I returned to the living room and Brian emerged from the kitchen five minutes after me. Good. Nobody heard us. I thought we were pretty loud during the confrontation but nobody looked like they heard it. Very good.
“I don’t thinks the lights are going come anytime soon,” Sam groaned. “How about we play truth or dare?”
“In the dark?” Claire questioned. It was getting really boring.
“We always have candles. So who’s up?”
“Sam that would not be fun,” I deadpanned.?
Sam frowned at me. Yes, I got hawk eyes and so I could clearly see the frown marring Sam’s features. “So what, should we just sit here and stare at each other in the dark?” Actually, I think that wouldn’t be a bad idea.
A couple minutes later, a big scented candle was placed between us and Sam had an empty beer bottle in his hand. He placed it on the floor and spun it. The bottle spun for sometime before finally landing on Josh.
“Truth or dare, dude?” Sam asked him.
“T-truth,” He stuttered. Aw, I kmew Josh? was uncomfortable with dares.
All the boys in the room snickered at this.
“Are you gay? Cause you know, I sometimes catch you staring at me and it’s kinda creepy,” Sam asked bluntly and everyone chuckled at it but me and Claire. What was so funny about that, I would never know.
“Shut up, I’m straight. And I don’t stare at you.” He said but I caught a hint of red on his cheeks in the darkness. Was he blushing?
“Sure,” Sam drawled sarcastically and spun the bottle again. It landed on Gemma.
“Dare, duh,” She said before Sam could ask her.
“Kiss Josh on the lips,” Tyler smirked and my jaw grazed the floor. I looked at Brian who didn’t look affected by the dare. He really doesn’t like her.
Gemma didn’t hesitate and soon she was on Josh’s lap. Before Josh could say anything, her lips slammed down on his and I watched with saucer shaped eyes and the others ‘ooh’ed at them.
I would never kiss another guy if i had a boyfriend I truly loved.
Of course, Gemma didn’t love Brian. she was just after the popularity she would get from being his girlfriend.
After a minute, their lips separated and she walked back to her seat, looking smug. Josh on the other hand, looked like he just wanted to run away from here. Aw poor boy, there went his first kiss.
Sam spun the bottle again and it landed on Darren.
“Always dare,” He said and I saw Brian smirk at this.
“Dance in the worst way you can in front of the girl next door’s house for five minutes,” Oh well, that’s easy. “In your boxers.” Not.
Oh my gosh.
I was pretty sure that Darren would refuse as he had an uncertain look on his face. My face resembled an ‘o’ as he nodded before glaring at Brian. Brian’s smirk never left his lips.
Darren stood up and began undressing himself.
I don’t think I need to see this.
Darren now stood in front of us in his boxers. I think my eyes just lost half of its virginity. I stared at his body. He didn’t have six pack abs like Brian but he had quite a body. It was good. But Brian’s was better. Wait, what?
I’m the worst girlfriend one could ever have.
Before I could stop Darren, he was already making his way to the door. I was so not going to see that.
Everyone snickered behind Darren and got up to watch the show. I remained sitting on the couch and so did Brian. I glared at him.
“Why did you have to give him that dare?” I hissed at him and he smirked again.
“He’s got you,” He said as he got up.
“So?”
He shook his head at me as he advanced and grabbed my arm. “I want you to see him do it.”
Before I could object, he had already hauled me against him. He dragged me to where Darren was going to do the dare and I unwillingly went with him.
My eyes almost popped out of their sockets when I saw Darren in his boxers, in front of the iron gates of the next door neighbour, looking somewhat cute, may I add.
“Start,” Sam said, eyeing his watch.
Darren broke out into his dance and I must say that this career path was out for him. He stood there in his boxers shaking his hips and moving to the beat of Shape of You by Ed Sheeran that was currently playing on Claire’s phone. It was quite funny, to see him dance. Everyone was laughing their asses off.
From Darren’s expression, I knew he was not enjoying what he was doing. Serves him right. Why did he agree to do the dare? Idiot.
I heard a bark and titled my head to see a big dog in the dog house of Sam’s neighbour, which thankfully was leashed. He was barking at Darren and I couldn’t stop the series of giggles that left my lips. My stomach was hurting from laughing too much.
