The Third Date 01: Clueless of Cotham - Sex Stories

The Third Date 01: Clueless of Cotham

... large glass of sangria was placed in my hand. Priya introduced me as her "new friend and inspiration" to Nadine's band, Sam, Leila and Yuki, whom she obviously knew reasonably well: "we were all on the Music course together". Leila was particularly interested to meet me, as she was going to try to imitate Priya's cello part on trumpet that evening, which was surreal.

"You're making me self-conscious! I feel like I need to live up to something now!"

"Sweetie, I watched you walk in, and I get it!"

Looking at her, with her short cropped hair, man's shirt and studded jeans, I guessed she was family. Though given how my gaydar was working at the moment, I didn't want to trust anything.

Food came out quickly after we arrived, and it was delicious. The conversation was mainly about the gig. I hadn't realised that Nadine wasn't headlining, but rather supporting a band I hadn't heard of called This Is the Kit. When I asked about them, Nadine and Yuki immediately started singing one of their songs, which I recognised from hearing on the radio.Say the magic words, say the magic spell. The others soon joined in, Leila and Sam adding harmonies, Melissa and Jenny sticking to the main melody. I was captivated.

"Is it always like this with you people?" I asked somewhat awed as Tom and I applauded.

"Pretty much, yeah! Why? Don't you and your Science buddies spontaneously break into song in the labs?"

"Sure. On a daily basis. We have a rota. The Physics guys do a mean ...

... Metallica."

That got a laugh.

Soon we were finishing up, and there were 30 minutes before Nadine and the band were due on. They were keen to leave, and the bill was soon sorted. I noticed Melissa making eye contact with Leila and jerking her head in my direction, to which Leila nodded. What was that about?

"Have I got time to go to the loo before we head down?" I asked.

"Sure," said Melissa, "I'll come with you." Turning to the rest of the group, she told them to meet us in there and she'd make sure I got in ok.

Hmm, something was up.

She kept up impersonal small talk initially, but as we were both washing our hands, she just came out with it.

"Kate, sorry if this is rude, and just to be clear I have zero problem with it, but are you gay?"

Ah, I thought it might be this. "Yes. Why?"

"And are you into Priya?"

"Well... I like her... I could be..." I wasn't quite sure what the safe answer was here. "Are you warning me off?"

"No, no..." she sighed and scratched her head, "well, maybe." She paused.

"Look, firstly, you seem like a wonderful person, and Priya quite obviously agrees. But she doesn't know who she is or who she wants. I've known her since she was 11 and watched her make fucking horrendous decision after fucking awful decision romantically. Seriously, all her relationships have been crap. Three of them were with gay guys for fuck's sake! She's a sucker for romance stories, but seems to forget that none of them are real and none of those ...