Don't you find it curious that important events of our lives tend to come in groups? Sometimes nothing happens for weeks, months, or even years, then the world turns upside down in mere days. For me, it was a dusky week in March.

Monday didn't foreshadow any of the huge changes that was going to come. Tuesday however... I walked thru the base to Adri's building so we could have our usual morning coffee, but I found her in a horrible state behind her desk. Her eyes were red of crying and she wasn't far from starting it again.

"What happened, Kitten?" I looked at her scared.

"I broke up with Áron."

"What? Why? When?"

"Last night."

"Why didn't you call?"

"It was... too late... Didn't want to bother. You wouldn't have... been able to help anyway."

At least I would've tried if she let me, and definitely wouldn't have been bothered either, but it wasn't the time to argue.

"Okay, but why did you two break up?"

"Because..."

Someone knocked, and a second later even stepped in the office. It was a dark haired guy, some first lieutenant I had never seen before.

"Adri, could you help me with" he explained with his eyes glued to a dossier in his hand, but he immediately stopped as he looked up. "Uh-oh. I'm sorry. I didn't want to be of inconvenience. I'll come back later."

"You are not bothering us, Bence" Adri told him with a sniffle.

"No-no" he insisted. "It isn't urgent, I can come back in a more appropriate time."

Before Adri could say anything, he disappeared and closed the door behind himself.

"Our new deputy department chief" she answered the question I wasn't going to ask.

"Why did you two break up?" I steered the conversation back to its original track.

"Because... because you came up, and... and Áron asked if I wanted him to get you together with a friend of his, and... when I told him that... that you aren't interested in men... he had an idea."

"Oh" I got staggered. She wasn't my first straight friend whose boyfriend came up with this very idea, but she was the first one, for whom I might've said yes if asked.

"He wanted that the three of us... you know."

"Yup" I nodded. "I figured that out at the 'he had an idea' part."

"I told him, he couldn't think that seriously..."

"Adri..." I cut her mid sentence. "Far be it from me to defend him, but... but it's something that many couples try, to spice their sex life up. I most certainly don't say you should've agreed with it, I know you much better than to believe you'd interested in such thing, but there was no harm in him asking it."

"I think there was" she answered angrily. "Have you done such thing before?"

"Well, not in my own relationship, but..."

"You see!? If he really loved me, why am I not enough for him? Is it possible to get bored with me in a single year?"

"Oh, Kitten" I stepped closer and hugged her. "Of course, it's not possible to get bored with you in a year, or ever. But you dated an asshole, and they think like assholes. Every man fantasizes about doing it with two women, that's just the way they are. Even those who don't say it."

"Then he should've kept it inside!" she ripped herself out of my hug.

Trying to deescalating her opinion about her boyfriend did stop her crying, but at the same time, angered her really much. So much about being unselfish in a moment like this.

"Kitten" I raised my hand defensively. "I didn't say to welcome him back with open arms, but he was just a man being a man. He didn't cheat on you, or something."

"You know what?" she looked at me furiously. "It'd be better if you leave me alone now."

I sighed sadly and left her office.

I really hated to admit that, but Áron was the most decent guy of her boyfriends, and for some reason, they actually worked well as a couple. Was asking for a threesome from Adri incredibly stupid? Absolutely. I don't think I've ever known someone in my life who took monogamy as seriously as she did. But I still felt she was a bit overreacting the thing, and I would've hated myself if I let her throw a relationship away for such reason.

Yet that's exactly what I did after all. By the time I returned to Adri's office in the afternoon, I was convinced their relationship was beyond saving. On some matters, Adri could be even more stubborn than me - which tells a lot - and she would've needed some rock solid reason - one, that I didn't have - to change her opinion. Forcing it any further would just have jeopardized our friendship too, and I was way more selfish than risking such thing for the sake of charity.

"Hey, Kitten" I poke my head in the open door of her office.

"What do you want?" she looked up.

"To apologize."

