Disclaimer: see Chapter 1 (here we go again!)

A/N: Thanks the reviews! For the curious person, DJ's hair was done in a Marcia Brady type thing with the ends curled. I didn't just make that up, either, that's the way I pictured her in the whole chapter. Sorry it took me forever to update. Due to a bunch of snow, I'm out of school today so I'll be typing/working on my music project. Up to 3 or 4 chapters should be up after today.

Chapter 2 – Laugh Shack

Joey woke up Wednesday morning feeling really happy. He hadn't been to the laugh shack in such a long time, and he'd never been there to see someone else. He thought about Caytlinne, how pretty she was. "She'd be everything if she was funny."

Joey walked downstairs. Michelle was already awake, waiting for her school bus, watching VH1. "Morning, Michelle."

"Hey, Joey."

He flopped down next to Michelle. An Everclear video was playing. "You seem happy this morning," Michelle said, "Is it about that girl you met?"

"Your sister told you?"

Michelle nodded. They heard the school bus outside the door. Michelle got up. "Bye, Joey!"

Stephanie came down the stairs, dressed for work. "What time is that thing tonight?"

"Be ready by quarter to eight," Joey said. He didn't want to be late.

Stephanie nodded. "What's she like?"

"Really nice, with great hair…"

"You're starting to sound like Uncle Jesse."

"It's true, though."

"Whatever," Stephanie said, "Continue."

"She seems to be really into comedy."

"Is she any good?"

"I don't know," Joey said, "She had mentioned a lot of bad reviews though."

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see."

Joey nodded.

"What's her name, anyway?"

"Caytlinne."

Danny came downstairs. "Good, Steph, your ready. We're late, we'll have to just grab some coffee in the lounge."

"Sure. Bye, Joey."

Caytlinne slept until ten, which was late for her. She would have slept even later if her brother hadn't woken her up. "Caytlinne!" he was screaming, "What are you doing sleeping! We need to go over our script again!"

"Honestly, Jack!" Caytlinne felt confident about the performance. Knowing Joey would be there made her feel better. It seemed to have the opposite effect on her brother.

"If Joey Gladstone is going to be in our audience, we are not messing anything up!"

Anna woke up. "Get a life, Jack!"

"I'm serious! I already called the girls over, we're practicing!"

Caytlinne replied with a sarcastic, "Yes, master. Should laminate your costume so it's shiny enough for Joey Gladstone? Or should we find a thesaurus so our five-dollar words are fancy enough for Joey Gladstone?"

Anna laughed.

"Very funny!" Jack said.

"I know, wasn't it?" Anna said.

"Will you two ever grow up?"

"If we were grown up, we wouldn't be in this business." Caytlinne said closing the door in her brother's face.

Anna looked at her sister. "When ever you said his name, you were smiling."

"Who's name?"

"Joey's."

"Joey's?" Caytlinne laughed, "You've got to be kidding."

"You're smiling again."

"I was laughing! There's a difference." Caytlinne locked herself in the bathroom to get dressed. She knew she was smiling when she said his name. She just didn't want to admit it. Her sister would never let her live it down.

Jesse woke up that morning to see Becky flipping through a "Name For Your Baby" book. She saw he was awake. "I want to think of the perfect name."

Jesse nodded.

"Did you have anything in mind?"

When she said that, he thought of his sister.

"You know, I wouldn't mind if she was a Pam."

"Oh, no, no, it's alright," Jesse said, "You pick something out."

"Jessica wouldn't be that bad either."

"I don't know."

They heard a knock on the door. One of the boys answered it.

"Just think about it."

"Mom!" Alex called, "Uncle Danny is here to bring you to work!"

Becky kissed her husband on the cheek. "Bye, hun."

Jesse sat up in bed. "Pam Katsopolis" he thought. She was his sister, his beautiful angelic sister. He could bring that name back to the family. But for some reason he didn't want to.

Nicky came up the stairs, ready for school. "Hi, Dad. Whatcha doin'?"

