Never Was
by be287m

“Never?  Even when you were with Barry?”

She sighed.  “I never was.  Not even then.  Barry and I enjoyed each other’s company, and the sex was great, but he knew my heart wasn’t in the relationship.”

“Wow,” I replied.  She just gave me a sheepish smile in reply.  I let my mind run through the catalog of old memories.

“So. . . the night after the party, when you suggested coming home with me, you weren’t just drunk?”

“No.”

“And that weekend we all went away, you weren’t just joking about giving me a blowjob?”

“No.  But by joking about it, I got to see your girlfriend’s reaction.  If she hadn’t seemed to mind, I probably would have done it.”

“Wow.  She probably wouldn’t have cared, by the way.  She was a pretty wild one.  My wife, though . . .”

“You’re wife’s an incredible lady.”

“Yes, she is.  But still. . .all those years . . .  I admit I was interested in you as more than just a friend, and sometimes I thought you were interested in me, but you always seemed to have a boyfriend.”

She gave me an apologetic, sorrowful smile.  “You never asked me out.  You never flirted back.  You chased the other women and not me.  Then you got married.”
  
“I thought you were unavailable.”

“I was never unavailable to you.  I never was.”

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