Kimi found Tommy out on the soccer field and motioned for him to come over, he did so obediently.
"What's up?" Tommy asked, pretending that he didn't see Kimi's red eyes, and mascara smudging on her face. He didn't and wouldn't believe that she had been crying over him.
"To your question, I have an answer…" Kimi took a deep breath and Lil put her hand on Kimi's shoulder for support "…yes."
"Yes? Yes!!" Tommy yelped as he hugged Kimi tightly.
Unfortunately for Kimi…Phil had looked over at the exact moment when Tommy hugged Kimi, and when Kimi pretended to be happy.
"I've got to get back to the game, but I'll call you later" Tommy said with a smile on his face.
"Okay, sounds great!" Kimi said, forcing a smile.
Kimi waved to Tommy as he ran back onto the soccer field.
"Hey Kimi, one of the hardest parts is over now" Lil said, trying to sound reassuring "only hell is left now."
Kimi laughed slightly, but she didn't know if she laughed because of Lil's funny remark or the fact that she knew it was true.
Lil's house had became like a second house to Kimi in recent months. Lil needed all the support she could get. Angelica was always #1 and Phil was the only guy (other than, now, Drew) which made Phil #2, and obviously Lil was #3.
"So, what do you want to do?" Lil asked as her and Kimi headed upstairs to her room.
"I don't know," Kimi said as she glanced into Phil's room as they walked by "but the first day of school was a total bust!"
"Yeah! I know it!" Lil said, shutting her bedroom door.
"I could really use a pick-me-up" Kimi said, flopping down on Lil's bed.
Lil smiled slightly and went into the bathroom and grabbed two Miller Light's from the cupboard and tossed one to Kimi.
They had all started drinking last summer, and had taken a liking to it.
"Thanks, Lil" Kimi said, sitting up and opening the can up.
"No problem, Angelica won't notice. She's to busy worrying about birth control!" Lil joked and then realized that she had fucked up. She fucked up bad. She shouldn't have said that.
"What?" Kimi said, wide eyed and shocked.
"Kimi, you have to double pinkie swear that you won't tell anyone, especially not your parents…" Lil said, holding out her pinkie to Kimi.
Kimi nodded and locked pinkies with Lil "I promise, I won't."
"Okay…" Lil took a deep breath "Angelica is with Chuckie."
Kimi spit out the beer "Holy fuck!!"
"I know…" Lil said.
"Well…I guess it's not that bad…" Kimi said, looking away and taking a sip.
"What do you mean? That doesn't sound like Kimi Finster to me…" Lil sat on her bed beside Kimi.
"Really? Weird…" Kimi said, avoiding any eye contact.
Lil knew immediately that Kimi was hiding something "Weird…yeah…"
Lil gave Kimi was weird look and despite Kimi's efforts to look away, Lil persisted to keep the look and aggravate Kimi.
"What?" Kimi snapped.
"What did you mean when you said 'I guess it's not that bad', it sounds like you were implying that you've done worse…" Lil questioned.
"No! I was most certainly NOT implying that!" Kimi shot back defensively and then she looked away again.
"We should all play truth or dare later!" Lil suggested, knowing there was more to the story and she wanted to know what it was.
"That's a great idea! Just like old times, you, me, Chuckie, Angelica, Tommy, Phil, Dil, and Susie!" Kimi squealed, not even considering what could happen, she was just glad to change to subject.
"I'll text Susie, Angelica and Phil! You text Chuckie, Tommy and Dil!" Lil said as she grabbed her cell phone, she was glad to be playing truth or dare with her closest friends, she hadn't played in a long time.
Kimi grabbed her cell phone and texted them and as soon as she was done, she asked Lil "Can we play here?"
"Yeah, of course! It's a Friday and my mom and Drew are gone for the weekend" Lil said with a smile.
"I hate how our first day was on a Friday" Kimi complained as the two went down to the kitchen.
"Yeah, it sucks!" Lil said as she got some snacks from the cupboard "We'd better start setting up, truth or dare takes forever to set up."
"Yeah, we have to get the beer, the snacks, the other…'items'…" Kimi and Lil giggled.
Lil looked at the clock "Only 7 hours until truth or dare, this is gonna rock!"
"You told them 9:00pm? Right?" Kimi asked.
"Yep!" Lil replied as she grabbed 2 six-packs from the fridge "get the Lucas wine from the wine rack…"
Kimi obediently got the wine "Anything else?"
"Are we playing on teams?" Lil asked, hoping they were.
"Yeah, classic way. Boys vs. Girls" Kimi replied.
"Yay!" Lil yelped "I am so excited! This is going to be SO much fun!"
Around 8:45pm Chuckie, Angelica, and Phil showed up. Nobody (other than Lil and Kimi of course) had seen the way Lil and Kimi decorated/prepared for the event, truth or dare was a big thing for them and everyone else. They figured they would be playing until around 4:00am.
"Sweet! Is this really our living room?" Angelica squealed as she hung up her coat.
Lil was going to say 'No, it's really mine and Phil's!' but she didn't.
There was another knock on the door, and in came Susie, Dil, and Tommy.
"Wow! Sweet stuff for truth or dare!" Tommy said, smiling and looking around.
Kimi swallowed as she watched him, she didn't want to get dared to kiss him or anything, although, she wouldn't mind getting dared to kiss Phil.
"So are we going to play, or what?" Dil asked impatiently.
"Okay," Kimi said as she led everyone over to the 2 couches "Dil, do you know the rules?"
"No…truth or dare has rules?" Dil said, confused.
"Yeah, here are the rules," Kimi began "There are two teams, boys vs. girls in our case. Each team takes turns asking one member from each team: truth or dare? And if the person picks truth, which you can only choose 2 times, then the team thinks of a question, asks the person and they move on. But if the person picks dare, then they dare the person to do whatever, and if they do it, they get 5 points. But, the team asking can say 'team dare' and the entire team has to do a dare, weather they want to or not. Although, the team being forced to do the dare, can say 'boys vs. girls dare' in which case both teams must do the dare against each other. Now, Lil, would you like to explain the types of dares and the points?"
"Sure thing!" Lil said "Truth isn't worth anything, a basic dare is worth 5 points. A double dare is worth 10 points and you can be double dared 10 times, you have to drink a shot, immediately following the dare and it's harder to weasel your way out of a double dare. A triple dog dare is worth 15 points, you can be triple dog dared 5 times, and you have to do this dare, as long as it's not to risky or revealing such as stripping. But if you're black hole dared, you HAVE to do it NO MATTER WHAT! It's worth 30 points. It doesn't matter what the dare is, you HAVE to do it."
"Wow!" Dil said as he sat down on the couch.
"Shall we get started?" Kimi asked.
Everyone cheered and yelled out 'YES!!'
Kimi sat down on the floor in front of the coffee table, Phil sat across from her and Chuckie sat beside Phil and Lil sat down beside Kimi. Angelica and Susie sat on the couch and Dil and Tommy sat on the other couch.
"Let's get started!" Chuckie said "Boys start!"
"Fine!" Kimi said and added in semi-competitive voice "But the girls are going to win!"
"Don't be so sure!" Phil shot back at Kimi in a joking manner.
Kimi turned towards Susie, trying to hide that she was blushing.
"Okay," Chuckie said "Angelica, truth or dare?"
Author's Note: I love writing about truth or dare!! The next chapter is going to rock!