It was one of those days when the sky had no color. It wasn't warm, it wasn't cold, and while it wasn't raining, it looked like it might at any moment. There weren't any kids playing outside so the quiet of the house pressed down even louder. Sam and Mike were in the living room, one sprawled across the floor with a game controller in their hands, and the other sitting awkwardly on the sofa, trying to make the most of the weak light tricking through the window as they read the same page for the fifth time.
"Ugh, could you stop doing that?"
"What?"
"Can't you play that game sitting up?"
"Why?"
"Samantha!"
Mike finally gave up on the book and threw it at Sam, who'd been laying across the floor with her knees in the air, the blue and white striped fabric of her underwear standing out against the tanned bronze of her thighs. It might have been Mike's inability to pull his gaze away from that strip of fabric that changed the trajectory of his throw, where he intended to toss the book over her head, it landed directly on that spot with a thud and a deep grunt from Sam.
"Oh shit, I'm sorry."
"What the fuck Mike!"
"I'm sorry."
"Ungh," Sam rolled over onto her knees and face, gripping herself between the legs with both hands while rocking back and forth. Pink fingernails flashed between folds of cotton as she clutched at her wounded crotch. Her toes dug into the carpet, and she moaned rubbing herself to ease the sting of the book. Her blonde hair fell over her face as she writhed on the floor, but he could hear her cursing him between whimpers and could only imagine the look on her face.
"I'm sorry!"
"Shut up!"
"I'm sorry!"
"Stop saying that!"
"But I am!"
Rolling onto her butt, she flashed ice-blue daggers at him and kept her hands over her wounded privates. She licked her lips when she played and her lips puckered into a shiny, pink "O" as her forehead lowered into a scowl.
"That hurt."
"I know."
"How do you know?"
"I just...it looked like it hurt."
"Why were you looking?"
"I...wasn't. I was reading."
"Is that why your dick is hard?"
Mike looked down and saw the fire-red tip of his cock pulsing just above the waistband of his sweatpants. The t-shirt and the sweatpants he wore were "athletic department" grey so his pink erection couldn't be explained away on the spot, especially not after Sam leaned in close to confirm for herself that was what she was seeing.
"You're disgusting."
"I'm not, it's your fault."
A sudden screech from the headset she'd been wearing pulled Sam's attention to the game screen just in time to see it erupt in flames before slowly going dark. Mike didn't play games himself, but even he knew what that meant.
"I'm sorry."
"I swear if you say that one more time."
"I'm,"