Kat - Your Best Friend

Kat was looking out the window as she sat on the light green sofa.

Whether she was staring at the birds, people walking their dogs or just the cars driving by I couldn’t say; what I could tell though, was that she wasn’t looking at me.

I shifted my legs and crossed one as I sat back in the armchair and said to her

“You know that if our roles were reversed, you wouldn’t let me welch on a bet.”

She didn’t move, but I could see a slight tightening around her blue-grey eyes that let me know she heard me.

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Ten days earlier…

The lot of us were at our favorite bar sitting down with drinks.

There was the usual lot of us. Kat, myself, Rachel, Brie, and Sean.

Kat and Rachel were good friends - they met while working at the same tech startup before switching careers. Brie was a wild one, always trying to egg everyone on.

Sean, was someone Kat used to date and couldn’t get let it go.

Given how Brie was, she couldn’t help teasing him by asking Kat “So, you have any fun dates lately?” Her English accent carried across the bar.

Sean’s eyes narrowed and Kat shook her head.

Kat said ‘Not lately’ then added ‘All were too boring.” With a smirk Sean’s way.

The drinks began flowing and it all rolled downhill from there.

We eventually got into a drinking contest. It was Brie’s idea naturally.

“We all need to bet something. Something fun and risky!” Brie said between hiccups.

As one Kat and Rachel asked “Like what?”

Brie grinned and said “Something Sexy!”

I rolled my eyes and said “Naturally”.

Brie scoffed at me “Of course you say that Leigh. How about we bet that new bike of yours hmm?”

I sobered up a moment. It took me months of saving to get it.

Rachel said “ How about we bet a ride or his ride?” Then laughed at the lame joke she made.

“Well what will Sean bet?” Kat asked.

Brie latched on, her green eyes full of mischief “How about that summer cabin his parent bought him?”

Sean paled briefly. And Kat watched him squirm with delight. They hadn’t ended on the best of notes..

“How about it Sean? Mommy and daddy’s oil money bought you that cabin..”

Sean was already into his cups and decided to up the ante. “Fine! As long as you put that big mouth of yours on the line - literally.” We all froze and stared, then Sean finished his drink and said “Whoever wins, gets to decide what happens with your mouth. You did talk once abo-“

Kat cut him off “Nobody wants that! Besides, a bit of head from me is not in the same league as a motorcycle or a cabin.”

Brie added “What if it was for more than just one person? Say a blowbang?”

All eyes were on Brie..

So it was, Sean risked his cabin, Brie had offered to be a scantily clad housemaid for a month, Leigh his new Harley, and Rachel shockingly enough offered herself as a fluffer for a week… And poor Kat, she squirmed as she tried to get out of it, but once Brie suggested it everyone wanted her to risk a 1 day blowbang.

At the end of the night, I had paid for everyone’s tabs and for cabs home for all of them. Kat was staying at my place so I put her on the fold out couch with a blanket and a half gallon of water beside her.

When I woke up she was gone, and in the group chat we had Brie was manic and Sean was fuming. Rachel didn’t say much nor did Kat.

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After an indeterminable amount of time, Kat let out the tension from her shoulders and looked me square in the eyes.

“When do we do it Leigh?” She asked