Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Truth or Dare
It's Friday night and Lisa Flynn just finished work and decided to have after work drinks with some friends at some popular bar in the city. Her work shift ended later than her friends so they're all pretty drunk at this point.
She calls them her work friends in her head but these people are actually the team that she manages.
Most managers equal to her role would normally want their lower tiered members to look up to them and call them by their superior job title.
But not Lisa. She prefers to work with her team rather than make her team work for her. Her work motto is teamwork makes the dream work. She takes care of her team not because she 'has to' but because she 'wants to'.
This is why her team loves her and would feel comfortable inviting her out to drinks as one of them. Not just as a senior or a boss.
Everyone started drinking early because everyone was quite excited that Lisa is going to join them tonight and that she may yet convince her legendary friend, Shell, to join them as well.
So even though she came to the party a bit late, being a cheap drunk, she was quick to catch up with everyone's drunken spirits!
Although, she thinks she may have already reached her limit... (Hmmm... I've had 2 glasses of beer... no wait, one and a half... and now 2!)
That should be it for her since she'll be driving home later and dropping off some of these fools to their respective drop off points on her way home. She'll just wash the alcohol away by drinking lots of water and dancing the night away for the rest of the night anyway... (A/N: DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE!)
(Wooohooo! Getting drunk with friends is always so nice... I wonder why it's been so long since the last time?)
"Let's do truth or dare!", someone yelled over the loud club/bar music.
(Hmm... why do I have a funny feeling about this?)
"Lisha! Lissh! *ahem* Lis! Lisa! Truth or dare?", she realised someone was calling her. She was that drunk and the lighting was that bad for her to tell who called her.
"Hmmm...? Dare!", (I'm already on party mode, bring it on!), "Bring. It. *hic*-oh that hiccup!-On!"(argh stupid hiccups! This must be why I wasn't supposed to drink too much!) *continues to sip last drops of her 2nd beer*
"I-we sh-dare you to call anyone from your phone lis-sh-t right now! But you ha-hb-ve to dial the number!"
Now this may be a sorry excuse of a dare. But they rarely get to see Lisa this drunk at any event. This is like seeing a unicorn kind-of rare. Well not really that rare, since there was that one time, but still it's rare enough that they have to be careful on what to dare or what question they get to ask if she had picked 'Truth'... or else... Because really, she is still their boss, plus they're really, definitely drunk.
"Eh?! Eeshii pissy! LOL, I mean easy peasy lemon *hic*-urgh that one hurts!- squeezy!", Lisa wasn't exaggerating. She's quite good with remembering numbers and she has a pretty good store of memory for people's number. When she's sober. "Also give me a lemon lime bitter! 'Cuz this lady need to sober up if you losers wanna get home in one piece!", she points to herself.
"Yeah, yeah, jusht do the dare already!", another person impatiently said. (Damn! I really need to start sobering up or I won't be able to tell who I'm drinking with...)
"Ok ok, I'm djialling, dialling, dia-ling ling hahaha 'dialling' is such a funny word... it's ringing, it's ringing! Ssh, sush, pleash! Shell picked yup! Shooshie... Hey girlfwend! Hope you're feeling better and let this drunk greetings lift your shpiritsh, oh pardon, spirits *hic* goddang this hiccups won't quit, sorry, where was I, oh yeah! Wish you were here! I m-wiss you and hope you feel better soon! You better be saving your game by now cuz you should be sleeping! Hahaha... I bet you're probably not that sick... uh-oh, did I bust you! *hic!*-owie...- ok sowwie, wait, I shouldn't be sorry! You flaked on me! Anyways shleep soon and I'll let you know how the night went, if I even survive these fools! Hahaha..."
"Heh, thanks, but this uh, 'girlfwend' still wants to play. And now I do wish I was there", said a deep, husky, "melt me" kind of voice. And she can just hear him smile with a bit of irony, when he spoke.
"Uh, Shell, did your voice change?", because part of her brain still insists she got her best friend's number right.
"Sadly, no, I'm not Shell, you've just called someone else instead.", (okay, kudos to this guy for being patient and damn~, his voice is hot! Wait, what?! Girl~ you obviously called the wrong number! Now tell the nice man you've made a mistake and hang up! Hang up gracefully!! Gracefully, damnit!)
