A/N: Okay, I have a few comments to make about this chapter. LOL. You'll understand everything better once you read the chapter, but I wanted to make a few points real quick. Yes, I honestly did name my own car Zoe. I just wanted to put that out there. Hehe. I also name my computers as well.

And as far as the last part with Mr. Quinn. My own Algebra 2 teacher is what I based that character on. Of course for his protection I gave him a different name, but I wanted to add him into one of my fics and this one just fit perfectly. He was soo funny, by far my favorite teacher. This chapter is my lame attempt at humor. lol. So, yeah...I wanted to share that with everyone

One final note about the song that Emily and Elizabeth sing. My first grade teacher taught it to us as a way of remembering the continents. She even made us dance to it and had a song to go with it! Man, I wish you guys could hear the beat to sing it at... sigh

Thanks for the replies guys! Only one more part to go!

I Dare You – Part 4/5

"Elizabeth!" Carly yelled to her as she increased her pace, walking faster to her friend's locker.

"Hey Carly." She smiled warmly at her blonde friend.

"I didn't see you on Friday. Were you late?" She pulled her into a hug. "And this morning you weren't at your usual spot."

"Yeah, the car wouldn't start." She drew back from the hug. "But, Jason was running late Friday morning too so he picked me up. And this morning I had to come in early."

"Oh. Well, that was nice of him." She smiled wickedly at her friend. "Speaking of Jason…"

Elizabeth sighed as she grabbed her books from her locker. "What, Carly?"

"Nothing." She feigned innocence. "I just wanted to know how things are going between you two. Did you guys hang out his weekend?"

"Of course." Elizabeth smiled.

"How long have you two been going out now? It seems like forever."

Elizabeth shook her head at her friend's antics, grinning from ear to ear as she met her stare. "A month."

"Aw." Carly laughed as Elizabeth blushed. "Well, I have to tell you…you two are so cute together."

"Thank you."

"I'll see you in second block?" Carly moved her purse from one hand to the other. She didn't want to be late to homeroom two days in a row so she'd have to book it pretty soon if she wanted to get there on time. No doubt she'd end up running into more of her friends so she'd have to leave Elizabeth's locker pronto.

"Yeah."

"Are you sure you're going to be there? Thursday you said you had a pass to miss second block today."

"I know, but…"

"But what?" Carly looked up to meet her friends gaze, but it wasn't on her. Elizabeth was staring at something behind her. She turned around to see what Elizabeth was so interested in and wasn't surprised to see Jason walking down the hall with his best friend Sonny at his side. Jason hadn't spotted Elizabeth yet, but she would give him time. It wouldn't be long now, she smiled.

Jason continued to walk down the hall and spotted Elizabeth when he was only a few feet away. He took a few more steps until he was standing right in front of her and kept his cerulean eyes fixed on her.

"Is your car doing better this morning?" He smirked at her.

"Zoe's fine." She smiled back as he pulled her into a hug, kissing her cheek as they pulled back. "I'll see you later?"

He nodded at her. "See you later." He parroted back, winking at her in the process. "Someday you're going to have to explain to me why you call your car Zoe."

"I already told you why." She reminded him. "You just need to hear it fifty times to let it sink in."

"Not funny." He bestowed a glower on her before walking away, Sonny catching up to him after saying goodbye to a group that had formed just past Elizabeth's locker.

Elizabeth watched him go, following him with her eyes until he turned the corner. It was only when Carly pinched her arm that she came out of her daze. "Ow. That hurt." She glared at her. "What did you do that for?"

"I was talking to you and you didn't answer."

"So you pinched me?"

"It that's what it takes to get your attention, sure." Carly gave her a defiant stare.

"But, did you have to pinch me?" Elizabeth said in exasperation. "You have long nails Carly, and that really hurt."

"Suck it up." Carly smiled, showing off her pearly whites. "Now as I was saying…For someone who was entirely against public displays of affection in the hallway, it sure seems like you've changed your mind."

"I guess you could say that."

Carly lift her brow, not ready to let it go yet. "Elizabeth…you know as well as I do that if you could, you jump him right here in the hall."

