Okay, so you might recognise this chapter from before. It was one of the ones I put up too early by mistake. If you've read it before, just bear with me becuase the next one will be up tomorrow morning :) But anyway, enjoy :)
Disclaimer: Richelle Mead owns Vampire Academy.
"I'm so bored."
Sophia and I were in our room, lying across my bed with our heads hanging upside down over the end, hair trailing on the floor.
"Same." Sophia agreed.
It was Friday night, and we had 4 hours before curfew. The others were either having a 'guys only' Xbox fest, or were trying to catch up on Language homework.
"Screw this." I said, sitting up. "Let's go get the others. I have a plan."
Sophia pulled herself up too, turning to face me.
"I saw we bust the girls out of the library, and break up the guys' night."
Sophia grinned evilly, and we made our way down to the library where Lily was helping Marina with her calculus homework.
Lily was in the middle of explaining something, but Marina was resting her head in her hands, looking as though she was trying, and failing, to keep her eyes open.
We hurried through the busy library, and I put a hand on Marina's shoulder, waking her up.
"Hey, why don't you leave this for now? I think you're past the optimum learning point now anyway."
She nodded, and even Lily smiled in relief. Marina wasn't always the most attentive student.
We then made our way across to Mason and Ash's room. I could hear the dying screams f virtual zombies and groans of frustration from dying players from outside the door. It was locked.
Sophia went to knock, but I had a better idea. Pulling my lock picking set out of my pocket, I carefully and quietly opened the door just enough to squeeze through.
"Grrr!" I shouted as I leapt at Ash, arms and hands outstretched in fake claws.
He screeched as I grabbed his shoulders from behind, causing everyone else to burst out laughing.
Holding Ash around the neck in an arm lock, I looked over his shoulder at the others.
"If you're feeling any braver than little Firefly here, then I hereby challenge you all to a game of extreme truth or dare."
"Woo!" Shouted Mason, jumping up off the sofa and twirling around, pumping his fists in the air.
"Not cool bro." Marina called from the doorway, just as Sophia shouted "camp".
Mason stopped twirling, but replied; "Oh well, I'll regain my manhood by doing an insane dare. I'm so gonna win this."
I heard Lily do an evil laugh. "Ok, well I call choosing your dare. If you're man enough, that is."
"It is on."
I rolled my eyes. "Well, get your ass out the door then. If you want to actually get anything done before curfew, we need to get moving and start this thing."
So we all filed out of the guys dorm, across the quad and into mine and Sophia's room. Once everyone was sitting down, I started on the rules.
"So you have to do a truth, then a dare. All dares will be filmed. Whichever one you choose, you have to stick with, even if it's hideous. If you want to forfeit doing the dare, you have to drink something that the rest of us make for you whist on camera. If you lie at any point, Sophia will know and it counts as an instant forfeit."
Aleks interrupted. "What if she lies?"
I waved my hand vaguely. "I'll know." Sophia was the only one out of my friends who knew the full extent of my powers, and I wanted to keep it that way until I had figured them out a little better.
"Alright, who's going first?" Ash asked.
I went over to my drawers and took out an octagonal dice I had been keeping in there for years, after mom gave it to me.
"Soph-1. Mason-2. Marina-3. Me-4. Aleks-5. Jet-6. Lily-7. Ash-8. Remember your number."
I rolled the dice and it landed on 5. It was Aleks' turn.
"Aleks, truth or dare?" I asked.
He laughed. "Since I've never played with you before, I'm gonna have to say truth."
I was about to tease him for being so pathetic when Marina's hand shot up. "Let me ask!" She begged.
I nodded, and she continued. "Do you have a girlfriend?"
He shook his head. "No, I don't."
Her eyes lit up for a second, before I shot her a death glare. Then she asked if he was gay.
"What? No! I'm just not looking for a relationship right now." He replied, causing Marina to shoot me a sympathetic look. I glared back; the punch in the stomach bad enough as it was.
To cover up any awkwardness, I rolled the dice again. It landed on 2- Mason.
Mason grinned. "Dare."
Lily's hand shot up, and she leaned over to talk to Marina for a moment, who burst out laughing, nodding furiously.
"Mason, I dare you to call Guardian Belikov and tell him that you got Anya pregnant, but you don't want anyone else to know it's yours."
Mason paled, and Aleks looked shocked.
"You girls are scary! You might as well have given him a death sentence."
I shrugged. "Just the way we play it. If you're scared..."
He was quiet after that as Mason pulled his phone out of his pocket. But since I could see Aleks' point, I sent my mom a quick 'heads up- incoming dare' text so she could start damage control, and not kill Mason herself.
With shaking hands, Mason scrolled through the contacts until he came to my dad.
I set the video camera to record as he put the phone on loudspeaker. We all held our breath as it rang, and a voice came onto the other end.
