I had been sharing a flat with Bill for just over 3 months now. It was located in the heart of the city and it was expensive; but it was magically close to all the bars and clubs that we frequented every weekend, where we chatted up girls and tried to pull them back to our conveniently positioned den.
Bill and I had grown up together in a town located about 20 miles outside the city and we both worked as Construction Managers for different city-based building firms. We'd both progressed sufficiently far in our companies to now earn enough to allow us to rent this flat together. It was a traditional building with 2 bedrooms and lots of original period features.
Bill was a year older than me at 22. We'd been friends since nursery and we were as close as brothers. Since we'd moved into the flat together, almost every Friday and Saturday night was dedicated to going out on the pull. The city was so much better than the small town where we'd grown up. Back there, after a while, we'd managed to work our way through all the single (and not so single) girls. It had become monotonous and boring. The city bars and clubs opened up a whole new world of weekend socialising. There were so many girls to chat up and they seemed more gorgeous and sophisticated than the tedious rounds of small-town girls.
In our 3 months of flat-sharing, our success rate with the girls was pretty good. We quickly agreed a system so that if one of us pulled then whoever was out of luck would get back to the flat first and disappear into their room quietly before the other one got back with his girl. We had quickly found out that girls would often be a little nervous and uncomfortable if they thought there was another guy in the flat when they got back. So, the plan was to stay silent and be invisible while the other got down to business.
Sometimes we'd be successful in chatting up two friends who were out together and entice them both back to our flat. Usually it would be a few convivial drinks in the lounge before we disappeared to our respective bedrooms with our corresponding girl. However, a couple of weeks ago we'd hooked up with a right pair of dirty wenches who were up for a 4-way all together on the lounge sofas. It was a wild night where we swapped partners back and forward and the girls put on a great lesbian show halfway through. You didn't get real life porn shows like this back in our small town.
Our girl swapping group session had opened up a whole new world of eroticism. The following Friday, I had charmed a stunning (and drunk) blonde called Abby. She was textbook gorgeous with a generic Barbie look (long legs flowing out of a short skirt and an amble pair of tits squeezed into a skin-tight top). Her long, curly golden locks flowed down over her shoulders with the fake tan accentuating the blondeness of her hair. We'd shared cocktails and locked lips for most of the evening and I was sure I'd be in for a great night with Abby back at the flat later on.
Bill had struck out with her friend who had blanked him and then disappeared off to the safety of the rest of their group of friends. "Plan B." he whispered to me as Abby leaned forward to sip her luminous green cocktail through a straw. Bill then slipped away on the prowl, not wanting to cramp my style.
I gave Abby the chat and worked on convincing her to come back with me to the flat after the bar closed. My persistence wore her down and she agreed. Before we left, she wanted to let her friends know what her plans were so she headed over to tell them. Bill was strolling back towards me as she left.
"No luck?" I enquired as he approached.
"Nah." he replied solemnly. "Couldn't pull a girl tonight, even with a fifty pound note wrapped round my knob." Bill joked.
"So what's Plan B then?" I asked.
"Threesome!" he exclaimed. "Talk her into a threesome." he repeated.
Bill winked at me, clearly enthusiastic about the merits of his Plan B.
I wasn't convinced and shrugged my shoulders in a non-committal gesture back to him. "I'll see." I said hesitantly.
"You'd better bugger off quickly and get back to the flat first. We're leaving just now after she's let her mates know that she's coming back with me." I beamed back at Bill in satisfaction at my achievements.
Bill headed off towards the exit and I gazed around, looking for Abby and hoping she hadn't suffered a change of heart after speaking to her friends. I spied her mass of blonde hair making its way back round the pub and smiled across at her as she approached. "I thought you'd changed your mind and run away." I told her.
"No chance." she retorted. "I'm gagging for a good shagging tonight, so you better not disappoint me!" she declared with a serious expression.
"Gagging for a shagging." I rhymed back to her. "Then I'm your man, for a good wham bam." I announced boldly.
I paused and then took a chance. "If you're looking for some serious cock tonight then I could phone my mate and we could give you double the pleasure together." I tentatively suggested to Abby.
