Complicated

15. Dont kiss and tell

I sat on the couch not 40 minutes later, a Smirnoff ice in my hand, an ache in my head. I sat with some people who played truth or dare around me, and I occasionally got asked a question by the strangers.
I spotted Ashton across the room standing by himself against the wall. I catch his eyes and smile gently, and he walks over clumbsily.
"What's this?" He asks, sitting on the armchair beside me. I lean against his body and answer "truth or dare. Wanna join?"
A few hopeful gazes come from the girls around us, and Ashton nods to me. He smelled like peppermint and exhaust fumes which I weirdly liked, and I rested my head oh his side, his hand playing with my hair.
"You should totally dye your hair again" he says randomly as a girl spins the bottle. His voice was thick with sluggishness showing his state of intoxication.
"What, red again?" I ask.
"Yeah, but like at the bottom of it. I liked it when you had it blonde at the bottom" he says. That's when we were dating.
"Maybe." I say with a smile. A boy named Josh who I recognised from school answered a truth, and he spun the bottle again. It then landed on... Fuck.
Me.
I downed the rest of my drink, and answered the question that poured from Josh's lips.
"I'll take truth" I say, making him pout.
"Aw don't be boring" he laughs, but I shrug. Ashton sits up, no longer in contact with me at all.
"Okay okay. My truth is... Who is the last guy you slept with?"
"Uh...Alexander Howell." I answer honestly, making Ashton spit out his drink with laughter.
"The senior?" He laughs making me uncomfortable. Alex is older than Ashton...
"Yeah the senior." I say, my body going stiff. I should have lied.
"He's in that weird band, he plays drums?" Ashton asks, his laughter calming a little as he sees I'm not joking. A few people cheer with the name making me laugh.
"Yup" I say with an awkward smile at Josh.
"Damn girl he's hot as fuck" one girl says reaching out for a high five, I laugh and high five her and a few girls cheer. I lean down and spin the bottle and it lands on a random guy I didn't know.
"Truth or dare?" I ask
"Dare"
"Give me your drink" I laugh making everyone else laugh as he hands it over.
"Thank yooou" I sing, sitting back down on the couch.
Calum walks over now with a guy I didn't know and they join the group, Calum winking at me. I fake my best smile as he locks eye contact with me.
The bottle lands on the guy calum brought over. He took at dare.
"Give me your drink" laughs the boy winking at me, and sure enough the new guys hands it over. He spins and it lands on me again, but I scoot over a little so it points at Ash.
"Irwin hey"
"Hey Dave. Dare"
"I dare you to... Ah I'm so bad at this. Phone a friend?" He laughs and points randomly at a girl.
"Hardcore kiss the prettiest girl in the room" she laughs making a lot of girls giggle. I sigh loudly and take a gulp of my new drink. Ashton laughs beside me, and shakes of his jacket. "Oooh happily girl"he says pretending to strip making people laugh. I keep my head low, not allowing myself to look at the beautiful girl he chooses. Not allowing myself to get jealous or envious of how much prettier or curvier she is than me.
"Can you hold this?" He asks me, and I nod, setting my drink inveterate my legs so I can take his jacket with both hands... And just then, his lips crash to mine.