"CARLY!" Elizabeth shrieked, gaining the attention of anyone and everyone in the hall. She blushed covering her face with her one free hand as she cursed herself. Why did she always have to let Carly get to her? She should have just ignored her and not let her get the satisfaction of getting a rise out of her.

Carly inwardly smiled, maybe she really was onto something here. Elizabeth rarely allowed her the pleasure of seeing her all worked up. Perhaps she hadn't been that far off. "Just admit it, Liz. You know I'm right. You want him." She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

"Not like that I don't." She assured her. "He's my boyfriend and we've only been going out for a month. I'm not ready to even begin thinking about that."

"Are you sure?" She continued to eye her inquisitively.

"I'm sure." And she was. Of course she liked Jason, she didn't have a problem admitting that. But she wasn't ready to do anything too physical with him yet. She wasn't the one-night stand type, nor was she the type to sleep with someone she had only been going out with for a month. She and Jason hadn't talked about it yet, but he hadn't pushed her on anything so far – and she trusted that he wouldn't. At least not yet. The relationship was still new and naturally they had tested the waters a bit, but nothing too drastic. She smiled as she remembered their first real kiss.

"I- Jason, I have a confession to make." She pulled back further, not allowing him to come any closer. They had almost just had their first kiss as boyfriend and girlfriend and before they did there was something she needed to tell him. Something he had to know. "I've never kissed anyone before. At least not really kissed anyone." She paused. "The night of the party when we played spin the bottle? That was my first real kiss."

Jason smiled at her understandingly as he placed a lock of her hair behind her ear. "So, this would be your first kiss kiss…wouldn't it?"

"Yes." She nodded, letting her head hang down in shame. Now he wouldn't want to kiss her again.

"Elizabeth." He placed his hand on her chin, gently moving it upward so he could look into her beautiful sapphire eyes. "There's nothing wrong with not kissing a lot of people. It just means you don't want to kiss just anybody, you want to kiss someone you like…someone you're attracted to and feel comfortable with."

There was no way a guy like him could have looks, brains and still have room for sensitivity. Was it even possible? "I- I've kissed people. A few. But nothing too extravagant." She blushed. "Other than you of course."

"And that's fine." He assured her. "Hey. Look at me, beautiful." He waited until her eyes once again met his. "I'm glad you told me. You didn't have to, but you did. I thank you for that."

"I should have kept my big mouth shut." She muttered under her breath. "Jason, I understand if you don't want to kiss me anymore – it's okay."

"Elizabeth…" He spoke softly. "There is nothing else I would rather do right now then kiss you." His tone remained soft. "And you seem to forget yet again…I got a sneak peek of what to expect from you the night of the party." He chuckled softly.

"I know that." She ran her hand up and down his upper arm in an effort to alleviate her nerves. "But it's our first kiss as boyfriend and girlfriend and- And I want it to be perfect."

"And it will be."

"You don't know that." She continued to brush his arm as she looked at the floor. She couldn't look at him right now. "This is our first kiss as a couple. It's the kiss that we'll always remember, Jason. It may not be a big deal to you, but it is to me. Plus, it's going to be the first planned kiss since the night of the party was just one big fluke."

"Elizabeth…" Her name came out on a broken sigh.

"Jason, I just-"

Her sentence was cut off and her words were forgotten as he took her lips between his. Her hand dropped from his arm for a moment before she ran it right back up, coming to rest on his shoulder where her other hand had also found its place. His hands wandered down to her hips as he pulled her closer, crushing her petite body into his.

She moaned into his mouth as the kiss grew more heated when he intensified it, adding more pressure.

All too soon, when the need for air became palpable, the duo pulled back.

"Jason." She sighed.

"Elizabeth…" He took mouthful of air, placing his forehead against hers as ragged breaths flowed out of him freely. Dear God, he sighed. If this was the way she affect him after one kiss he could only imagine what the fallout would be after they...

His thoughts ceased as Elizabeth pulled his head down, leaning in for another kiss.

"Elizabeth." Carly pinched her again.

"Ow." Elizabeth ran her hand over her arm, glaring at Carly for ruining her daydream. "Why did you do it again?"

"Because you weren't listening to me." Carly quipped back. "…Again."

