A/N: yeah. chapter 2. woo. um...sorry I didn't get this updated as quickly as I promised. heh

disclaimer: I don't own zoey101 or the characters. they own themselves & yet I wouldn't mind owning Underwood...I do own a pickle army though...

Dana walked off, leaving Logan standing by himself, frowning. 'Somethings differant about her, normally she would have belted me one...' he stood wondering for a while.

Dana made her way around the school, getting a few greetings on her way. She spotted Zoey, Nicole, Chase, Michael and Quinn at a table. She frowned seeing someone else sitting with them.(aka, Lola) "I guess they've replaced me.' she thought, desiding to go back to her room. Once there, she took off her jacket and lay down on her bed. She looked at her bare arms. They were covered in dark bruises and near her wrists were small gashes. She sighed.

"Why do I put myself through this?" she asked herself. "Maybe I should tell someone-no. I can't. He'll never let me live it down."

Memories of that night flooded back to her. Yelling, things being thrown, her packing her bags, the stench of clorophorm running into her sinuses, waking up and running out of the house. She groaned as a migrain hit her. All this stress was taking a toll on her. She sighed, desiding to get a little sleep. Dana pulled the blankets onto herself and gentaly fell asleep.

The group of Zoey, Chase, Nicole, Michael Quinn and Lola were discusing Dana's return to PCA. Lola was completely confused, but that was understandable. The guys were completely shocked about this. It was about a year after Dana had left and they had almost forgotten about her seeing as how Lola had made it known that since Dana had left, she was the new link in the group.

Logan walked over to the table, hands in his pockets, same dumbass smirk on his face. He hadn't smiled like that since Dana had left. He pulled up a seat next to Michael who was absentmindedly chewing on potato chips. No, he hadn't given up on them. His habit might have even gotten worse.

"Looks like someone heard the good news." he said through a mouthful.

"What good news?" Logan asked, playing dumb.

"Dana's back!" Nicole squealed. Even a monkey could tell someone slipped her a chocolate bar.

"Really? Danger Cruz is finally crawing back to the old Reese charm." He said using the nicname he had given her almost a year back.

"I don't think she'd fall for the 'old Reese charm' if you can even call it that." Zoey said laughing. This made everyone laugh, even Logan.

"Yeah, she was to smart to fall for it." Chase laughed, earning a punch from Logan.

They all laughed at this. They kept talking about their friends return, making Lola even more confused and waiting through Michael's constant chip mission. After a while, Logan sprang the idea to go to the beach for the rest of the day. His dad had recently bought a beach house near there and seeing as how he wouldn't be there that weekend, so they had the place to themselves. Zoey, Nicole and Lola loved the idea and got up to pack. The guys soon left for their dorm.

a/n: okay, I've been killing my PC so it died, luckly its up and running smoothly. please review or I'll sick my pickle army on you...eats pickle