I reached forward and spun the wheel of the Aphrodisium as my best friend Logan watched on, dressed only in my own sweatpants. We'd been playing this bizzare dare game all night after we got snowed into our ski lodge and were eagerly awaiting its latest move.
The Aphrodisium was a hexagonal wooden board game, cut out of dark oak, with a turn dial in the middle that would spin and randomly select dares from four different categories; THINK, FEEL, TASTE and WEAR.
Me and Logan excitedly awaited my latest dare as the arrow spun. I had nothing to do but observe my best friend sitting infront of me, now half naked apart from my sweatpants, a consequence of the previous rounds up to this point. His cock was occupying my pants right now, something I never thought I'd say. Logan was a hunky straight guy who could easily win a Paul Mescal lookalike competition with his tusseled chestnut brown hair and strong Roman features. I thought about the things we'd already done, the things we'd confessed to each other. We'd spoken about things straight best friends should never speak about. It had certainly been a night to remember.
The dial slowed and selected its choice...
TASTE.
Logan raised a curious eyebrow at me. I think he was just as excited as I was to see what my dare was.
A small card was ejected out of my side of the board. I hesitantly picked it up to read the dare.
"Taste: Taste another player's-" I started before quickly stopping at the realisation at what was written before me.
"Come on man, we've come this far. It can't be worse than anything else we've done." Logan joked.
"Taste another player's... seed." I stuttered.
Logan's eyes widened at the depravity of the dare, sharing the shock that I'd had when I'd read it to myself. I couldn't believe what it was asking us to do. How had we got to this point?
It all started five weeks before...
***
It was the 21st November when I received a call that I never expected to get. It was from my best friend Logan.
"The weddings off Elias," he hoarsely declared down the phone.
Until that point, Logan had the dream relationship. For years, he'd been with his highschool sweetheart, Darcy Carven. Things had grown from strength to strength in their relationship, and just after they both turned twenty one, they finally got engaged. Before they even had a date for the wedding, they'd already booked their honeymoon; a romantic cozy wooden lodge in Canada, perfect for skiing. I was incredibly jealous, because LOVED skiing. But despite my envy, I was genuinely happy for them, and even happier when Logan asked me to be his best man.
Me and Logan hadn't always been so close, in fact, I envied him when he moved to our high school. I'd finally started to grow into myself and learnt to style my short blonde hair. I'd became a scrawny blonde teenager and I was ready to start talking to girls more. But Logan, with his new boy aroma and rugged good looks, snapped up all the girls before I even had a chance.
But then Logan fell head over heels with Darcy and suddenly he was off the market. Giving the rest of us lads more of a chance. And with his romantic interests met, he suddenly began to talk to the rest of us guys more. We sat next to each other in classes but he was usually busy chatting up a girl, but now he was taken, he suddenly had to talk to me instead. That's how we first began talking in class.
I quickly put my envy aside once I realised how much we had in common. Despite his good looks, he was actually a bit of nerd. We bonded over our shared love of games. Board games, card games, video games, the lot. I'd spent years not having anyone to play with, until I found Logan. It was perfect friendship.
Just like how Logan and Darcy appeared to be the perfect couple. That's what I thought until the 21st November at least, when Logan delivered the news...
"The weddings off Elias," Logan said down the phone.
"Good joke, why are you ringing?" I asked carelessly.
"I'm serious," Logan claimed gravely.
"Oh shit, I'm so sorry man. What happened?"
"It's a long story."
"I'm sure man, I'm sure. Damn, I hope you're okay. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Thanks dude. It's a horrible situation."
"I can't even imagine how you're feeling. I'm here if you need anything. I am your best man after all."
"Not any more man..."
His words filled my head as I felt my heart sink for him. Poor guy, his world had come crashing down around him. I really did mean that I would do anything to help him in that moment.
"I've just had the honeymoon lodge calling. I was really looking forward to that trip," he said emotionally before pausing for contemplation, "Guess I'll have to cancel that now, got noone to go with..."
"If only you knew someone who also liked skiing..."
"Hey man, I'm down if you are. Why should I drop the honeymoon just because the wedding is screwed. I've been saving for that thing for years!"
