My Double Life

Chapter 7

"Truth or Dare Mason?" River asks

"Dare me."

"I dare you to go up to those two girls over there, tell the blonde one you like her and then kiss her friend." River says pointing to two girls casually having a conversation amongst themselves

Mason gets up with a smirk on his face and does just that but both girls end up slapping him. Ouch

"That was hilarious." Seth laughs and so does everyone else
Mason takes his seat with a scrawl on his face

"Kendrick, truth or dare?" Karen asks smirking

"Dare."

"I dare you to kiss Skylar at school on Monday." She says and Seth's head shoots up quickly a frown taking over his face

Are you kidding me right now?

"No, just give me another dare." I say

"Come on Gabriel, it's just a dare and you can't back out." River taunts and they all agree except for Seth, Gabby and Ray

"Fine, I'll do it." I say giving in

"If I lose her as a friend because of this stupid dare, it's on you bro." Ray whispers next to me

I get up getting myself another drink from the kitchen, I don't want to play anymore.

"Hey Ken, want me to help you ease that stress for tonight?" Heather comes up to me

"No, but I'm sure there are other guys who would love to get with you." I say taking a swing at my beer

"Are you gay or something? Because now that I think about it, I have never seen you with a girl or even heard of anything of that sort." She asks irritated

I almost laughed but decided to hold my composure

"Maybe I am or maybe I just don't dig high school girls." I say setting down my beer

"Ugh, you men are so frustrating." She storms off

I hope she got the hint now.

"You aren't actually going to kiss her are you?" Seth asks taking a spot next to me

"I don't know but a dare is a dare and you know me to never back out on one." I say and he sighs nodding his head

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It's Monday already, the weekend flew by fast. The guys have been pestering me about the dare all morning. I thought about not actually doing it but if one more person asks me about it, I might just have to

"Ladies." Ray greets

"Hey guys." Karen and Gabby say in unison

"Wassup dawgs. How was the party, nobody has filled me in yet." Skylar says shutting her locker

"Uh, it was good." Karen nervously says looking at me

"Just good? What happened because you my friend would never label a party as just 'good'." She say smiling

"Yeah you know me so well. Actually idaredKentokissypubutididn'tmeantoipromise." She rambles

None of us have said anything,  even Seth is quiet

"Woah slow down there, repeat that aga-" the bell cuts her off

"I'll tell you at lunch byeeee." She runs off

"Wait, we have the same class." Skylar shouts but Karen keeps running

"Boys, let's go." Skylar says to Ray and I. We follow her without protesting

We enter the class and I look over at Karen who looks like she's going to pass out at the sight of us

"I'll see you guys." Skylar walks to her seat and Ray and I go to ours

"Don't do it man." Ray says to me

"Look, I don't want to do it okay. But if you guys keep pestering me about it, I might just." I say and the teacher walks in

"If this backfires, I don't want to be a part of it." Ray says

"It's my dare so you don't need to worry about it. You w-" I was cut off by Mr Anderson

"With Mr Gabriel's permission, I'd like to get on with my lesson." He says glaring at me

"Permission granted." I lean back in my chair

He sighs and starts the lesson. I look over to Skylar who immediately meets my eye when she looks up behind her

We are seated at the lunch table with the girls and nobody has uttered a word, everyone is quietly eating their food. Time passes until Skylar is the first to speak up

"You guys are all acting strange today, apart from Kendrick he's naturally strange to me." She finishes and Seth snorts

"I thought you enjoyed eating your food in silence." Gabby says to Skylar

"Yeah but I've gotten used to you guys going on and on about stuff during lunch period. This is new and uncomfortable." She says

"Yo Kendrick, have you done your dare yet?" River asks as he walks by our table

"Yeah now fuck off." I bitterly say to him

"Oohh, what dare is that?" Skylar wiggles her eyebrows nudging me

"I'm sorry for what I'm about to do." I say cupping her face and she gives me a confused look

I kiss her. The kiss lasting a few seconds longer then intended. At first she's stiffens at the contact but warms up to it and actually kisses me back. How can something so wrong, feel so right?

I break the kiss and everyone's jaws are on the floor. Seth gets up and leaves the cafeteria

"I'm sorry Skylar, I didn't mean to dare him to kiss you. I was drunk and I, I just don't know what got into me." Karen says

"That was the dare?" She asks

"Yeah." Ray answers when nobody does and she too gets up and leaves the cafeteria

Well that went as expected. Although I didn't think she would kiss me back, I think she felt it too. The sparks

"Uh, I'm just going to look for her." Gabby awkwardly says

Karen follows after a few minutes of an awkward silence without saying anything

"I told you not to do it." Ray says going back to eating his food

"Yeah but if i didn't, I wouldn't have felt it." I say in a trance

"Felt what?" Ray questions

"I don't know, it's stupid forget I said anything." I say folding my hands together

"Would you do it again if given the chance?" Ray asks

In a heartbeat

"I don't know." Is all I say

It's the end of the school day, Skylar has been ignoring us ever since the kiss, Seth hasn't said a word to me either I don't know what his problem is and Ray keeps telling me to go apologize so I'm going to do just that.

"Hey Skylar." I call out as she walks out the building with Gabby and Karen, I'm guessing she hasn't spoken to them either by the looks on their faces

"What is it Kendrick?" She sighs

"I just want to apologize for what I did earlier. I didn't mean to upset you." I honestly say

"Look guys, I'm not mad about the kiss." She tells us all. "Im just upset that I was the last to know, next time please give me a heads up before doing such." She says and walks out the school gate

At least she's not mad that I kissed her meaning she could have possibly also felt it

"Skylar, let us take you home." Seth yells after her

"No thank you. I want to walk today." She shouts back and walks away

"This is all my fault." Karen says and I almost agree

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