A little wager over games.

Mila, Alice, Noelle and I went to the game room in the main building, and while I kept my expectations low, I was pleasantly surprised by what we saw.

There was a pool table, an air hockey table, darts, ping pong, foosball… and a couple of arcade machines, both with the old SFII. Noelle and I were immediately pulled towards it, but Mila and Alice each held one of us by the back of our shirts.

“Oh, come on. We came here to play together! You’re gonna leave us out?” Mila asked.

“Who said that? You can play, too!” Noelle argued, arms flailing in the direction of the arcade machine as Mila held her back.

“I thought you were giving video games a chance, Alice…” I asked her, relying on the underhanded method of guilt-tripping her to have her allow us to play.

“I’m not telling you not to play. But come on, let’s do something else together first. How many times have you played pool?”

“Zero.”

“Zero.”

Noelle and I answered in unison.

“See? Come on, I’ll teach you.”

“I’m afraid to,” I said. “Isn’t the cloth on those tables expensive and easy to tear if you’re bad? I don’t want to pay for a screw up.”

Alice raised an eyebrow. “Who told you that?”

“My mom,” I answered.

Alice chuckled. “Did she happen to say that when you were little and wanted to play with one?”

My jaw dropped. “Um… Yes? How did you know? Read my mind?”

“No, it’s just what most parents tell their kids so they won’t mess with pool tables. My dad said the same to me.” She shook her head. “The cloth can be a bit expensive, yes, but it doesn’t tear that easily. You’ll be fine.”

“I don’t know…” Mila said. “Did you see him lifting weights? He could probably break the table in half. We better play something else…”

“Mila, please, I’ll hold back.”

“Aha!” Noelle pointed an accusatory finger at the busty blonde. “I see how it is!”

“Yep. Alice is super good at pool,” Mila confirmed. “She’ll kick our butts.”

“Wait, really?” I asked, raising an eyebrow of my own now. “First I’m hearing about it.”

Alice blushed. “I’m not that good! It’s just that Alex has one in his house, so I’ve played a few times.”

Mila scoffed. “A few times, she says…”

“No, no, it’s fine.” I straightened up and eyed the pool table. “But this is what we’ll do. We’ll play every game in this room once. Each win is worth a point. The one with the most points by the end wins it all. How about it?”

“Oh, now this I like!” Noelle grinned. “What’s the prize?”

“Name it,” I said. “We each ask for something if we win.”

“Oooh, now this is interesting,” Mila said. She got close to me, enough that her chest pressed against mine and looked me straight in the eyes. “If I win, we find a way to write the Normality runes on my swimsuit and we do some risky stuff in the hot springs. Just you and me. That’s what I want.”

I chuckled. “Sure. If you win, of course.”

“Yes!” Mila fist pumped with both hands. “Alright, let’s do this!”

“And what about you two?”

“I want… A date,” Alice said.

“A date?”

“Yep. A date. Formal dress code, an elegant restaurant, you and me, we take my car. If you finish in second place, I MIGHT let you drive it.”

Wait, wait, wait. She’ll let me drive the FD!? No, hold on a moment…“Am I… Am I being bribed into losing? It feels like it.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Alice innocently said.

“Mmm… I want you to play an MMO with me,” Noelle said. “Or at least I’d like you to give it a shot.”

I had told Noelle before that I wasn’t into Massively Multiplayer Online games. I like to just sit down and play at my own pace. She liked them, though. At least a specific one. I guess I can’t blame her for wanting me to play with her.

“So all your prizes have to involve me? You could ask stuff from each other, you know?”

“Well, it was your idea,” Alice told me.

“And what do you want, Oliver? What do you want as your prize?” Mila asked me.

“...” I swallowed. “If I win, I get to pick a costume for you three to wear next time we… go to a hotel.”

The three girls looked at each other with eyes wide open, then turned to me with questioning looks.

“W-What?” I asked.

“Oliver…” Mila smirked and gave me a little push with her shoulder. “How come you never told us you were into that?”

“Yeah, that seems like something you would’ve told us a long time ago,” Alice said.

“Well, you know… It wasn’t that high on the priority list.”

“And… What kind of costumes are we talking about?” Noelle asked.

“Nothing weird, I promise. Something… standard, tasteful. No specifics in mind yet.”

“Alright, I’m game!” Alice clasped her hands. “What do we start with?”

So yeah, Alice is ridiculously good at pool. We paired up at random for this one. We agreed to play eight-ball. Mila and I picked the solid balls while Alice and Noelle picked the striped ones. As per the rules, according to Alice, when one pockets a legal ball, they get another turn. Alice pocketed 5 in a row.

Yep, we got destroyed. Alice and Noelle claimed the point together.

I will say, however, that I was a little distracted. After all, we weren’t alone in the game room. There weren’t many people, but there were a few, most of them guys. And when you play pool, you kind of have to bend over. You know where I’m going with this, right? Some of the guys were staring at the girls’ butts. Those same guys stopped and got embarrassed when I began to stand directly behind the girls to block the view, though.

Still, I can’t find it in my heart to be seriously angry. The girls all have amazing butts, after all. Looking was fine, so long as they didn’t get any ideas.

These girls are mine.

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