The Skin Ball Part Two: The Strip Show
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TRI GAM
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Just before ten o’clock, eighty-six Ep Chi sisters walked down Calhoun Avenue, dressed to nines. Each of them was wearing a stunning cocktail dress, as Alex had instructed them all. Even if they were going to spend a bulk of the night in the nude, they’d at least show up well dressed.
Alex and Jessa were at the front of the line, walking side by side up the walkway to TriGam’s front door. Jessa was dressed in a strapless pink dress that stopped just above her knees, while Alex was wearing a similar white dress, with straps that ran up and tied behind her neck. And, dangling in between them was Jessa’s solution to the buddy rule problem.
“Handcuffs?” Mason asked in disbelief when he saw the line of girls descend upon TriGam, two by two. “You’re worried about this turning overly sexual and you’re all wearing handcuffs?”
“Well, we’re handcuffed to each other, not to anyone’s bed,” Alex smiled as she brushed past Mason and into the house.
“Of course,” Jessa continued, placing her left forefinger on Mason’s nose, “tomorrow night is a different subject.” Successfully arousing the TriGam president, Jessa smiled to herself as Alex dragged her into the house.
The handcuffs had actually been Alex’s younger sister’s idea. When Lauren Poe had caught them drawing up rules to their Skin Ball, and struggling over how to enforce a buddy rule, she had jokingly suggested the cuffs. After all, if they were going to prance around a frat house completely naked, they might as well complete the fantasy and cuff themselves to each other. Though Lauren had been joking, Alex and Jessa had slowly come around to the idea, eventually agreeing that as sexual as it may have been, it really was the best way to keep the girls together and keep them safe.
And so, couple after couple of girls breezed into TriGam, past Mason and the others brothers who were standing guard at the entrance. A pair of fur-lined handcuffs chained each couple together, Alex having bought them online at an adult store. They hadn’t been cheap, but Kristin had assured her that the sorority had more than enough money to make this indulgence.
Earlier in the night, as all the girls gathered at Ep Chi, Alex had locked them together. Some couples, like Alex and Jessa, had been lucky, and were made up of both left-handed and right-handed people. Other girls, though, sacrificed the use of their good hand for the night, in the interest of safety and sexiness. Each pair was locked by a master key, which Alex was wearing as a necklace charm that hung on a silver chain down between her ample cleavage.
Every single sister and pledge from Ep Chi followed Jessa and Alex into the house. Alex had made sure that everyone was there – they were a house, and they were going to do this together. She had threatened them all, offering them three choices: they could come tonight, they could de-pledge, or they could serve naked cocktails at TriGam’s next house meeting. None of the options were terribly appealing, but in the end, every last sister in Ep Chi opted to attend the Skin Ball.
The alcohol was flowing freely as Alex and Jessa descended into the basement together. Two of the TriGam brothers, Drew Benson and Will Bredeson, were behind the bar, serving up just about anything that the girls would consume – cheap champagne, mixed drinks, wine, beer, and more. Though Jessa had warned the girls all to take it a little easy tonight so they could stay in control, it was clear that most of her sisters had the complete opposite idea – they wanted to have a few drinks to calm their nerves, and ready themselves for the idea of stripping naked in less than an hour.
Most of the girls just drifted around awkwardly, drinks in their hands. Tara Martz and Courtney Gagnon, cuffed together, both sought out their respective boyfriends, Scott Minner and Evan LeFebvre. Jessa was actually surprised that there weren’t more couples between the two houses, but didn’t spend too much time dwelling on it. After all, she herself had been hanging out at TriGam since she was a freshman, and had never dated a TriGam brother.
She had come close, though.
Mason saddled up behind Jessa and Alex, and handed them each a cocktail.
“Judd and I have a table, if you two girls are interested in a game of Pong,” he offered, gesturing with his head towards the ping-pong table in the corner.
“I think the last time that I played Pong with you here, I ended up losing all my clothes,” Jessa replied.
“Well, win or lose, it’s going to happen anyways,” he said, smiling at the petite blonde. “This time, though, I think we’re just going to have to settle for the alcohol, though. You know the rules – I have to keep all my clothes on.”
He’s flirting with me, Jessa thought to herself. “Okay, you’re on.”
Because they didn’t really want to mix their alcohol, Jessa and Alex played with water instead of beer, their mixed drinks being steadily drained and refilled on the side. Across the table, Mason and Judd Romney stuck with beer, though, while Mason had more than a few bottles in addition to the game. Mason always complained that he sobered up during games of Pong, rather than getting drunker.