[color=#b97703]“You’ve never met anyone like these idiots,”[/color] Cas told Iris with a laugh when she admitted to being surprised that the only one among them who hadn’t been drinking was the one to take on two dares at once. Knowing Jay and Miles well, he’d expected nothing less from his friends. They never passed up the opportunity to make fools of each other, careless about what anyone else thought of them. It was one of the reasons why he’d been drawn to them. Compared to the image-conscious people among his family and those they associated with, the other high borns were like a breath of fresh air. He liked how carefree they were.

“Shit,” Jay ran a hand over his head when Iris told him the dare she wanted him to do. “By the end of this game, I’m gonna be fucking hairless.”

“That’s the idea,” Miles raised his beer in agreement.

“Well, my mama didn’t raise no chicken,” Jay declared, getting up from his spot on the floor. “Miles, I’m gonna borrow some shorts.”

[color=#b97703]“My god,”[/color] Cas snorted. Even though his friend wasn’t allowed to get out of the dare, he was amused by how eager he was to go through with it. Between his challenge and Iris’s, he suspected that jay was right and that any time he took on a dare, he was going to have to shave another body part. It was turning out to be an interesting night.

“Go for it,” Miles waved his hand in permission.

Jay headed into the closet to exchange his jeans for a pair of basketball shorts and headed into the bathroom, while Miles got up to go look for something to feed him from the kitchen. On his way out, he assured Cas and Iris that he would find something brutally spicy, because his dad had recently been on a trip to South America and had brought back some exotic dried peppers that were tear-inducingly hot. With that, he skipped out of the room excitedly, leaving the two alone for a few minutes to go raid his family’s cooks’ supplies.

Once he was gone, Caspian turned back to Iris with a smirk, [color=#b97703]“Okay, I feel a little better about getting hammered now that I know Jay is going to look like an Olympic swimmer. That was a good one.”[/color] Glancing over his shoulder at the bathroom door to make sure his friend was still occupied, he leaned over to touch a swift kiss to her cheek. [color=#b97703]“I thought these two were gonna be too much for you, but I see now that I was completely wrong about that. You hold your own against them a lot better than I expected.”[/color]