A/N: I wanted to thank you guys again for supporting me. I apologize for the wait. I have a family member who is very, very sick so you guys pray for him please. I hope you enjoy this chapter. It is not as long as I had originally wanted it be, but oh I got the idea across.
Beck's POV
Tori and I had texted the gang and told them all to come over, gone to the store and gotten all the stuff we needed, and gone back to the house. We sat on the couch waiting for everyone to arrive. She was channel surfing and staring at the flat screen. I couldn't make myself stop watching her. Something about her, or something about me, I wasn't sure yet, had me so attracted to her. I slid closer to her on the couch.
"Tor?" She looked at me.
"Yeah?"
"Do you find me… attractive?"
"Uh… well… umm.. Yes?" I laughed.
"You don't sound so sure." She looked away but laughed with me.
"Well, I mean yeah, Beck. But , really…" She looked back. "Is that is out of the norm?"
We both laughed. She always made me feel like I had known her all my life. She didn't even have to try. She just did something to me. I put my arm behind her and rested it on her shoulders. I felt giddy, like a kid with a crush. I liked Tori, even though according to my brain I hadn't known her that ling, but I think my heart had a different idea.
Tori let her head lay back and rest on my shoulder and we watched TV together for a few minutes. And the doorbell rang. We jumped up like we'd been caught. We looked at each other and laughed nervously.
Tori went and opened the door to an excited Andre. "Hey, hey!" He shouted as he came through the door with his arms stretched wide. Tori jumped into his arms, for a split second I felt an empty feeling then I remembered… "Who's your best friend?... Andre." I shouldn't be jealous anyway, she's not into me.
After everyone had arrived we turned on some music and played Phase 10 for a while. "Okay this is boring!" Andre piped up. We all looked surprised.
"What? I'm just saying what everybody was thinking."
Cat giggled. "My cousin and me had a sleepover once, and we played a game called truth or dare."
"I'm in." Andre said.
"Yeah, me too," said Robbie.
"Yay," chimed Cat.
"Sounds like fun!" I said. And Tori looked at me and smiled.
"So let's mix it up a little and play with a spin-the-bottle twist." Tori grinned. Everyone had moved to a circle in the floor. Tori came from the kitchen with an empty glass bottle. "Whoever the bottle lands on does a truth or dare. And it goes from there." Sounded like fun to me so I nodded.
She put the bottle down and twisted her wrist. We all watched anxiously as the bottle did a few quick rotations and stopped on Robbie.
"Dare," Robbie said with a sly smile. He thought he was being unpredictable.
We all looked at each other and nodded to Cat. She giggled and took off her shoe. "I dare you to lick my foot." And she stuck it to Robbie's face.
"Ugh." Robbie groaned, but he gave in and quickly stuck his tongue to Cat's foot.
We all burst into a blast of laughter. We spun the bottle again and I watched as it rotated slower and slower and stopped on Tori. She looked at me with terror in her eyes. I wasn't sure why.
"Dare…?" She sounded terrified but determined all at once, something only she was capable of.
"Okay," said Andre. He looked around at the others with a devious smile. "Kiss Beck."
"Oh, I knew that was coming," she said.
And yet she had still picked dare. She wanted to kiss me?
She looked at me with a look of question. I nodded, giving her permission to follow through with the dare.
I watched her get up on her knees to crawl over to me across. She gulped and got closer to me. When we were just and inch apart she stopped. I could feel her sweet breath on my bottom lip. I wanted it more than I ever could imagine and I didn't know why. Then it dawned on me that my friends had made it okay when they dared her, and I made a quick move to her face.
Our lips met and my head went for a whirl. I saw Jade threatening her, and I saw her pulling a shrimp out of her dress and so many visions of my life swirled around in my head and it stopped on one. We were sitting on the couch in the very same room, just me and her. I was getting closer and closer to her about to kiss her and she stopped me. "I can't do this. Jade is kind of my friend… I think..."
My head snapped back to reality and she had pulled away from me. I sat there wide-eyed, staring into space. I cannot believe what just happened!
