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Alex shrugged. "Ok, if you say so." The upended the bottle over Yin's head. He now understood why pouring bottle after bottle over Alex's head may have been quite an enjoyable experience for the weremantis, thoroughly enjoying this one small victory over Yin himself. Even if this was the only one he got, it was still sweet.

Yin didn't have a shirt to soak up the water as it ran down his head and onto his back and chest, so a lot more of it ended up on the floor then it had the first time Alex had gotten soaked. When he was finished he sat back with a grin, putting the empty bottle back down next to him. "You go first this time." he nodded down towards the cards, waiting to see what number Yin flipped over this time.

Alex was happy to note that though Yin was definitely affected by the cold of the water, he was able to shake it off relatively quickly and was ready to move on to another round.

What he was not happy about, was the sight of that king that Yin turned over. "Yes, that's a king." He sighed. "So I have to turn over an ace in order to win. You might as well just get that bottle of water ready now." He laughed, reaching over to turn over his card.

Sure enough, it was another five. Of course. He picked up the bottle of water next to him and tossed it over towards Yin. "Clearly I am terrible at games of random chance. Remind me of that next time I decide to play any type of game like this with you again." He said it with a large smile though, which indicated that he wasn't upset by the loss in the slightest.

There are really only so many times one can be drenched with water before it becomes redundant. Yin basically hit the nail right on the head when he voiced exactly what Alex was thinking, though swimming for the zomboil was completely and utterly out of the question.

Alex tilted his head back and let the water wash over his face and chest, though it pretty much just streamed off of him to soak into the floor, having no where else to go.

This was like, two showers in two days, right? Surely that meant he could get away with not having another one for a year or more.

When Yin was finished, he stuck his tongue out at the weremantis in an action of incredible maturity before reaching over and picking up another card, slapping it down on the floor, almost scared to look at what he might have turned up this time.

As tempting as it was to say 'No, the person to have flipped up the card first gets to dump the remainder of the water on the other.' Alex couldn't just lie to his friend and answered him with the truth instead.

"Now we put the next three cards on the deck on the floor, face down, and flip up the fourth card. Since this is supposed to be more cards, I would say it's worth more water as well." He eyed the remaining 3 bottles before continuing on.

"Soooo, how about this be the finishing round and the winner gets to pour the rest of the water left on the loser?" Alex was pretty sure Yin had already won no matter what the outcome of this final round was, but he still clung to some amount of hope that he could at least give the other boil a good soaking before they were through.

He reached out picked up the three cards, facing them face down on the floor then resting his hand atop the deck, waiting for Yin to do the same before flipping over his final card.

Alex just raised an eyebrow at the boil while he busied himself with slowly unscrewing the lids off of each of the three bottles, taking his time with each one. "Oh? Well, did you think of a prize that you would want for winning then?" He asked, putting each lid on the floor before collecting all three bottles between his two hands and moving closer to the weremantis.

"Don't worry, I'll try to make this quick." He promised, before turning all three of the bottles over at once, effectively making sure that Yin got good and thoroughly soaked from head to toe as he shook out the last few drops of water on the other boil, sitting back with what might possibly be the biggest grin he'd ever given to somebody.

He had had fun with this, and he hoped Yin had too. He didn't wast any time, however, in reaching over to pull the blanket off of the bed and wrap it around the other boil, sitting down in front of him so that there knees were touching. He hoped there were other blankets somewhere in the house that he could replace this one with, but if there wasn't he could always call his mom and have her take it to the dryer for him. He couldn't help but laugh at his friends now incredibly sodden looking state. He reached up to run fingers through his own hair, attempting to shake out the water that still soaked it down and leaving it in a mess of hair that stuck out in every direction. Yin was really much luckier in that he had such short hair, he didn't have any trouble with it being a mess as much as Alex did.

Alex was keeping a close eye on the boil, making sure he wasn't wracked with shivers or turning a shade of blue from the cold. He thought that the blanket and having the heater so near may have helped a bit, but he said quietly, while watching his friend attempt to dry off with the blanket "Next time, I think we'll use warm water, ok?" he smiled, longing so much to crawl inside that blanket with the other shirtless boil and curl up in his lap like some kind of over grown zombie puppy.

