Chapter 19: One on One

"I need to step out for a moment..." Luke's face turned sour. He pushed past a few people and stumbled out of the room. "Luke seems off," Diana turned to Maddie. "Maddie, don't you want to go check on him?"

"I...why should I?" Maddie replied nervously.

"Because we're all friends here, what's wrong with checking on him?" Diana asserted. Maddie realized she was overthinking things.

"It's okay, Luke will be fine. Diana, I'll stay with you." Maddie said gently. After all, how could she miss the moment when Diana embarrasses herself?

"Come on, Diana, you wouldn't want to back out at the last minute!" Brandon shook the dice and complained, determined not to let her off the hook after all the effort it took to get her to this point.

"I certainly wouldn't back out, but it's not very fair with just one of me against both of you," I replied.

"So what do you want to do?"

"Brandon, why don't we have a one-on-one match?"

"What?!" Brandon frowned. Did he hear her wrong? Diana actually wante