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I Do Not Own Sisters Grimm.

Chapter 21

Complete silence fell over the room along with the blanket of darkness. Nobody moved, of course that would have been slightly difficult to do, tangled up as we were. Then someone slipped and chaos ensued. I couldn't see anything, but I felt an elbow digging into my stomach and let out a yelp. In the pitch black we somehow managed to untangle ourselves with only a few yelps, gasps of pain, and curses. I could feel someone beside me, but had no idea who it was. I heard movement and someone digging in a bag, and then a small light flicked on.

"My book light," Lilly smiled. She shined the light around the room in an attempt to find everyone. No one appeared to be seriously injured.

"What happened?" I heard Puck's voice from the direction of the couch.

"Power's out," Brad called from the far end of the room.

"Was it the storm?" Allie asked nervously.

"A snowplow probably hit the power line," Lydia reasoned.

"Or the power plant is covered in snow so it can't make power," Ben countered.

"Or we could assume the more likely, believable situation," Lydia argued.

"Will you guys stop arguing like an old married couple?" Mike asked.

"Yeah, it's a bit early in your relationship for that," Brad commented.

Lydia turned on him, "We are not in a relationship!" she said, her death stare illuminated by Lilly's light.

"Are we just going to sit here in the dark? Is there a fancy emergency generator that will turn on?" Anna asked.

"No, Dad didn't think we would need one."

"What about all the candles in the windows upstairs?" Seth asked.

"They're not real candles, they're battery powered… oh, I see what you mean." Brad realized. "I'll need a light to get up there without killing myself."

"I'll help you carry them down. We can use my book light," Lilly offered.

"Okay. We shouldn't be long," He said as they started to climb the stairs leaving us in the dark.

"What now?" I asked to no one in particular.

"We could play spin the bottle," Anna suggested, and I knew she was thinking of Puck and I when she said it.

"How would we see the bottle, or the other people?" asked Puck.

"I see your point," Anna said slightly deflated.

The room fell silent and minutes passed without another real suggestion. There were several outbursts of "We could play… wait that requires vision", but nothing would work. It was a huge relief when I saw light on the staircase. Brad and Lilly had returned with an armload of plastic candles each. They quickly set them up around the room putting the majority in the area we were sitting. It wasn't that bright, but it was light, and I could see everyone again.

"That's better," Brad said as he placed the last candle, and joined the circle that we had formed on the ground.

"Oh, I've got it! We should play truth or dare!" Allie suggested.

Everyone agreed, although some reluctantly and Allie was chosen to go first since she had suggested the game. She looked dramatically at each player, taking her time.

"Robin, truth or dare," she said excitedly.

"Dare?" he responded nervously.

"Hmm…I dare you to… speak in rhymes for the rest of the game," she said with an evil grin.

"Why the grin? This dare doesn't make my head spin," He responded with a smirk. " Brad, truth or dare, which you choose I really don't care."

Puck was having an easy time with his dare being a character from one of Shakespeare's plays. It was actually kind of funny to see everyone's reactions to his rhyming skills. I myself was rather surprised.

"Truth."

"I'd really like to hear from you, if you could be invisible for a day what would you do?" Puck rhymed.

"That's a tough one. I'd probably make people think I was a ghost, slam a few doors, move some stuff, you know the typical ghost stuff. That'd be funny," he answered while laughing to himself. "Okay, Anna, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?" he asked her.

Anna looked mortified, but answered all the same."I walked out of a changing room one time and forgot to put my shirt back on. I was really out of it that day," she responded while looking down. Everyone laughed, we knew Anna could be a bit forgetful sometimes, but not this forgetful. "Lydia, truth or dare?" she asked.

"Dare," the girl responded.

An evil smile crossed Anna's face, "I dare you to sit on Ben's lap for the rest of the game. The only time you can get up is if one of you has to do another dare, but you have to sit on his lap again afterwards."

Lydia reluctantly got up and sat on Ben's lap, an expression of disgust on her face, but it soon faded. She looked across the room and her eyes landed on me. "Sabrina, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"Do you or did you sleep with a stuffed animal or blanket?"

"Yeah, a blue teddy bear when I was little," I replied and there was some laughter from Puck, "Would you like me to tell them about you?" I asked him thinking of his stuffed unicorn.

