Truth or Dare - Danielle Allen Page 0,51

me. This feels good to me. I don’t care if it’s long-distance. I want you.” He kissed me with a kiss that took my breath away. When he pulled away, he licked his lips. “But you have to want it, too.”

With that, he got out of bed.

Unsaid words held me hostage as I struggled to respond to him. “Where are you going?” I choked out.

He pointed to the clock on the nightstand. “We have less than an hour to catch the shuttle.”

I gasped, looking at the clock. “Oh shit! It’s going to take a miracle to make it on time.”

With a final kiss goodbye, he winked at me. “Miracles happen every day.”

I rolled my eyes at him quoting Tyler’s best man speech. “Goodbye, Kingston.”

As soon as the door closed behind him, tears pricked my eyes. I shook it off. I didn’t have time for it.

After a shower and a rushed packing job, I met my friends in the lobby.

“Fashionably late and freshly fucked,” Tisha quipped under her breath as soon as she saw me.

I let my head fall back as I laughed heartily.

“Can I talk to you?” Corrine asked, interrupting my good time with my best friend.

“What’s up?” I replied coolly, crossing my arms over my white summer dress.

“Alone.”

Tisha started to walk off, but I grabbed her wrist. “No, whatever you have to say to me, you can say in front of Tisha.” I quirked my eyebrow. “You weren’t shy about saying stuff to me in front of an audience last night.”

She pursed her lips and I could see she was biting her tongue. After a deep breath, she nodded. “Fine. Latisha can stay for this. Simone, I apologize for the way I behaved last night. I had too much to drink and I was out of line. My anger toward you wasn’t really about you, but I took it out on you and that wasn’t right. I apologize—sincerely.”

I nodded. “Okay. Apology accepted.”

With a short curt nod, she turned on her heel and marched over to where Chloe and Dom were standing. She said something to Chloe and then they hugged.

“Five bucks Chloe forced her to give that apology,” Tisha commented, putting her hand on her hip.

“I’m not taking that bet. We both know Corrine didn’t do that on her own.”

“You should’ve taken the bet,” Omar said, inserting himself in our conversation from out of nowhere.

Both Tisha and I spun around.

“Why are you lurking around listening to conversations that don’t concern you?” I asked, eyeing him suspiciously.

“Just because you two don’t know how to whisper and are standing in the middle of the lobby does not make me a lurker,” he retorted with a laugh. “I just happened to be at the right place at the right time.”

“Ah, yes,” Tisha acknowledged, lifting a finger in the air. “That must be from chapter one, page one of the Lurker’s Guide to Lurking.”

“I hate you two with a passion,” he remarked with a wide smile. Lowering his voice, he took a step forward. “And it was me that told Corrine she needed to apologize. What she did was fucked up and after I explained that to her, she agreed that she owed you an apology.”

Tisha winked. “Oh, I’m sure you explained a lot of things to her last night.”

“I’m not even going to dignify that insinuation with a response,” he said with mock indignation.

“Oh, I’m sure you dignified a lot of things last night,” I replied, wiggling my eyebrows.

The three of us were cracking up when I felt a hand on the small of my back. I breathed in shakily. I knew it was Kingston before I even turned to see who was touching me.

“Hey, you almost forgot this,” Kingston handed me the weathered stone I’d found on the beach.

I let my fingertips rub all over the surface of it. “Thank you.” I put it in my bag and then reached up to kiss him.

The catcalls from our friends were ridiculous.

A couple minutes later, we said goodbye to Dom, Chloe, and their parents as we boarded the shuttle.

We waved goodbye to Dom and Chloe from the window and then we proceeded to laugh and joke our way to the airport. We were flying to various places—mostly on the East Coast—but we were all headed to Atlanta for our connecting flights. After checking our bags and going through security, we were hustled to our gate that had already started the boarding process.

“Had I known this was going to happen, I would’ve picked a