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Danielle got back home from dropping Randy off at the airport and quickly picked up the house. She spent a lot of the afternoon watching the various music-video channels, relaxing with her feet up. She sang along, and at times she would get up and dance a bit. She could hardly wait to see Alyssa.

At 5:00pm, Dani's phone rang. She grabbed it and the caller id showed Alyssa's name. "Hello!"

"Is the coast clear?" Alyssa asked in a hushed voice.

Dani giggled, "Yup, he left this morning."

"Cool, I'm sitting in your driveway, wanna come out?" Alyssa replied.

"Be right out!" Dani said hanging up the phone and heading out to the parking lot.

There was Alyssa. Dani hadn't seen her in almost a year, but she hadn't changed much. "Hey girl!" Dani called.

Alyssa waved, "I know pregnant people like to eat a lot, so I brought our favorite Chinese food for dinner."

Dani laughed, "Aww…you didn't have to do that." And she gave Alyssa a big hug.

Alyssa hugged her back, "I know, but it's a great excuse for me to eat Chinese too. Let's eat, then I'll come out and grab the goodies."

They went inside and Alyssa was amazed, the apartment looked great. "Look at this place, it looks really nice."

"Thanks, it's come a long way since the last time you seen it." Dani said grabbing plates and silverware. "What would you like to drink?"

"I'll take water." Alyssa said taking the food out of the bag. "I hope you still like beef and broccoli."

"Of course." Dani said handing her a bottle of water.

Over dinner the girls brought each up to speed as far as what all has been going on in their lives. As soon as dinner was over, Alyssa leaned over the table and grabbed one of Dani's hands, "Girl, are you ready to see the goodies?"

Danielle smiled, "Definitely!"

They walked out to Alyssa's car and Alyssa grabbed a big tote out of her trunk. She handed Danielle a bag to carry. They headed back inside and plopped everything down in the living room.

"Ok, let's go through the bag first." Alyssa advised. She pulled out a large binder and handed the bag back to Danielle. "This is the master list. This is every song the band knows. I went through and put every song on cd and those are in the tote. What I do is set this to the side of the stage and that way if someone wants to request a song, they can flip through here. I have it broken down by genre and it's in alphabetical order by artist."

Danielle nodded her head, "Got it."

"If there are any that you don't know, write in pencil that you don't know them, and then you can work on memorizing them." Alyssa advised. "And, you guys can add songs if you want, just update the list."

Dani continued to nod her head.

"Ok, now here's the best part." Alyssa said opening the tote. "Here are the cd's, some various little instruments that I use to play along as well, and there's a giant binder in there that has the tour schedule, the various venues we'll be playing, the directions on how to find them, and the band members addresses and phone numbers. You know all of them except Jeremy. He's our new rhythm guitarist and male vocalist. That way if it's a duet, you can still perform it."

"Wow, this is so organized." Dani said amazed.

"It has to be, otherwise it's total chaos." Alyssa said pulling out another binder. "And here's where you record what the band made for the gig. The managers won't try to stiff you, you won't have to worry about that."

"Good, I was wondering how that would work." Dani replied.

"So, let's hear ya." Alyssa said grabbing one of the cd's.

Dani smiled and got up. Alyssa put on a Martina McBride karaoke cd and listened to Dani perform "Independence Day." Danielle put everything she had into that song.

Alyssa smiled, "Girl, you should be the one with the band and I should be a back-up singer. I don't know why you ever gave it up."

Dani laughed, "Oh stop."

"Are you excited?" Alyssa asked.

"I'm ecstatic. I can't wait till this weekend." Danielle said with a smile.

"Good because you don't have to." Alyssa said standing up.

Danielle looked at her funny, "What do you mean?"

"I mean that we have a gig at 9:00pm, which means that you have 30 minutes to get ready." Alyssa said with a laugh.

"What? Stop clowning." Dani said playfully pushing Alyssa.

Alyssa reached into her purse and pulled out the flyer confirming she wasn't lying, "Not lying. It's your time to shine."

"Really!" Dani said excitedly. "Then I need something to wear!"

The girls laughed and went upstairs and proceeded to get Danielle dressed for a night on stage. They were ready just in time. Alyssa grabbed her keys, and it was off to Danielle's first night.

They met up with the band, went over the song list. Alyssa was going to do a few numbers, and then Danielle would finish off the night.

