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Lacey's eyes fluttered open as she felt a hand stroking her hair. "You're still here?" she asked softly looking up at Danny. Her head was in his lap while he sat cross-legged on her bed.

"Of course I am" He offered a soft smile. "Where else would I be?"

Lacey let out a meek smile as Danny leaned down placing a soft kiss to her lips. She didn't remember falling asleep but she wasn't surprised that after all that crying she eventually cried herself to sleep. She sat up using her hand to pull all her hair to one side. "I was hoping that maybe this was all a dream, and when I woke up it would be over." She spoke softly as she leaned into Danny's side now, placing her head on his shoulder.

"Me too" Danny sighed leaning against Lacey's head placing a kiss in her hair. He hated seeing her go through this. No one should have to choose sides like she was being forced to do.

"You've uhh, got 12 missed calls from Phoebe and Sarita." Danny picked up Lacey's phone from the nightstand and placed it in front of her on the bed.

She sighed looking at the phone. "Yea I'm not surprised."

"I know it's -" Danny began to speak up but was quickly cut off by a knock on the door.

"Lace." A voice called out followed by another knock.

"Shit-" lacey sat up so Danny could get up. "It's Clara" she quickly looked around looking for a place to hide Danny. "Hold on!" Lacey shouted back as she pushed Danny into a crouching position on the opposite side of her bed. He had done this several times before so he knew the routine. "Just stay here." She whispered.

"What is it?" Lacey opened the door to see her 14-year-old sister standing there. It was astonishing how much Clara looked like lacey. Her mocha skin was bit darker than Lacey's and her hair was a bit longer, and of course she was a little shorter but you could definitely tell they were created from the same genes.

"Have you seen my lucky hair tie? I can't find it and I'm going to be late for practice." The younger porter asked urgently tugging on her Turquoise gymnastics bag that was strapped across her pink leotard.

Lacey huffed. She really didn't have time to deal with this right now. It was trivial compared to everything else going on right now. "Clara I haven't seen it and your hairs already up." Lacey shrugged, pointing at the bun on top of her sister's head.

"Lace I'm supposed to practice my floor routine today, and I cant without my -"

"Clara I told you I don't know where your stupid hair tie is!" Lacey yelled, but quickly regretted once it came out. She didn't mean to yell at her but it was just way too much going on. Clara just happened to be the lucky contestant she took her anger out on this time.

Clara's face fell, and Lacey immediately knew she had hurt the younger girls feelings.

"Clara I didn't mean—"

"No its fine. Ill see you after practice. Madison's mom is outside to pick me up. Tell mom I'll be home later." Clara offered a chaste smile before turning to walk down the hallway. Lacey didn't miss how her younger sister rolled her eyes when walked off much like she would herself when she was hurt or upset.

Closing her bedroom door, lacey turned around to see Danny standing there, as he came up from his crouched position in his hiding spot, quickly running his hand through his hair.

Lacey bit her lip groaning, "I didn't mean to yell at her." She shook her head.

"It's a lot going on right now, Lace. " Danny moved towards the girl in front of him, before he pulled her into his chest.

The russet skinned girl placed her head on Danny's chest. "I've never yelled at her before." She spoke gently into his chest. Lacey remembered all those nights when they were younger and Clara would crawl into bed with her, when they're mom and dad would argue so loud, that the walls would shake. She remembered Clara clinging on to her so tight that she would sometimes live a bruise on Lacey's arm. Clara would cry and say how much she hated the yelling and screaming, and Lacey promised she would never yell at her.

"Lace, don't beat yourself up about it."

"I know.. we have bigger things to worry about. Like a sextape of us." Lacey rolled her eyes bringing back the frustration of everything.

"Look at me." Danny placed his hands on lacey arms spinning her towards him. "You don't need to worry about that I'm going to take care of it."

"How Danny? It's bad enough that my friends got it but if this got out - everywhere" Lacey broke her sentence off. She didn't even want to imagine all the things that would happen if that video went public.

"Shh, shhh" Danny hushed lacey holding her tighter. "Look I have to go, but I will see you the first thing tomorrow. Okay. Why don't you even go pick up Clara from practice. I mean it would be a good time to apologize for earlier too." Danny shrugged offering the suggestion.

"And where are you going to go?"

"I uhh., I'm going to go try to figure out some stuff." He huffed before placing a soft kiss to her lips, then her dimple, before he quickly escaped out of her window, before she could ask any questions.


As you you can see I aged Clara a little because she will sort of play a role in this story! Hope you all enjoyed! Follow me on tumblr! letmeholdyourhand-x