AN: Yay, I had this idea in my head for a while, I just didn't know what pairing would work out best, and I finally decided on ZxK.

Disclaimer: The title was taken from the French film 'Jeux d'enfants' (English title: Love Me If You Dare), and the story is based very very very loosely on it. I don't own Tales of Symphonia either. Nor do I own any of the characters.

I hurried down the stairs as I brushed my waist length red hair. When I got to the bottom I turned down the hall, leaving my hairbrush on the table there and entered the kitchen.

My mother looked up from the sink where she was doing the dishes and smiled at me. "Morning sweetie," she said scrubbing a dirty cup, "Sheena came by already. She and Seles have already left for school."

"Thanks Mom," I replied grabbing the small paper bag that had my name on it and put it in my backpack, which I left on my chair the night before. I lifted my backpack off the chair and flung it onto my shoulders before I left the kitchen and headed for the front door.

"Zelos, don't you want anything to eat before you leave?" I heard my mother say from the kitchen.

"I don't have time," I replied putting on my shoes. I opened the door and went outside. Following the path, I went to the end of our driveway before stepping onto the sidewalk. I could see my little sister Seles, and her best friend Sheena walking way ahead of me.

Seles and Sheena didn't used to be friends, in fact they used to hate each other, but once Seles realized that Sheena didn't like me, the two became best friends. Yeah, it's weird, I know. But that's just the way their minds work.

"Good morning my dear little sister and my sweet hunny," I greeted, after I caught up with them; they hate that as much as they hate me.

"Go away," Seles said not even looking at me as she continued her conversation with Sheena.

"I see you're as pleasant as always, dear sister," I said smirking.

"Go bother someone else this early in the morning," Sheena said; she didn't look at me either.

"Aw, but I want to walk to school with my baby sister and her lovely friend," I whined giving a fake pout.

"Fine then, we'll just have to think of a dare to get rid of you."

Oh, I like a good dare. That's why I've been doing dares ever since I was a kid. I only do one at a time and never do the same one twice, it makes things more interesting. Of course I've never backed down from a dare, but I never do anything dangerous. I have gotten into a lot of trouble before, but it's worth it. I'm popular; there isn't a kid in Mizuho High that doesn't know my name and there isn't a girl who doesn't like me either, except Seles and Sheena of course.

"But you've used up all your dares, you know I don't do the same one twice." I smirked at the pair walking ahead of me.

We walked in silence for a minute; they were obviously trying to think of something to dare me.

"I dare you to leave us alone," Seles said looking proud.

"No we've already used that one Seles," Sheena sighed kicking a rock.

"Yes you did," I agreed, "You used it yesterday."

"Oh I remember now," Seles said looking back at Zelos. She had used the dare in the cafeteria yesterday to make me stop hitting on all her friends. I smiled at the thought; she hates it when I do that.

There was another moment of silence before Sheena spoke up, "I know," she said, stopping to turn around and look at me. She pushed a piece of her black hair out of her face. "I dare you not to talk until school is over." She held out her hand for me to shake it.

Seles jumped up and down, "Oh, that's a great idea, Sheena!" She flung her arms around her best friend and hugged her tightly.

I raised an eyebrow at her. I had never refused to do a dare, and I wasn't going to start now. I grabbed her hand in my own and shook it firmly, showing her I accepted, and also sealing my fate.

The rest of the way to school was pretty uneventful because I couldn't talk. When we finally got into the school I headed straight for my locker. My best friend Mithos was waiting for me there, I waved at him and smiled brightly. He moved out of my way so I could do my lock combination and throw my stuff into my locker.

"Dude," Mithos said looking at me, "what's wrong, you haven't said a word since you got here. Did one of your 'hunnies' refuse to carry your bag or something?"

I took my favourite blue permanent marker from inside my locker and wrote the word 'dare' in big capital letters and underlined it twice on my locker door.

"Oh, another one," Mithos laughed, "let me guess, Seles did it."

I shook my head and took a binder and pen out of my bag, then closed my locker and put the lock on it.

"Not Seles? I bet it was Sheena then, wasn't it?"

Nodding, I headed towards my homeroom knowing my best friend would follow me.

"So the dare was you can't talk?" he asked appearing beside me.

I nodded again and we turned the corner and walked into our classroom. I noticed our teacher's desk was empty and she didn't appear to be anywhere else in the room.

"Was the dare for just a day, or longer," Mithos asked as we took our seats at the side of the class, beside the windows; he sat behind me and I turned around in my seat to face him.

I held up two fingers hoping he would know I meant the second answer.

"Two days?" he guessed.

I shook my head; this is harder than I thought. I ripped out a blank piece of paper out of my binder and wrote: 'It's just for today until after school.'

"You were annoying them that bad, huh?"

Shrugging, wrote: 'who knows. It was Sheena's idea. They wanted to get rid of me.' I handed the paper to Mithos and he nodded reading it over.

