Chapter 15

The entire group sat in a circle on the floor. Summer took hold of the bottle, "I'll go first!" She said cheerfully.

Ryan looked at Seth, "Is it weird for you that you're girlfriend is so eager to kiss others?"

"Actually, a little bit." Seth answered. Summer just laughed and gave the bottle a hard spin. The bottle spun all around the group, finally stopping in front of Ryan.

"Chino!" Summer exclaimed, "Take me now!"

Ryan smiled and leaned over and gave Summer a short kiss on the mouth.

"Your turn." Summer said, handing the bottle to Ryan.

Ryan rolled his eyes and reluctantly spun the bottle, it finally stopped at Alex. Alex smiled and accepted the polite kiss from Ryan.

Alex spun, and the bottle landed on Zach, their kiss was innocent enough, but the group became silent when Zach's spin landed in front of Summer. Things were quiet in awkwardness for a moment, but Summer broke the tension by leaning over and kissing Zach friendly.

Summer blushed ever so slightly and gave the bottle a spin. The bottle came to a halt in front of Marissa, causing Seth to exclaim, "Finally!"

Summer rolled her eyes, "Come on guys, do we really have to?"

"Summer, you know I'm a stickler for the rules."

Summer glared at Seth, "So you're saying Cohen, that if you land on Ryan, you're going to kiss him?"

Seth paused, "Let's just see where the bottle takes us." Seth picked up the bottle of Tequila, "You've let me down before Tequila, don't do it again."

Summer rolled her eyes and turned to Marissa, "Well Coop?"

Marissa shrugged, and leaned in and gave Summer a little peck on the lips.

Marissa spun the bottle and landed on Seth, "Seth, you finally have your chance to kiss me!" Marissa exclaimed, joking.

"Marissa," Seth said seriously, "You don't have to act like this is our first time, the sexual tension between our lips will tell the truth." Marissa rolled her eyes and leaned in. Seth spun the bottle, and watched in horror as it stopped at Zach. Summer's eyes lit up. "Excellent."

Seth pointed to the T.V behind Summer, "Summer, Grady Bridges!"

Summer whipped around and Seth turned the bottle so it was pointing towards her. When Summer turned back and found the bottle pointing at herself and shook her head, "Cohen, you know how I'm a stickler for the rules!"

"I didn't touch it! It just moved by itself." Seeing Summer looking skeptically, Seth continued, "Were going to have to go to the judges on this one."

Seth looked to Ryan, who stared blankly between Seth and Summer until he caught on that he was the judge. "Oh, me. Um…Sorry Summer, but I'm going to have to allow this, I don't really want to see Zach and Seth kiss."

Summer pouted, but then lovingly accepted the kiss from Seth.

"Fine." Summer said, after she had kissed Seth, "But Zach can spin next." Seth smiled and put his arm around Summer.

Zach spun and smiled as the bottle stopped in front of Marissa. They kissed each other, and Marissa spun and the bottle stopped in front of Alex. Marissa swallowed and looked blankly. Zach made a funny, "oooh", but stopped when he realized that nobody was laughing. Marissa quietly leaned over and gave Alex and extremely short peck. Alex backed away and avoided eye contact with Marissa. Alex took the bottle from Marissa, and spun it, landing on Ryan. Alex smiled and leaned over and kissed Ryan, all very innocently. Ryan took the bottle and spun it. He smiled sheepishly as it landed in front of Marissa. Marissa smiled, "Oh, how risqué, we've only done this a million times before!"

Ryan leaned across the circle and met Marissa half way. She smiled and kissed Ryan softly. Everybody was silent, watching, to see how much feeling was behind the kiss. When they pulled apart, Ryan was still smiling as he spun the bottle again. The doorbell interrupted again, "I got it" Seth said jumping up, eager to not let the bottle land on him. Ryan spun the bottle again, and it once again landed on Marissa.

"Ohh!" Summer squealed, "You know that this means it has to be for ten seconds!"

"Sum who made up those rules!" Marissa asked.

Summer shrugged and Ryan and Marissa met in the middle once again. Marissa closed her eyes, allowing the familiarality of the situation take over. Midway through the kiss a voice interrupted, "Glad to see that you didn't wait for me to have a good time."

Ryan broke the kiss, leaving Marissa stunned and whipped around.

Lindsay stood in the hallway, silently shaking her head at Ryan. "I think I left something in my car" She stuttered, turning to leave.

"Lindsay wait!" Ryan said, getting up to go after her.

"Hmm." Seth said slowly, "I don't think she's coming back."