“You have more tickets than you need, Paul,” the girls begged. “Will you please give us one each?”
Paul leered at them as he considered their proposition. “I'll give you a ticket each in exchange for keeping me company tonight. Both of you.”
The girls flinched slightly. We are only high school students. It's all fun and games to joke about it, but we’ve never slept with anybody before.
The girls would have obliged without hesitation if what Paul had asked for was a kiss. The girls were frightened by the raised stakes.
“Fine,” Paul shrugged in response to their silence. “I'll just tear them up then.”
“Wait!” one of them yelled through gritted teeth. “I'll do it!”
The last trace of the other girl's resolve vanished as she nodded urgently. “I'll do it too!”
“Are you sure?” Paul said with a wry smile, though he was already handing the tickets out to them. “You’d better not be lying for you know the consequences!”
The girls just accepted the tickets eagerly and laughed happily after that!
“How could you agree to demean yourselves just for a ticket?” Ingrid exclaimed, scandalized. “Give them back! My cousin will surely get us tickets with no strings attached.”
“Stop pretending, Ingrid,” one of the girls sneered. “You've lost our trust.”
“You can get a ticket too, Ingrid,” Paul chimed in suggestively. “All you have to do is give me a kiss. Think about it.”
Ingrid held her ground and threw a fierce stare at him. “Forget it. It's not worth for it's not the end of the world even if I miss a concert.”
“Good for you for standing up to your principles,” Paul said with mock admiration.
“Well, the show's about to start. We'll let you know how it goes!”
Without another word, he wrapped his arms around a girl each as they headed toward the line.
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