I'm stuck! Where do I begin? Okay, I'll try to explain this as best I can in as few words as possible.
I'm writing a story that is already over 200,000 words. So far it has gone pretty smoothly. Its about a young woman who lives at the beach and meets two men within a few weeks of each other, in the same way, walking on the beach at night. Purely coincidence. Eventually she learns to trust them, and the romances begin to take form. First emotional, then sexual. You can probably surmise the slow buildup, due to the length of the story! At one point, before having sex with either of them, she confesses to one of them that she is seeing someone else at the same time. Of course then, the whole story comes out. Very long story short, she finds out they are room mates, friends, and in the same musical band.
After a couple of months of some really emotional scenes and angst, the three of them start to communicate, and do get together, and you guessed it--they become a threesome. Not right away... at first the guys see her separately, but then, formerly repressed feelings begin to arise between the guys as well, one thing leads to another, and it comes about naturally.
Another of the band members is very handsome and a flirt, and all the girls go for him. He's not your average guy, but very deep, sweet and he pours the charm on. At first he just flirts with her. A wink here, a lingering touch there. He is known to be a flirt, so she decides its all very harmless. But then it begins to increase in intensity, even though nothing sexual has happened.
Then one day he gets a rare chance in complete darkness, standing way too close to her, along with touching her cheek, whispering softly in her ear, that kind of thing. Then he kisses her lightly and briefly. She decides to stick to her conclusion that he must just be a bit of a scamp. An innocuous one. After it has happened twice, however, she gets concerned. She is in love with her two boyfriends, and now, the last time this happened, she actually felt a sharp pang of desire for this third guy. This distresses her greatly.
Guy #3 comes to her house to talk to her about it one day. Get it out in the open. She accuses him of "taking advantage" in the dark, even though the guy would never force her. He's a very gentle type. Fact is, she never had time to resist or pull away from him, as both kisses happened very quickly. The last time, he hugged her as well, and she found herself unable to pull away because of the lust that caught her completely off guard.
Now she's very concerned that she shouldn't be feeling this way about him. She loves the other guys, and has now confessed to them about what happened with guy #3. They are both shocked, of course, as they hadn't had a clue. She's a "nice girl." Which is true--she just happened to get herself into a situation where she's in over her head, and finds she can't handle it.
Finally... my question is, where do I go from here? I have several possible scenarios.
#1 Continue to have this flirty relationship with guy #3 and the other two guys learn to accept it, and eventually, even embrace it, but no sex is ever involved... with #3, that is.
#2 This causes a huge rift between herself and guy #1 and 2, and more angst ensues. (No idea what would happen after this).
#3 She continues to see guy #3 in secret, and guy #1 and #2 continue to feel jealousy, not knowing if something is still going on or not. This would not really be in line with her character, as she's not the slutty type at all.
My main concern is not making her out to be the sleep-around type. She truly loves the two original guys, and I've added the flirting with the third guy as a twist in the story, for interest, drama. How do I have her maintain her flirtations with guy #3 without making her out to be someone the reader loves at first, but grows to hate because of this?
I'm writing a story that is already over 200,000 words. So far it has gone pretty smoothly. Its about a young woman who lives at the beach and meets two men within a few weeks of each other, in the same way, walking on the beach at night. Purely coincidence. Eventually she learns to trust them, and the romances begin to take form. First emotional, then sexual. You can probably surmise the slow buildup, due to the length of the story! At one point, before having sex with either of them, she confesses to one of them that she is seeing someone else at the same time. Of course then, the whole story comes out. Very long story short, she finds out they are room mates, friends, and in the same musical band.
After a couple of months of some really emotional scenes and angst, the three of them start to communicate, and do get together, and you guessed it--they become a threesome. Not right away... at first the guys see her separately, but then, formerly repressed feelings begin to arise between the guys as well, one thing leads to another, and it comes about naturally.
Another of the band members is very handsome and a flirt, and all the girls go for him. He's not your average guy, but very deep, sweet and he pours the charm on. At first he just flirts with her. A wink here, a lingering touch there. He is known to be a flirt, so she decides its all very harmless. But then it begins to increase in intensity, even though nothing sexual has happened.
Then one day he gets a rare chance in complete darkness, standing way too close to her, along with touching her cheek, whispering softly in her ear, that kind of thing. Then he kisses her lightly and briefly. She decides to stick to her conclusion that he must just be a bit of a scamp. An innocuous one. After it has happened twice, however, she gets concerned. She is in love with her two boyfriends, and now, the last time this happened, she actually felt a sharp pang of desire for this third guy. This distresses her greatly.
Guy #3 comes to her house to talk to her about it one day. Get it out in the open. She accuses him of "taking advantage" in the dark, even though the guy would never force her. He's a very gentle type. Fact is, she never had time to resist or pull away from him, as both kisses happened very quickly. The last time, he hugged her as well, and she found herself unable to pull away because of the lust that caught her completely off guard.
Now she's very concerned that she shouldn't be feeling this way about him. She loves the other guys, and has now confessed to them about what happened with guy #3. They are both shocked, of course, as they hadn't had a clue. She's a "nice girl." Which is true--she just happened to get herself into a situation where she's in over her head, and finds she can't handle it.
Finally... my question is, where do I go from here? I have several possible scenarios.
#1 Continue to have this flirty relationship with guy #3 and the other two guys learn to accept it, and eventually, even embrace it, but no sex is ever involved... with #3, that is.
#2 This causes a huge rift between herself and guy #1 and 2, and more angst ensues. (No idea what would happen after this).
#3 She continues to see guy #3 in secret, and guy #1 and #2 continue to feel jealousy, not knowing if something is still going on or not. This would not really be in line with her character, as she's not the slutty type at all.
My main concern is not making her out to be the sleep-around type. She truly loves the two original guys, and I've added the flirting with the third guy as a twist in the story, for interest, drama. How do I have her maintain her flirtations with guy #3 without making her out to be someone the reader loves at first, but grows to hate because of this?
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