Sadly, from now on I'll start to update this story weekly (probably on Saturdays or Sundays) because of school. I'm starting it next week, and I rarely use my laptop on weekdays. I needed to enjoy what's left of my free time, so, I wrote a huuuge chapter for you all. 4k+ words! What? Yes, you read it well. 4k+!
It's not full of juicy details about anything, but it's a funny one. I guess... Whatever, you tell me if it was or not.
Enjoy it! And don't miss my updates too much x
Chapter 22
Truth or Dare
"Keeping me company." He says against it.
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Three weeks went by in a flash and soon, everyone was starting to get busy with schoolwork.
The day after that fight between Eric and Four, we had like a get together in the roof organized by Zeke, to which Uriah invited me to. It was kind of fun, we played a couple of games, talked and drank. But we were just a few people, so it got boring after a while. Will and Christina have been spending lots of time together, but they are not dating. Yet. But Marlene and I think they will start dating soon.
I was doing my calculus homework when Christina barged into the dorm.
"Are you busy?" She asks.
"As you can see."
"It doesn't mind." She says and grabs my arms. "Come."
"Where are we going?" I ask, throwing my pencil to the desk.
"Zeke's."
Oh boy. I know something is up. And if we are going to Zeke's dorm, it isn't good. But I'm sure it'll be fun.
We walk to his room silent. She opens the door and I see Will, Four, Uriah, Zeke, Lynn, Marlene and Shauna inside. They are all sat on the floor, making a circle.
"Welcome back." Zeke says.
"I brought someone." Christina says.
"We can see that." He says.
"Hi Tris!" Marlene says.
"Hey. What are we doing?" I ask, looking at them all.
"Nothing. Yet." Zeke smirks.
Shauna get's up. "Let's go, then." She says as she brushes off the dust in her jeans.
Everyone get's up after her, and we left his dorm.
"Where are we going?" I ask. But no one answers me. They just walk over to the stairs, climb them, open the door that leads to the roof and sit on the floor, next to the wall. I sit there as well, between Christina and Zeke.
"Oh, I forgot the eggs." Zeke says, getting up, before sprinting off the roof.
"Can anyone tell me what's going on?"
"Christina didn't told you?" Shauna asks. I shake my head no. She glares at Christina, who smirks. "We're playing truth or dare."
I look at Christina.
"What?" She says. "I know, if I told you, you wouldn't come."
I just keep looking at her.
"Stop it." She says.
"I hate this game. I'm not playing." I say.
"Come on, Tris." Marlene says. "It's fun!"
"I don't like this. And I don't like the fact that Zeke went downstairs to go grab eggs."
Four laughs. "One round?"
I look at him, and his eyes try to convince me. But I look away before they can. I shake my head.
"Please?" Marlene says.
"Please, Tris. It's fun, really." Uriah says.
"Play with us, please!" Christina says.
"Yea, Tris. Come on. It'll be fun, I know it." Will says.
"Please." Four says.
"Oka-" I say, but everyone just starts cheering.
Zeke comes back with a plastic bag full of eggs. He sits on the floor with the bag next to him. "I can see you convinced Tris to play. Cool." He starts. "Rules. You ask whoever you want to, truth or dare. But you can't ask the person who asked you, in the next round. If you chose dare, and you don't like the dare, you can't go back and change to truth. The same thing applies to when you chose truth. If you refuse to answer or to do the dare, you get egged. And by egged, I mean, the person who asked you, get's to break an egg in your head. Or shoulder. Or back. Or wherever he wants to."
Everyone nods.
He takes a coin of his pocket. "Heads or tails?" He says and he throws it in the air.
Shauna, me, Four and Christina chose tails, the other chose heads. Tails it is.
He throws is in the air again.
Shauna and Four pick head, Christina and I pick tails. Heads it is.
Zeke throws the coin in the air once more.
They both pick heads, the coin falls in tails.
Zeke throws the coin in the air one last time and Shauna picks heads, Four picks tails. Heads it is, which means, Shauna gets to start.
She looks at each one of us for a while, before calling Four. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare." He says not even thinking about it.
She smirks and asks Zeke for an egg. He gives it to her.
"You have to break the egg on your head." She says, handing him the egg.
"And if I don't, you'll break the egg for me?" He asks. She nods. "I thought you'd do something worse." He says before smashing the egg on his hair.
"Gross." Christina says.
Four looks at her and raises an eyebrow. He looks sexy doing that. What? I shake my head, trying to get rid of that thought and Four asks "Truth or dare?"
"Me?" She says. He nods. "Hm... Tru- Dare."
