AUTHOR NOTE :- Rated M for swearing, mention of drugs & sexual situations
Chapter 3 - The Truth Hurts
After the commotion with Freddie and Cook, JJ had suggested a game to try and ease the tension. He hated seeing his best friends fighting like this, was scared he might do something stupid and get locked-on. He hated those attacks more than anything. Emily had decided to help him out and offered up a game of dares. Cook had laughed that off calling it child's play. He wanted something juicy, so he came up with this stupid truth game.
Honestly Emily didn't think it was any less childish than dares but went along with it to try and integrate herself and Freddie into the group. She had a newfound respect for the balls he had shown throwing that bottle at Effy and Cook, but also was wary of the state of his mental well-being with him actually going through with the act. She thought him being alone was not the best idea at this moment in time.
The atmosphere was awkward and Emily could almost feel the air crackling. She had a weird feeling that what went down tonight could change the dynamics of the group altogether. She sat in the middle of the log with Katie on one side of her and Freddie on the other. Opposite them on the other log sat Naomi, with Cook next to her and Effy next to him. Pandora was situated on Thomas' lap on the blanket by the fire and J.J on the other blanket. She watched intensively as Cook attempted to stroke Effy's leg. His hand moved further up, and Emily felt Freddie tense up beside her. She put a hand on his and squeezed gently. Effy noticing the discomforted slapped Cook's wandering hands away.
Cook got up seemingly not noticing the situation around him. Or more likely, not caring. He rubbed his hand together. "Let's get this party started right, cocksuckers?"
"Yeah Cookie, this is a wizzer idea, I love party games", shouted out Pandora.
"That you do, weird girl that you do", Cook wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and Pandora looked down, shyly, almost guiltily. Emily observed as Effy scoffed and shook her head while Cook leered. 'What the fuck is going on there?' She wondered to herself, deciding to keep that one in her memory box for later.
"Right simple rules, we take it in turns to spin the bottle and we ask whoever it lands on a question of our choice and they have to fucking answer it. No messing. Got it? I'll go first." Cook quickly span the bottle and everyone watched, waiting for who it was landing on. Emily tried to focus on the label of the beer bottle, but the colours blended into one, until she could no longer read the writing. Yep she was fucking drunk. It stopped slowly on Pandora.
"A-Ha. Weird girl's first." Cook smirked at the blushing Pandora. Thomas grip on his girlfriend's hand suddenly got tighter. Cook seemed to notice this and laughed loudly.
"Ok, Ok. Is the myth true Panda? Is our African friend here hung like a horse?"
Everyone broke into fits of giggles at this, bar Freddie who seemed to have focused his attention on the vodka swimming around in his cup.
"Oh God Cookie, I don't want to embarrass him." Panda giggled. "We ain't even had surf and turf yet, but I got a good grip the other night didn't I Thomas?"
Thomas shook embarrassed, but Pandora didn't seem to notice his discomfort.
"Yeah he's got a right big one!" Pandora exclaimed, and then clamped her hand over her mouth. "Nearly gave TMI didn't I there Eff?" The younger girl asked her best friend.
"You certainly did Panda." Effy replied smiling at the girl, she'd grown to truly care about. Even if she did only hang around with her for the selfish reason that none of her boyfriends would go off with the dizzy blonde, because basically, she was useless. Or that's what she'd thought until she found out Cook had slept with Panda. That broke her illusions that everyone would chose her. Especially when it came to sex.
"Nice one Tommy-Boy" Cook leaned over and gave a high five to Thomas, who ignored the offered hand, while Panda shyly ducked her head into her boyfriend's shoulder. Emily smiled, she was glad Thomas had come home. He made Panda happy, and that she was thankful for, but there was something going on, she could tell. She thought the blonde girl needed someone, to let her be known she wasn't always going to be in Effy's shadow. Emily knew enough about being in the shadows.
"Effy it's your g-g-go." J.J nervously stuttered. He was another one seemingly head-over-heals for the leggy girl. There was a mysterious air to Effy that made boys fall in love with her. The girl observed, but rarely spoke. Just content to get high and have sex. Emily also related to the fact that basically we always want what we can't have. That desire for the unattainable was just human nature. Just look at her and Naomi.
Effy reached over and gave the bottle a spin, with almost no effort. She continued to smoke her spliff as the bottle stopped on Cook.
"How ironic babe. Did you fix that?" Cook laughed.
"Funnily enough no." Effy snapped at the boy quite aggressively.
"Alright keep your tits on." Shaking his head he muttered. "Women. Right what's your question?"
"Do you brag about all the shagging and the girls to compensate for the fact that you have an actual crayola dick?" The blue-eyed girl asked seriously.
The group again broke into laughter, this time Freddie perking up and smiling for the first time since the game started. Cook's face fell as gestures of pin dick were made between the gang.
"Bet your monster ain't that massive." Katie chipped in; relishing the fact she had something on him for once. He gave her the middle finger, but chose to ignore her otherwise.
"Umm, that doesn't stop you from jumping on it at every opportunity does it Peach?" The fair-haired boy challenged his girl. Effy just continued to stare intimately into his eyes, the way lovers only do and smirked. He smirked right back. "Thought not. Right Katie your spin."
Emily watched her sister lean over to spin the bottle. She hoped it didn't land on her, couldn't be arsed with stupid questions from her twin. But oh wait, no it was worse. It landed on Naomi.
The smug grin that formed over Katie's face was quite disturbing. Katie had been waiting for a chance to question the girls over what she witnessed on Pandora's birthday. Naomi looked quite worried too and chanced a quick, nervous look over at Emily. It would be okay though right, Katie had no idea really about the two of them. No-one did.
"Okay dyke." Katie smirked. "What's it feel like to finally get some muff-munching done with my sister?"
'Oh Shit'
