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Last time-
The look on his face was priceless. Everyone started laughing as we got out of the pool and soon Ozuma's laugh was found again as he too started laughing.
I sat on a rock, trying to catch my breath. This felt really nice. I don't remember the last time I laughed this hard or had this much fun. Is this what it's like to have friends? People you can trust like Mariam and joke around with like Rei?
Is this real?
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When you are sad
I will dry your tears.
When you are scared
I will comfort your fears.
When you are worried
I will give you hope.
When you are confused
I will help you cope.
And when you are lost
And can't see the light.
I shall be your beacon
Shining ever so bright.
This is my oath
I pledge till the end.
Why you may ask?
Because you're my friend.
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Watch Me Fall
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Chapter 4
Late Night Movies
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"Hey you guys, sorry to break the fun, but I think we should get inside; it looks like a storm is coming." said Mariam
"Yeah, I think you're right. Let's all get inside before it starts to rain." I said.
"Not that we're all dry anyway" grumbled Ozuma as we walked inside.
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"Wait here, I'll go and get us some towels to dry off." said Rai as he went into the bathroom.
He came back moments later with a handful of fluffy towels. We all grabbed one and dryed ourselves off.
"So. . . what do we do now?" asked Mariah. I checked my watch; it read 9:00pm. It's amazing how time can pass like this.
"Um, it's already 9 o'clock you guys" I said in a soft tone.
"The storm seems pretty bad, so I don't want you guys to leave yet. I'd feel really guilty if something happened to anyone if you left with something in this. Do you want to stay the night?"
Mariah, Mariam and Ozuma nodded to show they agreed but that they'd have to call their parents first and tell them what's happening.
"How about you Riley? You staying?" Mariam asked me.
"I don't kow. I'll um, have to see what my mother says." I replied quietly. I took the phone in my hands and dialed my home phone number. "Yeah mom? It's Riley. . . . yeah yeah, I'm having a good time. Listen, Rei wants us all to stay the night at his place. . . . yeah I'm here with him and three of his friends. He doesn't want us to go because of the storm and stuff. . . . .yeah. . . . . mmhm. . . . . okay, I'll see you tomorrow then. Bye." and I hung up.
I told Rei that my mother had said yes. Meanwhile, everyone else called their homes to tell their parents what was happening and that they'd stay the night.
"So. . . ." said Mariah. "What do we do now?"
"How about we watch a movie or something?" suggested Ozuma.
"Alright." Said Rei. "I'll go make us some popcorn"
"I CHOOSE THE MOVIE!" yelled Mariam as she pounced to where the films were. She looked through them all carefully and finally picked out one. Meanwhile, Rei had gone to get something upstairs as the popcorn popped. He soon came back down with his hands full with comforters and sleeping bags. Mariah and I rushed to help him since he looked like he was going to fall over at any time. We each took one. I curled up on a couch, the comforter around me as I hugged a pillow. It felt good, sharing a night with nice people like this.
"Aha!" she said triumphantly as she finally chose a video. "Anyone up for a good horror movie?" she said as she waved the film in her hand. Since no objections were heard, she put it in after Rei came back with the popcorn.
Everyone got settled in; Ozuma was on the couch between me and Rei while Mariah and Mariam had settled themselves on the ground, each of them wrapped up in a sleeping bag. Ozuma had a blanket wrapped around his shoulders too; I guess getting wet made us all get the chills. Rei had gone and changed for a warmer set of clothes, he didn't need a blanket or anything.
We all quieted down when the movie started. It was one of those horror films where the murderer kills off the main characters' friends one by one in order to toy with the heroine.
I hugged the pillow closer to my chest during the scariest parts, but what we were seeing now was the most suspenseful moment of the movie; the heroine was looking around, scared out of her mind, trying to get away from the murderer. We were able to see the killer come towards her through the shadows, not making a sound. My eyes grew round as I saw the glimmer of the killer's knife raise to strike. All of a sudden, the lights went out and I screamed. I heard Mariah scream and Mariam gasped and I felt Ozuma jump.
"Don't worry, you guys. I think we just have a little power failure." I heard Rei say. "I'll try and find some flashlights and matches or something. I think they're still packed in one of the boxes here."
