Chapter 01

Paige was holding Emily's hand while they walked to the Hastings's front door. She was a little bit nervous because the last time she spend time with Emily's friends her competitive behavior almost take over her and she and Spencer ended up having a little tension between them.

Emily pulled her into a kiss as soon as they stepped in front of the Hastings's door. She knew that her girlfriend knew she was tense and the kiss was only a way to calm her down. It actually worked; her muscles relaxed and her heartbeat slowed down, but only until Emily slip her tongue on her bottom lip, a silent request for Paige to open her mouth and let it in. The girl shivered, Emily knew her too well, she knew that it was all it takes to ignite her fire, the kiss heated as Paige opened her mouth and her girlfriend gasped into her lips, Emily's breath hitting the back of the other girl's throat, their tongues almost meeting half away. They didn't hear the door shoot open.

"Get a room!" Hanna was standing there with a grin on her face and her arms crossed.

The girls ended the kiss, Paige faced her foot blushing a little bit and trying not to look to Hanna. Emily kissed her again, now just a peck on the lips, hold her hand crossing their fingers and walked through the door.

"They couldn't wait until they were alone" - The blonde said while they were sitting on the Hastings's living room. "They were making out by the door"

Aria giggled.

"C'mon Em, if you wanted to spend the night alone with Paige you just had to say it..."

Emily rolled her eyes while putting some drinks in two glasses for her and Paige.

"We can't be alone. Our parents are at home" she said before drinking the entire content of her glass and now she was adding some more.

"Too bad you guys have to hang out with us..." - Spencer said in a sarcastic tone, looking at Paige.

"Actually it was my idea to come over. Drinking party is a really good way to relax" As an attempt to bring peace Paige said it trying to smile at Spencer, who was going to say something back but was interrupted by Emily.

"Can't you just shut up and enjoy your drink?"

"Ow, how strong is this thing, Em?" Spencer said it pretending to get offended by the other girl's tag question. "I was just going to agree with McCullers" Spencer was looking at Paige again, but now there was a friendly smile on her face, maybe it was because of the alcohol, but the attempt of truce was worth it.

"By the way Emily..." - Aria started "You shouldn't tell Spencer to shut up..."

"Yeah, the last time you did you had to swim naked at the lake" Hanna completed, smiling at the memory.

Paige choked what made everybody on the room, except for Emily, start laughing uncontrollably. They were wiping tears from their eyes while Paige was trying to recover from the choke.

"You... you did what?!" she said between coughs.

"Sorry we didn't invite you to see it Paige, it was last week when you were visiting your grandparents" - Spencer said trying to stop laughing.

Paige looked at her girlfriend blushing sorely and wishing to be able to kill her friends with just one look, but the only information her brain registered was the fact that the goddess-looking girl was swimming. Naked. Her mind was already in the gutter as she tried to recreate the scene in her head:

Emily was probably a little drunk; she started by slipping her jeans and underwear down those goddess legs, slowly, bending over to lift her ass in the air as she steps out of it. Then bringing her fingers to the hem of her t-shirt and pulling it out over her head. Unhooking the bra on her back, sliding the left strap under her arm then doing the same thing with the right. Her breasts now exposed, Paige could only think on how beautiful and unbelievably soft they were, except maybe for hard nipples.

Then finally she was walking in slow motion toward the lake, her flawless skin shining thanks to the moonlight reflected on the lake's water...

It was a magnificent vision but she was - unfortunately - brought up to reality when a cushion hit her head.

"Wake up McCullers!" Spencer said. All the three girls laughing harder than before as they watched Paige's confused reaction when the cushion Hanna had thrown hit her right on the face.

Aria had tears rolling down her cheeks. - "Take your mind out of the gutter!"

Hanna could barely speak. - " Oh... my... God... she's... she's drooling".

But Emily was only paying attention on her girlfriend the entire time. She knew what Paige was thinking, desire and the lust she saw in her eyes made something between her legs get hot. Since they were sitting next to each other on the couch, Emily's natural reaction was to jump over Paige to kiss her hard and make out with her right there, but before she could move a muscle, the other girl got up and went toward the kitchen, grabbed a bottle of some blue liquid and filled her glass with it, drinking half of what was in the glass when she walked back to the couch. Emily had to smile at Paige's attempt to cool off and clear her thoughts; it was really cute and funny. Even her neck was red due to the embarrassment of being getting caught having hot inappropriate thoughts about Emily.

