Darkness First

I'm not drunk

"What if the if the fire gets out of control?" Gerard asked and watched Frank and Cory try to lit the campfire with his widened greenish eyes.

"That's why we keep the alcohol away from it." Frank said laughing while kneeling before the pile of wood, trying to lit a match. Me and Cory were laughing at Gerard's stupid questions. I sat on a log and took a beer from one of the baskets we brought all our food with.

"You haven't ever seen a campfire, have you?" I asked.

He turned slowly to look at me.

"..No"

He sat beside me and and sighed.

"I need a beer. This is so stressful."

I giggled and threw first the opener at him and then handed him one drink.

"You know, if the fire gets out of control, we'll run away and leave you with it."

He looked me directly in the eye. He had a lopsided smirk on his face. His face is so pretty. I would kill for those eyes.

"That is so mean." He turned to look at the brown bottle in his hands and opened it. Then took a sip from it.

"You know what?"

I smiled a teeth-showing smile but didn't say anything.

"If you guys pass out, I'll leave you here and go to sleep back inside. And I'll take the car." he said jockingly. I punced him lightly in the arm and right then Frank shouted out his 'roar of victory'. Cory and Frank got up from the ground and shouted in unison "we lit the fire and it's burning bright!" Then slammed against each other and bro-hugged. And they fell backwards on the grounds. All me and Gerard could hear is "no homo".

As I laughed at the two dumbasses, I noticed my vision get blurry and funny. I also noticed the empty bottle in my hands.

"I haven't drank this much yet?!" I whined. I can't be already this drunk.

Finally Frank got up and sat to my other side.

"We'll I've got maybe five. And I really think you've been having one when I've been having one, too." He said looking seriously at me. I looked at him confused, my face blank. His eyes look at my right and he cracks to laugh. Then I hear Gerards hysterious giggling behind me, and in no time, we're all laughing our asses off.

***

"I wish we had booze." Cory said while chewing the chicken we're eating.

"We could play 'never have I ever'!" He continued after swallowing the food.

We were sitting around the campfire. Frank and I on this side, Gee and Cory on the other.Frank took a piece of his food between his fingers, closed his other eye, the blind one, and threw the piece at Cory, but it fell down in the fire and let out a sizzling sound. "Another time bud."

"That game is so old." I said while staring at the fire.

"But it's definitely the best game ever!" Cory whined.

"We could play a game.." Gerard spoke up, getting our attention.

"It's a drinking game, too, but I think it could work if we drank, like, a half a bottle."

"Okay, let's give it a shot!" I said excited. "What's the game?"

"Paranoia. Have you ever played?"

Frank shook his head. "Never even heard of it."

Gerard looked at us with his mouth open. "REALLY? Wow, it's like, so popular back where I'm from. Okay. The rules are simple: the person on your right whispers you a question, which you can answer with a name. It has to be someone here. You answer the question outloud and if you want to know the guestion, you have to drink."