To anyone who was expecting this story that I promised a while ago, I apologize (life events happen). But at long last, here is Part 1. Part 2 will come in another week or so (I hope).
Guess: The Ultimate Sex Game
Part 1
Danielle was struggling to ring the doorbell while holding the bottle of wine and plate of cheese, but she somehow managed to use her elbow to announce her arrival. She had been to her friend Stacy's apartment many times before so she wasn't sure why she was having so much trouble tonight. It was probably the nervousness.
The door opened and Danielle saw the familiar warm smile she always looked forward to seeing. "Hey there! Glad you could make it! Let me help you with that!" Stacy grabbed the plate of cheese from her hands. "Come in and say hi to everyone! I think you know everyone already." Stacy had invited Danielle over tonight along with several other friends of hers. Danielle was good friends with Stacy, whom she has known for many years, but she didn't know the other people in the group very well, other than the few sporadic times she saw them at various parties.
As Danielle took off her jacket, she smiled at everyone in the room. Louis was a nice looking guy who, like her, had graduated college a couple of years ago but didn't really stand out personality wise. Remmy was a little older and worked as a bartender, which seemed to fit him well considering how socially outgoing he was. Christy was basically the same age as the rest of them, but Danielle always found her vapid with no curiosity about much of anything outside of her latest issue of Cosmo.
When she saw that Peter was there, she groaned internally. Peter was one of those good looking guys who knew he was a good looking guy and strutted around with an arrogant charm that everybody else found endearing but she always found repulsive and a little creepy. She politely smiled at him, but the way he smiled back at her made her skin crawl.
"So is everyone ready to play?" Stacy asked the crowd who all, except for Danielle, responded enthusiastically. Danielle wasn't as thrilled, but Stacy had repeatedly begged her to come tonight. A friend of Stacy's had found some board game on the internet that was purported to be the sexiest game in existence. She couldn't believe Stacy actually paid good money for this game and invited all these people to come play. When Stacy asked her to come, Danielle knew it was terrible idea and that she shouldn't do it but she nevertheless agreed after Stacy had relentlessly pleaded for her to take part.
"How about you, Danielle?" Peter gave her a smirk that was pure dare. He looked up and down at her. Danielle had worn a modest blouse and blue jeans, but his eyes seemed to be undressing her as though he was trying to imagine what the skin of her 38-inch chest looked like, which made her a little uncomfortable. Her sizable chest had always been a prominent feature of her 5'7" frame and all her life she had become accustomed to men lustfully looking at her extra-large distracters, but now that she was about to play some sort of sex game with these strangers, she felt extremely self-conscious about her body.
"I'm ready!" she said, looking Peter straight in the eye. Sure, Danielle wasn't the most sexually adventuresome person, she knew that about herself and this was not the sort of game she would have wanted to play if it were up to her. But there was no way she was going to be intimidated by him.
Peter guffawed, "Right." And the others laughed as well. Danielle had always had trouble making friends throughout her life. People had told her she was "stuck up," "conceited," "too goody-goody," "better than everyone else," and "egotistical." She had never found it easy to lighten up and go with the flow. During her psych course, she discovered the paragraph on controlling personalities described her way too well, and ever since then she made a point to do things outside her comfort zone every so often. Now that she was here, though, she wondered if maybe this particular event was more than she could endure. Looking at the faces of all these people eyeing her with suspicion, she could tell they wondered the same thing. Danielle decided to shove her fears aside and was determined to prove them, and herself, wrong.
"So what are we supposed to do?" Christy asked in a particularly bubbly way that made Danielle wince.
"Basically we work our way through this booklet here," Stacy said reaching into a square-shaped duffel bag and pulling out a scarlet book with gold letters saying GUESS WHO? emblazoned on the front, the same word printed on the side of the bag. "There are a bunch of challenges, and whoever gets the most points wins."
"Great. What's the first challenge?" Danielle asked, hoping to get this game over with quickly.
"Let's see... yadda yadda..." Danielle thought about taking the booklet from Stacy, who was not the fastest reader but Stacy continued, "ok, here it is, Challenge One. Everyone must take off all their clothes except for underwear. The first person to get everything off gets five points, the last person gets negative-five points. Everyone else gets three points."
"I've set my phone to countdown in five seconds, is everyone ready?" Danielle was already feeling uncomfortable at the thought of undressing in front of other people she barely knew, especially one whom she particularly despised. But she was determined to see the game through.
BEEP! At the sound of the phone, everyone started frantically taking off their shirts and pants. The room was filled with arms and bodies in constant motion and articles of clothing being flung in every direction. "Done!" Peter exclaimed, and Danielle took a quick glance at him and saw that he was in fact completely naked except for the boxer briefs that clung tightly to the bulge in his crotch.
Stacy cried, "Done!" next and Danielle cursed herself for having trouble pulling her pants around her ankles. When at last she did, she triumphantly said, "Done!" as well, as did all the remaining people.
Christy asked, "Who came in last?"
Peter had a wicked smile on his face. "Well, Danielle still has her socks on, so she's not actually done yet." Danielle looked down and sure enough, she had forgotten all about her socks. She cursed herself as she pulled her stupid socks off. "And it looks like she came in last." Peter laughed. It had only been one challenge and already Danielle hated the sound of his voice.
"Ok, Challenge Two," Stacy said reading through the next page in the book and reaching into the GUESS WHO? bag to pull out three blindfolds. "Says here that there are two stages to this challenge. For the ladies, we need to put these blindfolds on and put our arms behind our backs, then each guy has one minute to put their hands on our bras. After each person has a turn, we ladies have to write down which guy was first, second, and third. Each correct answer earns three points."
Danielle could feel the eyes of the men sneaking looks at her breasts, just as she always knew when men were looking at her bosom. She stared at Stacy incredulously, "Wait, I'm supposed to let these three guys just... fondle me?"
"I told you inviting her was a mistake," Peter said to Stacy. "I knew she would ruin everything."
"I'm not trying to ruin anything, I'm just not... comfortable with this part of the game, that's all." Standing there in a thin, skin-tight lace bra and panties, Danielle felt a chill run through her body that made the hairs on her arms covering her chest stand on end.
"Face it, you're a prude." Peter said to Danielle as he snatched his pants off the floor before turning to the others. "Forget it, she's not going to go through with the game, so let's stop now and get someone else who's capable of having fun and isn't so uptight." Everyone else reached down and grabbed their clothes as well, some of them looking at Danielle with a disappointment as if all their perceptions of Danielle as a prissy, timid puritan had been proven.
"No, wait, I didn't say I wouldn't. I was surprised." Danielle's voice sounded more sheepish than she wanted. "Come on, let's keep going."
Peter kept putting his shirt back on. "You'll just balk at the next challenge. Or the next one after that. Just forget it." Danielle knew he was using reverse psychology and that he was manipulatively goading her. She knew that, but she couldn't stand having that arrogant asshole grandstand in front of everyone as if he had proven beyond a shadow of a doubt what a sexually repressed person she was.
She could feel part of her screaming for her to forget these people, stop caring what their opinions of her are, and walk away now while she could. But the part of her that had always motivated her to succeed took over and defiantly gritted her teeth, "I said, I'd finish the game and I meant it."
"Or what?" Peter looked at Danielle.
"What do you mean?"