The Wait Is Over

Carolina In My Mind

Friday after training, Tori, Kassey, and Kelsey left Washington for a weekend trip to Raleigh, where they would spend some time together as a triad as well as some with a former Florida State teammate of theirs, Michaela Hahn. Once they arrived and checked in at their hotel, the three of them discussed how the sleeping arrangements would be for the two nights.

Tori: How are we splitting up three people with two beds?

Kelsey: Who says we need to use both?

Tori: Do you think all three of us can fit on one?

Kelsey: Only one way to find out.

Kelsey lied down in the middle of one of the beds and the other two curled up on either side of her with their heads on her shoulders.

Tori: Looks like this could work. Could also do it on our sides front-to-back.

Kassey: I guess the bigger question is who gets the middle and who are on the outsides?

Tori: I think for the moment it makes more sense for Kelsey to be in the center since she's with both of us and both of us are with her. As for who goes behind and who goes in front of her, that should be up to her. Fair?

Kassey: That's fair.

Kelsey thought about this for a minute or two, pondering whose hands she wanted on her and whose body she wanted to love upon.

Kelsey: If we're committed to making this threesome work and being one big family of sorts, then I think the first night we should have Tori behind me and Kassey in front. Depending on how things go, we can switch it up tomorrow night.

Tori: I'm fine with that.

Kassey: Me too.

Kelsey: Want to go get something to eat?

Tori: You don't have to mention getting food twice.

The threesome left their room for a short trip to Food Lion, where they could grab healthier food (and some less-so-healthy snacks) than at a take-out place. They returned to the hotel about 45 minutes later and started chowing down on dinner. The trip took a lot out of Kelsey, who was driving, so she crawled into bed around 8:30 while Tori and Kassey sat up on the other bed and watched television for a bit. When the two of them got bored with the programming, they decided to turn in, with Kassey climbing into bed on Kelsey's left and Tori on her right. The three of them pressed up against one another and Tori wrapped her arms around Kelsey, with Kelsey doing the same to Kassey. Soon, they all were asleep, their first night together since agreeing to this arrangement.

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Michaela: Kassey and Kelsey, it's been a while since I've seen the two of you. How is life up in DC?

Kassey: A LOT better since DelMarVa bought the club. The record still isn't something to be proud of, but Becky and Lori are determined to help us get back on the right track under Joanna and Sarah's leadership.

Kelsey: The best part of the change is that we're finally able to breathe around one another without worrying that Jim will try to sniff out something that isn't happening in the hopes of embarrassing one or more of us.

Michaela: Like what he said on Saturday after the game about you and Tori being an item?

Kelsey: He said that, on national television?! No wonder Becky canned his @$$ right away.

Tori: I was definitely not pleased when I found out what he said, making it seem like I wanted to stay with you in the locker room instead of be with the team. He made the dumb-ass decision to lift me from the match, and I sure as heck wasn't going to watch him be sanctimonious about it for the entire second half. It was my only way to stand up to the culture he had wrought with the Spirit. Besides, those remarks short-circuited a discussion that was already occurring between the three of us.