A/N: Yes, this is a new and improved Chapter 8! Woohoo!! The second half was going to be Chapter 9, but they kind of go together, so I just combined them. This story gets more exciting than this, don't worry. More conflict is coming up...

Chapter 8

That weekend, Danny, Jesse, Stephanie, DJ, and Michelle were going to Danny's parents' house.

"Are you sure you don't want to come along, you two?" Jesse asked Joey and Allison, who were sitting on the couch watching Saturday morning cartoons together.

"Yeah, I'm sure," Allison said. "It'd be too awkward with me, not being part of your family at a family reunion."

"Ditto," Joey said, mouth full of donut.

"Okay," Danny said. "Well, look after the house and remember, no parties and don't bring any of your friends over."

"Danny," Joey said between chews, "how old do you think we are?" he asked as he was spilling crumbs on his shirt.

Danny stared at him, his eyes widening. "I'm beginning to think this is a bad idea."

"Everything will be fine," Allison said. "I got control of this one," she pointed her thumb towards Joey. "You guys go and have fun."

"I don't think fun is quite the word," Jesse said, not too excited to go to a familiy reunion. He waved and winked at Joey before he left. That night Joey was going to surprise Allison by taking her out to the opera.

They laughed and the gang all left. Joey and Allison got back to their cartoons.

"So what do you want to do today?" Joey asked after the cartoons were over.

"I think we should go play outside," she suggested. "It's so pretty today."

They packed a picnic and went to the park. They played on the swings and the other equipment. When they were tired of that, they went to eat.

"This is really good, Allison," Joey said, eating her vegetable sandwich. "I've never had anything like it before."

"Thanks."

"Where did you learn to cook so well?"

"Well, I wouldn't call making a sandwich cooking."

"But you make dinner sometimes and it's awesome."

"I work at a restaurant, remember?" she said to him. "When I had slow shifts, I would go experiment with cooking food in the kitchen. The cooks would get really angry at me when they caught me." She laughed at the memory. "And before I lived on the streets, I was a vegetarian for a little bit. But then, you tend to want to eat anything you can get when you don't have much money, so I stopped. But now, I'm going to try to get back into it."

"I think that's great, if you keep making food like this."

"You're sweet," she said.

He looked up from his sandwich and looked her straight in the eyes. "So are you."

She smiled and rolled her eyes at him. "You are so cheesy!" she yelled, pretending to be upset. She laughed at herself.

Joey smiled at her, glad she wasn't upset.

"I normally would hate that," she said. "But I can handle it now." She leaned in, put her hand on the back of his neck and pulled him into a kiss.

"Wow," Joey said under his breath.

"Joey, you're amazing did you know that?" Allison said. "I don't mean the kiss, not that it was bad, but," she sighed, "you're so nice to me all the time and…"

Joey cut her off with another kiss.

When they got back to the house after their picnic, Joey told Allison he was going to work on his comedy act. Really, he went to get her surprise ready and thought about how to tell her about it. Meanwhile, Allison went to paint in the backyard. She had bought new easel, paints, brushes and canvas since she moved in with the Tanner's and she decided to paint to relax. This was one of the only days she had off of work. A half and hour later, Joey came out to the backyard with his arms behind his back.

"Hey, Allison," he called to her.

She turned from her painting. "What?"

"I want you to see something," he said. "Come here."

She walked over to him. He pulled the dress he bought for her from behind his back.

"Oh, Joey, it's beautiful!" She clapped her hands together, mockingly. "It will definitely bring out your eyes!" She laughed and went back to her easel.

Joey laughed too. "Yeah, well you know me," Joey said in a valley girl voice. "I just can't pass up a pretty dress. I just had to have it."

They laughed.

"No seriously, it's for you," he added.

"What?" she asked scoffing. "Why would you buy me a dress?"

"For this," he held out the tickets to the opera for her to see it herself.

She walked over to him again and took the tickets. Her eyes got big while she read the title of the opera. She looked up at him astonished. "What?!" she asked again.

"Well, I know you like theatre and you always wanted to go see an opera, so I decided to take you to one."

She just looked at him, mouth open. She didn't know how to respond right then, so she gave him a huge smile, put her hand behind his head and pulled him into a kiss.

When they broke apart, she smiled and said, "Thank you."

"No, thank you," Joey said, stunned by what a good kisser she is.

She laughed. "I've never gotten so many compliments from kissing before; especially not two in one day."

"Well, there are plenty more where that came from," he said slyly.

"I can take a hint." She leaned in to kiss him again.