Hey, sorry for taking so long to update. It took me a while to find time to type this. I hope you like this chapter. Enjoy!
Jonah stared at her, along with everyone else. Cahills, play a game? Huh. Don't think that's happened before.
"That sounds fun," Amy considered. "What game?"
"Oh!" Natalie squealed, "Let's play truth or dare!" Wow. That backfired. All the boys had mortified expressions and Jonah was scared to see the girls actually considering it. If the girls decided to play truth or dare, they would have no choice. Jonah might take on one of them, but Amy, Sinead, Natalie and Nora? Plus the Holt girls? Uh-uh. Jonah didn't have a death wish. Jonah looked around the room for anyway to distract them.
"Amy, why do you have a guitar?" he asked.
"Maybe you'll find out," she told him, "during our game of truth or dare."
Ned groaned. He had no choice as Ian agreed the game was on. He probably did it just to get on Amy's good side. There was no ay Ned would take on both Kabras. He watched sullenly as the girls decided who would go first.
"Rock, paper, scissors?" Amy suggested. Natalie shook her head.
"Who wants to go first?" Natalie asked. The boys all simultaneously raised their hands. Ned did not want to be picked on to do something.
"Pick Dan. He probably doesn't have any ideas yet." Amy whispered to the girls surrounding her.
"Fine. Dan, you're up," Sinead told him. Ned grinned at Dan's face. Ah, someone was going to get it.
"Natalie, truth or dare?"
Natalie's mind was whirling. Truth or dare, she'll get humiliated. What would be safer? With Dan… probably truth. But I'm no chicken, she thought.
Her face didn't changes as though flew through her head. She looked at Dan and smirked.
"Dare." Everyone except Dan and Nora gasped. Ha, Natalie thought. Keep them guessing. She smiled in her brief moment of triumph.
That feeling didn't last long. "I dare you to dump milk in your Prada purse," Dan said triumphantly. Natalie paled.
"I have things in there I need!" she protested, trying to get out of it.
"You can take them out," Dan said carelessly. "Go on." Natalie grinned, sure she had found a loophole.
"I don't have my purse with me," She said innocently. Sinead decided to help Dan out.
"Don't worry, I installed an automatic transporter. It can fetch and return anything you need in the house." Natalie gave Sinead a patented I'll-kill-you-with-my-bare-hands glare. Sinead smiled sweetly as she pulled a string. A small cubed machine was lowered down, and started buzzing as Sinead punched in some letters on the keyboard.
"Cool!" Dan exclaimed as the machine buzzed above them. Within minutes, Natalie's purse and a carton of milk had arrived. As Natalie started removing things Amy and Hamilton moved away from her.
"Three dart guns, two bottles of poison, a Justin Bieber CD? Can this get any worse?" Dan cried. Natalie smiled inwardly. She had the perfect revenge.
"Alright, let's get this over with," Natalie said, grimacing. She slowly poured the milk in. She winced every time she heard a splash. After it was empty there was a silence, and then Natalie began bawling.
"I'm sorry, pursey," she sobbed. Dan started shifting, feeling uncomfortable, as everyone around the circle tried to hide grins. She was obviously faking and only someone as oblivious as Dan wouldn't notice.
"Um, Natalie, I guess it's your turn." Natalie's tears evaporated and she grinned evilly.
"Dan, truth or dare."
"I just went!" He protested, fearing the worst.
"You can go again," Hamilton told him. He gestured around the circle. "We don't mind."
"Dare?" He said in a tiny voice. He was in trouble.
"I dare you to sing along with Justin Bieber's 'Under the Mistletoe'."
"NOOO!" Dan yelled. He continued for three minutes before Ned clapped a hand over his mouth. Sinead rolled her eyes.
"Just sing already." Natalie handed him her Justin Bieber CD. He sighed inwardly as he put it in and started singing. After two stanzas everyone was laughing so hard no one could hear the CD. Dan stopped singing and just mouthed the words. Afterwards, he sat down, humiliated.
"Amy, truth or dare?" Dan questioned after the laughter had died down.
"Truth," she declared confidently. Really, she would have been scared to choose dare.
Dan's eyes glinted "What were in doing in the Cobra's room?"
"I was asking him about some Madrigal-Lucian negotiations. And he wanted to show me a painting," she added as an afterthought.
"He didn't try to kiss you?" Dan probed. Amy blushed.
"Dan!" she cried, embarrassed. Ian had the same expression a=on his face.
"Making sure," he grumbled as Amy looked for her victim. Natalie bet thirty dollars that she was going to pick Ian.
"Ian, truth or dare?" Natalie grinned.
"Truth." Amy bit her lip thinking.
"What were you thinking in Korea?" she decided at last. Ian frowned.
"When?" he asked stalling. She rolled her eyes.
"When do you think?" Amy demanded. Everyone besides Natalie and Dan were looking at them in confusion. He sighed. How would he explain this?
"Well, I was trying to make you fall for me. It would make carrying out mum… Isabel's orders easier. But seeing you enjoy with all the smallest things. It... It change dhow I looked at you. But after saving you, I realized that…" he looked at hands, choosing his words carefully. "That you were more than you seemed. It seemed my plan had backfired on me."
It was silent as everyone processed this speech. Then Dan spoke.
"That's your excuse for kissing my sister?" Dan replied incredulity. Everyone besides the Kabras and Cahills looked at Amy and Ian in surprise. Dan looked furious.
"Come on. You lead her on and left us to die! What's wrong with you?"
"Daniel, I wasn't leading her. I really did love her…" and might still, he finished in his mind. Dan's face softened a little and he stopped scowling. Amy blushed and started fiddling with Grace's necklace around her neck. Ian snapped out of his musing and looked at Sinead.
"Truth or dare Sinead?" She thought for a minute, then said
"Dare."
"I dare you to kiss Hamilton." This sentence took a minute to sink in. She paled rapidly as she realized what she what she had to do.
So what did you think? I'll be rewriting the first chapter soon, as my beta reader, Tribal girl helped me a lot. I'm going to get the next chapter up, but it might take me a while to update. Please, please, please review. It means a lot. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to read this story. I hope to update soon. Merry Christmas!
