Faking It

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"Alright!" Travis says once everyone is in a circle, "As you all already know, we're playing truth of dare."

"Rules are if you pass up once—truth or dare—you're out" Connor adds.

"Truth or dare, Trav." Connor says.

"Dare." Travis says at my right.

"Drink a mystery mixture of things from the food area."

That's going to be disgusting. A few of Travis' siblings jump up, and race to the food area. They grab condiments, drinks, and other things to create a concoction before handing a shot glass of it to their head counselor. Mischief must be a family trait.

Travis plugs his nose and downs it in one gulp, gasps, then uses his actual drink as a chaser. His siblings laugh as he makes a face. "Valdez, truth or dare?"

"Dare," Leo says "Do your worst, Stoll."

"I dare you to put ice in your underwear." Travis says.

"Easy."

"Without using flames to melt it."

He glares at Travis for a second, then mumbles "Fine."

A couple players run and grabs a bag of ice and pours it into Leo's pants. Leo seems calm like it doesn't feel like anything. "Hey this is actually no that—OH MY GODS STOLL WHAT THE FREAKING TARTARUS. FUDGING GODS I'M NUMB!"

Leo's outburst causes an uproar of laughter for a good long moment as he squirms in his pants. But after all the ice melts it looks like he peed his pants so of course there are still some giggles.

"J-Jake." Leo shivers. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"You have to say '(and) would you like fries with that' at the end of every sentence."

"Oh wow, Valdez." Jake laughs.

"Oh wow, Valdez....what?"

This makes more people laugh, especially me and even Nico. "Oh wow, Leo, would you like fries with that."

"Yes, I would."

"Percy, truth or dare, and would you like fries with that?" Jake smirks.

"Dare. And yes please."

"Throw Riptide as far away as you can and do a handstand against the wall until it comes back." There's a pause before he adds, "Would you like fries with that?"

Percy makes a face and everyone laughs. "Alright." He throws his pen out of a nearby window and then balances upside down against the wall.

"Wise Girl, truth or dare?"

"Truth," Annabeth answers.

"What? You scared?"

"Don't test me, Water Boy."

I smile at the couple. They're so perfect.

"What would you say if I—" He struggles as blood begins to flow to his head from his position, "asked you to move to New Rome with me."

"Are you serious?" Annabeth smiles.

"I know we've been taking about it forever—"

"Yes! Let's do it!"

Everyone breaks out into a huge grin and cheers sound all around them as Percy turns right side up again, placing a kiss on Annabeth's smile.

"Hey! What about the pen!" Someone asks.

Percy reaches in his pocket and pulls out Riptide, which did indeed reform into his pocket.

"Truth or dare, Jake." Annabeth says.

"Dare, would you like fries with that?"

"You're with my little sister now?"

"Yes. But I chose dare not truth. What am I gonna—"

"I'm not that much younger!" Railynn protests.

"Give her a little kiss," Annabeth smiles, wiggling her eyebrows at Jake. Railynn blushes and hits her sister's arm, something tells me that the two siblings have had a conversation about a situation like this one before.

"Come on its not fair—what if she doesn't wanna kiss me?" Jakes face drops. I smile at his concern. He really cares for her.

Railynn blushes deeper as she wraps her arms around his neck and kisses his cheek. "I mean I'm not complaining if you do—"

And with that, Jake follows through with the dare, cutting off the end of Rai's sentence. My smile broadens at Myra's angrily contorted face.

"Aww that so cute." Connor muses. "Next!"

Jake pulls back, "You can do better?"

"Is that a dare?" The Stoll says in challenge.

"You can bet on it." Jake says.

And with that Connie kisses Miranda—or he would have if she didn't lean in to kiss him first. When they pulls back, he smiles and turns to his brother.

"Hey, Trav—!"

"Don't you dare, Connie." Travis rolls his eyes.

"I dare you to—"

"Connie!"

"—Kiss Katie-Kat here."

What? Do they think I don't get a say? Travis rolls his eyes and kisses my cheek.

"Come on Trav," his brother winks, "It's just a kiss"

My first kiss.

"We dont have to if you don't want." Travis mumbles quietly so that only I can hear as he tips my chin up.

We are not quite kissing yet, still just breathing the same air, still close pressed together, and yet, his lips are still just a centimeter away.

Oh my gods, I  can't stop thinking, oh my gods, this would be my first kiss, oh gods, am I really going to waste my first kiss on a guy who I'm not even really dating?

Do I really want to go through with this?

"Shut up," I tell him, and I feel a soft pressure against my lips. I takes me a second to realize that it's Travis' lips and that I kissed him. I kissed Travis.

Travis Stoll is my first kiss.

(Travis stoll her breath away...lol sorry couldn't resist)

I feel his smile against my lips as he kisses me back. My brain sort of melts for a quick moment and my stomach feels as if the all the butterflies in the strawberry fields used Nico's shadow travel to get them inside there. What is wrong with me? I question.

I shove that thought out of my mind and tell myself that this was is just for the sake of our fake relationship being convincing. Our lips move softly, gentlely in sync.

I smile against his lips. He cups the side of my face in his hand and holds me closer and closer and a new feeling over powers all the rest—though I cannot name it. It's warm, kind, but then it's gone as we pull back.

At first I am unsure of the feeling, but when I look into his blue eyes, I can't shove the feeling back down. Fake relationship or not I know that what I feel is something I thought I never would have before.

I am in love with a Stoll.

I am in love with Travis Stoll.

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So long and good night!