I Dare You

I couldn't stop thinking about Andy for the past two hours. By that point I knew he was being serious. He didn't even pretend he wasn't with me when Ashley rudely interrupted us. I'm actually excited for our future! As I laid in bed, Crystal suddenly came through the door.

"So how was you date?," she asked with Brendon close behind her. Does no one know how to knock now and days?! I could have been masterbating! Would I be? Depends. It's funny how, after what he did to my sister, he thinks he can just walk around here like nothing happened.

"She had a date? I'm surprised! I thought you were a lesbian just like your faggot friend, Jenny," he smirked. Wow, asshole.

"First of all, her name is Janice, and second of all, don't you ever call her that again or I'll remind you what happened when you hit Crystal you fuckin' prick!". Oh yeah, he honestly changed! My ass! He's the same asshole he always was. I hate it when a man can manipulate a girl with false promises and hopes. Brendon is a good manipulator. Should I fuck him up again? I'm thinking yes.

"Aph! Don't talk to him that way!," said Crystal. She's gonna defend that punk over her own sister?

"What?! He started it! You should be defending me!".

"Why should I defend you if you started it?". Brainwashed.

"What?! I didn't even...what's the point in fighting with you if you're just gonna take his side? Can you just go, please? Before you two give me headache".

"Why don't you make us?," said Brendon as he walked and stood right in front of me. I'll take that as an invitation. I threw him a single swing at his stomach as hard as I could and he fell to the ground. Crystal pushed me out of the way, quickly dropped to her knees, and help him up.

"Why did you do that?!," she yelled as she struggled to pick him up. I must have a good arm to be able to punch him that hard. I surprise myself.

"He didn't want to get out of my room".

"You could've asked nicely". Are you serious?

"Okay," I cleared my throat ans stood up straight," Get the fuck out of my room!". She gave me the death glare and walked out of my room with Brendon. They just ruined one of the most happiest days of my life. Suddenly my phone started ringing. I checked the caller I.D. It's Mikey. I quickly answered.

"Mikey! I was worried about you. You didn't call or show up for school". Ever since the day of the party he disappeared.

"Hey. C..can I come over?," I heard sadness in his voice. He sounded like he's been crying.

"Sure, but what's wrong hon?".

"I'll tell you when I come over".

"Alright, I'll be waiting. Want Janice to come also?".

"Yeah, I really need the comfort right now".

"Okay, bye".

"Bye". I quickly hung up and dialed Janice's number. I wonder what's wrong with him. Maybe Jayy did something to him! No, I doubt that. He would never hurt Mikey, he loves him too much.

"Yello".

"I think we have a code red. Mikey is having trouble. We might need to bury a body".

"Code red! I'll be right over!". ______________________________________

"What happened?," Janice bursted thought the door like a police officer.

"I don't know. Mikey said he'll explain when he comes over".

"I hope it's nothing too serious".

"It sounded like he was crying, so I'm guessing it is". We waited anxiously for Mikey to come. I really hope it's nothing serious, because I don't like seeing him hurt. He's a good, smart, nice guy. He doesn't deserve it. Just then we heard the door bell ring and we ran to the door. I opened the door and Mikey walked in, hiding his face behind his Misfits hoodie as he made his way to my room. Once we got in Janice and I sat down on my bed, watching him.

"What's wrong, Mikey?". He reached for his zipper. He hesitated at first, but eventually unzipped it. Once he took his hoodie off we stared at him in disbelief. His face is covered in bruises. He has a black eye, a busted lip, bruised nose, and a huge bruise on his cheek.

"Who did this to you?". He sat in between us and started crying. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders as Janice wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Mikey...who did this to you".

"G..Ger...Gerard,"he choked out. Gerard. Gerard! How can that son of a bitch do this to his own brother?!

"Why?! What happened for him to do this?!," yelled Janice. He took a deep breath to calm him self.

"I..I was in my room, playing with my bass, then I heard Gerard and his friends come home. I ignored them ans kept playing. Then Gerard busted my door open and came in with his friends. They started laughing at me, touching me, caling me names...I got tired of it so I told them to fuck off. Then uddenly he punched me in the face and soon enough his friends joined in. They took turns hitting me! Once they heard my mom come home, they all ran out to the livivng room". He began crying again. I held him in my arms. I looked over at Janice, she got up and went to my closet. What is she doing? Before I could even guess she came back out with my metal bat.

"What are you gonna do with that?".

"Remember what we did to Brendon?," she asked.

"Yeah. Greatest day of my life".

"I say we do a reenactment of that day, but have Mikey's lovely brother and friends be the acters instead of Brendon". Bitch just read my mind!

"We shall!". I threw my fist in the air.

"You can't," said Mikey as he ruined the moment.

"And why not?," Jaince asked confused.

"Because of my mom".

"And? They can join," I said as I stood next to Janice.

"And no! If you kick his ass, my ass will get in trouble".

"By Jayy?," Janice wiggled her eyebrows.

"Not funny," Mikey sighed.

"Sorry. Sad attempt to make you laugh".

