Kayla makes her guesses.

“Well?” Melody asks a little coyly. “Let’s hear your guesses.”

“Well, the first one was definitely Dinah trying to act like you,” Kayla correctly guesses. “She had to pull me up to kiss her, and you’re about my height, so you wouldn’t have had to do that. Plus, she smells like fresh paint all the time,” she adds with a laugh.

{if Romantic kiss = true}“The second kiss was assertive, it was forward, it came from somebody with something to prove,” Kayla continues. “John has rountinely booked matches against well-known veteran fighters, and the announcer mentioned during his debut that he’d been extremely committed to his training. I think the second kiss came from him.”

You open your mouth to deny it, but Kayla raises a warning finger at you. “Don’t tell me yet! Let me finish.”

“It does tend to be best to just let her talk it all out when she’s on a roll like this,” Angelica agrees.

You nod in acknowledgement and turn back to Kayla, who’s getting more and more animated as she gets deeper into her deduction. “The third kiss,” she says, “was intended to be more erotic than the others, and—judging from the feel of it—came from someone with fuller lips than the others. Put ‘full lips’ and ‘even more of a seductive streak than other ECL fighters’ together and Angelica’s name is written all over it.”

Angelica giggles slightly at the description, but doesn’t dispute it.

“The last one was...wholesome, for lack of a better term? Much more romantic than sexual. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It seems likely to have come from someone who hasn’t quite jumped into the ECL with both feet yet: ergo, Melody.

And that’s all four! How’d I do?”

“You got me,” Dinah sighs. “No matter how much I shower, I can never seem to get all the paint out.”

“And me,” Angelica admits. “Maybe I should have been less...forward?” She pretends to be struggling to comprehend the idea, to general laughter.

“That’s two,” Kayla says smugly. “How about you two?” She gestures to you and Melody.

“You actually switched us,” Melody informs her. “I was second. John was last.”

“Wait, say what?” Kayla looks genuinely confused.

“Your reasoning was sound, but I’m not the only one in the ECL with something to prove,” you tell her, clapping Melody on the shoulder. It’s hard to tell in the dim light, but you think you see her smile slightly. “And I definitely thought about giving you a raunchier treatment, but sometimes it’s best to just step back and enjoy things. Plus, I wanted to see if it would trick you—and it did.”

“Okay, okay, fair enough,” Kayla grumbles, leaning back onto the couch. The deep, soft cushions almost seem to swallow her slight frame as she thinks about who to choose next.{endif}{if Sensual kiss = true}“I’m not actually sure about the second one, so I’ll come back to it and do a process of elimination,” she says, sounding a little annoyed about that fact. “The third and fourth kisses were pretty similar, with one exception: the last person to kiss me did it at a little bit of an angle, so that my chest wouldn’t touch theirs. Why would they do that? Well, if they didn’t have boobs”—she gestures to your obviously flat chest—“it would be a dead giveaway who it was. But in trying to avoid it, John ended up revealing it anyway.”

“Truly, you have a dizzying intellect,” you say drily.

“Wait ‘till I get going!” shouts Kayla, catching the reference before continuing on. “The third kiss was also of a more seductive type, but if I’m right and the last one was John—and I probably am—it had to have come from a woman. Given that Melody isn’t fully comfortable with open sexuality yet, and Dinah was already first, that means it’s most likely to have been Angelica.”

Angelica doesn’t respond, but she hides a grin as Kayla ferrets her out.

“And that means that the second kiss has to have been Melody,” Kayla finishes, “maybe trying to be a little more assertive in order to differentiate herself from Dinah’s fake of her? Whatever. I’m not here to speculate about motivations. What matters is...” She looks up at all of you, grin barely showing in the dim spillover light from the dance floor. “Did I get it right?”

“Four for four,” you confirm.

“Yessss!” She pumps her fist and falls backwards onto the couch. “I probably shouldn’t be surprised that you guys are as good at that as you are.”

“Well, they’ve gotta have something in store for when I make them eat my pussy,” Dinah teases, earning an “oooooh” of mock-anger from everyone else. Kayla chuckles and shakes her head as she prepares to choose the next contestant.{endif}{if Aggressive kiss = true}“I’m not actually sure about the second one, so I’ll come back to it and do a process of elimination,” she continues, sounding a little annoyed about the fact. “The third kiss could have come from someone who was comfortable with sexuality, but was still testing the waters in terms of their preferences and. Those sorts of people are great kissers—and lovers,” she says with a wink, “because they’ll focus on pleasing their partners rather than trying to fulfill their own desires. I think it came from John.”

You raise an eyebrow at the analysis, but don’t say anything—you don’t want to give it away.

“The last one, ooh,” Kayla says, fanning herself teasingly. “That was a confident, sexually forward person who knows exactly what they want. Sounds to me like Angelica.”

Angelica grins to herself at the compliment, even though she knows the kiss Kayla is describing wasn’t hers.

“And that means that the second kiss has to have been Melody,” Kayla finishes, “maybe trying to be a little more assertive in order to differentiate herself from Dinah’s fake of her? Whatever. I’m not here to speculate about motivations. What matters is...” She looks up at all of you. “Did I get it right?”

“Damn, I was that good?” you ask.

“That was you?” In the dim light, you can faintly see Kayla’s thin eyebrows go up.

“You don’t have to act so damn surprised about it,” you grumble. “Yeah. You switched me with Angelica.”

“I decided to be a little less forward this time,” Angelica explains, chuckling when Dinah makes an exaggeratedly shocked face in response.

“But you did get me,” says Melody. “I was sure I was gonna fake you out with that one.”

“And me,” Dinah admits. “No matter how many times I shower, I can never completely get all the paint out.”

“Oh, well, it was still a really good dare,” Melody tells her as Kayla starts choosing the next contestant.{endif}