This is the third part in a series, so if you have not already done so, you might want to read Part I and Part II before continuing.
Knowing my girls have the social media campaign handled, I need to do damage control with Jake.
“Have you been on Instagram lately?” I ask as soon as I see him. No point in beating around the bush.
“Yeah,” he laughs. “I saw this hilarious video of a guy trying to go over a fence, but he loses his balance just when he has one leg on each side of the fence…” He trails off, laughing as he starts tapping on his phone screen to bring it up.
“I’ll watch it later. Is that all?”
He stops and gets that look on his face like this is a pop quiz and he should know the answer. “I mean, it’s probably not the only video I watched, but it’s the only one I can think of right now. Do you want to see my view history?”
He starts tapping on his screen some more, but I put my hand over the screen and push it gently down. “No. I’m not trying to trap you. It’s just that someone is saying some really mean things about me and I wanted to know if you’d seen it yet.” I pout and bat my eyes like I’m trying not to cry.
I know it’s working when Jake puts an arm around my shoulders and pulls me to him. “Hey, what’s wrong?”
“You remember how you wanted to go to Homecoming with Addie?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, now she’s saying you wanted to have sex with her and not with me. She says I’m not hot.” I say the last five words in a whine, like it’s the meanest thing anyone has ever said about me. Come to think of it, it probably is.
“Babe, you’re the hottest. You know that.” He puts a hand on my thigh as though to prove his point, but I’m pretty sure he’s just using it as an excuse to touch my thigh. I mentally shrug it off since it’s moving in the direction I want to move in with Jake anyway.
“You did want to have sex with her, though.”
“I want to have sex with you and her,” he says.
“Even though she’s being so mean to me?” I know Addie being mean doesn’t actually make her less sexy, but I need to plant the idea in Jake’s mind that being attracted to her is to betray me.
He sighs heavily as he weighs the pros and cons of answering truthfully vs telling me what he knows I want to hear. “I guess that would make things kinda awkward in the bedroom.”
I snort. “Ya think?”
He rubs my back. “We can have a threesome with someone else.”
This is not the answer I was looking for. Suddenly Addie’s words come back to me: “Jessica Fields can’t even get a boy to fuck her without dangling another girl in front of him.”
At the time I had thought it was just normal Instagram vitriol.
Now I’m not so sure…
To be continued…