The Dare

Chapter 23.5

Alex's POV

The sun is blaring into my closed eyelids and not being able to bear it further I open them to see the curtains are open. I try to get out when something holds me back. I see Dyl holding me back with his arm. He was still asleep.

I slowly turn around so I am facing him. I stare at him and the memories of last night resurface. I look under the blanket and see that I am still naked. It really did happen then. I feel a little sore and blush remembering what we did.

I look at the time and see it is 7:00 am and we have school. I try and wiggle out of his vice-like grip but instead, he pulls me closer and holds me even tighter. I sigh and see the time isn't slowing down and if we don't get up now we will be late. I try some more wiggling but it doesn't work.

I look up and see that he is still sleeping. I lean forward and place a gentle kiss on his lips and in a second his lips are kissing me back. I pull away and see him have a small smile on his face.

"Now that's something I can wake up to every day." His morning voice flowed like a chocolate fountain and I felt like repeating what we did last night.

"Goodmorning. Now get your fat ass up because you are suffocating me." I wiggle to show him that I am struggling.

"Fat ass? Excuse me, this is all muscle and not a single gram of fat." Dyl fakes to look offended but none the less removes his grip over me. I get the blanket and wrap them around my body.

"You do know I saw everything last night?" He sarcastically jokes. I smack his arm and blush.

"Anyway, how are you feeling? Not too sore?" My blush deepens because of his dumb questions.

"A little sore but I can handle it," I mumble with a chuckle.

"Okay get up we need to go school," I say as I get out of bed without the blanket. I grab Dyl's shirt which was next to me and slip it on.

"Do we have to go? We could stay in bed and do what we did last night 1000 times more." He tries to negotiate.

"Okay how about this, we go to school but you can join me in the shower now." I try and compromise. I don't know where I got this confident but it sure did make things work.

"I can work with that." He jumps out of bed and I turn around because he was naked.

"Your innocence never fails to amuse me." He chuckles.

***

"I LIVE MY DAY AS IF IT WAS MY LAST. LIVE MY DAY AS IF THERE WAS NO PAST. DOING IT ALL NIGHT ALL SUMMER. DOING IT THE WAY I WANNA. YEAH IMMA DANCE MY HEAT UNTIL THE DAWN AND I WON'T BE DONE MORNING COMES. DOING IT ALL NIGHT ALL SUMMER. GONNA SPEND LIKE NO OTHER." I belt out the lyrics to Lush Life by Zara Larson. This song is so good that I am still listening to it after these many years.

"As much as I love you, please shut up," Dyl says in an annoyed voice.

"I love you too but you have to understand, I was born to be a singer. You can't take that away from me. But for you, I shall stop singing. Axel and I have better car rides. We both belt out the lyrics. You're just boring," I stick out my tongue.

Suddenly the mood in the car plummets and we sit in awkward silence. I shouldn't have compared Dyl to Axel. That was wrong of me.

Dyl parks the car and I see we have a few minutes to spare. "I am sorry. That was wrong me of me to say." I say.

"It's just that I feel like I am in a competition with Axel. He is always around you and you're comparing me to him now. I can't lose you." He says with sadness in his eyes.

I grab his face in my hands and say, " I love you. Only you. And for Axel, he just a friend. There is no competition. I shouldn't have compared you to Axel. But remember I love you and no one else." I lean in for a small kiss and look back into his eyes.

"I love you too. Now let's go before we are late." He says and I see the sadness disappear.

I giggle at his eagerness and we walk out of the car and into school hand in hand. 

***

Sunday Night

Dyl has been nothing but cute and loving to me for the past three days. Ever since his birthday, we have become closer. I blush whenever I think about what we did and how many times we repeated it over the weekend. We have spent the day together and I know I made the right choice for saving myself until him. He has proven how much he loves me even when I have so many flaws which I find disgusting. 

Aladdin is playing on the TV but my thoughts are in a jumble to even pay attention to the movie. A-levels are creeping up closer with every day and the pressure for us is increasing as well. Honestly, I am shitting myself for these. They determine my future and I can't go wrong here. 

I grab the remote and turn the TV off. I was not in the mood to watch anything. Jack wasn't in on Friday because he had some family commitment so I couldn't tell him what happened on Thursday. I did tell Axel and he wasn't as happy as I thought he would be. I also found out that Axel is Adam's brother. The same Adam that hates my guts for some reason that I don't even know. 

My eyes flutter shut and a small smile appears on my lips as I remember everything that has happened in since Year13 started. Even though I cut myself and lost Shanaya as a friend, I think all of those incidents were for me to come out stronger and I am glad I didn't do anything stupid because I wouldn't have seen this day.