??t bothering to hide it. Maybe he was replaying some happy memories in the back of his mind, but I suspected it was the shift in the conversation that had got his blood flowing. His friends hadn’t noticed his semi-erection because they were staring at me, and it seemed like a good idea to maintain the distraction.
‘Geoff, would it make you horny if I showed you how I rub my clit when I want to come really hard?’ I thought the question might paralyse him but he managed to whisper something that seemed like a positive response.
‘Farhan, would you get turned on if you saw me thrusting a dildo in and out of my pussy?’ There was no point waiting for an answer.
‘Of course you would. I’d respond the same way if you showed me how you play with your cocks.’
This conversation throbbed with potential – finally! Very sweetly I said, ‘I’d be willing to put my bathing suit on the line.’
‘Wait a second.’ Farhan needed to do some more mansplaining. ‘What you’re saying is: if we agree to jerk off in front of you, you’ll take off your bathing suit.’
‘That’s not exactly what I said.’
‘She wants to make another bet.’ Shawn had somehow managed to get his penis problem under control. ‘She strips naked if we win, but if we lose she wants to see us ride the mayonnaise surf.’
‘No way. Those things are not equal.’ I noted that Farhan wasn’t necessarily ruling out a wager. He wanted to negotiate.
‘If we win, she has to take off her bathing suit and masturbate in front of us.’ He was speaking to Shawn, trying to make a deal about my body. Rage momentarily crushed my libido.
‘I’ll tell you how this is going to work, Farhan: one thing for one thing. No freebies. I didn’t lose last night.’
I was talking too loudly and tried to soften my voice. ‘If you want extra from me, put something else on the table.’
‘I’m not sure there’s anything else to put on the table.’ Geoff spoke with melancholy in his voice. He might have accepted the first offer. He really wanted to see me naked and was apparently willing to risk major consequences for the opportunity.
His disappointment was actually a kind of compliment. It offset some of my displeasure with Farhan.
‘Clever boys,’ I said. It was time to raise the stakes. ‘Think about what you would want in my position, if you were surrounded by three naked women.’
Shawn knew the answer to my riddle immediately. Farhan and Geoff still didn’t get it, so I had to help.
‘You would want to see some same-sex oral action.’
Now I was treated to that display of blushing skin Geoff had avoided earlier. Farhan shook his head and looked down at the water.
‘Let me just make the point that you’d think it was perfectly fair to ask for pussy-eating but you won’t even consider sucking a cock.’
I wanted my disappointment to feel heavy on their shoulders. I’m sure every lecture they’d ever heard about the double standard weighed on them too.
‘I can’t put a dick in my mouth,’ Geoff said sadly.
‘I don’t think it would be so bad.’ Shawn had more mischief in his voice. ‘There is some precedent.’
‘We never sucked each other’s cocks.’ Farhan was adamant about that.
‘Poker isn’t your game, Farhan. You should have stuck with Truth or Dare.’ I was still a little bit mad at him and the teasing came off snippier than I intended.
‘I can’t believe you told her,’ Geoff complained to Shawn.
‘She has these stories about practising kissing at slumber parties. Sometimes they went as far as second base.’
‘It’s not the same.’ But most of the conviction had disappeared from Farhan’s voice. He knew it was exactly the same.
‘We were teenagers. It was no big deal,’ my boyfriend said.
‘I got really wet when Shawn described you guys jerking off while staring at each other’s cocks.’ Some people are bad drunks. I get mean when I’m excessively horny.
‘Well, I’m willing to put blowjobs on the line.’ My sweetheart was about to make a sales pitch. ‘I love her but my life’s mission is to prove that there’s a limit to Sofia’s game.’