April 2004
Sue
Massoni
We
all have them. A recently single friend who is now out on
the prowl, looking for love or maybe just to get laid after
breaking off from a long term relationship!
On
a recent night out with my good friend Laura, we ventured
out to the big City to a well known lesbian nightclub. There
were beautiful women everywhere and Laura was like a toddler
at DisneyWorld.
Laura
is a soft butch, pretty, yet very “rebel” in her appearance.
She is a staunch lesbian whom has never been with a man,
she dons many tattoos, piercing and often outlandish hair
colors. She loves femme women and femme women often love
her right back, but it was surprising to me that thee absolute
most beautiful woman in the Club was exchanging long stares
and smiles from across the room with Laura. Laura was ecstatic
and I was ecstatic for her….. at first.
Her
name was Jennifer. She was a petite Latina , Jennifer Lopez
look alike (but I must say she was much prettier than Jennifer
Lopez), with long legs, an amazingly HOT body, healthy beautiful
bleached streaked hair and a face which should be plastered
on magazine covers. Her friends were almost as pretty as
she was! Honestly I thought that they were models and come
to find out I wasn’t far off in that assessment.
As
the evening progressed, watching Laura and Jennifer making
their ways toward each other was like watching a magnet
and steel. They were drawn to each other and watching the
two making their ways to the bathroom or the bar only when
the other was in the path was really quite cute. Finally
Laura stopped and introduced herself to Jennifer. After
talking for a while, Jennifer and her group of friends eventually
joined us in our corner of the Club and we all had a great
time getting to know each other. It was like standing in
a group of runway models and everyone had their eyes on
us!
We
spent hours with these women and Laura and Jennifer seemed
to be having an amazing connection. They were so involved
in their conversation as if there was no one else was in
the room and when Laura actually glanced away from Jennifer
for the first time after what seemed like an eternity, she
leaned in and whispered in my ear that she may have met
the “woman of her dreams, the perfect one for me”. I could
hardly maintain my smile, I was so happy for her. But I
had very little opportunity to get to know Jennifer, Laura
was monopolizing her every second, but I did get to know
her friends. They were downright terrific and very sweet.
I
did not notice anything different at all until I noticed
one of the women was wearing an odd pair of shoes. They
were large, pink granny shoes. Well, I know tall women will
have big feet but they just seemed out of place. “Whatever”
I thought and kept on drinking my beer, bopping to
the music and staring off into the crowd of people dancing
on the dance floor. On the evening went!
I
just didn’t give it a second thought until another friend
of Jennifer’s whom arrived late, joined our group. She was
not as beautiful as the rest of the girls and did not talk
as much. What I immediately noticed about her was that she
was wearing a white Marilyn Monroe dress and that she had
a very broad back. I thought, “Why on Earth would such a
tall woman be wearing a Marilyn Monroe dress?” It’s just
not something that you see everyday.
Now,
mind you, I have had about five beers and am wondering if
I am making things up in my head. Being too critical, trying
to ruin my friends new found happiness or just being a drama
queen? So, I said nothing. I stayed quiet, stood back and
watched this new odd group of friends that we have just
made. I tried to figure them out and make sense of what
seemed a little odd. It was like that children’s puzzle
about identifying which group of fish is different than
the others… You know that Sesame Street jingle, “Some of
these women are not like the others”.
And
then…… WHAM, it hit me! It was like a special affect out
of the movies as it all came rushing to me. These women
were men! Holy smokes, once I realized it, it all made perfect
sense and seemed so obvious and I must have had the funniest
look on my face. Jennifer’s oddly tall friends and the fact
that she was plainly too made up and too beautiful. Jennifer
was a man as well!
Don’t
get me wrong, I love and accept everyone, but I was not
about to let my recently heartbroken friend to be led down
a path of deceit.
And
then I got another WHAM, as I turned to look for Laura.
She was gone and so was Jennifer. Shock, fear and revelation
are all running through my head. Where is my friend? And
finally I spot the two of them slow dancing on the dance
floor. What should I do? I thought. I was going to interrupt
them, that was what I was going to do. So off I go, making
my way to through the dance floor bumping into women, women
bumping into me, I was going to save my friend and that
was that!
When
I reached Laura she was completely enthralled in her dance
with Jennifer and was very annoyed that I had selfishly
ruined a moment. She quickly shoed me away and then hissed
at me that she would talk to me “later”. Short of yelling
out that Jennifer might be a man, I could do nothing about
it until I could get Laura’s attention off the dance floor.
So I went back to my corner and to the odd group of tall
women and watched. At this point, they could tell that I
knew something was up.
Three
songs later, Laura is still on the dance floor and was now
kissing Jennifer lovingly and passionately. Their hands
were all over each other and many women around them were
watching them in that “get a room” kind of way. I just shook
my head. There was nothing I could do and the odd women
were watching me, watch my friend and whispering to each
other then looking again at me. The gig was up.
Finally
Laura and Jennifer came off the dance floor and Laura immediately
came to me to tell me she did not need a ride home. She
was going to go home with Jennifer. I was just stunned,
but I was going to have my say. “Jennifer
is a man” I whispered to her which was very hard considering
how loud the music was. Of course she could not believe
what I had just said and she asked me “what?” more then
once.
At
first she seemed angry at me, as if I were making it up,
“NO” she said. But at the same time that she was telling
me “NO” she was looking up at Jennifer and her friends whom
were obviously informing Jennifer that I had figured it
out. Just as it hit me I watched as it hit Laura, whom could
only moan “NO”.
Without
a word Jennifer and her friends walked away and nested themselves
to the opposite side of the club, as Laura and I stood in
absolute shock. I could tell that she knew what was going
on, but just did not want to believe it, she kept going
back and forth from “No ?????” to “Really?????”. She was
truly sad.
I
finally took Laura out of the Club and drove her home and
you can imagine our conversation on the way home. Sadly
this was one of Laura’s first nights out with her new found
singlehood and I was afraid that it would discourage her
from dating. Thank goodness it did not.
We
have gone back to the Club several times and I get the feeling
that Laura would secretly like to run into Jennifer. Perhaps
to ask her why she hadn't revealed her secret, parhaps to
maintain a friendship with someone she thought was terrific
or pehaps out of pure fascination. Who knows, maybe
Jennifer opened a new world to Laura and they could actually
become a great couple.
But
sadly, we have not seen Jennifer nor any of her friends.
I only hope that they have not come back out of shame or
fear. After the shock wore off, we both realized that
at the end of the day we really enjoyed the Company of these
women. We will never
forget our night with Jennifer and her odd group of friends!
