Okay, for the entirety of this chapter and the last one, I keep spelling "backpack" as "backback," and it's starting to drive me insane. In other words, school is officially out, thank all things sparkly. Exams were a fudging nightmare. (But sorry, I'm still doing the every two weeks sched). Anywho, enjoy Part 2 of The Sleepover. In the next chapter, we're finally going to get to that big council announcement I said was going to happen forever ago. But I'm definitely not stopping any time soon after that. Having an actual plot is so much better than when I winged it with my Tophie story. XD

MORE KOTLC NEWS! If you haven't heard already, there is another Barnes and Noble pre-order edition going on again, this time with a bonus Fitz POV. In the description, it says we'll finally know a secret we've been asking for years. Ughh, I don't know about you, but I'm sooo curious. Hopefully I can get my hands on it, but I'm not sure yet. *cries*

-The Sleepover: Part 2

Sophie rolled her eyes. "Seriously, Evan? We are not playing spin-the-bottle. I don't even think elves have bottles."

Evan grinned and pulled out an empty Coke bottle from his backpack.

Sophie eye-rolled and groaned. "Of course you have a random plastic bottle in your bag. I mean, why wouldn't you?"

"To be absolutely fair," he countered, "I brought it along with the candy, drank it, then left it in my backpack. I didn't just stuff my bag full of plastic bottles. Besides, even if I didn't have the bottle, I'm sure we would have found something that would suffice."

Sophie yanked the plastic bottle from Evan. "We are not playing spin-the-bottle."

Evan grabbed it back. "We totally are."

Keefe took the bottle from both of them and held it away. "Why don't you just tell us what spin-the-bottle is first, hm? Foster?"

Sophie squirmed and glared at Evan. "You tell them."

"Nope, he asked you."

Sophie sighed. "Fine. It's a game humans play at parties. You sit in a circle, and place the bottle in the middle. Someone spins it, and the spinner has to kiss whoever it lands on."

Everyone looked extremely skeptical. "See?" Sophie said, turning on Evan. "No one wants to play it."

Evan groaned. "Fine you big babies. How about we make it on the cheek, instead of the lips? Especially since we've got a couple pairs of siblings anyway."

Everyone remained silent.

Evan crossed his arms together. "So, you're all telling me there's no one in this room you would possibly want to kiss? Or be kissed by?"

That got her friends' attention.

"It would just be on the cheek, right?" Linh asked.

Evan nodded.

Linh shrugged in response. "Fine, let's do it."

Tam stared at her. "Seriously?" Linh just shrugged again and looked away. Tam pursed his lips. "Alright, if Linh wants to do it, I guess I'm in." Sophie smothered a laugh when his eyes flitted to Biana for a second.

"If Bangs Boy is man enough to try it out," Keefe said, earning a glare from the gray-eyed elf, "then I'm definitely in."

"What's the harm?" Fitz said nonchalantly, and sat on the floor.

"Okay," Dex blurted, turning red.

Biana wrinkled her nose. "Fine, but if I have to kiss my brother, I'm going to kill you." She sat down next to Sophie, glaring at Fitz distastefully. He stuck his tongue out in return.

Sophie groaned. "I guess I don't really have a choice, huh?"

"No!" her friends chorused, and she rolled her eyes.

"Fine, then. Evan, get the bottle. Let's play. But don't say I didn't warn you."

Mystery POV (Yup. I'm interrupting the chapter for a POV, and nope, I'm not going to tell you who it is. I'm an evil little meanie face like that. I'm sure a lot of you will be able to guess. Though I'm not going to tell you if you're right or not.)

I hated this. I hated what he did to me. This shouldn't be happening, and yet, it is. Why did I have to feel this way? It didn't help that he would never notice me. And even though I knew that, even though I knew that it would never work, I still kept on hoping.

He laughed at something Sophie said and my stomach clenched. I never really pegged myself as the jealous type. I'm not saying I'd never felt it, or acted spitefully out of it, but normally didn't let it consume me.

This was different.

