Disclaimer: Don't own Newsies, it belongs to Disney. Don't own my friends, and I don't own camp, though I may as well run the place. J/k ^_^
A/N: Anything that is said or done in this sequence is complete fiction. It is based on how I think these people may react, but it is in no way, shape, or form true to any standards. Just thought you should know… I have lots of good ideas for this chapter, so it will be very long, but I'm sorry that it took so long to get out. There is some Slash in this… it appears that all of our lovely Newsies have a dark side. XD Once again, my muses are all on crack, and I don't know where any of this came from. Read, Review, and ENJOY!!
Chapter Nine: Truth or Dare?
Monday Night, Part Four
Gryffin won that game, but Spot won the next two. Blink was back to bouncing off walls again and this time Snitch had joined him, though Snitch hadn't had any caffeine. *insert any corny comment about being high on Arty's love here * At the moment, they were doing the Tango around the room with each other since everyone else had refused. It was nearly three in the morning.
"I think we've been in one place too long, guys. We should go." Hermione pulled herself up from the ground and dusted off her jeans. Many of the others stood up as well.
"I think I'm just going to go to bed. Its late, and I'm really tired." Christine stretched, yawning.
"I'm going to go with her," Brooke said. "I can't keep my eyes open."
"Good night guys."
"I guess I'll go ta bed too den," Mush added as he scratched the back of his head. "Ain't no point in stayin' up if nobody wants me."
"No way, Mushie! I waddn't gonna wake yous up," Blink said, spinning Snitch out to dance with Mush instead. "But now dat you're up, yous gotta stay up wid da rest of us!"
"Awe, Blink…" Mush started to protest. Kid Blink turned him into a quick dip. Snitch had started dancing with a very reluctant Willow in the background. Artemis stood by and laughed.
"Please Mush?"
"Okay," Mush consented as Blink pulled him up.
"Good. Now I need to find a better dance partner. Or at least one that looks better dan yous." Blink cackled as he scanned the room.
"Good luck wid dat! It ain't possible!" Mush muttered. Blink didn't hear him. Gryffin did, and put an arm around Mush's shoulders. That poor boy got hurt so easily…
"Come on fellas. Hermione's right, we have to go." She shut out the lights and they headed back across the creek, leaving Christine and Brooke at the bridge.
"Good night, Chris," he said gently, taking one of her hands in his. She was shivering, and if Mush had brought a coat, he would have given it to her.
"Night, Mush," she replied, kissing his cheek. He returned a peck on the lips and headed over the bridge with the others.
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They entered the kitchen through the Pack-Out room in the dark. They couldn't turn on the lights because, again, they would be noticeable from all over camp. Willow let out a shout.
"Willow, what did you do now?" Hermione asked her fallen sister.
"I hurt my knee again," Willow said through her muttered swear words.
"Would you quit hurting yourself, you masochist?" Gryffin added playfully.
"I'm not a masochist!" Willow insisted between her sobs of pain. "I'm just a klutz." Everyone laughed as she was pulled from the floor.
Eeyore pulled a tray of double-chocolate chip cookies from the desert racks and Kristan brought chocolate milk from the walk in fridge. (the good stuff was always hidden in there) Some of the Newsies gave them questioning looks.
"What?" Kristan asked. "There is a reason why we came to the kitchen you know. We didn't just come her because it was the most comfortable place in camp."
"Come on guys. Have a seat," Gryffin said, making herself comfortable on the kitchen floor. Artemis sat next to Snitch with her head on his shoulder. It was so friggin' cute!
"Sos what are we doin' in 'ere?" Race asked through a bite of his cookie.
"We usually play Truth or Dare," Gryffin told him.
"What's dat?" he asked.
"It's a game. You have the option of either answering any question posed to you truthfully or you can successfully complete a dare. You find some really interesting things out, playing this game. If you do play though, you have to either answer the question or do the dare, whichever you picked."
"Alright, I'm in fer dat."
"Yeah."
"Sure."
"Okay."
The other boys murmured their assent one by one. The girls nodded. This was another of their favorite things to do. It would be much more interesting with some boys though.
"Okay then," Kristan spoke up. "I'll go first. This is a group question, because everyone would eventually be asked anyhow. It is the obligatory question of the Game. How far have each of you gone? Skitts, you're first."
Skittery looked at the floor, avoiding the staring faces. Why did he have to be first? It had to be somebody…
"I… I guess… I've.. um… I's jus' made out wid a goirl. Nuttin' more. Snitch?"
"I ain't nevah been kissed," Snitch murmured in the general direction of his chest. "Arty?"
"Well, if I must tell… I've kissed one guy before, and he was a very good friend of mine. Hermione?"
