The Misunderstanding

It was a misunderstanding. Becky thought it was her fiancé, Mark, who put his arms round her from behind at a party and began to fondle her. It wasn’t, and Mark saw what was happening, and that was the end of their relationship, despite her honest, heartbroken protests that she really had believed he was the one behind her.

Becky headed for London to stay for a few days with her father, discovering too late to save her relationship with Mark that she was pregnant. An offer to share a house with a gay man felt safe and very welcome, and they quickly became close friends, but Becky was somewhat taken aback when it turned into an offer of marriage – a marriage of convenience to improve his promotion chances at work and to give Becky’s baby a father. They quickly became very good friends, but when they made the unexpected discovery that he was bisexual rather than gay, it all became really complicated…