In her bedroom

The three students sit on Tanya's floor. They're all very awkward and quiet until Kyle breaks the silence, "so, studying, yeah? The three of us don't actually have any classes that overlap."

Maggie laughs, "yeah, I thought of that, too, but that's okay. I'm freaked out by that conversation with our parents."

"A sex cult! We're not in a sex cult!" Tanya blurts while staring right at Kyle. He blushes. "Not the three of us and definitely not Maggie and me."

"Uh, yeah, where did that idea even come from?" Kyle asks feeling incredibly awkward by Tanya's statement.

"My mom said she always thought Maggie was in a sex cult and that she'd enlisted us into the sex cult and, I don't know, I guess my mom sounded super convincing because I believed her at first but then I talked to Maggie this morning on text..." Tanya feels Maggie reach out and squeeze her hand "...and Maggie explained we're definitely not in a sex cult." Tanya, felt bad about lying to Kyle but was also surprised by how easy it was. Maybe it was because of her crush on Maggie. She wanted to make them both happy.

She notices Kyle looking down at Maggie's hand squeezing her hand. He raises and eyebrow and looks at Maggie. "So Maggie said you aren't in a sex cult...."

Tanya reaches out and grabs Kyle's hand with her other hand and blurts out "wait, I have something to say to both of you..." she interrupts because she isn't sure she can keep Maggie's secret from Kyle if he keeps probing. "I..." she looks over her shoulder at the wide-open door to her bedroom. She doesn't want her parents to hear but she also can't keep it a secret any longer.

In an excited but hushed voice, she blurts "I like both of you!"

Maggie grins slightly. She wasn't 100 percent convinced the command worked yesterday. She replies nonchalantly "Oh, that's cool, T. We like you, too."

Kyle is dumbfounded.

"N-no, you don't understand," she whispers squeezing their hands tighter. "I, uh, it's hard to put into words but I feel this warm fuzzy feeling when I think about the two of you. I LIKE like you. Ugh. This is coming out all wrong and I'm so confused but it's an intense liking. Uh, uh crush. There. I said it. I'm crushing so hard."

She starts to pull her hands away from the two friends but they grip her tightly. Kyle grips especially tight and loudly declares "I've had a crush on you my whole life!"

Maggie shoots a glare at him and whispers. "Not so loud! We're supposed to be studying." She turns back to Tanya with a warmer and softer smile, "but, yeah, what he said. I mean, not my whole life, but you're definitely the first girl I had a real crush on. You're the one who made me realize I was gay. When did you realize?"

"It was last night. After all of that stuff yesterday that I texted you about this morning I went to bed and as soon as my head hit the pillow I just had a revelation."

Maggie was a little disappointed. She had secretly hoped Tanya had been hiding a long-simmering crush for her and the bullying was just a response to being angry at herself for liking girls.

"Wait," Kyle says, "what stuff yesterday?"

The events of the previous day spill out of Tanya's mouth before Maggie can hush her. She admits to coming home feeling a little sick, masturbating in front of her brother, him coming on her chest, her mom finding the garbage bag, her mom than catching her masturbating at the kitchen table, her mom going down the sex cult conspiracy path, and then going to bed.

"You..." Kyle, feeling both jealous of Tanya's brother and protective of his brainwashable crush, looks like he's going to cry "you let Drew cum on your tits?"

Tanya nods and smiles, "of course, as long as we weren't touching it was totally okay and not weird at all. Families do that stuff all the time, don't they?"

"Pull yourself together," Maggie tells Kyle. "Tanya just admitted she has crushes on both of us. That's more important." She looks intensely at her friend. "We'll deal with the Drew stuff later, okay? He probably doesn't know about her...um...situation, so we have the power."

"My situation and you have power? You both talk so funny around me sometimes."

Maggie thinks fast, "it's because we've both liked you for such a long time that we developed a coded language so you wouldn't know. But now we all know we like each other, so we'll try to talk normally." She cringes at her thin excuse.

Tanya squeezes their hands again. She wishes they could all make out but with the door open that isn't going to happen. Besides, who would she kiss first? She was into Maggie and Kyle equally. Oh my gosh, she suddenly feels anxious. How would they even date? "Uh, so, if I have a crush on both of you and you have crushes on me, should we, um, maybe go on a date? Like together or, gosh, how does that even work?"

Kyle looks at Maggie. Maggie sort of shrugs. They hadn't thought this far ahead. Maggie wasn't really interested in Kyle more than a friend and, of course, was pretty sure she wasn't bi. Kyle, on the other hand, would be happy to date Tanya solo but had to admit he wouldn't be against all three of them being together. He'd thought about it often.