Monibridge College

Chapter 3

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“Let’s play truth or dare!” Says my friend Kim enthusiastically.

I was currently sitting next to Felix, and we were sitting in front of Alyse Cartapillar and Kim Gillet. Sara wasn’t at school today because she had to go to Melbournia for one of her parent’s business trips, but she said she would be at school tomorrow.

At the moment we were on one of the school buses that was heading to Meldrina Park, where our school sports day will take place. I sluggishly got out of bed this morning, knowing that I will absolutely be destroyed this year in sports day.

Just like every other year, I think weakly.

I’ve always been terrible at sports. I tried basketball when I was younger, but I quit when I realised I was actually quite hopeless. Even though everyone around me said I was “good”, I knew they were just trying to be nice and in their minds they were actually thinking, “YES! QUIT BASKETBALL! YOU SUCK! WOOO.”

Ahh… such a happy childhood.

 “I’ll play if Rhana plays.” I hear Felix say, looking at me expectantly.

I sigh. I don’t feel like playing truth or dare, but it seems Felix does.

“Yeah OK, why not?” I say in reply to Kim’s question.

“Awesome! OK Alyse, you can go first.” Kim says excitedly.

Alyse looks around at the three of us, seeming as though she was thinking about who to pick.

“Truth or dare… Rhana!” She says, looking at me eagerly.

“Dare…” I say worriedly, you never know what someone like Alyse will make you do for a dare.

“I dare you to yell over to Mike Watson, and say that you love his hair today.” Alyse replies cheerfully.

Too cheerfully.

 “Are you serious?” I ask her baffled.

Mike Watson is like our schools version of Brad Pitt, he has it all; the brains, the brawns, the looks. Basically every girl is after him, although they all know not to touch him or they’ll regret it…

“Yep.” Alyse replies innocently, and Felix and Kim put their hands over their mouths, trying to hold in their laughter.

“Screw you all…” I say under my breath.

I stand up slowly and search the bus.

I eventually spot Mike Watson sitting with his friend Owen Cartwright. They seemed to be in the midst of a very intense arm-wrestle.

I take in a deep breath. I’ve never liked speaking in public. Although I might be loud sometimes with my friends, I tend to become extremely shy when I have to do something in front of a crowd. And that crowd today is in front of the entire bus. Oh, and I have to say the most embarrassing thing to a guy who doesn’t even know I exist.

I tend to stick to a small group of people. We are mostly all invisible to all the other groups of students, especially people like Mike and his friends.

Yay me.

“Hey Mike!” I call out.

That seemed to grab the attention of the whole bus, not just Mike. I suddenly became extremely uncomfortable and fidgety.

“Yeah what?!” He answers distractedly, still concentrated on his arm wrestle.

“I, uhm, really like your hair today…” I say awkwardly, trying to avoid all the stares I was getting from the rest of bus.