Watching a movie? Nah.

"Let's turn on some TV!" She laughed at Lucas's obvious surprise. "Sorry for leading you on, I just couldn't help it. Still, you said you liked casual nudity, which I assume means in contexts that aren't necessarily sexual. I figured we could do something fun and relaxing with my tits out."

Lucas was still trying to figure this thing out. He had thought that she might be kind of like a love **** or sex toy, but that's obviously not what was happening here. It was still good old Jessica, just as funny and sarcastic and smart as ever. She had figured out what he meant, and she seemed like she really just wanted to hang out naked with him.

She guessed what he was thinking. "Oh, you thought I'd just wanna hop into bed with you right away, huh? Here's the thing - I would, if I could tell that's what you want. It's not, so it's not what I want. I'm still me, I just want what you want. If you ever got really sick of me, I'd go away. If you want to cheat on me, I won't object, because I'll want it too. Get it?"

"So what if I told you I want you to stand on one foot?"

Jess grinned. "Terminator II reference, nice. Here's the thing - you can tell me what you want, but it doesn't matter if I know it's not really what you want. I could tell you I want you to jump out the window, but you know I don't want that, right?" She looked him over. "You still want to experiment with this though, right?" He nodded, eyes still glued to her chest. Her nipples were poking out in the cold air.

She thought for a second. "Ok, what's something you want that's not exactly easy for me to do? I can take off my shirt or make coffee, but how about something you really want that's a little trickier?"

They sat in silence for a minute, thinking. Something occurred to her. "You like lesbian porn, right?"

Lucas blushed. "Uh, yeah."

She laughed again. "Dude! I can't get mad at you! I don't care what you like or don't like anymore, I never will! But here's my question - would it be hot if I was into girls?"

He realized what she was thinking. "Yeah, but you're straight as an arrow. I've never known you to show any interest in women."

"Was straight as an arrow. I know you want me to be into women, so I want to be into women. The question is, does my preference actually change, or do I just want it to change?" She laughed. "It would be weird to wish I was bi."

She pulled up a bikini photo of a friend on her phone. "Mmm, yeah, I think I might be a little gay now. Actually, pretty gay. It's weird, I've never even thought of eating another woman out but now the thought kinda gets me hot and bothered." He didn't have a response to that. "I mean, imagine if you suddenly loved the idea of taking it up the ass from a super hot dude."

"Uh, ok, that's a weird thought." He paused. "But what if you're just saying you're into girls now? How do I know you're not just saying what I want to hear? For that matter, how do I know you actually want any of this stuff? Are you actually just being **** by some kind of magic to pretend to be into it for me?" He was starting to panic a little bit. This was the opposite of what he wanted.

Jess picked up on Lucas's alarm, and she was alarmed too. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! I don't like this train of thought. As far as I can tell, there are three ways we can prove I'm telling the truth. The first is for you to trust me, but as you pointed out, whatever's going on with the loyalty extractor may be forcing me to lie. The second is a little subtler. I know you want more than anything for me to tell you if these feelings are real or if I'm just being compelled to act like they are. So I want more than anything to tell you the truth: they are absolutely real."

"What's the third?"

She hesitated, not sure how to say it. "Well, you could... you could give me your loyalty."