Another change of rules

Quite unsurprisingly, it was Ashley who ended up losing the first round of the game - and with cards so embarrassingly bad, that even herself had to realize her strategy wouldn't work very well if she kept being so obvious to what she was trying to achieve. Luckily she was clever (or partially absent-minded) enough to make for a quick distraction though, which saved her from being accused for all 'the wrong kind of cheating'...

"Ashley...? That's not part of the rules today...!" Heather couldn't keep from giggling, while the slender blonde on the opposite side of her surprised them all, by swiftly slipping out of the short blue top she'd put on instead of her swimsuit.

"Really?" The girl looked back at her, with feigned surprise, and a certain amount of mischief in her soft blue eyes. "But... how are we supposed to keep track of the points then...?"

"Fair point, actually..." Chloe hummed in agreement, and was met with sporadic nods from the others. Most of them didn't realize right away how this might change their own tactics however, though it certainly added some extra fun to the game.

"I'd been thinking more of drawing points in the sand..." Heather admitted, but was clearly one of the last to actually start objecting to this new turn of events. "But since we're already started, I guess we could just keep going with it!"

"Fair enough with me..." Said Brandon, while shooting a quick smile at the blonde who'd started it, which somehow ended the discussion before someone else had the chance to protest. Someone like Zack, for example, though he was actually more fine with this kind of development than the entire room-switching idea.

Meanwhile, Vicky at the other hand was perhaps the only one who'd have to rethink her strategy a bit. She wasn't quite so drunk today - as to freely freely start giving up on her clothes right away at least -, though she could also see that her friend would be playing to the same kind of plan as herself, which really wasn't making much sense when following up with adding a punishment to the game...!

"Dammit..." She thought to herself, while Zachary was dealing their next hand of cards, and knew she may have to play it rather differently from now on. But then again, could it actually be worth getting out of her clothes right now, just to make for a better pairing later? Heck, she didn't even know what she wanted in the first place anyway...!

Thus the next few rounds continued with only few surprises. Chloe - who'd already won the first round over Ashley -, somehow ended up losing the fourth one, and added another yet another rule as she realized they only had a way to keep track on who'd lost the most times - but none for whoever was in the lead.

"Ashley...? Would you please hand over that top of your's to Gavin?" She asked the other girl, which was met with some confusion, until she managed to explain her thinking. "We still need to keep track of the points, right? So the clothes can just work as markers..."

"While also giving you a chance to skip the stripping...?" Heather frowned at her softly, which was something she'd not quite even been thinking about.

"Oh, well then!" The redhead agreed, with a feigned pout on her lips, and then slowly removed the jersey she'd pulled on top of the daring swimsuit she was still wearing underneath.

"Then give your top to me instead!" She said, while returning her attention to Ashley, before handing her own garment over to Gavin. This way - at the end of the fifth turn -, Gavin was also gifted with Heather's blouse, while Zack and Heather received a shirt and a skirt from Brandon and Ashley respectively.

"We should have made up the rules, so that the roommates were decided by who was owning the most of another player's clothes..." Heather mumbled, while leaning herself all the way across Zachary's lap, just to be able and deliver her comment to the redhead on the other side of him - pretending not to notice at all how her movements caused a certain reaction in the young man's pants.

"Yeah, I know!" Chloe returned at her with a mischievous grin, which was also caused by the rather obvious reaction of her good old friend, rather than what the other girl was suggesting to her. "I think it's a bit late for a change of rules like that though...?"

"Well, let's just keep it in mind until next time!" The sexy brunette winked at her, before gracefully pulling herself back again, and made it sound like a promise that they'd definitively have more games like this ahead of them...

The only one who'd still neither lost or won any rounds at this point was Victoria, which wasn't such a big deal to herself at all, though it certainly was becoming one for the girl right next to her.

"She's not playing to lose this at all...?!" Ashley realized, as she looked to the pretty good hand that Vicky had just put down in front of her, and found that it was actually only rivaled by the winner himself. After the first round she'd been so sure that her friend had been thinking along the same lines as herself, but only now did she finally understand how her own change of rules must have affected the other girl's way of playing...!