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"So what was it like in Australia?" Nicky asked as he played with his girlfriend of three months now hair. These were the moments that he liked. Where he could just lay with her, only her on the beach. When they had no reputation to uphold as no one was around to see the tough, cool couple being normal, almost in love. The months were getting colder, as January was just upon them, but they had a blanket to keep them protected from the cold.
"It was, different" Lori explained.
"Good different?" Nicky asked jokingly.
"It was just different. I mean, we certainly didn't have this weather around Christmas" She smiled.
"But seriously, which one's better? Sydney or California?"
"They're both about equal. Theres so much that one has that the other doesn't that they just balance each other out"
"I'm guessing I'm one of the contributing factors that put California right up there" Nicky smirked cockily, leaning back onto a rock.
"No, it didn't" Lori smiled, her face mirroring his. She leaned over towards him and gently placed her lips on his. He responded almost instantly and enthusiastically, till they were both lying on the beach panting for breath and laughing.
"So what else does California have that Australia doesn't?" Nicky asked.
"My dad's parents, I don't think I've ever seen him so happy since we moved to be closer to them. I've hardly seen them before!" She exclaimed.
"So what, you've never visited here before?"
"Only once, when I was five, so I don't really remember it"
"Oh. So you've not seen any of California before?"
"Nope, only where I've been with you guys and what I saw when I could hardly leave the house because there were so many boxes blocking me in!" She laughed.
"Come on" Said Nicky, standing up and holding his hand out for her to take.
"Where are we going?" She asked, reaching up to take it.
"Everywhere. This afternoon Lori Zuko is the afternoon of your official tour of California, lead by me"
"Well, if you insist" She mock sighed before following him to his car. "So where to first?"
"I don't know. I guess we can just attempt to drive to LA city centre and you're bound to find something interesting" He shrugged, turning on the car engine and driving along the road.
As they drove along the road, they passed two familiar faces.
"Isn't that Georgie and Tommy?" Lori asked.
"Yep" Nicky replied, his eyes fixated on the grey road in front of him.
"What are they doing together?" She asked.
"They've been hooking up on and off for the last month or so, since that night at the burger palace"
"Oh, look at you knowing all the gossip" She teased.
"There not very subtle about it. What do you honestly think they're doing when they both get drunk and go to the rest room around the same time?" He asked, chuckling at his girlfriend's obliviousness.
"Then how come they don't tell any of us? I mean, we're honest and open about our relationship"
"Because they don't have a proper relationship. They just hook-up a lot, other than that they barely look each-other in the eye. They seem to have no feelings whatsoever for each other"
"Isn't that the same as you and I?" She joked, avoiding his smirking gaze and roll of his eyes.
When Nicky' promised to take Lori to see everything in California, he literally meant everything. They went from museums to shopping centres, the hollywood walk of fame to hotels, to the homes where the rich and famous reside. There was nothing in that area of California that Lori had not seen now. This was why it took them such a long time and they were so late home. Darkness was over Lori's house, and although it was difficult to make much out in the darkness, the figure of an annoyed Danny Zuko could be seen standing in the door.
"Typical Rizzo" He mumbled to himself. "Always late"
He looked out to the small car which, although it had already had some work done on, obviously needed some more stuff doing to it. The boy who his precious daughter was currently seeing had got out of the car to help her out and give her a small kiss good-bye. Danny rolled his eyes again; typical teenage boy.
The boy turned around from Lori, his face briefly catching the light and for a second, Danny felt as if he had gone back twenty-years or was looking at a mere ghost. His mouth fell to the ground when he saw the boy; a spitting image of his father. He was shocked, surprised, confused and almost angry. The boy had nodded to him, the same eyes and smile his best friend once had staring strait back at him. Although his daughter had passed him and entered the house long ago, and the boy was probably already halfway home by now, Danny could still not remove himself from his position in the door.
"No, no, it can't be" He said to himself, shaking his head vigorously and grabbing a cup of coffee. "Kenicke would have told me, he wouldn't have abandoned his son and Rizz like that. Unless he didn't know"
He went through every possible explanation as to what he saw, who he saw.
"Dad, are you alright, you look really, really weird?" Lori asked, entering in her pyjamas and picking up a glass full of water.
"Hmmm? Oh yeah." He answered quickly, before his eyes lit up as an idea came to his head. "Say, how do you feel about that Nicky coming over for tea sometime next week?"
"I'd say not a chance if you're going to be there" She replied, raising one of her eyebrows. Danny smirked in reply.
"Well, next friday I expect you both to be over for dinner, so I can... get to know him"
Although Lori wasn't thrilled about the idea of her father interrogating her boyfriend, as she was so use to him doing, her father was absolutely thrilled at the idea of meeting him. Though Danny was pretty certain about what he saw, it was int he dark, and he couldn't accuse anyone of anything till he knew that this was the true story, and his mind wasn't just playing tricks on him.
And after that he had no idea what he would do.