Lacey gets home, she's tired overwhelmed, but only one thing was on her mind; her dad is getting married. My life has completely changed, she thinks, how could this happen to me?
She carries herself slowly to her bedroom, her heel on her hands, it's like her body felt broken too. She opens the door of her bedroom and still sees the shopping bags for Lyla's boutique; she puts them on the floor and jumps on her bed. Starring at the ceiling her mind full of unanswered questions gets interrupted by her cell phone vibrating she looks at the caller ID and decides to not to answer. Then she receives a text from the same person "I'm with Clara at gymnastics practice, there are left over's from yesterday in the fridge, love you"; did her mom not know that her dad was getting married? Her train of thoughts gets more filled. Minutes later she finally falls in a deep sleep.
Danny couldn't sleep, he just took a small nap, he wasn't going to waste time, after his bowl of cereal, he was heading to the Masterson's, he needs to talk to Jo. On his way to Jo's he see's Doug walking his dog down the street, but as soon as Doug notices him, he crosses the street. "Everyone is scared" Danny thinks. Danny goes to the Masterson's and knocks several times, there's no answer, and no familiar cars are on the drive way. Should he text Jo? He was sure she wasn't going to answer. When he was walking away he hears the door being opened "Danny" Tess says.
Danny looks back and smiles. "Hi Mrs. Masterson, I thought no one was home".
"I'm actually giving my pottery classes right now, no one else is home" Tess says cleaning her hands with a small cloth. "Would you like to come in?" trying to be somewhat friendly but still aware her husband will not agree, especially Jo now.
"No thank you Mrs. Masterson, um do you know when Jo might be home?" he asks.
"Well, she was going to be at school this weekend to work on a project, not too sure when she'll be back" Tess replies. "Alright Danny, if you don't want to come in, I need to get back to the class" she continues genuinely.
"Oh yes, thank you, I'll try to see Jo later" Danny says.
He's going to walk to school; he needs to talk to Jo.
Lacey had woken and taken a long hot shower. She felt really refreshed, as if she had washed her problems away, but she knew that was just during that moment. She brushed her hair and put it in a pony tail.
She went down stairs and was making herself a sandwich when the door bell rang. One of these days her mom had told her she was waiting something from Fed Ex. She goes and looks through the door hole, she perks her lips and opens the door.
"Hi" she says.
"Hey Lacey, I'm glad that your okay" Chris says.
"Me too, I'm glad you're okay, would you like to come in?" Lacey smiles, even though she honestly didn't want to talk to anyone.
"Yeah sure " Chris goes in and sits on the counter high chairs as Lacey makes her way in the kitchen. "Want a sandwich?" Lacey asks politely.
"Sure" Chris says, feeling somewhat awkward.
"Do you want mayo, mustard,… " Lacey asks. "Just like yours" Chris responds with a smirk. "Alright." She says.
"Look Lacey, I'm sorry I can kind of left you back there at the party, I just panicked, I didn't want to get arrested, never really been in a situation like that" Chris says honestly.
Lacey nods her head "Don't worry about it, I get it…. I know what you felt." She passes him the sandwich and gives him chocolate milk shake she had also made and sits right next to him on the counter.
"Bon Appetite" He smirks again holding up his sandwich and getting more comfortable. Lacey giggles and bites into her sandwich. "Would you like to go to the movies with me tonight?" Chris asks.
"Um, I actually wanted to lay low today …. I just feel a little tired, I mean like look I'm in sweat pants and a tank top" Lacey says playing around
Chris looks at her directly in her eyes "You look perfect to me". Lacey immediately looks way, she got nervous. "Don't you have a girlfriend or something" Lacey asks curiously lifting her left eyebrow.
"I never said it would be a date" Chris smirks even more. Lacey drops her mouth open "oh…. I wasn't … I just think that your girlfriend would get upset if your spending time with another girl" .
"I wouldn't cheat on my girlfriend, ever" Chris looks at her, looks at her as if he wants her. She feels it.
