfortable.
Laura had a private talk with her parents. She wanted to know why they were being passive-aggressive to the man she loved.
Their hostility was financial. They expected Laura to marry a rich Asian man, not a poor European who might just be a gold digger. After all the marriage was being rushed. It was like Laura had been love-bombed.
When Laura told Donald about the "love-bombing gold digger" slur, he asked Laura to hire a lawyer for him asap. For the richest family in Singapore a lawyer was available straight away.
After dinner that night, Donald asked that all the family gather together with the lawyer. He took out some papers, and signed a form and then another and then a third. The lawyer then counter-signed all 3 forms.
Laura then announced "My husband-to-be has just signed a pre-nuptial agreement."
She handed one copy to her father.
The lawyer said "If Laura and Donald get divorced then Donald will get a one off alimony payment of £20,000 plus a plane ticket back to England. This will be the full and final settlement of all marital entitlements."
A plane ticket and £20,000 is an insignificant amount to the billionaire family. But the pre-nup proved that Donald wasn't a gold digger. Her father was shamefaced. Donald and the father became firm friends.
DONALD & LAURA'S WEDDING
Donald and Laura got married at the Catholic cathedral in Singapore. The parents paid for a really expensive reception. There are 2 expensive hotels within a 5 minute walk of the Catholic cathedral. Laura's father had booked both of them.
Laura's parents paid for me to fly out. They put me up in a mini-suite with a double bed. I guess Donald had relaxed his high moral stance and this was his way of making any seduction easier.
It worked. I did get to fuck a Buddhist. This wasn't difficult since 1 in 3 of Singapore citizens are Buddhists. It was okay. She did a girl on top and really worked my cock using her vaginal muscles.
But I still preferred doing the European babes doggy-style. I still wanted to bang a black chick. That is top of my bucket list.
The Cathedral had lots of ceiling mounted fans to combat the heat. Donald looked elegant and Laura looked lush.
For religious reasons, lots of the guests didn't drink alcohol. So people had a choice of non-alcoholic or real champagne for the wedding speeches. I had the non-alcohol version because I wanted to give a good Best Man speech. i also reasoned that it may help to be sober if I got lucky with one or more of the bridesmaids.
LAURA WANTS A BABY
Two years ago Donald and Laura started to try for a baby.
A year ago, Donald told me "I have a low sperm count. I am dreading having to tell my in-laws. They are as excited as Laura is about her having a baby. It's a big thing in their culture, even bigger than ours."
I said "That's really shit."
Donald was near to tears.
He said "I have failed Laura as a husband. Sometimes I feel that I have failed as a man."
I said "Lots of men have the same problem. But it is a real bummer. Remember it only takes one sperm to fertilise an egg. Keep trying."
THE IN-LAWS
A couple of weeks later Donald and I met again.
I asked "How did it go with the in-laws?"
Donald said "Surprisingly well. I think they realised that biology was getting in the way of Laura providing them with a grandchild. I think that they just wanted to hear it from us.
They had dropped the topic from their conversation. Laura and I had agreed that I would tell her father and let him tell her mother.
I was really nervous. I wanted a bit of Dutch courage. But I have given up alcohol to help overcome my fertility problem.
I asked my father-in-law if we could speak privately. I just blurted out that I was technically impotent. I burst into tears and he hugged me. I told him about feeling a complete and utter failure."
Donald cried once again. He dried the tears from his face.
I asked "What happened next?"
He replied "My father-in-law also cried. It was cathartic us 2 men crying. When my father-in-law recovered he said that mother nature can often be cruel to good people.
He went further. He said that he felt my pain. He said that I must stay strong because he knew that I really loved his daughter and that she really loved me.
He reminded me that Laura had married me in sickness and in heath. He knew that Laura meant every word of the marriage vow.
Later my in-laws, Laura and I talked about the issue. Laura said to her mother that she felt ashamed that we couldn't have a child together.