"No." he replied.

"Lilly, truth or dare?"I asked.

"Dare."

"I dare you to sing the theme song to a TV show."

She looked like she was thinking for a while then began to sing the theme song to Barney. Everyone in the room cracked up laughing and didn't stop until she had finished. She took her time choosing, but when she did Mike was dared to have someone draw a mustache on his face. Allie did the honors and soon Mike had black marker facial hair. The game went on with Seth revealing that the stupidest thing he had ever done for a dare was lick a pole outside in the middle of winter. Then it was back to Allie.

The game went on for some time, but it was dying down and everyone seemed to be getting tired of it. Then Puck, who had been dared to stop rhyming because it had gotten really annoying, took his turn to ask. "Seth, truth or dare?"

"Dare," was the response.

"I dare you to…" He got up and whispered the dare in Seth's ear.

"No way!" Seth cried out in alarm.

"Or you could tell the group how you feel, in detail, about that person."

"Fine. I'll tell the group," he gave in.

"Go right ahead," Puck responded.

"I've been good friends with Anna for a long time," he started. "She was the friend that I could tell everything to. The one I would trust with my life. We started out as friends, but sometime last year I came to the realization that I wanted to be more than friends. Of course then she was dating Tom so I knew nothing would happen. We still continued to be friends, but nothing more happened. Then after she caught Tom cheating I was there for her, because nothing mattered more to me than seeing her smile again." He looked over at Anna when he said this and met her eyes, "When I'm with Anna, the world seems like a better place, and it feels as if that's how the universe intended things to be," he finished and broke eye contact with Anna.

She got up and moved so that she was sitting next to him. "That was the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me," she whispered. He looked up, surprised to find her there.

"You mean I didn't ruin our friendship and make things really awkward between us?"

"No, but I've been thinking lately," she said their faces only inches apart, "And I don't want to be friends anymore." His face fell, and he started to protest but she cut him off, pressing her lips to his. When they broke apart she whispered, "I want to be something more." A goofy smile made its way onto his face at that and he captured her lips once more in a sweet and loving kiss. When they broke apart Anna stayed by his side, sitting a little closer than necessary and holding his hand.

"Hmm… I'll pick…" Seth started, but was interrupted by Anna whispering in his ear, her matchmaker smile playing across her face. "Ben, truth or dare?"

Ben looked warily around Lydia, who was still sitting on his lap, at Anna. He knew enough to know what would be coming if Seth used a dare from Anna. Then he cast a quick glance at Lydia, his face softening as he did so. Lydia was looking at Anna, knowing what she wanted. Lydia was good at hiding her emotions though, so I had no clue as to what she was thinking. "Dare," Ben's voice broke the silence and Anna smiled. Lydia looked at him in shock.

"You chose dare," gasped Lydia. "You do know what she'll dare you to do, right?"

"Yeah," he replied calmly.

"Why?" she asked looking into his eyes, a nervous tone to her voice, and uncertainty plastered on her face.

"Ugh, can we please stop all this talk about feelings and kissing? It's making me nauseous," Puck said in an irritated voice, instantly drawing all attention to him.

"You're the one who started it," commented Seth.

"Yeah, because I didn't think you'd do it," he replied.

"How about we just play something else," Anna suggested.

"How about never have I ever? I saw a thing somewhere where they played with candy, that could be fun," Lilly offered.

"Do you have any candy Brad?"Allie asked.

"Yeah, I'll go get some," he said taking one of the candles and heading off up the stairs.

Five minutes later we were sitting in a circle each with a pile of small candies in front of us. We were all looking expectantly at Lilly, waiting for her to start.

"Never have I ever been in a car accident," she started. Brad was the only one to eat a piece of candy.

"Never let my dad drive you anywhere," he commented.

"Never have I ever been in the hospital." Four people ate a piece of candy.

"Never have I ever cheated on a test." Puck ate a piece of candy.

Soon after we heard movement upstairs, the opening of doors, the clattering of keys, the stomping of boots, and the outcries of an angry Charming. He must be regretting not getting a generator. Then I heard the footsteps on the stairs and saw the slim figure of Snow White enter the room. She easily captured everyone's attention without saying a word.