"I'm in the same boat with Snitch. Never been kissed. Eeyore?"
"Heh," Eeyore put her finger to her mouth, biting on the tip of it as she talked. "Everyone knows that yoru little Eeyore-child is a slut. I've gone all the way… several times. Kristan?"
"Well, I've been kissed, but not kissed. I mean… yeah whatever. What I got from Spot was the same amount that I've ever gotten. Race?"
"I's beeen ta toird base den I was thrown outta da game." Race looked to Spot.
"Let's jus' say dat I've been tad a same place as Racetrack… a liddle mouth action if yas know what I means. Willow?" Willlow looked at her hands in her lap and sighed.
"If I must. I've done a little more than make out with a guy, but not much. And I don't wish to discuss it further. Mush?" Apparently Mush found Willow's hands very interesting too. It was almost cute how embarrassing this was for all of them.
"Yas… yous all knows… I mean… dat was da furtest I's evah gone wid a goirl." A sheepish grin passed along the circle. Gryffin kind of felt bad about making him re-live that again tonight. Blink clapped a hand on his shoulder.
"Good man, Mush. Me, I's been kissed, but jus' a liddle. Kinda skipped dat part one time dough… jus' got ta da touchy feely wid da clothes on… but dat was different…" his voice trailed away for a moment. "Yeah… Gryffin?"
Gryffin leaned back and considered her answer. She didn't want this to sound the wrong way…
"I guess I've been to second base, or almost. I've been kissed… a lot, but I haven't let a guy get very touchy with me. I like to keep my mouth entertained, and I like to kiss. Cowboy? Last one."
"I's been all da way too. Dere… yas all happy?" he asked the boys from New York. Obviously, they had been trying to get him to say this for a very long time.
"Alright then," Hermione picked up the dead silence. "Now that that was done in one big swipe, let's move on. I'll ask the first real question. Ummmm… Skittery. Truth or Dare?"
"I dunno. Dare I guess."
"Your funeral," Kristan muttered.
"Alright Skittery, let's see… What's a good dare for the middle of the night at camp?" Hermione asked the group. Gryffin picked up the sentence instantly.
"And no, Willow, we're not picking up Phoenix, bed and all, and putting her in the middle of the Tipi Field."
Willow pouted momentarily.
"Okay. How bout Storm?" she asked hopefully.
"Ummmmmm, no." Artemis put her foot down. "Storm lives in my tent, and I'm not having her mad at me for the rest of the effing summer." The room broke out into random little conversations.
"I have a dare for Skittery," Eeyore announced in that tone of voice that just demanded everyone's attention because of how childish and sly it sounded.
"Yeah? Go on," Skittery urged.
"A lot of people write stories about the Newsies now that you are all famous. They write about the Newsies lives behind the strike… and… well… in almost all of them you… you're gay with Snitch." Gryffin saw Artemis' jaw drop. She could almost see the wheels turning in Eeyore's head. But she couldn't ask him to do that. She wouldn't tell him to do that. Not now that Skittery was with Sky. Not now that Artemis had her Snitch. Not since she knew that Snitch had never been kissed before. (and how traumatic would it be to have your best friend, of the same gender, give you your first kiss?) Awe hell… she was going to say it. "I dare you to really kiss Snitch."
"That's disgusting!" Willow exclaimed.
"No way!" Snitch shouted.
Several similar shouts came from all over the room, but it would have taken several replays of the scene to find out where they all came from. Skittery would have taken offense to Snitch's attitude, if he hadn't been so stunned by the girl's request.
"Eeyore?" Hermione asked as the others still bickered. "What the hell possessed you to ask that?"
"What?" she asked innocently. "I actually think its kind of cute. In all the stories, Snitch and Skittery end up so cute together. I want to see it for real cuz, you know, Race and Spot are just so adorable and… I'm a slash-whore, okay? You guys don't have a choice anyways."
The arguments stopped, and everyone turned to look at Gryffin.
"She's right, unfourtunatley," Gryffin said. "If you say dare, you have to do the dare, no matter what it is as long as it doesn't involve the possibility of hurting someone. Just like if you say truth, you have to answer honestly and completely."
"What about Snitch?" Artemis asked. "It would hurt him! He'd be emotionally scarred for life!"
"Hey, dat's an insult!" Skittery called. Nobody paid any attention to him.
"Come on guys. We can't help it now… you have to finish this." Gryffin stood up.
"Wad if we don't?" Snitch asked.
"Then we'll frame you so that you get caught out of bed and out of bounds. We'll keep our silence, and nobody else will know, even if you do tell them that we were all up too. Sorry, but that's the only option we have."
"Damn you all to hell. Come here, Snitch." Skittery said, standing up.
