Meet Raina's groups

It's already dark outside, which always takes you by surprise. Living this South, you never anticipated the summer sun to set so early compared to your home state, further up North.

In the winter, you will get a lot more sun, and soon, when September will end, everywhere in the world, the day and the night will be equal in length, so that from that point on, Florida will get more sun during the day than any state north of it.

Still, you get back from the cafeteria and can hear a group of students jamming to music. It's clearly an improvisation, and the level of quality varies drastically, but still, they seem to be laughing a lot.

You approach and find them sitting around a weird fireplace. It seems to be a portable fireplace which they installed over a concrete path.

Students of both genders jam on instruments and some only sing along.

When you get close, one of the girls, with brown hair and latte skin salutes you. She seems to have some sort of Latin American origin.

She is barefoot, revealing line tattoos on her ankle. She is wearing a yellow sundress and her hair is tied with a ribbon of the same color. The small strap of the dress shows that she isn't wearing a bra, and that if she is, it's a strapless one.

She is visibly with two friends, both white girls.

The one in the middle has a black choker and is wearing a loose black camisole with an open blouse on it. Her nipples are seen through the fabric.

The third girl has a ukulele and has badly colored hair: it looks like it was dyed red, but then, let to grow back brown. Still, she is as bare legged as her friends, and her cleavage shows that perhaps, she isn't wearing a bra either. She is wearing a purple band which shows that she might be gay.

While they sing, they touch each other a lot, and smile at each other. It's clear there is a lot of complicity between them.

You sit and the Latino girl move closer.

"Do you play any instruments?", she asks

"Bass"

"Oh, that's awesome! We have one, by the wall there... Just grab is and join us"

"I'm Allan", you say

"Raina. That's Regina and on the Ukulele, Queeny"

"Nice to meet you", you reply, as Raina smiles and resumes singing, if you can really call that singing. Still, the group is having fun and isn't that what matters?

You look and find the wall she is referring to: It's one of the buildings for post-graduate students built in recent years. This is the side of the building, opposite the theater building, but you don't see it's name or purpose.

Again it are instruments, mainly small percussion ones just loosely places on the wall as if someone borrowed one from the girls, and then randomly put it back when they were done.

You see a couple of tambourines, a pair of cymbals, a pan's flute, and many assorted bongos. But the biggest is a bass case.

This is where is gets complicated. You play an electric bass. So, someone in the audience is playing an acoustic guitar. If you compare an electric one to an acoustic, the main difference is the depth of the instrument.

But an acoustic bass is much bigger than an electric one, so much that as you walk back the small gap to the jam area, all you do is wonder how you will handle it.

But Raina smiles, and you decide to sit next to her.

As soon as you do, she puts her hand on your shoulder, and smiles.

Listening to the beat, you realize that Queeny is basically leading the song, improvising, but there is a certain rhythm to her improvisation.

You also realize that Regina is basically leading the lyrics. The whole group sings the sort of chorus about going back to school and meeting new friends, but Regina fills in the verses, with the ending of most of the lines repeated by the students singing along, while randomly banging on banjos, tambourines and other simple musical instruments.

Hesitating, you begin to stoke the bass. It's a little awkward, but you start to get used to it and manage to get a bass line going, which makes Raina get closer and gently stroke your shoulder.

Speaking of Raina, she seems to be the coordinator. She sometimes points to one of the participants, and on an approval nod, which whisper something to Regina letting her know that someone else would be singing the next verse.

At first, you just follow the beat, but as you listen, you make a stunning realization. None of these people, not even Queeny or Regina really know music!

With your experience playing with a few bands in high school, it oddly makes you the best musician in the group.

So, instead of following, you begin leading a little, and much to your surprise, Queeny starts paying attention to you too! She gradually begins to follow your beat, which takes a little time for Regina to understand, but after a chorus, she gets it and smiles at you too.

Now, at this point, this is just fun, but with Raina touching you, and Regina, and with Queeny and Regina touching each other while playing and singing, it all makes you wonder, especially since the girls often touch each other's legs.

You are no stranger to this: you've seen high school girls touch each other a lot without it meaning anything, so you admit that your days in a row in chastity are affecting your mind and your perception.

Only one person joins your group after you, but as time goes, more and more just leave, either leaving their instruments in place, or putting them back on the wall, with the rest.

The beat changes. It's not the same song forever, and there are even a few pauses where one of the three girls explains what the next segment will be about, either the weather, love or school.

Yeah, it's always that vague, to let people find odd ways to approach the theme. Queeny and you get into a good complicity as you set the musical theme with Regina setting the lyrics format which shifts over time, both in length of each line, and in the number of lines.

But the weirdest thing is that the direction shifts from being from the bare legged trio to your little quartet.

And yet... you do more than help set the music with Queeny. Regina looks for you to sing some verses, so you try, while not slowing down on the bass.

