Yeah. It all went wrong before it got better.
It started when I was on a dating app. I'm bi, but I'm not all that into having relationships with guys; I just enjoy the sex. For romance and companionship, I prefer women, but once you're past thirty it gets more complicated. People want to settle down and raise a family, not so much have hook-ups.
Well, most people. In my case I'm not interested in having a family. Ever since I came out as bi, I've been having too much fun for that. But I was finding it a little hard to meet women, so I signed up to a dating app.
And after a few months of one-date encounters which fizzled out and never went anywhere, I was beginning to think that it was never going to happen. That's when I found Deanna's profile.
Deanna was my age, and she made it very clear that she wasn't looking for a husband. Because she already had a husband.
But he was away a lot, and she was looking for a guy to have some discreet fun who was a 'little bit kinky' and was 'imaginative'.
It was accompanied by a picture from the neck down of a woman's figure in a t-shirt and jeans. She had broad shoulders, ripped arms, long, powerful legs, and was obviously not wearing a bra, because her boobs, although not very big, looked very natural.
I understood why she didn't want to show her face. Her body was to die for. At least, I thought so, because I find strong-looking women very sexy. Anyone who's bi knows that we often swing a little harder in one direction than the other, and looking at Deanna's body, even in casual clothes, I was reminded again that I'm definitely bi, not just in some pupal stage towards discovering I was gay.
So I swiped right.
Well, I didn't think anything was going to happen, but to my surprise, a day or so later, we matched. I came home from work one evening to find a message from her:
'Hi, good-looking. I'm Deanna. So what are your kinks? ;)'
I wrote back:
'Hi! Well, it's not really a kink, but I'm bisexual.'
'Ooo! Interesting. Do you mean bicurious or have you gone the full way?'
'Oh, I've been with guys.'
'Mmmm. I've never been with a guy who's been with a guy. It's hot. Is it rude to ask straight away what you got up to?'
I smiled to myself.
'Kinda, but since you ask, I like being a bottom.'
There was a pause.
'That's so hot. I'm having thoughts now. You want to get together and talk about it?'
I was delighted. Many women seem to get turned off by the idea of being with a bi guy, but Deanna seemed to be positively aroused by the idea.
We made arrangements for me to go to her house a couple of nights later. That's how it got started.
I showed up dressed in something that made me look good, and I brought wine. I rang the doorbell and, after a moment, a shape loomed up in the frosted glass and the door opened.
Deanna was wearing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans, very like the ones she'd been wearing in the photo. She had blonde hair swept back from her forehead and tied behind her head, blue eyes with quite thick dark eyebrows, and full lips. I noticed that her hair was bleached, or highlighted, I never really know the difference; her roots were showing. That was fine with me.
And, she was tall. Even barefoot as she was, she was my height. She was an intensely physical presence, even a formidable one.
Now, I'm not normally into blondes. I find the classic blonde to be a bit boring-looking.
But Deanna had something a bit more earthy about her--perhaps the fact that she wasn't a real blonde. She looked fresh-faced and cheerful, like a model in a catalogue for outdoor clothes--except that she could also have been an off-duty soldier.
She smiled at me, and stepped aside.
'Not disappointed in my face, I hope,' she said. Her voice was low and rather husky.
'Not at all,' I said, smiling.
'Come on in.'
I entered, and we held eye contact as I did so.
Deanna padded down the hall to the kitchen and I followed her, feeling slightly underdeveloped, but flattered that this gorgeous amazon seemed to be into me.
'So,' she said, 'obviously I'm gonna trust you to be a bit discreet about this.'
'Obviously,' I said.
There were two glasses on the table. Deanna went to the fridge and took out a bottle of prosecco. She ripped off the foil cap and wire cage, and with a single sharp turn, jerked the cork out.
'Fancy a drink?' she said. 'I'm having one. I'm a bit nervous.'
And she chuckled.
'I'd love one,' I said.
She sat down and indicated the seat opposite from her, and poured us wine.
'I don't know why you're nervous,' I said. 'I reckon you could probably take me in a fight.'
'What makes you say so,' she said, smiling rather thinly, as if not sure whether to be flattered.
I indicated a picture on the dresser, of Deanna in karate clothes, in a dojo somewhere, smiling and shaking the hand of a Japanese-looking guy.
To my relief, she smiled and then laughed.
'Aw, yeah. Fair enough. Yeah, I do a bit of that.'
'Well, I don't do anything like that. So I'm sure you could overpower me.'
She flashed her eyebrows at me and looked me up and down, as if to say Maybe we should test that later.
'So I'm married, obviously,' she said.
'I'm not.'
'Yeah. Technically I'm the cheater, here.'
I shrugged. I looked around; there was a picture of Deanna outdoors, in a fancy dress, on the arm of a big guy with a lantern jaw wearing a suit.
'That your husband,' I said.
'Yeah,' she said.
'He's gorgeous,' I said, which was true: he was a hunk.
'You're bi, aren't you,' she said. She had a peculiar flat drawl which made her sound very hard to impress.
'Yes.'
'How's that work?'
'Different for everyone. I'm about 60 per cent into women, 40 per cent into men, but that's over time. So some days I'm super into women, and other days I'm queer as a three-pound-note.'
'Must be very confusing,' she said, and sipped her wine.
'I've learned to live with it.'
'Have you had a lot of sex with guys?'
'I've had sex with as many guys as women, but one difference.'
'What's that?'
'The guys were all one-night stands,' I said.
'So you're, what's the word.'
'Heteromantic,' I said, smiling.
'Yeah,' she said. 'Don't fall in love with me, though. This is just a bit of fun.'
'That's fine,' I said.
'Let's see how it goes.'
'Whatever you want.'
Deanna regarded me for a long moment.
'You're quite submissive, aren't you,' she said.