Milkshake Hearts

Chapter 27: Never Have I Ever

A/N: The same note about responsible alcohol consumption goes here as the previous chapter. Be safe.

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Their game of never have I ever starts easily, with a bunch of mildly risqué questions asking about speeding, porn, pirating. It manages to get almost all of them to drink a couple times, which would be useful if this wasn't being played so many hours into their evening when they're already well-liquored.

"Never have I ever broken up with someone over political beliefs?" Ian asks in their second round around the table, ever the strange question, only half the table actually drinking in response.

"Stolen something physical as an adult?" Damien brings in his suggestion, and it causes them all to launch on Sarah, the only person to actually drink, for the story – which turns out to be way less intense than it sounded, instead being a grocery store checkout accident.

Shayne and Courtney, for their part, each come up with a vaguely sexual suggestion which they already know neither of them will have to actually drink to, although they catch a couple of others with it, no one seeking any more detail.

"Dated a coworker?" Sarah asks, after them, having swapped with Olivia again some time ago so she is now beside Courtney.

"Hey, targeted much?" Shayne laughs, reaching for his beer.

"Hey, I didn't say it had to be a current coworker," Sarah answers, and a couple of other crew – and Damien – also drink alongside them.

"Wait, Damien?" Shayne asks, eyebrow raised.

"Back at Disney, remember? Girl I was dating when we met was someone I'd met at a voice acting thing we both did," he explains, and Shayne nods, the conversation moving on. The questions get more and more specific, although they are yet to have a single time when no one drinks.

"Gone notably further than kissing in public where someone could have seen you?" one of their crew offers their question, a couple of rounds around the table later. Ian and Olivia drink, and Courtney lifts up her almost-empty bottle, tilting it around for a moment of contemplation.

"Well, have you or not?" Damien pushes her, after a moment, and she laughs.

"I haven't, I was just considering whether it was worth changing my answer right now so I can finish this and tap out of the game," she replies, glancing over at Shayne to see him laugh, somewhere between embarrassed and on-board. She doesn't do anything, though, placing her bottle back down on the table. "But all of you are watching now, so no."

The next question is notably broader, and all of them drink, Courtney finishing her drink and sliding it into the middle of the table.

"I'm out unless someone can come up with something for me to do instead of drinking. No more drinking for me," she tells the table, and for the next few rounds, she simply leans back against Shayne and watches everything unfold, as the others who come to the end of their drinks opt instead to order another final round.

"You know, you could always kiss me instead of drinking," Shayne suggests, while the others are debating someone's answer to a question that they think requires a more technically accurate response.

"You just want me to kiss you," she replies, laughing, pulling her face closer to his.

"Well, yeah," he replies, grinning for a moment before he lifts his hand up to cup her face, gently pulling her towards him and into a firm kiss. She is the one to tentatively run her tongue along the join of his lips and deepen the kiss, but he responds in kind, and they let the outside world fall away from them for probably too long before they let the kiss slow to an end. Shayne's hand doesn't leave her cheek, though, and their foreheads press together as they remain close for a further few moments, slowly letting their surroundings come back into their focus. There is some mild jeering from their friends, and it causes them to pull back, glancing around to see they definitely had some kind of audience.