"Are you a virgin?"
I looked at Pujan; he looked so annoying with the smirk on his face. He knew I wasn't a virgin and yet he had to ask. In fact, everyone knew I wasn't a virgin, but yet, they were all looking at me with anticipation. It seemed like they wanted to hear me say what they already knew.
So I did. "No, I ain't a virgin... and I know you people already know that, so quit pretending."
The smirk on Pujan's face turned into a huge smile as I leaned forward and spun the bottle. We were at a discotheque, but we weren't dancing. In the second year of college, we were at the Fresher's Party held to welcome the first-year students to this exciting and fun-filled phase of their lives, which they supposedly wouldn't forget for the rest of their lives. Well, the party was certainly one worth forgetting. It was a dull dud. In normal circumstances, I would never be caught dead at such a non-happening bash. I was a model after all - too cool and too hot to between such a boring crowd. And I wouldn't have been there had my boyfriend Vivek been in town. But he had gone to the Capital on a business trip and I was stuck playing truth and dare with a bunch of college friends.
My spinning bottle came to a rest pointing towards Shekhar, and he chose dare. I looked around myself and said, "You see that girl over there, the one in the ugly pink halter? Yeah, that one... I dare you to go over there and peck her cheek."
"Oh come on Neha," Shekhar pleaded. "How can I do that, I don't even know her."
"Well, it's a dare and you gotta at least try doin' it," I said, my boredom evolving into bitchiness.
Shekhar went over to the girl and tried talking to her. But instead of pecking her cheek, he got snubbed and pushed away and came back embarrassed and angry as hell. All I did was laugh. He proceeded to spin the bottle and it ended up pointing towards Garima. Garima chose truth and was asked if she'd made love to her boyfriend Mayank. She looked at Mayank lovingly and nodded a yes.
What losers!
Garima's spin pointed towards Pujan. He chose a dare, probably anticipating some fun with one of us girls. A touch would have been more than enough for him to shoot his load. I doubted if Pujan had ever even touched a girl. He was fat, in fact quite overweight for a 21-year old. His flabby paunch was noticeable under his t-shirt and made me wonder why he didn't just wear a loose shirt. Anyway, Garima decided that this was going to be Pujan's lucky day and for some reason, chose me to be at the receiving end. "I dare you to kiss Neha for two minutes," she said.
"What?" I almost shouted. "What crap is that? That should be a dare for me, not him."
That aroused a spate of laughter from the others. Garima just shrugged her shoulders as Pujan shifted towards his prize. He tried placing his hands on my waist but I slapped them away and just leaned in closer to him and closed my eyes. I heard Kinjal utter an "Eeewwww" as Pujan's lips touched mine.
It was awful. His lips were coarse and dry. I wasn't ready to open my mouth and he tried to pry it open with his tongue. When he couldn't get through, he covered my mouth with his and started licking my lips. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity to me, Garima announced that the two minutes were up. I rubbed my lips with a napkin and drank some Pepsi, wondering if any other two minutes of my life had seemed so long.
With a big stupid smile on his face, Pujan spun the bottle and it ended up pointing towards Kinjal. When Kinjal chose truth, the others protested and said that we should make this a game of dare and dare. Everyone would have to compulsorily choose a dare only. I wanted Kinjal and Garima to go through what I had and chipped in as well. Eventually, it was decided that no more truths from then on and Pujan dared Kinjal to kiss Anuj. Apparently, she didn't seem to mind that and the two had quite a good lip lock, which Kinjal ended with a smile on her face.
For the next few minutes, an identical sequence of events kept on happening. The dares revolved around kissing and I ended up kissing Anuj as well. Then came my turn to spin the bottle and when it pointed at Pujan, I was determined to extract revenge. I wanted to have Pujan do something that would really embarrass him and out of the blue, a nasty idea hit me. "Ok Pujan," I said. "I dare you to give Mayank a handjob under this table right now."
For a moment, everyone was left silent on hearing what I had said. They probably couldn't believe their ears.
"No way in hell," Pujan cried. "That's not at all fair."
"It's a dare, dude. You kissing me wasn't fair either. But I did it and you've to do this. A dare's a dare."
"Come on Neha," Garima said. "You know that's a bit too much."
"Why baby?" I asked. "You afraid your boyfriend might like Pujan's handjob more than yours?"
That was downright cruel, and I knew it. But at that moment, I just didn't care. I had been embarrassed by this bunch of losers and I wasn't going to take it lightly. No one said anything after that and in silence, Pujan gave Mayank the handjob. Actually, I wasn't sure if he had finished the job or not, but I didn't want to look. It was enough for me that Pujan had to hold his friend's cock. There was a chilly silence around the table. I could feel everyone's eyes on me, but I didn't look up. I was busy playing with my cell phone as if nothing had happened. I sensed Pujan leaning forward and spinning the bottle and I looked up only when I heard him say, "All right!" The bottle had stopped pointing towards me.
I looked at him and smirked. "So what're you gonna make me do now? Wank one of you idiots off?"
"Nope," he replied. "I have something very special in mind... and that too for myself."
I looked at him questioningly. He went on and said, "Neha, I dare you to rub your bare ass on my bare cock."
I felt like I had been hit. That came out like a bolt from the blue. I hadn't anticipated something like that. The other people at the table started to cheer and jeer. "That's right dude," Mayank said, addressing Pujan. "This bitch deserves that."
"Way to go man," Anuj said. "Super dare, man, I just can't wait to see this."
I was dumbstruck.
Rub my ass on his cock, that is so crude and yuck.
To this day, I wonder why I didn't just walk away from there. It was just a game of truth and dare after all; I didn't have to go through with something as insulting and degrading as that dare, even if I'd been throwing around degrading dares of my own. What could they have done had I walked away? They couldn't force me; at the most they would have stopped being my friends. Hah! Fat chance of that happening, they needed a happening friend like me more than I needed a bunch of fools like them.
But I didn't walk away that day, I don't know why. Instead, I started pleading with Pujan. "Come on Pujan, that's a bit too much. It's not fair!"