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Murphy and Daging everyone I realized that our little group had grown rather large and loud

I searched the spacious lounge, thinking that Jaroup, but I saw no sign of him

I did spot Melissa across the roo by the bar with Captain Peter She earing a skin-tight red dress, staring at our group sullenly I wondered, a little cattily, why she insisted on wearing colors that clashed with her hair I mentally chastised myself She was an unpleasant person, but that was no excuse for sinking to her level

I gave her a little hen our eyesto at least be polite since she was a member of our crew for at least another month She just nodded back, then looked away At least she hadn’t flipped roup as ere joined by two more

It was Judith and Marnie They’d been on our crew a few irls Judith had long black hair, and Marnie was a platinuures and cute faces They sort of rehty pixies at the moment

I remembered that they often introduced theina They rarely went back to their roo men with each other They were a funny pair, but not for the faint of heart Stephan and I had been at Judith’s twenty-first birthday party about two o It had been crazy She’d ed two of them to her hotel room

Marnie was a year older than Judith, just twenty-two I was older than both girls, but the two of theht any woinity intact was a prude I didn’t iine they even had a word for soe twenty-three, like I had

Judith squealed in delight when she saw ed ?" she nearly shouted

I hugged her back stiffly, wishing she hadn’t spoken so loudly "Good How are you?"

She cast a sidelong glance in Damien’s direction

"How much you wanna bet I’ll wake up in Daood Marnie hooked up with hiuy I hooked up as a real disappointht?"

Her words surprised a laugh out of me I hadn’t known about the hook-up between Marnie and Damien, but I wasn’t surprised

"TMI, Judith," I told her with a smile "I have to ith him every week"

Marnie had sidled up next to us, squeezing between us to hugtheod, if any man can handle tomen at once, it’s him He’s a marathon man"

Judith wrinkled her nose at Marnie "I never get the really good ones to myself She alants a piece"

I didn’t even try to hide , but her tone was ht aveeyes I was sure he orried what they were telling me about him I just smirked at him He covered his face with his hands, and I swore I could hear his pained groan I didn’t feel real bad for hiirls by the end of the night

"I heard a rumor that you lost your V-card Finally And to sorimaced The rumor mill was alive and well, and apparently held some truth "Yes Please don’t say it so loud"

I was still in They had guessed it, strangely enough, considering I kne people who knew less about being virgins the soirls had started in on their favorite sex stories They’d asked uessed, with no little disgust, that I was a virgin I had to give the to find men to relieve me of the ‘probleain boyfriend at the tih, knowing she was a little oblivious to other people’s feelings when it caratulations Was he any good? So ones are horrible in bed

It’s that whole, I’m so hot I don’t even have to try, mentality Yanno?" Judith elbowed Marnie playfully in the ribs while she spoke

I just shookabout that I couldn’t iine there was a man on the planet as better in bed I didn’t particularly want to share that inforood? Your first tiood?" Marnie pried

I nodded, very unco was so not for me

"On a scale of one to ten, as he?"

I sighed They were not gonna let up "Hoould, ‘I want hiht’, rate on that scale?"

The wohter died as they looked up and to my left