A/N: To Kat02980416, SHADOW ANGUS, Angelicxox and The sleep warrior thanx fer support and suggestions… I'm SO sorry a lot happened with shit at home (my mom and I went to the hospital in the same week) and school and I promise you guys at least 2 chapters in Winter break. I'm SO SO sorry…

As Tucker and I were on our way to buy the ring for Val, he asked, me two things…

"Yo, Are you going to tell Danny about Richard?"

"What? Oh, oh Richard… Yeah I'm going to tell Danny… Why?"

"Uh, Sam, you're really going to tell him?" Tucker didn't sound or look convinced as we drove to the Diamond district.

"Yes, why wouldn't I? I mean he is my boyfriend." I said defensively, god knows we talk about everything and I sure as hell didn't want to lose him over not telling him something as insignificant as what happened with Richard.

"Ok, good just checking."

Well at least this time he actually sounds… wait hang on why would he be checking?

"Checking? On what?"

"That you two are still, you know cool."

"Tucker did he say anything while you were in New York?"

Uh-oh this didn't sound good, maybe he's checking so that I have someone to lean on when Danny breaks… NO WAY that's just not going to happen… NO WAY…

"Like?"

"I don't know wanting to break up with me?" I must have sounded pretty panicky because Tucker responded right away.

"NO, I'm sorry No he didn't say anything going in that direction at all Sam; don't worry…"

"Jeez, Tucker you scared the hell out of me."

"Sorry, let's change the subject…" here comes question number two." So how did you know "exactly the best ring" for Val anyway?"

"Errrrr…" I blushed this was going to be embarrassing… "Well, ya see… Um… Do you remember that party I had in Senior year?"

"Oh yeah Dennis, Danny and I were really mad because it was "girls only"."

"Yeah, well we sort of, talked about if any of our boyfriends were to actually propose while we were in college, we picked… Oh god! This is so embarrassing we picked that you would be the first one to do it, then Dennis and then Danny…"

"Oh my god, you guys totally did not do that."

We both started laughing hysterically.

"Yes we did, Aw man, and then after that we all designed our own rings."

Tucker was laughing so hard he was crying… "I'm NEVER going to let you live this down."

"I know but look on the Brightside; at least you won't screw up and give her an absolutely hideous ring that she'll hate."

"True, but just out of curiosity, what were the rings you and Cass designed?"

"Well Cass just wants one stone, pear shaped I think… Oh, and one thing we all agreed on is that we absolutely DO NOT want gold, well at least yellow gold."

"Really? Why?"

"Because A) we all hate yellow and B) we all think it looks tacky on a wedding and/or engagement ring."

"Wow thank god you're here to help me pick it out, I was gonna go for gold…"

"You bet, and Val of course wants it to be huge as well, you know the stone, and it to be an Asscher cut."

"Ok, cool when she said huge how big?"

"21/4 to 31/4."

"Really I was expecting at least 5 carats."

"Whoa, well I don't think she'll hate it if you get her that."

"Hey!" Tucker laughed

"Yeah? You never told me what your fantasy ring is going to be."

"Aw, you don't want to know that…"

"Yes I do come on once we get inside of that store I'm only going to be thinking of what you want instead of Val, and I'll keep begging and begging and begging and begging and begging and beg-"

"Alright you annoying computer nerd! I'll tell you!"

"Good."

"I don't really care as long as it's from Danny I honestly don't care."

"Aw… Sam that's sweet you're not getting out of this that easily."

"Alright! Alright! Grr I hate you!"

"That's what I'm here for."

"Do you remember those earrings that that Danny got me for my 19th birthday?"

"Yes."

"He designed them…"

"You're kidding."

"No, no I'm really not he had Dennis help him with it, so honestly if he did that again I wouldn't mind… Or… I don't know."

"Bull shit you do to tell now!"

"Fine, Mister College bound…"

"Hey who told you that Val?"

"No Danny… Why?"

"No reason because I only told Danny and Val and I was planning on surprising you… Damn it…"

"Oh well, you'll have something else you can surprise me with I'm sure."

"Yeah, Yeah now tell me woman what kind of ring do you want?"

" I meant what I said before… if it's from Danny I'll love it, but I don't want a huge ring maybe 2 to 2.25 carats… That's all and it can definitely not be something corny like a heart because that's just too unoriginal. I don't just something by Stephen Webster."

"Who's that?"

"A jewelry designer."

"Oh…"

"Well, we're here… Ready to pick one out?"

"Doyouthinkshe'llsayyes?" Tucker asked a little too fast to comprehend

"What?"

Tucker Sighed, "Do you think she'll say yes?"

"Of course you idiot! NOW COME ON BIG BABY!"

When we got into the store, there were a lot of tacky rings that even Tucker shook his head at until we found the coolest ring ever… for Val.

"Oye, Sam!"

"Yeah?"

"What about this one?"

It was a 4 carat Asscher cut on a platinum band, no side stones.

""My god that's exactly what she wanted…"

Once Tucker heard that he bought it straight away. I wondered how he was going to ask her… Too bad I "forgot" to tell him we discussed that too, and partly because I really don't want to describe my fantasy on how Danny proposes… That's if he ever does…

We drove down to my dorms where we said good bye, hey I knew it was going to be a short visit plus it was nice to see him at all… I really do hope Val likes the ring, and if she says yes I wonder how long they'll wait to get married. Oh, well what a day now I'm going to get a good night's sleep.

As I was going to bed the phone rang I moaned, and picked up, "Hello? Sam's room…"

"Sam? You ok?"
"Da-Danny! Hey sorry I'm just a bit tired you know with the whole ring thing with Tucker plus his flight was delayed…"

"Oh yeah, I checked on that sorry…"

"Don't apologize it's not your fault… Anyway you will not believe who serves Starbucks' coffee in the air port!"

"Who?"

"Richard."

"Richard? You mean Richard the idiot-jerk? You mean nasty-ass Richard? You mean the Richard started to beg for you to come back to him in senior year? You mean Richard, Richard?"

"He did? And yeah, the one and the same Richard…"

"He didn't try anything did he?"

"No, no it was nothing like that, he actually was pretty nice and even apologized for the entire thing in Junior year…"

There was a pause for a long time…

"Danny? You there?"

I heard him sigh over the phone, "You didn't forgive him did you?"

"Um… Well kind of… We were little kids 16 and now we're more mature. So I figured he was being honest…"

" Sam… I'm never going to rule your life and tell you who you can and can't be friends with, and I know we made that pact in freshmen year to go out with who ever we wanted but, please Sam not him ok? Not him." Danny sounded like he was in physical pain, which made me feel really guilty.

"Danny…"

"Sam please promise me you'll be careful, and just please not him."

"Of course… I'm not that stupid to actually go out with him again, and it's obvious that it bothers you, I promise I won't do anything to hurt you."

"Thanks, and Sam?"

"Uh-huh…"

"I'm really glad you told me."

I smiled he was back to normal.

"You know I tell you everything… And just wondering do you remember that "other stuff" you needed to buy the other day you mentioned it online."

"Yeah?"

"What kind of other stuff?"
"Aw… You know stuff…"

"Danny if it's stuff for me, I don't want you wasting your money, I'd rather have you here, than overly priced jewelry no matter how nice it is."

"Don't worry it's going to good use."

"Riiiight, Danny I'm really tired…"

"I know I'm sorry… Good night Sam."

"Night Danny."

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A/N: Again I'm so sorry, hope ya lyk the chapter O