The Best Friends Dare

Chapter 4

WHILE they are singing and dancing happily, Naha still can’t stop thinking about her company, she can’t accept that the sales of her company drops. Since she ruled that company by herself never in her lifetime she experience whatever she experience now. She’s singing and dancing with her friends but her mind is somewhere afar. She’s not like this. She doesn’t stress herself too much before because she knows everything happens for a reason but not this time. She knew the first she heard that name, even she will composed herself, she can’t.

As she thinks about her company the more problems she finds.

Naha sips her vodka as she walks towards the sofa and sit there. She looks at her friends. Everyone looks so happy except her. I mean, she’s happy but not that happy, happy. The fact that her company is at stake she can’t totally spin of the night. As far as she can remember, her company gives all the citizens wants. From toddler to the oblivion. But because of that Jeous, things gets worst with a snap! She can’t believe that all of the chaos that’s happening in her own company is because of that freaking Jeous!

Damn him!

She shrugged her head to cast away her problem and that man. She drinks her vodka. At once, she will let her self be happy. Just for tonight, together with her friends. Naha knows it’s not that easy but she can handle this dilemma professionally. But for tonight, this one night, she will sing and dance her problem away with her best friends.

She stands up and get back at the dance floor again while holding a glass of vodka. Naha sways her hips at the music and grind. She was already on the cloud nine, dancing the beat of the music all of her hearts and swaying her hips like nobody’s watching when the music suddenly stops and they all groan in annoyance.

“What the hell!?” their friend Khea shouted and it looks like the spirit of the drink God already hit her friend because Khea is walking like a mad drunk woman towards the stereo to probably on the music again, she looks like falling down while walking, typical drunkard but Vodjdani immediately stop our friend Khea.

“Hephep!” as Vodjdani stop their friend Khea, and the latter just looking at Vodjdani in a very weird way as they answer Vodjdani, “Horay!” they shouted in unison except for Khea who looks like daze and confuse. They all laugh because of the sudden ice breaker. That’s all they do when they are together. Laughs at their own jokes. For a minute, Naha was reminded by the things they do when they were younger.

Even the corniest joke that their friend Leandly throws they laugh at it together asif it was a very funny joke. What are friends are for right? It’s a support you know. And they don’t want Leandly to feel bad even though Leandly herself knew that her jokes was lame. That’s not being a plastic friend, that’s how you respect your friend for the effort to make them laugh. And that’s a huge one.

Naha suddenly flinch at the acidity of Vodjdani’s voice. It was loud and really surprising. Yet it doesn’t matter because they are used to it when it’s their friend Joana who’s talking, so Naha just listened where she actually intend to listen because there is no point to not listen or else Vodj will look at her or even throws whatever her friend finds at hand grasp. And of course, Naha doesn’t want to waste Vodj’s effort to catch their attention and talk at the front for more exciting activity, she guess.

“So bitches, let’s play dirty!”, Vodjdani look at them with a devilish smile while raising her eyebrows nonstop and Naha can’t stop herself to look at her friends reaction. Vodj is standing at the front of them while holding a bottle of whisky where her friend drinks it directly from the bottle time to time using her left hand, on the other hand Vodjdani is holding a microphone the reason why Naha was surprise earlier. As she was done talking, she grinned at them. As if she’s beaming at them. And from that time Naha already knows what their friend Vodjdani is trying to imply.

All of them smile widely and quickly form a circle, at first they push the table and the sofa at the very corner so that they can form a big circle since they are too many to mention and of course they can sit comfortably because of the huge area. As Naha said, they form a circle and they put a glasses of wine individually at their spot. And because Jamaica’s house is really big or is it even call a house when it looks like a mansion? Whatever. They don’t struggle for spaces and they occupy the huge living room. Imagine, they are 30+ , she lost count. All she knows that their circle of friends is big. While they are on the floor, crossing their legs, mind you they are all wearing dress but they doesn’t seem to care, plus, the empty bottle of whisky is on the center of the circle. Bet you already know what they are doing. Spin the bottle.

