I Dare You

Ch Challenge Accepted.

It was early in the morning, Eliza sleepily rubbed her eyes as she walked towards her school building, all of a sudden she heard footsteps behind her as if someone was running towards her.

"I was thinking about you.", a familiar voice said. As Eliza looked to her left, it was Darien striding slightly behind her.

Eliza raised an eyebrow as she looked up at the tall figure walking beside her, she was confused at the sentence that came out of his mouth. "Why....?"

"I just heard what I said! that is NOT what I meant! don't get any 'ideas'. I mean I was thinking about what you said", He said defensively.

"Trust me, not getting any ideas, and I said what?"

He lifted her chin with his fingers only to push her face to the side. "Don't look directly at me, keep walking, pretend as if I am not talking to you"

Eliza narrowed her eye and pursed her lips, she stared at him trying to figure out what to say.

"I am kidding, take a joke. Anyways I was thinking about the bet thing and I am in if you are. Unless you're scared"

That was it, even if Eliza had not wanted to accept the challenge, now she had to, she stared him down before dramatically stopping in a trice and extending out her hand.

Darien dropped his hand in hers, his hand was warm and his grip firm, he looked directly at Eliza as while shaking her hand.

"Okay so I dare you to....um", he said as he let go of Eliza's hand, he started looking around as if he was gonna get any inspiration. He looked Eliza up and down before shaking his head, he scrunched a chunk of his hair scratching his scalp as if trying to think.

"Don't think this hard, you're brain is not used to that its gonna explode."

"Ha, Ha", he said before pausing dramatically. "Ha"

Eliza narrowed her eyes once again. "If that was supposed to be a sarcastic laugh, it was horrible."

"Yeah, you would know about all things horrible, won't you?"

Eliza shook her head from left to right, as if shaking away his comment, preventing it from entering her head. She started walking faster than before trying to get away from Darien, who was still standing at the same spot, not moving.

"We'll discuss this later then?", he called.

Eliza just raised her hand, letting him know that she had heard him. She entered her school building and walked along the corridors of the crowded school, in the heaps of students in the hallways she somehow spotted Chloe by the lockers and went upto her. Chloe who was speaking to someone else just acknowledged Eliza's presence by raising both her eyebrows.

Eliza rattled her locker door trying to get it open, for some reason her locker randomly seems to get stuck sometimes. After a few minutes she finally got it open and began emptying the contents of her extremely heavy bag into her extremely messy locker.

Chloe waved as the person she was talking to walked away, Eliza looked up from her locker at her friend, she opened her mouth to say something when suddenly a pair of hands came from behind and covered her eyes.

"I know its you Jay", she said without missing a beat.

"No its not....", a voice sang.

"Yeah right."

She quickly turned around to Jayden, just as she had predicted and the three slightly laughed. She closed her locker shut and turned to her friends to tell them about 'The Bet'.

"Thats.....", Chloe struggled to find words after hearing her friend's story.

Jayden switched the strap of his bag from his left shoulder to his right shoulder before finishing Chloe's sentence. "Rather childish."

"I know", Eliza said just as the bell rang.