The Dare by Gabriela Farmer (the speed reading book txt) 📖

I wake up to the sound of the door opening. I realize I had fell asleep with Calla.  I look down to see her curled up against my stomach. “Hey, sweetie” my mom says softly trying not to wake up Calla. “Good morning”

“Hey momma” I whisper “Is it really morning already?”  

“Yep, and someone is here to see you!”

“Is it Brandon??”

“Come find out” my moms says smiling as she walks away

I quickly jump up, scaring Calla awake and run into my bedroom and quickly change my clothes. I dart into the bathroom, hurry and do my makeup, brush my teeth. I sprint out of my room, hurtle myself down the stairs. I hear a voice coming from the living room, it is him! I try to calm my heartbeat as I walk into the living room.

“Hey” I hear that mesmerizing voice say to me

“Hey” I say. A grin spreading across my face. “How are you?” I ask sitting down

“Good now that you're even closer to me than before.” He answers.

“Come on!” I demand pulling him after me.

“Where are we going?” he asks laughing

“I want to show you something!!” I explain. I realize he is slowing down, I turn around slowing down to a stop but not letting go of his hand. He is staring at the staircase. Slowly he turns his head and looks at me .

“What the hell?”  he exclaims

“What?” I look at him questionably     

“Your house is freaking huge!”

“Oh” I say laughing “I know, thanks”

“Damn” he says as we start walking again “So where we going?”

“Ummm, I thought I’d show you around.”

“Oh. Cool! So this will probably take two days for you to show me around so I should probably text my mom and let her know.”  Brandon says smirking

“Yeah, ok” I say not realizing what he said “Wait a minute! It will not take that long!” I shrieked Punching him lightly on the shoulder. I turn around and, start walking I show him my parents room. The guest bedrooms, the guest bathrooms. Then we get to Callas training room. I walk up to the room. Open the door, and go inside. “Brandon, This is Calla. My puppy.” Calla slowly lifts her head up from her nap. “ Hey pup!” I say sitting down beside her. Petting her as she crawls into my lap and goes back to sleep.  I look up at Brandon. “Are you ok?”

“Ummmmm….. You do realize you have a wolf pup in your lap, right?”

“Yeah” I say chuckling “I know, my parents got her for me.”

“Does she bite?” he asks walking towards me cautiously

“No, not that I know of. Other than puppy bites. Though I am going to train her so that she only bites when I want her to bite.” Slowly he sits down next to me. I take ahold of his hand moving it towards Calla, lightly laying his hand on her.

“Its ok baby girl, he won't hurt u.” I tell Calla. She lifts her head sleepily looking up at me then at Brandon. She rolls over and playfully attacks his hand. Quickly he jerks his hand back.

“It ok brandon, she won't hurt you, shes a puppy for gosh sake.” I put my hand out to play with her. I grab one of the little balls my parents bought for her and throw it. She runs across the room to get the ball. “Does she go to the bathroom outside?” Brandon asks

“I don't know, I haven't taken her out yet. Though I think that might be a good idea to do.” I say walking over and scooping Calla up in my arms. Walking over to the door, down the stairs and out the front door, I can hear Brandon scrambling to catch up me. My mom's outside getting the mail.

“Take her out back to go potty please.”

“Ok” I walk around the house to the side gate, open and walk inside. I wait for him to shut the door and finally set her down. She smells around for a little bit then finally squats and goes to the bathroom. “Good girl” I praise her as she prances back to me. I scoop her back up again and pet her as we walk to the back door. I set her down to let her explore.

“You still haven't shown me your bedroom” Brandon says, my mind flashes to the girl on his snapchat.

“Come on” I say walking away from him towards my bedroom. We walk over to my bedroom, I open the door and walk in.

“Damn.You are one lucky son of a bitch.”

“Daughter! Daughter of a bitch!” I say smiling at him. He smiles back at me. And again my thoughts flash to that girl. And I stop smiling and turn away from him.

“Ok, What's wrong?”

“Nothing”

“No, I know you better than that, you can do that with anyone else but I know you better than that. So what is wrong?”

“Whos the girl on your snapchat thats kissing you on your cheek?”

“Alison?”

“I guess”

“She’s why your upset?” He whispers walking over to me.

“ Maybe…” I say blushing both from how close he is and his sentence.

“Crys, She's my cousin.” I don't know why but I feel like laughing “But it’s good to know you get jealous over the girls I hang out with.” He says, resting his forehead on mine. I feel the blush spreading from my cheeks to the rest of my face.

I back up slowly not wanting to move but knowing that we are going to have to check on Calla soon and I want to show him my room.

“Okay” I walk over to the right. “This my my mini kitchen. The pantry is fully stocked with food and the fridge with drinks.There is a small microwave as well.” I keep walking “Here is the Tv, movie cabinet, and couch. Over there is my desk.” I say pointing to the corner. I walk over to the wall by my desk. “ Bookshelf and..” I pull that book and the door opens to my closet. “This is my closet”

“This is the size of my room!” Brandon says. I giggle. We leave shutting the door behind us and I take him under the stairs

“Here is my bathroom.” Then its up the stairs, “Here is my bed and all that good stuff”

“You have a really nice house”

“Thank you. I’ll be back, i'm gonna go get Calla.”

“Ok.” I walk out and run to the kitchen, grab Calla and go back to my room. He's still up on my bed.

I walk up the stairs and go sit down next to him. “So I don't want to assume anything but i'm guessing that you like me.” I look up at him, contemplating weather to lie or not. I look back down at Calla lieing down in my lap.

“How’d you know?”

“The way you acted about Alison.” I blush, shit i knew i shouldn't have said anything to him. He grabs my chin in his finger and thumb. Pulling my head so that I'm now facing him. He's pulls me slightly forward. I am now inches away from his face. He closes the distance. His lips meet mine. I slightly part my lips giving him permission, he takes it. I feel his tongue slip into my mouth wrapping around mine. We break apart both of us out of breath. 

 This book is not done!!

Publication Date: 09-07-2018

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Dedication:
This book is inspired by a dream I had about my friends, but Ryley is the main character.