"But why would you get in trouble? Look at what he did to you," I asked.

"My mom would get him in trouble, but bring other people into the situation and them causing harm to him, it'll be by fault".

"I guess. Do you want to sleep over?".

"Please!".

"Can I sleep over?," asked Janice.

"Duh!".

"Yay! Don't worry Mikey, we're gonna cheer you up and make you laugh so hard you'll vomit," said Janice as she took out a bra from my drawers. Oh God! _______________________________

"Run! Run! Run!," yelled Mikey as we watched Halloween," See, this is why you listen to the gay guy. If you don't you get killed".

"When it comes to fashion, then we wil," Janice said as she stuffed her face with popcorn.

"Offensive!," Mikey gave her the death glare."Hey Aph, can I ask you something?".

"What?".

"Is there something going on between you and Andy". Wow, news travels fast.

"He's.....been talking to me lately, gave me a ride home, and we went for a walk in the park today," I smiled as I remembered it," how did you find out? You haven't been in school?".

"Gerard. He talk's to Andy on the phone and I keep hearing your name".

"Awe! He talks about you!," Janice teased as she squeezed my cheecks. I smacked her hand away.

"Stop that! What do they say?".

"I don't know. I just hear your name a lot".

"Probably talking about the time we were all friends," stated Janice.

"You guys were friends! Why didn't anyone tell me?!," yelled Mikey in disbelief.

"I thought I did".

"Absolutely not! You better tell me now". He got up from his curreet laying position on my bed, to sitting in front of me. Story time!

"Okay Fine! Andy and I were friends since we were in diapers. Our mothers were best friends of course, which meant a lot of play dates. I remember they always use to fantasize about when we grow up, we're gonna be soul mates, and live happily ever after. I always believe that was gonna be true. I...haha..I remember if we ever got mad at each other, he would push me away and I would either kick him in the knee or hit him behind the head. Anyways, when we were around seven we would have sleep overs, little parties to celebrate the dumbies things, and we had movie nights. Every Friday we'd watch every TIm Burton movie. We basically hung out all the time. Then that's when Janice came along. She was his new neighbor..".

"And still am," she interrupted. I gave her the death glare.

"Anyways, Andy would always she her playing by herself, so he decided to invite her to our movie night. Which, by the way, pissed me off a bit, because I thought she was gonna take time awy from me. Then after hanging out more, we all became friends. It all ended once we entered middle school. By that time it's alla bout popularity, physical appearences, and who had the best stuff. Andy was getting his sexiness by that time. He slowy started drifting away from us and started hanging out with those assholes. One day he was hanging out with them. I walked up to him to ask if he was still comeing over for movie night. The guys started laughing at him. Then he told me why would he hangout with a bunch of losers like us. Then he pushed me down and that's when lades and gentelmen, our rivalry began! The end".

"Great story! Great story!," said Mikey as he clapped his hands. I bowed and sat next to him.

"You two would make a great couple though," said Janice.

"I don't see how. Him with his beautiful eyes, kissable lips, ans sexy face". I didn't noticed I was bitting my lips intill I saw Mikey and Janice gave me weird looks.

"Look Aph, you're beautiful too. I mean look at you! You have an amazing figure, beautful green-yellow eyes, beautiful smile, everything! Anyone would kill to have you beauty! So don't you ever fuckin' think less of yourself again woman!". I love Mikey so much!

"Thanks!". I threw myself at him and gave him the biggest hug I could give, which I'm pretty sure his killing him. Not long after, Janice threw herself at me and made a dog-pile.

"Time for bed guys!".

"No! I'm not sleepy!," Mikey whined.

"We have school tomorrow".

"Not going for one day won't hurt anyone". I guess they're right. I wasn't in the mood to go to school anyways. I shrugged and rested my head on Mikey's shoulder. As I watched the movie I slowly drifted off to sleep. _________________________________

*Andy's POV*

Where is she? The late bell is about to ring. I leaned on Aphrodite's locker and continued to look at the school front doors. Ever since she kissed me yesterday I couldn't keep my mind off of her. That kiss...it felt different. As if it were meant to be. It just felt different that Scout's kisses. Better? All I know, it was the best kiss I've had. The late bell rang. I guess she didn't come today. I'll go check at her house after school to see if she's okay.

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*Aphrodite's POV*

"Aph. Aph. Aph!". I jumped up and screamed bloody murder. I rapidly started kicking my legs ans flinging my arms in diffferent directions in till I heard Mikey's voice tell me to calm down. After I calmed myself I threw a pillow in his direction, but missed.

"What the hell, Mikey?! You know I don't like that!," I crossed my arms and pouted like a kid. I really do hate when someone yells to wake me up. Last time that happeed I almost broke Crystal's nose.

"Awe. Sorry babe, I just thought you wanted to know breakfast is ready and your dad said it was cool for you to stay home!".

"Okay, I'll be down in a sec". Mikey walked out of my room. I groaned and looked at the clock. It read nine 'oclock. Even if I stay I don't get any sleep. I got up, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair, and ran downstairs.

