Fanfic:
Just a Dare.
Chapter 1:
Eddie, Fabian, Alfie, and Jerome were all in Eddie and Fabians room just hanging out and eating some leftover cookies, when Jerome noticed something on Eddie's bedside table.
"Dude, why do you have a fashion and makeup magazine?" Jerome mocked, holding up a magazine with the title "Critique" written in bold, fancy letters at the top.
"That's not mine, it's Patricia's. She left it in here." Eddie responded, taking the magazine from his hand.
"Hey isn't that the one magazine all the girls it the house read?" Alfie said, reading the title.
"Oh yeah." Fabian said, recognizing the cover.
The boys just stared at the cover, reading the title of the magazine over and over again for a good 5 minutes.
"Who else wants to open it?" Alfie said, breaking the silence.
They all nodded their heads, extremely curious.
They opened the magazine and flipped through the pages. What the saw was not at all what they were expecting, and certainly not what they wanted to see.
Written at the top of the page were the words "You're not pretty without makeup." On the next were the words "If you're not wearing makeup, than you don't look pretty." The next had a picture of a model. Pretty girl. No question. But at the top it read "Do you look like this? No? Then you aren't pretty."
The boys closed the magazine in horror.
"You guys saw that right?" Eddie asked. Completely shocked.
"Yep" they all said in unison. Equally horrified.
"Why would the girls read this?" Fabian asked, breaking out of his state of shock.
"I think it's worse than that." Eddie said, deeply dismayed.
"What do you mean?" Jerome asked.
"I think they believe it." Eddie said frowning.
"I think your right..." Fabian said, becoming even sadder.
"We can't let them go on thinking this!" Alfie exclaimed.
They all nodded in agreement.
"But what can we do?" Eddie said confused.
"Well lets think about this" Fabian said "We need to get the girls to stop believing this. But why do they believe it?" Fabian asked.
"Because they read it everyday?" Jerome suggested.
"Because no one is telling them anything different?" Eddie also suggested.
"Yes!" Fabian said, putting pieces together.
So we know why. But we still don't know how to convince them otherwise." Alfie pointed out.
"Or do we." Fabian said smiling.
They just stared at him, bewildered.
"I have a plan, but it will involve some tricking, which you guys are experts at." Fabian said.
"What do we do?" Jerome asked.
"Well we know they draw what they think is beauty from makeup, jewelry, clothes, ect. right?"
"Yes" they all said, still not seeing the point.
"Well, what do you think would happen if we made them go a whole day, as in 24 hours, without it?" Fabian asked.
"They would hate us, like forever." Jerome replied, the others nodding in agreement.
"Well maybe for the moment, but what if we used that to our advantage? If they don't have what they think makes them pretty, but feel beautiful anyway, they'll stop believing these lies!" Fabian explained, tossing the magazine on the floor.
They had to admit it was a good idea.
"Well? Are you in?"
They pondered the idea for a moment.
"Yep" they agreed.