She put her glasses down on the pile of files she worked on, and shook her head.

"Close the door behind you."

I stepped in, and immediately started my mea culpa.

"Kitten, forgive me, if I made you feel I'm not supporting you one hundred percent, whatever you decide. I only want what's the best for you, and sometimes I forget we don't think the same about such things as sex. I hope you know that you can count on me anytime, whatever happens. If you tell me you chopped Áron off to pieces, and need help to make his remains disappear, my only question will be whether I should bring a shovel."

By the time I finished, she was smiling.

"Fanny, I'm not mad at you. Well... not really. I know I shouldn't be. I long accepted that you think much more freely about sexual stuff, but I can't do that. And it wasn't really his question that upset me, but the fact that even after a year he didn't know me well enough to know how much I'm not into that kind of stuff. I don't want to be with someone so inconsiderate."

I nodded.

"How do you feel?"

"Like shit, but better than I did in the morning. I really believed it would be different with him."

"I swear I won't ask it again, but you sure you wanna do this? Won't you forgive him?"

"I won't. That ship has sailed."

"And to me?"

She opened her arms and waved me to go closer to her.

"There is nothing to forgive you for, silly."

She stood up, and we hugged each other. That's how one of my most heated arguments ended. Yes, this has been considered a heated argument between us.

We had a girls' night this evening, just as the next day, which led us to Thursday which was the beginning of the strangest period of my life. Well, strange for me at least, for others it would be the normal. Weeeell... to some extent. You'll see.

We had our usual morning coffee with Adri, when that lieutenant showed up once again.

"Ooops" he stopped for a moment. "Is it a wrong time again?"

"Nah" Adri waved him in. "Come on in."

"Yup" I amended her invite. "We discuss how we'll take over the world in some other time."

He stepped in the office, then Adri touched both of ours shoulders.

"I haven't even introduced you two. Fanny Burka, Bence Hosszú," she gestured with her hand.

"Uh-oh," the guy hummed immediately.

"Yup," I nodded with a wide grin. "THAT Fanny. The maneater!" I even groaned a little to emphasize my point.

"Well, as far as I heard, that's not what you usually have on your menu."

"Tssss. That was a weak one."

"Who cares? You got it," he grinned. "If you want better, next time tell something about a furry animal. I'll have a hilarious answer to that."

"You see, Kitten," I looked at Adri while I pointed at Bence with my head. "That's why you shouldn't let, ummm... officers come anywhere near to a decent conversation."

"Oh! My! God!" he looked around. "And officer!? Where!?"

"Don't get into a verbal fight with him," Adri explained. "Even you can't win that."

"Definitely," Bence nodded "I'm highly trained. There's nothing you can tell to make me embarrassed with. I have a sister like you."

"A lesbian?"

"A smartass. But I knew you would bite."

"Bye Kitten, I'm out," I told to Adri, as I stepped out the office. "And you, sir, you'll get it for this next time."

As a sidenote, as much as many men think it's impossible to get friends with a lesbian, it's far from being impossible for them. If we assume one needs 100 points to be friends, they can get 50 easy ones by not saying, asking, or doing something utterly stupid at the first few conversations. 10 more if they can wait until the closer relationship with such things. I don't say it's a golden rule, but it works with the normal lesbians.

Then there is Bence, who stomped on these rules, then threw them out the window, and I still couldn't sweep the smile off my face as I walked to my office building. This silliness came so naturally from him, it was impossible not to find it amusing. But I was never accused of being one of the normal lesbians. Being normal is overrated anyway.

During our Friday morning coffee Bence came to the office once again, but this time it didn't seem like by a chance at all.

"Have the ladies went over the plan of assimilating Austria during the first war maneuver?"

"Nah" I poked back at him. "We are women, so we have more sophisticated weapons than the war."

"The only sophisticated weapon of yours I can think of right now is ineffective if you never use it against men."

"I don't need to use it to get the desired effect" I winked.

"Maybe, but smart leaders know the importance of the showing of force."

