A few minutes later, each player has been dealt their two cards, the five cards are in the center of the table, three flipped, and each player has their snacks next to them as bets, each pony has six bets.

Angel peeks at her cards, unsure. "So... what's the opening, um, wager, I think you said it was?"

Rhino explains as Silk stands behind him, her fingers and brush working through his mane and the relaxed look on the stallion's face revealing that he is enjoying every second of it. "Your bets are either a third of your pretzels or one apple, mine is one cookie, Silk's is one third of crackers or cheese."

"Oh?" She looks at her apples, frowning slightly. "I brought these for us to eat." She smirks, wagging a finger at him in mock-chastisement. "It wouldn't do for us to eat our 'chips', would it?"

"Nope..." He peeks under his own cards, Silk doing the same. "We'll still eat them afterwards anyway though, it's not like whoever wins is the only one who will get to eat. This is just so we have something to plan with."

"If you say so." She tosses him one of the bright yellow fruits before putting the correct number of pretzels on a napkin by the cards. "Like that, Rhino?"

The stallion stares blankly at the fruit, his head twitching slightly as Silk works through a tangle. "Umm... why did you give one of your bets to me? You did the other part right of putting it in the center."

She blinks, tilting her head to one side. "I thought you said it wouldn't do for us to go hungry while playing..."

Silk pipes up. "Well, that's the thing, hun. You said something about us have limited bets anyway, and this doesn't exactly make more of them. If we want to eat some now, perhaps we best limit ourselves to one eating bet each?"

"I, um..." She frowns, the gears turning in her head before she sighs quietly. "Then may I have my apple back, if you aren't hungry?"

"How about this?" He keeps the apple but floats a bit of cheese to Angel and floats a cookie to Silk's pile. After a moment, he slides one cookie in to make his bet. "There, now we each have one bet to eat."

Angel sighs and mutters to herself, lifting the piece of cheddar to her lips. "I'm not hungry, though..."

The pegasus responds this time, her fingers working in Rhino's blue stripe. "Then just use it as a nibble snack, hun. We're not gonna force you to eat." She slides forward her bet, flipping over one card in the center.

The white mare peeks at her cards and sighs, pushing them away from her. "Fold. I don't have anything..."

Rhino silently slides another cookie forward as a bet.

Silk peeks around him, narrowing her eyes at his face to see if she can tell what he's thinking. After a moment, she slides a few crackers forward. "Call."

The next card is flipped and Rhino deems not to bet anything, but still stay in the game. Silk follows this example and the hands are revealed.

The stallion smiles as he slides his winnings over. "Sweet, one to me."

The unicorn smiles, leaning forward and pecking him on the forehead. "Good job, stud." She picks up the cards and puts them into his hand, smirking playfully. "Winner shuffles the deck."

Chuckling, he lights up his horn and does so, distributing the cards again as Silk sets down her brush and starts working exclusively with her fingers. Looking at his cards, he slides a cookie forward. "Bet."

The yellow mare takes a peek at her cards then the center before shaking her head. "Fold."

"Fold." She sighs, resting her head on her hand. "What good is a two and a three if the other cards are all high?"

He shrugs as he shuffles again, reclaiming his bet. "Not even the same suit, just unlucky I guess." The next round starts. "You're first, Silk."

"One more moment... there. Take a look at that while I play." As she slides her bet in, the others see she has indeed given his mane that windswept look, but she has also done something a bit creative by taking his striking blue stripe and braiding it.

The stallion peeks in the bathroom mirror., smiling. "Wow, that's an interesting look... probably not something I'll do to myself, but it's still neat to look at."

"I'll say." Angel giggles, putting one of her apples in the center. "Makes me want to run my hands through it... but I can't since, you know, Silk just styled it." She sticks her tongue out at him before turning to the other mare. "So, did you feel his fur, yet?"

"Actually, yes." She answers as Rhino bets as well, flipping the card after. "I felt his neck when I was working with his mane. I have to say, it was surprisingly soft and thick... very nice."

"Why thank you," the stallion in question remarks as she bets again.

"Call." She pushes half of her remaining pretzels onto the napkin. "And isn't it? I just love to feel his fur against mine... especially when he massages me..." She laughs brightly, playfully pushing on his shoulder. "I'm sure he enjoys that as well, though my own fur isn't as fluffy."

She concedes. "True, but I feel our fur is more towards silky than fluffy." Rhino bets again and flips the card. The pegasus nods, deciding not to bet again but not be out of the game. "Check."

"Check." Angel smiles, taking one of Rhino's hands with her magic and putting it on Silk's shoulder. "And I'd like to know what he thinks about yours." She turns to her classmate, expectant.

