"Why wouldn't you? You might like it."
"Just not attracted to men, never have been. Actually I don't understand why women are, either. Sorry, Elizabeth."
"So you've never done it with a woman you didn't think was attractive -- just because you could, because it felt good?"
I shrugged. "Well yes, sometimes. But..."
"I mean, especially if it's their mouth or hand that you've got your dick in, what difference does it make if it's a boy or a girl? It wouldn't mean you were gay, Paul, just very horny. And I know how horny you get."
I couldn't think of a quick answer to that, so I said "What about you? Do you do it with girls? After all, if it's their mouth or their hand..."
"No, not yet. But I know I could, and that I'd enjoy it. If I was in the right mood. Or if the right man wanted me to do it."
"Doesn't Brian want you to?"
She sniggered. "Not the right man. Nowhere near."
I was sitting opposite Elizabeth, a director of the record company where I ran the A&R department, in her hotel room at around midnight. This was about ten years ago, when I was 39. I'd been establishing myself back in the music business after a bad few years, getting ready to start my own management agency. She was my boss, but Elizabeth was younger than I was -- 32, I think. That didn't really bother me. She understood the industry; she also had long, wavy red hair, a slim but nicely curved body and a beautiful, angelic face, so we got on just fine.
Something else she understood was that I wanted her - badly. She'd flirted with me at the interview for my job and hadn't stopped since. She was married to some sort of investment banker but only ever spoke about her husband to put him down. She'd left him at home tonight, the night of the biggest music industry awards ceremony of the year. And tonight was supposed to be when it happened -- when I finally got hold of her and made a real pig of myself, just like I'd been telling her I would.
But we weren't alone. Sitting next to Elizabeth on the small sofa was her PA, Lucy. Sitting between us on the floor was Marco, our waiter during the tedious ceremony that we'd sat through downstairs in the hotel's ballroom.
Lucy was somewhere in her early twenties, small and cute with spiky blonde hair. She was wearing what looked to me like a baby doll nightie for a dress and she hadn't stopped giggling for at least an hour. Lucy was a bit nuts even when she was stone cold sober, and now she was totally wired on the combination of free champagne and expensive cocaine that we'd been consuming all night. But as soon as Elizabeth and I started talking about sex, she turned very quiet and started playing close attention.
Marco looked 19 or 20, short and skinny with long jet black hair. He had big brown eyes surrounded by dark make up, and wiggled his backside when he walked. When he spoke -- which was almost never -- it was in a shy whisper and with a ridiculously camp Italian accent. He was a useless waiter, but at the end of the evening Elizabeth still made me give him a huge tip. Then she suddenly grabbed him by the hand and said to Lucy and me "My room, more drinks. Marco -- you can be our barman."
So there we all were, Marco organising a steady flow of booze from his overstretched colleagues in room service, Elizabeth supplying the quality coke and me wondering what was going on. I had no trouble at all dreaming up a supporting role for Lucy in what I wanted to do, but I was starting to worry about exactly why Elizabeth had dragged a gay waiter up here.
"So who would you do it for?" I asked her.
Elizabeth smiled at me. "You mean are you the right man, Paul? Hmm. I don't really know. I suppose you're quite good looking. I might even have let you fuck me tonight. But if you want me with another girl..." She paused and glanced down at Lucy, who looked back up into her eyes "I'll need something in return."
"Oh really? What might that be?"
"You with another man" said Elizabeth, with the first tremor of real lust in her voice. "I think that's only fair - don't you?"
"No" I said. Then, stupidly, "What man, anyway?"
"You and Marco of course. Right here, right now. Do it and you get everything you can imagine from me and Lucy -- that's all right isn't it, Lucy?" Lucy giggled, kissed Elizabeth on the cheek, then turned to stare at me. "If you don't want to do it, fine -- go back to your room and sleep by yourself." Marco looked a bit startled by this turn of events but said nothing, and just glanced up at me nervously to see how I was taking it.
I wasn't angry. In fact Elizabeth's obvious excitement was beginning to have an effect on me, and so was Lucy's stare, but even so I wasn't going to be pushed into something like this. "Forget it. I'm not touching another man. No offence, Marco."
Marco smiled sweetly. Elizabeth thought for a moment then said "That's a disappointment. I didn't think you were quite so boring, Paul. But OK" -- and now she was starting to negotiate rather than demand - "what if you didn't have to do anything yourself? What if you just had to relax and let Marco make you happy? You could manage that, couldn't you?"
Elizabeth's voice was shaking, and I could see her hands trembling. And something slightly disturbing was happening. My cock was responding to Elizabeth's arousal, to the pleading tone in her voice, by stiffening up. Marco -- his head level with my groin and only a couple of feet away -- noticed first and gave me another shy little smile. Then Lucy saw it, giggled again and nudged Elizabeth, pointing. Elizabeth just looked at the bulge in my trousers, with her lips slightly parted. My own lips parted and I heard the words "Keep talking" slip out.
But Elizabeth could hardly talk at all now. There was a thick, heavy atmosphere in the room, like being in the nastiest wet dream you've ever had. That's why I was turned on -- not because I particularly wanted Marco (although I admit the idea of doing something so different, something I really shouldn't, was beginning to make me feel a little crazy) but because I was feeding off her lust, ready to do whatever it took to keep it growing and fuelling my own excitement.
She managed to force the words out, as Lucy began gently stroking her silk-stockinged thigh. "Marco - you wouldn't mind sucking Paul's cock, would you?" She paused for breath and closed her eyes. "I mean, make him enjoy having a pretty young man do it to him. Make him moan. Make him come with your mouth, even if he doesn't want to. While we watch".