Hello!

I'm back (yet again)! I haven't updated for the past few hours because I got distracted by my little brother and having to go to the pet shop for some fish food...and a fish. XD

Anyway, I'm back now with the Lela and Tanner chapter. No one requested me to do a Lela and Tanner one-shot but I couldn't leave them out, they're too sweet to! Also, I apologise if they seem a little bit out of character from the films, I thought that these two were developing so nicely by the end of the first film but when it came to the second one they seemed like virtually different characters to me. So this is kind of like my twist on how they act when they're not brain-washed into carrying out the movie plot. I hope that you don't mind too much, I just can't bring myself to write Tanner like he has two brain cells (I feel like there's a lot more to him than what we saw in the films).

Ok, I'll just stop ranting now. Sorry!

Lela knew that she'd hit the jackpot with Tanner when he showed up at her house on February 14th looking like Prince Charming himself.

"Evening, gorgeous," Tanner greeted, shooting the biker girl a smouldering smile as he stood opposite her.

"Wow," Lela breathed, her eyes wide as they drunk in Tanner's appearance. "You brush up nice. Not that you don't look good all the time but you know what I mean."

"Yeah, thanks, I think," Tanner chuckled, finding Lela stumbling over her words absolutely adorable. "You look pretty stunning yourself."

"Gee, thanks," Lela sighed, feeling her cheeks glowing red as she looked down at her white, tulle dress, which had a thick, pale pink ribbon cinching it at the waist and delicate baby pink roses adorning the fabric. Not the mention the pastel pink kitten heels on her feet and the pink hairband that tamed her raven curls, which were carefully tucked to the right side of her face, that just seemed to tie the entire look together.

"It's a good job your flowers match your outfit," Tanner smiled, handing Lela a huge bouquet of pink flowers (mainly roses though) that were practically bursting out of their wrapping.

"Oh, Tanner, they're beautiful," Lela sighed, marvelling at the flowers.

"Not as beautiful as you though," Tanner shot back, stealing a quick kiss from the biker girl. "That's not all I got you though," he continued. "How does dinner at that new restaurant downtown sound?"

"Tanner, that place is way too expensive!" Lela gasped, her attention snapping up from the bouquet to meet her boyfriend's face again.

"I can treat you, can't I?"

"Well at least let me pay for my meal," Lela tried to compromise, but Tanner was having none of it.

"No way, this is my treat for you. Don't worry about a thing; I've got everything planned out."

"Wow, you actually planned something?" Lela asked in mock amazement.

"Yes actually, I've got our whole evening planned," Tanner chuckled.

"Whole evening? There's more after dinner?" Lela asked, to which Tanner replied with a breathy laugh and a nod. "Please don't tell me that you're spending even more money on me."

"You're worth every penny that I have and more, Lela," Tanner said, taking her hands in his.

"Well thank you, but I'm worried that that's what you're spending on our dinner," Lela nervously giggled.

"Would you stop worrying? This night is going to be perfect, I promise," Tanner smiled, gently kissing her before he offered her his arm. The biker girl gladly linked hers with his and the couple set off walking to Tanner's car.

The next time that Lela and Tanner were on that doorstep was when their stomachs had been stuffed with everything from lobster to pasta to fancy salads and steak. So not only had their meal been fabulous, but as they were leaving the restaurant, Tanner had surprised Lela with the next part of their evening: two tickets to the theatre to see a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Lela had practically burst with excitement when Tanner had plucked out the tickets and she couldn't wait to go, but first Tanner had insisted that they go back to her house to grab her coat after she was still shivering when he'd draped his suit jacket over her shoulders.

"I'll be quick, don't worry," Lela promised, scuttling through the door way.

"The play starts in an hour, we've got plenty of time," Tanner reassured her, taking up his waiting post by the doorframe.

"Alright," Lela smiled, but that didn't stop her from rushing off inside. Although just as she was taking it off its peg in the hall, the phone started to ring. And that's when the telephone call between her and Struts took place.

As Lela heard the line cut off after an exasperated sigh from Struts, she felt Tanner walking up behind her.

"Everything ok, sweetie?" he asked, a look of concern plastered over his usual easy-going smile.

"Struts isn't in the best of moods," Lela explained nervously.