I was thinking of a witty comeback for a few seconds, but as I couldn't come up with something, I turned to Adri.

"I don't like this new boss of yours."

"Yup," Bence agreed. "He is such a huge asshole as I heard."

"Don't you have something to do somewhere really far away?"

"Actually, I do, but it would be hard to get on your nerves from there," he said with such a smug grin, it was impossible not to laugh at.

This quickly became our daily routine. We were having a coffee with Adri, Bence came in, we bantered for a few minutes, then everybody went to do their job. It had been like that for weeks, when once, after Bence left the office, Adri closed the door behind him and locked it.

"Whoa, should I be worried?" I asked her.

"No, but there is something I'd like to discuss with you, and I don't want anyone to interfere."

"That sounded awfully lot like a 'we need to talk'"

"It's nothing like that, I promise."

She dragged her chair out from behind her desk, sat on it and patted the one in front of her signing me to join her.

"Whoa, it looks serious" I assessed as I sat down too.

"Fanny" she looked deep into my eyes. "have you ever considered the possibility that you are flirting with Bence?"

"Hell no!" I burst out. "He's cool, but a guy. I'm not interested in guys."

"Okay, I rephrase it then. Fanny, you DO flirt with Bence."

"Shut up! You flirt with Bence."

"First, he is not my type. Second, I just had an ugly breakup, the last thing I want now is a workplace romance. Third, I become virtually invisible whenever you two are in the same room."

"What are you talking about? It's our morning ritual to meet here, and banter with each other."

"Quote the last thing I said during these banters."

"Ummm..." I searched through my memories, but I didn't find anything, and a few seconds of silence was enough for Adri to find her assumption be proven.

"See? You can't think of anything, because I provide only the background for your verbal skirmishes."

"Kitten, sorry, believe me, I really didn't want you to..."

"You misunderstood me" she smiled. "I don't mind it. You would be a great couple."

"Kitten, you know I'm a..."

"Lesbian, yes, I know. But after three years I know you well enough to see, what you have with him is more than friendly banter. And I think it's mutual."

"That's not how it works. I've never been interested in men."

"You told me you had experimented."

"Yes, two, but I didn't have the spark with either."

"Okay, look" she sighed "I really don't want to force anything on you, the last thing I want to change you, but I'm not blind. Is it really that impossible that a man can ignite those kinds of feelings in you?"

"Yes. Just as it's impossible that a woman would ignite those kinds of feelings in you. Am I right?"

She nodded.

"You are. But, you know... I've never gone as far as trying with another woman, you on the other hand..." she left the sentence open.

"That's how I can be absolutely sure, even more than you. I have experiences to compare."

She sighed.

"Okay. You undoubtedly have more experience about this than me, but I hope you won't take it as an offend I shared my insights with you."

"Of course I won't. I think we long passed the point of need to cautiously choosing our words."

One more proof about my infallibility. I was wrong, she was right, even if I hadn't the faintest idea about it at the moment. During daytime, I was occupied with work, then in the evening the talking, and movie watching until we got to the bed, but there... There I was left alone with my thoughts which is - as has been proved several times - dangerous. Damn, Bence was handsome without a doubt, even I couldn't argue that. His features were gentle only to an extent to still be manly, with some femininity in them. He was tall, with broad shoulders and his voice was a little bit raspy which has always been the only feature I was able to find actually appealing in a man. Have I been straight or bi, it's no question I would've been all over for him, but like this... It seemed so far-fetched, but in the meantime, that exactly was the case. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get rid of the bug Adri put in my ear. All night long I sleeplessly tossed and tumbled in the bed while I assessed all of our conversations. Everything I said, everything he said, and as much as I hated to come to this conclusion, I had never gone as far in the frivolous banter with any man in my life, as I did with Bence. And I actually enjoyed it even though we went so far, it would be close to sexual harassment if we said such things to anybody else. And by close to sexual harassment I meant close from the other side of the line, and by close, I meant so far from it, you would need the fucking Hubble Space Telescope if looking back you wanted to see the line. Have I had those kinds of conversations before? Of course I had. But every single one of them were girls, and sooner or later I got into some level sexual encounter with them.

