M Is for Mandi

And he turned, and he was off.

I just stood there for a moment, elation had turned to deflation. I'd interested him, hell I'd aroused him, and he'd seemed so nice. But he was gone. I looked towards the closing door he'd just gone through, and noticed Jessica moving towards me.

"Shit, Mandi. I heard James's phone. That is so unlucky, he really did have the hots for you." She put an arm round my shoulder to console me. "Hey, you got his card."

"Yes" was all I could say.

It bore a hastily written, rather untidy but legible, mobile telephone number. Not a land-line, so I couldn't work out from the code where he lived, not even the town. Understandable though, he'd not want me ringing home, maybe his wife would have answered. If he had one, that is. I turned it over and looked. 'St Mary's Hospital'. Hell - was James a doctor?

"You're a lucky girl, James is a regular here, he has to stay very discrete indeed, you'll understand. Gorgeous and clever and rich, the ideal T-girl's date. He doesn't hand his cards out lightly. Come on, let me buy you a drink. I'm on my own, Stephanie's pulled and I don't know where she is."

I sat for a few minutes at the bar with Jessica, she filled me in on what went on there in the club and on the tranny scene in general, telling me about some of the gurls and the sort of things they got up to. OK so most of the ones who went to that bar were just after sex, with guys or other trannies. But not all, some just went because it was a safe-ish place to sit dressed en-femme and have a few drinks and a natter with friends, and show off to each other and to the other clientele at the same time. I asked her about the men hanging around, at the bar and some of them in those darker areas round the edges of the club.

"A mixture, Mandi dear. See that young man at the end of the bar, he's waiting for Jennie. She's a tranny, comes in regularly, he met her last week and then chickened out. Apparently he rang her the other night and she said she'd meet him again. Nice guy. Unlike those two over there, just behind that spotlight. Couple of perverts, just come in to ogle the gurls and wank each other."