February 14th this year will be our 5th anniversary. Jeremy is my enabler, my paramour, my true love, my fellow concubine. We are an unmarried cohabitating couple. I don't ever plan on marrying Jeremy. I may change my mind later, but for now, he is my only lover, my forever lover. He will always be my only and forever lover.
I look back on that Valentine's Day five years ago and smile at how it changed my life irrevocably. That smile is accompanied by a heat building in my nether region from the memory of our very first sexual adventure. It wasn't supposed to be, but ultimately, it was the genesis of a wildly fulfilling sex life between us.
It started with an invitation to a costume party for Valentine's Day. I'd never heard of a costume party to celebrate Valentine's Day before. Jeremy and I had been part-time confidants, not deep dark secret type confidants; but platonic co-conspirators to match make for our friends and sometimes navigate the vagaries of life. He invited me to the costume party since we were friends and he didn't have a heart's flame at the moment.
He invited me by handing me an unadorned piece of paper folded in quarters one day. My brow furrowed when he did this, but I was curious just the same. I opened it and it was simply a handwritten phrase, "Be My Concubine."
I looked askance at him, and said, "Don't you mean Valentine?"
He gave me a conspiratorial look and put a hushing finger against his lips, glancing left and right as if somebody might overhear. Somebody might of course, since we were in a publicly accessible location, but the number of bodies nearby could have safely been counted on one hand with half the fingers folded.
"Jeremy!" I hissed.
He grinned, his shit-eating grin, a familiar sight, but I wasn't sure I was in the mood for it at the moment.
"No, no, I was invited to a costume party, and I don't want to go by myself, and I don't want to go as a lame old box of chocolates like most everybody else or worse yet, as a desperate cupid caricature."
"Yeah, yeah, I get that, but will you at least tell me what the fuck you mean by this?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Fuck no! I don't exactly have your sense of the sublime Jer. Tell me right now or you can go by yourself!"
He relented, "Okay. I'm proposing a different costuming than the usual."
"Of course, d'uh!" I mocked.
"Well, a medieval merchant can't afford to get married, so he contracts with a concubine. I want you to go with me as my concubine."
My body language was set to enlighten me further because you aren't making yourself so clear yet, but an inkling was starting to form. I wasn't inclined to give in as of yet, though. I wanted to be convinced that his plan had merit. The iconoclastic nature of his proposal suggested possibilities though. Since we were sort of close friends, he knew this about me. It was my weakness, and he exploited it mercilessly.
"I have this costuming in mind... it's kind of risquΓ©..."