Our Way

He shrugs as he shovels a cracker and camembert into his mouth. “I still look good.”

I giggle and take a big scoop of cheese onto my cracker and put it into my mouth.

“What’s your new boss like?” he asks.

“Umm.” I swallow what’s in my mouth and it scratches my throat the whole way down. “Seems okay.” I wince.

“Male, female, young, old?”

“Guy, middle aged. Seemed boring,” I lie, Henry Morgan didn’t seem boring at all but I’m not in the mood for a Spanish inquisition. “Oh my God.” I gasp to change the subject. “Did I tell you about the guy we met on Saturday night?”

“No.” He frowns.

“Jolie met this guy.” I giggle just remembering it. “She met this guy named Santiago who was showing her videos of him having sex with different women.”

“What?”

“I’m serious. Like full frontal hard fucking. All different women, all different positions.”

Nathan screws up his face. “What did Jolie do?”

“She drank shots of tequila while she watched it.”

“What?” He chuckles. “Are you serious?”

“Yes, it was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen.”

“You watched it, too?”

I laugh.

“You did?”

I shrug. “It was kind of hot.” I offer as an explanation.

“He could have been a serial killer. Guys don’t just show women videos of themselves having sex with other people. That’s just fucking weird. Like stalker weird.”

I laugh. “I know, right?” I shovel more cheese and biscuits into my mouth. “I’ve never even filmed myself having sex. I wouldn’t even want to watch that back, let alone show other people.”

“What?” Nathan frowns. “You’ve never filmed yourself having sex?”

“No.” I scowl. “Have you?”

“Everyone’s done that.”

“Not me.”

“Why not?” He seems shocked.

“I don’t know?” I laugh. “It’s never come up. Nobody I’ve slept with has ever suggested it.”

He stares at me in disbelief. “Eliza, just how vanilla is your sex life?”

I widen my eyes. “Well, very vanilla if this is anything to go by.”

He sips his champagne as if fascinated. “And you like vanilla sex?”

“Not really.” I shrug. “I’ve never thought about it before. I guess I’m waiting for a big, bad man to teach me bad things.”