I Can Hear Their Thoughts, Episode 2: Her Best Friend Ordered Me

The loop: a neon dance floor, Lucas pinned between two girls, both swaying closer, both screaming for him inside their heads. Episode 2 opens with a ping. Melissa has ordered condoms, plus a note: "Bring yourself too." Lucas already knows the danger. If Barbara is there, his skull is toast.

She is. Under the club lights, Barbara folds her arms and asks if he shouldn't be working, while her thoughts beg him to stay. His shift is over, so the girls pull him in, one on each side, two inner voices fighting over whose hands get him. His nose bleeds again and he slips out to the hallway. Barbara follows, claiming Mel sent her to check he isn't dying. Then she kisses him, and in her head she slides his hand higher. Out loud? "That didn't happen." She turns and walks away, still wishing he'd come over tonight. The loop is the tease. The hallway is the payoff.