"They won't do it." Carmen looked up from her hands. "I mean, it's just not going to happen. They've known each other for years. They're friends, and ..." She flapped her hands in her lap so that her fingers tapped against her bare thighs.
"Well, they'd better," Georgia sounded nervous. "I mean, look at the two of us." She traced down from where her breasts almost escaped the dark bustier. Beyond the waist-cinching corset onto the smooth skin between the brief panties and stocking tops. "It's not like we get dressed up like this every day."
"Well, we did once," Carmen giggled. "Remember the Winter pub crawl in our second year?"
"Anything done in University automatically doesn't count," Georgia wagged her finger in Carmen's direction. "That's a universal law. It doesn't matter what you smoked or how many tables you danced on in your underwear while you were raising money for winter relief."
The two women fidgeted with their suspender belts and the places where the bustier pinched their skin. Finally, they resorted to twiddling their fingers while they both kept their eyes on their laps.
"We both still look pretty good," Carmen said when she looked up again. "You've got great legs."
"Thanks," Georgia said. "You look pretty hot too. Your shoulders are very tempting." Georgia pointed to the place where her slender neck met her shoulder. "You know for a bit of teeth work."
"I get goosebumps when that happens," Carmen smiled. "All the way down to my legs."
"I'm a bit of a bitey person when things get ..." she waved her hand to indicate the start of something. "You know. It's just something I do when I get turned on."
"Oh, I can't concentrate on anything when I'm completely turned on. I go limp." Carmen shrugged, making her boobs rise further up in the tight-fitting corset. She glanced down at the movement. "Oops, almost in nipple territory." She tugged around the edges of the ornate underwear to bring it back into position.
"You should leave it. Jason gets all gooey when he sees nipples."
"Gooey?" Carmen asked.
Georgia emulated her shrug and the following boob fix-up. "You know. Show him the nipples, and he no longer has a mind of his own."
"I think Vincent prefers my ass to my tits," Carmen said. "At least that's where his hands seem to have a default setting."
"Jason's pretty equal opportunity when it comes to body parts. Anyway, it's pretty difficult to defend anywhere once he starts to grope." Georgia's cheeks blushed. "I guess he's going to have to give some other body parts a go tonight."
"I'm telling you, they won't go through with it. That's one of the reasons I made it a condition for us to...." Carmen waved her hand through the space between them. "You know. I don't think there's a snowball's chance in Hell that those two will seriously do it."
"Oh," Georgia sighed.
"What is it?" Carmen asked.
"Well, I thought you might be a little interested in the two of us." Georgia didn't make eye contact with her friend. "I mean we did more than just dance on the Winter pub crawl."
"We kissed because people put more money in the buckets if we did," Carmen said slowly.
"You fondled my boobs too."
"I did not!" It was Carmen's turn to blush.
"Groped both at the same time," Georgia said with a definite nod.
The two looked back at their hands in their laps until Georgia spoke again.
"I thought you might like to have another go," she said.
"Did you like it?" Carmen still couldn't make eye contact.
"Well, I thought I did at the time, but if you don't want to."
"No. No. It wasn't that I didn't like it," Carmen said. "I enjoyed that you ground your ass against me while I did it."
"You do remember!" Georgia pointed a triumphant finger at her friend.
"Yeah, but I'm not a lesbian. I like the guys. You know when I see a hot guy like your Jason and, well, you know."
"Or your Vincent," Georgia added.
"Yeah, he's a cutie. There are girls I find attractive, obviously," Carmen said after a pause.
"Nicole," Georgia drew out every syllable.
"Oh! My! God!" Carmen shrieked. "That girl just had everything going on! Everything just moved perfectly. Watching her walk into a lecture was like watching a porn movie."
Georgia nodded enthusiastically. "I have no idea how she got everything to move that way. And her lips!"
"Witchcraft, pure and simple," Carmen said. "That's the only possible explanation."
"So I wasn't the only one who got hot down under when she walked by?" Georgia asked.
Carmen threw up her hands. "Okay! You've got me. I've been hiding my true lesbian tendencies all these years."
The two women broke into a long burst of laughter that left them both breathless. When they recovered, Carmen looked up at her friend. "Have you ever been with a girl?" she asked.
"What happens in University stays in University. I thought we'd already established that."
"Have you told Jason?"
"God, no. He'd drop into a lust coma at the thought of me and a hot girl. Like you," Georgia added after a pause.
"Now you're trying flattery. Is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?" Carmen looked everywhere but at Georgia's face.
"I think it's been tropical in here for a little while. What about you? Have you ever?"
"A female cousin who slept over." Carmen held up her hands at Georgia's open-mouthed stare. "It was nearly over before I even realised what was happening. And having your first orgasm is kind of distracting."
"So," Georgia said archly. "The truth is now coming out. You gave your cherry to another woman."