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The hotel room was filled with laughter all around by the time Y2J Chris Jericho concluded his little dance number. But even more hoots and howls of hilarity came at the very end of it, when the blond man curtsied.
"You were magnificent, Blondie!" Ivory quipped as she sprang up from where she'd been sitting on one of the beds. Smiling, she came forth and shocked Jericho by putting her arms around him in a hug. He returned the embrace willingly and instantly, wrapping his arms around the brunette's slender waist - which got him even more hoots and hollers from the rest of the people in the room.
"Whoo! You go, girl!" It was Lita who'd cried those four words.
"Okay, my turn!" Jeff exclaimed, raising his hand as though he were a child in a third-grade classroom. A slow smile spreading across his face, he turned to his redheaded best pal. "Li...Truth or dare?"
"Truth...I haven't had quite enough champagne to be brave enough to choose dare..."
Jericho arched an eyebrow in amusement at that statement.
"Okay...Goody," Jeff said as he began to think of a good question to ask the diva. "Oh...okay, yeah...So, Li...is there anyone in this room you've ever fantasized about?"
The question elicited a snicker from Christian, who was still seated on the floor beside Dawn Marie, the pair between the two beds.
"Oh, this oughtta be real interesting..." He grinned at the lovely diva next to him, then glanced up at Edge meaningfully.
The redhead bit her lip, her face flushing as she thought of the answer.
"Well, as a matter of fact - yes..." She looked down at her hands in her lap for a split second, shy, then lifted her head and gazed surprisingly long at the handsome blond man beside her.
Edge merely grinned from ear-to-ear.
"You were right, Christian..." Dawn Marie quipped. "This is very interesting..." The brunette eyed her friend and fellow diva, a knowing smile on her face.
"Oh, is it now, Dawnie?" Lita asked, her focus suddenly on the brunette rather than Edge. "If so...I guess it's my turn..."
"Cool..." the other woman said, her smile not waning an inch. "Bring it on..."
"Truth or dare?"
"Come on, Lita - you know me much better than that..." Dawn Marie chastised. "It's dare all the way, baby!"
The others all laughed and clapped with approval for the diva's bravado.
The redhead eyed her friend steadily, a smile of her own coming to her lips as she shifted her gaze to the blond man at her side. Then, looking Dawn Marie in the eye, she spoke.
"I dare you to kiss Christian - not a quite little peck - a long, lingering, hot kiss..."
Dawn arched an eyebrow at the request, seeing the challenge on Lita's face. Christian, on the other hand, looked somewhat dumbstruck, as if he'd hadn't a clue the redhead would dare the brunette to do something that would involve him. Not that he minded...
Without a word, Dawn Marie turned toward the blond Canadian man, and her brown eyes locked on his blue ones. Then, raising a hand to Christian's face, the brunette placed her thumb on his chin and pressed her lips against his.
The kiss started off pretty slow and simple, but after a beat, Dawn grew more aggressive and parted her lips, slipping her tongue against Christian's. As the blond man responded in kind, his arms also going around the woman, the other made varying sounds of approval.
"Whoa!" Jericho exclaimed. "Get a room, you two!"
"This is awesome!" Molly cried, and she giggled as she turned toward Jeff.
Ivory was the quietest person in the room, but, as always, she had plenty of two cents to put in. When the kiss ended, she regarded Dawn and Christian.
"I have only one thing to say - it's about damn time!"