Ava told them to ignoren and enjoy the party. She tried to have conversations with new people as her mother told her to be social. She just wanted to give it a try.


    Ava and her friends were waiting for Luke. As soon as Ava called him, he


    Informed her that he was unable to make it there because of something that had urred.


    "It''s okay, Luke," Ava said.


    "No, I am so sorry, Ava. It was your mother''s wedding celebration party, and I could note."


    "Don''t be concerned, Luke. It''s just a simple party, like others. Mom is not here anyway. And we can meet tomorrow too."


    She tried tofort him so that he would not feel bad. She knew there might be somethinging up, and that was why Luke could note. Otherwise, he never missed parties.


    After talking with Luke, she turned to Abigail and Debra.


    "So he is noting?" Abigail asked.


    "No."


    "Then why did he desperately message you about it?" Debra asked, folding her


    arms.


    "Maybe he has work to do," Ava replied, as she also believed that the stranger who was texting her yesterday was Luke.


    Half an hourter, Nova approached Ava with her friends. She looked at her dress with her sharp eyes, and then she turned her attention back to her face in the dress.


    "Hello, Ava. How are you?" She asked Ava with a grin on her face.


    Ava felt something was fishy, but she gave her a smile in return and told her that she was good.


    "Let''s y a game. What do you say? We should enjoy the party fully."


    Nova requested that Ava and her friends join her in a game. She almost urged them to go with her to y something.


    "No. We are okay here."


    "Oh, please. Don''t tell me you are afraid of dares."


    In the beginning, Ava was not interested in joining; however, after Nova told her that she considered her to be a coward, she decided to join it despite her initial reluctance.


    When she looked over at her friends, they gave her a slight nod of their heads. "Okay, let''s y," Ava said to Nova.


    Nova grinned at them and nodded her head. She led them to theunch area. Ava observed arge number of young boys and girls lounging on the couches. She recognized that they all


    belonged to wealthy families and had a good reputation at their university for their parents. She gave a slight shake of her head, thinking that the only things that people valued were power and money.


    Agirl came with a bowl.


    +25 BONU


    "Let me exin first. The music will y and stop, but between the durations, we have to pass the ball to the next person. In the moment that the music stops, the person who is holding that bowl will be required to select a chit and then y the dare that Is written on the chit.


    Stephen and his other friends came to join them as well. Iar rejected their invitation to join thern and went in a different direction.


    As everyone became more excited, they began to pass the bowl around. The music stopped, and the person who was holding the bowl put his hand into it and took out a chi


    "Dance for one minute like crazy," the boy said after reading the chit.


    He had no other option but to ept the dare. When he was doing that, the game started once again.


    When it was Ava''s turn, she thought she would have to drink something or dance, but she was shocked when she saw what was written inside the chit.


    "You have to lock yourself inside a dark room for five minutes!"


    She gulped as she looked at the others. Stephen raised his brow to know if she


    was okay with it. She could not shake her head in front of others.


    She saw Nova smirking at her as if she knew about her fear,


    "I think I was the one who should do the dare. The bowl was almost in the middle of us." Abigail spoke out to save


    Ava.


    Debra nodded her head to agree with her. They were her friends, and they knew about her problems.


    "Why are you all so worried for her? She is not a kid. Come on. It''s just a few minutes! It''s not that she had never shifted in the dark and run in the forest. Who


    is afraid of darkness nowadays? No one," Nova said while looking at


    Ava''s friends.


    Ava took a deep breath and got to her feet.


    "Wait a minute, Ava. Are you sure? You can skip it if you want," Stephen said,


    trying to understand the look on her face.


    Ava shook her head and replied,


    "I am in."


    Everyone cheered for her. One of the boys walked her to a dark room that was a little far from them and then opened the door for her.


    She nced inside and saw the darkness inside. Her heart began to beat faster in fear. However, she could not bear the thought of Nova tabeling her a loser, so she had to take action.


    "Your phone," the boy said.


    Ava handed it to him and stepped inside the room.


    When the boy shut the door from outside, she gasped.


    In the dark room, she was feeling like she would die.


    She started to take deep breaths. At that moment, she heard the sound of


    footsteps emanating from the opposite side of the room.


    She could not see anything and asked,


    "W-Who is here?"


    No one answered her question, which made her feel scared inside.


    "Who?" she asked again, stepping forward.


    Her body bumped into a hard chest, and she almost fell down. But a hand


    wrapped around her waist and kept her from falling.


    The strong arm gave her shivers.


    It came as aplete surprise to her when the person held lighter in front of her


    face and lit it, revealing his face to her.


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