in Chloe’s room on the other end. When we’d arrived, Chloe handed each of us a cute little basket with a sports drink, a multivitamin, two bottles of water, dry crackers, and a sleep mask in it.
“None of us can be hungover tomorrow,” Chloe announced as she sat on her bed. “None of us can even look hungover. So we will have some girl talk time while we finish everything in our hangover basket that I made and then we are getting a good night’s sleep.”
“Yes ma’am!” I chirped, opening my bottled water first.
I needed to cool off. I’d been burning up since we played Truth or Dare.
“Is this the bachelorette party?” Tisha asked, her brows furrowed. “The four of us sitting in here with no strippers?”
I closed my eyes and swallowed the laugh that almost burst out of me.
“I’m not having strippers and Dom isn’t having strippers either,” Chloe grumbled, tossing a pillow at her. “Why can’t you just enjoy this girl talk time?”
“I’m going to enjoy it!” Tisha held up her copy of the weekend itinerary. She then looked at me and fanned herself. “And I’ve had my fill of strippers tonight.”
“Yeah, what was that?” Maria asked, grabbing her sports drink and gulping it down. She wiped her mouth with her arm. “You and Kingston… is that a thing?”
“No, of course not,” I answered incredulously. “It’s Kingston!”
“Yeah well from where I was sitting, that wasn’t Kingston. That was Kingston 2.0,” Tisha pronounced, sweeping her arms dramatically. “And there was definitely chemistry.”
“So much chemistry!” Chloe popped her vitamin in her mouth and then chased it with water. “We’ve been joking a lot about the lap dance because that was supposed to be funny and ended up being almost uncomfortably sexy. Like at one point I was creeped out and turned on at the same time.”
Shaking my head, I laughed.
“But that kiss looked real,” she continued.
“I kissed Kingston, Omar, and Tyler tonight. It was Truth or Dare. It’s stupid fun. There wasn’t anything real about it,” I ranted. “It’s a meaningless kiss during a meaningless game.”
“Your kiss with Omar was nostalgic. The kiss with Tyler was funny. The kiss with Kingston was smoking hot,” Tisha replied, lifting her shoulders apologetically. “We saw what we saw.”
“Now wait a minute,” I objected. “Kingston kissed all of you, too. He’s a good kisser! That’s what you saw.”
Tisha quirked an eyebrow and pursed her lips. “Yes, Kingston is a good kisser, but let’s not play these reindeer games. He kissed me like he was dared to kiss me. And he kissed you like you two were about to get busy.”
“That kiss definitely didn’t look like the first time you two had kissed,” Maria added. “And it wasn’t a fake kiss either. You two were into it. It was hot.”
“I know you and Kingston are just friends. But you and Kingston 2.0 look like there’s something sparking between you,” Tisha speculated.
“He was dared to kiss me,” I explained as if they weren’t there. “I was dared to dance on him—”
“Wellllllllllllllllllll…” Tisha stretched the word out in a high-pitched tone. “You were dared to freestyle, but you chose to do a lap dance.”
“Okay, yes,” I conceded. “But I can’t rap. You guys know that. I feel like that was the reason why Tyler suggested it. I was backed into a corner.”
“You weren’t backed into a corner, but you certainly backed that ass up,” Tisha quipped causing me to choke on my water.
“I can’t stand you,” I told her after I recovered from my coughs.
“But seriously, is there something going on with you and Kingston?” Chloe asked.
I shook my head. “The first time we ever kissed was tonight… on the yacht… as a dare. I swear there hasn’t been some secret affair happening behind your backs all these years.”
I conveniently left out the part that the kiss gave me butterflies and the lap dance almost ruined my panties. I hadn’t wanted to admit it to myself and I hadn’t had a chance to talk to Kingston about it. But he acted like nothing had happened. And if to him it was just a dare, I didn’t want to make the whole weekend weird by bringing up some one-sided sexual desires I had out of nowhere.
Chloe bit into a cracker. “Well, if you’re sure you two aren’t secretly together, I told Corrine that I want to set her up with someone. And that someone is Kingston.”
“Corrine and Kingston?” Maria’s nose crinkled. “You think they would be a good