Life's Full of Little Surprises
Disclaimer: I own absolutely none of the 'Mighty Duck' characters or the rights to the "Mighty Duck" franchise, that honor belongs to Disney. So I would appreciate that I wouldn't get sued over something I don't own.
Summary: Dani's life couldn't be going better. She has finally made it to the Olympics, doing the sport she loves the most. But... after arriving in Minneapolis, Minnesota things change. First she is constantly badgered by her brother, then she falls for one of his friends, and, of course, there is always a stalker!
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mickEmousina- I'm overjoyed that you loved the last chapter. Actually, I was hoping that someone would comment on the phone call from Scooter. And my wish was granted! Plus, it made you smile, that's like icing on the cake. Yum, cake... Sorry about that. Anyway, I hope that me making you sound like a crack addict is a good thing, because if it wasn't, I would be worried.
Tinkerbell821- You need another chapter? Really? That makes me happy. As for everyone's reactions, the beginning of this chapter is simultaneous with the end portion of the last chapter because Adriaan had turned on the news. That's how everyone will find out. I promise that there will be hooking up, so you don't have to worry about loneliness.
Thank you PrincessH!
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Everyone in the room was smiling and laughing, particularly the Ducks. What ever Scooter had done to Julie justified her telling Dean that he could tell Scooter that he and Julie were making out... Alyssa couldn't help but like this girl, she was sweet one second, and the next she was the devil incarnate. Another thing that she couldn't help was noticing that Julie mouthed 'thank you' to Dean when he hung up and Dean attempted shrugged it off like it was nothing. It was official, her son had a huge crush on his teammate, no doubt Dani would have already picked up on it.
"Last night, a large blow was dealt to the World of Sports." The reporter said, "For the story, here's Rayna Tennyson."
"Thanks Bridgette." Rayna said, "At approximately 11:45 pm, World Class Figure Skater and United States Olympic Coach, Eric Orion and United States Women's Olympic Figure Skater, Danielle Portman, were attacked by a man wielding a knife."
Everyone in the room practically jumped out of their seats and raced to the kitchen in what seemed like warp speed. Alyssa felt her ability to breathe leave her, and she felt her husband stiffen next to her, as they watched the news reporter standing outside of a hospital speak again.
"The man is said to be former World Class Pairs Figure Skater, James Tobas." Rayna took a breath and continued, "Danielle Portman is said to have minimal injuries and was released early this morning. Eric Orion was nearly fatally wounded and remains in the hospital under the watchful eye of his doctors."
Everyone heaved a huge sigh of relief that Dani was okay, but with that problem averted, the Portman parents had other things to worry about at the moment. Namely the fact that James Tobas was back in their lives after 20 years and had tried to kill their daughter. Alyssa reached back slightly for support, knowing that if Kal wasn't holding her up, the she would most defiantly faint. For once in their lives all of the Portman boys were quiet in the same place at the same time, a feat that didn't go unnoticed by their parents.
Standing in the back of the group, Adam fought hard to keep the tears from spilling onto his cheeks. Who is this guy that they were talking about and what did he attack Dani for? Surely she never did anything to him. But, then again, from the sound of it, this guy was a lunatic, so maybe it had nothing to do with the fact that it happened to be Dani and her coach that he had attacked. Okay, that thought isn't exactly comforting, but there was in point to it, wasn't there?
"James Tobas was unconscious at the scene after he was hit in the head with a shovel, there is no explanation available as to how that happened." Rayna took another breath, "Another little plot twist to this story," Rayna went on, "is that after being discharged, Danielle Portman was picked up from the hospital by Gala and Gunnar Stahl." She smiled a little half smile before continuing, "And there have been reports of sightings of Danielle and Gunnar having dinner together on several occasions. This may come as a shock to many people as Danielle and Gala are the top contenders for the gold metal in the Olympics next February."
Dean stood dumbstruck at the thought that this women had just put into his head. Gunnar and Dani? He hoped beyond hope not, "Julie, it's time to return the favor." He said as he turned and pick up a frying pan, "Hit me over the head with this as hard as you can."
Julie continued to stare at the screen, "Dani and... No, that's not... Not all news is accurate, I mean... I need to sit down." She finally managed as she plopped into one of the chairs at the kitchen table.
"I like the way she thinks." Alec added as he mimicked her movements.
Caleb's face was steadily turning red, "Who is this guy and how hard would it be to kill him?"
