"Hey, Phil, is Tommy coming tonight?" Lil Deville asked her twin brother as they were setting up the popcorn and movie for the night.

Phil gave her a skeptical look. "Yeah, why wouldn't he?" Phil looked down, shaking his head.

Lil found her brother especially annoying just then. It wasn't any big deal, her asking for Tommy. It was perfectly okay, seeing as they had been friends just as long as Phil had been friends with him. Sometimes it was really horrible having Phil as your brother. He just butted into everything.

So when Tommy, Chuckie, and Kimi got there a little bit later, Phil just had to say something.

"So, Tommy, Lil was asking about you," he mentioned casually, throwing a piece of popcorn into his mouth. He chewed with a big grin, turning to look at Lil. "Isn't that right, Lillian?"

Lil shook her head tiredly. "I just wanted to know if everyone was coming."

Tommy, whose eyes were on the movie as usual, just shrugged, pulling the popcorn away from Phil and taking a handful. "Leave her alone, Phil," he mumbled, not quite knowing why Phil needed to leave her alone.

Lil sighed heavily. The truth was, she had been madly in love with Tommy since a dance that they had when they were eleven. Tommy had gone up to her, sweet as usual, and asked her to dance politely. Lil had danced with her head on his shoulder all night, and Tommy never tried to pull away. Back then, she had thought there was a chance he liked her. Now, when they were sixteen, she knew better.

The movie ended (though Lil couldn't honestly recall any of it) a little bit early, so they decided to hang out for awhile. Chuckie went upstairs with Kimi to get more snacks, and Phil was off digging around in his closet to find something that he was supposed to give Tommy.

That left Tommy and Lil alone in the basement, sitting next to each other on the couch.

"Let's play truth or dare!" Tommy beamed, swiveling in his spot to face her. Lil felt something in her stomach swoop (he was sitting awfully close) and could only nod.

"Okay, you go first," he declared, running a hand swiftly through his short, purple hair.

"All right, truth or dare?"

Tommy smiled a cute little half smile. "Dare."

Oh great, Lil thought, I'm terrible at picking dares. "Okay…um…." She tried to think of something that would make her seem cute but also cool at the same time. "I dare you to…kiss Kimi!"

Tommy winced, but tried to play it off by ducking his head and rubbing his eye. Did that mean he liked her better than Kimi!

"I…" Tommy hesitated, taking a deep breath. "I would much rather kiss you."

Lil's heart leapt into her throat, and her eyebrows must have been all the way to her hairline, her eyes were so wide.

"Oh." Was all she could manage. "Your turn."

Your turn, she silently reprimanded herself. He practically says he wants to kiss you and all you say is YOUR TURN???

Tommy full-on blushed a dark shade of pink. He cleared his throat and went on with the conversation. "Truth or dare?"

Lil blinked. If she chose truth, what was the worst it could be? He asked her who she liked and she lied, so what? But Tommy was known for some pretty bad dares.

"Okay, truth."

Tommy smiled, reaching up and tucking a piece of her hair that was falling in her face behind her ear. Lil's heart sped up so much she swore it was audible.

"All right, I want the truth. Did you really ask about me earlier? Or was Phil just trying to be irritating?"

Lil really wanted to tell him that it was just Phil, but, well, hadn't he told her that he would rather kiss her than Kimi? Didn't she have to offer something to him?

"A little of both. I wanted to make sure you were coming. Because, well, movie night is so boring without you. But it wasn't a big deal, and Phil didn't need to say anything about it."

Okay, so maybe the part about it NOT being a big deal was stretching it just a little teeny weeny bit, but everything else was the truth.

"Aw, you do care." He chuckled a little bit in his new deep voice and leaned forward. Lil thought that if he said one more cute or sweet thing her heart was going to beat out of her chest.

"Truth or dare?" she asked, just for something to do besides look into his deep brown eyes.

"Truth."

Lil sucked in a deep breath. You can do this, you can do this, she thought. "Remember at that dance in sixth grade?"

Lil waited until Tommy nodded firmly. "Do you…do you remember how we slow danced to…a few songs?" Tommy nodded again, a smiled quirking at his lips.

"Did that mean as much to you as it did to me?" There it was, she had said it. Her heart hammered away and she held her breath, waiting for the answer.

"Absolutely." Tommy inched closer to her, resting his hand on the side of her face. Lil's stomach was doing somersaults. "That brings me to my next question. Truth or dare?"

Lil couldn't contain her excitement. She leaned in towards him, twirling her hands in her lap. She watched as Tommy mouthed the word 'Dare' to her, making her choice clear.

"Dare, I guess."

With his free hand, Tommy reached down and grabbed one of Lil's spazy hands. He brought it to his own face, so that they looked identical, one hand placed palm down on each other's cheeks.

"I dare you to let me kiss you."

It took her breath away, the way he didn't even hesitate. The intense look in his eyes. The way he brought his free hand around the back of her neck and leaned in, stopping just before their lips touched.

"What?" Lil asked, impatient for her long awaited Tommy-kiss.

"I'm waiting for you to agree to the dare," he mumbled, caressing the side of her face.

Lil bit her lip happily, then released immediately, not wanting her lips to be deflated for their kiss. She nodded frantically, as though her life depended on it. And to make this more romantic, she shifted her weight, sitting on Tommy's lap straddle style. She placed her free hand on Tommy's heart, feeling it beat just as rapidly as her own.

And then he kissed her. He started slow, him automatically taking the dominant side, just like she always imagined. He released her mouth, giving her soft, rhythmic kisses around her mouth, on her eyelids, down her neck, on the tip of her nose, and then right back to her lips again, this time more urgent than before.

He prodded her mouth open with his tongue, giving her first ever French kiss. They sat like this for a long time, kissing away, until Tommy started to move his hand to the base of her shirt, slowly reaching up and stroking her back and stomach pulling her shirt up farther and farther, until a good part of her midsection was showing.

At that point, they heard three sharp, intentional coughs from behind the couch. Lil pulled away immediately, pulling down her shirt and letting her heart rate return to normal. Tommy was slower, keeping his eyes closed and smiling as though he no longer cared what anybody else thought. He kept his hands around Lil's waist, turning her around and settling her less naughtily in his lap, not wanting to ever, ever take his hands off her.

"So guys, whatcha doing?" Chuckie said, first to break the silence. Lil leaned her head back and settled it comfortably into the nook between Tommy's broad shoulder and neck, letting her wavy brown hair fan out behind her.

"Dude," Phil commented, striding around the couch to face them head on, "you know that's my sister."

"Yeah, I know. And you also know that I've liked her for a long time, so why didn't you see this coming?" Tommy waited for a response, but after a few seconds of silence he shrugged it off.

"You better treat her nice, Pickles," Phil huffed from his place on the love seat.

Kimi went and sat next to her boyfriend, taking his hand in hers. "Jeez, Phil, leave them alone. Chuckie didn't threaten you when you asked me out." She rolled her eyes.

Phil looked over at Chuckie who shrugged in his Chuckie way. "It wouldn't have helped much," he said simply, sitting on the floor and leaning against Tommy and Lil's couch.

Pretty soon, they were all talking again, laughing and having a good time as usual. A few times, when Phil wasn't looking, Tommy snuck Lil a few kisses, each of them better than the last.

And they were happy. Every single one of them. And that's the way it was from there on in. And Tommy and Lil couldn't be happier about it.