A Dare

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Riley's POV

We all slept on the floor, Lucas, near my bed, me, Maya, then Josh. I could've slept on my bed I didn't want to because I hated the fact that I had my bed and they had the floor. And, plus it was more fun in the floor, it would actually feel like a real sleepover and so the guys' pushed my bed back to have more space- WAY more space to sleep. And plus, I'm glad I can sleep next to Lucas, not in that way, just because it's kind of special and cute. And plus if a demon comes from underneath the bed or something I have him and Maya both sides, shielding me.

"Wanna play a game?" I smirk
"NO RILEY!" They all shout, and I just realised that I had just reminded them of Saw. Whoops.
I laugh, "no, idiots, I meant like truth or dare?"
"Sure." Josh replies and the other two nod.
"Josh, you first, truth or dare?" Lucas starts
"Dare," Josh smirks
"I dare you to lick the closest thing to your right." He says.

I was by his right. I wasn't meant to be! The door was but I was dimming the lights, GOD!! Josh stands up and licks my cheek, like a slobbery dog.
"Yum is that strawberry?"
"Yeah! It's actually this new moistur-"
"RILEY"
"Ok! You guys are no fun." I huff and plop down in my sleeping bag and cross my arms like a little child.
"Riley now you, truth or dare." Maya asks
"Umm considering the last dare was to slick something, I think I'll go with truth."
"Do you like Lucas?" She asks with a devilish smirk, I see Lucas blush. What? Why? What?
"Of course I do! We're friends..."
"Riley, you and I both know what I meant."
"I don't know.. Yes?" I say the last part in a sort of whisper. But they heard and Uncle Josh and Maya started bursting out in ooooh's and the kissing in the tree song. How embarrassing.
"Ok," Josh says "Lucas, truth or-"
"DARE!!! A dare. A dare ok?" He shouted. He obviously did not want truth, I could tell why. And I couldn't blame him..
"Alright alright!" Uncle Josh laughs and rubs his index finger and thumb across his chin, thinking, when the imaginary light bulb turns on, "I dare you............ I bet nobody saw this one coming... KISS RILEY!"
Maya BURSTED out laughing and then eventually started crying and holding her stomach, and couldn't stop. TELL ME THIS IS A NIGHTMARE PLEASE.

Lucas' POV

HOW COULD THEY?!!

I've always loved Riley, since the first time she fell on my lap on the subway, and then I walked in the classroom on the first day, and being her first kiss. And first date. But I didn't know if she felt as strongly in love as I did with her. But she said she did. I guess this was my chance. Oh my god oh my god oh my god. My stomach was doing forward rolls and my palms began to slowly sweat, fuck.

I move over so I'm now face to face with her jaw dropped gorgeous face and make her face me. She's kneeling and she shuffles forward and I look in her eyes and she looks in mine and I lean in and put my right hand on the side of her neck and kiss her. I closed my eyes, not wanting the moment to last as I put my empty arm around her waist pulling her in. She cups my face and we eventually stop, slowly gasping for air. Her more than me. And I laugh at her a little and she blushes.
"Well," Maya claps her hands once "I don't know about you guys but this has definitely by far the best truth or dare game I've ever played."
"Ok Maya," Riley asks her, "truth or dare?" She glares at her but fails because she breaks into a laugh, God she's so beautiful.
"Ummm..... Dare."
"Bad decision.." Riley smirks as she looks at me and whispers her idea to me and I agree, "well," she mocks Maya's one clap. "I guess since you made me and Lucas kiss. I guess it's only fair that you and UJ do too" she looks at her nails, as if she's queen. I love it when she does that.
"But I didn't! He di-" but before she could point to Josh, he grabbed her face and smacked his lips onto hers and she didn't refuse or fight it at all. As soon as he made contact with her, you could clear as day see the impact he had on her.

They separated and Maya didn't say a word. And Josh just laughed at her embarrassment and she shot him a death glare and he stopped and when she turned away he let out a giggle but she gave the stare back and he turned it into an awkward cough "sorry there's something in me throat." He says, punching his chest. Talk about goals.

Maya's cheeks then instantly turn bright right and I laugh at her. She mocks my laugh and punches me hard on the arm. Not gonna lie it really hurt so I went silent before I ended up with only one arm.

Maya's POV

We carried on playing and none of the questions or dares were even that good "what's your favourite food?" "I dare you to sneak into the hallway outside and loudly him the mission impossible song and pretend to be a spy" (ngl, Riles NALED that one) and then this one that Josh had asked me, "Where is the place anywhere in the world, or, to make it harder, in New York, do you want to visit the most, and haven't yet and why?" Seems like an ordinary question with an easy answer like  "an art gallery" or "central park" but not for me.
"That's easy peasy, Mazee's Arcade."
Riley and Lucas both "ohhhhh" at each other because they know how bad I want to go there and why.
"But why, isn't that just some arcade?"
"gasp!" I say and also gasp, "HOW could you say that?! Mazee's is the best arcade in the whole world, let alone NYC!"
"That's not a good enough answer."
"YES IT IS!!" I shout. He crosses his arms and lifts an eyebrow.
I sigh, "Ok, don't laugh but basically when I was younger, very younger, 4-8 years old me, mom and dad would go to different arcade every summer at the end of summer for my birthday. I haven't gone since my 8th birthday because that's when he left." Josh out his hand on my knee and I continued "I always said I wanted to go Mazee's because that's where my parents went on their first date. And they'd always say how great it was. And dad promised we'd go but.." I sigh, "but I guess some promises are made to be broken."

Josh's POV

I went to the kitchen, leaving them to carry on playing whilst I went to get a glass of water when really I wanted to check the calendar on the refrigerator, it'd HAVE to have Maya's birthday on it. Ok so today was Wednesday 29th August and Maya's birthday is on....... where is it? OH! I found it! 14th September, so like two weeks away. It wasn't summer break anymore for us but it's a Friday so I guess it could work. I take a sip of water and proudly self five myself.
"Found what you were looking for?" Said I voice that made me jump and it made me drop my glass of water. Thankfully it wasn't actually made of glass and it was actually one of Auggie's Toy Story cups. I saw the face of the voice.

Maya.