“This is insane!” I whisper. “Are you sure we’re not going to be killed here?”
Gina laughs. “Would I put your life in danger, silly? Come on. This is going to be fun. Loosen up and maybe you can find a man to loosen you up!”
Yeah, if that man happens to be Ethan.
I don’t know if it’s the strange night that I’m having or what, but that thought actually does make me doubt myself for a moment. Am I really still pining over a crush I had six-years ago who I haven’t seen since? I mean, he was just my tutor; it’s not like I was old enough to go on a date with him or anything. I doubt he would even remember me if he saw me.
Maybe Gina is right. Maybe I should find myself a man tonight and be more like her. She’s had all-expense-paid trips to Dubai, meals at all the best restaurants, been spoiled with clothes and purses and heels, and even had a professional NBA player propose to her. And she seems like she’s a lot happier than I am, slaving away at a law office in a career I don’t even want to pursue, for a creepy boss who wants to get in my pants.
Maybe tonight could be a turning point for me.
We reach a massive expanse of stone that could be considered the back “patio,” where a quiet dance is going on. More men in expensive suits and women in gorgeous gowns, all masked, spinning in silence to a string quartet playing beside a gazebo lit with Christmas lights.
My heart is racing.
Are these the people Gina’s been talking about? Celebrities? Politicians? Could there be an actor in there I might know? A politician?
What am I doing here!?
“Stop freaking out,” Gina says. She can always tell when I am. “No one knows you here. Just relax and have fun.”
“Easy for you to say…”
We approach the door to the house, and Gina pulls me aside. “I have to warn you, there’s a little something I didn’t warn you about inside.”
“What!?” I snap. “Gina, come on. Seriously? I’m already freaking out. What is it?”
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bsp; “This isn’t exactly just a party,” she smiles.
“Okay…so what is it?”
She nods to another man in a tuxedo who pulls open the massive door to the house, and what I see inside almost knocks me over.
“It’s an orgy.”
Yup. It sure is.
As Gina pulls me inside, my senses go into overload.
Bodies. Naked, masked bodies everywhere. Gently scented candles flicker everywhere, bathing the debauchery in a warm glow. To a virgin like me, the sight of so many people having such casual sex is overwhelming.
In the corner, a woman rides a man’s face while he sits in a chair and another woman is down on her knees, doing something to him through a hole in her mask. Two women lick each other on a table in the center of the room, and around them watching are a host of men, completely nude, stroking their hard cocks while smoking cigars.
Wow. I don’t even know what to do with myself. Why didn’t she tell me this was what was going on here!?
“Gina!” I hiss, clinging to her as I realize we’re the only ones wearing clothing. “Are you insane!? What have you gotten me into!?”
I’m actually angry. Had I known this is what the party was going to be, there would have been no way I would have come. But Gina just looks amused. In fact, her eyes are sparkling as she looks from me to the girls on the table and back again.
“Don’t worry. You don’t have to participate.”
“Oh, and you might?”
She shrugs. “Depends on who I meet.”
With that, she peels my hand off her arm and starts walking away from me. I hurry after her into a lounge with a bar. Behind it, two completely naked women in white masks serve drinks to an assortment of people. Who does that? Who does this?