"I'm bored." Calum whines as we're all lying around the den downstairs. "Andy, make me not bored."

I roll my eyes and sigh as I look up from my spot on the couch. "Why do you guys solely rely on me to entertain you?"

"Because you're very entertaining." Calum replies with a cheesy smile.

"Why don't you set up the Xbox or something?"

"But I don't feel like getting up." He sighs, slouching for a moment before perking up as he says. "I know, we should play 'truth or dare!'"

"Really?" Ashton asks Calum as he tries to keep from laughing.

"Come on, guys. It could be fun." He begs, and eventually we all agree just to appease him.

"So who's going starting us off?"

"I will." Calum says, turning to Michael. The game quickly escalates from there, and soon enough, we know more embarrassing secrets about each other than I had ever imagined and have seen each other do some pretty ridiculous things. "Andy." Calum turns to me with an evil grin. "Truth or Dare?"

"Since it's you asking, I'm going to say truth."

"What's the story between you and Mason? You two seem to be pretty close." He says jokingly wiggling his eyebrows.

"Ew. Please, never do that again." I shout in between fits of a laughter. "It's nothing like that. Mason and I are just best friends, and there could never be anything romantic between us. It would just be wrong if there was."

"Well, that's harsh." Calum scoffs at me.

"What? He's my brother for goodness sake!" I shout not even processing what I just said. "I mean, he's like my brother." I quickly add trying to cover it up, but it's obvious their putting the pieces together in their minds. I don't let them say anything, I just keep the game going. "Ashton, truth or dare?"

"Um... Dare?" He responds, looking almost scared.

"I dare you to hand your phone to Michael and let him tweet something from your account." Ashton's eyes go wide as he shakes his head repeatedly, but eventually he gives in, not wanting to face another punishment. We all roll on the floor laughing at his expression while Michael tweets from his account.

When he's finished, Ashton turns to Luke. "Truth or dare, Luke?"

"Truth." He replies looking confident.

"What was your first impression of--" He pauses looking around the room, his eyes settling on me. "--Andy? You have to be honest."

"Umm. Do I really have to answer this?" He asks, his face becoming beet red as he rubs his neck. I try to catch his attention, but he adamantly avoids eye contact with me. "What would by my punishment be if I don't answer this?"

"You would have to sleep outside for the night." Ashton tells him, to which Luke quickly accepts.

As the game continues on, Luke won't so much as glance my way, which makes me wonder what was so bad about his first impression of me. I don't pay much attention to the game after that, but I notice all of the guys keep trying to choose either Luke or I. Eventually they ask me again, and I choose dare on a whim. "Okay..." Michael thinks for a moment, before he smiles as he tells me my dare. "Go into the bathroom until we tell you to come out and face the other half of your dare."

I give him a weird look knowing he has to be up to something, but I do it anyways. Over the next few minutes, I keep my ear pressed to the door in the hopes of hearing what they're saying, but I have no luck. I can barely hear them as they whisper to each other, but I can't make out any of the words. I stay in there, counting the minutes in my mind as I wait. "Okay, seriously, guys? Please, just figure out the other half. I'll give you two minutes before I'm coming out." I shout at them through the door.

"It's okay, Andy. You can come out now." Michael calls back.

"Finally, I was wondering how long it would take you--" I start to say as I open up the door, but I'm interrupted by something. Well, more specifically someone--or at least their lips on mine.

I don't even have a second to react before it's all over, and Luke pulls away with his cheeks a bright shade of pink. I stand there in shock and notice the others looking between the two of us expectantly. "Well, that wasn't exactly how I pictured my first kiss." I say as I feel my face becoming warm despite my attempts to stop it.

"Uhhh, I-I think I'm going to go." Luke stutters before he quickly runs out of the room, not even pausing when the guys all call after him.

"What just happened?" I looking at each of the guys in confusion. I bite the inside of my cheek and try to steady my breathing in the hope they won't notice how flustered I am. As I turn to each one, they refuse to look me in the eye. The whole room is painfully silent, and I just roll my eyes telling the guys they know where to find me if they want to talk.

The stairs creak as I walk up them, and I hope I don't run into anyone on my way up to my room. Unfortunately, as I walk by the living room, I hear Mason call my name and turn around to see him looking worried. "Andy," he says looking me up and down with concern, "is everything okay. I just saw Luke and he looked pretty upset. Is everything okay? What happened?"

