Messy Friendships - Part 1 & 2

Hi, this is my first story in this forum. It's pretty long and starts out slowly, but gets quite explicit later on. Anyway, hope people like it. More chapters coming soon.
PART 1 - THE BAR
Hey there. My name's Audrey. This is the story of messiest fortnight of my life, and it came about because I was sick of my two best friends arguing...
Michelle and Donna. The three of us had been a close-knit trio since we were little kids. We'd shared our deepest secrets, told each other what boys we liked, all of that girlfriend stuff.
Michelle had always been the tallest, most conventionally beautiful of the group. She had a tall, curving body, with blonde hair that fell straight to her shoulders. She always dressed smartly and projected an air of success - which maybe explained why she was currently on the board of directors of a major legal firm.
Donna was shorter, with curly brown hair which she regularly permed. And while this had never been a problem while we were all growing up, lately this physical difference seemed to have been a source of great insecurity to Donna. She dressed drably and hunched her shoulders when she sat. Not that she had any reason to - Donna had a great body and larger breasts than me or Michelle.
Anyway, this all came to a head a few months back, when, after nearly a year of glum single life, Donna picked up a boyfriend. The guy was called Mark: not much in the brains department, and a bit of a cunt personality wise, but he definitely had a well-endowed physique. For a couple of months Donna had some great sex and frustrating conversation, and we got to hear all the juicy details.
And then Michelle stole Mark.
At least that was how Donna put it. Michelle preferred to say that Mark had been coming on to her all night, that she was out at a bar and looking for a good time, that all those things Donna had told them about Mark's sexual prowess had piqued her curiosity - hell, why not try out the goods?
The next morning, she had a crisis of conscience and immediately called up Donna to confess. Donna flipped, swore herself hoarse at Michelle, and confronted Mark later that day. Mark did some swearing of his own, then dumped Donna on the spot.
From here everybody just dug in. Donna absolutely refused to forgive Michelle for what she'd done; and Michelle, who'd been completely open with her best friend, was at first hurt and later angered by Donna's unswervingly judgmental attitude.
I'd done my best to bring the two together: calling them up for hour-long chats about our friendship, childhood memories, relationship advice, that sort of thing. After all, we'd been friends nearly two decades, I didn't want to see us broken up over a loser like Mark. I'd arranged various meetings - at restaurants, people's houses, even parties - and today's was merely the latest. We were at the local pub, it was a quiet Sunday afternoon, and Michelle and Donna were shouting at each other full volume across the table.
"You always take what's not yours," Donna yelled. "What you don't have."
"Bullshit! You don't know how good you've had it. How much I've given up for you." Michelle had gotten so angry by now she was rising in her seat. "You don't know anything."
The other patrons had given up ignoring us and were now openly staring. I just wanted to slink off the face of the earth. I'd never been so embarrassed by my friends. Both of them, so pigheaded and stubborn...
I was getting pissed off.
"You're the most bullheaded person I've ever known," Michelle shouted. "What do you want me to do?"
Donna rose out of her chair. "I don't want you to do anything: I just want to mess you up."
I muttered, "Well, why don't you?"
Wonder of wonders, they stopped arguing and looked at me. "What?" said Donna.
"You mess her up," I said, "and then Michelle messes you up, and then you'll both have it out of your system and we can go back to our normal lives." I said it with that same flat, I-don't-give-a-fuck tone, though some memory was nagging at me at the same time.
"What do you mean, 'mess her up'"? asked Michelle.
Suddenly I remembered it. A wedding we'd been to a few years back - the bride and groom's families hadn't gotten on well, and at the reception, after enough booze had been consumed, a food fight had broken out at the head table. The wedding cake had arrived and before anyone even got a chance to break out the knife cake and icing were being tossed left right and centre. I distinctly remembered the groom's brother picking up a tier of the cake and mashing it into the face of the bride's father.
Everyone else at the reception just sort of watched - none of the other tables had food on them at this stage, and anyway it had been a private argument and we didn't really feel involved. But after the fight was over, the whole mood of the reception changed. Everyone felt more at ease. The tension between the two families seemed to have evaporated in the mess.
And I started thinking hard.
"Well?" said Michelle.
There was a remote chance this might work. And even if it didn't, watching my two friends completely messing each other up would at least be a bit of entertainment after a month's thankless work playing the peacemaker.
"This is what we'll do," I said. "Next Saturday, you both show up at my house. Wearing your best clothes. I'll set an area aside, and we'll have some rules - trivia, or forfeits, or something. We'll use - actually, I'll leave that part as a surprise. And if you two can't be forgiving toward each other after that then, well..."
Michelle had a smirk on her face. "I'm in."
Donna looked more anxious. "I'm not sure. I don't want to ruin any of my clothes."
"Trust me when I say this whole exercise is completely out of my pocket," I said. "Besides, having your clothes ruined will be more than offset by the joy of seeing Michelle in her best clothes, humiliated."
Donna's expression firmed. "Right. Okay, I'm in too."
She and Michelle stared at each other, a little half smile on both of their faces. Both of them too focused on each other to ask what I was planning to do, or what I might be getting out of it.
