Hello Hello. Happy New Year guys! Thanks for making my 2011 so inspirational!

So I promised you the second half of the "Hold onto Sixteen" and here it is! OH YES! And truth be told, I love writing for you guys. Your reviews are the reason I keep going. I reread them all the time to stay inspired, so feel free to make them as long or as personal you want.

OH! AND GOOD NEWS! My (wonderful) parents got me an Ipod Touch for Christmas and now I can write on the go, instead of just when I can get on the computer.

I'd like to dedicate this chapter to ForeverLivebyMusic and orenge77 for name this ship "Dory"

How could I not come up with that? Its my favourite fish from Finding Nemo!

Anyways, here is the new chapter and the disclaimer

I do not own Glee, nor the characters, nor the actors, nor the song, but I do own Danielle.

He's touching me! He's touching me! He's holding my face! That's gotta mean something right?

"All right guys!" Mr Schuester clapped his hands together to call the group's attention. "This is great, now we only need one more member to qualify for Sectionals."

"Guess that's where I come in." came a voice in the doorway. In strolled Rachel and Finn, and with them, a tall bleach blonde boy with a huge smile. The entire room broke into wild cheers as they ran to the incoming boy. Danielle gasped at him. She knew of him from David's yearbook, which she did not steal from his room. David had scrawled 'Lady Lips' across the photo of the blonde boy.

"Sam Evans" she gapped

"Who?"

"Let's hear it for Sam Evans!" cried Finn as he passed out cups. There came a chorus of toasts as cups were raised and drinks were taken.

Taking Rory hand (she finally felt confident to do so), she lead him over to the piano and grabbed drinks for the both of them. "Sam Evans was in glee club last year. He moved away during the summer, now I guess he's back."

"Enough with the sentimental stuff." piped Sam as he sauntered over to Danielle, who quickly gave him the guitar. "Time to get some country but in this joint." He began to play Red Solo Cup, a song which Danielle thought had to be the greatest dumb song un the world. "Trust me," she grinned at the still confused Rory, "You'll like him." She gave Rory a light shove to send him over to where Finn and Artie were singing back up for Sam. Quinn and Tina danced along in the back, and the boys raised their cups and sang. Well, all except Kurt, who looked at the cup like it had fallen from space. They all fit together, no one was left alone. Even Danielle who began helping the large-eared drummer build a pyramid out of cups. As they neared finishing it, the boys wheeled Artie into the front of the pyramid, sending cups cascading over the floor.

Overwhelming joy spread through Danielle. She had never seen a room filled with such happiness. Retrieving her camera from her bag, she began to capture the calamity. The throwing of cups, to Sam finishing the last verse of the song, to a shot of Rory blending in perfectly to the group.

As the song came to a close, Danielle went to put the camera away, but the sight of a red cheerios uniform in the doorway stopped her dead in her tracks. Danielle's eyes narrowed at the face of Santana Lopez. Now, Danielle did feel bad for her after being outed so harshly, but the fact that she attacked Rory with dodge balls and almost broke his nose didn't exactly put her on Danielle's list of favourite people.

"Just heard a rumour that Troaty Mouth is back in town." she smirked, a smirked that just screamed 'I'm about to go all Lima Heights on you'. Santana pulled out a small red notebook, which she had been keeping "just in case this day ever came."

The insulting jokes that came from Santana's mouth made Danielle's jaw drop. They just kept coming, one after the other, Sam didn't even bat an eyelash at her, he just stood there completely still. And when the verbal rampage was over, Sam said he missed her and hugged her. What the heck? How much did someone have to be mocked to be able to hug the person who was insulting them?

"A 5, 6, 7, 8!" Mike calls out again. You know for a guy who barely spoke for two years, he sure does a whole lot of yelling now. Danielle wasn't much of a singer but she was even less of a dancer. And the number that Mr Schue came up with required her to at least sing and walk at the same time. Step, step, kick, turn, clap, clap, turn, kick, point, or something like that. Her chest heaved, her legs ached and she was pretty sure she was beginning to smell. All she need was a distraction so she could take a break. And it came by way of Sam's mouth.

