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"Hey Dani, who's that girl talking to Junior?" Gillian asked as she stood next to her.

"What girl?" Dani replied as she looked over to where her brother was.

"Oh that's Laura Nickels," she said. "Junior's girlfriend. I didn't even know she was here. Why do you ask?"

"No reason, it's just that she looks familiar, like I know her from somewhere." said Gillian

"Well, she's Senator Nickel's daughter if that any help."

"Senator Nickel's daughter. No. Is she local?"

"Yeah, she's been here ever since she and Junior started dating." explained Dani still looking over at them.

As soon as Laura spotted her she smiled and waved, motioning for her to come over.

Dani nodded her head. "Come on, I'll introduce you to her."

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Ken now had some alone time with Jean. He handed her a glass of wine. "Thank you. Glad you could make it." said Jean

"Of course, I wouldn't miss it, besides we're family." he said as he smiled at her. "Good to see Todd home. You seem a lot happier." he added.

"Yeah, it's good to have both my boys home." she said. "Things are going to be different now, changes are going to be made. So how's Junior and Dani doing? She asked him. I haven't seen them around here lately."

"Well Junior is occupied with that whole Wind Turbine Project which doesn't leave him much time with his girlfriend Laura. Dani is pretty much busy with her Equine Center, and she took in Kris as a new room-mate." he said disappointed.

"Really?" Jean asked in shock. "I had no idea that Dani and Kris were even friends. You know that Gillian's back into town." she stated.

"I see that." he responded. "Seems like once you leave you always come back."

"I guess things did change in 6months. Now is it a good or bad thing?" she asked.

Pablo couldn't help but glance over and sees Ken and Jean engage in a conversation. He walked around and mingled with others to keep his mind off of Jean.

"So how's wildfire doing?" he asked her. "Are you planning on getting him back into racing?"

"So far so good. Noah doesn't want us pushing Wildfire to hard so Pablo's been taking his time. I just don't know Ken. I don't think I want to put Wildfire through that again." said Jean.

He nodded his head. "That's probably for the best." he said. "I see Kris is here" he pointed out "Does that mean-" he began saying but gets cut off.

"Yes and no." she started saying. "Yes she is here and it's only because of Todd. It means a lot to him to see her. It was a difficult choice but I did it for Todd. No she's not back at Raintree." she replied.

"I see." he said as he nodded.

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"Hey Laura" Dani said as she and Gillian walked over towards them.

"Hi Dani " she said as she hugged her.

"I want to introduce you to someone." Dani said. "Gillian Parsons this is Laura Nickels. Laura Nickels meet Gillian Parsons."

They both said hello and the three of them started talking.

Junior was still looking for Kris and Dani could tell.

"I'm going to go get a drink, and find Matt. You guys get to know each other." he said as he walked away.

Dani shook her head as she watched her brother make his way across the room.

Gillian and Laura were discussing what they did for a living, and what their families did and where they're from. "We should all hangout and get to know one another." said Gillian.

"I would like that" responded Laura as she smiled.

Dani then joined the conversation. "Yeah, that sounds good. We should all go out for drinks and listen to music at Bobby's. I'll invite Kris" she said now focusing back on the two girls.

"Bobby's?" Laura asked in shock. "We can't, I mean I uh can't. Maybe some other time." she said looking around the room not catching their eyes.

Gillian was curious why Laura got all jumpy at the sound of mentioning Bobby's club. "I thought the club was where everyone goes now a days?" Gillian asked confused.

"Yeah it is. They have live music and a bar. What else can you ask for." replied Dani

"We should really do it." said Gillian. "It'll be fun., all of us girls together."

Laura was now panicking. She didn't want to go back there and see Bobby nor wanted them to know her secret. "I said maybe next time! Can you just leave it alone! I don't have time to go to Bobby's to hang out with you guys!" she shouted.

Both guys were in shock. They just stood there with their mouths open not understanding what just happened. "Laura, are you alright?" asked Dani "It was just a suggestion, that's all." she said.

Gillian and Dani looked at her in shock.

"I know" replied Laura as she smoothed out the bottom of her shirt, not making eye contact with them. "I'm just going to be busy that's all." she said as she cleared her throat.

Gillian couldn't help but wonder why she was acting so stra- OMG.. That's her! She was the one who was making out with Bobby on the dance floor!" she screamed in her head while watching Laura squirm. "I have to tell Dani …"Yeah, maybe next time then. If your busy, your busy." she said as she just smiled at Laura

"Well, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go find Junior. It was nice meeting you Gillian." she said. "I'll see you later Dani " she said as she walked off in a rush.

"You too Laura."

"What was that all about?" asked Dani appalled. "I've never seen her snap over going out for drinks. She's normally such a people person, over friendly if you ask me, but man" she said as she kept talking.

