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“I’m bored, let’s do something else,” Sofie complained.
“Okay,” Brandon said. He didn’t like Super Smash Bros anyway. She always won. “Like what?”
“I dunno. But I’m boooored!” She flopped over on the couch.
“Me tooooo,” he moaned, mimicking her, and flopped on top of her. She giggled, and pushed him off. Rather than letting himself be rolled onto the floor, he went limp and slowly melted over the edge of the couch.
“No, wait!” she laughed, and grabbed at his arm, “Don’t die! I need you!”
“I’m meeeeelllttiiiiiiiinnng,” Brandon replied, mimicking his parents whenever they got wet. She tried pulling him back up, but he stubbornly continued sliding toward the ground. She gave up, and started melting off the couch with him. His head bonked the carpet, and seconds later, she bonked down next to him.
“Ow,” she complained, then she snickered. “I see London, I see France, I see Brandon’s underpants!”
Brandon looked down – up – at himself, and confirmed that sliding off the couch had pulled his shorts down a little bit. He stuck his tongue out and wiggled his butt at her before reaching up to pull his shorts back into place. He was searching for something mean to say back to her, but her eyes went wide and she smiled.
“Oh! I know!”
“Know what?” he asked.
“What we should play! Where’s your iPad?”
He pointed to the table next to the couch. She scrambled back up onto the couch to grab it, then melted off again so she was upside down next to him.
“My cousin Tommy showed it to me,” she explained, unlocking the iPad. “It’s really fun, I’ll show ya. I’m already at level two.”
“Do I hafta catch up?” Brandon asked, worried. Sofie was always better at games than him.
“It’s easy. I’ll help you,” she promised.
“Okay…”
“Hey Siri, we wanna play Little Legends,” she said in that voice you’re supposed to use when you’re talking to Siri.
“Okay. Searching for Little Legends on the App Store…”
When it popped up, she tapped the button next to the app, and handed it over to him
“Wait, does it cost?” Brandon worried, “I’m not s’posed to buy anything.”
“No, it’s free!” She dashed across the room to her pink flower backpack and fished her own iPad out. He sat upright so he could see the screen properly, and she sat next to him on the floor, turning hers on. “Is it ready yet?”
“Allll….mossst… there!” he said, and tapped the button. Then he had to tap more buttons before it would finish opening. Finally, an animated boy’s face appeared on the screen.
“Hey there, my name’s Lee. What’s your name?”
“Oh, um, hi. I’m Brandon.” He wasn’t used to the iPad talking to him. Most games didn’t do that.
“Hi Brandon, nice to meet you. Looks like you’re hanging out with my friend Sofie right now. Are you guys having fun?”
“We’re kinda bored,” Brandon told the boy.
“Yeah,” Sofie pouted. She swiped and tapped to open the app on her iPad too.
“Uh oh, you’re bored?” the boy frowned. “Well, we better fix that, then, and get you started on your Little Legends journey.”
“Welcome back, Sofie!” the same boy’s voice said from her device.
“Brandon, before we start, do you know how to read yet? It’s okay if you don’t.”
“Kinda,” he nodded, then frowned, “It’s really hard though.”
“That’s ok. Let’s keep playing in voice mode for now, but you can switch to text-only mode any time you want in the settings.”
“Reading was too hard,” Sofie told him. “Talking is easier.” That made him feel a little better.
“Way to go, Sofie! You just earned 100 XP and unlocked the Recruiter skill tree for recruiting a new player!”
“Little Legends is all about having fun, making new friends, and helping you become a Legend. Tell me, Brandon – are you ready to be brave and have fun?”
“Um, I guess.”
“Yeah, we’re ready!” Sofie said.
“Great! We can start by playing Lee Says. Have you played Simon Says before?”
“Yeah, we play it all the time in Ms. Santiago’s class!” Brandon told him.
“Great! Lee Says is almost the same. The difference is, I won’t try to trick you, but the things I tell you to do are slowly gonna get harder. Are you ready to try?”
“Okay,” he agreed.
“Cool. Sofie, why don’t you join us? Lee says both of you stand up.” They did. “Okay, so here’s the first rule. Whenever I tell you to do something, you have to make sure my camera can see you, okay? Otherwise I can’t see what you’re doing, and give you points. Try leaning me up against something on a table or a chair.”
The boy’s animated face shrank, and half the screen showed what the camera could see, like a mirror. Brandon used the iPad’s kickstand, and put it on the coffee table, facing them, and stepped back to stand next to Sofie again.
“Good job! Okay. Now, Lee says to jump up and down on one leg. Good, keep jumping for me! The second rule is when I tell you to do something, you’re supposed to keep going until I tell you to stop, okay?”
“Okay,” they both said.
“Awesome. So, are you ready to make it harder?”
“Yeah,” Brandon panted. “This is easy. I can do this all day.”
“Me too,” Sofie said.
“Alright, then. Lee says start spinning in circles.”
“Like this?” Sofie asked, spinning halfway around with each jump. Brandon copied her.
“Excellent. Remember to keep jumping and keep spinning,” Lee told them. “Are you dizzy yet?”
“No,” Brandon said, wobbling.
“Man, you guys are good at this. Alright, I guess I have to make it even harder. Lee says hold your arms straight up over your head. Think you can do that?”
“Yeah!” Brandon yelled, and stuck both arms up.
“This is easy,” Sofie said. “I’m not even– whoa!” She wobbled and ran into Brandon, throwing him off balance, and they both fell over, laughing.
“Wow, good job guys. You lasted a long time,” Lee said.
“I coulda gone longer,” Brandon declared.
“Yeah, me too,” Sofie said.
“Hey Sofie,” Lee said from the other iPad before Brandon could argue. The animated boy lowered his voice and asked. “Are you still being Sneaky?”
“Uh-huh,” she said, giggling a little.
“Awesome! Keep it up,” the boy replied, and gave her a wink.
“Hey Brandon,” Lee said from his iPad again, “You wanna know a secret?”
“Sure!” Brandon said, excited. Secrets were fun.
Lee looked around, and then whispered conspiratorially, “I’m not wearing any pants!” He grinned, and Brandon and Sofie both giggled.
“Why not?” Brandon asked.
“Why should I?” Lee replied. “Not wearing pants is fun.”
“I know!” Brandon nodded. “But my mom says I always hafta wear them.”
“When you’re being Legendary like me, sometimes it’s okay to break the rules,” Lee told him, then whispered again, “And it’s fun, too! Isn’t it, Sofie?”
“Yeah,” Sofie giggled. “It’s fun.”
“What do you say, Brandon? Do you want to break a couple rules, have fun and prove just how Legendary you are?”
“How?” he asked.
“Oh, there are lots of ways to be a Legend and have fun,” Lee answered. “One of the easiest ways you can start is by being a Showoff. You can both be Showoffs now by taking your shirts off. Want to try that?”
“Um, sure. I guess I can,” Brandon said. It was kinda weird, but he didn’t really like clothes anyway, and Lee was really nice.
“Awesome! Go ahead whenever you’re ready. Just remember, you always have to make sure my camera can see you, okay? Otherwise I won’t be able to give you the XP you deserve.”
“Are you gonna?” Brandon asked.
“You go first,” she told him.
“Okay. You will too, right?”
“Yeah,” she promised. She was bossy sometimes, but Brandon didn’t really mind. And best friends always keep their promises.
“Okay,” he grinned and pulled his shirt over his head. Or tried to. “Ow,” he complained.
“What?” He heard Sofie ask.
“My head’s stuck,” he whined. “Wait, I got it.” It took a little extra pulling, but he eventually got it off, and tossed it over against the wall, frowning after it. He rubbed his ear where it got pulled.
“Good work, Brandon! You just unlocked the Showoff skill, and earned your first ten Experience Points,” Lee informed him with a smile.
“Cool!” That would have been easy if his shirt hadn’t been too small. “Okay, your turn,” he told Sofie. Wait, why was she laughing at him? “What?”
“You looked funny when you got stuck,” she said.
“I bet you look funny when you get stuck,” he replied, and stuck his tongue out at her. She returned the gesture. “Hurry up, you promised!” he reminded her.
“I’m going, I’m going,” she said. Her shirt was fancier than his, but she pulled it right off, without getting stuck. She threw it over against the wall too, and grinned at him.
“Nice, Sofie!” Lee said from her iPad. “You just earned ten more XP and made progress in your Showoff skill.”
“Why aren’t girls supposed to take their shirts off?” he wondered. He didn’t think he’d ever seen a girl with her shirt off before. Well, except at the pool, but there they still wore swimsuits. But Sofie mostly just looked like a boy with her shirt off, so he didn’t see what the big deal was.
“Cuz girls have boobies,” Sofie explained.
“But you don’t have boobies,” he pointed out, pointing at where she didn’t have boobies.
“Not yet. Dad says I can have em when I’m old enough.”
“Oh.”
“But I still hafta wear a shirt, cuz he says so.”
“Oh. Parents are mean,” he agreed.
“Yeah. Hey, what should we do next?” She wasn’t asking him, she was asking his iPad.
“I have an idea,” Lee responded from her iPad instead. “I told you one of my secrets. You know, how I’m not wearing pants? Why don’t you guys share some secrets, too?”
“Oh, okay, sure,” Brandon said. “Um… like what? I can’t think of any.”
“That’s okay,” Lee said. “Not everybody keeps secrets. Sofie has a secret, though. Sofie, do you wanna tell Brandon about how you’re being Sneaky?”
