Game of Love.

"He really likes you!" Madison told Kayla, as the two cousins eyed off the talent at the end of term party. They were both only fourteen years old, celebrating surviving the mid-year assessments, and ready for growing up. "Do you like him?" she continued, "He's hot."

"Kinda like him," Kayla said, hoping that Kayla would glance at her instead of Ash. "Look, they're heading in our direction. I wanna mingle, not stay single."

Kade and Ash were older men, already in final year of Secondary College. Kade had a car, he was mature enough to make any girl's heart sing. He was tall, well built, and liked new fillies in his stable of juvenile fans. Madison also had a crush on him, or Ash, or basically anything in pants. Algebra and English texts were being forgotten that night, until next term.

Kade put his arms around both girls, saying, "Have I met you before?" He led them to dance with him. Ash stood, he was used to playing a second fiddle role in Kade's games. He knew he would get the other one, after Kade took these hot little babes to his wheels, or the back bedroom.

Kayla and Madison's parents thought that this party was supervised by an adult, but the girls had pulled the wool their eyes. They had told their folks that they were only having an all girl sleepover at Nova's place. In reality, her oldies were having a weekend getaway. But then, so were these teens. The music was blaring, the room had filled up with underage party animals, all keen to explore their hormones of adolescence.

Kayla secretly gave Madison that look she had, to silently tell her to back off from Kade, so she could see what snogging him was really like. Neither of the cousins knocked back the drinks or the tabs that Kade and Ash gave them. Kayla was feeling hot, she was instantly in love. The two couples were soon embracing, kissing followed, and Kade's wandering hands were really something. Kayla was entranced, flickers of trembles down there below her navel were luring her on.

Kade not so subtly led her to the main bedroom of the house, and Ash drew Madison in there too. The young lovers were soon having a suburban threesome with Kade, with Ash biding his time. Kayla and Madison lost their hymens, and their reason. All those Sex Education lessons about using adequate protection was completely ignored. Kade thought this was normal party behaviour, he liked his birds young and easy for his game of love.

Kayla was woozy after that, she ended up in cuddling Madison, somehow. Kade and Ash seemed to have left the party, all that was left were two more notches on male blips. Suddenly, Kayla felt as she was on fire, never realising that Kade had given her illicit drugs. The cousins had been warned about taking substances too, but being careful was not for them.

Nova came into check on who was groaning in her parent's room. She found Kayla practically unconscious, and Madison totally unaware of anything. Nova got some of the other teens to assist her, but one of them ended up calling paramedics. The ambulance took them the dishevelled Kayla and Madison to the local emergency. There they both had to drink some ghastly charcoal mixture, and sleep it off.

The cousins' faithers were brothers, Peter and Guy. Emergency phone calls were made, and even the police appeared, over the illegal drugs being available. Kayla's father blamed Madison for fibbing about their sleepover, but her Dad stuck up for her. The very sorry teenagers were discharged the next morning. Peter made a statement to the police, rumours went around the suburb that a bribe changed hands at the cop shop. Money always talks.

Guy, Madison's father was horrified, as both the cousins had to have pregnancy tests a few weeks later. Madison's period arrived on time, but Kayla's was overdue. The lassies were obviously grounded, and their parents conducted a family feud over whose sprog had been the corrupting influence. Kayla was having her own kittens, she honestly could not identify the father of her potential baby. Was it Kade or Ash? Madison was not supposed to have anything to do with Kayla, who had always been her leader.

But that did not last long. Kayla was not pregnant, just late. She and Madison had acquired a bit of a reputation in their teen academy, as being good in bed. Kade went on his own way into his future. Guy got a promotion interstate, and Madison got over her crush on Kade, and finished her schooling there. When she left school, she did a Beautician course, and did very well.

Kayla was not overly blessed with grey matter, but then boys did not like her for her brains. She loved to party, and was never single for long. She and Madison in touch via social media. Kayla did not invite her to her flash, boozy 21st party. On one of her flings she picked up a prospect there. She did get pregnant at last. Luckily, she latched onto a health provider in training, and he stood by her and her unplanned zygote.

Kayla's white wedding was another drunken riot. Again, she did not invite Madison. Kayla had somehow married well, and gleamed as she landed that precious band of gold. Madison went on a holiday to Canada, and fell in love with her own hottie. Her veil of white floated beautifully in her wedding photo album. She had never looked back after getting away from Kayla.

Then the news came. Peter had an incurable blood cancer, and needed a bone marrow transplant. It was family first for Guy, so he answered his brother in his hour of health despair. Bridges were built, and the cousins were united at Peter's funeral. His widow, Wendy, had lost her soulmate. Fate had made her very young widow, while Kayla and Madison were thriving, success stories in that bouquet of chance in the universe. The cousins had married very well, which was lucky for them. Cupid had finally fired some drunken arrow, creating apparent winners in humanity's game of love.