This can't be happening. I have imagined this moment a thousand times, wished for it on countless dark nights. You take me in your arms and lift me up, kissing me passionately like it's our last night together. It is our last night together...
Earlier that night...
It was an impromptu rendezvous. Our mutual friend had invited me to your office bar, then had proceeded to disappear, leaving us alone and forcing you to look after me. I was wearing a pair of run-down jeans and a shirt, one of my most comfortable button down shirts - in short, I was comfortable, but felt grossly de-feminised by all the beautiful swans who work in your office and who all had long flowing locks, short skirts and towering heels.
All the same, it felt good to re-connect with my best friend again. As the drinks flowed, we amused each other and re-discovered all the perfect ways our personalities fit together - it felt like five years prior when we'd both been single. We were partners in crime once again. I noticed you kept brushing my hand, and every time our hands touched it felt like a small spark flew between us. It couldn't all be in my head could it?
After a couple of hours, we emerged from what felt like our own personal little world we had closeted ourselves into and decided to join the party as it moved to a new venue.
At the next venue, things, as they say, got interesting. The drinks came thick and fast, and with each shot, we gravitated towards each other, getting closer to each other with every passing second. As we made fun of each other's dance styles and laughed at the other patrons of the club, it felt more and more like we were alone in a club full of loads of other Friday revelers.
Somewhere along the way, we forgot we were part of a wider group, dancing more and more sensuously. As we danced I noticed that your body was firm in all the right places, and more intriguingly, as we danced more and drank more, you seemed to be aroused as our bodies ground against each other, our blue eyes meeting above our grinding bodies.
When you stopped dancing, and left me alone on the dance floor alone, I felt a void I could not explain. Feeling like I was coming out of a trance, I followed you to where you had collapsed on a lounger. "What's up? Old age getting to you finally?" Nothing in the world could have prepared me for your response. "No, I have a hard on. You're turning me on too much."
I was silenced. A hot flash shivered through my body and I instantly got wet. I must have heard wrong, this couldn't be you - newly married - telling me, your long lost friend, what I thought you were saying. "You... Have a what?" I asked.
"A hard on. You did this to me," you replied in very matter of fact tones. "Do you want another drink?" you then asked as if you had simply said that you had a stitch and needed to sit down. I needed to start breathing again or at least get some courage. I couldn't think so I got what you were having. As we sipped on our Heinekens in silence I looked at the dance floor, filled with pretty little things gyrating suggestively, and cursed inwardly. Why was sex everywhere I looked? But back to you: "yeah I can imagine this view did a number on you," I said.
I had to give you an out, there had to be another explanation, I had to get this deep feeling of desire out of my head. This was my friend - we had been friends for over seven years. Platonic friends. Really platonic. I advised you on your strategy when you were looking for a wife. You held my hand through a difficult divorce. That did not mean I had not fantasized about this day so many times, knowing it could never happen, should not happen. No - this could not be happening. I was clearly drunk.
"I'm so horny," you continued. I was sure a heart attack was in my imminent future. This could not be happening. Turning to me with the club lights playing over your handsome face, highlights in your blonde hair, you said in light tones: "I guess this is the part when I would say 'Your place or mine?' and you would say..."