There was silence in the room as each girl thought about the implications of what Allison had asked. Finally, it was Anita who broke the silence.
“Room keys works for me,” she said. After all it removed the responsibility and awkwardness of saying ‘I want to sleep with so-and-so’. It meant you could blame fate for the hand that you were dealt and pretend that it wasn’t just that you were a horny little slut away from home for the first time and pushing the boundaries.
“So,” pushed Allison, “how’s that going to work?”
“Well…” began the Indian girl, thinking aloud, “we’ve each got a main key and a spare… So we could nominate three rooms and throw the two keys to those rooms into the middle… then we each take a key and find out which room it fits… and that defines who we… er who is our… partner.”
“But there’s seven of us,” pointed out Allison, “and that’s only six keys.”
“Its okay,” ventured Sam, “our room’s a double, so we’ve got a key each and a spare.”
“So, as long as our room is one of the three,” continued Erica, “somebody can have a threesome!”
“O-kay,” responded Allison. “Who else wants to volunteer their rooms?”
“Maybe we could have one from each floor?” suggested Cathy.
“That’s my room volunteered then,” added Jo, who had the only room on the ground floor.
“Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean…” began Cathy.
“Its cool,” responded Jo, pulling out her keys.
“So what about the middle floor?” asked Allison.
“You can use my room if you like,” said a small voice behind her.
Allison turned in surprise to see that it was Suki.
“Okay,” said Anita, taking over again, “that’s sorted. Now remove the number tag from your keys, separate them if you haven’t already and throw them into the centre of the room.”
Each did so in turn until there were seven almost identical little keys lying in the middle of the floor.
After a few moments hesitation, each girl grasped a key and held it to herself, as if each of the others could guess which it was just by looking at it.
Then silently they each left the common room, splitting up to see which door their key would fit. |