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Little Tessa Juliet Stewart, who to this day doesn’t understand why I said Ihadan Eiffel Tower in France during my study abroad semester and not that Isawthe Eiffel Tower, was going to participate in a sex study? That little Tessa Stewart who never in her wildest dreams imagined a man fucking her from behind while she sucked another guy’s cock,thatlittle Tessa Stewart was going to participate in a study where she was going to have sex with three guys?
I was stunned.
I was jealous.
I was hurt.
Because in her quest to shake things up... Be wild for once… Do the unexpected…
Tessa was willing to ask a virtual stranger, a man-bun wearing yoga instructor, to be one of her three lovers for the sex study.
But she wasn’t willing to ask me.
Chapter 4
Tessa
My big new start on life began the next afternoon with a shot of vodka from a brown paper bag in the alley behind the gym. I needed all the courage I could get if I was going to ask Cade to be part of my foursome.
The slightest buzz tingled at my forehead as I finished the little plastic bottle and entered the gym with my shoulders pulled back, my chin held high, my steps confident and bold. I handed Gym Membership Norse Viking God the $15.50 Ellis had Venmo’d me for a day pass then marched past the row of ellipticals, where the Old Tessa would have watched Cade’s class behind the safety of one of the machines. Instead, I walked into the yoga studio.
Then immediately wanted to turn around.
People were milling about, waiting for the class to begin. Most were chatting with each other, or stretching, or plopping their yoga mats down in the back, but a small group of women were vying to set up their mat front and center. I picked a spot in the back row, then saw through the open doorway that Cade was standing just outside the door, talking to someone. I took a quick moment to text Ellis, mostly so I’d have something to do but also because he was my best friend and we texted all the time.
TESSA:What are you doing?I texted Ellis.
ELLIS:On set butI have a few minutes.
TESSA:Thanks again for loaning me the money to do yoga today. I'll pay you back in a few days.
AndIwould.Ihad a plan, one I was sticking to. I’d even taken a major hit to my pride to make sure I couldn’t change my mind.
I’d called my parents. Asked them for a short-term loan to get me through the next month. In exchange, I’d agreed that if I hadn’t gotten on my feet by the end of the month, either by landing an acting job or earning enough money (they assumed I meant through my temp job, not the sex study I was pursuing) to get into a new place, which meant I had enough money to pay first and last month’s rent, and a security deposit, I’d move home.
The sex study was my only hope financially. But even more than that, going through with it would prove to me I could be brave, brave enough to be New Tessa. To have the life I wanted. To seriously pursue a career as an actress. If it didn't happen,I’d see it for the sign it was, and leave L.A. As much as I'd miss Ellis, as much asIdidn't want to move back in with my parents in myhometown up north,Ihad to be realistic.Icouldn't keep scraping by or borrowing money from Ellis. That wasn't thelifeIwanted or the personIwanted to be. So major changes were coming.Ijust didn't know if those changes would include simultaneous sex with three guys, or a bus ticket home.
ELLIS:It's no problem, Tess. But are you seriously going to ask a dude with a man-bun to group-bang you?
I glanced at Cade, who was still talking to a pretty woman. She had her hand on his arm and seemed to be giggling at something Cade said. Jealousy spiked and insecurity crashed in and suddenly I wondered what the heck had I been thinking?
TESSA:How do I even go about asking him?
ELLIS:…
TESSA:Well?
ELLIS:You’re seriously asking me for advice on this?
TESSA: Why not? You’re to blame after all, since you texted me the link.
ELLIS:I didn’t text it to you. It was a mistake!
TESSA:Well, damage was done. As for advice, you obviously know how to get sexual results. What with all the sexting and everything. Right?
ELLIS:…I guess
TESSA:So?
