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We hurried into the Transperth train and I practically had to shove a et to a few eed to secure one and, to my dismay, someone had settled down into as supposed to be ht next to her

I glared at the sinister old lady settling into et her way and then s my downcast spirit was irrational I didn’t walk five blocks in the cold so I could be standing unco a sea of people

It wasn’t usually this busy, but that was because the Royal Shoas only on for one week a year, attracting over four hundred thousand people frorounds due to lack of parking In fact, the neighbourhoods surrounding the grounds had multiple cars parked in driveways and front yards Residents had auctioned off their space for a su spot Meanwhile, the rest of us unfortunate souls resorted to public transportation and all the smells that accompanied it

I closed e person pressed against h I looked down at my purse and made sure it was closed I puta tiny hole for the cord of hway to Hell” inbabies and obnoxious teensjokes that weren’t funny

“Oh,her earphones out of her ears The decrepit old lady next to her snarled at her language “I totally forgot, Claire!”

“Forgot what?” I asked, leaning forward to hear her better

“The dare cards! I got them in my purse We’re like four days overdue”

I suppressed an annoyed grunt I had hoped she would forget about those stupid cards we o

“It’s your turn, too!” she cackled loudly Her um in the corner of her mouth

I gave her a playful slap on the face “Fuck off”

“You want to do it now?”

“Hell no!”

“You will pick one now, skank”

The glare from the elderly lady intensified as she watched the both of us swear at each other Thankfully, we didn’t have to withstand her biblical scowls any longer She got up and hobbled out of the door at the next stop Two of the seats were available I slid in beside Emily as more people stepped in The e Eainst my back

The air was thick and swarnes and hairspray, and an unpleasant musky smell that only sweatyher jacket She smelled like lavender

“What are you doing, you weirdo?” She nudged me back the second I settled my nose into her bleached blonde hair

“It stinks in here, and you s the creepiest voice I could while wiggling estively at her

“Fucking psycho,” she muttered

I watched her open her mam I already knehat she was looking for I darted evil eyes at her as she took out a stack of white cards that were securely bound together by a thick blue elastic band She had a giddy su clearly proud for re

I dreaded to think whatI was the idiot to coo while ere bored one night watching reality shows I didn’t ree of living each day as if it were the last Like usual, the sappiness found its way intoexhilarating

“We should dare each other to do so crazy!” What a fool I was Eht up the cards We bought blank flash cards from a dollar store and conjured up dares without each other’s knowledge of ritten on the out a card from the stack Last month she was ordered to put up a video on Facebook dressed in hobo attire, pretending to snort a line of coke (it was really sugar, and it neverthe Macarena

Nobody appreciated the joke

And her parents were especially unimpressed Bunch of holier than thou snobs…

The month before that, I had to run two laps around the park beside our apartht with a Screa beneath a tree until he histled at me