This is a story based on Dirty Dancing mixed with a little from Road House and a bit from Gilmore Girls with a cowboy theme and some of my own mind, though some bits (especially most horses) come from my real life (past and present). So I do not own anything that is related to the movies/series except for that from my own mind and life.

I do hope you enjoy the story and leave a review if you feel like writing one.
P.S.: My English is still not the best since I'm not native in English so please bare with me on some mistakes I made.

Thanks and enjoy.


Chapter 28

It was the last day of the season, everyone was up early, the employees got their breakfast earlier so they could start work earlier. Neil walked into the staff quarters and looked around. The four were talking, Baby and Penny eating, the two men drinking coffee.

"Good morning." Neil said, they look at him.
"Morning Neil." Baby said with a smile.
"Johnny, can I have a word with you in private?" Neil asked.
"Sure." Johnny said and stood up, he followed Neil outside.
"There are two things." Neil said.
"Yeah?" Johnny asked.
"I'm in charge of the final show now Max is in the hospital. Not that I really wanted to do it but it leaves me no choice. After the conversation I had with Baby yesterday, I realized what a jerk I was to you." Neil said.

Johnny putted his hands in his pockets and looked at Neil.

"And I want to apologize for my behavior." Neil said after a short pause.
"How is it between you and Lisa?" Johnny asked curiously.
"We had a great first date last night, I never knew Lisa would be quite an interesting person. We plan on dating more after the season." Neil said with a smile.

Johnny patted Neil on his shoulder.

"You will be fine, just don't try to control your girl." Johnny said.
"Does this mean you've forgiven me?" Neil asked.
"Of course. What's the second thing you wanted to say?" Johnny asked.
"Well, since I'm organizing the final show now as you know, I've looked at the program Max has put up and I scrapped some things. Max wanted to try something new, but the final show is never without the final dance, that's the charm of Kellerman's. Now, Max hasn't organized a final dance, and there is a hole in the program. Well, it's the last part but I can't end the show earlier, so I was thinking if you would like to do the final dance with Baby." Neil said.
"You had something in mind?" Johnny asked.
"No, I think you two can think of something nice." Neil said.
"Oh, I got hella lot of ideas." Johnny said with a smile.
"I'm sure you do. Now go tell Baby, I need to re-arrange some things." Neil said.
"I will." Johnny said with a smile, turning around.
"Oh, and Johnny?" Neil said and Johnny looked back at him.
"Thanks for forgiving me." Neil said.

Johnny gave him a nod and walked back inside.

"What did Neil had to say?" Baby asked curious, when Johnny sat down.
"He apologized to me. Not only for this year but also for four years ago, just in general, he apologized for his behavior against me." Johnny said.
"Well, look at that." Penny said.
"What happened with Neil?" Billy asked.
"Did he mention our talk?" Baby asked with a smile.
"Yeah" Johnny said with a smile.
"He seems that he wants to change." Johnny said.
"Oh, and he asked if we want to do the final dance this evening as last act of the final show." Johnny said.
"It's a little late to ask that." Baby said.
"Is it? I said yes though." Johnny said.
"But we have no time to train at all." Baby said.
"Do we need to? I was thinking to do the Mambo, the one we did at the show in the Sheldrake hotel." Johnny said.
"But I didn't do the lift." Baby said.
"We're going to practice the lift this afternoon." Johnny said with a smile. Baby shook her head.
"I have no choice anyway, okay let's do it. Anything else in mind?" Baby asked.
"Yeah, I got something in mind. Billy?" Johnny asked.
"Yeah?" Billy asked.
"Could you ask around the entertainment staff if they still can remember the salsa thing we did four years ago?" Johnny asked.
"You want to do that?" Billy asked, he can remember it very well.
"Yeah, it's a nice surprise, don't you think?" Johnny asked.
"Yeah it sure is. I will ask around and come back to you." Billy said and smiled.

He stood up and gave Penny a kiss before walking to the entertainment staff.

"What salsa thing?" Baby asked curious.
"You will see." Johnny said mysterious and sipped his coffee while looking at Baby.
"Stop being so sexy." Baby said and giggled, he chuckled.
"I'm going now, I want to check on the cables one more time before we close up everything." Penny said and stood up.
"Wait, I'll come with you." Baby said and stood up.

Johnny grabbed her and pulled her on his lap, Baby giggled and they kissed.

"I got to go." Baby whispered and gave him one more kiss.

Johnny smiled as he looked after the girls, Billy came back to Johnny.

"Most of them still remember the steps, but they like to practice it for a bit." Billy said.
"Great, tell them to come to the dance room here in an hour. For a short practice." Johnny said.
"Will do, see you later cuz." Billy said and laid his hand on Johnny's shoulder.
"See ya." Johnny said and smiled.

Johnny stood up and went quickly to the stables to take care of the horses. There were no lessons today, because he needed to help with the preparations for the final show.

"What made Neil turn around?" Penny asked as the girls were walking to the office.
"I think he realized that Johnny and I belong together, he sees how happy I am, I told him we are engaged and that I am pregnant from him. He asked how Johnny reacted to this, I told him that Johnny never has been happier in his life and that he will be a great father. He asked me why I choose for Johnny, and he admitted that he was leading himself on by his own ego." Baby explained.
"What did you answer to his why question?" Penny asked curious.
"Told him that Johnny is the sweetest, most kind, caring and loving man I have ever known. That he loves me for who I am, let's me be who I am, that he makes me happy and that he never want me to change." Baby said with a lot of passion.
"That's deep." Penny said and smiled.

