Chapter 1 - A Game of Cards?
It is amazing how difficult it is to get money out of an affluent community for a new church roof. We had been quoted around $200,000 and despite fund raising hard for the last year we were only about a quarter of the way there. I guess it was one of those things that you really only felt strongly about while sitting in church every Sunday. The pastor harangued us to give, give, give. A bit like Bob Geldorf without the swear words.
That night there were four of us, I recall, having a nice Saturday evening dinner, probably before a game of cards. It turned out to be that fateful day when the Grand Plan was tentatively mooted.
There we were, me David, Jane, my wife, and Sue and Evan, our best local buddies here in Spring Falls sitting around the kitchen table after dinner, a couple of beers and, as I remember three bottles of wine.
We had moved over here to this fairly small town in the mid west only three years ago from England, and while it was a bit Hicksville we had already made some good friends, mainly through the church.
I am never mean with the wine and on this particular evening I had been hoping to schmooze our way into a little strip poker. We had played before on a couple of occasions and the evenings had got hotter and hotter. We had moved on to smutty dares last time and I was really hoping that one evening, perhaps tonight, I was going to be able to sink my cock into Sue's pussy. Last time we had been given a one minute dare allowing us to kiss and grope, but with our partners watching, and Jane and Evan had received the same dare. Fair's fair, but I would rather have been on our own, and I think Sue would have been happier as well.
Still maybe tonight.
I felt the time was right.
'So how about a game of cards?' I casually mentioned. I saw Evan's eyes light up.
'What had you got in mind?' he said. 'I think I have had too much wine to play bridge.'
Both the girls laughed.
'Yeah right,' said Jane 'So how many articles of clothing do you happen to be wearing?'
I was delighted to see that we were all on the same wavelength.
'We really ought to be playing a game where we could put some winnings into the church roof fund,' mused Sue. 'But on the other hand I haven't got a lot of change on me but I do have seven items of clothing.'
That seemed an incredible amount as we took our shoes off at the door and surely we would only count socks or stockings as one item. I started trying to work out what she was wearing. I could see the cardigan, the white glittery t-shirt, the short denim skirt and I assumed bra and panties. I has assumed that she was wearing tights but now realised that they were probably stockings, and although they only counted for one I guessed that she also had a suspender belt on. I went into a small reverie of my own and started changing the rules.
'How about this time, the loser of the round removes an item, but the winner of the round chooses which one.' I had already switched into play mode as I stood and tried to start a move to the rumpus room in the basement.
'That's it,' exclaimed Jane. 'That's what we need to do.'
I was grateful for her support. I really wanted to see Sue standing there in just her stockings and suspenders.
'Good, I will open another bottle to bring with me, take your own glasses and Jane you get the cards. We will clear up in here later.'
'No you idiot,' said Jane. 'Not the game tonight. The church roof.'
We all looked at her as if she had gone a little mad.
'What are you talking about?' Sue laughed.
'We will organise a game of strip poker and the winnings will go to the church. I am sure a lot of people round here would be intrigued enough to see their neighbours with no clothes on that they would join us in a game.'
'I am not sure that the church will be delighted to get a selection of used clothing especially if it has to have them all cleaned. Have you forgotten we don't play for money?' said Evan.
Jane's face fell. 'Well maybe we could charge an entrance fee, say $100?'
'Yes,' said Sue. 'If we got fifty people to play we could raise $5000.'
I laughed. 'I have a better idea, if they will pay $100 to lose their clothes in a game of poker they will pay $1000 to take part in an orgy.'
'Where's my cheque book?' cried Evan. 'Where do I sign up?'
We both fell about laughing. I knew that we had as much chance of organising an orgy as flying. It had taken us six evenings of playing cards to get the clothes off Sue and Evan.
'That's it,' said Jane. 'We will organise a Roman orgy. We will all wear togas and have dancing girls and nearly naked serving boys.'