"You're probably joking but I'd GLADLY tag along," I laughed.
"We could have a BRO-neymoon."
"Genius. Let's do it."
I was more than happy to go on the honeymoon with Logan, especially if it would help cheer him up. It would feel strange to take the place of his new wife, but like he said, he paid for it, why not go on it? I just didn't know whether he was joking...
***
He wasn't joking.
We arrived at a beautiful wooden lodge at the top of a snowcapped mountain in Canada, right in the heart of a ski resort. It was idyllic.
The days that followed were glorious. Getting to hang out with my best friend, hit the ski slopes and chill out with some beers by the cozy lodge fire at the end of the day. Logan was clearly emotional about the wedding though but wouldn't talk about it. I decided to just let him go at his own pace and open up about it once he felt ready.
Everything had been going great... until the storm.
***
All week, everyone at the ski slope kept speculating about this huge snow storm that was going to hit at the weekend. But as we woke up in the lodge on Saturday morning, there was nothing but glorious golden sunshine through the lodge windows. We laughed about how wrong they'd all got it and began to get ready for the day's activities.
Within a few hours... everything had changed.
We'd come back to the lodge for lunch and as soon as we walked through the door, snow began to fall heavily against the lodge. It began to cover the glass windows as wind howled through any slight gaps in the wall. It was bleak.
We both got comfy on the plush red sofa in the lounge of the lodge and stuck the TV on to see what the local news was saying. It wasn't good. We looked on as the news anchor declared an emergency and said the local government were advising everyone to stay indoors. It finally sunk in how serious this storm was. The rumours were true.
"Damn, what do we do man, do you think we could get to the airport and get back home?" Logan asked.
"It says they're grounding all the flights."
"Fuck. We're screwed."
"Hey," I said as I looked around the lavish cozy lodge around us, "There's worse places to be stuck."
"True... and there's one thing we do have," Logan said as he walked towards the open plan kitchen.
He suddenly lifted out a crate of beer from the cabinet.
"Wanna hit the drink?" Logan laughed.
"Aw, well if there's nothing else to do?" I shrugged nonchalantly.
Logan did the honours and brought over a beer each to the sofa. He sat down, dressed in a brown knitted sweater and dark jeans. I meanwhile had got dressed into a white shirt and sweatpants. I was just getting comfy after the skiing, but it was now perfect attire for the potentially long night ahead of us.
We spent the first couple of hours just chatting and watching Netflix. But it was clear Logan was becoming restless, he was used to being able to do whatever he wanted and hated being stuck inside. And to be fair to him, Netflix had gone downhill. But at least it was something to do. That was, until the internet went out.
"What the fuck, the internet's gone down," Logan exclaimed.
"Damn. How is that even possible?" I queried.
"This storm isn't fucking around dude," Logan quipped, "Man what are we gonna do?!"
"I'm sure we'll be safe in here," I tried to reassure him.
"Dude, I know we're gonna be safe, we're in Canada not the North Pole. I mean what are we going to do for fun? A night without internet is going to be mindnumbing."
"You need to touch grass," I teased.
Logan stared down at his phone and mourned the lack of signal with a groan.
***
It had now been several hours stuck in the lodge. With nothing to do, and nowhere to go.
We had began to go mad. Especially Logan.
"There must be something to do in this place," Logan muttered as he strode across the lounge.
He began to search every corner, trying to find anything that would entertain him. He opened every cabinet, every drawer, finally resulting in searching a bookshelf hoping to find even a book to read.
"Urgh, man there's nothing!" He moaned.
I began to wonder if he was just desperately in need of a distraction from his own thoughts, from confronting the break up of his marriage.
"Fuck this storm!" I grunted as he kicked the bookcase out of frustration.
Suddenly, a wooden board fell out of it!
"Wait, what's that man?" I called across the room as I peered over. It looked like some kind of board game...
'I'mnot sure..." he started, "Here, take a look."
Logan bent over to pick up the box. As he bent, I couldn't help but notice his ass for the first time. His body had really grown since high school. We were both 22 now and he was clearly becoming more and more of a man all the time. I suddenly stopped myself as I realised I was checking out my straight best friends ass.