Just as the bell rang, I noticed a teacher walk in our classroom, but it wasn't our regular teacher. This guy was tall, with maroon coloured spiky hair; some of it was covering one of his matching eyes. He was wearing a tight dark green shirt and a pair of black jeans.

Mithos must have noticed too, because he was staring at the man at the front of the class as well.

"Alright class settle down," he said in a deep calming voice as he wrote something down on the chalkboard. "My name is Mr. Aurion. I am your teacher until Ms. Sage returns." He pointed to his name that he just wrote down.

"What's your first name?" A voice called from the middle of the classroom. I looked over and saw Lloyd sitting there with his arms crossed.

"That is none of your concern," Mr. Aurion said as he picked up as piece of paper on Ms. Sage's desk. "When I call your name, you will answer with 'here'."

I watched silently as he began calling out names. When he called my name I raised my hand into the air, hoping he would notice.

"No Mr. Wilder?" he said, not looking at me. I saw him write a little 'x' instead of a check mark. I looked behind me at Mithos for help.

Understanding Mithos interrupted the teacher. "Sir," he said, "Zelos is here."

Mr. Aurion looked annoyed. "Where?" he asked calmly, glaring at Mithos.

Mithos pointed to me, and Mr. Aurion's eyes met with my blue ones. "You are Mr. Wilder?" he asked me, clearly still annoyed.

I nodded.

"Why did you not answer when I called your name for attendance?"

I opened my mouth to speak, but closed it remembering Sheena's dare. Once again, I turned to Mithos for help.

"He can't," Mithos replied for me.

"And why not?"

"Because he's not allowed to talk until after school. Um, it was a dare."

There was whispering all around the classroom, as people said my name. Some were laughing and some just shook their heads.

The teacher's eyes fell on me again. "You're in grade eleven and you're still doing dares?" he said frowning.

I glared at him; he just insulted me. I didn't do anything that bad and he full out insults me.

"Then you can continue not talking when you're in detention after school." I opened my mouth to object, but I quickly closed it. I nodded showing I understood him and he started teaching the class.

"So I heard the great Zelos Wilder has gotten himself a detention today after school," Yuan said smirking as Mithos and I sat down at our usual table at lunch halfway through lunch hour. I brought my note pad and my marker so I could still communicate even though I couldn't talk. I wrote down the words 'bite me' and held it up for him to read.

He laughed taking a bite of the sandwich he was eating. "Where and when, Baby," he replied after he swallowed.

I glared at him before opening the paper bag I grabbed off the counter this morning. I pulled out a juice box, a couple of my mom's home made cookies, a sandwich, and an apple.

A girl with long pale green hair joined us at the table beside Yuan, with two lunches in her hands. She tossed one of the lunches to Mithos, who caught it. "Mithos you forgot your lunch again," she said in a soft voice looking at her younger brother. "I don't see why you're in such a hurry to get to school everyday."

"Sorry Martel," Mithos said, opening his lunch and eating it.

Martel turned her dark green eyes on me. "You got into trouble again from a dare," it was more of a question than a statement; her way of confirming rumors that she hears.

I nodded.

"Well aren't you at least going to say something?" she asked.

I paused from taking a sip of my juice box to raise an eyebrow at her.

"Um, Martel," Yuan chuckled, "Sheena dared him to shut up."

"Oh," she replied, blushing a little, "why would she do that?"

I gave her a look that clearly said 'why do you think'. And she seemed to get the message.

"You were annoying her and Seles again, weren't you?"

I shrugged, finishing off the last of my sandwich and starting on my apple.

"Hey, who's the new man candy?" Yuan said starting off behind Mithos and I, "is he a transfer student or something?"

All three of us looked in the direction Yuan was staring. I started laughing, Mithos frowned and Martel was blushing again.

"Yuan," Mithos said turning back around, "that's Mr. Aurion. He's Ms. Sage's supply. He's also the one who gave Zelos the detention."

"I don't care who he is, he's hot," Yuan replied, "and Zelos, if you weren't already doing a dare, I'd dare you to call him over here."

I looked at Yuan for a second and I shrugged before turning my gaze back to Mr. Aurion. His dark eyes were now on the four of us. I guess he noticed us staring. I put on my best smile and raised my hand in the air, waving him over.

"Wait, Zelos, I was just joking," Yuan groaned, folding his arms on the table and resting his head on them. I noticed Martel was too busy fixing her hair to say anything.

I drew a little diagram of the table and then two circles on each side on my note pad. I labeled the top right circle 'Yuan' and the one beside it 'Martel'. The bottom right I labeled 'me' and the last one 'Mithos'. I ripped the piece of paper I drew on and handed it to Mr. Aurion when he arrived at our table. He was standing at the end, beside Yuan and I.

