Hey folks! This chapter concludes this part of Beth's story - I hope you've enjoyed it. I've got some ideas for what Beth might get up to next, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please leave a comment with anything you'd like to see next. :)
After that second video, me and Jamie had a very long talk. I think we both needed to clear the air and make some decisions. The day after the video went live she asked me to go out for drinks to celebrate, and we did. Between the wine, my feeling of confidence and the fact that donations for that video had reached two hundred and twenty dollars after less than twenty-four hours I definitely felt on top of the world. Jamie ordered us our second glass and then settled down and told me we needed to have a serious talk. I said alright and braced myself a little.
"First off, I think you should know something about me, which is that I'm poly." I nodded, not really understanding what it meant. Okay -- of course I knew what the word polyamorous meant -- but it's not like I understood what being polyamorous meant. Where I grew up being poly was what a girl called themselves when they wanted to pretend they weren't a slut. Hardly what I thought Jamie meant.
"I'm poly, and as you've probably figured out I don't really have a problem with casual sex with my friends." she grinned. "Buuut I feel like we need to clarify where we are." I swallowed.
"I'm not gay." I said automatically.
"'Kay'. Jamie said. "You sure do kiss like you're gay though." I blushed and took another sip of wine.
"I hope I haven't done anything wrong, Jamie."
No hun, you haven't. I'll admit I'm... maybe a little taken with you, though." Time stood still for a second.
Jamie
was taken with
me
?
"I'm not sure what to say." I said, eventually.
"That's okay, you don't need to say anything. Just needed you to know, so, you know... I just don't like lying, hun. Not to you, not to anyone." For a little while neither of us spoke. "Okay, well -- that's out of the way, I have a second thing I wanted to talk about. How do you feel about becoming partners?"
"I thought-"
"Other kind of partner, hun."
"Oh. Wait, what?" Jamie chuckled, pulled out a packet of gum from her handbag, opened the wrapper and tossed the contents into her empty glass and wrote something down on the wrapper. She slid it over to me. On it, she'd scribbled:
'JAMIE AND BETH'S SLUTTY ADVENTURES'
I stared at her and suddenly became aware we were in public. I scrunched the wrapper up.
"Are you kidding?" Jamie shook her head and looked serious.
"No. Did you know I got fifteen new subscribers since you did your first video? The preview showed up on some other sites and it drew in lots more people. Traffic is up and so are subscribers. That's over a hundred dollars a month more than I had before, plus the three hundred extra in donations that went straight to you. Hun -- your milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. We could make bank together." I kept staring.
I thought about it.