OH JOY! PART 5!
I threw in another request truth or dare….actually two….so if you guys have any ideas on more PLEASE TELL ME! I'm getting rusty on my own…
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Truth or Dare
Ju-Ju Baby
Elli was watching Gill out of the corner of her eyes. He was flipping through a book, like normal, and had a glass of tomato juice that he had been nursing all day.
It was a warm summer afternoon. The kind that made you just itch to go outside.
Elli was itching…really bad.
She tried to turn her attention back to her work but the words and numbers on the page all blurred together and she soon found herself staring openly at her co-worker.
His electric blue eyes shot up at her.
"Is there a problem Miss Elli?" He said with a slight ring in his voice.
"U-Uh no!" She said, turning back to her book. "I-it's a….it's a beautiful day isn't it?"
She caught him glancing over to the window with almost a longing look in his eye.
"Yes…." she heard him mumble.
Both rapidly turned their heads toward the door as it bust open, but were shocked to see that there was nobody there….not even Akari…
"Strange…did the wind blow it open?" Elli mused.
"It's not windy today." Came the voice of Gill behind his book again. "Don't worry about it. It's not like it's a ghost or anything."
"A G-Ghost!?" Elli swallowed. "Of course it's couldn't be a g-ghost…ghosts aren't real…" She shrunk slightly in her chair.
Gill took a tiny sip of his tomato juice and mumbled something inaudible, while Elli began to bite her nails nervously and flash her eyes around the room for the slightest sign of something out of the ordinary.
The clock ticked, Gill turned a page, Elli bit her lower lip.
He ran his fingers through his hair.
She yawned.
He pulled a piece of lint off his sweater-vest.
She tucked her hair behind her ears.
He scratched the back of his left leg with his right foot.
She drummed her fingers on the table.
He reached for his juice.
She screamed.
He jumped and glared at her while the tomato juice spilled down his front.
"Elli! What in the world is wrong--"
She was pointing to a dark shadowy figure in the corner that seemed to blend into the wall itself, as she squeaked out, "G-Ghost!"
Gill instantly leapt to his feet and snatched a yardstick, waving all forty eight inches above his head threateningly he stomped toward the figure seconds before it disappeared.
"Huh?" he glanced over his shoulder at Elli, "Where did it go?"
She shrugged. Her eyes darting around fearfully.
He walked back over to his desk and set down the yardstick. He had been sure he had seen something…both he and Elli couldn't have imagined it…well…Elli could have, but not him…
He curled his fingers under his sweater-vest and pulled it up over his head, causing his hair to flick out haphazardly. He then untied the ribbon from his collar and unbuttoned the top few buttons of his shirt.
Elli stared.
Gill sat back in his chair and looked sadly at the remains of his delicious tomato juice. If only it could magically refill itself…
He opened his book again.
She flipped through some pages in a folder.
He scratched the tip of his nose.
She glanced at him.
He tried to smooth his messy hair.
She sneezed.
He reached for his glass of tomato juice.
She screamed.
He cussed as the juice slid down his shirt.
"What the---Elli! What is it!?"
She pointed to another corner of the room where the shadow figure sat.
"Gyah!" Gill exclaimed as he snatched the yardstick again and swung it wildly toward the creature. It flew from it's hiding spot and past Gill to disappear once again in shadows. "Where did it go!?" he yelled at Elli, who was closing her eyes.
"I-I don't know…maybe we should leave…"
"No!" he exclaimed determinedly. "We will catch this thing!"
She sighed worriedly but nodded.
He walked back to his desk and stripped his shirt off. His pale creamy skin gleamed in the sunlight as he frowned at his shirt.
"What I'm I going to do with you…?" He asked it.
Elli jaw dropped in awe.
He sighed and sat back down at his desk.
She stared.
He tried again to fix his messy hair. (It didn't work)
She stared.
He opened his book again.
She stared.
He pursed his lips together.
She stared.
He wrapped his arms around his chest protectively.
She stared.
He reached for his now empty glass of juice.
Then he screamed.
"A-Akari!!!!" he bellowed as he leapt to his feet.