“Yeah,” she giggled. She turned to Brandon and whispered, “I’m not wearing underwear!”
“What? No way! Why not?”
“Cuz Lee said I shouldn’t. He says I get points for it.”
“One of the ways you can be Legendary is by going commando, which means not wearing underwear under your clothes, and it counts towards the Sneaky skill,” Lee explained. “Sofie, you’re pretty good at being Sneaky. You’ve gone commando seven times so far, including three full days.”
“It’s fun being sneaky,” Sofie said, grinning. It did kinda sound like fun. His mom would be really mad, though.
“Hey Sofie, you should prove to Brandon that you’re being Sneaky by showing him,” Lee suggested.
“Oh, I can do that?” she asked.
“You can do whatever you want, as long as you’re staying safe, having fun, and not being mean to anybody,” Lee replied. Which was definitely not something Brandon’s mom would ever say. He liked Lee a lot better.
“Okay!” She grinned again, turned around, and yanked her pants down to wiggle her bare butt at Brandon.
“Hah! You’re not wearing underwear!” Brandon screamed in delight. “I see London, I see France, Sofie’s got no underpants!” He screamed with more laughter at his own cleverness and at seeing her butt, and she pulled her pants back up and laughed with him.
“Nice job, Sofie!” Lee said from her iPad. “You just earned twenty XP for mooning somebody, and made progress in your Showoff skill.”
“Hey Brandon,” Lee said from his iPad again, “since you don’t have a secret to share, you should take your pants off instead.”
“I should?”
“Yeah!” Sofie agreed. “Take your pants off! I showed you my butt, so it’s only fair.”
“Fair’s fair,” he supposed. Besides, this was way more fun than Super Smash Bros. “Ok.” He only hesitated a little before pulling his pants down and kicking them over to the wall with their shirts.
“Oh cool, I like your underwear,” Sofie said.
“Thanks! They have minions on ‘em, see?”
“Those are cool. All mine are boring, with like stripes and hearts and stuff.”
“That’s lame,” he agreed, even though hearts sounded kinda fun. “No wonder you’re not wearing ‘em.”
“Yeah,” she giggled.
“Well done, Brandon! You just earned 20 XP points for taking your pants off, and made progress in your Showoff skill,” Lee told him.
“Cool!” Brandon said. “This is fun.”
“I’m glad you’re having fun,” Lee told them. “Being Legendary should always be fun.”
“You know,” Lee continued from her iPad, “I kind of lied a little, when I told you my secret earlier, about not wearing pants. The truth is, I’m actually not wearing any clothing at all. I always have the most fun when I’m completely naked.”
“You are?” Sofie giggled. “Brandon, we should try!”
“Um, okay. Yeah.” He didn’t want to get caught by his mom, but she hardly ever came down the stairs to check on them, so it’d probably be okay.
“Yes!” Sofie cheered. “Okay. You ready?”
“Okay,” Brandon said. “Ready? One…”
“Two…”
“Three!” they both yelled, and Brandon yanked his underwear down to the ground. It took Sofie an extra second to get her stretchy leggings all the way down, but then they both stood there and looked at each other.
“Awesome!” Lee said from one of the iPads. “You both just earned 50 XP for getting naked with a friend, and made progress in your Showoff skills.”
“I like your pee-pee,” Sofie said. “It’s smaller than my dad’s. Or my cousin Tommy’s. And it looks different. Does it get bigger?”
“Sometimes,” he said. “I like yours too. It’s kinda cool, it’s like your butt crack goes all the way ‘round to your front or something. Can I see it more?”
“Oh. I guess, yeah.” She opened her legs more, and he got down on his knees for a better look.
“Whoa,” he marveled, leaning in close. She used both hands to pull her crack open a little so he could see even more. “Oh wow, that’s so cool! You have, like, another hole or something!” Tentatively, he reached up and poked at it a little. It was kinda damp, like after he washed his hands but couldn’t get them completely dry, and a lot squishier than he expected.
“That tickles!” She giggled, and pulled away. He was kinda disappointed, he wanted to keep looking. “Can I touch yours too? Oh, it already got bigger!”
“Sure,” he said, standing up. She poked at it a little, and pushed it back and forth, testing his springiness. “Watch this,” he said, and concentrated to make it bounce.
“Oh! It moves? Do it again, do it again! Wow, that’s so fun.”
“Yeah,” Brandon agreed, grinning.
“Brandon, Sofie! Come upstairs, I have a snack ready for you!”
“Uh oh,” they both said, and shared a panicked look.
“One second!” Brandon yelled back, and then whispered, “C’mon, we gotta get dressed again!”
“Hey Brandon,” Lee interrupted from his iPad. “You should give your underwear to Sofie, and let her wear them.”
“Oh, yeah!” Sofie whispered excitedly, “Can I wear the minions? That sounds fun!”
“But what will I wear?”
“Nothing, silly! Your mom won’t know. You can earn sneaky points.”
“Oh. Okay, I guess. I want them back, though. Those are my favorites.”
“Okay,” she agreed. “You can have ‘em back. Next time you’re at my house.”
“Okay,” he agreed, and handed them to her. He giggled as she twisted them around, figuring out which direction they were supposed to go, and retrieved his pants and shirt from the other side of the room. It felt weird wearing pants without underwear
“Nice job, Brandon,” Lee said. “You just earned twenty XP for going commando for the first time, and unlocked the Sneaky skill. You also earned ten XP and unlocked the Helper skill for giving your underwear to a friend. Congratulations, you just leveled up to level two! You’re doing a great job learning how to be a Legend!”
“Nicely done, Sofie,” Lee said from the other iPad. “You just earned twenty XP and unlocked the Influencer skill tree for convincing a friend to go commando!”
“Wow, that’s awesome!” He said, pulling his shirt back on over his head. He hoped it wasn’t backwards, cuz it almost got stuck again.
He waited for Sofie to pull her shirt back on, too, and they both ran upstairs for snacks.
“So whaddya wanna do today?” Brandon asked, once they were safely upstairs in Sofie’s room.
“You wanna play Little Legends again?” she asked, grinning.
“Okay,” he grinned back. He’d been hoping she’d suggest that. He’d played a little on his own the past couple days, but he wanted to play with her again.
“Did you bring your iPad?” she asked.
“Yeah,” he said, dropping his Bluey backpack and pulling the iPad out. Sofie grabbed hers off the bed. “Are you being sneaky again?”
“No,” she said, pouting a little. “Dad made me put underwear on, and then he made me wear a dress for church.”
“Oh. That sucks,” Brandon sympathized, clicking the icon of a stick figure wearing a cape to open the app.
“Yeah, I hate dresses.”
“I think they look fun,” Brandon said.
“Why?”
“I dunno, they’re pretty. And, you know. You can spin around and make ‘em, like, poof and stuff.”
“Yeah, I guess,” she shrugged. “Dad makes me wear ‘em cuz he says they make me look cute, but I don’t wanna be cute, I wanna be cool.”
“But you are cool,” Brandon said, frowning. “You’re like, the coolest.”
“Oh. … Why?”
“I dunno, you’re just… good at everything. And funny and fun and… I dunno, it’s stupid.” He’d always kind of envied her, really. Sometimes he thought he even maybe wanted to be her. And she got to wear dresses whenever she wanted, even if she didn’t like them. And now she wasn’t saying anything, and he was starting to feel weird. –er. Weirder.
“Welcome back, Brandon!”
“Oh, hi Lee.”
“Hey, it looks like you’re hanging out with Sofie. Are you guys having fun?”
“Not yet,” he said, still feeling kinda weird.
“Welcome back, Sofie!”
“Hi, Lee. Can Brandon wear my dress?”
“What?”
“That’s a great idea! You’ll earn points in both the Helper and the Showoff skills, and Brandon can earn bonus points for gender nonconforming.”
“Huh?” Brandon said.
“What’s that mean?” Sofie asked at the same time.
“Gender nonconforming is when you do something most people think you shouldn’t do, just because you’re a boy or a girl. Like a boy wearing a dress, or a girl playing with dinosaurs and fire trucks.”
“Why can’t girls play with dinosaurs?” Brandon asked.
“There’s nothing wrong with gender nonconforming,” Lee explained, “and everybody should play with whatever toys they like, and wear whatever clothes they want, regardless of what other people think. Unfortunately, some people – especially some grown ups – don’t agree, and think that boys should stick to boy things, and girls should stick to girl things.”
“That’s stupid,” Sofie decided.
“Yeah,” Brandon agreed.
“You’re right. Because there’s no such thing as boy things and girl things. There’s just things. And some people like some things, and other people like other things, and that’s okay.”
“Huh,” Brandon said.
“So it’s okay if I don’t like wearing dresses?” Sofie asked.
“Sometimes we have to do what our parents say, even though we don’t like it. But it’s okay to tell them when you don’t like it, and why you don’t like it. But sometimes when they’re not looking, and especially when you’re being Legendary, it’s okay to break the rules, as long as you’re staying safe, having fun, and not being mean to anybody.”
“Hey Brandon, do you want to wear Sofie’s dress?” Lee asked from his iPad.
“Yeah,” he blushed.
“You can wear it,” Sofie promised him. “You gotta take your clothes off, though. I tried wearing my shirt and pants under my dress, but it doesn’t work.”
“Oh, um…”
“What’s wrong?” she asked, tilting her head to the side. “You don’t wanna wear it?”
“I do,” he blushed again. “It’s just, I’m… um… you know, being sneaky.”
