“I’m not ashamed of my dirty secrets,” Miss Scarlet declares with a devilish grin.
“Give me those envelopes,” Lena demands.
Colonel Mustard approaches the mystery man and claims, “So you’re Mr. Boddy?”
The man leaning against fireplace smirks. “Yeah, so what? There’s nothing you can do — I’ll be leaving now.”
Wadsworth puffs his chest and smiles. “Not so fast! I’ve called the police and locked all the doors. They will be here in thirty minutes. Once the police arrive, we can explain that we’ve been blackmailed and Mr. Boddy will be arrested.”
Mr. Green stands from his chair and moves toward Wadsworth. “We? Are you being blackmailed as well, Wadsworth?”
Wadsworth lowers his head and sighs. “I’m afraid so. My late wife befriended the wrong kind of people.” He raises his head and fakes a cry. “They were socialists. But I didn’t have any money so I was imprisoned as Mr. Boddy’s butler.”
“What exactly is a butler?” Colonel Mustard asks.
“I buttle.” Wadsworth deadpans.
Lena steps forward and asserts, “We should wait for the police and then we can forget about this horrible night.”
“Do you want the police to know about all your dead husbands?” Miss Scarlet quips.
“Enough!” Mr. Boddy opens his duffel bag and delivers a black box to each guest, excluding Wadsworth. I stare at the box in my lap, wondering how long this game plays out before the actual sex party begins. Talk about prolonged foreplay…
“In your box you will find a lethal weapon. The only person preventing us from leaving is Wadsworth. Murder Wadsworth and we can walk out of here and continue our monetary arrangements.” Mr. Boddy pauses by the light switch and waits for us to open our boxes.
Mrs. Peacock holds up a lead pipe and says, “But I’m not a murderer!”
Lena moves to the arm of the sofa where I’m sitting with her gifted weapon. She looks down at me and gives me a tiny smile. I glance at the nylon rope in her lap, imagining all the creative things that could be done with a rope and a naked Lena White.
I open my box to find a dagger. Unsure if it’s real, I carefully pick up the handle and examine the blade. Plastic.
And then the lights go out.
Thump.
Bump.
Crash.
I hear Mrs. Peacock moving from the sofa, but I stay put. In the darkness, I feel Lena’s nails combing through my hair, and then her hand grabbing the back of my neck. She kisses me. With her lips parting and her mouth accepting my tongue, we make out in the blackness like two teenagers.
Bang!
A gunshot pops through the silence forcing Lena to break our kiss. And then the lights come on.
“He’s dead!” someone shouts.
“There was a gunshot — who has the revolver?” Colonel Mustard demands.
Everyone turns their heads toward the desk where Mr. Green is shaking nervously. “I didn’t do it!” he shouts, dropping the gun on the floor.
Wadsworth kneels near the body, Mr. Boddy, and rolls him over. “Professor Plum, there’s no gunshot wound. Is he dead?”
“I’m just a teacher,” I say with a smile. I rise from the sofa and walk over to the body.
“No, you’re a psychologist with the W.H.O. - surely you can take a pulse,” Wadsworth insists.
Oh, right. I kneel next to the man on the floor and pretend to take his pulse. “Yep, he’s dead.”
“Then who killed him?” Lena asks.
With a trembling voice, Mrs. Peacock shouts, “This is just too much. I need a drink.” She picks up a glass of brandy from the tray and throws it back in one swallow.
Mr. Green points at the glass and yips, “Maybe it was poison!”
Mrs. Peacock launches the glass at the wall and wails. “I don’t want to die!”
Picking up the empty glass, Colonel Mustard states, “Now we’ll never know if the brandy is poisonous.”
Placing his arm around a faint Mrs. Peacock, Wadsworth adds, “Unless she, ya know.”
“Aaahhhhaaaa!” A scream resonates outside the study, forcing everyone to exaggerate a panic attack and rush out the door.
“Yvette!” they shout in unison.
Fuck. For a sex party, this is more elaborate and kinkier than I originally thought. Not wanting to stay in the study by myself, and wanting to know what’s going on, I dash out into the hall. I catch Wadsworth darting behind a door with my dagger.
I find the other guests standing inside a room with a large billiard table. On top of the pool table is the maid, Yvette, fingering a lace handkerchief.
“Why did you scream?” Lena asks on cue.
“I was frighteened, mon dieu,” she explains in her horrible French accent.
“Tell us what you heard, Yvette,” Colonel Mustard orders.
Glancing from Lena to Miss Scarlet, and finally to Yvette’s large chest, I eagerly accept this silly charade on the pretense that there will be a buffet of breasts in my near future. Even Mrs. Peacock, as quirky as she is, has a nice rack.
Crossing her legs and revealing a lace garter, Yvette mutters, “I heard a gun in the studee. I don’t want to be all alone so I scweamed.”
“Aaaahhhhaaa! Help!”
“Who’s screaming now?” Mr. Green asks, running in the direction of the yelp.
Following the other guests’ lead and plodding off toward the kitchen, I place my hand on Miss Scarlet’s back. She stops, takes my face in her hands, and kisses me. I run my hands up and down her body as Lena bumps into us.
“Shall we go to the kitchen?” Lena frowns.
We move quickly to the kitchen to find a large woman dressed as a cook draped on top of Wadsworth. He’s squirming beneath her dead weight until Colonel Mustard and Mr. Green heave her body onto a nearby chair. Obviously, she’s not really dead, and the blood stain on her back looks incredibly fake. I also catch her breathing but decide to just look away in fear that I may laugh.
“Another murder!” Mrs. Peacock screams.
Wadsworth stands inches from my face and says, “If I’m not mistaken, Professor Plum was given the dagger used to kill the cook.”
Everyone gasps.
Shrugging my shoulders, I say, “Uh, yeah. But I left it in the study.”
“So anyone could have taken the dagger,” Lena adds in my defense.
“But we were all in the billiard room with Yvette,” Mr. Green protests.
Actually, no. I saw Wadsworth carrying the knife and sneaking off somewhere.
Colonel Mustard wipes his brow and exhales. “That can only mean that there is someone else in the house.”
In unison, the women flutter and flail and Mrs. Peacock even loses her balance.
“We need to search the house — it’s time for everyone’s favorite part.” Wadsworth removes some long matches from a drawer and begins to cut them into different lengths, a pair at each size. “We’ll pair off and then decide what to do as a group. Bedrooms are on the second and third floor. Each pair can take a room.”
Finally! I wonder what Mr. Boddy and the cook do during the sex portion of the party.
Wadsworth distributes the matchsticks as I move closer to Lena — I want her to know that I want to be with her. Colonel Mustard and Yvette pair up and leave the kitchen in a hurry. They’re probably heading straight for the biggest bed. Next, Mrs. Peacock and Wadsworth tap their matches together and join arms. Wadsworth gives me a sly smile as he passes me on his way out of the kitchen. My odds are awesome, and hopefully Lena won’t be upset or jealous if I end up with Miss …
“You’re with me, sister,” Miss Scarlett teases. Holding their matchsticks together, Lena and Miss Scarlett acknowledge their matching pair.
But?
That leaves …
“Let’s go, Professor — I know where we should start.”
Nope. No. Nada. Uh uh. Never in a million years.
Full of frustration and nursing a bad case of blue balls, I shout, “Lena, I’m not fucking a guy. You’re welcome to stay and have your fun, but I just can’t do this.”
Mr. Green’s eyes widen as he frowns in horror. Worried that I may have offended him, I quickly add, “Bro, it’s not you. I’m into women.”