Rhino looks to Silk to see if she minds, but she doesn't seem to as he moves his hand down her arm. "I think silky is the right word, definitely. Check."

The hands are revealed one at a time. Silk reveals 2 pairs. Rhino reveals a straight, causing worried looks from the mares.

Angel sits silently, eyes nervously flitting from one pony to another. She flips over her cards, smirking playfully. "Straight flush!" She giggles, grabbing the napkin and dropping the snacks into her bowl. "So, I guess I'll be shuffling, now..." She picks up the deck, fumbling it but actually not dropping it like last time. She shuffles the cards and puts them down, turning to her friends. "Would anyone like to cut it?"

A few more rounds pass with wins distributed almost equally until a particularly confident Silk bets her last bit of food, only to have Angel come from nowhere and win it from her.

She sighs. "Well, looks like I'm out of bets... what do we do now? I didn't want to stop yet."

"I don't know..." The white mare pouts, crossing her arms under her satin-covered breasts. "I don't think this game would be fun with only two players, anyways... even if the other player's Rhino." She holds up a hand, sheepishly smiling at him. "N-no offense."

He waves a hand. "None taken. Still, what do we have left to use?"

Angel hums softly, looking from one friend to the other, thinking quietly to herself. Her eyes fall to the shirts still on her friends, and then lower still to their pants, before they light up with an idea. "I got it!"

Silk tilts her head. "Well, don't keep us in suspense, hun. What's the idea?"

She grins, gesturing to the mare's body as a whole. "Clothes! We can wager those!"

Eyes widen all around as Rhino says what the other two are thinking. "Wait... you mean like, strip poker?"

The mare blinks, turning to him in confusion. "Strip poker? What's that?"

The yellow mare swallows and answers this, seeing as the stallion decided he'd rather blush and look away. "Well, hun, it's a variant of poker where instead of a winner, there is but a single loser, who removes an article of clothing and have to leave it off. The game ends when there is nothing left to take off or all ponies don't want to take anything else off."

"Oh." She taps her chin, thinking a bit before nodding. "Yea, that's pretty much what I meant. Is..." She falters, noticing the looks on their faces. "Is that a little... out of line?"

Rhino remains silent as Silk speaks again. "Well... normally it's one of those things only done by friends, which we are, but it's still not brought up lightly." She thinks on this. "But, admittedly, hun, you are already in your underthings so it's not like we can take the high road on this one that easily when the one who suggested it is willing to do it themselves." She looks to the stallion questioningly. "Maybe if we don't go full nude, but just down to her level?"

He looks between the two of them, silent for a full minute before he lets out a large sigh and straightens up. "Ok..."

"Yay!" She giggles, picking up the cards and shuffling them, better than before, but not great. "So, how do we find out the, um... loser?" She scrunches up her nose at the word, as if saying it leaves a bad taste in her mouth.

Rhino's reply is simple. "Just do what we normally do to determine the winner, except pay attention to what is worth the least, I guess."

The snacks are set to the side as the cards are dealt. All five cards are face up in the center as each pony peeks under their downward cards. A small twitch of rhino's mouth goes unseen as all of them grab their cards and Silk counts them down. "And... flip." With not even a pair to his name, the stallion is the first to have to take something off.

He tries to look on the bright side. "Well... I guess it's not bad for guys at first..." Slipping off his shirt, he tosses it over to the side.

"Definitely not bad, from where I'm sitting." Angel giggles, leaning over and nuzzling him, slowly running a hand through the fur on his chest. "It's more fluffiness for us to see... and you seem a bit more buff than I remember." She quirks an eyebrow at him, curious. "Did you start exercising, recently?"

He shakes his head. "No... I've been chopping up a fallen tree at my house, but that's it." Spotting Silk observing him from out of the corner of his eye, he smiles. "Like what you see?"

Her only response is for her face to go a bit pink as she turns away.

The mare on his shoulder smiles, whispering into his ear. "I think she has a thing for you, too, stud." She pulls away and winks playfully, shuffling the cards and dealing them out. "So, we have... two three's and three two's. Huh."

Silk comments from her side. "I guess if any of us gets a two or three they don't have to worry." They flip over their cards, revealing Rhino to have the two and Angel the three while the yellow mare has a pair of sixes. "Just had to open my mouth didn't I?" She looks down, mentally bracing herself. "Might as well get it over with..." Her shirt is slipped off and tossed to the side, revealing her lacy baby-blue under-attire.

Rhino, however, maintains a gaze at the cards, not looking at Silk.

