Empty the chamber

You need to be a little careful. It’s a weird night, and CCL house is always crazy. People are always playing pranks and startling each other. You know how to handle a gun, but most of these girls probably don’t. Maybe Amy doesn’t. You don’t want to give it to her and then have it go off by mistake or something.

You remove the magazine, clear the chamber, and set the bullet on Tracy’s desk. Then you slap the magazine back in and put the gun in the pocket of your jammy bottoms.

Outside the office, you can hear voices and footsteps from upstairs, but the house is now extremely quiet because they turned off the movie in the other room.

So you think that Amy is leading the officers on a search for the missing girls, while everyone else is heading to bed. It’s not exactly a classic CCL party, but CCL is living up to its reputation: it’s never boring here. You can give the gun to Amy, or to Olivia. Olivia is pretty much the second in command. Either of them is fine.

Then you can get to bed yourself. Your girlfriend is in an earlier time zone, so she’s definitely still awake. If you’re lucky, you can finish what you started with her earlier tonight. Or maybe you should just take care of things with the memory of that shower with Bao and Becka. That was incredible. You will always resent Amy for interrupting it, but it’s really a tragedy for Bao. You don’t know what Bao’s type is, but it looked to you like she was seriously enjoying the company of two big, soft, stacked girls.

There were a lot of things you wanted to do. That was technically your first threesome. Man… damn it, Amy.

You head upstairs in time to catch Olivia hurrying down the hallway with Aki.

“Hey guys,” you say, stopping them.

You take the gun out of your pocket.

Olivia jumps back, throwing her hands up. “Whoa!” she asks.

Aki smiles. “How rude,” she murmurs.

“Um, yup. Sorry.” You quickly change your grip on the gun to be less threatening. “Tracy told me to give this to you. Or to give to Amy. I guess somebody found it. It might belong to that detective, maybe?”

“What am I supposed to do with it?” Olivia asks, making a face as she takes it from you, but you notice that she hands it correctly, keeping her finger off the trigger.

“I guess give it to Amy. Tracy probably doesn’t want to have responsibility for it when she’s super drunk,” you say. “Which is legit, I think.”

“It is,” Olivia says with a sigh. “OK. I’ll put this in Amy’s desk. You better go ahead and get to bed, pledge.”

“Sure. But is Bao OK?”

“Who?”

“The little missionary girl,” you reply.

“Oh, her. I don’t know. I haven’t been…” Olivia waves a hand. “There’s a lot going on.”

“OK.”

You watch Olivia head off down the hall while Aki gracefully descends the steps, looking effortlessly glamorous in her cute, striped jammies.

You need to check on Becka and Bao before you hit the sack. You actually have a hunch that they’re together… and you don’t want to be left out.

You go to the room that you set up for Bao and knock. She opens the door promptly, and she’s still dressed in the too-large clothes that you lent her.

“Hi. You OK?” you ask her.

She nods, looking uncomfortable. Of course she’s uncomfortable, though. She was outside her comfort zone even before Amy told you guys all this shit.

Hmm. You have to make a choice. You are surprised that Becka isn’t here.

You could offer to keep her company if she’s scared.

Or you could go look for Becka.