Goad Lynn into not interfering.

“So we will see this through without any interference, right?” you ask the cheerleader.

“I agreed to no wishes,” Lynn replies.

“And you’re not going to try anything else to fix things in your favor,” you add.

“Oh yeah? How would you stop me?” Lynn smirks. “You plan on holding me down until midnight?”

“I won’t have to do anything of the sort,” you say, confidently.

“Oh? Why not?” Lynn asks.

“Because I know your spirit of competition won’t allow you to,” you state. Lynn raises an eyebrow, so you continue, “You bet me that Coach Sterns was going to hook up with whoever she was inviting over.”

“The bet was that they’d get to third base by midnight,” Lynn points out.

“But the original idea was that you believed Sterns was calling up a lover,” you clarify.

“Well sure, but…”

“So if you were to interfere now, that would be admitting you were wrong!” you state.

Lynn tightens her lips and furrows her brow. You caught her in a contradiction and she knows it. After a hard stare, she grumbles, “Fine! We’ll let this play out. There’s still a chance they could be more than just cousins…”

You grin. “Guess we just have to sit back and watch now, shall we?”

If there’s one thing you know about Lynn, it’s that she’s prideful. Despite how much she might bend the rules to her advantage, she would not outright break the rules to win; that would defeat the purpose of her challenges. Once she agrees to not interfere, she will stick to that stipulation, but she will have you stick to it as well, so you really can do nothing but sit back and watch.

The first hour goes by according to Coach Sterns’ wish. The two women hit the gym to get a workout in. Ash looks to be familiar with her cousin’s workout routine, syncing up with ease for a duo warmup before hopping on the treadmills. She also ably spots her cousin on the bench press. They chat as they exercise, bringing up family, known acquaintances and other subjects of mutual interest that you do not follow. Lynn paces between them nervously, as if she could **** one on the other, but she keeps her hands off.

“Isn’t this nice?” Ash says.

“Hmm?” Kyra grunts, more focused on the weights she is pushing up.

“Everyone’s gone, we have the whole gym to ourselves!” Ash replies.

Kyra looks around and realizes that the gym is empty except for the two of them. She tells Ash, “Huh… you’re right…”

“It’s like our own private gym,” Ash muses. “We could do whatever we like and no one would notice…”

“Except the gym staff,” Kyra points out.

“Yeah, but they work here, they have to take whatever we give them,” Ash replies.

“I don’t think it works that way,” Kyra says, putting the barbell back on the rack and sitting up. She grabs her towel and starts wiping down.

“What would you do if you had your own personal gym?” Ash asks.

“Work out,” Kyra replies plainly.

“Come on… you can do that anywhere. How about… workout in the nude?” Ash suggests in a melodic tone.

“That’s ridiculous,” Kyra replies, moving onto the next station.

“So you’re telling me, you wouldn’t exercise in the nude if you had the privacy of your own gym?” Ash asks. “Don’t lie…”

“What’s gotten into you, tonight?” Kyra asks, changing the subject.

“I don’t know, maybe I was thinking of your cheer team. Them doing something crazy like a shower orgy,” Ash replies. “How come we never did crazy stuff like that when we were younger?”

“We did, remember? The pool party?”

“Yeah, but that was kind of **** on us, we didn’t come up with it by ourselves,” Ash says, leaning on the workout frame listlessly.

“You want to strip down in here, be my guess,” Kyra replies, nonchalantly as she did some resistance bench exercises.

You look at Lynn and ask, “How did you get them to do that?”

Lynn raises her hands with shock of her own, “I didn’t, I swear!”

Ash takes a moment to think about it, then leans in to her cousin and asks with giddy excitement, “You going to do it too?”

“No,” her cousin responds coolly.

“That’s no fun,” Ash pouts, her excitement deflated. She mopes about while her cousin finishes off her reps. Suddenly the younger redhead perks up again, “Then how about in the sauna?”

“Huh?” Kyra mutters, having moved on from the conversation already.

“We wear nothing in the sauna. No towels!” Ash says. “It’s perfectly normal to sauna in the nude and we get a little bit of excitement!”

“Fine,” Kyra replies.

Ash claps her hands with restrained exuberance, hopping in one spot. Lynn and hopping in unison with the young redhead, showing equal amounts of joy and giddy optimism as she stares back at you with a dopey grin.

Things looked to be going your way until this shift. Now things appear to be steaming up between the cousins whether they intended it or not. Is it enough of a shift to warrant interference though?