-AN: Pucca and Garu talk in this fic but only a little bit. Also the characters are all 17 plus not 17
"I'll go first!" Abyo began digging through the bowl of dares. "C'mon please be something good." He pulled out the slip and read it over. "Give everyone in the group a nickname. Aw weak!" He groaned and glanced around at his group members. Pointing to each consecutively, "Pucca, you're Dumpling." She giggled. "Garu you're ninja." He rolled his eyes. "Ching, I call you pet names more than I call you Ching. But let's go with babe." She smiled sweetly. "Shaman, you're nickname is Bald. Clown, your nickname is Kevin, cuz what the hell kinda name is Clown anyways." They both glared at him. "Chief, you're speech impediment." She just gaped at him. "Tobe is X marks the spot." Tobe groaned while Garu snorted. "Ring Ring is Royal Bitch." She growled at him glaring. "And Dada, you're caution sign." He nodded in defeat and agreement.
Chief piped up, "Damn bro it said give us nicknames not roast us!"
Abyo shrugged and replied arrogantly, "Hey, I call em like I see em." To that she rolled her eyes.
Dada raised his hand, "I-I'll go next." He figured his chances would be better suited digging through the truth bowl. He pulled one out and nervously read it. Once he was done his face flushed bright red and he looked around while at the same time refusing eye contact.
"What does it say?" Abyo leaned in and took the slip. He read it aloud, "Are you a virgin?"
The room fell silent. The air was thick with tension of embarrassment and curiosity. Tobe scoffed, "So we're playing that kind of truth or dare."
Abyo slouched and lazily looked at Dada, "C'mon dude just answer the truth."
Dada poked his finger tips together and stammered, " u-uh well... a-actually no. I-I'm not a... a virgin..."
His face grew hotter as he felt everyone's surprised stars fall on him, analyzing him, studying him. Trying to find some hint of falsity. All but one. She quietly kept to herself.
"Huh, I'm honestly surprised yet impressed," Tobe admitted, "Tell me, does this mystery girl have a name?"
"Oh- ah- well- you see, she asked that it stay- y-you know... private."
Tobe slumped back in his seat, "Pity, and I was so curious too. Say, what's the punishment for lying or refusing a dare?"
Dada stared at his lap. He knew there was a chance that he would not be believed. Sure, he could easily lie to make himself feel and look better, he had before.
Ring Ring suddenly snapped up and headed for the bowls, "I guess it's my turn now." The tension in the room slowly subsided. Honestly, she would do anything to change the subject right now. She brought the slip from the truth batch to her face. "If you were on a stranded island and could only bring 3 things, what would they be? Well that's easy! I'd bring my spaceship, my phone, and Garu. If I had my ship I could just go back home, I always need my phone, and Garu's just there to look pretty." She gazed at him and sighed dreamily. He just retorted an exaggerated eye roll.
Chief hopped up from Tobe's lap and rummaged through the dares, snagging two and making her way back to her seat. As she sat down one of the slips made its way into Tobe's hand.
"Dip your sock in the toilet and wear it for the remainder of the game." He sat up, "pfft I can do that." He slid from under his girlfriend and and strode confidently to the bathroom. Everyone soon heard a faint "ugh" followed by a door slamming. They tried to hold back their laughter as a wet sloshy sound came closer. Tobe made is way back to his seat, head held high.
Chief giggled as she moved for him to sit. She then turned and read her slip, "Switch shirts with the person of you choice." She turned to Clown who was picking at a hangnail. "Clown, gimme your hoodie."
He looked up at her, "Bitch- eh- you're already wearing one of my hoodies. So I gotta trade my hoodie for my own hoodie- eh?"
She smirked. He hated that she stole his and Shaman's clothes and she knew that. He rolled his eyes and pulled off his hoodie. She did the same, revealing that she had on only a bra underneath. Others in the group averted their eyes in sudden embarrassment.
She held the hoodie and looked it over, "Hey this is mine!"
Clown's head popped out and he began to pull his arms trough, "Huh- eh. Guess we're even now. What a coincidence eh."
She slipped her hoodie on and took her seat back in Tobe's lap, "Hypocrite."
Clown climbed over the sofa, much to Ring Ring and Tobe's dismay. He aswell collected two slips from the bowl of dares. He made his way back, tempting Ring Ring to push him over. He handed one to Shaman and read his out loud, "Take off and article of clothing as fast as you can eh." Without hesitation, he ripped his newly adorned hoodie over his head, tossing it to the side. It landed on Ring Ring and she tossed it in disgust and horror.