"Why? She seemed fine yesterday; she couldn't stop talking about where Lugnut was taking her."

"I don't think Lugnut's showed up."

"Oh," was all that Tanner could come up with to say.

"I think that we should go and check on her, just to make sure that she doesn't do anything stupid, she sounded like she was in a bad way," Lela said, praying that Tanner wouldn't be too disheartened that their 'perfect night' was taking a bit of a detour. "You don't mind, do you?"

"Of course not," Tanner smiled, calming Lela's nerves with merely a look. "Like I said, we've got plenty of time."

"Ok, but I promise that as soon as we've made sure that she's not crying into a bowl of ice cream we can get on our way," Lela said, matching Tanner's smile and slipping her hand into his. And with that they were skipping out of the door again.

Little did they know that as they were cautiously knocking on Struts' front door, the biker girl in question was up to more important things that answering said door.

"Is it locked?" Lela asked, prompting Tanner to try the door handle, which clicked open almost immediately. "Do we just go inside?" she continued, both of the teens completely lost on what to do. They shared an utterly bewildered look before warily stepping inside.

"She's definitely at her house, right?" Tanner checked after setting foot in the building and noticing that it was in complete darkness.

"Yeah, she only called me five minutes ago and she knew that we were coming over," Lela replied, anxiously scanning the hallway for any sign of life. "Maybe she's gone upstairs," she suggested, wondering why the biker girl hadn't come out to greet them already. "I'll go and see if I can find her."

"I don't think you need to," Tanner said, his voice dramatically lowering in volume.

"Why?" Lela asked, looking over at the tanned surfer boy from where she was already starting to climb the stairs.

"I found Struts," Tanner replied, awkwardly closing the living room door and looking very uncomfortable as he turned to look at Lela. "...And Lugnut."

"What?" Lela hissed, her eyes widening as she hurried over to where Tanner was stood. She carefully pushed the door back open and poked her head into the room, where she quickly spotted Struts and Lugnut 'getting to know each other a little better' on the couch. "Ok," Lela awkwardly laughed, immediately shutting the door again. "I think they're fine now."

"You're telling me," Tanner scoffed, both teens equally as horrified at how accidentally intrusive they had been. "That's a little more than 'fine', Lela."

"I think we should leave them to it," Lela decided, wanting to get out of the house as quickly as possible. Tanner nodded in agreement and soon after they darted back out to the car.

"Well..." Tanner said once they'd both taken their seats in his car.

"That was...unexpected."

"You can say that again."

"Can we just forget that we saw that for tonight?" Lela suggested as she shyly shifted in her seat.

"What did we see?" Tanner replied, already taking up Lela's request with a cheeky smile as he reversed off Struts' drive.

After that, the coupled seemed to fall into a silence, neither really sure what to say next, still reeling from the incident, no matter how much they tried to forget it. "They were certainly enjoying themselves, weren't they?" Lela eventually spoke up, instantly regretting it as soon as she'd said it and the blush had already sprung onto her cheeks. She didn't know what had compelled her to say it, but then again she hated the silence and that was the only thing that she could think of right then.

"Not as much as we will be," Tanner shot back almost instantly, proving to be rather a shock for Lela. She had no idea that Tanner had such a quick wit and she certainly had no idea that he was going to say what he did next. "Whilst watching Romeo and Juliet and afterwards."

Lela turned to look at him with wide eyes as they pulled up to a stop light, to which Tanner replied with another mischievous smile. "Tanner Barretts," she scolded, but her words were breathy and her raging blush ruined her façade of being mad.

"Come on, I need to show you exactly what Romeo and Juliet is about."

"Well you talk about it enough, I practically know the story already."

"You should, it's pretty much ours. They're not too different from us you know," Tanner said, taking a right turn onto a smaller side street. "The only difference is that we're going to live happily ever after."

Lela couldn't do anything but let out a bashful giggle as a response to Tanner's latest comment. And she couldn't wait to find out if it was true.

Ok, this kind of sucked but I hope that you liked it nonetheless. No matter how cute I think that Lela and Tanner are, I can never seem to write believably for them. Oh well, practice makes perfect I guess.

Anyway, let me know what you thought of this and I'll see you when I put up the next chapter...which probably won't be long.

Thank you for reading! See you soon!

-cherrygorilla