Chapter 5 5

**Kyla's POV**

The next day was Saturday. Also known as sleep in day for me. I usually watched movies all through Friday night. This time I slept in, but not because of tiredness from watching too many movies, but actually because the paging pain in my head was too much to bear.

I knew when I came to, I'll have an enormous amount of chores waiting for me. I didn't care about that. I would sort out my problems one at a time.

I just wanted to sleep, and forget everything that happened last night. I hoped and prayed Riley heard me out, and Richard, Stein, Tony, and every other guy and girl at the party forget about that stupid dare. It was the end of me.

After my silent prayer, I snapped my eyes opened and jumped out of bed.

As expected, my aunt, and uncle were out to God knows where. They lived their lives, and I lived mine.

They did leave a parting gift. A huge pile of laundry for me to do and a list apparently.

"LIST OF THINGS FOR YOU TO DO."

It read boldly making me scoff. I held it upright, and read out loud.

*Scrub the house. Every inch.*

I could hear her voice in my head, laying emphasis on every word written.

*Do the dishes.*

*Cook lunch. Don't let it end up too salty.*

I, half smiled, as I remembered the time I nearly poured a full sachet of salt into my pot. Her reaction was priceless.

*Dust the furnitures.*

*Clean the utensils.*

*Wash the bathrooms.*

I noticed the -s at the end. That meant all the bathrooms in the entire house.

*There's money on the counter for pizza when you're done.*

Ironically, I was to cook lunch, but have pizza. It was about Eleven am, by the time I'm done with everything on this list, it should take four hours.

They didn't treat me like a stepdaughter or anything, I just felt like I wasn't treated like their own. It would've nice to feel the love a parent growing up.

Sadly, we don't always get what we want. I just have to live with it.

**HOURS LATER**

"Here you go."

I handed the pizza guy a two dollar tip, and shut the door.

I turned on the TV filling my lips with pepperoni pizza. I moaned in pleasure watching a TV show, and pressing my phone at the same thing.

My phone started ringing, the pizza slipped from my grip when I saw it was Riley.

**Hi, I'm so glad you called.**

I rushed the words out, my voice laced with happiness.

**Check what's trending on Instagram. She stated and hung up.**

I twitched my lips feeling a little perplexed. Turned off the TV, and concentrated solely on my phone.

Joanna was doing a live video. Only two people were watching. Riley was one of them. I got my earpiece, and connected watching her speak.

"Shout out to everyone who's currently joining us now."

Her viewers had increased to ten now.

"I'm doing this video to remind every one of the current bet going on at Lockwood high. Most of you may have been dead drunk to remember, which is why I'm here to help. On Friday night, star student Richard Lockwood was given a dare. Everyone knows he cannot say no. "

I paused, and her viewers were almost a hundred by this time.

Joanna cannot be doing this.

"The dare was a simple hard one. Make a not so popular student Kyla Malik fall in love with his best friend Stein. I did this because Lockwood has been kinda dry these days, and this is sure to spice things up."

She winked and I checked, two hundred viewers.

"To keep things interesting, I'll be giving updates. Just check in every day, and view the latest on what's happening. I guarantee you, this was spicy. Rumors are already arising that Kyla just lost her best friend Riley because of this. I wonder why. I would do my best to answer that question on Monday. This is Joanna Kim, signing off."

She did a little wave, and the video ended with nearly five hundred viewers.

I gulped astonished at her actions. On Monday, everyone would be talking about this crazy dare.

"So much for forgetting."

I plopped on the sofa not knowing how to fix things with Riley. My best friend probably hated me now. I thought things would cool down, and I would get my normal life back. Instead, they only got worse.

********