Matt

“Whoops, got my own name,” Tom said, shrugging. “Do I do anything?”

“Uh, just draw again,” Sarah said, matching his gesture.

“Weird how that never happened before,” you noted.

“Yeah. From now on, leave the person doing the dare’s name out until they finish drawing.”

“Got Matt this time,” Tom finally said as he fished another name free. “I, uh- you know, can I just do a group dare?”

“Like what?”

“Look, we’re pretty far into this thing. Some of us have had sex,” Tom said, emphasizing that last word. “How about for this dare we just all get naked? Gonna be more comfortable that way.”

“I, uh, I mean, it is Matt’s dare,” Nicole said, very quietly. You glanced over to see that she was blushing furiously, obviously embarrassed to be naked in front of a bunch of people - no doubt for the first time. But as soon as you looked at her, she glanced away, and her hands started to reach for her clothes.

“I don’t have any problem with it,” Matt said, his eyes not at all inconspicuously glancing over toward Sarah. It was exceedingly obvious why he wanted the dare to go thorugh.

“I agree. Come on, everyone, let’s get nakeeeed,” Sarah said, putting way too much emphasis on that last word as she started to run around the circle of friends, removing every article of clothing in sight. Despite the fact that Matt had only just barely agreed to the dare in the first place - much less anyone else - before you knew it all six of you were sitting in a circle, totally naked and with all of your clothes piled in the corner of the room, including what had been cast aside before the dare.

“I, uh, I don’t know about this,” Miranda said. Despite how far the game had gone, it seemed like actually getting everyone naked at once had removed some of the confidence others had felt.

“Oh c’mon,” Matt said, sensing the hesitation and doing his best to dispel everyone’s doubts, “it’s my turn, and I have an idea - how about we throw ‘Everyone’ into the hat? If you draw it, everyone has to do a dare, and then we can draw another name to see who’s up next, and who they’re daring.”

“I love it,” Sarah said, gushing and leaning over Matt’s shoulder, her uncovered breasts draped across his arm. “In fact, while I draw it up, why don’t you give us another dare for everyone?”

“I dare everyone to split a bottle of whatever **** is in the cabinets here,” Matt said, grinning from ear to ear.

“Hang on, we were just-“ Nicole began, but she was cut off by Sarah.

“Ah, ah, ah, if you refuse, you get the penalty. You wanna wind up naked in front of the school on Monday morning?” Sarah threatened, her eyes gleaming wickedly.

“I- just get the damn ****,” Nicole said quietly, blushing furiously as she crossed her arms.

You knew what Matt and Sarah were doing, but you couldn’t exactly object. Despite your own nerves, you were looking forward to seeing where the night went from here. You were starting to look at some of your friends in a whole new light, and even Tom and Sarah, in a way. By the time that Sarah returned from the kitchen with a tray, you weren’t sure what you were expecting, but you knew you wanted to see it through, so you surprised everyone when you were the first to tip back your shot glass. Sarah and Tom followed suit quickly, encouraging everyone else to match you. Two more rounds followed, and by the time Sarah was drawing up the “Everyone” paper for the dare game, she was just starting to bob and weave a little. In a matter of fifteen minutes everyone had suddenly become every bit as drunk as they were at the party, and the tension that was slowly building around the room seemed to dissipate.

“Alright, let’s keep going,” Sarah said, grinning from ear to ear.

“Okay… I got you to give the dare, Sarah,” Matt said, smiling at her. “And you get to dare… Nicole.”

Nicole smiled sheepishly, a blush creeping across her face as everyone stared at her. The **** certainly didn’t help - she had stopped covering herself and was now sitting with crossed legs, baring parts of her you’d never seen before tonight in all their glory.

“Hit me. What have you got in mind?”

Sarah’s grin started to widen.