I Dare You To Love Me

St.Therese Academy; an all girl’s high school with only daughters from elite families can be admitted; among them were four alpha females: Elise Ham aka Eli, the heiress to her father’s Multinational Conglomerate. Brianna Jeon aka Bree, from a family of doctors, her grandfather established a hospital that specializes in reconstructive surgeries but now that it is being managed by her father, it turned more into cosmetic surgeries. Her father is now known as “Surgeon of the Stars” because most of his clients are from the entertainment industry. While her mother developed a dietary supplement that makes you slim even if you have the appetite of a sumo wrestler. Melody Park aka Em, her father is one of the top corporate lawyers in the country and he is a senior partner of the Park & Park Law Firm. Most of their clients are from the big leagues including the Hams, Jeons, and Lees. Keira Lee, her family can be considered as “new money” their social status rise among the top after her father won the jackpot of a lottery. And her mother brought honor to the country when she won Gold in the Olympics when she was still single. Right now they monopolize a Sports Gear and Clothing line that supplies the major malls in the country. Their schoolmates and teachers look up to them as they were not only blessed with rich families but also with some good genes, beautiful and smart. Of course, not everyone is all starry-eyed on them, after all, their school consists of the richest among the richest so some gets competitive about that, but nobody dared to touch them as some rumors were going around at school that whoever defies them, will have a streak of bad luck. The four of them just laughed it off, the rumors weren’t true…really Flashback… “What are we? F4? We will bully whoever irks us? Oh wait, look right there she have the same hairstyle as me, let’s get rid of her,” Bree grunts when she heard the rumor. “Haha, you’re annoyed huh? Aren’t you glad that there are people who are afraid of you despite your size? ” Eli jokes, she finds it cute when Bree is annoyed. Among the group and most high schoolers, Bree's height is on the short side. “Em, Eli's making fun of me again” Bree runs at Melody’s side.” Em huffs and turned to Eli, “Hey you! Did you just make fun of her? Good job!” Em laughs and raised her hand for a hi-five. Brianna tugs Keira’s sleeve and made a puppy face as if asking the girl to defend her, “Don’t look at me like that, I’d bully you even better.” “You, guys! And they accuse me of being a bully? Maybe you are, but not me” Bree sulks and turns her back on the girls. Moments later she heard them whispering then it turned into giggles, when she faced them, she was surprised as she was enveloped by the girls’ hugs. “Group hug!” Keira exclaimed. “Our Boo boo Bree is such a cry baby,” Em said as she pats Bree's head. “Hey and who told you, you’re the one who’s always getting bullied? Remember when we were in fifth grade? I don’t know what spirit possessed you that day; you stuck gum on my hair! I needed to cut my precious hair because of what you did!” Elise barks. Eli used to have long black hair that goes down to the lower part of her back, it accentuated the fair skin that earned her "The Snow White" nickname. Now she dons a short bob, many are asking when she will grow them out again but kinda likes her short hair now since it's more manageable. “And you gave me your dog’s poop, God I thought it was chocolate, ugh I can still remember the smell” Keira’s face turns sour at the thought. “And you broke my mirror!” Em adds and the two gave her the “how-lame -look” Melody Park is known for having a "Princess Syndrome", never will you catch her not holding a mirror. Em shrugs and “What? She really broke my mirror” While Bree turns pale “Did I do that? I don’t remember” “YES YOU DID!” the three chorused “I guess we really are bullies” Bree sighs “Yes, we are each other’s bullies.” Em agrees “Maybe it’s just that, we are friends and to a certain extent we allow each other to sometimes ‘bully’ each other,” Eli explains. “And every time we go over the lines, we could always say sorry and do a GROUP HUG!” Keira yells as the girls tighten their embrace. “Aagh! Guys I can’t breathe!