"Lick the floor."
"What?" She asks.
"What?" Uriah asks laughing.
"Lick the floor."
"That's gross."
Zeke hands a egg to Four. Four tosses the egg several times in the air, and catches it again.
"I'm not going to do that. You can go ahead and smash it in my head already." She says crossing her arms.
He gets up with a smile in his face, walks over to Christina and crouches next to her.
"Can I tie my hair first?" She says and he shrugs. She begins to tie her hair, but Four smashes the egg on her left leg. She was wearing shorts with tights. She lets out a little scream and tries to clean it. He gets up smiling triumphantly and gets back on his seat. Lately, he has been pretty happy. He seems way more happy now, than he was before, when he was still with Lauren.
Christina looks at us, still trying to wipe off the egg from her tights.
"Truth or dare, Mar?" She asks.
"Truth."
"Cof. Pussy. Cof." Zeke coughs fakely.
Marlene gives him a look, but quickly looks to Christina again.
"I don't know... Hm... In your opinion who is the better looking guy here?"
Lynn let's out a dry laugh and Marlene looks at her hands for a bit. She was probably trying to make us think she was thinking about the answer. But all the girls there know who she will say.
"Maybe Uriah... I don't know." She says finally.
Christina starts laughing and I chuckle.
"Hilarious." Marlene says dryly to both of us. "Lynn."
"Dare."
"Let Christina d-"
"No chance in hell. Egg me already."
Four, Zeke and Uriah burst out in laughter.
"Ouch. That hurt." Christina says.
"You didn't even let me finish!"
"Egg me."
Zeke gave an egg to Marlene, who smashed it on Lynn's head.
Time passed by incredibly fast. After a couple of rounds, I had been egged once, because I refused to wax one of my brows off, told them the last time I peed in my bed was at age nine and danced to the sound of a random song Zeke played in his phone. I don't even remembered why I didn't like this game. It is fun. If you don't want to do a thing, you just get egged. I mean, if you're playing by Zeke's rules. And until a certain point. Until you are out of eggs.
I thought we were going to stop playing, since we were out of eggs. But Uriah said, "Instead of being egged, you can just be kissed."
"What do you mean?" Zeke asks.
"Instead of being egged when you refuse to do or tell something, you get kissed by the person who asked you."
"No way. I can tell you want to kiss girls tonight, but I don't want to kiss boys. Or have boys kiss Shauna."
"And that's not even a punishment. It's a reward." Four says.
"Unless the other person is a bad kisser." Will says and we all just laugh.
"Does anyone has flour?" Shauna asks.
All heads snap to Shauna.
"Do you think anyone would carry flour?" Lynn asks and Shauna looks at Zeke. Zeke shakes his head no.
"I guess this is it then." Marlene says.
"Unless..." Christina says. All heads snap to her. "We have to take a piece of clothing."
"No way." I disagree.
"Or that or we have to lick the wall." She giggles.
"Sounds good to me." Uriah says.
"I agree." Says Zeke.
Almost everyone nods.
"I was joking." Christina says.
"I'm not." Uriah says. "Look, no one wants to lick the wall. So, everyone will do the dares. And tell the truths."
"So is the taking clothes off."
"It's different. Liking the wall might be bearable for everyone. Taking clothes off no."
"I agree. Girls have insecurities about their bodies." Will says.
Everyone looks at Will.
"What? Isn't it true?"
"It's set then. If you refuse to tell or do something, you lick the wall." Zeke announces.
"That's gross."
"Truth or dare?" Zeke says to Christina.
Four chuckles.
"Dare."
Zeke narrows his eyes at her for a while and then he smirks.
"Don't you dare..." She says.
"Lick the door."
"What?!"
Everyone except Christina started laughing.
"I'm not licking anything!" She yells. "I should have picked Truth..." She mutters.
"You have to." Zeke says.
"No I don't. It's just a silly game."
"Do you really want me to tell the school about your little secret?"
"What secret?" She says.
"Wait and see."
"You wouldn't spread a rumour."
"I wouldn't go that way." Uriah muttered.
"Lick the door." Zeke smirks.
"Ugh, fine." Christina says, rolling her eyes. She gets up, and Zeke gets up as well. They both walk over to the door.
After a little while Zeke starts laughing. I guess she really did lick the door.
They both get back to the circle and Christina is faking puking noises.
"Truth or dare, Shauna?"
"Dare." She answers.
"Punch your boyfriend nuts."
Uriah busted in laughter, followed by Four, Marlene and I.
"You're not serious." Zeke says.
"Shauna. Punch or lick."