Dean laughed tartly, "Oh, you poor, naïve, little child." Dean said as he patted Caleb on the head rather hard.
"What?" Caleb asked indignantly.
Dean shook his head, "Gunnar Stahl was the lead scorer during the Junior Goodwill Games. Even better, he was a Viking and he's huge." Caleb shrugged his shoulders as if what Dean said didn't matter to him. Turning to his parents, Dean sighed, "This kid is going to get himself killed one day, and I will laugh at him for it."
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20 year old Alyssa Nazario breathed deeply as she walked up to the small beach side house in Long Island, New York. She prayed that the man that she was going to see would forgive her and they would leave it at that. The man that she hoped would let her talk to him was none other the Kal Portman. More then likely he would slam the door in her face, not that she deserved any less. Walking up the steps and taking another deep breath, Alyssa knocked on the door and hoped that he would open it.
The air whipped her hair around as the lock unlocked and the door opened. Just as Alyssa had expected, Kal didn't look pleased to see her, but he looked really good in his jeans and apron. God love men who cook, "What do you want?" He asked sourly.
"I just wanted to..." Alyssa said, trying to find the right words, "Can I come in? Please?" Kal sighed, weighing his options. He nodded reluctantly, "Thank you." She stepped into his small house and smiled, Kal always had good taste when it came to pretty much anything. Thank God he didn't end up like his parents; not only were they psychotic, but they were slobs and downright demanding, just bordering on abusive, "I love what you've done with the place." She said, trying to lighten the mood.
Kal sighed, "Well, I just moved in, so it pretty much came this way. Besides, I doubt that you came here to praise my designing ability. What do you want?"
"I want to apologize for the way that I have been acting these past few months." Alyssa admitted.
Kal rolled his eyes, "The way you acted?" He asked sarcastically, "Oh, you mean the pig-headed, condescending bitch that you've been impersonating ever since your partner kissed you on the ice in front of millions of people world wide."
Alyssa scoffed, "You're holding me to that?" She asked, her eyes wide with disbelief, "I had no idea that that was going to happen."
"Well, you didn't exactly stop it."
"Like I had a choice!" Alyssa screamed, "If you didn't notice, I was a little to preoccupied with trying to stand and trying to figure out what the hell he was doing."
"I bet your father loved it once he figured out that it would get me out of your life." Kal shot back, remembering Giuseppe Nazario's reaction to what had happened that day.
"What?" Alyssa asked indignantly, "My father had nothing to do with that. You walked away from me."
"You pulled away."
"I had my reasons."
"What? What were your reasons?" Kal asked.
Alyssa stopped for a moment and then shook her head, "I don't need to deal with this." She said, "I should have never hoped that you would see reason."
"Me not see reason?" Kal asked, "I haven't seen or heard anything from you that seemed reasonable in any way, shape, or form! Just run, like always."
"What the hell is that suppose to mean?"
Kal slammed his fist on the kitchen counter, "It means that I loved you with all my heart and I still do, but you always run or push me away. It kills me that you don't feel the same way. And when I think that I have a chance of letting you go to live your life, you show up and increase the pain tenfold. You make it that much harder."
Alyssa couldn't believe what she was hearing, "You can't possibly think that I deliberately try to hurt you?"
"Show me something to the contrary." Kal snapped back.
Alyssa couldn't help but feel the tears well up in her eyes, "After all I did, you think that? After lying to my brothers and disobeying my father so that we could be together, you think that I would want to torture you?" Several tears dripped down her cheeks, "I would never do that to anyone."
"You say that, but you contradict yourself by throwing away everything that we had together." Kal replied, the anger in his voice being replaced by pain and hurt, "You say that you lied to your brothers and disobeyed your father, and now you are willing to throw all that that was for down the toilet." He turned from her and leaned over the sink, "I know that you felt the same way I did. And I still do. Just leave."
"No!" Alyssa shot back, "You think that I can forget you by leaving? Of course not. I don't throw away what we had, I did what I had to do."
"'What you had to do'?" Kal asked, his voice raising even though he saw the tears reforming in Alyssa's eyes, "What was so horrible about being with me that you had to end it? Why?"
"BECAUSE I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH!" Alyssa screamed back as she dropped into one of the seats at the kitchen table with her head in her hands and tears flowing down her cheeks, "I love you too much, that's why." She whispered.
