Something weird happened last night and I am very conflicted about it. I've been traveling across the country with my band and we've been crashing in people's houses along the way. They're small shows, we're barely breaking even financially and if we can keep that up it will be a huge success. Our fan base is growing so that's cool. Sadly there are not a lot of girls among them. They're mostly college guys, frat guys, which is counter our own punk lifestyles but so long as they like the music, we're cool with it.
Anyway, last night we were all crashing at this house. It was your standard over stuffed rented college guy house, it was 3 to a bedroom before we got there. They were a rough bunch of jocks, but they were also pretty good hosts. We all smoked their pot, drank their beer, and played their video games. They had this huge tv bolted high up to wall. The rest of the place was pretty shabby but their entertainment system was incredible. I guess that's were all their money went.
6 of us in the band with 12 of them from the house were all packed shoulder to shoulder on one big couch and a love seat.
One by one the weed and beer did its trick and people are passing out where they sit, no one made it to the rooms. Penises were drawn on faces, I think somebody even got pee'd on. I was one of the last to fall asleep, but apparently not the first to wake up.
It's hours latter and my mouth was dry and my back was aching. The room smelled like sweat and stale beer and staler weed. I could hear the tap tap of a two game controllers being used. My eyes just barely open and I scan the room. Everyone was asleep except two guys. One was our base player Jamie. He's more emo than he is punk but he plays a mean base guitar. He fusses over his long, straight black hair, it has a few green highlights. Lip ring, tongue ring, nose stud, 4 or 5 rings in his ears. He's lucky we can't afford to fly; he'd never make it through a metal detectors. He's barely 18 and definitely what you would call a pretty boy. Whatever female fans make it to our shows he's usually the one to scoop them up. But that morning he was sitting on the lap of Mike, one of the guys from the house we were crashing. They were playing video games with the sound muted. Mike has a smug grin and Jamie looks irritated.
"Shit!" Jamie said.
"Ha ha, you lost again, bitch." Mike says. He's the kind of guy who will say "bitch," a lot throughout the day. Mike's big and hairy. Probably plays rugby or something. He wears a striped polo shirt, board shorts.
"Fuck you, what now?" Jamie asks, then he takes a massive hit on the bong and passes it behind him to Mike. These guys have clearly kept the party going all night. It must close to close to 7am.
Mike makes his voice extra lecherous, teasing. "Now you give me that lap dance."
"This is so gay, you're an asshole."
"Just do it, faggot." Jamie told him to fuck off, but at the same time he started mechanically gyrating on top of Mike's jeans while they played another round. Anyone else in the band would have stormed off, but to Jamie if he lost a bet he has to pay up no matter what. He's only 18, friendly bet's are still like iron law to him, the idea if walking away wouldn't occur to him. His tight emo girl jeans rub up and down on Mike's crotch, it's hilarious. The ultimate humiliation.
Mike turned his head and cought me watching, he put a finger to his lips and I winked back. At some point I'll yelled and scare Jamie, he'll be so embarrassed. I knew what they were doing. For every game one person lost they had to humiliate themselves in some gay-ass way that also made it harder to play. Like sitting on the other guys lap. If you kept loosing it went farther, though lap dance was as far as I've ever seen it go. It was all I could do to keep from laughing. The TV was bolted up to wall so Mike could see it above Jamie's head. Jamie was having a hard time concentrating while he moved his butt back and forth on top of Mike's shorts. Then the light flickered on the screen and I knew Jamie lost again. "God damn it, what now."
"Man, you suck at this, I wonder what else you SUCK at."
"Fuck you."
"At this level it's pants off."
"What?"
"You heard me, it keeps going farther until you win one. I thought you played this before."