Surprisingly, everything fell into silence somehow. Just as Ferne scratched his ears and cheeks, wondering if he should find a topic to break the ice, commotions came from the hot spring pool next door.
"Stop. I'm ... a little dizzy. I've got to go back." Said Randy.
"No way! You lost, you have to drink it up before leaving!" Said Janessa.
Ferne and Noah turned around at the same time and saw vaguely a few pitch-black heads bobbing in the pool next door, while soaked clothes and ... underwear were on the ground.
"..."
It was either too easy to spot their bald heads, or Armando had such a great eyesight, he found them from afar and shouted, "Ferne! Here you are!"
"..."
Ferne waved his hand and greeted, "Well, we'll be there later..."
Janessa shouted excitedly, "Come here! I've been waiting for you! Hurry up!"
Could he say no?
Maybe it was too obvious that Ferne hesitated, or Janessa sensed it. In a few seconds, she shouted, "Get your ass over here if you dare!"
"..."
Ferne had no choice but to follow her words. Noah came over as well.
After they got in, they noticed that besides Janessa and Randy, there seemed to be another person, but they couldn't see that one clearly, so they just ignored it.
"How about we play words string up puzzle?" Janessa asked. She drank a bottle of red wine as her face flushed a little red. However, no one could see it in the darkness. However, her breath was so hot that that no one but herself could notice it.
"Sure." Ferne thought it was really freaking easy.
"Okay, Randy, sit down! Continue!" Janessa shouted, "Just does it if you dare!"
"..." Randy shrunk his neck, "Do it! Here I am!"
Except for Lord Top, Randy's team members all left, so the game proceeded quickly. There were four of them. After a while, Lord Top took off two of his clothes, and Randy and Janessa were drinking one after another, however, Armando did not drink much.
Now that there were Ferne and Noah, it became lively again.
"It's simple, you use the last letter of the last word you hear as the first letter of the new word that you say. You got five seconds for that new one. If you can't do that, you have to take off your clothes and drink."
After Janessa finished speaking, she clapped her hands to Armando, indicating him to start the game.
Armando thought for a moment and came up with the first word,
"Wonderstruck."
Janessa paused for a moment before continuing, "Knock."
Randy reacted, "I said that one! Drink!"
Janessa accepted it. She took the wine from the wooden barrel and drank it. These were all red wine brought by Ferne. He brought three boxes of wine to go with the barbecue. Unexpectedly, they used them for the punishment of the game.
"Another round!" Randy shouted, "Armando, say a new one."
Armando said,
"Heartfelt."
What he said in the game was all that on his mind. Janessa answered, "Teardrop."
"Plummet." Lord Top took it.
"Uh..." Randy was in despair. "Why me again?"
After he finished drinking, it was Noah's turn. He said, "Teargas."
As he failed, he wanted Ferne to be just like him. He interrupted. "What the hell is this word? I have never heard of it! How do you spell it?"
However, it reminded Ferne, and he shouted while laughing loudly, "Swindler!"
"You lost!" Randy shouted, "You have no words to take it."
"..."
Nobody cared.
Armando answered, "Ruminate!"
Janessa was stunned for a moment before she reached out and picked up the wine in the wooden barrel in front of her. "Well! I can't make it! I give up!"
"Earnest!" Lord Top followed.
"Tandem!" Randy was so excited that he could jump up to run around naked to show how he excited he was.
"Muzzle," Noah answered.
"E..." Ferne hesitated. He turned to look at Noah and asked, "What words should I make?"
Noah leaned against him, wanting to tell him secretly.
"No whispering!" Randy stood up. Without caring about his naked body, he pointed at Ferne and shouted, "5! 4! 3! 1! You lose! Take it off!"
"..."
Ferne took off his bathrobe, leaving only his underwear.
"Say something simple." He whispered to Noah.
Noah did not answer.
Ferne reached out and poked him, "Hey, didn't you hear me?"
The skin beneath the water was tense and sturdy, like the body he had tightly entangled not long ago. Hot and hard.
Ferne stepped aside and retreated.
Finally, he heard Noah say, "Okay."
After three rounds, Randy and Janessa found that Noah had chosen some simple words on purpose so that Ferne could take them. They changed their seats, making Ferne follow Randy while Noah followed Ferne.
So, Ferne stood up and bent his back to move between Noah and Randy.
Ferne really became thinner. Without his fat belly, a mermaid line appeared. Although it was still far away from abdominal muscles, the mermaid line looked really beautiful, along the abdomen down into the blue underwear.
Who knew what was that for, but when Ferne passed by Noah, he extended his hand to hold his underwear. When he sat beside Randy, he was then relieved.
Then it went all ups and downs. Janessa, Randy, and Ferne kept losing and drinking, while it seemed nothing to Lord Top and Noah. Of course, everyone would make mistakes.
Noah and Armando also took off their underwear in the second half, and even drank two glasses of wine. Afterwards, Randy started to talk nonsense.
Janessa was almost exhausted, leaning against the wall without saying anything. It must feel bad as they had been drinking while staying in the hot spring pool for so long, but they didn't want to move.
"Bring Captain Randy back." Armando said as he looked at Lord Top.
Lord Top answered reluctantly. Finally, he asked what he wanted to ask from two hours ago, "Can you give me my clothes?"
Everyone in the hot spring pool was naked.
Only Lord Top worn something, and Armando was a little puzzled. "You didn't seem to be naked, did you?"
"..."
"Where are your clothes? At the back?" Noah suddenly asked.
Lord Top nodded and realized that Noah couldn't see them, so he said, "It's right behind me."
Everyone should know what Lord Top meant if they were conscious. Why did he need someone else to do it for him?
However, Noah left the pool without saying anything, he picked up his underwear and put it on. Then, he walked behind Lord Top and picked up his clothes to throw them into the water.
"Thank you." said Lord Top.
Then, Noah picked up Ferne's underwear and threw it into the water, "Put it on."
Ferne looked at him and was trying to say that it could be seen up there. The moment he went up to lower his head to pick up his underwear, everyone saw it.
However, he didn't say anything, and somehow, he felt upset.
Noah went up to help them pick up the clothes, but was caught nude.
He paced around in anger, only to find that it was pitch black around him, and he couldn't even find anyone else.
It was too dark, he thought, that was the reason why they could stare at him unscrupulously.
Damn!
What the hell!
Ferne didn't have time to think about why he was so angry. Instead, he put on his underwear and bathrobe to leave the pool. As a result, he walked too hastily. He accidentally slipped and fell on his back.
The ground was as hard as marble granite. He almost made himself unconscious. First, he felt numb locally, and then the pain from his palm, caudal vertebrae, and nerve endings to the cerebral cortex.
"Damn!"