Here's the next chapter! Oh, what's the dare or truth?


Chapter 1: The Deadly Dare

So all of us agreed to finish the game once and for all. Think about it, a game about telling and doing actions or watching a guy in a tight spandex dancing to Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus. If you picked the second option, you need a doctor.

" Alright," I sighed. " We'll do your game."

" And after that we can watch The Conjuring!" Priscilla cried.

" NO!" we all protested. As much as I like horror movies, the supernatural ones gives me the creeps. My all time favorites are the slashers. At least I know it is related to a real life situation if I ever encounter one. Let's hope not.

" Yay! So guys, truth or dare?" asked Shen Rao. We all looked at each other. " Wait a minute, we are doing it as a group?" asked Nala.

" Of course and it's exciting!" said Shen Rao. " Again, truth or dare?"

" TRUTH!" we hollered. But the twinkling eyes behind Shen Rao tells us a different story. " Sorry girls," he smirked. " We are doing a dare. Besides, all of you do truths all the time and I'm the only one doing the dare. What's wrong, are you guys having PMS?"

" Ewww, hell no!" I cried.

" Fine, we'll do the dare," Shanti grumbled. Sometimes, Shen Rao would say something that offends our gender. " Don't worry," I reassured them. " A small dare wouldn't hurt. Besides, the night is still young."

I check my watch that says 9 o'clock at night. I never liked digital ones for it is hard to handle it compared to an analog. I guessed that you can say that I am old. " What's the dare then?" asked Kiara.

" Oh, we are going to lean against the door frame of the old mansion a few blocks away from here," Shen Rao replies casually. The room was silence and everyone exclude me gasped in horror.

" That place?!" Nala cried.

" Are you crazy!" Kathryn exclaimed with her hands in the air.

" You know what happened there?" Alyssa asked him as if he did not know the answer to a simple question. I was quiet with the whole scene. All of them live in the West side of Selangor while I live at the East side. So, I don't know about their neighbourhood's history.

" Before any of you could protest," I interrupted them. " Can someone please explain to my what's wrong with the mansion? Did something bad happened to it?"

Priscilla nodded and grasped my hand. " Yeah, and that house was built on top of a cemetery!" Now everyone wanted to hear my opinion about the dare. I have, sadly, a fear of the dark and paranormal situations. I know some of you think that it is childish but that fear never left me.

" No," I said to Shen Rao firmly much to everyone's relieve. " It's too dangerous and risky."

" But Lena, if all of you don't want to do it then I can send these pictures to the internet." He took out a few photos from his black trousers pocket. All of us looked at the photos with fire in our eyes. How the hell does he get all of the pictures of us sleeping in our pajamas? Even me!

" SHEN RAO!" Nala screamed. " What is the meaning of this?!" I snatched the pictures from his hand and tore them to pieces. Thinking that it might be over, he reached into his pocket where he showed us our pictures this time, in his phone. Priscilla and Kathryn looked like they wanted to strangle the life out of him.

" If you destroy my phone, I have my computer for it and if you destroy my computer, I will tell my parents that you guys destroyed it and they will tell your parents," he told us with his Cheshire Cat grin. There was no way out so all of us were forced to go out with him to the house.

With the dim street lights, it made me feel uneasy. I noticed among the eight of us, only two are wearing skirts. They are Alyssa and Shanti. 'This is bad!' I thought to myself. But I don't want to judge since they love skirts. I myself, am not a girly girl. I am more of a tomboy with my blue t-shirt and jeans and my running shoes.

We stopped at the house. It was huge with its Gothic-like structures and stoned walls. It reminded me of the Edgar Allen Poe stories I've read. It looked abandoned but judging by the neat garden and a glowing red light from one of the windows, someone is staying.

" Okay, happy now?" Kathryn asked Shen Rao. He nodded. But I can tell from his hands clenched and unclenched that he wanted something more that this.

" I said lean against the door," he reminded us. Okay, this is going too far!

" Not without you," I retorted and everyone grabbed hold of him with me and Kathryn by the arms, the small trio( Alyssa, Shanti and Nala) dragging him from the front while Kiara and Priscilla were behind to prevent him from escaping our clutches.

We arrived at the front porch with the two girls at the back, kicked him until he was slammed towards the door. The door was an oak wood with carvings of something from a gothic movie. I helped him up and stared at him.

" Now your dare is done," I said. " Can we go now?"

Before anyone could answer, the door creaked open by itself.


Oh snap! Who opened the door? Will be revealed in the next chapter.

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