Author's Note: Hello everyone. I know I said this story was complete, but I had some loyal fans, readers, and friends ask for more Dacey kiddie one shots. So here goes. Jo's ass is in here because unfortunately, she was Danny and Lacey's "friend" in the beginning. In a perfect world, the other childhood friend would've been Regina, Rico, or Phoebe, and not Jo. In my perfect world, she doesn't exist or she was the one that was killed instead of Regina. Y'all know I can't stand her and I'll try not to drag that little bitch too much. I do intend to show her just how I see her when she appears in these. I'm not even sorry.

Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy these. Reviews are hugs!


Holding Hands

Green Grove Elementary was in the midst of going on a field trip. They were going to the aquarium and all the kids were excited. Some were excited to see the dolphins, sea turtles, and fish, among many other animals there. And some were just excited to get a day off from school. Lacey was especially excited to go. She loved going to the aquarium. She loved going to the zoo too because she just loved animals. Jo was too because she liked sharks. Danny was in the group that was happy just to get out of school for a day. Lacey and Danny were both thinking about who they would sit with on the bus. Who would sit with Jo? Could they sit together and have Jo sit with someone else? Or would Danny sit with a boy in their class? Would Lacey sit with a girl in her class? Danny and Jo were in Mrs. Frazier's class and Lacey was in Mrs. Bowers class. They knew that they buses would join since they were all the same grade. The seating arrangements really seemed to plague Lacey and Danny. They decided to discuss it and come up with a plan on their way home from school the day before the trip.

Lacey carefully brought it up. She didn't want to make Jo feel weird or like a third wheel. But she wanted to sit with Danny. She felt confused. She felt weird. She was having a lot of weird feelings about Danny lately. She had weird feelings about Danny since she moved there and met him and Jo. Their private times in the fort. And the kiss. The kiss that Danny snuck and took. She told him to only kiss her on the cheek and he kissed her on the lips too. She felt weird for not thinking that the kiss was gross. She also wanted to tell Jo about it. She knew she couldn't though. She knew things would get weirder between them.

Danny wanted to kiss Lacey again. It was all he thought about. Every day, all day. He wondered if Lacey thought about it too. He wanted to tell Jo that he kissed Lacey. He wanted to talk to his father about it but thought he'd get in trouble for kissing a girl. He knew he wasn't even supposed to kiss Lacey on the lips, but he had the urge and couldn't help himself. He kept thinking about her kissing him on the cheek and he just had to kiss her on the lips. He liked her lips. Her lips were pretty to him. He noticed how different her lips were from Jo's and other girls. He wondered why that was. He started to think that Lacey was prettier than other girls. He thought Jo was cute the way girls thought puppies were cute, but he thought Lacey was pretty. He didn't know why he thought that. He had a lot of weird feelings that he didn't understand. He didn't understand why he wanted to sit with Lacey so badly and kiss her again.

"So, how are we going to choose who sits together on the bus?" Lacey asks.

"I don't know. I wish we could all sit together." Jo says.

Danny didn't want that. He wanted to sit with Lacey. Just the two of them. He thought of Jo like his sister but he wanted to sit next to Lacey. She was his new best friend that he kissed. On the lips. Was she still his best friend? Why did he feel so weird? "They won't let us all sit together, Jo. Only two people per seat. And that person has to be your buddy during the trip." Danny explains.

"Yeah. I almost forgot about that." Jo says.

"So how will we decide? One of us is going to be left out. We have to make it fair." Lacey says even though she really wants to sit with Danny.

"How about a race? The first two to the end of the block win." Danny says knowing he's a fast runner and will get there first. He hoped that Lacey beat Jo.

"That's not fair. You're on the soccer team so you are faster runners than us." Jo whines.

Danny let out his signature smirk. "I'll give you two a head start." He says.

"How much of a head start?" Lacey asks. She just hopes she beats Jo. She hated feeling that way about her best friend though. She felt weird and bad for hoping that Jo loses.

"I'll count to 5." Danny says.

"No, 10." Jo offers as a rebuttal.

"Ok. We'll start at the next corner." Danny suggests.

"Do we have to carry our backpacks? That might slow us down." Lacey states while secretly thinking of ways to win.

"No, we don't have to. We can take them off." Danny says, getting extremely eager to start this race.

"Ok." Lacey says and smiles, revealing her dimple. Danny wanted to touch it. He always wanted to reach out and touch her dimple. They continue walking in silence until they get to the next street. They all stop at the corner and take their backpacks off and place them on the ground. Lacey looked down to make sure her shoes were tied. She didn't want to fall. "Are you guys ready?" Lacey wonders expectantly.

"Yes." Jo says.

"Ready. On your mark, get set, go!" Danny says as the girls take off and he counts to 10 out loud. While he was counting, he was watching and hoping Lacey would beat Jo. They were neck and neck. Danny finished counting and started to run. He zoomed past them and that caused Lacey to pick up speed. She got to the end of the block a little after Danny did.

"Yes!" Lacey chanted. She and Danny high-fived each other. Jo looked painfully upset that she lost.

"No fair, I lost." Jo pouted.

"It was fair. You just lost." Lacey says happily.

Jo pouted some more. "I was supposed to win." She whines. Danny and Lacey really don't want to hear her pout and mope about losing. "Let's go again." She says. She hated losing.

