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Chapter Twenty-two:
Everyone is at Randy's house since it is Monday. Everything is kept quiet as to not alarm John and Stacey.
"So what are we doing tonight?" Stacey asks as they just finish their supper. Randy's parents are in the kitchen cleaning up while they are in the living room.
"Well I have to be home before 9pm, so nothing too long." AJ informs them. After she informed her parents about the disturbing message, they all agreed that she would come home earlier to prevent anyone to attack her.
"However, your parents said if you are with us you can stay until 10 pm" Randy reveals to prevent questions to be asked. Usually AJ stays longer and sometimes she sleeps over if it is really late.
"That is right." She agrees.
"How about we play a card game?" Randy suggests. "We can improve our memory and knowledge. Plus, too much television and electronics are bad for you." He proclaims.
"Wow, are you a scientist now? Are you going to chart how much we use out electronics now?" John jokes.
"No, I just think we need something fun that everyone can participate in. Is that too much to ask?" He places his hand down his face.
"Woah, calm down it was a joke. Dude, what's wrong?" John is surprise by his attitude.
"Sorry man I just want a fun evening from everything we have been through that's all." He lays his head down.
"Excuse us." Stacey guides Randy to the kitchen where have finished cleaning. "Randy, look at me please." She lifts his head when he doesn't comply. "What's going on?" This is the normal attitude for him.
"Stacey, my beautiful girlfriend." He holds onto her hands. "You along with mother and AJ are the most important girls in my life." He kisses her hands.
"Randy, you are scaring me, what's going on?"
"Nothing to worry your pretty head about." He kisses her head. "Come one we are going to have fun with our friends." He guides her back into the living room.
"Oh I am glad you two are back we are playing Anomia." AJ greets them back with the cards all prepared.
"I love that game, did you explain the rules to Jack?" Randy sits with Stacey beside him holding his arm.
"We have played this game already. This is why Stacey and I are so smart." Jack gloates his ability to win.
"Oh really, then get ready to get beaten because I am the king at this game." John challenges.
"Ooo… there is a stand-off. How about we make this more interesting?" They both nod in accepting to up the challenge. "Okay, whoever loses has to dress like a girl for one week. Plus, the winner can dare the loser to do anything except anything gross, hurtful, or illegal tonight." AJ lays down the stipulation.
"Does the winner get to pick the outfit?" John asks already having the perfect outfit for Jack.
"Nope, Stacey and I will pick the outfits." She reveals.
"Oh and if none of you wins the stipulation applies to the both of you. Stacey, AJ, and I will decide on a dare." Randy includes.
"Wow, when you up the challenge you go full blast." Jack is surprise on all the stipulations.
"Why are you scared?" John grins not phrase by the stipulations. He is used to how AJ thinks.
"Nope, but I will be when you lose. I probably have to wash my brain to get the image out of my head." He teases.
"Actually, I have dressed as a girl before and I won't do it again." He reveals his funniest moment. "Good think there are no more images of that."
"Well-" AJ takes out her phone.
"No way, you said you deleted all of them." He is stunned.
"I did however I took one later after you told me to delete them. You were a cute girl I couldn't resist." She giggles.
"Let me see." Jack utters as John tries to stop her, but AJ stops him with a leg to his chest. It is him dress as a girl for a Junior High Halloween party. "Aww, you look so pretty. You definitely would be a great girl." Jack holds his heart with a sincerely tone.
"Shut up. I am a better girl than you." He sits back on the couch with his arms crossed.
"Show Stacey, AJ." Randy requests.
AJ passes it to Stacey. "Not bad, I could get jealous if you hit on my man." She smiles to boost his confidence back.
"You really think so?" This raises his spirit.
"It really all depends." Stacey smiles again not fully 100% on her statement.
"Did you hear that Randy, I could have a chance with you?" John speaks proud.
"Are you turned on by me? Do you want me now?" He teases as everyone titters.
"No, there is nothing wrong with being attracted to you. I would be the same person. I am just a different gender orientation." He huffs not liking that everyone is picking on him.
"John, we love you for who you are no matter what your age, culture, belief, or anything. You are our closest friends and we couldn't have it any other way." AJ expresses.
"She is right, man." Randy agrees.
"Thanks guys. You two are the best friends I could have." He smiles. "Group hug." They share a hug where AJ is squished in the middle. "This is nice."
"It is nice." They don't acknowledge that she is squished in between them.
"I can't breathe let me go." She squishes out of the hug. "You are very mean, letting me get squish in between two football players." She huffs seating back next to Jack.
"We are very sorry AJ. We apologize for that." They put on their puppy dog faces that gets them off the hook most of the time. AJ holds her ground for a bit, but caves. "Fine, I can't stay mad at you guys." She smiles.
"Thank you AJ." They both say simultaneously.
"Aww, that is so sweet." Stacey, again hook to Randy's arm, mentions.
"Okay, let's start this game." AJ goes first.
Halfway through the game, John and Jack are neck to neck with the amount of cards they have. Randy and Stacey are not really trying as they just enjoy the battle between Jack and John. Usually they would try their hardest, but not for this specific game. AJ on the other hand is trying her best to win to get them both to dress like girls. She has a couple of cards to catch up on to beat them.
"Apple." John utters having one card more than Jack. Jack gets nervous with showing no matches. On the second last round, there are the wild card pairs and two more pairs; a total of 6 cards. This gives AJ a chance to catch up. Randy and Stacey are intrigue to see who will win. Either way they are in for a show. The last round, AJ gets 2 pairs which is 2 cards and wins the game. Both of the boys are in shock. All their gloating back fired on them.
"I am the winner so that means you two have to dress like girls for a week starting tomorrow. Now for your dare, we need to think about that. Please stay here we will have a meeting on what it is."
