The Visitor from OuterâŠPlace. Part 2
(Part 1 of The Dating Game can be found here).
From Part 1
David closed his eyes and wanted nothing more than to escape to his bedroom and feel the cool silk of his new negligĂ©e next to his skin. It would look perfect with those slippers. He began to feel clammy. âI need a drink.â
Sandrine looked around and spied the kitchen. She handed the slippers to David. âWhy donât Lucy and I get the drinks while you go and make yourself more comfortable?â
David hesitated a moment. âAre you FtM?â …
Wait. He of all people should know better than to ask such a personal question to a woman he barely knew. And she was a work colleague. What the hell was he thinking?
He was about to apologise when Sandrine replied.
âI like to be fluide. I donât put myself in just one âole. Is that âow you English say it?â Sandrine flashed her eyes at David before fixing them on Lucy.
Uncharacteristically Lucy had been silent for the past minute and a half, her nerves possibly still reverberating from asking Sandrine if she was a lesbian. Now her eyes were on David, and he couldnât help thinking she was worried for him. Well let her be!
He needed space to breathe. âI think you mean âboxâ but âholeâ works too. Help yourselves.â
âOh, come on,â said Lucy, heading to the kitchen, never one to hide her impatience, or linger at the back of the queue when there was a glass of wine to be had.
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