<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/Dbp7l9m.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lakresha Price<br/><strong>Location:</strong>In the hot tub<br/><strong>Date &amp; Time:</strong>11:50ish<br/><strong>Content/Mood:</strong>Downing the whole drink<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Striped two piece, crossbones durag, hoop earrings<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Maya, Marissa, Asami<br/><hr/><br/>"Is it that strong?"<br/>A second sip of the drink she kept dangling out at arm's reach like chandelier over roiling water. It had a warming effect, but so too did the water.<br/>"Honey I take my coffee black, bold is beautiful."<br/><br/><em>Skål, </em>she heard through the growing crowd, and raised the glass high in appreciation.<br/>"Skål."<br/>That had been her thong buddy, hadn't it? It had to be, but now there were three more bodies arriving, and she just couldn't be sure anymore. Another sip.<br/><br/>It was time to make room in the hot tub. Lakresha was not a stranger, she swerved around to give Maya's legs room to soak by settling just beside her. They were nice legs. The mood lighting shimmered on them once they were wet, and her eye followed. What was it with white girls and getting the leg out, in short shorts and flipflops on a cold Connecticut autumn day, she didn't know, but it seemed downright unkind not to notice the effort.<br/><br/>Lakresha sank down, compressed to bring up her knees and touch them to Maya's. Glass raised to clink her hot tub friend's from below.<br/>"You and me have the right idea. There could be Louisiana mosquitoes out there, thick as thieves. We'll be safe in the water."<br/><br/>"Lakresha," she introduced herself to the cursing kiwi. This was more fun than playing match the face to a bunch of spur of the moment profiles. Take each one as they come. She waved to Leah and Asami where they seemed to weigh the options at the threshold, just to let them know the hot tub was open for business.<br/><br/>It still came as a surprise when Asami came right over. She hadn't expected that from such soft eyes.<br/>"Alright, we got another one. Come on in."<br/>A hand offered up to steady that uncertain step one had to take through the turbulent surface of the water, to find the ledge barely seen beneath. She wasn't sure what she would do, if Asami actually slipped, except lend moral support. It was a fingertips and well wishes kind of touch.<br/><br/>"You don't like the drinks either, huh? There's a lot of that going around."<br/>Lakresha considered her own Between the Sheets, only a few sips down from the frothy rim. Mostly, she was just holding onto it, deriving security tipping something to her mouth, hiding behind the glass., being a big nerd.<br/>"It's the house drink, so think of it as like an initiation. For the next however long, we're luxury cruise girls."<br/>She raised her own, in a show of solidarity, and waited for Maya and Asami to do the same. Not too much pressure on Marissa, but a lean and a wink. She could be forgiven for taking it slowly.<br/>"All together, let's down these tropical storms. Ready?"<br/><br/>"One."<br/>Lakresha eased her drink in, shrugged the tension from her shoulders and gave each woman a playful side eye.<br/>"Two."<br/>Expectant look. Hot tub sisterhood. If they were going to suffer, it might ought to be together. Tonight, she was a Leo, and Leos were brave, or so she'd read. There would be no coming up for breath, once this thing started.<br/>"And, three!"<br/>Smudge of lipstick, tipped back, back, slowly, changing colors yellow to orange to flashes of green like iridescent shell at the tip of her kiss, burning, coming hot up the nose, but an experience all the same.