Page 4 of Truth Or Dare
Why does he know me this well?
Why is he the person I had to fall in love with?
“It’s not the right time.”
My eyes snap open at the sound of my roommate Madi’s voice. I quickly sit up, pausing the song and blink away the wetness building in my eyes.
“The sooner you tell her, the sooner you can get it over with,” I hear her boyfriend, Lucas, reply.
“I know,” Madi replies. “But… she’s my best friend, Lucas. I can’t just drop this on her.”
My body tenses as I hear those words. Unless Madi has suddenly found a new best friend, she must be talking about me. At least, I hope so. Because if I find out someone else has taken my place, I’m gonna—
“I want to live with you, princesa.” My eyes widen at Lucas’s words. “I’ve spent my whole life waiting for you, and I didn’t even know it,” he tells her. “And now that I have you, I want every second, every minute, every day with you.”
Wait a minute.
“I know,” Madi replies with a sigh, her voice tinged with uncertainty. “I want that too, but…”
“We can wait,” he says. “You’re graduating next year. We can hold off until then?”
I push myself off the steps, rounding the corner where those two are tangled up in each other like they’re two seconds away from making front-page news.
I would have thought after what happened last year, Lucas would have learned by now not to get caught, but apparently not.
I clear my throat, and watch as they jump apart, Madi gasping at the sight of me standing behind her.
“How much did you hear?” she asks, her frown deepening as she glances back at her boyfriend.
I shrug. “Enough to know you’re leaving me,” I say, gesturing to her boyfriend with a disgusted expression on my face. “And that you two seriously need to get a room.”
Lucas chuckles, but Madi sighs, taking a step closer toward me. “I wanted to tell you,” she says with a frown. “I just didn’t know how.”
I nod in understanding. If Lucas isn’t over at our apartment, then Madeline is over at his. Those two can’t seem to spend a night away from each other, so it’s only logical that they’d want to move in together.
“You know men are messy, right?” I tease.
My best friend smiles, recognizing that I’m giving her my blessing of sorts. “Can’t be messier than you.”
I click my tongue, shaking my head in mock indignation. “That’s low.”
She chuckles, the sound filling the air with warmth. “So, you’re not mad?”
I shake my head, a hint of sadness creeping in, but I press my lips together in a smile. “No, of course not. I am going to miss you, though,” I tell her, already dreading going back to an empty apartment. Madeline and I have lived together since we were paired together in the same dorm freshman year. It’s going to be tough not having her around anymore. “But I get it,” I say with a shrug. “You want to live with your boyfriend. I just give you a week before you’re begging to move back in.”
“No way,” Lucas says, wrapping an arm around Madi’s waist. “I can’t wait to live with her.” He gently turns her face until their lips meet, and they start making out in front of me.
I mean…come on.
“Ugh.” I shove them playfully. “I’m leaving before I have to witness you guys fuck again.”
Madi pulls her lips away from Lucas, her eyebrows furrowing as she looks at me warily. “Wait. What do you mean,again?”
I grin mischievously, blowing them a kiss. “Bye.”
“She saw us have sex?” I hear Madi ask her boyfriend, who just laughs in response.
Yeah, I witnessed it, and I almost wished I could pour bleach on my eyes to erase the image. I mean, her room wasright there. Two steps and I could have avoided another trauma.
