First of all, let me say thank you so much for your support on this new series! Less than 48 hours after being published this story already had over 50 comments, which for me at least is absolutely unheard of. I'm really pleased that you all like this concept so much - please keep voting each week, as the options will be getting progressively more extreme as we go on!
For chapter one it was quite a close call, but with just over 40% of the votes the most popular option was... B! On we go...
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Zara got up and sat cross-legged with her fingertips pressed together, deep in thought, but then she looked up and grinned at Lena. "Ok... so, would you rather do a thirty-second handstand in the hallway, or go and knock on the boys' room wearing only a pair of panties?"
As Faith giggled nervously, while Hailey rolled her eyes in despair, Lena laughed and nodded slowly at Zara, looking her up and down with a newfound respect. "Damn, ok Zara," she smiled, biting her bottom lip, "we're playing like that, are we?"
Zara smirked. "What, you wanted a good one, didn't you?" she said, cocking her head to the side.
"No, you're right," Lena agreed, holding up her hands. "This is good, this is how we play back at home - nudity always gets involved sooner or later."
"Are you going to go and flash the boys?" Faith asked, her eyes flashing with excitement - even just the idea of Lena letting the men's team see her topless was too scandalous for words.
"I swear to God Lena," Hailey grumbled, sitting up with her legs crossed as she draped her duvet over her shoulders. "If you do anything to get on coach Richard's bad side then he'll drop you for tomorrow's game."
Both the men's and women's teams were overseen by coach Richards, a stern former Olympian who was mildly terrifying, and who would take a very dim view to Zara and Lena's game indeed.
"Don't worry," Lena smiled, waving Hailey's concerns away. "I'm not going to go and disturb the boys... even if there's one who I wouldn't mind stripping for!"
As often happened between male and female sports teams, quite a few crushes had developed between the members of the two squads. The girls all knew who everyone else in the group fancied, and Lena's boy of choice was Pierre - a cute but shy French exchange student, who much to Lena's annoyance seemed oblivious to her interest in him.
"So you're choosing handstand?" Zara asked.
"Yeah, and I assume I have to wear this?" Lena replied, looking down at her baggy, knee-length t-shirt. "It's going to fall down when I do it though," she continued, twisting her hips from side to side and watching the material wrap around her, "but I guess that was why you thought of a handstand," she grinned, looking up at Zara.
"Naturally," her friend smiled back. "Well then - shall we?"
Faith clambered down from her bunkbed and joined Lena and Zara as they walked out into the corridor. Hailey watched them go, then sighed to herself and cast her blanket aside - if they were going to go through with their silly little game then they should at least have a chaperone, she decided, so she got up and grabbed the girls' only room key, then followed the other three outside.
Lena had taken a few steps away from the door was standing in the middle of the corridor, frowning up and down its length as she decided where best to complete her dare. "Just anywhere along here?" she asked Zara, who nodded.
The girls' room was on the second floor of the motel, around half-way along the corridor, and at the ends of the hallway there were two sets of lifts and stairwells which led back downstairs to the lobby.
"I guess I'll do it right here then," Lena shrugged, ducking forwards to shake her hair free, before gathering it up into a ponytail.
"Remember though, it's -" Zara began, before a noise at the end of the corridor cut her off.
The girls turned to watch as a young couple appeared at the end of the hall, pulling two suitcases out from the lift. Faith felt a little self-conscious, standing there in her pyjama top and shorts, while Lena, who's perky nipples betrayed the fact that she wore nothing beneath her shirt, stood confidently with her chest puffed out as she fiddled with her hair. The four friends stayed silent as the couple walked up towards them, then they nodded hello to the pair who walked past them and unlocked the door two along from the girls' room.
Once the couple had disappeared from sight Zara spoke up again. "I was going to say that it's for thirty seconds straight," she said. "If you fall then you have to start again."