Dare Night

Chapter 14: The Truth.

"I'm not doing it!" We heard. It was Lauren, I knew her screech anywhere. 

"We all have to do it!" Alex said. 

 They made their way over to where we were sitting. 

"But why do I have to be the one that tells it."

"Because you were her friend!" Kya yells in Lauren's face. 

"Fine," She looked at me, but her face looked of sorrow and not her usual resting bitch face, "Look our final dare is too tell you the truth about what happened that night when everything went down."

I stood up, "What do you mean the truth?"

She hesitated, "It was all supposed to be a prank, okay?"

"What was meant to be a prank?" I asked, wanting her to spit it out. 

"The night you had sex with Alex. Well, I mean you didn't really have sex with Alex."

"I didn't?"

"I just said you didn't, "She started with an attitude. 

"I just want to say," Alex started, "That when we were taking shots, you threw up on your shirt, so I  gave you mine to wear. That's the only reason you were wearing it. You passed out on the bed after that."

Lauren took over, "Then we all came upstairs to find you and Kya thought it would be funny to pull a prank on you and tell you that you had slept with Alex. Kya's the one who took the pictures of you."

"What the hell, Lauren?" Kya chimed in, "Don't through me under the bus like that! I specifically remember that you removed her pants to make it look more real."

I started to get sick to my stomach.

"You were the one to post the pictures all over school, Kya," Lauren yelled, "I swear Reese, I didn't know she was going to do that. You were so drunk we thought it would be just a funny prank. It went to far!"

"You're sure as hell right it went to far," Sonic yelled. 

"This isn't about you Sonic so stay out of it!" Kya screamed. 

"It is about me when my friend is involved. What kind of sick bastards are you?"

I cleared my throat, "I was bullied, not only by you guys after that, but the whole school. You guys even went on after that still calling me a whore, when you clearly knew I wasn't. Why did you do it Lauren?" 

 That question is a question I wanted to ask for a long time. Not about the whole thing, because I'm only now finding out it was a prank. I wanted to know why about the pictures. 

"I don't know why."

Sonic stepped in again, "Yes she does. It's because she wanted so hard to be friends with Kya because she's popular that she was willing to do anything. Even if that meant to do something sick like this, to your best friend. And that's all you really wanted, wasn't it, Lauren?"

"Yeah, so," She said.

"So you were willing to hurt your best friend just because you wanted people too think you were popular?" Lane interfered, "I stopped talking to both of you because I didn't know who to believe. You made me lose my best friend."

"I spent my last year in high school with no friends besides Sonic who I rarely seen anyway. I had to sit alone at lunch and watch as everyone else laughed and talk with their friends. I never got asked to a formal or prom. All I ever wanted was for someone to ask me to prom. You, Lane and I used to talk about going, but the only reason guys ever talked to me was because they actually thought I was a slut. I missed out on a lot my senior year, because of you guys. How could you do that to someone? You made me think I was worthless. And that's something no one should ever feel."

"Except for maybe you guys right now," Brooklyn said. 

"Look, we told you the truth," Kya jumped in, "So get over it."

 I had so much pent up anger inside. I wanted to run across and tackle both of the girls and wail on them. I wanted to punch them in the stomach, so they knew how sick to mine I was the night it all happened. But if I did that, I would be no better than them. 

But that didn't stop April. She walked over to Kya and stood right in front of her and gave her eye a nice punch. Kya went straight to the ground then April turned to Lauren.

"April, they aren't worth it," I said. 

"You're lucky she doesn't want me to kick both of your asses," April walked away. 

"We should have just skipped this dare!" Kya yelled.

"Let's all try and calm down for a second," Alex said, "Look, Reese I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. 

"Don't apologize to her!"

"Someone needs to, and I know neither one of you are going to do it!"

 I felt like I couldn't breath at this point from everything I was hearing. I needed to get out of here. I started to run. And run fast. I wanted to get out of there. Even though we were out in an open field, I felt like I had no room to breath. I headed for the path we took to get in her and ran to the van. I wanted to be alone. Which was weird because for the longest time I hated being alone. 

 Everything hit me all at once. Knowing that I didn't lose my virginity that night, knowing one of my best friends thought it would be a funny prank, all the yelling, I just started to cry.

 After everything happened, I hadn't cried. Not once. Yes, I was upset about it, but I never let myself cry. But now, I couldn't stop the tears. They were built up too much, it felt like streams coming out of my eyes. 

 I had my head down, but I heard footsteps coming my way, "You okay?" Sonic asked. 

"I will be."

"Look," He started, "They are shitty people and they will get what's coming to them one day. But just remember, that we are all here for you, Reese. You care so much for other people and try to make them happy over your own happiness. Now that you found out the truth about what happened, you can finally focus on you."

"Thanks Sonic," I said standing up, "What hurts the most about all of this, is someone who was my best friend, someone I trusted with everything, just turned around and betrayed me. For what? To get to sit with the so called cool kids at lunch?"

He put his arm around me, "Well, now you have 4 friends who would never do that to you."

I smiled.

"Because I'm the coolest kid in school, so when you guys sit with me, you will be at the cool table," He joked.

I laughed, "Thank you for always making me laugh, when I never thought I would be able to again, Sonic."

"Anything for you."

"Is it okay if we join this little heart to heart?" Lane said walking up.

"How about a group hug?" April said running up, joining us all in a group hug.

"Sonic you are squeezing me a little to hard, bud," Brooklyn said.

"I just love you all so much."

"You ready to go back there?" Brooklyn turned to me.

"Yeah."

"Good, let's go win this thing."

 As we all walked back, I smiled looking at all my friends around me. The beginning of this year I had no one to turn to. Now I have 4 people who I consider my best friends.

"How was that even a dare?" Lane asked me. I just realized as she said something. Who would have known the truth about what happened that night, "Who would have written that down as a dare?"

"I would have," We heard coming from the bushes. 

"Mr. Santino?" Everyone one said.