Chapter 3
I looked up at Edward to see a twinkle in his eye, one that I hadn't expected. Sure, I guess I was average pretty, not beautiful, but not butt ugly. My greatest asset was my hair, long, silky, and a mahogany brown. I was shocked to see that a gorgeous man like Edward would look at me for more than five seconds and move on to someone like Rosalie. Tall, blonde and beautiful I was not.
He gently placed his hand on the back of my neck and lowered his lips to mine, his eyes focused on mine the entire time. My eyes fluttered shut at the feel of his soft lips covering mine. All thoughts of how embarrassing this would be for me, I focused only on his lips. God, he was a good kisser.
The forty-five seconds were up quickly and he gently separated our lips, opening his eyes to stare into mine. Emerald green and sparkling with something more than excitement, he licked his lips.
"Cherry chapstick?"
I blushed. How totally cheesy this was. "Uh, yeah. It's my favorite. Well, next to strawberry."
He smiled his crooked smile that made me melt inside and turned to the rest of the group staring at us in complete shock. I could see Alice's devilish grin as she moved her hand over Jasper's and squeezed.
"Everyone ready to move on? This game has 'run its course.'"
Rosalie nodded enthusiastically, obviously already planning her dares and truth questions for the weaker truth pickers. Nessie, Renesemee's nickname-Renesmee is kind of a mouthful to say all the time-winked at Alice and giggled.
"I think that I should go first," she declared. "Jake got to make out with everyone but me and I'm starved for a little attention. If you know what I mean," she added with a sultry smirk.
Alice smiled a wicked smile and turned to the rest of us. "Since I am the mastermind behind this game, it is only natural that I go first." Her brown locks bounced around her face as she looked from person to person. I knew the moment she laid eyes on me that I was in trouble.
"Bella, truth or dare?"
I didn't want to end up doing something with Edward that I would later regret, but I didn't want to miss out on doing something with him if it meant enjoying the hottest sex of my life. God, what a choice.
"Truth."
Alice glared at me, her disappointment and anger almost succeeding in wishing me dead. "Fine. Since you're a wimp, do you like Edward?"
I glared back at her now smiling face. "What? Are we in second grade again?"
"Just answer the question or she'll find other ways to torture you later," Jasper's Southern drawl drifted across the circle.
I glared at him too. "Yeah, I like him. He's…. How should I put this? He's a great looking guy and I'm sure he is nice. So yeah, I like him. Satisfied?" I asked Alice. I refused to look at Edward's face, afraid of what I would see. He could either take it at face value-I was drunk- or he could take it to mean that I really did like him. Which I did, but that's not the point.
She smiled her 'you are so going to get it later' smile and nodded. "Jasper, you're turn."
Jasper dared Alice to down an entire can of Coke in thirty seconds while Emmett dared Jasper to try and lift the massive table in the room. According to Jake, who was sitting on my left, the table weighed a good thousand pounds and Jasper had no chance of lifting it. Of course he was right.
The dares went on being silly until It got to Rosalie sitting on Alice's right. I knew the moment I looked at her face that she had something dirty in mind and I was going to do it whether I want to or not. She smirked at me before she said, "Edward, I dare you to go to second base with Bella."
Edward, who had been taking a sip of his Grey Goose, spit it out through his nose to everyone's amusement. Well, everyone's but mine. I was going to have to let Edward, the Edward whom I barely knew, touch my boob. Or both. Maybe his second base was different than my second base. Rosalie was going to get it when the alcohol wore off.
The guys were looking at Rosalie with complete shock while Nessie and Alice were giving her approving nods and looks. Rosalie raised her eyebrow. "Well? When is this little party going to take place? Maybe I should change my dare. Maybe I should change it to outright sex. Then things would really get interesting."
I saw Alice's look and immediately knew that Edward and I were in immediate danger and we had better get the hell out of there. I had started to get up when Alice's words stopped me.
"Since I was elected to be in charge of this game-"
"Who the hell elected you to be in charge, Miss I-Am-Too-Smart-For-My-Own-Good?" I snapped. Alice ignored my outburst and continued on as if I had said nothing.
"As I was saying, since I am in charge here, I decide the rules of the game. And since we never established any of the rules, I am ratifying a clause to the unspoken rules. The clause says that the monitor of the game, that would be me, can, at any point in the game, change or alter any dare and or truth given. I am invoking that clause.
"Bella, you have been dared by Rosalie Hale Cullen to have hot, steamy, wonderful sex with the gorgeous man beside you. You must accept this dare. That is also in my rules."
I took a deep breath before I even attempted to answer. "Alice-"
"We accept the dare," rang Edward's voice behind me.
Shit.
