Discover Me {a Why Don't We fanfiction}

Chapter Ten

I slip the dog tag over my neck.

"How long do we have to wear these?" I laugh.

"Until the end of the game." Ellie and Jack say in unison.

"Seriously? But Tea's clothes are so tight." Zach complains, tugging on the hoodie.

"Then just take it off." Maria says, and I look at her, surprised, and she winks at me.

Ellie spins the bottle, and it points at Maria and Daniel. Maria glanced at me with a look of uncertainty, and I rub my nose. Rubbing our noses was our small action to resemble a sign of trust. It's difficult to understand, but whenever I did it Maria and Ellie knew what I meant. It had been like that since we were 14.

Ellie looked at me nervously, and then down at her phone, quickly scrolling through what must have been the questions for the game, when suddenly Jack takes the phone off of her. He closes his eyes and scrolls up and down randomly, then points his finger to a question on the screen. Ellie looks up at me and she rubs her nose, horrified.

"7 minutes in heaven." Jack says slowly, and Daniel looks towards me apologetically. He then looks over at Maria, his eyes wide and his lips pursed.

"Take your time!" Corbyn says, and Jonah and Ashley laugh as Daniel and Maria both get up and walk over to the hallway at the base of the stairs.

X

Maria's Point of View

Daniel and I hesitantly shut ourselves in the closet. We just stood there awkwardly, so I decided to break the silence.

"So..." I say. "How was your hamburger?"

"It was pretty good." He replies, rocking back and forth on the balls of his feet. We both looked everywhere except for each other, and I could sense that this was all he wanted to do for the remaining six and a half minutes.

Suddenly, my phone started vibrating, and the sound of someone moaning plays from the speakers.

"Oh crap." I say, and I try to get the phone out of my back pocket of my jeans, but the popsocket was stuck. I glance up to see Daniel looking at me, surprised, and I finally pulled my phone free. It was my Mum, so I awkwardly look up at Daniel and let it ring out.

After it finishes, Daniel starts laughing, and so do I. "I promise, I'm not like that." I laugh, and he shakes his head. "It's Tea and Ellie, you see, we share a room. We have a code on our door and sometimes our other roommates find out what it is, and they come in and trash the place, so we constantly have to change the code. We write the new code in our notes, because it changes so constantly that we can't be bothered to text it to each other, so we all know each other's passwords in case of emergencies. The other day I left my phone in the room with Tea and Ellie, and I kid you not I was gone for one minute, but they had already changed my lock screen, my background, and my ringtone..." And as I told him the rest of the story, he just couldn't contain his laughter.

X

Tea's Point of View

We could hear laughing and talking, and it hadn't stopped for ages. My heart was beating rapidly, and I could feel myself starting to sweat.

"It's been nine minutes." Ashley says. "Should we go... get them?"

"You don't think they're actually doing something, do you?" Zach sounded concerned.

"Why does it matter, bro?" Jack asked, playfully shoving Zach on the shoulder, and Zach pretends to laugh it off. But I could see in his eyes that he was feeling the same way I was. Betrayed.

He shoots me a glance, and I give him a small smile, and slightly shake my head in an attempt to reassure him. Maria wouldn't do this to me, I know she wouldn't.

Suddenly, Zach stood up and walked over to me. He bent down to me and whispered in my ear. "Let's switch clothes again, I'm so sick of this game." I look over his shoulder at Ellie, who was looking at me curiously.

I look back at Zach and I nod, and I began to follow him upstairs. We walked into the room he shared with Corbyn and Jonah, which was significantly messier than Jack and Daniel's. He started taking off my clothes that were on his body and throwing them to me. We both put on the bottom half of our clothing I walk over to him to retrieve my hoodie back.

"Your hoodie was so warm but it was so tight. How the hell do you do it?" He asks, and we laugh, when he accidently dropped it on the floor, but he didn't break eye contact with me. I wondered how scared Zach was feeling. I had only known Daniel for more than half a day more than Zach had known Maria, but I knew he felt the same way about Maria as I did with Daniel.

We just stood there, he was shirtless and I was about to pick up the hoodie that was on the floor, when suddenly the door to the bedroom opens, to reveal Daniel and Maria staring at us in shock.

"Tea!" Maria yells, looking at me with disbelief.

"Zach!" Daniel says, walking over to Zach and whispering something angrily in his ear.

"It's not what it looks like!" I immediately said, picking up the hoodie and slipping it on. Daniel looked so mad- but shouldn't Zach and I be the ones getting mad?

"Daniel, please, I-" He smiles and gently takes my hand as he pulls me out of Zach's room, and he takes me to his room closing the door behind him.

"Don't worry about it. I trust you." He says as we both of us sit down on the bed. "I did nothing in that closet, I promise." He looks into my eyes in a way that I knew he was being genuine. I started shaking, remembering how perfect Daniel was.

"And I did nothing with Zach. I promise." I say, and he smiles at me.

"Can I show you that thing now?" He asks, and my heart skips a beat.