With the kids in bed after dinner, and the grown ups left with some time alone it was time to clean up. The men decided they would do the dishes and clear the table while the ladies went back outside to sit around the fire that was still blazing. The night was warm despite the changing season and it was perfect to be outside in the early evening light.

Natalie and Nimah with a glass of wine, and Alex and Shelby with some tea. Unfortunatley, due to breastfeeding. This is one of the reasons Alex wish she could start her son on formula, soon. She misses a beer every now and then.

"I need you to promise me that we will never wait so long to hang out again." Nimah said looking at her friends. I have honestly missed our time together.

"I agree." Shelby added.

"How about game night at least once a month at someone's house? That should become our grown up equivalent to sleepovers." Alex laughed and everyone agreed with that.

In the kitchen Clive was still practicing his speech on how he will ask Natalie to marry him. With help from the guys. They tried to get hi to write it down on the notepad Shelby kept on the fridge, that reminds her of the groceries she has to buy. "I might not have said it before but I am a poet at heart." Quade said guiding Clive into the start of his speech.

"Make similarities between earthlly things and Natalie." Quade said, and Clive started writing.

"Okay. You are the moon...on my darkest night. You make the sun come out on a cloudy day, you're my number one, you're my special thing." Clive said the words out loud as he started writng them down and Caleb's face changed.

"Wait, is that not the lyrics to a pussycat dolls song?" Caleb asked surprised

Ryan couldn't contain his laughter anymore, "I don't know if I'm more amused by Clive making himself guilty of plagarism. Or Caleb knowing the Pussycat Dolls." Ryan and Quade high fived each other on that satatement as they shared the same amount of laughter.

Their conversation was cut short when cries came from the room and Ryan noticed it was his son crying. Excusing himself from the rest of the crew he went to check in to see what the problem was. Despite Asher's cries CJ was still sleeping, and so was Renata and Phoebe.

He walkd closer to the bed to pick up his son. "hey buddy, what's wrong?" He whispered changing his diaper. It took a while for Asher to calm down once he heard his father's voice. After a clean diaper he was still fussy and Ryan couldn't do anything about that and had to get Alex to come to the rescue.

As if on cue when she heard her son's cries she got up from the table and walked inside. When the guys saw her through the glass door walking inside Clive quickly hid the notepad in a drawer. Each of them looking really guilty and sly. She wasn;t sure what they were busy with but she'll find out eventually. Part of being and FBI agent is that you manage to find things out without having to dig too deep.

Alex walked into the room seeing her husband and her son and wordlessly Ryan handed Asher over to her, kissing her forehead in the process.

"Hey buddy, are you hungry?" Alex asked but Asher just got comfortable snuggling up to his mother, staring into her eyes. His fussing a thing of the past.

"Oh, okay is this how it is now. You like your mother more than me." Ryan chuckled at the sound Asher made in agreement. "Mama's boy." Ryan smiled stroking a finger lightly over his son's head before heading out and continuing the cleaning of the kitchen. Alex nursed and burped her son before laying him back down and joining the rest of the friends back outside. Reporting back to the mothers in the group that the kids were alright and still fast asleep.

Once everyone were settled in arounf the fire, Caleb suggested a game of truth or dare. And everyone agreed. Feeling like this is some college camp with the traditional game.

"Are there any questions that are off limits?" Natalie asked and Caleby smiled slyly shaking his head.

"No Miss Vasquez, all questions are welcome." He said.

"Alright, Ryan truth or dare?" Caleb asked.

"Why do we have to start with me? But okay truth." Ryan dediced waiting for the question.

"When was the last time you had sex?" He blurted out.

Alex could feel her face turning a shade of red and Ryan smiled looking up at the stars. "Ryan I swear if you answer that." Alex laughed uncontrolably knowing how long it had been since they were intimate.

"Two weeks ago today." He laughed.

"Are you serious, why would you know the exact date?"Alex looked at him in surprise hitting his shoulder playfully.

Nimah was bent over with laughter, "Alex how could you!"

"I'm not even gonna explain. Let's move on next question." She said covering her face.

"Shelby, truth or dare?" Alex asked.

"Truth" the blonde said uncertain about the dare part or what kind of dare they would assign to her either way.

"How loud are your moans?" Alex asked and Caleb sank down in his chair.

"Let me say this, CJ sleeps in the nursery down the hall, and his sleep was disturbed last night. But he had to cry for a while though, wasn;t gonna tend to him before reaching the finish line."

"That doesn't make us bad parents does it?" Caleb asked looking around and everyone shook their heads.

"Natalie, truth or dare." Nimah said when it got to her turn.

"I'm not having my bedroom talk exposed here, so dare." She decided.

Nimah reached over for a beer and handed the closed bottle to her. "Dare you to chug this beer within 30 seconds."

"Let's do this." Natalie said.

And as if on cue everyone cheered her on by chanting the traditiona;, chug, chug, chug, chug. And she showed them that she could finish it within 25 seconds. Everyone cheering her on further when they announced her time.

"Nimah, truth or dare." Natalie said

"Dare."

"Alright, have you ever smoked?" Natalie asked and Nimah shook her head.

"Okay well since we have a smoker amongst us, tonight you'll have a taste of your first cigarette." Natalie smiled as a cigarette magically appeared out of the box and was set alight, handed over to Nimah.

"I don't even know how to do this." She laughed looking around for some guidance.

"Just inhale." Caleb said, "and when your lungs are filled blow the smoke out."

Nimah took that advice but she soon started coughing like never before, her friends bursting with laughter. She reached over to the table for the wine left in her glass and started drinking that.

"I may be a rebel compared to my sister, but this was the first and last." She managed to get out in between clearningher throat and coughs.

Ryan looked over to Clive, and put him on the spot. Clive opted for truth and looked at Natalie.

"Clive, Truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"The floor is yours brother." Quade said.

"Natalie, marry me?" He blurted out and everyone sat up straighter in their chairs. Clive got up and walked towards Natalie , getting down on one knee opening a black velvet box in fronf of her. Showing a small delicate diamond ring.

Natalie looked around at everyone's faces and back at Clive. Her eyes sparkling with unshed tears. "While we've been doing dishes the guys tried helping me out with something to say, and we couldn't come up with something that wasn't cheesy." He started.

"Natalie I love you. I wanna spend the rest of my life with you and Renata. Please marry me."

Her hand went to her mouth and she couldn't get a word out besides nodding her head. The rest of the entourage cheering. A perfect end to a perfect night.

Hey guys, I saw a request on truth or dare. I hope I did it justice. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Thank you for reading.

Lovies-S

Ps sorry for any mistakes I was in a hurry to post this and did not go over it to edit.