"Heaven forbid." Elizabeth mumbled.

"Hey. That wasn't very nice." The blonde scolded her. "I was being nice by trying to tell you that the five minute bell rang and that you'll be late to homeroom if you don't hurry up. But if this is the way you're going to treat me for being a good friend? Forget it."

"Carly." She ran her free hand through her hair, smoothing it down lightly. "I really appreciate that. Thank you."

"You're welcome." She stared at her for a moment, sizing her up. "Are you alright? You look flushed."

"I'm fine." She attempted to sound as confident as possible.

"That must have been one hell of a daydream."

"What?" Elizabeth's head snapped up at her in surprise. "Carly!"

Carly snickered at her as she grinned. "What? I didn't say anything." She laughed again as she purposely bumped into her friend, leaving her to get to homeroom on time.

Elizabeth glared at her retreating form before heading in the opposite direction. She had a perfect attendance record and she didn't want to ruin that by running after Carly. Last Friday when she and Jason had arrived late, they had only missed the first bell and had still found a way to get to homeroom on time. There was no way she would be late because of Carly. It just wasn't happening.

"Elizabeth, did you study for the test?" Emily asked her as she moved her seat back to its normal position.

"Yes." She nodded at her friend whose desk sat next to her own. "I studied in Study Hall on Friday and then I studied for an hour at home yesterday. I think I did pretty well." She met Emily's stare. "You?"

"I studied a little bit in Study Hall too but I forgot most of it over the weekend." She grinned cheekily at her friend. "And since Nikolas had that big party this weekend I wasn't home long enough to study. Which also reminds me – you never gave me an excuse as to why you never showed up." She frowned. "I probably failed that test. Logarithms and me just don't mix. But, then again that's what I thought about the last one too, so-"

"Is everyone finished?" Mr. Quinn addressed the class from behind his desk. If they weren't finished, there was no need for them to be talking. "Good." He nodded his head when the class assured him everyone had handed in their tests. "Now that everyone has finished the Logarithms Test you can all get out of test position and put your desks back into normal rows. I hope you all remembered to bring your notebooks today. I've been reminding you guys since last week that we had a notebook test today."

He watched his students finish talking and one by one each of them put their desks back into rows, leaving out their notebooks for the test. Each marking period he gave his students a notebook test that was worth a total of fifty points. Then he would give them a homework grade also out of fifty points and add the two grades together, thus giving them an extra test grade.

"Everyone ready?" When no one argued he began to pass out the test. "You have five minutes to finish this. There are only twenty questions and since you guys all claim to be organized, it shouldn't take you any longer than that."

He finished passing out the test and walked to the front of the room, staring down at his watch. "You have five minutes. Begin."

Four minutes later everyone had handed in their tests except for Carly who was still ruffling through her notebook, trying to find the answers and Lucky, who had been relegated to the back of the classroom due to his nature of annoying the teacher. He aced his tests but always did poorly on the notebook test because of his lack of organization.

All the teacher provided on the sheet was the homework number and the number of the problem he wanted the answer for. He didn't want the entire problem to be worked out, all he required was the final answer. That's it. It should be simple, Mr. Quinn sighed as he watched Carly frown at her messy notebook. Each year he had a select few who no matter what they did, couldn't keep a nice, neat notebook. Apparently Carly and Lucky were falling under that category this year.

How she found her homework in that disheveled mess she called a notebook he had no clue, Mr. Quinn shook his head at the blonde again. "Thirty seconds left." He called out to the duo.

Carly quickly wrote down the answer to the last problem on the sheet and quickly made her way to the front, handing in the test without double checking to make sure she had filled in an answer for each question. And just as she was making her way back to her seat, Lucky was rushing to the front to hand his own test in. He added his test to the pile on the desk before walking right back to his seat without a word.

Being that it was a half day, Mr. Quinn had already told them that after the test they wouldn't have time to learn new material, therefore they would begin a new lesson the following day. So, everyone took the opportunity to engage in conversation with their friends, moving around the room at will. A few moments later everyone had been too busy speaking with all of their friends to notice that their teacher had begun speaking.

