THE DARE
This one is for the Nude Day Contest and always, your votes and comments are much appreciated.
This is a bit of a slow burn romance, and I hope you enjoy it.
KRISTEN
I could feel my eyes pop as I looked up at the mansion my friend Angie referred to as her
little summer place.
While she was busy punching in the code for the security gate on her phone, I blinked and said, "Wow! You call this a cottage? This place is
way
nicer than my house!"
It really was. The place was huge, like a modern day palace. Right on the water, sitting on a big beautiful lake, only an hour's drive from the city. I knew Angie's family had money, but they had to have mega-bucks to call a mansion like this their summer place.
My father was a judge, and our family couldn't afford anything even nearly as nice as this.
I eyed her as she carefully drove onto the well-manicured grounds. Could be the rumors going around were true, and Angie's family actually were connected to the mob. That would also explain how at only 24 she was driving a top of line Mercedes SUV, especially since we all knew she'd never worked a day in her life. While I was happy to make do with my mom's hand-me-down ten year old Toyota, at least I had a way to get around, and also get to my summer job dishing up soft serves at the Dairy Queen.
After we'd all stopped a moment to admire the mirror image of the cottage reflecting off the still, moon-dappled lake, the moment we stepped inside what turned out to be an actual stone and glass palace, it was all just so beautiful I was a little afraid of messing it up. Looking around at the other five girls I noticed they looked just as blown away as I felt.
Except of course for our host Angie, who was nonchalantly pointing out the six roomy bedrooms, like the place was no big deal, and telling us where we'd be sleeping as she walked over to a circular glass bar and started pulling out bottles of booze.
"Okay, girls," she said, plunking the bottles down on the long, glass bar top. "It's party time! So, let's get our drink on!"
"Holy crap, that didn't take long," I murmured to my bestie, tiny, curly-haired Melissa who was still clutching her purse on her shoulder and looking around with her mouth hanging open and her eyes as big as saucers.
Melissa nodded. "I know we're supposed to be here to celebrate graduation, but I'm not sure if I even want to sit down in here, it just looks so fancy."
"I know, right?" I agreed, still unabashedly gawking right along with her.
Since everyone else was grabbing a drink, I decided we'd better join in. Taking a hold of Melissa by the elbow, I steered her over to the bar. After handing her a glass, I accepted a shot of whatever it was Angie was pouring; a deceptively small shot that was quite sweet but really packed a punch. All it took was a sip, and I was clutching the glass in my hand, with my eyes watering as I felt it scorching a path all the way down my throat to my stomach, like liquid fire.
Everyone laughed as Melissa nearly coughed her head off after only the tiniest little taste.
"You girls are such lightweights," Angie muttered as she tossed back her second glass without so much as flinching.
After we'd put our things in the bedrooms and came out again, we noticed pretty dark-haired Angie, was busy making out some kind of chart on a white board, with another round of drinks lined up on the bar.
She looked at us and smiled -- a very devious little smile. "I thought it would be fun if we played some games while we're here, especially since today is International Nude Day. Might as well let loose and enjoy ourselves, after all the studying we've done to get through law school and get our degrees."
As the games progressed we noticed she was keeping score on the white board of how many drinks we'd had, I guess to make sure none of us passed out.
No surprise, every game involved doing something a little crazy, like making a few of us kiss, if we got a trivia question wrong that Angie dreamed up. Like what was the second President's mother's maiden name? Who the hell knew that? Except for probably the lady herself, and obviously she wasn't around to tell us.
I'd never been into chicks, so when tall, slender Georgia, who had got the question wrong, grabbed hold of me and enthusiastically slipped her tongue between my lips, and started squeezing my ass, it did nothing to change my mind. Though, I've got to admit, it did feel kind of kinky to kiss a girl for a change.
After we finished laughing over that game, we moved on to playing,
Most Likely To.
It was a fun game and pretty easy, even though we were all half in the bag, and starting to blink a lot while we tried to follow along.
Angie read a question from a card, and all we had to do was point at who was most likely to do something, like robbing a bank or getting married first. And the person with the most fingers pointing at them had to take that many sips of their drink.
When Angie asked who was most likely to have a one night stand, no hesitation, all of us laughed and pointed at tall, busty, raven-haired Nadine, whose sexploits were legendary. Same went for the most likely to drop to her knees and give a guy a blow job on a first date, and also most likely to have an affair after she was married. No surprise, Nadine who'd had to toss back the most drinks of all of us, was more than a little shaky on her feet by the time that game was over.