A/N: I hope everyone had a great Yule/Christmas/whatever! Tomorrow is New Year's Eve! Wow... another year gone already...

For some reason, this felt very forced. I honestly did not want to write this, so if it feels awkward to you, that's because it did to me. I figured that the New Directions would celebrate the best way they knew how - with a party.

Read on, my lovelies, and be honest if/when you review.

The New Directions won at Regional's the following weekend. Rachel's solo number was a hit with the crowd and both Lauren and Kassie had to admit that the shorter girl winning had been for the best. The girls joined in as back-up and thoroughly enjoyed themselves as they sang the song they had helped write, showing off well rehearsed dance moves. Their blue dresses were beautiful, and Lauren's idea of combat boots was awesome.

One the bus ride back to McKinley, everyone celebrated their victory singing and laughing as a family. Cheers rose when Rachel stood on one of the front seats and announced the party at her house later that night to celebrate. Kassie nearly laughed as the entire group cheered, distinctly remembering what had happened at Rachel's last party.

Lauren, Kassie, Puck and David, who had waited for the group to arrive back at the school, piled into Lauren's car and headed back to her house to get dressed for the party later than night. The four teens fell out of the car, still reeling from their post-win high. The girls went upstairs to change, leaving their boys downstairs as they went.

"That was…"

"So freaking AWESOME!"

Lauren pulled her best friend into a hug, lifting the other girl up off of the floor, causing Kassie the shriek in surprise. "Lauren! Put me down! Right this instant."

Her feet hit the floor and Kassie punched her friend's arm.

"What should we wear tonight?" Kassie unzipped her dress and stepped out of the uncomfortable thing- dresses just weren't her style; they made her thighs rub together uncomfortably.

Pulling her own off over her head, Lauren shrugged. "I'm keeping the boots on. You should throw on your ripped skinny jeans and one of your faded Hufflepuff shirts. No one really dresses all that nice to a Rachel Berry party after the first one."

Nodding, Kassie pulled out the items from her friends' closet. After nearly living at each others' houses for years, both girls had a decent amount of the others' clothing in their rooms. "You should go with your BIOTA jeans and my dark blue top." She grabbed the outfit as she spoke, tossing the clothing to her bespeckled friend.

"And nix the glasses tonight. Let everyone see your eyes tonight."

Lauren groaned- she hated going without her glasses. Sure she could see better with her contacts, but she kinda liked her pink frames. She pulled on her clothes for the night and swept her hair up off of her neck. Slipping back into her combat boots, Lauren once again had to admit that her friend had a flair for what looked good. She turned just in time to catch the shorter girl stepping into her jeans, and Lauren noted with pride at just how gorgeous her best friend was. If their experimenting hadn't ended like it had and if she wasn't dating Noah, Lauren would defiantly be all over her friend.

Kassie turned to catch her friend staring at her, a very familiar look in those brown eyes. Shaking her head, the brunette took a step toward her friend and shook her head with a small sigh. "L, come on. Stop drooling over my fine ass and let's get to that party." She took her friend by the hand and was about to head toward the door when she felt herself being pulled back and she was pulled into a pair of arms she knew better than her own.

She didn't know what she was thinking. Actually, that wasn't true; Lauren knew exactly what she was doing. Before she could stop herself, she pulled the shorter girl back and into her arms, lifting her best friends face to meet with her own before crashing their lips together.

God how I miss this.

The girls separated, their eyes locked on the other. Kassie broke the tension that hummed throughout the room, brushing a soft kiss on the other girls' cheek before turning back to the door and resting against it.

"'Ren, we can't do this. That… we agreed that after what happened… We have boyfriends. We're not Brittany and Santana…"

Lauren crossed the space between them in three strides and pressed Kassie against the door. "Say no. Say it and I'll back off." She took the other's lips with own, leading the kiss, making it slow, pressing deeper, probing for more.

"Ssss…stop." Kassie managed to get the word out, forcing herself not to react in the way her body and her heart and yes, even parts of her mind wanted her to. Slipping out from under her friend, the girl bit her lip, still able to feel Lauren's lips on her own.

"The boys are downstairs. Let's… let's just go to the party and we'll, we can talk about this later, okay?" She pulled the door open and left, leaving a speechless Lauren behind her.

The group of four entered Rachel's basement to find that everyone else had already arrived and from the look of it, most were already drinking. Kurt and Blaine had even showed up after getting an invite text from Kassie when the party had been announced. All four immediately went to the bar and fixed themselves something to drink; both Puck and David grabbed a beer and Kassie mixed up a whiskey and coke for her and Lauren. Drinks in hand, the four joined their friends in the center of the basement and began to dance.

