First of all, I would like to thank everyone for reviewing! There are now over 60 reviews, and I'm really happy that people still like this story! Thank you everyone!

Gree: I like Dory a lot too! She's so funny and goofy at times, but she also tends to care about people too... if she can remember them. And I wish Marlin was real... I'd hug him tight, and never let go! Ha ha ha!

sandra benson: I can't give that away! You'll have to wait and see! ;)

icearrows: I was cracking up about the meanie sitting behind her as I was writing! Hee hee... I hope you like this chapter... I had Peach and Gill in it. :)

I dont own Finding Nemo...

~One week after the wedding~

Nemo was sitting up in his room, moping. It was Saturday; he should be having fun right? Except he didn't feel like it. This past week was kind of hard on him. He was having these weird feelings, like someone he didn't know was watching him.

It all started on Monday, at school. They got an unexpected substitute teacher that called himself Mr. Wells. He was kind and sweet to the students… except Nemo. He was barking orders, telling him to work harder; work faster and he even gave him all this extra homework that was really hard. It all had to be done on Tuesday, and his no nonsense black eyes confirmed that order.

Nemo did the best he could, but couldn't get all the work done in time. Knowing that he never got in trouble before in school, he figured he could talk his way through, getting more time to do his homework. What did the earn him? Three days detention and a failed paper.

So that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Nemo had to report to detention that happened to be run by… Mr. Wells. All Mr. Wells had him do was listen to a long list of lectures about working harder; looking for a major to exceed in and making sure Nemo had enough structure and discipline in his life. That was all torture for Nemo.

He talked to Crush about it, and Crush wasn't happy with the way the teacher was treating Nemo. So he went down with him on Friday to talk with this Mr. Wells. But when they got there, the principal said there was no Mr. Wells working at the school currently, nor was there ever one in the past. Nemo then was accused of lying, and was suspended for the rest of the day.

Nemo was so upset about getting suspended that day, that as soon as they got home, he locked himself in his bedroom and hasn't got out since. Why didn't anyone believe him? He wouldn't make something like this up!

But Crush did believe him. He had a fishy suspicion about this so-called Mr. Wells, and the way the principal had his guard up about the situation. He couldn't get Nemo to come out of his room, and neither could Squirt. So, Crush had no choice but to call in the reinforcements…

"…and that's why I need your help dude and… pinky."

Gill and Peach just listened to Crush's story about Nemo, and they could both agree… something is fishy.

Gill nodded and rubbed his forehead, "I guess I'll talk to him. Poor kid shouldn't have to deal with this. You didn't call his dad, did you?"

"Duuuuuude, he's on his honeymoon duuuuude! When can you ever reach newly weds on their honeymoooooon?"

Peach nodded as well, "Marlin doesn't need to hear this now, we can deal with this ourselves."

Gill patted Peach's knee. "Shall we go upstairs Milady?"

"Yes… yes we shall."

The two teenagers then headed upstairs to try and talk to Nemo. Gill knocked on the door, and cracked it open.

"Hey Sharkbait, can we come in?"

There was no response, so they both went in anyway. They found Nemo under the covers on his bed, facing the wall. Gill went and kneeled down by the head of the bed, and Peach sat at the foot. She gently touched Nemo's leg.

"Nemo… sweetie are you alright?"

Nemo groaned, and shook his head.

Gill nudged his arm, "You know kid, that teacher of yours sounds like a jerk. It's a good thing he's gone, or I would've kicked his butt for treating you the way he did."

Nemo sighed, but still didn't answer. Gill looked at Peach, concerned. She pulled back the covers a bit, and revealed Nemo's face. His eyes were red and puffy from crying.

"Nemo, what's wrong? Are you alright?"

Nemo sat up and rubbed his eyes. He kept his glance down on his hands, and still didn't speak.

Gill tried talking to him, "Look, I… we believe you Nemo. There's something that isn't right with this whole situation and I'm going to get to the bottom of all this."

Nemo shook his head again, "I… it's not all that Gill… I completely failed an assignment, got detention and then got suspended! What will dad think? He'll be so mad when he finds out…"

"Nemo… he doesn't know anything at the moment, and we aren't planning on telling him until he gets back. But hopefully by then, we'll know what all this nonsense is about, and get it all straitened out. Until we do… I'm going to talk to Crush and have him take you out of school for now."

Nemo looked shocked, "Take me out of school? No Gill, I don't want to leave please…"

Peach echoed Nemo's reaction, "Be reasonable Gill! You can't just take him out of school because there was a substitute teacher who didn't like him, and because he got falsely accused of something. He should go back, head held high and face the problems."

Gill sighed, "I know that… I just have a funny feeling that there's more to this then we know. I just don't know what it could be yet."

"Well until someone does, if I were you, I would respect Nemo's wishes on staying in school."

Gill looked at his girlfriend sternly, and she just glared back just as sternly. He smirked and shook his head.

"You're so stubborn." he looked at Nemo again, "Alright, if you want to go back on Monday, then you can go back on Monday."

Nemo smiled a little, "I would… thanks Gill."

Just then, footsteps were heard coming upstairs. Bloat, Bubbles, Jacques, Gurgle and Deb all came in. They all said hi to Nemo, and settled themselves down around Nemo's bed.

