“I have a confession to make,” she said.
“Oh? What?” I asked her “Are you married?”
“Not that I remember” she replied “and I would hope if I were, I wouldn’t
be standing in a bus shelter kissing another man”
It was Boxing Day and we were on our way to the “Grapes”, and the reason we
were on our way there was because they showed live football in the bar and
United were playing Liverpool.
I was a Man Utd fan, from a long line of United fans and it was an
important match, well to be honest it was always an important match when we
played Liverpool, but this one was more important than normal.
I thought about it for a moment and she could have been married for all I
knew, I hadn’t known her long and we’d only had our first proper date on Christmas
Eve, so there was a lot I didn’t know about her.
Her name was Billi Ridgway and she was new to the village, her family had moved into the house
next door to my parents, two weeks before Christmas from somewhere in Cheshire.
I liked the look of her from the first minute and asked her out, but it
took me almost 2 weeks before I wore her down and she said yes.
It was kind of an instant attraction thing, certainly for me, and since the
first attraction had gradually deepened, I was now head over heels in love with
her.
But on Boxing Day we were on our way to the pub to watch the match when we
stopped for an intimate interlude in the bus shelter.
“What then?” I asked
“I’ve been dreading saying this” she said, and I was really worried and wasn’t
sure I wanted to know, but Billi took a deep breath and I braced myself
“I’m a Liverpool supporter” she said and closed her eyes and grimaced, but
it took a moment for the full implications of her statement to sink in.
“I think I would have preferred it if you were married” I said, so she
moved close into me and asked
“Do you mean you would prefer a married woman to be in love with you rather
than a Liverpool supporter?”
“She loved me” I said to myself and I wasn’t sure if that shocked me more
than the fact, she supported Liverpool.
“I'm sorry,” she said “Not much of a Christmas present for my new boyfriend
I’m afraid”
But she couldn't have been more wrong, it was the perfect Christmas
present, Billi Ridgeway loved me.
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