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So April was crazy about the sleepover idea she had days before so she brought it up during lunch today.

"Who's house?" Bryan asked.

"My parents are at home." Jordan's house was ruled out automatically.

"You don't want to come to mine, Pandora would throw a fit and I'm not locking her up!" Ayo's house was ruled out too. They kept refusing and passing houses until Scarlet spoke up.

"Tch, use mine. I'll text you the address for those who don't know it. Bring your entertainment stuff cause I don't have any." She just withdrew her phone and texted them all the address then she left the table, leaving the lot dumbfounded.

The red head had suddenly decided to join their table one afternoon. It was a comical event because she just sat there without talking, which gave the clique the chills. They soon got used to her presence at the table and they became closer as the days passed.

Friday night came and the gang arrived one by one. The first to arrive was Ayo since his house was closer, then Shelia and Logan came together with Sharon. April arrived next with Bryan, yada yada, Don arrived last and the party started.

"Okay, I have only two house rules. One, you can go anywhere other than the attic. The door is painted red  in case some of you 'accidentally' enter and claim you didn't know. Two, do not make a noise. Is that clear?" Scarlet stated the house rules to which there were no objections, only questions.

"What about your parents room?" Jordan questioned.

"I live alone."

"Why?"

"I have hazelnut and chocolate cake in the fridge."

Jordan got the cue to drop the question and went to the kitchen which wasn't so difficult to find while the other boys and April followed him to raid Scarlet's fridge. While they ransacked the fridge, the girls went upstairs to change into their sleep wear. Shelia wore a loose top with cute sharks drawn on it on blue shorts while she braided her long black hair to the left like Elsa in Disney frozen.

"Wow Scarlet, your room is pretty." Phyllis complimented. She was wearing a black tank top on yellow shorts. Her black and blond hair was tied in two loose ponytails. Sharon's favorite spot in anybody's home was the bed and there she was, cuddled up in Scarlet's red comforter and close to sleep. She wore a brown spaghetti strapped loose top on comfy knee length pants/trousers.

"Ohl Sharon, don't go sleeping even before the slumber party even starts!" Shen shook her best friend awake and they went to join the others in raiding the fridge. As for Scarlet, she wore red pajamas and went downstairs to pursue the raiders away from her fridge. The others went upstairs to change, girls in Scarlet's room and boys in the guest room.

"So, what now?" Shelia asks. "Truth and dare or never have I ever?"

"That's too cliché." Ayo complained which gained some nods of agreement.

"It's the sleepover tradition! No sleepover is complete without truth or dare." Shelia argued back and Ayo argued forth and they argued back and forth until Shelia won. She squealed in glee as she got a bottle and they sat in a circle. Here the seating arrangement from Shelia;

Shelia, Logan, Ayo, Scarlet, Don, April, Phyllis, Bryan, Jordan, Sharon, Shelia again.

"I will spin the bottle until it stops. Whoever the bottom of the bottle lands on gets to ask the person whom the mouth lands on to pick a dare or truth."

Shelia explained the game.

"Rules of the game; one, you can't pick truth more than three times in a row, same applies to dare." Shelia stated and everybody groaned. She ignored their protests and continued. "If you want to pass, you have to tell us your deepest darkest secret as the pass fare." She earned another round of groans and complaints but she ignored them all.

Shelia started by spinning the bottle, it landed on Phyllis. "Truth or dare Phyllis?" She asked and Phyllis chose truth. "Tell me who your crush is." She demanded but Phyllis simply shrugged.

"None I guess. I had a crush on Logan once but he's taken so..." She trailed off. Every body was shocked at the discovery that Phyllis used to like Logan but she spun the bottle instead. It landed on Scarlet which caused a smug grin to display on her face. Now she would know some secrets unless Scarlet chooses a dare.

If she chooses truth, what question should she ask?! Scarlet was so mysterious and there were so many secrets she wanted to know. "Truth or dare?" Phyllis asked.

"I'll pass."

Everybody groaned in disappointment, why the heck did the most mysterious person have to pass?! Anyway, the pass fare was still standing, she would tell her deepest darkest secret.

"Okay Scarlet, you know the rules; tell us your secret!" Shelia demanded. The curiosity was burning her like hot coal.

Scarlet sighed and closed her eyes. "I..." She started.

'She what?!' Shelia was thinking.

'What is her secret?!' April's eyes were about to pop out in anticipation.

'Did she kill somebody?' Don was so sure she could do it considering how many people she had sent on a trip to the hospital.

'She cheats in exams?!' Jordan was just curious about how she gets perfect scores in exams when all she does is to sleep and be a truant.

'She is transgendered?! What the hell, Bryan! What are you thinking?!' Bryan was wondering why she behaves and looks like a boy.

"I..."

"You..." They all asked simultaneously.

"...am a murderer."

Gasps of horror echoed through the big house. Logan had heard of this before but had shaken it off as a joke back then, is it really true?!

"Now that you know, one of you might tell on me to the police and I. Can't. Let. You. Live." Scarlet stated grimly as she withdrew something from under the couch her back was resting on.

Screams filled the air as they realized that what she was holding was a gun! A friggin' gun!!! She aimed at Sheila's head but Logan got up at once and switched to defensive boyfriend mode.

"SCARLET! SCARLET STOP!" They all tried to calm her down but it was impossible.

"I'm a maniac..." Was the only thing she said and she pulled the trigger. A bang was heard and Sharon fainted due to shock.  They looked around to see who she shot and saw.
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Bubbles coming out of the gun?!