"What?" she cried. "I'm not some dirty tart you cheeky bastard!" exclaimed Abby in horror. She stepped away from me and, as she turned around to march back over to her friends again, she called back over her shoulder to me, "If you're not man enough to satisfy me by yourself without phoning a friend to come round and hold your cock to get it hard, then you can fuck off!"
"Damn!" I muttered to myself. I was blown completely out the water. I'd give Bill some serious shit when I got back to the flat for his so-called brilliant Plan B. Abby was gone and there was no point protesting innocence or joke pretence to my offer. I could see her gesticulating to her friends as she conveyed my perverse proposal to her shocked audience of friends. They all stared back over at me, shaking their heads.
Quietly, I made my way out the pub and back home to the flat to give Bill a piece of my mind. I was gutted to miss out on a sure-fire screw. Abby looked amazing and I could only imagine the depths of her depravity she would have stooped to, if I'd only got her home.
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Bill had pissed himself with laughter when I recounted my story of how to blow a certain shag in one easy sentence. I berated his ideas and left him in no doubt that he 'owed me one' for that night's debacle.
It was one of those things though as far as I was concerned and certainly no cause for any bitterness or falling out between me and Bill. By the following weekend, even I could see the funny side of the previous Friday's events and I laughed along with Bill as he continued to chastise me by asking if I wanted a threesome with him and the barmaid as he ordered up drinks.
It was Saturday night and it was a warm, pleasant summer evening. We headed back outside into the beer garden to enjoy the fading sun as it began to set. The external terrace was busy and seemed packed with gorgeous girls, giggling to each other as they sipped drinks and gossiped to each other. Bill and I surveyed the scene over the rim of our beer glasses as we drunk our lager, trying not to appear too obvious as we subtly analysed the different groups of women and considered where we might focus our flirting energies first.
We replaced our empty glasses with fresh pints of lager and, after a brief discussion, moved over to speak to two girls who stood together at the edge of the decking. They were balancing their drinks on the handrail that kept us all penned in. Bill had spied the girls early and claimed first rights on the tall, leggy dark-haired stunner. She was wearing a very chic little black dress with nylons and a set of very high black strapped sandals. Her LBD was buttoned down the front and stopped mid-thigh, leaving a tantalising split in the front. The top 2 buttons were unfastened and an ample cleavage was evident without being tarty. She introduced herself as Kathryn and my immediate reaction was that she was far too classy for Bill.
Her friend was called Paula and at 5' 2" or thereabouts, she was much shorter than Kathryn. She was pretty but didn't have the stature and air of sophistication that her taller friend possessed. I introduced myself to Paula and struck up some conversation with her.
The four of us chatted together and shared some drinks. As usual, we quickly suggested moving to cocktails and kept the drinks flowing freely. The girls were both 23 and, like Bill and I, had been friends since childhood. We swapped embarrassing tales of our respective friends when they were young. I told the story of the time that Bill had peed in my mum's handbag as a 4-year old because he didn't know where our toilet was and was too shy to ask. Everyone laughed and Bill repaid the favour with an equally embarrassing anecdote about me.
Paula was a veterinary assistant and was full of stories of her everyday work that would shock and disgust people. I let her know that she would never be left alone in charge of my pet dog from back home. Kathryn was the complete opposite to her friend. She worked in the purchasing team at a large department store in the city. Her day was filled with perfumes, cosmetics and designer fashion labels, which made perfect sense when you admired her elegant style.
As the night wore on, Bill became increasingly cosy with Kathryn. I wasn't enjoying the same success with Paula. She wasn't comfortable if I reached out to hold her hand or place an arm around her. She would quickly reposition herself in a subtle fashion to create some space and distance between us. At about 11pm, the girls disappeared away to the toilet together. I turned to Bill and expressed my frustration and disappointment at my lack of progress with Paula. As far as I was concerned, it wasn't likely to be a fruitful night and I would shortly make my apologies and head home to the flat.
Bill pleaded for me to stay in case my departure caused a premature end to his night with Kathryn.