Sap

"So that means Dom goes first, Nine goes second, then Lulu, followed by me and Charlie, then Natasha." Michael said.

"Sorry Natasha, you're last unfortunately." Charlie laughed.

"It's fine, I had a feeling that I would be last." She simply laughed.

"Yep, well I'm third, it's better than being last." Lulu giggled. "Anyway, everyone put back the tiles you picked out and this time pick out the tiles you will fit into your tile rack, and no cheating, everyone knows you only get seven tiles, you don't fill the entire rack." Lulu warned eying Charlie who was quick to fill he and Michael's rack.

"Hey, I wasn't going to do that." He chuckled sheepishly.

"Mhmm." Lulu said.

"Isn't there supposed to be someone who will keep record of all the points?" Natasha asked.

"You're right Natasha, I completely forgot about that, well I don't want to be the one to have to count everyone's points." Lulu said.

"Me neither." Michael said as Charlie said the same.

"I never expected you to be the one to do that Charlie." Nine said as Charlie scoffed at him.

"I'll keep record." Nine said.

"Perfect, I trust Nine better than anyone else to keep accurate records." Dom said as they all agreed, even Charlie.

"I'm be right back." Nine said as he stood up from the couch and went to Dom's office to get a blank piece of paper and a pen, he returned back and drew a table with all their names and started with an amount of zero for each of them.

"Great, now, Dom hurry up and play." Lulu said.

"Hmm..." Dom said as he looked at the tiles he had.

"This is the worst letters I could have gotten." He complained with a shake of his head.

"It can't be that bad." Charlie laughed.

"Nope, it's that bad, I mostly have vowels." He sighed.

"Just play, you're concerned about words with high totals, you're wasting our time." Lulu said.

"Fine, fine." Dom said, reluctantly he played the word sap on the middle of the board vertically.

"And you said you had no good letters." Lulu shook her head.

"Hey, those are the only consonants I have." Dom said, he shook the bag of tiles in hopes that he would not get any more vowels.

"Whatever, Nine, you're next." Lulu said as Nine quickly wrote down the total of Dom's word and added it to his score.

Nine picked out a few letter from his tile rack and played the word trap from the left horizontally connecting with the P from Dom's word.

"As always you are lucky." Charlie said as Nine did not reply him, he counted his points, putting him ahead of Dom.

"My turn." Lulu beamed, she looked delightfully at the board and played the word hurt joining to Nine's T.

"With the way the board is looking, things are about to go crazy." Dom laughed.

"I tell you." Michael chuckled as he and Charlie conveyed with each other before agreeing on what to play.

"Bam!" Charlie said as Michael played the work clicks connecting with Dom's S.

"There's no way you guys didn't cheat!" Lulu shouted.

"Haha, we didn't cheat, look at the word and weep." Charlie and Michael chuckled high-fiving.

"The odds of you guys getting basically all the letters needed to play that word." Dom said.

"No, we actually did, our lucks combined is deadly." Charlie grinned. While everyone was busy arguing only Nine and Natasha were not. Natasha simply laughed, she knew that this game night would be far from peaceful and well Nine was just simply focusing counting everyone's points.

"Everyone stop arguing, this is going to end up being a fight." Dom stopped them all.

"So, in order to keep the peace, let's refrain from accusing anyone of cheating, okay?" Dom asked.

"Fine." Lulu said reluctantly.

"It's Lulu that should stop accusing people of cheating." Charlie whined.

"Charlie, be quiet and no more cheating, in fact, no one say the word." Dom said.

"Fine." Charlie said reluctantly.

Dom laughed and shook his head, whenever all of them were together it was more like he was always on babysitting duty, only Nine and Natasha were always calm, the rest of them could easily turn on each other.

"Wonderful." Dom said.

"Can I play now?" Natasha laughed.

"Yes, yes, sorry Natasha." Lulu smiled.

"No problem, just like this word, chill." Natasha said as she played the word chill with one of the C's Charlie and Michael played.

