DISCLAIMER: Sadly I do not own CSI NY or any of the characters, no matter how much I wish that Danny Messer was mine.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews and because I love you all so much, here's the next chapter.
WARNING: Again, use of a few swear words.
SUMMARY: Stella, Mac, Lindsay, Danny, Flack, Adam, Aiden, Sid, Hawkes and some of the other kids at Staten Island Academy are on a summer vacation with a few of the teachers but little did they know, the teachers had really gained permission from their parents and had actually taken them to Florida to work in a hotel for six weeks. With arguments over who has which jobs and relationship rivalry, can their friendships survive?
TITLE: Summer Friendships and Rivalry – Chapter 8
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It was a week later that the hotel manager decided that Clara wasn't cut out to work with children and changed her job; she was now working in the restaurant and Lindsay worked with the kids club in the daytime and in the restaurant at night but was still the restaurant manager. It was on the Tuesday morning at kids club that Aimee decided she wanted to get to know Lindsay. Clara had been ignoring her and even though Aimee had treated Lindsay like dirt, she was still willing to give her another chance. "Hey Lindsay?"
"Yeah?" She looked up from her spot on the floor, next to a little girl who was happily colouring in a picture of a cat.
"I was just…well I mean…" She sighed, trying to find a suitable way to say sorry to her. "I haven't really given you a chance and I'm sorry." She looked down at the floor as Lindsay smiled.
"It's ok Aimee, apology accepted." Aimee smiled at her.
"Hey, d'you wanna come back to my room later; I could straighten your hair for you?"
"Thanks but I'm not Clara; I prefer my hair curly." Aimee's smile dropped but she nodded and told her it was ok, just an idea. Lindsay though for a moment and an idea popped into her head. "How about you come back to my room and I do your nails for you?" Aimee nodded as her face broke out in a bright smile.
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It reached lunchtime and the kids went back to their parents as Lindsay and Aimee went on their break. They were stood, leaning on a railing, when Danny and Brad walked over to join them. "Afternoon Ladies." Danny joked as Lindsay and Aimee turned to look at him. "We were wonderin' if you wanted to go get somethin' to eat."
"Sure, sounds great…hi Brad." Aimee replied chirpily and Brad smiled at her.
"Hi Aimee. Umm Lindsay, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for ignorin' ya; I didn't mean to." She smiled at him and nodded, silently telling him that she forgave him.
"So, we going to the restaurant…I feel like winding Clara up." Lindsay smiled at Danny and he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"You read my mind." They all walked up to the restaurant, Danny with his arm around Lindsay's shoulders and Brad with his fingers laced with Aimee's. They found a table in the corner and sat down, Lindsay next to Aimee and Danny and Brad sitting opposite.
Clara walked over to their table, pulling her top down a bit and revealing a bit more of her cleavage in a final attempt to get Danny back. "What can I get for you?"
Danny looked at his menu then back up at Clara. "Oh hey Clara, didn't notice you there."
"Ugh, fine if you wanna play it that way." She looked at Aimee and smiled. "Aimee, we goin' out tonight?"
Aimee shook her head apologetically. "Sorry Clara I can't, Lindsay's doing my nails and then I'm coming up to the restaurant fro dinner."
"Why would you wanna spend time with 'Geekoid' here?" Aimee shook her head but didn't reply. "Well, what's the matter; scared of looking stupid in front of your 'friends'?"
Aimee finally found her voice and looked at Clara. "No, I'm spending time with Lindsay because she treats me like a person. We talk, we laugh and she makes me feel like a worthwhile person…not just a tagalong and if that means I can't be a 'Cheerleader' anymore then fine. I'd rather have friends that care about me." She smiled at Lindsay and Lindsay wrapped an arm around her shoulders, giving her a squeeze and mouthing a 'thank you' to her.
"She's got real friends now Clara, she doesn't need you." Lindsay smirked at her and Clara stormed off, getting another waiter to serve them.
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That night, after their shifts were finished, Clara walked into the restaurant. Danny had gone to the bathroom and Brad was still in the kitchen, finishing the washing up when she walked up to Lindsay and grabbed her hair, forcing her to look up. "I think we need to talk."
"I have nothing to say to you." She stared at her with stubborn chocolate eyes, her voice cold.
"Yeah well I have something to say to you, you may have fooled everyone else but you don't fool me. Danny is always gonna belong to me and if you think you stand a chance with him you're wrong; you're just gonna be another notch on his bedpost. One in a line of idiots that has fallen for Daniel Messer." She smirked and Lindsay glared at her.
"You're wrong, there's nothing going on between me and Danny and just remember; you fell for him once…what does that make you?"
"You think you're so much better than me but guess what…you aren't. You may be able to talk the talk but if you wanna get one over on me, you'd better be prepared to lie down with the dogs Miss Monroe." Her voice was confident and Lindsay raised her eyebrows.
