Chapter 3: The Game

Everyone agreed to play truth or dare and Shalimar started to grin. She loved the game, not as much as she loved Brennan, but unfortunately he didn't know that.

"Who wants to go first?" Lexa asked with a smile on her face.

Shalimar raised her hand and Lexa let her be the first to ask. Shal thought for a minute and then picked Lexa.

"Lexa, truth or dare" she asked with a smile on her face.

"Dare" she replied as she asked herself what Shalimar was going to ask her. A small part of her wanted it to be to kiss her but she wasn't sure.

"Hmmm, I dare you to kiss Jesse" she said with a smile on her face. She knew how much Jesse liked her.

Lexa turned around and kissed Jesse passionately. After the kiss Jesse was stunned, mouth open amazed.

"Okay, Brennan truth or dare" she asked him but Brennan wasn't listening. He was to busy staring at Shalimar. Lexa hit him over the head.

"Owe, dare" he said rubbing his head in pain.

"I dare you to kiss Shalimar" she said. She knew how much he wanted to do that.

"Finally something I want to do" he looked at Shalimar and kissed her passionately. When they broke apart all Shalimar could think was "Ohh my god, he's is a really good kisser. I wish he would do that more often"

Now it was Brennan's turn to pick somebody, he picked Jesse. "Dare" Jesse said while waiting for Brennan to tell him what to do. "I dare you to... go kiss the bartender. The bartender was standing behind the counter with her eyes on Jesse, she was a red head with gorgeous lips and she had bright red lipstick on.

Shalimar started laughing so hard she fell into Brennan's lap. She got up and ordered vodka on the rocks and didn't even notice Brennan's face.

Jesse went over to the bartender and talked for a few minutes before kissing her. When he got back Lexa was in awe but didn't show it. It was Jesse's turn to ask someone and asked Shalimar. Shalimar picked dare. She hated truth at least with dare you know what she would expect but with truth, that was a different story. Jesse had picked one with another kiss in it. He dared her to go kiss the D.J. Shalimar did what she was told to do and danced her way back. Shalimar asked Jesse and he truth.

"Are you or are you not afraid of the dark?" she asked while laughing in the process.

"Oh nice Shal. The answer is yes" he said with a disgusted look on his face and was staring at Shalimar.

Brennan and Lexa burst out in laughter and couldn't stop. Jesse just walked away in anger because that was his secret, he had others but that was one that he didn't want anybody to know. When he came back he had a large grin on his face. "I guess Jess figured out a little payback for us" Brennan thought as he drank his beer.

"Brennan, truth or dare" Jesse asked with a big smile on his face.

"Truth" Brennan replied.

"Whom would you rather kiss, Shalimar or Lexa" Jesse asked starting to chuckle, but Shalimar hit him over the head.

Brennan just stared at him thinking "I'm going to get you for that" Brennan answered "Shal" and looked at Shalimar's face and smiled.

Everything in Shalimar's mind was sort of blurry but all she could think was "This is part of a dream come true, he likes me the way I am, god he's so cute when he smiles" Shalimar was so happy that she started jumping up and down. Brennan just smiled at her and started to laugh.

It was Brennan's turn to pick someone. He picked Lexa this time. "Lexa, truth or dare" he asked the smile now vanished from his face. "Truth" she replied with a shy look on her face.

"When you first came to join Mutant X, did you or do you have a crush on Jesse?" he asked while looking at Jesse.

"I did" was all that came out of Lexa's mouth. Jesse again had his mouth open at the answer.

Lexa was staring at Shalimar who was dancing on the dance floor. She came back and Lexa asked her to pick from truth or dare.

"Dare" she said with a big smile on her face while facing Brennan.

"I dare you to take shots off of Jesse, me and Brennan in that order" she said with a sly smile on her face.

Shalimar just told Jess to take his shirt off and she asked for a bottle of tequila and a bottle of whipped cream. She put it on Jesse chest and told him to put a lime in his mouth. She licked the whipped cream off his chest took a shot glass of tequila and kissed him while trying to remove the lime from his mouth. Then it was Lexa's turn, since she knew how to do it she didn't need instructions. Shalimar put whipped cream on Lexa's neck while Lexa put a piece of lemon in her mouth. Shalimar licked the whipped cream off Lexa's neck and kissed her while getting the lemon out of her mouth. Now it was Brennan's turn, Shalimar was looking forward to this and so was he. He took of his shirt and put a lime in his mouth. Shal licked the whipped cream off Brennan's chest and took the lime out of his mouth. After Shalimar took the lime out of his mouth Brennan pulled her in for another kiss. The kiss was long, hard, passionate and heated. When they broke apart Lexa and Jesse were staring at them.

It was already 2 am on Christmas day so they were all going back to Sanctuary to fall asleep.