What happens in the Past…

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As the phone fell from her hands, Dani could feel herself shaking. The phone hit the floor and bounced making a loud thunking noise with each contact with the floor. She knew that this would come back to haunt her. Her brain flashed to images of her and Junior at the airport, the look on his face as he talked to her as he sipped his coffee.

Dani sat, in a stunned silence staring at the phone that was now lying on the ground. She could hear Matt calling her name, but she really didn't know how to answer him. She had tried to forget that day, tried to block out everything that had happened, but now it all came back to her.

Waking her from a deep sleep, she could hear her phone ringing beside her head. Reaching over to grab it, so that it didn't wake Matt, she looked at the clock realizing it was way too early for anyone to be calling her. Looking at the caller ID, she rolled off the bed and tiptoed out of the room. Why the hell was Junior calling her at 4 in the morning? This better be important.

"Junior this better be important," she grumbled.

"Dani," he whispered "We need to talk."

"Do you even know what time it is?" she asked a bit frustrated that she had been woken up.

"No, what time is it? I haven't been to sleep yet, anyways, does that really matter?"

"You haven't been to sleep yet?" she questioned. After hearing him chuckle she said "Eww, too much information, brother."

"You asked!" he laughingly replied. She couldn't help but smile, noticing how happy he sounded. She was so tired; she had stayed up late working on paperwork for the ranch, couldn't this wait? "Well obviously someone isn't dead or injured, I can tell from your tone. Can't this wait Junior; I didn't get much sleep either."

"God, Dani! Matt's my best friend I don't need to know that" he groaned.

She couldn't help but smile at that "and Kris is mine, but that didn't stop you from telling me… anyways that's not why I'm tired. I had to work on some paperwork for the ranch. I've noticed a few errors in some of the bookkeeping that needed to be checked out."

She could hear him laugh "yeah, paperwork, right." She couldn't help but notice that he sounded semi-distracted. "Junior, what in the hell is going on? Obviously you need something, out with it! I need to get back to bed before Matt notices I'm gone."

He quietly mumbled something under his breath that she couldn't understand. Suddenly he blurted out "Will you meet me somewhere?"

She could feel herself sigh; couldn't this wait until a decent hour? "Junior go back to bed with Kris, call me at a decent hour when you are ready to actually talk."

He suddenly got really serious. "Please, Dani. I need you."

Looking back at the bedroom door she sighed. She could hear the urgency in his voice, almost a pleading tone. Feeling herself give in she asked him "Where do you want to meet?"

"I have a flight at 8, could you meet me at the airport coffee shop at 6? That way you can get a bit more sleep before you have to meet me and I can get in a little sleep before the flight."

"Alright, see you then, and Junior," she smiled "Happy Anniversary."

"Thanks Sis, see you then"

As she hung up the phone and snuck her way back into the bedroom she couldn't help but wonder what was going on. It wasn't like Junior to be this dramatic. Placing her phone on the nightstand and setting her alarm clock so that she was sure she would wake up she crawled back into bed.

As she climbed back into bed she accidently woke Matt up. He asked her where she had been and she mumbled a response. She wasn't sure if Junior would want Matt to know that there was something going on. Curling up next to him, her mind raced. Were Junior and Kris having problems? What was so important that he had to talk to her now, and he couldn't talk to her on the phone about it? As she drifted off to sleep questions seemed to flutter in and out of her mind.

She reached down and picked up her phone, not really sure how to answer. Then she started to talk.
"Matt we need to talk." She thought for a minute trying to choose her words carefully, how was she going to tell him, tell Kris what he had told her that morning at the airport.

"Matt do you remember that day you caught me sneaking back into bed and you asked me where I had been."

"Yeah," he replied "you said you were in the bathroom."

"Matt I wasn't in the bathroom; I was on the phone with Junior."

She could hear his sharp intake of breath, "I thought you had told Kris at the funeral that you hadn't talked to Junior for a few days."

She sighed as the words seemed to flow from her lips "yeah, I lied."