"Sorry babe..." Shauna says before punching her boyfriend's middle parts.
He squealed a little, but we all could see she didn't punched hard.
"It was hard!" Christina yells.
"You didn't said so!" Shauna yelled back.
Zeke kissed Shauna's cheek and Christina crossed her arms.
"Four."
"Dare."
"Again?" Zeke asks.
"Yes. Is there a problem?"
"You haven't pick truth once."
"And?"
"Just pick it."
"But I want dare."
"I dare you to pick truth next round." Shauna says.
Four looks at her and rolls his eyes. "Fine. Uriah, Truth o-"
"Dare." Uriah answers before Four could even ask.
"Smell Zeke's shoes until the end of the next round."
"That's g-... not. gross. at. all." Uriah says trying to smile. He and everyone knows we can't use the word gross in this game. Otherwise, your next challenge will be the weirdest. Christina learned that the hard way.
Zeke laughed while he took his shoe off. Uriah grabbed it and looked at it for a while.
"Dude, you have those for like two years." Uriah says clearly disgusted.
"I know." Zeke chuckles.
"Will." Uriah says and puts his nose inside Zeke's shoe.
"Truth."
Uriah coughs and asks, "Why aren't you and Christina dating already?"
Christina ducked her head in embarrassment. Will scratched the back of his neck.
"I don't know." He says and shrugged.
"That's not an answer." Uriah says, making a weird face, probably because of the smell.
Will looked at Zeke.
"Sorry bro. I think it is..." Zeke says.
"That's not fair!" Uriah says. "You know what, okay, whatever. Just put your shoe back on."
"Four. Truth or truth."
Four rolled his eyes.
Will thought a little before asking, "If you could kiss one girl who would it be?"
"You mean, in the world? Or in here?" Four asks.
"World. No, no. Here."
"Tris." He says, not even looking at the girls who were here. My eyes shot open and heat rushes to my cheeks. What did I just hear? "I thought it'd be an awful question, you thought so much about it. Lynn, truth or dare?" He says instantly. He doesn't even breath.
I look at my hands. Was he serious? Every girl here is prettier than I am. He is not serious. He can't be. But what if he is? That would be kind of... Amazing. But he isn't. I'm sure he isn't. He is probably just messing with me and Will. I mean, he couldn't say he would like to kiss Christina because obviously, Will likes her. Shauna has a boyfriend, who happens to be one of his best friends. Or actually his only best friend. Marlene was probably a long name to say so, he just said mine, because is it short, and easy to say. And I need to stop overreacting. Stop overreacting, Tris. He was kidding. He was joking. He didn't mean that. And why am I making such a big deal out of this? I don't even like him. I don't like him. I don't like Four. Who likes Four?
My thoughts are, fortunately, interrupted by a huge laughter. Apparently Marlene did the dare Lynn dared her to do.
"Truth or dare, Four?"
"Dare."
"We're back at the dares again?" Zeke says.
Four glares at him, and Marlene says, "Do seven minutes in heaven with Tris."
"What?" Four asks.
"What?" I ask. I'm surprised anything came out of my mouth and not my chest. I have the feeling my heart is trying to escape my chest at any minute.
"Oh my..." Shauna giggles.
Marlene wiggled her eyebrows.
"You're joking." Four says.
"Kiss or lick. Or do both." She giggles.
Four is right in front of me. He gets up, and walks towards the wall. He is going to lick it. Of course. What was I expecting? But then, he turns and walks around the circle we were making until he reaches my place. He extends his hand at me and I casually take it, like I'm not about to do... The things you do on those seven minutes. He helps me getting up, and leads me to the door. Everyone is giggling. He lets go of my hand and opens the door. I enter it, and he enters right before me, closing the door behind him.
We are in that little area next to the stairs. It is dark and the only source of light there is, is the moonlight that comes through the tiny windows. I remember the day I came here looking for him. I really shouldn't be thinking about his, I mean... I'm here. With him. The clock is ticking. And I'm thinking about the moon instead of kissing him. Or, instead of making some lame excuse up not to.
"This is awkward." He says.
"Yea..."
He crosses his arms in front of him and looks at me for almost a minute.
"You know we are supposed to be making out, right?"
"Yea." I say, taking a few steps, not even knowing why. At each second, my heartbeat increases, and so it does my cheeks temperature. My heart is beating so fast and hard, I can feel it, ready to jump out of my chest. If it did, I'd be dead, and I wouldn't be here totally embarrassed.
"We should just, stay here. Wait for the seven minutes do end, mess up our hair a little and... Yea."
"Oh... Yes, sure, I guess."