She laid her arm around Baby and Baby did the same with her.

"Hey, did I told you what happened yesterday evening at my parents' cabin?" Baby asked.
"No, we haven't seen each other until this morning." Penny said and chuckled a bit.
"My parents ate pizza with me and Johnny. Can you imagine? My father eating pizza." Baby said with a grin.
"I totally cannot imagine that." Penny said and giggled.
"Yeah, and when Johnny came back from picking up Jake. They were smiling and talking." Baby said.
"No way." Penny said and she stood still.
"Yes way." Baby said.
"Jake has accepted Johnny?" Penny asked, her hands laying on Baby's shoulders.
"Yes, and he even gave Johnny permission to marry me. Something Johnny really wanted. Oh, and." Baby said when Penny hugged her.
"And what?" Penny asked as she let Baby go again.
"Dad is going to finance the renovation of the ranch. Johnny first didn't want to accept it but didn't got a choice. Dad really wanted to do that for both of us." Baby said.
"Oh my god. For both of you. So, not just for you alone?" Penny asked.
"No, for both of us. He seems to be truly interested in the fact that we are putting up a ranch." Baby said.
"That's wonderful Baby. I'm so happy for you and for Johnny, I'm happy your father finally has accepted him. It's so great, and I'm so looking forward to our double wedding." Penny said and they hugged again.
"Yeah, it will be amazing." Baby said and the girls giggled, they walked on.

Christopher was in the main building and saw the two girls walking inside, giggling and talking. He gave a sigh, he wanted to say sorry but didn't know if he should be doing that or not.

"Let's make a round and see if something happened." Penny said.

Baby saw Christopher standing in the lobby, looking inside the main room at the employees working. Baby followed Penny into the main room and then stopped next to Christopher.

"You see something interesting?" Baby asked, Christopher looked at Baby and tried to smile.
"I've never seen people working so eagerly." Christopher said.
"Yeah, well, there is no choice. It's a busy day and this evening is the final show, it's going to be great." Baby said and looked at the people as well.
"You need to do the final show as well?" Christopher asked.
"Yeah, final dance." Baby said.
"I wanted to go home early today, My daughter is coming next week and I need to arrange some things before that time." Christopher said.
"That's nice, you are growing up." Baby said and looked at him now.
"Yeah well, I'm not Johnny who is manly enough to show his feelings and be excited to becoming a father and a husband." Christopher said, he didn't look at Baby.

"What is that suppose to mean?" Baby asked and looked at him.
"I'm not the kind of man like Johnny is. I never will be, and you are one lucky girl because there are not many like your fiancé." Christopher said.
"Are you apologizing?" Baby asked and she gave him a smile, he looked at her now and took a deep breath.
"In my kind of way I guess so. You know, I ran away when my ex told me she was pregnant from me." Christopher said.
"Yeah, confrontations never were your strongest thing." Baby said and looked at the main room again, she saw Johnny walking around now and smiled.
"Yeah, you know me. I even ran away from you because of Penny. My biggest mistake ever." Christopher said.
"You will find your true love one day." Baby said.
"Not so sure about that, but I am going to try to spent more time with my daughter." He said.
"That's good, she needs her father." Baby said with a nod.
"Baby?" He asked and turned to her, she looked at him again.
"You never regretted it that we broke up?" He asked.

Johnny had seen Baby and Christopher talking, and decided not to disturb them for the time being.

"Not so much regret, but I was truly heartbroken for months because of you running away. You collapsed my world, we were together for years and I truly believed you were the one who belonged to me but when Penny came into my life, you showed your true self. When I was over it, I realized that if you were my true one, you would never have walked away from me because of a thing called friendship." Baby said.
"And look at you now, you even ran away from your ex when she got pregnant. You are single now, many women are probably in your phone, just because you can't settle. With the slightest confrontation you run off and I don't think you will ever change that." Baby said.

Johnny walked to Baby now. She looked at him and smiled happily.

"Hey." Baby whispered and he gave her a kiss and laid his arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him. Christopher gave a sigh.
"I'm going now, I just wanted to say goodbye, I won't bother you anymore. Your father was clear." Christopher said. Baby and Johnny only looked at him.
"Good bye." Christopher said and walked to the door.

Baby shook her head and Johnny looked at her.

"What did he say?" Johnny asked.
"Nothing new actually, he can't handle confrontations. He just walked away, thinking this was a confrontation." Baby said and laid her arms around his waist.
"We will not see him again." Baby said and gave Johnny a kiss.
"Let's get back to work." She whispered.

He smiled, he pushed some hair out of her face and kissed her slow.

"Baby, I need your help with a cable. What are you doing? It's work time, no snoozing time." Penny said.

She looked at Baby and Johnny with a teasing smile. Baby giggled and let Johnny go. Some of the entertainment staff whistled at them.

"I must go now anyway. I see you this afternoon." Johnny said and gave Baby one more kiss.

He walked away and Baby walked with Penny to the cable.