Disclaimer I don't own anything Step Up.

Meanwhile Andie and Chase had left the club and were walking home. Andie rang Moose and told him she needed to talk to him. Andie then told Chase that Jake (Camille's ex-boyfriend) had come to see her at work today.

Chase asked Andie "What did he want? What was he doing talking to you? Why didn't you tell me before now?"

Andie said "Chase I was going to tell you but then Tyler rang and he needed someone to listen to him as he was worried about Camille".

"Why does he always go running to you with his problems? Isn't he married to Nora? That's who he should be talking to. What is it with you two?" asked Chase.

"Ah Chaseee, you're not jealous are you surely of Tyler? He is one of my oldest friends and I do anything to help him. After all if he hadn't got me into M.S.A then you and I would never have met! You know I love you not him. He's like an older brother that's all he is to me. You're the one I want to be with whether or not he had ever met Nora" said Andie as she went all red in the face.

She looked to the floor and Chase realising how embarrassed she was after saying that to him said "I'm sorry Andie. I love you too. I'm just being an idiot and I don't want us to fight, okay. I know you love me. I always just feel like I'm on the outside looking in when it comes to you, Tyler, Moose and Camille. You and Tyler and Moose are so tight and Camille and Moose were friends for so long and then went out and broke up and Camille is Tyler's little sister." He lifted up her chin and kissed her.

Andie looked at Chase no longer embarrassed. She said, "You do know that Nora says that she feels like that sometimes too. Even though in Tyler's eyes she will always come first along with their children and of course Camille and Isabella. I still can't believe that Tyler settled down and has children and that Camille is a mother and she's younger than me."

"Anyways you know it's really about Moose and Camille we were talking about. I had to calm him down as he pretended to Camille he wasn't mad at Moose but he is. He wanted to go over to Moose and threaten him to stay away from Isabella and Camille" said Andie.

Andie continued to tell him about Jake but she felt Chase seemed to be distracted. She continued anyways as she thought to herself he was probably bored but yet he said he cared about Camille and Isabella. Maybe he was just tired. We have been putting in extra hours at work lately she thought to herself.

She told him about what Jake told her today. Jake told her that after he had seen Isabella, Camille and Moose talking in the Park he realised he needed to tell someone. It was time. Jake told Andie that he felt bad and what he was about to do was partly for selfish reasons. This made Andie listen as he would never do anything for anyone that didn't benefit himself somehow. She hated him when she was in M.S.A. and that hadn't changed now but he had mentioned Moose and Camille so she would listen to him and if he was going to hurt either of them she would pound him till he begged for mercy!

Andie continued to talk. "Jake said that maybe he and Sophie should have left Moose and Camille alone all those years before. That he shouldn't have gone along with Sophie's plan to split them up. He told her that he hadn't seen Camille smile like that since M.S.A. days and he should have thought of Isabella in all this mess when he found out Camille was pregnant and it was about time everyone involved grew up."

"He said that Sophie was lying to Moose and that she was only with Moose as she wouldn't admit that she was wrong. Jake said that he had spent time with Sophie over the past year at work and fallen in love with Sophie while they were on her last tour and Moose had been at home teaching and working with students in Sophie's private school for the upcoming competition against MSA."

"Jake has been trying to get Sophie to tell Moose the truth for the past few months and in fact Sophie and he were still seeing one another. Jake said that he knows in his heart that Sophie loves him and is happy when she is with him and not Moose. That all Moose and she do is fight when they are together. Jake also said that if Sophie tells Moose the truth it will give her and Jake a chance to sort things out and it will mean that Sophie might give in and admit what he thinks she already knows. That she in fact loves Jake, not Moose. Then Sophie would be happy which is what he wants as he really has loved her for years and only went along with what she wanted him to do all those years ago as he was a fool. It took till they were on tour and spending time alone together for him to cop on" said Andie as she finally took a breath after letting it all out.