Soon enough, the door opened and I saw a young woman poke her head out. Her eyes widened as she took in Darren dancing like a girl in front of her in his boxers.
“What the hell!” I heard her shout.
“Two more minutes!” Sam told us, in between laughs.
Oh gosh.
“Who the hell are you? Get lost!” She shouted at him. Her dog continued to bark at him. Darren had a funny expression plastered on his face. He was grinning sheepishly at her and if I was in her place, I would have thought that he had ran away from a mental asylum.
Then her eyes fell upon us and her eyebrows rose in understanding. “Truth or dare?” She asked.
Sam nodded and gave her a wink.
She shook her head. “In the dark? Wow. I was contemplating calling the cops,” She said and snickered.
“Time’s up,” Sam announced, looking at his watch. I still couldn’t stop laughing as I held my stomach with my hands.
Aw, I wish I had video taped my boyfriend dancing like a girl.
Darren stopped his dance even before Sam had completed the sentence and ran past me and into the house. We trailed behind him, still in hysterics to form a coherent sentence.
By the time I reached the living room, Darren was already dressed and was sitting on the loveseat, looking like a beetroot.
“Aw man that was epic,” Brian teased him. “I’m so glad I recorded it.”
“You did what?” Darren shouted, getting more red if that was even possible.
Brian just laughed at this. “Now aren’t you just cute,” He said and pinched his cheeks.
Darren swatted his hand away. “Delete that video!”
“Nope,” Brian said as he pushed his sleek black phone in his jeans pockets.
“Sam!” Darren whined and Sam tried to put up a straight face.
“Brian, delete it man.”
“I’m not going to put it on the internet or something,” He defended.
“Delete it,” Darren glared holes into him.
“Brian, please. Delete it,” I interrupted and Brian looked at me.
“Ugh, Brooke,” He groaned and pulled out his phone to delete the video.
“There, it’s deleted. Happy, crybaby?” He asked Darren to which he just responded with a glare.
“Shut up.”
Brian laughed at that.
Sam clapped his hands together, grabbing our attention. “Back to the game, guys.”
He spun the bottle and it landed on Claire. She widened her eyes at this. “Uh oh.”
“Truth or dare?” Sam asked, looking very bored.
“Truth.”
“Who else did you kiss other than Jesse, your mom and dad?” I asked.
She didn’t say anything for a while.
“Well?” I prodded and her teeth sunk into her bottom lip.
“Okay. This stays between us all. Nobody can say anything about this to Jesse! Got it?” I suddenly noticed Jesse’s absence. I actually didn’t ? care if he was with us or not. He had gone to the bathroom.
“S-sure,” I stuttered and everybody nodded.
“I kissed Jake.”
What? She kissed Jake. I mentally did a happy dance in my head. She kissed him! She kissed him! She kissed him!
“Details please!” I asked, trying to hide the impatience in my voice.
She blushed crimson red and eyed everyone before her eyes fell on me and remained there. “You remember Jake had offered to drop me home after we went to Darren’s place from the beach-”
“The beach? And you’re telling me this now!” I whined and pouted in the end.
“Shut up. You didn’t tell me about you and Darren either so that equals things out.”
“Continue.”
“So then he kissed me and I-I kissed him back. But hey, it was before Jesse and I got back together so no one can utter a word about the kiss to him. Alright?”
Everybody nodded and she relaxed. “Done. Now who’s next?”
The next person to get a dare was Brian. Darren gave an evil smile to him which scared me a bit. He was going to give a dare.
“Ask for a condom from the other neighbour wearing just a towel around your waist,” Darren challenged and my eyes widened. Why did they give each other dares that required them to be half naked?
I just hoped Brian’s towel doesn’t come off. We didn’t need to see his precious family jewel.
Brian didn’t look fazed by this and instead there was his signature smirk on his face.
“Okay Darry.”
“My name is Darren.” He said through gritted teeth.
He didn’t reply as he got up and walked to the other room to change into a towel.
Oh gosh. I hope the next door neighbour understands the situation.
After a few minutes, Brian came back with a towel wrapped tightly around his waist. I resisted the urge to run my eyes over his perfect six pack abs and instead kept my eyes on his face, which was calm and cool. Almost as if he did such kind of dares everyday.