"You'd know all about that wouldn't you, you being one of them." Clara glared at her and reached out her arm, slapping Lindsay…just as Danny walked back into the room.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Clara looked up, shock evident in her crystal eyes.
"Dan baby, it isn't what it looks like." He crossed the room and stood behind Lindsay, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on top of her head.
"Stop calling me baby, stop makin' fun of Lindsay and just stay the hell outta my life Clara." His voice was cold and it scared her, he didn't look at her lovingly anymore, he didn't dream about her anymore but what scared her most was the fact all those looks he had directed at her, he now directed at Lindsay. It was clear that he adored her, he had moved on and she needed to do the same. She had Brent now, the problem was that the position of prom queen wasn't guaranteed anymore and if she wasn't dating Danny and if she didn't make it to prom queen, she was back to being a nobody.
"Is Brad ready to go?" Lindsay tipped her head back and looked up at Danny.
"Almost, he was just finishin' up and then we can go and get Aimee. Where d'you wanna go?" They continued their conversation as Clara looked on, horrified at the fact that Danny was ignoring her for a 'Geek', the 'newest Geek at Staten Island Academy' to be precise.
"Umm, how about the beach?" He nodded then surprised her by leaning down and kissing her forehead. Her eyes widened but she smiled at him.
"Sounds great." She smiled at him and Clara walked out of the restaurant, she had serious competition to eliminate.
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A few Months Later
It had been a few months since summer and Lindsay's life was better than ever. She no longer got the bus to school; instead she got a lift with Danny who picked her up from home every morning. She was still best friends with Aiden and Stella and the rest of the 'Geeks' but she was also friends with Brad, Flack and Aimee who now hung out with Mac, Adam and Sheldon. With the prom coming up, Lindsay was proud to say that she was on the prom committee.
"So Lindsay, do you have a date to the prom yet?" The voice was soft and so quiet that she had to strain to hear it. She turned around and found Adam shuffling from side to side.
"Hey Adam, umm no I haven't…have you?" She smiled at him and he smiled back.
"No and I was wondering if umm…well if you want to…I mean would you…" She cut him off, putting him out of his misery.
"I'd love to go with you Adam." Danny still hadn't asked her, even though she had secretly wanted him to.
"Really?" He hadn't expected her to say yes, he secretly had a crush on her best friend, Aimee, but Aimee was going out with Brad and Lindsay was one of his best friends. She nodded and he set things straight. "You do know that I asked you as a friend right? I mean I don't like you like that…no offence, I just meant…"
"Relax, I know and I don't like you like that; you're sweet and lovely but you're my best friend…nothing more." He smiled at her, glad that they both felt the same way. She grinned at him and he walked away, headed for the cafeteria to get lunch.
"Yo Linds', you got a minute?" She turned around to see Danny stood rocking back on his heels.
"Sure, what's up?" She smiled at him and he grinned.
"The sky but that ain't what I came to talk to you about." He smirked and she rolled her eyes. "No, I came to talk to you about the prom." She suddenly felt sick, part of her dreading what he was about to ask her. "Do you wanna be my date to the prom?"
She sighed and his face fell. "Danny, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago I would have said 'yes' but Adam asked me so…" He nodded.
"S'ok, so you got your dress?" She smiled and nodded, glad of the subject change.
"Yep, got your tux?" He nodded; an irritated expression on his face.
"Yeah, I hate those things." She laughed and he rolled his eyes.
"I'm sure you'll look very spiffy." He told her that it'd take a lot more than a tux to make him look spiffy but told her that he knew she'd look beautiful.
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It finally reached the day of the prom and Aimee and Lindsay had decided to go and get their hair and nails done together, they had asked Stella and Aiden but they had said that they were doing each others. "So, you're going with Brad aren't ya?"
Aimee nodded excitedly, looking up from her magazine. "Yeah so why are you going with Adam, Danny told me that he was gonna ask you."
Lindsay sighed, she loved Adam to bits but she wished that it was Danny she was going with. "He did but I'd already said yes to Adam, I though Danny was going with someone else." Aimee rolled her eyes, she'd seen the way Danny looked at Lindsay; there was no one else for him.
"No, well he is now but he wasn't goin' to go with Sarah." Lindsay's face fell when she heard his date's name; he was going with Sarah, the head cheerleader and prettiest girl at Staten Island Academy.
"He's goin' with Sarah?" Aimee nodded and turned the page of her magazine, squeaking at the pink dress on the next page.
"Yeah I thought you knew, what do you think of this dress?" Lindsay leaned over slightly and stared at the page.
"It's nice I guess but I like yours better." Aimee smiled at her, realising that if she had still been Clara's tagalong, she wouldn't have had such a pretty dress. Lindsay, Stella, Aiden and Aimee had been shopping for their dresses together, trying on ones they couldn't afford and laughing at the 'Barbie Princess' dresses that hung in shop windows. No, if it had been her and Clara, she would have had to pick a simpler dress; Clara always had to be the prettier one.