What

The

Freaking

Hell?!

"Hn, you were right. Everybody takes my jokes seriously." She muttered not so silently to herself and everybody heard and sighed in relief well, except Logan who still had his overprotective boyfriend mode on. He stood up and yelled at Scarlet for playing such an expensive joke.

"What the hell man?! You gave me a heart attack there! You don't pull a joke with such a bad ass poker face, it could kill ya know! Look at Sharon and Shelia! You just had to point the gun at SHELIA!–"

His rants were interrupted by a squirt of bubbles in his face.

"I get it now let's continue." Scarlet's cold and emotionless voice silenced them all and the game continued. The red head tried to calm down from the sensory overload their screams invoked earlier. She had gotten used to loud noises but there were times that got affected by them.

Shelia woke Sharon up from where the poor girl fainted at but then she realized something. 'What the hell, Scarlet avoided her question!'

It was too late now for the redhead had spun the bottle and it landed on Bryan. "Truth or dare." She asked coolly and the dancer asked to be dared.

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"Seriously Scarlet?!" Bryan was pushed outside the house while the others stifled their laughter. Who knew Scarlet could come up with something creative?!

*minutes before kicking Bryan outside... *

"Dare me!" Bryan confidently chose the dare and Scarlet smirked, at least internally she did, her face was stoic as ever.

"I dare you to bang on the door five houses away and run in screaming your friend's name." Her cousin taught her that one.

"What?! Who lives there?" Bryan asked.

"A senile old man. He's crazy and should be sent to the home for the elderly but he always gets away." Ayo explained.

Bryan was about to take a pass when April covered up his mouth and shoved him outside. He was in his pajamas which consisted of an orange shirt on blue boxers and April didn't allow him to put on footwear when she pushed him outside. The others followed except Sharon who went straight to the fridge.

* presently... *

"Is the camera rolling?" Phyllis whisper asked between giggles. They were hiding behind an ornamental shrub as they took the video.

"You know, he could get arrested for this." Jordan whispered.

"Never said I was a goody two shoes." Scarlet shrugged. Their attention was captured by Bryan's bangs on the old man's door. He knocked and knocked but there was no reply.

"Do you think the old man is asleep?" April whispered. Her thoughts were proven wrong when the door suddenly opened and a stick whammed Bryan's head. The old man dragged him in and closed the door. All they could hear was screams and howls of pain, it was funny but tragic but funny.

"After running away with my money you came home to do what, steal more?! You wicked child..."

"I have told you sir...OWCH! THAT HURTS! DROP THE STICK!! I'M NOT YOUR SON!!"

"How dare you deny me?! Oh this generation has gone evil..."

Whack! Whack!!

"OWCH! DROP THE FREAKING STICK!"

Whack! Double whack!!

"THAT'S IT!"

Thud

Silence...

Shifting noises and a grunt...

"This old man sure is heavy *grunt* how much does he weigh?!"

Lights out...

"Did he kill him?!" Phyllis whisper yelled in horror which broke everyone from their trance. They were about to rush in when Bryan emerged and wiped invisible dust off his hands. They all ran to meet him and asked if he killed the old man.

"I hit his head with a cushion and he fell asleep." Bryan simply stated as they walked back to Scarlet's. "Wait, where is Sharon?"

"I have dibs she's sleeping." Don placed a bet but Jordan scolded him for betting on his friends.

April suddenly pulled Shelia and Phyllis back to herself when they were in the lawn of Scarlet's house and waited till the others were out of earshot before she spoke.

"Is it just me or Jordan likes Sharon?" She asked while releasing them. Shelia squealed silently when April said that.

"So I'm not the only one who sees it?!" She jumped up and down like a schoolgirl.

"Everybody sees it Shelia, but Sharon is too dense to notice it." Phyllis noted with a sigh.

"Girls, think what I'm thinking?" April and the girls smiled deviously, it was matchmaking time.

Bryan spun the bottle and it landed on Ayo who chose to say the truth. "I won't answer if it is about why Logan and I fought." He announced, bursting everyone's bubbles and saving Logan's butt. Bryan pouted cutely and changed his question instead.

"Tell us your most embarrassing moment."

If Ayo could turn red, he would be the deepest shade of red right now. He cleared his throat and told them what happened in the candy shop on Valentine's day (chapter 7).

"Then the store owner thought Scarlet was a boy and we were a gay couple and kept telling us to kiss." He shuddered at the mental image. Shelia was rolling on the floor with laughter. Jordan did a spit take on Don's laughing face. Sharon was trying so hard to hold her laughter in while Logan joined his girlfriend on the floor. April was teasing, Bryan was laughing his ass off, Ayo was embarrassed and Scarlet was being her cold and stoic self.

"Then >laugh< what did >giggle< Scarlet do?!" April asked between laughs.

"Nothing! She just kept staring until she got the whole situation and threatened the man." Ayo answered.

"So that explains that video of you strangling someone on Valentine's." Shelia stated thoughtfully after that she had quelled her laughter. It was just so hilarious, they couldn't stop laughing as Ayo spun the bottle. It landed on Sharon and she chose dare. It was the opportunity the girls were waiting for.

When she did, the girls, except Scarlet and Sharon, dragged Ayo to a corner and started whispering incoherent stuff and giggled occasionally. Ayo nodded and they went back to their seating arrangement. Sharon gulped in anticipation of what he and the girls planned for her.

"I dare you to give Jordan a lap dance."

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What are they planning?
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