The Game

started shaking, just like at my humiliating high-school lunch with Elisa. I pulled Isabel’s face close to mine and began making out with her. As we kissed, I lowered our bodies until we were practically lying on top of Hea, who was trapped under us. Then I turned Hea’s face toward me and began kissing her. She responded. It was working.
    I gently pulled Isabel into the kiss. Once Hea and Isabel’s lips met, the spark of sexual tension that had hung in the room during the massage exploded. They were all over each other, as if they’d been wanting to do this all along. But they hadn’t. They’d been bitter rivals less than an hour earlier. I didn’t understand it—but then again I didn’t need to.
    Hea removed Isabel’s shirt, and we both began sucking on her breasts. We pulled off her pants and began licking up her thighs until her back began to arch. I pulled off Isabel’s panties while Hea crawled behind me and struggled with my pants.
    As I helped her with the button-fly, I glanced at the clock. It was 2:00 A.M. My heart froze. It had been four hours since my last nap. I couldn’t just go to sleep in the middle of the first threesome of my life. But if I didn’t, the last four days of sleep deprivation would have been in vain.
    “Hey,” I told them. “I hate to do this, but I need to take my twentyminute nap now. You can join me if you want.”
    With Isabel on one side and Hea on the other, I fell asleep instantly. I dreamed that the streets were water, and I was swimming through them. When the alarm went off, I pulled both girls into me, and we began fooling around again.
    But this time Isabel pulled away. “This is weird,” she said.
    “It’s totally weird,” I replied. “I’ve been thinking the same thing. But it’s a new experience, so I’m just going with it.”
    She nodded and smiled, and pulled my boxer briefs off. Both women put their hands around me, and I leaned back and watched. I wanted to keep the image in my head for future use.
    However, when Hea began to give me a blowjob, Isabel’s body tensed. I remembered something Rick H. had said about threesomes at David DeAngelo’s seminar: The experience has to be about your girlfriend’s pleasure, not yours. She has to be the lead sled dog—as he put it—and your main objective is to make sure she’s always comfortable and feeling good.
    “Is this making you uncomfortable?” I asked the lead sled dog.
    “A little,” she said.
    I guided Hea’s head back up, and we lay together, talking and fooling around, until my next nap. I didn’t have sex with Hea that night; I knew Isabel wouldn’t be able to handle seeing me inside another woman. This had already been a big step for her.
    The next night, I was even more exhausted. Herbal and I sat in the living room watching Dangerous Liaisons to stay awake, but we kept drifting into daydreams that lasted fractions of a second. These are called microsleeps: Our bodies needed rest so badly that they were sneaking naps whenever we weren’t paying attention.
    “This sleep diet thing was a terrible idea,” I told Herbal.
    “Just stick with it,” he said. “It’ll pay off in the long run.”
    I’d bought several bottles of vitamins to help bolster my immune system, but I kept forgetting which ones I had taken and when. Fortunately, Nadia was coming over soon. She was another one of my MLTRs, the sexy librarian I had met during my personals experiment. She showed up after a Suicide Girls burlesque show at the Knitting Factory, accompanied by a girl named Barbara whose black bangs reminded me of Bettie Page.
    I poured them a drink and we sat on a couch together. Though Barbarahad a boyfriend, I noticed that she was very touchy-feely with Nadia. She seemed to have a crush on her. So I thought I’d give her the opportunity to act on it.
    I excused myself for my much-needed nap—I dreamed I was stranded naked in an endless snow-covered field—and then called them up to my room to watch my home movies. Afterward, I initiated the dual-induction massage. And, to my surprise, it worked again. The moment they started kissing, the girls devoured each other just like Isabel and Hea had. So it hadn’t just been a lucky accident the night before.
    Unlike Isabel, Nadia was a lead sled dog with no jealousy issues. When I fucked Nadia, Barbara knelt behind me and licked my balls. I wanted to wait and fuck Barbara too, but there would be no waiting. What was occurring was so far beyond my