Something Called Love
Chapter 41
The Poker Game
Aia: Sorry it took so long for this chapter to get posted up. We were busy putting up chapters on 'Yesterday Come and Gone.'
Kiara: Really great story 'Yesterday Come and Gone.'
Krys: Yep you should check it out if you haven't yet.
The next day it was raining. No thunder or lightning just rain. Aia stared at the sleeping figure beside her. She heard someone banging against the walls out in the hall.
"Krys? What's that noise?" Rei asked looking out his room. "Krys?…"
"Up here," came Krys's voice from….somewhere….
"Uh….." Rei trailed off as he looked up," What are you doing?" Krys, it seems, had somehow managed to climb up the walls through applying pressure to them through the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet. Although, as much as it seemed to be so, she wasn't Spiderman. Then, at that precise moment, the air conditionner came back on. And the cold air hit Krys's exposed back (she was wearing a camisole).
"Holy crap that's cold!" Krys yelled. In the attempt to shield herself from the freezing current, she slackened her pressure points. Hence, she fell to the floor….
Right on top of Rei.
"Hey, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be…" she muttered to herself. As she realzied that she only felt a slight jarring sensation and not all-out pain. Looking down, she then realized why. Rei, whom she had landed on, had cushioned her fall.
"Hehe….oops…" Krys said. Kai and Kiara had heard the loud and somewhat wall-shaking crash outside their room and went to go see. Kai bent down to help Rei up with a quizzical look on his face.
"What exactly happened here?…" Kiara asked. Krys, in reply, laughed nervously. She then ran back to her room. Kiara shrugged and went to get something to eat.
For once everyone was eating breakfast together in the same place. Which prooved to be a problem since there wasn't enough chairs so some people had to share. Max's elbow kept on hitting Aia while they both ate.
"I'm falling off!" Krys complained to Rei. Kiara was happily sitting on Kai's lap.
"How am I supposed to eat with you there?" Kai asked as he pushed Kiara aside.
"You're not. I'm going to feed you," Kiara said with a smile as she held a spoon full of cereal.
"What do you think I am? A baby?" Kai asked contemptuously before having a spoon of cereal shoved into his mouth. At that, he got up, unable to take anymore.
"I can feed myself thank you." Kenny, Hilary and Tyson began to laugh hysterically. The rest however; Krys, Rei, Max and Aia looked at him pitifully. Later on, everyone was bored…yet again….None of them had any idea as to what to do. Krys had found a big stack of looseleaf and decided on making paper ninja stars. And of course, the end products were thrown at Tyson.
"Quit it Krys! Ow! Some of us are trying to watch tv!" Tyson yelled but Krys didn't stop.
"Uh…Krys, maybe you should stop. Your little obsession with paper ninja stars is starting to scare me…" Rei said.
"Everyone's got an obsession…"
"Kyaa! Glowsticks! I found my glowsticks!" Aia was heard yelling from her room.
"See….mine just happens to be fun," Krys said simply. Rei sighed and decided on leaving her alone. A couple of minutes later a calmed down Aia walked up to Krys.
"As much fun as it is to watch you inflict pain upon Tyson…want to play poker?" Aia asked holding up a deck of cards.
"Okay. Sure."
After several games and with Krys winning each one, she got bored yet again.
"Okay. This is getting boring," she said, trying her best to stifle a yawn.
"You're winning!" Kiara yelled. She pointed an accusing finger at the girl sitting opposite her.
"Yeah…well, can we add a twist?" Krys asked seemingly innocent.
"What kind of twist?" Max asked, more than slightly nervous.
"…Strip poker?" Everyone looked nervously at each other.
"Fine," Kai said.
After another several rounds of poker with this new twist, Krys and Kai were the only ones fully dressed. Tyson was so bad that he had already lost all his clothes except for his boxers. Aia, Kiara, Max and Rei had lost their socks, shoes and gloves. So they were still okay. Max lost another round. He took off his shirt blushing a bit but didn't say a word. Aia was next to lose a round. She took off her bra from under her shirt.
After a little while longer, Tyson was gone. He had lost another round but because he had only his boxers everyone let…okay, everyone made him leave. Rei was in his boxers now as well as Max. Kai had lost everything besides his pants and boxers. Krys still had the most articles of clothing on. Poor Aia and Kiara were in their underwear and but Aia had her shirt while Kiara was had a bra. Tyson had tried on many occasions to get glimpses of Aia and Kiara but Kai always caught him.
Everyone, including Kai, was flushed. Krys, sadly had lost the next round. Shrugging to hide her embarrassment, she took off her shirt and added it to the slowly growing pile of clothes. Rei blushed as her tried not to look at her. Kiara stared at Kai. She clearly wasn't paying attention to the game.
And therefore….lost another round. She looked nervously at the group as took off her bra instead of forfeiting. Kai's eyes widened in embarrassment as he looked away. Kiara tried hard to cover up and hold her cards at the came time. Not an easy feat. Rei looked at everyone nervously. His hand wasn't that great. Sure enough, he was the one to lose that round. He slowly took off his boxers and added them to the pile. Krys handed him over her trench coat-esque jacket without looking at him.
Max lost the next round. It was his turn to lose his boxers. Aia closed her eyes in profuse embarrassment. Max took her pants since they were closest and lay them across his lap to cover up. Krys was having a hard time concentrating so she lost the round following that. "Crap," she muttered. Not wanting to take of anything vital, she removed her hair ribbon. Sometimes it paid to over accessorize. Kiara was next. She grabbed Kai's shirt to cover up as she took the last piece of clothing that she had on. Somehow, Tyson had managed to sneak back into the room unseen by Kai. His mouth watered as he saw Kiara's underwear being dropped onto the pile. At that moment, Kai noticed him from the corner of his eye. He ran after the him and got them back. Blushing, he threw them back onto the pile. Kai was the loser of the next round. He took off his pants as Kiara smiled. Krys was finding it really hard to concentrate properly. Aia lost the next round. A terrified expression appeared on her face.
"I'll get the towels," Kai mummbled smei-coherently. It didn't take him long to come back with a large pile of towels. Aia had already taken off her shirt. She head her arms across her chest, covering up. Max was sweating bullets due to embarrassment. Krys looked at her new hand and smiled. She was going to win this no problem. Kiara wasn't doing too well and lost again. The lost caused her to be eliminated from the game. She reached for her clothes but Krys stopped her.
"Remember the deal? Only the winner gets to keep their clothes after the game," Krys said, handing Kiara a towel. She couldn't contain her snarky grin at the look on Kiara's face.
"How come Tyson got to keep his boxers then!" she asked wrapping the towel around. She felt a more that slight sense of injustice.
"Do you honestly want to see more than his boxers?" Kai asked, raising an eyebrow. Kiara shivered at the mere thought and shut up. (Aia: Getting bored here). A little while longer and the only two still playing were Rei and Krys. Max was in a corner curled up in a little ball blushing furiously. Kai held onto his towel mummbling something about rainy days. Krys and Rei were both bare so this was the final round.
Amazingly Rei won.
Krys winked at Aia, letting her know that she had let him win. The rest of the day was pretty awkward. Rei felt very uncomfortable as he was the only one properly dressed, Hilary and Kenny excluded.
Aia: Too…long…gasp Hand…hurts…
Kiara: Wow, that was a pretty long chapter.
Krys: Hmm, not that long. It's only like three pages on Word. Although it did take a hell of a long time to type up.