Kal felt his anger melt away as she cried in front of his, "Aly? What are you talking about?" He couldn't help but walk over to her and get down on his knees next to her, placing his arms comfortingly around her, "What's wrong?"
Alyssa looked up at Kal's face and sobbed some more. She pulled away from him gently and reached into her thin jacket pocket, pulling out about 30 envelopes bound together with a rubber band, "I've been getting these for a while. Two years next month, actually."
Taking the letters and pulling off the rubber band, Kal sighed, he was sure that these didn't mean anything good. He gasped as he read the letters, which were always sighed 'Your Secret Admirer'. This guy was obviously crazy, talking about marriage and love and not needing anyone else but Alyssa. Kal sighed and dropped them on the table, "Aly, are you okay?"
Alyssa sighed shakily, "I'm fine. But he said that I had to break it off with you or else there would be an 'unfortunate accident of uncontrollable circumstances'."
"Haven't you told anybody?"
"No!" Alyssa shot back, "He promised that if I did, then he would hurt my dad, my brothers, my sister-in-law, Jeannette, you... Anybody that I cared about would be hurt. I couldn't."
"Aly... I promise that nothing will happen to you." Kal said.
"It's not me I'm worried about." Alyssa replied, "I shouldn't have come here, he'll find out." She made to stand up, but Kal held her down, "Kal, please."
"You're staying, end of story."
Alyssa looked out at the sunset as she ate another Coney Chili Dog on none other then Coney Island, "Jesus, how many of those things can you eat?" Kal asked.
"I have a fast metabolism." Alyssa replied coyly.
"I'm sure you do, but that would be your fourth."
"So. What's your point."
Kal shook his head in defeat as she ate her Chili dog satisfactorily, "I thought you loved your Chicago style hot dogs."
"I can like both." Alyssa said, "But nothing beats Chicago Deep Dish pizza. I swear, Jeanette and I can polish off a large by ourselves." Kal made a motion as if he was throwing up, "Oh, shut up. Just because your content with your little salad doesn't mean that I have to be."
Kal shook his head, "I hate salad. I'm a spicy, Hispanic man and I love my spicy, Hispanic food."
"You know, I think that some Italian and Hispanic recipes would go great mixed together."
"You should teach me some, then I can cook them."
Alyssa shook her head, "I happen to be a master of disaster in the kitchen. I really can't cook." Kal looked skeptical, "Yeah, I screw up TV dinners. I am that bad. I would starve if my dad didn't know how to cook." Kal shifted uncomfortably at the mention of Alyssa's father, "But on a different topic. The park is almost closed, we should do a little more."
"You're right, we should." He stood and held out his hand. Alyssa smiled and took it. Kal smiled and led her towards the end of the dock, "Aly, I love you."
"I love you too." Alyssa replied. The past week with Kal had been the happiest time of her life and if she had anything to say about it, it wouldn't end at any point soon. Although, Kal was acting pretty weird, which meant that he was up to something.
Kal fiddled with the sleeve of his shirt as they reached the end of the docks, "I know that I've made some mistakes in my life, but you aren't one of them." He was still looking out at the sunset. Alyssa faced him, she felt the same way, and he knew that, "Aly." He pulled a small box out of his pocket and opened it to reveal a beautiful two caret diamond ring that had once been his grandmother's, the only member of his family, save his sister, that he could stand, "Will you marry me?" Alyssa was in shock, she couldn't talk. Kal was hoping for this reaction, normally she was so hard to shock, so this was the icing on the cake. At least, it was if it didn't last too long. Out of the corner of his eye, Kal saw movement and a flash of sunlight hitting metal, "Aly, get down!" He screamed as he simultaneously shoved her down and turned. A searing pain in his stomach spread throughout his body as a knife pierced the skin and was pulled out.
"Kal?" Alyssa asked, confused, as she landed on the wood. Once she looked up, Alyssa gasped at the sight of the man she loved covered in blood, "James?" She asked in horror at her former partner and best friend (tied with Jeannette) standing with a bloody knife in his hand.
"I warned you to stay away from him. All my letters, all my hints... You never listened. You never have and you never will." James said monotonously, raising the knife in her direction.
As she tried to back away, a massive figure stalked behind James and punched him in the lower back, causing him to drop the knife. As James stumbled, the massive man placed him in a Full Nelson, "Frankie! Call 911!" He called to a tattooed women standing three feet away from him.