"Belikov."
Mason's eyes widened, searching the room in panic as though he were looking for an escape.
"Uh, hi, Guardian Belikov. This is Mason."
"Mason? Is everything alright?"
"Well, that, uh, depends. I have something I need to tell you. It's really important."
"If you don't mind me asking, why tell me and not your dad?"
"Because it's about Anya."
There was a pause on the other end of the line, and Mason looked like he was struggling to breath.
"What about Anya, Mason?"
Mason took a deep breath, looking to us for encouragement. Or possibly mercy. Needless to say, he got none.
"Anya's pregnant, and I'm the father. I'm the one telling you as after this, I want nothing to do with either of them."
There was silence on the other end of the phone. One second, two seconds, three seconds...
This string of Russian swearwords being shouted down the phone made everyone flinch, and I caught Aleks' eye. His face was the same as mine- like he hadn't heard this many swearwords. Ever.
Then Aleks nodded appreciatively after a particularly colourful outburst, and I made a mental note to use that one later. Thanks, dad.
Mason broke. "Uh, April fools! Ahahah..." He laughed nervously, whist we all gave him WTF looks.
"It's not even April, dipshit." Jet told him, and Mason shrugged helplessly.
Still, it calmed my dad down long enough to hear someone else pick up the phone.
"Right. You've had your fun, and I'm sure it's all very amusing on your end. It sort of is here, but Dimitri doesn't quite see it that way yet."
I could actually hear the hint of a smile in mom's voice.
" Mason, I would suggest lying low for the next couple of weeks around Court, actually the same goes for the rest of you as well."
"Is he actually going to calm down?" Sophia asked, at the same time as Mason said, "Is he gonna kill me?"
"Come on Mason, grow a set. You've done the hard part. And yes, he will calm down."
"How?" Marina asked.
"I'm sure I'll be able to persuade-"
"Eew, mom, no!" I cut in. "We don't care how, just don't let him kill Mason. Aside from that, we don't want to know the details."
"Fair enough. Mason, as long as you stay away from our bedroom, you'll be fine."
"Gross! Bye now mom. Thanks for the damage control!" I shouted. Before I could end the call, I heard her laughing, and realised this was the punishment for calling them.
I threw the phone on the bed, grossed out.
"I feel sorry for anyone who tries to speak to them in the next hour."
I threw a sock at Ash for saying that, but silently agreed.
"Eurgh, Anya. I don't want your stinking sock in my face." He complained, throwing it back.
"Hey, that's mine!" Sophia shouted, reclaiming the lost sock and throwing it in the general direction of her wardrobe.
"Okay, who's next?" Lily said, sensing a war between the twins about to break out.
Mason broke out of his staring contest with his sister to answer, smiling evilly. "Mari, is it true you like Angelo Ramirez?"
Marina raised an eyebrow. "Sure I like him. As a friend..."
"I mean like like. As in-"
"I know what you mean by like. And it's really none of your business anyway." She said, giving it away.
Mason smiled. "I think that is avoidance of a question and almost a lie. Do you want to change your answer, or can we get the blender out already?"
Marina broke under the threat of the drink. "Alright, yes, I like Angelo. Like like." She sneered, mocking Mase, who leaned back with a smug 'I-knew-it' smile.
Marina pointed to Sophia next.
"Truth or dare, Soph?" She asked, knowing perfectly well what the answer would be.
"Dare, duh."
Marina thought for a minute, before leaning over to discuss with Lily and I. A slw grin slid over her lips as I told her my idea.
"Ok Sophia, I dare you to go to the gym and wreak havoc. You must put at least one item of underwear on each practice dummy and leave them in inappropriate positions, write Harry Potter jokes on the walls in silly string and replace all the weapons with twigs and other useless things."
Sophia just laughed. "Alright, that sounds like it could be fun. As long as Anya can help, because I know she's dying to."
I grinned. "Sure, as long as you take the blame if you get caught."
Sophia made her way over to the chest of drawers. "I'll get the stuff together then."
After a seconds thought, I called her back. "I have a better idea- instead of using our stuff and maybe not getting it back, we sneak into the laundry room on the way to the gym and steal other people's underwear. That'll be even funnier."
Jet pretended to frown. "That's evil, Anya."
"Nope." I said. "It's only evil if we steal embarassing dirty ones."
"Eew." Sophia interjected. "No way are we stealing dirty stuff. Straight from the wash only."
I shrugged. "I don't care. Just grab the red silly string and that bag, and we can go." I instructed, pointing to the objects as I named them. "We'll get sticks and stuff on the way."
Grabbing my camera, I headed out the door. Everyone followed close behind after Sophia used a quick burst of Spirit to make us nondescript to any passers-by.
This would be fun.
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