Another Run Away

Jack Daniels and dice

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"Bailey" cheered a few strangers that were standing near the door at the bottom of the stairs, "Mind letting us in?"

"Sorry guys you know the rules... they are?"

"Only one guest per one patron at a time." Muttered the strangers in a monotone voice.

"Maybe next time." Bailey said trying to lighten the mood.

Once he opened the door to the basement with the key he retrieved from his right pocket I wasn't sure what to think, or what to see as my eyes suddenly had to adjust to the pitch black room aside from a light that appeared to be standing on a table.

"Who's this Bailey?" called an unfamiliar girls voice.

"Mel this is Trinity." He said as she gave him a hug.

"Oh so you're the girl that he dogged."

"Dogged?" I asked, I had never heard of that term before.

"Did wrong to." He explained. "Yeah she's she girl I lied to about being my sister's boyfriend."

"Incest is not best." The table hollered along with Mel.

"Yeah yeah laugh it up." Bailey said defensively as he crossed his arms. "We're getting better though aren't we?" he publicly asked looking down at me. I nodded my head.

"OH so your one of the quiet girls" Mel assumed, "It's okay, we were all quiet once too." She assured.

"Lucky you brought us a girl Bailey, or you would be kissing Harry or Cayden." She laughed as Bailey made a disgusted face as I looked to try and gauge the responses of the other two boys I realized that I still couldn't see anyone's faces, Mel caught onto that too.

"Oh okay so Trinity we're going to sit you in between Harry and Cayden, and before you ask we are not a cult, Jason's light shattered about half an hour ago so we only have a night lite that his younger sister uses to light up the basement."

"That's okay." I smiled, but inside I was actually dreading sitting next to Harry but I wasn't too bothered about that Cayden kid.

Until I saw who he was. That Cayden kid was the detention boy, the backseat bandit. It all clicked into place. I can't believe my luck.

"Okay here are the rules for the newbie." began Mel as I uncomfortably sat down without a glance either side of me, "One bottle one dice in the middle of the table. The player spins the bottle and if it lands on the opposite gender they have to roll the dice, if they get a 1,2,3 they have to kiss the person on their left, if they get a 4,5,6 they have to kiss the person on their right. Here's the catch, the two people on either side of the participant have to have their eyes shut so it's a bit more mysterious. Okay?" she asked looking at me.

"I guess so?" I replied trying to get all that information in my head.

"It's okay" she laughed, "I'll go first so you can see it firsthand."

She took the Daniel Murphys bottle and spun it. It landed on a red haired girl.

"See that?" she asked. "I landed on a girl so I have to take a shot."

"You didn't tell me that before" I said alarmed.

"Because we knew that a girl like you wouldn't play the game." Replied the red head.

I started freaking out, I've never had a shot before let alone be drunk. Oh my god I'm not going to be able to hold my own.

"Its okay." Whispered Harry, "Wouldn't want the new girl to start running for the hills, told you all she was a coward." He said to the rest of the group.

"I am not!" I protested.

"Prove it." He smirked.

Soon enough the bottle was passed around to Harry and there had been no kisses between everyone so far. I shut my eyes and listened to the bottle spin around the table before I heard it come to a stand still.

"ROLL THE DICE, ROLL THE DICE." The room chanted and I held my breath, I was on his left so it had to be either a 1,2 or 3 for him to kiss me. I was praying for a 4,5,6 because despite my courageous outburst before. I do not want harry to have my first kiss, nor anyone in this room for the matter.

"FOURRRR" the room roared as I opened my eyes and sighed in relief.

For the next few minutes the room was divided, people were either in awe at the kiss that Harry was sharing with a fellow brunette or looking away feeling slightly uncomfortable. I was definitely feeling uncomfortable by the thirty second mark.

"Break it up you two." Barked Cayden as he reached over my head to hit Harry's shoulder.

They were both red and flustered by the time they broke apart and with a small applause from the rest of the table I was handed the dice from a smug looking Harry.

"four, five or six baby." He smirked before joining in with the rest of the table chanting 'newbie'.

I spun the bottle when both boy's eyes shut.

To my utter horror it landed on Cayden.

"It landed on me didn't it" Cayden muttered with his eyes still shut.

"How'd you know?" I whispered while prepping myself to roll the dice.

"Played this game enough to know what direction the bottle lands." He smirked.

"Oh" I relied as I let the dice out of my hand and onto the table.

I seemed like forever for the dice to actually land on a number and when it did the table roared as both boys opened their eyes.

"I guess were going to have to kiss." I shrugged to Cayden playing it off as if it wasn't a big deal when in reality it was a big deal, he was going to be my first kiss.

"Not if I can help it." He smirked hitting harry twice behind my back. "You know the deal." Harry only nodded with a sly look on his face.

"Close your eyes." Spoke Cayden swiftly.

I did what I was told because that's all I ever knew.

"One, two, three." The table chanted before I felt two pairs of lips on either cheek for a split second as my cheeks heated up.

"That's your initiation over newbie." Mel clapped, "Shows you have guts, welcome to the group."

"Why did they just kiss me on the cheeks." I spoke still ferociously blushing.

"We didn't want you to pressure you into something you didn't want to do. But that's beside the point, all newbies get a kiss on a cheek, As I said that was the initiation."

"Oh okay." I said as Cayden kissed the girl on his other side and the game resumed.

"Don't worry." The red head spoke to me over Harry's head. "Next time if the stars are in line you will have your first kiss." She smirked and the game stopped, all eyes were on me.

But why would she make it so public

How did she know, no one knows anything about my past at this school?

But most importantly: what else does she know about my old life?