"Why do we have to go again?" Lacey wonders.

"Because I lost and it wasn't fair that I lost." Jo says in her defense. She felt like they should go again because she lost. She was supposed to win.

"Jo, you lost fair and square. I even gave you a head start." Danny states matter of factly.

"Yeah, Jo. You lost. Stop pouting about it." Lacey says as she and Danny start to walk back to the beginning of the block to get their backpacks. Jo scoffed and folded her arms across her chest in defiance. She wasn't moving. She was supposed to win. Danny and Lacey arrived and picked up their backpacks and put them on. They couldn't believe that Jo wasn't right behind them. She was still standing there with her arms folded and seriously pouting.

"Are you coming to get your backpack?" Danny asks, not wanting to leave her backpack on the ground.

"No." Jo says with her arms still folded and pouting. She expected them to give her her way. It always worked on her mom and dad.

"Come on, Jo. Stop being such a baby about losing." Lacey says, starting to get frustrated with her friend. She was taking the fun out of it.

"Yeah." Danny says. "Lacey beat you. Get over it."

"I wanna go again. It's not fair that I lost." Jo says, sounding like the spoiled brat that she is.

Danny and Lacey just look at each other. Danny reached down to pick up her backpack and he and Lacey started walking towards her. Danny held out her backpack for her. "Here, Jo." He says.

She reluctantly took the bag from him, but she wasn't happy about it at all. She had to since she saw that they weren't going to give her a do over like she wanted. "You guys cheated so that I would lose." She says.

"We didn't cheat. We'll make sure you get a head start the next time." Danny says and smiles to make her feel better.

"Fine." Jo almost snaps as they start to walk home together again.


The next day was the day of the trip. The kids were excited that they didn't even have to bring their backpacks to school. They would be at the aquarium the whole day. Lacey was excited to see the animals and Jo was still upset about losing the race. Danny was happy to not be at school for the day. He really didn't care where they went on the trip. He was secretly excited about sitting with Lacey. He was really glad that she won the race. He felt bad for feeling that way because Jo was his best friend first. He felt like he was being a bad friend for wanting to do things with Lacey and just her. He wanted to do things with Jo too but it just felt weird to him. He wanted to tell Jo how he was feeling but didn't know how to. He hated keeping things from her.

They were all milling about waiting for the buses to arrive so that they could leave. The yellow buses finally arrived and they were off. Mrs. Bowers class boarded the bus first and Lacey found a seat in the back of the bus. She knew Danny would want to sit far away from the teachers sitting in the front. Her classmates were giddy and jumping around and she was just waiting for Mrs. Frazier's class to board so she could sit with Danny. The were getting on when Jo came and sat beside her. "Hey, Lacey." Jo says and smiles.

"Hey, Jo." Lacey says and smiles back.

"I'm stealing Danny's seat." Jo says and smiles some more.

Lacey got a little upset about that. Jo was her best friend, but she wanted to sit with Danny. Jo wasn't playing fair at all. "You can't just steal his seat, Jo." She says to make her friend stop being so selfish.

Jo started to laugh. "Yes, I can. He'll get over it." She says thinking that she's supposed to have her way.

Danny walks up while Jo is still laughing. "Get outta my seat, Jo." Danny says calmly.

"Nope." She says and laughs some more.

"Get outta my seat, Jo. You lost the race." Danny says to Jo again.

"It wasn't fair that I lost. You cheated, so now I'm stealing your seat. You can sit with Howie. Me and Lacey want to girl talk." Jo states in a triumphant manner. She just knows Danny will just let her have her way and go sit with Howie who was in the seat in front of her and Lacey.

"Get outta my seat, Jo. You aren't playing fair." Danny murmurs, minus the pleasantries he usually used when talking to his best friend.

Jo finally looked at Danny and saw that he was upset. "Why do you want to sit with Lacey so bad?" She wonders while staring at Danny. He seems to be looking past her and staring at Lacey who has her eyes glued to him.

Danny smiled to lighten the load a bit. "Because we had a fair race and you lost. We made a deal. You have to stick to that. That's what friends do."

Jo huffed and just got out of Danny's seat and went to sit with Howie like she suggested that he do. She was unhappy that Danny made her get out of his seat and sit somewhere else. She was starting to get mad at him and Lacey. If Lacey hadn't come along, she would be sitting with her best friend and not her. She was Danny's best friend first.

Danny sat down next to Lacey and smiled. She smiled back at him. "Hi, Lacey."

"Hi, Danny."

Danny waited until the bus pulled off to slide closer to Lacey in the seat. They sat in silence among all the noise from their peers on the bus around them. They slowly slid their hands closer together and were content just holding hands. Jo popped up in the seat in front of them as they tried to snatch their hands away from each other. She was laughing and stopped abruptly as she saw their hands break apart. "Why were you holding hands?" She wondered.

"We were just pinky swearing about something." Lacey lies.

"What?" Jo wondered again.

Danny sat forward and whispered in her ear. "About sneaking frogs into Mrs. Bowers desk for giving Lacey a bad grade on her book report." Danny says, knowing that Jo won't want to help since she doesn't like frogs.

"Ew, frogs! Gross!" She says quietly and makes a face while laughing. She returned to her seat.

Danny and Lacey went back to holding hands.