I finally managed to fall asleep five in the morning so merely an hour later Adri had to literally kick me out of the bed.

I've never in my life needed that shitload of wakeup coffee as in that morning. Unfortunately Adri had to leave to the toilet, so I was left alone eyeing that delicious steaming black liquid.

"Hey!" I heard Bence from behind my back.

"Hey" I answered with a faint voice, still hypnotized by the coffee that was waiting to be drank.

"What is the matter?"

"Coffee. Adri toilet. Sleepy" I whimpered stretched out on the desk.

"Rough night?"

"I wish. I just slept awfully."

He stepped next to me, and pushed me away with my chair, then poured a cup of coffee for himself.

"Hey!"

"What is it?" he asked while he was putting sugar and milk in the cup.

"Adri isn't here yet."

"Then we'll drink one with her too. Here" he said as he sloshed a little into my cup too.

"Dickhead."

"Chuff twat."

"You are suspiciously nice this morning" I groaned still laying on the desk.

"Not without a reason."

"What? Don't tell me for once you finally took your pills."

"Not a chance. That has an awful side effect. I become mannered."

"Then what?"

"Nothing. I just thought it would be strange to ask you out after some well placed offense."

"What?" I sat up.

"You heard that right. At first, I thought it would genuinely be inconsiderate to bring the topic up, but then I realized of us two, I'm the one who has nothing to lose with a try. So I ask again, would you like to have an awful, unbearable dinner, that both of us can regret later?"

"It was Adri isn't it? She organized all this so we can stay alone, right?"

"About the first one, yes. The second is more than likely but I had no part in it. So?"

"You couldn't be serious."

"Why not? You got to admit that this" he swayed his index finger between us "went way further than what either of us normally would do with a guy."

"I don't know how could I considerately break this down to you, but you are a guy too."

"And a rather hot at that. But don't be affraid. You are not so far from looking somewhat decent either, so I'm willing to compromise."

"Asshole."

"Cunt. So? I couldn't NOT realize that you are avoiding to answer."

"You really want me to destroy your ego so much?"

"How could you? If you say no, I'll be rejected by a lesbian, if you say yes, I'll seduce a lesbian."

"What if I told you would be the last person on Earth, men included, to I'd say yes?"

"Then I would know you were lying. And you would never do that as you are way too plumed yourself on your honesty. So? What do you say? We go to a dinner, and if you enjoy it, I won't put Rohypnol in your drink at the end of the date."

"You are aware how tasteless that joke was, right?"

"I am. Also aware of I would probably be in jail already with harassment charges, if it wasn't exactly your kind of humour."

"Aren't you a little bit too pushy?"

"I don't know. Can the sky be too blue, or the ice cream too delicious? And I must say, it still wasn't an answer."

"I don't have to give one to you, because it's obvious."

"I'd still prefer to hear it."

"Why can't you let this go?"

"You have to do just one thing to make me let it go. Look at me with a straight face, and tell, 'I don't want anything from you, leave me alone, I'd never go on a date with you, you perverted disgusting savage.'"

I forced straight face on myself, and opened my mouth to repeat his words, but the stray puppy look on his face proved to be stronger than me. I unintendedly started to laugh.

"Asshole" I couldn't say anything intelligible until the laughing finally came to the end. "What the hell. Okay."

"I beg your pardon? Could you repeat it?"

"I said okay. You can take me to ONE date."

"Great" he exclaimed. "Be ready on Saturday evening, I'll send my chauffeur for you."

"What did I get myself into?" I murmured under my nose.

"You're not gonna regret it" he grinned. "And now, I have to go, because I have so much to do somewhere else you can't reach me to chicken out." He stopped in the door, and throw it to me before disappeared in a second: "And please, for once, don't dress like a hooker."

