Double-Dog Dare

Have you ever done something so embarrassing all you want to do is crawl beneath your bed covers and never leave? No? Yeah, me neither.
Okay. That''s a lie.

It happened to me, Emma Perkins. All thanks to my best friend and a stupid, pathetic dare. And not just any dare--the sacrosanct double-dog dare no less. She dared me to talk the hottest guy at a fancy club because, in her words, she''s tired of me "hiding in the corner of life." I don''t know why. The corner of life is nice.

It''s safe.

And because a double-dog dare cannot be undone.
I did it. I spoke to him and proceeded to humiliate myself. She swore I''d never see him again. Ha! Because of course I saw him again.

One Eli Baxter.

And well, I guess I should thank my best friend and her stupid dare, because humiliating myself turned out to be the best decision I ever made.