"So, is truth or dare okay with you guys?" asked Ching, completely oblivious to Garu's dilemma.
Say something! Make an excuse! Garu's mind urged him. However, he just could not get his mouth to comply. There was no use trying to deny it anymore; a big part of him really wanted to go through with the game, forget about the consequences, and get some action. After all, he was seventeen! And as the throbbing between his legs reminded him, this would be a prime opportunity for him to make some desperately needed advances on the rosy-cheeked beauty next to him. Who knows, if I play my cards right we may be sharing a bed tonight after all he thought, grinning at the idea. I hope she has thick walls so that the Uncles can't hear us while we—
"Of course it's okay with us!" Abyo said, punching the air with his fists, interrupting Garu's developing fantasy. "We're not afraid of anything you could dare or ask us! Right, Garu?"
Garu growled, annoyed. That damn Abyo really need to learn how to shut up once in a while, especially when Garu was in the middle of…a sex fantasy…that just made him get harder. Shit. Think about Santa, think about Santa he urged himself.
"Garu? Are you okay?" Pucca asked. "You're sweating."
Garu felt his eyes, which he hadn't even realized were closed, shoot open as he snapped his head over to look at her. He cursed mentally when he realized no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't keep his eyes on her face. Not after that daydream he'd just conjured up. He turned his head away from her in defeat and squeaked, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just haven't played in a while, I guess."
"That's okay!" chirped Ching enthusiastically. "Here, Abyo will go first!"
"Huh!?" Abyo sputtered, surprised. "Why me!"
Garu rolled his eyes and the girls giggled. "Because," Ching explained, "you're the only one manly enough to handle going first."
"Oh!" said Abyo, suddenly looking smug. "Right, okay then! HIYA!" he exclaimed, ripping off his shirt. "I choose dare!"
"I have one!" Pucca said, exchanging giggles with Ching. Those two had something planned, no doubt. Women.
'Nothing I can't handle, though.' Abyo thought smugly, licking his lips in anticipation. 'Oh Ching, I can guess what you two are up to and lemme tell you; you're in for the kiss of your life.'
"I dare you to call Santa and act like you think he's hot!"
"What!?" asked Abyo, caught completely off guard. "Why!? That's weird! And besides, who would ever believe a manly man like me could ever be attracted to another guy! Hiya!" he said, striking some kung fu moves for emphasis.
"Just do it Abyo!"
"Fine!" he said, walking over to the phone as if death itself waited there for him. He slowly dialed the number and prayed no one would pick up. Unfortunately for Abyo, his prayers were not answered. "Santa? Hey, it's Abyo."
He looked up from the phone as he heard laughter erupt. "She didn't say you had to give your name, stupid!" Garu said laughing along with Pucca. Even Ching was letting a few small giggles escape.
Abyo flushed, gripping the phone tightly as he mentally smacked himself for being so stupid. "Hello, Abyo! Ho ho ho!" Santa exclaimed merrily over the phone. "How can I help you?"
"Umm…" Abyo stuttered. "By…" Abyo paused as he tried to think of a clever innuendo. Finally, he just ended up blurting out, "Garu said to tell you he thinks you're hot!" With that, he slammed the phone down on the receiver and took a breath of relief.
Bad call, Abyo. Garu immediately sprung up behind him, looking incredibly pissed. "Abyo," he growled. "What the fuck?"
"Um…I got nervous?" Abyo offered. Not a bad answer—at least he wasn't trying to keep his annoying macho façade up—but not good enough. Garu was about to let Abyo have it when Pucca suddenly grabbed his fist and held it back. "Garu, don't worry about it," she said quickly. "Everyone knows not to take Abyo seriously."
"Yeah!" Abyo agreed, happy to still have all of his limbs in tact. "I'm always saying something stupid!"
"Come on," Pucca said, leading him to the couch and sitting right next to him so their laps were touching. "Let's keep playing."
Garu, feeling entranced by Pucca's gentle hands that were now massaging his shoulders comfortingly, nodded and sighed contentedly. Abyo and Ching exchanged "OMG that was a close one!" looks and smiled at each other.
"Okay!" Abyo said, continuing on as if he hadn't nearly been pulverized. "Truth or dare, Garu!"
Pucca felt Garu's shoulders immediately tense up under her hands as he considered his options. "…Dare."
He figured he'd just get dared to do something stupid like Abyo had. Besides, since Abyo was the one doing the daring, Garu figured it'd be something stupid concerning how Kung-Fu was better than Martial Arts, or other nonsense. He figured wrong.
"All right, Garu!" Abyo said in approval. Real men always choose dare, or at least that was Abyo's philosophy. Abyo smiled slyly as he thought of a way to make things up to Garu. "Okay, I dare you to spend seven minutes in the closet with Pucca."
What?! Garu's mind shouted. He could feel Pucca release her grip on his shoulders as she brought her hands up to her mouth to giggle, obviously much more comfortable with intimacy than he was. However, time seemed to freeze for Garu as he desperately tried to think of a way out of the situation. Garu + hard-on+ Pucca + closet equals BAD his mind anxiously calculated for him.