As luck would have it, like two and a half seconds later Adri arrived back from the ladies room.

"Have the coffee ritual ended already?" she asked with innocent face, but my look changed her mind about playing the oblivious. "Okay, doesn't matter. Am I was right, or am I was right?"

"I never knew you were such a manipulator."

"Cupido in uniform seems more fit to me" she said with such romantic eyes, I swear I saw her pupils form a heart shape. "And, have you decided what to wear for the date?"

"Kitten, it hasn't even been a whole minute since I agreed to it."

"Almost a minute, and you still haven't started to plan your dress, which means you are behind schedule by almost a whole minute. So, what will you wear?"

"This will be all week long until Saturday, am I right?"

Adri was nodding eagerly.

God, what did I agreed to?

It took three afternoons to find an ideal dress for me. Of course, I wasn't the picky one in this case, Adri didn't let me buy a piece she didn't find absolutely perfect. Even though she had never been that girly either, when it came to important occasions, she was pickier than a diva with an attitude. Sometimes it genuinely made me feel bad for not being as excited about the date as she was. She took her Cupido role very seriously she even held a crash-course for me about dating with men. I still felt it like a necessity I had to get over with and would end up in week-long awkward silences between Bence and me, but Adri's eagerness sometimes can be terrifyingly contagious.

By the time we got to Saturday night, I was excited too. The date with Bence sailed me to uncharted waters, and the girly dress with the stiletto Adri forced me into just took it even further. I was so not myself, that when I left my accommodation, Bence literally didn't even recognize me at first.

Then the evening couldn't even be any more clichéd, at least the programs Bence choose. A distinguished dinner in a fancy downtown restaurant, which quickly proved to be really not like us. Long silences and constant avoidance of each other's gaze made the dinner unbearably long. I won't lie, if the date had ended after the dinner, it would have been the worst date of my life and that includes the one when Zsuzsi caused the scene in the restaurant. But it didn't end there.

Leaving the unfamiliar territory immediately changed everything. Bence offered a peaceful walk to the Margit Island if we were so close to it anyway. I looked at myself and took cognizance of how awful that idea was in my state.

"Can you not see these shoes on my feet?" I showed him the expensive stilettos Adri forced me into.

"I can. So what?"

"Have you ever tried to walk kilometers in stilettos?"

"Nope. But I reckon you didn't either. That's why I wanted to walk. It wouldn't be fair if only I had to suffer this date." Well, this was much more like the Bence whom I agreed to go on a date with.

"You suffer? I went to at least thirty shops to find this dress, and you didn't speak to me a single word in the restaurant."

"Thirty shops, and you couldn't find a dress in you have boobs?"

"If someone, you should appreciate it. I bought it where you did your trousers" I pointed at his crotch.

"Sorry, he's not the type that stands up for everybody."

"If "he" doesn't stand up for me, then we might play in the same team."

"Do you really believe you are such a hot girl?"

"I'm hotter than you among the males."

"Well of us two, I was the one, who managed to take a gay to a date."

"I could if I wanted, but I'm not interested in men."

"Given your current distance, that's rather hard to believe."

That's when I realized during the argument we stepped so close into each other's personal space, we were only centimeters away.

I recoiled, which made him smile.

"Finally, the date starts to get interesting."

"Asshole" I punched his shoulder.

"Come" he grabbed my waist. "I somehow suspected we would need this."

"What?" I asked as we strolled toward his car. "What?" I asked again. "What-what-what-what" I kept repeating until we reached the car.

He opened the drunk.

"What? Here is the part with the chloroform?" I looked at him.

"No, this" he took out a pair of rather worn trainers.

"What are these?"

"Shoes. For you."

"They don't match the dress."

"Maybe, but you can walk in them."

I sighed, but accepted the offer. A drowning girl can't be picky.

"Where did you get these size of shoes anyway?"

"I stole them from my sister" he said with a grin."

"Every elder brother is an asshole?"

"Only if their sister makes them that way."

