was hanging with my friend Karen one Saturday night, and we were drinking beers and watching a movie. Usually I am with a bigger group of people or with my boyfriend on Saturday night, but somehow just the two of us had ended up alone together at her apartment. It was about midnight when she came up with an unusual bet, and I took the bait.
Karen was drinking Heineken out of a big glass pint mug. I was drinking small glasses of one of my favorite cocktails, Amaretto sours.
"Hey, Miranda, do you ever drink that Amaretto stuff straight, or do you always mix it?" Karen asked me.
"Usually I mix it, but it is so smooth I can do shots quite easily if I want to." I answered.
"I'll bet I can drink three of these large pints of beer before you can drink three straight shots of Amaretto!" Karen challenged me. She can be very pushy and demanding sometimes.
"You're such an idiot, Karen." I told my friend. "You think you can drink 3 pints of beer before I can do these three shots of Amaretto?"
"Of course I can, Miranda. You're such a lightweight." Karen insulted me. Now I'm not the biggest lush in the world, but I can certainly down three shots of Amaretto in about 30 seconds. Even if she chugged each pint of beer in 10 seconds, our rate of drinking would be the same. Remember, the glasses of beer were in 16 ounce glasses, not 12 ounce glasses. Amaretto is very smooth liquor with lower alcohol content than most shots.
"You're on, Karen. Let me make sure I am absolutely clear on this challenge. You are betting that you can drink 48 ounces of beer before I can drink 4 and one half ounces of Amaretto? Why would you make a dumb bet like that?"
"Do you want to make it official?" Karen asked me. She stared right at me with her dark brown eyes.
"O.K. What is the catch?"
"Well, first I want to lay down the rules. I get a one beer head start. When I place my glass down you can start to down your shots."
"That sounds unfair. You only have to drink two beers while I have to drink three shots!"
"Miranda, think about it. The second I put my glass down I will still have 32 ounces of ice cold beer to slam. You will only have 4 and one half ounces of your liquid candy to swallow."
"O.K., then why are you willing to place this bet, Karen?"
"Because I can slam a beer really fast, and I'll beat you!"
"O.K., you're on! Let's get this started." I challenged her right back, confident that I could easily win. The beer was cold, and I was sure she would get a brain freeze before finishing all three beers.
"Oh, one more thing. You cannot touch my glasses under any circumstance, and I cannot touch your glasses under any circumstance either."
If I had been more clever, I might have figured out the trick involved here, but I naively thought that this rule was intended to make the bet more fair somehow; I thought it was to prevent cheating or something.
"All right, I agree to that rule too. Let's do it."
"Not so fast, Miranda. What fun is a bet without some stakes involved? That is the thrill of a challenge. Think about it. In a bet, there are two individuals; both completely confidant that they will win the bet. But only one of the two can emerge victorious, and the other one has to face the fact that their assumption was wrong. Are you completely confidant that you will beat me, Miranda?"
"Yes, three measly shots to your three pints of beer is not really much of a contest. I still don't understand how you think you can possibly win, Karen."
"I am confidant too. I can drink those beers before you finish those shots. So I have some stakes in mind. If you win, which you seem to think is very likely, I will be your sex slave for the day."
This intrigued me. I had only known Karen for a few months, and I had heard a lot of her stories about wild one night stands, but I hadn't known that she was bisexual like me.
"You're bisexual, Karen?" I asked in a surprised tone.
"I swing both ways just like you, honey."
"You never told me that."
"You never asked!"
Hmm...Karen was very attractive, and I had wanted to fool around with her since meeting her at a mutual friend's house a short time ago. She had long curly brown hair, and was very curvaceous. She was about 5"8, a little taller than myself, and she had nice firm breasts that I would have loved to touch. I had assumed that she was straight, because she was always talking about her boyfriend Billy.
"What exactly do you mean by sex slave, Karen?" I asked, seeking clarification.
"The loser has to do whatever the winner requests. Let's make it tomorrow, to make the reality of winning or losing the bet sink in really quickly after we finish our drinking. When I say 'whatever', I don't mean 'whatever the winner wants, within reason.' I mean 'whatever the winner wants whether the loser likes it or not!' The loser has to deal with whatever situation the winner throws at them. If you want to make me to lick your pussy and make you come all day, you can do that. If you want to put a dog collar on me and walk me around on the beach, you can. If you want to order me to give your boyfriend a blowjob, you can. This is all assuming you win, of course."
I really wanted her body, and when she bent down to start pouring her pint glasses full of Heineken, giving me a great view of her spectacular cleavage, I was hooked.
I went to her kitchen to get her two more pint glasses and to get myself three shot glasses. I walked back into the living room. My shot glasses were standard one and one half ounce shot glasses. I placed all the glassware on the table, and started to pour my straight Amaretto into my shot glasses. Karen went to the refrigerator to get four more bottles of beer.
I sat on the sofa next to her. I lined up my three little shot glasses in a neat row. Karen opened her bottles of Heineken and poured them into the pint glasses, letting the foam settle. She lined up her three pints of beer next to my shots.
"O.K., are you ready, Miranda?" she asked.
"Let's do this! So you drink your first beer, and then the second you set it down I can start to drink my first shot?"
"That's right. But remember, I can't touch your glasses, and you can't touch mine under any circumstance. Got it?"
"O.K., I'm ready Karen."
"Shake on it? You promise that you will be my sex slave tomorrow if you should lose, no matter what I ask you to do?"
"I promise." I shook her hand.
"1...2...3!" Karen gulped her first beer. She hadn't been kidding; she had the ability to slam a beer really fast. But it still took about 30 seconds for her to finish it, and I knew I could drink a shot in 10 seconds. I had been expecting her to put her empty glass down on the table and start to slam the second beer as I grabbed for my first shot of Amaretto. I wasn't paying attention to where she put her glass as I downed my first shot. I savored the almond flavor of the liqueur and reached for my second shot. Then I noticed that she had turned her empty glass upside down and placed it over my third shot!
"Hey, what the fuck?" I asked her in bewilderment. It took me a minute to realize why she had placed her glass upside down on my third shot. We had agreed to a strict rule; neither of us was to touch the other one's glass. Now I understood why. I was unable to get to my third shot!
Karen started to take small sips of her second beer. "Drink your second shot, Miranda, I'm slowing down!" she said while laughing. I downed my second shot. She kept taking small sips of her second beer.