it started with a dare (COMPLETED)

24) kissing in the rain

Draco's hot!! 

Sorry, I'm so weird

Not sorry ;) 

Zoe's POV:

"Um, Zo. Someone's at the door and their soaking wet and I don't wanna get up," Addalyn groans when the doorbell rings. We were in the middle of our Harry Potter marathon and we were at the part where Harry gets on the Knight Bus in the third movie. 

"I don't wanna get up either," I whine. 

"Best two outta three," Addalyn says. 

We play rock, paper, scissors and I won. 

"Yessir," I do a victory dance while being cuddled up in blankets and food. 

"I hate you," Addalyn says, sticking her tongue out at me. 

"Sorry, she can't talk right now," Addalyn tells the person at the door. I'm too lazy to strain and try to peer at who it was but I just strain my ears and try to catch their voice. 

"Fine. Zoe, get your ass over here," Addalyn calls to me and I freeze. 

Why me?!?!

"We're in the middle of watching Harry Potter. Do you not know how much precious time you are wasting mister-" I look to see Luca Martinez at the door, soaking wet. 

"Yes, I know. So much precious time," he smirks at me. "Your soaked," I remark. "I'll grab a towel," Addy says, unsurely and winks at me meaning she won't get a towel.

"She's not grabbing a towel, right?" Luca says. "Uh, no," I say, still lost. 

"I'll go grab one though," I start but Luca cuts in. "It's fine, I actually just came to talk to you. Rylan pushed me out of his house with no umbrella so it sucked I was walking for twenty minutes in the rain with nothing. My phone is probably broken at this point," he says, pulling out his phone. 

"Surprise, it works," I mumble and try to think of some excuse to go back to watching my movie. "What do you want?" I ask him. "Can you come out? I caught your twin sneaking peeks," he says, blushing. 

"I am not!" Addy yelled from her room. 

Meaning, she was. 

"Yeah, we should," I say. 

"So, now can you tell me?" I ask for like the hundredth time. 

"After this," Luca says and pulls me in the pouring rain. 

"LUCA MARTINEZ!" I shout and my jaw drops. 

"I am soaked!" I scowl at him. 

It's too late to head back inside now, I'm soaked and I'll get the whole house wet. 

"That's why I pulled you in the rain," Luca says, laughing at my expression. "But why- the fuck- are you mental?" I manage to sputter. "I'm mental for you baby," Luca smirks and even though the rain is giving me goosebumps I'm pretty sure that's not the only reason for the goosebumps. 

"Don't say that. I'm mad at you," I say, coldly and Luca gives me a hurt look. "Those don't work on me," I inform him, referring to his expressions. 

"Then, will this work," Luca says and pulls me closer to him. 

"I really really really like you, Zoe Miller," he whispers. 

He smashes his lips to mine.

HOLY SHIT!

I kiss him back and after a few seconds, we pull apart. 

"Luca, you are mental," I whisper. 

"For you," he whispers. 

*** 

Luca's POV:

"So, did it work?" Rylan says once I open the door to let him in. "Did what work?" my mom says, coming to greet Rylan. 

I give Rylan a stern look, telling him to make some stupid ass excuse. 

"Oh, hey Mrs. Martinez. I was just talking about the new studying method I taught Luca. I wanted to see if it worked because he had a test today in Algebra," Rylan said. 

Rylan was good when it came to lying. He has 3 older sisters and a helicopter mom who always wants to know what he's doing. 

"It did bro. I got a 90," I grin. 

Good thing that was true- I did get a 90 on the math test- because I am a terrible liar. My mom and I have a  close relationship and I feel so bad if I have to lie to her. Even if it's a white lie. 

The last time I lied to her was when I was in fourth grade. I didn't want to go to the mother and son dance but my mom was so excited. I threw up that night because I kept lying saying I was having a good time and everything. 

I get a little sick every time I lie to her. It's like she knows when I'm lying which makes it ten times worse. 

***

"Awesome. I have to go grocery shopping so I'll be right back," my mom tells us and we nod and tell her we'll be here. "Leave a note or text me if you go somewhere," she says.

"Still treating us like babies," Rylan gives me a goofy grin and I roll my eyes. "She thinks I miss my old house cause one of her friends saw me walking home from Zoe's place," I face-palm. "Woah, was it, Mrs. June. She gossips more than the cheerleaders and football players," Rylan laughs and I agree.

"Yeah, she probably told the whole damn city by now. Poor Luca misses his old house all of a sudden," I mimic her. 

After joking about Mrs. June and her annoying personality, Rylan realizes what he came here to ask. 

"So, did you kiss her?" he asks, intrigued in my love life all of a sudden. "I did and it went well," I say. 

I was up the whole night thinking about our kiss. I hope Zoe was thinking about it too. A kiss never felt that exciting or special to me. 

"How was it like?" Rylan says, sounding like one of his sisters. "To be honest, it was like so much more than the other girls I've kissed. I kissed a lot of girls and I never found myself thinking about it, unlike the one with Zoe," I confess.

"Spoken like a man in love," Rylan replies, nodding to himself. 

"So, what do I do now?" I ask. "Ask her out. Propose, get married. Make sure I'm the best man and have kids and be happy forever," Rylan says, counting on his fingers. "It's not as easy as it sounds like but trust me, it'll work," he adds.

"Wait a second, you've been happy lately," I realize. "So?" Rylan asks. "Did you meet someone?" I ask him. "Well, I fucked a girl, recently and she asked me to be her boyfriend. It wasn't my first time with her. I fucked her like a few times. I swear I've seen her at places though," Rylan murmurs. "Can you imagine? She asked me!  She's the one," he adds, blushing. 

"What's her name?" I ask, happy for Rylan. 

"Ember," he says, dreamily.