Having just ended a telephone call that could have been awkward but wasn’t I once again reminded me how lucky I am to have two such great boyfriends.

Two boyfriends?

Yes, I know it sounds a bit weird but it works for me AND them. It all started at the beginning of last school year. Both Taylor and David started to woo me. Taylor is big handsome athletic and ebony black. A most impressive presence. David is really Taylor’s opposite. He cute. There is no other way to describe him. He not a big bulky boy. Lithe is a better description. He a has a lovely blonde hair that he keeps quite long and has the sweetest soft features. Some think David is gay but the way he wooed be gave lie to that. I let them both take me to dates. No, not at the same time silly. That came later. I had a great time with both of them. I just couldn’t decide so I decided to keep both of them, which I told them. Both reluctantly agreed. And that started months of fierce competition between them. Not only in who could give me the best dates. At the time they really hated each other. David even said that had we lived some 200 year ago he had challenged Taylor to a duel. Things happened in school. Sabotage that they blamed each other for. For a while I had a great time but in the end the dates got so elaborate and costly that I had to stop it before they ran out of money. I decided that from then on they would both date me at the same time and all the bitching and scratching had to stop. Now they share the cost and the only competition is in how much attention they give me. A girl like me likes that. I call it triple dating.

I was a bit worried about the summer. I was going to spend the entire summer abroad and I was worried that some girl would swoop down and snatch up one of them. Just as a joke I told them they could date each other and take turns being the girl. I never thought theyd go for that but when they did I talked my big sister into helping them, and to keep an eye on them. Good thing I did since when my sister was done with them both boys were so beautiful that both of them got offers of dates from some of the most sought after boys in school. Good thing that Sis was there to put a stop to THAT silliness.

Instead Taylor got David (never Dave for some reason) to start taking ballet classes with him. Taylor had been taking ballet for years since he had found out it helped him in sports. Taylor is a good all-round athlete but especially good at baseball.

Well, other girls trying to poach Taylor or David was only one of my concerns when I was away for the summer. Betty, the head cheerleader, had it in for me. Given the least chance she’d kick me off the squad. Me not being there for summer practice could have given her the opportunity to phase in another girl. I had mentioned that to the boys and sweet considerate David had offered to stand in for me over the summer. From what Sis told me that worked out great.

When I was back again our old routine started again with both boys triple dating me. Not as much as before since things changed. Both boys spent a lot of time at their ballet classes. I was not too happy about that since there are LOTS of girls in the studio. Fortunately Alma, a friend of mine, assured me that the boys were so focused on the dancing that they didn’t look at all at the girls, only at each other to get the steps right. Well, mostly Taylor looking at David since David usually is in the first row on the floor. Alma also told me that David wears less than opaque lilac tights instead of the usual black ones. David is such a contrarian!

Well, another thing was that Taylor had got on the baseball team which meant that he had even less time for me. Dating David alone was not really the same thing as both of them at the time. And besides, there was the last thing had changed. I was the new head cheerleader! For some unknown reason Betty suddenly quit cheerleading three weeks into the semester. This was great for me as I became the new head cheerleader but also gave me a big problem. I had to find a new cheerleader at no notice at all. Fortunately my devoted David volunteered to help me out. I had no idea how much he had picked up when standing in for me during summer practice. Quitting cheerleading didn’t stop Betty from being a bitch though. She kept insinuating that she had only quit as a result of Taylor blackmailing her. Sheer nonsense of course But IF true it only shows how devoted to me Taylor is. You can tell by the look he gets when I and the other cheerleaders come on the field in our short skirts.

Talking about short skirts, David really has awesome legs that the short cheerleader skirt sets off beautifully. Those legs are getting really well-tuned from ballet and cheerleading. David has started to wear really short shorts to school to school as well. Had he been a girl I’d have called them Daisy Dukes. One day he even wore cheeky shorts but he was sent to the principal and had to go home and change. David is a bit of a contrarian so ever after that he only wears the cheerleader skirt to school, even on days when there is no game. The principal nearly blew his top but since David is a cheerleader it’s allowed! I was worried that bullies would hassle David but Taylor has been acting sort of a bodyguard, always being with David on breaks etc. even when we all are not together. The big black boy can be rather intimidating when he wants to.

The boys have become real ballet afficionados. They even have started to take me to ballet performances. I’ll tell you a secret. I don’t see the point of ballet. BOOOORING!

Which brings me to the call I have just ended. The boys had somehow got tickets to a ballet in the city with some world-famous dancer performing. Apparently those tickets were next to impossible get and ridiculously expensive. Even so I just couldn't face another boring evening so I decided to come up with an excuse and tell them I couldn’t come. I expected them to be devastated but when I called them they were sooo nice and sweet and understanding. Boys less in love with me could have reacted in a bad way. However, I was a bit surprised when I first called Taylor and it was David that answered Taylor’s phone. They had told me they were busy studying tonight. However, that was easily explained, they helped each other with their homework. How sweet. Even if rivals of my attention they still make sure that they help each other so the can spend more time with me! And they were so anxious to reassure me that they fully understood that I couldn’t come to the performance and they hid their disappointment so well. In their eagerness to make sure that they had no hard feelings they even said they’d go without me. I was so touched that they were so eager to reassure me that I almost missed something that Taylor said in the background. Or perhaps he didn’t say it to me. Something about getting David the tattoo he’d been talking about when they’d be in the city. A queen of spades tattoo. What is that?