Dare Night

Chapter 7 - 10 Peoples' Drinks

Sitting in the van after talking about what happened, made some weird tension between Lane and I. I'm glad she finally heard my side of the story, I just wish we could have talked about it at a different time. Airing out all of my baggage made the atmosphere seem heavier in the group.

"Yo, Reese," Sonic said.

"Huh, what?" I asked coming out of a daze.

"Are you going to read the next dare?"

"Oh yeah," I said reaching in the backpack, as Sonic sat back.

"Are you okay?" Brooklyn whispered to me.

"Yeah. I'm fine. It's nothing," I took out the next card, "I DARE someone to go to a bar and drink from 10 peoples' drinks, without getting caught."

"That's a hard one," Lane said, "We have to get into another bar."

"What about Sugar Rae's?" April asked.

"We could but you know how LA traffic is, it would take forever."

"I know a place," Sonic said, "Let me drive."

"All yours," Brooklyn said, hopping in the passenger seat.

Sonic started the van and began a drive that was away from the normal route we took. I had no idea where Sonic was going to take us, but I have a feeling it's going to end up being a strip bar or something of that sort.

We passed by a group of friends, who were probably in middle school, but they were sitting outside the Shake Shack, with burger and milkshakes in their hands, laughing the night away, like they didn't have a care in the world. Sometimes I miss those days, back when I didn't know any better. Where I didn't have to worry about college and girls weren't so mean. If I could go back in time and tell my middle school self something, it would be to always stay true to yourself, don't try and be anyone but you. Living life trying to be someone else is still just trying, you aren't them. So why try and be someone else, when you could be the wonderful you.

I wish Lane and I were still friends. And I wish that April could have been our 3rd friend in the group back then. I feel like things would have been way different in a good way. Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of things Lauren did for me that I'm grateful for. But it always somehow seemed like she was doing those things to make her seem like a better person. And when you are doing nice things to make yourself look better, are you really doing anything nice?

I just want the life you see in movies or read in books. Where you have a great group of friends, who are down for adventures and only say nice things about you. The kind of friends who say "Let's go get a cabin for the weekend" when they know you need to get away. Then when you get to said cabin, you all make dinner, where everyone pitches in and you all sit together to eat and pretend that Sarah actually did good on the potatoes when they actually taste like feet. Then once it hit midnight, you would all tip-toe outside and skinny-dip in the lake. You would all get so cold and say it's time to go back inside and all gather around the house fire and just feel joy being around people you love.Okay, I'm getting sidetracked here, but you know what I mean. Good friends. People who actually like to do nice things for each other because they want to because they are your friend and not to make themselves seem like the better of the friends.

Here are a list of things I look for in friends:

- Must love the movie The Breakfast Club.

-Must know all of the words to What's My Age Again by blink-182

-Has to be okay with me spontaneously dancing, whether we be at a bar, the Walmart parking lot, or walking down the street.

-Lets me sing along to songs, even though a screeching cat has a better voice than I do.