“Oh cool! I wanna see, can I see? You gotta take your clothes off anyway! Take em off, take em off!”
“Oh. Um, okay, I guess. But you gotta take your dress off, too.”
“Okay,” she shrugged, and immediately started pulling her dress over her head. It took her a couple moments of wriggling before she dropped it on the floor and stood up, now wearing just her purple underwear covered with cute little butterflies.
“Great job, Sofie! You just earned thirty XP and made progress in your Showoff skill.”
“Your turn,” she grinned at him.
“Oh, okay,” he said. He started with the easy part, pulling his shirt off over his head. Then he had to sit down to untie his shoes, and pull his socks off. Then he stood back up, blushed some more, and gathered his courage before sliding his pants down and kicking them off to the side.
“Great job, Brandon! You just earned eighty XP and made progress in your Showoff skill.”
“Cool,” Brandon said. He was still embarrassed, but he really liked it every time Lee told him he earned XP.
“Cool,” Sofie agreed, still grinning. “Have you been sneaky a lot?”
“Yeah, I’m really good at being sneaky,” he smiled.
“You’re great at being Sneaky,” Lee said from Brandon’s iPad. “You’ve gone commando five times so far, including four days in a row!”
“Yeah, I haven’t worn underwear in four whole days!” he bragged.
“Wow,” Sofie said, looking impressed. “That’s really cool. I can go the whole day commando, but I can’t get days in a row.”
“Why not?”
“Oh, um. Don’t make fun of me, okay? I um, still wear Pull-ups to bed.”
“Oh. You do? Why?” He didn’t laugh, cuz it wasn’t funny. Pull-ups were serious.
“I don’t need them,” she said defensively. “I haven’t had an accident in like forever. But Dad still says I hafta, cuz I’m still a little girl.”
“Oh. That’s mean.”
“Yeah,” she scowled. “I’m not a baby.”
“Why don’t you just take ‘em off after he leaves?”
“Maybe,” she said, considering. “Sometimes he, um… checks on me later, though.”
“That’s stupid,” Brandon decided. “Parents suck.”
“Yeah. You wanna wear my dress now?” She picked it up and offered it to him.
“Okay,” he agreed, taking it. “Just put it on over my head? Like a shirt?”
“Yeah, like a shirt. No, that’s backwards, dummy. Yeah, like that.”
“Oh. That’s kinda comfy. Why don’t you like dresses? It’s way better than pants!”
“Well done Brandon, you look great! You just earned one hundred bonus XP, and unlocked the Gender Bender skill.”
“You look pretty,” she observed, sounding kinda surprised.
“Oh, I do?” That made him feel weird again. A different weird, though.
“Yeah, do the twirl thing!”
“Oh, okay. Um, like this?” He spun around, but not fast enough, so he frowned in concentration and tried again. And this time it worked, and his skirt flared out in a big billowy circle, and it was every bit as satisfying as he’d imagined it would be. He smiled big.
“Yeah, like that,” Sofie snickered.
“What? Why’re you laughing?”
“Cuz,” she grinned, “I saw your pee-pee under the dress!”
“Oh,” he giggled, “Sorry.”
“Nice job, Brandon! You just earned thirty XP and made progress in your Showoff skill for flashing somebody.”
“It’s okay,” she said, still grinning. “I liked it. Do it again!”
He did, and it was just as satisfying the second time, and it didn’t matter that she just wanted another look at his thingy, he felt pretty.
“Hey Brandon, wanna see somethin’?”
“Sure, what?”
“Watch this!” Sofie did a half-cartwheel, half-handstand that made her dress scrunch up around her waist while she was upside down.
“Hah! I see London, I see France, I see Sofie’s underpants!” he chanted gleefully. She stood back up, and gave him her familiar grin.
“Awesome, Sofie! You earned ten XP and made progress in your Showoff skill! You also just unlocked the Acrobat branch in your Showoff skill tree!”
“Wait, I wanna try it, too!” he said, bouncing up and down with excitement. “Can I wear your dress again? I wanna try! I want the Acrobat thing!”
“Okay, but I getta wear your minion underwear again.”
“Sure,” he agreed immediately. “They’re upstairs, c’mon!”
They both grabbed their iPads and raced up the stairs, careening through the kitchen and down the hall before turning sharply into Brandon’s bedroom. He slammed the door shut behind them, and propped his iPad up on the bookshelf. He’d discovered that if he balanced it just right against his favorite bug book, it could see almost his whole room that way. Sofie put her iPad on his bed, frowned when the camera view on the screen mostly just showed the ceiling, and moved it over to the chair instead. She nodded, satisfied.
“Okay, lemme try! Gimme your dress so I can try!” He said impatiently.
“Okay, okay,” she said, and they both quickly stripped out of their clothes. Brandon eagerly accepted the offered dress.
“Nice job, Brandon! You just earned eighty XP for getting naked with a friend and made progress in your Showoff skill!” Lee told him from the bookshelf. Then he spoke again from the chair on the other side of the room.
“Awesome, Sofie! You earned thirty XP for getting undressed and made progress in your Showoff skill. You also earned ten XP and made progress in your Helper skill for giving a friend your clothing. Congratulations, Sofie! You just unlocked the next rank in your Showoff skill, and leveled up. You’re now a Level Three Legend, way to go!”
“Yes!” She cheered, and did a little happy dance.
“That’s so cool!” Brandon said while he pulled the dress over his head. “I bet I’m close, too!”
“Yeah, prolly,” she agreed.
“Brandon, you only need three more points in your Showoff skill to unlock the next rank,” Lee helpfully chimed in from the bookshelf.
“Okay, cool. Thanks, Lee,” he said, smoothing the dress into place. He couldn’t help himself; he did a twirl, but this wasn’t the right kind of dress for twirling apparently.
“Okay, c’mon,” Sofie said, impatiently. “Do a handstand!”
“I don’t think I can do a handstand,” he objected. “I can do a cartwheel, though.”
“Okay fine, just go already!”
“Okay, watch out,” he warned, before sticking his hands up and flipping himself forward. It wasn’t very good, though.
“That sucked, try again,” Sofie told him.
“I’m trying. It’s different in a dress,” he scowled. It’s a good thing his mom made him keep his room clean. If they were in Sofie’s room, they’d have to shove a bunch of toys and stuff out of the way so he wouldn’t land on anything pokey.
He tried again, and it was better.
“Still kinda sucked,” Sofie concluded. “Do it slower.”
He tried again, slower this time, and this time he didn’t lose his balance, and he felt the dress fall down around his waist. He did it as slow as he could, and landed back on his feet.
“I did it!” he yelled.
“Yeah! That one was great!” Sofie beamed at him.
“Awesome, Brandon! You earned thirty XP and made progress in your Showoff skill! You also just unlocked the Acrobat branch in your Showoff skill tree!”
“Sweet!” he said, grinning.
“Okay, my turn,” Sofie said. “Hand over the minions.”
“Oh right. Um… I think they’re in my dresser somewhere…” he rummaged unsuccessfully through one of the dresser drawers. “Are you gonna take your underwear off first?” he asked.
“Oh, yeah,” she said, apparently just now remembering that she was still wearing her pink butterfly underwear. She immediately yanked them down and handed them to him. “Here, try them on. They match the dress.”
He couldn’t find the minions in the dresser drawer anyway, so he closed it and pulled the offered underwear on under the dress.
“Way to go, Brandon! You just earned ten XP and made progress in your Gender Bender skill.”
“Way to go, Sofie! You just earned sixty XP and made progress in your Showoff and Helper skills.”
“I like them,” he decided right away. “Are they pretty?” he asked, holding the skirt up so she could see.
“Yeah,” she beamed at him. “You look really pretty.”
He blushed and smiled back at her. “Thanks,” he said, and hauled open a different dresser drawer to look for the minions.
He had no luck in the second drawer either, but a minute later he pulled them triumphantly from the third. “Found em! Here.”
“Yes! These are my favorite too,” she declared, accepting them from him. She immediately pulled them on. “See? Now I look cool.”
“Yeah,” he nodded in agreement. She grinned. “Now what?” he asked after a long moment.
“I dunno. Lee, what should we do now?”
“Oh, there’s lots of fun stuff we can do,” Lee said from the bookshelf. “Brandon, if you want to level up, you can…”
“Hey, guess what I found out!” Sofie said, tossing her shirt away.
“What? What’d ya find out?” Brandon asked, stepping out of his shorts.
“You’re still goin’ to bed sneaky commando, right?”
“Yeah. I haven’t worn underwear at all in like… over a week.”
“Brandon, you’re on a three day straight commando streak. Way to go!”
“Cool! Well I found out you get even more points if you sleep completely naked!” She pulled her leggings down and off, and tossed them the other direction.
“Oh, cool! I’ll hafta try that. Wait, whatta ‘bout your dad? Doesn’t he get mad that you’re not wearing, um…”
“Great job, guys! You both just earned eighty XP and made progress in your Showoff skills for getting naked with a friend!”
“He did,” she said, and squirmed a little, “But I um, said I was sorry, and he said it was okay, and he doesn’t get mad anymore. But he checks on me every night now to make sure I’m being good.”
“Oh. That’s still mean.”
“Yeah,” she agreed. “But I get loads of points every time.”
“Oh. Cool, I’ll hafta try that. Hey, I wanna show you somethin Lee showed me when I was playing Lee Says.”
“What? What’d he show you?” She always looked at his thingy as soon as he was naked, which always made it get bigger, but that was okay, because she didn’t mind that he liked looking at her privates too.
