The bell rang and Noor hurried by to answer it. There outside were two girls, one wearing a short red dress with a diamond necklace and heels and the other wearing a navy blue slinky dress with a haltertop, a pair of diamond earrings and stilletoes.
"Damn, it cold out here!" shivered Guinevere, flipping her straight dark brown shoulder length hair away from her face.

"Guin! Ski Matteo! We were starting to worry if you guys even remembered the party!" exclaimed the spectacled girl.

"We would never miss it for the world," grinned Ski Matteo.

"So you said that you were gonna do something for the party," reminded Noor.

Linez appeared, wearing a long black dress, smirking, "I sure hope you two are not gonna do any strip dancing or anything..."

"That'd be great..." mused Ski Matteo, liking the thought of money given freely to her while being oggled by a roomful of handome basketball players.

Guinevere elbowed her friend, "No, we're not going to do that. We're going to do something even better."

"What is it?" asked Enilyn in her black sweater with a black vest and grey pants.

At that moment, Kogure was walking by and Guinever said, "Watch" before pulling Kogure back and planting a long kiss on the boy's lips.

When the girl released the flustered boy, Ski Matteo announced, "We're in the kissing committee or I'd rather call it 'Smooch the Guys' committee."

"We test these guys how they kiss," explained Guinevere with a grin.
"By the way Kogure-kun," she said patting the boy on his arm, "Nice kiss."

Kogure blinked, "Really? I think I'll go find Mitsui now..."

The girls stared at the shy boy in amusement.

"I mean... um..." tried Kogure blushing, "... to tell him something..."

"Yeah, right," teased Noor.

Kogure blushed harder.

"Hey! I also wanna be in the kissing committee!" said Linez, "I wanna test Sendoh!"

"If she gets Sendoh I get Koshino," said Virgo joining in. Behind her was Rainer in his Calvin Klein polo shirt with a pair of Gap jeans.
"How about you, Rainer?" Virgo asked the guy who was a tall as she was, "Who're you gonna pick."

"Uh... I've got a girlfriend," he explained.

"Well I don't," said a pierced-nose girl wearing a red and gold cheongsam styled shirt with jeans.
"I get to test Hana-kun!" Ruby said.

"I get Rukawa!"

"I want Mitsui!"

Noor sweatdropped, "Uh, guys..."

"Can I do a second test Kogure?"

"Maki! I want Maki!"

They were busy putting claims on the Slam Dunk boys when suddenly Rainer (who took pity on Noor's helplessness) called out, "Girls, please. Noor needs to say something."

Noor gave a thankful smile before turning towards her friends, "I'm sorry but we can't have that kissing committee now. Maybe in the next party. That type of committe is gonna be ... difficult to maintain."
Several types of terrible scenarios appeared in the girl's head which will make the night a total chaos. With a roomful of Slam Dunk characters and agressive fangirls in the same room it is a definite possibility.

Guinevere pouted, "Then what are we gonna do?"

Ritz handed her a jar of iced tea and smiled, "Start serving."

"Hey! Who wants to play a game?" asked Wan who was wearing a pair of jeans and a red spaghetti strap top.

"What kinda game?" asked Kiyota

"Hey why don't you try Spin The Bottle?" suggested Divon. She was wearing a powder blue camisole with a matching cardigan, a pair of leg cream slacks and brown ankle high boots for the party.

"Cool! I'm in!" said Kiyota, "C'mon Jin! You join as well."

Jin smiled indulgently before sitting beside his team-mate.

"I'm in!" chirped Minako sitting beside Kiyota.

"Me too!" said Ruby and Pastles and Enilyn joined as well.

The other girls wanted to play as well but since they were too busy they decided to just let them play with only Kiyota and Jin as the only males in the game.

"Opps I gotta go..." said Divon when she saw Ritz waving towards her, "Duty calls."

"Wait! I don't exactly know how to play this game..." Wan began but Divon was already too far away to hear.

"Any of you guys know how to play?" asked the girl.

They remained silent before Ruby spoke up, "I think we've gotta start spin the bottle and when it stops it will have to point towards a person. Twice for a couple and this couple will have to kiss."

"Ok," said Wan shrugging, "Easy enough."

Then she began the game. She spinned the bottle and they waited for it to stop. They waited and waited and waited....

"Uh," said Pastles, "I think you've spun it too hard."

"Right," said Wan stopping the bottle and then spinning it again, this time at a moderate strength.

When the bottle stopped its mouth pointed at Jin.