"NO! I don' wanna." He sounded like a little kid.
"Just get it over with. It ain't a big deal. Get up, bum." Artemis leaned over and whispered something in Snitch's ear. His eyes got bright, and a smile took its place on his face. Without another word, Artemis leaned in and kissed Snitch. She shyly pulled away and sat with her head on her knees. Snitch sort of sat in a daze. Skittery snorted, laughing. "Come on then, you don't have to get your first kiss from me."
Skittery grabbed Snitch's hands and pulled him up. The kiss was sweet and short and surprisingly cute.
"Awwww," said Spot, leaning over to kiss Race. Eeyore squealed with delight. Gryffin rolled her eyes.
"Okay then. Good job Snitch. Mission accomplished, Skitts. Whose next?" Gryffin asked.
"I have one," Hermione said. "I think it'd be interesting to hear from… Mush."
"Okays den."
"Truth or Dare?"
"Aftah dat? Truth."
"Alright. What's the wildest thing you've ever done drunk?" Mush promptly turned pink.
"Can I change it ta dare?" he asked sheepishly. A chorus of no's greeted him. Kid Blink got really tense, and stopped playing with his shoelaces. Mush looked to Blink, as if for help, but no reply came.
"Come on Mush, spill." Snitch said.
"Alright. Well… yous guys know dat I'll do anytin when I'm drunk. Which ain't too often by da way… an one time… dis one time…" Mush took a deep breath and started talking without taking space to breathe. "Dis one time I kissed Kid Blink in a whole bar full of people standing on a table and grabbed his ass." Mush sat silently, waiting appraisal. The room sat in shocked silence. Blink smacked his head off of the island behind him and sighed. Gryffin cleared her throat loudly.
"Wow." It was all she could say. She tried really really hard, but nothing else came out. Someone else found their voice.
"I's was wonderin' when youse guys were gonna say somthin' about dat ta da rest a da guys," Jack said from the corner.
"I… What are you talkin' about, Cowboy?" Blink asked.
"I was dere dat night. Youse didn' see me, but I saw youse. I wondered if it was jus' a one night ting or if it were more poirminent. Since you nevah brought it up, I guessed it was jus' one time." Jack chuckled. "So, whose next?"
"I have a question," Gryffin said. "It's for Willow. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth, I suppose."
"Okay. What is the weirdest thing that anybody has ever told you?"
Willow thought for a minute.
"I guess that it has to be a tie between something Phoenix said and something Scully said. I'll tell Phoenix's story first.
"One day she came up to me and told me that her friend Matt was playing this game with her and a bunch of other people. Matt was asked what the weirdest thing he had ever done was. He said that one day, he was driving down this very dark and windy road that was fairly dangerous to drive on in general. Phoenix called him on the phone, and he was very out of breath." Willow sighed. "He told her in the game that the reason he was out of breath was because he had been giving himself head." Gryffin would have gagged, but she had heard the same thing a few days before. Stupid Phoenix and her stories…
"The other was something that Scully told me while we were in our tent one night. Scully told me that she would like to have her boyfriend cover her in chocolate icing and lick it off. It was quite disturbing."
Gryffin laughed.
"That has got to take the cake for random weirdness," Gryffin said through the peals of laughter that filled the room.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," Willow continued. "So how bout you, Gryffin? Truth or Dare?"
"Oh, what the hell? Dare. My life isn't very interesting to hear about anyhow."
"Alright. Let me think a minute." A moment later Willow's head popped up. She was smirking in an evil manner and giggling uncontrollably.
"I take it you thought of one?" Kristan asked. Willow couldn't stop laughing long enough to answer, so she simply nodded. A few minutes later, Willow had calmed herself.
"Ooh, I have a good dare. It involves chocolate icing." Willow burst out in fresh laughter. Everyone else waited to hear what she was laughing about. "Wow… okay. It is a dare for you and another person. How bout hyper-boy there next to you? He seems like he needs something to do." Blink looked up from the popsicle sticks that he had been making dance on the floor.
"Who? Me?"
"Yeah, psycho. You. I dare you, Gryffin, to cover Blink's face in chocolate icing and lick it all off in under ninety seconds. You, Blink… I dare you to cover Gryffin's face in whipped cream and do the same thing at the same time."
"Awe, man!" Artemis said, shaking her head and depositing it into her hand.
Snitch giggled, and Kristan and Willow soon joined him. Other sounds of disbelief or disgust filled the room.
"Willow." Gryffin said quite evenly. "I hate you."
"I hate you too, Gryffin."
"No, I really hate you."
"Why?" Willow asked, still laughing.
