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**Oh, and the card game described is real. If you play it, please drink responsibly. Huge quantities of alcohol will be drunk while playing, so for the love of God, don't do shots while playing and don't drive home after playing!**
My second year of college closed with a bad relationship. I hadn't had sex in three months and my hormones were lighting up like the skies on Independence Day. I needed something, anything, to lay and I had been talking with my friends back home to hook me up. As always, they came through.
Her name was Jamie, and she was 2 years younger than I was, not old enough to drink yet, but old enough for everything and anything else. All I wanted her for was to get my rocks off, and she was legal enough for that.
I hadn't met her yet, hadn't even seen a picture. Hell, the guys even bet me that I couldn't get her into bed the same night I got home from school. After making sure she would actually be at my coming home party, I took the bet and asked what she looked like.
Redheaded was the first thing they said; bastards knew my weakness. Slut was the second thing they said; bastards knew my type. After all, I wasn't looking for some long term thing, and if we kept bumping into each other, so much the better as long as the sex was good. Either way, I was looking forward to the challenge and to the case of beer and bottle of Jack that was waiting for me after finals.
After the easiest finals of my life, I got myself moved home and the first night back, I was introduced to Jamie. As things turned out, it was going to be easier than I thought.
"So you're Bran?" a redhead asked me from the couch of my buddy's apartment. I looked at her and took her in. She was wearing overalls and a sports bra. I couldn't see panties showing through the gaps in the blue denim, but given her description earlier, I didn't expect to find any later, either. Her hair was a glorious color of copper with a little natural wavy curl to it, and it was pulled into a ponytail that draped over her shoulder and down her back. Her cheeks were splashed with freckles and they were pale, befitting that she was probably a true redhead. Either way she was skinny and in good shape.
I didn't have to wait long for the games to begin. I nodded in response to her question. She turned to my friend's fiancée and took a drag off a cigarette. "This is the one who's hung like a donkey?" Everyone else in the room about choked, a sly smile crossed my face. Silence filled the room for a second as I sat next to her on the couch and saw that she was in fact panty-less under her overalls.
"Yeah, that'd be me," I said looking around, sliding my hand to her thigh. "Jim, where's the beer?" Jim paused the Playstation game and got me a case of semi-cold Budweiser, sliding it over beside the couch. I looked at it and looked at him. "Thanks man, I appreciate it and all, but I said beer, not yellow water."
"Bran, they don't sell Guinness by the case and besides, you're gonna be here a lot this summer, you're going to be drinking a lot this summer, you'd better learn to drink cheaper," Jim said, sitting back down. No sooner had I shrugged and twisted the top off my beer than our friend Alex burst through the apartment's back door.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" he said, looking at me dead in the eyes.
"I was gonna get a little drunk and then find something to screw. Why, what the fuck are you doing?" I said defensively, sliding my hand up Jamie's thigh. I hit the buttons on the side of her overalls and popped both of them open.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" she demanded. "I never said you could do that!"
"You didn't tell me no, either," I said quietly, staring her dead in the eyes. They were an incredible shade of blue with little flecks of green and silver dancing in them. I reached down and grabbed her a beer. She smiled and looked back to Alex.
"So what the hell are you on about?" I asked. Alex gave a disgruntled sigh and got the bottle of Jack out of the freezer.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing drinking that piss? If you're gonna be drinking, you gotta warm up your liver," Alex said and tossed me the bottle. The cap hit the coffee table and the bottle tipped up. It was set down with 3 inches taken out of it.
"Holy fuck, you guys weren't lying about him," Jamie half-whispered. I picked my beer up and Jim, Alex, and Jim's fiancée all shook their heads.
"People tend to not do that about me. The truth is so much more fun. Like what else did they say about me?"
"8-inches," Jamie mumbled quietly and blushed a little. I laughed; they hadn't under cut me by much, but it's surprising the difference three-quarters of an inch makes. Jamie turned red, then pale, then stared at my crotch. I took the opportunity to slip my hand in through the gap in her overalls and put my freshly chilled hand on her hot thigh. She jumped a little but didn't shy away. I felt her thigh flex under my fingers, but I left them there, giving her leg a gentle squeeze every so often. It seemed like she was a sure thing, but I wanted her to be ready for it; I wanted her to beg.
"All right. Jim, get the beer ready. Alex, get us some cards. Jamie, stop smoking and go brush your teeth, I don't want to be tasting cigarette on you all goddamn night. I'll get the pizza on the way," I said, grabbing the phone. Nods met me from everyone except Jamie.
"Who said I'd be letting you kiss me?" she demanded, pushing my hand away from her creamy flesh. I pointed to the guys and Kris, Jim's fiancé. They all nodded and shrugged. "Goddamnit you guys, I didn't say I'd be fucking him tonight!" she said, almost screaming the last word out. She did, however, get up and stomp to the bathroom. We heard the familiar sounds of running water and scrubbing teeth a few seconds later.
"Man, you never said she was sleeping in the spare bedroom," I said, clearing the coffee table off so we could play cards. Jim shrugged and started setting things aside.
"Never asked."
"Thanks, dick," I said as he got up to get the beer out of the fridge. Jamie stomped back in and flopped down next to me. I gave her a look over again and felt the urge to lick my lips. "So when did kissing turn into fucking?" I asked blatantly. Alex flipped me the pack of cards and Jamie turned bright red, but didn't say anything. I thought maybe I should be a little nicer; apparently she wasn't going to be the toy for the evening but someone I'd be seeing all damn summer if I wanted to or not.
I ordered the pizza and we all situated around the table.
"Okay, the first few hands, we won't drink, just so everyone can get the rules down. Here's what you have to remember," I said and dealt three cards face down to everyone. "Nobody look at these cards. These are the last cards you will play and you can play them in any random order." I dealt three more cards face up and then three more cards face down to everyone. "Okay, here's the deal. You will take three of these cards and place them face up on the face down cards. Those are the cards you will play one at a time after your hand is completely gone. After the face up cards are all gone, play the face down cards at random. Everybody got that?" Everyone nodded. Jim had at least played this game before, but it was new to Alex, Jamie, and Kris.
"Okay, there are a few special cards. Except for those cards, you generally want to beat whatever is played before you. Multiple cards don't mean shit. One 4 will beat three 3's. Got it?" Everyone nodded again.
There are special cards that you can play anytime. Two's, Tens and Aces can be played at any time. Aces are always high. Two's restart the pile, and Ten's clear the pile. If four of any card are played in a row, the pile is cleared and it's a social drink. When the pile is cleared, the person who cleared it gets to go again, and it's an open table; they can play anything they want. If a 7 is played, the next person has to play a 7 or under and then it goes back to normal. 8's skip the next person in the row, and multiple 8's being played still skips only one person. After you play, if you have less than 3 cards in your hand, draw back up to 3 cards. If the draw pile is gone, play out the rest of your hand and start playing off your face-up cards."