Your Turn to Die by Sue Wallman

Author:Sue Wallman [Wallman, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2018-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Tatum goes off to see if Poppy is up for an interview, but comes straight back saying she’s asleep on a sofa.

“I’m surprised you didn’t wake her up,” says Jakob.

“I wanted to, but Gabs said not to,” says Tatum. She flops face-down on to the sofa and says, “Save me from this boredom.” A second later she lifts her head and says, “Please tell me you have a secret stash of alcohol.”

“Not really,” says Ivy. “There’s alcohol in the larder…”

“But we can’t drink now,” says Jakob.

“Why not?” asks Tatum.

I roll my eyes. Tatum doesn’t seem to understand the most basic of rules. “We’ve got to go downstairs and eat with the adults soon. They won’t trust us go to the Holiday Village if they think we’ve been pre-drinking up here. We have to pick our moments strategically.”

“My parents would be cool about it,” says Tatum.

“Our parents aren’t,” says Jakob. He glances at me. “How about we play twenty-one dares?”

Ivy groans. “I never get it right,” she says. “Twenty-one always lands on me.” But I know she’ll play. She always does.

We push the sofas nearer the armchair so we’re closer together. There’s the usual argument about who’s going to start.

“We can only say one, two or three numbers?” checks Tatum.

“Yep. One, two,” I say, starting. “We’re going round clockwise.”

“Three, four, five,” says Jakob.

“Six,” says Ivy.

“Seven, eight, nine,” says Tatum. She stretches one arm, then another, as if she’s ever so slightly disinterested.

We go round again twice. Twenty-one lands on me.

“Arggh,” I say.

“Truth or dare?” sings Ivy.

“Truth.” I usually go for truth. “No, wait. Dare.”

“Too late,” says Ivy.

“Have you ever kissed anyone properly?” asks Tatum. Her expression tells me she’s anticipated the answer and thinks it’s hilarious.

The other two smile encouragingly at me. They wonder if anything exciting has happened throughout the year that I haven’t told them about.

“No,” I say. It feels shameful in front of Tatum.

“Boring question,” says Jakob.

“You think so?” says Tatum.

Ivy says, “Next time we have to agree on the question together.”

“Next round,” says Tatum. “One.”

I don’t know how it happens because Ivy and I try to work it, without actually verbalizing it, that twenty-one lands on Tatum, but it’s Jakob who gets it. He shrieks, “Nooooo,” then, “All right, give me a dare. And it can’t be ‘eat a dead fly’ because I had to do that last time we played.”

“Go and sneak some alcohol from the larder,” says Tatum.

“It’s got to be a group decision,” I say.

Ivy tightens her tartan blanket round herself and says. “I’ve got a good one. Jakob has to run round the outside of the house—”

“That’s not a dare,” says Tatum scornfully.

“With a bare chest,” finishes Ivy. “It’s below freezing out there.”

“I’d like to see him run faster than he’s ever run before,” I say. “So it’s a yes from me.”

“And I’d like to film it, so all right,” says Tatum.

“Dare accepted, but I’m not taking anything off until the very last minute,” says Jakob.

“You have to run the whole way,” says Tatum.

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