Part 3 (2/2)
”Yeah, I've got them all. Pillow Talk, Move Over Darling, Please Don't Eat the Daisies*” Lynn rambled on.
”Yeah, yeah, you two can reminisce later. My turn.” Matt laid down FUN, connecting to the ”N” in MONEY. ”What do you do for ran?”
”I guess I'm kind of boring. In the summer, I have some friends that I go camping or hiking with. Sometimes, I just hang out at the pool. In the winter, I like to snuggle in with a good book, or if a game is on, I love to watch football.”
”I love to go camping and hiking, but you can keep the football. You'll have to get with Lynn on that. I swear that's all she does in the winter!”
Chris turned to Lynn. ”Really? Who's your team?”
”Denver Broncos,” announced Lynn.
Chris named her favorite, ”Cowboys.”
They both laughed.
”Neither of our teams has been doing very well,” Lynn explained to Matt.
”Okay, okay, enough football talk,” Matt said, jealous that the two had so much in common.
Chris laid the tiles SEA on top of FOOD to form SEAFOOD.
”I'm allergic to seafood. Shrimp, crab, lobster*one bite and I swell up like a balloon. If that happens, just take me to the hospital,” Chris explained.
”Wow, that's good to know. Any other allergies that we need to know about? Bee stings, aspirin, penicillin?” Lynn asked.
”Nope, just seafood.”
”Hey, I thought you said that you'd never been to the hospital due to an illness,” Matt questioned.
”Oh, sorry, that's just an emergency room thing, I didn't think it counted,” Chris explained.
”Okay. Well, I'm not allergic to anything,” Matt responded.
”Speaking of penicillin,” Matt said as he connected with the ”S” in SEAFOOD to form DRUGS. ”Any addictions that we need to know about?”
Lynn looked at Chris with an apologetic smile. ”Not very tactful, huh?”
”That's okay,” Chris replied and looked Matt straight in the eye. ”No addictions, Mr. McKinley. Not drugs, not alcohol, nothing!”
”Well, I needed to know!” Matt answered Lynn's glare.
”Let's lighten up the mood a little,” Chris said, placing the word MUSIC off of the ”U” in DRUGS. ”I like most kinds of music except rap. And I can only stand maybe one reggae song at a time. But my mood usually determines what music I listen to.”
”Matt's a jazz freak,” Lynn commented.
”What do you mean by freak?” Matt argued. ”Just because I don't like all that headbanger music that you warp your mind with!”
”Matt, I really don't consider Van Halen and Def Leppard to be aeheadbanger' music,” Lynn said in her defense.
Then turning to Chris, Matt asked, ”Do you even know who those groups are?”
”Of course I do,” Chris answered. ”They have some great songs!”
”Now, she's just trying to be polite to you, Lynn,” Matt explained.
Lynn shook her head. ”Your turn, Matt.”
Matt placed his letters on the board, CRIME, connected to the ”E” in MOVIE.
Chris looked at Lynn. ”I guess we're not lightening up the mood.” Then turning to Matt, she asked, ”I suppose you want to know if I've ever been arrested for anything?”
”Matt!” Lynn glared across the table once again.
”It's okay, Lynn. He found me out,” Chris said with a serious look on her face. ”I've got a criminal record. I was arrested as a Russian spy!” Chris kept the serious look on her face as long as she could, but upon seeing Lynn holding in a laugh out of the corner of her eye, she broke out in laughter.
”Funny, funny. But she'd thank me if it turned out you were a murderer or something!” Matt exclaimed, pointing at Lynn.
”Yeah, like she'd really tell you if she were a murderer!” Lynn said through her laughter.
Mart's face remained solemn, so Chris took his question seriously. ”No, Matt, I've never been arrested or convicted of any crime.”
”Thank you,” Matt mumbled.
Lynn watched as Chris set down the letters with a mischievous grin. If Matt wasn't going to lighten up, then she would give him a little bit more information than he really wanted. The word she placed was HOTEL off of the ”L” in ILL.
Chris took a swig of her beer. ”Okay, HOTEL. I lost my virginity in a hotel, prom night, to the captain of the football team.”
”Hey! Me too!” Matt exclaimed.
”You mean on prom night?” Chris asked, surprised by his reaction, ”No, not actually on prom night, but it was the captain of the football team!” Matt replied.
Lynn, after being taken aback by Chris's openness, suddenly woke up. ”Wait a minute, I haven't heard this story!”
”Nothing much to tell. I was dating his sister, but I scored with the brother,” Matt explained.
”I'm sure his sister was thrilled about that!” Lynn remarked.
”Oh, she never found out. It was the summer after high school. He left for college, I never saw him again.”
”And his sister?” Chris asked.
”We ended up having s.e.x, too. But the experience with her brother was much better. That's pretty much when I figured out that I was gay.”
”Well, Matt!” Lynn remarked. ”I never knew that you had such a sordid past!”
”I just hope they never figure it out!” Matt joked.
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