With two weeks to his birthday, having a party was all Drew seemed to talk
about now.
"What we normally do for someone's birthday is go out for pizza and then come back to the school to play truth or dare and spin the bottle." Drew said. "Since we can't have a proper birthday at home and all."
Drew announced to the whole class that his birthday party was scheduled for the upcoming Friday night at the pizza place in town and everyone in year seven could come. Even people that Drew didn't really know.
Everyone was making a big deal about it. It wasn't often that someone had a birthday and everyone was willing to get out. The girls spent the afternoon trying on dresses and makeup just because they didn't often get to dress up for things.
At five pm, all the year sevens took the bus into town and got a table together at the pizza place. Gohan sat nervously next to Cecilia and Drew, wearing one of his mother's suits.
Overall, the pizza place ordeal didn't really seem that bad. Everyone was too excited to notice that Gohan had devoured seven large pizzas and drained heaps of glasses of coke, causing his whole body to overload with caffeine.
After pizza, they took the bus home and gathered in the common room. Drew took charge, ordering everyone to sit in boy girl order and placed an empty bottle in the middle.
"Alright, let's play truth or dare first!" Drew shouted to the hyperactive pre-teens. "I'm going first."
"How do you play?" Gohan asked Cecilia, who was sitting on his right hand side.
"Drew is going to ask someone in the circle the question 'truth or dare?' then they have to pick if they either want truth, which means Drew gets to ask them any question he wants and they have to answer truthfully. Or dare, which means Drew gets to dare that person to do something. Then the person who Drew picked gets to ask someone else the same question."
Gohan froze. What if Vicky, Faye or Videl ask him to tell them about his tail or something? Perhaps if he gets asked, he should just pick dare every time?
Drew picked Daniel, who picked Emily, who picked Vicky, who picked Videl. When it was Videl's turn to ask, she turned straight to Gohan.
"Truth or dare?" She asked him, her eyes cold and menacing.
"Err...dare." Gohan replied.
Videl and Faye exchanged disappointed glances.
"If you pick dare, I'll make you go into the year twelve girl's dorm naked. But if you pick truth, I'll just ask you a simple question about that paper you wrote in English."
Everyone starred at Gohan, who was running things through his head. He definitely didn't want to run through the year twelve girl's dorm naked and he couldn't answer Videl's question. Unless....he lied.
Videl seemed to be reading his thoughts. "And you can't lie in truth, or you'll be condemned to hell."
The HFIL. Gohan didn't want to go there. He would just have to go through with the dare then.
"I still pick dare." Gohan said firmly.
An 'Oooh' ran throughout the group of kids. Gohan shuddered, wishing he had never agreed to play this game. But he couldn't back out now. Slowly, he began to undo his tie.
"Hey, this isn't fare!" Cecilia suddenly burst out. "We can't make poor Gohan do this because it could get him in serious trouble. You're not allowed to get anyone in trouble with dares."
Gohan gave her a thankful smile, but the rest of the grade sevens where egger to see someone actually do this.
"He won't get in trouble." Hiro laughed. "We can just say that it was a dare and that Gohan was forced to do it. Then Videl will get in trouble too."
By this time, Gohan had stripped down to his boxers and the girls blushed at the sight of his bare chest.
"Just go in your boxers, Gohan!" Someone shouted and everyone else agreed.
Gohan left the common room and crept down the hall, up the stairs and stood in front of the door to the year twelve girl's dorm. He shuddered in the cold, night air. From behind the door, he could hear them all laughing and having pillow fights. Gohan had hoped they would all be fast asleep.
He pushed the door open and stepped into the dorm....
*****
"I can't believe that he actually did it." Videl whispered to Faye. "He must really want to keep his past a secret."
"If he did then why did he write that paper in English?" Faye argued.
"Because he just wanted to express himself. For the last time, Gohan is not an alien life form, nor has he traveled to far away planets or anything he wrote about. He's just an ordinary kid who's creative."
"There's only one way to find out." Videl said. "Since he won't talk, we'll just have to do some background research."
"What do you mean?" Asked Vicky.
