“And don’t high five being on the naughty list.” Then shewhispered, “Santa’s watching.” Her eyes darted around the room.

She was being a little paranoid. But in her defense, therewere probably cameras down here.

“If you want to talk about naughty things, we need to turn ona shower so Santa can’t hear us. Or at least turn that Christmas music up.” Shewalked over to the gramophone and stuck her head into the giant brass horn.

“I’m not a gramophone expert by any means, but I’m not surethat’s how you adjust the sound.”

“WHAT?!” screamed Ash into the brass horn.

Is she drunk?She definitely seemed drunk. I took asip of my hot chocolate.

And then it hit me.

She really was drunk. Because this was Teddybear’s hotchocolate. Which included a splash of banana juice.

She had her first glass before the competition, whichexplained her sucking nine cocks. And then afterwards…

I glanced over at her vanity. There were three empty mugs.

She must have finished the second one a little before I gotback, which put her into the paranoid phase of her drunkenness. And now she’djust finished her third. So any second now she was probably going to startraving about how much she loved literally everything.

Ash pulled her head out the gramophone. “Have you guys lookedin here?” She pointed into the brass horn. “The craftsmanship is exquisite. I freakinglove good metal work.”

The song ended and another Christmas song started playing.

“AH!” she screamed. “I LOVE THIS SONG!”

Annnnd there it is.Two loves in a row. Ash was definitelypast the point of no return.

She walked over and pushed a button on the hot chocolatemachine. It prepared three mugs.

“You guys want any?” she asked. But without waiting for ananswer, she grabbed all three mugs and put all the straws in her mouth at once.“Ah! Too hot.” She put them back down on the machine.

“What we do now?” asked Slavanka.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do,” I replied. “She’stoo far gone.”

“No, no. Not Ash. I mean for contest. What happen now?”

“I guess we just wait down here while they tally the results?”I had no idea how they were going to do that. Did they have cameras in everyroom? “By the way, did you get caught at all?”

“Yes, no,” she said.

Huh?I was used to her always answering twice. Butnever with both a yes and a no. “Is that a yes or a no?”

“Yes, yes.”

“I’m confused.” I didn’t understand why she was being so coy.Since we got here I’d seen her get railed in the snow by a delivery guy and I’dbeen about to let her fuck my boyfriend. She didn’t need to be embarrassed aboutsucking off a few soldiers. “How many deliveries do you think you made?”

“Four floor.”

“Four floors?! Like…every room on those floors?”

Before she could answer, the Christmas music switched off. Adeep voice boomed out of the gramophone.

“Results will be announced in five minutes. Please change andthen make your way to the atrium.”

“Change?” asked Ash. “Into what?”