Four more whiskey and cokes later, the entire Glee club with the additions of Kurt, Blaine and David sat in a circle, a bottle spinning free from Mercedes' fingers. It stopped at Artie and everyone shared a laugh as the two kissed awkwardly, Mercedes bending over to kiss the wheelchair-bound boy.

"My turn!" Brittany announced as she grabbed the bottle. It spun for what seemed like ages for the drunken teens before landing on, "Kurtie!"

Everyone laughed as the blonde leaned over the playing area, the look of shear embarrassment on the boys' features as the pair shared a quick kiss.

"I guess that means it's my turn," Kassie stated before she took a drink from her cup and spun the empty wine cooler. She got a bit dizzy watching the bottle spin, but she felt incredibly light headed when it stopped on the one person she had hoped it wouldn't.

Taking another drink from her cup, she didn't hear the hoots and screams of her fellow Glee clubbers as she leaned around her boyfriend and pulled her best friend in for a kiss. Maybe it was the alcohol, or maybe it was the memory of the kiss back in the bedroom earlier, but Kassie found herself not wanting the break contact.

All too soon, she pulled away, trying desperately to ignore the ache she felt all over.

"Truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"Fine. Puckerman, who was your first?"

"Easy one Mike, it was Santana."

"What! No way!"

The group sat around again who knew how much later, music still playing, everyone even more inebriated, and enjoying the childish game more than they ever would have sober.

"Blaine. Truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you… to give Kurt a hickey."

Everyone watched as Blaine attacked a squealing Kurt, attaching his lips to the taller boys' neck. The entire group watched as Kurt wiggled under his boyfriend, and no one could help but shudder at the low moans that escaped from both boys.

"Alright boys! That should have done it. Lauren, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"What's the furthest you've gone with someone?"

Lauren blanched at Kurt's question. She was sure he had meant how far had she gone with Puck, which was nowhere near as far as she had really gone. "I changed my mind. I'll take a dare." She took a long drink from her cup, this whiskey no longer burning as it had earlier in the night.

"You know the penalty for changing your mind, right? Would you rather do two dares or answer the question?"

Looking over at her friend across the circle, Lauren saw her friend just shrug. What the hell. "Fine. I'll just answer the fucking question. With a guy, I've gotten no further than above the waist."

"With a guy? What the hell, Zizes? You been with a chick before?"

Staring at her boyfriend, Lauren just took a drink and nodded. "Yeah. With a girl, I've done it all. At least I think so."

Catcalls all around and the game continued.

"Karofsky, truth or dare?"

"Dare, Hudson."

"I dare you to… fuck man. You should have picked truth. I had one of those!"

"Fine. Truth. Happy?"

"Yeah. So tell us, why Kurt? Why did you have to give him so much shit?"

David blanched. He looked over at Kurt who just stared at him, leaving it to him to tell or not. He then looked over at his girlfriend, noting that while drunk, she was still the most beautiful woman he had laid eyes on. It was then, in his own drunken state, that he knew he may as well tell the truth.

"I gave him hell because he was everything I wished I could be. At the time, I was struggling with my own sexuality. I was attracted to him and didn't know how to handle it. I didn't mean to run him off, I really didn't. After he left, I saw the most beautiful girl I had ever laid eyes on, and that's when I figured everything out. As far as I know, Kurt and I are good now, and I've got the hottest girl ever."

"Dude, you were gay for Kurt?"

"That… makes sense."

"You really think I'm beautiful?"

David kissed his girlfriend and nodded. "Even more so than Kurt, Kassie-wassie."

Everyone laughed at the pet name as the game ended.

Everyone returned to school on Monday worse for the wear. The party at Rachel's had lasted well in to the early morning hours and no one had made their way back home until the middle of the next afternoon. The group met in the choir room Monday morning and compared horror stories of confrontations with their parents. Everyone agreed that while they had fun, it was not something they planned to do again. Most admitted that they couldn't remember much from the night, and everyone shared laughs over pictures that were taken that no one could remember.

The group disbursed at the bell for first period, leaving Kassie and Lauren in the choir room to themselves. "Think they really forgot everything? What if they figured it out and didn't say anything?" Kassie collapsed into a chair, burying her hands in her face.

"Hey. No one knows a thing. And if they did, I doubt anyone would care. Everyone knows Santana and Brittany are together. I doubt even Puck or Dave would care that we have a history. Don't worry about it so much." Lauren knelt down in front of her friend, taking the other girls' hands in her own.

"What you need to work on now is getting David to join Glee, and we need to get Kurt back. If we want to win Nationals, we need both of them." Pulling her friend to her feet, Lauren poked Kassie on the chest. "Let's do what we do best. Scheme."

A/N: See? Just a bit awkward. I hope you enjoyed the scenes with the girls though. I did like that first one in particular.

-ktattoo