I can't stop this weird feeling to spread around my body and mind. A couple of minutes ago he said he wanted to kiss me, and now he his saying we shouldn't?
He grabs my hand and pulls me a little closer to him.
"Why do you sound... disappointed?"
"Disappointed? What, no, I'm not disappointed."
"Oh, so you don't want to kiss me?"
"No, it's th-"
"Oh! So you do want to kiss me." He says and I can see him smirk, even with this light.
"It's that... I just... I never... I don't... " I say, trailing off every two words and look at my shoes.
"You never...? Wait, you've never kissed a boy?" He says surprised.
I shake my head no, still looking at my shoes. I can't look at him, he probably thinks I'm some weird freak now. I'm sixteen and I never kissed a boy before. "Why do you sound surprised? It's not like I'm pretty enough to have a boyfriend."
"You are pretty. Really pretty, actually. But that's not the point. You don't need to be pretty to kiss someone."
I blush even more, if that's even possible.
"I... I don't know. I don't know why I haven't. I think I haven't had the chance, I guess."
"You have the chance now." I'm pretty sure my heart skipped a beat. "I'm joking." He adds.
None of us says anything for a while. But it wasn't an uncomfortable silence. We were just two teens, in the same space, who should be making out, but are just enjoying each other company. How often doesn't that happen?
"Two more minutes!" Zeke screams from the other side of the door.
Four snorts.
"Does he really thinks we're doing... that?" I whisper.
"I thought he wasn't. But now... I'm not sure." He smiles. He doesn't smiles often, but when he does, I feel like smiling as well.
"Hm, were y..." I trail off.
He looks at me. "Were I?"
"Nevermind, forget it."
"Tris."
"Four."
He comes closer to me, really really closer to me. So close I can feel the heat of his body on mine, and tilts my chin up, making me look at him.
"What were you saying?" He asks, calmly.
"N-n-nothing..." If I can't even think, with him looking at me like this, how can I talk?
We stay still for a while, and when my cheeks and heartbeating start to calm down a little, I put my hands on his waist. I regret it as soon as I do it. But he doesn't seem surprised nor anything like that, so, I just let them stay there. For about... 10 seconds. Then, the door opens and Four and I take our hands off each other, to look at the door surprised.
"Woah," Zeke says. "I was just going to let you know the seven minutes are over. But if want to continue what you were doing I don't mind."
"Shut up." Four says, entering the roof again.
Zeke must have thought we were really making out. Four is big enough to hide me. And he was with his back turned against the door. Which means, that when Zeke opened the door, the only thing he saw was Four's back and my hands on his waist.
The three of us get back to the circle to be greeted with looks from everyone. Some of them were laughing, Marlene was just smirking and Christina was wiggling her eyebrows.
"How was it?" Will asks.
"It's not your turns to ask. And neither of us picked truth." Four snaps.
Will mutters something I didn't catch and Four asks Uriah to pick between truth or dare. Uriah chooses Truth.
"Who do you have a crush on?" Four asks.
Uriah stays still for a while. He looks at his hands and then looks at Four. He takes a deep breath and gets up.
"No way, dude." Will says.
Uriah walks over to the wall, takes another deep breath and licks it.
Four bursts out in laughter and so do I and Shauna.
Marlene is shocked and Zeke screams, "You didn't!", not believing his eyes.
"That was disgusting!" Christina says loudly. "Did you guys heard that? I did not say gross. Just to be clear."
Uriah spits on the floor twice before getting back to the circle.
"I sure want to know who she is." Christina says, and hits my knee with her's.
"Or he." Zeke adds. "You never know."
"Enough." Uriah says. "I can't believe I was the one who convinced you all that licking the wall was a good punishment."
"But it is." Lynn says between laughs.
"Well, you go lick the wall then." He says and spits on the floor once more. "I'm pretty sure I caught a diseas-" He stops mid sentence and smirks. "Lynn, truth or dare?"
"No way I'm licking the wall. Truth."
"I didn't think about that... Are you on your period?"
"Was that supposed to make me embarrassed? Because you failed. Miserably. No, I'm not. Zeke, truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"Tell us an embarrassing story about Uriah."
"Okay so, hm... One tim-"
"That's not a dare! That's a truth!" Uriah yells.
Lynn gives him a look. "Zeke, I dare you to tell us an embarrassing story about Uriah."
"That's not fair!" Uriah yells but Lynn just smirks.
"One time, when Uriah was twelve, I made him watch a horror movie with me."
"Oh god, no." Uriah says putting his head in between his hands.
