Chapter 4

Belle, Shawn, and Taylor walk into the Beach house and Phillip is the first person to notice and he stared at Taylor.
"Hey guys, look who I found!" said an excited Belle.
"It's Taylor, right?" asked Phillip although he already knew the answer. She was all he had been able to think about since they met.
"YEah," she replied a little shyly.
"Taylor this is Mimi, Chloe, and of course you already know Brady," said Belle as she pointed each of them out.
"Taylor? Wow, you look great!" said Brady as he went and gave her a hug.
"Thanks, so do you."
"It's nice to meet you," said Chloe politely although she was a little jealous of how close her and Brady seemed to be.
"Yeah, nice to meet you," said Mimi.
"How do you know each other?" asked Chloe.
"We used to spend summer up here together when we were little," answered Brady.
"Well, Taylor, how would you like to join us around the campfire?" asked Phillip. Please say yes, he added silently.
"I'd love to," said Taylor and everyone went out back to sit around a fire.
"Who wants to tell ghosts stories?" asked Shawn.
"No way!" came from the girls and "all right!" came from the guys.
"What's the matter girls?" asked Shawn. "You aren't afraid of a few harmless ghost stories, are you?" teased Shawn, while looking directly at Belle who was sitting across the fire from him.
"We are not!" said Belle getting all defensive.
"All right then, who wants to go first?"
"I will," said Phillip. "Okay, you might have heard this one before. It's an urban legend called 'The Babysitter'. Here it goes; A young girl was babysitting some children in a large old house. The children were in bed and she was watching TV when the phone rang. All the voice on the other end did was laugh. She listened for a minute, then hung up. A few minutes later it happened again. She started to get scared and called the police who told her there was really nothing they could do, but they'd trace the call if it happened again. After she got another call from the laughing voice, she hung up and the police immediately called her and told her to get out of the house immediately, the calls were coming from the upstairs extension, where he'd already murdered the children. The end." Phillip looked around the campfire at the looks on the girl's faces with amusement.
"I am never going to baby-sit ever again," stated Belle.
"Aw, come on Belle. It was just a story," said Shawn looking at her annoyed face.
"Just a story!" said Belle getting mad. "It could really happen you know." The guys burst out laughing while the girls sided with Belle.
"Okay, who wants to tell the next one?" asked Shawn when he finished laughing.
"No way!" said Taylor. "I don't want to hear any more!"
"Same goes for me," said Chloe, Mimi, and Belle at the same time.
"Let's play truth or dare, then," suggested Phillip.
"Truth or dare?" said Brady with a disgusted face. "What are we, in sixth grade?"
"Hey, this way we can learn more about each other."
"We grew up together Phil," reminded Shawn. "We already know each other."
"Not true," said Phillip matter of factly. "We didn't grow up with Taylor and we don't know absolutely everything about each other. There are some things we don't know."
"All right then. I ask the first question." said Shawn. "This one is for you Belle. Who was the first guy you kissed?"
Belle thought about that a minute before answering. "Phillip."
"What!" said Shawn, Mimi, Chloe, and Brady at the same time.
"My ..... first ..... kiss ..... was ..... Phillip," said Belle talking slowly, amused by their shocked faces. "It was at Christmas when we were 11 and we got caught under the mistletoe," explained Belle. "Now my turn to ask a question. Phillip, my question for you is are you still a virgin."
"I'll take the dare," said Phillip a little too quickly.
"All right then," said Belle grinning. "I dare you to kiss Taylor for 30 seconds, on the lips."
Phillip turned to Taylor who was sitting beside him and whispered, "you don't have to do this if you don't want to."
Taylor's only response was grabbing Phillip by the collar and pulling him towards her, and their lips met.