"Kal!" Alyssa called as she stood and raced back over to him, "Baby, talk to me." She pulled him into her lap, placed her hand tightly over his wound, and looked into his eyes, "Baby?"
"Just say yes." He mumbled, almost incoherently, "Just say... yes."
"Sweetie, of course the answer's yes." Alyssa assured him, "Just stay with me."
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Alyssa Portman shot up from her sleep in a panic from a dream that she hadn't had in years. She had no idea where she was until she looked around and saw her husband sleeping in the bed beside her; Felix was sleeping on a mattress that they had brought with them; Caleb was on the couch, mumbling in his sleep; Alec was on the other bed, and Cami had the smaller room that was attached to their's all to herself.
Gently sliding off of the bed, Alyssa made her way to the bathroom. Praying that she didn't completely lose her composure as she walked, Alyssa thought about what had happened. James had been one of her two best friends, but he turned out to be a drugged out stalker with a stab wound fetish. He actually got turned on by blood pouring out of stab wounds, it was absolutely disgusting. And after all that she and Kal had gone through to get him locked away, he was out again.
Just thinking about that day made her skin crawl; it set off a chain of events that had nothing to do with the law or lawyers or jail, but something much more important. Her wedding. Alyssa's brothers and father refused to come to her wedding, claiming that Kal was going to ruin her life. None of Kal's family came either, but Alyssa was happy about that. A friend of Kal's had taken the risk to 'borrow' his little sister Mickelle, Mickie for short, who was 6 years old at the time (Kal was 22) so that she could come. Brooke, who was 8 months pregnant with Ash, had only come for a moment so that she could congratulate them, but not have to deal with awkward questions from her husband. In fact, neither her father nor her brothers, talked to her or Kal until she had a pregnancy scare with Dean and Dani (who they only thought was Dean, not knowing that they were having twins until they actually did). Her family was a strange one, but she was glad to be back on good terms with everyone. Now all that she needed was for Kal and Mickie to reconcile.
Alyssa walked to the bathroom and switched on the light. She pulled a plastic cup from the corner of the cabinet and placed it under the faucet. Turning on the water at full blast, she splashed water all over the counter, but she didn't care. Drinking the water in one gulp, it seemed as if it all rushed to her eyes, tears spilling out the minute she placed the cup back on the counter, "Aly?"
"I'll be back to bed in a second."
"Aly." Kal repeated, "You had the dream again, didn't you."
"God, how could I not?" She asked, "I thought he was out of my life forever. I mean, he was charged with stalking, attempted murder, possession of drugs, possession with intent to sell... What the hell happened?"
"It's okay, he'll go back to jail. " Kal assured her, "Plus, he was hit in the head with a shovel. I get the feeling that our daughter gave him a piece of her mind."
Alyssa laughed, "Mommy?" A small voice asked from the doorway, "What's funny?"
Felix was standing just outside the doorway, holding his stuffed caterpillar, King Bob George II, B.G. for short, "Nothing, Felix." Alyssa said as she walked over to her youngest child and kneeled down to his level. Felix lifted his free hand to his mothers face and traced the tear stains down her face.
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Dani sighed as she walked towards the Ice Rink for a keeping-my-mind-off-of-other-things training session. Life had a funny way of throwing things at her and she was convinced that she would have to deal with the most current for a while. It seemed that, while she was giving her statement to the police, Gunnar and Leah found out that they had some stuff in common, so they had a date planed for that night. How that happened, Dani didn't know. She sure didn't intend for it to end up like that. Oh well, if Leah was happy, then she was happy. But Dean wouldn't be happy, so that was a big plus, particularly in Leah's book.
At the moment, Leah was raiding whatever she had as a closet and was going to meet up with Dani after she practiced because Leah knew that she was a bad mix with make up and Dani knew what she was doing. Dani's first priority, however, wasn't exactly Leah's date with Gunnar, it was a June 1985 edition of The New York Times that was current hidden in the inside pocket of her jacket. Dani was particularly keen to show it to her mother at some point in time.
"Dani!" Speaking of her mother...
"Mom?" Dani asked as she turned. Her jaw dropped as she watched not only her mother rushing up to her, but her father was as well, "What the hell?"
"Dani!" Alyssa replied, "Please watch the language."