"I mean we should check his school file." Videl replied. "They keep a record of stuff like this. From there, we can find out more about his parents and stuff."
"Great idea!" Faye said with delight. "We should get it tomorrow."
"No!" Cried Vicky. "We'll get into serious trouble!"
"Fine then Vicky." Faye said aggressively. "Just Videl and I will go. No one is making you."
Vicky was taken aback. Faye never said things like that to her! They had always been a team ever since they started at Ellawin way back in kindergarten. They had always done everything together. Why had Videl suddenly changed Faye into a whole different person?
*****
Gohan ducked as another pillow was lunched at his face.
When he had come into the room, the year twelve girls had started to pelt him with pillows, screaming at the top of their lungs. The boarding mistress had come in once or twice, but thinking nothing was wrong and they were just being idiots as usual, she left again.
Gohan felt behind him, desperately trying to open the door. But every time he got near the latch, another pillow came smacking down on his back. He finally found the door latch, leapt out of the room and ran back down the stairs.
"Hey stop!"
Gohan turned around to see the night watchman charging after him. Gohan screamed and pelted down the stairs and into the common room.
"Night....watchman.....coming...after....me." He panted, collapsing onto the floor.
The door pushed open and Gohan came face to face with the night watchman, who fixed his horrified little beady eyes on him.
"What on earth is going on here?" He gasped.
"We were playing truth or dare." Drew began to explain. "And Videl-" "I don't care who did what." The night watchman interrupted. "You'll all have an after school detention on Monday for being out of bed at night."
He turned to Gohan who was trying to gather his clothes. "And you. You will have to come with me to see the principal first thing tomorrow to decide what to do with you. Now I want everyone back in bed RIGHT NOW!"
He stormed out of the room and Gohan held back tears as the gathered his things. What if he got expelled? He wouldn't really mind. He never even wanted to come to Ellawin. But what would his mother say?
"Sorry Gohan." Drew said. "We shouldn't have encouraged you."
Everyone followed his league, apologizing as they left the common room to go back to bed. All except Videl and Faye, who glanced at him briefly as they left, their faces bright red with embarrassment.
"What we normally do for someone's birthday is go out for pizza and then come back to the school to play truth or dare and spin the bottle." Drew said. "Since we can't have a proper birthday at home and all."
Drew announced to the whole class that his birthday party was scheduled for the upcoming Friday night at the pizza place in town and everyone in year seven could come. Even people that Drew didn't really know.
Everyone was making a big deal about it. It wasn't often that someone had a birthday and everyone was willing to get out. The girls spent the afternoon trying on dresses and makeup just because they didn't often get to dress up for things.
At five pm, all the year sevens took the bus into town and got a table together at the pizza place. Gohan sat nervously next to Cecilia and Drew, wearing one of his mother's suits.
Overall, the pizza place ordeal didn't really seem that bad. Everyone was too excited to notice that Gohan had devoured seven large pizzas and drained heaps of glasses of coke, causing his whole body to overload with caffeine.
After pizza, they took the bus home and gathered in the common room. Drew took charge, ordering everyone to sit in boy girl order and placed an empty bottle in the middle.
"Alright, let's play truth or dare first!" Drew shouted to the hyperactive pre-teens. "I'm going first."
"How do you play?" Gohan asked Cecilia, who was sitting on his right hand side.
"Drew is going to ask someone in the circle the question 'truth or dare?' then they have to pick if they either want truth, which means Drew gets to ask them any question he wants and they have to answer truthfully. Or dare, which means Drew gets to dare that person to do something. Then the person who Drew picked gets to ask someone else the same question."
Gohan froze. What if Vicky, Faye or Videl ask him to tell them about his tail or something? Perhaps if he gets asked, he should just pick dare every time?
Drew picked Daniel, who picked Emily, who picked Vicky, who picked Videl. When it was Videl's turn to ask, she turned straight to Gohan.
"Truth or dare?" She asked him, her eyes cold and menacing.
"Err...dare." Gohan replied.
Videl and Faye exchanged disappointed glances.
"If you pick dare, I'll make you go into the year twelve girl's dorm naked. But if you pick truth, I'll just ask you a simple question about that paper you wrote in English."
