MY RHYTHM AND BLUES

Truth or dare Chisom…” My smile faded as I looked at who asked the question. It was my best friend, Claire. We were all in SS1. 7 boys and 7 girls and we formed a circle round our class to play Truth or dare. She smirked at me, “Dare” “I dare you to kiss Senior Henry during games today” I looked at her dumbfounded. Everyone cheered. She must have caught me ogling at him a lot of times. How in the world was I going to do that??? “Why Senior Henry,” a girl asked from the circle and Claire laughed, “You don’t know?? That’s Chisom’s crush” Ahmed hit my shoulder, “No run oo… I'm coming to watch it…” He’s our stupid class prefect. I couldn’t just imagine myself doing that dare. ………………………………………………………………………… “Isn’t he sooo cute…” Claire said staring at one SS3 guy in the court. True, the guy was cute, Senior Israel I think. But my best friend here still doesn’t feel that it was high time she stopped fantasizing about him. I rolled my eyes and continued staring at someone else. “Don’t you dare forget my dare” She said again. “Seriously…” my other friend Christy said. Kamsy just pouted. Yeah, it was kind of my fault actually. I hadn’t gone easy on them while giving dares either… but… They were being hard on me. I just gave them a shy smile and continued watching the game. They were finally on halftime. I watched Claire’s expression as Senior Israel’s SS2 girlfriend, Senior Nancy ran up to him hugging him and in the next second, they were kissing in the court. Wow. What a good way to remind me of how single I am. Now it was Claire’s turn to roll her eyes. “I hate this girl” “What do you even like in Senior Israel” I said nonchalantly. “I’ll tell you what I like…” she said facing me “… He’s hot, talented, sexy, like do you know he can sing? He’s even on the dance crew. He’s very…” I gave her the ‘what the f**k?’ look. “What about Senior… Nancy?” Kamsy asked. “Ooh…” I murmured “… She’s really smart. Chief Academic prefect. Her brother was chief social before… Senior Mike… don’t you remember him?” “Ooh… okay…” Kamsy squealed “Her brother is so hot!” I looked into the field again smiling widely. “Stop staring at the boy and go and do your dare. We are waiting” “Forget that, I don’t blame Chisom atimes…” Christy said, “…Senior Henry is just too hot. He’s so cute. He has like these babyish eyes, cute face and those long lashes. And his curly hair too. Who wouldn’t fall for that fuckin’ v line…” We all squealed and I stared as Senior Henry raised up his Jersey top to dry his face and I stared at that v line of his pelvic bone that trailed down inside his shorts. “Chisom cannot do this dare” Kamsy said. “I told you she cannot do it” “Who said I can’t do it?” “You can’t do it” Claire laughed. I stood up and started to walk into the court. “Chisom…” Kamsy called. I didn’t listen. I got onto the court. They were drinking water and talking when I walked to Senior Henry. “Uhm… Problem?” He paused turning to me. I took a deep breath, reached up and held his face, then kissed him. He was too shocked to resist. And when I pulled back, his eyes widened and softened, he blinked repeatedly. All eyes were now on me as I walked back to the bleachers. Claire's mouth was dropped open. Christy’s mouth was in a shocked O. Kamsy was covering her mouth… Ahmed too, had his mouth hanging. I sat down. It was just a kiss. Little did I know that would be the start of a whole entire adventure.