I heard someone shuffle slowly through the room so they wouldn't hit anything, then someone rummaging through the contents of a box until a ray of light shone through the dark room.
"I found some flashlights!" Rei said triumphantly.
"No kidding" said Ozuma. I laughed at little at the sarcasm of his pointing out the obvious.
"So. . . what do we do now?" asked Mariah.
Ozuma looked at us all, a mischievous glint in his eyes. "How about Truth or Dare?"
Ozuma wants to play truth or dare? Great. Just perfect. I thought sarcastically to myself. I just know that they'll give me the most embarrassing things, no matter what I choose. I had grown to be a shy person and the two options weren't really great for me.
"I'll go get an empty bottle." Said Rei as he left for the kitchen. Bottle?
"But aren't we playing truth or dare?" I asked anyone. They didn't say anything for a second, then Ozuma started laughing.
"You thought we were going to play spin the bottle?" he joked. I didn't say anything, unknowingly answering his question. Mariam spoke up;
"Don't worry, we are going to play truth or dare. It's just that we play a little differently; the person that gets the dare, the daree, is chosen by the bottle that is spun by the person giving the dare, the darer." she explained.
"So basically," said Ozuma, cutting Mariam off, "If I was the one who had to ask 'truth or dare?', I'd spin the bottle and whoever it lands on is the one that gets my question. Get it?" (A/N: This is how my friends and I play it, so the same person isn't always targeted and it's more of a chance thing.)
I nodded to show I understood. Rei came down holding an empty water in his hand.
"So, everyone ready?" he said as he spun the bottle.
I sat between Mariam and Ozuma, who sat next to Rei. Mariah was between Rei and Mariam.
Before the bottle spun, Mariah said "Alright you guys. Same rules as usual?" a ring of "Yeah"s was heard from the others as I stayed silent, since I didn't know what they were talking about. The bottle spun around and around when Ozuma leaned over to me and said
"We have a few small rules we go by when we play truth or dare; one, no overly nasty public dares and two, never turn down a dare unless you want a true homemade mud pie. Worms, grass and all. Think you can handle it?" I slowly nodded. He wouldn't scare me with those stories. I'd just have to stick with truth.
The bottle spun around, pointing threateningly at everyone as it passed until it slowed down. I closed my eyes, hoping that it wouldn't fall on me. I opened one eye and smiled as I saw it stop at Ozuma.
"So, Ozuma; truth or dare?" asked Rei. Ozuma glanced around the room and his friends' taunting faces and narrowed his eyes.
"Dare."
The look in his eyes had the 'bring it on, powder puff' look in them. But Rei's has a mischievious glint in them as he thought of all the possible dares he could put his friend up to. A sly smile etched its way onto his face as he thought of the perfect one. Please don't let me get dared by Rei!
"No turning back?" asked Rei.
"Never."
"Alright. You see those boxes over there?" he questioned. My eyes narrowed as I tried to think of what Rei could be thinking of and what those boxes could possibly hold.
"Yeah."
"They hold my mother's clothing."
"So?"
"Put on one of the dresses and let Mariah do your makeup. Then parade around the room like you're a fashion model." Rei finished with a grin. I could hold back a little laugh when I saw Ozuma's face drop. He tried to regain his composure before anyone noticed, but I already had, since I was sitting next to him. I let out a little laugh.
He and Mariah took a flashlight and began looking around in the box until we heard an "Aha!" from Mariah and an "Oh hell no" from Ozuma. But a dare was a dare and he took the bundle of clothes into the bathroom and Mariah went in a few minutes after he had finished changing to his makeup with her stash that she pulled out of her purse.
We heard a few crashes coming from the other side, and the occasional "ARE YOU FREAKIN NUTS?" and some "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WOMAN?" from Ozuma. It was actually really funny. I tried hard not to laugh, but when Ozuma came out wearing a 40 year-old woman's clothing, I couldn't hold it in any longer. I burst into a huge fit of laughter, harder than I ever had before.
