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Tobias POV

Chapter 8

"Dare"

Christina smirks and turns to face an also smirking Zeke who then exchange a couple of whispers and satisfied nods.

"I dare you to go upstairs, then everyone will pour a shot, and you'll drink one of them, whoever poured the shot you drank will get to sit on your lap for the rest of the game" She states.

"But..that means I could have Zeke on my lap" I exclaim, as everyone laughs at my statement.

"That's the point," Zeke says, winking.

I roll my eyes, but get up and walk up the stairs. I can't help but admire Tris' house. It's big, modern and comfy yet Tris doesn't flaunt it, she's humble with what she has and doesn't live for the extra attention she could get.

"We're done Four" Shauna yells from downstairs.

I walk down the stairs and see 8 shot glasses placed on the coffee table.

I hesitantly approach the table and look for any signs of spillage that may indicate that the shot was poured by Zeke so I could avoid that glass.

I find none.

I make a silent prayer to get anyone but Zeke and then take a shot glass at random and take the shot. I immediately look at Christina who points in the direction of the L shaped sofa.

I sigh a breath of relief to see that instead of Zeke, it is Tris.

"Glad it's not Zeke?" Tris questions playfully, as I take my seat that happens to be beside her.

"Very" I agree, earning a gasp from Zeke in mock sadness.

Tris gets up from her spot and takes a seat on my lap.

"Sorry if I'm heavy" She whispers in my ear.

I force myself to try to cover the shiver that Tris' whispering caused.

"Tris, you way as much as a feather," I tell her as she laughs lightly.

"Shauna, Truth or dare," I ask

"Dare," She mumbles.

I look around the room, " That Pineapple" I say, pointing to the pineapple on the table, "Is your child for the next 10 minutes,"

Shauna nods and then goes to grab the pineapple but then stops.

"Tris, why do you have a pineapple," Shauna asks.

Tris shrugs, and then says, "Ask Uri, he's the one who bought it for me when he came this morning."

I find myself laughing along with everyone else. That sounds like a Uriah thing to do.

Shauna picks up the pineapple, cradling it in her arms and then taking it back to her seat next to Zeke.

"Look at her, isn't she cute" Shauna coo's, talking to Zeke.

Zeke nods and takes the pineapple out of Shauna's hands and then throws it up and catches it, repeating the cycle as if the pineapple was a real child.

"Caleb, truth or dare," Shauna says, taking the pineapple off Zeke and cradling it in her own arms.

"Truth," Caleb says.

Zeke whispers something in Shauna's ear and she nods, "What's the most embarrassing thing you and Tris have done."

Caleb's goes red as he clears his throat, " When Bea and I were seven-"

"Caleb no!" Tris exclaims, cutting Caleb off.

"Tell us" Zeke yells.

"We were both seven" Caleb starts "And it was December, it was snowing outside and Mom wouldn't let us go outside because we had already gone and it was dark. But Bea and I really wanted to go, so we waited for Mum and dad to go to sleep and then we got the bag of flour, Bea tore it open and we spread it on the floor"

Tris groans and turns towards me, hiding her face in the nook of my neck, the feeling of electricity spreads across me, and I feel my skin heat up.

"Bea and I wanted to make rainbow snow so we took hot sauce for the red and other grocery items for all the colours in the rainbow, long story short, Bea wanted to taste the rainbow and woke mum and dad up because her mouth hurt after she tasted the red" Caleb says.

By the end of the story, everyone is laughing, some even crying thanks to seven-year-old Tris' logic.

Tris' face is still hidden in the nook of my neck, but all too soon she takes it out and buries her now red face in her hands, electing another round of laughter from everyone.

"How about we watch a film" Tris suggests.

Everyone mumbles some sort of 'yes' and Caleb turns on the TV, logging into Tris' Netflix while Tris runs upstairs to get popcorn, snacks and drinks.

After a lot of arguing, we decide on watching a horror film.

We begin watching, and halfway through the film, the only thing that is audible is Zeke and Uriah's screams

The film ends a bit before seven. As we were all hungry Tris decides to order Chinese.

"Okay, we can either sleep in the guest rooms, or I can get the spare mattresses and put them here so we can sleep in the same room," Tris says

"Lets all sleep down here" Will suggests.

We all nod in agreement as Zeke and Uriah arrange the mattresses that were down here and me and Tris go upstairs to get two more so we can all sleep comfortably tonight.

"Where are they?" I ask Tris

"We can just take them from some of the spare bedrooms," Tris says.

"You have more than one spare bedroom?" I tease

"Uh, yeah I have five" She admits sheepishly.

I feel my eyes bulging out of their sockets, "How many bedrooms do you have?" I ask exasperated.

"Nine bedrooms" She admits, looking down, ashamed.

