Josh POV
You know for being rusty at this I have not lost my touch. I turn to Chris and smirk at him while I aim my shot and splash, sealing Mike and Jess' fate sinking their final cup! I do a victory lap around the table with my hands in the air while Chris is shouting "CHAMPS" pointing at himself. I see Mike turn to Jess to strategize their redemption, I can hear from the other side of the table he's slurring and using Jess' shoulder to steady himself. I look at the table as I see their cup still on the table along with our 5 remaining cups. Jess raises her ball to take the shot and Chris is standing at our end of the table with his face behind the cups to distract her. Jess aims and shoots… misses by a long shot she shouts "FUCK", while she walks away disappointed in herself. Mike hands her a cup to take their shot and says "Cheers", she smiles and takes the shot. Did I mention this turned into shot pong? Chris starts shouting "CHAMPS" while turning to face me and I know what time it is chest bump.
Mike walks over to Sam and Ashley and puts his arms on their shoulders, and tells them "Good luck" and plops in one of the chairs around the fire almost falling over in the process. Jess follows suit but lands in her chair slightly more gracefully than Mike did. But she is noticeably holding her head, most likely trying to get the world to stay still. I'm not going to lie after playing a few games, although we've been winning, all these shots are starting to get to me. Sam and Ashley come over to the table while we are re-racking the cups on both sides. I look over at Chris and notice that he's not as coordinated as he was earlier since he tipped over 2 cups while trying to re-rack the girls side. I look over at Ashley and notice she's swaying slightly, she's not a heavy drinker so the coolers are getting to her. Sam I'm still trying to figure out, she's always been pretty good at holding her liquor, but I notice a slightly glazed look in her eyes. Chris comes over to me after finishing up their rack and he looks over at them and whispers he has an idea and to go along.
Chris shouts "You guys need to catch up!" pointing at Sam and Ashley look at Chris confused, I hid my confusion but nodded my head in agreeance. He continues "each of you need to take at least 3 shots!" I speak up "I AGREE!" I say pointing at their cups, "you guys have been drinking wine coolers all night! While we're almost 10 shots deep!" I said exaggerating, Chris continued "the least you guys could do is 3 each to level the playing field". The girls didn't say anything at first they turned to and whispered in each other's ear and then Sam spoke up "We agree to take 3 shots each, but that means WE get to go first". Chris and I turned and smiled at each other, without even discussing it, we threw each of them a ping pong ball and I said "Deal!"
Ashley goes over grabs the bottle and shakily pours 3 shots for each of them. They look at them and you can tell they start to feel uneasy; but they pick up their first shot clink cups and toss them back. Ashley and Sam's face cringe after they swallow, but continue and take the last two cringing after each. I clap my hands in congratulations and say "you guys are the real MVP's", Chris walks over to the table in front of our cups defensively and says "But will they be Champs?"
Ashley goes to bounce her ball on the table and I immediately say "SWAT" and Chris goes to swat it when I notice Sam is throwing her ball in. Shit! Chris successfully swats Ashley's ball but Sam made hers and says "1 down" with an evil smirk. Chris says "beginners luck" while taking the cup out and taking the first shot for our team, Ashley corrects him and says "The word you are looking for is-" plop. She looks down into her cups and sees my ball sitting inside, I put my hand to my ear and said "I'm sorry what did you say that was?" Ashley moves the cup over to the side and takes another shot, Chris takes a step back aiming out his shot and Sam and Ashley are waving their hands over the cup to distract him. He shoots it, it bounced on one of the cups and Sam grabs it before it could land in any of the other cups, and flashes it to us with a smile. Chris bends his knees as he is defending our cups and I'm standing beside the table. Ashley goes to shoot but comes up short and is starts rolling on the table she goes to reach for it almost knocking over a cup in the process, but it rolls toward me and I grab it. Sam caught the cup before it spilled over and told Ashley to be careful. Sam shoots her ball and it goes straight in the front cup, turns to Ashley and gave her a high five. I pick up my cup and take my shot, it burns my throat slightly but I don't let it show.
But I'm really starting to feel this. I look over at Chris he looks slightly worried, at this point were going tit for tat; between cups and shots for both teams. Until there was only one cup on either side. I look over at the girls and know they're just as fucked up as us since Ashley is starting to gag after she takes her shots and Sam is swaying where she stands. She looks like she's hot, she's fanning herself with her hand and trying to blow the loose strands of hair that escaped her clip out of her face.
