"Ummm!! Ummm!! Truth!" Bobby yelled.

"Man, another truth! When is someone gonna do a dare?" Anthony complained.

Shawn tried to think of a question that wouldn't lead Bobby to think about any memories that had been messed with. "What's...the worst you ever did on a test?"

Bobby thought for a second.

"Ummmm....Ummmm..." then he thought some more. "Ummmm..." This time his face scrunched up, with a confusing look, like he was trying to solve a word problem or put together a jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece.


"Really bad." He said finally. "I totally messed up this test once. I copied on another kid, who was right next to me. Then, it turned out, that he was terrible! It was the first test we had all year, and he was a new kid with glasses. I thought for sure that he was smart, but it turned out that he was dumber than a box of rocks!"

OOC: Shawn Rolls Wits + Subterfuge

OOC: 20:49, Today: Shawn Cramer rolled 2 successes using 5d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling on 9 or more. Wits + Subterfuge.

How fast the fog that Bobby had cast on the the others dissipated when Shawn took time to listen and watch Bobby speak. It was a lie of course. A lie, but one the Tiffany and Anthony didn't seem to notice. They nodded in approval, noting how amazing the story was, and how they would have done the same thing.

But Shawn wasn't fooled. He had spent enough time around Bobby and had seen him lie before. In fact, in a way, they were both liars. And it it was no surprise that Shawn could tell that Bobby did not experience that particular story. It was made up, because Bobby couldn't remember the worst he ever performed on a test.

"Ralph!" Bobby announced. "Truth or Dare?"

"n..n...no dares."


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"Oh, c'mon! We need a dare!"

"n..n...no dares."

"Oh Brother, Truth then!  Ralph, what's the thing that you're most afraid of? Out of everything? You got to tell it truth-like."

Ralph frowned, turning to Shawn with a quivering lip.

Shawn gave Ralph a reassuring look, trying to give him as much emotional support as he could. "It's okay, Ralph, there's not really a wrong answer here. Maybe it was that big dog you saw, the one with the big teeth that chased you that one time?" He tried to feed Ralph an answer, hoping that Ralph's genuinely awkward little-kid delivery would make it harder to tell he was lying. After all, he'd be stuttering and pausing for support even was telling the truth.

"jj...just a...big dog...a dog. It was just....just...just...just...big. N' it jumped a..a.a..a..lot. On me. To have for barking."

OOC: Shawn Rolls Wits + Composure

"Lame!" Anthony said. "We'll, go on. Pick someone." he encouraged Ralph, really not wanting to hear anything else the young kid had to say. "It should be a dare though." He pressed.

OOC: 21:51, Today: Shawn Cramer rolled 2 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 5,8,9,2. Wits + Composure.

Shawn noticed that Michael, though silent, appeared to be taking it all in. The boy was quiet, but observant. Shawn wasn't completely sure, but it looked like Michael wasn't buying Ralph's story which Shawn had planted for him.

"Um....Ok." Ralph wagered, eyes scanning across the group before falling on Shawn.

"Sh..sh..sh..Shawn, truth or dare?"

"He already went!" Anthony complained.

"He already went!" Tiffany complained.

"Oh brother! Ralph." Bobby said. Then, looking over at Shawn. "Are you gonna do it? I mean, he did pick you."

Shawn gave his audience a rueful grin and nodded. "Sure, I don't mind at all!" He wanted to seem cool, and when you got right down to it, when Shawn knew what he knew, Truth was probably harder than Dare.

Tiffany pulled an apple out of the refrigerator, took a large bite, teeth making a crunching sound against the fruit. "M'kay." She mumbled between bites. "Mmm...truth or dare?"

Shawn belatedly realized he hadn't actually specified his answer. "Oh, right! Sorry. Dare!"

Everyone's attention turned to Anthony to see what he would say. Maybe it was because he was the loudest, or maybe the oldest.

"Ok, Ok Ok. I dare you to um....throw a rock at that house!" Anthony said, pointing at a house down three doors down that would be hard to hit from Shawn's current distance.

"And if you don't hit it, you've got to jump up and down three times and say 'I'm a jeeeeerk!'" Anthony said, the last line causing raucous laughter among the group. Not the kind of laughter that was directed at Shawn. But even though that was the case, to refuse such a dare might put Shawn in an awkward social situation with these new kids.

Shawn looked back and forth between the house and the other kids. "Well, a dare's a dare." He bent down to pick up a rock, and tried to gauge the distance, and the number of windows facing him. He's said all sorts of crazy stuff because someone asked him to - 'I'm a jerk' was positively mild.

After judging the distance, Shawn gave it a throw, launching it hard enough that it'd look like he was giving it his all, but not giving it quite enough power to reach there. He didn't want to hit a window or anything, and he felt like gamely doing a silly thing at Anthony's request would probably endear him more to the others than actually hitting it.