"Because even when you're the biggest bitch in the world, I can't hate you." Hermione appeared out of nowhere with a can of Redi-Whip and a canister of Pillsbury chocolate icing. (where she got such delicacies at camp, I'll never know)
"Whose first?" she asked sweetly.
"Here, gimme one," Kristan said, taking the canister of chocolate. "I'll do his face while you do her's." A few moments later, Gryffin was painted white and Blink was painted brown. They both got on their knees and faced each other. Gryffin couldn't stop laughing.
"What's so funny about this?" Blink asked her indignantly. "Don't you like icing or something? I ain't got cooties."
"Yeah… that's it. I'm scared that you have cooties, Blink. Because, you know, I go around licking people's faces in front of a crowd of ten or so onlookers every day."
"Just think of it as a game. Hey Race! I bet ya two bits dat I can clean her face before she can clean mine."
"Alright, I'll take dat." Race answered.
"Ready?" Hermione asked. "On the count of three… one… two… three!
Gryffin laughed as Blink started to lick her left cheek. She wasn't going to loose to him though. She started licking the left side of his face too. The chocolate was hard to get off, but at least it was something that she liked. She started to work more toward the middle of his face, to his nose and chin.
Blink was doing equally as well. It was a close race. Gryffin went to lick a dab of chocolate from Blink's nose just as he went to lick some whipped cream from her chin. Instead, they both missed and hit each other's lips instead. The kiss was very powerful and passionate. It lasted for what seemed like a long time as they almost fought with their tongues. A very stunned Hermione finally looked at her watch and called time. Blink and Gryffin stopped mid-kiss and backed away from each other. Gryffin bit her lip and wiped the chocolate and whipped cream from her face.
"Blink… you loose!" Race said, trying to break up the silence in the room.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, you didn't even finish, so yous loose. You bet me dat you'd get her face clean. You didn't finish da task, so you loose." Blink reluctantly threw a quarter to Race.
"Yeah. So does anyone else have a good question or dare?" Kristan asked, picking up on Race's mode of thought. The rest of the group went back to the game. Gryffin and Blink both headed to the bathroom to wash the crud off of their faces.
"What are you doin' in here?" Blink asked as Gryffin strolled into the men's bathroom.
"I can't turn the lights on in the girl's bathroom, it has windows. This room doesn't have windows, so we can use the light." They both continued washing their faces in silence.
"I'm… I's sorry if dat was too… Sorry." Blink pulled a paper towel from the rack and dried his face. God, he looked cute with his hair wet.
"I… Kind of liked it," she admitted.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"So, would you like to try again? Widout da audience?" A tense moment passed. Gryffin couldn't decide what she wanted to do. Someone laughed loudly from the kitchen and Gryffin pushed her paper towel into Blink's chest.
"Maybe some other time, lover-boy," She said as she walked back toward the kitchen, asking herself why she did not run back there and kiss him again.
End Nine
A/N: WOOT! I finally got that out! This is the longest chapter I think that I've ever written. Yay for me! ^_^ I've been working on this sequence for days and it just never quite worked. I think this makes sense though, mostly. Hope you liked and please REVIEW!!!
Shoutouts!
Artemis: You'd better be careful of what you say about Jack… Luna might get a little jealous. ^_^ I hope you like this chapter, but for some reason, I get this feeling that you're going to hate me. Guess I'll find out! Oh, and it is Storm A who is reviewing my story. She's begging for Boots.. hehe. I don't know why she doesn't review your stuffs. I'm sorry. I luv you though!! Also, I am well aware that it is only 2 days into the session… but how can you not love these guys! Plus, this night is lasting forever anyhow. Things always move faster in the dark. ^_^ I'm really not trying to drag it out, but these good ideas keep coming to me, and most of them can't happen when campers are around. Or other staff for that matter, so they must happen in the middle of the night.
Maddie: You scare me sometimes child, but what would I do without you? I know, I'd actually get something done when I get on the computer. ^_~ I love you anyhow. I'm happy about the brownies, but I like my other present better. *devilish grin * For anyone who doesn't know, Maddie is bringing me her 21 year old brother to camp for me. XD WOOT! XD
Cassie: Glad you liked it child. Kristan may be getting kissed by Spot, but just remember, that he didn't like it. *shrug * ah well. His loss and Race's gain.
Kristan: Snipeshooter is in bed, like a good boy. I'll write about him tomorrow, if we ever finish tonight. Don't tell me you aren't having fun as it is now anyways. You got to almost tear off Race's shirt and get kissed by Spot. Now, I know they're both gay, but there still has to be some merit in that. Oh, and I love you too!! ^_^
Alyssa: I'll teach you to play spoons when I come up for the band festival. I hope this is done by then… if not, then you'll already know how to play when this gets posted!! ^_^