The Bet

Chapter 4

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa

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Noah has came out his room and is staring into my soul. His hair is neatly combed for once; it's not messy like he just woken up. He has black ripped skinny jeans on with a fitted black tee shirt and his leather jacket over top of it. His feet are covered in his black Doc Marten boots. You can see his cigarette pack imprint in his jeans. I bet my life, he has a liquor bottle hidden somewhere in his leather jacket. Noah is the first one to break our staring contest, he walk around all of us and right out the door. Everyone follows behind him. The walk to the frat house wasn't bad, it is just very awkward. Noah and I keep catching each other glancing at one another. Every now and then our fingers brush up against each other. As we get closer to the party, you can hear the music a block away. Em's ears perk up and she starts to walk faster than before. As we get to the front gate, Leslie has spot something that has her full attention. Looking in her direction of sight; I grin when I see the beer pong table.

"BEERRRR PONGGGG!" Leslie squeals as she bust through the gate.

She grabs ahold of Sam's hand and begins to run. Sam quickly grabs ahold of Em's arm. Like a chain reaction, we all have linked arms. Em has Dev's hand in a death grip. Devin in return grabs ahold of Lilah, who grabs ahold of Spence. Spence swiftly snatches my hand, causing me to screech in horror. I immediately grab the hand behind me.

Noah.

I glance back and give him a sly smile and tug him along for the ride. If I'm getting drug into this; so are you my sweet little annoying enemy. With a rope of bodies, we run through the yard. We stop meters from the table as Devin smirks as he looks at Noah and my hands still entwined. I immediately drop his hand and I can see my brother's brain turning through his eyes.

"So I think we should do couples. In the order we're standing." Devin announces his sinister plan out loud.

I look around and realize what he is meaning: Leslie and Sam, Em and him, Lilah and Spence, lastly Noah and myself. Before I could object to this placement, a voice stops me.

"It'll be fun. Let's see who the best couple is. Yeah?" Em says. First of all Noah and I aren't a couple. We are not even frenemies. Noah, I, and couple doesn't belong in a sentence together. I reluctantly walk with them to the table. My hands are tugging at my long sleeve netting as I make it slowly to the table with the others.

"I don't drink really. So hopefully you're great at beer pong. If not you'll end up plastered." Noah says next to my ear.

"How the hell do you not drink? I see you with a solo cup every damn time I come to a party." I question.

"Maybe you caught me in a lie. Either way, if you're not good at this, you'll end up shit faced by the end of the night." Noah says in a snarky tone.

Leslie and Sam stand on one end of the table; while Em and my brother are the other end. My brother is carrying his team. Leslie and Sam haven't made a single shot. I watch as my brother throws his ping pong ball and it swishes into the cup. Em had only gotten one of the ten cups; Dev had made the other nine. Like I said earlier, he carried his team to victory.

"Next up!! Lilah and Spence against Noah and Ari." Dev says in his announcer voice.

I take a shot as Lilah takes a shot. I make mine as she misses her's.

"Looks like Noah and Ari go first." Em says from the right of the table.

Noah takes the first shot and it hits nothing but the alcohol in the cup. Poor Spence has to chug the beer he doesn't even like. Spence's face turns into a disgusting sour look. Without looking through his soured crumpled up expression; Spence throws his ball and manages to hit Dev in the face with the plastic ball. It's now my turn to throw the small neon green ball. It bounces on the table once and hits the rim of the cup. It splashes into their cup. I scream out as I have made my first fucking cup. I have never played this game before; I've only watched my brother and everyone else play from the sidelines. Lilah hands her cup over to Spence. She doesn't drink beer; she prefers liquor. Poor Spence has to chug her beer now. His facial expression has all of us laughing our asses off. Lilah goes to throw her ball and it bounce's completely off the table. Noah and I begin to chase after the ball. He goes one way as I come from another; my skull hits his shoulder and we both go crashing towards the grass. I close my eyes expecting my body to hurt from the impact that's sure to happen. The impact never comes because callous hands pull me against their body. In one swift motion our positions are turned. I land on a squishy barrier as a thud sound comes from below me. I peek my eye open and realize I have landed on Noah. He was the soft squishy feeling below me. I open both eyes in shock as I stare back into his eyes. It's like the world around us has dispersed into nothing. I couldn't see or hear the crowd around us nor did I care at the moment. Our faces inch closer together and our lips barely brush. Before they could completely connect; Noah comes to his senses and shoves me off of him. I land roughly on the ground below with a hard thud that causes my lungs to reject any air. I watch as he walks through the sea of people that have surrounded us. The realization finally hits me as I replay what just happened.

I almost kissed fucking Noah!

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