To the Love of My Life

Hillary had prepared quite well in advance. She prepared three boxes; one contained the names of female participants, another contained male participant names, and the last one contained the tasks they were to perform.

As the organizer, Hillary was the first to draw from each of the three boxes. She opened the card and read out a rather absurd task—it required a male and female participant to perform a body-to-body dance.

The two participants normally didn’t interact much. As soon as the female student heard the task, her face turned red and she immediately refused, saying she could not take part in such a game.

The male participant was a little embarrassed as well, so he opted for the penalty of chugging three glasses of alcohol and answering a question.

Quite the gentleman, after drinking his three glasses, he also took two for the female participant.

The question was thought up and posed by everyone. There were a total of five questions. The first came from Howard, which was even more ridiculous than the task on the card: “Where did each of you have your first time?”

The room erupted into laughter.

The male participant didn’t mind and casually responded: “In the little woods behind the school.”

“Pfft.” His answer sent the room full of people into fits of laughter.

After the laughter subsided, everyone turned to the female participant. Her face was extremely red, and she nervously stammered: “In the inn across the school.”

The first question was already awkward enough, the next four were even worse.

“With whom?”

“What’s your longest time making love?”

“How many people of the opposite sex have you slept with?”

Although there were no performances, the game became very interesting with these questions, creating excitement and trepidation amongst everyone.

They were excited to see others embarrassed but were also anxious about potentially being embarrassed themselves.

The next to draw were the first male and female participants. It was Madeleine and Howard this time, and their task was even more outrageous than the last—it was to have a passionate kiss in front of everyone for five minutes.

When they heard their task, Howard’s good friends Rusell Henris and Edward Woods burst into laughter.

Howard glanced at Madeleine, his mind full of confusion. What a joke! If it were any other woman here, excluding Ruby Gregory, he would relish the game. After all, what’s wrong with some harmless kissing? But the participant was Madeleine, a woman he had seen as his sister since childhood!

Instinctively, Howard wanted to opt for the penalty of drinking three glasses of alcohol and answering a question instead.

However, Madeleine, who’d been quietly drinking her sorrows away since seeing Howard and his ladyfriend getting cozy, didn’t give Howard a chance to refuse. She boldly strode up to him, grabbed his tie, pulled down his head, and sealed his lips with hers.

Indeed, it was a five-minute long passionate kiss.

When it ended, the room fell silent for a minute and then erupted in screams.

Amid the screams, Madeleine regained her composure, looking at a slightly stunned Howard, she stretched out her hand like a true sibling and patted him on the shoulder, jokingly saying, “Howard, don’t tell me you’re not up for this?”

Not giving Howard a chance to respond, Madeleine turned her head sideways towards the woman Howard came with, and with a raised eyebrow, coolly said, “It’s just a game. Don’t take it to heart.”

Then, Madeleine, as if nothing had happened, casually dragged Howard over to the boxes to draw the next card.

The following activities were not as exciting, except when Maya Mitchell drew a card that required her and a male participant to recite a poem together.

They each thought of a line, barely managing to recite the whole poem.

PS: That’s all for today. Stay tuned for more tomorrow