The gang assembled in the gym the next night. They had each only brought one person, partly out of laziness and partly because they didn't really know very many people.

"I'm making a chart," Adena decreed as she saw who was assembled.

"What?" Tannis asked, voicing the opinions of everyone.

"A chart."

"Why?" Tannis asked, gritting her teeth and trying to be patient.

"So I can keep track of who likes who," Adena replied, finishing off her list. The others gaped at her diagram, which looked a little like this:

Rick: Every girl, but mostly Cody Milly: Squib and Phil

Allen: Adena Tilly: Phil and Squib

Phil: Any girl but mostly Tannis and the 'illy'sAdena: Allen and Phil

Cameron: TannisTannis: Cameron and Phil (sometimes)

Squib: CodyCody: Squib

"How come practically everyone likes more than one person?" Cody said, the first to speak.

Adena rolled her eyes. "We can't all be as wholesome as you, Cody."

"We know she's not always so wholesome," Squib cut in, smirking and thinking a little more of Cody and whipped cream and chocolate sauce and fruit.

"Squib!" Cody said, punching him in the arm.

"What?"

"You deserved that," Tannis said, grinning at the two of them.

"Maybe…" Squib mumbled, and Cody looked triumphant.

"Anyways," Adena broke in, "Let's begin with an overview of the rules."

"Do you want to post those up too?" Cody asked, smirking once again.

"That was my line!" Squib cried as Adena gave them both withering looks.

"Anyways," Adena began again, emphasizing her words, "We pull names out of separate hats, girl hat or guy hat, and then you go into one of the change rooms with them for seven minutes. No more, no less," Adena finished. "We'll alternate change rooms," she added, thoughtful, and the others nodded their consent.

"Who's picking first?" Tannis asked hesitantly.

"Um…." There was a blank silence.

"Hands in," Cody said suddenly, linking her hands together and forming a small hoop. Nine hands dipped into the make-shift hoop, Squib and Rick both acutely aware of how close their hands were to Cody's chest. "OK, now, someone has to put a hand in for me."

Rick's other hand immediately dipped into the hoop. "OK!" Cody exclaimed, letting her arms drop to her sides. "Rick gets to pick first!"

"Nice tactic," Squib whispered to her as the circle was re-assembled.

She smiled back at him. "I thought so."

"Rick picked Tilly!" Adena exclaimed as the two set off for the girls change room. Cameron started his watch as soon as the door closed behind them. The eight of them sat in relative silence for the entire seven minutes, listening for anything from the change room.

"You are disgusting!" Tilly exclaimed, tumbling out the door and looking, well, disgusted.

Rick grinned at her as he walked out of the dressing room behind her. He was looking surprisingly more confident than usual. "You know you loved it!"

Cody and Squib exchanged disgusted glances. "OK, Rick, pick someone to go next," Adena said, looking around the circle.

"You go," he sad dismissively to Cameron. Cameron pulled Tilly, and then Tilly pulled Rick again, and the entire thing was becoming increasingly boring. Then, eventually, Milly pulled Squib. Cody rolled her eyes, and Squib nodded in agreement as Milly pulled him into the change room.

"Squib….Kiss me…" Milly breathed, eyes closed, lips pursed.

"Uh…." Squib said, looking at her with disdain.

"Kiss me now Squib!"

"Still not wanting to," he muttered.

Her eyes shot open. "What was that?"

"Um…Nothing."

"Like hell it was nothing!" Milly yelled into his face. "You've got a thing for red-head sex maniacs, huh?"

"She's not a sex maniac!" He defended immediately, then realized his mistake seconds after.

Milly smirked, but her voice level didn't drop when she continued. "I knew it! We were told we had no chance, that you two were meant for each other. That's such bull! You are just trying to get lucky with someone who's happy to give it to anyone." And with that, she stormed out of the changing room and out of the gym.

When Squib emerged, he was bombarded with questions. "What did you do to her?" Tilly demanded.

"Nothing, I…" Squib trailed off to look at Cody, who had her eyebrows raised and an amused look on her face. It was the complete opposite of the expressions on the other girl's faces; they were all glaring and assuming he'd done something awful and truly Squib-ish to Milly.

"We heard yelling," Cody began, and the others cut her off with angry accusations. "But she wasn't screaming 'I'm coming' and she wasn't screaming 'no,' so you didn't have sex and you didn't try to rape her. What happened?"

"She made a few accusations about you. And then she stormed out," he replied truthfully, and Tilly rolled her eyes.

"Sometimes she can be so aggravating!" Tilly exploded and ran off. Phil left after Tilly, and so they were left with Allen, Rick, and the Top Guns.