"Hi Mom," Brad welcomed her.

"Hi everyone," she started, "I called all you parents on the car ride home, and with the conditions that the roads are in we've decided that it would be safest if you all just spent the night here. They can come pick you up in the morning when the roads have been cleared and it has stopped snowing. Is there anyone who objects to the plan?" No one made a move. "Okay, I'll get some rooms ready for you all." She said and left us to continue our game.


We were all getting ready for bed. Snow had prepared a room for the girls and a room for the boys and showed us to a bathroom down the hall. Anna, Puck, and I were waiting for the bathroom; everyone else was in one of the two rooms chatting loudly. The door knob turned and Lilly walked out while Anna walked in, closing the door behind her, but not before giving me a wink that Puck didn't fail to notice. Puck and I were left alone in the hallway, as Lilly walked back to the room.

"She's trying to play matchmaker again, isn't she?" He said in an agitated voice.

"She's always trying to play matchmaker," I replied.

"Why does everyone think we would make such a good couple anyways?" He asked.

"My question is why do so many people think we would make a good couple?"

"Maybe they can see something that we can't," he suggested.

We had been leaning against a wall, facing the wall opposite, but I turned to him when he said that. "But what do they see?"

He turned to face me, inching closer as he did so. "Maybe they see…I think the expression used these days is 'sparks'," he said uncertainly.

"Yeah, that's the expression, but if there are sparks, why can't we see them?" I asked, curious to hear his response.

"Maybe we haven't looked close enough," he said, his voice quiet and his face dead serious. His eyes were locked with mine and I could see a hint of nervousness in them.

I had rarely seen this side of Puck, the thoughtful and nervous side. The side of him that wasn't an arrogant four thousand year old that looked and acted like a kid. This was the side of Puck that I know his mother saw, but his father didn't. It was the side of Puck that would make him a better king than his dad.

"But we're so different, Puck. Could it ever work? And then there's my dad to worry about," I fretted.

"Henry's the least of our worries," He said with confidence.

"Are we really talking about us dating right now?" I asked, dumbfounded.

"Crazy, isn't it? And neither one of us has objected yet," he noted, taking another step closer. We were only a few inches apart, my heart was beating out of my chest, and his eyes were boring into mine.

"Yeah, really crazy," I whispered.

"Didn't you mom tell us not to do anything crazy?" he asked.

"She's not here to stop us," I replied and a small smile appeared on his face.

"Then maybe we should do something crazier," he suggested.

"Maybe we should."

As soon as the words escaped my lips the small gap between us was closed. Puck's hands were at my face and waist and mine at his shoulders. We stood like that for a second, shock on both our faces, and then Puck captured my lips with his.

My first kiss with Puck had been forced and unwelcome. My second kiss with Puck could hardly be considered a kiss; I mean he hadn't even been awake. Our third kiss came out of nowhere and only caused us confusion. But this, our fourth kiss… it was magical. It was consensual and sweet. It was a clearing of the mind and an awakening of the heart. It was everything a girl dreams about when they picture their first kiss. It was, not to sound too cliché, perfect.

"Oh my gosh!" We broke apart at the sound of Anna's voice. She had just emerged from the bathroom and was staring at us with wide eyes. "I'm just going to leave you two alone now," she said awkwardly and dashed off down the hall.

"You know I didn't see those sparks," Puck said when she was gone.

"You didn't?" I asked slightly let down.

"I'd say it was more of a full blown fireworks show," He replied with a sly smile playing on his lips.

I smiled up at him, "Me too, fairyboy, me too."

Sorry this took so long to write, but I was having a hard time with some of that truth or dare stuff. I did finish it though and at a point where I shouldn't have too much trouble with the next few chapters.

If you found the part where they play never have I ever was confusing to you I'll try to help. Someone says something they have never done and then everyone who has done that would normally take a sip of drink. I changed it to eating candy though because they are not old enough to drink, and I saw a thing about playing with candy online and it looked cool. If this doesn't help then you can find more on the game online.

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My two week vacation is coming up in just over a week so there will probably only be a few more chapters, then I'll drop off the face of the Earth for two weeks, but return with more chapters. That is unless I bring my laptop, but that probably won't happen.

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