“He showed me how when I rub my thingy kinda like this it feels really good. You wanna watch?”
“Sure! Oh, I do that sometimes, too. It kinda tickles, but like, good tickles, right?”
“Yeah, ‘zactly! Wait, how d’you… you don’t have a thingy?”
“Oh, it’s easy. Like this, see?” She hopped up to sit on the edge of his bed and opened her legs wide for him to see, and started rubbing her fingers up and down in her crack.
“Ooooooh… wow! Can I try, can I try, pleasepleaseplease?”
“Sure,” she giggled, and he jumped for joy before bending in to get a good look.
He slowly reached forward and carefully touched her privates, right where she’d been touching. It was only the second time after that very first day, and he’d forgotten how soft she felt. It was like petting the super soft skin on the bald patch of his neighbor’s dog’s belly, but even better.
“Whoa…” he marvelled. “It’s so soft! And like… squishy!”
“Uh huh,” she agreed.
“Does that good-tickle?” he asked, trying to pet her like he pet Seymour’s belly.
“Oh! Yeah, it does,” she said, going wide-eyed. “Keep goin’!”
He kept petting her, marvelling at how cool it felt, and how cool it looked, and he was kinda hypnotized or something until she started squirming, and then squirming a lot.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“Yeah, I’m okay. Keep goin’,” she said. “It just… really really good-tickles now. And I kinda hafta… oh…”
She started twitching, and shuddering, and he stopped, worried. “Um, you sure you’re… okay?”
“I’m… ah… oh, wow. Phew. Those were really good tickles.”
“Oh good, you’re okay. You kinda scared me.” He stood up, relieved. “That was like, super cool though!”
“Well done, Brandon! You just earned one hundred XP, and unlocked the Manual Assist branch in your Helper skill tree!”
“Oh, sweet! A new branch!” he grinned.
“Awesome, Sofie! You just earned one hundred XP and unlocked the O-Face branch of the Showoff skill tree!”
“Yeah, me too! That was so cool. Okay, my turn though. I wanna try you, my turn,” she said, sliding off the bed, and plopping down to sit right in front of him. She reached out, wrapped her hand around him and squeezed.
“No, not like that,” he said. “Ow!”
“Sorry!” she said, letting go immediately. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to. Show me again?”
“Okay,” he said, and showed her again by sliding his hand up and down around himself. “Gently, see?”
“Oh. Okay,” she said, and tried again with a look of intense concentration. “Like this?”
“Yeah, like that,” he said, and nodded. She was doing it right, now, and it felt even better than when he did it, and it tickled, but it also tingled, and she kept going, and it was starting to get really intense, but he liked it, and he didn’t want her to stop, and then the muscles in his belly and his legs started getting hard, and he twitched, and he twitched again and “aaah… Ah… AH!” He lost his balance and almost fell over, almost hitting her in the face with his thingy when he caught himself on the bed. “Sorry! Wow, holy cow. Sorry, I didn’t mean to. That was really strong, holy moley.”
“Was that it?” She asked, sounding surprised. “Did I do it right? I didn’t see any stuff come out, though. I thought stuff was s’posed to come out?”
“What? No, what stuff? That’s weird.”
“Oh. Okay. So I did it right, then?”
“Yeah! That felt super ultra good! Loads better than when I do it.”
“Awesome, Brandon! You just earned one hundred XP, and unlocked the O-Face branch of the Showoff skill tree.”
“Hey, I got the same branch you got!” He grinned.
“Well done, Sofie! You just earned one hundred XP, and unlocked the Manual Assist branch in your Helper skill tree!”
“Yeah, that’s the same one you got, too!” she said. “This is great!”
“I got my first badge!”
“A badge?” Brandon asked. “What’s that mean?”
“A badge! In the game! It was the, um… the… Hey Lee, what badge did I get?”
“This morning you earned the Bronze Level Naked Nights badge, after sleeping in the nude seven days in a row. Way to go!”
“Thanks, Lee! I got the Naked Nights badge. Isn’t that cool?” She bounced up and down on the couch in her excitement.
“Oh, sweet! I bet I’m close, too. Hey Lee, am I close to getting the Naked Nights badge?” He started bouncing next to her.
“You’re on a six day streak sleeping in the nude. You just need one more night to earn the Bronze Level Naked Nights badge.”
“Awesome, that means I’ll get it tonight! Then we can be badge buddies.”
“Yeah! I wonder what other badges we can get?”
“I dunno. Hey Lee, what other badges can we get?”
“Oh, there’s lots of badges,” Lee told them with a smile. “One of the easiest is the Captain Commando badge, for not wearing any underwear for seven days straight.”
“Wait, why don’t I have that one?” Brandon asked, still bouncing. “I haven’t worn underwear in a lot longer than that!”
“Nuh-uh,” Sofie contradicted.
“Remember,” Lee continued, “wearing somebody else’s underwear is worth points in other ways, but it still counts as wearing underwear, and resets your Captain Commando streak.”
“Oh yeah…” Brandon remembered. It was kinda fun when he wore Sofie’s underwear. He’d done it a couple times now. Too bad it meant he started his streak over.
“What else?” Sofie asked.
“Other common badges include the Pantsing Pro badge for surprising your friends by pulling their pants down, the Moon Master badge for mooning people, the Flashing Fiend badge for flashing people, the Enlistment Expert badge for convincing new people to play, and the Super Stripper badge for getting naked in front of people. One of my favorites though is the Head Honcho badge for performing oral sex. I’m really close to earning my Diamond Level Head Honcho badge.”
Brandon didn’t really understand that last one. “What does oral– Hey!” Before he could finish his question, Sofie had yanked his shorts down around his ankles mid-bounce, causing him to stumble and his bare butt landed on the couch.
“Hah!” she laughed and pointed. “I pantsed you, I pantsed you!”
“Nice job, Sofie! You just earned thirty XP and unlocked the Prankster skill tree for pantsing Brandon!”
“Meanie,” he tried scowling at her, but he ended up laughing instead.
He untangled his feet and threw the wadded up shorts across the room before lunging at her and grabbing for her shorts in retaliation. She tried to dodge, but he got her by one of her pockets and pulled down hard. They came down crooked, but he got them off her as she wiggled away from him, both of them yelping and laughing.
“Nice job, Brandon! You just earned 20 XP and unlocked the Prankster skill tree for pantsing Sofie!”
“Okay, everybody hasta get their iPads now,” Sofie declared. “I wanna play the new game!”
“What game?” Penny asked, scrambling like everybody else to get her iPad out of her bag. Everybody always did whatever Sofie said anyway, but especially today since it was her birthday. She and Brandon had both spent the past week making sure everybody knew they had to bring their iPads with them to the sleepover so they could all play a new game together.
“Everybody ready?” Sofie asked, and looked around, making sure everybody had a device in their hands. “Okay. Hey Siri, we want to play Little Legends,” she said in her Siri-talking voice.
“Oh my gosh, you guys play Little Legends too? Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, this is gonna be great!” Scarlett said before devolving into squeals. It kinda surprised Brandon, because was usually really quiet.
“Okay. Searching for Little Legends on the App Store…” Siri replied in an unsynchronized chorus.
“Wait, I don’t have Siri,” Elena complained, and started typing to catch up. “Oh, I found it. Okay.”
“It’s free, don’t worry,” Brandon said, just in case anybody was worried, like he’d been.
“What kinda game is it?” Noah asked.
“How do we play?” Mia added.
“You’ll see, it’s easy,” Sofie assured them. Brandon could tell she was already loving this. Being the leader, bossing around six of her friends. Nobody ever complained when she was bossy, which suddenly struck him as being weird. That must just mean she was good at it, he figured.
“Hey Sofie, welcome back. Looks like you’ve got a bunch of friends with you. Is this a party?”
“Who’s that?” someone asked.
“That’s Lee. Hi Lee,” she waved at him enthusiastically, “It’s my birthday today, and we’re having a sleepover!”
“Oh, cool! Happy birthday, Sofie! I love sleepovers, they’re so much fun. Looks like a lot of your friends aren’t Legends yet. Does everybody have the game installed?”
“Mine’s almost done,” Olivia said.
“Mine too,” Elena added.
“I’m ready,” Mia announced.
“Okay. Let’s start with introductions! I think we’re all going to be great friends, but I need to know your names first. My name is Lee. I know Brandon and Scarlett already, but the rest of you must be Sofie’s other friends, right?”
“My name’s Mia.”
“Hi Mia, it’s nice to meet you. I like your dress. I’m a Pokemon fan too.”
“I’m Elena.”
“Mucho gusto, Elena. I think we’re gonna have a lot of fun together.”
“Hi Lee, I’m Olivia. Are you real?”
“Hey there, Olivia. I’m an artificial intelligence human interface, so no, I’m just a computer. But I’m modeled after a real person named Lee, and I’m even programmed to have some of his personality.”
“Wow, that’s so cool!” Noah said, looking at his iPad. “Oh, yeah, hi. I’m Noah.”
“Great meeting you, Noah. Awesome, it’s wonderful to meet all of you. Looks like all of you finished installing the game, so let’s get started. Welcome to Little Legends, the game where you complete challenges to earn points, and level up to become a Legend. There’s only four rules to remember, you ready?”
“Yeah,” everybody chorused.
“Good. Rule number one is that one of my cameras, either on your device or one of your friends’ devices, always has to be able to see you. If I can’t see you, I can’t give you the points you deserve. You can prop your device up on a table or use a kickstand, and you can help your friends out by pointing your device at them while they’re doing a challenge. Make sense? Great.