"Why can't we do something a little bit more sexy?" Sam asked Mike.

Oh Thank Heavens. Or rather Evans.

With a quick raise of her arm and a "Mr Schue, I'm getting a drink." she turned to leave, half listening to the conversation behind her. She did happen to hear Rory quip, "Girls smell better than ham."

"Lovely," Danielle said to herself, "To win Rory's heart, all I have to do is smell better than ham. I can do that."

She made her way to the water fountain and spent a good minute or two splashing water on her face. She tied her hair back, parts of it sticking to her neck. She really needed a hair cut. Figuring she couldn't afford to waste anymore time, she trudged back the choir room.

And oh, what she saw.

Rory (well, all of the boys, but she was only looking at Rory) was attempting to roll his body the same way Sam was doing. His hips curved, thrusting into the air, but the rest of his body failed to wave back. But, oh, was it hot. Hot enough that she needed to get another drink from the fountain.

Danielle looked at herself in the dressing room mirror. Her white suit jacket looked much too big for her and the skirt... the only good thing about it was that it covered her thick thighs. Tina had volunteered to do her hair and Quinn her make up. Apparently, show choir aesthetics were a three person job.

"So," Tina started as she curled the end of Danielle's hair. "You and Rory are pretty close..."

Uh oh, girl talk. She couldn't do girl talk. For the better part of her life, all the friends she had were guys. Now, granted most of them were David's friends but none the less, guys.

"I guess so. I mean he's a great guy and all." she winced. That wouldn't satisfy their need for gossip. Quinn joined in,"But you must like a lot, right? I mean he talks about you all the time..."

"He talks about me?" Danielle perked, then instantly regretted it. Now she sounded desperate.

"Oh, all the time. Danni this and Danni that. He's very fond of you." Quinn chimed, waving her little make up brushes in the air. Danielle blushed and bowed her head to hide it. Tina eyed Danielle's reflection and smiled gently. "You like him, don't you?"

She sheepishly nodded her head, pulling painfully on the hair in the curler. "Yeah, we thought so." Tina said, releasing the hand full of hair. "You should tell him. From what we've seen, he likes you right back."

"There'd be no point in telling him," Danielle confessed, "He's from Ireland, he's not going to be here much longer." She was not going to cry. Not here, not now, not in front of Quinn and Tina.

"But that's exactly we you should tell him," Quinn soothed, "Better to know now before he leaves or else you'll never know."

"I already know," Danielle muttered, "He doesn't want me."

There was a knock at the door. Mr Schu, Ms Pillsbury and all of the guys entered in their matching costumes. Right off the bat, Rory came over to Danielle's chair. He put a hand on her shoulder, "You ready for this, Danni?"

She shook her head.

"Me neither." he sighed.

"You guys will be fine." Tina said, quite frankly, Danielle had almost forgotten that the two of them were still there. Danielle raised out of her chair and gave the two girls a look that begged, "could you guys give us a minute?". Picking up the signal instantly, they quietly excused themselves.

Once they were alone, Danielle stepped into Rory and wrapped her arms around his waist. "I'm scared Ror." she whispered into his shoulder.

"Hey, that's what you said before you're audition and you were amazing."

"Yeah, but I had you. I can't look at you every two seconds now." she looked over Rory's white shoulder to see Quinn and Tina waving their arm hysterically to get her to hurry up and tell him.

Oh, how she wanted to, but she couldn't. She just wasn't brave enough.

"Come on guys, New Directions is up next." Mr Schu called, looking at his watch. Finn and Blaine cried out wildly, but a whimper of fear came out of Danielle's pulled his head back to look at her, "We can do this Danni." he held out a hand for her to take, "Together?"Danielle slipped her fingers between his. Together they walked through the door, down the hall, into the auditorium, and onto the Sectionals stage.

Aw, Dory's getting close guys! I'm actually kind of surprised you waited around this long. Hope you haven't gotten too bored of it.

R&R!