Dani couldn't believe what she was hearing, "You're going to lecture me about my choice of words when I've been scared out of my mind about a certain shooting?" Dani asked. She had never felt what she was feeling at the moment. It was like she was angry, ecstatic, furious, upset, and confused at the same time. A strange feeling of satisfaction grew in her stomach as guilty expressions slipped onto her parents faces.
Kal sighed, "Dani, we didn't know that you and Dean knew."
Dani scoffed, "That's it? That's what you came up with?" She asked disbelievingly, "How would that work, anyway? Unless Dean and I were deaf, blind, and unable to speak, we would know. That's a completely insane excuse."
"Dani, we promise, it's the truth." Alyssa replied.
Dani still didn't believe them, but she had bigger fish to fry, "You two know about what happened a couple of days ago, right?"
"How are you, sweetie?" Kal asked.
"Peachy keen. Sprained wrist, no biggie." Dani replied, "But I was wondering, do the names Montgomery 'Monty' Rosso and Francesca 'Frankie' De Sota mean anything to you?" Even more guilt rushed to their faces, "Yeah, that's what I thought." Dani added as she pulled the edition of The New York Times out of her jacket pocket, "Apparently, Monty knows how to apply a pretty mean Full Nelson." She unfolded the newspaper and held it in front of her so that her parents could see it, "I thought you said that you got that scar from Appendicitis surgery, daddy." A half-smile of anger from being lied to crept onto her face, "Cat got your tongue?" She asked.
"Danielle!" Both of her parents said in shock.
"What?" Dani asked, "You can not lecture me about that. I have a right to be angry. You lied to me and my brothers. My coach could have been killed, the knife actually went into his stomach." Dani took a deep breath to keep from crying, "You know how the doctors found that out? The blood and stomach acid that was on my hand from trying to keep Coach from bleeding to death." Dani took a deep breath so that she didn't go hysterical on herself, "Where is everyone? I know that you brought Alec, Cami, Caleb, and Felix with you. Where are they?"
"They're with Dean and the Ducks back at the Ice Rink." Alyssa said.
Dani nodded, "Then you should go." Dani said, "I'll be there in a minute. I wanted to get a little alone-time practice in, but I can do that after a little visiting."
"Are you sure?" Kal asked.
"Why not? It's something to do, and Tammy, Gia, and I have a couple of days off at the moment." Kal and Alyssa smiled and waved as they walked away. Dani didn't really want anyone to ask her questions about what happened and she planned to make that fact perfectly clear. She refolded the newspaper and stuffed it back in her pocket. As she did so, Dani saw a flash of familiar dark blonde hair that framed a familiar face, "Jamie Banks... I thought that you never wanted come back here." Dani joked.
Jamie came out from behind a tree, "Yeah, well, I had to come and make sure that my dear brother and sister hadn't been driven crazy by our lovely father." Dani noticed distaste in Jamie's speech when he talked about his father.
"Um, Jamie?" Dani asked as Thalia, Ava, Cara, Rob, and two people that Dani could only think were Cara and Thalia's father and younger sister walked up behind him, "Introductions to those that I've never met?"
Jamie looked behind himself, "Oh right, Dani this is Hai-Chao Li, Thalia and Cara's father, and this is Michaela, their younger sister."
Dani held out her hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you two." Both of them shook her hand.
"I saw you in Las Vegas." Michaela said, "I think you did a very good job keeping your cool while dealing with a very uncultured and closed minded man with no apparent appreciation for sports."
"How old are you?" Dani asked dumbfounded.
"11 in two weeks." Michaela replied.
Dani chuckled, "You young children and your vocabulary. When I was 11, I was content with saying something like 'nitwit' or 'moron'. I like your take on things." Michaela looked flattered.
"Who do you know that is her age that talks like that?" Rob asked, "If thereare more then her, I need to hide under a rock."
"That's just because you're a moron with no vocabulary." Thalia shot back in a pseudo-sweet voice. Cara and Ava agreed.
"Gee, thanks a million, guys." Rob replied.
Dani laughed, "Actually, I know several girls with vocabularies like Michaela's. Monica, Ana, and Becky for example."
"Becky?" Jamie asked, "Monica told me about Ana, but who is Becky?"
"She's a friend of theirs." Dani replied, "She also happens to be your brother's and my brother's hockey coach's daughter." Jamie nodded, "But I have to go up to the Ice Rink, and the Ducks should be there. Want to come?"
Jamie nodded. As everyone started walking, Jamie spoke up, "Speaking of the Ducks, my brother in particular, how are things going between you two?"