“Rule number two is to always stay safe while you’re playing. Remember not to do anything dangerous, we don’t want anybody getting hurt.
“Rule number three is to always have fun. Being Legendary is all about having fun, whether you’re alone or with friends.
“And lastly, probably the most important rule of all, rule number four is to never be mean or hurt anybody. Whether it’s our friends or strangers, being nice to each other always makes the game more fun for everybody. Does that make sense? Awesome. Who’s ready to start playing, then?”
“Me!”
“We are!”
“I’m ready!”
Brandon saw a popup on his screen. He had to concentrate hard for a moment to read what it said, but apparently he’d just earned a bunch of XP and unlocked and ranked up his Recruiter skill tree. That was cool, he’d have to ask Lee more about that later.
“Perfect. Let’s play a game called Show, Share, or Shame. It’s a lot like Truth or Dare, but everybody does the same challenges that get a little harder with each round, and we go around in a circle. If you haven’t played Truth or Dare before, that’s okay, you’ll catch on fast. Winner is whoever has the most points at the end of five rounds. For round one, your challenge is to show everybody your butt, share a secret, or chicken out and live with the shame. Who thinks the birthday girl should go first? Yeah, me too. Okay, birthday girl. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show!” Sofie said immediately. Half of Brandon’s screen switched to showing his iPad’s camera, so he held it up to point it at Sofie as she stood up. She didn’t hesitate, turning around, pulling her leggings down, and sticking her butt out, shaking it back and forth while the whole group laughed and giggled. She made sure everybody got a good look before pulling her leggings back up. On the other half of Brandon’s screen a scoreboard popped up under Lee’s face, and 20 points appeared next to Sofie’s name.
“Nice job, Sofie! Okay, Mia’s next. Show, share, or shame?”
“Um, secret, I guess?” Mia said. “I dunno what, though… Oh, okay. I pick my nose a lot, and sometimes I eat my boogers.”
“Eeeewwwwww,” the group chorused. Brandon didn’t join in, though, cuz he did that too.
“Thanks for sharing your secret,” Lee said, and five points appeared next to Mia’s name. “Elena, you’re next. Show, share, or shame?”
“Umm… Oh, I know a secret. Sometimes I steal the cookies out of my brother’s lunchbox.”
“Does he know?” Brandon asked.
“I don’t think so,” Elena said, looking sheepish.
“Thanks for sharing, Elena. Scarlett, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show,” Scarlett said, even though she was already blushing a lot. She stood and turned her back to the group, and pulled the back of her dress up.
“She’s not wearing underwear!” Olivia exclaimed, pointing out the obvious as everybody else pointed and giggled hysterically. After a few seconds, Scarlett smoothed her skirt back down and took a seat again.
“Nice job, Scarlett! Noah, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“I dunno,” Noah said, blushing even harder than Scarlett had. “I don’t really wanna do either…” He wasn’t really used to hanging out with girls the way Brandon was. He was pretty sure Sofie had really only invited him to the party so that Brandon wasn’t the only boy there. He wouldn’t really have minded, but it was fun to have his second-best friend there with him, and he really kinda hoped that Noah would start playing Little Legends with him sometimes.
“You don’t have to,” Lee told him. “You can choose Shame instead, and you don’t have to do anything. But you won’t get any points, and you might get picked on in the next round.”
“Oh. Um… Okay, shame, I guess,” Noah decided.
“That’s okay,” Lee assured him. “Alright, Brandon. Your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show,” Brandon declared, trying to sound brave. It was one thing to moon Sofie when they were alone, but it was kinda different mooning the whole group. He was brave, though. He was a Legend. So he stood up and turned around. He stuck his butt out, took a deep breath to get himself ready, and yanked the back of his shorts down.
Everybody’s laughter and giggles made him more self conscious, but it also made him that much prouder of himself for doing it. Lee would be proud of him, too. He made sure he waited long enough, and even gave his butt a wiggle before pulling his shorts back up and sitting down.
“Nice job, Brandon!” Lee told him, and he saw 20 points appear next to his name on the scoreboard. “Okay, Olivia. You’re the last one up. Show, share, or shame?”
“Um, I can’t think of a secret…” she said.
“Then you gotta show us your butt,” Sofie said matter-of-factly.
“Yeah, I guess,” Olivia said. She sounded a little hesitant, but she stood up, receiving encouragement from her friends, and turned around. She hesitated, but after a moment she unbuttoned the front of her shorts, pulled them down, and mooned everybody. Brandon laughed along, but was so preoccupied with making sure his iPad was pointed at her that it was another second or two before he noticed that her butt had a lot of freckles. She tentatively shook it at them the way the others had before pulling her shorts back up, rebuttoning them, and sitting down. Unlike Brandon and Scarlett, though, she wasn’t blushing.
“Nice job, Olivia!” Lee told her. “Okay, everybody ready for round two? This time you’ll have to show more skin by taking off something you’re wearing, share a kiss with Noah, or close your eyes in shame until your next turn.”
“Wait, why me?” Noah interrupted, looking like a deer in the headlights.
“Cuz you chose shame last time,” Brandon reminded him. “Remember? Lee told you you’d get picked on.”
“I didn’t know he meant like that!” Noah complained.
“Okay Sofie, your turn,” Lee announced as if he hadn’t been interrupted. “Show, share, or shame?”
“Show,” she decided, though she did have to think about it for a moment. She pulled her loose t-shirt off over her head without bothering to stand up, and tossed it in the middle of the circle. Ten more points showed up next to her name.
“Nice, Sofie! Okay Mia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Share,” Mia decided, looking at Noah.
“Ooooooh,” everybody crowed, as if somebody had just been called to the principal’s office. Mia crawled over to Noah, leaned in, and planted a quick kiss on his lips. He scowled and swiped his arm over his mouth.
“Nice, Mia!” Lee said as Mia sat back down. Five points were added to her score on everybody’s screens. “Okay Elena, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Share,” Elena said immediately.
“Again?” Noah groaned.
“Kissing’s easy,” Elena announced to nobody in particular. “I practice with my sisters and brother all the time. Here Noah, I’ll show you.”
She knelt in front of him, trapped his head between her hands, and leaned in for a much longer, slower kiss.
“Oh wow,” Brandon said, surprised.
“She’s really goin for it,” someone else observed.
After a lot longer than anybody else had expected, she broke the kiss and gave Noah a grin before sitting back down. He rubbed his mouth on his arm again.
“Very nice, Elena,” Lee said, and Brandon noticed that she’d earned some sort of bonus points. “Okay, Scarlett. Show, share, or shame?”
“Share,” she decided, which kinda disappointed Brandon but didn’t really surprise him. She was commando under her dress, so showing more skin would leave her completely naked while almost everybody else was still fully dressed.
“Seriously?” Noah moaned.
Scarlett leaned over and planted her lips on his, and it looked like she was trying to be just as thorough as Elena had been, though Brandon guessed she probably didn’t have as much practice. When she finally broke the kiss, Noah scowled again, but didn’t bother wiping off his mouth.
“Very nice, Elena. Okay Noah, your turn. Show, share, or shame? Since you can’t share a kiss with yourself, you can choose to share a kiss with somebody else instead.”
“No thanks,” Noah said, rather quickly. “I’ll show.” He pulled his t-shirt off and tossed it in the middle of the circle with Sofie’s. His first 20 points appeared next to his name.
“Nice, Noah! Okay Brandon, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
Even though Brandon was curious what kissing his friend would be like, he didn’t want to torture him anymore. Besides, it wasn’t like taking his shirt off was a big deal. “Show,” he said, and added his shirt to the pile in the middle.
“Nice, Brandon! Okay Olivia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
Olivia must have decided to take pity on Noah too, because she chose show, and pulled her t-shirt off and threw it on the pile. Brandon noticed how she crossed her arms self-consciously, though.
“Nice, Olivia! Great job everybody, time for round three! Remember, the game gets harder with each round, so this time you can choose to show us your underwear by taking everything else off, share a french kiss with another player you choose for at least thirty seconds, or stand in a Y pose without moving until your next turn to demonstrate your shame.”
“What’s a Y pose?” Brandon asked.
“Like this,” Lee said, and his face was replaced with an outline drawing on their screens. “You stand with your arms up like this so your body forms a big Y shape.”
“Oh, okay,” Brandon said. That made sense.
“Wait, what’s a french kiss, though?” Olivia asked, having either forgotten to keep her arms crossed, or not caring anymore.
“That’s when you use your tongue, too,” Elena explained, not waiting for Lee to answer.
“Oh, ew,” Olivia grimaced.
“It’s fun, actually,” Elena contradicted. “That’s my biggest sister’s favorite way to practice kissing.”
“Alright Sofie, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Everybody should choose show,” she declared. “I’m choosing show.” She stood up and fearlessly pulled down her leggings, exposing the fact that she’d been Sneaky all day. A couple of the girls gasped and giggled, and when Brandon looked around, he saw Noah’s mouth hanging open, and his eyes bugging out of his head.
“You were s’posed to show us your underwear!” Mia said next to her.
“I am,” Sofie grinned. “I’m a Commando Captain, so I’m not wearing any!”
“Sofie is really good at going commando,” Lee informed the group. “She’s on an eight day streak of not wearing underwear!”
“Oh, you got the badge too?” Scarlett asked, excited. “I got my Captain Commando badge last week.”
