Lucy 2: The girls deliberate over and then prepare for Lucy's first challenge

Lucy started doing the thing everyone had done up to this point, thinking out loud. She nervously said, “Hmm… Grass? I don’t touch grass, LOL!” Lucy anxiously laughed, realizing she had spoken the letters L O L out loud.

Lucy started mentally hitting herself for being such a social weirdo. Her confident guise had lasted a whole zero seconds. She felt lucky that the other girls couldn’t see self-induced psychic damage. Lucy cringed harder knowing that she was even spending brain bandwidth on this train of thought.

Lucy looked around at the others and realized she had been quiet for way too long.

She quickly hopped right back into talking out her thoughts. “Uhhh… Cold Press? Could be pretty… chilly?” Lucy was quickly realizing that being put on the spot like this was NOT for her. “Excuse My French? I speak a little Japanese but I don’t know anything about French.”

Her extremely insightful comments washed over everyone and they started chipping in their own much more logical assumptions about the cards.

Faith proudly said, “Cold Press could be weightlifting but the bars are really cold!” Everyone shot that down, saying they didn’t have any available weights.

Mia was quick to point out that the game could deliver the weights to their front door. She added, “It is magic, after all. No Amazon drone weight limits or anything like that." Mia made a mental note to try and get the girls to test something about that the next time they get an item. They could open the door right away to see if there are actually any drones. Maybe catch one in a big net and hold it for ransom! That last part was wishful thinking that they could use some lateral ingenuity to end the game early, but a girl could dream!

Sophie chipped in, “Excuse My French is probably something about letting your potty mouth loose. I bet you’ll have to read something really R-rated or have to say as many bad words as you can.”

They all nodded because that seemed the most likely, but it seemed a little too obvious to Lucy. She finally straightened out her spaghetti brain and thought through other uses of the word French. Fries? No. Toast? No. Bread? No, it probably wasn’t food. French kiss? Lucy’s cheeks matched her pink hair as she thought about that option.

Mia added her own hypothesis, but her heart wasn’t totally into helping since she was talking through it with her mortal enemy. She said, “The Grass Is Greener? Oh I don’t know, I guess you’ll be streaking onto every lawn in the neighborhood. Something easy like that maybe.”

Lucy did NOT like the sound of that. She was also not super athletic so lifting weights and cold didn’t sound good either. Lucy just could not get French kissing out of her head, and hovered her hand over Excuse My French. To everyone else it looked like she was about to pick the obvious choice of the Potty Mouth Challenge, but she just had a feeling it would be about making out. Lucy locked eyes with each other player, ending on Sophie. Lucy’s heart nearly pitter-pattered her chest cavity open as she thought about who it might make her kiss.

Lucy just couldn’t do it! On some level, it was very tempting, but Lucy would die of embarrassment if she had to do that in front of the other girls. Maybe if it was completely secret and anonymous, but everything in this game had been very public so far. Lucy impulsively switched to the next card over and pulled it.

Everyone else looked a little surprised, and listened as Lucy lifted the card to her face and started reading. The unchosen cards sucked back into the board with a SCHWOOP.

Lucy read aloud, “Cold Press. Challenge. Press your bare breasts into every window in the house,” Lucy gulped and her eyes went wide. She continued reading, “Each press must last thirty seconds and you must be witnessed through the glass. There’s more? Of course I’d get the Yu-Gi-Oh card! In each cardinal direction, a different person must be the witness.”

Everyone was stunned. Besides Faith stripping to her underwear and Sophie doing a little friendly mooning, this was the first challenge to actually necessitate nudity in the wording of the card. Sophie’s bottomless streak was not actually on the card itself.

Lucy’s inner gamer wanted to rant and complain, but somehow she kept it all inside. If this were an online video game, she’d be swearing up a storm and trash talking everyone in the lobby, for sure. But this was real life, with people she wanted to impress, so she played it cool and tried to keep from blowing a gasket. The pink-haired nerd managed to keep a pained grin on her face despite her inner rage.

The others were going to ask her why she switched, but didn’t say anything because it couldn’t be undone.

Lucy passed the card to Sophie who read it over.