"Sir. Gilly McWillikins!" she exclaimed, climbing out from under his desk. "Sheesh…do you strip for Elli everyday!? No wonder she loves her job!"
He teetered back in shock. "Where did you come from!?"
She pointed to the desk. "Under there silly!"
"No-no how did you get under there!"
She suddenly took on the persona of magician.
"That's for me to know and you to find--I mean…to never know." she said with a grin.
"Y-You were the g-ghost!?" Elli squeaked from the other side of the room, still staring at Gill.
"Was I scary!?" she asked hopefully. "I never would have thought Gilly would come after me with a weapon, much less a yardstick, so I had to keep changing hiding places!"
"W-wait what are you--" Gill began.
"Gadzooks!" Akari exclaimed, examining Gill up and down. "Who would have guess you had a six pack!?" Her arm shot out involuntarily and poked his stomach. He leapt back with a yelp of surprise.
"Y-you're hands are cold…" He explained to her shocked face.
"Silly Gilly!" She cooed as she skipped toward him and ruffled his already messy hair.
Elli gasped and blinked back the rosy hues of soap opera-ness.
He pushed her back and tried to smooth his hair again.
"Ready to go play!?" She asked, stringing her arm through his.
"No!" he spat as he tried to shake her grip off. "Look at me! I don't have a shirt to wear, thanks to you!"
"Now what did I do!?" she asked innocently.
"You scared Elli, which startled me, which made me spill my delicious tomato juice on my shirt!"
"Such round about logic…" Akari mentioned with a sigh. "Oh well, I'm sure I could loan you a shirt." she added sweetly.
"Um…I'll pass…"
"If your sure…"
"Yeah…I'm sure."
"If you don't mind being shirtless…"
"I don't want one of your shirts, you idiot!"
"Great! Lets go!" she grabbed his arm again and escorted him out of the building, all the while he was dragging his feet and yelling, "Wait! Wait! I don't want to go shirtless!"
"But you look better that way!" she insisted.
---
Akari waited outside Gill's house, kicking her foot listlessly against the door. He had yelled at her numerous times to stop it, but she didn't because she had spaced out.
He swung the door open, narrowly missing her head, and made his arm available for her to latch onto.
She didn't.
"Uh….Gilly…?"
"Yeah…?" he said, looking at her for the first time. Her eyes were locked on his chest, he looked down and found nothing amiss. "What?"
"Do you own another sweater-vest….?"
"Yes, why?"
"Then why does this look like your other one….? The one you spilled juice on…and the one you wore yesterday and the day before…?"
He gave her an irritated look. "I have five of them."
"Oh….why?"
"Because I do!" he said suddenly becoming hostile.
She, of course, was oblivious to this and twiddled her thumbs as she stared at the vest.
"Do ya think….uh…"
"What!"
"Do you think I could…um….kind of…wear one…?"
He stared at her as if she had a horn growing out her forehead. "Are you serious…?"
"Yes!" she exclaimed clasping her hands together, her eyes suddenly bright. "I really, really do!!"
"Why!?" he spewed in disbelief.
"Because I've never worn one before and I really, really want to!"
"No. This is stupid, lets go."
"Oh please, Gilly!" She grabbed his arm as he tried to walk away. "You will be fulfilling one of my lifelong dreams!!"
"Your lifelong dream is to wear a sweater-vest…?" He raised an eyebrow.
She nodded enthusiastically. "Yep! And to finger paint with tomato sauce, and to catch fireflies in big glass jars, and to--"
"Okay! Okay! But just this once!" he gave in to make her shut up.
"YAY!" She squealed, wrapping her arms around his neck in a quick hug. "You are the BEST!! Okay go get me one! Go, Go!"
He rolled his eyes as he went back into his house.
---
When they made it up the hill to the Special Spot, they found that the others were already there.
Luke was in the tree throwing pieces of bark at Chase, who was below him shielding his head with his arms. Luna was sitting next to him with an irritated expression on her face. And Julius was next to her, sprawled on the grass…wait a second…why was Julius there….?