"Next Saturday. One week from now."
"One week from now," Michelle repeated.
Donna said, "One week from now."
PART 1 - THE BAR
Hey there. My name's Audrey. This is the story of messiest fortnight of my life, and it came about because I was sick of my two best friends arguing...
Michelle and Donna. The three of us had been a close-knit trio since we were little kids. We'd shared our deepest secrets, told each other what boys we liked, all of that girlfriend stuff.
Michelle had always been the tallest, most conventionally beautiful of the group. She had a tall, curving body, with blonde hair that fell straight to her shoulders. She always dressed smartly and projected an air of success - which maybe explained why she was currently on the board of directors of a major legal firm.
Donna was shorter, with curly brown hair which she regularly permed. And while this had never been a problem while we were all growing up, lately this physical difference seemed to have been a source of great insecurity to Donna. She dressed drably and hunched her shoulders when she sat. Not that she had any reason to - Donna had a great body and larger breasts than me or Michelle.
Anyway, this all came to a head a few months back, when, after nearly a year of glum single life, Donna picked up a boyfriend. The guy was called Mark: not much in the brains department, and a bit of a cunt personality wise, but he definitely had a well-endowed physique. For a couple of months Donna had some great sex and frustrating conversation, and we got to hear all the juicy details.
And then Michelle stole Mark.
At least that was how Donna put it. Michelle preferred to say that Mark had been coming on to her all night, that she was out at a bar and looking for a good time, that all those things Donna had told them about Mark's sexual prowess had piqued her curiosity - hell, why not try out the goods?
The next morning, she had a crisis of conscience and immediately called up Donna to confess. Donna flipped, swore herself hoarse at Michelle, and confronted Mark later that day. Mark did some swearing of his own, then dumped Donna on the spot.
From here everybody just dug in. Donna absolutely refused to forgive Michelle for what she'd done; and Michelle, who'd been completely open with her best friend, was at first hurt and later angered by Donna's unswervingly judgmental attitude.
I'd done my best to bring the two together: calling them up for hour-long chats about our friendship, childhood memories, relationship advice, that sort of thing. After all, we'd been friends nearly two decades, I didn't want to see us broken up over a loser like Mark. I'd arranged various meetings - at restaurants, people's houses, even parties - and today's was merely the latest. We were at the local pub, it was a quiet Sunday afternoon, and Michelle and Donna were shouting at each other full volume across the table.
"You always take what's not yours," Donna yelled. "What you don't have."
"Bullshit! You don't know how good you've had it. How much I've given up for you." Michelle had gotten so angry by now she was rising in her seat. "You don't know anything."
The other patrons had given up ignoring us and were now openly staring. I just wanted to slink off the face of the earth. I'd never been so embarrassed by my friends. Both of them, so pigheaded and stubborn...
I was getting pissed off.
"You're the most bullheaded person I've ever known," Michelle shouted. "What do you want me to do?"
Donna rose out of her chair. "I don't want you to do anything: I just want to mess you up."
I muttered, "Well, why don't you?"
Wonder of wonders, they stopped arguing and looked at me. "What?" said Donna.
"You mess her up," I said, "and then Michelle messes you up, and then you'll both have it out of your system and we can go back to our normal lives." I said it with that same flat, I-don't-give-a-fuck tone, though some memory was nagging at me at the same time.
"What do you mean, 'mess her up'"? asked Michelle.
Suddenly I remembered it. A wedding we'd been to a few years back - the bride and groom's families hadn't gotten on well, and at the reception, after enough booze had been consumed, a food fight had broken out at the head table. The wedding cake had arrived and before anyone even got a chance to break out the knife cake and icing were being tossed left right and centre. I distinctly remembered the groom's brother picking up a tier of the cake and mashing it into the face of the bride's father.
Everyone else at the reception just sort of watched - none of the other tables had food on them at this stage, and anyway it had been a private argument and we didn't really feel involved. But after the fight was over, the whole mood of the reception changed. Everyone felt more at ease. The tension between the two families seemed to have evaporated in the mess.
And I started thinking hard.
"Well?" said Michelle.
There was a remote chance this might work. And even if it didn't, watching my two friends completely messing each other up would at least be a bit of entertainment after a month's thankless work playing the peacemaker.
"This is what we'll do," I said. "Next Saturday, you both show up at my house. Wearing your best clothes. I'll set an area aside, and we'll have some rules - trivia, or forfeits, or something. We'll use - actually, I'll leave that part as a surprise. And if you two can't be forgiving toward each other after that then, well..."
Michelle had a smirk on her face. "I'm in."
Donna looked more anxious. "I'm not sure. I don't want to ruin any of my clothes."
"Trust me when I say this whole exercise is completely out of my pocket," I said. "Besides, having your clothes ruined will be more than offset by the joy of seeing Michelle in her best clothes, humiliated."
Donna's expression firmed. "Right. Okay, I'm in too."
She and Michelle stared at each other, a little half smile on both of their faces. Both of them too focused on each other to ask what I was planning to do, or what I might be getting out of it.
"Next Saturday. One week from now."
"One week from now," Michelle repeated.
Donna said, "One week from now."