Angel, seeing the stallion purposely keeping his focus elsewhere, rolls her eyes and turns to Silk, smiling warmly. "I have to say... you look more stunning than I imagined..." She giggles playfully, moving closer and hugging her friend from the side. "I love how silky you feel!" She nuzzles the mare's neck, cooing softly before reluctantly pulling away. She pouts softly, her horn lighting up as she picks up the cards and shuffles them. "I wish I could cuddle both of you all night long..."

Silk mutters quietly as they begin the next round. "We'll see..." The next round begins and ends just as quickly, leaving the pegasus as the one with the least points again. Surprisingly enough though, she giggles, standing up and whipping off her pants, flinging them over with her shirt. "You know, this is strangely fun and liberating to be like this." She spies Rhino still keeping focused on the game. "Ok seriously, what's up with you? Most stallions would be ogling by now."

Keeping his gaze forward, he answers. "It's rude to stare..."

The white mare turns to the other, shrugging apologetically. "I told you how hard it was for me to get him to look. He's a gentlestallion, at least." She shuffles and deals once more before peeking at her cards, staring at them in shock. "...you've gotta be kidding me..."

The rest of the cards are revealed, Angel being in last place by quite a bit. The other two ponies look at her curiously, wondering what she will do.

She shrugs, smiling sheepishly. "I lost, and fair's fair..." She reaches up to her neck and a small click is heard. As she pulls her hand away, a length of cloth slowly reveals itself, the heart-shaped piece of metal on the front clinking quietly. She giggles, swinging the item for them both to see. "This counts as clothes, right?"

They nod, but Rhino asks, "Why were you wearing that though, and with a camouflage spell of all things?"

"What, you don't recognize it, stud?" She turns it over in her hand, smiling softly and her cheeks tinting pink. "I was wearing it all day... it reminded me of both of you..."

He blushes as the yellow mare smiles. "Aww... that's sweet, hun..."

"It's the truth." She laughs brightly, smiling coyly as she shuffles the deck once more. "I don't have any other articles hidden on me, though. My necklace is on the nightstand."

"I guess things are getting interesting then." With that comment, the next round begins and cards are flipped. Silk giggles as she spies the numbers. "Well well, looks like it's your lucky night Angel, your stallion here has to lose his pants."

"If it was my lucky night, he'd have already lost them." She sticks her tongue out at her and turns to the other unicorn, smiling softly. "You'll be alright, right, Rhino? It's just us, after all."

He stands up as he speaks, his tone ironic. "Well, everypony's doing it..." His pants come off quickly and smoothly, being tossed over with his bag as he sits back down, his face burning.

Silk stretches out a hand and pokes him. "Some shapely legs you got there." This only cause him to blush more, resulting in a giggle from her.

"Strong, too." She laughs, dealing out the next hand. "I wouldn't mind witnessing that first-hand, again..." As one they flip their cards, and after a quick check they all look to Angel, who's blinking blankly in stunned silence for a few seconds. When she finds her voice, she nods numbly, her cheeks vibrant pink. "...huh. I guess it wouldn't hurt." She smirks teasingly, eyes twinkling. "You've both seen me topless, before..."

Both of the others hold up hesitant hands as they speak. "Well, you don't have to..."

"Well, we agreed, didn't we?" She reaches back and undoes the snap in the back, the cloth now hanging loosely over her chest. "And I'm one to never go back on my word." She winks at them and slips it down off her shoulders, flinging it into her hamper behind Silk. With her perky white mounds bared for them to see, she picks up the deck, starting to shuffle once more. "So, shall we continue?"

"I... I don't know about that..." Rhino looks nervously over to Silk to see if she agrees, only to blush and look away as he remembers exactly what she does and doesn't have on.

The seamstress, though momentarily distracted by Gel, agrees. "He does have a point, hun. We don't exactly have much left... How about we move on to another game?"

"Okay, though there's only one other game on the list." She floats it over to them, covering the smirk on her lips with a hand. "The very first item on it, at that."

"Truth or Dare," Rhino reads out. "Well... that does sound interesting. "I'm all for it."

Silk nods, smiling.

"Great!" She giggles, pointing to the stallion. "I'll do you, you'll do Silk, and she'll do me. Does that sound alright?" She taps her chin, thinking to herself. "Or would the reverse be better?"

"We could always do one then the other." He offers. "Either way though, I think you should start."

"Gotcha, so we switch after every round!" She smirks, leaning back against her bed as she looks at him, her eyes roaming his body. "Truth or dare, stud?"

"Hmm... Eh, why not? Dare." He smiles widely at her.