Author's Note: Thanks for all of the reviews. I feel that the title of this one is one of the most appropriate titles EVER! This chapter is chock full of reunions, happy, awkward and unwanted. It'll be fun, I even brought Andy back! Isn't that fun? He won't be sticking around for long, just a couple chapters. Hope that everyone stateside had an awesome memorial day (or you know if you aren't from here, maybe you had a good day too, who knows?)

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Chapter 10: Regionals Part 1: Reunion

Theresa stood looking out over the room at regionals. She hadn't let herself feel nervous until that moment. Before that moment it had been all about planning and control. Now she was here, her uniform immaculate, her hair in a perfect basket of curls on top of her head, her poms fluffy and the squad ready behind her (and Lilly) and her heart was pounding. They were in the behind area and she could see the crowd gathering in the stands, including her family, and surprisingly Lexi, who was sitting next to Danny laughing. Good they patched things up, or at least were going to continue in their rather annoying dance of denial. They were so obviously perfect for each other and Danny was annoyingly aware of his feelings, Lexi was ridiculously unaware. She suddenly felt a tug at her arm and then felt herself being pulled away. She giggled as Dom's lips met hers in a passionate joyful kiss.

"You shouldn't be here," she playfully scolded as she pulled away. "You're going to distract me."

"I had to see you," he said, "I thought I could wait, but I can't I have to say something to you," He kissed her, "Theresa, I," he took a deep breath, "I think I love you," she stared at him, "You don't have to say it back, I just, I wanted to say it, I love you," he kissed her again, "And I know it's crazy, but I do." He went to kiss her.

"Dominic," she stopped him, he looked at her, confused and hurt, "No! No, I love you too, at least, I think I do, I don't really know what love feels like," he smiled and kissed her again, "But I hope it feels like this," he smiled and kept kissing her.

"Hey Re," she stopped and then looked down embarrassed, "You've got something on your face."

"Hi," Theresa mumbled, "Um, Dom, this is Lexi Vanderbilt, my sister's best friend. Lexi this is Dominic Mariano, my uh, my boyfriend."

"Nice to meet you," Lexi laughed, "Your dad know about him?" Theresa shook her head. "Oh that'll be fun, anyway, um ladies room?" Theresa pointed, "Thanks, good luck. Nice meeting you Dominic," she smiled her knowing Lexi smile.

"Nice to meet you too," he said and then looked at Theresa, "Your dad doesn't know about us?"

"Not really," she said, again she saw him looking hurt, "Dom, with Daddy, it's complicated," she sighed, "I'm his Princess Theresa, and I like that when I'm with him I still feel like I'm his little girl, and I was afraid that if he knew about you, about us," she stopped, "When Kitty got together with Julian it changed their relationship completely, and I didn't want that to happen, so I've put it off. I'm going to tell him today," she kissed him, "Please don't be mad at me."

"Princess Theresa?" He asked with a laugh.

"Yes, Kitty is Kitty Cat," she said, "Danny is Dan the Man, and I'm Princess Theresa." He smirked. "We were little it was cute."

"Right," he laughed, and kissed her again, "Well, good luck your highness, I'll see you later, and I'm not mad, I get it."

"Thank you," she smiled, "for both." She slipped away from him and back to the squad he smiled at her as she waved softly at him.

"Met the boyfriend," Lexi laughed sneaking back to her seat, Kitty and Danny's heads both snapped over to her. "Found them making out." Both young women laughed as Danny's face turned a fascinating shade of red.

"What's he like?" Kitty said, she'd been curious about Dominic since Theresa's first mention of him.

"Very cute," Lexi nodded, "In that totally dangerous, the boy you're supposed to stay away from kind of way." Kitty nodded. "I hope she knows what she's doing."

"When does Theresa not know what she's doing?" Danny pointed out, "That girl thinks through everything." He looked up, "Bankses," He nudged Marie who sitting between the three twenty somethings and their parents.

"Mom," she said, "Adam," and pointed, Julie nodded and stood up to walk over. Kitty followed.

"Deep breaths," Julie squeezed her hand. "You'll be fine."

"They must hate me Mom," Kitty said. "If he was even half as bad as Lexi said,"

"They'll forgive you," Julie smiled, "Adam forgave me, didn't he?" Kitty laughed. "We have to do this baby."

"I know," she gulped, "I know." They walked over.

"Kitty!" Deena smiled wide and ran and gave her a hug. This broke her tense feelings as she embraced the younger girl. "I missed you."

"I missed you too Dee," she said holding her. She tried to open her arms but Deena wouldn't let go, "Sweetie?" she said laughing.

"Yes," Deena said.

"You have to let go," she said, "I need to say hello to everyone," Deena nodded and moved away. "Hi Heather," she smiled and kissed her future mother in law on the cheek. "It's good to see you."

"You too Kitty," Heather said cautiously, "Hi Julie." Julie smiled at her old friend.

"Adam," Julie smiled and hugged him, "How are you?"

"Much better now," he said, "It's good to have you back Kitty," Kitty smiled and hugged him tightly. He smiled surprised, they had always kept each other at arms length, unsure of how a closeness would effect Julie.

"I'm so happy to be back," she said, "You'll sit with us right?"

"I have to find Ryan and Dom," Deena said shaking her head. "I'm so glad to see you though," she hugged her again.

"Have you met Dom?" Julie asked Adam and Heather. Both shook their heads. "Great, so we have nothing to go on."

"Dom's great," Deena nodded. "Really, he's great."

"Oh sweetie," Julie laughed, "I'm sure he is. I'm just nervous."

"Go find Ryan Dee," Heather nudged her, Deena smiled at her mother and scampered off.