Chris walks in front of me blocking my view of Sam; I hadn't even realized that I was staring that hard. "Josh…"Chris says with a big sigh I look at him waiting to continue and he says "I think we should let the girls win" I was shocked. I see behind him that Sam is looking at us with a skeptical look on her face. "Why do you want them to win all of a sudden?" I asked him confused of how we go from war to surrendering. He points behind him as he faces me "It will make them feel empowered rather than pissed off" he turns and looks at them as Sam and Ashley are waiting patiently at the table in defense mode. He turns to me and says quietly under his breath "the choice is yours". I take my stance and aim up my shot thinking to myself, they deserve to win at least one game since they also lost to Mike and Jess earlier. Sam is leaning over defending the cups with Ashley by her side ready for anything, I shoot and put a little more effort than I needed to. It goes passed the cup and Sam catches it and holds it up with huge smile on her face. I look at Chris and shrug my shoulders, Ashley goes to shoot her ball into the cup and it hits to corner and bounces right into my hand. Sam shoots her ball and plop it makes it, she turns to Ash and gives her a high five. I turn and notice Mike and Jess are gone, that's weird. I ask Chris if he had seen where they had gone he pointed toward the tent; Sam and Ash must've noticed what we were talking about. Since Sam peeked her head in the tent and backed out slowly and quietly she came back over to us and whispered "they're passed out".
Two down. I go over to the fire and stand behind one of the chairs; my mind is starting to feel hazy but I'm not exactly sure why it's starting to feel that way. I start to feel anxious as I look around the camp, I suddenly have this feeling as if someone is watching us. Chris must notice my anxiety and walks over to me "you okay man?" he says putting his arm my shoulder pulling me off to the side away from the girls. I nod my head no as I still continue to scan the area with my eyes. The liquor is really kicking in, I didn't hesitate with the truth this time. He stops walking and turning me to face him, grabs my shoulders and says "Josh your among friends; were not going to let anything happen to you or anyone else" I look down at the ground, with a mixture of sadness and anger, mostly sadness. "I know man it's just…never mind" I don't want to talk about it anymore. He looks around to make sure no one was close enough to hear, "Josh can I ask you a serious question", I just nod "are you taking your pills?" Chris is the only person besides my parents that knows about my condition. I think the others think about it at times, but no one has asked or said anything to me directly. "I did this morning" I said trying to sound positive, Chris looked at me with his, did you really face? I put up three fingers and say "scouts honor" he just sighed "Bro, you know that's super important." I put my hands up and said "I know, I know, Chris please, I just started up this morning and it takes a few days to a week for it to fully go through my system. I just want to have fun tonight, and play with the ladies!" I said grabbing his shoulder and pointing over at them as they sit by the fire giggling about something. Chris face softens and tries to playfully ruffle my hair "you don't have the balls to try anything with Sam" I back away liquid confidence is high right now, "Chris, do you see any parents around? Being alone in the tent with her is the ripe opportunity for something to happen." I say smirking at him, he makes his yeah right face as we walk back over to the girls to sit down.
Sam POV
I turn and see Chris and Josh heading over on the other side of the camp, can't see if they're doing anything since its dark. I hand Ashley a cooler and pop open the top to mine and hold it in the air, she smiles "to champs" then her glass met mine with a clink. We started giggling "I want to play a game, something that doesn't require coordination" she says looking at her feet. "Hmm what should we play?" I say looking toward the fire for inspiration. After a moment I look over at Ashley "the only game I can think of that doesn't take much but sitting is questions" Ashley waves her hand "No that game sucks" I take a gulp of my drink holding up a finger "only if the questions suck" she looks over at them making sure they still far away. "What do you mean?" she says ducking down as if I said something forbidden, "I mean that we can use this time to pick their brains about anything and they have to answer or if they feel too uncomfortable; they have to take a shot or their drink of choice." I said holding up my wine cooler. She grabs her arm looking down "I don't know, but that also means we would have to answer whatever they ask…" I tilt my head to the side "true but that's what's going to make it interesting" I say taking a sip of my cooler. I turn to her saying "sometimes what you say you don't want to happen; are you secret desires" she starts fumbling with her fingers embarrassingly I put my hand on her arm and give her a serious face "Sometimes you need to know your place in someone's life. You know?" she nodded her head agreeing, she sat up straight and took a big gulp of her drink.