Garu shot Abyo a knowing look. There was only one person he knew that could remove and article of clothing any faster and it was him. He most certainly wrote that dare.
Shaman read his as the red head sat back down. "You have to eat whatever Pucca makes you."
Pucca groaned in frustration. Her cooking had never been the greatest but she had improved little by little over that past few years. She glanced around the room accusingly for the culprit. Sighing, she stood up and made her way to the kitchen. She returned with a bowl of homemade cake balls that she had made for the party, they had hardly been touched. She passed them to Shaman and he ate one.
"Hm, these actually ain't that bad." He continued to eat them as if they were the best thing he had ever tasted.
Pucca giggles in victory but was cut off by Chief's laughter.
"Ha! Don't look in to it too much. He'll eat just about anything!"
She groaned and took her seat, arms folded and shoulders slumped. Chief really didn't have to burst her bubble like that.
Ring Ring piped up, "You know, there has got to be a better way to do this rather than climbing over each other." She said this while motioning towards Clown, who had taken a bite out of a cake ball and the slowly placed it back down whilst sticking out his tongue in disgust.
Abyo pulled the bowls towards himself, "Alright then I'll read them out for everyone!" He glanced over at his friend who has started to doze off. "Garu!"
Garu's eyes shot open as he sat up alert.
"Truth or dare?"
"Truth." Garu had ended his vow of silence once he turned 18. It had only been a few months and others were still getting used to his voice. He still did not speak often but that was due to preference.
Abyo sifted through the truths, "aw lame." He had expected the all mighty Garu to choose dare. "Ok! Who is your favorite person in the room?"
Garu blinked at the sudden intrusion of his personal thoughts. All he could come up with was an unsure shrug.
"Nope! You don't get to do that! You have to pick someone bro!"
Garu placed his chin on his fists and thought for a second. "Can I say myself? I am a person in the room."
Abyo lifted a finger to protest but knew it wouldn't be worth arguing. Garu would never admit something so vulnerable about himself, as petty as it was.
Ching beamed and lurched forward, "My turn! I pick truth!"
Abyo rummaged through the bowl, "Man! Y'all are a bunch of pussies. Pickin truth."
Ching retorted his comment by sticking her tongue out at him playfully.
"Oh babe, ya gotta tell everyone in the room who you've kissed!"
She blushed, "Like, on the mouth? Hmm. Well you of course and Garu once on accident."
Pucca giggled at the memory of the incident. Garu and Abyo were sparing and Ching wanted to surprise kiss Abyo but they moved at the last second. Her lips planted smack onto Garu's. She spent the rest of the day humiliated and apologizing profusely.
Those not there at that time stared at her in shock! She kissed Garu? And she and Pucca were still best friends? How was that possible? How could Pucca be giggling at this?
Since she sat next to Abyo, who was laughing at the memory, Pucca leaned forward and grabbed her own dare from the bowl. She read the slip and a grim expression made its way across her face. She handed it back to Abyo who then read it aloud.
"You have to kiss your least favorite person in the room!"
Pucca cringed as she heard those words read out loud. She sighed in defeat and begrudgingly stood up. She made her way to the sofa. Her mind screamed for her to just run away but she powered through it, pausing in front of an unconcerned Ring Ring who had stopped paying attention to the game and focused on her long acrylic nails.
Her focus was broken as a pair of hands roughly cupped her face. Her head spun but before she could protest, Pucca's lips roughly mashed against hers in a painful and spiteful kiss. As soon as it has begun it ended. Pucca quickly pulled away and rushed back to her seat, spitting as though she has just kissed a toad. To her this was worse.
Ring Ring slumped further into her seat, face flushed and dazed. Was she really just kissed by the very girl who stood between her and the boy she loved.
Pucca wiped the lipstick off of her now pink lips. The group gaped at the event that had just unfolded, half looking at Pucca, half looking at Ring Ring.
Garu could not help but feel a lump form in his throat. Had he really just witnessed the two girls he knew were willing to just about kill for him kiss? Was this real life or just a really weird nightmare?
After a few more minutes of shocked silence Abyo spoke up.
"Holy fu-"
"WE ARE NOT SPEAKING OF THIS!" Ring Ring shrieked, finally escaping her trance. "No one is to speak of this! What happens here stays here! Got that?"
Everyone nodded in unison, noticing her stripes lightly appearing on her face. In hindsight that rule should have been established at the beginning.
"Ok.." Abyo began slowly, "Should we start the next round?"
Garu and Ching nodded eagerly. They wanted the subject to change.
Abyo nodded and selected a dare, "Alright, it's my turn!"