The Four Lovers.

Chapter 18

YOWZA! It’s really late....but imma write this anyways! Hehehehehe! XOXO -Maya

Oh no. Liam leaves, with a look of hatred on his face. Phil on the other hand is smiling wide, like an idiot. I watch Liam retreat to the bathrooms. Guilt grows in my stomach, but when Phil looks at me, I let a smile play on my lips. 

When Elena loses, I let myself smile, but it’s a secret smile, because I’m hiding my face by looking at the ground. Phil celebrates with a dance. Elena lets a frown play on her lips, but when she turns to me, she winks. The little...dalek! 

“Someone should go check on Liam.” Dan suggests, while he wraps his arms around Elena. Maybe I can make him feel better? 

“I will.” I volunteer. Maybe it wasn’t the wisest decision, but I had to do it. Liam is now in the corner of the snack area on his phone. I get up and walk towards him. He’s sitting on the ground, his face scrunched up in concentration. I sit next to him, who doesn’t even notice. 

“Hey Dryden.” I said softly. He puts his phone down and looks at me with a blank expression. “Whatcha doing?” I ask, trying to make conversation.

“Tweeting. So who won, Elena or Phil?” Jealousy. That’s what he is feeling now. Pain twists in my stomach, but I swallow it and fiddle with my sleeves. 

“Phil.” Liam grimaced and stared at me with a painful expression apparent. “Look, when you come back to London, why don’t you visit?” I know that Liam lives with Tom Burns in a flat together, but Liam likes to go home once and a while. 

“Well, I clearly think that I would be getting in the way of things.” This makes me sigh. It’s clear that Liam is left out of all of his friend groups, and his just like the outcast. It just annoys me, since I know he’s such a great person. 

“Look Liam. It’s obvious that you and Phil both of, erm feelings for me.” Oh bravo! Great way to tackle things! *cue the sarcasm* “It’s just, I’m really not sure right now. So please, um can we just be friends?” From saying this, the expression on Liam’s face turns into a flash of emotion, into something undetectable. 

“Yeah.” Is all he says, before we head back towards the group. OH YEAH! Maya: 2 Life: 962,538,374. 

~40 minuets later, at Liam’s house~

Since it is our last day, we all decide to have a little fun, so we all grab a beer, just one per person, and play card games. Since, I am the bomb at card games I win all but one, that other one won by Dan. 

“CURSE YOU PERRY THE PLATYPUS!” I yell at him, when he fist pumps the air, proud of his achievement. He will NOT win again. Elena and Liam laugh at my impression of Doctor Doofenshmirtz, the ‘evil’ scientist in Phineas and Ferb. Yes, I’m a 21 year old, and I still watch that show. Deal with it. 

“Okay sassy pants, let’s play truth or dare.” Elena says. From all the truth and dares I have played, I know that none of them end well. However it could be fun. 

“Under one condition!” I say, pointing my finger in the air. “Don’t act like a middle schooler.” Elena got what I meant by that. In middle school, during truth or dare, it would always be kissing crap. No, we are adults. WE CAN TAKE MORE THAN THAT!

“Agreed.” Everyone said at the same time, causing us all crack up. After I shed a few tears I called on Dan to start. He growled but turned immediatly to Elena. 

“Truth or pare?” He says, jokingly, trying to rebel. This immediatly reminds me of one of Liam’s videos, when he raises his fist and goes, “F you system!” That was hilarious. 

“Pare.” Elena says, smiling brightly. Dan frowns, clearly expecting a truth. He seems to linger on this. 

“I pare you to...” We all lean in expectantly. “act like an Indian, make up a ceremony and perform it on the spot.” She chuckles. I can totally see her doing this. She gets up, goes to the kitchen and re appears with a salt and pepper shakers. Then, she circles us a few times with intense chanting. “Birds birds birds!” She concludes her chanting and raises the shakers in each of her hands. Then, she goes around the circle,  to each person, sprinkling a little salt on each head. This causes everyone to laugh. Then, she dramatically throws the salt shaker on the floor. It crashes into pieces. Then she raises the pepper shaker and goes into intense mode. “Hayahayahayahaya!” This is yelled so loudly, I think I’ll go deaf. Then she sprinkles the pepper on everyone’s heads, this time loolooloo-ing. 

After setting the pepper down gently she returns to her place in the circle. We all applaud her. She turns to Phil now with a smile.

“Phillip! Truth or dare?” He doesn’t take a second to answer. 

“Truth.” Elena groans and slaps him upside the head. “You should’ve chosen dare dummy!” He winked as if he was content with his answer. A wide smile appears on her face, the kind that would make me run in the other direction. Whatever she is planning, it can’t be good. 

“When is, the last time you had a boner?” This really made us crack up. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard. Phil turns as red as a beet, making me laugh even harder. Dan coughs a few times. Liam chuckles. 

“With my old girlfriend Lucy. We were watching a movie, and um....she was...erm...running her hands along my knee. When she noticed, she basically exploded with laughter.” We all laughed again, but not as hard. Poor Phil was hiding his face in shame. 

“Maya, truth or dare?” Toughy. I always hated truths, because I’m an open book, so all secrets I have are easy to detect. Plus, be adventurous right? 

“Dare.” I bounced up and down with excitement. For this, Phil whispered in my ear the words I feared most. I looked at him when he stopped whispering. Swallowing I crossed my hearts. 

“Okay fine.” I say and then to seal it, I pinky sweared. Like a good old fashioned, little kid. 

“What’d he say?” Elena begs. Dan presses it on too. Liam looks at me in curiosity. When I made eye contact with Phil he shook his head, I sighed. 

“I don’t have to tell you guys.” They all groan, and I stick out my tongue in reply causing a few to chuckle. Well, by a few, I mean everyone but Liam. 

“Spend a whole day with only me, and no one else, and you can’t even call anyone.” The words press on me, like a heavy weight. First I have to go on a date with him, and now this? Oh wow, Phil is a little desperate.