‘Okaaaaay, run this past me one more time.’ It’s so incredible; they can’t possibly have made it up. Not these two.

I look at the photo in my hand. It certainly looks incriminating enough and it’s not easy to see my lover with his mouth wrapped around another man’s cock. Even if it is only Darren. Especially if it’s Darren. But then I remember how nervous Ben was when we first ‘got it together.’ Goodness knows it must have taken enough courage for him to kiss me that night, even if he was half drunk at the time. We both were. I knew he had never had any male lovers before, he knew I had. Yet two weeks later he had gone down on me and given me some of the best head I have ever experienced. I’d put it down to beginner’s luck or the result of him being gone down on by previous girlfriends. Now I knew better. Now I knew he had been taught by the best.

‘and Daniel saw this?’

Two worried heads nod at me.

‘Lee, what am I going to do? He’ll never believe me.’ Darren is close to tears again and Ben looks paler than I have ever seen him.

‘No,’ I agree, ‘he probably won’t. But he might just believe me.’ Putting down the photo I get up. ‘Do you know where he’s likely to have gone. Some bar somewhere?’

Darren shakes his head. ‘No, it’s too early even for Dan. He’ll be down on the beach. There’s a spot just by the pier, we go there sometimes…’

Ben puts his arm around his shoulders. ‘Ssh, it’s going to be alright’. He looks at me, pleading with his eyes. ‘Isn’t it Lee?’

‘I don’t know. I hope so.’ I envelop both of them in my arms. What a mess.

‘Darren you stay here. Ben you go home.’ I silence Ben’s protests. ‘If I do manage to persuade Dan to come back, the last thing he’s going to want is to see you here.’

Disentangling him from Darren’s embrace I gently brush my lips against his. ‘Go on, we’ll talk later.’

‘I’m so sorry Lee.’

‘Sssh, later ok?’

He nods weakly. 

I still don’t know what to make of all this and Ben and I are going to have to have one serious talk when I get back but all that can wait. The main thing now is to find Dan.