Danielle was really nervous, but once she began to sing, everything else faded away. She belted out ballads, rocked the house with up-beat numbers. Alyssa went out and walked amongst the crowd trying to listen for feedback, and all she heard was positive. They liked her. Danielle sang her heart out.

When the night was over, and she finished singing the last song, Danielle walked off the stage and walked over to Alyssa. "So, will I do?"

"Honey, you're going to steal my job is what you're going to do." Alyssa said with a hug. "You were great! I feel very comfortable leaving the band in your hands. Now you have one last thing to do."

"What's that?" Dani asked.

"Go get paid." Alyssa said pointing towards the manager.

"Deal." And Dani was off to talk to the manager.

Danielle came back with an envelope and brought it to Alyssa. "Here ya go."

Alyssa split it amongst everyone and smiled, "Well guys, now you know who'll be taking my place."

Danielle blushed. She looked around, she knew almost everyone, except for Jeremy. He was approximately 6 feet tall, very tan, muscular, blonde hair and bright blue eyes with long eyelashes. He smiled at her, "You deserve it, you have an amazing vocal range."

Danielle blushed even more and smiled, "Thanks, I appreciate that."

"Anytime, anytime." He said and went back to packing up their stuff.

Alyssa and Danielle headed out so Alyssa could bring Danielle home. "So, are you ready for it?" Alyssa asked Dani.

"Yeah I am. I'm excited to make you proud." Dani replied with a yawn. "But I'm glad that we don't have any weeknight shows, going to work the next day would suck!"

Alyssa laughed, "Yeah, I only do weeknight shows if I'm broke and I need the money, and even then I usually don't drag the whole band with me."

They pulled up in front of Dani's apartment building. "Alright, I leave tomorrow, so the band is in your hands. Do me proud, and I'll talk to you soon." Alyssa said giving Dani a hug.

Dani hugged her back, "Don't worry, I will."

Alyssa pulled away, and Dani headed into the house thinking about how lucky she was.

That Friday:

Danielle arrived at the venue and headed inside with her guitar. She bumped into Jeremy. "Are you ready for tonight?" She asked with a smile.

He quickly grabbed the guitar case from her, "Hon, I'm ready. But you are the singer, you don't need to carry in the equipment. You go to the warm-up room and work on your voice."

Danielle giggled, "Um…I don't know how to tell you this, but that's my guitar. I dug it out from the storage locker this week, tuned it up, put new strings on it, and I thought that I would do a couple songs with just me and the guitar."

Jeremy's face turned bright red, "I'm so sorry. I guess I'm just not used to someone who actually plays an instrument. Alyssa is lucky she can play the tambourine at the right times, I guess I just figured…"

"You figured I'd be the same way. It's ok. I've been playing guitar since I was about 9 years old, we're good friends. I'll see you inside." She said waving and headed inside.

Jasmine the keyboardist walked up behind Jeremy and whacked him in the back of the head, "Boy that was smooth. Apparently we have someone with a lot of talent on board, I wonder if we'll wind up getting reviewed while she's with us?"

Jeremy shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know. But boy is she a spitfire. I think I would like to get to know her better."

Jasmine laughed and rolled her eyes, "Good luck, she's engaged and pregnant."

At first Jeremy looked disappointed, but then he regained his composure, "Who needs her for a girlfriend when you can have her as a friend?" And he walked inside.

Soon there was 5 minutes until they were to take the stage. Jeremy was pretty much the music director, so when Dani hadn't come out of the warm up room yet, so he went to get her. As he approached, he could hear her playing the guitar and singing a Sara Evans song. He knocked "We're on."

He couldn't help but laugh when he heard her stumbling around and muttering about how dumb she was for losing track of time. She opened the door, "Ok, I'm ready."

As they walked to where the rest of the band was, she looked at him, "Just to let you know, I know the guitar parts to a lot of these songs, so would it be a problem if I played along?"

"Of course you can. That's wonderful! I think it says a lot when the singer can play along with the band." Jeremy said patting her on the back.

They met up with the band, and headed out on stage.

That night, Dani had the time of her life. She performed all 3 sets by herself. She played along with a lot of the songs, her and Jeremy did duets, and she took requests. The crowd was hot for them!

Dani paid the band and then headed home. She was exhausted, and she still had 2 more nights of shows to do.

Alright, apparently the crowds are loving the "new" Jewel Chest. So, what condition will she be in when Randy comes home on Tuesday? What's up with Jeremy and Dani's flirting?

The next chapter will cover Tuesday and I'm going to speed up the story a bit. We'll get to the good stuff, I promise!

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