Dear Ellen.

Chapter 12

“I, I don’t know. Um, truth.” I stuttered out, already scared of the outcome.

“Who’s your favorite band member?” Harry asked. Oh, alright. That was simple enough.

“Haz.” I said, smiling.

“That isn’t fair!” Louis yelled. I smiled at him.

“Sorry, Lou. Life isn’t fair.” I said, trying to comfort him, but failing miserably.

“Whatever. That boys mine. Larry Stylinson for life!” Louis yelled, fist pumping childishly into the air. We all laughed.

“Niall, truth or dare?” I asked, a plan already formulating in my mind.

“Truth.”

“I’m capping us to five truths!” Natalie interrupted. We all groaned, but Niall made no move to change his mind.

“Rate Natalie, one to ten.” I said, smiling devilishly at her as she turned a dark red. She shot me a look that could have probably killed.

“Eleven!” Niall yelled. Natalie rolled her eyes, smacking the Irish boy playfully.

“I ship them!” I yelled, with which the boys quickly agreed. Natalie’s cheeks darkened, which I didn’t think was possible, but Niall just kept smiling. He threw his arm around her.

“I ship us, too.” Niall said. We all chorused ‘aw’ before moving on with the game.

“Truth or dare, Natalie?” Niall asked her. I laughed quietly, knowing I was in trouble just by the look she sent me.

“Um. Dare?” Natalie squeaked out, giving away how nervous she truly was.

“Sing a song with Alexis!” Natalie and I both looked at each other, before exploding into laughter.

“Are you kidding? You think we’re going to dance around and sing in front of five popstars?” Natalie yelled.

“Yeah. I dared you to!” Niall countered, sounding confused.

“Okay. You’re right. We don’t really care all that much.” Natalie said, sobering up almost as quickly as we had started laughing. Natalie grabbed her iPod out of her bag, putting on our current obsessing song “Lightning” by The Wanted.

We jumped up, running around and shaking our head back and forth, singing the song.

You’re in control, pressing pause on my heartbeat.

 Natalie and I continued, stopping and looking at each other without blinking when the chorus came on.

When your lips touch mine, it’s the kiss of life. I know, I know that it’s a little bit frightening. We might as well be playing with lightning. We touch life, like it’s our first time. Oh-oh. I know that it’s a little bit frightening, we might as well be playing with lightening now.

We started to jump around again, finishing the song. “Well, aren’t they entertaining?” Zayn mumbled. I threw a marshmallow at him.

“We’re fabulous. Just shut up.” I said, laughing as he tried to grab the marshmallow in his mouth.

“Truth or dare, Zayn!” Natalie yelled, pulling our attention back to her.

“Truth!”

“Are you a virgin?” Natalie yelled enthusiastically. The boys all started laughing loudly. Several ‘Really’s’ and ‘Are you kidding?’ comments cycled through.

“Uh, no. Not at all.” Zayn grimaced, obviously not wanting to go into detail. Natalie and I exchanged knowing glances. We’d obviously heard as much.