Coalescence - SF3 by Susan X Meagher Read Free Book Online Page A

have just kept on doing what we were doing."
    "She wasn’t able to, huh?" Jamie knew that she wouldn’t be able to share someone she loved with another.
    "No, she wasn’t," Mia said. "It just got to be too hard, so we finally had to stop seeing each other completely. The guys were kinda pissed off, because we had all gotten along so well. I honestly think that’s one of the reasons Mark broke up with me. I think he liked hanging out with Trey as much as he did with me."
    "Maybe Mark and Trey…" Jamie began to suggest with a little eyebrow wiggle.
    Mia tossed her head back and laughed. "Now that, I would pay to see!"
    "I just bet you would," Jamie muttered as the server came by to ask if they wanted anything to drink. Mia was flirting outrageously with the twenty something man and Jamie sat back to watch a master at work. She decided that her friend possessed the perfect blend of openness and playfulness needed to flirt successfully. Mia didn’t seem overly aggressive, and her cherubic face made her appear more innocent than she was. She gave the accurate impression that she was funny, witty, open-minded and very interested.
    By the time the server, Chad, left, Mia had received an invitation to attend a jazz concert on the Santa Monica pier on Thursday night. "You are really good at that," Jamie mused, as she watched her friend put Chad’s phone number into her bag.
    "It’s a gift," Mia agreed, tossing her curls in the breeze.
    "I take it you and Jason aren’t exclusive any longer?"
    "Mmm, we’re taking it a lot more casually now," Mia admitted. "I’ve seen him about three times since I got here. I think he’s trying to make me miss him by playing hard to get."
    "Oh yeah, that’ll work!" Jamie laughed.
    "He obviously doesn’t know who he’s dealing with," Mia agreed with a sympathetic smile. "I invented hard to get."
    Getting back to their earlier discussion, Jamie asked, "You said earlier that you had promised you wouldn’t tell. Did you promise Melissa?"
    "Yeah, but I figure it’s safe to tell you now since you’re a member of the same club. I mean, I always knew I could trust you, James, but now I think you have a better sense of why she wouldn’t want this to get out."
    "Yeah," she laughed wryly. "I’m certainly not ready to shout it from the rooftops. Just a stage in front of thousands of people," she added, shivering with the memory. "So…back to your story. Once you got it out of your system, you’ve stayed with men exclusively, right?"
    "Nope. Not exactly," Mia said with a smirk.
    "Give!" Jamie ordered.
    "Okay, okay, jeez, you’re so pushy!" Mia laughed. "I had sex with a woman at Cal."
    "When…with who?" Jamie persisted, unwilling to forego any of the details.
    "Freshman year," she said quickly. "Remember Dave, that guy from Oregon that I dated for a while?"
    "Yeah, vaguely. You didn’t see him for very long did you?"
    "No, thanks to him, I didn’t," she admitted. "He wanted to do a three way with another girl. I didn’t really object, so he sets it up with this woman he knew. We all get together and have a pretty hot time. Problem is, he thinks I like it too much, which I did, as a matter of fact. The woman and I really went at it, and he got all pissed. He thought we would just both do him and be happy, but we spent most of our time on each other. He actually had the nerve to call me a lesbian, and say he didn’t want to see me anymore because he didn’t want to date a dyke! The nerve!"
    "God, Mia!" Jamie said, wide eyed. "What haven’t you done?"
    "Besides barnyard animals and children, not much," she admitted. "I figure you’re only young once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
    "Is that it?" Jamie asked.
    "No…I had one more little dip in the lesbian pool…last week.
    A bunch of us from work went out to this club, and it turns out it’s mostly lesbian. We were all drinking and dancing and having a good time, and this fine-looking redhead asked me to dance. We had a really