"What accusations did she make about me?" Cody asked curiously.

Squib shrugged nonchalantly. Cody eyed him for a few minutes as Adena managed to get Cameron and Tannis in the change room together. After seven minutes of complete silence, Adena started giggling. Soon Cody had joined in, and then Squib with his own low laughter. Allen could not even begin to imagine why they were all laughing like maniacs, andneither could Rick.Finally Tannis and Cameron emerged, both a little flushed.

"What?" Tannis asked, looking at her friends. They only laughed harder. "Anyways, Cody, you pick now."

Cody reached into the hat and pulled out a blank piece of paper. The seven in the room let out a collective breath, and Adena gave another short giggle. Cody pulled another piece of paper and began to turn it over slowly..."It's Squib!" Adena exclaimed as soon as she saw the paper.

"C'mon Squiby!" Cody exclaimed, matching Adena's perky voice. Squib reluctantly (yeah right) got to his feet and followed her to the change room.

There was a long, awkward period of silence. It was Squib who broke it. "So," he said finally, "Nice weather we're having."

"Squib," Cody said, obviously broken out of the awkward stage. "We are in a change room. At night. Weather is not an issue, nor an appropriate conversation topic for two people who are supposed to be best friends."

"Fine, fine…" Squib said, and they lapsed into silence once again.

"I want to know what she said."

Squib sighed in response, but he knew Cody was determined. "She said you were a sex maniac, and, I quote, a red-head sex maniac. Apparently I have a 'thing' for them," he replied, putting as much disdain into the word 'thing' as he could.

"I see," Cody replied, looking as thoughtful as possible. "And do you?"

"Do I what?"

"Have a 'thing' for me?"

"I don't know. How about you? Got a 'thing' for me?" They were teasing back and forth then, but there was still an under-lying meaning. (DUH!)

"Don't answer my questions with questions, Squiby," she replied leaning her back against one of the lockers. He stood across the bench from her, leaning in a very James Dean-ish manner. 'It suits him,' she thought briefly before focusing on the question she herself had just asked.

"OK, maybe I do have a thing for red-head sex maniacs," he said, teasing tone still in place. "What's that got to do with you?"

"That was the right answer," she replied, smiling.

"I've got a way with the ladies."

"Especially the sex-maniac ones," she replied.

"Four minutes left!" Came Adena's call from the gym.

"Hey Cody…"

"Yes?"

"When you play seven minutes in heaven, you're not supposed to talk."

"No?"

"No."

"Well Squib," she replied, flashing him a very flirtatious yet still Cody-like smile, "I don't know how to play. What are we supposed to do?"

"You really want to know?"

"Oh yes. Please enlighten me."

"Be glad to," he replied, before crossing and sweeping her up in a wonderful kiss and yaddy yaddy yada. Just then, Adena peeked in.

"YOU'RE FINALLY KISSING!"

"I think it was induced by the noxious fumes in this dressing room," Cody replied, letting her arms drop from Squib's neck and taking a few steps back. Squib broke away from her as well, and they both returned to their positions against the lockers, looking at Adena.

"The fumes maybe…."Squib said, agreeing. "Or lack of sleep."

"Something like that."

"You two are so….so…." Adena began, frustrated.

"Adorable?"

"Meant for each other?"

"Cute?"

"Infuriatingly cute?"

"In lurve?"

"So wanting to get back to what we were doing?" Squib added pointedly.

Adena grinned at the two of them, then turned to Cody. "I want details later!" She winked at slipped back into the gym.

"He's standing right here!" Cody called after her, but she was gone and Squib was kissing her again, so it didn't really matter.

He broke away a few seconds later to whisper in her ear. "I wish we had whipped cream and chocolate sauce and fruit…"

Cody laughed and replied "There may be some in one of the lockers…"

"What, did you stash it earlier?"

"But we can't," Cody continued, eyes shifting to the door, "Since the doors don't lock and they'll be in to check on us. Besides, you'd just say you didn't mean it later, so what's the point?"

"What's that supposed tob mean? I'd just say I didn't mean it?"

"You have a history of doing that."

"That's not fair, and you know it."

"Squib…"

"You can't just say that when we're making out in a change room!"

"And why not!" They were both yelling but that point, and the others, out in the gym, were exchanging confused glances.

"Because we're just supposed to make out and then…"

"And then there are no consequences attached later? Yeah, you like it that way. A sort of friends with benefits idea." And with that, Cody stalked out of the change room. Squib watched her go, feeling that it was beginning to be a recurring pattern.