Jesanie let out a warm laugh at the time, smirking at Tehr and following this with a shrug soon after, her expression more amused than anything else.<strong>"As I see it, Chess tests one's intellect and ability to see patterns. As for this, you need to have the smarts to know where to strike, you must practice a steady hand to pull it off as planned, and you need the luck on your side for chaos is omnipresent."</strong>She made this remark in a lecturing, completely serious tone of voice, but smiled throughout, and then leaned over, the cute derriere pushed up against her skirt, leaning down with the cue in place taking a couple of motions with the cue stick to steady herself, then striking the balls with force, aiming not at the very center but angled to strike closer to the side of the triangle.<br/><br/>The loud clack of balls striking against one another was accompanied by another and another as the spread out form closed ranks at some places and at others tumbled ahead a great deal faster. Yet at the end, the full red ball she'd aimed at had stopped close but not quite in the hole she had apparently aimed at, given the frown on her face followed by a shrug.<strong>"Your turn,"</strong>she remarked as Marie hummed.<strong>"You know, I'm actually a bit curious if we could make this a three-way game somehow."</strong>She paused as Jesanie seemed to think on it, her fingers brushing around the tip of the cue another hand around the mid-length, before shaking her head at Marie.<strong>"Not really without seriously altering the rules more than already."</strong>She looked abit apologetic, but moved back to see how Tehr would play.<br/><br/>Having a billiard table at his home and having Christina often eager to play a game, and not always able to drag Alex at the table, Christina had seen to it that Tehr knew the rules, and could give her a challenge now and then. Now, 'Tina could be a 'killer' when it came to this game with some of the moves she pulled, but that didn't mean it was necessarily in his lineage.<br/><br/>Clack. The cue struck the white ball setting in motion a cascade of clacks as the striped and mono-color balls struck one another until at the end of the chain a striped blue and a striped green ball were both tossed out of the game into two separate holes, causing Jesanie to look up at Tehr in surprise.<strong>"Impressive. Can you repeat it?"</strong>She nod for him to continue, but lifted a foot up on the nearby chair to loosen a boot she was wearing and taking it off, revealing the long black socks beneath. Her other foot following along behind, as she set the boots aside, before reaching to pull a ribbon out of her hair to let it hang free. Smiling slightly, she set those down aside, while Marie chuckled.<strong>"Starting off with the 'safe' options rather than distracting with a loss of skirt? My my..."</strong>She smirked while Jes watched Tehr after a brief response showcasing the maturity of a grown woman. Showing Marie her tongue for one split second pretending it didn't happen afterwards it seemed.<br/><br/><strong>"Oh yes, I think we're going to be getting along just fine!"</strong>Marie laughed warmly at the time and then grinned.<strong>"Ah and well I think you got it right when it comes down to it, there's still going to be emotions but they don't have to be exclusively forbidding on one or another. Just that we can see them occuring. For now, lets see how this turns out."</strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Rolled for Jesanie in turn and with a 2 to the roll coming along, she rolled a most respectable 4, leaving her strike a 6 and thus not sinking anything. I imagine any result over 10 would sink something for them at this point, after sinking four (3 left + 8 ball (black) raise it to sinking a ball on 15 and for the final push of sinking the eight-ball? Say 16? Or could just play it out a bit as is and chatting along as they go. I am not averse to skipping ahead but also enjoying the moment there's not really anything forcefully important to rush ahead going on and the two are enjoying their chance to relax around him.... and without any fear of their matron suddenly popping up to stop them.</div></div>