Hairstyles & Height Differences
Chapter 3: Tubas & Tumbles
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The first time he saw Trish and Dez together was simply hilarious. Of course, he'd known Trish, his daughter's best friend, for a long time, but both Dez and Austin were fairly new additions to the group at this stage.
He had walked into Sonic Boom expecting to see his daughter, but instead he was met with the quarrelling duo, and no Ally in sight.
Their argument was pretty mild at this stage, even edging on a civilised conversation, so he figured it was safe to interrupt.
'Do either of you know where Ally is?' He asked them.
'She went with Austin to pick up supplies for our movie night tonight, they'll be back in about twenty minutes', Trish answered.
Lester thanked them and went into the storeroom to move some boxes upstairs. When he came back out the previous argument between his daughter's two friends had continued and gotten more heated.
'Really? You really think you're stronger than me?' Trish said in a warning tone, with raised eyebrows in disbelief.
'Of course! I can beat a girl any day, especially you,' Dez scoffed, not taking the hint to back down.
'Well bring it on then! Arm wrestle. Now.'
'You're on!'
They both placed their arms on the front counter, gripped hands and stared menacingly at each other for a moment before Trish counted down to signal the beginning.
Dez made a face as he tried with all his might to push Trish's hand to the table, but with no luck. As his strength wore out, she was able to slam his fist to the counter and shout in victory.
'Yeah! That's what you get for taking on Trish De La Rosa!' She declared, rolling the R in her last name.
Dez pouted, before declaring, 'Yeah... Well... I let you win!'
Trish raised her eyebrows again, then raised her voice, 'I'll show you strong, I could snap your little twig arms in half!'
Dez winced and began to back away, but he was unable to escape before Trish lunged at him.
Lester watched the scene break out as the pair wrestled around the store, tumbling into a large tuba, which fell and sent them crashing into a pile of woodwind instruments.
The loud crash frightened most of the customers, some starting to leave the store. He was torn between attempting to break the fight up to avoid losing anymore sales opportunities, or staying away to avoid becoming the object of Trish's torment.
After their crash-landing Dez emerged from the pile of instruments with a tuba stuck on his head. Brushing aside the hair covering her eyes, Trish didn't notice the large tuba on top of Dez at first. When she did, she erupted into laughter.
Dez groaned, 'Stop laughing at me, my head hurts!', however, this only made her giggles even louder. [1]
Lester was scared to intervene but starting to worry for the poor boy's health - as he watched Trish he realised she was worried too. How strange? She seemed like she enjoyed watching the redhead in pain, but now she was attempting to pull his head out of the tuba.
(Maybe they aren't enemies after all, they just have a lot of UST) [2]
Then there was that other time, when they went to the Everglades, that confirmed to Lester that Dez and Trish were much closer than they appeared. [3]
He had woken up early in the morning, and almost tripped over the four teenagers asleep on the front deck of Shiny Money's boat. At that moment, he decided to write a note so that Ally would know where he was. He knew how anxious Ally could get when she was stressed, and he didn't want her worrying about his whereabouts when she was already under pressure to finish writing a song.
Just as he pulled a pen and notepad out of his pocket, he noticed the sleeping positions of the four friends. Two sleeping bags were very close together, with one long arm stretching over the other sleeping figure. Lester felt his anger rise, until he noticed the frizz of dark, curly hair at the top of the sleeping bag. To his relief, it wasn't Austin and Ally. He knew the pop singer would someday have a relationship with his daughter, but she was too young, he wasn't ready to give her away just yet. Right now, Austin and Ally were split by the two snuggling bodies between them.
His eyes widened at the next conclusion he came to: If it wasn't Austin and Ally, it must be Trish and Dez. He racked his brains trying to think of a possible reason that the eccentric redhead had his arm around his daughter's sassy best friend, with her face pressed against his chest.
They could've just been cold? No, it was pretty warm out here.
They could both be dreaming about someone else? It's possible, what you do while asleep is subconscious.
But then again… he thought Trish and Dez hated each-other's guts. Even subconsciously, they'd never snuggle together like that.
Lester didn't have a hard time understanding why Trish got so annoyed with Dez. He did have a hard time understanding moments like these, when she showed genuine love for him.
I guess Trish and Dez are a whole lot closer than they seem to be?
[1] Reference to Ally's line in Backups & Breakups: 'I haven't seen you this happy since Dez got that tuba stuck on his head'
[2] For those who don't know, UST = unresolved sexual tension
[3] This part is set during the Everglades & Ally-Gators episode