Same old dirty little game.

Naha smile to herself, this game was their bonding time game way back college. A quick flashback rush into her mind and she can’t stop herself but to smile remembering that gold old days. But look at the now? They are already successful at the age of 28 or so but they still can’t forget this game. This game makes their friendship even stronger because of its twist.

This game is called the, “Best friend’s dare.””

They call it the best friend’s dare because whoever among them pointed by the bottle’s mouth after spinning, she’s the one who will give a dare towards the person who was pointed by the bottle’s bottom. Instead the person who’s chosen by the bottle will be the one who will receive the dare, she will be the one who will give orders. There’s no truth in this game. And whatever dare the appointed darer to the victim she cannot refuse it or she will lost thousands of money or any other belongings she has.

Sounds fun isn’t it? Cruel indeed.

“Let the game begins.” Their friend Jhonelly announce it she walks in the middle of the circle to spin the bottle, after she spin it she run towards her spot because the circle they form is huge that she need to run back to her place as fast as she can.

Because of the good way of spinning the bottle, thanks to Jhonelly, the bottle spins so fast at this moment and all of them are staring at the bottle intently, wishing to stop the bottle in front of them. Once the bottle point towards one of them, they all knew that the dare will be merciless. While the bottle spin slower and slower, Naha hold her breath. It looks like the spirit of liquor gets out of her body because of the tension arising her and her friends. The bottle spin more slowly as it was and she can’t really hear her friends grasp for air even a second.

The dare she will get from her friend is not the usual or typical dare where you sing or dance or make fun of yourself, or recreate a drama scene from a movie or act like a crazy woman like Sisa looking for Crispin and Basilyo and vice versa. The dare is really a dirty dare but, it’s funny. Not to the one who will do the dare but for the person who order the dare and her other friends. The question is what will be the dare they will inside Jamaica’s mansion?

Let’s watch it.

All of them are watching the bottle spinning slowly, they are not breathing. And finally, it looks like the bottle seems to be tired spinning as it looks like asking for help or drink, it spin slowly like it’s stopping but still turning. And because of the excitement they can’t their self from cheering, chanting and giggling because of the excitement they feel! They are shouting nonstop asking for the bottle to stop pointing towards them. Naha is all hype to as she shouts at the bottle too as if the bottle will understand whatever she is saying.

“Oh my God!” Thea the make-up artist shouts loudly and because of it they all shockingly shouts to as if the bottle points towards them. And in the last round of the bottle, they are out of breath. They can’t believe it. The bottle’s mouth stop in front of Rica’s. Rica Mae Gallora is an owner of world’s renounced banks here in the Philippines and even in other countries.

And because Rica’s voice is natural loud and boisterous, Naha cover her ears because her friend Rica shouts loudly but in a soprano way voice. Rica gets up and go jumping while screaming in a shrill voice. Her other friend can’t stand it that is why they throws whatever things they can get towards Rica. And because she doesn’t care if she’ll get hit or not Rica look at them one by one using her scary eye look as if anytime soon someone will get slaughter. She raised her eyebrows up and down as she smirk as if she’s the predator who already catches her prey. Then Rica look at the person she will order to the dare. Jamaica Pesodas, the owner of this house and one of the highest paid model in the world. Oh no, Naha’s voice echoed in her mind.

Rica opens her mouth and say “I dare you to……..” she stops for awhile.

Naha looks at her friend Rica and look at Jamaica, she gaze at them back and fort waiting for Rica to spill the dare, while Jamaica looks so nervous right now. Naha can't help but to get nervous too. Gosh..

“I dare you to.......” another pause coming from Rica and Naha can't stand it. It looks like she's more nervous than Jamaica who's actually going to do the dare.

“Com on, Rics!” Jhonelly urges Rica.

“Spill the dare sis.” Ella said.

And before anyone can react, Rica laughs devilish.

Oh my goodness.

Naha slap her face mentally. Yes. She got a crazy a friend right here.