The Game

sweet-talk me. He said, “I have this beautiful nineteen-year-old girl that you’ll love.” I asked him if he was giving her to me. He said, “No, we’re sharing.”
    MYSTERY: The idea wasn’t for Katya to be my girlfriend again, but to be a playtoy for Jen and me. My plan was to pick her up from the airport in the limo, grab some food at the Farmer’s Market, and then go back to the house and do the dual-induction massage.
    HERBAL: I ignored Katya for almost the entire month and a half she was gone, even though she kept sending me text messages. Mystery spent the whole time bragging about how he was going to get a threesome with her, which was like a knife being twisted in my heart. I told Mystery repeatedly just to ignore her and not let her back in the house to avoid problems. But he wouldn’t do it.
    KATYA: I flew into Los Angeles the day before, which Mystery doesn’t know, to rent a studio apartment and hang out with some friends from New Orleans. I stayed in a hotel and called Herbal to talk, because at that point I really wanted to start dating him. The next morning, I just showed up at the house and told Mystery my plane got in early so I took a taxi.
    HERBAL: When I came home from doing errands and saw Katya’s suitcase, I went into my room to mind my own business. However, Mystery and Katya came in and started talking to me. Then we went to Mystery’s bathroom and Katya painted our nails. She disappeared into Mystery’s walk-in closet to get a sweater, then Mystery went in. After five minutes, they were still in the closet.
    MYSTERY: She called me into the closet and said, “I want to date Herbal.” I don’t think she said it because she truly wanted to be with him. She just said it to bug me. I was being too kissy-kissy with Jen, and I believe that triggered jealousy in her. So I called Herbal into the closet and told Katya, “Why don’t you say it to him?”
    KATYA: I really liked Herbal. We talked on the phone throughout my entire visit to New Orleans, and I enjoyed his personality. He was so easygoing, and he never disagreed with anything.
    MYSTERY: Herbal and Katya were hanging out, hugging and kind of awkward, so I said, “Why don’t you two kiss and get it over with?” They did, and it instantly made me haywire. I didn’t expect that to happen after so much time had passed. But, as David DeAngelo says, attraction is not a choice.
    HERBAL: That night, we went on a double date. Mystery asked Twyla to drive us in the limo to the Santa Monica Pier. I guess I was naive, but I really thought everything would be fine.
    TWYLA: I couldn’t believe Mystery had the gumption to ask me to drive, to shove it in my face. He thought he was this grand manipulator. And it made me disgusted with myself for even liking this person.
    MYSTERY: Jen and Katya ended up making out with each other in the limo that night. I have pictures of them sucking each other’s tits in a phone booth at the pier. But it was getting complex. The moment Katya became Herbal’s girlfriend, the threesome was off and I didn’t want Jen touching Katya anymore. However, Katya was attracted to Jen, so she started talking trash about me to her.
    KATYA: Mystery kept saying he really liked Jen and not to make him look like an asshole in front of her. I told him, “You guys are great. If anyone’s going to put up with your shit, it’s that girl.” I was glad he had someone because I wanted Herbal.
    MYSTERY: Jen went home to San Diego for a week after that, and Katya called her every day. One night while Jen was gone, I had a sixfoot-tall model in bed with me and was dealing with last-minute resistance. I was fingering her and getting jacked off, but I couldn’t get any further. So during a freeze-out, I went to the kitchen to get a Sprite. And I heard Katya having sex with Herbal again. The moaning triggered feelings of jealousy, and I started crying. I couldn’t stop, even though I had a girl in my bed. I went back to my room and told the model how fucked up my life was. So she said she wanted to go home. I was going to drive her, but then Twyla started laughing at me.
    TWYLA: I was sleeping in the pillow pit and Mystery walked by, upset. I kind of giggled a little bit because I was quite entertained by it all. At that point, I had to take it with humor, because if I didn’t, I was going to end up hurt again. Then he flew off the handle and fired me. The girl he was with had to call a taxi home.
    KATYA: The next week,