"So, what did you do to end up at the lake?" Paige asked Emily, trying to sound indifferent while the other girls were trying to stop laughing. It was Spencer who answered it with a proud smile.

"She told me to shut up because I said I could beat all of them on poker. I proved her I could," she said, getting up and walking to the kitchen to take another bottle of wine.

"Really? Three of you and you couldn't stop her?" Emily shrugged but didn't say anything.

"Spencer is actually a badass on poker"

"That we'll see, short stuff..." Paige said, getting up too.

"Did she just call me short stuff?" Aria raised an eyebrow and looked to Emily, who was now trying to suppress a laugh.

Paige stood up in front of Spencer as the girl came back from the kitchen. "I bet I can stop you in poker, Hastings"

Everyone looked at Spencer at the same time with a little concern. The girl just sat down on the armchair she was before, right in front of the couch Paige and Emily were, and answered Paige without looking at her but with a smirk on her face.

"What will you do if you can't?"

"I don't know...anything. It's up to you."

"Hmm..." She thought for a second. "What about you perform a strip tease until you're in your undies? It can be for Emily, but all of us will have to watch it..."

Paige almost regretted challenging Spencer, especially when she looked over her shoulder and saw her girlfriend's eyes light up to the idea of a strip tease for her. Emily wouldn't be cheering for Paige to win.

"Alright, I'll do it. But if you lose... you will have to kiss Aria. On the lips."

"Do you have some problem with me today?!"

"C'mon, you have to cooperate, short stuff," Emily said, giggling.

"What did you just-"

"I'll do it" - Spencer said cutting off Aria. "I'll kiss her if I lose".

"Then we have a deal, Hastings," Paige said as she and Spencer shook hands.

"Why is no one asking me if I've agreed with it?" Aria complained, now sitting up on the carpet she was laying on with Hanna, but nobody paid attention on her.

"So, I think your only hope is Paige not winning the bet."

Hanna was clearly enjoying herself with the entire situation, while Aria rolled her eyes and drank all the content from her glass.

"I'm gonna need more to endure this..." She said while shaking her cup and getting up from the floor to start walk to the kitchen.

"Aria, can you pick up the cards? Since you're already up," Spencer asked. "They are on my bedroom-" The girl started to walk towards the stairs, but Paige cut in.

"No need. I've got that covered." She took the cards from her jeans pocket and handed them to Spencer.

The girl raised an eyebrow when she looked to the cards, they were old, and some parts you couldn't even see the numbers and symbols very well. What actually took Hastings' attention was the figure in the middle of each card... half naked girls wearing only the low half of their bikinis and making very sexy poses.

"I never thought you'd like these kind of things McCullers. It seems that what they say is true: the innocent looking ones are the worst," she said, looking into the cards as she shuffled them. The girl stopped when she saw a specific card, everyone looked at her with a curious gaze, except for Paige who just smirked.

"The joker?" The swimmer girl asked, when she noticed Spencer open her mouth a little as her eyes open wide. Since the answer was just a nod she was now trying to hold a laugh. Hanna was about to ask what was on that card but Spencer just threw it on the coffee table for everyone to see. There was a completed naked woman lying down on her back with her legs spread showing everything for anyone who wanted to see. The card seemed like it was new, much more preserved than the others what made even the details of the lady's parts visible, the four girls remained in silence as their eyes moved from the joker card to Paige and then back to the card. She had already given up trying to hold the laughter, the face of the four ones were too hilarious.

"Are you a perv or something?" Aria asked finally breaking the silence.

"Hahaha... Not really."

"Ok Paige, who are you trying to fool?" Hanna questioned taking the card from the coffee table to see it better.

"I'm not fooling anyone" The girl said looking to Emily that had an eyebrow raised. "That set of cards belonged to my grandpa. He used to work in a casino in LA before he met my grandma. He gave it to me last week as a gift."

"What an interesting grandfather you have, McCullers" Emily said trying to imitate Spencer.

"Indeed". The girl answered and winked to her girlfriend.

"Alright," Hanna grabbed all the cards and started to give five of them to everyone "Let's start this thing already. Best of five, right?"

Everyone agreed and they started the poker match.