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Summary: When Jake and Alyssa meet, it's an instant love connection. She's amazing in every respect and everything seems perfectly idyllic. Her friends, who keep finding ways to get her out of her clothes, may start to drive a wedge between them. A trip to the bar with her new friends leads to another night of questionable choices.
The Dancer's Deceit Chapter 2 -- The Rotten Egg
Friday night was an amazing date night. She finished her classes by 2:00PM, and her dance workshop by 4:15. She showered, dressed extra sexy, and we had a wonderful evening together. She was chattier than usual, joking and making me laugh, affectionate, and seemed to always want to be touching me.
I was having a difficult time getting out of my own head. The night before, she had gone to a small party at her friend's dorm room and, through a series of events that included a failed attempt to shotgun a beer and a resultant beer-soaked outfit, a dice game with dubious rules, and an overserving of vodka, Alyssa had ended up completely naked in front of five guys. All the while, I'd been working on a huge paper for my master's degree, watching a near-constant stream of photos coming into her laptop from her phone, documenting the gradual shedding of her clothing. I was really trying to be supportive and not jealous or controlling. I wasn't thrilled that she'd gotten naked with her guy friends, but nothing had really happened, I did trust her, and she was acting very loving.
I chalked my anxieties up to my own insecurities, and pushed any negative thoughts from my mind, almost like a walking, talking meditation exercise. If my brain started to head down a darker path, I would distract myself with positive conversation. When I began obsessing about her flashing her boobs during the dice game, I would start a conversation about her second semester showcase. If I jealously recalled her standing naked in order to put on her bra, I complimented her hair, her humor, or her mood. I was able to stay in the present, and throughout the course of the evening I felt more and more confident that I had nothing to worry about.
We had gotten together near the end of the prior school year when she was working on her end of semester showcase, and I was working backstage, programming and running the lighting board and special effects for the performers. One afternoon we sat down on the stage together to map out all of the different lighting queues she wanted, and the fog machines timing and density, and before either of us knew it the security team was kicking us out and locking up the building, and we only had half of her performance mapped out. We had talked for over five hours, neither of us aware of the passing of so much time. We went to dinner together and had been an official couple ever since.
We'd both grown comfortable over our nearly eight months together using the "L" word with one another, but Friday she kept pausing our conversation to look into my eyes and say things like, "Do you actually know how much I love you?" or "God, I'm so lucky to have you. I love you so much." I think all of my positive, loving talk was having an effect.
It was over dinner that I scared myself. I was fixating on an image, one of the pictures I'd seen, of her from behind, bottomless, with her pelvis tilted slightly so that her gently parted lips were visible from between her clearly spread legs. At the time I was certain that her body position was proof that she knew just what she was showing them. Scrambling wildly in my brain for something to say to distract myself, I blurted out "When we get married, where do you think you'd want to live?"
We hadn't discussed how serious or casual our relationship was. Ever. It was mentioned in passing once, within the first month, that we were both in college and didn't want anything too serious. I heard the words come out of my mouth, and I froze, terrified that she was going to get up and walk away from me. "When we get married?" Who says that?
She looked shocked for a moment, then tears sprang to her eyes. "You think about that? About being married to me?"
I decided I needed to lean into it. The damage was done, so if she was going to dump me, I might as well roll the dice. "Well, sure. I love you. I've never been happier than I am when I'm with you. I'm not saying I want to go pick out a ring and book a band tonight, but, yeah. Is that okay?"
She was over the moon. The "I love you's" and the "I'm so incredibly lucky's" came faster and with more intensity. Back at her dorm room, she was even more cuddly and affectionate, even getting misty eyes. Not in a highly sexual, "let's get naked and you get right up there inside me" way, but in a very cute, warm, loving way. Don't misunderstand: the sex was amazing, every bit as erotic, but more tender than the night before. I was a little impressed with myself that I could perform again after the thorough draining she'd given me.
Saturday, while we were still in bed wondering if we should go have breakfast or wait 20 minutes and have lunch, she got a text. Pat, Steve, and the rest of the guys were going to the bar that night, and she and I were both invited. She seemed eager, so we both accepted and confirmed the time and location.
Now motivated, we got out of bed, dressed, and went down to the school dining hall. She decided to wait for a turkey on wheat, but my hunger pushed me in the direction of the leftover breakfast foods, and I grabbed the last egg sandwich on English muffin and was almost completely done eating before she got to the table.
Justin, Terry and Zach were included in the group text, along with Pat's roommate, Alex. All of the guys except for Alex had been with Alyssa when she'd gotten naked. I was struggling again to keep it all in the proper perspective, but it was made more difficult when Pat texted "Wear something sexy for us!" with a laughing emoji.
She looked nervous, laughing it off as a joke, so I shrugged and told her that she could wear whatever she wanted, that it wasn't my decision, and that I thought she looked sexy in anything. It felt kind of awkward to me. She was noncommittal, decided to deflect with humor, and sent back the skull emoji to suggest that she'd laughed so hard that she'd died.
I left her to go to my own dorm, shower, and dress. Because of campus logistics and the location of the bar, she insisted that I just meet her there, since it would add almost half a mile to my walk to come and get her. She texted me a quick selfie in her full-length mirror to ask my opinion on her outfit. She was wearing a bright, multi-colored, mid-calf length handkerchief-style dress with her orange cotton tights and chunky heeled black boots. She had a complementing pashmina around her neck, and had her long hair tied back in a flirty, cute, high ponytail.
"You look adorable," I complimented.
"Thank you! I decided against sexy. They shouldn't think they have that kind of control over me!"
"You've failed miserably. You're the sexiest thing I've ever seen," I replied sincerely, earning several heart emojis.
"Last one there is a rotten egg!" she texted back. It was one of her jokes. A cute throwback to childhood, she would tag me and then take off at a run, or goad me, as tonight, to get me to hurry.
I arrived just before 9:00 PM, which was the planned time. It took a few minutes to find them at a booth in the back -- I was the last one to arrive. They wereat a table for six, but Alyssa had squeezed in on the end, and they were managing. With nowhere to sit, I stood behind her. Very soon, we all hit the dance floor, the guys had a few beers and Alyssa finished her vodka and water, and then ordered a plain seltzer water for her second drink.
I was having fun getting to know the guys. Alex was a real comedian and had us all laughing the whole time. There were long stretches of time that I didn't even think about the fact that all but one of the guys at the table had seen my girlfriend naked, and a quick hug or brushing of my hand across her cheek seemed to do the job of pacifying any negative feelings.
I'd had my misgivings about Pat, to be honest. I'd met him and Steve a few times before, but briefly and very casually. I'd heard a lot about him, of course, and knew that they were good friends. They had a couple of business classes together, and Alyssa had been teamed with Pat on a group project the prior semester, and during that process they had found they all enjoyed one another's company, which Alyssa assured me was purely platonic. After hearing about Pat's take-charge role in her stripping, I wasn't sure how I felt about him, but he was charming and respectful of everyone in the group, and I found it difficult to hold a grudge. I could see why she was friends with him.
After about an hour, I started to not feel great. At first, I thought that the beer wasn't agreeing with me, and I ordered a vodka and water. Just before 11:00 I went to the bathroom, and realized it was something worse. Hoping that it had passed, I tried to go back into the table, but by 11:15 I was pushing people out of my way to get back to the toilet. The leftover egg sandwich had been a bad choice, and it seemed like I had food poisoning.
Alyssa wanted to come back to my dorm with me to take care of me. I had thrown up twice already, and I could tell it would soon move south and back. I think she caught on to what I meant, and I made her promise not to come over, even after she got home. "I really don't want you to see me like that," I repeated.