I stepped out of the steaming shower room, into the dusty surroundings of the scout hall basement. This place wasn't the cleanliest, but what do you expect from somewhere you store outdoor equipment. I found some space on the makeshift clothes line that Zack and Liv had set up and started to hang my wet clothes out to dry.
Making my way over to the Rovers den, I was starting to get highly nervous again, but this time it wasn't from the insecurities I had of my body (well it partially was). But it was from what both Liv and Nathan had hinted at earlier. The games in which they said they had played previously. The way they both smiled and slightly blushed when talking about them, made me think there was something more to it and that I would be soon finding out.
Walking into the Rovers den, I noticed that the room was filled with a scent that was quite appetising. I hadn't realised the time, but it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. None of us had eaten yet today, since our morning was filled with getting soaked, hiding out in a tent, the frantic scramble to pull our site apart, followed by the drive back to the scout hall, the emptying of the trailer, and then the process of everyone having a shower.
It seemed like Sean and Zack had taken it upon themselves to cook us all a late lunch, using what they could salvage from our camping expedition. This led to a meal of eggs, bacon, sausages, baked beans, and some tomato soup. A bit of an eclectic mix, but it was what was able to be saved.
We sat around the dining table eating our meal and sharing a good laugh about the situation, all of us knowing that everyone else had nothing on below our towels. Yet, it seemed as though I was the only weirder out by it. As I had sat at the head of the table, I was able to keep sneaking glances of Liv, who sat next to me, just around the corner of the table. She definitely caught me a few times and would just smile and blush, before going back to her meal. At some point during the meal, Sean stood up and opened one of the cabinets that sat next to the kitchenette. It turns out that there was a bunch of alcohol hidden in the cabinet. Drinking and storing alcohol was against the Rovers rules, but as we were all over eighteen, we didn't see any problem with having a drink. As they couldn't refrigerate anything, they only seemed to keep the hard liquor. Sean offered us all a drink and I ended up getting a bottle of rum, one of my favourite liquers. We all shared a few drinks as we finished our meals, eventually finishing and making our way over to the couch area.
It was decided that to start the afternoon/evening off, we would play some MarioKart (as you can see there is a pattern starting to form of playing this game). We played a few rounds, with me not doing very well during any of the races.
Liv sat next to me on one of the two-person couches. It seemed like that every opportunity she could, she'd move slightly closer to me. Eventually, she would be sat next to me, like she had the previous night around the campfire, but this time her bare arm touched my bare arm and her bare leg touched my bare leg. When we first touched skin-to-skin, it was electric. I could feel that warm feeling, radiate throughout my entire body. This was not a moment I wanted to end.
At this point the alcohol was starting to get to us and you can see that we were starting to get careless with the way in which we were racing. After a few rounds had been played, Nathan stood up as he was racing, really getting into the game. His arms were up and moving all over the place, mimicking the turns his character took on the track. All of this vigorous movement and his slowly declining motor functions, meant that when he won the race, he turned around flinging his arms up into the air with enough force, that his towel dropped away from his body.
Now I had never seen Nathan naked, heck I had never seen anyone naked before. It's seems to be pretty common overseas to shower with each other after sport at school, but this is not a common experience in Australia. My high school had individual cubicles installed in the shower room, as to keep enough privacy betweennl students. So because of this, I had never seen him in all of his glory. Nathan was definitely one of the fittest guys I knew and was always surprised that he would choose to spend time with the likes of me. He liked a lot of the same things I liked, so I guess that's how we became friends. But seeing him like this, was something new for me. I had never seen those toned abs under his shirt, that led down to the monster, circumcised package that dangled from his body. I knew I wasn't gay, but I couldn't help but feel slightly attracted to him.
Realising what had happened. He quickly bent down and picked up his towel, re-wrapping it around his body. I glanced over at Liv to see that she was staring at him as well (to be fair everyone would if that happened), and couldn't help but feel a little jealous. Nathan sat back down and the game resumed.
After what had just happened and all the alcohol we had drunken, you could easily feel there was some tension in the room. We all sat silently for a bit just playing. Zack eventually broke the ice by suggesting that we change the evening up a bit. Was this about to get into the territory that both Nathan and Liv had hinted at.
"Why don't we spice things up a bit, add a little more fun to the game," he said, with a smile creeping across his face.
I felt Liv squirm next to me. It looked as if she was briefly lost in memory. Everyone else in the room seemed to be acting the same way as her.
"Let's say that any time a race finishes, the person who loses must complete a dare from the winner," Zack continued.
The thought of the game sounded intriguing to me, but the connotations that Nathan and Liv had when talking about it early, left me a bit nervous. My leg that was rest up against Liv's started to bounce. She must have noticed that I seemed nervous, because she placed her hand on my bare leg, almost comforting me enough to stop.
"I'm In," she said as she smiled directly at me.
Her response was shortly followed by both Nathan and Sean, also agreeing to play. Eventually, they were all looking at me waiting for me to respond.
"What the heck," I said. "I've tried this much, why not some more."
As there were five of us and only four players able to play, this meant that we needed to rotate races. I was happy with this, as it did mean that I would get a reprieve every now and then, however, I did need to make it through four races first.
The first race was comprised of Liv, Sean, Nathan, and Me. Zack had just passed control over to Sean, so he would be missing out this round. It wasn't long until the results were in and surprise, surprise I came last. This was going to be a long night.