Unfortunately it was not the colored rays of sunlight, streaming through the cut glass of my bedroom sun catcher that woke me up the next morning, but rather me rolling over and landing hard upon the very sticky floor of the bus.
"Nice landing Moth." Said Neal, as he looked down at me from where he leaned over the back of his seat, a smirk alighting upon his face, orange hair amus.
"Shut up and help me, I think I'm stuck." I ordered him as I attempted to pull myself off of the floor. Laughingly he obeyed, choosing wisely to refrain from commenting on my awkward situation.
Soon after we finished consuming our somewhat questionable breakfast of cold spagettio's and stale pop-tarts Neal came up with what had to be the most brilliant suggestion of the decade.
"I'm bored, let's do something!"
"Oh real smart 'o master of all brilliance. Exactly what is it that you would propose that we should do?" Wren shot back dryly, and quickly became the next recipient of Neal's glare.
"Hey! I do too have an idea!" Neal burst out.
"Well there's a first." Moss said, barely loud enough to be heard; Neal glared at him but continued anyway.
"Shut up you stupid piece of vegetation," retorted Neal, Moss just smirked at him. "But as I was saying before lettuce here so rudely interrupted me, let's play 'Deeds or Actions!'
Apparently this meant something to the others because they all nodded eagerly. "Umm, what exactly is 'Deeds or Actions?'" I asked, my past experience with peoples so-called 'favorite' band games making me more then a little wary.
"It's, umm… well it's kinda like truth or dare. Sorta anyways, and you have a week to complete the Deeds, Actions must be completed immediately." Responded Moss, "who want's to go first?"
"I will" volunteered Skink.
"Alright then," started Neal, "Actions or Deeds?"
"That's easy. I'll take actions Regis, and that's my final answer. Do your worst."
Neal glared at him, then smirked, "Oh good. 'Cause I dare you to eat that gummi bear." He said, pointing to the fuzz-covered candy, which was stuck quite firmly to the floor underneath one of the seats. I shuddered at the thought.
"That's it? You haven't had time to make a list of dares yet this year have you?" sputtered out the blue-haired percussionist. Sheepishly Firefly looked up.
"No Rayn, I haven't had the time as of yet to make one. Oh. I don't believe you've met Moth. Lynn - this is Rayn, he's a snare. Rayn, Moth here is a tenor sax." Rayn nodded his head towards me in greeting and opened his mouth to talk, but was rudely interrupted.
"Hey! I'm not going to eat this stupid disgusting thing if no one here is going to pay attention to me!" Skink cried out indignity. Seeing that he had gotten everyone's attention he pried the offending gummi bear off the floor and popped it into his mouth, swallowing it whole as I cringed at the sight.
"Nice going Mr. Liz" hooted the blue-haired boy - Rayn, as he gave the grinning Skink a high five.
Neal nodded "Nice."
"It's my turn to dare now," Skink replied cockily. "Wren - Deeds or Actions?"
"Deeds of course." she informed him straight faced, "I'm surpassed that you had to ask."
"Gimmi a break - it's just a formality," he muttered darkly, then continued. "I force you to eat something off of the camp kitchen floor before the week is over, in front of two witnesses."
He made a face but nodded "In front of two witnesses I will eat something off of the camp kitchen floor," she repeated it formally. "Firefly. Actions or Deeds?"
"Deeds - as long as it does not jeopardize, in any way, my section leadership." Neal replied happily, clearly loving both the game and the fact that he was now able to boss the trumpets around and get away with it.
"Fine - I'll be nice for once, but you owe me big time!" my cousin told him severely, shaking her finger in his face, he grinned."
"I force you to steal Kelter's brand new, four-wheel drive jeep, and go mud running in it. You will also put it back exactly where you found it, only covered in mud. All this you must do in front of two witnesses, you may dare an accomplice to help you if you want." She said formally, an evil grin appearing upon her face as Firefly gasped in shock.
"You said that you would be nice! I can't do this - I won't just lose my section leadership, I'll get kicked out of the band!"
"That was being nice Neal! You should have heard what I was planning to make you do before you made me promise to be nice!" she sputtered indignity at him.
"Are you accepting her challenge or not Firefly? Answer the question!" Skink snapped out.
Neal glared at him, not the infamous dare glare this time, but a very real, and very angry glare. Then he ducked his head and said sullenly "I'll accept. In front of two witnesses I will take Kelter's jeep, go mudrunning in it, and place it back in its former resting place covered in mud, I may also choose an accomplice should I so want." Suddenly he grinned, "you know - this might actually be kinda fun - if I don't get caught."
"You're the Firefly. You won't get caught." Moss said in a small but confident voice, as the others all nodded in agreement. Neal just sat there, staring at us as if we'd lost our minds, then an evil grin appeared upon his face.
"It's my turn now." he said, turning to look at me. "Moth - Deeds or Actions?"
Uncertian I looked at Wren, who saw that I didn't understand and began to explain. "If you choose 'Deeds' you have exactly one week to fulfill whatever task it is that you are given. But if you choose 'Actions' you have to do whatever it is immediately, but it's, often more then not, something more disgusting too."
I nodded my head to show my small seed of understanding, and slowly and carefully I made my choice. "Deeds."
Neal grinned. "I force you to help me steal Kelter's jeep, and go mudrunning in it. You will be the lookout. All this you must do in front of two witnesses." Now it was my turn to gasp in shock and dismay, because, until I had been in the band for six months, I was basically a probationer, meaning, if I screwed up, I was out.
a/n - 'Rayn' is pronounced the same way as 'Rain,' just spelled differently. See E.P.? I updated, you don't have an excuse to kill me now. Ha Ha!
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