Sue tried in vain with each puff of the cigarette until she took the last drag and got it - resulting in cheers from Amy, Helen, Erin, Lucy and Tara. After that, they clipped Pepper's leash on her collar again and went back inside. It was cold enough to see their breaths come out in clouds of steam, and in thin pajamas all of them were shivering. Before Sue pressed the buzzer for someone to let them in, Amy hurriedly sprayed them all with her perfume so Carla - Sue's mother - wouldn't smell the smoke. Avoiding Carla, they rushed back into Sue's bedroom and curled up inside the assorted sleeping backs in an attempt to warm up. When the last set of teeth had finally stopped chattering, Amy picked out a movie and put it in the DVD player.

"Oh not Dirty Dancing again!" Helen moaned.

"Hey, it's a classic." Amy shrugged.

So with that, they settled against the side of Sue's bed to watch the movie - with Amy and Erin getting up at some point to copy one of the dances. Halfway into the second movie - Stepmom - Carla popped her head round the door to say goodnight. A chorus of

"Goodnight Mrs. Thomas." along with

"Night mom."

rang out and Carla went to bed. As soon as the credits rolled by at the end of Stepmom, Erin whispered

"Who's up for a shot-game?"

"Shot-game?" Sue asked.

"Well, me and Helen made one up called 'I've never' ... You fill the shot-glasses with alcohol - doesn't matter what - and you say something you've never done and if anyone in the group has done it, they take the shot." Erin told her, while pouring a bright blue liquid into each tiny glass, "great way to find out all your friends' secrets, if they haven't already told you!"

She lined the glasses up in front of them and started by saying

"I have never fought physically with Carly."

Amy and Lucy gulped back the blue drinks in reply. Erin filled them again and next it was Amy's turn,

"I have never ..." she paused to think, "I have never ... dated a girl!"

Erin and Helen both lifted their glasses to swallow the liquid that tasted oddly like bubblegum.

"I have never ... dated a guy for more than six months." Helen said,

"Damn it - me again?" Amy said, knocking back her shot, "hmm, I have never had a crush on a teacher."

"Liar!" Erin declared laughingly before drinking her shot - followed by every single one of them, including Sue.

"Okay Sue, your turn." Lucy told her.

"Um ... I have never... been kissed." She blurted, blushing with embarrassment as she watched all of them drink their shots.

Erin refilled the glass again and waited for Tara to take a turn,

"I have never ..." She stopped, wondering if she should say it or not, "went down on a guy." She finished hurriedly.

Erin was the only first to drink her shot, followed by a hesitant Helen.

"Okay... I have never fancied co-op guy!" Erin laughed out.

Helen was the only one to lift her glass this time.

"I have never gone the whole way with a guy."

Again, Erin and Amy drank the shots.

The game went on like this for half an hour, until all of the girls were suitably ... drunk and Erin suggested they play spin the bottle - with a slight twist.

"What's the twist, exactly?" Lucy asked.

"Well, we'll play it like a truth-dare thing, and the forfeit is to kiss..."

Amy spun the empty Alco-pop bottle first. When it stopped, the neck of the bottle pointed at Sue.

"Truth or dare?"

"Truth." Sue replied hesitantly

"Is it true that you've never been kissed?" Amy asked Sue, with a hint of incredulity in her voice.

"Um... yes." She answered quietly, trying to shrug off the embarrassment she was feeling.

"Okay, your turn to spin."

The neck landed in Amy's direction whom promptly selected Dare.

"I dare you to ..." Her brow furrowed as she thought, and Erin mouthed something to her, "tell us which one of your best friends you once had a crush on."

"Shit." Amy muttered, and staring at the floor answered, "Helen."

Amy then spun the bottle, which coincidentally, landed pointing at Helen

"Truth or dare!"

"Um ... Truth?"

"Okay ... is it true that you are a lesbian?"

"No." Helen replied hurriedly.

It was an ongoing debate among the group, and one that Helen always denied. Well, she would, considering it was only half the truth.

"Yeah right, spin."

"What?"

"Spin, whoever it lands on is who you kiss for forfeit." Amy said simply.

So Helen did spin the bottle, reluctantly, the neck pointing at a very worried-looking Sue.

"How long?" Helen sighed.

"Hmm we'll make it easy on Sue and say... five seconds."

As soon as Amy counted to five, their lips parted. Sue laughed nervously and said

"Well ... I never imagined my first real kiss would be with a girl!"

Well Iteag, consider this an early Christmas pressie from Moi! lol Love ya babe!