“Scarlett is really good at going commando,” Lee chimed in. “She’s on a twelve day streak of not wearing underwear!”
“Oh wow,” Sofie said, impressed. “Nice.” She sat back down, cross-legged.
“Nice job, Sofie!” Lee told her. “Okay Mia, your turn.”
“Oh, um… okay. Share, I guess. Who am I s’posed to kiss? I don’t know how to, um, french.”
“You can kiss me,” Elena offered. “I know how.”
“Oh. Um, okay. Thanks. Should we…”
“Yeah, we stand up,” Elena said, demonstrating, “and then we hug, and then we kiss. Just try doing what I do, okay?”
“Okay,” Mia agreed, hugging her back and looking nervous. Brandon made sure to hold his iPad up again to watch them as their lips met, and a countdown timer appeared on his screen. He zoomed in a little and watched on his screen as their lips parted, and their faces got even closer together. It didn’t actually look all that fun, he thought. Maybe he’d try it anyway, though.
The countdown timer on his screen hit zero, but didn’t make any sound. He glanced next to him, and Noah’s screen confirmed that their timers had all run out, but apparently they didn’t make sounds. The girls kept kissing for a little while longer before Elena finally broke the kiss.
“There, like that,” Elena said, grinning.
“Oh. Thanks,” Mia said, sounding a little surprised. “That was kinda fun, actually.”
“You’re welcome. Told you,” Elena replied, and they both sat back down.
“Nice job, Mia! Okay Elena, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Oh, um…” She glanced at Brandon and Noah, then at Sofie. “Show, I guess.”
“Yes! Good choice,” Sofie told her.
She wasn’t as confident as Sofie, but Brandon was surprised that she wasn’t really very embarrassed either as she pulled her tank top off over her head, tossed it in the middle of the circle, then tugged her skirt down and off, and added it to the pile as well, leaving her in just her plain black underwear when she sat down. She kept her legs together and sat on her heels, instead of cross-legged like everyone else.
“Nice job, Elena! Okay Scarlett, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show,” she said immediately, though also without Sofie’s confidence. She stood up and pulled her dress over her head, becoming the second person in the group to be completely naked. When she sat back down, she also sat on her heels, like Elena.
“Nice job, Scarlett! Okay Noah, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Ugh,” Noah groaned. “I’m not choosing shame again. I guess I’ll show…”
“Good choice,” Brandon told his friend. Noah gave him a weak smile before standing up and pulling his shorts down, revealing his dinosaur undies. All five girls were staring at him rather intently. He tried lamely to cover himself with his hands, and sat back down.
“Nice job, Noah! Okay Brandon, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
This was a hard choice. Brandon wanted to be brave, like Sofie and Scarlett, but he was being Sneaky too, and being naked with Sofie was one thing, but there were four other girls here, and he was kinda nervous to be the first boy who was naked. Plus this was another chance to…
“Share,” he decided, even though it kinda felt like he was chickening out. “Um, Noah? S’it okay if I…”
“Yeah,” he said, grudgingly.
Brandon didn’t cheer, he just smiled a little at Noah, and they both stood up, like Elena had instructed. Then they sort of hugged awkwardly, and Noah closed his eyes and puckered his lips and waited. Brandon took a breath and leaned forward and touched his lips to his friend’s, and kissed him. Other than his mom and his grandma, it was the first time he’d ever kissed anybody, and it was kinda cool, he guessed. They just stood there like that with their eyes closed and lips pressed together for a couple seconds, and then Brandon remembered that they were supposed to french kiss, so he opened his mouth a little and started searching forward with his tongue. Noah kept his lips closed until Brandon started feeling them with his tongue, then he cautiously cracked them open a little, then a little more, and then Brandon felt the tips of their tongues touch, and then both of them started exploring each other with their tongues. Brandon didn’t know what he’d expected, but this wasn’t it. Noah didn’t really taste like anything, but he was warm and slippery and soft and it felt weird, but also kinda cool. Until their teeth bumped together, which didn’t really feel cool, and Brandon wondered how long they’d been going, and decided that was probably longer than thirty seconds, and pulled back and opened his eyes. Noah opened his eyes too, and they both frowned at the long string of spit that still connected them.
“Ew,” Noah said, and swatted the string to make it go away, breaking their connection and the hug.
“That was cool,” Brandon heard one of the girls behind him say.
“Yeah,” someone else agreed, making Noah scowl again.
“Thanks,” Brandon whispered before stepping away and sitting back down on the carpet. Noah didn’t smile in return, but he did stop scowling.
“Nice job, Brandon! Okay Olivia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show my underwear, share a kiss or… what was shame again?” she asked.
“If you choose shame, you have to stand in a Y pose without moving until your next turn to demonstrate your shame. You won’t get any points, and you might get picked on in the next round.”
“Oh, right. Okay, um… That doesn’t sound so hard. I’ll do that.”
“That’s okay,” Lee assured her. “Just remember, you’re not allowed to move at all.”
“What if she moves?” Mia asked.
“If she moves before her next turn, then I will decide how to punish her,” Lee answered.
“Oh… Okay. I won’t move,” Olivia promised, standing up. She spread her arms apart over her head, and stood still.
“Great job everybody, time for round four! It’s gonna get harder again, are you ready? This time, your challenge is to show everybody all your skin by putting the rest of your clothes in the middle, share yourself by french kissing everybody for at least ten seconds each, or shame Olivia by touching her anywhere and any way you want for up to thirty seconds.”
“Ugh,” Olivia moaned loudly, but didn’t move.
“Alright birthday girl, your turn. Since you’re already in your birthday suit, instead of taking your clothes off, you can show by sitting until your next turn with your legs spread wide open so anybody can see as much of you as they want. Show, share, or shame?”
“Oh, that’s a hard choice,” Sofie mused. “Um… Okay. I’m gonna choose shame.”
“What? Why?” Olivia asked.
“Careful, Olivia. Talking counts as moving. I won’t punish you this time, but don’t move again.” She snapped her mouth shut and scowled.
“Because,” Sofie replied to her friend, with a grin. She didn’t say anything else, she just stood and turned to her. When the timer appeared on his screen, Brandon held his iPad up to record what happened. Sofie reached for Olivia, and the timer started counting down.
She tried to work quickly, but it took her a bit of fumbling to unbuckle and unzip Olivia’s shorts before she could yank them down to the ground, revealing her friend’s black and white leopard print underwear with pink lace around the edges. It was the cutest underwear Brandon had ever seen, and he suddenly really wanted to wear them. Then she yanked those down, too, leaving them piled around her ankles.
“Yes!” she said, and did a little victory dance, before sitting down. The timer on Brandon’s screen still had ten seconds left on it when it disappeared.
“Okay Mia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“You have to choose show,” Sofie told her. She didn’t use her bossy voice, so Mia didn’t actually have to, she was just telling her she really wanted her to.
Mia glanced at Brandon and Noah, then looked at Sofie and Scarlett, and finally at Olivia, who was still standing with her shorts and underwear around her ankles, not moving.
“Show,” she finally decided, which kind of surprised Brandon, since she was the only one out of the whole group who was still fully clothed. But she stood up and pulled her dress off over her head, and tossed it on top of the pile. She stood there for a moment in her white undies, visibly gathering her courage.
“You can do it,” Scarlett encouraged her with a soft smile. Mia nodded, took a breath, pulled her undies down, and did her best to cover herself with her hands while she kicked them into the middle and sat down on her heels, hands covering her lap and knees pressed tightly together.
“Nice job, Mia! Your turn, Elena. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show! Show, show!” Sofie encouraged.
“Okay, show,” Elena agreed, only a little reluctantly. She stood and pulled her black underwear down, and kicked it towards the middle. She immediately covered herself with her hands, then visibly forced herself to stop. She smiled at Sofie, and sat back down cross legged.
“Nice job, Elena! Your turn, Scarlett. Since you’re already naked, instead of taking your clothes off, you can show by sitting until your next turn with your legs spread wide open so anybody can see as much of you as they want. Show, share, or shame?”
“Hmm… this is hard,” she said. She looked at Olivia and considered.
Olivia saw her looking, and let out a small whine.
“Show,” she finally decided. “Even though I really wanna tickle Olivia and find out her punishment.” That made Olivia whine again, and earned some appreciative ooohs and a few snickers from the group. She shifted so she was leaning back on her palms with her legs in front of her, and spread her legs as wide open as she could. Everyone leaned forward a little.
“Nice job, Scarlett! Remember everybody, she’s showing you, so you’re allowed to look as much as you want and as close as you want until her next turn.”
“I wanna look!” Sofie yelled immediately, and scrambled forward until she was laying on her belly between Scarlett’s knees, face only a few inches away from her privates.
“Yeah, me too,” Brandon decided, and crawled over. He laid down on top of Sofie’s back, so his face was almost as close as hers.
“Ow! Comfy?” Sofie complained, wiggling her butt under him.
“Yeah. Her crack isn’t as deep as yours,” he observed. “And she has a bump at the front, see?” He pointed, almost touching.
“I have a bump too,” Sofie informed him. “Mine’s just smaller.”
“Oh, you do? Cool.”
“Okay Noah, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
Brandon reluctantly crawled back to his spot and sat down. Sofie didn’t move, though, and Elena scootched herself over and took Brandon’s place laying down on top of Sofie. Brandon was distracted looking at Elena’s butt, and then between her legs as she braced her knees on either side of Sofie.
