They all took a minute to write their answers before Hailey prompted Emilio and Abby to go first. Abby was partner A and she wrote "his smile" on her board. Emilio was red-faced when his board revealed “my dick.”
“What? You tell me all the time how much you love it,” he said to Abby, who could only laugh at him.
“He’s not wrong,” she said. “Hailey and Avery, what did you put?”
Hailey was partner A for their team, and Avery guessed his eyes, which matched Hailey’s board. A few people said “aww” when they saw the cute match. But the sound turned to laughs when both Cole and Elena’s board said Elena’s ass.
“Obsessed,” Cole said. “Can you blame me?”
Elena ruffled Cole’s hair, and said, “No, you’ve made it quite clear that’s your favorite.”
“I almost wrote your face, but I figured you would guess your ass and I wanted the point,” he said. He had a goodgame plan.
Josh was partner B for their team and wrote his booty. He had a skill for twerking and often showed it off for Riley.
Riley wrote "badonka donk" on his board, and Riley and Josh cheered as they got another point.
The next few questions were tamer: who was the better cook, the better driver, the better dancer?
Going into the final round, Josh and Riley were tied with Hailey and Avery. It made sense, since both couples had been best friends for years. Elena and Cole were still bickering about the rigged game while Emilio and Abby snuggled closer, likely having learned some things they didn’t know about each other.
“The tiebreaker says…” Hailey trailed off as she read from the questions on her phone. “Um, okay, that’s spicier than I thought it would be. Uh, it says the tiebreaker is for each couple to kiss for ten seconds and everyone has to vote on which couple is hotter to watch.”
Her face got redder as she read the question, Avery squeezing her against him on the couch with his arm around her shoulders.
“We can call it a tie. It’s not like Riley and Josh are going to kiss anyway,” Avery said.
“No way!” Josh shouted. “This game is ours.”
He lifted his leg and threw it over Riley’s lap, climbing on top of him and straddling his body until they were sharing the same breath, Riley’s eyes wide in surprise.
“Unless, you don’t want to win, Ri,” Josh said, knowing exactly what those words would do to his bestie.
They were all competitive. It was a good trait to have as a soccer team, but sometimes it made them do crazy things.
Riley’s eyes darkened, and he pulled Josh into a bruising kiss.
Josh had never kissed Riley before, but now he wondered why they hadn’t tried it. They were great at everything else they did together. Why wouldn’t they ace kissing too?
The kiss softened enough for Riley to part his lips, Josh’s tongue taking advantage of the opening and meeting his, deepening their connection. He forgot all about the ten seconds and lost track of how much time had gone by, absorbed in the feeling of Riley underneath him. Riley’s hands slid up and down his back, while Josh had one hand braced on the back of the couch and the other swimming through Riley’s thick hair.
That’s not all that was thick as Josh used his hold on the couch to roll his hips against Riley's, hardness meeting hardness. Riley gasped, and Josh retreated. His best friend had never looked so wrecked and confused, and Josh couldn’t take his eyes off him.
“Um, yeah, okay you win.” Hailey’s voice broke Josh out of his trance. He turned to the rest of the group to see them either gaping at them or looking everywherebut at the show they’d put on. Cole, on the other hand, was beaming.
Josh cheered, “We won! We’re the best couple!” He swamped Riley in a big hug, then turned to the rest of the group and settled in his seat next to him. “Take that!”
“Well, hot damn, I think I just got pregnant watching that,” Cole said.
“Abby, please tell me the education system in America isn’tthatbad and he’s kidding,” Emilio said, holding in his laughter.
“Someone is clearly not familiar withmpregnovels,” Cole responded, the rest of the group looking confused while Elena facepalmed next to him.
“Ignore him, please,” she said. “It always helps me.”
Cole wrapped his arms around Elena and yanked her onto his lap, tickling her until she cried from laughter. Josh was constantly confused by their mating rituals.
When he turned to Riley, he saw his friend frozen where he had left him.
