Luckily, he was. I dialed his number. The phone rang for awhile. Then it was picked up."May I help you?" a cultured female voice asked."Yes, this is J...m Thompson. I'm one of Charlie's clients and an old friend. I really need to speak with him, if that's possible? Oh yes, tell him he's on the clock as of this minute." Just a moment," the voice returned. Shortly, Charlie came on the line."Jim, what's up that you had to call me today? Are the police there?" No, Charlie, the police aren't here yet.. Leslie had broken up from her last romance about a year and a half after we got to know each other. After a couple of years of us being just friends, things changed.Understand, when you were in bed, Leslie would tell me about her preference, and I was full of questions about what happens between two women and a multitude of questions about such relationships. So, I was well informed, and my feelings for Leslie had been building.But it took time. Until one afternoon, it happened. You were at. I was immune to that stuff now. More proof of how boring being a vampire could be. I couldn't even get high.There was a bar and I knew immediately it was gay, a lesbian bar. I could close my eyes and smell those girls, smell their ripe cunts through the door every time it opened. I could hear the desperate voices in their heads, like a flock of birds fighting over scraps of dead meat. I walked across the street, giggling as a car almost hit me, would have hit me if I weren't so quick, so agile.. Why are we taking the tube if we ain’t goin swimmin’?’ ‘Aren’t,’ Mom corrects automatically. Dad is morose and mom is trying to be light and gay. Ernie is griping to himself and Lee reaches to the tiny device beneath her bra and turns everyone off, peering soundlessly out the window. If she wishes to ‘hear’ one of us she will turn toward us and read our lips. Jeff is of course reading, this time an Azimov ‘robot story’. Unloading all the gear is accomplished laboriously but quickly and, as if.