SZNS SERIES 1: Summer by Maria Writes (books for men to read txt) 📗

where she was laying and head inside the cottage. No one was there which was great. She scanned their icebox looking for something to drink. Then she heads to the powder room inside their cottage and changed her swim wear to a floral beach dress. While changing, she can hear commotion happening at the back of the cottage.

After changing her clothes, she heads out of the cottage and went at the back. She drank 3 bottles straight of beer before heading out to have courage of what she's about to do.

"There's Chloe, finally you're awake. Come here, join us." Paul grabbed her a chair and she pulled it beside Jesse. God, I hope my plan works. It's now or never. If this is the only way for him to know what she's feeling, then so be it. She will risk anything. Even if it'll make her a big embarrassment. She felt Jesse stilled her she wrapped her arms with his.

That's her plan for tonight, be a slut. Well not really, just for Jesse. If he still thinks I'm not good for him then she'll force herself to really keep her distance from him. And if his mind changes, on with step two.

She took a deep breath and looked at the bottle in front of the table. She already had an idea what they will do, but she acted innocent. "So, what are we going to do?"

They are all giving her a weird look especially her arms wrapped around Jesse. But not Rebeca, she's smiling at them. She gives her a wink then she took a glance at the man beside her and he seemed to be enjoying it. That's a progress. She laid her head on his shoulder and to her surprise, Jesse lean his head on hers. She's screaming inside but she keeps her face calm. She must not blow her plan; this is the only shot she has for Jesse to notice her.

And Chloe thinks it's already working. Well, he called me beautiful earlier so that's a point.

"We will be playing 'spin the bottle/truth or dare', if you failed to comply to what is asked, you'll take a shot. We're going to get wasted tonight." David said then pointed at Jesse "Well except for him, he can't drink too much, he'll be the one driving us home tonight."

All of them were sitting around the long table, on the left it was Rebeca, Ashley, Blake, David, and Kayla. On the right is Allie, Barb, Paul, Shawn, Nadine. On one end of the table is her and Jesse while on the other end is Peter and Katherine.

Half of them already went home so it's just them. Katherine grabbed the bottle and spin it. "The narrow end will be the victim, and the wider end of the bottle will get to ask if truth or dare." The bottle stopped spinning and it was pointed to Blake.

Paul was grinning from ear to ear while asking Blake if truth or dare.

"Dare." Blake said with a smug look on his face.

Paul's grin looked even wider "I dare you to give me two hundred bucks." he said calmly while Blake lose his smug look. Every one of them laugh at his face. Blake stands from his seat and took his wallet from the back pocket of his pants to get 200 dollars and tossed it to Paul. If his smile earlier was from ear to ear, now his eyes are shining in delight. All of them are still laughing.

But her laughter stops when Jesse removed his arm from her hold. She felt a bit disappointed but decided not to show it to anyone. Blake spins the bottle and it was pointed at her. Before Katherine could ask, she already said dare with no emotion on her face.

"Your dare is to... kiss Jesse for 20 seconds."

Her eyes widen at what Kath said, but instead of being a chicken, she stands up and straddled on his lap and started kissing him. She just wanted to do a peck for the entire 20 seconds but she went on and deepen the kiss. She went all in, not just a peck, but with tongue involved. Jesse didn't hold back. When he is about to hold her head to keep her still, she put a distance between them and get back to her seat. She wiped of her smeared lipstick and spin the bottle.

Chloe was Rebeca giving her a wide eye then mouthed 'What was that about?'. Chloe just shrugged her shoulder and watched as the play go along. She looked beside her and saw Jesse looking at her intently. She gave him a playful smile and looked away from him. She then bit her lip when he drapes his arm over her shoulder, pulled her closer then whisper on her ears.

"We need to talk later, Ginger."

Why does it felt like their talk is not going to go well? She shouldn't have kissed him like that. She should've controlled herself. Now thinking of her plans, she felt very stupid. Chloe didn't reply to what Jesse said, she just sits up straight and removed his arm from her shoulder.

As she was about to reach for a beer the bottle was pointed to Jesse. Peter asked Jesse, and he chose truth. He's maybe afraid of what they're going to dare him. Chicken.

"What's up with you and Chloe? Why are you calling her Ginger? You guys dating?" Peter asked.

She didn't look at Jesse but she's waiting for his answer. She wanted to know what are they. She doesn't want to assume but she's hoping something was there. He's the one who kissed her first. He called her beautiful. He constantly calls her Ginger as if that's her name. And he wanted to deepen the kiss earlier. So, there must be something, right? He must be feeling something as well.

"Just one question at a time, Pete.