Dare

Sometimes you don't live for yourself, but for the loved ones, for the one whom you're important. For ZouMi, her parent's and her brothers were the reason, she put on a smile every day. Seeing her family smile on the breakfast makes her day, makes a reason to live for another day. Their smile is what matters to her the most.

Keeping herself busy, with the material arts training or either by school work, she only gets alone time at night. When the moment she hit the bed, for quite some time her brain process what happened all day long. ZouMi bitterly smile, every night remembering the genuine smile of her family, while she replies with a realistic-fake one.

That day event still haunt her every night, like it is replaying again and again as a video in her dream which is as realistic as reality. But, still she stays strong and starts the day with a hope to get a better sleep at the night. She over works and tire herself to the extent of collapsing, so to sleep the moment she hit the bed, to not let her mind work for a millisecond.

After coming back from MoBin, ZouMi had her breakfast and rushed to school she was pretty late, but got in.

During break at cafeteria,

"Guys, it's been a while we played right? Let's play now!" Excitement over-loaded acting of Sid Xau, made everyone roll their eye.

"You don't have to show such excitement for the game, we have been playing since our childhood, why and how the heck you can be so dramatic, being my twin!" Hitting at the back of Xau's head, ZouMi rolled her eyes again.

"Sob. Sob. You guys are really heartless, how can you say that to me. Bad guys." Pouting cutely and with addition of extra drama.

"Bro, what are you, three? You aren't cute at all, it's better to watch a plain white wall for hours than the sh*tty face of yours." Chen shrugged his shoulders at Xau.

"Ok, ok, fine. Let's start with the game, XuXu you go first. Truth or Dare." said ZouMi.

"I will go with Truth."

"Do you still have to take truth, come on man, grow up, when was the last time you took the dare? Every time truth, we already know you, in and out. So, cut the crab and take dare"

"No way, I had to visit dentist last time, that slap still hurts me." Shaking his head, while remembering that scene.

"HAHAHA. Bro, we just asked you to get a pen from her, that's not our fault you had a crush on her all of a second and asked her number. You deserve that." and the group started laughing.

"Ok, dare."

"That's like my boy. Um, hun! Wait let me think." said ZouMi while tapping her finger on her chin. "Oh, yah! The one right at the corner you see him."

"That dinosaur senior?"

"Yes, go and snatch his sandwich and eat it."

"Wow, bro don't you love me anymore, or what? You are asking me, a skinny guy like me, to go up and pull of the favorite loving thing from the tiger? Are you nuts?"

"Do that, if not you have to go to the podium while the princi is giving speech and start dancing. Choice is yours."

"If I dance on the stage, surely my image will be ruined, and getting punished is another topic. And if I snatch the sandwich from that bulky fat senior, he will beat the sh*t out of me. In both the cases my image will be ruined, what should I do?" Murmuring to himself Xau, couldn't decide, what he should do while pulling his hairs.

Seeing him in this condition, Chen, Bai and ZouMi were trying hard to control their laughter.

"Ok, I will go with the snatching of sandwich from him. After all, I have you guys for support." Xau announced proudly.

"Do you think we'll rescue you, if you're in trouble?" And Xau nodded his head. While all of them who were holding their laughter for a while now finally begin to laugh.

"Wake up from your, Lala land Sid Xau, it's a dare, which you have to complete, and you know if you won't complete it..." Chen paused for a while and continued, "You have to drink 5 shots of vinegar mixed with lemonade and chilly powder, as a punishment. If you are able to complete your dare, you don't have to drink but, what else happen has nothing to do with us. You were the one insisting on playing the game." still laughing at him. Though they would save him, before he could get harmed, but what a friendship without teasing?

"You are given five minutes, go up or else you lose."

Walking towards the table of seniors, Xau took a deep breath before snatching the sandwich and running a bit fast, while eating it. It just happens in a fraction of second, that seniors couldn't react on time, and before they could chase him, Xau already ate it. Sighing in relief Xau stopped, but a hand gripped on to his shoulder tightly, slowly turning around Xau saw was a big fat round tummy and rising his face, he saw that senior with anger in his eye's ready to eat him alive. Gulping in fear, Xau tried to run, but the hand on his shoulder tighten is grip.

"Big brother, uhm, huh! I'm sorry I was just too hungry, so I ate your sandwich. You don't mind right? Look PRINCIP." Exclaimed before pulling of the seniors pant and running away "Sorry, but I will pay your bill." Shouted, while running for his life.

Finally, when he reached his classroom he sighed in relief, but he surely knows the senior will come back to him.

After the school the gang of four was leaving the camps, but was surrounded by six tall, bulky seniors. All of them had some or the other elements like hockey stick, bat and what not.

Yet the four of them had a really calm look and a mocking smile, which irritated the seniors down to the core.

"Don't you have fear? We will beat the sh*t out of you! How dare you do that nonsensical thing to our classmate, get down to your knees and rub your nose on his shoe and say sorry, if not..." showing them hockey and bat as a warning.

But nevertheless, they acted as if they didn't hear anything threatening but a joke and started laughing, while looking at...