"Alright," said Wan, "Now who's Jin gonna kiss...?"

She spinned the bottle again and soon it stopped but it pointed towards nobody in that circle. In fact it stopped at a space between Minako and Enilyn.

"Huh? So Jin's gotta kiss Maki now?" asked Kiyota puzzled.

They turned to look behind and sure enough the bottle was pointing at Maki who was sitting on the couch talking to Akagi and Fujima.

Jin shrugged and casually walked up to Maki. The Kainan center was unaware at what was going on before Jin wrapped his arms around Maki's neck and planted a long, slow kiss on the young man's lips.

When Jin pulled back, Fujima and Akagi stared at the androgynus looking boy, Maki looking stunned.
"We are playing 'Spin the Bottle'," Jin told his captain.

Maki said dryly, "I don't think the game counts other people sitting outside the circle."

"Really?" asked Jin. Then he shrugged and walked back towards the group. The three captains blinked.

"A good kiss there, Jin," hooted Minako.

"Hey, I bet Jin kisses better than you," whispered Enilyn to Kiyota.

Kiyota scowled, "Oh yeah! I'll show you!"

They spinned the bottle again and to Kiyota's delight it stopped, pointing to him. Enthusiastically, he bounded towards Maki before the other girls could stop him and jumped on the captain, kissing the older boy with more force and passion that Maki was rendered in shock, letting Kiyota stradle him until Maki was lying down with the younger boy pressing closer to him.

When Kiyota was done, both were breathing heavily because of lack of breath.

"We are playing 'Spin the Bottle'..." started Kiyota.

Maki pushed the boy off of him, growling, "I told you guys that I'm not in the game."

Kiyota who fell on the floor, rubbed his sore bottom. Ignoring Maki's annoyed look, he asked, "So who kissed better, Maki-sempai? Me or Jin?"

Maki gave the boy an incredulous look while Akagi and Fujima tried hard not to laugh.

After playing a few games the small group stopped, bored because of lack of participants. Kiyota was still unsatisfied because of the 'Spin the Bottle' incident.

Kiyota went to Ruby and asked, "Hey, Ruby. Who did you think kisses better. Me or Jin?"

Ruby thought for a while before replying, "Well, your kiss is really passionate but Jin's kiss was more romantic.. tender.. that borders on erotic. I'd prefer Jin's."

Kiyota scowled and he was still scowling when Jin approached him.

"Are you still sour because of that game?"

"Like hell I am," said Kiyota hotly.

Jin smiled at his friend's childish attitude, "Ok, so let's settle this thing then."

"How?"

"You show me why you think your kiss is better and then I'll do the same," Jin told him

Kiyota looked at Jin in surprise before nodding in agreement. Ruby was already gone so it leaves them alone in the empty corridor that leads to the bathroom. Kiyota eagerly showed Jin how intense his kisses can be by the direct assault to Jin's lips. When they parted they were reeling from the heated act.

"That's...pretty good," admitted Jin, "I'm next."

The tall player started slowly. He tilted Kiyota's head up before leaning down to brush his lips against the boy. Then like before, Jin let his mouth slide smoothly against his partner, lengthening the trail with its slow movement.

Kiyota's kiss is meant to shock the senses by arousing passion but Jin's is meant to scandalize the person's virtue by its sweet and seductive torture.

When they parted, Jin asked a bit breathlessly, "So how was it?"

"Hmm... y'know what? I think you should do it again before I come to a decision."

