The Johns

Vacance

As Henry said that, Gale flashed the middle finger to him and they just laughed. I sat beside Sangster and he smiled at me. Nate suddenly rose up while we were all sitting comfortably.

"Since Eri finished all of our dares hence we should let her do the last and final dare." And everyone clapped except me.

"Wait, it's not yet done?"

"Well, yeah." Sangster said. Everyone nodded. "Once you finished all of our dares we need to give you the final dare as a group." He explained.

"It's easy though." Nate said.

"Don't tell me what's easy, Nate." I snapped at him and he just chukled.

"Someone call Aigis and let her know that we need it now." Sangster said. Vonn clapped 3 times then out of nowhere a blonde girl came from the basement.

"You called, master?" Her voice seems to be a robot.

"That's because she is." Jake whispered at my ear. I jumped a little and he chukled. "You were thinking way too loud." He added and sat beside me.

"Aigis, get the Vacance." Vonn commanded and Aigis just nodded and left to the basement. "Okay, since I'm this time's MC, I'll tell you the final dare." He crossed his legs and waved his right arm.

"Just tell her already." Khyle snapped at Vonn who was beside him and Vonn slapped his left arm.

"I was going to." He said then looked at me, then Aigis came back with a bottle. "Ah, it's here already." Aigis then placed the bottle to the table.

"Can I go now, master?" Aigis asked. Vonn nodded then she left.

"You need to drink our own blend of alcohol that we personally blended and perfected for years."

"You mean our ancestors perfected." Henry said and everyone nodded and chukled.

"Right." He smiled. "This is called Vacance and it was stored for centuries." He grabbed the bottled and walked towards me. "And you need to finished it." He gave me the bottle as I accepted it.

"All?" I asked.

"Yeah, it's up to you if in one go or slowly." Nate said.

"I'll drink it slowly if I were you." Nate said and everyone laughed. I leaned to Jake.

"What should I do?" He shrugged.

"Just drink it as if we were competing like before." Khyle clapped to get our attention.

"Come one drink up." He said. "Before dawn comes." He mumbled.

I looked at the bottle and opened the it. I looked at the liquor and it was deep maroon. I gulped my saliva and drank a bit. It was sweet then suddenly it became bitter with a hint of spice.

"Why are there so many flavors?" I whispered and Sangster laughed.

"Because when we were doing that, everyone added their own preference."

"You mean our ancestors' own preference." Henry said again and everyone laughed.

I'm really curious what they really mean. Since it wasn't that strong, I drank it all in one go even though Nate said drink it slowly. I can't trust them that quickly.

I placed the empty bottle to the table and Gale looked at it.

"You drank it in one go!?" He exclaimed.

"Knew reverse psychology would work." Nate said. Vonn rose up while clapping.

"Congratulations you are once again, officially the new chosen one." Vonn said and suddenly I feel dizzy that I leaned to Jake.

"Thought you were smarter than that Eri." Jake said.

"How dare you say such things." I tried slapping his arm but he grabbed it. "You got a D in your favorite subject when we were in the 4th grade." I mumbled. He just laughed.

"Whatever you say." He said. My head started to hurt, much more worse than those times my vertigo attacks.

"Did you guys poisoned me again?" I said.

"Pretty much." Henry said.

"And since you drank it in one go, the effect would be immediately instead of slowly." Khyle said.

"What effect?" I asked.

"Your memories about other people would disappear once dawn comes." Sangster said.

"But only memories that circulates about other people, except you yourself, us The Johns, and the ones you treat like family." Gale explained.

Shoot, am I going to forget my mission? A.I? No, I always treat everyone from the agency as family so no way.

Jake stood up carrying me at his back.

"You really sleep now, Eri." He then eyed the others. "Don't want anyone here to touch you." He then started walking to the grand staircase.

"Who was the one that dared her to kiss him?!" Vonn said and everyone laughed.

"Who dares her to play too hot with her!?" Jake snapped at him.

"Well, who was the one who-" just before he can say something, I grabbed one of my shoe then threw it at him. "Yah!"

"Shut up, it only adds up how my head is hurting!" I said.

"Sorry." Jake and Vonn said. Jake then started walking again and we reached my room.

He placed me at the bed and tucked me in to the blankets.

"Don't worry, you won't forget about the times we were together during childhood." He whispered and everything slowly seems to be getting darker. "We really just need no one to know anything that is happening here, sorry." He added and everything just became black.

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I woke up at the sound of my phone. I grabbed it under my pillow and looked at who was calling.

"A.I? who's this?"