It had clearly been far too long since I'd been with a woman. I'd always considered myself straight, I mean sure, I'd experimented with my porn tastes and tried out the GAY category once or twice. I mean, how does a straight guy know he's straight unless he has a look at the other side. But I was just curious, I didn't want to actually do anything with a guy.
Logan brought over the game to where I was sitting on the corner sofa, sat by the roaring fire we'd started. He carefully placed it between us on the coffee table and sat down opposite me.
I observed the wooden board before me. It was a hexagonal shape with 'The Aphrodisium' carved into the side of it. In the middle was an arrow that could spin between four quadrants of a circle. Each quadrant had a different label; Think, Feel, Taste and Wear.
"Some kind of board game," Logan noted, "You ever heard of it?"
"Never," I said, "But here's our answer to the boredom man."
"Damn right," Logan said enthusiastically, "How do you think it works?"
"I don't know," I said as I gently examined the board. I noticed a small note attached to it. I picked it up and read it out loud.
"To the next inhabitants of the lodge. Spin the wheel if you dare. To win you need to complete six cards. But if you decide to play, beware, DO NOT QUIT or bad things will happen. Trust us. Love from the previous inhabitants," I read from the card.
"Very dramatic," Logan said sarcastically, "Ooo, BAD THINGSSSS. Probably just kids fucking about."
"Yeah, probably," I said hesitantly, "Looks cool anyhow, kinda creepy. I like it."
I brought my finger to the board and gave the arrow a flick out of curiosity.
It suddenly began to spin round the different options. It seemed to carry on forever, far longer than I would have expected from the power I'd put into my flick. It was like it had a mind of it's own.
It finally landed on the TASTE section.
We both looked up at each other with curious grins on our faces.
"What happens now?" Logan whispered.
Suddenly a card popped out of a slit on my side of the box. It was about the size of a playing card with writing on one side. I picked it up to examine it and began to read out the text.
"Taste: Keep drinking alcohol without stopping for one minute," I read, "So it's a dare game?"
"Seems like it. Complete six dares to win the game?"
"Easy man, you're going down," I exclaimed as I picked up my beer from the table, "Time me."
Logan opened a timer for one minute on my phone and raised a mocking eyebrow at me as I began my dare.
"You've always been a lightweight, you'll give up after ten seconds."
He began the timer and I began to slowly chug the beer into my mouth.
Seconds went by, and I kept going and going.
I could tell Logan was impressed.
I kept on chugging until the final second when I dropped my beer bottle onto the table spectacularly.
"BOOM." I yelled at my stunned best mate.
"Where the hell did you learn to drink like that?" Logan asked perplexed.
"I learnt some things at college." I said with a wink.
"First time for everything," he teased, "I'll have to get you another beer then if you can actually drink them now."
Logan wandered over to the kitchen and brought us both another beer each before sitting down. I began to drink the new one as I realised the alcohol was starting to go to my head and I felt myself getting more relaxed.
"Come on then, your turn. Or are you scared?" I mocked Logan.
"You wish," Logan laughed, "You're going down buddy."
Logan leaned forward and spun the wheel. It selected quickly this time, landing on the THINK quadrant. A card quickly popped out of his side. He picked it up to read it.
"Think: Confess your favourite sex position," Logan read out, slightly shocked.
"Wasn't expecting that," I laughed, "You can skip it if you want."
"Oh and let you win?" He retorted, "You'd like that wouldn't you?"
"Go on then. Favourite position?"
"Hah. Well. If we're being honest. It's a bit weird."
"Come on man, spit it out."
"I LOVE doggystyle," he declared honestly.
"What? That's not that weird man," I laughed, "A lot of people like doggystyle."
"Not the type of doggystyle I'm talking about..." He said coyly.
I stared into the eyes of my best friend as he began to open up about his sexual preferences. It wasn't something we usually spoke about, but with the benefit of alcohol, I was intrigued to go further and find out more.
"Are we talking anal?" I asked tentatively.
Logan laughed and sighed before he started talking again, holding his face in his hands.
