Truth or Dare?

Taming the beast

Before he could charge at me like a bull, Greg and Charlie clamped their hands on his shoulders as if to restrain him from killing the men with his bare hands.

I stood up as quickly as possible with my limbs feeling like jelly and hurriedly thanked the men while taking their hands off me with my own. Lauren smirked like an idiot and left for our table with the opened bottle in hand, leaving me standing there just staring at everyone in the bar.

I heard a chuckle behind me and turned to the bartender.

"I see you have quite a possessive boyfriend there love!"

I blinked rapidly but smiled a sheepish smile.

"Oh he's not mine. As fun as it would be, there is nothing between us."

"Yet." Was all the bartender said before putting four shots of something on a tray in front of me.

"Four shots of tequila for the ladies. I think you're all going to need it with those four." He winks and nods his head towards the doors at the four men who look like they're about to hurt someone any second. As I bring a twenty pound note out of my purse, the bartender puts his hand over it and pushes it away.

I pick up the tray containing shots, lemons and salt from the bar and saunter over to the table, where my three friends are smiling knowingly at my evil smile. Without another glance at the guys, I turn and sit on my stool and act as though they didn't exist.

I vaguely notice that they eventually go to sit in the booth directly behind me and I'm glad that I can't see their faces anymore.

"Ok, shot time ladies. Courtesy of the handsome bar man!" I shout loud enough for the barman to hear but also knowing the men behind me would hear.

We all share a wicked smile before licking the area between our thumbs and finger as slowly as possible and shaking the salt shaker onto the wetness on our hands. Holding the lemon with our finger and thumbs we pick up the shot and all wink at the bar man.

Before taking the shot we each link arms and lick the salt from our partners hand and down their shot and bite their lemon.

When I open my eyes again I notice that the barman is now smiling to himself and shaking his head and the two men at the bar are now whistling at our display. I don't need to turn around to know we are getting death stares from the table behind us.

As the rest of the girls sit down, I take the time to walk over to table behind but I keep my wicked smile in place and don't let an inch of nerves show on my face or in my body language. I think.

"I held up my end of the bargain so please explain why you've graced us with your presence." My tone was bitter but I tried very hard to control the urge to scream at my over protective brother.

"Just fancied getting out of the house. Last time I checked, you didn't own this bar!" He looks just as evil as me but I can't help but feel he's hiding something.

"No problem, however I will pre-warn you now. I am here to let loose and have fun. Get in my way and we will leave for another bar and I won't tell you where I'm going and I won't be coming home tonight. Understood?" My face is only an inch from his as I lay the threat down and smile.

I see his Adam's apple bob up and down as he swallows the lump in his throat. I think he's about to answer me but then he just nods and I walk away with my head held high.

Where the fuck did that come from? Since when did I speak to my brother like that? He's definitely going to kill me at some point during the night.

When I arrive back at the table, I explain to the girls what I had said and his response. When they all burst out laughing, I see Alice pay Roman a sympathetic smile and I wonder how he responds behind me.