Offline/Change into your underwear
"I have my own room, so I usually just wear my boxers to bed." you confess.
"That's cool! I have to share a room with my pain-in-the-butt sister." Brayden is clearly both jealous and enthralled. Looks like you officially have cool older cousin status. "Why don't you wear pajamas though?"
"Jay doesn't wear pajamas?" chimes his sister Beth. "But what's he wear bed then?"
"That's what I said!" echoes Brayden, calling more attention to you.
"I don't know. They just never felt comfortable, I guess." Total BS. You read one of your mom's magazines a few years ago that sleeping naked is a sign of sexual maturity, which itself was BS. But you started sleeping in your skivvies while your family was vacationing with Aunt Becky, unable to go all the way without feeling weird and yet still trying to send her some sort of signal. It just stuck after that. Of course you're not about to share that with anyone, least of all these kids. "And it's great when it's hot," you add.
"It is hot in here, huh? I can do that too, right?" Brayden pulls off his shirt without waiting for your answer, looks up at you proudly, and then expectantly. It seems he almost forgot you hadn't started changing yet.
Beth starts nattering something about whether you're going back to the campfire and a couple other kids get upset that you might leave. You may have a riot on your hands if you don't play by the rule you made just moments ago, so you decide to hurry up and undress for bed. If no one else has any modesty, why should you? You toss your shirt in the direction of your bed but it hits your sister instead. She looks at you incredulously, but you ignore her and continue dropping your pants. Brayden does the same with his PJs and this clues your excitable sister into the latest fashion trend.
"Wait, is it an underwear party? Underwear party!" she proclaims, happily stripping her nightie and baring her lithe little figure for all to see, giggling in her thinly veiled desire to be naughty. "C'mon Asha, join in!" she goads her friend. "Don't be shy! Take off your clothes! It's an underwear party!"
Emma reaches out for the hem of Asha's night shirt but her bestie manages to skitter away with a "Stawp!" That's a challenge to your sister and Asha recognizes her mistake right away. She yelps and springs to her feet running across the cabin with your sister in hot pursuit. It's a good thing your cock has settled down so you're at least that much more decent as you snatch Emma away from peer pressuring (or assaulting?) her friend. Wrestling your nearly naked sister doesn't help your situation though. You've never had feelings for her like that, but sometimes skin is skin and your lower brain doesn't care if that skin is blood, especially not after wrapping both your arms around her topless torso long enough to end the chase.
"This is not some panty party. I just don't have PJs with me, so go put your nightie back on."
"Yeah, don't you know it's just hot in here?" Brayden unhelpfully adds, standing next to you just as threadbare as you and Emma.
"Well that's not fair at all!" Just by the tone of her voice you know you won't win this one. "Why do you get to sleep in your underwear then? I'm hot too!"
You hold your tongue from making a quip there. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot May with a sly grin already losing the pajamas you helped her find just a moment ago. You'd like to stay in control of this but you still don't want a riot. It is hot in here and that's only going to make everyone less reasonable. You're not sure if you should put the blame for this one on Emma or Brayden, but you make a mental note to figure it out later so you can get back at them another time.
"Fine, you win. Anyone can sleep in their underwear if they want to. If they WANT to, Emma. No more trying to strip anybody if they aren't interested."
"Thank you, Jay!" pops a voice from somewhere in the room. There are a pair of girls whispering to each other and you can't tell which one had spoken up. Nevertheless, you seem to have settled another argument you didn't even know about.
Emma and Asha return to their sleeping bags. Emma looks like she lost the argument even though she still gets to wear her panties. You must be a master of compromise, but you can see her immediately start whispering with Asha, perhaps still trying to convince her friend to join her. You scan the room for other disputes to settle as if bickering cousins will just spawn out of the woodwork. No magical cousins appear, but Nicole is watching you with a thoroughly bemused smile. Suddenly self-conscious, you are aware of the growing tent in your thin shorts.
You quickly turn off the lantern one of the adults hung up for you which instantly makes it less embarrassing to be walking around in your underwear. This draws a cry of protest from a bunch of kids and cheers from others, even though there are still a few flashlights offering plenty of light. Commandeering one of the flashlights someone has since pointed at your boxers, you pull out your book and climb into your sleeping bag.
Any hopes of the killing the lights settling the cabin down is dashed right away. Wade wants the window open because it's so stuffy, but Brayden wants it closed because he says the adults outside are too loud (though you suspect he wants a reason to stay in his briefs). Beth wants someone to tell a ghost story and Asha obliges, but little May gets scared, then mad, then starts throwing things trying to get the story to stop. It's like every time the kids settle they just get riled back up again. You try to read for a while and let them sort through things but after rereading the same paragraph uncountable times you decide it's impossible to concentrate with the buzz of activity still filling the cabin. Glancing over at Nicole, you can tell she is having similar troubles with her own book.
"Okay, lights out, all of them," you announce and shut off your flashlight. Still trying not to be the bad guy you add, "Whispers only until sunrise, got it? We all need sleep for tomorrow."
The kids mostly comply and manage to keep their voices down, save for some giggles here and there. Some of them even seem to fall asleep the moment the last flashlight goes out. Your sister and Asha keep gossiping for what feels like hours and you have to keep poking Emma to remind them to whisper.
Apparently you fell asleep at some point because you wake up surrounded by heavy sleepers with just a hint of light coming in through the windows. You're not even sure the sun has actually risen yet, but you doubt you'll find any more sleep. You stand up to dress since no one is awake to hide your morning wood from. Looking around, it seems it got hot enough last night a few of the kids found themselves sleeping on top of their sleeping bags. Asha is splayed out with her hand over her stomach, lifting her shirt up. May seems to gotten cold again after crawling out of her bag as she is curled up into a tight little ball.
Continuing your scan, you spot the one who must have thanked you for putting an end to peer pressure last night. She must have been cornered when someone challenged wear only her panties to bed because she was afraid to admit what is plain to you now. Her nightie has ridden all the way up to her chest to reveal she hasn't worn any panties at all to bed. You step through the landmine field of little cousins intent on pulling her dress down for her, but when you reach her you see much of it is bunched under her and you're not sure if you can pull it down without waking her. If you wake her it could end up looking really bad, perhaps you should just leave her. In your moment of hesitation, you spend too much time staring down at your basically naked cousin.