The following is a true story and although some of the details may be a little different than what really happened (my memory is not that good), on the whole, the story is true and I have written it to be as close to what really happened as possible. Also, all parties indicated in the story were at least 18 at the time of the events.
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When I was in my late teens, I had a guy friend that could not be beat. We talked about everything and we spent a huge amount of time together. There was never any real attraction or anything physical. It was just friends and fun. He was my bud and I loved him like a brother and I think he felt the same about me.
In the summer time, my mother had to work and my father wasn't around, so that left me in an empty house with way too much time on my hands. I worked afternoons and evenings, so my days were pretty much alone in the apartment with the remote and a working phone.
On this particular day, my bud, I'll call him Jim, and one of my girlfriends Janet came over. We had all just graduated high school and I was 18. Jim and Janet were both about to turn 19. They really were not supposed to come in (momma's rules), but I was bored and I thought what the heck. They were good friends and they weren't the type to do anything that would get me in trouble.
We hung around most of the morning just talking about stupid stuff like parents, and how we were glad to be out of school and of course we talked about guys and girls. Jim had to tell us everything about his favorite dates and the silly things that would go on. Janet would do the same and we all just sat around and laughed, giggled and blushed most of the morning.
Around 11:00, Jim brought up the idea of playing cards. Janet and I were OK with that so I went into the other room to get a deck. I came back and sat down on the floor with them and asked them what they wanted to play. Jim recommended some card game I had never heard of before, and I recommended one they had never heard before and we went on and on for a few minutes. Before long, Janet said, have you guys ever played "Strip Poker?" This sort of caught me off guard. I would expect something like this from Jim, but Janet? It wasn't that she was little miss too goody shoes or anything, but she was a bit homely.
Jim and I blushed and looked at one another. I wasn't really sure what to say. I mean, what was I to get out of this game? I really wasn't attracted to Janet (or any other girls at the time) and Jim...well, he was a friend and I just never thought of him that way.
Before I could answer, Jim smiled at me and said "I'm in!" I was stunned. I had never seen anything like this from him before, and now here I was trying to find a way out. I tried back peddling, and as could be expected, they started calling me chicken and teasing me....OK...count me in too damnit!
