lonely without my past - (a crawford collins fanfiction)

"Promise?" I mumbled "Promise"

“Ok Craw, truth or dare?” Jack J practically screamed since he had drunk a little too much…

“Umm, dare I guess” Crawford replied hesitantly.

“I dare you too…” after almost a minute of silence Jack spoke again “to strip to you boxers and run down the street!” Jack Laughed. Crawford laughed then looked at me. He stood up and removed his shirt, shoes and trousers. We were all already laughing as Crawford made his way to the door. Everyone stood up one by one to go and watch apart from me.

“El, are you coming?” Brent asked looking down at me

“effort.” I shrugged and held out my hands so he could pull me up, which he did. He then turns around so his back was facing me

“Jump on madam, your carriage a waits.” He shouted whilst laughing at his poor attempt at an English accent.

“Why thank you kind sir” I jumped on his back and kissed his cheek (we do this a lot, it means nothing don’t worry).

Brent walked to the door and everyone was waiting, Crawford stood watching us, and everyone turned around.

“You were taking ages! Crawf's freezing right now!” Chris shouted. It was quite late by now and for some reason a really cold night so I understand since Crawford was stood there in his boxers.

“Someone was too lazy to walk, and she’s eaten a lot of pizza so isn’t as light as before!” Brent replied whilst smirking.

I fake gasped and then laughed, I knew I wasn’t skinny so probably wasn’t the lightest and I didn’t care.

“I want to add and addition to the dare!” Chris shouted to the group.

“Is that allowed?” I replied, jumping off of Brent’s back to walk to the front of the group so I could get better view of the dare.

“It is now” Chris replied smiling. I just nodded as I knew he wasn’t going to change his mind. “Crawford has to carry Eloise on his back when he’s running!” Chris laughed and the other boys laughed.

“What! Its freezing out there and I’m in shorts!” I protested. I didn’t want Crawford to have to carry me! What if he thought I was really heavy! Oh hell no this is not good!

“Excuse me…I’m in my boxers, suck it up!” Crawford replied and then picked me up bridal style.

“Ok go!” Jack J shouted and Crawford stepped out the door.

Crawford was just walking down the street carrying me, smiling.

“Your awfully smiley my Canadian friend.” I spoke looking up at him.

“It’s just that we have not both seen each other in our underwear tonight and met like 5 hours ago, that’s all” he laughed looking at me.

I laughed in response and looked at the road, there were a few people there walking past and staring.

“Aren’t you going to run?” I asked looking at the people who were currently staring at us.

“Nah, I’m good.”

“Well I’m cold, so can you move a little faster please?” I replied as I noticed the Goosebumps appear on my arms and legs. Crawford held me a little tighter and then picked up his pace so he was now running. After around a minute we had arrived back at the door and the boys just looked at Crawford with a puzzled look.

“Why the fuck did you walk?” Brice asked and we walked through the door.

“Because running is effort” Crawford replied with a tone as if to say ‘is that not obvious’.