“I’m down,” he said, poking his head over the edge of the hammock.
“So, get your ass down here.” I laughed, sitting down at the large round table. “Let’s get this shit going, Las Vegas style.”
“Yes,” Jessica said excitedly. “Come on, Amber, it’ll be fun. Stop being a spoil sport.”
“Okay, okay, I’m coming,” she said, walking over and sitting down next to Jessica.
The guys slowly meandered over and sat down at the table, taking one of the rum drinks and gulping it just like I wanted. I looked around the room and smiled as I dealt the first round of poker, giggling as Jessica held her cards up to her face and peered over them, acting like she was on a super-secret mission. Austin seemed to be a bit more relaxed, and I could see him rubbing Jessica’s lower back while passing glances over at my tits. Maybe he wasn’t going to be so hard to get to, after all.
We played several hands, and Amber lost every single one. I waited for her to start taking her clothes off, but she gave an excuse just like I expected. She rambled something off about it being too cold to take off her clothes while glancing nervously over at Matt. I was going to have to come up with some other idea to get our clothes off.
“I know, let’s gamble with drinks instead of clothes,” Jason said, smiling at me. “Losers have to drink, and the winner doesn’t.”
We played a few more hands, and I laughed as Amber struggled through it, losing every single hand. After the last one, we all chanted loudly as she gulped down another rum drink, slamming the glass down on the table and shaking her head. I knew she was about to tap out.
“Okay, I can’t play this game anymore,” she said, putting her hands up in the air. “It is not fair. I never get a good hand.”
“Or you don’t know what a good hand is when you have one.” Matt laughed.
“Okay, why don’t we play something else then?” Jessica asked. “Something that isn’t skill or luck based to make the playing field a bit fairer.”
“I know,” I said, jumping up. “Let’s play ‘Never Have I Ever.’ It’s not luck based, it’s not skill based, and it is really easy to answer the questions. If you are brave enough, that is.”
“I don’t know,” Jason said. “Jessica never liked that game because she didn’t like everyone to know she had a small obsession with her vibrator when she was in college. Wait, what did you name it?”
“Conrad,” Austin said with a smirk.
“Yes, that’s it,” Jason said, pointing at him.
“Ugh, what are we in high school?” Jessica asked, rolling her eyes.
“I don’t know the game,” Austin said.
“What? You have never played ‘Never Have I Ever?’” I was completely blown away.
“I had kind of a sheltered life growing up.” He chuckled. “And it’s not really a game we play sitting around the conference room at the White House. I am pretty sure the secrets in that room would start the next World War. As a teen, I spent my time studying and going to the country club with the guys. We didn’t really have sleepovers and giggle time.”
“Okay, here are the rules,” Matt said, groaning. “We take turns saying something that we have never done. Anyone who has done that has to take a drink. If you lie, you drink double. For example, I would say something like, ‘Never have I ever fucked an old lady,’ to which Jason would have to take a drink. Otherwise, he would have to down his whole glass.”
“It depends on what you consider an old lady,” Jason said, smiling.
“Gross, dude,” Matt said, shaking his head.
“Okay, now we absolutely have to play it since Austin doesn’t even know what it is,” I said.
This was an excellent way to get everyone in the mood, but only if the conversation took the right turn. I pulled everyone over to the couches by the fire and sat down on the ledge of the fireplace. This was definitely going to be what changed my plan for the better, but I had to be the one to start this thing off in order to direct it where I wanted it to go.
“Alright,” I said, quieting everyone down. “I am going to start things off. Never have I ever had sex on a train.”
“Leave it to Kristin to start it off with sex.” Amber giggled.
“What kind of game would it be if I didn’t?” I asked, winking at Jason.
Sex was what it was all about.
Chapter 18
Matt