Fred stood in the mirror after he had changed into some running gear. Whenever he was stressed, sad, angry, running was always the answer. Plus, he figured he could try to find Daphne on his run. He grabbed a pair of earphones and headed outside to run around the club, considering it had such big grounds.

Not too far away, at the tennis courts, Daphne sat on a bench alone watching some guys play. Her eyes were fixated on the ball as it was hit from side to side, she didn't notice the tears in her eyes until one, then two rolled down her cheeks. She sniffed and wiped them away using the sleeve of her jacket. Her original plan was to ask the guys if she could join in the tennis match, hoping that Fred would find her and get jealous. However, she had decided against this. I need to stop thinking so immature, I have to do some growing up now she thought to herself.

"Daphne?" A voice called from behind her. She turned around, for some reason hoping it was Fred because despite being so mad at him, he was the one she wanted to comfort her. She wiped her eyes one last time and turned around to find her Uncle Thorny which took her by surprise. "Oh hey Uncle Thorny, what's up?" he walked over and sat on the bench next to her.
"Nothing, but there's something up with you. Is everything ok?" He could tell she had been crying despite her efforts to wipe away the evidence. "Really? No it isn't." She wanted to tell him why but she knew she wanted other people to know before him, like her parents and Fred. "Tell me. If you want to. I understand we aren't as close as we should be but I am here for you Daphne." He pulled her into a hug. "Thanks Uncle Thorny but I'll be okay." She smiled gratefully at her uncle. He had always been kind to her despite not seeing her that often due to living a while away from Coolsville and being so busy. "Why don't you find your friends and do something fun? Cheer yourself up a little." Daphne nodded and after a final hug and thanks, Thorny left. Daphne decided to see who won the match, as she knew everyone else was probably busy anyway.

"Can I get you anything to drink?" A waiter asked Shaggy and Velma as they sat at a table in the country club restaurant, opposite each other. "Could I just have a water please." Velma asked, followed by Shaggy asking for a cola. The waiter smiled and left. "I'm really glad you agreed to go on a date with me V."
"I'm glad I came Shaggy." Moments later a waiter returned with the drinks, but when Shaggy looked up he realised that it was actually Scooby dressed like one. Luckily, Velma was in the middle of cleaning her glasses and hadn't noticed yet. Shaggy mouthed for Scooby to 'get the heck out' but he ignored him and smiled deviously. He carefully placed down the drinks for Velma and Shaggy, before holding out a match to light the candles on the table. Unbeknownst to Shaggy, Scooby was actually here to give his seal of approval, he wanted to help make the evening romantic, hence his devious smile. Velma had just returned her glasses to her face when Scooby lit the match. As the fire emerged from the match Velma jumped back and ran away from the restaurant, leaving Shaggy and Scooby confused. "Like why did you have to come here and ruin everything!" Shaggy yelled at Scooby, upsetting him.
"Rut Raggy Ri came to relp!" He tried to defend but Shaggy was upset by Velma's sudden change of heart and ignored him. Scooby fled the scene, blaming himself.

A few moments later Shaggy was leaving the restaurant when Fred jogged over to him.
"Hey Shag, how'd the date go?" he asked, expecting the answer to be something on the lines of good. "Uh- it started off good then Scoob came and ruined everything." He looked down to the ground as he spoke. "Oh, I'm so sorry man. Maybe you could try again sometime. If it makes you feel any better, Daph is mad at me so I guess we're both bad with women." Fred said, half-jokingly. Shaggy managed a small smile. "How about we go try to find them?" Fred suggested and despite Shaggy not wanting to approach Velma just yet, he thought he could help find Daphne. As they were about to walk away, Shaggy stopped. "Uh like, I think we have other plans Fred…" They both froze as they saw the frog creature stood before them. "RUN!" Fred yelled. Both of them ran around the restaurant, the creature keeping a close distance behind them. "Fred over there!" Shaggy pointed at the row of golf carts across from them. They jumped in the first one and started driving around the country club, desperate to get away from the creature, who was surprisingly fast, still keeping up with them despite being on foot. They neared the tennis courts and saw Daphne walking into their route. "Daphne look out!" Shaggy yelled, but Fred hit the breaks before they got too close.
"Daph look, I know you're mad but please get on! The frog creature is right behind us!" Fred practically begged, to which Daphne looked behind them and saw the beast coming up close. She didn't hesitate and jumped on the back of the cart.

Around 5 minutes later they managed to lose the creature and parked the golf cart as close to the entrance as they could. "We should get some sleep, we're gonna need a lot of investigating tomorrow." Fred said, with the other two nodding. They all started walking to their rooms, but Fred didn't expect Daphne to be knocking on Velma's door. "Daph what are you doing?" She didn't look at him when she responded. "I'm gonna sleep in Velma's room tonight."
"Seriously? Daphne you're blowing this way out of proportion what's gotten into you?" Fred sounded pissed at her, which only irked her more. How could he accuse her of blowing it out of proportion? It took everything she had not to reply by screaming at him, she knew she needed to calm down and being in the same room as him wouldn't help. She agreed with herself that she would talk to him tomorrow, after sleeping on it.

Once in Velma's room, Daphne was surprised to see it was messy. Velma kept everything in check, always, no exceptions. She glanced around to find books everywhere, mostly to do with Erie Pointe. She knew Velma had to know everything about everywhere and everything whenever they travelled and this was no exception. "Sorry about the mess Daph, I guess I just got carried away and I've felt sick and all so haven't had the chance to tidy it up."
"Don't worry about it."

They sat in silence for a while, each on a separate bed. "Daphne I'm sorry about what Fred did, but don't you think he was just doing his job or at least, you know, being friendly." Velma asked, wanting to break the ice and also wondering if Daphne knew sometimes Fred was just plain clueless.
"I don't know Velms. But it really hurt to see." They talked a little about the situation but Daphne wasn't in the mood for going into it, so they decided to just sleep for the night.

Around 3am, Daphne heard the sound of a door closing, briefly fluttering her eyelids. She was exhausted so didn't take much notice of her surroundings. She fell back asleep shortly after. Little did she know that the bed beside her had become vacant…

A/N Hey, thanks for whoever has taken the time to read the story so far. Don't forget to leave a review so I know how I'm doing! Thanks to whoever reviewed already, really appreciate the feedback.