Mantisha almost fell off from the chair. What kind of punishment was that! Not only she had to kiss a completely stranger but also she had to tell him that he was ugly!
"I... I would not do it... burp... This is bullyiiiiinngg." Mantisha shook her head as she puffed her cheeks. She made a face like someone wronged her.
"Don't be such a crybaby. Who bullied you? You have chosen to get the punishment by yourself." Before Serena could open her mouth to spout anything, Judy, the upright princess started getting angry.
"Besides, you can always refute it. You just have to drink you know." Vincent cocked his eyebrows.
"This..." Mantisha looked at the bear glass pathetically. She could sense that if she took one more sip and she really would lost her rationality.
Albert slightly frowned. Being as soft hearted as she was, Megan thought to herself, 'This girl was not going to do either of it right?'
She tucked Max's sleeve. "Honey, can you drink on her behalf? Only this time?"
Max pursed his lips. There she started, again! Why the hell he needed to drink on that irritating girl's behalf! She chose to take dare by herself. Nobody pushed her. Now she suddenly need a knight to save her! He didn't reply, just snorted lightly. This Megan and Mantisha should really get together. They were made by same moulds.
However Serena teased again, "What's now Tish? Please don't tell me you have never kissed before, so you are afraid of loosing your first kiss."
Actually it was indeed something like that. Although it was not her first kiss, she did not want to do it this time so casually. Her first kiss was with her first boyfriend, while she was still in school. She got kissed by him even before she realised. Then he even complained that she did not know how to kiss because she seemed unresponsive.
After that time, she tried to co operate with him a few times but she was a naïve bookworm teenager after all. She did not feel like her reciprocation impressed him. He wanted more and more, while she got annoyed by his approaches. She was not an expert in these things, nor did she wanted to be one.
At that time she thought it was okay because he was her boyfriend. But afterwards, when he revealed his true colours, she broke up with him.
"That cheating scumbag... That nym... hickkk... nymphomaniac sex addicted... That fake... hicckkk.... two faced bast**d retard..." Under the influence of alcohol, Mantisha was completely enraged. She cursed her ex as rudely as she could.
The whole table got silent. Herbert peeked to Albert. He still maintained his nonchalant attitude but a slight frown could still be seen on his face if noticed.
"Wow wow wow! So our study princess also had an ex, to be precise, a scumbag ex." Megan bared her teeth.
"Right, ex's are scumbags. Every ex's are scumbag bas***ds." Shrugging her shoulders, Judy declared. The tale of her boyfriend was famous throughout the department. It was a hot topic a year ago. Even after one year had passed, if someone still mentioned about her ex, she ran to beat him.
"Yesss" Mantisha stood up, put one of her foot on the chair, grabbed a bottle and before anybody could react, she drank four large gulps down.
"Let's go... Let's show that bas***d how a real kiss should be." She put down the bottle with a bang as she raised one clenched hand of hers. It seemed like she was going to declare a war rather than going to kiss someone.
Everybody laughed hard at her weird posture. Only Albert still had his unreadable expression. Judy clapped her hands and screamed, "Whoooohh... Let's go and break someone's lips."
Mantisha stumbled right after taking her first step. Judy cought her arm and helped her to stand still. Then they started stepping together. Though they looked like cartoons, the rest immediately followed them. If it was any other times, they laughed at them to death. But not then. It was a time when their department professor's most favoured student was going to do something extraordinary.
Mantisha's head started to spin. She took more hiccups as she stepped ahed. Her entire face was flushing. Her body was getting lighter and lighter with each steps.
After coming infront of the exit, they could see a person stood there with flashy clothes. He seemed to speak with someone via his bluetooth device.
"Go girl, it's your time now. Show the world that you can do it." Judy almost pushed Mantisha from her embrace.
Mantisha staggered as she walked. Her eyes fixed on the person with bright flashy clothes. With the last bit of her rationality she thanked heaven that the person standing didn't seem like a married man who came with his wife. She just hoped him to be single. Not that she wanted to hit on him, all that she wanted was to be safe and didn't get hit by his girlfriend or fiance.
'After that, if I apologise to him for not asking him for his consent, he would forgive me, right?' Mantisha thought to herself.
Her train of thoughts suddenly jumbled as she tripped over something. She closed her eyes in panic. The floor underneath was getting closer and closer, but the expected fall didn't happen at last. To her surprise someone cought her shoulder and jerked her back straight.
With her blury vision, she witnessed someone so tall that her neck almost broke to take a look of his face. His sharp jawlines looked prominent as he gritted his teeth. He had a high nose bridge, his hazel eyes were like vast oceans in which she seemed like drowning.
She shook her head as her vision became slightly clearer. But her body was still dependent on his hands. She looked at him in daze. She could not shift her eyes from his. There was an slight smile lingered on his thin lips. To her astonishment, his face seemed somewhat amused.
Mantisha felt a light pull in her heart. He seemed familiar. Very very familiar. Not the kind of familiarity, which could be seen in everyone whom she knew. But a special kind, that pulled the strings of her heart, as she fell deeper and deeper into his abyss like eyes.
As the man went to remove his hands from her shoulders, Mantisha didn't wait anymore. All of a sudden she grabbed his collars, pulled his face down, tiptoed slightly and slammed her lips onto his cold ones.
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Who do you think he is? Why does it seem like he knew her somehow? Also, what about Albert? What's your opinion about him?
Herbert and Vincent seem to know something? Can you guess?
On a special note: I still didn't think about who's boat will sail with Judy. Do you have any suggestions? Or do you want a completely new character to come for her?
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