Jin smiled and they kissed again and when Kiyota told him to start over again two more times, Jin obliged with no complaints. One might agree both boys enjoyed doing it very much.

~~~~~~~~~~

"Koshino! Come in!" said White Fox tugging at the boy's arm, temporarily forgetting her hostess mannerism.

"Wah! Koshino! I'm so glad that you came!" exclaimed Ski Matteo.

"Hey, Koshino! I heard that you and Sendoh broke up. Is that true?!" asked Guinevere.

"How awful! What happened?" asked Noor

"I... uh..." stammered the boy

Then Virgo stepped up, "Come on girls, let him be."
She led the embarrassed boy away but Koshino could still feel curious eyes and ears behind him. True enough the girls were still sticking close to him, following him where Virgo was leading him which was at a cluster of empty chairs near the bar.

"Tell us what happened," Virgo prompted gently.

Koshino cleared his throat and began hesitantly, "Well, Sendoh was the usual himself..."

"Jumping you at every chance that he can get," said Noor.

"Uh... yeah... And so I was in a bad mood and I said..."

~flashback~

Koshino pushed the tall boy, who was kissing his neck, roughly away from him and yelled, "Look Sendoh! I'm sick and tired of you groping and kissing me all the time! I can't stand this anymore!"

Sendoh looked at him in surprise, "Hiro... you don't mean that, do you?"

"Yes, I do!"

"What's the matter with kissing and hugging?" asked Sendoh.

"Nothing," replied Koshino, "It's just that you do it all the time! It's so stiffling!"

"Y-you don't love me anymore?"

"Not to a jerk like you!"

Sendoh laughed and grabbed Koshino, kissing the boy again which earned another yell from him.

"Arghh! Sendoh! That's it! I wanna break up!"

Sendoh pulled his head away and gave a smile, "Oh, come on.."

"I mean it! You're a pervert! " cried the shorter boy.

Then Sendoh expression changed into one that Koshino had not seen before. An expression that shows worry and something else that Koshino can't put a word on.
"You really want to break up with me?"

Something in Koshino screamed at him to not agree when he took in the sight of Sendoh's sorrowful look, but being a stubborn, bad-tempered person on a bad day he said, "Yes!"

"I see. Well there's nothing else I can say about it, " Sendoh said quietly and then he was gone.

~end of flashback~

Everyone was silent when Koshino was done telling them the story.

"Wow! I thought the boy would've put up a fight for you or something," said Divon.

"I... I think I was a bit harsh..." said Koshino quietly.

"Yeah, I think you were. I mean, although Sendoh is not one who backs up easily, he's a gentleman and he wouldn't force somebody into liking him..." said Enilyn.

"But I do like him! It's just that... that..."

Seeing Koshino slowly getting distraught Virgo jabbed Enilyn with her elbow.

"Oof.."

Ignoring the slightly wheezing girl, Virgo put her arm around Koshino's shoulder and said, "Everyone makes mistakes, Koshino-kun. But the question remains, do you really still love him?"

Koshino looked at the waiting people's faces before dropping his head down in a slow nod.

"Yosh! So all you have to do is tell him that you want him back."

"I... I've never... uh... went after someone before... And when he left, Sendoh looked kinda ... I don't know what I should say to him," Koshino told them, looking hopeless.

"If you love him, then you should know what to say. Come on! He's in the kitchen," Virgo said pushing the boy towards the kitchen.

Koshino found only Rukawa in the kitchen, doing nothing but staring into space.

"Rukawa," said Koshino, "Have you seen Sendoh?"

Rukawa gave a start before he regained his stoic exterior.

"He's outside the back lawn," the fox-eyed boy told the Ryonan player.

"Oh, thanks," said Koshino.
He then made his way outside slowly and upon reaching the moon-lit back lawn, he found Sendoh gazing at the stars.

Koshino cleared his throat nervously, "Hi."

Sendoh turned around and when he saw that it was Koshino, his face dropped a little before that charming smile was back on his face.

"Hi," Sendoh said.

"Sendoh, I'm really sorry..."

"Nah," the spiky-haired player said suddenly, "I should be the one to say that. I know I've been difficult ..."

Sendoh stopped and took a deep breath before continuing, "I like touching you so much. It's... it's hard to..."
Running his fingers over his hair he said in forced cheer, "Well, I guess it's over now. We're still friends right?"

"I.. I don't want us to be just friends..."

Sendoh barked startling him, "Don't you understand? If we become more than that I would want more of you and as you said at your house earlier, you can't stand that..."

"I didn't mean it to sound that way! I was having a bad day!" Koshino explained almost desperately.

Sendoh sighed, "Somehow I think that's how you really feel." Then he chuckled, "Hey, I understand why you hate me. I mean, I'm the pervert in our relationship."

"But..."

"Ne, Koshino, I think you should go inside," said Sendoh turning away, "They seem to be having fun."

Koshino glared at Sendoh's back. No way was that boy going to make it easy for him! Koshino huffed.

This calls for a drastic measure.

Sendoh stiffly waited for Koshino to leave when suddenly a soft tenor reached his ears.

Sendoh twirled around when he realised that Koshino was singing! To him!
I'm being serenaded?!
He nearly howled with laughter at the thought but his throat was already stuck by the lump that had appeared when his love continued singing his way into his heart.

That was all he could stand. Making a dash towards Koshino, Sendoh cried out, "Hiro-kun!"

Koshino only managed to gasp before he was brought tumbling down on the grass with Sendoh on top of him pressing passionate kisses on his lips and face.

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