"Dani " Gillian started saying once Laura was out of sight.

"Being a lawyer has her going completely insane. Doesn't make any sense why she acted like that." said Dani still shocked by what just happened. "Did she and Junior get into a fight?"

"Dani! Will you listen to me!" Gillian tried saying again. "I remember exactly where I've see her" she said almost shouting.

"Where?" She asked now giving Gillian her full attention.

"At Bobby's that one night." exclaimed Gillian. "I saw Bobby, but he didn't see me. He was there making out with some girl." she started explaining. "But then I was trying to figure out who she was and I couldn't until now. It was Laura! She was that girl that night Dani!"

"Junior's Laura?" asked Dani. "Laura Nickels? It can't be. She claims she's so in love with Junior and she's Senator Nickel's daughter. She's got class Gillian." I highly doubt it was her., it could have been anyone with that creep that night. The club was dark and it was late, maybe-"

"Dani she maybe in love with Junior, but people make mistakes. Just because she's the senators daughter or that she has class doesn't have anything to do with it. I'm positive it was Laura. Just now when you mentioned drinks at Bobby's she got all melodramatic on us over just drinks. You said normally she's a people person and over friendly. Right?" Gillian asked once again.

"Yeah, but-"

"But nothing Dani" Gillian responded.

"We didn't even see them that night" she tried saying.

"Well, we 5 didn't see each other right away either that night." Gillian replied. "I'm telling you Dani… It was Laura that night."

"I don't know Gillian, I mean Laura and Bobby?"

"Think about it. I know what my eyes saw that night especially now that physically seen her. It was Laura." said Gillian.

"Dani's eyes were now focused on Laura. "Could it be? Ugh how am I going to tell Junior?" she said

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Kris slipped out of the house and walked over to Wildfire's stall. She didn't care if she got caught anymore since she just had a harsh conversation with Pablo. She whistled for him as he poked his head out of the window. "Hi boy" she said as she walked over to him and sat down on the little bench outside the window. "I had to see you. I mean I was already here and I had my one on one with Pablo just now which I was avoiding by the way." she said. "It didn't go very well, looks like I'm actually leaving sooner then I thought Wildfire. How is to be home?" she asked. "Must be nice huh?" she said laughing.

Just then she heard foot steps. "Kris there you are." said Junior "What are you doing out here anyways." he said.

"I could ask you the same thing Junior." she replied. "Well, if you must know, she said smiling at him I wanted to say hello to Wildfire."

"Well, if you must know I wanted to see Wildfire too." he said.

She just laughed. "Right."

"Okay, I wanted to see how you were doing, and I knew you'd probably be out here with Wildfire" does that sound about right? He jokingly asked her. "Besides, it was boring inside anyways." he added. "Can I join you?" he asked.

She smiled at him. "If you're quiet" she joked.

He smiled at her as he sat down.

"So, where's Laura?" she asked him.

"Inside talking to Dani and meeting Gillian." he replied.

"You enjoying yourself?" he asked her.

"Yeah. I was trying to avoid Pablo and Jean, but that didn't happened."

"I'm sorry, you want to talk about it?" he asked

"Not really." she said as she looked up into the sky.

"So what are we looking at" he whispered.

She looked over at him and then back up at the sky "whatever we see" she whispered back as she playfully elbowed him in his side.

They both laughed. "Junior-" "Kris-" they both started saying as they locked eyes. Their lips started moving slowly towards each other.

"JUNIOR" they heard Laura call as they jumped apart.

"Ugh" thought Junior. "Why does this always happen to us" he thought thinking about the times when Kris was dating Kerry. Their moments always got interrupted or ruined. He looked at Kris and knew she was thinking the same thing.

"It's getting late, we better get going" she said.

He sighed as he closed his eyes. They both got up and she said good night to Wildfire. They walked towards the house.

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Laura was getting very irritated looking for Junior as she stood outside by the front door. "Where is he?" she asked angry. "Where is Kris?" she asked even more furious now realizing that there was no sign of either one of them earlier in the house. Few minutes later, she heard footsteps coming up the path. As she looked up she saw Junior and Kris talking and laughing as they made their way back towards the house.

"Ugh!" she yelled as she got into her car and left.

"Has anyone seen Laura?" asked Junior

"No, she must have taken off already." said Matt as he shrugged

"She was here awhile ago when you disappeared." added Dani

"Well she was upset over something because she snapped at us" said Gillian.

"Just great," Junior thought. "Just great."

"Good Night Todd" said Kris as she gave him one last hug. "I'll see you around buddy. I'm glad you're home" she said as she winked at him.

"I am too. I can't wait hear what's been going on around here without me." he said.

They all just stood there and laughed. They all said their "Good Nights" and took off.