Truth Or Dare

six

I froze.

No words came to my mind besides the repetition of his own.

I think I like you.

A blush formed itself on my face but I still couldn't force myself to move.

Did I like him?

I never thought about it properly. I liked his lips. That was a fact.

His eyebrows creased in worry.

"I don't expect you to say anything back. I know this is soon but you're so different."Oh thanks.

"This may not even be a huge thing. But I'm not used to it. Nor do I want to complicate things by hiding my feelings for you."

When he realized I wasn't going to respond his hands left and I felt a wave of confusion and loneliness wash over me. My head hung low and Aspen watched me closely trying to gauge at reaction I had.

It was all too soon.

Yeah, we'd kissed here and there but I only really interacted with him the first time a few days ago. Any other girl from the school would have died to be in my place but all I could feel was confusion and the slowly rising tension in the air.

I slowly rose my eyes to his own and my breath was taken away from my lungs at the sight of Aspen's intense gaze. His eyes reached for a clue as to what I was feeling but I gave him nothing.

The sound of his defeated sigh echoed in the room as he finally noticed I wasn't responding. I smiled apologetically.

"Come on. I've got a whole set of Harry Potter movies in need of watching." He gave me a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes.

"Good god I wasn't planning on staying over here all week." I joked, referring to how long the Harry Potter series was.

"I know you want to though." He wiggled his eyebrows, returning to his cocky self in seconds.

My arm came out and whipped his hard chest which ended up hurting me worst than him so I brought it back and tried to soothe the pain my rubbing my wrist.

"Oww." I pouted.

"Karma's a bitch." He laughed.

"Okay, fuck you too then." I giggled and by the time we were done bantering we had both been sat on his couch. I purposely sat on the far end in attempt to keep distance from Aspen.

When we were near each other, my nerves were on edge and forming a coherent sentence was impossible. But as Aspen scooted closer to me when the previews came on I noticed that my plan was a failure.

His scent of vanilla and old spice overwhelmed me as I tried to control my raging teen hormones.

"Y-You know what? Let m-me go get some popcorn." I stuttered out an excuse and quickly scrambled up out of my spot and brushed against Aspen in the process.

When I began darting out Aspen gently grabbed my wrist and my cheeks felt warm as I blushed.

"I'm out of popcorn."

Yikes. My plan failed again.

"C-Cool. Where's your bathroom?" I asked, shitty plan number 3 being put into action.

He can't be out of bathrooms can he?

"Its right next to the kitchen. Do you need help finding it?" Aspen's eyebrows furrowed as he talked.

"I'll be good. Thanks." I said then walked out with a bounce in my step.

While going through the hall I found myself in awe of all the art on the walls.

How didn't I notice this before?

Inside the bathroom I looked at my own reflection, dissapointed the to didn't put more effort in my appearance today. My eye bags still stood out to me and I frowned and splashed my blushing face with water in attempt to calm myself.

You never blushed before, so why now?

My mind flashed to the last guy who had me reacting somewhat like this and a heavy feeling settled in my gut. Jared.

Memories of my ex came to me and the blush began to disappear and I was replaced with a sour mood.

I turned off the faucet and dried my face before finding my way back to Aspen who was sitting exactly where I left him just now with a large fuzzy blanket wrapped around him.

He looked adorable with the small twinkle he held in his eyes when he looked up to meet my gaze.

The blanket ruffled as he opened it up and grinned at me. "Care to join me?"

Fuck it. I thought before throwing all my plans out the window and cuddled up to his hard chest that I'd now finalized was atleast a strong 6 pack.

Warmth spread to me as his arm draped around my waist pulling me closer, but not doing anything I was uncomfortable with.

I nuzzled my head right onto Aspen's neck which I'd noticed was his sensitive spot and he shuddered at any small movement I made making me feel in control.

"Keep doing that princess and we will be doing something much better than watching a movie." Aspen's lips brushed against my ears sending tingles throughout my whole body and causing me to feel warmer in my regions.

I almost groaned in delight when I realized Aspen's bad side was out to play but complied to his demands and quit moving around to tease him.

"Good girl." He joked and I felt him smile against my neck.

My focus was on Aspen as I pretended to watch the movie. It's not like I haven't seen this series plenty of times already. Hell, I could probably recite all the words without even a hint.

Alright Delilah, you can do this. No thotting. No ma'am. I repeated over and over in my head trying to keep my innocent mind present.

Nobody else made me feel so on edge and well... hot. Over my past relationships I did nothing more than kiss. Aspen was sweet, too sweet even.

The skeptic side of me said that he only wanted me for sex. Which made sense, but if that was the case then why wouldn't he have taken advantage of me that night when I was drunk? I didn't want to believe he liked me, that was impossible. But as I sat in his arms it didn't feel impossible.

Everything my friends said to me two days ago flashed in my head. He doesn't kiss. I reminded myself. Maybe I wasn't special, but he told me himself he could like me. I couldn't hold back the glimmer of hope flashed through me. Some part of me believed he really meant what he said, but the other said that this was all part of some game of his.

His arm around me tightened almost protectively and his voice broke me out of my thoughts.

"What are you thinking about?"

A/N- If you can't tell by the pictures Manu Rios is who I imagined as Aspen. Gotta love Manu. Also it may be a few days before I update again, as my second semester is starting tomorrow as school sucks and I usually get loads of homework.