aurora rising one shots, volume one.

Strip Uno (AHH)

I was re-reading AB and well....
yikes. Anyone remember Strip Frennet?

Also, I didn't know how to make up Frennet, so here we are with a good ol' game of Uno.

Word count:
864 words

Fluff

Starring:
Aurora 'Auri' Jie Lin O'Malley
Zila Madran
Finian De Karran De Seel
Scarlett Isobel Jones
Tyler Jones
Kaliis Idraban Gilwraeth
Catherine 'Zero' Brannock

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The girl with mismatched eyes POV

"Auriiiiiiiiiiii." Scar says, leaning on the door frame.
"Wanna play a gameeeeee?"

"Uhhhhhhh."

"Come on!" She says, and pulls me from the bed.
"We're playing strip uno!"

"We WHAT?!"

"Yep. Get ready!"
She saunters out of the room, and gives me a wink.

I race to my wardrobe, where I get all the extra clothes that I can, layering myself in a wrap of jumpers and jackets and bangles up my arms.

I am not taking any chances.

I walk out to the bridge, where everyone is sitting around a table.

I sit down next to Kal, who gives me a shy smile.
"Hey." I whisper,

"Hello."

Scar walks into the room.
"Let's get this started!" She shouts, punching the air.

Fin looks up to her and gives her a big, goofy smile, and throws an arm around her shoulders.

"Alright Stowaway, you remember how to play?" Fin says, over the murmurs of Ty and Cat, who are challenging eachother to win.

"Course I remember. How could I forget you losing to Scar?" I say with a smirk.

"Oh, you are so on, Stowaway."

"Oh, please, metal boy."

He snorts. "Metal boy?"

"I don't have anything better!"

Ty intervenes. "Children, children, whatever make you think that your going to win?"

"Puh-lease Bee-bro. You know I'm gonna win." Scar purrs.

"I'm really only in it to see Ty with his shirt off." Cat says.

Ty smirks. "You sure you don't want me to just do that now?"

"Nah, it'll be so much better to see you lose."

"We should begin." Zila says, and takes one of my jumpers, wrapping it around her shoulders.

Ty produces the cards that we'll use to play, and shuffles them.

Kal goes to intertwine our fingers, but I brush him off.
"Kal, there are no sides in uno. There are no friends, no relationships. Only winning and trash-talking."

He looks down on me.
"If you wish to lose, go ahead."

I press a hand to my chest in mock hurt, but Ty has finished handing out the cards, and I pick them up.

Oh hell yeah.

Prepare to lose, kids.

"Aaaaalrighty. Blue start card." Ty says, and puts down a blue two.

"Let the hunger games begin!" Cat cries.

I smirk at the reference, and Cat puts down a red card.

"Why did you do that?" Ty asks her.

"Because I can!"

I hear a muffled laugh from Scar as she puts down a card.

Fin breathes a sigh of relief, and puts down a card for Kal.

He gives a sly smile, and puts down a plus two.
"Trust no one." He murmurs.

"Oh, it's on, pixieboy." I say, and give him a reverse card.

"Wait- remember, when someone puts down a plus card, you strip." Scar says.
"Shit." I breathe, and take off a jumper, a precious layer.

We go a few turns until there's another casualty. It's Fin.

"Aw, come on." He groans, while taking off his jacket.

"Really? I thought I would be able to see those skinny-boy abs." Scar moans.

"Mmmmaybe tonight?" He flirts.

"Finian! Not with me right here." Ty says.

"Sorry Goldenboy." Fin sulks, but from time to time throws Scar secret smirks and glances.

The next fight was between Zila and I.

"Really?" I ask her, holding up a draw two card.

"Really." She confirms, nodding her head, and I take off a jumper.

At the rate that I'm going, these layers aren't gonna do anything.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Cat screams a while later, as Ty pulls a plus four on her.
"I hate you."

"You luuuuuurve me." He says, puckering his lips up for a kiss, but she slaps him on the cheek, the crack loud enough to make me wince.

I nudge Kal on the arm.
"Told you so."

"Please refrain from mocking me."

"Heck no, Legolas."

"Who is Legolas?"

"Never mind."

After Ty and Cat figure everything out, we play another round, and we get straight into fighting, with Kal copping a plus-four.

"Do hair ties count as clothes?" He asks, shaking his head.

"Nope!" I cry gleefully, watching as he takes his shirt off.

"Daaaaaamn" I hear Scar breath, and Fin whispers a soft word in Betraskan.

Now I'm gonna be distracted the whole game.

Yay.

"Uuuuuuuh, as the team face, we should probably stop before all our friendships are completely killed."

"Agreed." Zila says, brushing cookie crumbs off her black skirt. Scar had gotten her into them, and now there was no stopping her.

I see a flash of silver, and realise that Cat and Ty are exchanging their bet money.

I help Kal to his feet, and kiss him on the cheek.
"Love you."

"I- you too." He says, flustered.

"Well, anyone up for another round?"