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Dani woke up Friday morning to her alarm going off. Today was the day that Jewel Chest would fly to Nashville to meet with Daniel from Capitol Records. She sat up in bed and stretched. As Dani threw her legs over the side of the bed, she felt a strange twinge in her abdomen. She started to rub her bulging tummy and then plain as day she felt a baby kick. Dani smiled and rubbed her tummy some more, this time it felt as though both babies kicked at the same time, just in different places. Dani's eyes filled with tears, this was so amazing! Dani's first instinct was to grab the phone and call Randy. But then she stopped, should she call him? She hadn't spoken to him since their argument on Monday, and Becky's advice was to give him a little space, but she couldn't help it, this was such a HUGE moment!

Randy awoke to the sound of his cell phone ringing, he looked at the clock, it was only 5:00am and he hadn't gotten in until 4:00am. His head was pounding, and on the third ring he finally answered it groggily, "Hello?"

"Randy, it's Dani." She said through her tears.

"What's wrong? Are you ok?" Randy asked quickly. He sat up and then grabbed his head. The throbbing only got worse as he moved.

"Nothing's wrong silly, you'll never guess what just happened." She said excitedly.

"Dani, I just got in about an hour ago, my head is killing me, don't play these stupid games, just tell me what happened." He mumbled.

Dani got frustrated, "You know what, forget it. Forget that I called, forget that I even had something happy to tell you about. You skip everything we had planned, I haven't heard from you in 4 goddamn days, and now you're too hung over to talk to me about something, forget it."

"Jesus Dani, calm the hell down. You are way too wired for 5:00 in the morning. What's your problem?" Randy growled. "It's not like you don't have a phone either. I think that you should wait till your hormones have settled down and then try calling me."

"Screw you Randy." She hollered and slammed the phone down. She sunk to the floor of her bedroom crying. How inconsiderate could he be? Was she really asking for too much?

Randy rolled his eyes and threw his phone back on the nightstand. He couldn't figure out what her problem had been. Lately she had been so bitchy all the time. And god only knows when the last time they made love was. Randy rolled over very frustrated. He knew that he shouldn't be doing what he had been doing, but she was driving him to do it. But he always made sure that none of his co-workers knew because they would never let him live it down. All he knew was that he was so thankful he had a few "friends with benefits" around because otherwise he would be walking around as the most frustrated man around. He was the type who had to have his "release" at least a couple times a week. Dani knew that.

Randy tossed and turned. He knew that if she ever found out, it would be over between them. But he had made it crystal clear that no one could ever know. And his "friends" knew and respected those wishes. After the wedding was over, he would never touch them again. It was just getting through the wedding that would drive him over the edge.

Meanwhile…

Dani took a shower and headed off to Jeremy's house. The band was meeting there because that way they could leave their cars there and just carpool to the airport.

She was the first to arrive, and she just walked in, "Hello? Anyone home?"

"Yeah I'm up here." Jeremy called from upstairs.

Dani slipped her shoes off and walked upstairs. She got to his room and found him in only his boxers going through his closet. "Um, I don't think Daniel is that kind of guy Jeremy." She said with a laugh. But she couldn't help but notice that he looked damn-fine with most of his clothes off. He had great muscle tone, not too much, but not too little. She quickly diverted her attention from his butt and looked towards his closet. "You have a lot of very nice clothes."

Jeremy smiled, "Yeah, don't worry, I wouldn't chase Daniel when you set me up with Mol—Nora tomorrow night. But you look nice"

She laughed, "Thanks, nice and pregnant. You'll never guess what happened this morning."

"What?"

"The babies kicked. It was so amazing, you could totally feel them kick. I cried." Dani said with a smile.

Jeremy hugged her close, "Dani that's wonderful. That is so cool. You'll have to tell me the next time they start kicking so I can feel."

As Jeremy was getting dressed, Dani couldn't help but think about the way Jeremy reacted. That was what she wanted from Randy, excitement, amazement, something. Instead they wound up fighting. They're getting married in two weeks and 1 day but yet they were fighting. Dani's eyes started filling with tears. Next thing she knew she was crying.

Jeremy turned around when he heard her sniffling, "Baby what's wrong?" He asked sitting down by her on the bed. He was still shirtless, but now he had his pants on. He pulled her to him and let her cry on his shoulder. He rubbed her back and smoothed her hair.

As she vented about the fight and the fact that they hadn't spoken all week, Jeremy couldn't help but become upset. It killed him to see how Randy just seemed to walk all over Dani, and she would let him. She was such a great girl, and yeah she had been a little testy lately, but what do you expect from someone who's almost 6 months pregnant with twins; planning a wedding basically on her own; trying to get a new career off the ground; and basically building a house on her own. The most Randy had done to help with the wedding planning was pick out the tuxes and had the guys and her father go and get fitted. Otherwise, she had done it all. Randy always seemed to find a way out of cake-tasting or flower-choosing, or anything like that.

Jeremy rubbed her back, "I know things have been tough, but you need to tell him how you feel. Just unload on him, he's probably the type who doesn't realize things until you throw them in his face."

"But I feel like I've been such a bitch lately." She argued through her tears. "God at this rate, no one would want me."

Jeremy just rubbed her back and held her close. He bit his tongue, even though he knew that he would want her. They had such a great bond, a truly great friendship and he would never want to jeopardize that. So no one would ever know about his true feelings. Plus, she was taken and she was setting him up with a woman he never thought he would ever meet, let alone have a date with. He kissed her on the top of her head, "Now don't you feel better that you've had a good cry?"