"The Canary is the only bird that can fly through a hurricane." Mr. Quinn spoke out randomly to his class in the same monotone that the people on the discovery channel used. "A Penguin has wings, but doesn't fly." He continued to speak as the kids in the class that sat nearest his desk tried to suppress their giggles.

This was her favorite class, Elizabeth smiled at her teacher before glancing sideways at Emily who, she noted, was also trying to keep a straight face. Mr. Quinn was funny and most of the time he didn't even have to try to be…it was just who he was.

"Penguins spend seventy-five percent of their time underwater." He shook his head, tilting his head to the side as if he were pondering his words. "They can be found on the continent of Antarctica where it's so cold that you could freeze a lake and go ice skating on it twenty minutes later."

"North America, South America…" Elizabeth began to sing low enough so that only Emily could hear her. "Then there's Africa, there's a jungle there."

"Don't forget there's Europe and Asia too, I'll name them all for you." Emily sang along with her.

"Way down south there's Antarctica, boy it's cold down there..." Elizabeth covered her arms, pretending to shiver. "Bring your long underwear."

"Australia is the smallest one of all. I've named them all for you." Emily joined in once again.

Elizabeth finished humming the familiar tune with Emily and the two looked around the room, noticing that everyone's eyes were now focused on them. Apparently they had gotten pretty loud at the end, the two brunettes surmised.

"What?" Elizabeth asked. No one answered her and instead turned around and went back to what they were doing before she started singing. Elizabeth looked over at Emily and blushed before checking to see their teacher's reaction. Mr. Quinn was staring at the two of them in shock.

"You guys have never sung in the middle of class before." He continued to eye them, still stunned by their singing.

"Well…" Emily laughed. "There's a first time for everything."

Touché, Mr. Quinn said silently to himself.

Elizabeth remained in her seat as she continued to blush. This was the second time today she had captured the attention of a whole crowd. It was also the second time in one day that her face was as red as an apple.

"Ms. Lippy's car is green." Mr. Quinn recited a quote from one of his favorite movies. Usually when he quoted a well known movie the class would join in. Especially when the particular movie was Billy Madison. He loved the movie himself, but it seemed like they were reciting lines from that movie every week in this class.

"Well, sorry doesn't put the Triscuit crackers in my stomach now, does it Carl?" Elizabeth joined in, keeping up with tradition by ticking off another famous quote from the movie.

She smiled to herself as she looked up at the clock on the wall. Only fourth block to go and then school was over for the day. She, Emily, Nikolas, and Jason were all going to Kelly's after school. Lucky was supposed to go with them, but he was meeting up with his newest conquest instead. And Jason had invited Sonny as well, but he and Carly had apparently hit it off at Nikolas' party over the weekend and were going out by themselves after school.

She stifled a groan, remembering when Carly had gushed all about the party throughout second block. Thank God Carly's seat wasn't near hers in this class or she'd probably have to go through it again. It was times like this when she regretted ripping up a pass from the main office and decided to stay for the entire period.

"T-T-T-TODAY JUNIOR!" Emily beamed, smiling at Elizabeth as she delivered her all time favorite line from the movie. She even did a pretty good impression of Adam Sandler, or at least she thought so.

"Its nudie magazine day." Mr. Quinn laughed and Elizabeth and Emily joined in as well as some of the other kids that were closest to his desk and to the teacher himself.

"Nudie magazine day, nudie magazine day…" Elizabeth and Emily chimed in, singing in sync once again.

The bell rang marking the end of the period and while the other kids groaned at the prospect of having to leave their favorite period of the day, Elizabeth smiled as she made her way into the crowded hallway.

Only one more class to go and then she could see Jason.

Her smile deepened as she placed her books into her locker. Her last period of the day was Study Hall so she really had it easy once Algebra 2 was over. She could easily coast through the rest of the day. The only bummer was that she and Jason hadn't had a class together since last half. Their school had block scheduling which had its advantages and disadvantages. In this case, it was a disadvantage since she no longer shared fourth block English with her boyfriend.

She closed her locker and made her way down the hall to the cafeteria where Study Hall was held. She'd have to snatch up a newspaper when she got in there to keep herself busy since she had no homework tonight.

One more block to go, she reminded herself.