Longing

Truth or Dare

    I woke up to Belly jumping on top of me. "Lia come on we're going on a muffin run and then to the beach with the boys!" She shouted.

    I opened my eyes and say that belly was wearing a small bikini top, and I guessed that the bottoms were also small, but she wore short denim shorts over it. Her hair was flowy and she had sunglasses on top of her head.

    "Hurry!" Belly yelled as she ran out of my room. "Ok!" I yawned in a cranky mood. I pulled the covers off of me and changed into a white bikini and light denim shorts.

    I yawned as a walked down stairs. All of the kids were in the kitchen. "Wheres mom and Susanna?" I asked sleepily as I grabbed a glass of water. "They went to get themselves breakfast somewhere. That's why we decided on a muffin run." Jeremiah responded, smiling at me.

    I had forgotten about last night, until now. I smiled at the thought. "Oh hey can I drive?" Steven and Conrad said no, but Jeremiah said, "Yes, you can drive." And he tossed me the car keys.

    "Yes!" I shouted excitedly. Steven never let me drive at home so I needed my practice. I was almost 17, and had my liscence but never used it.

    I excitedly ran out to the car as everyone else followed. I hopped into the drivers seat and started the car as Jeremiah sat in the passagers seat, and Conrad between Steven and Belly in the back.

    We drove down to the local bakery. We all enetered the shop and the familiar cashier greeted us. We ordered our muffins and waited at the counter.

    Once we got our muffins we all went back at to the car sitting in our same spots as before. Jeremiah held the muffins in his lap. I turned on the radio and the sound of Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift played in my ears.

    I looked at Belly through the rear-view mirror as we smirked at eachother. The boys took notice of this and Steven said, "Oh no." with an annoyed expression.

    As soon as Taylor started singing, so did me and Belly.

    Fever dream high in the quiet of the night, you know that i caught it.

    We giggled as I turned the radio up.

    Bad, bad boy shiny toy with a price, you know that i bought it.

    As the song ended we pulled into the beach parking lot. "Perfect timing." I said.

    We all hopped oug of the car and grabbed our beach towels and other things we had brought along with us. Me and Belly practically sprinted down to the sand.

    Me and Belly had a mutual strong love for the beach. The summer sun beating down onto our tan summer skin, the sand between your toes, the salty breeze of the ocean, the sound of seaguls and crashing waves, and just all of the memories that were held there.

    As I stripped my clothes off revealing my bikini I felt a pair of eyes on me. I looked over to see Jeremiah staring at me. As soon as we made eye contact he looked away from me and turned to join Conrad and Stevens conversation.

    I smiled to myself and layed out my towel which I sat on. I grabbed a muffin and pulled off the liner, beginning to eat it. Belly joined me on my towel and also grabbed a muffin.

    "I saw Jere staring at you." She said almost in a whisper as she took a bite of her muffin. "I know, I saw it too." I replied trying not to blush at the thought. "He totally likes you." She said rubbing her shoulder against mine.

    "Lets go swim!" I shouted, trying to change the subject. "Yea!" Jeremiah said. I ran down to the water, Jeremiah right behind me.

    I felt a pair of hands wrap around my waist and lift me off of my feet. I squealed as Jeremiah threw me into the freezing ocean.

    "JEREMIAH!" I yelled as I hit his chest. He just let out a loud laugh and dunked my head back into the water.

    As he pulled me back up a massive wave hit us causing us to fall over. As we resurfaced I noticed that I had grabbed onto Jeremiah as a reflex.

I was now laying ontop of Jeremiah. As soon as I realized I quickly stood up, but not before Belly had taken notice.

I looked over in her direction and saw her giggling and smirking at me. I rolled my eyes and walked over to her, leaving Jeremiah in the sand alone.

"Ooooo what was that?" She said in a sing song annoying way.

"Nothing. I just fell." I said, trying to avoid any further antagonism. "mhmmm.." She responded, I just rolled my eyes at her antics.

"Lia! Belly! Get your asses over here, we're gonna play truth or dare!" steven shouted from a few yards away.

Me and belly looked at each other and giggled as we both ran towards the three boys laying on towels.

I took a spot between jeremiah and steven, as belly took a spot between conrad and steven. "Ok, whos first?" I asked as i layed on my stomach.

"Me!" Belly shouted rather loudly as she raised her hand high in the air. I looked at her with a 'you better not' look. She looked at me and stuck her tongue out.

"Jeremiah, truth or dare." She said, smirking at him. I put my face in my palms as Jeremiah responded, "Truth."

"Pussy!" Conrad and Steven said before laughing. I just rolled my eyes as Belly glanced between me and Jeremiah.

"Do you have feelings for Lia?" Belly asked with a smirk. I covered my face, embarrassed.

"Yea, I do." Jeremiah responded confidently. I looked over at him, he had a grin on his face. I was speechless, utterly speechless. He said it so confidently...

A/n; sorry it took me so long to update, ive been rather busy but im back!! (1003 words)