Suddenly frowning, he thought, What am I doing? I'm a ninja! I've faced far worse—freezing cold, scorching heat, near death experiences—and I'm afraid of a little game of truth or dare? No, scratch that, I'm afraid of a teenaged girl?
He shifted his gaze over to Pucca, who was sitting next to Ching, applying a fresh coat of lip gloss and puckering into her compact mirror, making sure the gloss was evenly spread out just right.
No, that's not true he said to himself. I'm afraid of what I might do to her he realized. Blushing intensely as he felt himself being dragged to the closet by a giddy Pucca, the last words he heard were, "Have fun Garu! But remember, you only have seven minutes!"
Garu awkwardly stood in the closet, cursing at himself mentally. Aww, come on! You were making such good progress! Don't let a hard-on stop you! he told himself. Meanwhile, he felt a familiar softness squish against his chest and a sweet scent greet his nose. He smiled as he realized Pucca was starting out innocently enough—naively pressing her body against his in a tender embrace. As he wrapped his arms around her, he thought to himself, God, she has such a hot rack. Ah, no! Focus! Baby steps, Garu. Baby steps he told himself, determined not to pounce on her.
He inhaled the scent of her strawberry shampooed hair and lowered his arms around her waist. He heard her giggle and then their eyes met. Suddenly Pucca looked away, blushing. This was it. There they were, alone in a closet. No Abyo around to interrupt them, no Ching around to squeal at how cute they were. Just the two of them, now both slowly leaning in toward each other, bridging the gap between them.
Garu had never really been one for romantic jabber, finding most of it quite ridiculous. He never thought he'd have the time to really pursue any type of romantic relationship, especially not in his teenage years, especially not with Pucca. So how was he supposed to know what their first real kiss would do to him?
As their lips met, Pucca's knees went weak. She was in the exact opposite situation; she'd wanted this more than anything for so long, and she had been beginning to think she'd never get it. And now that it was actually becoming reality, she found herself unable to believe it.
Garu tightened his grip around her waist to keep her from falling and gently pulled away from their short but sweet kiss, shocked. He'd been kissed by Pucca so many times before, but it never had felt so sweet. So sweet, but so damn enticing too! His eyes glazed over as he stared at Pucca's flushed face and curvy body. She looked completely entranced, almost as if she might faint. He couldn't let that happen; he needed more and they still had plenty of closet time left. He gently shook her. "Pucca, are you okay?"
Regaining her composure and looking up into his eyes, she blushed and whispered, "Never been better."
"Good."
Garu grinned and dove back down for another kiss, this one much more intense than the last one. He felt Pucca gasp, and he instinctively slipped his tongue into her open mouth. For a moment Pucca tried to pull away in her shock, but she realized how long she'd been wanting this so she settled back into Garu's arms and kissed back. After a couple minutes of heavy duty lip-locking, they both pulled away breathlessly.
Garu couldn't help but smirk at Pucca's happy, flushed face. "Hope that wasn't too much for you," he teased.
Pucca's blush intensified. "It wasn't! You just caught me a little off-guard."
"So you liked it, right?" Garu asked, with a slight nervous edge to his voice. He knew he'd gotten a little forward, and if it turned out he'd forced Pucca into going too far he'd never forgive himself.
Pucca giggled. "Well duh I did." She glanced down over at her watch. "We still have some time left."
Garu grinned, relieved and eager. "Good, because we've barely scratched the surface," he said in a low, husky voice. Taking a great leap of faith, he brought an arm behind her and lowered it down to her hip. He then captured her lips in another kiss as he quickly moved his hand to her butt, squeezing it tightly. He braced himself, half expecting to get slapped silly for this but deciding it was worth it.
It's definitely worth it Garu thought, letting his hands wander and grope as if they had a mind of their own. He was surprised to feel a warm hand go up his shirt instead of smack his face. So far, Pucca had shown herself to be just as turned on as he was. Awesome he thought, allowing her to tear off his black shirt.
Pucca ran her hands down Garu's chiseled chest, and pulled away from his lips so she could switch to planting soft kisses on his neck. She blushed as she felt him reach under her short skirt to cop a better feel of her butt, but decided he'd earned it after all of the years of him putting up with her chases. She heard him softly moan out her name, obviously appreciating the kisses to his neck, and giggled. She was finally winning her Garu over, and she definitely was enjoying the process as much as he was.
And that was saying something, because Garu was really enjoying this. He was a seventeen year old guy with an obsequious, incredibly hot girl in his arms; how could he not be? In the past five minutes, they'd kissed like their lives depended on it and she'd let him feel her butt. How could he ever have run away from such an incredible girl?
Garu's hormones were on a complete stampede now, and he completely threw away all restraint as he thought, Let's see just how incredible she is.
