A Girl Like Gracie by Scarlett Haven

Elliot says.
    “ Falls out of love just as quickly,”
Lola, the blonde girl from earlier, says.
    “ Yeah, yeah. Let’s not talk about my
love life,” Noah says. “Never have I ever been trapped in an
elevator.”
    I take a drink and am the only one.
    “ Seriously? You were trapped in an
elevator?” Alfie asked. “When?”
    “ In Tokyo. I went there a few times.
But this time I went with my school,” I say. “The teacher sent me
and this boy, Kim Jun Yeong, to get some supplies. And there was an
earthquake. It knocked out power and we were stuck in that elevator
for, like, twelve hours. Since it wasn’t life threatening, they
weren’t as worried about getting us out. It was actually my teacher
and some of the other students that rescued us.”
    “ I’m jealous of that Kim-something
kid,” Noah says.
    “ Why?” I ask.
    “ He was stuck on an elevator for
twelve hours with a hot girl,” he says.
    I roll my eyes. “Kim Jun Yeong and I didn’t
get along. We were the top two students and we constantly fought.
After that we stopped fighting. We talked on the elevator and found
out that we had a lot in common. He was cool. We still didn’t talk
at school, but we also didn’t try to bully each other anymore.”
    “ Huh,” Noah says. “Well, he’s an
idiot.”
    The girl next to Noah, Lola, goes next.
“Never have I ever sung karaoke in front of a crowd.”
    I take a drink, along with a few other
people.
    “ You sing karaoke?” Noah asks
me.
    I nod. “Not American songs. But Korean ones.
Me and my friends did it all the time when we lived in Seoul. When
we didn’t have school on Saturday, that is what we would do. It was
so fun.”
    “ You have school on Saturday?” Lola
asks, looking horrified.
    “ Just every other Saturday,” I
answer.
    “ That’s awful,” another girl says.
“When did you have time to go out on dates?”
    “ We didn’t. I mean, when you’re in
high school, you don’t exactly date,” I say. “I suppose some kids
too, but we’re all worried about college. It’s hard to get good
grades if you’re dating while everybody else is
studying.”
    “ Are you saying you’ve never been on a
date?” Elliot asks.
    “ Never,” I answer.
    “ Does that mean you’ve never been
kissed?” Noah asks, now looking happy.
    “ Once. On a dare. Actually, it was the
elevator boy. This was before the incident happened. We hated each
other, but we had to follow through,” I say. “At the time I hated
it, but I guess a first kiss could’ve been a lot worse.”
    The girl beside Lola goes next. “Never have
I ever had a crush on my girlfriend’s parent.”
    Alfie takes a drink.
    I turn to him and gasp. “Seriously?”
    “ I was fourteen. And her mom is
seriously good looking,” Alfie says. “Give me a break.”
    I turn to the girl. “So you dated my
brother?”
    “ For, like, three weeks when we were
fourteen. He broke up with me so he could date this other girl,”
she says, in a teasing tone.
    “ That was a long time ago. I’ve
matured a lot since then,” Alfie says.
    My heart sinks as I realize I have missed
out on so much of my brother’s life. Why did we both have to chose
to live with different parents? We should have stuck together no
matter what.
    “ Never have I ever thrown up on a
roller coaster,” the guy next to her, Hunter West, says
next.
    Elliot takes a drink, and everybody starts
laughing.
    “ Why do I feel like there is a story
behind this?” I ask.
    “ All of us guys were there. West,
Jace, Alfie, Noah and me,” Elliot says. “Jace and Alfie dared me to
eat fifty chicken nuggets. Me, being the rebellious fifteen year
old I was, didn’t turn down the challenge. I somehow managed to eat
all the nuggets. I was stuffed, but I felt fine. We went on this
crazy fast coaster afterwards, and I ended up puking about half way
through one of the loops. The puke landed on the guy behind me who
was infuriated. We had to run from the guy and hide. It