Dougie did not sleep very well. He was wondering whether he simply wanted into Karen's knickers, or whether it was something else. More importantly, what was that something else?
Around 4am, he decided to go and see if one of the girls was up. Somehow, Megan had woken up.
"Morning Dougie," she chirped. He rubbed his head. How could she go from being so drunk to so perky?
"Morning…can I talk to you about something?" He actually felt ok with talking to Megan, because he knew that if he told her about those…erm… dreams, she wouldn't get really mad or offended.
"Shoot."
He took a deep breath and explained everything from the dreams to the fluttery feelings. When he finished, Megan started laughing hysterically.
"Dougie! For god's sake! How dense can you be?" she asked between gasps for air and laughter. Dougie didn't like that answer. What was so obvious? "You like her, ok? Like…not just lust. Actual emotional feelings. Something greater than just your penis." She smirked a little and got up, ruffling his hair a bit.
After he realized she was right, he went back to bed and had a relatively normal dream.
Meanwhile, Danny was having his own problem. He also couldn't' tell what he thought about June. "That dream was so random." He sighed. "I doubt it's something I've been really feeling." It seemed logical to him that he didn't like her yet, since he didn't know her. But…whenever he tried to go back to sleep, his mind would wander back to her. Not even in a sexual way. Just…her…everything about her. It was like she was a song stuck in his head.
Harry and Tom slept soundly. As did Ali, and June. Karen was still awake, and didn't know what to do. She got up and was going to head to the bar and drink herself to sleep when she heard a noise from the room with the boys in it.
"Someone awake?" Danny called. Karen peeked into his room and nodded. Danny got out of his bed and walked out to where she was. "Can't sleep, huh?" He was a little worried; he liked Karen (as a sister) quite a lot, and didn't want anything to happen to her, which was why he was a bit skeptic about Dougie. But Dougie secretly liked her; he just didn't know it yet.
"Um…no. You?"
"Nope. Something bugging you?"
"Umm…this whole thing with Dougie." She explained what had been happening. "And the sick part is, I think I actually like him."
Danny laughed. So Dougie DID like her. "Give 'im a chance."
"Alright. Now what's bugging you?"
Danny sighed. "I dunno. I…it's a little odd. And don't jump to conclusions."
"Ok."
"Well," he began dramatically, "I had a dream about June, and—"
Karen stopped him. "Wait…like…a wet dream."
"No. That was part of the weird part. It was just a dream…about her…and…I dunno."
Karen shrugged. "Give her a chance." They both laughed. It was like they were brother and sister, really. Which made them both happy.
"Good show, again," said Tom the next night after they had played the show.
"My voice sounded terrible again," Dougie said happily. He seemed to find it funny that he hated his voice so much.
"But it didn't," said Karen.
"You're sweet, but wrong," said Dougie.
"Don't make us eat you," said June.
"In a dirty way or a cannibalistic way?" asked Dougie. He earned a hard jab from Megan.
"Should we go to a party?" asked Ali.
"I don't really feel like it," said Harry.
"Neither do I, actually," said Danny.
"Should we go home?" asked Karen.
"Yeah, but we'll do something fun there," said Tom.
Everyone got in the limo and wondered what they would do at the house. When they got there, the girls had an idea.
"I have it!" said Megan.
"Have what?" asked Tom.
"What we'll do tonight," said Megan. She looked at Ali, Karen, and June and they knew.
"SP-ud!" yelled June. Karen laughed and Ali had a look that said, "I'm surrounded by idiots."
"What's spud?" asked Harry.
"Not spud…SP-ud," said Karen. "And it's our nickname for strip poker."
The boys were silent for a moment, but they were really just hiding their excitement.
"When do we start?" asked Dougie, who was looking at Karen.
"Get some cards," said June.
Dougie went to get the cards and everyone sat in a circle on the floor of the living room. Harry was the only boy who was not particularly excited about seeing a certain girl take off her clothes, but he did think that Ali was pretty hot.
"Ugh…I suck at poker," said Karen.
"That's good," said Dougie excitedly. Karen glared at him as June dealt the first hand.
Karen was true to her word. She had the worst hand and decided to remove her sock.
"You're no fun," said Dougie. Karen punched him.
The game was the most fun the girls had ever had in strip poker. Dougie was actually worse at poker than Karen was and was in his boxers pretty soon into the game (they had agreed to take off underwear). June was, unfortunately for Danny, the best at poker. She only had off one sock by the time Dougie was nearly naked.
"Oh come on!" Danny yelled when June again got the best hand. He didn't mean to say it out loud.
"What?" asked June.
"You're too good at poker," Danny said, thinking fast. "You make me feel like a pussy."
"You are a pussy Danny, but we love you anyway," said June. "Ha, Megan has the worst hand, shirt comes off!"
Megan fake-glared at June and took off her shirt. Tom tried not to stare.
As the game went on, June lost nearly no clothes, to Danny's unhappiness. Karen and Dougie were easily the worst. After someone was stripped down to their underwear, they had to do a dare.
Karen had the worst hand. Dougie stopped thinking and said, "I dare you to let me show you something in my bedroom."
Everyone looked around at Dougie with raised eyebrows. He blushed a little bit when he realized what had just come out of his mouth.
"…What?" asked Karen.
"Argh! I'm done with this!" Dougie said. He stopped thinking again and just kissed Karen. When he was done, he said, "I like you, okay?"
Karen was stunned for a minute. It seemed like a year to Dougie.
"I like you too," said Karen. "Against my better judgment, but I do."
"BURN!" yelled Harry.
"Good," said Dougie. "Want to take up that dare now?"
Karen laughed and actually agreed.
Later, Karen and Dougie started to make noise and everyone got annoyed.
"You CAN have sex quietly, you know," yelled Danny. He threw a shoe at the door to Dougie's room.
