50/50 The Game

The Oracle smirked while sliding a piece of popcorn slowly into her mouth, watching the television lazily. The sounds of the homeowners frantically fucking above her made it difficult to hear but she didn't mind at all. In fact she liked the sensual commentary. The incredibly loyal newlyweds were blessed with infinitely growing sexual skill and prowess the more partners they fucked. Sure they were happy with one another, but she knew humans. It would be a matter of time before the wife would beg her husband to bed her friends with the promise of even greater pleasures in the future. It was a slippery slope, her personal favorite style. However she was beginning to run out of ideas. As much as she wanted to ruin an Earth with a sexual apocalypse, she felt it was best done when she truly mastered herself. That's when inspiration struck. On the screen was a beautiful tale of a board game that was sentient, ran itself, and could manifest things into reality. They had to roll a pair of dice, what could her board game do with dice rolls? Ugh, too hard. Slumping her slender, naked body on the foreign couch she looked at the table at a pile of coins. Hmmm, she thought, that might be much easier. If she could make a song transform people then she sure as hell could make a board game that could, right? Oh god! Or video games! Or emails! There were so many new ideas!

The brunette rubbed her legs, forming tight long heels up her legs and slapped her ass letting a tight pair of shorts appear onto her form. Rubbing down her shoulders a small top slithered onto her and she concentrated on her her next playthings would be. Well tried to concentrate..."YES! OH BABY FUCK A LITTER INTO ME! BREED ME LIKE YOU OWN ME!" Fuck it. Striding to a nearby shelf she grabbed a generic board game and waved her hand above it, watching the picture and words slowly morph. A glamour to make the board game irresistible, now she really was getting the hang of things. Tossing the box aside it disappeared into a vortex, seemingly lost to the void. Although it had a mind of its own now, and was eagerly seeking players.

"I'm so fucking bored!" Hailey groaned, falling dramatically into the love seat behind her. Her boyfriend quickly moving onto the chair beside her bending down to her ear, "What? No! We aren't fooling around! We promised Dick and Alice we'd hang."

"Yeah and it's been a blast so far," Celine muttered sarcastically staring at the clock. The black haired woman briefly glanced at the socially awkward host in the middle of the room before checking her outfit and rubbing her beautiful dark skinned thighs. "Really glad we called for a reunion of the old friend group after we outgrew each other in Grade 11."

Alice was nervously pulling at her mousy long brown hair, "Well that's only really been like four years..."

Loud creaking of wood signaled the return of the pretty boy Dick carrying some pizza, "Yo got our fav! Loaded meat and pineapple, a crime to many, a pleasure to some." Placing down the pizza he noticed not a single thing had changed since he left to order the food, they all sat far from one another in awkward silence. "Nobody? For real?"

Hailey raised an eyebrow, snuggling into the arm of her punk boyfriend, "While you were gone, for twenty minutes by the way, we have been sitting here waiting for the mouse to...I don't even know what! Do something? Give us a reason for even bothering?"

"Not gonna lie, D," her boyfriend Felix frowned, "We really didn't wanna come. Seeing you both grasping at straws while we are sitting around bored is kinda cringe. Only reason why any of us are even here is because you asked. We don't talk to each other like we talk to you."

Celine glared at the couple, "Well I'd hardly blame you for not talking to me after you invited yourselves to one of my house parties and got caught doing **** in my bathroom. Then out of all people, Hailey gets pissed that I tell them to stop and tells me...." The woman blew out a thick gust of air, "She told me I had no right telling her what to do in her country and if I didn't like it, then I could go back to my own. As if I'm not from the same fucking town as you!"

Hailey smirked, "Doesn't look like it."

Quickly Dick jumped between the feud and held out his hands, "Alright, well obviously that was unfair and out of line. Hailey ever since you graduated and dated Felix you've been alienating everyone around you, I'm surprised you both still talk to me."

The lone warrior in the corner snickered, "It's because she always wanted you. You were the leader, she likes power, not to mention it doesn't help you are easy on the eyes. Felix just does what he's told."

The boy on the armrest recoiled for a moment looking at the blushing girl before him, "You said you didn't like him!"

Alice felt her anxiety picking up. It was bad before but the promise of Dick coming back and saving the day kept her calm. Seeing it only get worse caused the air to leave her lungs and she struggled to fill them back up. Looking down she saw a box, a board game that she knew for a fact she didn't own. Her step brother was in thick water trying to put himself out there to get everyone friendly again, he needed help. Somehow feeling this was an answer to her panic attack she opened the box and began setting the table. Loud arguing could be heard from the couple and the brunette jumped seeing a form sit across from her. It was Celine. "Um, hi."

"Hi, yourself," the ebony beauty muttered and sat watching the girl set up pieces. After several minutes the woman talked again, "So...want to explain why you ghosted me?"

"I didn't ghost you."

