Bob and Diane had been best friends for as long as they could remember. They went to the same schools together, lived on the same street, and even played at the same playground. In fact, they even played the same games! Diane never was one for playing jacks or skipping rope, so more often than not you would catch her in a baseball game, or passing a football on a team with Bob.
As kids, Bob never gave Diane’s tomboyishness a second thought. But, as they grew into their teens, he came to find it to be a quality in her that he relished. Secretly, he had a crush on Diane that just wouldn’t be sated. When it came to asking her out on a date, however, he just couldn’t do it. It would be like dating one of the guys. Still, he always had a soft spot in his heart for her.
One moonlit, cloudless night, shortly after they had both graduated from High School, Bob lay in his bed. It was shortly after midnight. His mind drifted to pleasing, relaxing thoughts. Those thoughts were mostly of Diane. He liked the way she looked, not all femme, just natural. He thought of her short black hair, and her small breasts. He realised that in all the years he had known her, he had never seen her in a dress, except for First Holy Communion at church, and confirmation. You know, he thought, that was what he really liked about her. She was just one of the boys. And he couldn’t, in fact wouldn’t, change that for all the money in the world. Hmmm, he thought, the more the merrier. He had an idea.
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