"Wake up Jaden!" I open my eyes lazily, and see him three inches away. So close I can smell him, practically taste him. "Whataya want Tristian?" I say groggily rolling over and sitting up to face him. "We're going to the mall today. They're this new gay-pride sale at Hot Topic and I need to go!" he shrieks practically throwing me out of my bed.
i get up and walk to the bathroom. I splash some water on my face and brush my teeth. He throws me my clothes and says "HURRY UP ALREADY!" making me want to hit him so badly. I slip into my clothes and walk out and he drags me out of the house and practically all the way to the mall. While we're walking I get those funny feelings again. Tristian is gay and he admitted to having a crush on me to almost the whole school. I on the other hand have the worst crush on him but I'm too chicken to admit it to anyone. Let alone ask him out.
He turns his head and asks me, "Jaden? Are you absolutely positively perfectly sure you're not gay? Or even bisexual?" "No Tristian," I mutter sheepishly, "I'm not." He walks a little faster, then spins around and splutters, "Then let me do this, at least." He moves in and kisses me. I forget to breathe and stumble as the fireworks play on the backs of my eyelids. He takes my hand in his, still kissing me, and pulls away. He says ecstatically, "What did you just feel?" I nervously say in a very quiet voice, "uh...nothing...er...I mean...I felt your lips...but nothing else" lying through my teeth. Regretting ever single word.
I scrape my feet across the sidewalk, the only noise occurring after that decision. We arrive at the mall and meet up with our friends, Nikki, Alia, and Merandea. "Hey, Jaden. Hey, Tristian" Nikki wails happily. "Hey" we mutter in unison. Realizing our hands are still entwined, scrambling to separate them. We glance at each other and bust up laughing confusing the others. We head to Hot-Topic letting Tristian shop for a bit and decide to head to Nikki's for a while. We get there and invite Arreis, Stefani, and Dante over for a little game of truth or dare.
We sit in our little circle and I opt to go first. I lean towards Nikki and say dramatically, "truth or dare?" she replies quickly with "dare, retard." I roll my eyes and lean away from her grasping my piece of paper. I write down my dare: "wear your bra on the outside of your shirt for the rest of the night." I looked around to vote and chose Arreis' dare. "Ask out Rodney Brown." I saw that Arreis had voted for me since it's against the rules to vote for yourself. I took up the pieces of paper and laid them in front of her. "You must ask out Rodney Brown" I sneered. Everyone trying not to laugh, except Dante. He had a pained look in his eye. "Uhh…" Nikki splutters. "What? The dare-devil gonna lose her title to a silly dare like this?" I say holding myself from rolling on the floor. "No, I'll do it," she stutters "but I won't like it" she states, stealing a look at Dante. He looked like something terrible was about to happen. "But see, Nikki, you have to pretend to like him, if he says yes." Stefani giggled.
Nikki turns and says to Merandea, "truth or dare?" "Truth" she mutters sheepishly. It was her fifth truth in a row. We all moaned. "Alia, it's your turn to ask her." "Merandea is it true you currently like ten guys?" alia says in a bored tone. "Yes" she replies while turning her head towards Dante. "Truth or dare?" she whispers. She's never really enjoyed truth or dare as much as us. "Dare" he responds, jerking his head forward dramatically. We all circled away from him and went for our papers. When we had our votes down, Arreis collected them and laid them out for us to vote. I read them and they revealed to be:
Merandea: say "I like wieners."
Alia: hump the wall.
Nikki: moon a car.
Stefani: lick Merandea's ear.
Me: make out with Nikki for sixty seconds.
Arreis: I don't know.
Tristian: Uhh?
I voted for Alia. Knowing I can't vote for myself. Arreis withdrew the votes and presented them to Dante. "According to popular demand," she said all business-like "you must make out with Nikki for sixty seconds. Go" "er. Okay…I guess."
He moved nervously towards Nikki and all of us stared in amazement as they tilted their heads and began. They moved in harmony, such smoothness, like they were made for each other. I feel butterflies and realize that Tristian moved closer to me and caused my heart to beat faster and faster. Time was half up and they were still working at it. Back and forth. Slower and faster. Making me look at Tristian with the most pathetic look on my face. He looked at me and chuckled. Their time was up but it seemed as if they'd never stop. We got up and went to Nikki's bed to keep playing.
"Truth or dare" I choke on my words looking into Tristian's deep green eyes. Seeing him look into my pale grey ones. I jumped when Nikki stood up and fell back down giggling. She regained control of herself and murmured "is the game over yet" right before she leaned in to kiss Dante once again. Dante stands up and leads Nikki to the bathroom. I jump up and race to the bathroom door pressing my ear tight against the purple-painted wood. I hear Dante whisper "wait" right before the shower turns on. By then it was no use and I walked over to the bed sat back down in time to hear Tristian say "dare." I sharply say, "Wow a lot of dares today." under my breath I pick up my piece of paper and just scribble. When I look at the suggestions I notice Stefani's says "kiss Jaden" I flip out and vote for Arreis, which once again states "I don't know." Stefani showed the voted to Tristian and unsurprisingly, four out of five votes were for him to kiss me. I stare at Stefani and she smirked. I look and Tristian and he leans forward. Stopping just in front of my lips whispering so lightly I can barely hear it, "I love you."
He presses his lips to mine gluing me there. Making me want more. I lean closer kissing him again. Merandea sighs and says "here we go again" I pull away and say "shush" and kiss him again. He pushes me down and crawls on top of me and pins my wrist down still kissing me. We stop when Stefani gets up and runs to the bathroom screaming "Omigosh shut up! You guys are so freaking loud having sex! Dang!" she slams the door shut and joins in the game again saying "my turn, dare."
i laugh and pick up my piece of paper right as the water turns off and out comes Nikki in her towel. i quickly look down hoping she didn't see i saw her. then she slaunters over and lays beside Arreis. her eyes flutter asleep after Dante slips his arm over her body. i could practically see the warmth radiating from him to her and her to him.
