"And here we are again," Honey said, looking at her friends from her seat against the couch beside Trixie. It wasn't the Belden household, but they were seated by the same people that it seemed as it had when they played truth or dare the other night.
"We are not playing truth or dare again," Jim said adamantly. Trixie nodded vigorously in agreement.
"Please," Dan scoffed. "You guys love that game."
"In your dreams," Jim shot back.
"We could just go to sleep," Brian said with a yawn. "It has been a long day."
"Boring," Dan said. He looked conspiratorially at the girls. "Do you guys wanna tell secrets?" he asked, his voice with a slightly feminine touch to it.
Honey and Di sat forward enthusiastically, playing along with the ruse. "You first!" Di said, looking expectantly at Dan.
He shook his head, his voice still conspiratorial. "No, you go first."
"Okay, I'll go first," Di agreed, looking excitedly from Dan to Honey. "I think that Jim and Tri—"
She was interrupted by a pillow thrown and her by Jim. At the same time, Trixie's eyes widened.
"Oh my god!" she started. "That's what your secret was!" Everyone could see the gears turning in her head. "At dinner when you guys were all suspicious when you went to go and call Dan, that's what you guys were making a big deal about. I even remember you guys talking about us when we were horse riding this morning. You guys were worried about me and you wanted to find out what was going on between me and Jim. I told you it was nothing." Trixie blushed at the memory. "And it is nothing," she insisted.
"Okay, fine, Trix," Honey said, smiling ruefully at her best friend. "You got us."
"Yeah," Di said indignantly. "We might as well not even try to keep secrets from you, because you'll just figure them out anyway."
"Wow," Brian said. "And I thought it was something big like the world ending."
"It is big," Di said matter-of-factly. "Trixie and Jim's love life is something that we should all be very worried about."
Trixie's face turned redder than Jim' hair.
"I don't have a love life," Trixie insisted. "But of course, I can't say the same for Mr. Frayne."
"Oh, please," Dan said, his eye glinting mischievously. "If you don't have a love life, then Jim doesn't have a love life."
Jim rolled his eyes, trying to calm down his red face. "First of all, my 'love life' is something that you guys shouldn't really care about."
"Trixie does," Honey said.
"I do not!" Trixie insisted. "If Jim wanted to date someone, I wouldn't care." She sniffed.
Jim smiled a little. "You sure about that?"
Trixie frowned at him. "Positive. And anyway, you've already been to collage for a year, so who knows. You might have a few girlfriends that we don't know about."
Dan grinned at Trixie. "You seem positive that he's able to get a girlfriend."
Trixie buried her head in her hands.
Brian looked like he was going to come to the rescue, but once he spoke Trixie realized he was in on it with everyone else. "Don't worry, Trix. I'm his roomie, remember? And I can assure you that he isn't dating anyone."
Trixie found the ideal opportunity to turn the tables onto her best friend for all of the teasing. "How about you, Brian? I'm sure Honey would really like to know."
Brian flashed Honey a smile. "Don't worry, Honey. I'm still single."
Dan whistled as Honey buried her head in her hands. "I don't like you, Brian, okay?" she told him, and just received a smile and an "I know," from the eldest Bob-White.
"I'm going to sleep," Trixie said, yawning and walking to the stairs. "It's been a long day."
"Jim'll miss you!" Dan called as the curly blonde walked up the stairs, and she was out of view just as the pillow reached Dan's face.