"Well, first of all that's not much of a prize. Second of all you would have gotten that whether or not you had won so again..not much of a prize" He laughed, before starting to push himself to his feet to go and grab some towels---

--which he promptly halted in doing the second Yin sneezed. His eyes widened in horror. "Oh Jack, I didn't make you sick, did I?" He said worriedly as he collapsed back to the floor and leaned in towards the other boil as if he could see what had made him sneeze.

"Are you ok? Are you still cold? I can go and find another blanket or something? A hot drink perhaps..." It was almost comical how frantically he was bombarding Yin with questions.

Alex leaned back a little bit finally, listening intently to what Yin was saying, searching for the hint of a rasp in his voice to indicate any illness. "Ok, if you say so..." he said, though the look on his face made it quite obvious that he was unconvinced.

Oh, so Yin was going to choose a prize now? He hadn't actually expected that, but he supposed he would do pretty much anything to make the weremantis happy, so he continued to listen to what the other boil wanted, grabbing on the edge of the bed to help pull himself slowly to his feet. Oh jack, had he left his phone in his pocket this whole time?? He quickly fished it out, glad that he had bought that new case as it seemed to protect the phone from most of the water. He was lucky he hadn't destroyed the phone, though, and would have to remember to be more careful next time.

"Ya, sure..I can do that." He frowned as he looked down at his phone and started tapping at the screen. "But you realise that'll require me going all the way downstairs to actually get you a drink, and it will take me a long time to get back. Lock the door while I'm gone?" He asked, though he assumed Yin probably would. He then tossed the phone towards Yin once the image of princess Eva was on the screen.

"Just touch the screen every once in a while to keep the image up, or the screen will go black again like it did before." Alex shuffled over to the closet with their clothes in it, pulling out a dry shirt and throwing it on to button up over his still damp skin. His hair was a wet and tangled mess, his pants and socks soaked.

"I'll come back as soon as I can." He promised as he made his way too the door and out.

It, of course, took the zombie ages just to get down the hallway and downstairs. Then, he was accosted with relatives, most of which took in his wet clothing and hair with small shakes of their heads and raised eyebrows. He didn't feel like explaining what had happened, as he made his way through the throng of relations towards the kitchen.

"Alex!" He heard Justin yell his name as he wandered into the kitchen, the young zomboil along with the others were just going out the back door. "Hey! Are you back down for the night? We scored some cider and were just going back outside to drink it. You coming?" he, of course, hissed out all of this in a hushed tone, not wanting to alert any adults towards their delinquency.

"Hey! Um..no, not yet...soon though. Save me some, maybe?" Wait, cider could be heated up, couldn't it? Alex really had no idea how to make any type of hot drink, since he'd never drank any before. "Actually, can you give me two now? I promise I'll be down to hang out later, once Yin goes to sleep." He smiled as his cousin wandered back into the kitchen and handed two bottles to Alex from beneath his shirt.

"Ya sure, no problem! See you later then!" The other zombie gave Alex a quick slap on the back, and then frowned as though just noticing that he was quite wet before wandering back out the door.

So with that, Alex found a large glass with a handle in the cupboard, opened one of the drinks, poured it in, and shoved it in the microwave to heat up. He had to study the appliance for some time before figuring out how to work it, but eventually he got it started.

It wasn't until it was all finished that he realised he was going to somehow have to sneak this back up stairs. The drink in the cup he'd probably get away with...possibly...if he told anybody who asked that it was just a non alcoholic drink. The bottle however...

He set the drink down on the counter, then shoved the bottle in the waistband of his pants before drawing his shirt down over top and picking the drink up once again to take it upstairs.

More pushing through the crowds, which resulted in him spilling some of the hot liquid on his hand with a hiss, more climbing the long spiraling flight of stairs, and more shambling down an endless hallway before he reached the door and knocked on it.

"I'm back. Already. Bet you didn't even notice I was gone because of how fast I was." He shouted with a laugh through the door, waiting for Yin to come and open it up.