Mike wants to introduce Tami and Claire to Sonya

"So, did you tell your girlfriend about it?" Claire asked.

I nodded, "Yeah, but—actually, could you guys do me a favor? Would you mind meeting her? Like on webcam?"

"Why?" Tami joked, "so she can hire an assassin to hunt me down?"

"Look, I know it's a weird request, but if she just saw how sexy the two of you are, I think it'd score me a lot of points in the forgiveness department. Let her know just what kind of temptation I was up against."

Both women rolled their eyes. They exchanged some sort of psychic communication between themselves, and then Claire turned to me and said, "Might be awkward, but why not? She's gonna be our neighbor in a few weeks, anyway. We may as well get this out of the way before we have to see her in the flesh."

That evening, I brought my laptop over to their apartment and set it down on the coffee table, so that Sonya could see all three of us sitting on the couch. We waited nervously while the computer started up, and then suddenly Sonya's beautiful face was filling the screen, her eyes bugging out in surprise. I quickly made the introductions:

"Hi Sonya. This is Tami and Claire, your future neighbors. Ladies—this is Sonya, my girlfriend."

The three women self-consciously waved at one another.

"You are REALLY pretty," Tami said at last, breaking the ice.

"Me?" Sonya cried, "You two are like, I mean damn. Michael's description did not do you guys justice."

Luckily, Sonya was so funny and energetic, she put the other girls quickly at ease. By the time we disconnected the session, everybody almost seemed like old friends. I guess it shouldn't have been that surprising—they were all terrific people, after all—but still, under the admittedly unusual circumstances...

"Fuck, Michael!" Tami elbowed me in the ribs. "That chick is, like, a world-class hottie! Last week I was all jealous of her, but now I'm more jealous of YOU."

Claire nodded in agreement, "Yeah, she seems—wait, Tami, what do you mean 'jealous?'"

"Oh, just ignore me. I'm lonely and horny and frustrated. I don't know what I'm saying."

I had to fight the urge to laugh at the absurdity of it all—there was genuine lust in Tami's eyes! Some part of her actually found my girlfriend attractive, which meant that she probably found other women attractive, as well...

I secretly gave Claire a look that urged, "tell her!" but all I got in response was a quick shake of the head. That girl was never going to come out to her roommate, not until she knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that Tami might be interested.