"Yes, score!"
"And what did my hubby dearest score, my lovely?"
"I just scored an invitation to the Queer Ball!"
The grimace at my husband's face was painful to look at, just because it made such a mess of his uber-handsome features. "That corporate shill of an event?" He finally intoned, in mock annoyance. "And what do they know about us queers anyway."
"It's just the great social event of the season. Just that. That, and Adele's going to come and sing! And make jokes because haha the Brits are funny again or something."
"The way you describe it is almost compelling darling, but give me a pass. A hard pass."
"As hard as you got last night?"
"Kyle!" A smile ghosted on my husband's face. "That's what he said."
"L.O.L. husband dear."
***
"You know when you first tell me about this ball, you strategically failed to mention it was a damned costume affair."
"Oops, my bad. Oh come on babe, it's going to be alright. It's going to be fun."
Greg made another face. "So said the one not in tiny briefs."
"They're called speedos, G. I'm having you going in as 'Trophy Husband', because you're so clearly not haha. And I'm going as 'Roman Senator', because I'm Italian. Hence the lavender toga."
My husband giggled. I knew the champagne would work wonders. "Oh, what would I do without you, my social-climbing beloved hubby of the year?" He smiled, that beautiful smile again that made me fell in love with him all those years ago right on the dance floor of D'Zara. Which coincidentally was where we were going. My heart skipped a beat. There was always something about D'Zara that made everything more poignant, more... illicit. More sinful. I wondered what would D'Zara hold for us after all these years.
***
The party was going super. Most of the guests failed to identify Greg, mostly going with 'himbo' or 'gigolo', because why not? He had the physicality for both, that's the least could be said about him. The champagne was flowing freely, the music was heavenly, and after Adele completed her set and skit and left, the club became the haus of dance, bringing out deep thumping bass and percussive lines in the background music. And Lady Gaga, lots of Lady Gaga from the Fame Monster era.
"Kyle, Kyle is that you?"
'Of all the gin joints on God's green earth why do he have to walk to this one?' I thought as I plastered a stiff upper lip and a snarl disguised as a smile. "Hi Nathan, fancy finding you here."
"Yeah, I suppose, this is a really fun way to get deep with the community, after all." He smiled gregariously, much like the way he was in the office where he was supervisor-manager just a rung above me. He looked stunning out of his office wear and in black skin-tight henley shirt that shimmered under the strobe lights paired with cute sensible-length shorts. He must be going as 'WASP', the slutty kind. "Hi, who do we have here?"
"Oh right, this here is husband dearest, Gregory, Greg for short." And there he was, in all his gorgeousness, with his tall 6'6'' frame, massive pecs with adorable nipplets, smooth chest and six-packs down to his poor stretched speedo, which was doing nary a thing to hide his gargantuan cock, which had been half-hard for half the night from the champagne and the caresses of the twinks who picked 'himbo' over 'gigolo'. Now a fleeting sigh of regret passed in me at having my delectable husband in such exposing piece, and the moment was compounded when I saw how the light change in Nathan's eyes upon feasting on my husband's considerable bounty.
My husband, unaware he was being put on show, suddenly lifted his arms and whopped like an over-hormonal teenager as 'Bad Romance' started to play. "Come on baby, this is my jam!" I was having withdrawals from Adele, so I declined his offer of a dance. "Well, might as well get up close and personal with my hubby's boss!" Without waiting for my say on the matter Greg pulled on Nathan's hand and rushed to the dance floor.
I watched as the two got up close and personal indeed. My husband turned the meter up to twelve -- must be the champagne running in his blood -- and was grinding his ass and his bulge all over poor surprised Nathan, who looked slightly out of place in the beginning of the song but picked up his slack as the song's chorus began, holding to Greg's hips as he twerked down with the best of them, ra-ra-ra-romance. I lifted my champagne flute at them, trying to remind my husband not to play too much. As the song ended my husband and Nate got lost in the crowd, but my attention was elsewhere as I was suddenly accosted by a waiter over a plate of hors-d'oeuvres.
***
"Wherever did you go?" I asked Greg when he came to where I was perched at the bar nursing my umpteenth drink.
"Oh yeah, I needed to go to the little boy's room." My husband looked mildly flushed. Dare I imagine it, his speedo pouch looked even more pronounced under the flashing disco lights.