After Your Rejection

Chapter 7 Dare or Dare

Alexis

'The rules are pretty simple. When it's your turn, you can choose a dare written on the cards lying on the table, or a dare that we make up on the spot. The person sitting on your left will come up with the idea for the dare. Since we are playing in teams, the dare has to be completed by both players. When both of you complete the dare, your team gets one point. If not, your team loses one.' Axel starts explaining the rules and is met with Alpha Sebastian's confused expression.

'Yes, you can have a negative score in the end. It happened once, right, Dame?' Axel adds and looks at Damian with a smirk. Damian flips him off.

'Behave, handsome.' Bri winks at Damian, eliciting his million-dollar smile.

'The first team to get ten points is the winner. The team with the lowest number of points loses and is the new face of an advertisement in the packs' newspaper. The winning team designs the advertisement. Pretty simple, isn't it?' Axel explains the simple rules.

'I was always wondering why you would publish this advertisement. Now it makes sense, I guess.' Alpha Sebastian says, looking deep in thoughts.

'I've never seen one with you, though. Does that mean you never lost, Alexis?' Sebastian looks at me with curiosity written all over his face.

'Nope, always the winner.' I grin like a fool while chewing the last bite of my steak.

'Gross, Alexis!' Damian says to me and I flip him off.

'Behave, gorgeous.' Damian says, and I open my mouth wide so he can see the contents of it. Damian fakes vomiting and I start laughing.

'Yeah, no pressure there. By the way, who wrote the dares on the cards?' Alpha Sebastian interrupts our exchange.

'Dear diary, today is the day I lost in the Dare or Dare for the first time. I'm so devastated. But I'm not going to cry, I'm a big girl now.' Damian is trying to mock me using a high-pitched voice.

'I don't have a diary, you big girl.' I tell Damian, rolling my eyes at him. Do I look like a girl who would write down how much she is in love with some guy? Okay, not some guy. Alpha Sebastian is definitely not some guy. Wrong train of thought, Alexis!

'We all did, and we are still writing more.' Axel answers Sebastian's question.

'So, it's basically the same, and it doesn't matter which dare I choose.' Sebastian says like he's stating the obvious. Okay, the rules are stupid. We know that, but whatever. We came up with this game when we were kids.

'I'm pretty sure I read your diary the last time I was visiting.' Damian continues, ignoring Axel's and Sebastian's conversation.

'That was my diary, you a*shole!' Bri glares at Damian, smacking him on his shoulder. Damian pretends to be wounded, but then he looks at her apologetically.

'Oh, my bad. I found it in Alexis's room and thought it was hers. It makes sense now, some entries were pretty weird. I didn't think you would be into… Don't worry Bri, your secrets are my secrets.' Damian starts but is interrupted by Bri's furious expression.

'So, just to make sure, you just came into my room, rummaged through my things and read a diary that didn't belong to you?' I ask him, dumbfounded. Is he for real now? I know he doesn't care about boundaries, but this is another level of sh*t, even for him.

'Yeah, you got it right. And don't worry, I'll get you a diary as a birthday present.' Damian says, looking unperturbed. I stare at him with my mouth open.

'Still not the worst birthday present you ever give someone.' Finn points out. 'The worst was definitely the stripper for your Beta Gavin when he was turning 18.' Finn continues, breaking me from my state. I start laughing at the memory.

'How should I have known that he would meet his mate that evening?' Damian is trying to excuse his past mistakes.

'Maybe you should have canceled the stripper when you found out Gav met his mate.' States Finn, always the most responsible of all of us.

'Come on guys, she was great! And it wasn't she who spoiled the mood.' Damian points his index finger at Axel.

'The stripper was giving Gavin a lap dance right in front of his mate's eyes. Excuse his mate for slapping her.' Axel says.

'The stripper was innocent. You didn't have to throw her out. She was a human girl, she couldn't have known that werewolves are territorial.' Damian still sees no wrong in his actions, blaming Axel for the spoiled party. Axel looks at him with raised eyebrows, daring him to continue.

'Enough with the stripper, let's play before I grow older. So, Brionna, which dare?' Finn interrupts us and looks at Bri with a bored expression.

'Let's start with a new dare. Make something up, Finn!' Bri says nonchalantly.

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We are laughing like maniacs while Bri and Damian are running at full speed on treadmills while singing You're the one that I want from Grease. Yeah, we all know the lyrics. When we were kids, we were obsessed with Grease. There wasn't a movie night without Grease at one point in our lives. Even Finn was okay with watching it on and on and on again. But hearing Damian singing 'You're the one that I want, ooh, ooh, ooh, honey' is like torture. Axel is recording their performance, much to Bri's irritation. When they are both at the end of the song, they are out of breath.

'Alexis, your turn.' Damian tells me while catching his breath.

'I want a dare from the cards.' I tell them. I'm not going to let Damian or Bri dare Alpha Sebastian and me to do something inappropriate. Let's face it, Damian will definitely come up with something inappropriate, given the circumstances. It's not every day that you can make fun of an Alpha. Except for our own fathers. I have a better chance with the cards, since there are also dares that were written by Axel or Finn. We head upstairs and I swipe the top card.

'One of us will be doing 20 push-ups with the other sitting on the other's back.' I read the card and summarized it aloud. I'm definitely not the one doing the push-ups. I am strong, but not strong enough to lift a bear on my back. Not that Alpha Sebastian is fat, he is just…well, he's built like a beast. I saw him without his shirt numerous times during training, and wow. Just wow. I saw a lot of werewolves half-naked, even every Alpha in this room, but half-naked Alpha Sebastian was a sight to see. F*ck, his chest and stomach are made from stones. I touched them once or twice. During training, it was all part of the training. Not that I was touching him just to feel his body. He has this sexy belly hair right under his belly button, going down to his... pants. Or boxers. Goddess, stop imagining his naked body.

'Well then, climb on my back, Alexis.' Apha Sebastian tells me, bringing me back to reality. Oh, right. The dare. He gets down in the position, waiting for me. Do I look like I can climb on his back and not embarrass myself?