“Go, Brian! Show that oldie next door that you’re going to get laid today!” Sam cheered.
Gemma was trying hard not to burst out laughing. And so were the others. Darren looked bored and I wanted to be anywhere else but here.
Sam slapped Brian on his bare back as he walked past him.
“How about I record it?” Darren asked.
Brian shrugged. “I don’t care. Go ahead.”
Darren didn’t expect that, “I will.”
“Darren! No you won’t.” I said, taking his phone away from him. He argued with me for it but I just shushed him.
My eyes were glued to Brian’s and he gave me a wink, which thankfully nobody saw.
The gang again stepped out of the house. We watched as Brian walked casually to the other neighbour’s house and rang the doorbell.
It would be weird if he asked a woman for a condom.
Please let it be a guy. Please let it be a guy. Please let it b-
The door opened and I mentally face palmed myself when I saw there was an old lady at the door. She probably must be around sixty.
Brian looked a bit nervous now. Cute.
The old lady’s eyes trailed down Brian’s body and almost bulged out of their sockets.
Hey, you old woman. You’re freaking married! Brian could be your son’s age. Stop checking him out!
I bit my lip to keep myself from shouting that to her.
Brian cleared his throat and that made the oldie look up at him with wide eyes.
“Um… where is uncle?” He asked. Obviously he was not going to ask the old woman for condoms.
“Uh… he’s out for h-his evening walk.” She stuttered. “Do you need something?”
“Yes. Um… do you happen to have a
c-condom?”
“What?!” She exclaimed, her eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
“Do you have a condom? Please, I need one,” He repeated.
Everyone besides me were laughing their asses off. They were trying their best to keep their voice low so as to not to disturb them.
“What the hell!” She freaked out. “I don’t have a condom! Go to a chemist or whatever and ask him!” She said, turning bright red.
It was so funny to watch her embarrassed that I actually laughed loudly. Like really loudly.
She turned her attention to me and I immediately quietened.
“Girl! You’re going to do that with him? I don’t have a condom but don’t do it without protection!” She hollered at me, much to my embarrassment. I immediately went tomato red.
Oh my gosh. That old woman thought I was going to do it with Brian.
“N-no! It’s not like that. He was given a dar-”
“Sure auntie! We’ll use protection!” Sam shouted back at her.
She gasped and put a hand on her heart. “A threesome?!”
“No actually, we’re having a gang bang and we were short on condoms. Do you have one?” Sam asked. I looked at her. She looked horrified.
WHAT THE HECK. A GANG BANG?! WHAT WOULD SHE THINK OF US?
“No I don’t have it!” She yelled, her mouth dropping open.
“Um… okay. So do you want to join us?” Sam asked next and I almost choked on my saliva. What was the moron saying? How could he say that to her?! Sam was so… I don’t even have words to describe how big of an arsehole he is!
“NO! THAT’S NOT WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO! MA’AM WE’RE JUST PLAYING TRUTH AND DARE! I SWEAR WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT!” I said quickly.
“I don’t know what the hell you are going to do but I don’t have any condoms, you nasty children.” She said and shut the door on Brian’s face. He stood there, dumbfounded.
“Sam! Why did you say that?! She probably thinks we really are going to do that!” I shouted at him.
He was laughing. So much that a few tears of laughter escaped his eyes.
“D-did you see her face?” He asked the others, completely ignoring me. Brian came back and immediately went inside to put on clothes.
The others were still laughing. I just shook my head and went inside, the others trailing behind me.
Brian didn’t complete the dare as he didn’t get the condom so Sam told him to give each one of us hundred dollars. That was way too much. Brian didn’t look shocked at all and I knew he was loaded.
He shrugged and said okay but I said that I didn’t want the money. Josh, Gemma, Claire, and Tyler also did the same. In the end, Brian only had to give money to Sam, Jesse and Darren.
After that, my mom called me and I had to leave. Darren dropped me at my house after I muttered a quick good bye to Brian to which he pouted adorably but finally said good bye to me with a wink.
I enjoyed the game today. Mostly because the bottle never landed on me and it was so much fun. It was a day spent with friends which I had longed for, for quite some time.
Finally, today was the day Brian told he liked me. I didn’t know what would happen in the future but I hoped it was better for all of us.