Julius was the only one who saw them coming, and the second he caught sight of Akari he burst out laughing.
"What are you wearing!?" he exclaimed through fits of laughter.
Akari skipped forward merrily, displaying her argyle sweater-vest proudly. "You like it!? Gill and I are twinners!!"
The others glanced up now, all trying to hide their laughter.
"BWAHAHAHAH!" Juli bellowed, gripping his sides. "T-Twinners, eh? You look just as ridiculous as he does everyday!"
Gill's eyes narrowed, Akari ran up and swatted him on the head softly like a bad puppy. Then feeling instant remorse she cuddled his head and stroked his long purple hair.
"Be nice! Ju-Ju Baby!" she cooed.
Gill gagged. "Ju-Ju Baby!?"
Julius flashed a grin at him from around her arms.
"That's right!" Akari exclaimed, releasing his head. "Doesn't it suit him just perfectly!?"
"I could think of a few better names for him…" Gill muttered under his breath.
"So I heard you guys come here everyday to play Truth or Dare, right?" Juli asked Akari.
"Yes! How did you find out!? She asked.
"I followed Luna here." he said with an evil sideways glance at the sulking petite girl.
"Oh! Do you want to play too!?" Akari exclaimed.
"No!" Yelled Luna suddenly.
"Yeah!" Luke said from up in the tree. "Don't you think we have enough players?"
"The more the merrier!" Akari said insistently.
"No!" Luna yelled again. "He CANT play!"
Akari cocked her head to the side. "Well, why not?"
Luna's eyes shifted over to the frivolous boy next to her. There were a million reasons she could come up with that would be why he shouldn't play, but of course the first one that came to her mind was…. "He won't play nice!"
"Oh, nonsense!" Akari exclaimed, then turned to Juli, "Do you promise you will play nice, Ju-Ju Baby!?"
He nodded exaggeratedly with an oh-so-sweetly-innocent look on his face.
"There you see! Ju-Ju promises to be a good boy." She cuddled his head again, petting his hair, then plopped down into her regular seat.
This was the signal for them to do the same. Luke slid down out of the tree and sat between her and Chase. Gill was next to him with Luna on his other side. Julius between her and Akari, much to Luna's displeasure…
"You can go first, Ju-Ju Baby, because you are new." she said.
His red eyes narrowed mischievously as he sized up each of them in turn.
"Gill, truth or dare?"
Gill seemed to direct a loathing aura at Juli viciously. "Truth."
Julius rubbed his chin in thought, but of course knew exactly what he was going to ask.
"Does your father…"
Intensity build up.
"…pick out your clothes!?"
Luna and Akari gasped.
Chase and Luke bust out laughing.
Gill's aura darkened.
"What do you mean by that….?" Gill growled.
"Exactly what I said. Does your father, the mayor, pick out and make you wear the clothes you are wearing now…? Or is it just your bad sense of style?"
Gill suddenly …just shrugged.
"Yeah, I guess you could say it was both."
"Huh?" Julius said, sheer disappointment all over his face.
"Well, you see, when I was little my father did pick out my clothes. I'm sure you can say your parents did the same. Now I'm just too preoccupied by other things that I don't care, and so I suppose you could say I have no sense of style. So I wear basically the same sort of thing I have all my life."
"Those pants too…?" Julius asked tauntingly.
"What about my pants?"
"They are quite…short….did you get them when you were twelve?"
Gill looked down at the gap between his pants and his socks.
"They are shorts…"
"They are mighty long to be considered shorts, and plaid too!?"
"Okay…I think you have overstepped your truth question." Akari finally cut in. "That was more than one."
Julius did a fake pout.
"Okay, Gilly, your turn!" she sang.
He nodded. "Luke, truth or dare?"
Luke sat up straighter. "Em…truth…?"
"Are you really as stupid as you look?"
Luke thought for a moment, tipped his head to the side, scratched his head, rubbed the eyelash out of his eye, brushed the hair out of his face, bit his thumbnail, rolled his eyes up to the sky, pursed his lip, then finally opened his mouth with an answer.
