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I squeeze Aaron’s hand, letting him know it’s his turn.
He smiles at me. Then he closes his eyes, inhales deeply, opens them, lets out his breath, and stares up at the star, making his wish.
We lie together, fingers intertwined for a few moments longer.
“What do you think? Should we head inside?” he asks me.
“Probably,” I say.
He gives me an adorable smile and a kiss on the cheek.
“It’s been a pretty awesome vacation, hasn’t it?”
“Yeah, Ace, it has,” I say, as he pulls me up from the blanket.
He picks it up, shakes it off, and we head back inside.
When we get to the basement—which is essentially a big rec area with a bunch of couches where we’ve all been sleeping on this trip—they’re all sitting on the floor around the large, square coffee table which has been filled up with snacks.
“Just in time,” Miles says. “We’re playing truth or dare.”
I can’t help but smile. I love playing truth or dare. Mostly because I’m not afraid of either, and it’s not like we come up with totallyoutrageousdares. I am more of a dare person, though. I don’t mind truth, but I think dare is more fun.
I walk over and drop down between him and Joel. Aaron sits almost across from me between Miles and Sarah.
“All right, Sarah, pick a number between one and six,” Joel says.
“Four.”
We count around from there, with Mackie going next. Making her five, Joel six, me one, Miles two, and Aaron three.
Joel grabs a die from the board game we were playing last night and rolls it and it ends up landing on six.
“Guess that means I’m first. We’ll go around to the right and have the person to your left ask the question?” Joel says.
We all nod in agreement.
“Okay, Macks, hit me with it,” Joel says.
“Truth or dare?”
“Truth.” Joel loves to dare other people, but he almost always picks truth.
Mackie thinks for a moment, then smiles devilishly. “Okay, which of us girls would you most want to kiss?”
We all laugh.
“Nice one, Macks,” Aaron says, fist bumping her across the table.
Joel rolls his eyes. I already know the answer sure as hell isn’t me. I don’t count as a girl in his book like he doesn’t count as a boy in mine. I see him as a brother; he sees me as a sister. And I think Mackie is pretty confident it’s not her. Partly because Joel has a type. Typically, blondes. Plus, he and Sarah are close. In thatpersonsort of way. Not as intensely as Aaron and me, though.
He sighs. “Not saying Iwantto, but of the three of you… it’d be Sarah,” he says with a little blush.
Sarah smiles seductively and wiggles her eyebrows at him before laughing. He lets out a long sigh and shakes his head. Then he turns to me.
“Okay, Rae Rae, truth or dare?”
“Dare,” I say confidently.
