Slippin' secret pages: Game Night at Octavia's (Censored)

For a moment, a calm settled. The table and all at it were as still as the grave. Each person assessed the other for a weakness, a chink in their armor. But true to their words, each one had a poker face beyond compare. Emotionless... Motionless... Like stones. Cards shuffled between nimble fingers, keeping everyone on the edges of their seat. Who would act first? Who would lose first? No one knew... No one could tell.

Suddenly, the table met with a crack, cards and board pieces flopping into the air as two palms slammed against the surface of the table. Lyra, Redheart, and Vinyl all looked to Octavia who was hanging her head low, trembling as her fingers dug in against the table with a chipping rake. Her ebony hair dangled over her eyes for a moment before she threw her head up and slammed her now balled fists against the table, making everything launch up into the air once more. "*BLEEP* this game!" Octavia barked, a madness twitching in her eyes.

"We've been at this for twelve hours, girls," Picking up all the pieces, Octavia quickly started bean-tossing them at Lyra, who was starting to laugh at Octavia's outbursts while trying to guard her face from the tiny pieces from the game, "I don't care! You win, Lyra! You WIN! I have been sitting over here, choking down *BLEEP*! I lost the game ten hours ago because you all ganged up on me!" As suddenly as she started yelling, she switched her attention to Redheart cowering behind her cards, "And you! I hate when you're the one in charge of all the cards. How do you keep getting 'flee' cards, you cheating *BLEEP*?!"

Vinyl covered her face as she started to laugh along with Lyra, swatting at Octavia to stop. Octavia shrugged off Vinyl's waves and slapped away her hand in her wild rage. "Do NOT touch me, Vinyl. Redheart is cheating like a *BLEEP*!"

While Redheart continued to cower and shrink in her seat, Vinyl and Lyra lifted up their spilt over cups and clacked them together. "I love game night..."