"Do you want to leave?"
"No, we decided to come so we should stay. Remember when we talked about this we said we may be bored. Amy was the only person we knew, and she had to leave because she wasn't feeling well."
"Ok, well what should we do then? Do you recognize anyone?"
"Not really. Here, hold my drink for a sec, I need to go to the bathroom."
"Great, leave me here like a loser, standing alone at a party. Hurry back, k?"
I watched her as she made her way through the crowd and down the hall. There were sure a lot of people here, for a relatively small house. I watched as a few girls were making the rounds in the living room. Either they were good hostesses or they were passing out drugs. At least that's where my head was.
Maria made her way to the bathroom door at the end of the hall. A few little knocks on the door, and she opened it up.
"Hey, come on it!" he exclaimed.
"Oh god, I'm sorry" Maria stammered. "I did knock, maybe you couldn't hear it."
"I can't hear much tonight" he said. "It's pretty loud in here. It's alright, don't worry about it. Good thing I didn't have my cock in my hand, though huh?" He laughed.
Taken aback by his frankness, she replied "Yeah." And her face turned red.
Through the narrow door he inched past her, so his chest grazed hers. He looked into her eyes. "I'm Jerry" he said.
He was tall. She looked straight ahead but found herself staring at his chest instead of his eyes. "Nice to meet you, I'm Maria." She was so embarrassed, she didn't want to look him in the eyes or she'd lose it.
She did notice one thing though, as he made his way past her. Damn he smelled good.
Looked good too. Long black hair, stubbly face. Probably a few years older than her, which wasn't much of a problem. He was wearing a black t-shirt and jeans, with black biker boots. He had a few tattoos, but they were the kind you can't really tell what they are without staring at them for a few seconds.
She quickly made her way in to finish her business. She was still nervous though, and had trouble with her fly. Within a few minutes though, she was back in the crowd, looking for her fiancΓ©.
"What took you so long? These girls are going around to everyone and I was afraid they were going to come up to me. Should we get out of here before they come??"
"Yeah, maybe we should, I don't feel very comfortable."
They turned to head for the door just as a cute, 20-something brunette came up to them. "Hey, you two gonna play?"
"Play what?" I asked.
She looked confused, and obviously couldn't hear me. I leaned over and spoke in her ear. "What is everyone playing?"
"Oh, spin the bottle. It's in the living room - will be starting in a minute so you better get in the circle!"
I don't think I could believe what I was hearing. I had heard of spin the bottle, even seen it on an episode of Sex in the City. But I had never played it. Of course, I hadn't been to too many parties before.
"We really can't, we need to get going" Maria shouted.
"Oh come on, it's not even midnight yet. You have to stay for new years. Come on, I'll show you where to sit."
She took Maria by the arm and walked her into the living room, where now about 12 people were sitting in a large circle on the floor, with another 10 or so sitting on couches and chairs surrounding them.
"You guys can sit here beside each other, that way you may be less likely to pick each other" she laughed.
Maria and I looked at each other. We could make a run for it. Of course, now that we were in the center of attention, we'd look like fools. Guess we had no choice. We nodded a quick agreement to each other.
The girl who had walked us over there quickly found her spot across from us, and took out a two-litre pop bottle from behind her. "Ok, everyone knows how to play?" she asked. We kept silent. No one else spoke up, so we weren't about to.
"Ok, I'll go first." She reached in and put the bottle on the floor in the middle of the circle, and then gave it a quick spin. It made about 4 rotations and slowly slid to a stop, pointing at a girl three down from her. Out hostess then crawled on her hands and knees over to the girl and proceeded to kiss her softly on the lips. It was a pretty sexy kiss. No quick pecking here. Slow, sultry, romantic. And hot. The girl seemed to enjoy it.