" Oooh, a sleepover? Can I come?," Taylor begged with a smile.
" No fair! If Tay gets to go, I get to go!," Zac shot back. He turned to look at Felicia with puppy-dog eyes. " Can we come too?," he asked sweetly.
" Are you out of your mind?," Felicia laughed.
" No way!," Maddy giggled," There is absolutely no way you are staying at my house for a sleepover!"
Taylor put his arms around her waist and gave her a winning smile. " Why not? We'll be on our best behaivor," he promised.
" I'll bet! I've seen your 'best behavior'," she joked, pulling out of his grasp.
" Smart move, Maddy. That boy's way too horny for his own good!," Zac laughed. He stood behind Felicia and lightly draped his arms around her neck in a sort of hug and rested his chin on her shoulder. "But I can come, right? You know I'll be good."
" You can quit kissing ass, Zac," Felicia ducked out of his hold," You're just as horny as Taylor."
" Hey, I resent all this bad talk about me!," Taylor protested," I am not that horny."
" Well I'm sorry Taylor," Maddy said in a surgery sweet voice," but it's the truth and as you know I can never tell a lie." She took off running, Taylor hot on her heals. Felicia and Zac watched them run from the room and out the back door, listening for a moment to the shrieks and laughter. Zac stared off in the direction they took with his eyebrows raised for a moment, then turned back to Felicia.
" They're both too horny," he decided," So anyway, why else are we not wanted around tonight?"
" Because we want to act stupid, gossip, and diss you guys in private," she smirked.
" That's your idea of fun?"
" Yeah! We're also gonna watch horror movies, pig out, maybe play a few games of truth-or-dare."
Zac's eyes lit up. " Really?," he said, a mischievous grin on his face.
" Hey, get that look off your face," Felicia told him," I know that look and I don't like it."
" What look?," he continued to grin.
" That look. That one right there."
" Well what's wrong with it?"
" In short, you are a perv."
" I'm not perverted."
" Yeah you are! Don't even try to deny it!"
" It's just that I had a certain dare of my own in mind."
" Yeah? What dare?," Felicia asked with a smile.
In reply, Zac bent forward and lightly touched his lips to hers. When he leaned back, he was not happy to note the dissapointment on her face.
" What?" He felt a little embarrassed.
She didn't answer. She stared at him for a moment. Suddenly, she reached out and grabbed the front of his shirt. His eyes opened wide in surprise as she jerked him forward, but quickly closed again when she leaned in close and gave him a long, hard kiss. They sat like that for a moment, then pulled away, breathless.
" Woah!," he exclaimed, trying to catch his breath, " What brought that on?"
" Do you wish I hadn't done it?," she asked nervously.
" No, I'm glad you did it. I'm just wondering what brought it on."
Felicia grinned relief. " Because I can and because I wanted to."
" That's a side of you I don't see very often, though. Hey, are you aware that your hair's hanging in front of your face?"
Felicia pulled a scrunchie off her wrist and proceeded to twist her hair back. " Did you notice how quiet it got out there?," she indicated the back yard," I wonder what Tay and Maddy are doing?"
" Who knows? They could be in a lip lock for all I know," Zac shrugged, then grinned," Hey, speaking of which..."
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" Come on, Taylor! Get off me!," Maddy shrieked. Having been tackled by Taylor, she was lying on her back with her arms pinned down and Taylor was sitting on her stomach. Her demand didn't sound very convincing, though, since she was laughing so hard.
" Say you're sorry."
" No. I don't want to," she giggled.
" Why are you laughing?," he asked with a smile.
" Your knee is in my ribs."
" Oh. Is that better?," he asked, shifting his leg. He had forgotten how ticklish she was.
" Yeah. Now get off."
" No."
She dropped her head back down on the ground." Man, you've got a bony butt!," she groaned.
" Now there's no need for insults."
" You know, I think you can let go off my arms. I'm already pretty much trapped and you're kinda hurting my wrists."
" Kay, but I'm still not getting off. You have to say you're sorry first."
" I can't."
" Why not?"
" I forgot what you want me to apologize for."
" For starters for making me sound like I'm sex-crazed. Then there's you making fun of my butt."
" But it it boney," Maddy teased.
" You still have to apologize."
" Forget it."
" Then I guess you're stuck."
" I guess so."
Taylor was grattfied to note that she did not demand that he get up. He leaned down, elbows on the grass on either side of her shoulders and rested his chin in his hands, his face just inches from hers.
" Please let me up?," Maddy whispered.
" Uh-uh," he whispered back.
" Pretty please?"
" Let me think about it...no."
" Pretty please with sugar on top?"
" What will you give me?"
" Depends on what you want."
" Well..." He leaned in closer and lightly touched his lips to hers. He started to pull away, but she placed her hand on the back of his neck and held him close, deepening the kiss, not wanting to let him go.
" All right! You go Tay!"
Taylor immediately sat up and looked into the amused faces of Zac and Felicia. He realized he had been laying on Maddy the whole time, so it looked pretty incriminating. He quickly stood up, then reached down to help Maddy.
" Boy, you guys sure were going at it," Zac continued.
" Zac!" Felicia gave his arm a whack.
" Ouch! What was that for?"
" Sorry guys," Felicia ignored his question," We just came out here to tell you that Terry called, Maddy. Her mom said she can come over tonight"
" Oh, okay," Maddy said, her face bright red with embarrasment.
" You know what? Now Ike's gonna be begging to come over to this sleepover too. Although in that case, it may just turn into a make-out party," Zac snickered.
Felicia smacked the back of his head. " Shut up! Anyway, we didn't mean to interupt anything," she grinned," Just go back to what you were doing. Sorry about someones rude behavior," she shot Zac a look.
He grinned sheepishly. " But you guys looked like you were trying to eat each others faces or something. I just had to comment on that." Everyone stared at him for a moment.
" Don't worry about him, Felicia," Taylor smiled wickedly," I'll just kill him when we get home."
" Um, gulp," Zac said.
" Speaking of home, you guys should probably go there," Maddy told them," If my mom knew you were still here, she'd ground me for a month."
" Hey, Maddy? Couldn't we stay just a little longer?," Zac said," If we go home now, Taylor will kill me, but if we stayed a little longer, he will have a chance to calm down and will forget about killing me. You wouldn't want to see me die, would you?" He smiled at her sweetly.
Maddy stared at him, then turned to Taylor " Tay, have fun. Zac, it's been nice knowing you. But you're gonna have to die at your own house."
" The world is against me!," Zac muttered, crossing his arms.
" Yeah, yeah. Out!," Maddy pointed towards the door with a smile.
" Aw man!"
