Queens of Love

**Chapter 4: Jon**

Compared to before my encounter with Lara, my life had become considerably better. Despite not being with Lara, I was having fun with Mia. Enough that I could close my eyes at night and sleep without wondering what could've been and accepting my new fling with Mia. Mia comes over every so often, usually with a bottle of some liquor we drink while watching some scary movie and falling asleep after great sex. I still go to the girl's house as often as I used to. Interactions with Lara had returned to normal, though we never spoke about the night we took off our clothes and I ran away. But coming to the house starts to instinctually make my dick hurt since Mia loves grabbing it while nobody's looking. Meanwhile the girls have been at their best recently. Reaction times and teamwork was in a good groove and everyone seemed happy.

"Gather up everybody" I called everyone downstairs to the sitting area of the girl's gaming house. A projector was showing our schedule from my laptop. "As you all know, we made top rank last season ladies so that means we're invited to join the October Invitational in Los Angeles!" The girls cheered and reached over to hug each other and give high fives. "So I'm going to need you guys to clear your schedules for October, I know that won't be a problem Kim." Kim, who was sitting next to me gave me a hard kick on my thigh which made the other girls laugh. "You guys are really at your best right now, I'm pretty impressed." To which the girls exchanged glances and started applauding.

We talked about strategies and esoterica about the game until it was about lunch time. As the girls got up to cook together Mia came over and sat next to me resting her head on my shoulder. "Hey coach-ie"

I smiled, "Hey random girl." She giggled and slid a hand from my thigh down to between my legs. I looked towards the kitchen, "You like keeping me hard don't you" I whispered.

"Just when I'm around coach-ie" she said as she moved her hand around just faint enough for me to barely feel.

I loved the attention, but I was still technically her boss and also the one who she would complain to if this type of behavior happened to her. I stood up and covered my crotch with my laptop which made Mia laugh. I rubbed her shoulder and walked with her to the kitchen to join the girls. Kim or 'Kimmie' as we usually called her was chopping vegetables for a vegan meal Justine was making for everyone. Justine had short straight hair that framed around her face with soft eyes that always looked like they were about to cry. She had a slim figure, more so than the rest of the girls probably due to being naturally petite and a vegan. She was always filming herself for her vlog or for any of her social media sites. Naomi was always on her phone and generally quiet. She seemed to prefer intimate interactions rather than group settings and was normally seen around Kimmie. Naomi and Kimmie both immigrated to the U.S. on visas from South Korea just to play here with us. Lara was picking out music for everyone and Mia left me to go dance next to Lara. Everyone was happy. I couldn't help but wonder how everyone would take it if they knew what I'd done with two of the girls. Our team would definitely disband if the public found out.

October was rapidly approaching. I had a lot of work to do. Scheduling a ride to Los Angeles wasn't far but with five capricious girls in tow I planned to over-plan. I mapped out restaurants, booked a hotel and created an itinerary for interviews and pregame matches with enough time to meet at the 7pm call time.

The morning of, every girl had a coffee in hand and either looked eager to get going or bothered by how early we were up. The girls each had a keyboard, mouse and favorite gaming headset and luggage full of clothes they loaded into the van. I rode up front with Charlie, an older gentleman with charm who I often paid to drive us to games and handle our luggage.

Kim and Mia were in the seats behind me so I couldn't help but listen in on them. Kimmie was very coquettish. She had short hair that often fell over her eyes and she liked to flick it behind her with a cute turn of her head. She had a taste for the expensive and always dressed well no matter the occasion. Every once in awhile she'd give me a glance and scrunch her face at me. Mia brought her ear in and whispered something to Kimmie. They both giggled at me which made me feel nervous. I didn't want Mia sharing our sexy secret to anyone else.

"You want to take a photo or what?" Kimmie teased as the girls both laughed. I started smiling but as I looked beyond them Lara was looking at us and turned away to look out the window showing the earphones in her ears. She seemed lost in thought. I only wished I could freeze her in time, go up to her and give her a kiss and she'd wake up with me in a bed and a house we both owned.

We finally reached Los Angeles around 10am. We ate a proper breakfast at a diner and I went over our itinerary again. We got back in the van and headed to the convention center. Excitement was starting to build as more and more signs started appearing the closer we got to the location. There were signs showing the teams appearing in the tournament. Every single team was full of men until the Queens of Love showed up and all the girls pointed and cheered. This was their first major game that would not only be streamed globally but televised. The Queens have been to a few games with a crowd of roughly 200 people but this was going to be their first game to a crowd of 8,000 due to their exponential growth over the past year. The girls got even more excited when they saw a line of fans started forming along the railings to the entrance for the players. The girls leaned out the window yelling and waving, but only a few people seemed to respond.

"Hey do they not know who we are?!"

"Hey boobs inside the van at all times, ladies!" Charlie shouted from the driver's seat.

One girl screamed at the van which made the team yell back and wave excitedly. After pulling up to the entrance, the ladies got out like a volcano of excitement with their bags of gaming gear. I left Charlie to take their bags of clothing to their hotel rooms as we were met by an assistant who ushered us into the center.

"Hey let me see your credentials kid." I said to the assistant. He looked worried and quickly pulled off his tag for me. "Uh gosh kid, I was just joking." He looked at his ID nodded and walked faster with us. As we were walking there were people rushing around with clipboards or paper cups of coffee. We were taken behind the main stage which was a massive wall of LED screens connected by cables forming large pythons running under curtains and around corners. Before we got to our green room he showed us inside a room and we got to see the production crew sitting in front of huge monitors with hundreds of smaller screens inside. Some had live feeds of empty gaming chairs, some were on standby and some showed the audience slowly filtering into their seats. Mia started hitting me as she and the girls started chatting to each other excitedly. We moved on to a small conference room with the words, 'Queens of Love' printed on a paper and hung on the door. This was also huge for the girls who normally had to share a single green room with 15 other sweaty men with nothing but loose Doritos and energy drinks to share among all of them. After everybody was done posing for pictures next to the door we went in our to a row of six computers up against a wall. There was a mini fridge with more energy drinks and a salad.

"Whoa they got me a salad! How did they know!?" said Justine surprised. "It looks pretty shit but at least they tried!"

"I made a few calls" I said looking at my watch. I wanted to get a few pregames in before our call time but the girls were already starting to leave again, "Hey wait don't you guys want to warm up?"

"As if, big guy. I want to see the stage" Mia said nudging my arm.

"I want to flash the audience!" Lara joked. Everyone laughed and left me to be alone with Naomi who was watching me while eating potato chips. I took an energy drink and walked out alone.