Felix & Bill
“We’ve been together for so long now (well,’ so long in gay years’ … eight, to be exact…) that all our friends refer to us like it’s one word: Felixandbill.
I was invited to attend a Summer barbecue given by some friends – I didn’t really want to go. It was a SUPER hot, humid day and air-conditioning seemed like a better idea, but I went. As I stood in the kitchen prepping ingredients for salsa, i looked up to see two men walk in and I immediately made eye-contact with the younger of the two. I thought “Hmmm… some New York snob and his boy-toy” and continued chopping cilantro.
As the night wore on, I soon found out that they merely arrived at the same time and the ‘boy-toy’ was not only the same age as myself but lived in an apartment in my town on the same street! We talked for hours that night and kept ‘accidentally/not accidentally’ running into one another in town until one afternoon he showed up on my front porch with a bottle of wine and a grin from ear to ear. “Are we ever going to have a date?” he asked, ‘How’s now work for you?” was my reply.
Eight years, one cat and one large mortgage later, here we are. The New York snob? We never even got his name…”
How You First Met 