"Just thinking."

"About what?"

"Just names for the new baby," Jesse said, "That's all."

"How about…" Nicky was interrupted when Alex yelled from down stairs.

"Nicky! The bus is here!"

"Bye, Dad!"

"Bye."

Caytlinne, Jack, Anna, and their cousins, Mary and Elaine, had gone over the script five times by that afternoon. "Okay," Jack said, "From the top!"

"No!" everyone shouted at once.

"But guys!" Jack said, "It's Joey Gladsto…"

"Is he all you ever talk about!" Elaine cut him off.

"Ever since I met him at the diner," Caytlinne said, smiling.

"There you go again!" Anna said.

"Must you be so observant?" her sister asked, re-tying her shoelace.

"Who does what now?" Mary asked.

"Cayt smiles whenever she talks about Joey."

"Sounds like love!" the girls said together.

"What do you know about love?" Caytlinne asked, "You two are only seventeen!"

"I thought the same thing and I'm thirty-five!" Anna said.

"You're just agreeing with them to piss me off!"

"Stop denying it, Cayt!" Elaine said.

"I'm not denying anything!"

"Ahem," Jack said, "Script!"

"Shut up!" everyone said in unison.

"Fine!" Jack stormed up the stairs.

"Really, Cayt, you're in love!" Mary said.

"I am not in love with anybody!"

Anna got an idea. "How about a word association game?"

"Fine."

Anna and Caytlinne spoke back and forth.

"Computer" Anna said.

"Internet"

"Sea"

"Shell"

"Dog"

"Cat"

They sped up.

"Fly"

"Wings"

"Summer"

"Heat"

"Lost"

"Confused"

"Animal"

"Lamb"

"Joey"

"Love"

"Ha!" Anna said.

"That wasn't fair, Anna!"

"Caytlinne is in love!" Mary and Elaine chanted. "Caytlinne is in love!"

Jack came downstairs. "In love with who?"

"Joey Gladstone!" the three girls chanted.

"Really!"

"Yes!"

"No!" Caytlinne shouted.

"You can't hide it anymore!" Anna said.

"So what if I am? Is that a problem?"

Anna squealed. "I'd never thought I'd see the day, little sister."

"I'm thirty, stop calling me that!"

"No matter how old you are, you'll always be my little sis."

"I can't wait to meet Joey tonight!" Elaine said.

"So when we meet him we should be hearing great things about the script." Jack said.

"Fine!" Anna said. "We'll rehearse again."

"I'm just glad to change the subject!" Caytlinne said, picking up a copy.

That night, Joey was waiting on the couch for Steph. It was quarter to eight. "Stephanie, are you ready?" he yelled up the stairs.

"Give me five seconds!"

Joey stood impatiently. Soon, Stephanie jogged down the steps in jeans and a T-shirt. "Do I look right for this place?"

"Yeah, fine," Joey said, "Let's go."

They got there at eight on the dot. The show was about to start. The lights dimmed as they sat down. The emcee got on stage. "Hello everyone. Tonight we have a performance by the Becalles. Enjoy!" Everyone clapped Joey especially.

A boy and girl, the girl recognizable as Caytlinne, were dressed in private eye uniforms. A tape flew onto the stage. They put it in a tape player. "Good afternoon," the player said. They could hear a girl's voice coming through it. "Today's mission: the governor of New Grovestan has a hot date tonight and needs his burnoose cleaned. You must clean the burnoose and have it completely ready by nine o'clock tonight. This tape will self destruct in five…four…three…two…one!" Smoke arose from the stage and the tape player disappeared.

"You heard the tape! Let's get moving!" the boys character said.

"But New Grovestan is miles from here! How do we get there?" Caytlinne's character said.

"If we walk in the opposite direction it takes five seconds." The two walked to the left.

"That was easy." Caytlinne said.

"But the doors locked. Now, how to get inside…"

"How about…the cat!"

"The cat?" the boy said. "How would a cat help us?"

