My story, also published elsewhere.
Disclaimers: NSFW. This has F/M fart fetish content, so if you're not into that don't read. All characters are 18+, readers should be too. Sections are marked by dotted lines, so for the plot heavy sections feel free to skip to the next set of dotted lines, if you'd like.
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Peter remained dead focused on the red solo cup in front of him. He bounced the ping pong ball clean over the cup, then grabbed it back. Dammit this was frustrating.
The girl to his left, Taylor, slapped the cup away from in front of him. "Too slow, Petey!" She passed her cup to Grace, to his right, who giggled.
Peter groaned in frustration and grabbed the cup in front of him. There wasn't even any alcohol in it to drink, which was the fun part of slap cup, it was just an empty cup. A stupid empty cup which he once again missed with the stupid uncooperative ping pong ball. Grace passed her cup to her twin Elena (people called them twins even though Elena's parents were Peruvian and Grace's parents were from Akron Ohio, they were just that close of friends).
"Hurry up and pass your cup Pete I need a chance to slap Elena," Grace joked.
"What you mean slap me girl," Elena said while fiercely giggling, "you only get to slap my cup. Take your time Petey."
Petey. Taylor used that nickname to get under his skin, and now other people were picking it up. He didn't want the group of girls taking on a pack mentality - with him as the prey. Peter tried to put the thought aside but still missed the cup.
"Come on Peter, you got this," said Avery. Avery was the whole reason Peter had came to this pregame in the first place. They were pretty close, texting frequently, hanging out in group settings occasionally, and having lunch together after their shared classes most week days. They shared a sense of humor, and Avery had told him they were weird in the same way, which he took as a complement. But if he were honest, he wanted to be closer to her, and her invite to this pregame seemed like another chance for that. Peter cleared his mind, and smoothly bounced the ping pong ball into the cup.
Elena passed her cup further right to Vanya. Vanya was all focus, no bullshit, her intense dark eyes staring down the cup through her intense black winged eyeliner. She didn't drink often - more of a weed gal - but was wicked good at drinking games anyways. She got the ping pong ball in in a single try and passed her cup to Avery.
The game would be over once all the cups in the center circle had been used, all the way down to the game-ending "death cup" in the center. Since not everyone drank, they were all empty of beer, but even sober, slap cup took on a competitive intensity.
Grace passed her cup to Elena while Avery passed hers to Mae Rose. Mae missed, but did so cheerfully, as she did all things. Elena passed her cup to Vanya, who passed to Avery, who slapped away Mae Rose's cup.
"Sorry Mae!" Avery apologized as she slapped her cup away and passed her cup back to Taylor.
"No worries girl! It's all in the game!" Mae replied as she took another cup from the center. It was getting closer to the death cup and the end of the game.
Taylor got the ping pong ball in pretty easily, but took her time passing her cup to Peter. "Hey, give me that!"
"What, this old thing? Must have slipped my mind, Petey," Taylor said, to the raucous laughter of Grace and Elena. She waited a moment longer until Mae Rose got the ball in, then both cups were passed at the same time.
"Say, we're getting pretty close to the center y'all." Taylor didn't even shoot, just watched Peter fumble trying to bounce the ball in with a smug look of amusement. "Since loosing with the death cup usually means chugging a beer or taking a shot, but I can't drink because of soccer training and Vanya doesn't feel like drinking tonight, we should come up with a dare for the loser to do so it still has stakes."
The group murmured in agreement. Peter looked up to see the nods of assent from the other five girls and glance at the death cup. While he was looking away, Taylor got her ball in and slapped his cup out of the way. He took another cup and refocused.
"I think that would be fun," Grace said. "Any ideas?"
"They could drink hot sauce or something, maybe?" Mae Rose suggested.
"Lame! They should drink sweat from Grace's smelly armpits," said Elena.
"Girl you're the smelly one," Grace said as she passed her cup to Elena.
"Drink that lysol spray," Vanya suggested.
The suggestions of what to drink escalated as Peter passed his cup on. "Bleach!" "Refrigerant!" "Car battery acid!"
"Guys be for real we aren't doing that," Mae Rose interjected.
"They should kiss my butt," Taylor said with her chin jutted upwards. Everyone laughed it off as a joke, but Peter squirmed a little as no one proposed counter offers. There was no way he would be doing that if he lost, but more importantly, there was no way he was losing now. Not with Taylor seeing another chance to belittle him. He knew Avery was her roommate but he still wished she wouldn't hang out with Taylor, who always seemed to be trying to put something over on him even though he had barely interacted with her.
The pair of cups and ping pong balls were passed around the circle. Every now and again a cup would clatter loudly to the ground, or the group would laugh at Grace and Elena's antics, or they would cheer when someone got the ping pong ball in on the first try, which meant the cup could be passed off at random.
Finally it was down to the death cup, sudden death. The cups were passed along, but everyone was playing their best. Taylor put her hand on Peter's shoulder and squeezed teasingly. Peter looked to her and felt his arms grow weak with dread. The death cup was passed to him and he strained to get the ball in, once, twice, three times. Just as he got it in, Taylor's hand flew in from the left and knocked his cup aside. That was game.
Peter looked at the cup limply. Most of the girls were cheering Taylor or trying to console Peter that he had played a good game, but Peter remembered Taylor's threat of what happened to the loser. He looked at her, and saw her staring back smugly, a grin spreading across her face. She remembered too.
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"Looks like you're the big loser, Petey," Taylor taunted.
"Hey, good game though buddy," Mae Rose assured him.
"We all know what happens to the loser though, don't we," Taylor reasserted. Slowly it dawned on the others what the dare had been.
"Wait, we're still doing that?" Vanya asked.
"Oh my God I almost forgot!" Grace said, giddy.
"Yo come on how is that fair," Peter said, almost pleading with the group.
"Hey, rules are rules buddy. Get ready to kiss my butt," Taylor said. She hiked her leggings up and swayed her hips, her long brown hair swaying with them.
"This is literally soo funny though," Elena laughed.
"This is fucked up," Peter protested.
"Too bad. Don't be a sore loser. On your knees," Taylor commanded.