Free What A Girl Wants by Liz Maverick Page B

orgasm.”
    Hold on just a minute. Hayley leaned in toward the middle of the table. “I’m right here, people. I’m sitting right here. No need to discuss my orgasms in third person.”
    â€œDo we need to discuss them at all?” Audra murmured, scratching the side of her face violently.
    â€œNot having an orgasm is nothing to be embarrassed about,” Diane said. “I’m not having any either.”
    â€œOh, God,” Audra said, looking around the diner.
    Alarmed, Hayley put up a hand. “Wait a minute, I didn’t say I’m not—”
    â€œYou haven’t shown much interest in men or sex in quite some time now,” Suz said to Diane. “Is there something you’d like to share? We’re all progressive, you know.”
    â€œNo. Nothing in particular.” Diane shrugged. “It’s true, I’m not concentrating on men right now. I’m developing my mind.”
    Suz rolled her eyes. “Well, there’s an excuse.”
    Diane shot Suz a steely glare. “It’s not an excuse. The only guys I have access to right now have bad skin and only want me for my note-taking prowess. It’s not worth my time. I’m only twenty-five, I have a nonexistent sex drive, and I don’t need to be bothered. You understand what I’m saying, don’t you, Audra?”
    Audra didn’t answer. She was engrossed in viewing all possibleangles of her face in the tiny mirror in her lipstick case. Little distressed moans and tongue clicks were all she was capable of at the moment.
    â€œWhy take a course in sex if you aren’t interested in having any?” Hayley asked.
    â€œObviously I’m going to be having some at some point. And I might as well be prepared. I should have as much accumulated data as possible when that time comes. I just don’t see the point of getting all worked up about it if I’m not going to enjoy it for another ten years or whatever. I’m waiting to peak.” Diane leaned back and crossed her arms over her chest, completely unperturbed.
    Suz, on the other hand, seemed bowled over by the idea. “You’re planning to be celibate for ten years ?”
    â€œWell, I’m not really putting a time limit on it. I just figure I’ve been celibate by default for the last three. What’s another ten or so? Besides, it’s not like I’m taking a vow or anything.” She shot Suz a meaningful glance and added, “I’m just not going to obsess about it. When I’m thirty-something and ready to go, it will all seem much more appealing. For now, if I want to, I can take care of business myself.”
    â€œWell, at least let me give you a couple of my Cosmo back issues,” Suz said, shaking her head. “If you’re going to do it that way, you might as well do it right.”
    Hayley almost laughed aloud when Audra looked up from her mirror, one eyebrow cocked, apparently at the ready lest anyone go into too much detail about “taking care of business” at the breakfast table.
    In fact, she put the lipstick case down and quickly put the conversation back on course. “Honestly, Hay, was it just the fact thatyou got together with this Sergio person that’s making you so upbeat, or did you really learn something from Suz’s exercise?”
    â€œYou promise you won’t laugh?” Hayley asked.
    â€œOf course not.”
    â€œIt made me put myself out there in a way I don’t usually do, you know. I got a strange kind of confidence out of it.” She blushed a little, because there was something embarrassing about admitting that you had low self-confidence to begin with, even to friends who knew you as well as you knew yourself. “I mean, it’s true that most of the time I was in disguise, but—”
    â€œNot the whole time,” Suz noted. “In fact, not most of it. You just thought you were. You lost the wig about an