"I'm having nightmares tonight," Niki declared, wiggling under my arm. "I hate this movie." She suddenly grabbed the remote and flipped the television off.
"Okay, I was watching that." I sighed, glancing at her briefly. "You don't need to be such a baby," I teased.
"Oh, fuck you." She threw a pillow at me.
"Don't mind if I do," I continue to tease, playfully dropping my eyes to her lips for a split second before throwing her a wink. I had been over for almost an hour, and Niki was having a hard time paying attention to the film. I only let her turn it off because I had seen it. And because watching movies was not why I was at Niki's place.
"How was practice?" she asked me, scooting closer to me.
"Hard. My shoulders are killing me. But we get faster every day." I shrug.
"What I don't understand," Niki said, starting to draw out her words, "is how you would rather be in a boat than my bed." Her fingers, previously dancing on my knee, were sliding up my thigh. Her movements were painfully slow.
"Mhmm," I feigned thought. "Maybe it's because I can actually get wet in a boat." I watched Niki's eyebrows raise in amusement before laughing.
"Yeah, but in my bed maybe you could come first for once." She gave me a pointed look.
"Really is a shame, isn't it?" I leaned in to kiss her, but she only pushed me away and sat back, putting distance between us.
"Give me a chance, Alex," she pleaded.
"I don't remember you having a problem with coming first on Tuesday."
I saw that mischievous twinkle in her eyes, and I knew something bad was coming. "I have an idea for tonight," she told me. I opened my mouth but she cut me off, shutting my jaw with the tips of her fingers. I narrowed my eyes at her. "Here's the game. Every time I get you to crack that arrogant top-ass attitude of yours, I get to take off a piece of your clothing."
I thought about it for a minute. I most certainly did not like the idea of being gradually undressed by Niki. But to be fair, it would feel good as hell when she couldn't get a rise out of me. And it would feel even better getting her off before I came.
"Deal, but you only have twenty minutes to try," I said. "And after that, I'm in charge again." I stuck out my hand, and she shook it with a grin before leaning in to whisper something in my ear.
"I am going to make you cum so fucking hard you can't walk straight. And after I do, I'm going to tie you down to my bed and do it all again." Niki then hopped off the couch, into the kitchen, before I could even process what she had said.
Desperately trying not to stammer, I called after her: "Where are you going?" She returned a moment later with a long cloth.
"All the best games start with a blindfold, you know," she said with a grin.
I let her pull me into her bedroom, my heart already beating like a drum. She pushed me backward onto her bed and I instinctively reached out to pull her down with me. She ducked out of my reach and I frowned.
"Oh, that's not how this works, Alex." Her cool knuckles brushed my neck as she moved to sit behind me on the bed. I let out an involuntary shudder. "Strike one," she whispered in my ear, starting to slide off my jacket.
"What? No that wasn't -" Niki cut me off with her jaw-closing trick again.
"Shhh. I'm calling the shots tonight." She continued sliding my jacket off as I rolled my eyes. "Twenty minutes, starting now." I heard the click of a timer.