Ozuma marched out of the bathroom wearing a look of pure disgust and embarrassment, but I couldn't blame him. He was in a sleeveless frilly pink floral dress that had very big, very yellow buttons down the front of the chest and the rest pooffed out with frilly white stuff to give it more volume underneath. Somehow Mariah had gotten him into a pair on pink stilettos too! My laughter started to slow until I saw his face. My laughter died in a second. He was wearing a huge amount of red lipstick and blue eyeshadow, blush, purple eyeliner, you name it, he had it on. I blinked twice.
"Ozuma?" I gaped.
"What?" he growled. I started laughing even harder than before. Mariah had even gotten two pink bows in his hair. No wonder Ozuma sounded nuts in the bathroom!
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After everyone called down and Ozuma changed back into his normal clothes and javeled his face from "that stupid crap I can't believe you made me put on", we all sat down and continued the game. It was Ozuma's turn. He took the bottle and spun it. It spun and spun around and finally landed on . . . .
Mariah. With the light of the flashlight, I saw her take a fearful gulp.
"So Wong, Truth? Or Dare." Asked Ozuma. Man did this guy sound dangerous after wearing a dress.
"Truth!" she said, nearly jumping up. I couldn't blame her; with the glare Ozuma was giving her and Mariah, I would have done the same. Truth is a lot more safe that dare, that's for sure.
"Chicken." Mumbled Ozuma. "Where's the farthest you've ever gone with a guy?"
Oh, that sounds embarrassing. . .
Mariah just frowned, a pensive look on her face.
"Well, there was this one time with Lee. . . " she said slowly.
Everyone's eyes nearly fell out of there orbits they grew so big except for mine; I didn't know who they where talking about.
"LEE?" shouted Ozuma and Mariam.
"Yeah. We went to that doubles tournament in Brazil, don't you guys remember?"
Everyone nearly fell over with her comment, including me. No matter that I didn't know who Lee was, but Brazil was definitely not what Ozuma meant.
"What? You asked and I answered."
"That's not what I meant!"
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I meant!"
"No I d-"
"What matters is that she answered the question you asked and that's that." Intervened Mariam. "Let's continue with the game. Come on Mariah, spin the bottle."
Once more, the bottle spun around. It started to slow down in front of me. Please don't let it stop on me please don't let it stop on me.
It landed on Rei.
"Um, ok. Rei, Truth or Dare?"
Rei smirked.
"Dare." He replied.
"hm. . . .Ok, I know. Go outside"
"But it's raining!"
"Like I said, go outside and start singing 'Singing in the Rain'. With dancing. Sing the whole song."
"But I don't know the full song!"
"Then hum it!" cheered Mariam.
"Good luck dude." Encouraged Ozuma while I gave him a sympathetic glance as he passed.
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"Are you happy now?" said an embarrassed and soaking Rei.
"Well, I know I am!" said a cheerful Mariam, holding up a video camera.
As bad as I felt for Rei, the look of pure terror on his face was priceless.
Mariam flipped on the camera and we watched it through the little screen. Yep, that was Rei doing his dare alright. Singing. . . singing. . . . flying shoe thrown by angry neighboor hitting him on the side of the head. . . . singing. . . . being told to 'shut the fk up or I'll beat the living snot out of you you stupid idiot'. . . . singing. . . . . . . Mariam even caught the angry woman in a bathrobe and curlers chasing him back into the house with a rolling pin! Tears of laughter were wiped away from my eyes as I started laughing again.
"Let's just continue with the game" grumbled a very wet Rei. Even he thought it looked kind of funny, the whole singing scenario. But of course, he couldn't laugh. He did have some pride.
Once again, we sat in a circle and Rei spun the bottle.
"I hope it doesn't land on me" whispered Mariam next to me.
"Why? Because of the camera?" I whispered back.
"Well, in part; Rei always has the hardest dares and worst truths up his sleeve." She answered. I gulped. Always/ oh man, I was hoping that Ozuma's dare was the worst of the lot!
It spun and spun around and around, again and again. It started to slow down. Please don't stop please don't stop please don't stop. . .
I closed my eyes as it neared closer to me. I kept them closed for a few seconds, then I opened one eye to see the bottle pointing at. . .
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Hey, tis me, cynical.life
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