The Player and the Played

13. Ex's and Oh's but mainly Ex's

I looked into Tyler's eyes. He looked into mine. And it wasn't romantic at all. No, we were having a staring contest. The winner would decide on what to eat. I glared at Tyler, hoping he'd blink. He gulped and widened his eyes, trying hard not to blink.
"How much longer will we do this for?" I asked, not taking my eyes off his.
"Huh?"he said, blinking.
"Ha, you blinked! We're having ice cream," I said with a satisfied smirk. He grumbled but then smirked and said,"anything for my favourite badass princess." I glared at him again, making his smirk disappear. I'd become pretty good at glaring.

Fifteen minutes later, we were sharing a huge chocolate and caramel sundae.
"Twenty questions?"Tyler asked tentatively.
"Um okay," I confirmed, wondering what evil plan this was part of.
"Okay first kiss?"he asked.
"This guy Reece who I had a crush on. I had to kiss him as a dare back in 7th grade."
"Oh what happened?"
"He asked me out," I replied trying to keep my voice devoid of emotion.
"Was he your first heartbreak?" Tyler asked.
"One question at a time,"I replied but honestly, I just wanted to avoid that question. "What about your first kiss?"
"My first kiss was with some random chick when I was in 4th grade. But try first kiss that actually meant something was in 9th grade with a girl called Veronica."
"What did she do?"
"Kissed me back and then slapped me." I snorted. He got what he deserved. "I asked her out a few more times and then she told me she had a boyfriend."

"First heartbreak?"
"Reece." He looked at me but I didn't elaborate.
"Did you...love him?" He asked in an odd tone.
"Yeah but why're you even asking me this?"
"Nothing, just wondered who my best friends ex's exes were."

"My turn. How come you never knew I existed until last week?"
"Hey I knew you but only as Zac's hot girlfriend who was way out of bounds. When I told him I was shifting, he said I'd be your neighbour and I decided to get to know you,"he answered. He called me hot.

"Did I?" he asked. Crap I said that out loud.
"Of course you called me hot. Who doesn't,"I joked. He rolled his eyes.
"Did you ever love Zac?" he asked.
"Can we stop talking about my love life and include better questions? And no, I didn't love Zac. I got over the whole incident," I said, waving my hands, "in two three days."
"I have a much better question for you. Pretty common but, if you were stranded on an island what's the one thing you'd want?"
"A hot girl,"he said with a suggestive wink. I pretended to gag.
"Stranded as in no human company, dumbass."
"Oh, a raft so I can got to an Island with a hot girl," he then paused, "or maybe just a lot of good junk food." Typical idiot.

"My turn, if you could be anyone else for a day, who would you be?"

And it went on. We got to know a lot about each other through the most common questions. Tyler had to tell me his most embarrassing moment (when he was rejected by Veronica) and I had to tell him my worst idea (something I'd rather not talk about now, or ever). Then he dropped me off I rushed up the stairs to avoid questions from Bianca.

"Where were you?"her suspicious voice greeted me.
"With a friend."
"The same friend chucking paper balls with hearts into your room?"she said with an amused smile. I muttered under my breath and checked my room. Sure enough, paper balls were strewn all over the floor. I wrote a message on one of them and chucked it back into his window. I heard his groan of dissatisfaction as he opened it and read 'Don't get your hopes too high, Mendes. You're never getting a kiss from me. Ever.' There was a slight pause and then he wrote 'Is that a challenge? Because it sure as heck sounds like one.'

Me:
Sure, it's definitely a challenge.

Tyler:
Get ready to lose, princess.

Me:
You wish.

Tyler:
Come to the party tomorrow night with me.

Me:
Drunk kisses don't count!

Tyler:
You'll be kissing me sober soon enough.

Me:
You wish. I'll come as long as Selena and Alec are coming.

Tyler:
Sure. I like them.

What had I got myself into?

A/N
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