Making Things Interesting

Maisie is sat on your coach, controller in hand, face contorted into an expression of intense concentration, her leg kicking unconsciously as the adrenaline running through her body tries to find a way out while she races you on Mario Kart World yet again.

For your own amusement, you have not made her proficient at these games she had never played before this afternoon. So for all her enthusiasm, Maisie is still quite bad at them. She punches your cushion in frustration as you finish way ahead of her once more. Her competitive nature is not something you instilled in her, it just wouldn't have shown itself during something she considered as trivial as video games before now.

"This game is fucking rigged. It keeps giving you all the best picky uppy thingies" she complains.

Maisie then leaps off your couch and crouches by the neat row of game boxes you have lined up next to your console, inspecting them approvingly.

"You have such great taste in games. I love all of these!" she commends you, despite having played precisely none of them "Is it okay if I sleep over tonight? You can take the couch, though we'll probably just be up all night gaming anyway"

This is really, genuinely nice. You are finally getting to do the things you enjoy with the girl you adore. You seem to have her full attention too - she has never asked to sleep over before. But there is a danger that all you are doing is turning your crush into your bestie. Your plan here was to slowly condition Maisie into developing feelings for you like you have for her, without the sense of you taking her by ****. Of course, it's far from an ethically sound plan, but you figure it is a far better deal than she would have gotten from most guys in this situation. You do need at least a little escalation to give things more of a push in the right direction though.

"Maisie, your inhibitions are now lowered when it comes to suggestions I make. You are far more willing to do things that might seem a little taboo or out of your comfort zone when we are having fun together"

Maisie, still squatting in place next to your game collection, looks momentarily distracted before standing up and placing her hands on her hips "So are you ready to play something else? I kinda want to play more Mario Kart since your lucky streak can't hold out much longer"

"How about we make this interesting?" you suggest.

"I'm listening?" she tilts her head at you.

"Let's play strip Mario Kart. After each race the loser removes an item of clothing"

Maisie considers this for a while, rather than instantly dismissing the idea and throwing something at you like you might have expected.

"Okay. but we need to take it a stage further. I really have no interest in seeing you naked, but it might be fun to make you do embarrassing stuff. So lets say, even when one of us has lost all our clothes, we keep playing and if the nude player loses again they have to do a naked forfeit. Like ten jumping jacks, or go next door and ask for a cup of sugar or something, I don't know. And not using my curse, I'll just do it if I lose. Which I'm not going to"

Wow. You did not put that suggestion into Maisie's head. That came entirely from her own warped mind, and you love her even more for it. What have you awoken here?

"Sounds fun, let's do it" you agree.

"Oh you are SO going to regret this!" Maisie grins wickedly.

She climbs back into your couch again and sits cross legged now, back straight, leaning forward purposefully, controller in hand. She is utterly useless at this game. This is going to be amazing.