"That's a good one, good one." Dom chuckled Natasha smiled and winked.

"You really are the chill one out of all of us." Charlie said.

"Why thank you." Natasha laughed as she picked out some more tiles.

They continued to play in turns, they did not even know that an entire hour had gone by and the tiles in the sack had been depleted.

"And that concludes the last tile in the bag." Lulu said as Natasha picked out the last and final letter.

"Aww, we needed to restock as well." Michael and Charlie groaned, they only have three letters on their rack and they were the worst letters in the entire game.

"It's Dom's turn." Lulu said, she took had four letters left, Nine on the other hand only had one letter. Natasha was the only one with a full rack of letters.

Dom was deep in thought, he looked like he was visibly stressed.

"Play already!" Lulu demanded.

"Easy for you to say, the entire board is chaos." Dom said he sounded frustrated. 

"Hey, Natasha had to play what she could play, so do the same." Lulu said, Dom looked at her and frowned, he shook his head and eventually he picked out the letter E and fitted it somewhere on the board to make the word he.

"Finally, Nine your turn." Lulu said.

"Nope, I'm skipping my turn." Nine simply said.

"No wait? Can you actually do that?" Charlie asked.

"I don't know if that's allowed." Lulu said.

"Then just let me skip, Lulu you go next." He said, there was no way he would stress himself by trying to find a place to play the final letter he had.

"Fine, fine, I'll allow it for now, which reminds me, who is winning?" Lulu asked.

"Currently, Charlie and Michael are winning." Nine said.

"What??!" Charlie and Lulu shouted at the same time.

"Mhmm." Nine replied as Charlie and Michael jubilated.

"That's not fair, how are they the ones winning?" Lulu frowned.

"Don't worry, they are first, Dom is second and you're third." Nine said.

"Then who is last?" Natasha asked.

"I'm last." Nine said as Natasha sighed in relief, for a moment there she thought that she was last place.

"I mean sorry Nine." She laughed.

"It's fine." Nine chuckled, he really did not care for this game at all, if you asked him, he thought that Lulu, Charlie and Michael were just making it too competitive.

Michael and Charlie managed to play a letter somewhere, it was starting to get hard to follow since the board was highly congested. At the moment it was nothing but what appeared to be a highway of words that went vertically and horizontally. 

Natasha surprised everyone when out of nowhere she played the word love right at the edge of the board.

"No way." Lulu, Charlie and Michael shouted.

"How long have you been saving that one?" Dom chuckled.

"Long enough to know that by the points I'm now in second place." Natasha said proudly.

"Is that true Nine?" Charlie asked as they all turned to him and he counted the points, he turned to them and nodded.

"Yes, that's true, she's now in second place." Nine said.

"And here I was thinking you were playing a simple game when you didn't join us to fight." Lulu shook her head and laughed, she made the biggest mistake by not seeing Natasha as a threat, now she had moved to fourth place.

"Natasha is actually very competitive, she just hides it, unlike the rest of us." Michael laughed.

"Hey, there's nothing wrong with playing the long game." Natasha simply replied.

"I should have seen you as the main enemy." Lulu joked.

"Even if you did, you would not have seen this coming." Natasha said. "Everyone knows that the end of scrabble is the most hectic, all the spaces are almost filled and all the best letters are gone, so I saved mine." Natasha smiled happily, she could reveal her game plan now that she had executed it perfectly.

"No wonder you were just playing one letter." Michael said.

"Mhmm, anyway, it's your turn." Natasha turned to Dom, he only had one tile left. He could feel the pressure, but he was never one to give up.

"Just give up Dom." Lulu said, this game had gone on longer than she had thought it would, honestly at this point she just wanted it to end.

"No way, I'm not giving up, except you give up." He said.

"No way, I'm not giving up either Dominic." Lulu said.

"So neither of us are giving up." He smiled cheekily as she narrowed her eyes at him.