Everyone starred at Gohan, who was running things through his head. He definitely didn't want to run through the year twelve girl's dorm naked and he couldn't answer Videl's question. Unless....he lied.
Videl seemed to be reading his thoughts. "And you can't lie in truth, or you'll be condemned to hell."
The HFIL. Gohan didn't want to go there. He would just have to go through with the dare then.
"I still pick dare." Gohan said firmly.
An 'Oooh' ran throughout the group of kids. Gohan shuddered, wishing he had never agreed to play this game. But he couldn't back out now. Slowly, he began to undo his tie.
"Hey, this isn't fare!" Cecilia suddenly burst out. "We can't make poor Gohan do this because it could get him in serious trouble. You're not allowed to get anyone in trouble with dares."
Gohan gave her a thankful smile, but the rest of the grade sevens where egger to see someone actually do this.
"He won't get in trouble." Hiro laughed. "We can just say that it was a dare and that Gohan was forced to do it. Then Videl will get in trouble too."
By this time, Gohan had stripped down to his boxers and the girls blushed at the sight of his bare chest.
"Just go in your boxers, Gohan!" Someone shouted and everyone else agreed.
Gohan left the common room and crept down the hall, up the stairs and stood in front of the door to the year twelve girl's dorm. He shuddered in the cold, night air. From behind the door, he could hear them all laughing and having pillow fights. Gohan had hoped they would all be fast asleep.
He pushed the door open and stepped into the dorm....
*****
"I can't believe that he actually did it." Videl whispered to Faye. "He must really want to keep his past a secret."
"If he did then why did he write that paper in English?" Faye argued.
"Because he just wanted to express himself. For the last time, Gohan is not an alien life form, nor has he traveled to far away planets or anything he wrote about. He's just an ordinary kid who's creative."
"There's only one way to find out." Videl said. "Since he won't talk, we'll just have to do some background research."
"What do you mean?" Asked Vicky.
"I mean we should check his school file." Videl replied. "They keep a record of stuff like this. From there, we can find out more about his parents and stuff."
"Great idea!" Faye said with delight. "We should get it tomorrow."
"No!" Cried Vicky. "We'll get into serious trouble!"
"Fine then Vicky." Faye said aggressively. "Just Videl and I will go. No one is making you."
Vicky was taken aback. Faye never said things like that to her! They had always been a team ever since they started at Ellawin way back in kindergarten. They had always done everything together. Why had Videl suddenly changed Faye into a whole different person?
*****
Gohan ducked as another pillow was lunched at his face.
When he had come into the room, the year twelve girls had started to pelt him with pillows, screaming at the top of their lungs. The boarding mistress had come in once or twice, but thinking nothing was wrong and they were just being idiots as usual, she left again.
Gohan felt behind him, desperately trying to open the door. But every time he got near the latch, another pillow came smacking down on his back. He finally found the door latch, leapt out of the room and ran back down the stairs.
"Hey stop!"
Gohan turned around to see the night watchman charging after him. Gohan screamed and pelted down the stairs and into the common room.
"Night....watchman.....coming...after....me." He panted, collapsing onto the floor.
The door pushed open and Gohan came face to face with the night watchman, who fixed his horrified little beady eyes on him.
"What on earth is going on here?" He gasped.
"We were playing truth or dare." Drew began to explain. "And Videl-" "I don't care who did what." The night watchman interrupted. "You'll all have an after school detention on Monday for being out of bed at night."
He turned to Gohan who was trying to gather his clothes. "And you. You will have to come with me to see the principal first thing tomorrow to decide what to do with you. Now I want everyone back in bed RIGHT NOW!"
He stormed out of the room and Gohan held back tears as the gathered his things. What if he got expelled? He wouldn't really mind. He never even wanted to come to Ellawin. But what would his mother say?
"Sorry Gohan." Drew said. "We shouldn't have encouraged you."
Everyone followed his league, apologizing as they left the common room to go back to bed. All except Videl and Faye, who glanced at him briefly as they left, their faces bright red with embarrassment.