I feel a twinge of guilt for making her feel that way, "Thats a lot of rooms for one person" I chuckle.

Tris smiles slightly, "Yeah, my family would always stay with me," She says.

I nod and then get the mattress from one of the guest bedrooms as Tris does the same with one of the other guest bedroom.

I take the bare mattress and take it down to where we will be sleeping tonight.

I take a seat on the sofa as Shauna and Marlene tend to the bare mattress I had bought in.

The doorbell rings and I hear Tris' open the door.

Must be the Chinese. Not only a minute later, Tris comes downstairs with multiple bags of Chinese food and eight plates and a few forks and spoons.

"Drinks are over there," Tris says, gesturing to several bottles of drinks in the corner of the room.

We all take the seats we were previously in and start digging into the food.

"So what should we do now?" Uriah questions, while eating a forkful of noodles.

"You guys can do whatever you want to, I have something to do," Tris says as she finishes the small amount of food she had on her plate and gets up, going upstairs.

"How about some more Truth or Dare" Shauna suggests, while the others nod in agreement.

Before I can prosses what I'm saying, I blurt out, "You guys go ahead, I need to ask Tris something"

Everyone seems to be more focused on the prospect of Truth or Dare to realise what I just said and they all give me some sort of nod.

What I said might not be entirely true, but its good enough, the thought of playing Truth or Dare again gives me a slightly anxious feeling, who knows what Zeke and Uriah could dream up.

I get up from the sofa and make my way upstairs, I can hear the faint sound of movement on the top floor, so I follow it, hoping it'll lead me to Tris.

The top floor has one door directly in front of the stairs, that leads to a large balcony, other than that, there re three other rooms.

I stand outside of the room that the sound is coming from, that now is clearly the sound of skin hitting some sort of material, maybe leather.

The top floor has one door directly in front of the stairs, that leads to a large balcony, other than that, there are three other guest rooms on this level.

I knock twice on the door, and the sound stops, the door is still closed, but only seconds later is open to reveal a panting Tris who has a thin layer of sweat across her.

Instead of her sweatpants and shirt, she is now wearing black yoga pants and a grey tank top.

"Oh, hey Four," She says, giving me a small smile.

"Hey," I say dumbly, I mentally scold myself. I may have gotten out of Truth or dare, but I just got into an awkward situation.

"Do you want to come in?" She questions opening the door wide enough so I can see.

The carpeted room is filled with various different exercise machines as well as a few punching bags. It's impressive, as it doesn't give off the feeling of being crowded, nor the feeling of being to empty.

"If you don't mind" I admit sheepishly.

She smiles, and steps aside so I can come in, "Not at all"

I watch as Tris closes the door behind her and makes her way to the punching bags, her stance is flawless and so is her technique, I watch as the punching bag swings violently with every hit.

"I actually need to speak to you," Tris says, approaching me.

I hum in response.

She looks everywhere but me, as she says, "There's this," She sighs, "There's this overnight conference in New York on Tuesday and Al was meant to go with me, but he quit and since the conference is mainly on the work you are doing I was wondering if you would come with me" She says so fast it's barely audible.

"Of course," I say after I process what she's saying.

She smiles a thankful smile as she walks towards the door, "I'm going to take a shower, feel free to take one too, all the guest rooms have bathrooms," and with that, she walks out.

As Tris suggested, I did take a shower. It was only after I got out, that I realised how late it was.

10:23 pm

I make my way back downstairs to find Zeke and Shauna sprawled across one of the mattresses playing cards with Uriah, Christina and Will watching the film thats on the TV while being snuggled together, and Tris, Marlene and Caleb having some sort of discussion.

"Hey Four," Caleb says, waving me over towards where he's seated, "You're just in time to hear another embarrassing story about Bea," He says, causing Tris to groan and punch him in the arm lightly.

"Alright, alright," Caleb says, playfully, smirking at Tris.

I take a seat on the mattress next to Marlene and watch the encounter between the two siblings.

"I should probably go now" Caleb murmurs.

"Caleb no!" Tris whines, holding onto her brothers arm tightly.

"You're not staying the night?" I question.

Caleb turns towards me, "I wish I could, but I already promised Colette that we'd play spy's when I got home and she inherited Tris' stubbornness meaning she's still up waiting for me," He chuckles.

Tris sighs and then wraps her arms around Caleb as Caleb reciprocate by doing the same.

Caleb gets up and heads off while Marlene goes to watch the game of cards.

After about an hour everyone is either sleeping or about to sleep.

I watch Tris' eyes dart open as she emerges from her sleep, if I had to guess what the cause of this was, I would suspect a nightmare.

She glances over everyone and then her eyes land on me.

"Bad dream" She admits sheepishly, embarrassed.

"Sleep," I say, "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you"

"With what" She questions.

"My bare hands, obviously."

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