I look over and Josh and Chris were grabbing some beers and heading over toward us. I speak up first "Me and Ash were just saying that we should play questions" they both looking at us suspiciously but I continue before they could interject "If you refuse to answer a question you take a shot of your drink", they look at each other and Chris says "What kind of questions?" I look over at Ashley so she can agree as I say "Anything" they look at her as she nods her head approvingly. They look at each other again still suspicious when Josh says "if we're going to be drinking these drinks" he says holding up his beer and pointing at our coolers "We need to pour at least one shot inside. It'll be more incentive for open honesty." Chris gets up to grab the bottle and bring it over we see there isn't much left inside, he shakes the bottle "Might as well finish up what's left" he goes over to each of us and fills the neck of our drinks with the last of the vodka. I gulp inwardly and start to think what did I get us into? I look across the fire to Josh and see him saying something inaudible to Chris while walking over to the tent and getting inside. Ashley must've noticed as well "Where's Josh going?" she said to Chris, he pointed toward the tent saying "he's changing, but he said we can start". I turn to Ashley "since we were champs, would you like to go first?" she perks up and says "sure" she looks between Chris and I and stops on me. She says "In your opinion; does size matter?" Chris makes an, oh my god face looking toward Ashley. I did say anything… "It's more about the connection with someone." I say, Chris leans forward "That's not answering the question" he points at me accusingly. "What do you mean?" he mocks me "connection with someone. Does size matter yes or no?" I look over at Ashley and she holds up her pinky, looking at her short stubby pinky and I thought if I see one that size I would be disappointed. "Yeah it does." I say hanging my head low I felt so vain saying that. Chris shouts "I knew it!" laughing, "Ok since I got asked a question then it's my turn to ask next" I look right at Chris "Chris, Who should make the first move? The guy? Or the girl?" he opens his mouth nothing comes out at first then he says "The guy should" glancing over at Ashley.
Josh walks out of the tent in sweatpants and my eyes immediately wander low; before I could stop myself. I shift in my seat as I saw the apparent bulge, I feel myself starting and I try to push those thoughts out of my head. He puts his hands up and says "What did I miss" as he sits in his chair. Chris turns to him and said "Sam says size does matter, and I said the guys should make the first move" Josh smiles with this devilish smile and says "whose turn is it to ask a question?" Chris turns to Ashley she tenses up, "Have you ever went skinny dipping?" she starts to blush and says "I did in a lake at summer camp…" Josh and Chris are grinning, "Ash I didn't know you had it in you" Josh said to her. She looks over at me then at Josh and says "Josh, when was the last time you had a sex dream?" he hesitates he raised his drink but then placed it back on his lap and said "This morning" he said with a sigh. That's why he had was…..this morning; it makes sense! I was lying next to him this morning, what if he was thinking of me. I squirm more in my seat at the thought. I look up and Josh looks at me and says "Sam…. What were you thinking about the last time you masturbated?" I froze immediately and brought my drink to my lips and took a shot. Nope! He started laughing, I can feel the shot in my wine cooler as it burns down my throat.
"Ok then Josh, name a place that your surprised that you haven't had sex in?" he looks into his drink thinking, Chris says "Times running out" while Ashley starts doing the jeopardy music. Josh looks over at Chris "What I'm timed?" he says "no but we should to make sure our answers stay authentic, so you can't take more than like 10 seconds to answer or you take a shot" I nod my head "makes sense" Josh puts his hands up and says "my car" even Chris looked at him surprised "you haven't christened your car yet?" he leaned back shaking his head and glanced over at me and said "not yet"; I shift in my seat. Josh turns to Ashley "How old were you when you lost your virginity?" without hesitation she threw back her shot, and turned to Chris "Have you ever got caught masturbating?" he throws back a shot and starts shaking his head, Josh looks at him "dude!" Chris smiles and says "Josh, how many girls have you had sex with?" Josh looks over at Sam, then sips his drink, he turns looking at me but asks the question to-"Ash, have you ever thought about being a lesbian?" She thought it over quickly, "Nope". She turns to me, and asks "Do you like giving head or getting head?" I look at my drink but decide to save it, "getting it is amazing… depending one who does it; and sometimes I don't mind returning the favor if it's good." Chris nods his head saying "understandable". I look over to Josh who was already looking at me in shock of my answer, "hmmm" I say leaning back in the chair liquid confidence high; "Josh" I hear myself slur his name. I ask the first question that pops in my head, "Have you ever dreamt of having sex with me?" His eyes grew wide and we're all silent as we stare at Josh for an answer, a few seconds go by, he hasn't answered right away. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, did I go too far? He throws back a shot with patches of crimson throughout his cheeks, if he throws back a shot then that means he did?
