"Meh, this is getting boring," John sighed resting his head back on the couch setting down his Xbox controller beside him "Hey, wanna order a pizza or
something soon." He suggested stretching his arms up above his head before sinking back into the old sofa.
The blond haired boy beside him rubbed his eyes under his glasses before yawning a reply, "Maybe, in a little bit." They had been playing on Dave's Xbox for a
good two and a half hours before it had started growing tiresome. "So what do ya wanna do?"
The brown haired boy shrugged, staring at a wall a moment to think before his idea came to him. "Hey Dave! Wanna play truth or dare?" he suggested
enthusiastically, awaiting his pal's reply.
"Haha no way man, that's what little girls play at sleepovers, I ain't doing that shit." He said giving his friend a mocking smirk. He brushed a bit of his silvery
blond hair back from his face and adjusted his sunglasses that had slid a little ways down his nose.
John gave him a short pout, "Oh come on it'll be fun," he dragged out the last vowel in a whiney tone to get Dave's attention. "And what else is there to do
anyway?" he added with a pout before his idea could be ignored again. Dave just sighed.
"Fine," he gave in, "we can play your dumb twelve year old slumber party game." He rolled his eyes from under his sunglasses and crossed his arms. John
smiled with delight and turned his body towards Dave.
He tucked his legs up next to him on the couch and looked at his friend. "Alright Dave, you start." Dave gave another sigh before speaking in a sarcastic tone.
"Alright John, truth or dare?" he droned with lack of enthusiasm.
"Hmm… Dare!" he challenged, awaiting his friends reply.
Dave thought a moment, trying to think of something interesting. A devilish smirk sprouted on his lips. He might as well make this fun. "Alright Egbert," he
chimed, "when we order pizza, you're going to have to open the door when the pizza man comes, in ONLY your underwear." He paused to allow his words to
sink in before adding "WITH a smuppet in your pants."
He grinned evilly eyeing John's reaction to his ridiculous dare. John crossed his arms and gave Dave an annoyed look. "What? Don't tell me you're going to
pussy out. Playing truth or dare was YOUR idea, remember?" Dave mocked, arching an eyebrow at John.
" Fine." John groaned "but I'm totally getting back at you for that one later. So, truth or dare?"
"Dare"
"Okay," John took a moment to think. Unfortunately he couldn't come up with something very good so he just settled with the first thing that had come to mind.
"I dare you to chug four whole bottles of apple juice right now."
Dave gave a light hearted chuckle, "Geez how lame can you get." He stood up, "Fine." He said walking his way over to the kitchen. He came back a minute later
carrying 3 bottles of apple juice and a can of coke. "We only had three, so I just grabbed this." He explained wagging the bottle of coke in front of his face.
He twisted the cap off the first bottle of apple juice, giving john a final glance before lifting the mouth of the bottle to his lips before tipping his head back and
slugging it down. He let out a sigh, tossing the empty plastic container onto the floor by his feet. "One down, two and a coke to go." He joked.
He quickly slugged down the remaining bottles and the can of soda. He let out a loud burp before talking again, "There, happy?"
"Very." John said satisfied, lounging back onto the arm of the raggedy couch.
"Okay, truth or dare?" Dave asked with his casual plain smirk.
"How about… Truth this time."
The freckled blonde took his time coming up with a with a personal awkward question. "Hmmmm…" He hummed sarcastically, overdramatizing his facial
expressions. "HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM."
"Oh just think of something already!" John said annoyed, giving the strider a playful shove.
"Well you sure are an impatient one today mister Egbert." Dave joked. "You can't rush this sort of thinking."
John replied with an eye roll. "Ok, here's one. Have you even imagined making out with me, Rose, or Jade ever?" He gave a few silly eyebrow raises after the
question, leaning in towards John trying to pressure him. The was the thing John liked about Dave, he would act like a cool guy around large groups of people
but when it was just the two of them he acted like a total goofball.
John shoved his friend away with a chuckle, "Ew, no way dude." He joked.
Dave leaned back onto the couch and lifted an eyebrow, "Oh? So are you implying that me and the girls are too gross for you? You think you're better than us
Mister Egbert?" He said sarcastically.
"You know what I meant." He gave another eye roll. "It's just way too weird, I've known you guys for years, it's way too awkward to think about kissing Jade
or Rose, they're almost like sisters to me. And as for you, well you know I'm-"
"Not a homosexual, I know dude, you've said it at least a hundred times since I've met you god John; I'm just yanking your chain." Dave said giving Johns arm a
playful punch.
"Alright tough guy, truth or dare?" John continued, readjusting his glasses that had begun to slide off his nose.
"Truth I guess," Dave decided, awaiting john to ask some sort of stupid question. He scanned John's face as he was thinking. He examined his furrowed brow
and the way he looked at the ceiling as if he had a really good question written up there. The way he attempted to blow the strand of hair out of his thinking
space, just making it worse and causing it to drape further over his eyes.
Dave had gotten so lost in thought he hadn't noticed when John had finally asked something, he was flung back into reality when John threw a throw pillow at
his face. This caused Dave's shades to slide off his face landing on the ground beside the pillow. "Dude what the fuck!" he shouted turning his head away
quickly snapping his eyes shut, groping the floor before snatching up the glasses. He quickly snapped them into his face; turning towards a giggling John on the
other side of the sofa.
