"Everyone get in the car." Andy instructed. So everyone grabbed their shoes and headed out the door, while Dani wrote Judy and Hugh a note saying they'd be home for dinner. "Ok, so McDonald's, right?" Andy asked again in his normal tone.

"YAY!" Came the echo of all the other teens in the van.

"Good! Let's put on some music, Dani, would you get my very limited CD collection out of the dashboard?"

"Sure." Dani said she grabbed a hold of the CD carrier and looked through the few that were there. There was the CD she had made him, the original Kelly Clarkson CD, A copy of the original Kelly Clarkson CD, and… "Dani's favorites?" Dani asked reading the label. She looked at the last CD… "Dani's Favorites? Why are there two?"

"Well, I wanted you to have your own… and I wanted to see what stuff was out there besides Kelly Clarkson. Not bad."

"Andy! Why? It's not Christmas, Easter was a month ago, and my birthday's not for…" Dani stopped to count on her fingers.

"Four months," Andy said simply.

Dani finished counting. "Four months exactly, how'd you know so quickly?"

"So, everything working on your side," Shayna asked Stacey quietly in the back seat.

"Yup, every time they get into a certain atmosphere I had a perfect distraction come in. And thanks to Jimmy's mind-reading device you fixed for me, I can tell Andy's getting more agitated by the hour. How bout you?" 

"Perfect as planned, it's almost as if I'm not even trying to get them to talk around that subject, but we've had a few close calls, so keep an eye on them!"

"I know, I didn't think that either o f them would   crack so easily, but we don't want them to crack to early, has to be at just the right time."

"Shayna, Stacey, what do you two want to eat?" Andy practically yelled.

"Sorry, um, I'll take a biscuit and gravy, with a purple Dew." Shayna answered.

"And I'll have a hash brown, with Purple Dew too." Stacey said.

"Ok, So I want a biscuit and gravy, a hash brown, a sausage and egg, two pancakes and sausages, four Purple Dews, and two Purple Flurps" And said into the little machine.

"We're having a special one-year anniversary of 'I'm lovin it, and so our pancakes and sausage is buy two get one free, would you like to take this special offer?"

"Sure," Andy replied. "Thank you."

"Ok, so that's a biscuit and gravy, a hash brown, a sausage and egg, two pancakes and sausages, four Purple Dews, and two Purple Flurps, and a free complimentary pancake and sausage. Will that be all?"

"Yes, please."

"K, go ahead and drive up to the window." Andy followed the machines instructions and the six of them ate their food, either on he way to the mall, or in the mall parking lot.

"Andy, do you want the last of the pancakes and sausage they gave us?" Dani asked.

"I don't know if can!  Should we split it?" Andy asked, they were both starring at the unopened box.

"Sounds good to me, I mean, yea, let's do that!" Dani said, she lifted the box lid up, and there, in the middle was a stack of three humungous heart-shaped pancakes. Both of them stared at the pancakes for about a minute.

"Sheesh! It's breakfast… your supposed to eat it, not stare at it till it gets cold!" Shayna exclaimed. "Sides, it's not summer ye and it's getting cold in here!" Stacey, Jimmy, and Cindy all nodded their heads in agreement.

"I'm lovin it." Andy said simply cutting the hearts in half.

"Now it's a broken heart!" Dani said sounding almost a little upset. "How can you love a broken heart?"

"Because, It's not broken, it's just torn. And a torn heart can always be fixed."

"Stace, do something!" Shayna hissed quietly at Stacey. "Quick"

"Um… I… have to use the restroom, can we go in yet, you can take that into the mall you know!" Stacey asked going with whatever came out of her mouth.

"Well, let's go. Dani, will you get our pancakes?" Andy said getting the keys and hopping out of the van. All the other teens followed and ran into the mall to the food court, where there was a bunch of seating and, of course, a restroom. While Stacey went to the bathroom the rest of the group picked out a table and sat there, and Dani and Andy went back to eating their pancakes. Ok, so I have no idea what the idea is, but they definitely have a plan…. How's it supposed to help Dani and me I'll never know? I mean...if they want us to be together… then why do they constantly try to interrupt us when something might actually happen?  

Ok, so Stacey is like my twin, and whatever it is Shay and her have conjured up, it's way over my head. I mean, all they are doing is aggravating me, and how is that supposed to make me admit that I like him? Dani cut into her side of the 'torn' heart.

"Now, it's broken." Andy said as Dani took her first bite. "If you are the one that breaks a heart, you can never fully put it back together. But if you just tear it…" Andy slid one of the lower pancakes next to the lower ones of Dani's half, "then with a little work, the heart can be whole again." He said adding butter to the crack; until neither of them could see that they were two separate halves.

"Oh, for goodness sake! It's food, not an art lesson! Just eat it!" Shayna said desperate to say something, and at this point, anything would do. "Stace is going to get back and when she does, I want to go shopping, so please, eat!" Andy and Dani went back to eating, in silence, and were finished just as Stacey came back. "I didn't mean stop talking full stop, I meant don't play with your food!" Great! I think I may have waited a little to long on that last one!

"K, so where we going first?" Stacey asked, rejoining the group.

"Um… Clair's?" Dani said forcing herself back into her real life and away from her thoughts. "I could use a… new notebook!"  She said, not thinking of anything but Andy's 'art.'

For the longest time, Dani had believed that she had a broken hear. But now, as simple as Andy's illustration, it was crystal clear she did not have a broken hear, just a torn one. Torn between her heart and her past.