The trainers were far from being comfortable, but still several levels better than the undeniably gorgeous stilettos, that were probably developed by the Inquisition to torture the low-life women like me.

While I changed shoes, Bence got rid of his tie, jacket, and unbuttoned the top three button of his shirt. He got cool man look that way, while I looked ridiculous in the side cut out black dress and worn grey trainers.

"What made you ask me out in the end?" I asked Bence as we were strolling among the picturesque parklands of the island.

"That what is actually a who."

"Adri."

He nodded.

"Has she not said it's more for you than friendly banter, I would never commiserated you with a date."

I jolted him with my shoulder.

"Okay-okay" he continued. "You weren't exactly indifferent to me either. But that doesn't count as I imagined you naked right after we first time met. Well, and I did Adri too. And you two together. Especially that one."

"I would've been surprised if you didn't. Perverted pig."

"I dare you to say you've never thought about it."

"I have never" I stared into his eyes with resentful look forced on my face.

He grinned.

"You totally had."

"You're a pig" I jolted him again. "I'm not even surprised you fantasize about every woman naked."

"What a little coy you are. I didn't expect it after what I saw on your laptop."

"You have searched through my laptop!?" I pushed him away before I could realize he was bluffing.

"Nah" he roared with laughter "but now I'm interested what I would find on it."

"You are never gonna know."

He grabbed me by the waist again.

"You will show me that on will once. I'm dying to know what your type is."

"Is it enough if I said people without a cock?"

"Well, that could mean anybody from Cili from confidential affairs to the chief of staff."

"If it's confidential affairs, why Cili, and not Mrs. Kovács?"

"Hm... Mrs. Kovács. Interesting. Now that I think of it, if she was a few decades younger, and shaved, she would have a resemblance to my mom."

"Eck!"

"Why eck? I thought lesbians like natural hair."

"Not when it's on the face. And not every lesbian, present company included."

"Does it mean you are a baldy?"

"You never gonna learn that."

"Wanna bet?"

"Do you really want to give me even more reasons NOT to sleep with you?"

"So it passed your mind."

"Just as trying buzzcut, but common sense won that time too."

"But it passed your mind."

"You're such a typical guy."

"I can't be that typical if you decided to date with me."

"A decision I regretted a thousand times ever since. I thought a man is gallant on the first date, instead of using shady references to seduce."

"First: it has never been as clear as now, that you really have no experiences in dating men. Second: who said I want to seduce you?"

"For example, your hand, that ventured south of my waist."

"And yet I didn't get slapped for it, so don't play the coy."

"It's merely a pity gift for you. I know your filthy hands will never get to touch an ass like mine."

"You really are a true samaritan." He stopped and turned me to face him. "And how does the charity feel so far?"

"Could be worse" I pushed myself closer to him.

"From you, I take that as a compliment" he whispered in my mouth from up close.

"What are you trying to do sir" I opened my lips.

"I'm gonna kiss a lesbian."

"Really?" I poked his nose with mine. "Is she gonna let it?"

"Right now I don't care" he said as he caressed my lips with his.

"Asshole" I sighed into his mouth."

"Cunt" he said before our lips welded into one. I felt such electricity run through my body that very few women could do to me.

The world around us froze for minutes until we finally stopped to take a breath. Bence kissed my forehead, than turned me again, and we continued our walk on the pavement. We romantically strolled in quiet for a while, but it was different than the silence in the restaurant. There was nothing uneasy about it, just listened to each other's breath and the calming voices of the waking spring night. After like a hundred meters Bence broke the silence.

"Fanny?"

"Yes?"

"What do you think? Will you be able to do it? Just to know what to expect from it."

"I honestly have no idea. I was completely sure I was never gonna kiss a guy once again, and now all I can think about is when we gonna repeat it."

He smiled.

"That isn't even my strongest talent."

"Don't get so far ahead" I laughed. "We won't get there until I'll be absolutely sure about it. We'll see if it takes us there."

It took us there that night.