Card Game!

"You play cards?" Charlotte asked out of the blue at a particular lull.

"Yeah, we've got a deck." Kaila responded, moving to rummage through a bag.

"How about Egyptian Rat Fuck?" I offered, causing giggles throughout the house.

"Rat Screw." Kaila corrected me with a groan.

"Fuck." I countered, unwilling to concede the argument.

"Screw."

"FUCK!"

"SCREW!" She rolled her eyes at me, preparing for a long battle.

"How about Bullshit?" Helen interjected, pulling up a chair at the table.

"Bullshit works." I nodded, giving my wife a "this isn't over" look.

"What are we playing for? Penny a game?" Charlotte suggested.

We assembled at the four sides of the small table, Helen dealing the cards. I'd forgotten how much fun a simple game of cards could be, and didn't even mind when Helen creamed us all the first hand.

"Arrrrgh! How do you do it, dahlin?" Charlotte moaned as Helen shuffled the cards again.

"Telling my mom for ten years that I liked the boys she tried to get me to go out with. Two twos..." She started the next round.

We played a few more hands, our laughter becoming louder with each call of "Bullshit!" Helen and Charlotte seemed the most adept at the game, but Kaila was totally out of her league. I don't think that even once she got a bluff through. As for me, I was all right at bluffing our guests, but Kaila nailed me every time.

"How bout we raise the stakes?" Kaila grinned at me after yet another hand.

"What do y'all have in mind?" Charlotte laughed. "If it involves stripping, forget it."

A sudden image of three nude women playing cards flashed through my brain, and ended up at my crotch.

"Naah, how bout, oh, I don't know... Last loser has to do a "truth or dare."" Kaila snickered as she spoke the idea, but actually seemed happy with it.

"Oh my god. That is so High School." Helen groaned.

"Aww, what's the matter, dahlin? Chicken?" Charlotte taunted her girlfriend.

"What are we, in Junior High now?" Helen rolled her eyes.

"Little marshmalla chicken..." Charlotte screwed up her face in a puggish expression.

"I'm never going to hear the end of it if I don't, am I?" Helen sighed. "Fine. But no clothes come off."

"Oh, I'm in hell." I groaned.

"Shut up." Kaila wagged her finger at me, "You know you love it."

The cards were dealt, and we played. Next thing you know, it was only Helen and I still holding cards. We were up to queens.

"One." Helen smirked at me, dropping the card onto the pile.

"Bullshit." I grinned back, and was delighted to see a king when I uncovered her card.

"Fuck." Helen sighed as we finished the hand. "All right, I choose, uhm, truth."