He frowned looking over the piece of paper. "Yuan and Martel," Yuan lifted his head to stare at him. Mr. Aurion turned his head and looked down at me, "your friends?" he guessed.

I nodded, smiling brightly at him.

"Um, it's a pleasure to meet you Sir," Martel said, smiling sweetly and holding out her hand for Mr. Aurion to shake. He nodded grasping her much smaller hand in a firm handshake.

"Yeah, what she said," Yuan said, brushing back his shoulder length blue hair, half of which was pulled in a pony tail, and holding out his hand as well.

We all watched Mr. Aurion shake Yuan's hand as well, before Martel started talking again. "Please don't think Zelos is bad just because he does dares Sir, I think it's a way of him trying to get attention."

I slammed my hand on the table, and glared at Martel. To my surprise Mr. Aurion chuckled, "it looks like Mr. Wilder doesn't agree with you," he said, smiling down at me.

I nodded, still glaring at Martel.

"Sorry," she whispered, blushing for the third time since lunch started.

The bell rang, and we all started to get ready to leave for our lockers. "Don't forget about your detention after school," Mr. Aurion said before he walked away.

I nodded starting after him. I felt Mithos pull me in the direction of my locker and I heard him say something but I wasn't paying attention to him.

After I delivered my note to Seles telling her that I had detention and to warn Mom that I would be late getting home, I walked into the classroom that I was serving detention. Mr. Aurion wasn't there yet so I decided to sit in my usual seat. I had my note pad and marker out and ready for when he arrived.

I got bored after a while and took my cd player out of my backpack, which I left on my chair, and turned on some techno. I cranked the music before going to the teacher's desk and setting the player down behind me. I went over to the chalkboard and picked up a piece of chalk, which I dragged on the board creating a smiley face.

The music was turned down half an hour later and I was surprised to see Mr. Aurion behind me. When did he get there? But I was paying attention to the music instead of what was going on around me.

"I never knew that you could draw so well," he commented. His eyes were on my chalk smiley face and all the other retarded things I drew, for a second before he looked at me.

I raised my eyebrow at him and tilted my head to the side, just staring into his dark red eyes.

"Aren't you going to say something?" he asked me, frowning.

'I wish' I wrote, 'I'm not allowed because this is still technically part of school. I was warned.'

When I gave my note to Seles, Sheena was there as well and she snapped at me that it's still part of school so I'm still doing the dare. She could have at lease given me all the rules when she gave me the dare. Stupid girl.

"This is going to be an interesting detention then," Mr. Aurion said leaning back against the desk and crossing his arms.

I picked up the chalk brush and swiped it over the drawings, erasing them. In their place, I wrote, 'but if I could talk I wouldn't be in detention, now would I?'

"True," he agreed looking at the words, "you can work on homework from other classes for the rest of your detention."

I erased the other sentence and wrote underneath it, 'and if I don't have any?'

"Well then I'll just think of something else for you to do." He paused for a minute. "I could get you to clean the chalk board, but that is how you're choosing to communicate at the moment."

I played with the piece of chalk in my hands waiting for him to decide what to have me do. I had my note pad ready and waiting on my desk but I didn't feel like washing the chalkboard so I didn't mention it, and he obviously didn't notice it lying there.

Finally he shrugged saying, "well I can't think of anything. You can continue drawing on the board, if you want, until detention's over."

'Play a game with me?' I wrote. As soon as I was sure he read it, I erased it, ready to write more.

"I'm a teacher," he said, raising an eyebrow, "I do not play games."

I pouted; I knew by his tone that he wasn't serious and just didn't feel like playing anything. Maybe it was because I'm a student and I'm supposed to be serving detention.

'What did you think of my friends?' I tried again. I wanted to keep hearing his voice; I found the sound of it really soothing to listen to at the moment. 'Yuan wanted me to call you over.'

"Yuan?" he asked, "why Yuan, I mean would've thought Martel."

I shook my head writing, 'Yuan thinks you're hot.'

To my surprise, Mr. Aurion laughed. I watched as he tilted his head back, his dark red hair moving as his head shook from laughing. I noticed the clock behind his head and blinked. Holy shit; if I didn't leave soon I'd be late for dinner, and mom would have my head for that.

I quickly erased everything else on the board and wrote the word 'time' on it. Mr. Aurion looked at the board before he checked his watch. "Yeah," he agreed, "you better get going. See you Monday, and you'd better be talking."

I nodded as I hurried around Mr. Aurion to my desk to grab my stuff. I quickly shoved my cd player and note pad in my backpack and flung it on my shoulder. I turned and headed for the door, surprised and a little freaked out to find that Mr. Aurion was still watching me. I waved to him at the door before I stepped into the hallway and ran out of the school.

AN: Yay! First chapter done, I'm soo happy. It took me so long for me to decide what the first dare was going to be, and I've already got the second one planned out. I think I'm going to have one dare per chapter, unless it's a small dare. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it. Review if feel like it.