"It has a really long tail. We can throw it up the window, then climb up the tail!"

"Works for me." The two mocked climbing up a cat tail.

"Okay, now to find that burnoose!" the boy said.

"What's a burnoose look like anyway?"

"A…burnoose."

Suddenly a red light flashed. "Intruder!" two girls shouted. They came up in police uniforms.

"How do we get out of this?" the boy asked.

"The cat!"

"The cat again?"

"It has sharp claws!"

The girls faked getting scratched by a cat and dropped.

"There's the burnoose!" Caytlinne's character said.

"Good. We can wash it in the bathtub."

They faked washing it. "Oh no!" the boy said, "They don't have towels here. How will we dry it?"

"The cat!"

"We can't! The cat fell in the water!"

"Damn!" Caytlinne's character said. "Wait, we can use the other cat!"

"Enough with the cat!"

"But that's all we have!"

"Fine, we'll use the damn cat."

They both faked drying the burnoose. The clock chimed nine. A girl came on the stage, and when she spoke Joey could tell it was the same voice from on the tape.

"Good job. You've completed the mission."

They "accidentally" dropped the burnoose in a water bucket on the stage.

"Damn!" they all said at once.

After that, the scene ended. Everyone bowed. The audience clapped, especially Joey and Stephanie. He thought it was the one of the funniest thing he'd ever seen.

The lights came on a Stephanie stood up. "Should we wait for her?"

Joey nodded. He led Stephanie to the backstage entrance. He figured Caytlinne would come out from there. Sure enough, she did five minutes later, in normal clothes. "Hi, Joey!" she said.

"Hi," he said, "this is Stephanie, my friend's daughter."

"Nice to meet you, Stephanie."

"Same here." The girls shook hands.

"How'd you like the show?" Caytlinne asked, thinking "Please, say it was great!"

"I loved it!" Joey said.

"It was hilarious!"

"Great!" Caytlinne said.

The voice on the tape came out from the dressing room. "Hey, sis," she said, "Is this Joey?"

Caytlinne nodded. "Joey, this is my older sister, Anna."

Joey and Anna shook hands. The emcee made an announcement that the Laugh Shack was closing. The four headed out to the parking lot. As Joey and Stephanie were getting in the car, the boy ran up to Caytlinne. "By the way," he said, "I'm having a few friends over tomorrow night. Would it be too much trouble to stay out of the house?"

"But…" her brother cut her off.

"Thanks! I knew you'd understand."

"But I didn't…"

Her brother ran in his car.

"That was weird," Joey said.

"Why don't you invite her over tomorrow?" Stephanie asked.

"But isn't that like a date?"

"Only if she thinks so."

"I guess she's right," Joey thought. He decided to make his move. He really did like her. He stepped out of the car and walked over to Caytlinne.

"I couldn't help overhearing," Joey started, then thought it was stupid. "Um...about the, you know, out of the house thing and, I was wondering if you wanted to come over and eat with us."

Caytlinne was pleasantly surprised. She had secretly wanted that ever since she met him. She didn't want to sound too excited. "Sure. My number is 555-3459, call to give me directions."

Joey repeated the number in his head. "Sure. Um, around six maybe?"

"I'll be there."
"Great."

"Great."

Anna honked the horn in her car. Caytlinne turned around and opened the door.

"Did he just ask you out?" Anna asked as Caytlinne closed the door on the passenger side.

"I'm just going over to his house."

"Just going over to his house?" Anna sounded like her sister was insane. "You like this guy, right?"

"Yeah."

"Then it's a date!"

"No wonder you're not married!" Caytlinne said, "This isn't a date!"

"Who says?"

"He did!"

"I didn't hear him say anything."

Anna was right. Joey hadn't said it wasn't a date. Then maybe it was.

"What should I wear?" Caytlinne asked as they pulled into they driveway.

"We'll look tomorrow."

A/N: Sorry about the suckiness! Please don't review telling me how sucky it is, but any other reviews are greatly appreciated.