She nodded and wiped her eyes, "Sorry I lost it there." She couldn't help but think about how nice it was to be in someone's arms who cared. He had held her so close and comforted her. She couldn't remember the last time that her and Randy had just sat and held each other, lately when they were together, she was in bed before he was and when he came to bed, there was no touching, no snuggling, no footsie, no anything. "I really appreciate it, thank you."

They both stood up, and they hugged. They were standing there, in the middle of the room, holding each other, they could feel the warmth of each other and they looked into each others eyes. "I just want to tell you that I'm always here for you." He said softly to her while staring into her eyes.

She nodded, "I know."

The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. They stood there, in each others' arms, both searching within the other person for something when the front door burst open with the rest of the band, "HELLO! Let's roll!"

Dani and Jeremy both jumped. It was like a reality check had hit them. Jeremy let go of her, and he went to finish getting dressed, and Dani headed downstairs.

The band arrived in Nashville, and was met at the airport with a car sent courtesy of Capital Records. They tried not to be geeked out, but it was hard. This was so surreal.

They arrived at the Capitol records building and headed inside. They checked in with the front desk and sat down while they waited for Daniel.

Soon Daniel came out, "Jewel Chest?" He was surprised to see how much Dani was showing.

Dani smiled and the band stood up, "Yes sir." She replied.

"Thanks for coming out, I hope that you're flight was ok. Please come with me."

The band followed Daniel into a room that looked much like a recording studio, and there were a few other people in there. "Dani, why don't you introduce the band by first names and what they play. I'll pass the bios you created around."

Danielle stood up and smiled, "Yes sir. I'm Danielle, I'm lead vocals and I play guitar and piano. This is Jeremy, he's our rhythm guitarist and musical director. This is Jasmine, she's our keyboardist and background vocals. This is Robbie, he's our percussionist. And this is Shane, he plays bass guitar."

Daniel smiled and thanked her. Danielle took her seat. Daniel stood up, "Are you guys prepared to give us a show?"

Danielle nodded, "Yes sir."

"Good, we're going to give you 15 minutes to get set up in here, we're going to record you. Please select 3-5 songs that you feel show off your best talent." Daniel said.

The other people in the room got up and headed out and Danielle turned to the rest of the band. "Ok guys, this is our chance to shine. If we can do 5 songs, let's do that. We'll each choose 1 song. Let's try to do a variety."

Jeremy raised his hand, "I say we do a duet of some sort."

Jasmine piped in, "If you're going to do a duet, I say do "Let's Make Love, It's Your Love, or "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."

"I vote Paradise by the Dashboard Light, while you two are making out, I can do the play-by-play." Shane replied. "It'll show the chemistry that the band has and it's always entertaining."

Dani nodded, "Ok, Paradise it is."

Jasmine smiled, "That'll be fun. I vote for "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover. You play the piano so well on that."

Everyone else gave their two cents. When the "power players" entered the room, Danielle approached them. "Ok, here is the set list in order. 1.) Something More-Sugarland 2.) All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You-Heart 3.) Three Chords and the Truth-Sara Evans 4.) Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover-Sophie B. Hawkins 5.) Paradise by the Dashboard Light-Meat Loaf"

Daniel nodded, "Ok, just signal when you're ready and the engineer will start recording"

Dani picked up her guitar and the band got ready and Dani signaled to the engineer, Robbie kicked off a drumstick count to 4 and then the band launched into their set.

As they performed, the "power players" took notes and nodded. When it came time for "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," they all watched and were surprised when Dani and Jeremy actually did the make-out scene. They were all over each other. There was definitely chemistry there, but no one would dare call them on it. Dani launched Jeremy so hard that he almost tripped over the guitar stand as she sang "Stop right there, I've gotta know right now." But they loved that they were so theatrical with their performance. They would definitely have enough to keep an audience's attention.

"Ok guys, go ahead and take a break. If you walk out this door, to the right you'll find the vending machines. Why don't you be back in here in fifteen minutes." Daniel said thanking them.

They walked out and they were all psyched. Fifteen minutes later, they returned and found only Daniel in the room. "Go ahead and have a seat guys."

They all sat down around the table. Dani was nervously twitching her feet. Jeremy patted her knee reassuringly.

Daniel cleared his throat, "Ok, here's the deal. The board that you auditioned in front of was very impressed with your band and your sound. They like that you guys know a variety of music and are able to perform without any hesitation in front of a crowd. And Danielle, I had also given them a copy of your performance from the WWE show to view as well. Here's what they would like you guys to do. If you could come down here to Nashville for about a month, we could write some songs, pick some songs and get starting an album. We would like to sign you for a record deal. To get you guys ready we'll have you recording demos for part of the day and doing the song-work for the second-half of the day. Does that sound like something you guys would be up for?"

Danielle looked at everyone and they were all in agreement. She couldn't turn down an offer like this one. "We're in."

Daniel smiled, "That's wonderful. Now just to let you know, we're not going to rush this. Keep doing your weekend gigs, keep learning new songs. Why don't you guys hire yourselves a lawyer, when you have one, call me and we'll set up a meeting for the contract review and signing."

Everyone nodded. They signed a form stating that they would not take any other offers from record companies until a final decision was made when proper legal counsel was present and then they shook hands with Daniel. Then he took them out to where the car was waiting to take them back to the airport so they could make their show that night.

The ride to the airport was very loud and rowdy, Jeremy and Dani were a constant hug as they chatted with the rest of the band. It was absolutely an amazing day.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What's going to happen? Will Jeremy fall head over heels for Nora (Molly)? Will one of Randy's friends happen to stumble upon him and whoever? What if it's someone who is also close to Dani? Uh-oh…better wait and see! Please read and review!