As soon as they were back in their dorm room, Nancy and Maura went to work. They took the mattresses off the bed and turned over the frames. Sure enough, there were the same holes drilled into the frames. They broke out the nuts and bolts and moved the bed frames so they could bolt them together again and form one big bed. Then they put the mattresses back on the double frame next to each other. They also added an additional purchase from the summer, queen size sheets to cover both mattresses at the same time.
The meal plan did not start until the first day of classes. For dinner that night, the girls ordered a pizza and sat around talking about their classes. They specifically stayed away from talking about Maria. Finally, Nancy's phone rang with a call from Maria. She answered it and put it on speaker.
"Maria you're on speaker."
"Hey, Nancy. Hey Maura. So glad to be back. Say, can I come down to say hi?"
"Yeah, sure. We're just hanging out."
It was a few minutes later when Maria knocked on the door and entered the room. When she came in, she closed the door. The first thing Nancy and Maura noticed was she still had her long hair. They had agreed that there was too much hair to shove under a wig and so if Maria had her long hair, she probably was not Alexis Vegas. Either way, there still were questions about the plotline in that little series of films that had to be discussed.
The other thing they noticed was that Maria was carrying what looked like a Styrofoam head. She placed it down on one of the desks and said, "We need to talk."
"Yes, I believe we do." said Nancy in a stern voice. Maria became anxious. She had known that her actions could be risking her friendship with Nancy and Maura, although she hoped if she could explain, they might understand and not be angry with her.
"I take it you've seen the movies?"
"Which movies Maria?"
"The movies we worked on over the summer. The ones with Mia, Jessi and Alexis."
"We?"
"Well, that was the project I was working on this summer that I told you about."
"You certainly did not tell us everything. The story lines seemed very familiar."
"Yes, well...I..."
"Maria, that was us, wasn't it? Do you have any idea what a shock it was to see our private lives on a screen in a porno movie?"
Nancy was laying it on thick. Maria was so worried and so anxious that she just focused on Nancy's interrogation. Had she looked over at Maura, she would have seen that she was not able to keep a straight face.
While they didn't know all the details, they knew Maria had talked to someone about their story and that was the basis for those movies. Far from being angry, they thought it was really hot. But they agreed they would give her some grief the first time they saw her, just to mess with her a little. Good natured fun between friends.
"Alright, let me be completely honest with you." She reached her hands behind her head and after a little bit of time, she lifted her hair off her head. The long hair was a wig and below it was the new short cut style of Alexis Vegas.
"So, you are Alexis Vegas!" Nancy shouted it at Maria as if it were an accusation.
"Alexis Vegas is a persona, a stage name. I am Maria Ruiz. And back in January I showed up at this campus and I was away from my friends and loved ones. I had no support system. I did not know anyone. I was worried that I did not have the intelligence to be successful at schoolwork and I had a roommate that hated my very existence.
"And then I was blessed to meet two extraordinary people who welcomed me, helped me, supported me. Me, Maria Ruiz. And we really connected and we made something special. And I hope I didn't ruin it because these two people are so important to me, Maria Ruiz. So, I am hoping that we can pick up from where we left things before the summer. What do you think?"
They were silent for about ten seconds for effect. Maura was the first to give in and said, "I think I'm gonna have sex with a porn star."
"We've already had sex with a porn star, we just didn't know it." added Nancy.
Maria's eyes lit up and she got a huge grin on her face and asked, "So you aren't mad at me?"
"More like turned on." Maura replied.
"YES!" Maria yelled. She took two steps and dove onto the bed, spreading her arms out and knocking Nancy and Maura backwards as she tried to hug them both at the same time.
They sat up on the bed together and Maria said, "I knew you would probably see the movies and I didn't know how you take them. The first episode was out a month ago. I kept waiting for you call and yell at me or something."
"Well, we were in my parents' house for a lot of the summer so there was a much more chaste existence."
Nancy snorted at that. Maria looked at Nancy and asked, "Is there a story behind that?"
"Yes, but yours first. How did our love story become your porn movie."
"Well, at the beginning of last semester, I hadn't wanted to talk to Krissy and Dawn about how I was doing here..."
"Who?" asked Nancy.
"My friends Krissy and Dawn. Oh yeah, Mia and Jessi. That's their professional names, like mine is Alexis."
"Wait, you're friends with those two?" Maura interjected with a look of astonishment on her face.
"Of course. I mean, we met during that first movie I did with them. And trust me, doing a porn movie is not as sexy as it looks. You have multiple takes, you have to freeze where you are while they move cameras, there are all these other people around and a director telling you want to do. But we hung out afterwards and just really had a chemistry right from the start. That's partly why they keep putting us together. It definitely helps the movie if there is some kind of connection between the cast because you are working in surprisingly difficult circumstances.
"Anyway, if I had told them how bad things were those first few weeks, they would have tried to convince me to just quit school and go back to LA and do more movies. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the movies, but I want to do other things as well. Then after you two got me straightened out, I was able to talk to them. And we talked a lot about the two of you. I told them how you fell in love and how Nancy saved you from that whackjob and how you watched Krissy and Dawn's movies to get ideas for sex."
"Oh, that is so embarrassing." moaned Nancy.
"No Nancy, they loved it. They loved your story and they were kind of honored and a little proud of themselves about it actually. They pushed me to mentioned it when we went in to shoot next and it took off from there."
"How does it end?" asked Nancy.
"We don't know yet. We only finished the first five episodes, the rest will have to wait until Winter break. There are other people writing the scripts, but I have to go over them and I get some say as to how they go. I also got to help with some sets and costumes. I really was working on all aspects of the production."
"We did notice your name as a producer in the credits. Well, Alexis' name." Maura added.
"So, what's the story with Krissy and Dawn?" asked Nancy.
"We met that first day of filming and we just really had fun and hit it off. Krissy has a husband and Dawn has a female partner now, but she is extremely bisexual. I'm the only one who doesn't like guys at all but they always find some girl time for the three of us. They're a blast and I love it when I get to hang around with them. The sex is great, but when I told you about the friends I had and how we had sex like it's just another thing that we do. I was talking about Krissy and Dawn."
"You told us that, but you didn't tell us that it was Mia and Jessi you were doing it with. Did they ever come into your mind when you were with us?" Nancy's voice had lost a little bit of the light and breezy tone the conversation had since Maria joined them on the bed.
"I am not going to lie to you, yes. In fact, I think the fact that you two are a blonde and a redhead made things easier for me when we first met. But please understand, we (and Maria did the circle thing that Maura had done a few months previously. This made all three of them laugh and eased the tension a bit) have our own thing. You were not replacements for them or fill-ins for them. You are my friends as much as they are. And our relationship is a little different because I think the three of us connect on a slightly deeper level than I do with those two. It's not that they aren't very special to me; they are. But so are you two. I meant for these movies to be an homage to you in a way, to your relationship and now our relationship. That's how I was hoping you would take it."
Maura said, "No. I just thought it was hot. And the fact that it was kinda about me, that was even hotter." Nancy and Maria each punched an arm.
Nancy looked back at Maria. "I do have one other question though, what about the hair?"
"Well, you two brought out a little dominant streak in me. By the way, Krissy and Dawn wanted me to specifically thank you for that. But the film company decided they wanted to work with it. They wanted to give me a different look from what I'd been doing so far. Harder action with me taking the lead. At first, they wanted me to keep the long hair and do this dominatrix kind of thing, but I thought that was a bit too much. So, we went with the really short cut to change my look. Less sweet and innocent and more edgy."
