When a couple just graduated from college and burdened with debt decide to appear on the BDSM-themed game show "Right or Wrong," interesting things happen.
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"We can't go on that show!" Delores Tucker exclaimed. "We don't have the thousand dollar entry fee... ... and what if we're wrong!?"
"We have at least that much coming in our income tax refund," Darius replied in his most soothing voice. Then he added, "And we don't have to go to the highest levels."
Darius Evans was Delores' boyfriend of several years. Since they had lived together now for over three years, perhaps it would be better to call him her "significant other," but Delores hated that term. She always introduced him as her boyfriend.
"Besides," he continued, "if we don't know the question, we can always take the money and walk away."
"I don't know," she replied very warily, "we really need that refund. And besides, they do some really nasty things to people on that show."
"But we could make enough in just one night to pay off all our bills," he countered. "We could maybe even win enough to buy a small house... or go on a really nice vacation."
His voice turned almost syrupy sweet as he asked, "You'd really like that, wouldn't you, Butterbutt?"
His use of his pet name for her was a very dangerous thing to do in an argument. If she was really mad at him, it would cause her to explode. She was sensitive about the size of her ass even though that was what Darius really loved about her. And she was almost ashamed of the fact that she loved anal. Bringing up her ass when she was angry was like throwing gasoline on a fire.
He was willing to take the risk because it was more important to find out if she was really mad at him for bringing up Right or Wrong or if she was merely unsure or afraid about appearing on the BDSM-themed game show.
"But what if we're wrong, Bullius?" she almost whined. Darius relaxed slightly and let a smile come to his face. She used her pet name for him. When they had first met in a college class, she made fun of his name and called him "Dairy Boy." That had infuriated him so much that he made it his goal for the rest of the semester to do everything he could to make her life miserable.
Unfortunately it was a relatively small class, and, even more unfortunately, the professor believed that developing teamwork was an essential skill for success. The small class meant that everyone knew that they despised each other. The professor's beliefs meant that she had assigned them the course project as a joint action.
Their desire to pass the course overcame their hatred for each other- almost- as they struggled to complete the project. It was a research project so it was possible to do most of the work independently. The other professors and various participants in their surveys signed off on their independent work but the final paper had to be a joint effort. They had each submitted several papers during the course of the class, so their professor knew their style and typical word usage. She would know if just one of them totally wrote the paper. Alternating chapters or any other plan like that would be just as obvious. They had to write this together.
Darius had four roommates in his small apartment. Delores had only two roommates and a much larger apartment with a big kitchen, so it was decided that they would work together at her place. Both Delores and Darius really wanted to go south for Spring Break, but there was no other time that they could work together and the paper was due shortly after break. They had put it off long enough. It had to be written over Spring Break.
After two days which had been spent primarily screaming at each other, one of Delores' roomies reached her limit. "You two are acting like little children!" she had yelled at them. "I should just lock you in the apartment and not let you out until you have decided to work together with each other." She had then said loudly, "Shelly and I are going to visit her parents for a few days so you two will have the apartment to yourselves for the rest of the week. If you two are still here- and still alive- when we get back, I'll assume you have worked out your differences."
After the room mates had left, Darius said glumly, "Whether she locked us in or not, we are trapped here. We need to work out our differences so that we can get this paper written."
Following that, they sat at the small table in the kitchen and stared at each other in silence. After a while- a long while- Delores said softly, "Why do you hate me?"
Darius felt himself almost boiling. "You really don't know, do you?" he spat out.
"No," Delores answered. Then she added angrily, "Why don't you tell me?"
Darius stared at her in silence. He started to talk several times, but could not. Finally he blurted out, almost yelling, "You called me Dairy Boy!"
Delores gasped. "I was teasing," she sputtered. "I always play games with people's names. Your name is Dari... us. I just changed it to Dari... boy. I didn't mean anything by it."
He glowered at her. "You never call a black man 'boy!'" he spit out.