"Thanks, I like yours too and I love Stella's."
"God yeah, I can't wait to see Aiden in hers; we'll have to sedate her to get her into it."
"Yeah, she refuses to wear dresses doesn't she?" Lindsay nodded as Aimee picked out colour from the nail polish counter, telling the clerk that she wanted her toes done in the same colour.
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"So, you ready for the prom?" Aiden rolled her eyes and sighed.
"No and I cannot believe I am being forced to wear a dress." Her Staten Island accent was clear and Stella laughed, Aiden was not a girl that would willingly wear a dress. "So, you still goin' with Mac?"
Stella nodded, Mac had asked her and she had been overjoyed; she'd had a crush on him for the best part of a year and he seemed to have the same feelings for her…or at least everyone told her. "So who are you goin' with?"
"I'm goin' with Sheldon, we're goin' as friends." Stella nodded sympathetically, Don Flack had mellowed and started hanging out with them but he didn't seem to return the feelings that Aiden had for him. "I heard that Flack's goin' with Becky."
"Doesn't she have a crush on Brad?" Stella asked, she had been sure that she had overheard her in the girl's bathroom.
"Yeah but he's goin' with Aimee so…" Stella nodded and continued painting Aiden's toenails, telling her to sit still unless she wanted her toes to be painted instead of just the nails.
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It finally reached six o'clock and Lindsay, Stella, Aiden, Aimee, Adam, Sheldon and Mac sat in their jet-black limo, headed for their senior prom. Brad had told Aimee that he was going in the limo with Danny and the rest of the team and she had nodded and told him that she would meet him at the venue. When they finally reached their destination, the driver got out of his seat and held open the door for the passengers. Mac held his arm out to Stella and she giggled and laced her arm with his. Aiden and Sheldon did the same, except Aiden didn't giggle like a giddy schoolgirl. Adam offered his arm to Lindsay but she smiled apologetically at him. "Adam, d'you mind if I stay out here and wait with Aimee? She's waiting for Brad and I don't wanna leave her stood out here on her own." Adam nodded and told her he'd meet her inside.
"You don't have to wait out here with me you know." Aimee smiled at her but Lindsay told her that she wanted to wait with her. "Thanks Linds', you've been such a great friend to me." Her eyes filled with tears and Lindsay looked at her concerned, she had never seen Aimee cry before.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Aimee shook her head but Lindsay wanted to know. "Come on, you can tell me…I won't laugh."
"It's just, you've been such a great friend to me even though I treated you the way I did…I don't deserve you." She let the tears fall, her mascara running slightly.
"Aww don't cry, you'll end up with panda eyes." This earned a small laugh from Aimee as Lindsay pulled her into a hug. "Aimee, you've been a great friend to me so never say that. Now come on, stop crying you daft cow."
Aimee laughed and pulled back to look at her. "Sorry, I've been having an emotional day."
"Why, is everything ok with Brad?" She reached into her bag and pulled out a tissue the reached out and dabbed at Aimee's eyes, being careful not to mess her makeup up.
"No…well yes…well…" She sighed before continuing. "Everything's great between us but now that I've gotten to know Brad, I don't have the same feelings for him anymore. I have feelings for someone else but I don't know how to tell him."
"Who's the other guy." Lindsay put the tissue back in her bag, in case she needed it again.
"Adam." Was her short, simple reply.
"Adam who?"
"Adam…Adam Ross." Lindsay looked at her wide-eyed.
"Adam Ross? Adam as in my date Adam?"
"Yeah, he's sweet and funny and when we're together he goes shy and it's really cute but when I'm with Brad he's still cocky and kinda egocentric. I don't want that kinda guy." She paused then looked at Lindsay. "I know everyone thinks I'm just the shallow airhead but when I'm with you or Adam…I dunno, I'm a different person and I wanna be that person more often."
Lindsay smiled at her, a sympathetic look in her eyes. "Why don't you just tell him how you feel?"
"What if he doesn't feel the same way?" Lindsay was shocked by Aimee's insecurity, she was always so happy and loud.
"I've seen the way he looks at you, I'm not stupid. He asked me to the prom because he knew that you were going with Brad, if you hadn't been then he would have asked you." Aimee smiled.
"You really think so?" Lindsay nodded but their conversation was cut short when a white limo pulled up outside and the doorman opened the door to let out its passengers. Brad climbed out and walked over to Aimee, kissing her passionately and making Lindsay feel very awkward. When he pulled away from her, Aimee told Lindsay that they'd finish talking later and Lindsay nodded. Aimee and Brad walked inside and Lindsay turned around to do the same but a voice halted her.
"You look gorgeous." The voice was full of admiration and Lindsay smiled, she knew exactly who it belonged to.
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A/N: Well what d'you think? The last chapter should be up soon so please keep reviewing and thanks to all those who have been following. Love you all.
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