Straight Talks No.02: An Indecent Proposal

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Originally posted [and untranslated] in http://littlepinoy.multiply.com/journal/item/160/

"Tan, let's hire a [female] prostitute for you," a male friend of mine told me out of the blue. He was formerly my officemate in the company that I'm currently in. [I knew him to be straight though, and I think he still is. He's the typical chickboy.]

"What the?!" was my immediate response to his shocking proposal. "Me?! Hook up on a [female] prostitute? Are you sure [with what you're proposing?! What is going on with your mind, [name withheld]?"

He laughed. He was like a naughty toodler trying to convince his friends to cut classes.

"Come on! You're a waste! You're handsome and macho... They're all just going to be wasted," he said as an attempt to give in.

"Shut up!" was my retort with laughter.

"Come on," he tried to convince me again.

I was really wondering why he was forcing that issue on me when in fact he knew about my sexual preference. For some reason, he has the ability to discount that fact and still pretend he didn't know that "certain fact" about me.

"Well, maybe you can just be the one to hire the [female] prostitute? Then, you'll be the one to do it with her. I'll just be watching the two of you," I told him as a joke.

He laughed hard. Probably shocked at what I had counterproposed, he said "Noooo! You do it! You're going to be a waste if you don't hook up on female."

"Shut up! We'll be struck with lightning!" I exclaimed. We were passing by Cebu's Cathedral, an old church.

"Come on," he attempted to convince me again.

"Go on, ride a jeepney now because I have to go somewhere," I told him, hinting to him that we have to part ways already.

"You'll think about it, okay? I will ask you again," he said as I left him in the jeepney stop.

I smiled.

I never talked to him about it ever again.

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