This feeling was something new, nothing like I'd ever experienced before. I felt anguished, yet protective over it. It hurt, I didn't want to have this crush on him, but I did, and some part of me (a large part of me) didn't want to lose that. It was, unfortunately, precious.

But it could never work, right? In this structured world that I lived in, it would never happen. He would never notice me. Nobody ever noticed me. All that anyone ever saw me for was my ability.

For now, I would sit here and play spin-the-bottle. I liked the company of my friends. It was nice to say that. We laughed, we talked, we went on adventures. I wouldn't change it for the world.

I would just have to stick to liking Fitz from a distance.

Sophie's POV

The moments that followed the start of the game were all embarrassingly hilarious. Biana and Keefe both ended up having to kiss Fitz. Neither looked happy about the prospect. A quick peck on the cheek was fairly easy for Biana, but Keefe had to be coaxed by the rest of them. "I'm not kissing his slimy semi-perfect face!"

Dex ended up having to kiss Tam. Nothing note-worthy happened, despite the hoots from the rest of the circle. It was over in less than a second.

On Fitz's turn, the bottle landed on Linh. Sophie's eyes widened to see a slight blush creep up the girl's cheeks as Fitz went over to kiss her. However, when the same blush danced on Biana as Evan kissed the brown-haired elf, Sophie couldn't stop the grin on her face.

The last turn before Sophie's was Tam's, and unfortunately for him, it landed on Keefe. This time, it was Keefe doing the coaxing.

"Come on, Bangs Boy. Just a little peck. You know you want to."

Tam looked like he was going to barf. "I most certainly do not want to, you blonde-brained idiot." But he, like Keefe had earlier, succumbed to the circle's urging.

And then, it was time for Sophie to spin the ominous bottle of embarrassment. She knew it was only going to be a tiny kiss on the cheek, but she couldn't stop her heart racing as she reached out toward the center.

Spin.

Stop.

Look up.

And she's hit with a pair of ice-blue eyes.
Keefe.

"Keefe again?" Fitz groaned, and the rest laughed.

Crap crap crap. Why Keefe? she panicked internally. It was better than Fitz, right? But then why did her heart feel like it was trying to beat right out of her throat?

"You going to kiss me or what, Foster?" Keefe said, grinning widely. "You know it's rude to keep a guy waiting."

Right. Keefe didn't really care that she was kissing him. It was all just a joke to him. A game. And that's all it was to her, too. She tried to sigh with relief, but it came out more strangled then she intended.

Slowly, she crawled across the circle to sit in front of him.

Biana whooped. "Come on, you two, give us a show!"

Sophie rolled her eyes. "Really, Biana?"

Ignoring everyone else, she turned back to Keefe and sucked in a breath at the intensity of his stare. Now what the heck was wrong with him? All trace of a smile was gone from his face as she leaned closer, the distance between her lips and his cheek closing with every second. He must not want her to kiss him. This must be really awkward for him. At least he was sparing her feelings by not protesting. Her eyes squeezed shut.

Her mouth connected with skin.

Hot, wet skin, that didn't feel like the soft cheek she was expecting.

Slowly, she peaked open one eye, then both shot open and she jumped back.

Because Keefe's face wasn't turned to the side; it was directed right at her.

She'd kissed Keefe on the lips.

"W-what, I didn't mean…" She was freaking out; her heart beat was out of control. Everyone else was silent, except for Tam, who let out a long whistle.

"Well, well, well. That was unexpected."

Suddenly Keefe broke into a wide smirk and laughed. "Sorry, sorry. I just turned my mouth to say something and I didn't realize she was right there, and then she came barreling down. There wasn't really any time…"

Sophie wanted to crawl into a hole and die. A deep, dark hole where no one would ever find her. Why was she such an idiot? Why did she close her eyes?

"I-I'm sorry. I'm just going to…go to the bathroom." She shot up from the ground, and raced upstairs to the bathroom. She slammed the door closed, then slumped against a wall.

This was so embarrassing. Keefe probably felt so awkward. God, she'd basically just attacked him. And that was Keefe's first kiss, taken by his stupid friend who he had no feelings for. She was so stupid!