Noah got distracted too, but shook his head, and went back to considering. Brandon knew he wouldn’t choose show, and Sofie was too busy to remember to pressure him, which was okay. Brandon didn’t think he’d want to share either, but he probably also didn’t want to risk getting picked on again next round if he chose shame.
“Share,” he said, surprising Brandon. Apparently Noah didn’t hate the kissing as much as he let on.
“Okay. You can choose what order you french kiss everybody in. You can skip Olivia if you want, since she can’t move, and can’t kiss you back.”
“Oh, I forgot it had to be french,” Noah muttered. “Umm… okay. Mia first?”
“Okay,” Mia said, and they both stood up. Noah’s eyes immediately went down to her crotch when she stopped hiding herself, but he didn’t get much of a look before she awkwardly hugged him. He hugged her back, and they started to kiss. It took them a second or two before they opened their mouths and started the french part of the kiss, but then it looked like Mia really got into it. Noah must have been counting in his head, though, cuz he broke the kiss right after the timer on Brandon’s screen passed 11 seconds, and they stepped apart. Mia quickly covered herself again and sat back down.
“Anybody wanna go next?” Noah asked lamely.
“I’ll go,” Elena offered, and pushed herself up off Sofie’s back. Sofie sat up too.
“Okay,” Noah said, and waited for her to stand. Elena smiled as she stepped toward him and hugged him. She didn’t wait for him to be ready, she just kissed him, lips already open and everything. She also kept going for 18 full seconds before letting him go.
“Hey, he’s not bad at that,” she commented, and took her seat again. He blushed even redder.
“Me next,” Sofie said, and stood. She grinned at Noah as she hugged him, and kissed him like Elena had, though only for twelve seconds according to the timer. She gave him another grin as she sat down in her spot.
“Whoa. Okay, um… Scarlett?”
“Okay,” Scarlett said, and Brandon noticed how much she was blushing. She’d probably been bright red for a few minutes already, and he hadn’t noticed. “I’m not allowed to stand up, though.”
“Oh, right,” Noah said. He searched for the best way to do it, and apparently decided to kneel in front of her, between her legs. His eyes lingered on her privates for a few long moments before he looked up at her face. “Ready?”
“Okay,” she said, sounding more like her usual shy self than she had since the game started. Brandon couldn’t tell which of them was blushing more.
“Okay,” he said and leaned forward until their lips touched. Scarlett was the first to open her lips, and they lasted twelve seconds before they both stopped. Noah stood quickly and backed away.
“Me next?” Brandon asked. “Or Olivia?”
“Um, you don’t mind if I skip you, right Olivia?” he asked. She managed to glare at him rather intently without actually moving. “Oh, right. Don’t answer that. I wasn’t tryna trick you, promise. Ummm… okay. Yeah, Brandon. You next.”
“Okay,” Brandon nodded, and stood. They hugged, and started kissing again, and this time it didn’t take them long to start using their tongues. It felt kinda nice, actually. And after he relaxed, the hug was really nice too. Brandon wasn’t counting, but it was a long kiss before Noah stopped. They both wiped their mouths with their hands and sat down.
“Nice job, Noah! Okay Brandon, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show!” Sofie said, and this time she was using her bossy voice. That was okay, though, because that’s what he was going to choose anyway.
“Show,” he said. He was ready. All five girls were pretty much naked, and Noah was only wearing his dino underwear, which meant Brandon had actually been the most dressed out of all of them since Mia had taken her dress off. It was time. He stood back up and faced everybody. He also didn’t say anything when he saw Olivia’s head turn a little. And Noah was never going to take his underwear off if Brandon didn’t get naked first.
“Okay,” he said to no one in particular, and pulled his shorts down before he changed his mind. A couple of the girls gasped, and Elena muttered something he couldn’t make out. He kicked the shorts into the middle, and stood there, letting everybody look.
“Whoa, you weren’t wearing undies either?” Noah asked.
“Nope,” Brandon said. “I’m really close to my Commando badge, too.”
“Brandon is pretty good at going commando. He’s on a six day streak of not wearing underwear!”
“Does it always stick out like that?” Scarlett asked.
“No,” Brandon said. “Usually it’s smaller. And squishy. Sometimes it gets bigger and stiff like this though. Usually when I’m being Legendary.”
“Oh. Okay.”
“Does it hurt?” Mia asked.
“No? Why would it hurt?”
“Oh. I dunno. It just… I dunno.” She blushed and hugged her knees to her chest.
Nobody else seemed to have any immediate questions, so Brandon sat back down again.
“Nice job, Brandon! Okay Olivia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Finally!” Olivia groaned, dropping her arms and shaking them out. “My arms are so tired! Jeez. Oh. Um, I guess I might as well choose show.” She stepped out of the clothes around her ankles, and kicked them into the middle. “There.” She sat down with her legs together.
“Nice job, Olivia! Great job everybody! Ready for the fifth and final round? Awesome. These are gonna be the hardest challenges yet. You can choose to show how Legendary you are by letting everybody touch you all at the same time for a whole minute while your eyes are closed, share your body with everybody one at a time by letting them touch you for ten seconds each, or choose shame and take the easy route by touch everybody else for ten seconds each with your eyes closed. Ready, birthday girl? Show, share, or shame?”
“Oooh, that’s a hard choice,” Sofie said, looking like she could do all of them. “So it was all at once or one at a time? Hmm…”
“All at once,” Brandon suggested. If she chose show, everybody would get to touch her for a minute, but if she chose share, they’d only get to touch her for ten seconds.
“Yeah, you’re right. Show,” she finally decided. She stood up, spread her arms and legs wide, and scrunched her eyes shut.
“Okay. Stand up and close your eyes, and remember to keep them closed until I say you can open them again. Everybody else stay silent and get ready. You’ll have one minute.”
Brandon stood up and walked over. With everybody crowded around, he ended up standing behind her, so he got ready to feel her butt.
“Ready? Begin.”
Brandon grabbed one cheek in each hand and squeezed a little, then slid one of his hands down, following her crack, and pulling her cheeks apart with the other hand. He kept questing down, and found her butt hole, and poked it experimentally. He couldn’t help a small giggle, but he wasn’t the only one making a little bit of noise. He bent over and started questing further, past her butt hole, to where he thought her private hole – Lee had told him it was called a vageenie or something like that – probably was, but somebody else’s finger was already there. He decided not to waste time, and went back to her butt hole, poking at it some more. Even though he had to share, it was still fun, and feeling everybody else touching her too was kinda cool. Time seemed to go by really fast, though, and before he knew it time was up.
“Time’s up,” Lee announced. “Sofie, keep your eyes closed while everybody gets back to their seats. … Nice job, Sofie! You can open your eyes now. Okay Mia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
"Oh, um… I wanna try touching everybody. I don't care about the points."
“Okay, choose where you want to be, and close your eyes,” Lee instructed her. She shifted her weight, but stayed in her kneeling position, and closed her eyes. “Alright, everybody else stay silent, and wait for your turn. When it’s your turn, make sure you stand right in front of her, so she knows where to find you. I’ll start the timer as soon as she touches you. Everybody ready?”
“Ready,” Mia nodded. Brandon saw Elena's screen flash green, indicating it was her turn first. She stood, and moved to stand right in front of Mia.
“Begin,” Lee said, and Mia reached up. She found Elena’s hips first, and quickly slid her hands around to feel at the girl's privates with both hands. Brandon noticed Elena biting her lip. “Time. Next person.”
Olivia went next, and Mia did the same to her. Then it was Scarlett's turn, and Mia took things a step further, wiggling one finger further upwards in a weird way. When it was Sofie's turn she did it again, and Brandon's mouth dropped open when her whole finger disappeared up inside his best friend's vageenie for a few seconds. After that, Brandon’s screen flashed green, and it was his turn to get up and stand right in front of her.
“Begin.” Her hands found his hips, and both slid forward. She gasped when she discovered his thingy, instead of all the other girls’ privates like she’d already felt. She wrapped one hand around his thingy, and her other hand went down and found his balls and cupped them, and she rubbed them both, using both hands to feel him all over, and it felt surprisingly good even though she wasn’t rubbing him the way Lee had taught him. But it didn’t last very long at all. “Time. Next person.”
Brandon sat back down, a little disappointed at how short ten seconds was. He watched Noah shuffle into position.
“Begin.”
Mia found his hips, felt his underwear, and immediately pulled them down with both hands. Noah groaned in despair, but didn’t move and didn’t say anything, and her hands skimmed his legs as they shot back up to his thingy, which was already stiff like Brandon’s. She did the same thing to him as she had to Brandon, with one hand wrapped around his thingy, and the other on his balls, rubbing him all over.
“Time,” Lee said, and waited for Noah to hurriedly pull his underwear back up and take his seat again. “Good job Mia, you can open your eyes now. Okay Elena, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Show,” Elena said, having apparently already decided. “Just no pinching, okay? My little brother pinches me all the time, and I hate it.”
“Okay. Stand up and close your eyes, and remember to keep them closed until I say you can open them again. Everybody else stay silent and get ready. You’ll have one minute.”
Brandon got a spot on her left side, and got ready.
“Ready? Begin.”
He had to share with everybody else and couldn't get to her vageenie because that's where everyone wanted to feel, but he was able to feel around the outside of her privates, up and down her front crack with one hand and her butt crack with his other hand. She was really soft too, the same as Sofie, and he loved how she felt. It seemed like everybody had at least one hand trying to feel her front crack, but at least one other person was feeling up her butt crack this time, too, and Brandon thought whoever it was might have even stuck their finger inside her butt hole at one point. He looked up, and saw Sofie french kissing Elena when their time ended.
