I woke up to the knocking at my front door. My grogginess turned into anxiety. Whatever power Dylan's dare had over me last night had passed. With that also came excitement that the curse was potentially a thing of my past, or at least a secret again.
I jumped up and grabbed the briefs from the floor and put them on. I put them on! I actually had clothes on my body again!
I bounded to the door and opened it to see Dylan with two cups of coffee.
"You have underwear on!"
"I do!"
"And it looks like my dare worked for you last night..."
"Huh?" I looked down to my body where he was looking. "Oh shit, sorry dude!" I ran away back to my bedroom to clean off the dried cum from my stomach. Idiot.
I put on some jeans and a shirt after and it felt so good to be covered up again. Over coffee we discussed the night. How surprisingly happy I was last night and even now today. How I didn't have any urge to turn my phone on which was the only fear I had.
Dylan apparently had done some research last night and couldn't find anything on Google about this curse. I hadn't told him the exact details like the website for some reason. Maybe shame. Maybe I thought if I told him about it he would accidentally stumble upon it and he'd fall into the same hell.
After we caught up we headed over to the mall in his car. While at the store the clerk asked if we wanted to port over my data and contacts and we both said "No!" a bit too urgently. I explained I had a bad break up and wanted to start fresh. New number. No contacts. Clean slate.
He seemed confused but also disinterested so he just set me up with a new phone and number.
While we were out Dylan and I did some browsing and ended with lunch. I felt so much better.
"Happy to have this all behind you?" he asked while we ate.
"Well, it's not really behind me. But yeah, now I'm not in the fire at least."
"Ah, yeah that's true. Any thoughts on how to fix it?"
I sipped my water, "honestly no. I'm going to try and retrace my steps tonight and then go from there."
"You're going to try and get cursed again, dude?"
"No! But, I'm pretty sure I can't get worse. The curse website was pretty specific on accepting dares."
"Wait, it was a website?"
Ah shit. "Yeah. There was like, an incantation that I must have accidently read that made me this way. I'm not sure why I didn't tell you."
"Why were you even there?"
"It's kind of embarrassing, but it was basically a pop-up during a porn sesh." I took a bite of my burrito bowl.
"Fuck. I'm paranoid to look at porn now."
"I doubt you'll ever stumble across it."
"Why? What sort of porn were you looking at?"
Fuck. I was accidently giving too much away to Dylan.
"Let's not talk about that here or now. Just, I think you'll be fine."
"Okay, B."
The first few days after that were filled with anxiety. I constantly wondered if I would bump into that bitch or she'd somehow get my number. But after the first week, things became more normal. Work was going good, I was hanging out with the guys again (albeit at houses now, no more bars for me), and it was becoming easy to forget about my curse.
Two weekends later, my dishwasher stopped working at my place. It took another week for maintenance to come take a look and they asked I be there even though they had a key. They like their tenants available in case there are questions which I think is pretty bull shit but I took a half day.
When the guy finally got to my place he was an hour behind when he was supposed to show up so I wasn't pleased. The dude was probably late 30's, early 40's. He wore some junk overalls and a blue flannel shirt. He may have been handsome 15 years ago but I could tell his muscle turned to soft flesh and his beer belly was clearly present. I'm not sure why he chose to dorn a thick mustache either. Whatever, his life.
"Brandon Zaverick?"
"Yup, come on in."
"The dishwasher, yeah?"
"Yeah, over this way." I led him to the kitchen and pointed it out. "It sounds like it's running but nothing's getting cleaned. I'm not sure if it's a water problem or something else."
"Okay, I'll take a look. Give me a couple hours."
"Hours?! I'll need to get back to work after lunch."
"Sorry man, best I can do."
"Well if you had shown up on time we wouldn't be in this situation."
"Do you want a fixed dishwasher or not?"
I debated on just throwing him out but I'm sure he was the only maintenance guy they had on staff. If I didn't want him to fix it up that just meant it wouldn't get fixed.
Sigh, "fine, yeah. Just try and make it quick."
He gruffed and got to work inspecting it. I headed back into my room and got my laptop open to check some ESPN while I waited. Probably 45 minutes later I decided to go check on him.
When I got to kitchen I was shocked and pissed instantly. My dishwasher was disassembled almost fully, parts strewn across the kitchen and everything seemed wet.
"What the fuck dude? This place is a mess!"
"I have to take it apart to see what the issue is."
"Really? That seems like a stupid way to do this."
"Are you the repair man or am I?"
"Honestly, I don't know at this point."
"Kiss my ass," he said nonchalantly.
"Are you fucking kidding me, man? I want you out. I'll call the front office to get someone competent."
"Huh, oh that's right. I'm supposed to start it with a dare."
My heart dropped, "what did you say?"
He cleared his throat as he stood up. "I dare you to kiss my ass?"
I widened my eyes in fear and horror. How? How did this guy know? Did she tell him? Did Dylan? So many thoughts ran through my head as I walked over and knelt down. He turned around and pushed his clothed butt out to my face and I gave it a nice smooch on his left cheek.
As soon as I did I jumped up and away from him, "Who told you?!"
He was laughing hysterically. "I can't believe you did that. What sort of bet did you lose?"
"WHO TOLD YOU!" I was furious.
"No one. There's a note on your door."
I couldn't connect the dots so I went to the front door and opened. Attached there below the peep hole was a small handwritten note with a simple sentence scrawled on it, "This guy will do ANYthing you dare him to."
I heard the guy behind me, "I figured you must have lost a bet or something and had to follow dares today or something and your buddies were making sure everyone knew."
"No. No. No. You need to get out. Now."
"But what about your dishwasher?"
"Get out! Now! Get the fuck out of my apartment!"
"I dare you to calm down?"
It felt like cold liquid washed over my body and I shivered. My tensed muscles loosened. I still wanted this guy gone but he was right, why did I need to be so uptight about it?
"Would you please mind leaving, uh, I actually didn't get your name."
"Bud. And actually I think I dare you to invite me to stay as long as I want."
"Of course, Bud, make yourself at home. Stay as long as you'd like." I mean, he was fixing my dishwasher after all. Of course he could stay.
"Haha, wow. This could be fun. I dare you to act like a dog!"
I dropped down to my knees and started to walk around on all fours. I came over to him and sat back on my butt, looking up to him expectantly with my tongue out. "Aw, good boy. Dumb boy."
"I dare you to chase your tail."