”Bummer for me, right? Well we saw each other often over the next three years and of course, I had the urge to ask him again but I never brought it ...p.Then last year Roy was wearing a sleeveless t-shirt one day and I could see his nipple and it was pierced. I said, “So your nipples are pierced?”‘Yea,” he said as he lifted his shirt, pulled on one of the rings. “Go ahead,” he laughed, “it doesn’t hurt.”So I pulled and played with his nipple rings. And Roy didn’t stop me for a good fifteen. ’ he shrugged, ‘You think of everything,’ she said sarcastically. ‘Go home.’ ‘Yeah, you know where I am if you want more.’ ‘Thanks, Jamal. I’ll come see you later.’ She watched the big black man leave her flat. He was the apartment building’s custodian, and handled most of the repairs on the block. He lived in a bottom floor apartment in the building as part of his employment agreement. He’d been fucking her ever since she moved in, and he wasn’t the only one. Fiona was cock crazy. She had to. Not because of the name – it's a headland, named after a Lieutenant Ball, who captained one of the ships in the First Fleet. And not even rude thoughts about whoever had decided some place names shouldn't get an apostrophe. Rude thoughts based on memories. This had been our place – Skye's and mine – over twenty years earlier. We were young, both still at university. I was living at home with my strict, religious parents; she was sharing a flat with an endless stream of others. So, to get some. Charlotte looked at me as though seeing me for the first time. "You're bi? AJ never said. I thought you were being a really cool straight mate." He doesn't know. I couldn't tell him while he was single. He..." I know. Wanna get that taxi?"I was surprised, but I wasn't gonna look a gift horse in the mouth. I had no idea what had changed. If she was bi or straight, then why wasn't I her type? If she was a lesbian, then my sexuality made no difference either. I was still puzzled when the taxi.