Smiling coyly, Dani asked, "What do you mean?"
"You know what he means." Ava said. Dani knew that all of them had been cheering her and Adam one from the get go.
Sighing, Dani replied, "Good, things were going good. That was, until he dumped me."
Jamie stopped walking, "He... what?" Jamie managed to choke out. Dani nodded, "Oh, I am going to kill him."
"When you find a way to do that, tell me so I can use it on my brother." Dani replied, "It is partly his fault that Adam broke up with me." A questioning look flashed in Jamie's eyes, "It's a long story." Dani said as she pulled the door to the Ice Rink open. As she stepped in, Dani saw Monica, Ana, and Becky arguing with a girl that Dani had a sneaking suspicion was the one that they hated more then anything, "That must be Ruth." Dani said to herself, "This could be bad."
"What could be bad?" Cara asked.
Dani's eyes widened as Ruth brought back her fist and punched Monica in the mouth. Monica retaliated by pouncing on her, "Oh yeah, it's bad." Dani said, "Monica!" Jamie looked in the direction that Dani had just run and followed suit. He was glad that he had long legs, it made it easier to get to his pissed off sister. Jamie pulled Monica off of the girl, who continued to fight until someone pulled her away.
"Reily." Dani said.
"That was completely unprovoked." Rick said as he held onto his struggling younger cousin.
"Unprovoked?" Dani asked indignantly, "I clearly remember seeing Ruth punch Monica in the mouth. Trust me, I ain't blind." Rick sneered, "Look, Rick. I have no problem punching a gay man holding onto a 10 year old." Ruth gaped at what this girl had called her 'manly older cousin', "So get gone."
"Rick isn't gay." Ruth snapped.
Dani laughed sourly, "Keep thinking that, sweet cheeks." She said, "Get gone, this isn't your school anymore." Rick pulled Ruth away as Dani waved, "Come on, guys. I have some ice packs in my classroom." Becky and Ana followed the group as Jamie still held onto a furious Monica.
"What was that?" Jamie asked.
"Ruth." Monica said with venom in her voice. Jamie looked at her confused and Dani shook her head, Monica and Ruth would be enemies until the day they died. Dani opened the door to the makeshift classroom and let Jamie bring Monica in first, and everyone else went after them. When she finally entered the room she was not surprised to see all of the Ducks, Piper, her parents, and her brothers sitting there will Tammy.
"Hey, Dani." Tammy said, "How are you?"
"Fantastic." Dani said as she walked over to the mini refrigerator in the corner of the room and pulled out an ice pack.
"Are you sure?"
"Tams, I really don't want to talk about it." She replied in a firm, yet monotonous tone of voice. As she turned around, Dani noticed that Caleb was eying Becky with great interest. Dani shuttered, trying to keep the thought out of her mind, as she handed Monica the ice pack. Monica mumbled a thanks and placed it over her mouth.
Charlie sat up straight, "Hey, Dani?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you dating Gunnar Stahl?"
Dani raised her eyebrows, "No. What idiot gave you that idea?" Her eyes flicked to Adam for a nanosecond, but no one noticed. She knew that he would tell at least Charlie and Guy about seeing her at dinner with Gunnar.
Charlie's eyes flicked around a little, "The news."
Dani shook her head, "That would have been slightly believable if you hadn't looked like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar." Charlie opened his mouth to protest, "I have no doubt that it has been in the news that I have been out to dinner with him, because I have, but that doesn't mean that we're dating. Besides, Gala is with us all the time."
Monica nodded, "Like at the Radisson. She showed up right after someone left in a huff." Monica plopped in the nearest seat and Dani couldn't help smile. She knew that Monica was talking about Adam, who was turning red as he lowered his head so that it was as if he was enthralled with his belly button.
The door creaked open and Dani smiled even bigger, "Leah, you're a dream."
"I know." Leah said as she looked at her best friend, "Dan, please tell me that you are finished skating, because you don't look like it and you still have to make me up."
"Le, chill." Dani said, "I just got here, but I will do your make up before skating. The date is in half an hour, that gives us plenty of time."
"Leah has a date?" Dean asked, "Who?"
Leah and Dani smiled to each other, both thinking the same thing, "Gunnar Stahl." They said simultaneously. Dean looked from one to the other and began banging his head on a desk. His parents each placed a hand on his head to stop him, causing everyone to try and hold in their laughter at the situation.