"Spin the bottle?" JJ asked with a laugh. "Really? What grade are we in?"

"It's a party staple Jayje and you have to play." Penelope replied dismissively.

"I don't get a choice in the matter do I?"

"Nope!"

JJ nudged Emily with her shoulder and rolled her eyes. "Are you playing?"

Emily opened her mouth to decline when Derek sidled up beside them, his arm around his best friend. "She wouldn't miss it."

"I guess I don't get a choice in the matter either." Emily grumbled as they made their way to a circle of people already sitting down. The brunette huffed as she sat down, not looking forward to this in the slightest.

"Relax, Princess." Derek whispered in her ear as he sat down next to her. "Maybe you'll get to kiss your crush?" He laughed when Emily pushed him away from her and crossed her arms.

The first couple of turns consisted of Emily crossing her fingers and toes that the bottle wouldn't land on her but then it was JJ's turn and Emily promptly uncrossed her appendages. Her mouth went dry when JJ glanced over at her with an indecipherable look and Emily hoped that the crush she'd been harbouring for the other girl for the last eight months couldn't be read on her face. JJ gave the bottle a little push and everyone watched it spin around in a wobbly orbit before slowing down to a crawl, seeming like it was going to stop on Derek.

Beside JJ, Penelope rolled her eyes and nudged the bottle gently with her foot without being caught so that it landed on Emily instead of Derek. The circle erupted into ooo's and whistles but Emily honestly couldn't hear any of them, she was too fixated in watching JJ crawl over to her, rising to her knees once she was in front of her.

For JJ's part, she had been hoping it would land on Emily. She'd had a crush on the other girl ever since she watched her doodle Arabic all over her biology notebook in the first class they shared together. It was hard to get a read on the other girl though and JJ was too hesitant to just ask her out outright. Her full intention was to give Emily a quick peck on the lips. Certainly more than a friendly kiss, but nothing that would give her away. All that went out the window the second her lips touched Emily's and she felt more than heard the brunette sigh sweetly like she'd been waiting for that moment for a long time. When JJ felt Emily's tongue run along her bottom lip, everything in the blonde's brain short circuited and when she regained her senses, she was kissing Emily like she needed to breathe the air in her lungs; Emily's hand tangled in her hair.

JJ didn't hear the wolf whistles or register that Penelope and Derek gave each other a high five, but she did distinctly hear the 'oh my god that's so hot' coming from the boy on Emily's other side which put a damper on the fire that had ignited within her. She slowed their kissing down until she was giving Emily several short pecks and pulled away, grinning proudly at the dazed look on Emily's face and her kiss swollen lips still parted slightly.

"Okay," Penelope declared with a clap of her hands. "You don't have to play anymore now, I got what I wanted."

JJ laughed and stood up, holding her hand out to Emily who took it and the two made their way over to the mostly empty living room couch.

"That was…wow." Emily mumbled, still half stupefied.

JJ laughed and flopped down next to Emily, still holding her hand. "Was that, I mean was that okay?"

"More than okay."

"And if I wanted to do it again?"

"Far be it from me to stop you."