Nicole looked like she thought about it for a longer moment before shrugging. "Fine, that works," she said.

"What about the double-dog rule though?" Matt asked again.

"We'll go with that too, I guess. But you only get one time to use it, or else everyone would just call it all the time," Nicole said, then sat forward in her seat and reached for the bowl. "I'll draw first, since I suggested the game."

She made a show of rolling her fingers around in the bowl, pulling a slip of paper out and dropping it back in before finally pulling a second one out and unfolding it to read.

"Hmm,...