Guess Who

I was at a party one time when everyone had too much to drink and one of my friends had an idea for a sexy game we could play. The evening had started very tame. Lo-fi hip hop beats filled the room as we all chatted about work, or gossiped about who was sleeping with whom. Just a dozen people, mostly single, with only one couple among us. Drinks were refilled over and over, and the chatting became a little looser, with increasingly more sexual innuendo and playful talk.

The one couple in the group sat together all evening on one of the two white-leather couches. The guy's hand was always on his girlfriend’s thigh, sometimes squeezing her, sometimes running his fingers up and down the length of her thigh. Slowly he would stroke her, from her knee to her hip, sometimes sliding his hand between her upper thighs. They kissed occasionally, but kept things under control; they didn’t exactly make out in front of us. However, the boyfriend looked as though he wouldn’t mind putting on a show that night, but the girl seemed a little shy, at least at first.

My friend Ryan was at the party with me. We had played hockey together for a couple of years and, truth be told, I had a crush on him. I had never been with a guy before, but I always enjoyed watching Ryan in the showers after a game, and I always fantasized about him.

Ryan was the...