The moment the words come out of his mouth, I feel my cheeks start to burn, and I can only imagine what shade of crimson they are. I know I could never tell him that Luke kissed me (even if it was part of a dare). "It's nothing to worry about, and I'll go upstairs to talk to him about it." I hastily reply as I try to walk away, but Mason puts a hand on my shoulder to stop me.

"Okay. Something is definitely going on, but I know it's no use forcing you to tell me. So, instead, I'm going to change the topic. I should warn you, Dad hasn't seen the video of today's interview yet. So far he's been too busy or I've been able to distract him, but you should know he's going to watch it soon. I don't know how he'll react, but you should prepare yourself for the worst just in case."

"I figured as much since I haven't been called into his office yet. I'll figure something out." I sigh, running a hand through my hair and shaking my head as I continue. "No matter what, I'll just have to deal with whatever the consequences are. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed. I have a feeling I'm going to need my rest." Before he gets the chance to say anything else, I'm already up the stairs.

The sound of a guitar makes me stop for a moment in the middle of the hallway, and I look through the slightly open door to see Luke sitting on his bed, hunched over his guitar as he scribbles something down on a piece of paper. I gently knock on the door and lean on the doorframe when it swings open. For a moment, Luke and I just look at each other in an awkward silence. "Hey." He whispers, looking uncomfortable and nervous. "I'm sorry." We both blurt out simultaneously, but Luke just gives me a puzzled look. "Wait, why are you saying 'sorry'?"

"Because, I-I-" I stutter trying to get my words out as I step into the room, but I can't figure out why the situation is making me so nervous. "I feel like I made things ten times more awkward back there."

He looks at me completely dumbfounded. "Andy, I'm the one who should be apologizing." He pauses, running a hand through his messy, blond hair as he motions for me to sit down. I sit down on the bed across from him with my legs tucked under me. "I'm sorry. I don't know why I let the guys put me up to that. It was-- uncalled for, to say the least."

"Luke, don't worry about it. I'm not mad at you or anything like that. I just wanted to apologize and make sure you were okay." I pause for a moment, adding on. "I also wanted to make sure that things wouldn't be awkward between us now." The words begin to tumble out of my mouth faster than I can think them. "I mean, I know it was just a dare, but you and I are such good friends I would hate for this to make things weird or anything like that. I mean--"

Luke just chuckles, putting his hand over my mouth to stop my rambling. "Andy, breathe." I take a deep breath, and he removes his hand as he continues talking. "I don't want things to be awkward either. I mean, it was just a dare. It's not like it meant anything right?" He asks pretending to be casual, but for a moment I think I see a flicker of worry in his eyes.

"Yeah. It was just a dare." I agree half-heartedly, a part of me wondering if it might have been something more. "So what do you say? Friends?"

"Friends." He tells me with a charming smile.

"Good. I didn't want to lose you as a friend. Mostly because you're the only person I feel like I can be myself and honest around." After a second of silence, I change the topic so I don't have to think about it any more. "So what are you working on?"

"A song." He jokingly replies, and I roll my eyes at him. "It's not finished yet. So before you ask, no, you can't listen to or read it."

"Ugh. Fine." I sigh, standing up. "I guess I'll just go to sleep then since I'm tired and have nothing better to do." Luke just shakes his head and laughs at me. "Goodnight, Luke! I'll see you in the morning."

"Good night, Andy." He tells me and I head to my room, falling asleep for the night.

My phone startles me awake as it blasts my favorite Sleeping with Sirens song. I look at my phone, squinting in pain at the brightness, and read the screen to see a picture of Skylar and I displayed with her name. "Sky, why in the world are you calling me right now? It's like six o' clock in the morning."

"Alexandria Lynn Parker, you have a lot of explaining to do." She shouts at me through the phone.

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A/N:

Okay, so I'm so excited for the next few chapters in this story. A lot is starting to happen with our lovely characters, and things are about to get very crazy, but in the best way possible. 

Anyway, I was hoping to have this chapter up yesterday as a sort of "Happy Birthday, Calum" kind of post, but unfortunately my wifi was down. Still, it's here (even if it a little bit later. I hope you all enjoy reading this chapter and stay tuned for what else is to come!

Stay awesome, loves.