"Come on Nicky, spit it out!" Dawn urges. I glance between Dawn and Nicky, feeling the tension.
"Nicky, we're waiting," Dicky taps his foot.
"Please!!" Dawn says.
"This is so boring," Mae groans.
"Nicky, just tell us!" Dicky says.
"I don't wanna." He pouts like a fourth grader.
"Fine. Moving on." Ricky looks at me. "Just ask someone else."
"No, wait, I want to hear this." I smile on the inside as he shoots a look at me.
"Fine but do I have to tell all of you?" Nicky pleads shooting those green eyes in my direction.
"Just tell y/n," Mae suggests. "She did ask the question."
"No!" Dicky protests, but Dawn holds up a hand.
"It's either that or nothing."
Nicky leans over, resting a hand on my shoulder to whisper in my ear.
"You, dork. Obviously." He pulls away.
"Okayyy...." I try not to smile. "Wait." I lean over to whisper back to him. "I like you too."
The rest of the group stares at us, trying to interpret what we were saying from our expressions.
"What was that all about?" Ricky asks.
"Nothing," Nicky and I say at the same time.
"Who's next?' Dawn asks, smacking the ground with her hands.
"Nicky, I think?" Mae says.
"Oh, uh, y/n, truth or dare?" He asks me.
"Dare...." I say.
"I dare you to text the person you like that you like them." Nicky smirks.
"Huh? What if I don't like anyone?" I reason.
"Oh, I think you do," Nicky smiles.
"Okay, what the hell is going on with you two?" Dawn looks between us.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I say.
"Yes you do." Dicky narrows his eyes. "Is this about the fact that Nicky li-,"
"Dicky?" Nicky says, cracking his knuckles.
"Uh, nothing."
"Right." Dawn rolls her eyes.
"Just do the dare, y/n" Ricky flops onto his back.
"Fine." I pull out my phone and tap Nicky's number. Quickly shooting him a text, I realize that his phone is not in the room. Phew.
"Lemme see," Dawn reaches to grab my phone and I hold my arm up.
"Wait." I quickly change his contact name to '0214_H', and then hand it over. I know it's a weird name but I plan to change it back after.
"Who's 0214_H?" Dawn asks.
"No one," I say.
"The person you like." Nicky smirks. I think he probably figured that I chose that for his birthday, February 14th.
"Why the weird numbers?" Dicky asks.
"Maybe it's a code?" Ricky suggests.
"We should try to crack it!" Dawn smirks at me.
"What?" I grab my phone back.
"Hey, what was the point of using those numbers if we aren't going to try and decode them?" Ricky waves his hands around like a mad scientist.
"It's just the name I used so you wouldn't know who it was!" I jump up.
"Yeah, just leave it alone, Dawn." Nicky looks at me.
"Why? Don't you want to know?" Dawn frowns.
"I-of course but I respect y/n and if you respected her, you would too!" Nicky retorts. A silence falls over the group and Dawn and Ricky look at the ground guiltily.
"Well, this truth or dare session has gotten us nowhere." Dicky jumps up. "I'm going to get food."
"Me too!" Ricky follows him.
"Dawn, let's go!" Mae jumps up as well.
"Go where?"
"To get food! Y/n are you coming?" She asks.
"Give me one sec." Dawn shrugs and the two of them head down the stairs.
"Well now I know for sure that you like me." Nicky smirks.
"Shut up," I say, leaning over and kissing him.
"WHOA!" Ricky leans into the doorway.
"RICKY." Nicky pulls him into the room and puts a hand over his mouth. I lean on Nicky's shoulder, and whisper to Ricky furiously.
"What are you doing here?" Ricky stammers out an answer that neither of us understand. Nicky removes his hand.
"I-I left my phone." Ricky gulps. "What the hell were you two doing?"
"Listen, you can't tell anyone," I beg. "Dawn would kill me."
"And Dicky would kill me." Nicky glances at me. "He totally likes you." I roll my eyes.
"Of course he does."
"So you two are dating now?"
"Well I never really asked her out so..." Nicky looks at me. "Will you go out with me?" I move my hand to his hair.
"Was that ever really a question?" I kiss him.
"Guys, come on. I'm right here," Ricky averts his gaze.
"Let's go," I grab Nicky's hand and lead him to his room.
"Don't tell!" Nicky warns as we exit.
"Uh. Okay." Ricky says.
....
"That was close," I sigh.
"Tell me about it." Nicky sits on his bed.
"I am." I giggle.
"Y/n, you're such a dork," Nicky says pulling me onto him.
"Yeah, but I'm your dork."
