Even the odds

You took a bit of time trying to find the best way to move forward. Partly to try and keep the attention on yourself but also because you were struggling to come up with anything.

“Hmm, I do think you are right Sarah. Truth or dare will be the main part of the game but if people give longer running dares that people could then fail… It adds to the punishments.” you stated, leaving room for people to decide if they want to prioritise punishments or truth/dares.

“How about this everyone except Sarah takes off one item of clothing and she also gets to pick a person to take one of her punishments. And we will say that everyone wearing a dress can take off a shoulder strap as one but once both shoulders are down then it has to come off. That should even the odds a bit more but you’ll still have to be careful” you explained, looking around the room at everyone.

That would put Sarah effectively up to three pieces of clothing while everyone had that or more. It also evened the odds between everyone else, with over half the room wearing dresses and three people including yourself wearing separate tops/bottoms.

“Is everyone okay with that?” you asked, taking off your socks first to show you were committed to the rules as well.

With various nods and murmurs of approval, everyone went about taking off something they cared less about removing. Socks or one shoulder strap were removed as those seemed easiest to part with but it highlighted a few things you had forgotten. The sofa was low enough off of the ground that you could see up any skirts unless you deliberately tried or if the dress was rather short, but you did have an urge to see what Rebecca was wearing given what she had shown you in her texts previously.

You were also aware that Mom wasn’t wearing any panties since you had taken them earlier, meaning she was one more item of clothing down than you first thought. She sat with her legs to one side similar to Sarah but none of the attention had gone to her yet, making it so her secret was currently safe.

She however didn’t seem to mind too much given that she had already had her fair share of wine and the last glass she had started was still half full, letting her take the occasional sip of wine to keep her happily tipsy but not anywhere close to being full drunk like she was after your meal at the restaurant.

“Alright! Time to spin!” Grace happily exclaimed, putting some power into her first spin to set things off.

The rug was smooth enough for the bottle to spin normally and it felt like it was just your luck that it stopped right on you, leaving you no wiggle room to say it was Rebecca or Sarah on either of the couches.

“Serves you right” Lucy said, chuckling to herself.

“Truth or dare?” Grace asked with a bit too much glee in her voice that told you she was happy it had been you that was picked.

“... Truth” you answered, glad that it was Grace to be the one to spin for you.

That was until Lucy leaned over and down from where she sat on the sofa to whisper in Grace’s ear.

“Hey no cheating!” you protested, not wanting Lucy to corrupt her.

“Fine, fine” Lucy said, backing off. But it looked like she had already said what she wanted given how easy she gave up.

“In this week, have you spent more time thinking about tonight or your exams?” Grace asked, making you flick your eyes over to Lucy to see she was pleased with the question.

“Tonight” you replied, the room going silent as they expected you to continue.

“...oh come on, you can say more than that” Grace grumbled.

“If you hadn’t have cheated, maybe I would have” you said with a smirk, reaching over to spin the bottle.

It spun until pointing towards the couch with Mom and Rebecca on it, leaning more towards Rebecca than Mom.

“...Dare” Rebecca replied, accepting that it was gonna be her turn.

You had been expecting everyone to start off with Truth for the first few turns so you weren’t prepared to come up with something straight away, taking your time to think a dare over. Given how you had gotten her a bit more excited than everyone else however, it felt right to give her a dare that was a little more out there.

“I dare you to kiss anyone who says your name in the next 30 minutes, otherwise you take 2 punishments” you revealed, giving time for Rebecca to figure out if she wanted the dare.

She stared at you for a few moments as if trying to see if the rule could be exploited but other than you repeating her name over and over, even you didn’t see a way of getting the others to say her name on purpose.

“Alright, I’ll take the dare.” she replied, reaching over with her hand out.

“Sure thing, Rebecca” you answered, giving her a kiss as you handed over the bottle for her to spin.

She stayed leant down and let the bottle spin, pointing straight ahead from her and onto the other sofa. Lucy and Sarah on either side of Emma immediately moved to the edge of the sofa as Emma was left to be the target, as if both sisters had planned to act in unison.

“Dare” Emma said, not willing to back down and just take a truth.

Rebecca did the same as you and struggled to find a dare that was fitting for the moment, a situation you were starting to think would repeat.

“I dare you to… go get me another drink” she announced, deciding that if she couldn’t think of anything, she’d at least get something out of the dare.

Emma got up from where she was comfortably sat and headed off to the kitchen to grab something for Rebecca, the latest wine bottle having already been emptied across everyone's glasses.

She did it as quickly as she could from the sounds of her heading down the hallway and was back before it felt like the game was being interrupted.

She re-entered the room and got you to shift places, letting you sit in front of the sofa between Sarah and Lucy while she reached out to spin the bottle, turning back and looking directly at Rebecca before she saw the result.

You were torn between watching your girlfriend or the results of the bottle but you could tell she had something planned, carefully pouring her a glass of wine as the bottle came to a rest.

Author's note: Sorry for the impromptu break. Life stuff got in the way and made it hard to find the time to do writing. I gave the briefest update to mention this on the Patreon so if the same happens again, I'll likely update there.