Authors' Note :-None of the characters or places included in this story relate to any real person or place. It is purely a work of fiction.
TINA WAS STARSTRUCK - EDIT
Rob and his wife, Gina, were shopping on Saturday morning in the small town where they lived, in Hertfordshire, England.
As they browsed in a music shop Gina was surprised to spot a famous face from the current rapping scene. "Look over there Rob," she whispered excitedly to her husband, "It's Oxygene, the rapper. Wow, it's amazing that someone as famous as him has a house in our little town. Let's go over and say hello, I want to get his autograph or my friends will never believe that I've met him."
Rob was not at all keen to meet OxyGene. Although Tina didn't know it, he had already met the rapper.
Rob worked as an investment analyst at the local branch of a British banking group, in fact, he was advising the rapper on investing some of the scandalous amounts of money he was making from his rap recordings. Rob didn't like OxyGene at all, he found him arrogant and he didn't like Rap music either.
"Oh, you don't want to bother with him," said Rob. "He'll be yesterday's news in a few weeks and there won't be any value in having his autograph."
"Oh, don't be so old fashioned," replied Tina, "You're showing your age. Come on, before he moves on. I must talk to him." And she dashed off to get to him.
Rob, a whole 11 years older than his wife, grumbled, but realised that nothing he said would deter her from getting the man's autograph, so he reluctantly began to follow Tina to the counter where the rapper was making his purchase, guarded by two minders.
"Hi," said Tina, as she approached him. "You're OxyGene aren't you? Would you give me your autograph, please? I love your music and I think you're great." She thrust her pocket diary and a pen towards him, hopefully.
The rapper looked round at her and realised that he was being accosted by a very pretty, no, a very beautiful young woman. She smiled at him, and he smiled back, thinking to himself what a surprise it was to find such a sexy chick in this hick town. "Sure," he said as he held out his hand for the diary. "What's your name, darlin?". Tina told him and he wrote, 'To the very beautiful and sexy Tina, I hope we meet again. OxyGene XXX.' Then he took her hand in his own and placed the diary in it.
The rapper looked her up and down, his gaze following the contours of her body clad in her light summer dress. "Are you a local girl, honey." He asked.
"Oh, yes, I am," She replied, "I only live about twenty minutes away from your house."
"Really," he said, "then we're almost neighbours. Look, I'm having a party at my place next Saturday, how would you like to come as my special guest?"
"Oh, goodness," she said, her heart fluttering, "I'd love to," then as an afterthought she added, "I'd have to bring my husband too." And she turned to Rob who had joined the group unnoticed.
The rapper looked at Rob and said, "Oh, Hallo Mr. Walsh, of course you'll bring your lovely wife to my party, won't you?"
Tina was astonished, how comes Rob knew OxyGene and had never mentioned it?
"Well, I'll have to check our diary," said Rob, "We'll come if we can."
"Ok," said the rapper, a little put out, and turning to Tina he said, "Give me your address, doll, and I'll send you an invitation, Saturday 7p.m."
Tina tore a page out of her diary, wrote their names and their address on it and gave it to him.
"Ok, babe," he said, "See you then." And he turned and left the shop.
Tina was thrilled to bits, "How wonderful, Rob, we'll be going to a famous celebrity's party, I bet there will be other famous people there as well. Isn't it exciting?"
Rob was not keen; his wife appeared to be 'starstruck' and he knew the rapper's reputation for making conquests out of female fans. He didn't like the way he'd looked his wife up and down either. But he thought the offer of an invitation to the party was probably bullshit anyway.
"So how come you know him?" Tina asked Rob, "and why didn't you tell me you knew him, you know how much I like him, you could have introduced me."
"I know him because I've been doing some work for him at the bank. I didn't tell you because you would have insisted that I introduce you to him, and frankly, I don't think that he's the kind of person you should associate with."
"What do you mean?" She said, "You don't think I should associate with him? What gives you the right to decide that for me? Sometimes you are a bit of a stuffed shirt, Rob".
Rob took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "Look, I don't want us to get into an argument over it, but he has a justifiably bad reputation as a womaniser, and he doesn't care if they are married or not. He's ruined a few marriages already by taking the wives off, using them, and then dumping them when another pretty girl comes into his orbit. He is a thoroughly nasty character, and I don't think you should have anything to do with him."
"Well, I'm big enough and old enough to make my own decisions, she replied, "I don't need you to make them for me. I think it was nice of him to invite us to his party and I want to go. In any case, he's hardly likely to want to spirit me away, he can have his pick of women."
"I really don't want to go," said Rob, "I saw the way he looked you up and down, I'd have to spend all evening keeping you away from him, and I can think of better ways to spend the time. I can't see why you are so keen on going anyway, what's the big attraction."
"Well, I've never met anyone famous like him before. Just talking to him made me feel important and attractive as well. I also noticed how he looked at me, and it's good to know men find me attractive. Don't you like having an attractive wife?"
"Of course, I like having and attractive wife," he said, "and it makes me feel proud when I see that other men find you easy on the eye. But that man is a predator, he makes women feel special so they like being with him, and the next thing they know is they wake up in his bed, he keeps them a couple of weeks then he dumps them, and their lives are ruined."
"That's a bit melodramatic saying 'their lives are ruined', isn't it," she said," after all, it's only sex, they haven't been changed, they could just go back to their old lives and be glad they had the experience and the memories."
"If that's the way you think," he said, "It's just as well that we won't be going to his party."