Make My Way

Chapter Thirty-Five

Aria's POV

Truth. Dare. Kiss. Or Strip. You could choose truth, dare, or kiss. If you wanted to back out, you had to take off one item of clothing. Willow, Everly, and Liam wanted to go to bed so we moved the game to Stella's room.

Xavier got the ball rolling. "Lila, truth, dare, or kiss?"

"Kiss," she told him quickly.

He stared at her and his mouth curved up into a smirk. "Easton."

Lila groaned, "Fine." She turned to Easton who was sitting next to her and lightly and quickly touched her lips to his. Easton's eyes were wide in shock. "Stella, truth or dare?"

"Dare," she smiled hesitantly.

"I dare you to ask Jordan if he wants nudes over snapchat." I saw Stella's face sink. She glared at Lila, stood up, and lifted her shirt over her head. I looked at what she was wearing under her shirt. Gosh, she is so stupid. Why on earth would she wear that. She knew we were going to play this game. Stella looked around at the guys staring at her.

"What, like you've never seen a girl in bralette before. Eyes up Adrian!" She said confidently. "Truth, dare, or kiss?"

"Kiss," Adrian said.

"Kiss Aria!" she exclaimed. NO. NO NO NO NO NO! Not again. Why Stella? Why? He walked over to me and grabbed my face he brought me in and smash his lips into mine. I've kissed Adrian before but this was different. A bad different because I knew he could do better than this. The first time I kissed him, he used tongue. I pulled away after about 10 seconds.

He walked back to his spot "Xavier. Truth, dare, or kiss."

"Uh, truth," he said.

"Oh, wow. First one of the night. How far have you gone and with who?" Adrian asked. Typical.

"Well...." He hesitated. "It was with Vanessa." He waited for a reaction from Adrian. They had both dated Vanessa and both agreed she was a bitch. "We almost went all the way but then her little brother knocked on the door. I almost screamed in surprise but I didn't and she gestured for me to hide. I rolled behind the bed. She wrapped a blanket around herself and went to the door. He had just gotten home from some kind of sport practice and since her parents weren't home, she was in charge and he was supposed to check in with her. After that, she was nervous he might come back and made me leave."

Adrian just laughed and shook his head. "Sure. She was nervous."

"Oh, like you got any farther with her," Xavier shot back.

"Well I would have, but every time I touched her she made sounds and both of our parents were talking in the kitchen. You only wish a girl would make sounds like that for you."

Xavier stood up without breaking eye contact with Adrian and went over to Aurora who was sitting next to Blake on Stella's giant bean bag chair. He grabbed her face in his hands and pressed his lips to hers. She let out a long, low groan and Xavier sat back down smugly.

"Holy shit!" Willow exclaimed from the doorway. "I'm sorry, I was just coming up to ask Stella where the cups were for water and I come in on that!"

"And that wasn't even a dare!" Stella told her.

Willow looked at Xavier and raised an eyebrow, "You know, that was her first kiss, right?" Aurora turned dark redder than her glasses as everyone turned to look at her.

Xavier smirked. "I do now." Aurora his her face in her hands, but when she looked up, she was smiling. "Well then, Miss Innocent Aurora, truth, dare, or kiss?"

"Truth," she told him, unsuspectingly.

"If you had to have oral sex with one guy in here, other than me, who would it be?"

"Wait, oral sex is like...." She faded off. Easton leaned over and whispered something in her ear and her eyes went wide but she nodded. She thought for a moment before saying, "Blake," and scooting a few inches away from him. "Easton, truth or dare?"

"Dare," he told the girl confidently.

"Grind with Everly for forty-five seconds."

"Aura!" Stella yelped, "I think that's the dirtiest thing I've ever heard you tell someone to do!" Aurora rolled her eyes and looked at Easton expectantly.

"Do we have to do it here?" he asked.

Aura thought, "Well, no. But Adrian has to go with and time you."

They left and Adrian came back first, laughing hysterically. "That was the most awkward thing I've ever seen." Everyone laughed as the came back in, standing as far apart from each other as they could.

"Aria, truth, dare, or kiss?" Easton asked me.

Here goes nothing. "Dare," I decided.

"I dare you to French kiss Adrian." I groaned. It wasn't like I hadn't done it before, I had dated Caden for almost months and before that, another very flirty, touchy guy and things got pretty intimate but Adrian?! I thought about stripping, but then I remembered I had been too lazy to change bras after the dance and was still wearing a lacy, strapless, push-up bra and a light gray thong. I also knew that the dares were only going to get worse.

We stood up and went into Stella's parents room. I looked up at him. I was only 5' 4" and he was 6' 1". My blue eyes met his hazel green, almost amber, colored ones and there it was. The thing, whatever it was, that was missing before. His hands were on my waist and he pulled me towards him.

Our bodies touched and he tilted his head down to me. I stood on my toes and wrapped me arms around his neck. I ran my fingers up through the back of his ash brown hair and I heard him let out an audible sigh. Our lips connected and he made the first move. He touched my tongue with his and suddenly my tongue and his were in each other's mouths. My hands ran down his arms and I felt the rough, raised edges of old scars running across his right arm.

I pulled away just enough so that I could see his face and looked him in the eye again, but this time I didn't see the inappropriate teenage boy who spent his free time coming up with dirty jokes. I saw the eyes of someone who was broken, or had been. Someone who was putting themselves back together, piece by piece. I pushed together my eyebrows. He leaned closer again and whispered softly into my ear, "I'll tell you another time," I was about to protest when his warm breath brushed across my ear again. "I think we have an audience."

I turned to the doorway where most, if not all, of the others had gathered, besides Vivian and Merrick who had decided to go to bed. I don't know how long we had been kissing, much less how long they had been standing there. Easton whistled and I stepped away from Adrian.

"Wow," Stella said as I passed her and I elbowed her hard.

"Shut up." I said firmly