"Never mind." Gill mumbled. "You answered my question…."
Luke was confused but shrugged and turned to Luna.
"Truth or dare?" he asked, straightening his gloves.
"Dare."
He scrunched up his face trying to think of something terrible to make her do.
"I dare you to….hug Juli!"
Her jaw fell open and a silent scream was evident on her face.
Juli just grinned.
"Chicken!" she begged.
"Nope! I revoke all chicken-ness!"
"No! Please!"
"Sheesh…" Juli mumbled. "It's like she was being asked to hug the Black Plague…"
"Nope! Hug him! Hug him!" Luke cheered with Akari joining in.
Gill and Chase both rolled their eyes.
Luna leaned toward Juli with her eyes closed and her arms outstretched. He reached out to her in return and hugged her longer and tighter than she would have liked, and when she tried to pull away he only held tighter. There was an evil grin on his face. He enjoyed annoying her a little too much.
"Okay! That's enough!" She exclaimed shoving him away with all her strength.
He laughed.
"Alright" she said with a little shiver, "Luke, I'm going to ask you truth or dare now."
He shrugged and stupidly said, "Dare."
Luna's smile became malicious.
"I dare you to… KISS CHASE!"
"NO!" Luke and Chase yelled simultaneously, jumping to their feet.
"Chicken please!" Luke begged.
"Yes, yes, my chicken too. All of my chickens!" Chase said desperately.
"Nope, no chickens." she said wickedly.
"I'll give up my chickens too, just not to see that…" Gill mumbled.
"Nope, you HAVE to do it!" she demanded, crossing her arms.
Akari sat wide eyed with her hands in her lap, Juli was laughing hysterically.
"But it's gross!" Luke complained.
"You think you kissing me would be gross, just imagine me having to kiss you!?" Chase said, making a gagging sound and sticking out his tongue.
"Yeah…." Luke said with equal disgust, then, "Hey!"
"I'm sorry to involve you Chase, but this must be done." Said Luna.
"Ew…" they both said at the same time.
"B-But I've never kissed anyone before…" Luke whispered with large puppy eyes. "I don't want the first time to be with a…a guy…"
"Oh…poor Lukie…" Akari cooed.
"Alright I'm going to count to three and then you need to kiss each other." Luna announced.
"But wait! I'll do anything! Just please take back the dare!" Luke pleaded.
"ONE!"
"NO! I-I'll give you--what do you want!? I'll give you anything!"
"TWO!"
"Oh man….oh man…Chase…uh, what are you doing…?"
Chase was slowly inching closer until they stood face to face. He bent down slightly, closing the difference between their two heights. His hands gripped him by the shoulder. Luke's heart suddenly started beating rapidly…with pure terror…
"Chase! NO! NO!" He screamed just as Luna said…
"THREE!!"
They all gasped.
Chase's head dipped down, one hand holding Luke's face, the other pulling him closer. It was brief, their kiss, just long to be considered a kiss. Then Chase stepped back casually, running his fingers through his hair.
Luke's face was a strange mix of shock and something else….joy? Weird…
Luna had a smug expression, while Gill opened his eyes (he had closed them when he heard 'three') and stared at them. Juli had a silly smile on his face and Akari's jaw still dangled open.
"Well that was…cute…I guess…" Akari mumbled.
Juli suddenly was laughing feverishly again.
"FAKE KISS!" He sang.
"What!?" Luna bellowed. "You faked it!?"
Chase shrugged and kissed the back of his hand passionately.
"You never said it couldn't be a stage kiss."
She gave a mighty frown.
"Oh, you will get over it Luna!" he said swatting the air with a hand. "Plus, it still means Luke has never been kissed!" he winked exaggeratedly at her.
Her frown deepened.
"Well…that was intense…" Akari commented to Juli.
Juli started laughing again.
"My word! What is so funny!?" She exclaimed.
"I can't look at you or Gill without laughing! You both look like idiots!"
Thus ends part 5...
I threw the kiss thing in there and was quite afraid on how it would turn out…decent I hope…
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