“You hungry?" I asked.

“It's not short ribs, but it'll do in a pinch.”

“You kidding me? I've had nothing but Korean food for almost two weeks straight now. Except for Christmas: then we had Chinese food."

“Box is in the kitchen," I told her. "I'm gonna go fire up GT2." Belle had gotten me the game for Christmas and Alice and I had played it exclusively ever since.

“Actually, I had something else in mind,” she muttered a little mysteriously before biting her lip, frowning, and waving me off.

“You know what, nevermind. Start the game. Lemme just get a few slices first."

I looked confused for a second before deciding to just go with it, so I shrugged and went into the family room. While the video game console was restricted to Alice's bedroom at her house, Mother didn't care if I played on the big plasma TV. It was the chief reason Alice had started coming over to my place to hang out instead of having me come to hers.

She nuked her slices before joining me and watching me start. Clearly, she must've eaten lunch and wasn't that hungry since she spent more time telling me what to do than finishing her two slices. She just sort of gnawed on them a bit to get the pizza flavor in her mouth but ultimately didn't even finish the second slice. Instead, she grabbed a controller and we raced around various tracks for more than an hour.

But eventually it was time to take a break and we got up to get some water.

Alice was pretty pumped up. She'd beaten me the Last three races in a row, and was practically bouncing from foot to foot as we stood in the kitchen getting drinks. I told her, "You're going DOWN now."

Something dangerous flashed in Alice's eyes.

“Is that a sex joke?"

I jerked my head back, caught off-guard.

“Um, what?"

"*Going down’ on you? Kind of an obvious euphemism. You must have sex on the brain."

“I never said ‘going down on me‘. I just said you're ‘going down’...

Like... racing." I chuckled. "Sounds Like YOU'VE got sex on the brain.”

I was prepared for a Lot of responses. I figured she might shove me in the upper arm and call me a jerk. Or maybe she‘d roll her eyes and silently give me a dismissive wave. I did NOT expect her to say, "Yeah, well maybe I do have sex on the brain, and it's been pretty fucking annoying not having you help me get off for the last month."

My jaw dropped in shock and I actually spilled some water down my chin.

Sputtering, I wiped it up with my sleeve while gawking at her goggle-eyed.

“Umm... run that by me again?"

“Nevermind. Not important." She waved me off and started walking away, calling over her shoulder, "Be right back."

I frowned, wondering where she was going for like a second before returning to my glass of water. Actually, I felt like a Coke and went to the fridge to get a can, cracked it open, and headed back into the family room to re-start GT2.

But Alice returned holding a VHS video in her hands. I immediately recognized The Little Mermaid cover and started panicking inside. I knew which movie was inside that plastic case, and knew that it was NOT

The Little Mermaid. It was a cheesy porno called Cum-Drenched Wet