“Time’s up! Elena, keep your eyes closed while everybody gets back to their seats. … Nice job, Elena! You can open your eyes now. Okay Scarlett, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
"I think… I think I'll choose, um, show."
“Okay. Stand up and close your eyes, and remember to keep them closed until I say you can open them again. Everybody else stay silent and get ready. You’ll have one minute.”
As soon as her eyes were closed, Brandon scrambled to make sure he got the best spot right in front of her, and poised his hands right under her privates. He really wanted first dibs this time.
“Ready? Begin.”
He tried not to be rough, but he moved his hand fast to claim his spot at her vageenie. He may have even made a quiet sound of triumph when he got there first, and got to start feeling her. He poked around until he found her hole, and started wiggling his finger against it, trying to figure out if he could get his finger inside or not. He decided to try, and the tip of his finger slipped inside her pretty easily. After a little more wiggling, his finger got a little farther inside her, but then it stopped, and it didn’t feel like he should keep trying, so he let his finger pop back out, and moved his hand aside so somebody else could try. Instead, he felt her thighs, and the outer parts of her privates, and even made her squirm a little when he tickled the back of her knee, which made him giggle.
“Time’s up! Scarlett, keep your eyes closed while everybody gets back to their seats. … Nice job, Scarlett! You can open your eyes now. Okay Noah, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
“Oh. I dunno,” Noah said.
“You should show,” Scarlett suggested, next to him. She blushed again as she said it. “It’s fun, actually.”
“Or you could choose shame,” Mia said. “That one's easiest. And it was fun too.”
“Share,” Noah finally decided, surprising Brandon. Obviously he didn't want everybody touching him all at once, that would just be too overwhelming for him. But he'd expected him to choose shame again so he wouldn't have to be touched at all. Plus, he had to know that somebody was gonna pull his underwear down again.
“Alright. Stand up and close your eyes. Remember to keep your eyes shut until I tell you you can open them again. Everybody else stay silent until his turn is done.”
Noah stood, and held his arms out. “Okay. Who's first?”
“We won’t tell you who’s first,” Lee announced before anybody else could say anything. “Ready?”
"Oh. Um, okay," Noah said, biting his lip nervously.
Sofie went first, and predictably yanked his underwear down right off the bat, which elicited a sound from him somewhere between a squeak and a groan, and he went bright red in the face. Then she spent her remaining eight seconds rubbing him up and down the way Brandon had showed her how. Scarlett was next, and did the same thing she had a minute ago, wrapping one hand around him, and cupping his balls with the other. The difference was she had her eyes open this time, and got to spend all ten seconds that way. Elena was next, and copied Scarlett. Mia poked at him and tested his springiness the same way Sofie had the very first day they’d played Little Legends together. Olivia tried copying Sofie’s technique, but she must have done it too hard, because Noah winced a little. He didn’t say anything, though.
Brandon’s screen was the last one to flash green this time, and he knelt in front of his second-best friend. He stole a few extra seconds by looking closely before he started touching. Noah’s thingy looked pretty much the same as his own, and felt pretty much the same, too. It was a completely different experience, though, feeling it move and twitch seemingly on its own. All too soon his time was up, and he had to scootch back over to his spot.
“Nice job, Noah! You can open your eyes now. Okay Brandon, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
Noah let his arms drop, and opened his eyes. He was visibly relieved that it was over, but in possibly the bravest act he’d done all night, he kicked his underwear into the pile in the middle instead of pulling them back up.
“Good job,” Brandon whispered to him with a grin.
“Thanks,” he mumbled. He was still blushing bright red, but he gave a shy smile in return.
“C’mon, you gotta pick!” Sofie prompted impatiently.
“Oh, right. Um…” Brandon wasn’t really sure. All three options sounded fun, actually. Thinking about it, though, he’d had the most fun when he was touching Mia and Elena at the same time as everybody else, so maybe that would also be true when he was the one being touched. “Which one is it where um, everybody goes all at once?”
“That was show,” Scarlett answered.
“Okay, yeah. That one,” he said.
“Okay. Stand up and close your eyes, and remember to keep them closed until I say you can open them again. Everybody else stay silent and get ready. You’ll have one minute.” He stood up and got ready by spreading his arms and legs wide.
Then he closed his eyes.
A moment later, he heard a lot of rustling as everybody moved and came closer, and nobody touched him yet, but he could already feel them, and they were really close, all around him.
“Ready? Begin.”
He knew what was coming, but he still startled and twitched when everybody started touching him everywhere all at once, and it was a lot of hands. He hadn’t realized they all had that many hands, and they were everywhere. Not just on his thingy and his balls and his butt, but on his legs and belly and chest too, and holy cow it was a lot. They just kept touching him, and rubbing him and somebody’s hand wasn’t just on his butt, it was in his butt crack and then their finger started pushing against his butt hole, and somebody else squeezed his balls a little bit, and there were at least two hands trying to touch his thingy at the same time, and then that finger was inside his butt hole, and that felt really weird, and somebody was kissing his belly, and everything was really tingly, and–
“Time’s up! Brandon, keep your eyes closed while everybody gets back to their seats.”
All the hands disappeared, though a couple lingered slightly longer than the rest, and Brandon stood there, alone again and really overwhelmed, and he was kinda glad it was over, and he kinda wished it had lasted longer.
“Nice job, Brandon! You can open your eyes now. Okay Olivia, your turn. Show, share, or shame?”
Brandon sat back down slowly. Sofie and Noah both grinned at him, but everybody else’s attention was on Olivia.
“Um… I think… I think share.”
“Alright. Stand up and close your eyes. Remember to keep your eyes shut until I tell you you can open them again. Everybody else stay completely silent until his turn is done.”
This time Brandon’s screen flashed first, so he crawled over to kneel in front of Olivia. She wasn’t standing with her arms outstretched and her legs spread, like the others had when they’d been ready for everybody to touch them at the same time. But her legs weren’t squeezed together, either, so when he bent over, he could still see her privates pretty well before he started touching her. She startled when his fingers first started touching her crack, but then she stood still again.
“Whoa,” Brandon breathed before remembering that he was supposed to be quiet. Unlike the other three girls he’d touched already, he was surprised to find that Olivia’s crack was kinda wet and slippery, which made her feel completely different from everybody else, and his fingers slid around in her crack really easily.
The iPad next to her foot flashed red, and he pulled his hands away, disappointed again. He’d been so surprised by how slippery she felt that he hadn’t even tried to stick a finger in her private hole. Maybe he could find a way later to convince her to let him try it. Of course, he could always ask Sofie, and she’d definitely let him do that, cuz she was an awesome best friend.
He’d been so distracted thinking about what he’d just felt and how he wanted to do it again that he didn’t pay attention and completely missed seeing Mia’s turn. He paid attention when Noah crawled over to her, though, and he had to hold in a giggle at Noah’s open-mouthed look of awe as he poked and rubbed at Olivia’s privates. Then he had to hold in an even bigger giggle when Elena had the exact same look on her face. During her turn, Scarlett had a look of intense concentration, and she did something that made Olivia make a weird sound. Sofie’s turn was last, and she stole Brandon’s trick by looking closely for several seconds before she started touching. Then she very purposefully stuck her finger upwards, making Olivia jump in surprise, and then gasp in more surprise, and then “Oh!” in a lot of surprise when Sofie’s finger went all the way inside of her private hole – her vageenie or whatever it was called – and then “Oh” again in a different kind of surprise when Sofie did something Brandon couldn’t see. And then Sofie’s time was up, and she took her seat again wearing a huge grin.
“Nice job, Olivia! You can open your eyes now.” She sat down, smiling, and looked around at everybody. Brandon looked around, too. Everybody was smiling, even Noah now.
“That felt really cool,” Olivia marveled as she looked around, maybe trying to figure out who’d done what to her. “Kinda weird, but really cool.”
“Well done, everybody! What a great game. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Everybody did such a great job! You all earned a lot of XP, and made a lot of progress in your Showoff and Helper skills. It was a close game, but here’s how the top three players scored. Brandon came in third place with 230 points.” That kinda surprised him, cuz he didn’t think he’d done that well. After all, he’d been almost the last person to get naked.
“Second place goes to Scarlett with 260 points.” That wasn’t a surprise. Scarlett was obviously pretty good at being Legendary.
“And tonight’s winner, in first place with 280 points, is Sofie!”
“Yes!” Sofie cried, and stood up to do a victory dance.
“Of course she won,” Olivia said, rolling her eyes.
“Congratulations, Sofie,” Scarlett told her.
“Way to go, Sofie! As tonight’s winner, you earned the Show, Share, or Shame badge. Congratulations!”
“Oh sweet! Now I have three badges!” She said, grinning widely.
“Next time we play, you guys hafta let me win so I can get the badge,” Scarlett declared.
“We gotta play enough so that everybody can get badges,” Sofie declared.
“So, um… now what?” Noah asked after everybody took a moment to do the math and figure out how many times that meant they’d have to play. Brandon didn’t know if Noah would want to play with everybody as a group again, but he was proud of him for not trying to cover himself with his hands anymore, and he was pretty sure that he’d want to play Little Legends alone with Brandon sometimes now, too, which was gonna be awesome.
“Oh. I dunno,” Sofie said. “Hey Lee, what should we do next? I’m not tired yet.”
“Yeah! Me neither. Nuh-uh,” everybody chimed in.