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Danielle Jackson and her best friend Brittany Shults were shopping in their favorite store, Abercrombie.

"Ok, so tell me again, exactly why I am here, not that I have any objections to shopping mind you."

"Moral support. I am supposed to meet my dad at the food court at 12:00, and I wanted backup in case he tries to kidnap me and sell me to aliens for exploitation or to Area 51."

"You are whacked. No more Sci-fi channel for you!"

"It is just part of my charm," Dani returned smiling.

"This thing with your dad has got to be so weird, meeting him after all these years." Britt picked up a pink and black hoodie. "What do you think of this hoodie?"

"It is cute, but try the all black one. This thing with my dad is not so weird. All these years mom has told me about him, and showed me pictures, and even had me call him dad, so it is not too weird." Dani stood still a second thinking then laughing said, "I think he is more freaked out by all of this than I am." Dani picked up two really cute shirts and handed them to Britt. "Try these on. I've got two like them. Then we can do the matching thing."

Britt went into the dressing room to try them on while Dani looked at more clothes. From inside the dressing room Britt asked, "So what's this dad of yours like, and do you like him?"

"He is kinda nerdy. I think he is like really smart. I guess that runs in the family, so thank you dad. He works as a civilian consultant for the Air Force. He's got the same eyes and hair as I do, he seems ok though. He said he would help me with my homework. Maybe I can talk him into doing it for me. So how do the shirts look?"

Britt walked out with one of the shirts on. "I like this one. The other made me look like I was expecting. So all in all daddy is cool?"

Dani was still trying not to burst out laughing about the expecting comment. "Think so." She looked at her watch, it was later than she had thought. "Hurry up and change or else we'll be late. Oh, that shirt looks good. You should get it."

It only took Britt a few more minutes to change back. As she came out of the dressing room she announced, "OK, I'm ready. Let's get this show on the road, and before you ask about the shirt I'm going to get mom to came back and get it with some other stuff."

Dani shrugged, it sounded good to her. As they made their way towards the food court Britt continued to ask questions about Daniel till she was convinced that he was a good person. They stood at the end of the food court looking for Daniel, at least Dani was. Britt was looking for hot guys, she had already found three to her liking.

"Oh, hot guy alert! He is standing in front of Diary Queen," Britt said nudging her friend.

When Dani turned to look at the "hot" guy she saw it was Daniel! She bit back a laugh, "Congratulations, you just called my dad hot."

"THAT'S your dad?" Britt squealed. "I thought you said that he was sort of geeky."

"He is Britt, or was. Whatever. Ok at Pizza Hut he had glasses, he was nervous as all get out, and it was dim inside."

When Daniel saw Danielle approach his first thought was, "good she didn't ditch me," then "Hi Danielle, how are you doing?"

"Please, Dani. I'm doing good. This is my friend Brittany Shults, aka Britt. I hope you don't mind that I asked her to come, plus she thinks you are hot. Both Britt and Daniel blushed, Britt whacked her.

Daniel quickly said, "I don't mind at all about your friend. I almost brought a few of my own. It is good to have friends who will back you up. So what do you girls want for lunch, my treat!"

Daniel got their lunches and somehow during the course of lunch the girls convinced Daniel to let them shop for him some "cool" new clothes. They had a blast! Daniel got some cool new clothes and Dani and Britt truly enjoyed his company. Plus Daniel bought them some clothes and got Britt that shirt she was going to get her mom to come back for. When it came time to leave Dani took Britt home.

Britt said, "Your dad is pretty cool and he got that top for me." Dani thought for a minute. "Yeah, he is pretty cool. You remember that lady who started yelling at us in some weird language, and dad started talking back. I will never forget the look on her face. It was priceless!"

Right then Dani realized that she actually liked her dad, and she might even love him.