Girl Male Talk - a flash fiction story about new millennium relationships by Rob Hopcott

"Go on then, Maddy, what's he like, you know, in bed?"

Veronica leaned forward over the Space Agency Tennis Club ladies' changing room wash basin and gazed intently at the reflection of her face in the mirror. She wore a blue tracksuit that matched her questioning eyes, long fair hair and a bead of perspiration on her upper lip from the game of ladies singles she and her friend had been playing. Currently without a man in her life and starved for kicks, she was determined to get her thrills vicariously.

Maddy primped her short brown hair and looked modest but also proud. She knew that her current male was the envy of all her girlfriends. A high flier exchange pilot from the new squadron at the Space Agency, he had the sleek looks and high income universally admired in her post university, upwardly mobile, female circles.

"Awe shucks, leave it out Veronica, you don't expect me to tell you that? Its private."

Maddy had dark brown eyes, a foxy face and a figure that was as delicate as a figurine. She could have been a ballet dancer and had even considered going to dancing school when she was a teenager at the turn of the third millennium but instead had gone into speech therapy. It was through her work as a speech therapist that she had met her current beau, initially as her client and then, rumor had it, as her lover.

"Go on, Maddy, spill the beans. You know you want to. Give me detail and, if you've got one, I want to see the video."

Maddy pulled a pair of amber tracksuit bottoms over her short tennis skirt and examined her eyes in the mirror, a smile playing on her rouged lips.

"He's very strong," she said. "When he holds you close, you know you are not going anywhere else. And he talks all the time. He says the most wonderful things. It's a real turn on! "

Veronica gave a squeal of joy and wrapped her arms around her friend, giving her a big hug. She leaned back and gazed into Maddy's eyes.

"You are doing good gal, now tell me more!" Her face, already flushed from playing tennis, beamed with expectation, excitement and anticipation."

Maddy disengaged herself from her friend, leaned down and picked up her tennis bag, smiling modestly.

"But, before I do, I want to know why you have such an interest in my male. You're not thinking of trying to take him away from me are you?"

Veronica turned to look out of the window, across the tennis courts which were busy with players. Her mood had changed and now she was more defensive and thoughtful.

"No, of course not, but he has a friend from the same squadron who has emailed me and wants a date. My job in admin doesn't usually bring me into contact with the astronauts. It's a new experience and I just felt a bit nervous."

Maddy looped her arm over Veronica shoulders and gazed gently into her friends eyes.

"Treat it like any other date," Maddy said, seriously. "If you enjoy being with him, if you find you have things in common then let your relationship progress just as normal. But give yourself time to get used to him. Above all, don't go to bed with him on the first date."

"Why not, if I really like him," said Veronica.

"Because you won't want to go out with an ordinary man again. He'll ruin you for normal relationships."

"I don't understand?"said Veronica.

Maggie gazed cautiously into her friend's eyes and spoke slowly.

"This is so secret, it's almost classified."

"Tell me, tell me! Stop teasing me."

"Okay, males from his planet have two arms, a head, four legs and are about the same height as our terrestrial human beings, although a bit hairier. Even the children that are born from inter-terrestrial relationships are healthy and happy. But one thing is different. When they make love, that important little thing that gives us woman so much pleasure vibrates as they talk. This means that the love making experience is completely and totally out of this world."

"I don't understand why you think this is a problem," said Veronica.

"Quite simply, the experience is so fantastic that you will never ever want to go with an ordinary human man again," said Maddy.

As they left the tennis club, Veronica turned to Maddy.

"But doesn't that mean that, as more of their species come to live on Earth, ordinary male human beings will lose out?"

Maddy turned to her friend with sadness in her eyes.

"Yes, completely, as soon as this gets out, sooner or later, ordinary human males will become totally redundant."

The End

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