"I should get back," Kitty smiled, "It really was so good to see you again." She smiled and turned to walk away.

"I'll go with you Kitty," Heather smiled, and walked with her. She wanted badly to talk to her.

"Alone again," Julie laughed as she and Adam walked, "OK, seriously, why haven't you met him?"

"This is really driving you nuts," Adam smiled, "In reality, because Deena is grounded."

"What did she do?" Julie said, "As long as its not too personal,"

"She and Ryan stayed out all night," Adam shook his head. "It was messy, Julie, I lost it. I behaved completely irrationally."

"You? Irrational?" Julie laughed, "Never! At least it was Ryan, its not like those two aren't serious about one another. And when Heather was that age,"

"Yes, well," Adam shook his head, "I'd really like to never think about what Heather did when we were that age, thank you, Deena has been quick to point that out by the way."

"Ryan is a million light years ahead of where Dean was then," Julie laughed.

"Again, all good," Adam laughed, "It was more the sneaking that we were concerned with."

"I know," Julie smiled, "But seriously, why haven't you met this kid?"

"Are we going to talk about it?" Danny said quietly to Lexi.

"Danny, don't," she shook her head, "It will be much easier if we don't."

"So we ignore it?" He said, "How we feel, we pretend it doesn't matter."

"Danny, you're my best friend," she whispered and put her hand on his. "What we have is too important for that,"

"You don't know that," he said, "It could be more, it would be great Lex,"

"It would ruin it," she said, "Yes, the moment would be great, but after," she shook her head, "I've been down that road, you can't have both, we can't be friends and lovers, it doesn't work that way."

"I'm not him, Lex," he shook his head and stood up. "I don't know how I can make that clear to you."

"You're walking away aren't you?" She looked up at him, "I'm not telling you what you want to hear, so you're freaking out and walking away."

"That's not what I'm doing," he said, "You're pushing me away."

"You're being childish," she said, "which is part of the problem, you're too young Danny, you don't understand,"

"I'm two years younger than you Alexandra," he said sharply, "I'm not a little kid, sometimes I think you forget that."

"This seat taken?" A smug voice came from behind Danny. He turned around. "Hey Portman, kick any ass lately?"

"Andy," Lexi sighed, "What are you doing here?"

"Lilly," he said, sitting down, a decent space from her, Danny angrily sat between them. "Remember? Little cousin, brown hair, crawled out of hell to make Deena Banks miserable?"

"We know who Lilly is Powell," Danny growled at him.

"Did I come at bad time?" Andy said, "Lovers spat?"

"We're not together," Lexi glared at him. "We're friends Andy. I know, being just friends with a woman is foreign to you,"

"That's not true," he objected.

"Hey guys," Kitty walked back in, "I got us some food," she stopped, "Andy," she said, "Hi!" She gave him a hug, Danny and Lexi both threw her a confused look. "Guys, I have now been the rejected one OK? I get it."

"Kitty," He smiled, "I was friends with Kitty for years!"

"You two dated," Lexi said.

"Yes, but I didn't see her tits until three months ago." He pointed out, "Lovely by the way. Kudos."

"I hated the scene," she said. "In retrospect, I should have said no. It's good to see that you haven't changed though. Julian and I are back together, by the way, so no more talking about my boobs, kay?"

"I read that you two were back on," he nodded, "Congratulations."

"Thanks," Kitty smiled, "So you saw the movie?"

"Yes," he nodded, "Honestly, you did a great job. I mean, the boobs were a plus, but you're actually very talented."

"Did we just step into some sort of alternate universe where you two actually like each other?" Danny said.

"Danny," Kitty laughed, "We're not kids any more, I think I can put aside the fact that Andy was a useless dick head who broke Lexi's heart into a million pieces and then tried to score with Theresa for one afternoon and be civil." Andy winced. "Oh, you didn't think I was actually past it did you Andy?" Lexi and Danny both started laughing. "So, are you working or what?"

"Yeah," he said quietly, "I have a job."

"Good for you." She smiled. "Have you spoken to Julian? He's in the NHL."

"I missed you," Deena said, kissing Ryan.

"You saw each other yesterday," Dom rolled his eyes.

"Oh, if you and Theresa are apart for fifteen minutes you're all over each other," Deena said. "This grounding totally sucks."

"Have you seen the Portmans yet?" Ryan asked.

"Kitty and Julie," she nodded. "It was incredibly awkward. Kitty hugged Adam."

"No way!" Ryan said.

"Is that unusual?" Dom asked trying to catch up.

"Highly," Deena nodded, "Those too border on polite chit chat, they fear any real intimacy."

"OK," Dom nodded, "Hey, Theresa didn't tell her dad about me." Ryan and Deena both started laughing. "What?"

"Of course she didn't," Ryan laughed, "Mr. Portman isn't exactly what you would call level headed when it comes to his daughters."

"He tends to freak out," Deena nodded, "He's not going to like you. Don't take it personally, it's been eight years and he still hates Julian."

"That's promising," Dom mumbled. "What about the others?"

"Danny will warm up to you eventually," Deena said, "He's really very sweet. The twins, well, you've dealt with them, Marie pretty much likes everyone. She's great like that."

"What about Kitty?" He asked.

"As long as you don't hurt her, you're fine," Deena shrugged, "Kitty's very protective of the people she cares about, and she can be very spiteful."

"Tell us Dom," Ryan smiled, "Do you enjoy having legs?"

"I do," he said, trying to get where they were coming from.

"Then I do not recommend doing anything that could possibly hurt Theresa Portman," Ryan smiled. "Just a suggestion."

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