Lacey doesn't look away this time. "So what's the deal Chris?"
"Eating a sandwich my- , a beautiful girl made me" He responds.
She finds him attracting, who wouldn't, but she doesn't want to play games or hook up with anyone, she doesn't have time for that, nor does she feel any kind of feeling towards Chris, especially if her feelings were for some other guy …. Lacey rolls her eyes.
Chris continues "What are you thinking about?"
Lacye smiles fakely "on how SOME guys are such douche bags …."
Chris stares at her. "I don't really have a girlfriend Lacey …."
"I know" Lacey looks at him, taunting him with a shrug and a smile. She knew because Sarita had told her he was single.
Chris looks at her and frowns his eyebrows "Why were you asking me –"
"I'm not interested Chris" Lacey interrupts him. "What?" he immediately responds
"I said I'm not interested" Lacey answers back directly, no hesitation.
He starts caressing her bare and smooth arm "HA! What's happening here Lace? … Trying to play hard to get?"
Lacey looks at him like she's looking at a foolish child "Nope, not playing any kind of games…. I see your done with your food, so I'm gonna ask you to leave …. Like I said I'm really really tired, but um I'll see you around alright" she says opening the entrance of her house with a smile on her.
Chris smirks as he stands beside Lacey at the door way "I don't really play along with these games, but your young, I get it …. " he gets close to her ear "Bye beautiful" he whispers.
Lacey is so annoyed. Ugh. Douche bag.
Chris leaves in his truck. Lacey shuts the door, what she didn't know was that Danny was across the street and was looking straight at them and he was furious.
That's what she needed…. time alone, to be with that guy, he should have known better. He's hurt. He was planning on leaving her alone but he had come to tell her that Jo agreed to talk to them; but of course Lacey wasn't answering her calls because she was with Chris. Great. He felt like he couldn't control his body. He can't take it. He decided he had to let it be. He's done.
He texted Lacey about Jo and made his way to Johnny cakes were Rico was waiting for him.
Rico was having a burger; his lips were dirty with ketchup. "What's up Rico" Danny slides down the booth.
Rico clean himself with a napkin "These burgers have gotten better you should try them."
"I'll think about it" he says looking at the menu. He looks at his phone, no response from Lacey back. "I talked to Jo today" he continues.
Rico starts choking on his food "You, you talked to Jo? … like by best .. ex-bestfriend Jo, Jo Masterson?" Danny nods his heads "yeah I met with her at school.. she kind of heard me out, she's still being apprehensive"
"Right" Rico nods his head.
"Hey Rico, she told me you guys had talked that same night, the day she threw her out her house …. Why haven't you talked to her?" Danny asks for clarification.
"Danny look ….. that night, I came over to get my book bag, Mrs. Masterson told me to stay and gave me dinner, I waited for Jo, she was with Tyler, she came home and she told me she wasn't going to be mad at me…. So you know what I did" Rico talks lowly.
"What?" he asks curiously.
Rico drinks some of his fruit punch and says "I told her about, I like , I told her the way I felt about her" .
"Wow Rico that's great but what happened" Danny keeps curious.
"I told her she was like my dream girl, and I kissed her …. I kissed her" Rico says embarrassingly looking down.
Danny stays a little astonished, mostly quiet because he doesn't know what to answer back.
"So as you can imagine, she pretty much rejected me when I did …. And I had to leave, since that night I haven't talked to her, and I'm not planning to" Rico finishes off.
"I'm sorry about that" Danny says sincerely.
"Whatever I was dumb to think that Jo can think of me like she think of you" Rico frowns.
Feeling completely uncomfortable Danny gulps. "That's not true, Jo just felt confused about our friendship, that's all".
Rico shakes his head "I saw the way … she looked so sad when she saw the video of you and Lacey doing, um, she was disappointed" .
Danny feels all of this is his fault; he feels he's hurting everyone.