Poker
A Besh is a Besh The air was thick with the scent of cheap vodka, cigarette smoke, and the salty tang of spring break sweat. The cramped beach house living room buzzed with the kind of reckless energy only a week-long bender in Miami could produce. Ingrid, the dishwater blonde with a devil-may-care grin, swayed unsteadily on her bare feet, her gray t-shirt clinging to her chest where vodka had spilled, outlining the curve of her breast in a way that made the room feel ten degrees hotter. She’d lost everything else in the poker game—bra, panties, skirt, socks, even her beat-up Converse—leaving her in just that thin, damp shirt. The five guys around the wobbly card table, yourself included, tried to act casual, but the tension was palpable, like a match held too close to gasoline. “A besh is a besh,” Ingrid slurred, her voice a mix of defiance and drunken bravado as she tugged her shirt back down, though it did little to hide the shape of her body. She grabbed the vodka bottle agai...