A while ago Jo and Tamsin had a brief fling.
Then one day Jo was feeling adventurous and texted Tamsin asking if she wanted to be friends with benefits for a while.
Nothing serious. Nothing emotional. Just physical.
Tamsin responded with a scathing reply:
“How dare you!”
“That was probably the most insulting text I’ve ever received”
‘Yeesh’ Jo thought ‘better steer clear of her for a while’
A few months pass and Jo finds herself at a friend’s birthday party and who shows up but Tamsin.
Jo averts her eyes and subtly tries to make her way to the other side of the room.
Then to Jo’s surprise, a few hours later, Tamsin comes up and starts flirting with Jo.
They end up doing a bit of snogging in the corner before Tamsin said goodbye and ran off.
To say Jo was baffled was an understatement.
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Now to try and analyze what happened, I think Tamsin was genuinely horrified to receive that text and to be someone’s friend with benefits.
However Jo had revealed a lingering attraction and preference to Tamsin unprovoked.
Then in the months in between Tamsin may have felt the nasty pain of loneliness.
Now she’s at this party, nobody has approached her, she knows for certain someone in the room is attracted to her, she still doesn’t want to be a friend with benefits but she also has desires and would love to feel wanted again and attractive, so why not do a bit of controlled necking?
Thomas Duggan 