I will never forget the Sunday morning that I discovered my roommates were lesbian. I was sleeping in late. It was a rare privilege for me on Sunday mornings. I work two jobs you see. One of them is a nine-to-five in an office, but on the weekends I am respite care for a family whose mother has Alzheimer's. It makes for a full schedule even when you are barely twenty. But I hope that it will allow me to return to university in a year or two without accumulating a great deal of student loan debt.
So usually, I do not get in on Sunday until much later. But the night before my patient had been taken to the hospital with a fever. After staying in the Accident & Emergency with her family until after one in the morning, I was looking forward to being able to sleep until noon...at least.
But looking over at the clock, I notice that it is barely seven. I was awoken by the creaking of a bed above me and loud feminine moans. Now I live with two other girls, but we have always been very respectful of one another. I could only remember once when one of them had an overnight guest, but they were much quieter than this.
As for me, I had only the cold metal companionship of my pocket rocket under my pillow to provide relief. I was simply too busy for a relationship. I was the child of divorce and had watched my mother indulge in casual sex, so that held no appeal for me.
When she first met my roommates, my mother swore that they were a couple. But in my almost six months of living there, they had given no sign of any extracurricular activities. Like I said, one of them had even had this guy stay overnight, when the other was out of town.
But as I tried very hard to get back to sleep that morning, it seemed as if I could hear two distinctly feminine moans from the room above me. I wondered. Could my very experienced mother be right? Where my roommates lesbian?