Looks like a good time for a game of poker

"How about a game of poker...?" Asked Heather, while she came back to the living room with another set of beers in her hands, and then headed off to make sure she'd packed some cards in the event of something like this coming up. While she'd love to just keep writing on one of her new threads, she felt like she'd be a really bad hostess if she couldn't at least try and keep the others busy with various activities. And it wasn't like she didn't enjoy a good game of cards - or just having a nice time chatting by the fireplace -, but she was just really getting into all this writing and checking for updates on the other threads.

Truly, Gavin was a really good author to keep her interest up for so long without pause...

"We're not playing about money, are we...?" Victoria asked as Heather returned with a fresh deck of cards, and looked like she had some rather bad experiences of friends playing cards together. In fact she'd seen her father almost get into a serious fight with one of her mother's brothers over one of those kind of games - which had eventually put an end to their annual family gatherings for several years to pass -, and it had put a serious dent in her mind regarding that kind of games.

"No, of course not!" The brunette smiled at her warmly - as none of them would have much spare change on them to play for anyways -, and then gave them all a mischievous wink while putting an arm around her friend's slender shoulders. "I'm sure we can play about clothes instead...?"

"Huh...?" Vicky just stared at her for a moment - but soon joined in with the others as they all started laughing at the joke -, while Heather herself insisted that it was the best idea as of yet. And in some ways she was quite convinced that it actually was, as she could think of few better ways to get closer to your friends than getting a little drunk and eventually naked together... But that was just her own opinion though, and she'd certainly not push it any further until the opportunity arose once again.

"Well, I'm up for that!" At least Brandon seemed to agree with her, as she could see that certain gleam in his eyes behind the joking smile he was wearing on his face. And Ashley seemed surprisingly into the idea as well - even if she was hiding it well under a sudden blush to her cheeks, which could easily be mistaken for simple embarrassment rather than actual excitement.

Well, perhaps that was something worth to be thinking about for later at least...? But right now they all seemed happy to just play a few games for fun, while continuing to chat and take sips of their cold beers.

As they didn't even have any markers to play for, the group eventually settled for a simplified version of the original game - without any bets whatsoever, and a simple point system which included winning the last trick of every round. Perhaps it was some kind of local variant - which only Heather had ever heard about -, or she simply made it up on the fly, but at least it provided some easy entertainment for the remainder of their evening together...

"Were you actually serious about that talk about strip-poker earlier...?" Vicky found herself asking the girl beside her - after quite a few rounds of playing the game without any stakes whatsoever -, and could feel her cheeks immediately blushing red again as she realized the curiosity in her own voice. While she'd find the whole concept a little exciting, she most certainly didn't mean to make it sound like she'd been willing to try it, and her attempts to smooth things over didn't really make it any better. "I mean... have you actually tried it before...?"

"Oh, yeah!" The curvaceous brunette winked at her and flashed her a sly grin, while looking up at her from the cards on her hand. "Why...? Would you like to try it?"

"Eh, no...!" The blonde managed a quick little laughter - though she had to admit to herself that the idea had really stuck to her mind -, and she tried again to make it sound like she was merely curious about the other girl's own experiences. "Was it with someone we know... Or just some people at a party...?"

"Like, someone who's here right now...?" Heather gave her another mysterious little smile, and then swept with her eyes over the people in the opposite couches - while all of them were much to busy with their own talking to hear what the two of them were saying to one another. "Who would you think of, if I said it was...?"

"Uh...?" Vicky glanced back at the others as well, with a look of growing uncertainty on her pretty little face. For all she knew they could all have played some game like that together when she wasn't around to see them, and the thought of it filled her with a sudden feeling of being excluded from the rest of the group. She'd always been a bit on the shy side - although not as introverted as Gavin for example -, but still enough to perhaps be left behind whenever the rest would like to do something wild.

If she went to bed early tonight - after having a little too much beer -, would they change the rules and keep playing without her...?

"Hey Vicky, I'm just kidding!" Heather reassured her, as she must have seen the odd look on her face, though it wasn't quite enough to fully take away that feeling of sometimes being treated like a child by some of the others. And by Ashley and Heather herself the most...

"I've never actually played it for real..." The brunette continued after another couple of moments - while they were receiving their next hand of cards -, and the way she lowered her voice got Vicky more interested in her story again, rather than to keep thinking about the past.

And it was quite the story to hear about, and Vicky could feel the blush reaching all the way to her ears while her friend kept telling it in parts between their games. Apparently it could be considered a quite excellent kind of foreplay to get started with a game of poker before getting to the point, and it didn't take much imagination to see where it was headed when Heather told her about changing the stripping part of the game for various services - some of which were fairly harmless, up to and including some things that the innocent blonde had barely ever heard of before...

Perhaps needless to say, the storytelling was having quite an effect on both of them, and the mood inside the little cabin seemed to be rising proportionally to their own excitement...