"Why am I here?" Cody groaned as Adena and Tannis dragged her into the crowded room.
"It's a dance. You have to be here," Adena replied curtly, scanning the room for Allen, her date.
"And you will make up with Squib," Tannis added firmly.
"Or make out," Adena added, earning a glare from Cody. "Either way."
"I will not. He is such a-"
"Who's a what?" Squib asked as he, Cameron and Allen joined the girls.
"Oh, nothing," Cody replied, voice sugary.
Adena rolled her eyes at Cody and dragged Allen out to the dance floor. Tannis gave Squib a pointed look and followed Cameron to the food table.
"So…" Squib began.
"Shut up."
"But -"
"I don't care."
"Yes you do."
"How would you know?"
"You're both being childish," Cameron said, joining them.
"Shut up!" The two replied in unison, and the others shook their heads.
"Can we disappear from this dance?" Allen asked. "It's lame."
"We could go to that classroom in the back…" Adena suggested.
"Sounds good," Tannis and Cameron agreed.
Adena sighed and turned to Squib and Cody. "And you guys?"
"I guess," Squib mumbled.
"Whatever," Cody said.
Once they were seated they began to discuss what to do. "Let's play 'Honey, if you love me…'" Tannis said.
Cody groaned and Allen and Squib drew a blank, whereas Adena looked perfectly happy with the idea. After a quick introduction of the rules and convincing the guys that yes, they did want to play, the game began.
"Honey, if you love me, won't you please, please smile?" Tannis said to Cameron, smiling a little herself. Cameron kept a straight face until he had to reply, and then he was lost at the first word. The two dissolved into fits of laughter.
Allen then turned to Adena, smirking a little, and asked her. "Honey, if you love me, won't you please, please smile?" Adena couldn't even begin to reply since she was giggling so hard, and Allen's smirk grew wider.
"Go ahead Cody!" She said through her giggles, watching her two impossible friends.
"Honey," Cody began, leaning towards Squib, "If you love me, won't you please, please smile?" She asked, drawing out the word 'please' both times she said it. There was a competitive look on her face, and Squib was as defiant when he answered.
"Honey, you know I love you," he said, not hiding his sarcasm, "But I just. Can't. Smile." He smirked at her, triumphant, and her face twisted. Clearly, this was war.
The other two couples spent most of their time laughing and tickling and flirting shamelessly, but to Cody and Squib, whoever won this, well, won. They repeated their lines over and over and over, neither cracking a smile.
Finally Tannis got fed up. "OK, either you kiss and get it over with, one of you laughs, or we switch games."
"Switch!" Adena cried. "I know a game."
"Of course you do."
Adena pulled a small teddy bear out from her purse. The others stared at her. "I'll explain, but first we have to have a circle." When they had assembled themselves, the order went like this:
Adena, Allen, Tannis, Cameron, Cody, Squib
"Now, Allen, kiss the bear. Wherever," Adena said, and Allen complied, pretending to make out with the teddy bear. Adena rolled her eyes at him, but smiled, and kissed the bear on the paw. Squib kissed the bear on his back exactly where his butt would meet his back if her were a human and not a stuffed teddy. Cody gave the bear a quick peck on the cheek, Cameron kissed the belly button and Tannis took the nose.
They all looked at Adena expectantly. She grinned at them. "Now, kiss the person who you passed it to in the exact same place you kissed the bear." They gaped at her, Squib especially.
"Say what now?" He sputtered, but Allen had started to make out with Adena and she was therefore otherwise engaged. She broke away long enough to give Squib his kiss on the hand, just as Cody gave Cam a quick peck on the cheek. Tannis gave Allen his kiss on the nose, happy to see Adena smiling instead of glaring, and then turned to Cam.
"Wanna see my belly button?" She asked, grinning, and she lifted her shirt. He gave her bellybutton a soft kiss, and Tannis giggled.
Once everyone was finished with their kisses, all eyes turned to Squib. "Have fun Squiby!" Adena said, giggling once again.
Squib groaned and turned to place a light kiss on the small of Cody's back. She tried incredibly hard not to shiver as his lips met her bare skin, and she succeeded. But only barely.
He smirked at her none-the-less, clearly recognizing he'd had some affect on her. She rolled her eyes in response.
"New game!" Adena said cheerfully. "We can't do that one again; everyone will just take safe places."
"I wouldn't count on it," Cameron muttered, and Tannis rolled her eyes. (They do an awful lot of that too, huh? Eye rolling, I mean.)
"Got another game then?" Cody asked Adena, keeping her voice flat.
