Chapter 3

“OK! OK! OK! C’mon you skank,” Iggy erupted in crazy giggles as she grabbed Emi’s waist and dragged the friendly olive-skinned girl in the see-through bikini top off of my lap. “He’s had his fun. C’mon. We all did a lot.”

“Well what about my fun?” Emi pouted as she swirled to stand up in the centre of the jacuzzi. “I just gotta bit of slobber on my boobs. That’s not a lot for me.”

“It is for me. For Anna.” Iggy frowned when she looked at Dawn. “It was fun and that’s what you wanted us to do.” Iggy inched her ass to the right and squeezed her body up against my left arm. She stage-whispered. “She bugged us all the way over in Anna’s car.”

“You guys didn’t get dropped off?” I asked.

“What?” Anna squeaked.

“We’ve been drinking,” I frowned. “How are you getting home?”

I looked up at Emi. I was a little happy after four shots of alcohol. Or four units, wait that’s an ounce too right? Four gifts of tequila from non-bartender girls. Right, I don’t know how much I’ve drank. But I’m not a drinker. I don’t go to parties. I hang out with these girls. Emi, Iggy, and I have drank before ... We’re not drinkers. Yeah.

“What?” Anna said. “Oh my god! Guys! I can’t drive!”

“Sleepover!” Emi shouted happily.

“Dude!” I said. Flashing my eyes to Emi and Iggy.

“What?” Iggy said. “Oh my god! You were going to ditch me with him.”

“No we weren’t,” Dawn said. “Even if Emi said we might. She’s a straight A nerd, Iggy. Not-ditching-on-the-birthday-party’s why Anna drank.”

“What? I’m not a supervillain mastermind! I didn’t think of that. I just didn’t wanna be left out like last time,” Anna murmured.

“Ditch you?” I said, focusing on Iggy. “That’s what it’s like to be around me?”

“No!” Iggy shouted at me. She immediately melted into an apologetic frown. “I--They know why! I, uh, love you. LoveDawnLoveEmiLoveAnna!” She motormouthed at the end. I didn’t feel so hopeless as she smiled through that panic.

“I love you too,” I said and wrapped my arm around her. I pumped my other fist up in the sky. “Sleepover!”

“We didn’t bring PJs,” Anna said.

“I did,” Dawn said.

“Boo!” Emi bounced and splashed in a circle. “Fun, c’mon. We can worry about all of the little stuff later. Let’s do something stupid!”

“Um...” I frowned. I looked around. All the girls looked to me. I smirked evilly at Iggy.

“Not that stupid.” She said, her eyes flattening.

“Wait do you mean not THAT, meaning sex, and you’re calling Lucas ‘stupid’. Or you wanna do something stupid but not Lucas-stupid?” Anna asked. She looked up at me and scrunched her nose, saying: “Oh, sorry, stupid.”

“No problem, nipply,” I said back. She squeaked in embarrassment and covered her tits with her hand.

“Hey!” she said, squeezing her tits. “They’re not nipply at--” She burned firetruck red. She twisted away from my hypnotized gaze.

“Not Anna-stupid,” Iggy smirked and stuck out her tongue. Emi laughed and splashed out of the center of the jacuzzi to sit across Anna’s lap.

“OK,” I said. “Um, Iggy.”

“Yeah?”

“Fuck, marry, kill...” I tried to think as I outraced whatever Emi was going to instigate.

Iggy slumped her shoulders and dropped her bangs over her eyes. She giggled unable to fling a frown at me.

“Uh ... Emi, Anna, and Dawn.”

“Oh, lesbo action!” Emi chirped.

“Fine, kill Dawn.” Iggy said over Emi’s words.

“That was instant!” Dawn said. She crossed her arms, accentuating and lifting up her cleavage.

“Well yeah, Anna and Emi would fight back and I can’t take either of them,” Iggy grumbled. “Who else could I kill?”

“You’re a black belt!” Dawn countered.

“Not yet!”

“Doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.”

“It’s gonna hurt a whole bunch. I really don’t think I’ll get you with only one swing of the ax. Fu ... Emi.” Iggy tilted her head. “That’s all she’s good for.”

“Damned straight!” Emi kicked her legs out of the tub and let the water drip off of her great skin.

“Not straight at all,” Anna said.

“Oh, yeah, I’ve never done stuff with a girl before. Except with Dawn that one time.”

“What? Oh fuck off,” Dawn slipped deeper into the tub and looked away from me.

“What happened?” I asked, a little too brightly.

“Well, we used to get sent to the same summer camp toget--”

“Do not tell everyone!” Dawn hopped up and poked Emi in the tits with both index fingers.

“It’s a secret.” Emi grinned.

“Marry me?” Anna said, looking longingly into Iggy’s eyes. Anna’s flared cheeks were half-hidden behind Emi’s head.

“Well yeah,” Iggy said. “I’d rather just get like thirty cats but dem’s da rules of fu ... marry, kill.”

“OK, but I’m the girl right?” Anna said, strongly.

“You’re both girls.” Dawn pointed at notable boobs.

“Yeah you are...” I agreed, sleazier and sleazier.

“How the whole lezzie thing works,” Emi patted Anna on the head. “You have to order your boy parts on-line. And the harness gives you a real wedgie. Just ask Dawn.”

“It was nothing like that!” Dawn barked. She slumped until just the top of her head was above the surface of the water.

“Ugh...” Anna recovered the train of thought. “That wasn’t what I meant ... I ... And, Emi! Don’t be mean. They prefer to be called lesbians.”

