nerd // luke hemmings [editing]

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He leads me somewhere and I have no idea where we're going.

"Ok, first location of the adventure!" Luke says to me happily and pulls the blindfold off my head.

My eyes widen at the scenery. We were at a beautiful beach, the sand perfectly white, and the sea, sparkling, like, literally sparkling.

"Holy mother of penguins. lukey, this place is... Amazing. I've lived here practically all my life and I've never been here yet." I say, taking in the scent of the breeze. The beach was practically almost empty, the only people being us, and a small family farther down my left.

"Yup." he sits down on the sand and pats the space next to him. I sit there still staring at the sea. "So..." he pushes his Ray Bans to the top of his head, digs into his backpack and takes out a pack of gummy bears which makes me giggle.This boy is so frigging cute that it's going to kill me.

"Really? Gummy bears?" I laugh.

"Uh huh. Addison, we are going to be playing my version of truth or dare." he grins.

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"Okay," Luke says, tearing the pack of gummy bears open. We were both still sitting on the sand across from each other. "So one of us throws a gummy bear at the other, and that person has to catch it in his or her mouth. If you don't, then you have to do a dare."

"Or a truth." I add.

"Nope. Only dares, because truths are boring." he smiles.

"Ugghhhh." I groan. I. am. toast.

"Okay, you go first." he says to me, handing me a blue gummy bear.

I throw it to the direction of his face, and it falls perfectly into his mouth.

"Oh my god, how did you do that?!"

"It's a hidden talent." he shrugs.

He grabs a gummy bear and throws it in my direction. It hits my forehead and falls down on the sand. "DAREEEE!" he says pumping his fist in the air.

"Hey that was a bad throw! It wasn't counted." I complain.

"Fine, one last chance because I love you." he smirks. I can't tell if he's joking, but I'll assume that he is. I blush like an idiot and he smiles.

"Aww you look so cute when you blush like that. Like seriously, it's such a turn on." he jokes.

"Oh shush." I stick my tongue out at him.

"That an invite or something?" he smirks.

"Eww you are so gross lukey." I make fake gagging sounds and he rolls his eyes.

He throws another gummy bear at me, and it hits me on my nose, go figure.

"See? The odds ARE in my favor! DAREEE!"

"Quoting a bit of Hunger Games now, are we?" I sigh and nod in defeat. "Fine.."

"Ok I dare you to hmmm... go over to that family and say 'Luke is the hottest and most awesomest guy in the universe and I want to marry him'."

I make an 'are you serious?' face at him. "You have to say those exact words to them. And make sure I can hear." he grins.

"What?! First of all, there is NO way I am saying THAT. Secondly, Awesomest isn't a word you dork, I mean seriously, what is it with you and making words up? Plus, adding a 'most' makes it grammatically incorrect, unless you take the 'est' of the word out. And lastly, how the heck are you supposed to hear me when you'll be here and I'll be over there and 'there' is like a a good 70 yards away?"