Truth & Dare by Liz Miles

Author:Liz Miles [Liz Miles]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781849019309
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: 2011-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

At sunset the next day, I limped up to Chris’s front door. I had gotten my mom to feed her sister’s cat, so I had the whole night to spend with Chris—a thought that sent my mind spinning a million different fantasies. None of which involved clothing.

I could hear drums pounding from one of the rooms upstairs and my heart followed suit. I rang the doorbell. Mr. Harper answered, looking just as goofy as ever. I wondered how someone so strange could have created a son as sexy as Chris.

Speaking of whom, Chris bounded down the stairs and tugged me up in his arms—right in front of his dad. I patted his back awkwardly, not wanting to look like some sort of slut in front of Mr. Harper.

“I missed you,” Chris said in my ear.

My heart melted and I forgot all about Mr. Harper.

“Me too,” I said.

Chris began to lead me up the stairs to his room.

“Keep the door cracked,” Mr. Harper called after us.

“Okay, Dad,” Chris mumbled. We rounded the corner on the second floor.

“And the lights on!”

“Yeah!” Chris rolled his eyes at me.

Chris’s room was small and cluttered with computer games, books, folded laundry, drum pads, and drumsticks. His twin bed was squashed into the far corner and a TV sat on his dresser across from it.

It was obvious that we would be sitting on the bed.

“Nice room,” I said, fidgeting.

He snorted. “It’s a mess, but it works.” His eyes flickered to the bed and then fixed on the rack of DVDs next to his computer desk. He cleared his throat. “What do you want to watch?”

“I don’t care.”

Chris grabbed a random title and stuffed it into the DVD player. He sat on the edge of the bed, skipping past the commercials. I sat next to him, carefully, making sure not to get too close. I became aware that we hadn’t so much as touched each other since entering his room. I wondered if he was as nervous as I was. It was the first time we had been completely alone.

On a bed no less.

I grabbed one of his pillows and propped it against the wall, leaning back, watching as Chris adjusted the volume and crossed the room to the light switch. He hesitated for a moment and then flicked it off and shut the bedroom door.

My body felt so numb and shaky I might have been having a mini seizure. He crossed the room in the darkness and came to sit next to me.

Still no touching.

“Won’t your dad get mad about the lights?” I asked.

“You can’t watch a movie with the lights on.”

Apparently if he did get mad, Chris didn’t care. I didn’t mention the door.

The movie started, but I couldn’t have been less interested.

The silence between us seemed to beat at my ears and a thick electric tension grew between our bodies. I was aware of every movement he made, wondering when he would at last reach over and touch me.

Thirty minutes into the movie and my heart had not given up its frantic pounding.

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