"Sure bring whatever you desire." John waves it off not sacred on the outside. He knows that they put themselves in a bad situation.
"We will be waiting for you." Jack smiles.
"We will be back." She kisses him before they head to the bedroom with Randy and Stacey. Randy asks her mother first for permission to look through her closet. She agreed in one condition that they are all looking for outfits and not anything else. Randy's parents always love to be part of their games.
As they talk about the dare, AJ and Stacey look for outfits for the week. They are having trouble to figure out who or when they should rotate guys to dress.
"How about AJ does half the week and Stacey do the other half? Or AJ will do John and Stacey will do Jack?" Randy suggests.
"That is good. My baby is full of great ideas." She kisses him as AJ continues to look for outfits.
"No quick responses." Randy asks after they break off the kiss.
"Nope, my two best friends are together which is great. How we do this outfit for John?" She shows them the outfit for him tomorrow.
"Oh definitely that is perfect. He would look good in that." Randy eyes the outfit John has already worn before. She wants to seem that she is taking it easy on him.
"I agree that is a good choice for the first day." Stacey agrees with both of them.
"Now, what about the dare we have to give them?" Randy inquires.
"How about-" She whispers it to them. They all grin with the revelation of the dare.
"Are you sure it is not harsh?" Stacey questions.
"It is not harsh trust me. John and Jack will both be okay with this."
"Come on lets tell them." Randy is excited for this.
"Wait, I need an outfit for my brother. I will choose one here and then the rest at home." Stacey requests.
"Certainly, I was going to ask Mrs. Orton for this outfit for the second day, but you can use it. Jack will look great in this." She takes out the outfit. Stacey and Randy both chuckle at it.
"AJ, text me tomorrow to not let me forgot my instant camera." She wants to capture the moment.
"I won't."
"Okay, let's go tell them the dare and show them their outfits." Randy can't wait to announce it to them.
Jack and John are waiting patiently in the living room. "What do you think it is, John?"
"If I know AJ and Randy, we are in big trouble. I don't know about Stacey she could lower the dare." John responds.
"Nah, Stacey likes to pull anything on me." Jack divulges to him.
"Well-" John starts.
"They are coming quite." He hits his leg. John just gives him a glare before AJ, Randy, and Stacey enter.
"We are back." AJ starts. "Since Randy is so excited to announce your dare, he will be the one to."
"Okay, as AJ mention I am very excited for the dare and your outfits. Unfortunately, we can't show you the outfits until tomorrow. The girls have to decide that Stacey will dress her brother and AJ will dress John." John looks on in horror as Jack smiles to butter up to his sister. "Now for the dare, it is an obstacle course dare. There are four stations. The first one is here where you will do your best pickup lines on a teddy bear for about 2 minutes. Next you will go to the kitchen and do five push ups on each of the sides of the island. The third station you must run to the back fence in your boxers. We originally have you calling something out, but it is too late already. Finally you come back here to the living room to get four pairs right in Amonia against myself and Stacey. We didn't really contribute last game, so we are now." Randy finishes. "Do not worry we will be there to help you in case you forget. Are you guys ready?"
They both nod as AJ waves a dish cloth to start the course. They start off with the pickup lines to the teddy bear. They each get a large stuffed bear to entice. The lines are cheesy, funny, and sad at the same times. What the guys don't know is that AJ is recording the lines so they can watch it back again. The full two minutes are up to having them all hysterically laughing at their lines.
"AJ, those lines Jack use are for you." John teases.
"Actually, I never used those lines on her." Jack discloses. AJ sticks her tongue at him to have John roll his eyes.
As they went to the second station, Jack winks at her. This makes AJ blush that he lied about his pick up lines to stop from teasing her. This part was quite impressive with them both not taking a break while during this push ups. Fortunately, there is enough room for both of them to do them beside each other. They can see them try to outdo each other will doing different push ups.
"Now strip boys and run." AJ giggles. Jack be as cute as he can be strips and pecks AJ before running to the back fence. This makes AJ blush even more as Stacey and Randy make kissy faces. They enter through the back door a bit out of breathe and shaking a bit. "Oh my poor baby, come let me put a blanket over you." She puts a wool blanket around him as she pecks his cheek.
"What about me?" John is being very left out.
"Here is your blanket, man. Do you want a peck too?" Randy puckers up. "No I am good with just the blanket." He walks to the living room.
"I will take the peck." Stacey requests as Randy gives her one.
The fourth station takes longer than they hope it would be. John is facing Randy and it is a sibling rivalry for Jack and Stacey. AJ is judging the whole thing. It started off slow with them shivering and concentration. As they start to get warmer the more games they win. Jack almost got all four in the row, but he couldn't think of one of the topics which bring him back to start again. After about 10 minutes, Jack is back again with John on his heels. They are both on their last pair and John loses with just being out spoken by Randy.
"Victory is mine." Jack calls out covering his mouth afterwards with it being too loud.
"No fair you got a good luck kiss from AJ." John pouts not liking it.
"Sorry, I can peck you on the cheek now." AJ offers.
"It is not the same, but I would like a hug." He opens his arms. She enters his arms for a big hug that she usually gets from him. John grins at them as she hugs her.
"Now that is all taken care of, let us watch your first station; the pickup lines." AJ lets go and grabs her phone.
"What, you were recording that?" John and Jack ask.
"Yup, it will show you how bad and sad they could be." They all gather around AJ's phone as she plays the video. They all laugh as John and Jack are embarrassed at some of their pick up lines.
Around 9:45 pm, they all leave with Jack taking Stacey and AJ home.
"Bye Randy, see you tomorrow." AJ waves goodbye.
"Guys, John and Jack I will see you in her girl outfit tomorrow." He waves to them with a sarcastic smile.
"Whatever man, just laugh it up." John waves goodbye.
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