"Pretty sure it was ghosting." Oh god eye contact! Back to the board. It reminded her of something from her past. "Every invite...busy...call to talk...busy...hell I called lost in the middle of nowhere and you just hit me with the 'I can't' so like, why? Why did you have such a problem with me? If anything I should of had a problem with you. You're so hard to talk to and scared of everything, but I pushed past it because I liked who was under all that baggage."

Alice shrugged fighting off tears, "Stress. Dunno. Every time we hung out it made me feel...shitty. Like I was broken and I would see how bad it was when you acted so normal around me. Hosting parties, going to college. You were better off without me."

Celine grabbed her former friend's hand softly, "That's my decision, not yours. Now what's this?" The woman glanced back at the argument and noticed Felix was beginning to become aggressive. "You really want to save yourself an ass beating, Dick does boxing and shit on the side. You do the odd line and drink yourself stupid, do the math."

"Listen up you foreign cunt..." Felix snapped, taking a step towards the two girls. Alice shrunk even further and began sobbing.

"Get out." Dick ordered, his voice radiating with authority. Felix turned to him and studied the man a few inches taller and much broader. He narrowed his eyes and faked a punch, frowning at the lack of reaction.

"Alright, fuck these assholes." Felix snorted, "Let's get out of here, babe. Waste of our time." Working towards the stairs he turned back seeing Hailey sitting on the seat still staring at the ground. "Hey?"

Hailey pulled up her legs and muttered, "I'm not coming."

"Excuse me?"

The blonde looked above her knees, "I'm staying here. I know how...you get sometimes when shit goes down. I really think we should talk about all this when we cool down."

The black haired punk popped out his black denim jacket and spat on the floor, "Don't need to cool for shit. You wanna stay with him so bad then go ahead. I don't want to date some hopeful slut anyways."

Celine noticed the brunette struggling to breathe and took a stand, "Alright, great! You made your point. You hate women and if you ain't white you ain't from here. Now why don't you leave while you're nice and cool before one of us humiliates you?" Felix growled but the fire in his eyes waned seeing Dick approaching. Turning away he flipped the crowd off and climbed up the stairs. Dick was sure to escort the guy out and make sure to lock the doors.

Coming back down the brown haired young man flopped onto the seat beside Alice and pulled her into him, "He was an ass, don't get yourself overworked, he's not worth it."

Alice tried to whisper but her voice carried, "I just missed us all being happy. I just wanted to feel normal again." Celine smiled warmly and empathetically at the brunette while taking over reading the instructions and setting the pieces. Hailey hugged her legs and sighed.

"You are normal," the blonde freshly dumped woman muttered, "If anything you're the only normal one here. Well I guess I'm the only not normal one here actually. Sorry about Felix...and about myself." Hailey screamed into her thighs, "God! What the fuck is wrong with me? Maybe Felix is right!"

Celine raised an eyebrow, "Look you're a lot of things lately, but a slut is not one of them. You're quite the opposite. You literally became a walking copy of that loser to impress him. Right down to the racism apparently."

"I'm sorry...when I'm with him it's like this character I put on. No matter how much I act, it's never good enough," the woman melted against the armrest where he once sat, "Guess I don't have to worry about that anymore."

Silence. Dick continued to hold his step sister until she calmed down and noticed Celine had finished up whatever game she was setting up. "Well I'm sure the others might find us a bit of a buzz kill now. I invited Chloe and the twins but they said they'd be a bit late. Might want to hold off on the game until they get here."

Celine shrugged, "Well it is a team game, we each have to help one another get to the end. The more we work together and accomplish our tasks, the more points we receive to progress. The more we fight or refuse the harder the game gets. Sounds like a make or break for the friend group to me! I set up tokens for each of us. We all start spread out on the edges of the board, once we meet at the middle we all have to gather enough points to enter the middle section" Picking up a heavy aztec looking coin she continued, "For each of our turns it will make a statement or ask a question, the result being a 50/50. Blank side is negative, weird symbol is positive. If it lands on its side, I know, the board will decide who gets to choose the result instead."

Hailey crawled to the floor beside the table, "How does the board do anything? There's no cards?"

Celine shook her head, "Just says we each accept to play and tell the board who is playing. Then the game goes from there." Pausing and trying to suppress a smile the dark skinned college student waved her hands in the air dramatically, "Oh Board Game! It is I....Celine of Cross State, I am joined by warrior Dick, Hailey the rogue, and Alice the princess! Soon to join us are our friends Chloe the majestic voice and the twins, Mina the athlete and Mark the...I dunno, cool guy or some shit. We want to play." She devolved into a fit of giggles seeing her shocked friends at her out of character role playing, "Look I can be a nerd too ya know!"

The blonde on the floor gasped and the group looked at the board seeing a message appear in the green glass at the center of the board. "Celine of the cross...you may start your turn..."

Dick felt a harsh grip on his chest making him tense. The woman hiding in him looked up, "Maybe we shouldn't. I thought it was such a good idea...but now I feel something. Like evil..."