“ Bree cried and burst out laughing as they break the hug. “I just wonder if ever I sinned against you, will you ever forgive me?” Keira turns on a serious tone. “Oooh, serious!” Em woods trying to ease up the tense atmosphere due to Keira’s statement. “Of course we will, we’re friends after all,” Eli said trying to match Keira’s seriousness. “That’s good to know then, ‘Coz you know there might come a time that you’re boyfriends will dump you for me.” Keira’s humorless face transformed into a naughty one as she gets attacked by the other girls. “The hell! I thought it was really serious!” Bree shouts as she tickles Keira. “What! That could happen, with my beauty?” Keira giggles as tries to dodge the tickle attack. “And what about you? Would you dump us if our boyfriends turn to you?” Eli fires back. “Maybe” she flashes a mysterious grin that earned her more tickles. “Hey guys, wanna hear something more serious?” Em said turning the attention to her. “What?” the three asked. “There’s a bit of a problem, which needs a solution immediately,” Em adds and builds the curiosity of the others. “What is it? Tell us already?” Bree insisted. Em’s forehead furrowed deeper as she touches her chin, “If we are the F4, who plays Lee MinHo’s role?” “Yah! I knew you’ll talk nonsense.” Bree hit her shoulder while Eli and Keira burst into laughter. “Maybe it will be me, ‘coz I play the leader.” Keira rides along. “Hey! You’re no leader, you’re the trouble maker, I’m the one who always cleans up the mess so I should be Gu Jun Pyo,” Em countered “Jun Pyo is also the trouble maker” Keira opposes. “It should be Eli ‘coz she's a bully like Gu Jun Pyo,” Bree intercepts “Hey why is my name being drag here, I don’t even know what F4 is,” Eli shouts Bree was about to say something but she stops as if lost in her thoughts “If you’re Gu Jun Pyo then you have to be lesbian,” Bree blurts gaining weird looks from her friends. Bree tries to elaborate “Look, in the drama Geum Jan Di will enter the same school with Jun Pyo, remember we are in an all girl’s school so our Geum Jan Di will still be a girl you know what I mean?” The other three went into silence as they try to grasp Bree’s weird explanation. “Then all the more that I should be Gu Jun Pyo” Keira utters with a naughty smile. The three were shocked by Keira’s revelation; they know the connotation of what she just said. “What?! Don’t look at me as if you heard this for the first time. Everybody’s gay in this school, what do you expect? This is an all-girls school, we barely see the opposite s*x except for our wrinkly teachers, and at our age where we are very very curious, where should we turn to when boys are missing in action huh? Don’t tell me you don’t get attracted to other girls here, I can smell you.” Keira defends herself. While the other three stayed silent, in their minds they know what Keira said is true but they won’t dare admit it. “But there’s St Thomas it’s just a few blocks away from here,” Bree said on their brother school which is an all-boys school. “Yeah just a few blocks but with super high walls, we can’t even see their roof, and the boys there are still kids, and they smell bad,” Keira retorts. “Earlier, you said you’re gonna steal our boyfriends” Eli reminds her. “You guys still don’t know me yet, what I’m trying to say is that while I’m not yet exposed to boys, I’ll enjoy my time with girls” Keira huffs as she was getting tired of explaining. “Yah! Keira Lee, stop polluting our minds with your nonsense it’s getting late and we need to go home now, we’ll talk about this later, let’s go guys.” Em interrupts as she lifted her bag and prepares to leave. “You guys hate me now huh? Because I’m like this.” Keira sulks starting to get teary-eyed. “What, No! We don’t hate you, we’re just shocked at your little news,” Em reveals. “Then prove that you don’t hate me,” Keira pouts. “How?” “Group hug!” Keira spread her arms to initiate the hug. The others laughed and gave in to Keira’s request, and just like that the awkwardness vanished. “I love group hugs the most,” Keira said while sniffing Eli’s hair. “Yah! Don’t tell me you’re lusting on us,” Eli shouted. “Maybe.” Keira just smiled. Flashback ends… They were like that, people treat them special, and some think they are bitches, but in fact, they are just plain high school girls, a bit spoiled brats, but to them, they were far from being extraordinary…just best friends who are making the most out of their high school lives.