Hello, my lovelies. This is really the first half of the chapter but I am behind on my Grad school work so I was unable to finish it. I will not be able to update as frequently right now. Please, check my profile page as I will be posting dates for the updates as soon as I write the chapters. In the meantime, please, check out my first story, Welcome to 'Amp Burger. It is almost complete and I will be posting the sequel in December. Enjoy the chapter and thank you for reading!

Chapter 6: To Dare or Not to Dare

Three months later we hadn't tried to come up with any more dares. For a time I thought that the dare club was over until Damon jerked me into the coat area. This is where we made most of our plans. "I'm going over to the Lockwood's tonight to clean the Mayor's toilet with his toothbrush."

I was shocked because I forgot about the dare. "How?"

"Anna's babysitting Tyler and I talked her into to bringing me, you, Lena and Care with us. Oh, and Stef." Damon replied with no small amount of smugness. He was acting like Christmas had come early. "The best part is that I dared Lena to help me."

"You what?" I whispered back. "Damon, she's just a little kid. You know Mayor Lockwood is not a nice man." I was worried because at the last school assembly the Mayor had come with our Principal and Tyler. Tyler had accidently spilled his drink on the Mayor's pants leg. The next thing I knew the Mayor was pulling Tyler outside.

The next time I saw Tyler he wasn't his good natured self but seemed sullen. When I asked him if he got in trouble he told me to leave him alone. As he turned around I saw a bruise on the back of his neck. That worried me. Sometimes my father would yell at us and throw things but he had never hit any of us.

"Don't be a scaredy cat." Damon retorted. "I know what I'm doing. Anyway, I dared Alaric to call my Dad and tell him that he was being audited."

"What does audited mean?" I asked.

Damon shrugged. "Don't know. But I was watching the news because your brother, Elijah, made me when he was over last week. And they were talking about businesses being audited by something called the IRS and it sounded bad. So, I thought it would freak my dad out."

"Hmm… I think I'll dare Lijah to do that to my father sometime." I said smiling at the thought.

"Let's go." Tyler said walking into the coat closet. Ever since I had asked him about his father he had been avoiding me.

"Tyler, I dare you to tell me what happened to you the day of the assembly." The words came into my head and out of my mouth before I had thought about what I was saying.

Turning to look at me, Tyler looked frightened. "It's okay." Damon said. "We won't say anything." At that moment Elena, Caroline, Stefan, Bonnie and Matt piled into the room. They looked from me to Tyler. Damon ignored the younger children. "They won't say anything. Now, tell us."

Blowing out a breath Tyler looked down at his shoes. "I spilled a drink on my Dad's pants and he yelled at me. Then he put his hand here." He placed his hand on the back of his neck and his eyes filled with tears. "And squeezed until it hurt bad. Then he told me to not embarrass him in public again." By this time his face was red and slightly wet.

I was shocked when Damon walked over to him and hugged him. "Dads can suck sometimes." He said quietly. "But you'll be okay, kid. So, let's see if we can do anything to make his day bad."

We walked out of the room together. It felt like nothing could hurt us as long as we were together. In time we found that this was not true. But we tried to protect one another as much as possible.

Anna was standing out by the front doors to pick up most of us. Damon talked her into taking Matt, who didn't want to go home and Bonnie with us. There was some sort of story about someone's birthday. Then we were on our way to the Lockwood mansion. "You're not going to break anything." Anna ordered us. "I do not want to explain that to the Mayor.

"I have to go to the bathroom." Elena told Anna.

"Okay, I'll take you in a minute," Anna told her.

"I know where it is," Caroline piped up.

Anna looked at the little blonde. "Well, then I guess you can go."

Elena and Caroline held hands as they walked up stairs. "I have to show Klaus and Damon a new toy in my room." Tyler told Anna who nodded as we ran off.

We ran up the stairs and then ran toward the bathroom in the Master bedroom. Elena and Caroline were examining the toothbrushes. "Which one's your Dad's?" Elena asked Tyler, who pointed at one of them. She couldn't reach it. So, I grabbed it and gave it to her. She held it out to Damon. "It's your dare. You go first."

Hesitating Damon took the toothbrush and dipped into the toilet. Caroline wrinkled her nose. "Ew."

"I know," I said as I leaned in closer to her.

Damon handed the brush to Elena. Elena began to make gagging sounds before she dipped the toothbrush into the toilet. "It looks pretty clean to me." Damon said as he looked at the water.

"Then why don't you take a sip? I dare you." Caroline asked him with her eyes round and innocent looking.

"You little-" Damon snarled at Caroline.

"A dare is a dare." I told him.

Staring at me in shock, Damon frowned. Then he dipped his hand into the toilet and took a hand full of water. Then he took a sip. "Thanks, Care. Now, I dare you to take a sip." He held out his wet hand to her.

Caroline's face scrunched up. "Ugh." She took a sip. "Klaus, it's your turn." She told me.

I groaned before taking a sip. Then I dared Elena to take a sip, who dared Tyler.

Anna came into the bathroom when Damon's hand was still dripping. She looked at him and then the toilet.

"Oh, whoa! Really?!" Shaking her head, Anna led Damon to the sink and made him wash his hands. "Why was your hand in the toilet, Damon?" She asked, bending down to look him in the eye.

"We were drinking the toilet water." Damon told her, his eyes glazed over.

"What is wrong with you kids?" Anna asked, looking at us. "Anyway, I made you guys some sandwiches. They're downstairs." She picked up the toothbrushes from the counter and began to smell them. When she got to the Mayor's, her nose wrinkled up. She threw it into the garbage. "Well, I see kids have not become more creative."

We went back downstairs and Stefan was saying something to Bonnie. She then began to stare at her glass until it began to float. "Stop that." Anna snapped, running forward to grab the glass. Matt, Stefan and Bonnie began to giggle.

"Do it again." Elena commanded.

"NO." Anna shouted, as Bonnie's half eaten sandwich went flying through the air. "No more drinking toilet water. No more cleaning toilets with toothbrushes. And no more floating things."

"Can we go outside and play?" Tyler asked.

TBC

Okay, I know there is a debate over whether there should be supernatural entities or not in this story. And I know that some of you do not approve of the idea. Here's the thing. I wasn't sure about the twist but when I thought about it I decided that it would work for this reason: a dare club could become dangerous. I don't want to kill any of the major characters. Unfortunately this may create the perception of penalty free stupid, life threatening activities. However, that won't be true either. Just give it a try and if you still don't like it or you don't understand what the reason for the supernatural existence in the story is, there isn't much more I can say.

As for aging the characters more quickly I'm thinking not. Here's why: there are so many little milestones that we go through growing up that many people get so caught up in wanting to grow up that we forget to enjoy them. So, I want to age them slightly slowly to highlight those moments.

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