A few days after meeting my lover's girlfriend I was at home, as it was a girls' night out I was told. So I thought I would have a listen to my Hi βFi and put one of my favourite albums of all time, "Breezing" by George Benson.
The needle had just found the opening chords on the title track of the record when the door bell rang.
"Drat" I thought, as I made my way to the front door. I live in an Edwardian detached house on the edge of suburbia, close enough to town, but far enough away to be on the edge of unspoilt open countryside. I inherited the house some years previously when my parents were killed in a car crash. The house is spacious and I was thinking of asking my girlfriend to move in.
I looked through the spy hole and saw it was her lover. Boy was I confused. I opened the door and invited her in, giving her a hug and kiss on the check as she entered the hallway.
"Wow" she said as she drank in the surroundings, [it is a biggish entrance hallway] "She said you had a great house, and she was not joking. Hey, George Benson, I love this track, is this the original album or a hits one?"
"The original album. It's one of my favourites" I replied.
"Hey, that's cute; it's one of mine as well".
"Anyway, I thought that it was a girls' night out tonight. So what brings you around?"
"Well the least you could do is invite me in properly first."
"Sorry, I forgot my manners there for a moment. Can I take your coat? Come on into the living room."
"Thanks" she said smiling at me sweetly and handing me her leather jacket. No cheap junk this one. It was a fine designer label, in the softest leather.
I hung up the jacket and showed her through to the living room. She looked around in amazement.
"It's huge" she observed "And it yet it feels so cosy and intimate. I love this place"
"Thanks. Can I get you a drink of anything? Tea, coffee, soft drink, alcoholic beverage?"
"Have you any red wine?" Well it just so happened that I had opened a bottle to enjoy whilst I listened to the stereo, so I poured out two glasses of wine, passed one to her, hoisted my glass and wished her health.
"Cheers. You asked why I had come here this evening." She said as she returned the toast. "Well it's because, well it's really, oh, I don't know how to say this at all, you see this has never happened to me before. This feeling, this emotion, this, well everything over the last few days has just blown me away and left me a quivering wreck. You know how I feel about your girlfriend, and when she told me that she had told you about us I nearly freaked out. Then she told me how you had reacted. She said that you were so loving and understanding with no snide remarks about her bi-sexuality.
"Are you really sure you are OK with this? I mean when I told my then boyfriend, now my ex, he really lost it. Out came all the stereotypes, that I was really a closet lez, and that I was only going out with him as front to cover my real desires. So I couldn't understand that you didn't do the same thing. How come?"
"Well you just mentioned stereotypes and you are doing the same thing. You think all men are going to react the same way, they are led by their pricks not their minds, and that it is an insult to their masculinity if it turns out that their girl swings both ways because he can't satisfy her sexually. Am I right?"