AN: This is just a small chapter to start it off. I am going on vacation and I will be starting the next chapter when I get back. Review if you have nice things to say only.
"Miss Masterson tell us about your relationship with Danny Desai." That isn't something Jo thinks she can really do. She will try for Danny's sake, because even though she is hurt and angry she can't turn her back on him. At least not for long. "Well it's complicated. But I know he's a good person." She has questioned that a few times, but in her heart she knows it's true. "Okay, can you elaborate on that?" "I can't…I just know it. We have been through a lot since he got back. It's not been easy." She has tried so hard to trust him and he lied to her. It's not going to be easy to fix that. "What do you mean it hasn't been easy?" All the lies. She thinks to herself. "To believe in him. To trust him. But in the end I can't turn away from him." She had tried, but something about him just keeps bringing her back to him. "Why Jo? Explain to us why you can't turn away from him." She doesn't really know herself. She is not sure how she will explain it to them when she can't even explain it to herself. "I wish I could. It would be a lot easier for me if I could move on from him. To let him go. But he's just the most amazing person. For the first time I feel like… When I'm with him I just feel so… How can he be this bad person if I'm falling…" Jo stops once she realizes what she almost admitted. The blonde girl is doing everything she can to keep the tears at bay. "Thank you so much Jo. You may sit down." The president of the school board is kind enough to let her walkaway before she said anything more to embarrass herself. Jo slowly walks back to her seat. She keeps her eyes on the floor. She can't look at Danny right now. She doesn't even want to think about what he must be thinking right now. There is no doubt what she was about to say. Jo takes her seat and tries to concentrate on the rest of the hearing.
After the hearing let out Jo rushes out of the room before anyone can stop her. There are a few things she needs before heading to the diner to meet Rico, so she heads over to her locker. As she is closes her locker Danny walks up. "Hey." He says. "Hey. So when do you hear?" Jo asks. "It could be any minute, any hour. It depends on how long it takes them to recover from my Mother calling Regina Crane a whore." Danny smirks a little bit. "Yeah, that probably won't go in the plus column." They both hope the board will be able to look past that. "Probably not. Jo about what you said…" That is the last thing Jo wants to talk about. "We don't have to talk about that. I was just… I just really wanted to help. I mean after all that crap with Archie and Gloria I was pretty revved up." Jo tries to make excuses, but they both know what she was about to say in there, and that she never intended it to come out. "Well, um thank you. Jo what we have. Our relationship, it's very special and I don't know what I would do without it. Okay?" Jo nods a little and looks again like she is fighting back tears. Suddenly Danny leans in and places a soft little kiss on Jo's lips. When he pulls back they are both confused. Jo pulls herself together a little bit. "Text when you hear, okay?" She is choosing to ignore it figuring it was some kind of pity kiss. "I will." Danny's says before he walks away. He doesn't know why he kissed her. There was just something that compelled him to do it. Just looking at her disappointed face broke his heart. He wanted to do something to fix it. That probably was the wrong thing, but he didn't think he just acted.