Someone knocked on the door. Sophie ignored it. The person knocked again.

"Soybean, come on. Out of the bathroom."

Evan.

"I'm sure you're not that bad of a kisser."

All she gave in reply was a strangled sob.

The doorknob jiggled. "Wait, I don't want a repeat of that incident. You are decent, right?"

"If I said no, would you go away?"

"Probably…"

"Then no."

"You have to mean it, and you clearly don't mean it. I'm coming in."

The door opened slowly. Evan poked his head in, his dark hair falling around his face. He entered, closed the door behind him, and went to sit next to Sophie, who was staring at the ground.

"I'm not going to try and say it isn't a big deal, because it obviously was to you. I mean, you're first kiss…"

Sophie shook her head. "That wasn't my first kiss. But it was Keefe's! And I took that! And he probably feels so weirded out. I've probably ruined our entire friendship…"

Evan held up a hand. "Wait. Stop right there. That wasn't your first kiss?" Sophie just glared. "I mean, you didn't ruin your friendship with Keefe, I assure you. That guy's an idiot."

"But it was my fault!"

Evan stared at her a moment. "That's really what you think?"

"Yes!"

Evan rolled his eyes. "Then he's more of an ass than I thought."

"What?"

He shook his head. "Nothing, never mind. Now, back to that whole 'first kiss' thing…"

"Evan."

"What? You can't blame me for wanting to know who took my precious Soybean's first kiss."

She sighed. "Fine. It was Dex."

"Dex?" he cried incredulously. "Strawberry Shortcake down there?"

"Strawberry- you know what? Never mind. I don't want to know." He smiled. "It wasn't that long ago, actually. He used to have a crush on me, and I sort of…kissed him, to see if a 'spark' was really there. It wasn't, he got over his crush, and we could finally be good friends again."

Evan whistled lowly. "Wow, Sophie Foster, breaker of hearts."

She punched him in the shoulder. She seemed to do that a lot. "Shut up."

"And now you've kissed Keefe…"

"I guess."

"Though, I wouldn't really call that a kiss," he said thoughtfully.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you know spin-the-bottle is just a game. That kiss was just a game. You can just forget about it. And I honestly find it hard to believe that was his first kiss."

"Well, Biana did get him 'mostly on the cheek' once."

He snorted. "I kind of figured they have history."

"Sort of," Sophie said and shrugged. Was it wrong that her stomach still went into knots whenever she thought about it?

That was crazy...right?

"Anyway, what I'm trying to say, Soph, is that you shouldn't let it make your friendship awkward. You seem like you're really good friends, so this kiss shouldn't change anything. After all, you said it yourself; you're still friends with Technomania. What makes this any different?"

She chose to ignore his name-calling. "But that kiss really hurt our friendship for a time…"

"Even if that happens, it'll bounce back. You're overthinking this too much. Let's go back downstairs and stuff you full of Nutella, okay?"

He stood up and held out his hand to her. She hesitated a moment, and looked up into his electric blue eyes.

"You can trust me." His voice was filled with so much sincerity.

Sophie took his hand.

So...what POVs are you peeps thinking? The Sokeefe kiss in Fitz's POV, or Keefe's? Because I'm pretty torn. I might just do both...

WaterLilly: I'm sorry I didn't use your idea, but hopefully the pep talk Ev had with Sophie made up for it!

Keefoster0208: Hahahaha, what did you think? I decided to turn that whole "mostly on the cheek" thing back on Keefe.

sophiefoster: Thanks! I was originally going to have them do Truth or Dare, but I figured that was waaaay over done (I mean, the sleepover idea itself is already overdone). I know, I know, it's sort of a long wait. But if I wasn't determined to stick to a sched, it'd probably be months before I got around to doing more chaps. Thanks for reading!

Team keeper: I'm glad! Thanks a ton! I hope you keep reading. Still got a long way to go!

adalia: Oh, finally! A PJ fan! I feel like i might be overdoing the references though, especially when not many people get them. I'm glad you're enjoying!