I Dare You

Chapter 10

Jennifer crosses her arms in front of her, waiting for my answer. "We'll..." I trailed off. I don't think I really need to go into details. Marcel and I were both wet and our breathing was still quickened from run. I could feel my pulse slowing down and calming, ou to be quickened with Jennifer's questioning looks.

Around the corner I saw Louis running towards as fast as he could, and as I observed at his football match, he's a fast runner. "Good god! I thought we lost you guys back there!" He shouted, raising his arms up in relief. As he stood next to Jennifer he eyed Marcel and I suspiciously creating abstract patterns with his eyebrows. "What happened to you too?" He asked slowly, still trying to figure out why we probably looked like a mess. "That's what I asked!" Jennifer said. "But no one is speaking."

"Well.." Marcel started. I looked at him, my eyes imploring. I wanted Jennifer and Louis to go away so we could relive the intimate moment we were having. But I couldn't do that. I am not supposed to be wishing for these moments with Marcel. 'Just a project'. I told myself. 'Focus.'

"It's a long story." I said, hoping that they wouldn't want to hear about our encounter with the man.

"We have some time on our hands," Louis mischievously said with a smirk on his face.

"Seriously guys?! Nothing happened! We just ran away from the dude, fell, and here we are."

"Then why were you going to kiss Marcel?!" Jennifer interrogated.

"They what?!" Louis mouth was gaped looking back and forth between Jennifer and Me and Marcel. I mentally face palmed. If this night could get any worse. " I was only going to-" but I couldn't domain my sentence because I was cut off by a scarily familiar voice. "You stupid kids! You're getting arrested for this." We all turned our heads to see the man walking towards with something in his hand. I was praying that it was phone.

"What do we do?" Jennifer asked, "I'm not going to jail."

"There's only one thing we can do," Louis said in a husky voice, but them surprised us when he shouted,"run!" He turned and sprinted the direction he came from to get back to the street. "Ugh, more running." Jennifer groaned while slipping off her heels and chasing after Louis. I turned around to get one last look at the man. Marcel grabbed my hand and dragged me with him as he ran. We dodged puddles of water, trying not get stuck in the same situation as before as we reached the end of the alley we could hear the faint wail of a police car. "Marcel! Where do we go?" Louis and Jennifer were nowhere in sight and the road was dark. The car was no longer parked in its spot. Great, Louis and Jennifer ditched us and now we were going to jail! "Erm...' I could tell that he was thinking by the way he was searching the ground for an answer. He looked up and searched the streets with me. "There they are." He pointed to Jennifer'a car as it was driving towards us. I pulled his hand and we ran towards the car before it could stop in front of us.

The car came to abrupt stop so we could get in. Marcel opened the door and I slid in first, scooting all the way over to the other side, while Marcel got in and shut the door. "Drive!" Louis shouted to Jennifer. She pushed on the gas pedal, speeding away from the neighborhood. "I thought you just left us there for a minute!" I admitted to Jennifer. "Now, what kind if friend would I be if did that?" She joked, cracking a smile on my face.

"Besides I that dude scared the crap out of me!"

"Me too! What was he holding?"

"I don't know and I don't want to know."

"Well, I guess we chose get back to homecoming before we get arrested!" Louis said.

We all agreed and Jennifer drove to the school, passing a police car as we came. We were only hoping that it wasn't going to the man's house.

"Will you guys finally tell us what happened back there?" Jennifer looked in rear view at me.

Louis turned around to look at us. He put his arm on the armrest and rested his head in his hand. "What DID happen?"

"You guys ditched us when the man came out, so we had to cling over the fence and run away. End of story." I crosse my arms and shifted my body to look out the window, so they know not to ask any further. "You know what were talking about. We're talking about how I found you and Marcel about to make out!"

"We were not going to make out!" I said in defense. "He helped me up and we just got a little close! I wouldn't kiss him."

"Like when you were at my house,"Louis said. "What?! They kissed at your house? You guys move fast."

"We didn't kiss!" Marcel and I said in unison, getting Jennifer and Louis to shut up. When we got to the school we volunteered Jennifer and Louis to go in to tell the others we were going back to Jennifer's house. I was not going in there with all those people and Marcel wanted to keep me company.

"Did you really mean it?" He asked all in one breath. I didn't understand what he was saying, he confused me. Marcel is very complex and confusing to me. It's hard for me to understand him. He is very sensitive, but strong and brave. He's not confident he has confidence in his intelligence. I just don't get it.

"Mean what?"

"You wouldn't kiss me?"