Ok I'll try to keep this short. Yeah I found time to update! And it's a long chapter too! When I got home today I watched recording from last night's Vampire Diaries and Nikita! All I can is wow! They were so good and I can't wait to see what happans next week! Do any of you guys watch those shows? If you do what did you think? Wasn't Nikita intense! Wasn't Vampire Diaries sad? Either way this chapter is long and didn't take a month a update (I hope)! Enjoy...


Tawni's POV

"Now are you sure you'll be fine alone with him?" I asked Nico as I headed toward the garage. The girls, Sonny, Penelope and I, were going to go watch Zora's first Dancing with the Stars performance.

"Yes, I'll be fine," Nico answered, "He'll be sleeping most of the time anyway."

"Oh, well I'll be back as soon as the show is over," I told him as I grabbed my purse and kissed him goodbye. I drove to Sonny's where Penelope was already waiting in her car. "Hey Penelope," I said walking over to her window seeing that there were tears in her eyes. "Is everything ok?"

"Grady and I got into a fight," She replied as she wiped her eyes, "I told him about tonight a week ago and he was fine, but I brought it up before I left and he got stiff. I asked if he would want to come too because I still had time to get a sitter for David. He said no and then before I knew he freaked and stormed out of the room."

"Guys can be weird like that," I told her soothingly, "When Nico first moved in we were fighting constantly. I saw a side of him I never thought I'd see."

Penelope nodded, I sensed that she was going to add more but that's when Sonny and Ari came outside, "Ready to go?" she asked nonchalantly.

"Yeah," I asked, "which car, yours?"

"I'm blocked in by you guys and Chad needs to get it in for an oil change, so can we go in one of yours," She wondered.

"Yeah," Penelope answered; already back to normal, "my car has enough room for all four of us." I wasn't sure if Penelope was a really good actress or it was the fact that it was getting late that made Sonny not really realize that there was something wrong with her. We all got into her car and made our way to the studio, the whole way we rode in silence. Sonny was preoccupied with Ari to notice Penelope tense up as we got closer. I couldn't think of a reason for Grady to act the way he had, it seems that something about tonight had to be the trigger. As we pulled up into the main parking lot, I forgot about everything as I went inside to cheer on my friend.

"Way to go Zora," Sonny and I yelled after she had finished her dance, it was one of the slower ones but she was really good, and her partner was something else! I'd only watched this show every once and a while but I never remembered him being so good looking before! Sonny and I, who were standing up sat down right as I'm sure the camera panned us. It had probably been the fourth time tonight, it wasn't every day that Sonny Monroe Cooper showed up in the audience, and since Ari was with her it was hectic. Ever since the reunion aired the tabloids have had field days with the "Mini-Coopers."

"I appreciate all the hard work you put up for this dance," Carrie Ann, I believe her name is, said, "And you know what girl it paid off! That was so good! You and Derek were intense; you kept up with that choreography so good!"

I waved as Zora passed the section we were sitting in, I don't know if she saw us but she sure looked beautiful! As Zora and Derek got their scores I noticed that Penelope was sort of sitting off to the side of us trying to ignore the camera. It had been a hard night for her. "Hey," I whispered, "Just two more and then we can leave." She nodded but I knew she just wanted to be alone.

Zora ended up getting a 20! That was apparently good for the first week, after she got her scores she gave all of us a shout out and we laughed because she just said that her "So Random posse," was out there. She knew better than to name us; we would have never been able to leave. The other two stars and their partners danced and then we waved again when we saw Zora on her way to go talk to the press.

Paparazzi was everywhere as we made our way outside; we managed to make it to the car with no worries and then luckily, Penelope knew a few back roads we could take that made the trip to Sonny's a whole lot faster. We said our goodbyes and went our own way, on my way home I thought more about how Grady had reacted about tonight. Was he mad at Zora? If he was then why? I knew that Zora stayed with them for a little bit before she rented her apartment, had they gotten into something while she stayed there? I didn't want to sound rude but I asked Penelope how long Grady had been acting like this when we went to the bathroom during one of the longer commercial breaks. She said it was shortly after Zora moved in and it seemed to have stopped after she left but sometimes Grady just got like that, then there were other times when she saw worry in his eyes. She said it was like she could tell he wanted to tell her something but he didn't.

Before I knew it I was home and parking my car, I made my way inside to find Nico sleeping in front of the TV. "Nico," I asked as I pushed him to wake up, "Where's Ayden?"

"Asleep in his room," he answered drowsy, "How was Zora's dance. I ended up falling asleep after trying to put Ayden down for the fourth time."

"She was really good but I need to ask you something," I hinted.

Nico just laughed as he sat up straighter and said, "Shoot."

I took a deep breath before asking, "Is there something Grady might be hiding from Penelope? And could it possibly involve Zora?"

"The only thing I can remember Grady and Zora ever having in common was the fact that for a little while, they were friends with benefits," Nico answered, "But that was years ago, maybe it's just the fact that Zora was staying with them and it brought up old memories or something."

"Maybe," I said still wondering. I forgot that Grady and Zora had been more than friends, but that was when we working on our last season of So Random and I was probably to occupied with trying to get superstar status for the last time. "Come on let's go to bed," I held out my hand, which he took and we made it all the way to our room before Ayden woke up….again.


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