"So we heard what happened at your school Nemo." Deb spoke.

Bubbles nodded, "And we all agreed that it wasn't your fault, and that the teacher was unfair… and we're sorry that it happened to you kid."

Nemo nodded, "Thanks guys… I'm glad you're all on my side with this."

Bubbles and Bloat grinned at each other, "So we have a interesting story to cheer you up." Bloat spoke enthusiastically.

Nemo leaned forward towards them, "Really? Tell me, tell me!"

Bubbles cleared his throat, "Well, it all started… back on the day of your dad's wedding…

Flashback

"…Come on Deb, go ask him to dance." Peach motioned towards Gurgle, who was standing by the punch bowl, inspecting it.

Deb fiddled around with her gloves, "Er… no thanks Peach, why don't you go dance with Gill."

"Are you kidding? He has two large left feet that waddle all over the place! I'll wait until later when I don't need my feet for the rest of the evening. No come on, go ask Gurgle to dance."

"No way… he looks busy right now."

Peach looked over at Gurgle, who was using a pair of tweezers to pluck a wayward hair out of the punch. Peach scrunched up her nose at that, and kept pushing Deb.

"He is not, and you know it! Now come on!"

Peach grabbed Debs hands, and led her over to where Gurgle was. Deb tried protesting.

"Hey no wait! I don't want to… this is not right! I… I… I…"

She was silenced when she came face to face with Gurgle. He gulped, and dropped the tweezers back in his pocket. Deb stood frozen, looking down at her hands and Gurgle tugged at the tie he had on.

Peach groaned, "You two are impossible!" She then took off to find Gill, leaving Gurgle and Deb standing by the punch bowl… alone.

Gurgle cleared his throat and broke the tense silence.

"Um… you look… really pretty in that dress Deb."

Deb blushed, and glanced up at him, "Th… thanks, you look… really nice in that suit…"

They smiled at each other and then quickly looked away.

Bloat saw the two scared lovers, and grinned. He motioned for Bubbles to come over and pointed to them. Bubbles grinned as well, and got an idea. He got down on the floor, and crawled underneath the table that held the punch bowl. He made his way over to where Gurgle and Deb were standing, and stopped. He reached out his hand, and started making crawling fingers up Gurgle's leg. Gurgle felt the crawling, and thought it was unknown virus implanting itself into his skin. He let out a high pitch shriek, and flew into Deb.

Deb saw what Bubbles was doing, but before she could do anything about it, Gurgle was already grabbing onto her waist, and shaking terrified. When he realized is wasn't anything to be concerned about, and saw that he was grabbing onto Deb, he quickly let go and mumbled an apology.

Deb blinked twice, and tried to recognize the feeling that ran through her body when he grabbed her. She soon knew it was a nice feeling, and liked it. She smiled at Gurgle and took his hand.

"Dance with me?"

Gurgle's eyes widened, "Oh no I don't think I-"

Bloat made a coughing noise, "Cough, dance with her cough, cough!"

Gurgle took the hint and changed his mind, "Uh… sure Deb, I'll dance with you."

She led him out onto the dance floor, just as a romantic song started playing.

You're in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I'm with you
So close to feeling alive

Gurgle put his arm around Deb's waist and took her hand with his other hand. She looked up at him, waiting for him to start. He took a deep breath, and started moving with her to the music.

A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted to hold you
So close

Deb soon got a feel to the rhythm, and followed Gurgles lead. He smiled slightly at her, and quickly began again, counting the steps in his head.

So close to reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
And now you're beside me and look how far we've come
So far we are so close

Their dance soon took control over the music. He was able to twirl her around, lift her up and dip her down low quickly. During the dip, Deb entwined her hands in Gurgles hair. He blushed slightly, and pulled her continuing to dance with her.

How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We're so close
To reaching that famous happy end
And almost believing this was not pretend
Let's go on dreaming for we know we are
So close, so close,

And still so far…

After the song ended, and without even thinking, Gurgle pulled Deb closer to him, and kissed her quickly, but firmly on the mouth. She gasped a little, and didn't have any time to react. Gurgle pulled back, back away a bit and ran back to the punch bowl. Deb touched her lips slightly, and could still feel a little tingling on them.

Bubbles and Bloat kneeled underneath a table, videotaping it all and giggling silently to themselves.

End Flashback

Deb stood up angrily, "You two taped it all? How could you?"

Bubbles shrugged, "Hey, it's a wedding. You're supposed to capture memorable like that. Besides I bet Gurgle liked every second of that dance."

Everyone turned to look at the nervous teen. He was still sitting on the floor, playing with a piece of fuzz that was floating in the air. He looked at everyone who was still staring at him.

"What?" he asked.

Jacques rolled his eyes, "Certaines personnes sont tellement naïve."

Everyone now looked at Jacques, confused. Jacques rolled his eyes and repeated what he said in English.

"Some people are so naïve."

For those who want to know, the name of the song is So Close, it is by Jon McLaughlin and it's from the movie Enchanted. I don't know why I chose that song for them to dance to... I guess I pictured the two characters from Enchanted daning to this, and instead saw Gurgle and Deb... does that make sense? Anyway... please review! XD