"I have loads of games my dear," Adena responded. "You couldn't even begin to imagine." She then pulled a blindfold from her bag. "Squib, you get to be blindfolded."
"I'd rather not…" He began, but Adena had already tied it at the back of his head. "OK then," he said after she was finished, giving up.
"Now, I'm giving each of the girls numbers…." Adena said, and pointed to each of them and gesturing. Tannis was one, Cody was two, and she was three. "And we're each going to kiss you and then you have to say which number was the best kisser. Cameron, call the numbers."
"Three," Cameron said.
Adena gave Squib a kiss, not just a peck, but not anything bad enough to make Allen jealous.
"One," Cameron said next, since he knew he was supposed to leave Cody for last.
"Two," he said next, even though it wasn't necessary. Cody gave Squib a kiss.
"Squib, who was the best kisser?" Adena said.
Squib sighed. "Two, I guess," he replied as he tugged at his blindfold. Adena burst into giggles and Tannis grinned. Cameron shook his head. "What?" Squib asked, curious.
"Cody was two," Adena managed.
Cody smirked at him; the score was one for Squib (for the kiss on her back that made her shiver a little) and one for her, (for being the best kisser out of the three.) They glared at each other once again.
"More games Adena?" Tannis asked. She shot Cameron a look, and then gave another, quite different look to Squib and Cody.
"What?" The two said in unison. Then they glowered at each other a little more. Tannis just rolled her eyes.
"I have plenty of games. Now, boys, go out into that hall," Adena began again. "Right, so," she said, pulling a pack of Skittles out of her bag. "We'll each eat one of these, kiss our guy," and here she paused and looked at Cody, a stern expression on her face. "And yes Cody, you'll be kissing Squib. Kiss our guy, and then they'll have to guess what flavour it is. Deal?"
"Deal," Tannis agreed.
"Whatever," Cody said. "But give me a green one; he can't tell those from the yellow ones."
"The fact that you know that proves everything…" Tannis said, but threw her a few green ones.
"You may return!" Adena called and the boys filed back in. "You'll kiss one of us; you can all guess who you're kissing, and you have to guess what flavour of skittle we just ate."
They nodded, though our favourite two were a little more reluctant. And so the game began.
Cameron guessed his quickly, yet the kiss lasted a little longer than it needed to. Allen took a lot longer to guess his, for no apparent reason….
Squib, meanwhile, had figured it out almost immediately. "I thought you couldn't tell the green from the yellow," Cody had said.
"Maybe I can when I need to."
They had continued guessing long after everyone else until Allen cut in and told them they had one more kiss left to decide the winner. Cody grabbed a few more green and chewed them, making sure Squib didn't see. (The room is dark, after all.)
After a long, long kiss (just for the purpose of finding out what the flavour was, of course!) Squib pulled back, looking incredulous. "You used green again?"
She groaned, and the score of the night became 2 for Squib, 1 for her.
"You two are pathetic!" Tannis burst out, glaring at them. "This entire thing as bring some big fight between you, which is ridiculous. You just like kissing each other! What's more, if you really didn't want to kiss each other, you would have been adamantly against kissing games, as opposed to just seeing it as an outlet to feud with each other!"
And with that, she grabbed Cameron's hand and dragged him out of the room, with Allen and Adena leaving soon after.
"I guess she's a little right," Cody said, not bothering to look at Squib.
"About wanting to kiss each other?"
"Yeah."
"I won though. You do know that," he replied.
She grinned at him and gave him a punch in the arm. "Easy way to get kisses without consequences."
"Are you ever going to let that drop?"
"Are you ever going to face up for your feelings and realize that your actions have consequences that you can't always brush off with some lame excuse?"
"Probably," he said, moving to kiss her.
"A real kiss," she mused out loud once they had pulled away. "Without the aid of a teddy bear, candy, or our friends."
"Or chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and fruit," he pointed out.
"You're really hung up on that part, aren't you?"
"Just a little."
"I think I have some at home…"
"Yeah, but we can't…"
"You know what the four sexiest words are?"
"Chocolate, cream, and fruit?"
"No," she whispered in his ear. "My Dad isn't home."
"Those were pretty sexy words," he breathed.
"Yeah," she said, pulling him up. "And guess what?"
"What?"
"The score is tied. Two for you; two for me."
"When did you get the last point?"
"You're following me like a lost puppy."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
And the two bickered like that all the way to Cody's fridge. At that point, other things caught their attention.
A/N: Thanks for your reviews; please shareyour fav parts. Also, stick around for the epilogue.