Andie then said "Chase, how evil can she be? She just won't admit that what she did all those years ago was wrong coming between Moose and Camille. At least Jake will admit the part he played and I believe he does love her and has begged her to tell Moose. He said he can't as he is afraid of what we will do if he tells Moose. Jake said he can't understand giving that he and Camille broke up years ago, why Moose never went back to her or at least stayed in contact as friends with Camille. Jake also said the way that Moose was looking at Camille today that it was obvious that he still has feelings for her and Jake always knew that Camille never got over Moose."

"Chase he has asked me to speak to Moose but I think I should pay Sophie a visit. Only a visit though don't worry she is pregnant after all. I might want to harm her but not the baby. The baby is an innocent in all this mess. What do you think" Andie asked him?

Chase said "I think you need to talk to Sophie but I will go with you as I know you wouldn't harm the baby but Sophie is nuts normally she probably worse now being pregnant and that way she can't say you did anything to her if you have a witness. She's dangerous so we better try to meet her in public."

"Good idea", said Andie and gave him a hug. "I will ring her tomorrow first thing and arrange it. Thanks Chase."

"Now that's sorted or nearly sorted" Chase said, "Andie can you listen to me please? I have been trying to get you on your own all night after you turned down us going out for dinner on our own to meet up with your friends. Now I love your friends but the reason I wanted us to have dinner on our own was to talk and yes I have talked to Tyler and Camille about this already to make sure you wouldn't flip out on me."

"What Chase? What's wrong?" asked Andie. "Are you going dumping me?" as she started to get mad and started to walk away. "Don't give me the speech about growing up, apart and moving on."

Chase said, "Andie come back please. Just sit down here so we can talk he points to a bench underneath a large tree."

"No" said Andie," I have a better idea" as she jumped up on a bench and started to climb a tree. Let him try to dump her from a height she thought she would soon jump on him and knock sense into him or else if he climbed the tree she would push him off, well not really but she'd threaten too!

"Ah Andie" Chase said, "Please don't make things difficult. You know I hate climbing trees and the last time I did it was for you at Missy's barbeque and remember how long it took me to get down."

"Well Chase, if you really want to talk to me you are going to have to climb up here as I can't hear you down there," said Andie.

"Andie you sure know how to ruin a guy's plans" Chase growled as he climbed the tree. He sat down and turned towards her and took her hand. He said "you know I just climbed up here and I'm going to hate going back down this tree". Andie laughed.

"So Chase what do you want to talk about" she asked looking at the ground as Chase tried not to look at the ground. Instead he looked at Andie. He said to her "You know I love you Andie. Don't you? You are the only person who can make me feel this way and get me to do things I don't want to that sometime get me into trouble or get me to take chances in life. Before you I really wasn't alive at all."

Andie looked at him wondering what he was on about. Was he moving away or sick or something?

He tilted her head toward him and took her hand as he cleared his throat. His mouth felt dry all of a sudden and then he looked down. No not a good idea he said to himself. He looked back towards her. "Andie, would you do me the honour of being my dance partner for life and marrying me, hopefully having our children and growing old dancing with me?"

Andie said, "Shut up! Are you kidding me? You talked to Camille and Tyler about this" she said as she looked at his face. "You did not your only saying this to make me feel better! You don't have to"

He took the ring out of his jacket pocket where he had been keeping it safe and showed it to her. He said, "I'm serious Andie. What's it going to be are you ready to grow up and old with me? I even picked this ring out myself before you ask".

Andie just looked at him, then the ring and back at him again. She asked herself am I ready to grow up and become a responsible adult. Sure she had a job and paid her bills and they had been joking about buying somewhere together, but marriage? What if she messed up and he walked away like her father did? Or he walked away leaving her with debts which yes his family could afford but she couldn't and she wasn't the type to beg. Could she trust him and trust herself to take a chance and handle whatever the future may bring?

"Andie", Chase said "I promise I will never leave you no matter how hard you try to push me away. Please marry me. I love you so much."

Andie shocked and wondered if she was really ready for this next step and in fact whether or not she would ever be. Would he expect her to give up dance and become one of those perfect housewives who did luncheons like his mother? Andie looked at him frightened and said

Please read and review. Sorry so long with update but been busy with college assignments. More Moose and Camille in the next chapter.