Eva waited till Adam was done dressing up. He grabbed her left hand with his right hand as they made their way out of the room, interlacing their fingers. Eva's heart swelled as she smiled at him affectionately.

Something had changed. Something she couldn't put her fingers, but she felt like Adam was putting in some effort, even if she could still sense that bit of uncertainty about him.

Forte music assailed their ears immediately they began making their way down the stairs, making Eva cringe. Trust June to host a party where people with ear problems could never attend.

Raul was doing a body shot on a girl wearing a tank top and lying on a table that hadn't been there an hour ago, his tongue licking through her navel, then travelling upwards until he reached her mouth and took the slice of apple from between her teeth, using the opportunity to kiss her.

Eva looked towards June and had to shake her head. While everyone was cheering, she looked like she was going to be sick. She still didn't understand why June refused to accept her feelings for the guy.

"Okay, enough of the body shots. Let's play something else." Ana, one of their friends, shouted over the cheers and loud music. "What about truth or dare?"

"Truth or dare? What are we? Fifteen?" A guy said, earning some chuckles from a few others.

"Zach, I never expected you to say something sensible, and you didn't." She said the last words with vigour. Some of the people around booed at Zach. There had to be about 40 people at the party.

"Truth or dare, it is." June announced, earning a few groans and some cheers.

"No. I wanted to do a body shot on you." Adam pouted his lips in annoyance.

Eva pecked him quickly with her own pouted lips, and they went to sit down beside each other on the floor, lining up with the others to form a circle in the large living room space. The music was turned off then.

"What are the rules?" Someone asked.

"No daring people to do extremely kinky stuff." Ana spoke. "And whoever fails to do as asked or to tell the truth pays ten dollars to the one who asked the question."

"What the fuck? Ten dollars for this stupid game?" Zach asked incredulous.

"The last party I went, the price was twenty dollars." Ana glared at him. "Stop embarrassing yourself, Zach. It's not like we're demanding hundred dollars or something."

"Fine, whatever." Zach scowled.

"Good, so everyone gets a turn with the question." Ana said. Eva could see June glaring at her, probably because she was acting as if she was the host. "I'll go first."

When her eyes settled on Zach, probably no one was surprised. "Zach, truth or dare?"

Zach glared at her, huffing before answering. "Truth."

"What were you doing last night?"

For a moment, Zach's jaw tensed, but it was so brief that Eva wondered whether she'd misread his demeanor.

"I was with my mum. My girlfriend can testify to that." He leaned to his side and kissed a girl named Carry on his right only to pull back to find her frowning at him.

"Zach, you visited your mum two days ago. Not last night."

Zach tensed. "Oh, I... I went there yesterday too. It... It must have..."

"It's okay, Zach." Carry was smiling reassuringly, but her eyes were telling a different tale. They were going to talk about this later on. Zach visibly swallowed.

"Okay, pay her, Zach." June said. "So far as we know, you lied."

"Really?" Zach huffed. "Can't I give it to anyone else?"

Ana waggled her fingers, hands out stretched. Zach begrudgingly took out his wallet and pulled out a ten dollar note, tossing it as far into the middle as possible. Ana came to pick it up.

"Okay, my turn." The girl beside Ana announced enthusiastically. She was the girl Raul had been doing a body shot on. She didn't waste time in fixing her gaze on said man. "Raul, truth or dare?"

Raul lowered his bottle of beer which he'd been about to drink and blinked, obviously not having expected the question to be directed at him. "Dare."

The girl smirked wickedly. "I dare you to kiss any one of the boys here for at least thirty seconds."

Raul snorted. "You're joking, right? I'm not gay. Assign one of the girls and I'll gladly do it."

"Dude, that's the whole point." Zach pointed out in a 'duh' tone. "Nobody will be dared to do something they can easily do."

"Well, fuck that. There's no way I'm doing that. I've never..."

"Do it or pay up, Raul." The girl bit her lips like she knew he would fail, hand outstretched.

Before Raul coukd take out his money, Alfredo who was sitting beside him and had been looking at him uncertainly, grabbed him by the nape and planted his lips on his. Raul seemed to stiffen, his arms by his side. Then he begun to blink, clenching and unclenching his hand, but his lips remained mostly unresponsive until the seconds were up.

"See? There." Alfredo said after they'd pulled back. Raul was staring at him with shock etched on his face. The girl who'd asked the question was glaring at Alfredo while some others cheered.

Adam hadn't let go of Eva's hand all this while, moving slow circles across it that made her tingle for so much more.

"My turn." Victoria announced, turning to June who was sitting beside her. June glared at her, but Vicky wasn't intimidated. "June, truth or dare?"

"Dare." June said quickly, obviously without thinking. "No, I mean truth."

"Already chose dare, June. Can't change your answer." Ana said, earning a glare from June.

"Okay, so June," Vicky said. The wicked glint in her eyes gave Eva an idea of what she was going to say even before she said it. "I dare you to kiss Raul."

"Is this game only going to be about ki... Wait, who?"

"I'm sure you heard me, sweetheart." Vicky swept her long hair behind her, smilling antagonistically.

"What? You must be out of your mind!" June shrieked defensively. "There's no way I'm kissing that. . . that... What if he pukes on my dress again?"

Those who knew about the first incident let out a roar of laughter. Those who didn't 'oh-ed' turning to look at Raul who's jaw clenched spitefully.

"Well, wasn't that just convenient for me." He bit out. "You and I both know you would've totally let me fuck you but you were so disgusting I couldn't help myself."

June shot to her feet. "You wish."

Raul also shot to his feet, jaw set furiously. "You fucking want me to fuck you so bad that you stripped me naked in that bar when I was drunk and asleep. You probably sucked my dick."

They were now standing face to face, and June delivered a hot slap to his cheek which had everyone gasping. Her nostrils flared, eyes narrowing to slits. "You're disgusting. I wouldn't fuck you if you were the last man on earth. I'd rather..."

In an instance that nobody had anticipated, Raul grabbed June's head between his two hands and pulled her face right into his, their lips crashing instantly. June's resistance lasted for only five seconds before she was gripping Raul's shirt, kissing him back earnestly. Tongues swept out and disappeared into each other's mouth, lips sucking each others.

Everyone sat transfixed with shock as they watched the scene unfolding. When finally, their lips broke free, Eva expected June to slap Raul again. Instead, she placed her forehead against his, and breathing raggedly, said, "Let's go to my room."

Right after her words, she was pulling Raul away swiftly and they were soon skipping up the stairs. Eva met Vicky's triumphant grin with her surprised one.

"Now that was something!" Zach shouted, and they broke into loud cheers.

Eva remembered how June had so vehemently denied liking Raul, and now this? June was never gonna hear the end of this.

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Now that was something, huh? What do you think?
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-Enock