Dare to Be Different by Nicole O'Dell Read Free Book Online

you ever ask Tyler’s cousin to ask Kenny if he liked me?”
    “Oh! I totally forgot to tell you this,” Sam leaned forward on her elbows. “I did ask her. She talked to Kenny, and Kenny didn’t even have to ask Tyler about you. Kenny told Stephanie that Tyler talks about you all the time and that he has for what seems like years. Kenny also saidthat he’s been trying to get Tyler to make a move forever but that Tyler’s just been too shy. What do you think about that?”
    Macy tried not to make a big deal out of it, but she couldn’t help the grin that quickly spread across her face. “I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens, then.”
    “Just see what happens? Are you kidding me?” Kelly was so excited. “You might be the first one of us ever to have a boyfriend. We have to figure out a way to push that boy along a little.”
    “No, no. I don’t want to push him along, because I don’t really know what I’m ready for. I mean, what am I going to do? Push him to ask me out only to have to tell him that I can’t date? I would be so embarrassed,” Macy explained. “I’m just happy to know that he is as interested in me as I am in him. If it took another year to act on it, that would be fine with me.”
    “I think that’s the right way to look at it, Mace,” Lindsay said.
    “I guess I agree, even though I don’t really like it.” Sam pouted.
    “I totally disagree,” Kelly emphatically said. “I think that where there’s a will, there’s a way. Andyou’ll regret it if you don’t pursue this, Macy.”
    “Well, like I said, it really doesn’t matter because he hasn’t asked me out, and even if he did, I couldn’t go.” Macy sighed. “Let’s just give it some time and see what happens.”

    The girls gathered in a circle on the floor for another game of Truth or Dare. This time Lindsay was first. She picked Truth again, and the other three girls groaned.
    “Come on, Linds, you have to take a chance in life. What fun is it to do the samething over and over?” Kelly prodded her.
    “Yeah,” Macy agreed. “You need to walk on the wild side now and then.”
    “Well, I’ll pick Truth this time, but if we play again, I promise I’ll pick Dare,” Lindsay said, taking the chance and hoping that there might not be a next time.
    “Okay.” Sam gave in. “As long as you promise. It’s no fun for us if you’re going to play it safe every time.”
    “I promise.”
    “Well then, girls, let’s go come up with a good Truth for Lindsay.”
    The three girls left Lindsay to sit in the circle while they discussed what to ask her for her Truth. While she waited, Lindsay wondered if she was getting herself into a mess. Maybe by giving them a whole week to come up with a good dare, she’d find herself in even more of a predicament than she would have if she had just done it right then.
Oh well
, she decided,
it’s too late to worry about that now. It’ll be okay
.… She hoped.
    The girls ran back to the floor and dove into their spots. Since Sam was next in the circle, she got to ask Lindsay her Truth question. “Lindsay, which of the three of us do you like the best?”
    “Oh, come on!” Lindsay wailed. “You can’t seriously expect me to answer that.”
    “Oh yes, you have to answer,” Kelly replied. “You didn’t think we’d make it easy for you, did you?”
    Macy just looked on with a nervous expression on her face. “No one will be upset by your answer, Lindsay. But you do need to answer. It’s part of the game.”
    “Fine. You guys asked for it.” Lindsay was a little frustrated and figured that they deserved it
    if they didn’t like her answer. “I’ll have to say that my answer is Macy. She is the one I’ve known the longest, and her parents and my parents have been friends for decades. She understands and supports my religion and church commitments, and she deals with the same kind of rules from her parents as I do,” Lindsay answered but cut Kelly off