Raina doesn't let go of you, or Regina, so as people leave, you just stay and find the urge to push anything or to give up. She also smiles a lot at you and touches you a little more intensively.

You are stuck in a Schrödinger dilemma: either Raina is already interested in you and you have a shot at seeing her, or she is gay and dating Regina and you have no chances. The cat is either dead, or alive. Both realities currently exist, but when the night will be over, the possibilities will collapse and only one option remains.

The cat is alive, and you get closer to Raina, or the cat is dead and Raina is gay.

This, of course, is all bullshit. She might be straight and not into you. She might be bisexual and you would get a threesome with Regina. You might also be already in hell after dying from a brain aneurysm with a demon playing with your emotions.

But with the way Raina looks at you and touches you, you feel something. In fact, even if you don't get anywhere with her, just this moment will have been wonderful.

The crowd disperses. You are about to discover whether the cat is alive or not. The box is about to open.

The last guy leaves, grabbing a few of the discarded instruments and bringing them to the wall, saluting the girls, and then you, as he leaves. He was one of the few decent tambourine players, putting some nuance in his music. Clearly older than you are, he whistles as he leaves.

Regina stops singing first. The audience is gone, accepting that you are part of the organization. Queeny finishes the segment on the ukulele and you stop as she does.

"Girls, this is Allan", says Raina

"I heard his name", says Regina, smiling

"I didn't. It was wicked playing with you, Allan. I felt like we have some complicity together", adds Queeny

"I felt so too! And with you, Regina!",

"Thank you. Indeed. That lyrics about the transition from high school and college hit me hard.", sans Regina

"Yeah, me too. I mean, I remember last year, being lost until I found you girls", says Raina

"Hey, we were lost too. Being gay in the south of the USA isn't easy, especially in a small town", says Regina

"I will always regret leaving the closet while in high school. It almost got me killed" says Queeny.

That means that two of three are indeed gay.

"Well, that's why I waited for college to come out", says Raina. And there... the cat is dead. All three girls are gay.

At least, you are having fun with them doing music.

All three of the girls start gathering the instruments, so you help them, after having put the base back it's in case.

"Want to help us return this to the music department?", asks Raina.

You can't get a shot, but hey, all of them are cute and you had fun, so it's the least you can do. Having three lesbian friends is not a bad thing to have, especially for a guy in chastity. Wait? Why are you thinking that? Must be the frustration talking again.

"Sure", you reply.

The girls grab a pile of reusable grocery store bags and you help fill the bags with the various small instruments, keeping the bass by your side. Five bags are filled. Regina takes two, you take one, the heaviest and the bass, with the remaining two girls grabbing the last two bags.

Raina walks by your side, holding your arm. "We are so happy you joined us. A girl used to play bass with us last year, but we haven't seen her so far"

"Hey, Linda broke up with her band, maybe she no longer wants to do any music?", says Regina

"Maybe. Still, I am glad you came", says Raina, which sounds weird from a lesbian girl, but not everything needs to be sexual.

There is oddly enough a girl at the music counter, despite the sign saying it should be closed.

"Thanks Polly, for helping us tonight", says Regina, giving her the bags.

"Hey, I heard good things last year from your jam sessions. If it's good for the school spirit, I will be there", says the girl

"Are you joining us tonight?", asks Queeny in a flirting tone

"Oh, sorry, I have a ton of fun having sex with you girls, but I have a previous engagement.", says Polly, sad.

"If it's with Betty", says Raina, "Bring her. The more, the merrier. And she is fun too!"

"Right, but no, it's with a guy tonight, and I know you girls are gay", says Polly

"Ok, don't hesitate to come visit us", says Regina, all smiles.

Yep. The cat is clearly dead.

You leave the building, with the girls saying how sad it is that Polly won't be joining for them for the first orgy of the semester..

Raina, however, reacts. "But it won't be an orgy, it's only the three of us"

You look at them with a smile, Queeny spots you. "Sorry Allan, you are nice, but we are gay"

"Well, mostly gay...", says Regina

"That means that once in a blue moon, I'll go out with a guy, not let him in my front door. Or back door for that matter", says Queeny

"It all depends on what Allan is willing to let go", says Raina

"What do you mean, Raina?", you tell her

"Well, I think I can speak for all of us when I say that if we let you have sex with us, your... thing, wouldn't be in play."

"My thing?, you mean my penis?"

Raina blushes a little. "Yeah. That means we won't touch it, we don't play with it, and we'll ask you not to either. It's a lot to ask for, but those would be the terms. You'd basically be like a girl with us. Would that work out with you girls?"

Regina adds. "I'd like that", she says, smiling

"He won'd go for it. Guys never go for it. That's why I never propose it", says Queeny

But you are in chastity. They don't know yet, but this is just perfect for you.

"I have zero problems with that", you reply

The three girls look at you, puzzled. But then, they all nod. "Fine, let's try it", says Raina.