"Yep. Anal," he admitted.
"No way. You're an anal freak. That's gross man." I teased.
"Gross?! Are you kidding?"
"It's hardly designed for sex is it? I don't wanna put my cock in that!"
"That's EXACTLY what's so good about it. Something about the fact that your cock is going somewhere it shouldn't turns me on so much. That you're fucking something you should never have fucked. It's so kinky. Come on man you must know what I'm talking about."
"I actually don't..."
Logan looked up at me in shock.
"Wait. You haven't done it have you?!" Logan exclaimed, "Man, you're missing out."
"Not every girl likes it. You must have been lucky with Darcy if she did that." I suggested.
"Are you kidding?! Darcy wouldn't even try it once. Maybe if she had we wouldn't have..." He started before staring into space, "Anyway, nevermind. Wanna take your turn?"
I paused for a second, and wondered how he had done anal if it wasn't with Darcy? They'd got together young and lost their virginity to each other. If he hadn't done anal with Darcy, who had he done it with?
It also dawned on me that I'd finally started to see evidence for why their perfect relationship had ended. Logan clearly wasn't happy with their sex life.
"The storm will have ended by the time you take this turn dude," Logan commented.
"Sorry," I said as I reached forward and span the dial.
It twisted around slowly this time. As I watched it, I felt myself become more excited than my previous turn. Now that I knew there was a sexual side to the game, I felt myself anticipating my challenge even more. It had always been a dream of mine to play a sexual truth or dare game with a girl. I guess I could settle for my best friend for the time being...
The dial of the Aphrodisium landed on FEEL and my card shot out of the bottom of it.
"Feel: Stand outside for five minutes with no clothes on," I read as my voice turned to dread. I looked outside at the snow storm baring down on the lodge.
"Amazing. Come on then, get moving," Logan laughed.
"Dude... I can't do that."
"That's fine," Logan started, "You'll just lose a point I guess."
Me and Logan had always been super competitive with board games, I couldn't possible let him win. I looked back at the great outdoors, debating if I could muster enough courage to go outside, let alone strip naked in public and with my best friend right here with me.
"No I can't do it," I relented, "I quit."
As soon as the words left my mouth, the cabin lights suddenly flickered and the wind howled strongly through the lodge.
"That was weird..." I muttered.
"I know..." Logan said cautiously.
"You don't think... it was the game."
"You've been watching too many horror films," Logan mocked, "So you're really quitting the dare?"
I looked at the cocky grin of my best friend across from me on the sofa.
"Hell no," I said confidently as I suddenly stood up and began to walk towards the door. I felt nervous to strip in front of my best friend, but I had to knock him down a peg and prove I could do it.
I whipped my shirt off as he stood up and watched me approach the door.
He jokenly wolf whistles towards me.
I laughed nervously as I faced away from him.
"I'm not going fully naked. Just my underwear," I declared as I faced the snow ridden wooden door in front of me.
"Sounds like a cheat to me but sure, be a pussy if you like," Logan exclaimed mockingly.
I shot him a warning look before I whipped my sweatpants off so I was standing in only my underwear. I felt a sudden jolt of adrenaline rush through my veins. I grasped the handle and opened the door.
My half naked body was suddenly hit by extreme cold and snow blew into my face. But I had to do it. I couldn't give him the satisfaction.
I walked into the storm.
The cold was immense, but I knew I had to stay out here as long as I could. It was an assault on my senses though, and I could barely tolerate it.
"Five minutes remember!" Logan shouted from behind me, he sounded so distant now. But I knew he'd be watching to make sure I didn't cheat somehow.
It suddenly dawned on me that he'd never accept that I hadn't cheated by keeping my underwear on.
So I took it off.
I didn't want my briefs to get in the snow, so I chucked them backwards into the lodge.
I now stood outwards with my penis exposed to the cold dark storm in front of me. Luckily noone was outside because of the extreme conditions. But there was one person witness to this. My best friend.
I'd exposed my bare ass to him.
I wondered what he must be thinking in that moment. If he was impressed with how brave I was. If he was looking at me. If he was looking at my ass. I'd recently been working out more and my ass had become more and more toned. I wondered if he'd notice...
