A quick double rap sounded upon the door of Jenny's apartment.
"Can you get that, my hands are full?" Jenny cried from the kitchen. Carla quirked an eyebrow in Michelle's direction and took another sip of her chardonnay. Michelle put her drink down but she'd not risen an inch from her seat when the door simply popped open. Upon seeing Carla and Michelle, the honey blond screamed and bounced into the apartment like a glitter bomb explosion waiting to happen.
"I did it! I did it! I did it!" Bree squealed on a crescendo. "I got the part!"
Jenny dropped her kitchen prep. Both she and Carla raced to Bree, threw themselves into a group hug and happy dance bounced.
Michelle was slower to join. Something tightened low in her torso and she wasn't certain if the fizzing sensation meant her panties were going to melt or if she was going to puke. How could that be possible? The sensations weren't even vaguely similar. Yet, Michelle had been anticipating slash dreading this moment for months. No, not for Bree to get a part as a professional performer at a quality porn production studio, but for she, Michelle, to take her turn, at taking
The Dare.
How
The Dare
had turned into 'making your besties into a slut' was beyond Michelle.
Actually, it wasn't. It was her own drunken, effed up idea that had sent Carla to the stripper pole as a means to pay her college tuition a few years back. Carla no longer needed the money but still freelanced a few evening as month at clubs around town.
Too prude never spread her legs Jenny had lost her virginity on a first date—at Michelle's suggestion. Anymore, she put out on every date unless it was a breakup date. Even then, she sometimes put out before she broke up. It'd been Bree that had turned what had once been a little 'girl's night' harassment into
The Dare
. Bree'd even agreed to take the next one, so long as Michelle
swore
on her shoe collection that she would follow suit. Bree had met the stipulations of the dare months ago—engage in online porn with one or more
other
performers. Bree had, once upon a Tinkerbell, wanted to be an actor after all. But now that Bree was a professional, it seemed unfathomable girl's night would commence until Michelle had been issued
The Dare
—which, at this point, was more like,
The Ultimatum
.
Michelle did envy her friends' new found body confidence, sexual confidence and all around general confidence. But what was left?
Whore
? Because no. No.
Nope.
Michelle was not doing that. At twenty four, Michelle'd just started her career and she wasn't giving it up, or putting it on pause, or moonlighting in order to fuck for money.
Wait.
No!
The was effed up. Career or no, Michelle was not going to fuck for money—dare be damned. Not that there was anything wrong with fucking for money. It was just that she, Michelle, was not going to be doing it.
Yup, that fizz in her core, was not her panties melting. She was definitely going to sick up.
"Oh,
Michelle
." Bree spoke Michelle's name with a singsong note.
Michelle plunked her glass on the counter and ran for the bathroom. One of the others, Jenny maybe, swept aside Michelle's hair just before she heaved. A few,
ew gross
, minutes passed while Michelle evacuated her stomach.
"You know," Carla said, a gentle tone in her voice, "you don't have to do it."
"Yes she does." Bree might've been a glitter bomb but she had a hard ass basalt streak. Which was why they all loved her. She was happy. And joyful. And didn't let anyone, even a big ass football linebacker sausage wielder, stomp on her. "She
agreed!
"
Carla said, "We all kinda wanted this, Bree. Michelle doesn't."
"Wanted this. Wanted
this
! We can't even cum unless we keep doing our thing," Bree screamed.
Jenny butted in. "But we cum so easily—and so unbelievably
hard
. I had no idea orgasms could be like this. Like, every time."
Carla ignored Jenny's comment and jabbed a finger in Bree's sternum. "
That
was my mistake. And
you
don't get to complain! Because
I
warned you. Both of you.
Repeatedly.
I told you to find your confidence some other way!"
"
Arrrg
!" Bree growled in a high pitched squeal. "Why do I have to be bi? Why are my friends
so, so hot
?" She shimmied in the doorway and sank into half squat. If Michelle hadn't known better, she'd've guessed that Bree had clenched so hard she'd nearly orgasmed. "You're good people. One of my safe places—
shit!
" Perhaps Michelle didn't know better because Bree ripped open her button fly and shoved her fingers into the pink lace covering her sex.
"
Bree
, don't do that!" Jenny banged her head against the bathroom door like she was trying to un-see her friend. "Friggin' a,
Bree
! I don't want to be bi." Jenny shouldered her way out of the bathroom. "But now I need to cum. Give me a minute." Jenny hurried down the hall and slammed her bedroom door behind her.