"Oh... my... crap... Thank you! No! I mean, I am so sorry! Sorry for calling so late! Ah, bye now! And err... sorry for disturbing. You. Oh and you may go ahead and play and may you win ever on your favour and all that. Uh, yeah I did say bye.... yeah, uh, bye!" (Great. Job. Dingus.)
Lisa finally put down her phone and she realised the whole group was silent. They must have gone quiet since she started talking on the phone. After one more second of silence from putting her phone down everyone started laughing there heads off! (*mental sigh* great...)
"Hahahaha "oh my crap"?!"
"Haha, ah, my ribs -haha- hurt -haha- so much -haha- hurts so much from laughing! Hahahaha!"
"Ugh... I snorted my drink!"
"Hahahaha, ah my checks hurt! Hehehe"
As they collectively caught their breath, Lisa piped, "Well, that's one way to get sober! Oh thank you! You fools now I remember why I rarely go out drinking with you lot!", she sipped her previously ordered drink, pretending that she did not just embarrass herself. "Now give me more water!", to anyone from her group. If they can even hear her from there giggling and tittering. (Anything is funny for these fools... ok, fine, it was pretty funny)
"Hahaha... *gasp* No one thought to put it on speaker phone!"
"Haha... 'May you win ever on your favour'! Hahaha..."
"Hahaha, oh my gosh, wasn't it supposed to be 'May the odds be ever on your favour.'?"
"Thanks captain obvious!"
"Wait, what are you talking about?"
Once they've sort of settled down. Someone finally asked her, "Oh my gosh, so who did you end up calling?". It was a girl from their group that asked.
(Note to self: never do truth or dare drunk. Or at all. Ever. I can't even recall my friends' names! Am I even with the right group of people?!)
She is. She's with her own team.
"Dunno some hot sexy rando", Lisa said casually, she thinks... She's trying to calm herself down, since her heart was beating double time ever since she heard Mr Hot-Sexy Voice.
"Pfft, how the heck would you know he was hot and sexy?", some male voice asked. Definitely a voice not better than what she heard from the phone.
"Hmm, well his voice was hectic deep... and husky, like a makes you wanna melt kinda husky... such a sexy voice...", she doesn't even realise she's not answering the question, just describing the voice.
"Ok, now I really wished we asked for a speaker phone conversation AND recorded it!", someone piped up, while Lisa was on a bit of a daze...
"Anyway, I had to enjoy it when it lasted, for like an embarrassing moment! It's not like I'll be talking to him anymore anyway. I mean, I'm pretty sure I annoyed him already... so I will enjoy my little daydream, thank you very much! Now you lot had dared me and I delivered! Y'all had your fun from me, so I will now start sobering up and we will make sure we are (sort of) organised by the time we have to go and make sure (almost) nothing is forgotten and no one (maybe some) gets left behind!"
"Yes, Mama Lisa!", the ingrates chorused... discordantly. Some said "Yissh, Ma'am Lisha!", she may have heard "Mom" from some and a couple of people definitely slurred her name to "Rissja" =_=
"Ew, none of that! Now who wants to go dance with me?!", she made sure she grabbed her phone and tucked it in her bag so she doesn't chuck it clumsily on the dance floor.
While making sure no one is being too much of a nuisance, she was drinking tons of water to sober up and stay hydrated. And because everyone else won't stop teasing her through out the night, she also made sure that she has used most of her friend's phones to take lots of embarrassing and really unflattering zoomed in photos of each other. She can't wait for there reactions tomorrow! (Mwahahahaha!)
As Lisa partied the rest of the night away as she (sort of) planned, she did not notice that she did not hang up her call until she placed her phone in her bag...
And someone was enjoying eavesdropping on her conversations until it got cut short. At first, he did not know how to react. Now, he just could not resist sending a message back and hoping she's daring enough to reply back.
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kesrii The phrases within (this) are usually a character’s inner thoughts.
This is my very first attempt (I don’t think English projects from the dinosaur age count) at writing a short (hopefully) novel. Please be kind❤️
Edit: I have a mistake! I re-read the competition details and my mistake was not reading the word count requirements?! I will make further improvements and will post a message on the competition and chapters once I am happy with them??
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