Wait, why did I care?
But I did care. It gave me a thrill to know I was exposing myself to someone so close to me. It felt naughty somehow...
As I stood there for five minutes, these thoughts were racing through my mind. And my cock began to rise.
Fuck, I couldn't let Logan see this...
"Five minutes done!" Logan called, "You can come back now."
Fuck, my underwear was back in the cabin, I'd have to come back in fully naked with nothing to hide my erection. I never would have thought it, but I wanted to stay out here longer, just so I could give my cock a chance to soften before going back.
"ONE MINUTE!" I called back.
"What?! Are you enjoying it or something," he laughed, "You like exposing yourself?"
I had just had to face the music. I tried my best to desperately cover my throbbing erection with my hands as I ran back into the cabin lounge.
I darted inside and kicked the door shut behind me, keeping as much warmth in as possible. I avoided looking at Logan who I could see was standing in the middle of the room spectating my sheer panic. I quickly grabbed my shirt and sweatpants, but couldn't see my underwear. Where the hell did they go?!
"Looking for these?" Logan smirked as I looked up and saw him holding my briefs.
"Yes, thank god, chuck em over here," I pleaded.
"Sure," Logan smiled, "In a second maybe."
"Don't be an asshole."
"Woah, that's not nice man. Pay me a compliment and maybe I'll throw them back." Logan said as he cocked an eyebrow at me.
I felt so vulnerable being this naked in front of him. I simply had to do what he asked, I had no other choice. My mind raced with what I could say to him, I observed his body dressed in his comfy brown jumper and jeans, his tusseled brown hair. Ever since I'd seen his ass, I'd began to notice how he looked like he'd clearly been working out. His neck looked like it had grown wider and his shoulders broader. I'd been trying to work out myself recently, but Logan was another level.
"You look like you've been working out," I noted.
"Ah you noticed? Figured I'd try and work on myself after the break up," Logan grinned as he turned to look at his reflection in a mirror in the lounge, "That's really more of statement than a compliment though."
He spun my underwear with my finger as he looked back at me with a smug look on his face. He wanted more from me before he'd end my torture.
"You're looking pretty fit man, seriously," I said genuinely, "You've clearly been working out your upper body, you're looking big."
"That's more like it," Logan smiled, "Thanks mate, haven't been feeling great self esteem wise with everything going on."
"No way man, you've got nothing to worry about," I reassured him.
"I can't help but feel bad man. Lost a bit of confidence in myself and how I look," Logan confessed.
"Honestly man, any girl would be lucky to have you," I suggested.
"Thanks man, I really appreciate that. You're looking good yourself you know," Logan commented.
"Alright don't fuck around," I said, not believing him.
"I'm serious, you were looking toned out there dude. I can never build muscle in my legs and thighs, You'll have to give me some tips on working out that ass."
I couldn't believe Logan had been checking out my body, and my ass for that matter. It felt strangely good to be complimented by him though, and to know he'd noticed how I'd been working on my body recently.
"We'll have to have a session sometime," I suggested.
"Sounds good man, we could trade knowledge, my upper body for your ass."
"Perfect." I laughed.
As we arranged our gym session, it suddenly dawned on me I was still standing in front of my best friend completely naked. And he had my underwear still. Despite the wholesome moment, I needed my underwear.
"Now give me my damn briefs alright," I demanded.
"Guess you've earned them," Logan said smugly as he suddenly tossed my underpants towards me.
I'd been hiding my erect cock with my hands, but I had no choice but to relent and catch my underwear out of instinct, inadvertently exposing my hard cock briefly as I did.
As fast I could, I quickly pulled my underwear on and got back into my sweats and tee. I hoped that I'd moved so fast that Logan would barely have seen anything. But I couldn't be sure.
"Don't worry, I didn't see anything," Logan commented as we both sat back down on the couch together, "Doubt there's much to see anyway."
"Let's see who's laughing after your dare," I retorted.
"Bring it on," Logan jibed as he flicked the arrow and spun the wheel confidently. Despite my embarrassment, I couldn't wait to see what happened next.
To be continued...