"Geez dude chill out," he giggled, trying to cover his own cackling mouth with his hand. "You where totally spacing out dude, you had it coming to you. Why so
freaking about putting your shades back on? Out of all the time I've known you I still don't think I've seen you take those off once."
"That was not. Cool." Dave bitched, "And for your information these shades are really dark and its annoying to have to adjust to the light alright? Now just drop
it."
"God Dave, I've never seen you get so snappy at anything like that, but ok, I'll drop it." John paused a moment. "So anyway, back to the question. I asked 'Do
you like anyone?'"
"John that is the oldest question in the book, you couldn't think of ANYTHING else?"
"Well exuuuuuuuuuse me for not coming up with something better. Just answer the damn question." John said, he crossed his arms and leaned on the back of
the couch, waiting for Dave's answer.
"As a matter of fact, yes, yes I do like someone at the moment." Dave said with a smirk.
"Oh really?" John scoffed "Who? Jade? Rose?"
"Hey, one question at a time dude; So, truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"Alright then, I dare you toooooooooooo…" Dave gave a pause to think, "Along with answering the door in your underwear when we order pizza, you also
have so say something really cheesy and seductive to the pizza man."
"Dave, are all your dares going to involve ridiculing the poor pizza man?" John complained.
Dave gave a small laugh then sighed, "Fine bro, then I dare you to go on pester chum and send everyone a message that says 'I've been meaning to say this
for a long time but….. I like your ass' and you aren't aloud to ever explain it to anyone ever."
John took a moment to let this sink in. "You're cruel you know that."
"Here, I'll go get my laptop so I can make sure you do it right now," Dave said, standing up and walking into the other room.
"I'm totally getting you back for this later you know that!" John shouted from the couch.
"I'd like to see you try!" Dave said soon before he walked back in with his laptop and pesterchum opened. "Here, I logged out so that you can get into your
account.
John reluctantly snatched the computer out of Dave's hands, he gave Dave a pouty look before sighing and typing his name in. after about a half an hour of
Dave spying over johns shoulder while John pathetically pounds away at the keys, sending the messages to all of his contacts. When he finally sent the last
one he arched an eyebrow at Dave, "Happy?" he sneered.
"Very," Dave replied, sitting back with a smirk nesting on his face, feeling pretty damn good about himself right about now.
"Alright Dave, get ready, truth or dare?" John shut the laptop and set it down on the coffee table in front of him before sliding back into the cushion of the
banged up couch.
"I'll go with truth because I'm a fearless bastard."
"Alright," John paused, trying to come up with something worth asking, he would ask the 'who do you like?' question, but he decided to save that one for later
on. He pulled his legs off the floor onto the couch, crossing his legs. "Hmmmm…." He thought out loud, then he sat silently, pulling thinking faces for a few
minutes.
"Dude we don't have all day." Dave joked. Just receiving him a glare from John; the shaded boy held up his hands defensively. "Really, I didn't even take this
long to think of something."
"Well fine do you want me to just ask something really stupid without even bothering to think of a good question?" John whined.
Dave gave a small chuckle and a smirk, "I'll take my chances, just say something I've been waiting for five fucking minutes."
"Fine, I'll just do the first thing that comes to mind." John sat a moment deciding to just ask something stupid and ironic with an obvious answer.
"JOHN!"
"Okay okay. Hmm… Are you gay?" He asked in a really sarcastic goofy voice, expecting a shove in the shoulder and an immediate 'no way man, are you
serious?'; A few heartbeats passed and there wasn't a sound, Dave's mouth remained a solitary line. John gave a nervous chuckle, "Come on dude," Dave just
remained silent.
He turned his head towards the ground, not looking John in the eyes, even passed his shades. "Yo, Strider, you OK? You've never been so quiet before." Dave
didn't even flinch. "Haha very funny Dave now really, say something this is really awkward."
Dave inhaled deeply, after taking a deep breath he faced John again, his face still unchanged. For a moment John could has sworn he saw the side of Dave's lip
twitch into a smirk before quickly resuming its flat state. "Oh…" John's voice was soft and understanding. They sat in silence for a few moments, which seemed
to feel like hours.
Dave said quietly under his breath, sort of wavering, but just barely. "Hey… can we get some pizza now, I'm kind of hungry…" his voice trailed off dryly. It took a
moment for it to reach John's ears, there was another moment of nothing but the silent noise of their breathing in and out before John reacted.
"Oh! Yeah, sure, want me to order?" he didn't wait for a reply before sliding his phone out of his pocket and punching in the number of a local pizza delivery
place. He held the phone up to his ear and glanced over at his blonde friend. "Pepperoni, right?"
"No way man, sausage. Sausage is the shit!" The freckled kid said, back to his laid back self within seconds.
"Kay." John said waiting for the person on the other line "Yes, one large half pepperoni, half sausage pizza. Extra cheese"
AN/: Hey guys what do you think of it so far? I am planning to add more chapters on possible but I would love to get some feedback first. This was just a quickie little thing I came up with at 2 am this morning. But yeah, hope you like it so far :)