Prologue

The only thing better than having a friend "with benefits" is having two friends "with benefits."

When I was in college we used to go to Orlando every year for spring break. It was only about two hours away and my folks were members of a timeshare club, so we often stayed in a nice condo for free and got tickets to Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World for cheap.

My junior year I was kind of seeing Melinda, a girl I had met my freshman year. She was a year ahead of me and if not for our different schedules, we probably would have had a much more serious relationship. As it was, her classes were in the morning and then she worked during the day. Most of my classes were in the afternoon and then I worked evenings and weekends. We did manage to find times for romantic trysts, but these were never as often as we'd have liked, and saw other people as well.

I also kept in touch with Leah, a friend I had known since middle school. Although she went to school in North Carolina, we emailed back and forth a lot and visited each other a couple of times. It was on one of those trips that we hooked up, and although neither of us wanted a long-distance relationship, we remained friends and sometimes lovers.