A tortured expression flit across Bree's face. She shimmy walked, both hands in her panties far enough down the hall she was no longer in the doorway. There was a thunk and a sliding sound. Michelle imagined Bree propped against the wall, legs scissored across the floor.
A second later a moan filtered down the hall. Bree's strained, rubber band voice chased the sound. "Oh
God
." Michelle swore she heard an actual squelch. Bree whined. She did not miss the look on Carla's face or how her shaking fingers pressed into the seam of her skinny jeans. Michelle clenched so hard her knees knocked.
Bree's voice again. "Is Michelle done ralphing?" Her words quaked. "I kinda need to—I kinda want to—" Bree's voice steadied. "I'd like to clean up."
Carla looked to Michelle. Carla looked strained. "You good?"
Michelle swished a shot of Jenny's mouthwash and nodded. They exited the tiny bathroom. Michelle whispered to Carla, "What's going on?" She was feeling rather bewildered.
Carla ignored Michelle's question. Using the wall for support, Bree was struggling back to her feet. He legs were still shaking. Bree's jeans weren't soaked though, yet. But the same couldn't be said for the gusset of her panties.
Carla stopped beside the shell shocked woman. "Why did you have to go saying it out loud? Now we're all thinking 'safe people, safe place.' Now we'll never be able to meet up in private without a little stress relief." Carla was usually the soft, loving, supportive kind but at the moment she looked like she had a migraine.
"I'm sorry."
She was. Bree did not often look crestfallen but right now she looked like somone had crapped on her Prada collection.
Carla rested a gentle hand on Bree's quaking shoulder. "That's okay. It was going to happen. I just hope—well, it doesn't matter what I hoped." The woman hugged. Bree smelled so strongly of sex Michelle could detect her scent ten feet away. Bree walked bowl legged unto the bathroom. Carla led Michelle to the kitchen.
"Carla?" Michelle asked. She shot her BFF a WTF look.
Carla got Michelle to sit on one the barstools by the counter and pulled Jenny's laptop towards them. She gave Michelle a sideways grin. "You started
The Dare
. Sorta. Technically it was Bree. But you got the ball rolling. Not intentionally, I don't think. But you did."
"Yeah. I know. I was thinking about it when..." Michelle shrugged.
Carla gifted Michelle a knowing smile. "What you don't know is that I couldn't do it. I couldn't strip. Not even for an audience of one. Not until I found this." She flipped up the laptop screen and typed in the password to the lock screen. The girls all knew each other's passwords. She opened Google and typed in a web address.
Train Your Clit. Let Your Clit Train You.
Michelle looked at Carla alarmed but the warm, La Croix fizzle in her core was not of the sick-up variety this time.
"Um, what is this?" Michelle asked. She tapped a short, blunted, neutral colored nail against the screen.
Carla inflated her chest with a heavy sigh. She wasn't wearing a padded bra because it was clear that her peaks had become peaked. Carla pulled at her pants, but whether she was trying to move the seam of her pants directly over, or away from, her crease was difficult to tell.
"It's orgasm denial—until you've done what you've agreed to do."
"Um. Okay. But I can go a year, even two, without an orgasm. So can you." Michelle pulled up a barstool to the counter. She squirmed in her seat. It felt like all her organs had turned into something liquid—and very, very hot. She might be able to go a year without an orgasm but she rather wanted one right now.
"Not anymore," Carla said.
Bree joined them. "That's just it. The whole thing with the training is to get you to a place where you
need
to have orgasms and then not get them, unless you behave."
"You mean you have to do a video for every orgasm" Michelle didn't believe it. "
No way
."
A pink tide burnt up Bree's cheeks. She ducked her head, brushed a lock out of her eyes and smiled sheepishly at Michelle. "I get about a week of orgasms for every full frontal nude pic I poste on the web."
"And I can go about three weeks before I need to dance at a club. Four, if I'm willing to edge."
Jenny returned from her bedroom. Michelle noticed she had on a different pair of jeans. She went around the other side of the counter to finish prepping their snack plate. Michelle tried to steal an apple slice and got smacked for it.
"And I can go forever," Jenny said. "So long as I don't date." Michelle knew that was pretty much impossibility. Jenny had been a serial dater before