"Hola mothafuckas'!," I yelled as I jumped on Mikey's back. He groaned.

"Ow, my back hurt from yesterday, remember?".

"Oops, sorry!". I got off his back and sat down on the kitchen counter.

"Here's your breakfast!," Janice said as she placed a plate of pancakes in front of me.

"I love you so much right now!". I looked to my right and saw Crystal and Brendon looking at us. I just stuffed my face to rub it tease them. Brendon gave me the finger. I opened my mouth widely and he looked at me in disgust.

"Hon, close your mouth. Flies are gonna go in there," Mikey said as he pushed my jaw up.

"Sorry, Brendon gave me the finger". Janice turned over to face Brendon, who was still looking at us like a stalker, as threw a spatula at him. Which did hit him in the face. She has a really goot throwing arm.

"What the fuck, man?," yelled Brendon.

"Sorry, it slipped," she smiled innocently.

"Shouldn't you be in school?".

"Shouldn't you be in jail getting butt raped by now?". Crystal and Brendon got up and left up to her room.

"I thought they broke up after he hit her," Mikey said confused.

"She actually thinks he changed, so she's giving him another hance". Ahmen to that. _______________________________

The rest of the morning we ran around, played with make up, dresed Mikey in different dresses, threw things at Brendon every time we passed by Crystal's room, and reenacted scenes from our favorite movies. Basically kid things. Currently we are laying on the ground by the front door. Reason: I tripped on my shoes an landed on Janice, who landed on Mikey. We were dominoes for a moment. We've been laying hre for about half an hour talking about our past memories. I heard the door bell ring and I crawled to the door and opened it and saw Andy.

"Oh, hi Andy," I smiled.

LHi, um...hy are you on the ground?".

"Fell down. Too lazy to get up".

"Ah, let me help you up". He grabbed my arm and pulled me up.

"Thank you". Mikey and Janice stared with a smirk on their faces.

"So, why didn't you go to school today? I was really worried about you".

"Some problems with people".

"Who do I have to beat up?".

"No one I can handle".

lTuff. I like it. You know I couldn't stop thinking about that kiss from yesterday".

"What?!," Mikey and Janice yelled. I giggled.

"Really? Me neither".

"Would you do me the honor and remind me how it went?".

"I would love to!". I smiled as I wrapped my arms around his neck. Right as I started leaning in I looked into his car. Holy shit! Gerard. I unwrapped my arms and stepped back.

"What's wrong?," he asked.

"Gerard". As soon as I said his name Janice started walking outside, I followed close behind.

"Get out the car mother fucker!," yelled Janice.

"Whoa, wait, what's going on?," Andy asked as he grabbed my arm, but I pushed him away. Gerard got out of car and walked up to Janice.

"What the fuck did you call me?!." Gerard yelled.

"She didn't fuckin' studder! Who the fuck do you think you are?".

"What are you talking about?!".

"We're talking about what you did to your brother,"said Janice.

"So you guys are cause all this drama for what I did to that gay fucker? That little fag deserved it for being.."

"Himself? Yeah he might be gay, but at least he has the balls to be himself. You need to get a fuckin' life and worry about yourself, not about what your brother is doing with his life!," I said angrily.

"You are no one to tell me what to do," said Gerard as he pushed me back.

"Dude chill!," said Andy as he held him back. I gave Gerard the death glare as he gazed at me with hatred and anger.

"You're right, I have better things to do with my time. At least I have a mother to love me," said Gerard as he started walking away. No he fuckin' didn't. I ran behind him and punch him on the side of his face. He grunted out in pain as he turned around.

"Don't you dare being my mom into this!". He grabbed me by my arms. I tried to over power him, but it was usless. Then Janice came along and punched him the face. He let me go and place his hands on his face. He was bleeding from his nose. I kicked him behind his leg, causing him to fall.Janice then kicked him the stomach. Just as I was about to punch him in the face Andy grabbed me.

"Aphrodite stop! He's not worth it!," he looked at me right in the eyes. I looked down at Gerard who was wrapped in a ball.

"This is just a warning, Gerard. If you ever touch Mikey again like you and those fuckers did, we will fuckin' kill you. You might not care about him, but we do. Some piece of shit brother you are. Mikey come here!". Mikey nervously made his way towards us.

"Say you're sorry," I said.

"Sorry for what," asked Mikey confused.

"Not you, Gerard". Gerard laughed at my demand.

"Say it". I grabbed his nose.

"Ow! Okay I'm sorry! I'm sorry Mikes! I promise I'll never hurt you again! It won't happen again I swear". He covered his face again.

"I accept your apology. Now get the fuck out of here before these bitches kill you". Mikey helped him up and took him to Andy's car. He's so nice. I turned around and saw Andy just staring at me.

"Um, sorry you had to see that. I just think he deserved it for being a stupid asshole".

"It's okay, I understand. See you tomorrow?".

"..yeah". He's cool with me beating the shit out of his best friend.

"Bye, see you tomorrow". He kissed my cheek, got in his car, and drove away. That was weird.

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