Roll the Dice

Roll the Dice

I look at the table where the two red dice are sitting and look back up at my four best friends. Confusion surely written all over my face, are they serious?

      Slowly and unsurely my hand stretches overtop the two dice and starts to shake. They can’t be serious. I look at each of their faces. All of them are stripped of a smile, the one thing that convinces me they just might be serious but when I look into Maggie’s eyes a smile cracks onto my lips. I grab the dice and throw them across the room and they land in front of the fridge.

      “I had a feeling you guys weren’t serious.” I say while smiling.

      “Yeah, whatever.” Todd says while grinning, “You thought we were serious. You should have seen your face.”

      “Yeah!” Pipes in Piper, “you made a face somewhat like this.” She widens her blue eyes and opens her mouth a little and Donny laughs and puts his arm around her shoulder and she snuggles into him. He smiles at me, “That was what you looked like.”

      I just groan and cross my arms. Why would they do this to me? “Oh, lighten up Keelie!” Maggie says in a sigh while rolling her dark green eyes.

      I look out the kitchen window and take in the darkness. It’s one in the morning on Saturday night. My mother is in Vegas for some wedding and didn’t bother to take me. My house is situated forty minutes out of the small town called Vanderhoof and surrounded by trees. There are no houses within twenty miles of the place and I love having the privacy. My house is a small log cabin and looks gorgeous when the yellow lights from the lamps ignite against the fibers in the dark wood.

      “Piper?” I turn back to my friends with a smile on my face; I just got an absolutely splendid idea.

      Piper blows a piece of her strawberry blonde hair out of her grey eyes and looks at me, “yes?”

      My eyes go from face to face of each of my friends. “Did you bring the movie I asked you to?”

      Her eyes widen in excitement and she jumps up from her chair, causing Donny to move his arm. “Yes!” She yells while running out of the room. There is only one way I can describe Piper. A fricken energizer bunny and then there’s Donny who likes to sit on his bottom all day. Those two make a sloppy couple but there perfect for each other.

      “So, what movie did you ask her to bring?” Maggie asks while watching Todd; Maggie is like in love with Todd but he just doesn’t notice. Stupid oblivious men; sometimes I wish I could hit him outside the head with my slipper to smack some sense into him.

      “When a Stranger calls.” I say while examining my nails and leaning back in my chair; I glance over my shoulder. How long does it take to grab a movie?

      Donny grins. “I’ve seen that. It’s a great movie, scared my little sister shitless when she watched it.”

      Todd laughs and leans back, setting his socked feet up on my table, my kitchen table. I whack his foot with the first thing I grab, a ruler and he glares at me while holding his toes. “What was that for?”

      I smile sweetly. “For putting your sweaty feet up on my kitchen table. What are you? An ape?”

      Maggie bursts out into laughter. “Oh, she got you there Todd.”

      Todd glares at both of us and opens his mouth to say something but is interrupted by a very loud, very high-pitched scream. Piper! In a second all of us are out of our chairs and bolting in the direction of the scream. Maybe it is because I watch to many horror movies, maybe I’m just paranoid but I was readying myself for the worse but instead what we find is a terrified looking Piper sitting on top of the washing machine, the movie in her hands and screaming her head off.