Lucy took this moment to calm herself down a little bit, and got up to pace around and look at the windows. This was Lucy’s house, so she knew where they all were. Faith asked Lucy to point them all out as she tiptoed around behind her.

It was a small house so there weren’t a ton of windows, but there were a good handful. Way too many by Lucy’s count. She wished with all her might that they lived inside a completely windowless box instead.

Next to the front door, there was a thin window as tall as the door itself. A few feet to the side of that, there was a large window that filled most of the front wall, completely open to the whole neighborhood. In the corner, another medium-sized window looked sideways at the side gate, the neighbor’s house, and some small bushes. Lucy guessed that the sliding glass back door counted, so she motioned toward that as well.

Because Lucy brushed over it, and Faith remembered running past it for her lap around the house, Faith stopped Lucy and pointed out the window in the bathroom. It was the tiny kind that sits at the top of a shower by the ceiling for ventilation. Faith explained, “If the game’s gonna be a rules stickler for one spin on Sophie, it’ll want ALL the windows.”

Sophie called Mia over, who carefully scooted over to discuss the card further with the horizontal brunette.

Mia hadn’t had a clumsy flare-up in a while, but that was because she had been very careful for the most part. Mia didn’t do much to help Sophie outside, and was thankful the game didn’t make her trip and smash the glass of water into Sophie’s head when Mia had helped with something. She thought that maybe the game’s punishments didn’t want to actually do bodily harm to them, but threw that idea out immediately when she realized she was characterizing this demonic perverted game as anything but evil. Mia stopped overthinking everything and listened to what Sophie had to say.

Lucy agreed with Faith about the bathroom window and continued her Window World Tour. They waltzed past the sliding glass door again. In the kitchen, another medium-sized window looked into the backyard over the sink. A large window pointed to the corner of the backyard from inside Lucy’s room.

The hallway was completely enclosed. Lucy didn’t set foot in Mia’s room because Mia made that ground rule very clear long ago, but she pointed through the doorway at another large window pointed directly at their side fence and side yard. This would probably be the most private window in the house. It had next to no visibility, but then Lucy remembered that she still had to have one of the girls outside witnessing her mashing her titties into the glass. She couldn’t believe she was actually humoring the idea of going through with this!

Lucy peeked her head into the garage and confirmed that it had none, then followed Faith back into the living room. Lucy tried to think about anything else but her current situation, and made the observation that Faith tiptoeing around looked a little like the walking animation of argonians in Morrowind.

“There’s eight windows. That’s if you count the bathroom window and the slider,” said Faith as she awkwardly wobbled into the living room.

Lucy was brought back to Earth when they made it back to the couch and Sophie dropped the bombshell that she and Mia had been talking about.

“I don’t know the last time you guys counted, but I think there’s four cardinal directions,” said Sophie. She handed the card back to Lucy. Mia raised her eyebrows and nodded.

Lucy reread the card and realized the implication of Sophie’s statement. Four cardinal directions and four of them, but she couldn’t go witnessing her own titty mashing now could she? If Lucy went through with the challenge, on top of all three of these ladies, she’d need at least one stranger to see her bare boobs mashed against a window as well.

With that thought in her mind, Lucy looked down at herself and imagined the actual action of what the challenge was asking. Her boobs were big for her body size, but she was super petite compared to the other ladies, so that still made them pretty small. Her boobs were the smallest of the group, and that was another big reason to be embarrassed of this whole situation.

Lucy was about to decide to just take the punishment, when she remembered Sophie’s last challenge. Sophie had been strong enough to run all over the streets in her undies and even streaked all through the neighborhood with everything hanging out downstairs. Not to mention spreading her legs with the jumping jacks out in full view of everyone, AND deciding of her own accord to do most of that? Lucy couldn’t even show her titties to these three and one other person for a few seconds each?

As everyone sat around awkwardly and Lucy beat herself up for being a coward, something happened that caught everyone completely off guard.

P’TIING!

Everyone’s hearts jumped out of their chest as they all nearly jumped off the couch. Sophie just barely managed to stay on the ottoman and Faith just barely managed to land on her toes.

Everyone leaned in to see what was up. A single card stuck out of the board. One that Lucy absolutely did not want to see.

Lucy gulped, reached forward, and pulled the WARNING card out of the board.