"Mnnnf, Gnnf gmmp!" Karen had a mouthful of pizza when Blair came back with the Monopoly set. She chewed and swallowed. having earned a look from her lover that said<i>don't set a bad example. "</i>Great. They never did a motor bike so I'll snaffle the racing car. What do yo want, Sweetheart?" She started sorting the money by colour - something that most foreigners and even some natives wished that the US Treasury would do with the real money. Given the residual tension between herself and Blair, She made a quick choice and passed the box lid with the money all laid out over to Danni. "Tell you what, Love, you be banker, okay?"<br/><br/>She shuffled the chance and community chest cards and set the three tokens up on Go, she just happened to be sitting to Danni's left, which gave her the first roll. "Oh, which<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMonopoly_%28game%29%23House_rules&amp;hash=7c2bbc474415cee5af181793dc7ef7e2" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#House_rules" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">house rules</a>do we use? Personally I prefer to loose the auctions if you don't buy a property, but I'm not keen on the Free Parking Jackpot rule, either. It makes the game longer and means the bank can run out of money!"<br/><br/>With the rules established, she rolled the dice. "Seven.... Chance... Hmm..." She took the top card. "Hah! Bank pays you dividend of $50." She placed the card face up and held her hand out to Danni.<br/><br/>................................................<br/><br/>Time went quickly, Blair was soon winning despite Karen and Danni teaming up against her, mostly due to a seriously bad decision on Karen's part, followed by a string of unlucky dice rolls. It was getting near one in the morning when Karen stood up and yawned. "Right, that's me dead. If you two want to play on please do, but I vote we declare Blair the official household Monopoly Champion and call it a night?"<br/><br/>She put the pizza box in the trash, washed the glasses and put them away, then headed upstairs.