"I don't remember the name of it, but I know that it scared the shit out of him..." He stops to laugh. "So badly... he... pooped... in his pants." He says in between laughs. "T-twice!"
Everyone laughs at that, besides Uriah.
"It could have been a better one..." Lynn says.
"Well, I'm sorry, I just remembered this one. Shauna dare or dare?"
"Uh, dare?" She laughs.
"Do seven minutes in heaven with me."
"Are you serious?"
"I am." He kisses her neck.
"Okay, you two can go do seven hours in heaven if you want to. But in your rooms. I'm going to bed." Christina says.
"Now? But it's like..." Marlene says, checking her phone. "eleven thirty. What?"
"Time does fly when you're having fun." Will says.
"Well, this is the end for me as well. I still need to finish my homework." I say.
Eventually, we all get up. Zeke grabs Shauna's hand, and they sprint out of the roof. I guess they are going to enjoy their minutes in heaven after all. When I'm about to pass through the silver door, I look at the mess we've made. I should clean this up. Clearly, no one is going to do it.
Christina walks over to me.
"Are you coming?" She asks.
"In a second. I think I'm going to clean this up first." I say as Four and Uriah pass next to us, going towards the stairs.
"Really?"
I nod.
We both climb down the stairs and she goes to her dorm, but I just stay there, in the main hall for a while thinking about where must the supply closet be.
"Hey, Tris?" Someone calls out. I look to where the voice came from and I see Four with a broom, a plastic bag and a mop. "Little help?"
"What are you doing?" I ask as I grab the broom.
"Helping." He says as he starts walking up the stairs. I follow him.
"Why?" I ask.
"Because," He starts, as he opens the door. "I still want to know what were you saying. And I think Shauna and Zeke are in my dorm."
"It was nothing..." I say as I shut the door behind me.
"Right."
We clean up all the mess we've made. All the broken egg shells and the remaining of the eggs. It didn't took long, since we weren't that many people. Four hasn't brought up that theme again, and I bet he is waiting for the right time to use some weird psychological trick on me and make me tell him. Even though he is not studying psychology...
"I guess this is it." He says as he ties a knot in the plastic bag.
"I guess it is."
"Do you still need to finish your homework?" He asks.
"Yes... I'm going to finish it as soon as I get back to my room." I reply. "It's calculus."
"Oh. I was going to offer you help, but I don't know a thing about calculus. Sorry."
"No problem. I can do it." I smile. He smiles back. "But thank you."
He smiles. "Well, I guess I'm going back to my room." He says and he grabs the mop and the broom. "Can you put away the trash?"
"Sure." I say.
"Cool. See you at breakfast then." He says an turns to the door. "Bye."
"Bye." I say.
He stops, turns and walk toward me. He stands in front of me and looks me in the eye. He leans down and kisses my forehead.
"Good night." He says softly and turns to the door again.
I watch him as he goes away. But when he his almost at the door, ready to grab the knob, I know. It's now or never.
"Were you serious?" I ask.
He looks at me with a glint in his eyes. He knew I was going to ask it sooner or later.
"About what?"
"You know."
He shrugs. "About what?"
I know he knows what I'm talking about. He is going to make me say it.
"About the... You know..."
He shakes his head like he doesn't have a clue of what I'm talking about and opens the door.
"The kiss." I finally say. That made him stop and look at me again.
"What about it?"
He is making me say it all. I can't believe it. He know what I'm talking about, why does he has to act like this?
"You are getting on my nerves, you know."
He smirks. "I do. What about it?"
I roll my eyes. Besides this, he is making me more comfortable. My cheeks are not burning. His mood is making me comfortable around him. If he wasn't acting like this, I know I would be sweating all over the place, blushing and stuttering. And that's not the worst. The worst is that he know I would.
"You know what I'm talking about, Four."
"I don't, Tris."
"Jeez, the kiss. The truth Will asked you."
"Yes, I got that. But what about it?"
"Were you serious?" I ask almost shouting. He is really getting on my nerves.
"Oh, if I was serious about whether I'd rather kiss you or the other girls who were there with us?"
"Yes. That..." I say and I blush. Thank god it's dark.
"Yes, I was. I mean, you are supposed to say the truth, right?" He says, and quickly adds, "Good night." Before leaving the roof.
Oh... Is the only thing I can think of, right now. I look at the door in disbelief. He was serious.
Yes, yes, yes, I know it. Over used, but hey... It was kind of fun? No? Okay...
I'm sorry if you didn't like it. I know some people hate this kind of stories. But it's not actually a story. It's just a chapter... Anyways, I hope you liked it, even though it's a truth or dare... Yea, I'm going to shut up.
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