Cupping her chin in his hand, he kissed her again and she melted into his arms. He grinned, happy things were going exactly the way he wanted them to. He reached between their chests and casually laid a hand on her breast, giving it a firm but gentle squeeze. Pucca suddenly gasped and looked up at him, truly surprised.
Garu swallowed as his mind automatically switched back to rational mode after hormonal mode finished doing internal cartwheels and back flips at its latest conquest. "Pucca…uh..."
He blanked out, scared shitless. He let himself go too far and was about to pay for it. Pulling his shirt back on, he braced himself for his inevitable punishment, and could not help but think, Totally worth it.
He looked over at Pucca, surprised to see her smiling and blushing like a school girl. "Oh come on Garu. We've been 'dating' for years. Well, not real dating, but you know what I mean. That must count for something. What kind of a girlfriend doesn't let her boyfriend cop a feel after six years?" She giggled, then pretended to pout. "You must think I'm such a prude!"
Garu could not believe his luck. Was he dreaming? He pinched himself. Nope, he wasn't! He really was that lucky. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a hug. "Are you kidding me? You're the coolest girlfriend ever!"
Pucca blushed and let out a deafening squeal. Had Garu just called her his girlfriend? Finally!
Just as they were about to lean in for another kiss, they felt the fluorescent light of Pucca's living room harshly shower them.
"Time's up you two!" Abyo sang, opening the closet door. Ching was right behind him, and let out an "aww" as she saw the two locked in an embrace. Meanwhile Abyo smirked, and thought to himself, 'A hug? You get seven minutes in there with her and that's the best you can do? You've gotta be kidding me. Garu, when will you ever be a man? You'll never get laid at this rate!'
Abyo had no idea how vigorously he'd be high-fiving his friend once he found out the real juicy details.
Garu took his seat on the couch next to a flushed Pucca as the quartet of friends continued on with their game.
"It's your turn Garu!" Ching reminded the ninja, who was currently staring at his girlfriend's boobs. "Oh yeah," he said, tearing his eyes away from the sight.
"Ching, truth or dare?"
Ching decided she didn't want to be the first one to chicken out and choose truth. "Dare."
"All right. Gimme a second," said Garu as he thought. He suddenly met Abyo's gaze, and could see him trying to mouth something out to him. Garu focused on his friend's mouth and made out the words, "You owe me!"
Garu blinked. Yes, Abyo could be as annoying as hell, but they were best friends. And whenever Abyo messed up, he always tried to make it up to Garu, as he'd demonstrated and brilliantly accomplished earlier on in the game.
Nodding at Abyo, he turned to face Ching again. "Okay Ching. I dare you to give Abyo a lap dance."
Complete silence.
Garu blushed, had he really just said that out loud? Dang, he really needed to rein those hormones back in! Blushing slightly at the crude bluntness of his dare, he was about to take it back when suddenly the silence was broken by a giggling Pucca, a stuttering Ching, and an ecstatic Abyo leaping around the room.
Suddenly though, all eyes were on Ching as Pucca hopped up to turn on the stereo and settled it on a slow, sensual song.
"Pucca!" Ching cried out in disbelief. "You're going along with this?"
Pucca shrugged and nodded. "Come on, Ching. Shake that ass like the rent is due tomorrow."
Garu snickered at her deadpan delivery and watched Abyo drag a chair over to the center of the room. He eagerly sat down on it and motioned for Ching to come over and start the dance. Ching, being the sweet girl that she was, flushed as red as the flower in her hair. "Do I have to?" she asked meekly, in one last futile attempt of escape.
"No," said Pucca. "But we'll all think you're a wuss if you don't."
"Yeah." Garu agreed.
"Okay, fine!" she said, mortified. She slowly walked over to where Abyo was eagerly waiting and was about to start when she suddenly blurted out, "Do you two have to be here!"
Pucca and Garu exchanged glances. Well no, they didn't, but where was the fun in that?
"Yes, Ching, of course! Otherwise it won't be fun."
"But I didn't watch you guys make out in the closet!" she argued.
Aww, dang. She had them there. Thinking about how awkward it would've been to have Ching and Abyo watch them in the closet, Pucca suddenly sympathized. "Okay, fine. We'll go get dinner." Pucca said, dragging Garu into the kitchen with her.
"Thanks," said Ching, looking back to a drooling Abyo. "Uh…I guess." She blushed and proceeded what started out as a very awkward lap dance.
Key Words: 'started out'. I have no idea how I'll make it end up XP Being the goody two shoes that I am, I've never given a guy a lap dance. However, I have received one and it was absolutely horrific. Shudder. It was on a public bus and it was this ugly guy from my chemistry class giving it to me. But anyways, enough of that; no need to scar another crop of peeps XP
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And oh yes! I still need a dare for Pucca next chapter. Can't leave her out, can we? If ya'll could include some suggestions for Pucca dares that would be madd kool. Or maybe even a truth, if that's what you please. I'm open to all suggestions! See ya next chapter!