The boy next door (Calum Hood fic)

Chapter 28

A/N:Sorry haven't updated in a while! I recently had my 5sos concert 4/11. Calum looked at me....please know how I feel about this.

Once a few bottles were popped open, they started going around the circle. I saw the bottle being passed to Rose next, and I could tell she really didn't want to, but she did it anyways because Helena was side-eyeing her. The beer hit me next and the question I'd been wanting to ask was brought up,"How did you get these?" I said then taking a gulp. I used to hate the taste of beer, but from my sips in the past it didn't sound so bad to have a drink or two once in a while. Of course the taste went bitterly down my throat, and that's why I chose to gulp it down as fast as I could. I slid the bottle next to me to Michael, because I really didn't want to be hungover the next day. But Michael pushed the bottle back towards me, mouthing for me to keep it. I guess it wouldn't hurt.

I looked around the circle and everyone had at least one sip of beer already. "So who wants to go first?" Luke asked all of us, looking at everyone in the eye individually. Everyone looked at each other in the circle, nobody wanting to take up the offer.

Until Rose spoke up and said,"Helena, truth or dare?" I looked at her cautiously, hoping she knew what she was getting herself into. She looked back at me and gave me a look of confusion, but I kept side eyeing her about the whole proposal. She gave me a look of reassurance and I sighed and looked away.

Helena looked at Melanie to her right, then licked the inside of her cheek and said,"Dare. " Sounding like she was ready for anything that came to her.

Rose laughed as if Helena didn't know what she was getting herself into and said,"Eat a worm. " The looks around the circle seemed priceless, as if they had heard the worlds greatest come back. Helena looked disgusted, and Ashton looked at Rose with concern.

"Come on Rose, cut her some slack a bit. " Rose turned her head to Ashton who was by her side and looked a bit offended. As in, you're defending her now?

"Well I don't know what else to give you. " She sighed and looked down with still a faint bit of hope Helena would actually take the dare.

"I know," Courtney popped out. "Helena, I dare you and Ashton to go inside the closet for seven minutes. " She pointed across the room where a small closet lie. Seven minutes in heaven? More like seven minutes of disaster. Ashton looked a bit weary at first when given the dare, but he swallowed and walked towards the closet where he was following Helena. I knew he didn't want to be in there with her. I knew he didn't mean to "protect" Helena like that. It's just in his nature to be like a big brother to most people. The discomfort in his eyes, and the anxiety in Rose's eyes made me cringe. I hated seeing two people being forced in a situation they just wanted to get out of.

The first few minutes were torturous, yet quiet. It seemed like a bit that they were just sitting there. We heard some words, but nothing else really. After a while, it seemed as though things began to get heated. We heard Ashton say,"But I don't want to do this. " Then Helena saying,"Do you really want to back out of a dare?" Later then did Ashton say,"Okay, fine. " I seemed to be the only one to make out this conversation. Everyone else was too busy drinking and making drunken conversations. Everyone else seemed to be so focused on each other, as I got bored and didn't care so decided to focus on more what was happening across the room.

I heard a few kissing noises and moaning, I really wish I hadn't. I almost felt what they were doing to each other. I was the one closest to them. I felt uneasy and in discomfort. I really had hoped Ashton was better than that. It was once they came out, what I had seen the result of the seven minutes in the closet together had done. Ashton had a thin coat of sweat on his tan muscular arms, his hair tousled to the side. His breathing had hardened too. On the other hand, Helena had her bra strap falling off to the side of her thin tank top strap. Her hair filled with finger weaved tangles. She had a slight smirk on her face. And the both seemed to enjoy what had happened in there.

My only instinct was to look over at Rose, who seemed hot in the cheeks. "Well ok, who's going next?" I tried to pull off the subject from Ashton and Helena.

"No no no, now I get to give someone a dare. " Helena said as she sat down.

"You mean truth or dare." I was clarifying so I wouldn't be forced to pick a dare.

She rolled her eyes and sighed,"Yes, truth or dare. " She looked over the circle and her finger on her chin tapping it. She had an evil smirk on her face. "Claire. " She surprisingly said and I huffed out in relief.

Claire looked up and gave Helena a questioning look. "Truth or dare?" Helena said slowly, pulling at the words.

"Truth. "

"Bullshit. Dare. "

I could see Claire's eyes widened and a lump rose in her throat that she swallowed. "Fine. "

Helena again licked the inside of her cheek and smiled. "That's more like it. " She seemed to think deeply about this, running dares through her mind, careful on which ones to pick and which ones not to pick.

"I dare you, to go inside that closet, and strip for Michael. "

"Easy. " Next thing you knew, Michael was being dragged into the closet. The door shut and my heart leaped. I heard the sound of her clothes being taken off, and I could almost picture Michaels wide eyes.

I soon heard the sound of her clothes being put back on, and the door unlocking. Her light blue shirt now hanging off her shoulders. She sat down and now choosing her victim.

"Luke. Truth or dare?" She looked at him with a slight sexiness in it. She leaned forward to hear his answer. Luke pointed at himself,"Me?"

"Yeah,"

"Okay," He pulled his thoughts together. "Dare. " Then looking back at Claire with the similar look she had.

"I dare you, to kiss Rose on the lips. " Claire said making a popping sound on her lips then pointing to them. Luke looked over the circle to where Rose was, then to Ashton.

He swallowed and said,"Okay. " He crawled over to where Rose was, Rose seeming very uncomfortable looking at the wooden floor. Luke tilted her head up, and tucked her long dark hair behind her ear. They looked at each other in the eyes for a second. And everything was dead silent. He leaned in, and their lips making a delicate touch. The kiss was light, but sweet. And now Ashton was getting hot in the face.

Luke crawled back to his spot, and plopped down on the floor. Everyone in the circle sat on silence for a bit. Taking in, how sweet and romantic the kiss seemed. "Okay," Luke cleared his throat breaking the silence. "Sarah, truth or dare?"

Now my face was getting hot. My heart sped up and I sat there like a deer in the headlights. I swallowed, because I knew I couldn't say truth. And if I did, Luke would probably ask me something to do with my love life. "Dare. " I said quickly.

The more time seemed to go on without him saying a word, the more my adrenaline pumped.

"I dare you, to kiss Calum. " My eyes filled with regret in taking this option. My eyes pleading him to choose something else, but his eyes were like a brick wall, standing their ground.

"Standing up, preferably. " That just made it even worse. I looked over at Calum, wondering why I didn't choose to look at his reaction first. But his was similar to mine.

The both of us stood up slowly, him walking over even slower, as everyone broke apart the circle and took seats in front of us to watch. For a moment it was just us, looking at each other. Studying our features, with a great distance apart from us. We looked at each other in the eye, and moved closer. I put my hand on his shoulder, and he put his hand on my neck covering any distance between us.

My green eyes looked into his brown ones, and then the both of us leaned in.
Our kiss first seeming light, sweet, and delicate like Luke's and Rose's. But then, we started working faster and more passionate.

For a second it seemed like we were the only ones in the room, but then when we pulled away we realized that we actually were.