“I think they prefer to be called bad girl,” Emi rolled her tongue and leaned in close to Anna. Anna swayed back.

“Whatever.” She said blushing and looking outside the tub. I followed her eyes to the tequila. Honestly, I didn’t want them any drunker. I believe Anna was thinking much the same temperate thoughts.

Dawn popped out of the water with a gasp. We didn’t pick on her. I think she knew we wouldn’t. Emi looked like she had a lot to say though. To avoid more teasing, I poked Iggy in the arm. She looked at me. I gestured. She furrowed her brow and tilted her head in question.

“You’re up.”

“It’s just a silly game,” Iggy said. “You don’t get to watch me fu ... Emi.”

“And you’re not getting my ax. No, I mean, your turn to pick someone,” I said.

“For Fu..., marry, kill--”

“Or truth or dare or something,” I said. “So long as it’s silly and not mean.”

“Oh, you birthday boy!” Iggy said. “Truth or dare.”

“I was kinda hoping everyone would get to play.” I said.

“We will, but you’re getting all the licks tonight,” Emi giggled. “Unless Dawn figures out how to make Anna a girl.”

“Right,” I said. Anna just blushed and had more of her face covered by sticky blond bangs. Dawn pouted. I turned to Iggy. “Truth.”

“Um ... What would you want to make this the best birthday ever?”

“This is what they call a test question,” Emi explained. “Iggy’s wants to hear ‘Get on my dick!’ in boy-ese.”

“Can you go sit on someone else’s lap?” Anna asked.

Iggy poked me and I turned back to her. She looked like she was about to burst out laughing, or swallow a pigeon whole and die.

“I want Theo here,” I said. She looked shocked. I leaned back and looked up through the skylight. There were a couple stars in the sky. “And Ray.”

“And we’d all fuck!” Emi said. She screeched and twisted and fell into the pool as Dawn and Anna pinched her on the upper arm and belly. She exploded out of the water a second later. I was swarmed by a three-way hug from Anna, Iggy, and Dawn. Emi piled on.

“Happy birthday!” I pulled them in, running one hand around the small of Iggy’s back. I did the other on Dawn’s. Emi piled on over the top of Anna and Iggy’s shoulders.

“We wish Theo was here too,” Anna whispered.

“Thanks girls,” I said. The hug started to slip away. Dawn skipping out first. Emi literally using me as the staircase - Anna and Iggy the rails - to walk out of the tub and to the tequila and glasses. I snapped my Dawn hand and grabbed Anna before she could slink back across the tub.

“Sorry,” I said, removing my pinkie and ring fingers from the band of her bikini bottoms.

“Oh, I don’t mind...” she said, hoarsely. I lifted my other hand off of Iggy, who slipped tightly into the seat beside me. I dragged Anna to me and plopped her on my lap.

“What?” Iggy asked.

“She wanted Emi off of her.” I said. “Just trying to be the hero, the knight.”

“That’s sweet,” Iggy kissed my cheek. “And totally self-serving.” She choked my neck with a hug. “It’s your turn. FYI.”

“It was Anna’s if we just went in a circle.” I said.

“Whoever gets picked goes next,” Dawn said, reading Iggy’s mind. Emi dripped on the back of my neck. I looked up.

“We need someway to chicken out or it’s going to be Dawn, me, and the entire squad at cheer camp all over again,” Emi put two other cups down by Iggy’s shoulders. She walked back to grab ones for herself and dawn.

“Only Anna is a cheerleader!” Dawn growled.

“Dawn,” I smiled. “Truth or dare.”

“Da--” She snapped her mouth shut. “Fine, truth. Otherwise Emi’s going to turn me into some kind of lesbian super-fucker.”

“Oh, you get that on a shirt!” Emi said. She walked around the tub and slipped in next to Dawn. Emi hugged Dawn tightly, putting the last two cups on the rim behind them. Dawn hugged her back warmly out of reflex. She soon pushed Emi off and pouted at me.

“What did you do with Emi that’s so lesbian?”

“I peed on her,” she grumbled. That was not what Iggy, Anna, nor I was expecting. We stared silently at her as I, at least, tried to come up with a follow up question. She slumped her shoulders forward, punching her thighs under the water. “She got stung by a jellyfish and I had heard that helped and really wanted to help my best friend. The camp first aid officer said it was an urban myth. Then the cheeky bitch had to say the only reason to pee on someone was because that was something you and your girlfriend both liked.”

“Oh ... I was having so much fun and--”

“Lucas!” Dawn shut Emi up with a shrill screech. “Uh ... Fuck, Marry--” she shook her head. “Truth or dare.”

“Uh, truth,” I said, squeezing Anna’s hip and flicking my eyes at Iggy. I wanted things to keep going and while Dawn wasn’t Emi, dares could scare off Iggy pretty quickly. I figured.

“OK, um,” Dawn said. She looked around. “Who here has the best tits?”

“Oh, thanks for the land mine,” I said, trying to be under my breath. Emi lifted her butt from the seat and reclined back pushing her tits out of the water. Dawn sat up straighter, subtler but still a show. Iggy half-turned towards me. Even her. Anna color-changed her boobs to red. As often as she blushed, she de-blushed pretty quickly too.

“Well, I’ve only really seen Emi’s,” I started hedging straight off. Emi’s top was quite see-through after a long dip in the hot water.

“The truth. You’ve been looking all night,” Dawn said.

“The truth,” Iggy agreed. “Dem’s da rules.”

“I like Iggy’s.”

“Anna’s are better than mine!” Iggy slapped me in the shoulder with a reflexive two-handed slap push.