Little Talks

.: Chapter Seven :.

"Time to play truth or truth!" Kita sings.

We collectively roll our eyes.

"Fine." Jace says.

"Well damn, if Mr. Angst himself wants to play then I'll hop on too." Cam chuckles.

"Same." I say.

"Shut up, guys." Jace looks annoyed. "I just want to get in over with, jeez."

"Yeah, sure dude." Cam waves away the comment.

"Okay, first one! Jace." Kita announces, holding up a deck of purple cards that says 'Truth or Dare' in big yellow letters on the back. "What is the most childish thing you still do?"

Cam bursts out laughing. "Jace? Childish?"

Jace flushes red. Whatever he still does, he must not be proud of it.

"Istillsleepwithmylampon." Jace mumbles, almost un-comprehendable.

"You sleep with a tampon?" Kita asks, obviously joking. Or to us it's obvious, Jace looks mortified.

"No, I sleep with my lamp on!" Jace shouts, banging his fists on his table.

We laugh as his phone falls forward. Jace curses like a sailor and fumbles to put his phone back up.

"Okay, Cam you're next!" Kita says over our laughter. Holding up a new card.

Cam wipes his eyes, still giggling to himself. "Hit me with it."

"Okay, what is the silliest thing you have an emotional attachment to?"

"Pffft." Cam looks away, running his fingers through his hair. Suddenly his eyes catches something. He reaches off camera to grab it. "Here it is." he says.

It's a stuffed elephant, barely the size of his head. It looks years old, all of the fuzz is worn out, and the buttons it has for eyes are loose.

"His name's Eli."

"Eli the elephant." Jace mutters to himself. "Creative."

"I think it's cute." Kita says.

"Yeah so do I." I agree without thinking.

"See? They like Eli, Jace." Cam says pointedly.

"Fine, I don't care, I just don't like it."

Cam covers the Eli's giant ears with his hands. "It's okay Eli, Jace is just a meanie butt. The rest of us love you just the way you are." he says to the stuffed animal. Jace looks disgusted.

"Okay, it's my turn now!" I say, trying to change the subject.

Kita perks up. "Heck yeah! Now we'll actually know some stuff about you!"

He pulls up another card, and his face flushes a little.

"What is it?" I ask, confused.

Kita tries to switch it for another card.

"Hey, no! I want that one." I stubbornly say.

"Yeah Kita, just use that." Cam says.

"Fine." Kita sighs, turning more pink. "Out of all of us, who would you rather kiss?"

Now I turn red. "Um, excuse me?"

"Kita there's no way that's a card." Cam looks just as surprised as me.

"Here's it is! Why would I just ask her that?" he holds up the card for us to see. He's right. "Alliah I can skip this card if you want."

"No, all of you are overreacting. I'll just choose one of you." I say.

"Well don't choose me, I'm already dating someone." Jace takes a big spoonful of cereal.

So it's between Kita and Cam.

I shrug. "It shouldn't matter so-"

Then I hear the garage door open.

Mom's home.