Sweet Home Chicago

"Dani. Dani? Wake up. We're here."

Danielle woke up to the sound of Elwood's voice and the fact that he was nudging her.

"Are we seriously? Dang this car must have grown wings or something."

Jake and Elwood smiled at her comment.

Picking up her bag, Danielle climbed out of the car and followed Elwood to the main office of the hotel they were staying at. Once Elwood got the keys to the rooms everyone got their possessions and instruments and proceeded to their rooms to get some rest.

"What time is it Elwood," Danielle asked?

"You have a watch , dummy. Use it," was his reply.

"Call me dummy again and see what happens," she answered.

Jake looked at his watch, "It's 8 p.m. baby girl."

Danielle nodded at Jake and sat her bag on the bed nearest her and sat down.

"Ok, how much do these rooms cost El,"she took her glasses off and looked at Elwood.

"Uh 60 dollars a night and we have three rooms."

Danielle sighed, "El, do you know how much money we have," Elwood shook his head and she continued, " we have 425 dollars. If we have to pay 360 of that for the rooms then we have 65 dollars left for food and gas money. Get what I'm saying?"

Elwood just nodded somewhat dumbly, "Er yeah...no."

Rolling her eyes Dani let out a loud sigh, "What it means Einstein is that no one from the band can buy any cigarettes or beer."

Jake, overhearing this little conversation ,stopped what he was doing and looked at Danielle.

"So your saying that no one can buy any beer or anything unnecessary as you put it?"

Giving an irritated sigh she nodded, "What is it with men? I mean first Elwood is completely ignorant of the situation then you rephrase what I just said! Yes, no one can buy anything like that because then the money will be GONE!"

Elwood and Jake both flinched slightly.

"Get it,"the boys looked at each other, "Got it," they nodded. "Good. Now yall go to sleep I'm gonna sit over here and think."

The next morning all three Blues' woke up at about the same time. Simultaneously they all sat up in their beds.

"Ok what's on the agenda today Jake," Elwood inquired.

"Well, since the gig is tomorrow I guess we'll just hang around here and goof off abit. What say, Dani?"

"Sounds good to me. But absolutely no money can be spent unless it is on food. Okay? I'm gonna go tell the others about the money problem."

Danielle climbed off the bed and walked out the door, only to come back in and put her glasses on.

"Too bright out there," she replied to the guys since they had an inquiring look on their faces.

"Hey Duck, Murph, Cropper. Open up,"Danielle called while knocking on their door. Steve opened it and replied,"Good morning, something wrong?"

Danielle walked in and sat on the edge of the bed that Donald was occupying. Nodding she sighed.

"Yeah the band as a whole has only got sixty-five dollars and we need that for food."

"Really? Man that sucks. Are you sure we couldn't use the money because we will get paid for the gig."

Danielle turned slightly and looked down at Donald.

"Men. I swear. No because 1) we don't know how much money we'll make, 2) yall don't drink 15 dollars or what ever of beer, 3) yall drink about 100 dollars worth of beer, and 4) if we do that we will go into the negatives in our cash stash."

Steve nodded, "Ok, thank you. We'll pass the word onto the rest of the guys."

"Thanks, now I'm gonna go see if Dumb and Dumber are still awake or if they went back to sleep," she replied standing up and walking out the door. .

Once outside she looked at her watch and yawned.

"Dangit, it's still bright out here. No cloud cover or anything," she thought to herself going back to her hotel room.

Danielle opened the door and walked in.

"Hey Dumb and Dumber, your stayed awake. Wow, I'm proud. Normally yall would fall asleep when Curtis would wake us up."

Elwood looked at her and gave a kiss-my-butt smile.

"Ok Jake, El, yall can do what you like but I'm gonna walk down to the lake. It's probably a 10 minute walk. You can come if you want," Dani said picking up her bag.

Elwood pulled out his harmonica and layed on the bed and staeted to play whileJake picked up a newspaper and looked at it.

"Ok, be back in about an hour," she said walking out the door and down the road.